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had on mach cheaper tenet, ;Eno filch bill had ever
paired. The country at length rejected it, abfolutely
vomited it forth, and would have nothing more todo
with it. It wasimpoffible that it could have been per-
manent, and, while it was in operation, it entailed
upon the country an expence of Come hundred thou.
find pounds in penalties. As for the plan which he
brought forward in the laft feffion, Co far from pro-
ducing k as a grand fpecific or nopsno, the character
that the true practitioner would give of it was this,
that be had told the country that there had hitherto
been too much quackery, too much bleeding, purg
ing, cupping, and other violent remedies ;—(a
laugh)—and that all that he propofed was, that the
country fhould be left' a little to its own real
firength and conflitution, which he was fore had
enough of the lir nature to recover from the fit uation
in which all the donors had placed it—(a laugh.) He
only Paid that in a free country, if you wifhed to have
an army, you fhould make the profdlion of a foldier
deferable for men to embark in ; that lie himfelf re
membered the time, when he was a boy, that the
bounty was paid; but the condition of a foldier was
it fell the only attraction to bring men into the fervice.
He remembered at the American war, the bounties
were firft a guinea and a crown ; and afterwards
three guineas ; and he alfo remembered an officer
being feverely reprimanded for giving fo large a
bounty as three guineas. At thole times we had
men enough ready to inlift, and he thought that the
hell principle of entitling foldiers, was to make the
fervice deferable. All that we were to hear of in the
p: dint Bills were, ballot and• bounty. " WU have
no force in England," complained a Foreigner—
" but melted butter." In the mearure now to be
rejected, there was fomething more ; there were re-
wards for long and meritorious fervice :—liberty at
the end of (even years, at the conclufi n of fourteen
sd. per day, and of twenty-one years tzd. There
were inducements intelligible to men who were dif-
pored to inquire into their own interefts. The objeft
then was, to render the army rerpetiable, by intro-
ducing into it a rational order of men, who knew how
to appreciate their own honour and happinefs. It
was right to examine not only what was the expedient
now propofed, but what was to be removed, in order
to make way for it. In this view, what was to be
done with the Training Bill ? That Bill, by ballot, by
enrolling, and by competent training, was to provide
a certain force, without materially interfering ni•h the
occupations of life. How was this imp-ortant regula•
Lion to be fin:plied ? The criticifms upon it reminded
him of the anfwer of Dr. Johnfon to a fupercilious
critic upon a Dictionary (not his own.) "There are
faults," laid the man. " There can be no Inch work
without them," replied the Donor. The Noble
Lord feemed to laugh a great deal, and to be much
amufed with the ariiitance of a Civil Officer to
enforce obedience under the Training Bill. Was
It prefer 4:,1c to expofe the refractory to the feverity
of martial law, inftead of committing them to a
cr nflahle until they fhould better underhand their
duty. What he (Mr. Windham) had propofed,
had, at leaf this recommendation—it would loon
terminate, whereas the plans of the Noble Lord
were for two or more years duration. In the for.
mer fcheme, 200,000 had been enrolled, and were
ready to be employed, as his Ma3efly fhould direr,
for the defence of the country. By fuch a projen, he
was ready to (land or fall : on its fuccefs, he was
willing that his own reputation fhould depend. If
they required more training, let force additional days
be allotted, to prepare them to fill up the vacancies
which flo•uld be occafioned in the fervice. It was true
that a fair trial might not be given : the meafure was
in his Lordfhip's hands, and he might give it an un-
friendly fqueeze and deßroy it. Then as to the Vu•
lunteer s, it was charged upon the late Aclminitlration,
and upon himfelf in particular, that it wastheir deign
to fubvert completely the Volunteer fyttem. The
object was to have a Volunteer force growing out of
the training project ; thole who did not-choofe to
fubmit to the compulfory meafure were at liberty to
enrol themfelves as Volunteers. but at no confiderable
expence to the nation ; and it was hoped that a
refpeetable body, fo formed, might diftinguifh them-
felves as the Volunteers in Charles's time, if the time
fhould arrive when their fervices were of importance
to their country. But if the opulent wifbed to
avoid the compulfory duty under the Training BiA, it
was fit that thcy fhould do it at their own charge.—
He be flocked at fuch an impnfition as was
propofed ; the exemption from the '!'raining Ad
was a privilege, and the poor were not to pay for the
privileges of the rich. The total ex?mce of the Vo-
lunteer fyßem, when he came into office, was
990,0001. and this enormous from teas to be paid by
a general tax. Another detrimtntal effect of fuch an
application of the public money, was, that arms are
put into the hands of 3 or 400,000 men, who might
not be fit to be intrufted with them. It was a com-
mon adage. De non apparent; et non exifl:ntilus,
eadem 1:11 ratio. But there was no filch approach in
the prefent in(lance : the expence of the former fyi.
tem, and of the new project might be much the
fame, but there was a manifett difference iti the com-
parative utility. He was prepared, if it were need.-
fury, to go into the details of the form:r meafurcs,
hut a fhort review would be fufficient for the porpofe.
Thofe who complained In loudly of the evil effects of
limited fcrvire ought lobe reminded of the Additional
Force Bill. Under that AR the limitation was exten-
ded both to time and fpace, and men were admitted
two inches below the ordinary name: further (which
lie was forgetting to remark) the bsnnty was, in many ,
inftances, as high as 40 guineas. Under the fcheme
he had the honour to recommend, there was a growing
advantage ; in the firft fix months 3000 men were
railed, in the following 6 months 6000 were obtained.
He mulled that the meal-tire had forceeded to the
full extent that the molt fanguine n.ind could pre-
di& ; —and, if it were to proceed, it would c,mplete
what had been fo juhly expected from it. We were
now recruiting at the rate of 22,000 in the courfe of
one }ear What was the expedient propofed as a fub..
!Uwe for this rapid incleafe ? It was plundering the
militia to raife a difp^fable fiirce, and this was to in-
terfere with the falutary provifions of the former pe-
rio I. Why not invite the newrecruit,into the line, and
leave the militia unimpaired? It was raid by the Right
Hon. Gentleman ( Vr."Yor Ise) that the army was de•
creating. He de fed the alferiion. In 180 s, it was
fo, but from Koch 1806 to March 18.7 the increafe
of the regolar Army was 8-,00, notn Unhanding the
reOuCtion of 3000 men ii Ce)lon. Such was the fafe,
tried meafure which was to be telinquithed, fat lie

-wild and extravagant proje& of the Nable 7..,•••td. On
the other fcheme, when the vetetans, after twenty-
one years duty, returned to the Worn of their fami
lies,- they would recruit for the army more fuccefs-
fully than the molt *dive youth in the fervice. lx
erlyntieste eautela ; he might have retorted to expe-
dients by which the fuccefs of the projea he had
fuggefied might, in tome degree, have been fccored ;
he need not to have committed it into the hands of
a Repmother, who would itifle it in its early growth.
With regard to the troops fent to Egypt, it was yet
to he learnt that they were inadequate, in point of
numbers, to the duty they were appointed to perform
he did not mean to attribute mikondua to the officer
by whom they were commanded ; that was too berth
a term, perhaps ; but there might be mittake, falfe
intelligence, mil-conception, which occafioned the
mifcarriage. With refpeet to the expedition to
Buenos Ayres, which had been commented upon, it
thotild be recollected, that it did not originate with
the late Adminiftration. The ill fuccefs, however,
was probably owing to the grog's mifconduel of an
Officer ; but to whatever 'caufe it was to be attri
buted, the cenfure of the Right Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. York) was wholly mifapplied.
The SECRETARY at WAR felt that the critical
Rate of the country required an augmentation of
our regular force, not only for defence at home, but
to enable us to cover and proteet our colonies; after
every confideratinn which he could give the fubjed,
he thought the mode propofed by his Noble Friend
by far the bell for accomplifbing this objed. The
late fuccefs of the enemy made our condition more
dangerous than ever, and of courfe demanded efforts
equal to the difficulty. The Right Hon. Secretary
then noticed the prominent parts of Mr. Windham's
plan, with a view of (hewing that its fuccefs was not
altogether fo progreffive as the Right Hon Gentle.
man had Rated.

Mr. HERBERT fpoke fhortly in favour of the
Bill, and added, that a fmall bounty, indeed, would
be a fufficient inducement for the men to enlist.
Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE conceived that it would
be more advifable to raife a fufficient number of men
by the Army of Referve Aft, and then retort to any
further meafure that it might be found necefraty to
adopt. _ _

The queflion was now loudly called for, and on
its being put, was carried in the affirmative.
Lord CASTLEREAGH rofe and obferved, that
as printed Bills were ready, the Houfe would allow
him to introduce the fubjeet for difcuffion on Friday
next.

Lord HOWICK reminded the N 'ble Lord that
the queflion was one of great imyrtance and en.
titled to ferious confiderrion. There was alto ano
titer bufinefs of very great importance to be debated,
as he underßood, on that day ; he meant .the Lint
Infutreaion Bill : he hoped therefore that neither of
thofe meafures would be urged with precipitation.
After Come diftuffion as to the proper form of pro-
ceeding, between the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Lord H. Petty, Sir J. Newport, Mr. Whitbfead, and
Sir A. Wellefley, it. was at length agreed to read the
Noble Lord's (Caalereagh) Bills a &ft time to-day,
and a fecond time on Monday.
Lord CASTLEREAGH then brought up a Bill,
enabling his Majeßy to increafe the Militia of Great
Britain to a limited extent, under certain circum
threes; alt.() a Bill, enabling a certain portion of the
Militia of Great Britain voluntarily to enliß into the
regular fervice, which were read a firfl time, and
ordered to be read a fecond time on Monday neat,
and to be printed.
On the motion of Sir Arthur Wellefley, the Irifh
Infurrefliou Bill, and the Irifh Arms Bill, were read
a fecond time, and ordered to be committed to-
morrow.

The orders of the day being difpofed of, the Houfe
adjourned at One o'clock.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, JULY 13. -
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK:
Conic)ls, money, 63f—for Auguft 631-onuaium diL
Exchequer Bills, par to xs. diL

The new Military Plan, produced laff night by
Lord CASTIAIciAGH, differed but little in terms from
that which we fume days fince laid before the public.
The fill battalions in every regiment of the line are
to be fupplied from the fecond battalions. The
chafins in the latter to be filled frum the militia; and
this latter is to be not only reinforced but greatly
augmented by a vigorous and extenfive ballot. Per.
fonb drawn to terve mull provide a fubflitute, or pay
a fine of Twenty Pounds. Volunteers, takers, &c.
are to be exempted from all ballots. His Lordfhip
alto propofes to place the Volunteers upon their
former foundation. The laa part of this plan
which is only contingent, is to raife a local militia in
each county (not to ferve out of the county unlefs in
cafe of invall at or rebellion) provided the volunteer
force does not remain at its original eflablithment by
Parliament, of fix times the number of the Militia
Elablifhment.

The prefent meafure, avoiding the abruptnefs of
an immediate ballot into the line, will, according to
the Ratement of Lord CASTLES LAGH, produce in the
thortell fpace an additional force of aR,OOO men.
There was no material objetlion mac to the plan.
Mr. Wisomast's fpeech was rather a defence of his
own meafures thsn an attack on that now proptifed.
After fnrne converfation, the Bills, founded on the
propofitions of Lord CASTLEREAGH, were introducer],
read a a. ft time, and ordered to be read a fecond
time on Monday nest.

Yettoday we received Paris Papers to the 15th
infiarti, Dutch to the 20th, and Hamburgh to the
15th. The latter enable us to anticipate the Mail
which became due on Sunday.
The variety and importance of the articles contain
ed in there journals, leave us but little fpaee for
remark en the occurrences which they detail. The
official account of the' figning of the peace, contained
in the Hague Courant Axtraordinary of the 18th init.
which we publifhed in a Second Edition of our Paper
of yellerday, we now repeat in the whole of this day';
imprellion. It was to be announced throughout
Holland by every demonfiration ofjoy.

HAGUE ROYAL EX CRAORDINARY GAZETTE.

46 SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 18.

44 A Courier arrived this day from Berlin, with the
very important intelligence, that Peace was figned
at Tin on the Bth infant, between the EMMOR of
the FRENCH, and the Emperor of Russia : the Prince
of BFacvatiro, Minitter for Foreign Relations,
figned on the part of the former ; and the Princes
KURAKIN and Larroanw de Rosraow, on behalf of
the latter, being fully anthorifed by their refpeiflive
Sovereigns.

" 7he Bat:Avalon: were exchanged the following day.
" Peace with Mafia was likewifesto be figned on
the gth of July.

i. This important intelligence, received by the
Minifler for Foreign Affairs, by two different ways,'
will be immediately forwarded to his Majelly in the
name of all his Mini flers ; and will be communicated
to the public to morrow by the hoiaing of colours
land firing of guns."
The Paris Papers (our extraels from which are in
1 the front of this paper) contain the 85th and 86th
Bulletins, and thefe, it would feem, are the laft
• that are to appear. Another form has been adopted
Ifor communicating what takes place in the Grand
Army. The details of the various interviews be-
tween BONAPARTS and their RUSSeAN and Paus•
sum Mayerms, Cubfequent to the 25th ultimo,
are given as articles from Tilfit. They are much
more circumftantial than the accounts received
through the German Papers. As thefe c^mmunica-
tions, though not in their former official fhape, com-
plete the feries of documents relating to the late ex-
traordinary campaign, we have thought it neceffary
to tranflate them.

It appears that the Qeen of PRUSSIA remained
about two leagues diflant from Tilfit, and it was
uncertain whether (he would vifit that place.
The intercourfe of the three Sovereigns at Tilfit is
perfectly confidential. At one of the dinner parties
at Tilfit, which are always given by the Emperor
Napoleon, his •Majetly drank to Ake health of the
Emprefs of Rutlia and the Emprefs-Mother. Next
day the Emperor Alexander drank to the health of
the Er:peel; of the French.—The firft time that the
King of Prsiffia dined with the Emperor Napoleon,
his Imperial Majefly drank to the health of the Queen
of Pruflia.

The Moniteur contains a very circurnflaniial account
of the late events in Turkey. It lays, the Revo-
lution at Conftantintple will necation no interruption
in our relations with the Porte, bur, on the contrary,
that the French interell will be greatly therigthened
thereby."

The following is from nur Private Correfpnndent :
" 'RANKS OF THE ELBE, JULY 14.

Marfkal BRUN!! has plibliiked a thundering or-
der of the day again!' the King of SWEDEN, in which
he deciares that the French army will enter Swedi&
Pomerania on the 13th.

"The Duke of ME CR Lie BURC rt has been received
with inexpreffible enthufiafm by his fubjefts.
" The probability of the Grand Duke CONSTAM-
TINII becoming King of Poland is Qill believed by
many perfons."
The battle which took place between the French
and Sicilian troops, near Mileto, in Calabria, on the
28th of May, was greatly to the honour of the latter.
We have received information entitled to the moil
unreferved credit, which Rates the lrifs of the French
to have amounted to at leaf tsooo men. A Chef de

Brigade and other officers, were taken pat-niers. The
Regiment Sanniti, and that of Philipflahl, particu-
larly difiinguifbed themfelves Among the handful of
brave men, who landed under the gallant Prince of
He& Philpflahl.

Lord HowicK took bib (cat yeaerday in the Honk
of Commons, for Tapaock.

Yeaerday Sir WILLIAM SCOTT made a report to
his Map sty of Peter Atkins, conviCted at the tall
Admiralty Salon at the Old Bailey of Piracy, when
he was refpited filming his Ma's STY'S pleafure.
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