Star.
London, England, 1806-04-23 00:00:00

lip thinking man malt regret. tr would, therefore, be a
great miferincotinn of his objerl to fuppofe that by
this motion he meant to encourage any difpofition to
difcontent among the Volunteers. He would molt
ftncerely deprecate any thing that could contribute to
17 (itch an effeet. Indeed it was ferionfly to be deplored,
that the Volunteers, or any other defcription of per-
(one, Ihnutd take up any miprelTion from the mere
propofition of a meafure in' Parliament, as to what
Parliament was likely to do. For jolt in the fame
*Fee that any rich meafure was unjuft IT unwife,
erlikily to prefs feverely upon them, lbould any por-
tion of the people feel that Parliament would not feel
dlfpored to adopt it. The people should at leaft wait
Until the decifintt of Parliament was knows. And
Until that decifion, inftead of apprehending evil, their
prefomptiOn'ought to be, that fuch a meafure would
toot be adopted. The eharafter of Parliament, and
Vie jutt refpeEt which the people entertained for its
4h, old naturally incline the public mind to that pre.,
c:t-totion. To the Volunteers he particularly adl
Airclfed thefe observations; and to indicate a difspft2
'lion different from that be recommended, would ots
their part, to fay the 'eau of it,be impolitic and unwife:
For any indecorous conduit, at prefent particularly;
swill be injurious to thensfelves and their advocat
by' furnißong to their emmies die ftrourft argurnenti
viand them. Hr felt; however, that it oinfkbe con-
fided the &frac and difcontent of the Volunteers
was, in a great meafure, excutable. It was very na-
tural for them tocomplain when they Nutt /anglaise
tiled repo,* •them by a .Government eompofed;
for the molt part, Of men who originally encouraged
their formation, and whet alma* unlfanoly pinny.,
rind their conduit. When they few any part of
firth a ()overman, inftead of patronifiag them,
manifetling a nterto throw impediments and obna.
cles in their way, the fame feelings which led• the
Volunteers to miirtheir habits rind employments to
prepare for the 'field of war, malt now difpofe them
to chagrin and ditappointment. When they were
held up as a difgracc to the military profelfion...•
when told that it was degrading to the army that
they Mould /be dreffed in the fame uniform with
them—that it was an affront to military officers, that
Volunteer Corps 'tumid 'have any thing like fimilar
dittinetions—that although their want of difcipline
had been .the general complaint heretofore, the re-
medy now propoted was to-relax that difcipline—it
was no wonder if-rhe zeal of the Volunteers was, in
films degree, damped, and their difpofitioris toured.
Bat Rill they Ihould not fatter thernfelves to be agis
tatted, bat nail in refpcdtful confidence the detifiron
of the Legitimate. The Right Hon. Gentleman ems•
Melded nWs moving for, an account clad fuels liked
cad expended for .the •fervioe .of the Volunteers of
Great "Britain, from the commencement of the pratent 1
war to the liked period at which thelame could be
made out, Mtn:mailing molt leas, and alto oath
bead of hrvica.
Mr. FOX did not rife to . die& to tisernotion of
the 'Right 'Honourable Gentleman, bocaufe without
loch a nobtlom icons intended his Right am.
Friend (Mr. Windham), to larthirdocument,lasfore
the H. But.lias Right lionountee-Gentionin's
*teeth and hiscwotion being far from the fame thing,
be mad fay, that althoogh he acquisfoed in the one,
he vosywansh objeard toleveral.parts of the other.
The Ric .hiononnsble Gentleman's obittwation,
that the Volunteers &Quid, before they took a thong
isopreffion as to. his Right Hon. Friend's plan, wait,
the elavifion of Parliament, was certainly uncle".
tionablv ; but he could not help ebferving that dye
fentiment very ill confided with other parts of th,
light Honourable Gentleman's (patch. When a
pion of anderftanding, competent to conceive that
pmeiedier of that Houk 'was found to mifreprefeat
snit& winch it was impolible to mifconceive it was,
notcfialcnk to infer his obje&. Nothing could have
Ilwasaworc explicit than the .meaning of l'is
Right
Heranurable Friend. When he alluded to a relaxa-
dos of difcipline, be meant merely that the Volun
tars &mild only be feldomer called out to exercife,
and 0- %being obvious, it ought to have been beneath
Hon. Gentleman to catch at words. Was
that the Right Hun. Gentleman could be
• understand that any intention exiled

the
istsZt,
nasaubto an to so._ _
al dlliniuding the Volunteers? Sure he was, that if
lila ROI Honourable friend entertained any fuch
intention, be had concealed it from him. That his
Right Honourable Friend laid any thing on the day
eluded to, to warrant-futh an inference, he moll pe-
temptorily and abfolotely denied. It would have
been rather more becoming in the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman to have waved any remark on this plan until
it was perfeelly underßood for it was quite clear
that he did not underhand it ; and it was much to be
regretted that Come indultry was made to propagate a
&radar mifundevaanding throughout the country,
but, thank God, with very little Needs. With ref-
pal to the are made by the. Right Honourible Gen-
tleman of.tho word afylum,' it could only have
been applied by his Right Honourable Friend to the
Volunteers, as the body which thole men in the hijher
clalfes of life, who might with to be exempted from
the compulfory training,wnuld naturally chnofe. The
Right Honourable Gentleman talked of fubflituting
aoo,ooo men trained according to the new arrange-
ment to 300,G00 difciplined Volunteers. But the
Right Honourable Gentlemen did not feem to recol-,
teat that it was not aoo,ooo men merely, but the
people of the country, in rotation, that would be
trained, is addition to the Volunteers. The only
change, on the whole, in the Volunteer Syltem, was,
merely to retain Aimfe only, who &Gold terse with-
out pay, and that would be conformable to the mi•
giaal principle of their formation. Therefore the
change could occafion no murmurs, 'oriel's men were
predetermined to complain. He was lorry to hear
of the exifienee of any dikontent, although he was
perfuaded that it could proceed only from wirconcep-
sista. But when the Right Honourable Gentleman
olepseemed any iiittmperance on the port of the Vo-
lionteers, left it &mild furnilh their enemies with ar-
guments againfl them. be would with to know where
the Right Hoeretueable Gentleman eonfnlered the
tocroies of the Volunteers 1 for he knew of no fuch
trt'rfoot in that Houk. The Right Hon. Gentleman
right fay whom he fufpeElod, but he rather believed
'tat ire would feel it difficult to (late the grounds of
!i• Calpicion. That a difference of motth.n prevailed
n..ti this quellinn, both in and out of the Hnufe, he
w-os ronfeety convinced. He could not hope for un.o
upon a fair and full moieritandung of
A .se meafdre, he bad little doubt that the number of
oppoilene would be comparatively very few.