Star.
London, England, 1805-03-09 00:00:00

PARIJAMENTART PROGEEDINGS.

HOUSE OP LORI •S, FRIDAY, MARCH S.

The Letter Duty and Loan Dills were read a third time and
feta
The Pleatare Haifa Duty, and two private SUL, weelvbreoght
up from the COMMITS, andeved a Ertl time.
Tune of Seeroet willies! to aft a Noble Semen/ of State
(the Earl of Camden) whether, in voting the fuppliet for the year.
the rovilion for the army was calculated upon the intended
mitomitoir CR attest nmnber of men f The Earl of Candi:Dna
11111*7411( 'be Noble Lord's veltion immediately, Lord Suffolk
sat' Aid his feeptifc that (o reafonable a demand Would not be
Ipftgarn
Thiersll of eAliellt dikWmed any idea of giving O(cace to
She NOt!le Earl ; his only radon for hag giving an' itinwiliate en-
force was, that it Wi not the efual peadlierin tAtt Hoeft to-reply
tff ley queftiOn tut ft a- Noble Lad while he ceinteueffotr bb
legs. Tht Nlutile Peri then Riled, that the Ilepply Wm taken
sfeis &emirate!' of mon, fit wlsich it wee probable the army, in
dotage of Ostlers., woidd be Wended, rather than upon beMit
k &fleetly was.

bartuca OF Tua COOFTILY.

The Order of the Day for ruminating their Lord-
Sip. having been moved by the LOLD Cmarscsi.Loa,
-Lewd NINO rote, and apologized to their Lord. '
Sips for afembling them upon a fobjee to which,
however important, he felt himkif inadequate to do •
folfieintt jultioe. Though there was fame apology
due from him, yet the magnitude of the fabite was
of eonfideraticm enough to jnltify him in having put
their Lai dibipsto the trouble of coming down.—
Every Noble Lord in that Houle; every man in the
enemy, *as folly iropreffid with the neceffity of
providing imply, nos only for the defenfiye purpofes,
brit for the maintenance of the honour of the nation.
But had thcfe droffientous arrangements been pur.
feed with the erifdan and .the energy they &told
Slays been ? Let any Noble Lord look to the various
nett thine, and fyiems, of the two. lath Seffions,
attd thin ht *odd fee what fettled n' chi the
Ball or prefent Adminifiration potTeffed upon that
[objet. %Viten be raw Mil-Utters flying to various
fyllents, and.reeling between meafure and rneafore,
be cymtd emotion* it to nothing tint the conduit of an
embarraffed man, who caught at every expedient
to teterrfe him front the difficulties which preffed
upon filth. if the trioinent. His Lordthip then took
a moll able end extenfive review of the three plans:
the Army of Referee., the General Defence, and
the Additional Paco Alts. which; in the courfe of
the trio lief year', were pallid with the defign, as he
would candidly ioknowledoe, of providing—for the
pnweeioo fwd honour of the coantry. (-Here •his
Lordfhlp melted into an accurate examination and
itimperifint of the returns of the efficient nigher/
force, at the Ottpletteaceenent of the 'prifent year.
• would admit, that there was an apparent increare
if ll,iai men, of *high there west only 800 men
added t 6 the infantry. The Chatteellese. of
the iseheipan sot only frotolfed, in the beiliant
=which he made at his outlet, to up the
hey of Ste,totr men; admitted to exill in the
army at the glithiennlinent of the left year, but
be ;wreak the •efirscient forts by oct,cOO additional
men, from what it then flood. What was the
refult of thole mighty prornifes ? Why, the' whole
toice producedly the opetittion adds -fantods Bill,
telt was to rot the Country at cafe, and *Roo*
ape, wac-not (efficient to meet the common ca-
Amities of the fervice. The eafualties of the army,
by delta, ie. amounted in a6OO ; the
TudfiliViliffed by the operation of the Additional
otee tt,ff *a 365 Own of that number. It was
true,- thio• thinkers gyre themfel yes credit for hav-
ing alifPorattetoce'of33,obb io Creat Britain and
Ireland; bat hew was that face made out ? Was
there any inan•intis Majefly's Councils, or in either
nure of Patrrittient, or in the.eountry, who could
nt, thee eAtifilient with the prefent fituation of theft
woeladtible to detach as what he called a dif-
soifable force,f tom the efficient eflablifited force, at t his
women, an ansiol-tososonten, or even onelourth of
410 tithnitirli- These was an obvious node of is fily
and tifeenally reentitittg the army; and it was mat-
ter .of fUrptifi, not only to him, but to every mili
- 'ay man w GM he had conveired, that it had
sot been . • If men were enliftechfor a tutu
of years, Ave' accent' infiend of life, who
could doubt but that the army would be frotnediate-
ly raged tei dint number, which even the Molt extra-
teapot sidles of thore, who wore moll defirons for
the- itecnovelakion of the military firength of the
tonotey, could delta ? His I.ordfbip highly sp.'
proved of the efiablitlistient of Black corps, and fug-
;died Come excellent alterations and improvements.
an that part of our military efiab)iihment • among
thofe. adding so the pay of the Officers, and refer-
ing the promotion to wo in the regiment, were the
principal. Hit LordNp then moved,
That a Cteraiskteelhould be amititted to revile the Ads
paled lb the ties &t tell of Pitliainent for the Defence of the
Country. and to anger of fuels further meatuses as may be no.
teffrtry tor that peepore."
The Earl of CAMDEN thanked the Nobleman
of the Otietlion for the candid and liberal manner in
Which be had brought forward his motion; and that
he had mixed no political matter with it, was, in •his
(Tinton, a proof of his excellent judgment. It cer-
tainly was competent to any of their Lord(hips to
flir the fabjefts and he was happy that it devolved
bpon a Nobleman, who, from his conchal. and hi, in
fortnatioli, was tabled to (earth the fobjql to the ut-
most, and to deckle upon it, as onto( thine who were
ulna interelted in the profperity, the honour, and the
glory of the nation. His Lordfhip controlled the
altital and Squinting Rate of the army with the dig..
couraging Vieille which the Noble Lord had drawn.
His Lordtlop clearly proved, from the remit% on the
table, that there ace; at prefent an efficient diroof..ble
fotce of 16z,z00 men in the canary ; and that it'
was probable, that in the courfe of a Hoot time, it
would he inc:zafed to ifit,ooo, by the meafores that
could be retorted to. The army, he would contend,
was never, not at the proudefi period of the hiflory
of the canary, more refpeeable, more numerous,
and more efficient than it was at this moment. He
was difpc.fisd to with the Noble Lord to a cer-
tain extent, repeeing the mode of maintaining an
efficient military force in the Well Indies. Black
Corps, he wallet admit, were the only ipecies of
force iyhiclt could be, with the great& regard to
economy, employed in that country. As he nutted'
be had completely obviated every Moja:lion which the
Noble Lord had urged, be would, hoping for the
competence of a majority of their Lordiluips, declare
his op2otition to the motion of the Noble Lord.
Lord STANHOPE mentioned, that the 'moth)*
of his Noble Friend induced him to attend the
Houle. It was, in his judgments the bell motion

he had 'neaten to be fohnsitted to their Loreigiipske
tome time ; and if it needed any additional tames-,
mendation, it was the clear, the dignified, mad W
temperate manner In which the Noble Lordned
his fpeech. The Noble Secretary of State, *o *
tempted to reply to his Noble Friend, had geoseints
a comparifon of the-military force of the countep at'
different pet kids ; but was he ;sedan), fatisfisd with?
the refult of his contrail ? Was the army in that
efficient gate he hod reprefented ? The motion of
his Noble Friend went to enquire into the Ails which
had been paired in the two last feilloos. Was there
any one of their Lordthips who could two& fo rea-
fonable a propoiltion ? flis objeltion to the coca-
Cures of the prefent Government were not fo con-
fined as thole of his Noble- Friend ; it went to the
whole of the military fyttem I it went to the Afts of
the two left feffio.ns ; and it went particularly to the
famous Bills produced by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, upon which that great Miniiter teemed to
reit the defence, the honour, and the charafter of the
country; and what, perhaps, he moll looked to,
the eftabli(hment of his own character. (Here his
Lordthip, from a 'printed copy of the Aft of the
44th of the precise reign, cap. 56, minutely difenf-
ted every one of in provifions.) The Noble Lord
would give their Lotdfhips chapter and' verfi upon this
moll important Cubit°. The Defence Miss a tnea-
lure tending to impoveeilh the people, was worfe
than the Corti Aff. The Defence Aet was part :of
the famine-monstry fyilem. Now he wad to do away
that Aft, .as pair of the Reeving fyllena. It had
doubled the price of bread; and, of cootie, doubled
the price of wages. It was a fillern of ruin to the
manufaaMers of the country. It suined'Our cops
merce. By ruining our commercial navy, it ruined
our military navy ; and it was undeniable, that an
Aft, which had ruined our matufaanret an' com-
merce, could have operated no other way than to
the ruin of our marine. Agriculture was impaired
by the fame estates. The farmers, the foap boiler,
the tallow-chendler, the drainer, the brewer. were
every. one of them affected by the meafure
,;• and, of
neceiPty, the prices of their refpefhive commodities.
For. by hardecing the country enormoufly„ and ten.
dering altogether unaable the fources of general
wealth and of imlividual Profperity. it eras fefferi-
dent that the Aft had, in its various operations and
itoffequences, produced the evils, machiefs, and
ruin, stgainft which he could not but imteigh. As the
farmer tailed the price of grain and corn, fo would
the labourer tell him; that he mull raise his wages
offo s and the farmer it obliged to do fo. The.prioes
of things have been doubled within thee two tamsths,
in confiquence of the Aft, end of the fyftens of die
pretent Miniftet. the price of bread has been in-
created, is increafing, and, ought to be diminiflted.
The price of wages is incrca&ng in the fame ratio
and meafores ought to be taken to effea a change.
As to the military fyllein of the country, though he
totally difapproved of she Defence Aft, yet he will-
ed to fee the country well armed. A Friend of his
out of doors, a psrfon for whoM he had a great re-
Ipea, Major Cartwright (a laugh), had written well
qp,this fubjea. Noble Lords might laugh, but the
Noble Loral, the, Secretary of State for the Home
-Department, would not laugh when he mentioned
another writer on this febjeft. his own father. who
!‘ad written a book, when Mr. lenkinfim, on the
Military Defence of the Country. This latter book
Was die moff.contlitutional, legal, learned, fcientifie,
and entertaining trail .on the National Defence, he
had ever peruild. Both on the principles of this
book, and from his own cone lion of the necellty,
as well as wifdom, of fo doing, he was tot only for
arming the people, but writhed the arming to be
more general. But the fyllem of Minifters was that
of arming the_people at prefect, and Raising them
afterwards. lUdes. there was the outwit reafonto
apprehend the wort pable confequences from the
*ate of indifctpline in which the force is ; though
this could not occafion much forprife, when it was re-
collefted that under a Noble Secretary of State (sp-
rite him (Lord Camden) the [late of indifcipline
of Ireland, when he was Lotd•Lientenant, was
Inch, that General Abercrombie, on artitrinc in that
enmity, as Commander in Chief, in omit, Kited
a proclamation, Rating, among other things, that
the army, from in indifcipline, was only formidable
'to itfelf; and not .to an enemy. The (late of our
means of defence was not fo good as under the- late
Minifter. The relent Minifter wasperhaps a man
of more brilliant talents, bin he was not a man of
more good fenfe than the late. Yet .the prefent Mi-
nifter thought nothing of' calling the Noble Lord
(Sidmouth) fool and fimpleton ; though the truth
WAS, that the Noble Lord had more good fsofe in
his little finger than the now Chancellor of the Ex- '
chequer in his whole body ; and that was not.theiog
much. (.4 petrel laugh!) However, the Noble
Lord was got out of office; and then nothing was
heard hut the cry of the tranfcatdent merits 6f Mr.
Pitt. Round went the friends of the Right Hon.
Gentleman about every where, and told the people
that he would bring in his Defence Bill, which was
to correa every &hull, remedy every, gtievance,,and
meliorate the whole tyftero of oar military force.—
But, lo I the mountain was in labour, and brought
forth Thu brat of a Defence Bill, now in every body's
hand. That noity labour had brought forth ooly
tech a rickety alibied as would hive been dffnvowed
by any one left. fubjea to theme thee his Majetly's
prefect Chancellor of the Eschequer. One material
ohjeainn he Lad to our military fyflem as, it now tub.
fills, was, that we recruited our men for life. To re-;
medy this {lngle grievance, it was incumbent on 4)e
Houle to agree to the motion for a Committee, which
had been fu'bmitted by his Noble Friend. 'the. book
of Lieutetiant Colonel Wilton on this very fubjea,
WAS worthy the perufal of their Lordatips. As a
military enquiry, this' book, his Lerdlhip thought,
polkaed incomparable merit. But it was in the
power of their Lordibips to devife armatnentaiupe.•
perior to what could occur to common minds ; thus,
hooks by individuals, could only be helps to them.
Such were, however, good helps. Under all.the cir-
coroaa.oces of the times, and knowing that there ne-
wer was a worfe.llill than the liefence Bill, he 'would
molt heartily vote for the motion of his. Noble Friend.
The Defense Aft.ouoht. in all events to be repealed,
for it was an Mt foam:lett on Wickednefs, and that
wickeduas founded on Freud. _ _

Earl 1;0![WIYr though the Ae which 'had lag
paled did, not entirely anfwer his ettsedtatina, did
not think himfelf at liberjy to impede ttrc afMtlf
Government at fads a toilod, by auterias tite.

committee propofed. The Volunar Force or the
.eotiatry Was fuch as ought, with our arrn't of other
Atfieiptious, to give uscomplete affursince—oasithad
'creel* entirely humbled the hopes of our adverrary.
ant of his (hips had no doubt lately taken advan•
easit.of the abfence of.our fqtradrotie by ltrefs of wea-
alai to get out of port ; but we had only to continue
!the exertions which we had hitherto uteri; tri fee our
moll fiutgaine hopes realized, and peace and tranquil-
lity once more, throndtour means, reftored to Europe.
The Eart of CA &LISLE °Were-Ed &at, natwith
Rattling it appeared to him to be incumbent on his
galefly's Minifters to hate ertdeaeoused at teal to
advance rouse acgoment to thew that inquiry was not
neceffary, yet they had never once attempted to con-
vince the Houk that there was not any atteal nocec-
fity for the Hoare going into the Committee which
had been snowed for by his Noble Friend. They reli-
ed their cafe chiefly on the confidence whiolithey fail.
..
• fhould be repofed in them • on the patriotic zeal of
the country, which was always ready to defenddie.
Conflitution, and for which they could claim no me-
rit; and then on the hope of what was yet to be of
feQed by the Parini Bill. Notwitidtanding all that
had. been raid of the late Adminillrotiou, the Army
of Referee Bill had produced a good many men.-
tbousib it was liabte to force objedion. But the De-
fence Bill of the prefent Adminillnition has railed a
(Mailer number of Men, and is more exceptionable •
anal-yet it is (aid that this is the better meafure of the
two. Their next project for defending the country,
will probably bring fewer men toward. the recruiting
of the aispy, then that, of confectuence, mutt be of
Rill greater value. At loft fame (Uhl** genius will
perhaps invent a (theme for the defence of the coml.
try, which (ball not produce afingle 111211 ; then tbi;
mutt be unquetlionably the hell or all the meafures
that thall have been propofed. Bot, it is (aid, that
this law. has not bad a fair trial yet. Noble Lords
would recoiled, however, that when the prefent ?di-
oilier pulled the (tool of power from-under the Noble
Lord who was then the Minifler, aod who is now a
Member of this Hople, he tailed an alarm that the
enemy was at our very doors, aud we were offering
up our prayers to Heaven that we might not be fwal-
lowed up by Bonaparte, a Cott' of coridad that did
not well accord with the chatader of Engljihmen. He
affured Parliament and the country, that he would
produce a plan by which the army would be home
diately recruited, and relying on which, the country
would he fate at home, and would be enabled ta car-
ry defirußitin into the country of the enethy. For-
tunately the enemy has not yet come, but now Par-
liament is told that they Mei wait Come time longer,
in order to give their meafure a fair trial.—His Lord-
Aip then ridicided the Defence Dill in the -molt lively
terms, and concluded with declaring his affent to the
motion then before their Lordfhips.
Lord HAWKESBURY cornbated the various
arguments which had been advanced in Cipport. of the
motion, and gave a moll pleating defcription of the
Rate of defence of the country. We .had neatly
aoo,ooo men in arms, independent-of the Volunteers.
It was generally ellimated that one fourth of the po-
pulation of the country was fully as much as were
capable of bearing arms; but the different countries
in Europeliad in general bUt one fourteenth past of
their population in arms. 'Upon a general view of
all the different'claffes of armed force which we have
at prefent, the Noble Lord obferved that the refith
was, that we had, including every thing, difpofable
force, militia, volunteers, Uencibles, &c. about 854
tpoufand men in arms, being above one-fifth of the
whole population oldie country. This was a greater
number than ever was railed in France at the height
of the revolution, or in the reign of terror. This, i
therefore, was not a time that their Los dfhips Ihould
be calletrupon to withdraw their confidence from his
Ntajelles Miniflers; or even if it was fit to withdraw
from them the confidence of Parliament. he thought
it would be much snore proper to do fu by a silted and
fpecific meafure, than by thus intolviug their charac-
ter in a genes al motion, which did not directly charge
diem with :tiny onditon or negleQ of duty, . If there
was any thing dtredlive in the Military nate of the
country, though not perhaps firiCtly in a Parliamen-
tary &life, yet by the general praQice of his Majett y's
fervent, for a (cries of years, it was known to be their
province to remedy that evil in the Thine manner as
their ower extended over the other department: ofhis
Isti r ' y's arrerament. A Noble Lord, howeier,
ha
complained that the number of our difpolible
force was not (fated in the ellinaates before the Houle.
But the number of men employed in each defcription
of his Majefty's forces, was erirrettly given, and as
it was in the pOwer of any Noble Lord from thefe
dui, to drew his own conclufious, it was plain that
hiinifiers did not intend to blink the queltion. Befidts
this' atty inereafed amount of our military tnrce,
in point of numbers, it was td be obferved alfo that
the quality was confiderably improved—the volun-
teers the fencibles, and even the militia, it mull
bg admitted, had made great progrefs in military
kiiolledge. Wtiep the prefent Rate of the defence cf
this country was controlled with what it had been a
twelvemonth back, their Lorahips would fee that it
was now in a much more fecure and formidable hate
than it was then, or even, he could tardy fay, that
Hoare never was a. period of our hitloty at which the
country was in ft.ch a high and powerful (late of
Military defence. If then lie had ettablithed the fa&
that we had 2 larger army in its amount than any
other country ; if he had thewn that it was in a
higher (late of difcipline than at any former period ;
what reafon eoiald there be for a Committee ? That
Houfe, aud every part of the country, had ever (hewn
thenifelves jealous of entrufling the management of
military afairs in any other hands dran thofe of the
DOWEL The Houfe had very properly entertained
thatetelnefra and he was clearly of op:pion that all
meafures of this kind thould originate with the Exe-
cutive Government. ( A cry of Year! Hear ! from
the other/deo/the lioafe.) His Lordfhip repeated, that
be thought all Meaftires of Lids kind onzht to migi-
nate from the Executive Government. When he raid
this, he did not deny but meafares of this nature may
hare been .prOpofed by others ; but when they are,
ttiejoitight always to be precife and fpecific in their
nretOSann o whereas this Motion was perreCtly novel,
'and went, from the way in which it is worded, to
embrace many'poiits, which aught not to nett any
_where bot'in the*Crowtt. His Lordthip alked, what
..Wete tbigroteads on which this motion Rood ? He
110 &cern that it could not be from the onantity or
Analitiof our toroee; then it mull be becaufe it wet
' iffieged there end so ivcreafe (ghee the left year.,

This, however, was not to ; ere have aZtuallv an in-
create of caveat 1110111 mi in our home
twenty thouland in ion difpoliable force. His Lord-
(hip denied, dterefore,ihat this Aft had been, as was
laid of it, ineffeilual. It bad, on the contrary, heels
very confiderably eirdlive, and would be-mor t fo, if
allowed to proceed. The ordinary recruitil.r. had
ban inoreafed by It, is kids had before boeis very
much impaired. The ArMy of R.eferve Ail, he
,1114intaillCd, was entirely exhaulted of its firength,
and, therefore, however excellent that metfore was„
it was abfidutely treeetfary to retort to Come other
plan, and he could not conceive a fyilann that was
lefs exceptionable titan that which facceeded it.—
aliaing for a Mailed term had frequernly been
fpoken of; but this could not be brought to any de-
wee of certainty, for, if a number of men were en-
lilted for arty given term of years, it vmahl not he
Cald that if that tuns expired Juring a time of war;,
thole men (Imolai he ditrharged. Thole en fiuei_a
itations, who had the pi atefliott of our Chlonies
their hands, coedit run be called home for the porpote
of being.difediarged, whatever might be then the re-
lative etrearnitrlnces of this Country sad of ,eshei
Powers. This would be another cattle of uncertainty
ff fuch a plan were to be adopted as that of railing
meta for a limited term. nor, m let if offtheie
Lordfhips confidered what NILS the cafe in real -reel
vies, and what would be likely to be the reCuitaf dee
tlteoretical fyliena, it wouhl alit be found that tfitafif-
ference would be very material—it woolernozbeilicia
as he lathered their Lord/hips would think of fie&
cient importance to warrant avr afteratioe tithe tisk
blifited military frau,' of the Corsair.
The Earl of CARLISLE explained.
Earl DA.P.NLr.Y. obterved, that theta' self ad
any thing extrartidinary ;a loch a motion Wag made
in that Houle, as the Noble Lord bed made dest
night, and faid, that if fuck snotioesas that woe not
within the power of any Noble Member of that liettfe
there was an end to all the-Privilege ; there was ad
end to all the liberties of which they were lo juttly
proud. The Noble Lord then made fame very
pointed remarks npOn feveral public •charafters, and
drfcribed the qualifications which were requifite
prrfons filling the varioar departments of the State.
In answer to what had fallen from the Noble Lord
who had jut} fat down, on the fuhjeft of military let
vice for a limited terns, hit ob4rved that aliens
was fome hope held out id a man, when he enfilloil
for any given term, or during the war, that he would
One day have an opportanity of returning to the com-
forts of domtflic life No Noble Lord could vessels
to alert that there Were not chatty who lived for a
mach longer term than the which world be- likely
to he fuggelted on the adopting of loch a plan. But
on turning to what was the aaual Vali= thew
before their Lordfirips, be did.oot find that the ar-
guments of Cie Noble Lord who fpoke 6rft hi deb**
had been in any wife controverted, and therefore he
&mild think it his duty to give his affent to the mo-
tion of that Noble Lord.
Earl SUFFOLK maintained that the Rao of the
Volunteers and the MiPtia, for which the grekat
nillers tee k fo mud' credit to tbetufelves, was ads&
boned to their predeceffurs. Adverting to abe raja&
far railing fome Black troops; he dblerved, that be
fhottld with to fee thofe troops employed in a vryge••
ent htuation from that which Minifters feensecita
have in confemplazi,ot. H. wi,uld recommend it eto
have thole troops feat to the £a lodise. sod ie life
of them an tqUal number of Sepoys fent to oar Welt
India colonies. This, he thought, for various rew-
foils, would be the more eligible plan. But this Kul
other topics he thould difeisfs snore at large is the
propofed Committee—fhould the Houfe accede to
the motion of his Noble Friend. The Noble Earl
animadverted nn the conduit of blimifiers in istVieg
loOg since obtained a vote of the public money V*
battalions which were never railed.

The Duke of MONTROSE expreffed his cowrie-
tion; that the fume alluded to by the ifinKe Lord
who (poke Jail, for new levies, would be property
accounted for—of the mode fugsterlett by that Nnbib
Lord far difpufing the new slack levies, he dititp.
proved, becaufe he thought. the Well ladies mash.
the fittefl Ration for the*. For them they felt i fts-
periority to the winking negroes, that attached thee
confiderably to the power from which they derive,sl
that fuperiority, and entitled theta to our confidence.
This confidence was the more reafonably to be looked
for—alien they were to be ensphqed, not for the co-
ercion of their fellow blacks, whofe Situation was con-
liderahly ameliorated throu&hout our iflande—but tot
the defence of other iflands againit an enemy by whom
their fellow blacks were betrayed, perfeented, of
butchered. In albino!' to the comments of the Nit.
ble Lord who (poke 'IA but one.. ("Lard Darnley,)
npnn the individuals who compofithe present Ralini-
nitiration, he oblerved, that notwithßanding thralls.
quence and ingenuity of the Noble Lord in preffint
there ectument., Rill they did not feem to product
any effect upon the Houle. gilt at this be was wit
furprifed, for they were piteifely a repetition of whnt
many Notile. Lords might have heard before, and
what he had read in a morning paper of yefiere
day, as fensiments delivered elfewhere. this let-
counted for the little interefi which the Noble Load%
obrervat;ints appeared to produce.
Eatl CARYSFORT obfetved, that the „pampa"
enninr:ration of force, which, such "is it *as, wits
ming to the lad Adminifiration,fornied a *my bun
apology for he inatlivityandinertrtefsefthepeefcht.
As to the retorn of that forte, be atwaysermeeivel
that it might have been more numerous and elfeEtive
had Minilters put fued a wifer centric of policy. TIA
Volunteers, fOr intlance, bad ahnotila the nutlet been
moit materially checked, and- time then they had
been hampered and tested by krifpedre Gerterals,by
minute regulations, by idle patade; infoinuelz, in,
deed, that nothing was left to voluntary seal; stud
numbers of the volunteer body were found to be
complittely difgufled. As to our Regular Army, he
put it to the candour of the • House, whether it was
not matter of furptize, that at the cad of three >teats
of war it 1110111 ti amount to no more than4o,oop mea?
Would any man fay that this was fuck a force as
(hoot& fatisfy the country of its fafety, or affure their
Lordthips that it was unnecelFary to go into a Com-
mittee to confider of means to augment our army?
All the plans which Miniders had tried to produce
the defired augmentation+ td proved inefficient, and
that, furely, was a reafon fofficiently flrong to in.
duce the Houle to accede to the motion of his Noli:e
Friend. He deprecated t'ie attempt that was mile
by Mitgaert to Ititiokew tar attention of their L