Star.
London, England, 1807-01-24 00:00:00

cially before the Hole, but he would pledge his s'o-
nour to the cotreetnefs of the flatemtnt. Heconfidert
the quality of the recruits much improved by the new
fyilem. A great number of thole who went under the
Additional Force AE left the fervice fmmed;ately.—
He could nut call them deferters, becaufe it never

trigs their intention to ferve : he coull only call them
robbers, and he thought thufe were not guilders
who connived at the fyilerr. that !nought them for-
ward. The march of thole people were like that of
wandering Arabs. Wherever he faw a man corn-
ing to kin the army, he alfo law a wife and fix chil-
dren ; and they were Inch men, that Sir jobs FaYai.
would not have matched through Coventry with
them, 4at's flat (a lough ). It Teemed as if the Addi-
tional Force Bill had effeeled a general gaol delivery,
it difencurnbered the parifheb to encumber the army.
Of all the mortals that he had ever fet his eyes en
(except the Elquimaux) the wort' looking were the
recruits which the Patin; Bill had produ..ed lough.)
He had heard that it requited nine tailors to make s
m 4n,but nineteen of theft tellnws wruld not make a fol-

dier. The lion. Born .t tht n,after pa in a tigh con s.
plimcnt to the (pith which brought fprward the V
lunteer fyllem, found great fault with the manner in
which that fpirit had been mifapplied : he mentioned
an inQance when he was Adjutant, in 1776, to a re-
giment in America, that confined principally of raw
recruits, be was teaching all thole regular mantra-
'rer and mode of difcipline which was taught to the
volunteers, when the Commanding ()dice', (Colonel
Grant) a very fznfible man, told him," You ars
doing very well , if we had but plenty of time ; but
as I want to bring thole, men loon into anion,
you had better begin at the wrong end, and teach
them to fire till.' As an Irithman, he had no ob-

jeaion to this mode of beginning at ;he wrong end,
And it anfwered extremely well i❑ the firil anion they
were brought into ; he thought a flmilar courfe
ought to be adopted with refpea to the Volunteers,
who might be a powerful auxiliary to the regular
army as light troops. He concluded by an eloquent
defcriptinn of the clingers which this country fhould
prepare itfelf to meet. _ _

Mr. JOHNSTONE began by Rating, that for
himfelf he could adopt that phrafe that was recom-

mended by an Hon..B4roner (Sir John Doyfe) and
fay to the prefent Minifters? " Nem se vetu demandons
rien." He had not anted for or received favourc from

any Adminilrati n, nor did he now hope to receive
any. He congratulated the Gentlemen on the other
fide of the Houle, that they had at length difcovered
the merits of the meafures brought forward under the
admlnillration of Lord Sidmotith, a man to whom
they tiled to apply every degrading epithet, and call
him after a charafter in Moliere's plays, George Dan.
den ; and yet, n rw it was proved, both by their con-
feilions and the climates on the table, that the corn-
pa t atiVe merits of the different ryftems were, that
Mr. Addington's produced 40,000 men, Mr. Pitt's
30,0c0, and the grand meafure of the prefent Admi-
nittration produced but Sono. After a variety of
objeCtions to the details of the fyflem, the Hon.Mem-
her accused Minilers of an unwillingnefs to print their
accounts and climates. Thole Army Eilimates
were not diffidently in the poffeflion of the different
Members to enable them to pronounce whether the
different items were proper or not. He had oned
them to be printed for the general information of the
Members : it was on that ground that he had pro-
pored it to the Right Honourable Secretary at Was'
(General Fitzpatrick), and he lbould coolers, that he,
in common, as he believed, with the great majority
of the Members of that Houfe, had ton little infor-
mation about thole Ettimates, to undertake upon
them alone to ground charges of want of aeronomy
to the prefent Miniflers. He 11,14 ftronger and clearer
grounds to go upon. 'They began by increafing their
own rotaries, and they went on by continuing or
cleating new finecure places to provide for their
friends and dependents. He Should alk the Right
Non. Gentleman, for what other purple were two
Muller Mailers eneral appointed in Ireland, when
the office of Moller Manet in this country was a mere
finecure, and had been folemnly declared in 1798
to be wholly mineceffary, and therefore fufpended.
Was it not now revised, and fplit into two 'Aces
for the pnrpore of ferving two of their worthy
friends ? He had been afkeel, why he did not bring
thole charges againft Ministers in a regular firape
1
he floolid, therefore, now give a general notice, that
it was his in:emit-in, al a future time, to bring them
forward regularly.
Colonel WILDER joined with his Hon. Friend
the Baronet, as to the propriety of the late meafures
adopted by his Majefly's Minders, and laid, that,
from his own exoerience he had an opportunity of
perceiving their efficacy, particularly in the inereafe
of the number of recruits fence the introduetion of
the new Military fvflem.
Lord BLANEY fuggefled, that more effe&ual
means fhonld be taken to prevent peefons from again
enrr.ring the fervice who had been difchirged on the
ground of infirm; ies.
Colonel MATH:E.WS thought, that Inch frauds
were imprafticat le, as the recruits were rubjed to
three different infretions.
Mr. ROSE felt himfelf impelled by a firong fenfe
of duty to deliver his opinion even at that late hour
of the night. His Meijelly's Miniflers had been fo
much in the habit of praiflog one another, that they
mull have been hig'ily gratified at the panegyric that
was this night paff.d upon them and,theit meafure',
by an Honourable General on that fide of the Hattie
(Sir J. Doyle). He hid no doubt but that loch a
panegyric would dr ngly recommend the Honourable
General to the favoir of Isis Majefl)'s Minders. He
molt, however, complearly differ from the eulogfurn
he pronounced upon their condo& in the late nego-
tiation with Fiance. It they had in any one 'alliance
more than another expofed themfelves to the ridicule
and contempt of the country, it was in that. In
the not (crating out a reinforcement to Buenos Ayres,
they had air° (hewn the moll criminal negligence.
It was not ti a faa that there were no (hips fit to
carry out the ncceffary reinforcements; for, dur.
ing Mr. Pitt's Aminiftration, there were tranfports
enough at Serithead to have carried out not only
~3000, but 201000, to any part of the world. The
ruin to Buenos Ayres was little more than the run to
the Well Indies. Mr. Ptt had alto a brigade of
troops confiantly within a day's march, ready to em.
r bark for any delination Oat at 4 hr. be judged necef
fary. Mr. Rose then examined the details of tit*
new fyftens at eonfiderable length, and would by no
marls allow that any Superior degree of 'economy