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

Mr. PERCIVAL contended that he did not ntit%
repaint the Right Honourable. Gentleman. Hi
(poke of what he Paid, in the manner in which he
undorllood him ; and he would appeal in the gene.
I rality of the Members of the Honfe, whether they
did not alto underhand him in the fame manner ?

Lord CASTLEREAGH exprefred the fatisfae•
tion be felt upon the alteration of tone which the
Houle had witneiTed in the Gentlemen on the other
Gde, fince a former evening. They had had op-
portunity for farther refledion. He Gnterelywifhed
that thefe Gentlemen would extend their amended
opinion to the other objedionable parts of their new
propofition, and particularly to that relative to the
flooding army, which every man anxious for the
, Way of the country muff naturally wills to efcape
the!grofp and effeds of the. Right Honnerable Gen-
tleman's deftrative reform. It was faido that the
Right Honourable Gentleman had no intention to
difband the Volunteers, but he begged the ,Houle to
recoiled the Right Honourable Gentleman's own
words, upon the night he opened the fubjed, when
he declined to pledge himfelf or any of his colleagues
• &sunny (apply to, the Volunteers for move than one
year. When it was urged that the Right Honoura-
ble Gentleman ezpreiled no with to lower the difci-
plias of the Volunteers, he would refer only to his
outwards. Heprofeffed a defire to take front them
their infpeding Office's. their drill Serjeants, sad it
might naturally be fuppofedto.reduce them at length
toe viol with that armed peatentty, that anwieklY '
waft from whom it was prepofterous to expel any
thing in the fhape of an army. 'He pot it to the
Hoofs, whether it would be pnslttelto eollelt a force
fo loofioed. fo imperfectly trained. and convert them
to die purpofe of an•eymyt
Here Mr. FRANCIS rofe to order, coaceiving the
Noble Lord to exceed the proper limits of the qui:
don before the'Henife.
MroPAULL alto rote to order ; but after a few
wordvfrom the SPEAKER, who did not confider
the,Noble Lard diforderly, although he was cer-
tainly branching into confiderations not imme,liately
connected with the motion before the Houle, nill be
felt tharhe mutt leave it to the Noble Lord's own

dikretinn.
Lord CASTLEREAGH reamed, and Paid
that h,e•fhould not have travelled out of the Motion
before the .Houle, if it had not been for the obferva-
lions of the Right 'Honourable Gentleman (Mr.
Fox), andthe charge of mifreprefentation which he
had. made anaintt his Learned Friend (Mr.Pereival.)
Mr. WINDHAM faid, that, of the two who bad
fpoken on the other fide, one only had ufed argu-
ment, and of that he fhouhi take notice at a ptnper
time. But to the other, who bad dealt in nothing
but affertian, .he Amokl offertnothing:but.contradic-
tion, for all he had !Laud willed npon the .molt glar-
ing mifennception. This Right Honourable Gentle-
-1 man had begun by Rating, that he was defirous to
explain his motion, 'but he expreffed no defire to ex-
plain his übje4t, and yet it was extremely evident.—
, When the .Might Honourable Gentlemen determined
on any Parliameutasy warfare, they might, at leak
to rcpreknt fairly the language of thole they meant
to oppnfe, and keep their own condua in recollec-
tion. •In talking of compulfory meafures, it would
have been decorous in the Right Honoorablc Gen-
tlemen to bear in mind the Army of Referee AO,
which he fupposted, and the byltem of the Militia.
both of which were compulfory levies. Ent even
though thole meafures efcaped his recolltaion, he
ought not, finely, to have forgotten the maMerable
npinion which he himfelf declared, that a Volunteer
could not relign (a mists:reef laughter, and bear, bear.)
As to the remarks of the Learned Gentleman, on his
1 tile of the word " relaxation," he confeffed that, in
point of verbal eriticifms, a" remiflion of difeipliae"
wouldtave been mare appropriate. But it was an-
ucefrary to dwell on filch a thing, for the tenor of
his plan explained his meaning. With the enforce-
ment of dirciplina the Infpeaing Field Officers could
have no influence, for they had not the power to en-
force the attendance of the Volunteers even for in-
fpatien ; and why not then rave the expence of loch
Officers. Inliead of diminilhing the Volunteer Corps,
the Right Honourable Gentleman contended that his
plan would ferve mole materially to' increare them.
—For what did the change import ? limply nothing
more than to put all Volunteer Corps on the fame
footing on which 300,000 out of the 330,000 now in
Great Britain, already flood. This meafure would
rather tend, he maintained, to prevent a diminution
of the Volunteers, which was to be apprehended if
no new arrangement were made.
General TARL ETON congratulated the Houk
on the effea which the loudly expreffed fentiment of
the country teemed to have on the tone of the Right
Hon. Gentleman. Gentlemen had been through the
country doting the Reed's, and could not but report
the public opinion to Miniflert. He had himfelf fren
feveral warm letters from the country on the fubjeB
of what was generally called Mr. Windham's plan.
—He begged pardon for mentioning the Honourable
Gentleman's name. He felt that It was not Parlia-
mentary, but he and (obers called the plan by that
name in contradiftinaion to any the army had ever
before heard of. The motiqn was agreed to.
A Mange was brought front the !Anis, fiathtt that their
Anithipa had agreed to air lobo Doekworth's Annuity Bill; and
that they had paired the We India C.nveruura' ihtkittrity
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Mr. PAULL rote, agreeably to notice. to move
his article of impt:achment againft Lord Wellefley,
for a watleful expenditure of the money of the E.ttt
,India Company. He declared it nut to be his-intention
to trefinifs long on the indulgence of the Houk, in its
then exhanfied hare. It might be afked, why he had
volunteered himfelt in bringing forward accufations
againfi the Marquis of Welletley ? Knowing intl.
matcly the caufe>, of complaint againft the N•tble
Matquis, hr expedited, that thole who had !offered
mull by his conditEt, whore lopplies and reroute's he
had lariihed. would have Upped forward if his n-
euters, and accordingly applied to them on the fob-
Find;ng, however, that they 4teclined the en-
quiry, and being in polleflion of the Gas, lie relolved
to undertake it, leeling, as he did, its magnitude,
aware as he was that it did not poffelt Infficient
weight to add authority to his accufation. The Court
of Directors, however. he was now c.meinced, were
of opinion that they ought to have been the accu-
ler:. They had drawn tip a Bill of I odiament abalnit
him more ferious in its nature, and from the facts
which it divulged, than was often to be suet with, It
criminal actotationt. He regretted the stbfbnee of a
I Noble Load, whore charafter Ita:ti high among the,