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London, England, 1807-08-06 00:00:00

Pi!lt LIAME ATAR r PR 6CA ED INGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS. AUGUST c.
Several Bills on the table were ft.rwarded in their refpeaive
*ages.
Mr. Hahnufe. Mr WIWI. Mr Stanley, Colonel Beaumont,
and feveral other Member. of the Hnuf: of Commons. brought
up the Philanthropic Annuity inflitution Bill, and lova Billa.l
returned with the Amendments of the Lords agretd to.
The Order of the Day for receiving the report of the Traders'
Affets Bill was, on the motion of the I .nrif ChanecUor, difcharged
and the Bill ordered to be committed to morrow.
PHILANTHROPIC ANNVI TY INS,TITVTIoN SILL.
On the fira reading rf the Philanthropic Annuity
Inflitution Bill (to enable the Society to rue in the
Same of their Treafnrer,)
The LORD CHANCELLOR obferved, that it
had lately become a praaice for Societies of this def
Cription not to apply for a charter of incorporation,
which would impofe certain duties on them for the
benefit of the public, but to come to Parliament
with thefe Bills, in order to obtain jutl to much of
a corporate capacity as Wiled their own convenience.
He thought, therefore, that thefe Bills fitould he
looked to with great jealoufy, and he fhould take an
opportunity in another fine of the Bill of deliveliag
his fentiments upon the fuhjea.
The Bill was read a liat time, and ordered to be
printed.

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EAST INDIA BONDS BILLS.
Lord-HOLLAND prefented a Petition from the
Merchants and Inhabitants of Liverpool again this
Bill, which could not be received ycflerday, but
which had been fince altered agreeable to the form
of the Houfe. Ordered to lie on the Table.
Lord HAW KESBURY moved the third reading
of the Bill.
Lord HOLLAND faid he did not mean to ob.:
jeCt to the third reading ; but, at the fame tim; he.
willed that the fubjea could have been brought for-
ward at a period when there was a fuller attendatcce
to dirculs the fubjea.
The Bill was read a third time ancl.paffed.
PROTEST AGAINST THE REJECTION OF THE cm.
CES iN REVERSION BILL.:
Lord HOLLAND, after referring to the Stand.
ing Order which declares that Protefls amid be
entered before two o'clock, and ,figned by the
Lords protefling before the riling of the Houle on
the day of fitting focceeding the clecifion protefled
againg, Rated, that in confequence of the tinexpeeed
rejeaion of the Offices in Rever lion Bill yetlerclay,
a Protefl againn that decifion had been regnlirly
entered, but that it was wilbed to make an alter ttit n
in two of the reafors allctlAed in the Prnteft. Finns
the unexpeeed rejeeion of that Bill and the fhortnefs
of the period which had fince elapfed, he was in-
duced to hope that their Lordfhips would allow loch
an alteration to be made, and alfo that thofe Loads
who wifhed to fign it might have time till the riling
of the Houle to morrow. His Lordlhip inlved to
that effect.
The LORD CHANCELLOR obferved, that it
always had been the pra&ice of the Houle to keep
a tight hand over the privilege of protefting, and
he thought the Order ought in general to be rigidly
adhered to. In the prefent inflance,die Lords pro.
telling had Rated their reafons at great length, and
be did not fee any neceaity for granting any further
Fermiffion.
After a few words from Lord HOLLAND, in
reply, the motion was negatived.--Adjouined.
REJECTION OF THE BILL TO PREVENT GRANTING
REVERSIONS.
The following are LISTS of the MAJORITY and
MINORITY on the Bill for Preventing the Granting
of Places 'in Reverlion
MAjOKITY..
LOl4 ARDEN
• REDESDALL
- NAPIER •
•••• MLLVILLE
•••••• HEAT HYILLD
•••••••• GLASGOW
- KINGSTON
••••• LIMERICK
- CARLLI ON
.•—•• MORTON
..-- ELDON
WALSINCItAM
The Duke of MONTROSE
His Royal HiOnefs the Duke
Of CUMBERLAND
The Bilhop of CUICSIESTER •
PRO TEST.
Entered on the Journals of the Houfe of Lords on the oceafion of
the rejedtion of the Bill entitoled " An Act to Prohibit the
granting of Offices in Revcrlion, or for joint lives, with benefit
of furvivorlhip."
Diffentient,
I. Becaufe we are opinion that a Bill of fuch magnitude and
importance, fent tip by the Commons Houle of Parliament, as a
meafure of precautit.n nal-A the wanton and injudicious expendi-
ture of theanon.y of their contliturats, demanded the deliberate
*confideration of a fall Hock t it is therefore with the deepeft re•
gret we have frets h haftily rejeded, at the inftigation of Noble
Lords doeply ir.terefted its r;vrtßonary grants, and in the abience
of thofe whole teteial fituations rendered their attendance in this
'Honk more pecoli .rly a public duty.
2. Beeaufe with time knowledge that this Bill not only comman-
ded the general anti oba ion of the Conti; oils Houle of Parlia-
Moment, hut that it appears from the votes of that I loufe to have
been the only meafure introduced by the Committee of Finance,
of whnfe exertions his Majcity..ita his Spece h at the cfritclufton of
the Taft, as well as at the commencement of this Padiament, fo
Rrongly exprcif d his approbation; we cannot without the deepeft
feeling of alarm rifled on the feriousdircoment which the Public
tuft led at this unprecedented manner of rejeaing a meature fo
defervedly popular fanittioned by the dirca approbation of one
branch of the Legintture, and indirectly rconiniended to the fa-
vour of this Wolfe by the other.
3. Becaufe at a time when the unfortunate fituation of Europe
tendersthat exertion which pros eds from a union of fentiment fo
deferable ; and when the people of this country arc tuffering under
the preffure of an unprecedented accumulation of tasks, we can-
not but feel the deepcft•coneern that this Heide Mould rejedt a
meafure fo intimately conttedted with that fyain ef economy in
the expenditure of public money, which the people have a right to
expel! ; we dread that it will extinguith all hopes of denten' any
benefit from that Committee of Ficanee, to whole exertions the
people of this country have been taught to lodk- with favour, and
that it will give rife to ferret fcciings of dilcontent, at a moment
when prudence calls for fuels meafures as are heft calculated to
produce a union of efforts in the common mule. • 4, •
(..igned) LAUDERDALE, VASSAL HOLLAND,
SELKIRK, CHOLMONDELT,
Cowes!, Gansvasoa. for the
two Taft realism.
PROTEST—AGAINST
TION PASSING THE IRISH INSURREC-
BILL.

Pan GRlrtvgNoL
•••••• COVIPEL
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CHriLMoNDELILT
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HOLLAND
••••-•• LAUD i.RDALI
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2. lilecaufe the •eafone which have been urged in debate do not
appear to be fuffieiently Itrong to compel me to agree to &fang
tbi,titil, which cip he jutlified only on the plva of neeeffity, and
which being C.,Mrary to the principles of a free conflitution, ought
(if unfortUnately m-e..ffary) :o be hi force for the thortelt time
pullible; and yet in the pre',:tit cafe it has been pertinacioully re-
fufed to limas its duration for one year. and on the contrary it has
been declared in debate, that it would !•avc been better if ibis Bill
►al Dew for a longer Fcriod of years.

a. Beeaufe if it be true that this MI Is imperloufly called for by
the diftradted Rate of Ireland, it Gould not have been delayed till
fo late aperiqd of the SeMon, when the attendance is neceffarily fo
thin, and it could not receive the difetaon which it ought; but
Mould have !been brought forward (boner, together with other
meal-tares of a conciliatory kind to meliorate the unfortunate state
of that country,if it be really fuck as it is reprcfented.
3. &cable it appears to me that the hell way to conciliate the
people of Ireland to a union with this country; is by convincing
them that in all our sets towards them, we are as tender of ,their
liberties as we are of our own. and that we will on no account Puf-
fer that to be done to them which we w;il not as readily', and pa
the fame ground 4, fulatnit to ourfelveit.
(Signed) PONSONBT, Earl Bcfsborough, In Ireland.
PONSONEY. • • • •
• On the Duke of Btornav's amendment to confine
the term of duration of the Irifh InitarreElion Bill to
one year only, the following di(Tentients were entered
on the journal Book, by Peen who voted for that
amen,dment :
vassact.tintarin. Baotou),
m'ENTWORTIt FITZWILLLIAI4, FoLera
Yaasoaouurr, PONSONDY, POVSONIY.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Order-for confidering the Petition relative. to the Carriek•
Fergus Elc&on. was dikharged, in confequenee of no fureties
haying heen entered by the Petitioner.
The Accounts moved for by Mr. C. JOHNSTONE, relative to
Payments made by Army Agents, and Balances remaining lan their
hands, were laid on the Table. _
I Upon the motion of Mr . HUSK ISSON, leave was given to briiig
in a Bill to empower the Commiffloners appointed to etamine the '
Accounts of the late Barrack Matter General (General Delancey).
finally to audit there Account% The Honourable Member, in
making the motion. Rated that the Bill was neerfl'ary, in order to
lenable thofe Commiffioners to carry into effect the object of lII*
appointment, in confeqiience of the Third Report of the Military
1 Commilßons. The Bill was afterwards brought in, read a brit,
and orderml to be read a fecond time.
IRISH ARMS PREVENTION BILL.
The Report of the frith Arms Prevention Bill was brought up,
agreed to, and after Come amendments were introduced, ordered
to be read a third time on Friday. The only amendment of any
confequence was adopted qp the motion of Mr. Lufhington, that •
Magittrates fhould not impofetbe penalty preferibed for not regif-
tering arms upon thole who might not have done fo through acci-
dental circumitances, and not through wilful neglect.
PROPhRTY e F GENERAL DELANCEY.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL obtained 'leave to bring in a
Bill to releafe from the claims of the Crown certain real en 1
pet fmal Property of General Delancey'.. The Right Honourable
Gentleman Rated the object of the Bill to be to facilitate the
fale of the property by (exurbia the title of the purchaf•r,
and to yea the produce of the tale in the hands of I'ruftees for
the payment of the Debts which might appear doe to the Crown.
'The Bill was brought in, read a Grit, and ordered to be read a

fecond time.
SALTASH
Upon the motion of Mr. WHARTON. the appointment of a
Ballot for the confiklcration of the Petition relative to the Saltailt.
Eledion was fixed for the ifs of September next--to which it was
poltponed from the t3thinft.
Mr. BARHAM brought In a Bill for fecuriog Pifparch in the
Deirery of the Writs of Eledion, &c. Read a heft, and ordered
to I e read a f.-cand time.
Mr. FOSTER brought in a Salto fandion the Woe of tesniscioi.
of Exchequer bills for the fervicc of Ireland. Read a Brit, at d
ordered to be read a fecond time.
Mr. DENT pnftpnncd until to morrow, his notice with re,nrci
to a Bill fur making farther Regulations its the Law refpect.rg
Eledims.
The Confulid3ted Fund Bill was committed, and the Report,
ordered to he brought up to morrow.
The Smuggling Prevention Bill, the Swedish Herrin,: Irriport3-
dun Bill, the Silk Drawback Bill, and the Engliih and irithDraw-
, back Sufpenlinn Bill were read a third date
and pall A.
The Welt India Produce, Auetiun Duty Firuipq to Bid. and
the Malta Linen Trade Bounty Bill were ttporti.d, aud ordered
I to be read a third time to morrow.
•
MAy R. AIRE.
Sir C. POLE, after time prefatory remarks upirn
the acknowledged propriety of having the doors of
that Houle thrown open for the Petition of any indi-
vidual who conceived himfelf fubjeft to a public
grievance, upon which principle he felt it his duty
to prefent the petition to which be meant to refer,
moved that the petition of Major Ayre fhould be re-
ferred to the confideration of a private Committee.
This petition the Honourable Baronet obeerved, was
the lad refource of the petitioner, after he had found
all applications for retirees to the Admiralty; the
Treafury, and the Privy Council completely fruitlefs.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
was glad that this Petition had been prefented, and
that the confideration of the Houfe had been difiinaly
drawn to it; becaufe an opportunity was dins offered
to communicate to all the parties concerned a know.
ledge of the grounds upon which Government had
ailed; which knowledge he had no doubt would fplly
juflify Government for their condu6t npon the fubjeEl
—The circumflarsces of the cafe were thefe :—The
Petitioner applied, as the reprefentative of Captain
Ayre, for his Share of the Prize.money arifing out
of the capture of the Settlement of Chineurah. After
an invefligation of the Petitionet's claim, in conjunc-
tion with that of others who had a claim upon the
fame occafion, the Court of Admiralty decreed in their
favour. But that decree was fufpended upon this
ground. The Dutch EAR India Company appeal:d
to the Court of Chancery, againft the Eatt India
Company of this Country, upon the fubjeEt of this
capture—and fuck appeal being communicated to
the Court of Adtnirarty, that Court thought proper,.
very justly, to fuepend its decree. fat to the delay
which had occurred in the .profecuting the appeal of
the Dutch Eail India Company; it was edify accoun-
table for, becaufe we had been lince the Appeal, for
the greater part, at war with Holland. But when
the war ceifed, the fucceffors of the Dutch Ealt India
Company might refume their appeal to elle Court DE'
Chancery—and if that Court Ihoold decide in .thitr
favour, after the fulpenflon of the Decree, made by
the Court of Admiralty, had been taken off, the
confequence would be, that the money paid under
that decree, mutt be refunded. It was with a view
to prevent fuch a confufion, that the Crown Officer;
declined to profecute the Appeal which the Petitioner
and others had thought proper to prefer againft the
fuepenlion of The Admiralty Decree. Thefe were the
grounds upon which the Privy Council, before whom
this cafe underwent an invelligation, allied, with
regard to the applications of this Petitioner, againft
whom it was impoffible that they could entertain any
prejudice, and the Right Hon. Gentleman trailed
thefe grounds were filch as to induce the Houfe to
be of opinion that the Petition onght not t04.6e enter
tained. He could not, ind Fed, .IcevAny* nee to refer
fuch a PetitiOn to a Committee, for.fuch a iefirence
could only ferve to encourage expe6tations7in the re;
titioner which mutt be ultimately difaiiiiipted.
The motion was reje4ed. .
MILITARY CAUSAL, TYTHSS:496I..
. _

The SECRETARY 'at WAR moved the •shird
reading of the Military Canal Bill.
A Member moved a clank to (mire indemnity
to fuch as might fuller in 'their .Tythet:by the We
which was to be made of land in confequence of this
Bill,

The SECRETARY at WAIL was forty to Ue.
under thcneceffity of oppofiag this claufe. But it,
:proceeded -upon a priociple, which if eflablifhed,
would go to a great length indeed. Ths proprietor
of •the land was at liberty to make any life of it he
pleated, and it might -newer be fo ufed as to become
liable to Tythes, of courfe the principle of this claufe
could not be fuflained.
•Mr. FULLER thought the indemnity referred to
in the claufe entitled to confideratinn, and hoped it
would be regarded by -the Bench of Bahops. The
Honourable Member was proceeding in his remarks
upon what ought to be the conduit of the Bilhops,

When
The SPEAKER called him to order, obferving
that that Houle could not enter into the conEdera-

tion of fuch fubjetle.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
conceived the ground of the chase totally untenable.
He put a cafe, whether if a Canal of this nature were
to run through fwampy grounds, and that in confe-.
quence the ground on its bank being drained, became
capable of cultivation and liable to afford Tythes,
the Clergy would like to be called uprot compulforily
to contribute to the expence•Of fuel' a Canal obvi-
foully they would not like it. Then upon what ptin-
ciple of jullice could they claim an indemnity for
rTythes upon the affumption, that certain land would
be f r applied as to yield Tythes. The Houfe
muff
perceive the extent to which loth a principle as this
clinic relied on might be carried, and how untenable
fuch a principle was.
Theslaufe was rejelled, and the Bill was paired.
OFFICES IN REVERSIIN•
Mr. BANRES gave notice, that he would on Fri-
day next, bring forward a motion grounded on the
Refolution of the Houfe on the 27th of March latl,
relative to, the granting .of Offices in Reverfion
( 4 lad cry of bear, hear !)
MILITIA TRANSFER RILL.
Lord CASTLEREAGH moved the third reading
of the Militia Transfer Bill.
Cnlocel STANLEY role to oppore•this meaftne,
from which he was perfealy convinced no benefit
could be derived to the country, equal to the per-
manent difadvantage which would tenth from it to
thaticonnitutional force, the Militia. But from what
occurred of late years, anti particularly in this in-
ft true with regard to the Militia, he could not help
thinking that this force was not a favourite with fome
Gentlemen. Perhaps it was not fuited to their faw'
ti.eviews—it did not afford patronage enough. The
Honourable Officer panegyrized the conduel and
character of the Militia, and quoted that important
et "'Jere,: of the patriotic zeal, the volunteering for
Ireland at the time of the rebellion in that country,
an.i at , a time when there were not, esclufive of
guar dr and gartifons, above 6000 difpofable troop'
in this courtry. From the difpofition which Mini
fters manifetted, he wifhed to know whether it was
their intention t r continue thofe drafts from the Mi
litia from time to time ; becaufe if fo, it would be
come a confideratiun with there Gentlemen who had
made fuch facrifices, through their conflation with'
I. that body, whether they would continue the connec-
tion any longer—whether they would expofe them-
felves to the mortification of Bills of this nature? For
his own part, as a Militia Colonel, he mull fay, that
be could not without pain part with thole men, who
'were attached to their officers, and to whom their
officers were attached. And fuels, he was fati.fied,
were the feelings of the great body of the Militia
officers, who would, he had no doubt, be driven, by
meafures of this nature, to withdraw themfelves from
that force; at the fame time that he was perfuaded
they would not fail to employ their talents in fuch a
way as to render fervice to their country, thould
the country require their aid. The 'Honourable
Member cor.eluded with afking, Whel:ier Minillers
had given direflions to any Officers of the Regular
Army to tamper with the Militia ? and he was urged
to put this queflion, becaufe, from a letter which he
had this day received from the Lieutenant Colonel of
his regiment, (the Lancafhire) it appeared that cffi-
cers of the line had, from the moment this Bill was
known to be brought forward, begun to interfere
with his men, and, by difiributing money, to intro•
duce thole fcenes of drunkennefs and infobordination
which were naturally to be expeOed from fuch a
Meafore.
Lord CASTLEREAGH in reply to the queflion
of the How urable Member, Rated that it was not the
intention of Minifier, to propole a meafure of this na
cure periodically, he meant annually; and they were
refirained from fuch an intention by this obvious
motive, among other confiderations, that it would
produce a repetition of the Ballot, which would lead
to high bounties, and of courfe interfere with the
fytlem of regular recruiting. With refpat to the
tampering with the Militia, to which the Honourable
Member had alluded, he obferved that it would be
a great prefumption in Minifiers to take any pro-
ceccling whatever upon this Bill, before it had ea-
ccived the, silent of even one branch of the Legifla
tore. But he could affure the Honourable Gentle
man, that Co far from iffuing fuch orders as his quef-
tion referred to, the Officers who could be capable I
of ailing fo improperly as he had defcribed, would
fobjeet themfelves to the revere animadverfions df
vernment. The Noble Lord was glad that the
cafe mentioned by the Honourable Memlier was
made known ; becaufe meafures might be taken that
the Officers who had fo far forgotten their duty as '
to interfere with the Honourable Colonel's regiment,
(liquid derive no advantage from it. It might, for
infiance, be fo fixed by the Commander in Chief,
that the regiment appointed to receive the Volun-
teers fronnthe Lancafhire Militia fhnuld not be that
avhich was at ;relent next in cantonment to that regi-
ment ; and other means might be taken -to mark a
determinaticn to ditcountenance fuch' proceedings as
the Honourable Member alluded tn.
Sir. R. WILLIAMS fpoke again(! the Bill, which
if brought forward at an early period of the Scions,
would, he had no doubt, have produced petitions
fromevery part of• the country, and that the Gentle-
men on the Tteafury Bench would have 101 l their
places. The Hon. Baronet took occalion to allude
to the opinion expteffed by an Honourable Officer
(General Tarleton), on a former evening, upon the
tubjea of appointing Int-pet:ling Field Officers, and
he would ark that Hon. Officer, whether,• although
it might be convenient for the eneral of a diftria
to inipett the Volunteers, he had not two Major
General's under him, who Could find quite time enough"
to perform 'tat duty ? Indeed, it was his opinion

that the General himfelf could do fo, and that the
H6n. Officer(Tarleton) would be very well employed
in doing In, if it were not that his atiendas.cc in that
.Houfe was fo necelary and his let vices fo material.
But on reconfideration, it was difficult to fay where
the Hon. Officer's fervice was mote important, whe.
they in the fenate or in the field (a laugh.)
General TAKLETON ohferved, that the Officers
alluded to by 'the Non. Baronet could not attend to
the fervice he mentioned—that, in ha, fuch a thing
was "militarily unpffible."
Mr. BANKES was in favour of the Bill, from an
-opinion. of its neceffity, but would rather have it
without the claufe relative to enlinment for life, be.
caufe that claufe interfered with the plan of calling
19r limited fervice.
Lord FOLKSTONE (*jelled to the Bill and
Gen. LOFTUS fliPported it, expreffing iron*
his approbation of that part of the plan of 'aft Seffions
which related to Chelfea, and which formed a great
encouragement to recruits.
Mr. WINDHAM was glad of the teftimony of
the lion. Officer in favour of this part of the plan,'
beoaufg Oat was the part molt abufed by tie pen.
tlemenOn the Treafury Bench, who aliened that the
benefit it promifed would act at all atone for its ex•
pence. The Right Hon. Gentleman adverted to the
obfervation of the Noble Lord laft night, that this
fubjett wee exhaufted, Which was a pretty confident
affertion for'any man to make upon any fubjed, but
particularly upon or,e which he himfelf otigipated.
I Fora man who could qiink that new lights couldnnt
be thrown upon any queflion which did not appear
to his own titind, mutt have a tclerabk degree of fell
fufficiency. But the fad was with regard to this Bill,
that if it was a (landing difh before the Houfe, nevi
objalions would occur upon it every day ; it would
be a fort of cut And come again with it—loch was
the variety of the conliderations which it contained.
The Right Hon: Gentleman entered into a compari:
fon between the plan he had the honour to bung for.
ward fan kffions, and any other profpea fur railing
men which preceded it, and proved from the data which
the documents before the Hun& furnifhed, the tope.
dor effi.ciency of his plan to any tbing heretoforedevifed.
It was true, he laid, as the Miniflers had charged
upon him, that he had not courted popularity. That
was a bribe, than which nothing could be More ruin-
ous to the State. The Right Honourable Gentlemen
oppofite knew well the etre& of this weapon, which
they had wielded with gseat force both in and nut of
office. While in Oppofition, they had endeavoured to
excite the Volunteeis againft their enemies in power;
and now that they were it. Adminiftration, they made
ofe of the fame inflrument. The Volunteer Officers
were a moll excellent Minifleiial Army ; brit whether
they were molt ufeful at a General Eleflion or in
frightening Bonaparte, was a quetlion not yet refolv.
ed—(A laugh )—They refemble the pipe which
Hamlet fpeaks of: by changing the fingers, it would.
found any flop Miniflers plea fed. This was n't a
defctiption of force which had not been often tried
and played upon. It was like the countryman, who
anfwered, upon being afked, whether he could play
'n the fiddle, 661 don't know until I try"—( iffee:b
laughter.)—Fe contended that the experience of every
revolving day wanted the fliperiority of his military
plan. Minifters did not like that it %mild thus (tart
up day by day, and confute their arguments against
it. It was neceffiry that fomething like an curer.
Igency fhould be found, and they created the follow-
ing :—They told us that the French Army had been
vklorious, and that our Allies had been forced to
make a feparate peace.—" Good Gon!" laid Mr.
Windham, 66 could they not forefee all this ? Did
k require any great degree of political fagacity to
foretel, that Bonaparte would prevail over the Ref-
flans s And yet fo it was, Minifters did not forefee
all this—they were quite furprifed at the victories of
the French. Their emergency was fomething like a
funk fence in a Pack, which was very aptly called a
Ha ! Ha f—They heard of the late difaiters on the
Continent, and they exclaimed, Ha! Ha ! here is a
famtnis emergency ! let us fpring the rattle, plunder
the militia, and overthrow this galling Military
Syflem.—This was the cloak under which they con-
cealed the (Wet° by which they meant to nab the
plan of their predeceffuis. All men were naturally
anxious for poflhumous fame, and it was his awn
with that.his name fhould not go down to pofterily
with any fairer compliment than a comparifon of the
effidts of his Military Syflem. There were an Italian
mufician and a Dutch mathematician, who wifbed
that the names of their favourite performances should
be inkribed upon their tombliones. Such was his
ambition precifely with refpea to his MilitarySynem.
The Right Honourable Gentleman oppofite had de-
prived him of all gratification from living fame; and
his hopes that he fhould have feen his name and the
benefits he had conferred infcribed upon the living
trunks of his fellow creatures, were blaned by the
new military matures now before the Houfe. He
lamented the overthrow of his plans, ho wever, more
on account of the llfs the country would fuffer, than
on account of any perfonal feelings.
The queflion being then called for, flrangers were
excluded, and we underfiand that Mr. Frankland
followed Mr. Windham at the fame fide. The Houle
then divided on the epteltian, that the Militia 'lrani%
fer Par.. 'Ayes 7S—Noes 19.
The Bill was then paired, and Mr. Hobhoufe or-
clued to carry it to the Lords, and defire their con.
currence, certain claufes being previaufly added to
the Bill by way of riders.
The Militia Completion Bill was then read a third
time, and feveral claufes, on the motion of Lola
Caftlereagh, added by way of riders.
• Mr. WILBERFORCE prnpofed a claufe,
ing to the ball.ired man, obtaining
a fubflitute, three
fourths instead of one half of the bounty, given nv
him to the fubilitute for ferviiig, provided guar hal-
Anted man fwore himfelf not worth five hundred
pounds. He laid that he thought a provision of
this kind would go to obviate the greater part. if
not all of the ohje6tions grounded cn the prin-
ciple of its oppreflion operating as a tax. Since
the year 1762 or 3, half the bounty was allowed ; he
thought that confidering the confiderable charge
I made by the income tax, by which every man cow
tributed a tenth of his means to the public exigencies
I in the circumtlance of the middling orders and the
clafs molt likely to be affedled by that claufe, a
was a deferable one.
Lord CASTLEREAGH objected to the claufe,
as 13 claufes of the Bill went upon a principle differ.
ent Oom that of the chute propofed;

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thought the elaufe went to affea the principle of the
Militia policy altogether. He difapproved of any
thing that Is ent to encourage any pecuniary commu-
tation for aanal fervice.
Mr. H. THORN I'ON Paid a few words in favour
of the claufe, which was then negatived without a
divifi n.
Upon the quenion being put for the third reading
of the Bill,
Mr. D..GIDDY declared, that nnr infular fitua•
Lion, which was confidered by many as the greaten
boaß of Engli(hmen, was, in his opinion, at an alar-
ming cribs, the greaten fource of appreitenfon. From
that very conlideration, it was men particularly ne•
ceffary that the Legiflators and Governors of the
Country fhould take molt efpecial care that at the
time of any incurfion of the enemy, (as filch an event
was laid to Le daily apprehended) that at the time
of Inch an event taking place, the fkength of the
Country fhould rant be too much concentrated : it was
receffary undoubtedly that we have fome place of
general depot, but it was incumbent on us to take
care that there were feveral fmaller depots to conned
vi h it, and above all, that we fhould keep up an in-
timate conflation with Ireland.
Lord CASTLEREAGH Allred the Hon. Mem-
ber that the Aka which he had in view had not
efcaped the attention of Government. That defect
could only be fupplied by means of a large Militia
force. And with refpet to that part of the country
upon which it was molt probalrte that a defcent would
be made by the enemy (Ireland), it was feen that the
military force was at plefent too moth concentrated,
and Government had determined on fpreading the
military force more eqnally round that conntry.
Mr. SHERIDAN exprtflld great fatisfaetion at
the attention which had been paid to the Militia force,
and hoped that fome attention would be paid to the
inequality of the ballot.
The Bill was then read a third time and palled.
Mr. SHERIDAN Rated that, as the trial Difarm-
ing Bill, and another quenion (the Refolution inten-
ded to be prapofeci by Mr. Bankes, founded on the
Refolution of the Houfe relative to the granting of
Places in Rever lion) were to c• me before the Houle
on Friday, and were likely to give rife to confiderable
difcuffion, he would, for the convenience, arid with
the leave, of the Houfe, pullpone his motion relative
to the State of Ireland to Monday next. The Order
was made out accordingly.
Upon the third reading of the Irifh Militia Tranf
fer Bill, Lcrd CASI'LEREAGH brought up a
elude, autht riling the men to colilt into the marines,
if they !tmid think fit.
The claufe was added by way of rider to the Bill,
which was •ead a third rime and panel
General TARLETON prcfented a Petition from Meffrs. Black
burnt and Benner brewers, at I Inn in Norfolk, and All ”ne from
the inhabitants of the roan, complaining of the undue influence
and arbitrary proc, cdinp of the Mietrates of that Borough, in
withholding PA: Means' Licences, which was received and ordered
to lie on the table —Adjourned.
THE- EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6.
PRICR OP STOCKS I'HIS DAY AT ONR O'CLOCK s
3 per Cent Cnnr 6if —fnr 'toilet 611 1-3 par Cent. Reduced
6zll--Oinnium 1 dif—Excliequer Billow sa. prem.

In the Houfe of C mmons laf night, Mr. Baenas
gave notice of a Motion for to•morrrow, on the fuh-
jeEl of the Refolution of March 24, relative to the
granting of places in Reverfion ; and Mr. Sagas-
DAN, in confequence, pollponed his promifed Mutioo
concerning Ireland till Monday.

Frefh Pres warrants were iffued this morning, in
cnnfequence of which, it is believed a very great
number of valuable Seamen will be procured, from
the large Leeward Ifland fleet kill arrived. Report
Pays, that this has been judged a neeefrary meafure,
tilt the mifunderßanding with America be fettled.

It is affirmed that Government have received a
copy of the Treaty of Peace between France and
Ruflia. The terms are reported to be very unfa.
vonrable to this country, but Tome people endeavour
to draw confolation from a report that the Emperor
ALEXANDER having been induced to fign the Treaty
under perf,nal refiraint, does not conceive himfelf
firiftly booed by it.—This moll extraordinary (tate-
ment, which reminds us of what was faid refpelling
the c ercion tiled towards D'Ousatt, at Paris, lift
year, is given on the authority of letters brought by
the lad Gottenburgh Mail, but to which we do not
attach much credit. The Treaty, like every Treaty,
will be obferved as long as both parties (hall believe
it to be more for their interest than a rupture.