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London, England, 1806-07-15 00:00:00

tines Why did riot the prefent Minillers bring forward •
ail at once all the 'matures which they meant to in.
troduee in the courfe of the Seffion ? As to the breach
of public faith that was Co much fpoken of, he begged
f leave to remind Gentlemen, that the Militia was not
a voluntary, but a compulfory fervice, and that if no
particular faith was pledged to the balloted men, cer-
' tainly their fubflitutes Rood in no better foliation than
they did. Of a man that voluntarily enlified in the
regular army, it would be right to confider Aridly the
terms under which he entered, but the militiaman,'
whether he is the balloted man or the fubßitutei en-
ters into the fervice from the compulfion of the law, •
and can claim no other terms but what the Legiflature '
chafes to give. .
Lord DE BLAQI.TIEREVore, and (poke on many
topics ; while he was difcufEng the vote of thanks
propofed on a former night to the Volunteert, •
Colonel CRAUFORD role to (peak to order.—
He felt unwilling to interrupt the Noble Lord ; but
Rill, at Inch an advanced period of the Sefton, and
' AL fo late an hour at night, he thought the Houfe
', ought not to Wen to arguments which, although
• they might have been very proper on former debates,
had nothing to do with the quefiion before the Houle.
The SPEAKER decided that the Noble Lord
*as not in order.
Lord DE BLAQIGIERE then laid, that as he was
not made of brats. he mull bow to the authority of
the Chair. After a variety of obfervations, he con-
eluded by oppoling the Bill.
• Mr. O,HARA was for the Bill. He was fine that
both the Field Officers of the Militia and of the Vo.
looters would ehearfully Yield to any deduftioni,
that could tend to give the country a greater difpole-
able, force at the prefent moment.
. Sir WILLIAM LEMON conadered that it might
be the canto of Much difeontent, that when the Offi-
dere of the Regulars and Militia meired together, the
pee ihould fay, " We are fupertor to you, our pay
u higher !" • - .
Mr. ELLISQN agreed in the fentiment of the
lion. Boone' who fpoke lall, and thought that it
'would be a fubjeft of heart-hurning, and might cre-
' ate. if not difcord, at luta a confiderable degree of
difatisfiaion. . •
Colonel CRAtYFURb could not at all agree with
the opinion rf the Hon. Baronet. So far from the
legulat 'Officers being entitled to claim any fuperi-
wily, on account of this dill irilion, be thought the
fuperira)ty '(nit far is income - I I) was on the other
fide, and that the Militia Field Officers who did not
teceave the bier-eared pay, merely upon the ground,
that they Were men of f meahat fifperior fortune.
and who therefore did not rewire it, ought n .t, In
the ground, to claim • a fuperiuriry ov,t •oe ire.
gular Officers who were, in general, inlet in, ',n than
In point of fortune. He knew that it wa. iii.pratia-
anentary to impute any improper motives to Mem.
ben of Illat Houfe, brit he mull fay, that if, in any
other affembly, men had ailed the fame park as had
*been purfued by thofe of Oppofition 1 if, on every
Aueflion that could be brought forward, Co much was
.laid in praife of the Voltinteers, and fo Much had been
Paid of certain expreltions of hit Right Hon. Friend
(Mr. Windham), he (hould ihink that their object was
t -merely to catch at popularity, to win to their Me
that numerous and retpeitable body of men, and to
=the his Right Hon. Friend as unpopular and as
odious as they could to that body. This would have
been his opinion, if a limilar cbminft had beenadopted
by any let of Gentlemen out of that Houk, but in
that Houfe he knew that it was molt unparliamentary
tofnppofe that any Member could be satiated by fuch
• motives, and therefore he did not impute filch to them.
As to the diffiations of pay, fuch dißinftions already
etifted in the regular army, and were not complained
of.—Sir W. LEMON explained.
Colonel MITFORD was againn the Bill.
Mr; Secretary WINDHAM (after Come entiver-
Cation with Lord Temple), begged leave to withdraw
his motion, " that the Speaker do quit the Chair,"
and to fubaitute in the place of it, " that it be an
ioßruftion to the Committee to empower them to ex-
tend the provifions of the All, to the Yeomanry and
Volunteer Corps."
After a few words from Mr.BASTA RD, the motion
was agreed to ; as wai alto that of the Houfe refolving
itfelf into a Committee. in the Committee, Sir
WILLIAM ELFORD moved an amendment, the
raft of which was to extend the encreafe of pay to
Field Officers of the Militia. On this a divifion took
place.—For the amendment 17, againli it 38.
While grangers ware excluded, the Committee
reported progrefs, and had leave to fit again.
£MSANXMINT BILL.
Sir C. POLE moved the fecond reading of the
Bill for preventing Embankments in Harbours, or
Rivers communicating therewith, without notice pre-
vioully given to the Admiralty.
A long converfationthen took place, in which the
objeft of the Bill was nnivcrfally approved of (which
was to prevent the injury which individuals might do
to the great harbours and the country ). The words
of the Ad were, however, conceived by many Mem-
bers as too general.
Sir C. POLE Paid, that in the progrefs.of the Bill
he would be very ready to Mien to any fuggeßions
that were made.—The Bill was then ordered to be
read a fecand time to-morrow.

LINEN DRAWBACK RILL.
Upon the motion of Mr. FOSTER this Bill was
read a third time.
Mr. VANSITTART moved a Claufe, for conti-
nuing the prefent Drawbacks on the exportation of
German and Ruffian Linen to the Weft Indies, to
the z6tb of March 1807, and for the ufual time that
Drawbacks were ufually granted after that time.
Mr. FOSTER, with great animation, oppofed the
claufe as ftriking direaly at the ftaple manufiteture
cf Ireland, and being contrary to the bargain made
betweco the two countries.
Mr. VANSITTART propofed adjo3rning the dif.
cuffion of the clank.
Mr. FOSTER laid, that he had been fo often per-
fuaded by Minifters to papone the Bill, that he
could not, in juftice to Ireland, poll pone it any longer,
unlets there was a politive engagement that it fhould
be the &ft bufinefs difcated tomorrow.
Mr. DAWSON and Lord ACHESON contended,
that as it was a fubjeft which every Irifh Member was
agreed on, the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Vanlit-
tart) ought not to pref. his claufe.
Mr. VANSITTART then contented to with-
draw it ;--and at half part one o'clock this morning
the Houle adjourned.