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London, England, 1807-07-23 00:00:00

TILSIf, JULY 4•

His Maierty the King cif PintEa has this day pie•
rented Prince Henry nt Priam to the Emperor Na
poleon. Her Majeity the (42een is about two leAgo,-
from this place, but it is not certain whether we thall
lee her here.

MESSINA, MAY 3r.

There are fcarcely 1400 Englifh in Sicily, and the
&calm tromps remaining to King Ferdinand do n
exceed 4000. The Prince of Belle Philtplthal has
101 l every thing, viz. a tich military chest, intended
to pay and organize a new infurreetion.

From tbr Court c, atett.—" The latter end of May
wa. produ 9ive of important events ti the Turkifh
empire. Even in March and Ap:il. the fpit it of in-
furreFli )n had (hewn itfelf among 11:e ) enizaries be.
longing to the garrifon of the Dardanelles, and in
the camp of the Grand Vizier. In, the afternoon of
the 2541 of May, the garrifnns of the caftles of the
Dardanelles were in a hate of rurnol-, on account of
the European uniform, the n!w ttrlics, &c. 1-1411
Aga, the Commandant of MAclichiaburea, on the
Afiatic (bore, was murdered. Indfche Bey, Com-
mandant of the entrance of the Black Sea, 007
ercaped the fame fate, by ffght. The Reis Effendi
happening to come to infra 'hat prt jai at the
lime time, the military immediately role upon him
as one of the introducers of the Nizam Geded. He
endeavoured to lave hirofclf in a bark, by palling
over to Bnjukdere, but a hundred pith)l (hots laid
him and his attendants dead. It feems that the rage
of the Janitaries had been embittered againft him by
the recolleflion of a promife he made. raife their
pal, upon condition they would adopt the new dilci.
pline, and which promife he never pet formed
Another circumilance increafed the (pink of
oppofiti )n; the Sultan had given notice that the
Janiza, ies were no longer to attend him as ufual, to
the morgues, hut that this duty was to devolve upon
the troops difciplined after the European manner.
Thoufands of Janizaries were now marching to
Cnnflantinople, and arrived in the fuburb of Pera on
the evening of the zBth. They fwore to each other to
conduit the tivolution with the bell order. Any
Perfon who Ih-Mild, in the leaft, injure either European
or Frank, was 'to Puffer death. One individual
Janizary only met with his fate, for ta'...i.pg bread fr'm
a Greek (a baker) without paying lot it. Behind the
Janizaries' ha) racks, on the well known place called
the Eimeldan, the Janixaries planted their colours,
and took with them their camp kettles, in infallible
! fignal nf infuriation For a time, the Sultan thought
of defending himielf, andtroop:, powder, and cannon
were brought to the feraglin. Soon after, the Mufti,
the Seimen Bafchi, the Kaimialtan, and the two
Kazcafkers of R.)melia and Natolia, joined the Jani.
zaries. A council war; held inform, and it was pro
poled, as a preliminary, to requetl the Grand Seignior
to abolifh the new difcipline, by a lett wa from the
Mufti. The Grand Seignior, however, thought lie
fhould be able to put a trop to the infurralion, be.
fore the flep coati be taken, in eonfequnce of his
fending the !,:ads of Mahmud (the ri.devant Reis
Effendi) Terfana F.min, Flagai lhrahim, and the
Kiaja Mehmelch Effendi to the Eimeldan. This
meafttre failed completely, the Janizaries were more
enraged than ever ; they did not require the head
lof the nniverfnlly efteemed Mahmud Effendi, but
that of the Itch Effendi, then in the camp of the
Grand Vizier. _ _

•• The Pinsztries continued to fearch every place
for thofe Ministers, who had promoted the adoption
of the European difcipline, and publicly avowed
themfelves as its patrons; namely, Franfits Ibrahim,
juffuf Aga, Hadfchi Ibrahim, and Achnset Bry,
Captains of the Grand Seignior's guard, Haffan Aga,
Achmet Effendi, and others, twelve in number, who
were all taken. dragged to the Eimeldan, and
there cut in pieces. At this -juntlure the Grand
Seignior fent a Hatti Schetiff, a letter written in big
own hand, iu which he for ever abolifhed the Nizarn.
Ceded, and pronounced an execration opal it. But
the Hatti Scheriff was not accepted ; the depofition
of the Grand Seignior ..vas refolved upon. The whole
force of the janitariss now proceeded to the Scrag.
80. The Mufti and the Ullemas alone entered the
Harem, while the tell of the Minilters, the Agas, the
janiaaries, and the people, (mounded the palace.
•4- Muftapha IV. born on the 7th of September,
1799, the eldeft fon of the Sultan Abdul Hauled,
was elevated to the Turkifh Throne. And accord.
ing to ancient cultism, Selim, the former Emperor,
threw himfelf at the feet of Muftapha, kiffed the
border of his garment, and immediately repaired to
that department in the Seraglio occupied by the
Princes of the Ottoman blond who no longer reign.
The folemn invitation to Muflapba, to alcend the
throne, was made on the a9th of May, about one
o'clock in the day, and on the 3d of June the cere.
mony of invefling him with the Sabre of the Prophet
took place. Muftapha has /ince (hewn tiim elf in
public ; on the fame day he rode, accompanied by
all his Ministers and Generals, to the Grand Morgue,
or the ancient elsurch of St. Sophia, there to perform
his 6r II devotions.

4, The reports of the Grand Vizier', puffing over
te. the left bank of the Dumb-. were premature; only
A final! Turkilh party advanced from 'bra, towards
Bute., hut they re:tuned again iT. a very °tort time.
" P•ince Y hair in. ited the Citizens an 4
the Byars, whn had left that city, to return. having
promded them an mildly and ptoteiliou."

PARLlAlllnAriit,r Pit

PMUSP. OF C IMMONS, WEDN' S "AY, TULY at..
I.m d HOW ICK an/ feveral other Members cook the oaths and
their feats
Uu th- motion of Mr. CHEFSEMPNT. sn Account Wig or.
tiered to be laid before th, Howe of the grnf. Receipt' at the Pat
Office fr..nt the oh of April, 13:13. tr., the sth of Agri;
Mr SUMNER prtft ,ted a Petition Rom J hn Alcnck, Ffq
praying for an enlargement or the term for rub: one into recogni-
sance,' nn Me Petition complaining of an timid.. Return for the
Borough is, laneafter, on the go-flood of the hielif edition of one of
the 'ureter. He then moved that the time of entering into re-
efiroisanets hr -ohrged to Monday nest
S • JOHN NEWPOR 1' thought the application highly We-
pt,
P. MOORE way of opinion. that the detlre of the Petition
timid not be agreed to. I'e hoped the Houfe would recollect,
that atd• w g the fame Mr. Alcoek, who wag tall Seilinn called to
the Bar and frverely and pit'', rcirimanded for the irreghlarity
of his con,'lldt on the oecafion of tit former Contested kledtiou

for Lime fler.
Mr. DEN I' fl'ted that the twn fureties Whom Mr. Alcoek
attempted .0 imi ofc upon this Houle, were his own Clerks, and
it WS fu ety very ealy tee him to find a third Clerk to fizn the
Bond If one or the other- was ill. It was his (Mr. Dun's) inten-
tion to expefe to the linvfe a fcene of inquiry and villainy fo
numfirnus riveting this F.leetion, that the Hoar could not
believe it, link& ttrongly authenticated by the evidence he had
in his nolleffion. This difelniure he would Coon make. fay moving
for a bill to rut an end to Inch praelices in future. [Hear, hear
The SPI. A KI.It tl weir it his duty t4t give his opinion on this
fittleft row h4or.• the !inure As to the excufe offered I tfpeeling
the illnefs of ore of the Sureties. the lioufc itfelf would jedge
of
its eretlibili•y ; hut as tn the pretext of the ignor met of the agent
in the form' of that iinufe—was a perfon, a ho, like Mr Alcoa,
unt'.ertook robe a Solleir,r iai a cm.tefted eleetion, entitle to tell
tht Commot s that he was ignorant of i a forms

`,Hear. bear. hear!)
Mr RASP brought In 2 Bill to make the Harbour of Arn`ler-
dam, in the to rid of Curacca a free port. Read a lira, and er•
demi to be lead a fe tone' rime to trorrow.
In a Committee on the linen Aft, a Ref°lalina was 27feta toe
to allow ■ Drawback on l.intns exported to the Weft Indies.-•-•
The P rport wag ordered to he r-ceived to morrow.
The Naval Store* Bill went through a Committee ...The
Re-
port f which was 07 lerril tI he received to morrow
On the mothn or Mr. ISIDDULPH, an Account wat ordered
to be laid before the Houle, or all Duties on Coal and lime car.
Tied e,,aftwile is the Yrinciiality of Wales, for the halt three

years.
!Or. iitißT 'OUSE brought in a Bill for the continuance of fe-
vers) aft• reia•ing to the Bridal Fidlerles and the Woollen Ma-
tioiaetures •-Read a Brit, and ordered to be read a fecund time

to aierrow.

WSW MILITARY YEAR.
Lord CASTLREAGH, in putfuanee of the tin-
tile i he ha I had the honour to On, role to call
Os, attention of the Houle to the military meafores
which to, Majesty's Minitlers thought it their duty
an ptopofe, a f..bjeft at all times important, but
Ferhapt never to i,,.portant as at the prefent momen-
tou- cease It had been to him a fubjen of confi-
4es-0k smeafinefs, that the ptoduftion of thcfe mea-
fure. had been fornewhat delayed by his own per-
(nnal indifposition ; but there were other aod more
ferions califes which had induced Government not
In be halls in hinging them forward. His Majetly's
Minifitrs Could not but feel, on coming into office,
that the event of the campaign on the Continent
which was then opening, whether favourable or dd.-
afirous, was likely to prefent to the obfervation of
Parliament, the trued motive* for inciting them to
eatrtion—motives much more powerful than any
which the llatements ..1 Government could otherwife
proitiee He conld alto allure the Right Hon Gentle-
man oppolite, that his Maiefly's Miniflets were anxi•
mos that their mut n to office fhould not be marked
With ar y undue impatience to (obvert the plans of
their medteeffors. Among the eminent qualities of
the Right Hon. Gentleman, the folicitude to &limy
eflablifhcd fy Items v'as one, which he owned he was
dtfirous to emulate. Impreffed with there feel.
inr, his Majeli y's Minificrs examined deliberately the
military fyttem already in exillence. lie was pre-
pared to admit, that whatever objeflinns he felt to
that fyttem, he alfo felt eonfiderable difficulty in
making a fundamental alteration in it. A comproa
tively toferior fyflem laid claim to protection fa:an
the citcumflance of its. being in exiftence ; and there.
fore, in what he fhould r ffer to the Houle, the Right
H n Gentleman would not find fuck a deiberate
putpofe of al es ation as perhaps he expelled, or as
elniraelei ized his own arrival in that department,,
whlcl he ( Lord Caftlereagh) had now the honnnr
to fill. Having thus Ila-ed the reafons why this fub-
jet had not been fubmitted at an eaili:r peti:al to
the coo fiierati 'n of Parliament, he fhluld now feel
it his duty to propofe to them a meafure of great
enetge. which would put the country to much in-
convctience, which w•-uld folk& it to revere lacri
fice.., but ...Mich was rendered inoifpenfable by the
circumliances of the times, and by the meafores of
the la e Administration. On this point be felt re-
lieved from the necellity of entering into a particular
and detailed defeription of this neceifity. The pre-
fent foliation of Europe was enough of Well to route
the public attention. If the late Administration
allowed, when they were in ffice, that the military
nth of the country was inadequate to its ohjeds,
w much Inure fo mot it now be, when it was
hardly p..flible to turn our eye' to any quarter in
which the interefis of Great Briton wet e nnt at flake.
If the Cohere of afli.-n were gteat,when the Right Hon.
Gentleman was ia powet, how mach was it extended
at the prefent moment ? We bad now to fupport
new pi int iples of policy, and to feed fo much larger
an at my employed on foreign fervice. In the army
at home alto, we lave called upon either to make a
great effort to render the fecond battalions of our
tegiments efficien:, or with a duo regard to economy,
to abandon them altogether- He was apprehenfive,
however, that th• old they be.abandoned, the weak-
Ads w Itieb Milked them, would charaderize the fir fl
battali• ns, ani that the Grit battalions would loom
become as inefficient as it was In deeply to be lamen-
ted that the feces d battalions 'sow woe. It was im-
poffible to look to the general Alpe& of Europe, and
to the lawn% on the table, by which it appeated how
large a potti n if our force was emplo)cd abroad,
and even on the moll fuperficial view, entertain a
d. tiht • f the neceffity of great exertions indeed, if we
were tlefirous of !meter Tit g our fecurity at home, and
of n abandming our military greatnefs abroad.—
If the fleet y were ditputed, he was prepared, and
flaPed his perft nal refponfibtlity to pore (could he
do 1.1 without divulging that which ought not to be
divulged), by the molt fatisfdlory and undoubted
details that no voluntary or other local force was
ad ouate to the wants of the country, but that for
eve: y thing r.f that del-aiming, a regular and efficient
(nice mutt he fubtlituted. The queltion.. therefore,
Was not whether the volunteer fyflem, or the train-
ing bill, cowl l he improved ? but what that fyftem
was *Welt would carry OR regular mmy and militia

to the higheß point, with the lean inconvenience to
the exilling eitablithment., and with the molt mo.
derate pleirtire on the c• miry ? If he had fatisfied
the linufe that f-rne fcbitantive. increafe of regular
f,ree was neeetrary for the prefervation of our
dearth intereits, it would be a rropoll ion not very
difficult to efiablith, that r.ve mutt not rely for
that- amount of Itree which the public exigency I
required, on the fyllem of ordinary reel oiling which
the Right H-nnttrable Gentleman oppolite had pro•
jeOed, or on any fylicm of ordinary recruiting,
whir lt human wildom had devifed. He would not
now enter into a detailed examination of the Right
Hon•turable Gentleman's fyflem :—that would be
a fuhjea for future dircullion ; but he would gene-
rally (late it as his nwrt deliberate and decided con-
viainn, that if any fy Item of ordinary recruiting were
freed as much as it was poffible to free it from the
effeEls of undue competition, and were in every rtfpat
as well adminiftered as it was in human power to ad.
miniller it, it might keep up an army once brought
to its handard, but it could never be competent of
keeping up an army, and rf increafing it at the
fame time. Let the Houle l.ok at the relish nf
the Right Hon. Gentleman's fyllem for the fait fix
months—the mod favourable period of its operation
—they would find that, deduaing the boys 'Aired by
it, the aeual produce of men obtained for the army,
was not In great as by the former double operation
of the ordinary recruiting, and the Additional Force
A 8 ; much leis was it calculated to give that en.
create to cur military fltength, which the foreign
meafures of his Majefty's late Minitters (and into
the wifdom of thole meafures he would not now

enter) had rendereJ ceceliary. If therefore it war
meant to have a bona Pe addition to the amount of
out public force, it was perfectly illufory to depend
on the ordinary recruiting.—ln truth, therefore, the
epienton came to this, what meafures moll be re-
torted to to raife the army to the llandard to which
circomltances imoored the necellity of its being
railed ? Certainly by tome fort of compullion. No
defirable fpecies of compullion had ever occurred to
any Aduirnitlration unconnes9ed with ballot : and
here he could not avoid condemning the unneceffary
pains which the Right Honourable Gentleman oppo.
lite had taken to decry the ufe of ballot. If it were
allowed that contra ion mull be retorted to, and that
that compullion mule be founded on ballot, our choice
was narrowed to a very Ignited extent. In Ibbmit-
ting to Parliament what had occurred to his Majel
ty's Minillers as molt expedient on this rubje3, he
hoped they would not expea any peculiar novelty.—
He acknowledged that he had not made any very
great difcovery : be had indeed avoided every thing
that appeared mighty ingenious, becaufe he knew
very well that on all fobjeets, and efpecially on mi
litary lubjeels, there ingenious and complicated theo-
ries, although they might look extremely well on
paper, were found to be fadly deficient when at-
tempted to be ;Mt into praltice; He was perfuaded,
whatever his opinion of the military plans of the
Right Honourable Gentlemen, that at all times and
in a flare of war above all other times, it was ha
nitely better to adopt the military eflablifhment of
the country as they drid, and to fortify and fupport
thaana than to weaken and throw them down for tip
purpofe of fubilituting tome frcolation, of which
I experience alone could pr ive the loperiority. There
teemed to be this Pimple alternative on which to de-
cide: If we v.ere t,, raife a great number of men
by ballot, the country mull be called upon either to
fubmit to a ballot for men dire& (or the regular
army, or to fubtoit to a ballot for men for the Mi-
litia, with the view of our draining from the Militia,
that aid which the incomplete regimmis of the live
required. He would (late the grounds for the option
made by his Majelly's Minitters, and Phew why they
mono,. it the leis advifeoble meafure to raife a num-
' her ot men by ballot dit al for the regular army.—
I: was true that the Aft of 180.1 (the Army of Re-
feive Al) to which lie might conlikr himfelt a
party, was for the purpofe of railing men by ballot
direct for the army; and it was alt.() true, that it ever
a military meafure was beneficial to the country, it
was that Al, from which, so a very fhort (pace of
time, molt imporoent advantages had been derived.
If, ierefore, the country norot in the fame li. nation,
as that in which it flood in iBo+, he thould certainly
have thought it the duty (.1 his Majetly's Handlers
to fubmit to Parliament f ,me propolition, analogous
to the Army of Iteterve Aet ; but- it was impotlible
not to feel that the eirtormllonces of the country were
elfzutiaHy differeht now tr..m what they were then,
and that they were now precilely fuch as to afford
thong realons b.r a preference ot the other mode of
increating our military Itrength. In :he fird place,
from the magnitude of our force (however yet ina
dequate) we had more nearly approached to thofe
bounds which every country, limited in population,
malt needle:4 he prevented from furnilbing more
I men for its military fer vice, or at leali from furnifh•
ing I:iem without ct nliderable difficulty.• If, there-
fore, a mode offered iifelf of procuring men with
more facility than in any other way, that mode
ought to be adopted. There was another firiking
difference between the fituation of the country when
the Army of Kele:ye AIE was paffed; and the kilo-
ti ot of the country at prefutt. Jolt before the former
period, the regular Militia had been balloted, and
had been called into lervice ; now their period of
fervice had expired, and would terminate with the ter-
mination of she war. Whatever fuppllieo therefore,
might now be drawn from the militia for the regular
army, would crinfilt of men whofe fervicea would be
otheroite approximating to a conclufion, while the
new levies to fill up the deficiency thus oecafioned in
the militia, would confilt of mer. commencing a
term of let vice of five years. Thus the country would
obtain a military protalion ready for a new war, or
any other emergency, and would enjoy a diminution
of thole burdens, which mull otherwife be incurred
at the conclufion of peace, to replace that very great
portion of di* militia which mull in that event be
difcharged. In propofing, therefore, to levy men
by ballot for the militia, rather than to receive the
provifions of the Army of Referve AEI, no new or
avoidable burden would be impoled upon the coon-
`try, but that burden merely would be anticipated, to
which, on the return of peace, the country muff
fubmit. That part of the mealute of the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman hilt year, which excluded.from
the army any regular battalions for limited fervice.'
was another &wig caufe for referring the mode now
propofed of augmenting our force. It was true that
this obliacle was not infunnumntable, but it was the

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with nf his Majelly's Minillers to diflurb as little as;
poffihle the exolling military eltablifhments of the,
country. The levy of men for the rriLitia would be
leis-prejudicial to the country and to the regular re•
cruiting for other reafons. There was a greater
peonenefs in the
.peafantly to enter into the Militia
than* into that regular army. Men for the militia
would not only he more eafily got, but they would
he of a better defcription, and although he allowed
that the large ballot which would be required,would
raife the bounty conaderably, yet it would not be
raifed fo much as if the fame ballot were to take
place direct-for the regular army. The balloting for
the militia had become congenial to the habits of the
coointry. It was familiar with it. The people re-
cognieed it with tranquility, and the magiftrates ex•
ecuted it with cafe. The army of refelve at), al
though a mat etlimable meafore at the time of its
adoption, yet being one of cornparaively greater
preffure, after it had been four months in opelatioo,
degenerated fo much, that thole by wham it had
been propofed thought it their duty to naive for it.
fiifpenfion. He thought alto the Houk would feel,
that the fa& of the penalties under the Army of Re•
ferve Al never having been enforced, was a mall le-
rhos obiacle to any recurrence to that mealore
Thole who were in power had transferred the penol-
ties to the additional force aCI and that alone ; but
when the Right Honourable Gentleman prorated to
Parliament tn. repeal thole fioes in defiance of every
principle of public juQice and leginative dignity, he
(Lord Cafilereagh) had endeavoured to thew how
pregnant with mifchief that Right l Iton. Go.talcnien's
prop: 4410 n was ; and that it was one which would
tender nugatory any meafure fimilar to the Army
of Referve MI. That the Itep then taken was un.
wife, now appeared pretty (lowly ; and were he to,
propufe a renewal of the Army of Referve ACI, he
was fatisfied that he fhould, in confequence, fubjea
the country to all the vexation of a leginstive mea-
fore, which mutt end in complete failure. The
Houle would alfo feel as an inducement to prefer the
mode which he had fuggefled ; that looking at the
pttfent fituation of the country, if the Gentlemen of
the militia were difpofed to lend themfelves to loch
a laudable °Ned, it was much more deniable that
any tempnrary inefficiency (hail(' cliff in the defers-
five rather than in the offenfive part of our military
force. In every point of view, therefore, it Teemed
preferable to raife men for the regular army from
the militia, than to rani men for the regular army
by a ballot. It was a mete anticipation of a burden
which mull be impnfed—it was a cheaper method—
it was one by which better troops would be pro-
cured—and it would ultimately reftore to the re
cruiting market that mono poly which he was as dc-
firm s as the Right linnororable Gentleman opp fite,
that it should proffers. Having thus detai:e.! the
grounds on which the meafore now propofed had
been adopted, it became reeeffary to Ila.e the extent
of the levy. At the terminati nof five years fervice,l
all men balloted for the militia, were eat Itle‘t to their
difcharge. The official d ocements proved, that from
December next to the fucceeding May, between five
and fix ?flatland rf the militia would he In entitled to
their difcltoge, ',elides the wale produced by other
cirmanflanceo He was ens iroa, when the firhjeCl of
ball at was aritated, to ftibm:: in tie I look, roe ex
pediency of providing not only a cover for this defi
eiency, , and this wane. but all) loch a number of
ifolletnomeraries (tor whom the officers now in the
militia would be fofficient ), as wcnld render aric for
ther ballot for two or three years s holly iinneceiTary;
fo that a fccurity would be given In the line, that a
continual ballot would not exit in competition
with their ordinary recruiting. In looking to the
number of men which it would be proper to /Ale
for tilde purpofes. two Twilit-on* offer themfilees for
confideration. What number of men coold the mi-
litia afford to (pare and what number of men did
the army indifpenfably require to put it in a lime of
adequate efficiency ? that was, to place every regi
ment, including the fecund battalions, on its proper
footing ? Having duly weighed theft pointo his
Majedy's Minillers propofed that all thole men now
feiving in the militia exceeding three fifths of the mi
litia eilablithment in Great Britain, and one half of the
militia in Ireland, lhould be transferred tn the line. By
this arrangement, about 21.700 men would be gained
from the militia tt Great Britain, and about 7000
from the militia of Ireland. It had been thought
better to pulsate to take the excels above three•
fifths of the Bri ilh militia enabliffiment, and the ex
eels about one half of the Lint militia ellabfiffiment,
rather titan to take two-fifths of the Britifh militia
and half the Ira militia, becaufe as feveral of the
militia regiments were not completely filled up, the
latter mode would weaken them too much. In
one word, by the propofed plan, the Btitifh Militia
would remain at three fifths, and the Ira militia at
one half of. its prefent ellablifliment. The risen to
be railed by ballot were, as he before Rated, fur three
objetis—to cover the walte in the militia, to (ripply
the deficiencies occafianed by fa great a tran,fer from
the militia regiments to the regular army, and to
provide a body of fupernumeraries large enough to
prevent the fpeedy recurrence of the ballot. To
effed thole objefts, it had been thought better to
mention a proportion, rather than a defined num-
ber. As the law at prefent Rood, Iris Majefly was
impowered to call on the counties to ballet for a
fupplementary militia, amounting, in Great Britain,
to 24,000 men, viz. 20,C00 in England, and 4.000
in Scotland. As the number of this ltippleinentary
Militia was exaeily half the eftablithed militia, fo it
had been deemed advifeable to propofe that the
counties mould be called upon for a fupplementary
militia and a half, making 36,000 men for Great
Britaion,befides eight thoufaud for Ireland. Allow.
ing for the necelfary walk, this would add at lean
38,0c0 men to the grofs military force of the country,
and 38,000 men to the regular army ; leaving with
the militia a large body of lupernumeraries, fufficient
for a long period, to releafe the Handing army from
the embarraffments which a ballot mutt occafion; and
when pease fhould arrive, infleasl of not having any
militia at all, the country would poffefs a militia of
36,000 men, and would only have to raife the dif-
ference between that number and the full eftablifhs
mem, namely, a fourth, or twelve thoufand men.—
Having thus Hated the extent to which in the prefent
public exigency it had been thought wife to carry the
encreafe of the regular army from the militia,
he obfervei, that no pains had been fpared by
his Majefly's Government to digett a mode of
transfeltinz the men from the °atoll •to the line,

More free from ofijetiinn than any tEat had heed
hitherto deviled, more palatable to the officers of the
militia., and lets likely to hurt that jolt pr'ide in their
different reeiments; Which they fo laudably entertain-
ed. On this put of tie fuljeet, his Majefty's Go.
vernrtent would he extremely happy to receive any
fiseg'Otioes, from the officers of the militia, with
which they mieht think proper to favour them. U
had °reacted to his Nlajelly.'s Mininers, that there
were two oojeCtienr which were likely to prefs nn the
eeelit.os oi the ma i is rdlicers—the first was, the large
am mat of the fmce that would be fubftrafted honk'
the militia—tee other, the danger which the militia
r,..iments wouli for a white imur of a relaxation of
,Or ipliee by the volunteering arid recruiting for the
:in:. With relocn to the firft objetlion, he trufted
it would net be deined a very ferious one, when it
was confidered :hat, although a great diminution in
die uttmhers of the militia mull certainly take place,
for the inereafe of the rcgul it army, yet theta greater
number w.rtill lee immediately fupplied from the
counties. Wrei reipeet to the fecond nbjeetion, ii
was propoiel in tee tit II iiin ince, and for a certain'
per ied, to fub'n.t the recruiting f•-r the line from thi
militia edely to the diteCtion of the Militia Officers.'
It was pie-soled that, for thirty days after the inning;
of the wa- taros, no ((deice or officer of the reglOac
:stilly fit :old iaterplfe, or have any intercenrfe with.
the militia. It w.rs in the contemplation of his Ma;
jetty, ;:rli of Iris Royal Highnefs the Commander .-ti
(thief, to give, as ttentl, commit ins in the line, ita
proreirti,,n to in: moldier of men railed, and to cow-
migi'm the officers in the regiment to which the metl
might be invited to go, fliouid the winked for nulli-
fier not he ',traduced within the 3o days—but it wit'
alto propofed in accept a (mailer proportion admit
provided they weYe rodnced in thirty days :-•
in preference .to the allowing of v•ltinteering its
round numbers, if a third was thus produced in-
Veal of z ethr. He would fubmit to the Hoeft bet
a few obfer vations on the terms of enliftment, becanfe
they would with more proptiety, become the fubjeCt
of a future dilcuffim. He was certainly far from
wi(hing to anticipate the decifion of Parliament, on
a quellion of fo inrerelling a nature, as whether or
not the men fhould be allowed to enlift for life ? tho'
he enefeffed, that he differed very widely from the
Might Honeurable Gentleman oppofite, in his opi.
'lions on this point, he was by no means difpofed
to advife that the regulations adopted halt year by
Parliament flintild he tefcinded, and things rellored
to their fo mer nate. Still he thought' it would
be wife to give to individuals the alternative whe-
eler they would enlist for life or not—but he ad-
mitted that the only fit eppnttunity for difeuding
this otieflion would be on the introduelion of the
:.Tti.iny Lin and that filch difcuflinn was it relevant
to a col!ater as inc rcure like that before the Houle. He
scrod,' (-Verve, linweve-, that the Right Hon. Geo-
d.:man liimieli hot not thought that nn cafe could
occur in which a d:viation from his regulations would
he advir•elile. lie had certainly held out an expec-
te ion to all thore who had ferved 21 yearsin the ar-
my, that they wont.: he immediately difcharged, but
prudence would not l'low him to venture on this
eep, and in the fare of id; own ptinciples, he atelain-
ed from clirChatging thole men, who were very nu-
merous, and who were 'rill in the fervice. If there-
" fere the flielit Hen. G-rolemen r.:lared the regulaa
dons o! Pat riament to iiit his own convenience, fere-
ly he (Lori Callerear2,'l) might call upon Parliament
,to relax them for the conveeience of the public, and
for the advancement of the genet at interest. If he
were fo fel tuoate as to pet feade the Houle to agree
to his plop feiens for transferring a portion of the
militia to the line, and La railing a great number of
men hy ballot for the militia, he was convinced he
could thew them, that nha.ever might be the expe-
diency at granting filch an tibial to the peafantry
enlieing for the line, it would uttcp.eftionably be ad.
enable to give to the militia entitling in the line the
option or a limited or an unlimited term of fervice;
of cfmtfe with an increafed bounty for the latter ;
that thole who were not In fenfible of the charms of
a limited term of fervice as the Right Hon. Gentle.
man oppofite, might be empowered to make their
election accordingly. He did not mean to make this
a part of the general meafore, but would fubmit it
in a feparate classic. He mull not omit to Hate what
it was the intention of his Majeily's Milliners t- pro-
pole, with regard to that part of the military force of
the country which was not regular nor militia ; but
which was ready to import and CO ne in aid of both;
and fire}, as to the Right H es. Gentleman', meafure
of lei year, the Training Bill. In duty to him and
to the Houfe, Come explanation was neceffary of
what had been done by his Majefty's Miniflers on
this fuhjeel 'ince they came'into office, and of what
I they meant to do. The feet was, that if they had
been the original advifers of the meafure, or had par-
taken of the Right Hon. Gentleman's partiality for
it, it would have been nit of their power to carry
it into effeet ; for in happily was it contrived, that
the ballot could not go forward in many of the coon-
ties, and though in this double carrying Bill, the
/ militia ballots were foroended, it left the training
1
lilts completely in the back ground I Confiftently
with the sentiments which he had already (hated, he
declared, that though not an original admirer of the
Right Honourable Gentleman's meafure, yet being
1 its exinence, he withed to draw even from that mea-
fure as mech inifitary refource as potlible. 'He
would, therefore, not propi fe to Parliament to
abolini that part of it which 'elated to claffificationo.
ballots, &c for the due execution of which, Go-
-1 vernment had it in contemplation to fuggen fume
provifiens ; hut as to the training part, he confeffed,
that he had 'lever been able to obtain•-jofortration;
and he called upon the Right Honourable Gentle-
man, it he could, to afford it to him how that could
poflibly take place tinder the fupetintendance of a
voidable alone, the only way prefented by the
Bill. Indeed the Right Honourable Gentleman
had contrived to throw filch a ridicule over this
part of the fuhje6, that it was ip vain to hope
we could inipire a rti;lic feeling upon it, or con-
'
vett the training In directed into a runic amufe-
ment. He pledged Isimielf therefore, to Pro•
pole that this part of the training bill thould not be
realized ; but he repeated that he would not abandon
the bill atogether, or rather be would not abandon
that part of it which was token from the defence bill,
which was the only efficient part of the training bill,
and which the Right Hon. Gentleman had contrived
very much to disfigure. A fundamental objection
which he entertained to the training bill, was, that