Star.
London, England, 1805-03-09 00:00:00

olio from a fair confederation of the merits of the
motion, by firing it on perfonal grounds. If their
l.ordlhips Jefired to put the country in a formidable
;tare, becoming its relpedability and confequence, he
called upon them to adopt his Noble Friend's Mo-
tion—Wit were wished to refccie this country from the
ignominy of waiting, with trembling anxiety, for
the enemy, inßead of manfully advancing to meet
him, he conjured their Lordfhips to go into a Com-
mittee, in order to devife the means of continuing
the war in a manner confiffent with our greatnefs
and our Rrength, and thus accelerating the termina-
tion of it, upon terms conducive to our interefts and
our honour, in order to promote an approach to that
to which, not withßanding nearly three years prepa-
ration, we had fcarcely appeared to have advanced
one Rep.
The Earl of WESTMORELAND raw no ground
for the extraordinary motion before the Houfe. Not-
withilanding all the cenfure that had been pronoun.
c:d up,n Miniftry, he contended, that they had con-
i.,ed t. raife an army at the end of the &tend year
of the war, equal to, if not exceeding that which
the country poffeffed under a Miniflry, the vigour
and efficiency of which very few of the Noble Lords
on the other fide would attempt to queßion, at the
end of the ninth year of the salt war. And he had
little doubt that we thould be loon in poffeffion of a
much larger force than was ever before witneffed in
this country.
Lord GRENVILLE raw no change that had
taken place in the Rate of the countty within the laft
eliven months which rendered the motion before the"
Houk lets necelfary now than it was before, when it
was fupported by many Noble Lords en the other
tile. On the contrary, he thought it was at prefent
ten times more net-diary. It was orange that many
of the obje&ions which the Noble Lords he alluded
to made againtl this motion were precifely draft
which the fame Noble Lords fuccefsfully refuted on
the former occafinn. But yet he did not mean to
charge chore Noble Lords with inconfillency. He
bad two doubt that they felt themfelves to be quite
conflftent. But, in order to maintain his own con-
fißency, he felt himfelf bound to fay, that any change
that had occurred fince the former motion only fere.
ed to jutlify the vote he then gave, and to render infi.
.;Neely more neceffary the motion of his Noble Friend.
In the oppofition which was given to this motion hs
had heard many Itrange arguments and obfervatinns;
but there was oneremark which he confeffed he could
one hear without attonithment and indignation. The
Noble Secretary of State (Lord Hawkelbury) had
maintairitd that adequate provision for our military
defence, and the fuperintendance of our military
power, properly belonged to the Crown, and that, in
foe, this Houfe had nothingto do with military mea-
lures. From what authority, he would afk, could the
Noble Lord have derived Inch doctrine t Was it not
ahnoß incredible that any man acquainted with the
rudiments of a free combustion, or with the rights of
free affembly, and particularly with the privileges
of a Britilli Houle of Parliament, could queßion for
a moment the exigence and exercife of a rht the
molt important that belonged to that Houle?: Was
net the Noble Lord aware that a (angle foldier could
stet be raifed without the content of that Houfe, and
that, therefore in inveßigating military meafures their
Lordships were only coofidering their own ass ?
Atter reprobating the fingtilar doetrine of the Noble
Z.tird, which he declared he was affirmed to hear in
se &kills Honk of Lords, and which he was much
fprprifed that any Knitter &mild venture to utter,
Otproceeded to animadvert on the Additional Force
Bill. The Noble Earl who (poke lafl alked whether
it would be jolt to repeal this Ad at prefent, and
tabs to relegfe from the penalties thole who had de-
dined to carry it intoexecution, and Itated that thole
penalties would only fall upon the guilty? but he
begged to tet the Noble Eail right. The perfons
Whom the Alt appointed with incompetent means to
mite the men were the Overfeers and Parifh Officers,
shier whom the periling had no controul ,• but yet, in
cafe of the default of thole Officers and the men not
being raifedt the penalties prefcribed by the A& would
be levied on the paralies at large. Therefore the
Noble Earl was in error, in Rating, that the penal-
des would fail on the guilty. It was moslcery, how-
ever, to talk of levying thefe penalties, whatever de-
nunciations the Noble Secretary of State might iffue.
Englifh Court of Law would attempt to enforce
penalties againft men who are not defaulters. If in-
deed fuch penalties should be exat9ed, the country
would be one fcene of uproar and jolt complaint.—
The Noble Secretary of State (Lord Pdalgrave) had
obferved; that this motion was an indired attack
:ping Milliners, and thatthe real °hied it pointed
at was their removal. But need he call it to the re-
eidleltion of his Noble Friend that it was a motion
Pietifely the fame as that brought before the
Nook lag year ; and be could allure the Honfe
with confidence for himfelf and his Nab& Friends
War him, that both on the lan and on the prefent
occaGon their exertions had a higher and a broader
digto—ohe Catty of their country. It would be, how.
d.eft to blot out the functions of Parliament altoge-
ther to forbid men from offering their advice to Go-
*Maim, and hating their fcntiments upon public
ineefores, at the talc of incurring the imputation of
defiling to remove and become fubltitutes of Mini-
Pits. He did not like to hear unworthy motives af-
figned to any fee of men; and he fineerely hoped that
bolt! who were polfetled or should poi :refs the confi-
detteceof the country, would be attitated by motives
fh unwonhy as theft he had alluded to. tithe Hoak
would content to go into the Committee ptopfed,
Millers would then have a full opportunity of de-
fending their Ofeafures, and perhaps, upon explana-
tion, of vindicating their condo& The attestant
which had been brought forward to-night, for inftince,
of the amount of our forte. might be made in the
Mitten; but he Mull obferve, that if they could
adduce uo Rronget evidence than that of their effici-
any he &odd defpair of their vindication. Previous
to that Itatemeot, he noticed that the Noble Lord
(Mutterer') Who made it, Rated the intention of Mi-
stier' bp fubmit to the Houk in the courfc of the Set-
h:mu apr tout for tome material alterations in the
Additional For* A&, Which would go, as the Noble
Lord pro:sired, to remedy the Weds in that ad
which were complained don a former debate, and
in the eourfe of this night. Now, it appeared that
force of thefe defies were very arenunufly defended
on a former night and yet Minifters were already be-
come willing ao gwe them up, although they would
not adopt as assidatat from de Oppofition ftda of