Star.
London, England, 1806-06-14 00:00:00

MUTIIIY ■ILL.

The Houfe having refolred itfelf into a Committee
upon the Mutiny Bill, and proceeded as far as the
claufe containing the oath to be taken by perfons en-
lifting under the new pl.rn for limited fervice,
Lord WESTMORELAND rote and argued at
much length againft the principle and tendency of
the fyfiern. He chiefly contended, that it was an in-
ration or infringement of the prerogative of the
Crown ; that inflead of diminithing bounties, pre-
venting defertion, and improving the general charac-
ter of the foldier, it would be found to increafe
bountier, to promote defertion, to deteriorate the
charafter of the army by multiplying the opportuni-
ties of calling for the bounties, and all the diffolute
practices which attended frequent recruiting. The
times, it was Paid, were arduous, the difficulties of
the country unprecedented ;but inflead of that being
an argument in favour of a new and hazardous ex-
periment, it was with him the molt cogent reafon
for adhering to the ufnal modes of recruiting the
army, and not run the riffs under Inch circumftances
of being without any army at all. Great expedations
had been raifed that every difficulty would vanith be-
fore the phalanx of talents and abilities which now
were fuppored combined in guiding the helm of af-
fairs; for the Noble Lord (Grenville) who prefided
at their head, he entestained the high& refpeft, but
for many of his alliaciates a very different opinion—
(Mr. Fox at this moment happened to appear.behind
the Throne, which created a general laugh ). They
might have very powerful talents, but he would com-
pare them to Hercules with his club, their firength
teemed rather calculated to fttbvert and dearoy, than
to build or repair. Their attempts in the prefent
cafe might be mifchierous in the extreme. He
Gould therefore move to amend the claufe, by fink-
ing out from the form of the oath what related to
li-
antedfervice. _ _

Lord SPENCER contended, that every feeling
and principle of human nature afforded the fairelt
promife of the fuccefs of the plan of limited fervice.
—So far increaling bounties, it wat evident it,

mutt diminifh them. Fot who would afk as great a
bounty for enlitting for limited fervice, as if he were
called to ferve for an indefinite period? As to its
being an encroachment on the prerogative, nothing
Purely was Iris founded. Many were the cafes he
could cite, he Ihould content hinifed with referring
to thole that occurred in the reign of George 11.
when men were railed fora limited period, and that
upon a bounty, .and then entitled to their difcharge,
even during a war. For there cafes occurred about
the beginning of the feven years war, and in the
very bonen period of it they were entitled to their dd.
charge. The plan, however, was never remonftrated
againft as an infringement of the prerogative. He en-
tertained a far different view of the fynem from that
in which the Noble Earl teemed to confider it, and
as far as his humble abilities could go, he would en-
deavour to give it every poffible chance of fuccefs.
Lord BORINGDON argued againft the claufe,
on the ground of its being unneceffary, and not called
for by the Rate of the army. At any rate, he thought
that the fyftem of limited fervice should have been
&ft tried on a limited fcale, in order to afcertain
whether or not it poffeffed thole advantages that had
been afcribed to it. He contended; that it would
produce a relaxation of military difciplinei and that,
when the period of fervice was about to expire, a
kind of canvas would take place between the Officer
and foldier, which would degrade the former, and
prove highly pernicious to the difcipline of the army.
Lord CAERNARVON fupported the Bill, and
contended, that were the limitation of fervice con-
fined to the war, as had been propofed brf tome No-
ble Lords, the country at the return of peace would
be placed in the moo defencelefs fituation.
The Duke of MONTROSE oppofed the claufe, as
limiting the exercife of the Royal prerogative. He
conceived that it would operate as a bounty to in-
duce men to leave the regiment to which they be-
longed, at the expiration of their term of fervice,
fince, by doing fo, they might be entitled to as large
a bounty as they bad at firft received, by entering
into another regiment. He contended that, in the
prefent Rate of-fociety, a better defcription of men
would not, in confequence of limited fervice, be in
duced to enter the army.
The Duke of GLOUCESTER, in a fhort but
fpirited fpeech, fupported the meafure ; from which
he felt confident of the molt beneficial refults. His
Highnefs thought a military fpi, it at prefent reigned
in the country, and wanted only the meafure of li-
mited fervice to be brought into complete anivity.
Were it adopted, a father would rather encourage
his fon to enter the army, than diffuade him from
it, and confider him as loft, as was fo much the cafe
at prefent. His Highnefs then expatiated on the
inducements which the option of entitling for li-
mited fervice would hold forth to yonng men to
enter into the army, and defcribed the pleating
and atraetive fcenes, which might attend the return
of the young foldier into the bofom of his family,
in the prime of life, after having fought the battles
rif his King and Country. His Highnefs was heard
with the greaten attention, and louJly cheered.
Lord GROSVENOR adopted the fentiments of
his Highnefs, and enforced them by a great
variety of arguments. It was well known, that en-
titling for an indefinite number of years, or for the
whole of a man's life, was the great bar againft the
increafe of our army. Remove that bar, and men
will flock in crowds to your ftandard. Indeed, to
think otherwife would be mifinterpreting the feelings
of human nature.

Lord CAMDEN thought the means the coun-
try were already in poffeffion of for recruiting the
army fhould be rather retained and improved, than
refort to any untried and hazardous experiment.
The Earl of LIMERICK.—He contended, that
our colonial fervice was peculiarly incompatible with
limited fervice, fince before the foldier became fea-
foned to the climate, he might become entitled to his
ditcharge, and thus our colonies might be perpetu-
ally fupplied with raw foldiers, to whom the climate
was peculiarly fatal. From his own experience he
had found, that were a higher defcription of perfons
to enter the army, it would not contribute to its fob
ordination and difcipline. He had found, that thole
who could read and write were often the molt trou•
blefonte, and molt inclined to faCtion. Betides, it
was not to be fuppofed, that thole who had enjoyed
the comforts of life would readily fubmit, without
murmuring and difcontent, to thofe privations to
which the foldier mull neceffarily be expofed.
Lord KING oblerved, that it was not wifhed to
introduce a higher dafs of men into the army, but
only the more confiderate and refleEling of that clafs,
who now entered it as foldiers. This would add both
to the numbers and difcipline of the army.
The Earl of HARDWICKE Rated, that during
the Lord Lieutenancy of the Marquis Cornwallis in
Ireland, he made the experiment of enlifting for a
limited period, but it did not by any means equal
the expeaations of thofe who had advifed the trial
even as a temporary expedient.
The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE obferved,
that fame Noble Lords feemed to imagine, that the
interference of Parliament, in the enlilting of foldiers,
was an encroachment on the Prerogative of the
Crown. Did this trench more on the Royal Preroga-
tive, he would afk their Lordthips, than the Annual
Mutiny Bill in time of peace did on the popular right ?
Earl ROSSLYN thought, that the only way of
rendering unneceffary the prefent high bounties, and
of removing the odium under which the military life
fo generally laboured was by ameliorating the con-
dition of the foldier, and this the pref,nt claufe was
eminently calculated to promote. High bounties
were one great caufe of the defertions which had fo
much prevailed of late, and if the caufe were removed,
which could only be done by fame meafure fimilar
to the prefent, the effect would ceafe of courfe. At
prefent, nothing but the event of his being difabled
could give the foldier the hope of retirement ; and it
was not to be expeaed, that confiderate men, or in-
deed any but the thoughtlefs, or thole driven by ne-
ceffity, would prefer being tied up for life, to limited
fervice. As to canvaffing between the Officer and
foldier, he was confident, that Britith Officers would
never degrade themfelves by permitting any relaxa•
tion of chicipline, to induce their men to continue in
the fervice. They were convinced, that the attach-
went at the foldier could only be gained by fair and
liberal conduit, and by the Mid and impartial exercife
of difcipline.
Lord HAWKESBURY declared, that notwith. I
(landing all be had beard from the Noble Earl who i/

had Spoken lift, and the other Noble Lords who pre.,
ceded him, (and the opinions of tome of them he
knew were entitled to confiderable weight.) yet. not-
withaanding all the arguments which he had heard
fo ably advanced, in fupport of the fyftem which was
to be fi unded on a :hole in the Bill now before their
Lordfhips,he had not heard reafons ftaied,which were
capable of effacing from his mind the impreffion
which it had previoufly received, namely, that this
was, in its very effence, a mop dangerous, and might
poffibly be in its consequence, an almon ruinous fyf-
tem
Artillery, cavalry, and infantry, foreigners and
native fubjetls, white men and blacks, were all to be
dilbanded at the expiration of the term of feven years.
He was well aware that it a as utterly impoffible that
any thing like a general difcharge could take place
at any given time ; but then it was within the line of
probability that great numbers would have completed
their term of fervice nearly at the fame time, and
muff neceffarily be difcharged jun at .the eve of the
breaking out of a war. This would be fuch a cafe
as would molt ferioufly affect the intereft (though be
would always place the utmnft confidence in the loy-
alty and bravery of the nation), yet it was poffible
that the occurrence of fuch an event might endanger
the fafety of the country. It was wife and politic for
(lettermen to be guarded at all times againft even a,
diftant poffibility of fuch danger, and he conceived
it to be unwife and impolitic in Mininers to make
fuch an innovation on stile military fyftem as this was,
during a period of war. The manner be thought
peculiarly liable to cenfure, as by the fyftem being
introduced in the form of a claufe in the Mutiny Bill,
which was within ten days of expiring, their Lord-
Ships mull either agree to this plan, or Subject them-
felves to the painful feeling that they had left the
State without a Mutiny Bill at a period of war.
Lord HOLLAND obferved, that after the able
anJ elegant fpeech which had been made in favour
of the meafure by the illuftrious perfon whom he had
in his eye (the Duke of Gloucefter), a fpeech which
mull have made an indelible impreffion on the minds
of all who heard it, he was furptifed that the Noble
Lords on the other fide Should have perfified in their
objections. He then adverted to the necenity of in.
creating our army, in oppofition to a Noble Lord
who had Paid that our difpofable force was already
great enough. In order to attain this objet we molt
now have recourfe to a meafure fimple in itself, but
likely to be mon powe-Sul in its effect*, after all the
nylernu which had been tried and had failed. This
country ought to have more than its money to depend
upon in order to fecure it from danger, and to mails!
tain its refpenability. The effens of fubfidies had al•
ready been Peen. It had been Paid that this country
was now io the zenith of its glory. It might be fo,
perhaps, for it was one of the effects of a burning fun
to have no Shadow, and certainly our fun bad lately
left no Shadow of glory to thole upon whom it had
lately (hone. A Noble Lnrd had compared our Volun-
teers, for whom he certainly had the greaten refpen,to
the Macedonian phalanx. The companion was cot a
happy one, hut we had undoubtedly, lately, followed
the fyftem of Phillip, and depended more on our gold
than on the force of our arms. There was this differ-
ence however, that his gold led to viOory, ours to
defeat. He denied that this was any inftingement of
the prerogative, which no one could be more anxious
to defend than he would be, beeaufe he thought that
its fecurity was neceffary for the fafety of the liber-
tics of the people. It had been Paid by fume Noble
Lords, that the prefent Minifters had got into the
Elyfium, for which they had long been anxious, and
that they could net concludt themfelves with modera-
tion. The Noble Lords on the other fide were in the
feats of Sorrow and Suffering ; but they were not,
it appeared, without fume confolation, for one of
them had hinted a fort of hope that Minifters might
do fornething which would refine him to his tilde
again. When his friends therefore Should be difpof-
ed to folicit his favour, he might, perhaps, confole
them as Fakiairdid Mier Shallow, when in great anxi-
ety shout his thotifand pound.—" Trull. me Meier
Shallow, f (hall be fent fur anon." But as thole who
were in Elyfium weN Paid to be employed in the
fame purfuits which engaged their attention while -
alive, fo Mininers followed the lame courfe which
they had recommended when their recommendation
had not fuch a good chan:e of being attended
He defended the meafure on the grounds of its hu-
manity, as it would almon remove the temptation to
defertion, and the punifhments eonfequent upon
It would improve the charadler of the army, and
fpread a great number of veterans over the country,
who would be of the greaten Service in cafe of its
being the feat of war, ft was not a mere fpeculative
theory, for the thing had been tried and found effec-
tual in other countries. As to the colonial fervice, he
mentioned that in the Spaniffi army, thofe only who
entitled for a limited period were fent t 3 the colonies.
He concluded by expreffing his conviniun that this
meafure would produce the moll effential advantages.
Lord MOIRA, in allufion to what had fallen from
a Noble Earl (Wellmoreland) early in the debate,
begged to exprefs his thanks to the Noble Earl for
the fpeech he had been fo good as to make for him,
as expreflive of the terrors he was fuppofed to feel
for the ruin of the Artillery Corps from this meafure.
He really did not recollect that he had ever enter-
tained any Such fentiments, and he trolled Noble
Lords would do him the jutlice to believe the lan-
guage was not his. He really had no Such terrors ;
and in far was he from having cattle to feel fuch asi-
prehenfions, that he was convinced nothing would be
a greater punifhment to an artillery man, than to dif-
' mils him from the Service, and deprive him of the
1 many advantageous profpens of preferment in his
view. The boys now enlifted for the artillery Service
were turned over to the battalions as they attained
proper Size, and were of courfe edited for life. The
term of twelve years limitation could only operate on
thole who ehlift hereafter, and could have no effect
for twelve years to come ; and with refpen to the
general term of limited enliftment, he would read a
letter to their Lordfhips from experienced and prac-
tical, not from fpeculative authority. from a Gene-
ral Officer, now in our fervice, but formerly, and for
twenty years in the Service of the nation in Europe
molt analagous to our own, namely, that of Holland
—:his letter Dated, that during twenty years of that
Officer's fervice, there were feventy-two battalions in
the Dutch army, (crying both at home and in their
diftant colonies, in which it was the uniform pranice
to enlin the men for limited pet iods of three, fix, and
nine }ears, without any other Ifipulatit,ns than that
their difcharges Mould only be demanded in the

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Month of Weber, or at the end of $ campaign, con-1
fequently during a war ; and that no inconveniences
whatever had arifen from the nine; and in anfwer
to the complaint that military authorities -had not
been laid before the Hnufe, or examined at the Bar,
he concsived no praeice could hive a more mifchie-
VOUS tendency. He would ferioufly advife their Lord-
Ships cautioufly to avoid fuch a practice, and to keep
their Legiflative funeinns free from any influence
from the opinions of military men, who were the in-
Bement', and ought not to be the Springs of Legit-
lative &Elton. If their Lordthips Should once bring
military men to their Bar for filch a purpole, they
would form come again by petition, and afterwards by
remonfirance. He concluded by ferioufly approving
the Bill, as a meafure the moll likely to be efficient.
Lord MULGRAVE expreffed his aannahment at
the opinion expreffed by the Noble Lord, who was
himfelf a foldier, and juin), of high charader, as to
what might be the confequence to, or the difpofition
excited in the minds of military men, by being cal•
led to give their evidence at their Lnrdfhips' Bar ;
and he totally denied the jullice of the inference.—
With refpoll to the Bill, he was a friend to its prin.
ciple, but feared it would be inefficacious, and ought
only to be tried partially as an experiment.
Lord GRENVILLE concluded the debate, in a
makable and comprehenfive fpeech. He role with the
Sincerer, fatisfaaion to recommend Aloft temerity to
their Lordfliips the adoption of a meafure, of which,
for many years part, he hadlentertained the, moll per
fee cunvieion, that it was the only meafure likely to
become permanently efficacious, in keeping up the
neceffary force, of this country, under the unfortunate
neceffity that of late years had been impofed upon
the countries of Europe, of keeping up large armies ;
and as mod congenial to the fpirit and feelings of
Englifhmen. ,It had been afked early in the debate,
what Statefman, with a Statefman's mind, had over
propofed to any country fucha meafure for adoption?
He would declare the Statefinan on whole authority
be would offer the meafure. It was that confummate
Statefman, whole irreparable. loft the country fo re-
cently had to deplore. It was from him that he had
learned the principle. It was one which he knew
occupied his great mind, and was decal ve in his opi-
nion for very many years. There was not a angle ar-
gument that had been offered again[! the Bill in the
courfe of this debate, that had not been !urged by
bimfelf againa the principle to that great Statefman
in repeated difcuffions between them on this inkjet%
and that was not ably and convincingly anfwered by
his Right Honourable and lamented friend. He had
confidered, with the molt mature deliberation, the
fubjee over and over again, and the more, he conk-
dered it, the more thoroughly was he convinced of
its propriety. The Noble Lord then took a view of
the leading arguments that bad been urged spina
the Bill,as trenching on the prerogative of the Crown,
as tending to deteriorate the difcipline of the army,
and to diminifh it beyond the power of recruiting,
&c. all of which he ably combated. He then went
into a calculation of the probable expence of the
change of fyllem upon the fairea data the nature of
the arcumaances could afford, and ably contended,
that by the difference of bounties, and by the
,dimi-
nution of defertion, that inked of being, as was cal-
culated, an expence of from two to three millions A
year, it would be a laying in the firfk inftance .of
above one hundred thoufand pounds annually $ and
could not in lets than fifty years amount to an in•
creak in expenditure of twohundred thoufand pounds
a year. The increafe of penfion, he would allow,
was not taken into this eftimate, but that was a thing
which would be done in either way, in conaderation
of the increafed price of fubfillence to the veteran Sol-
dier, and therefore this was common to both plans.
But upon the great principle of its being a meafure
more congenial to the feelings of Englahmen, it was
neceffery to be generally impreffed upon the feelings
of the people throughout the country, in order to
have a fair trial of its aces; and therefore its uni-
'trial adoption in the Service mull fuperfede thofe
drivelling ha meafures of partial experiments,which
argued a timid and inadequate conception in thole
who had formed and afted upon them for fix years
pall, though they now oppfed the fame principle a$
milkhievous in this : but what could be more last
chievuus than to adopt the principle in the home
branch of the army, and rejea it in the foreign ?
By making it general, it would be generally impref-
fed upon the minds of the people, who would then
feel they had conflitutional rights and liberties to de-
fend, and would be at all times the more ready to fight
in their defence. The principle had already been
adopted, under Legiflative faneion, in the two pe-
riods of our hillory molt eminent for the brilliant vic-
tories obtained by Britifh armies, namely, in the reign
of (teen Anne, and in the feven years war. He
deprecated the petty and pitiful calculations of the
ett pence of tranfports and conveyance home of Soldiers
dffcharged on foreign Rations, as thrown in the way
of fo peat and important a meafure, which, if made
general, would be generally and clearly underflood.
There would then be no occaficn for explanatory cir-
cular letters from Secretaries of State to Officers
commanding in difient diaries, or for leaures to Di-
va-tonal Officers, or for catechifing military infpalors,
or for confulting lawyers for contlruftive opinions
upon a law which all would clearly underftand.
The quellion was now loudly called for, and the
Cmnmittce divided. Contents for the Bill, 94 ; Non-
contents, 3 t —Majority, 63.
On the motion of Lord GRENVILLE, it was or•
dered, that the Lords be fummoned for Friday next,
sn confider of a motion for agreeing to a conference
with the Commons.
At half par, two o'clock (this morning), the Houle
adjourned to Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. WICKHAM moved fora variety of Papers refpeeling the
appointment of CommilTaries in Bar Aria, purfnant to Treaty, in
the years Soo, as alto relative to his own condudt on the Continent
at that period.--Csedertd.
Mr Secretary FOX brought in a Bill for reftraining any vcirels
from clearing out for Africa to be employed in the Slave Trade,
which were not already engaged in, and contraßcd for the fame.
The Bill wan read a &ft time, ordered to be printed, and read
a fccond time On Toed*, next.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER reported, that
he had !leen m the Houfe of Lords, and that their Lordfhlps had
toad to a contource with the Comment in the Painted Chamber.
A Committee wan then appointed to manage the (aid conference.
Mr. Fox, Lord Halter PITTV, Mr. WILBER/ORCE, and almoil
every Member then in the Houle, were appointed to be of that
Committee.
On their return, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
reported to the Houk, that he bad kft with their Lord2dps a Copy
of the Refulutloo which bad boo &grad to by that licook

NM-INDIA Conllllsllolllal. •
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,, befure'rno:init
the Haute to refolve Weir into a Committee, replied to many of
the objeCtions which had been made to the BiU. He dwelt prin-
cipally on the advantage that had been experienced from one of
theft who had been appointed uoder the Cummiffion of 1803 (Mr.
Beareroft), returning to this country. He was enabled in this
country to make many important enquiries wh!. h facilitated the
objeds for which the Commiflion was Inftituted. although he was
a fimple individual here and armed with no power. He therefore
thought a greater good would refute from the claufe in the prefent
Comeniffion, which required two Commifiloners to rade caw.
Randy in this country armed with proper powers. As to the (a-
bides, he affuredthe Gentlemen on the other fide, that the great
difficulty he experienced was to find proper perfons who would
accept the fituation even with the falary.
Mr. ROSE could not conceive, that there could be my difficulty
In finding two Gentlemen who would accept dank fituationa,
cf-
pecially as he conceived thole COMMitfi oners would have very little
trouble. He had converted with many Governors ot Weft Indian
Mande, and perfons the belt informed on the fubjed, and they all
agreed, that there could be no effedual audit of thole accounts
except in the Weft Indies.
Mr. Secretary FOX replied, that although it might be eafy to
find force perfoos who were ready to go to any part of the world
for a falary, yet It was really extremely difficult to find Gentle-
men of the defcription proper to be appointed, who would accept
the fituation with the conditioh annexed to it, of going In rots tion
for two years to the Weft Indies. There was this additional ad-
vantage in the refidence of fume. of the Commlffioners In this
country during the late Commiffion, there were marry individuals
who, when they found the enquiry was going hard againft them,
left the Weft Indies, and came over to this country ; perform In
fuels decumitantes would not efeape the prefent CommiiUon.
Mr. PERCEVAI: thought, that although many perfone might
In their prefent lituation be content to go to the Weft Indies, yet
that It would be hard indeed to find any perfens proper to be cm.
played in loch a matter, who would bind themfelvcs, that at the
end of two years, whatirer changes might take place In their
Mutations, they would go to the Weft Indies as loon as their turn
Ibould come.

After a few words from Mr. FOX and Sir WM. YOUNG;the
Houle wrnt into a Commktee 'on the ItilL

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Mr. ROSE peopled as an Amendment, that three Weft India
Commiflioners be 'pointed inftead of five,which produced a long
debate, in which Lord 110 WICK, Sir WILLIAM YOItNG Mr
PERCEVAL, the Al-lORNF.Y GENERAL, Mr. MORRIS,
and Lord CASTLEREAGH, delivered their fentiments. An ob.
fervation on the extenlion of Court patronage intended by this lo-
uvered number of Commiffioners, called up
Mr. FOX,'whoaddreffed the Committer with much anlmatior.
Noe tienri tin promo," he exclaimed. He thought the loft Adml
Mftration were the molt unfit perfons to matte fuck a charge action.
their rucceffors. It was true, the rewerk did but drape a Noble
Lord, (Cafilereagh) whore practice, in a neighbouring ifland, on the 1
occafion of the Union. was well known ; for, to iitereafe fltronage
and influence, he had'ecildefeentled to an expedient vulgarly ealkd
giving brims, but more politely denominated political munificence. 1
At !raft his Lordfhip would not take up the gauntlet, which had
been fomewbat imprudently thrown down by an Hon. Friend near
him (Mr. Role). If the prefent Adminiftration were to be impli-
cated in the fame offence againit their public duty, in only one
hundredth pact of what was chargeable upon his Lordilip, they
would have rude-lent motive fur future repentance.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQIIt R fold, the Coto-
utiffioners would- have no sinecure ; they bad Recounts to the
amount olio° trillions to examine: &mooch-there was one of
Mr Valentine Jones, who in one year had received to the enor-
moot amount of 700,000 d and whole conduct had placed him in a
very (erious predicament.
After Come farther dt:eufflon by Mr. ROSE, Mr W I CKHA
and the ATTORNEY GENERAL., the Houk divided on the
amendment. The numbers were—Againft it, so 1--. For it,
Majority, so.
Mr. PERCEVAL and Mr ROSE next Infifted, that the Com-
milfioDers Intended io be fent to the Weft Indies mould have the
duty aligned them in there Iflands on the face of the Bill. •
Mr. PDX and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
argued, that the place of their employment would be more pro
pert, left In the diredlon of Government, who would regulate this
matter according as eircumßances rhoold vary the hale of duty.
Mr. HAWTHORNE then quitted the Chair, end the Hoare
being rebutted, it was ordered that the Report of the Bill be re-
ceived on Monday next.
• Lord TEMPLE • moved the Order of the Day for the reeond
reading of the American Intercourfe BBL which gave rife to much
warm converration between his Lordlhip and Mr. Fox on the one
fide, and Mr. PERCIVAL, Mr. Ross, and Lord Da BLAQ.CIERE,
oat the other; and it was at bait determined, that the Bill mould be
read a fecond time on Tudday next, particularly in reffed to Mr.
Alderrnan Comas, who aimed to be prefent at the debate.
Mr. FOX, In the courfe of the alttreation, raid, that he mould
have no objection to confine the operation of the Bill to the war,
which was indeed an indefinite time, but which be for his part,
mould be glad to &often as much as potfihle.
To a qaertion by Mr. HUSXISSON, • •
Mr VANSITTART replied, that the Army Extraerdinaties
would probably be moved text eck.
.The Ce.mmittees of Supply and Ways and Mean, were deferred
to Men...ay. The additional Affeffed Tax Bill was read a feeond
tlme, and it was agreed that it be referred to a Committee of tae
whole Houle on Monday. Mr. HOILIIION fignified that he
mould propofe, an an inftrudion to that Committee, the t the Bill
be divided into two parts, one impofing further burtheuathe other
alleviating thofe already Impeded ; to which Mr. Veen
intimated his concurrence.
Tb- Hours adjourned at twelve o'clock, to Monday nett.