Star.
London, England, 1807-01-22 00:00:00

PAR 14,WhATART PROCEtsVINGS.

HOW OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. U.
I orris F.gresnont avid .landveleh took the oaths and their feats.
Ti.e Annual indemnity Bill was brought from the Commons,
and read a Sr* time.

Lord WALSINGHAM prefented a petition from Sir Watkin
Lcwes prsying for an order to the Marihal of the Ki-g's '•ench
to permit his attendance to•nibftow .heir Lorttllttre HIT, to
bear the proceeding, in an Appeal, in which the Petitioner was
interefted.

The LORD CHANCE! LOR quoted a precedent which oc-
curred in 1764 in rapport 'olthe pctidon Bit
I and ELDONappearinstb entelt ib fettle deubeatialo theop-
plivability of that precedent. prooofed the poßportement of the ap-
peal to Nide?. on which day. txkrp•the colnowncelocnt of Teri'',
Ole petitioner wool.✓be oh bled to attend withoutatry interfacnce
of their I ordlbipe.—Ordered.

Lord DARTMOUTH Rated that has IVirajcßy had been wait•
ed on with their Lordfhipe Addrefs, relative to the communica-
tions which had beet, held with the Frank Government en the
fubjed of Abelilhing-the Slave Trade, and had given direcitions
for laying copiel of the fame befere their Lordfhips.
I.ord WALSINGHAM prefented a Petltinnfum the Planters
in Trinidad againft the Abolition atilt Slave Trade —Onicred to
.lic on the table

no the merlon of Lord GRENVILLE, the order for the fieond
gnaw r f the Bill for'abolithing the Slave Trade,on Friday next,
was difebotied, and a frets order was made for Monday fen-
*ht.
Os the motion of Lord WESTMORLAND, copies sver& or-
dered to be laid before the Houfe oral', Cortifpondente which
Lad taken place between bis Majefty's Secretary of State and the
Colonial Governmet.ts, in the Weft Indies, on the fubjeel.of ame•
lioradng the eandkion of the naves, and"the of et which the aba-
ndon of the Trade it Slaves might produce on the listen& of the
Colooles--Adjourned.
11••••••••01

HOUSE OF COMMON'S.
11(r. MANNTHSI brought ups Petition againft the BM for
iftablithing Water Works in Stratford-le-Bow. Ordered to Se
upon the Table.
Several Members, among whom were Sir ARTHUR WELLED.
LET. Mr. dIOHT, and Lord CIARLES SOMERSZT, were (worn at
ese Table.
Sir GEOROB HILL being returned for the City of London-
derry and Becough of Coleraine. wade his eledion for the former.
A new Writ was ordered to be Bitted fcr Cokraine, on the motion
tat Lord GEORGIC BEM EDFORD.
The Cleric ofthe Crown. on the Motinn of Mr. Hoinoust,
*as ordered to attend to amend th, return for Horfliam.
A tefefrage from the Lords announced, that their Lortifhips
tads Betted to the Malt and Penton Duty Bills, without any
shiendtnent

Sir JOHN NEWPORT brought up a Bill for explaining and
intending the Corn Itit`crcourfc MI, palled lan Set Linn. Read a
grit time. and ordered for a fecond reading to mOnow.
IR 1111 CUSTOMS' BILL.
The Bill for Aboliihing certain. Offices in the frith Cullom was
read a fceond time, and ordcrrd to lx committed to morrcir.

The Ordnance Fitimates were prefented by Mr. CALCRATT,
gild ordered to He on the Table.
The Committee on the kali Elation Bill was poßponed until
td•snorrow.
The 'lnure went into a Committee on the idea Militia Service
DiII. -Report ordered to be received to-morrow.
LONDONDERRY ELECTION.

The order of the day for taking the Petition, complaining of an
Undue Retain') for the City of Londonderry Into oonfidcration,
was, after come ohfery •tions from General WALroLE, Mr. W.
NDAS, Sit JOHN NEV.TORT, Mr. PLICZVAL, Lord Howler:,
Ift Rose, Mr. WILLIAM, WYNNE, and I.ord GroßoE Beata-
r ORD, and a divilion in which the numbers were,
Ayes 6.1-Noes 49. • .
Poßponed from the 29th inft. to tbot7th Mardi next.
♦RMY ESIIMATES.

The SECRETARY at WAR having rifen for the
purpofe of moping the Order of the Day,
I.Prel CASTLEREAGH withed to be informed,
previous to going into the difeuflinn on the Army
Eltimates, whether men who had accomplifhed their
twenty-one years fervice wee• difcharged ; and it they
were not, whether they remained in the fervice by
their own voluntary choice, or by the authority r f
Parliament ? He wifhed alto to learn, whether, in
cafe of their continuing in the tervice, they were in
receipt of the pay, allowances, and penfions, men.
tinned in the plan brought forward by the Right
Hon. Gentleman fan year.
Mr. WINDHAM obferved, that perfons who were
in the Army previous to the introdu6lion of his plan
were entitled to all the advantages of it, except the
difchatge. His individual opinion was, that they
Arnold be entitled to that alfo ; but he yielded to
perfons of whole ledgment in loch matters he thought
More highly thin he did' of Lis own.
The SECRETARY at WAR moved that the le-
♦eral Ettimates prefented on the t4th and rgth intl.
fhould be referred to the Committee of Supply.
The Houfe having refolved itfelf into Paid Com-
mittee, Mr. HOBHOUSE in the Chair,
The SECRETARY at WAR role for the purpofe
of moving the cullomar; refolutions upon the Annual
Ellimates of the expences of our Military Ettablifh-
ment. He began by obferving, that in taking a ge
neral review of the Efiimates, it would not be need.-
far] for him to trouble the Houfe at great length, or
CO go much into detail. Wherever any variation
fhould occur between the Ellimates now on the table,
and thofe prefented lali year, he would confider it as
part of his duty to point it out. One very fatisfadlory
refult would appear from a comparifon of the Eth-
mates. It was this, that the number of our effective
force was encreafed, and the expences of the eltablilh•
anent diminifhed, Neither, however, were lo in a
great degroe ; but (till they were confiderable enough
to hold out hopes that tomething more extenfive
would take place. The number of the Army, it
would appear, from the papers on the table, was in- -
created about sOOO men, and the expences cf our
military ellablilhaaent were reduced by about 90001.
Ids than they were in the loft and the preceding year.
As he proceeded, he would only take notice if fuch
items in the Estimates where there was a. great and
flriking variation. The fcale of etiablithment, or,
in other words, the defcription of force was pretty
much the fame as year. The fiat part of the
Ellimates to which he would call the attention of the
Houfe, were the items r and 2 : the fir ft embracing
Guards, Garrifons, &c. ; and the fccond, the Forces
in the Plantations. In thefe two articles there was
an increafe amounting to 241,5371. This was a con
fiderable increafe, which it would be neceffary to ex-
plain. There were, firft, the expences of fix Gar-
iron Battalions, whole fervices at first it was intend.
ed to limit to home duty ; a determination, however, i
which it was afterwards found nacetfary to depart
from. There was another new corps all.) eßablithed
for garrifon:ng Canada, which the Houle would fee
was productive of further tepence. Another new •
corps was all, created, by dividing the Royal African
Corps, and adding two new companies to that part of
it which was ferving its the Well Indies. There were
alfo eleven companies of Sicilians attached to the
Ilritifh army ferving in Sicily. He was perfuaded the
Houle would feel with him the neceflity, confidering
the caufe we were engaged in, of taking a fmall pot-
tion of the population of that country into our ferviceli

and thereby of exciting It fpirit 4emolation among
t hem. There was alto an increafe, thrtspht norto nay 4
confiderable extent, in the expences of the lotaira
Staff and Commiffariat. This was not the only me 4
creak t an-additi, nal expence of t tomool. had been
occalioned ley the article of inereafed allowances. The.
'I
-Inure; he-trutied, Would enure him • from going
through the whole of the items. They were dated
Atothrparpers-in In clear a manner, as to be intelli-
gible at the ,fita glance. The !feast& total of in.
'create might be dated at 439 73aL: Exclufive of the
items he had mentioned, there was a confiderable in-
create produced by the difference of pay on the Irifh
and Englifh eflablifhments, making, together with
txcherpierfees nn payments of certain branches of
the fervice, a total of 44,2231. There was alto an in-
creafe of 19.3611. prodticed by additions to the Com-
mander in Chief's ellablifitment to that of the Adju-
tant General, the-Quarter Mader General, Infpettor.,
General of Recruits, and Army Medical Board.—'
The next head nr increafed'expence was occafioned
by the new arrangements. I'hele produced an in
create in the expences of the OutTenfioners alone of
Chelfea and Kilmainham, of 113.1701. Against thefe
increafes, gowever, he had to let off a decreafe in
the expence of the Volunteer eflablifhment of
248.5°41, The whole of this decreafe, according to
the fir ft edimate, would have amounted to 36'd,0c01.
but circurndances made it neceffary to keep the Vo•
lunteers•nf Ireland four months upon permanent duty
inflead ofone,which occafioned an expence oft 19,00 b I.
This, with other items of expence, would account
for the difference. With refpeet to Foreign Corps,
the decreafe of expence in that part of our eftablifh
nnent was, in the whole, not lets than 153,5381. In
the Abdrati Paper it would be teen that t t,oool. was
fet down to the account of the COmpaflionate Lid.
This was an item which he was perfuaded the Houfe
would moll willingly agree to, when they were in-
formed that it had been hitherto voted out of an
imaginary fund. The only fond let aitide for the
Compatlionate Lift was the profits which it was pre-
fumed would wife .from the laving trp‘m haltpay.
Now, this was a fund which was often wholly unpro.
&Clive, and which, at no period, ever.produced one
quarter of the films aflignable upon it. When the
Hence confideted the ecfcription of perfons who de
rived advantage frosts the Compaflinnate Litt, that
they were in general orphans and widows, who very
rarely received above 2cl. per annum from it, he was
confident that not a Member who heard him would
feel inclined to (Ned to that pat ticiflar article. An-
other important item in the Minutes was the article
of Contingencies. He wt old not attempt to anticipate
the objeftions which might be made to it; but if there
were any particular parts of it, which in the opi
niem of any Gen,tleman required to bo explained,
he would be happy to afford in that nine& all the
fatisfaCtirm in his power. The Eflimates on the Ta•
ble had been framed with the greatest attention ;
and if the additional pay and allowances, in conic-
'ofience of the arrangtmcnts of iaft Setlion, were de-
dueled, he was confident they would not be found to
exceed 'bore of the preceding years. The Edi•
mates for the year preceding the accefli an of the pre•
prefent Adminifiration to Office, amounted to
13.93(,3311. The Eftimates for this year, excluding
the additional pay end allowances, which he did for
the fa:: of fimplii) ing !le compatifon, amounted to
13,710,92 tl. acdoional pay and allewances
Amounted to feumething about 223,3291 which would
bring the expences of both yea' s pretty nearly to a
level. Still, however, he would contend the advan
tage was on the fide of the prefent Etlimates—for
there was an actual augmentation in point of number,
and a pofitive reduClion in point of eltahlilhment,
though neither, as he Paid before, to any great ex-
tent. The whole of the additional expence produced
by the new arrangement confided of the folio wing
items :

£ 260,0c0 Jot-reale of pay to R•valsrs
23 0-0
160 000 •••-•••••••-•••••.•••••••Out profionv.
7,0:0 widow, petitions.
An Honourable Gentltman on the oppolite fide of
the Houle (Mr. G. John(lone) had given notice of
his intention to blitz a charge againli Milliners for a
wanton walle of the public money. He would allure
him, that the charge would be readily met ; for, lo
far from having dtlervtd any reproach of the kind,
it would be found that every effort had been made hy
Givernment to introduce all pnffible economy into
every branch of the public fervice.• The expences rf
the ellablifhtnent of 18c6, if arranged upon the fame
fcale as the prefent ellimatcs, would have amounted
to 14,800,c001. He would not lay that the then Ad-
milittlfation would have come to Parliament for that
fum, but he would maintain, that according to the
ellimates, the expences would have amounted to the
fum he mentioned. Before he moved the fir It refolti-
tion, he would trouble the Houle witfi a few words
on the fubjed of the military meafures introduced
hall year by the Right Hon. Gentleman next to him.
Theft meafures confined in new arrangements for
the Regular fervice, and a very great alteration in
the Volunteer effahl fitment. It would, he was con-
vinced, be a fubjed of very great farisladion to the
Houle, to know that all the alarming hints which
had been thrown out refpeding the confequences of
the dilfatisfaelion of that great body were proved by
experience to be wholly unfounded. Probably, dur-
ing the agitation of there meafures, and in confe•
quence of aelive and intentional mifreprefentation,
much difcontent might have been occafioned ,• but he
felt happy in affuring the Houle that the effeds of
thefe artifices were comparatively trifling. The num-
ber of thole who withdrew themfelves from the Vo-
lunteer force was inconfiderable, compared with what
it was generally fuppoled to be. Of thole who with-
drew, there was not one, he was convinced, who would
not mnft readily take up arms again, in cafe an inva-
lion of the enemy Ihould place the country in danger.
The perfons who quitted the Volunteer corps might
be divided into two claffes ; &If, thole who belonged
to corps which were entirely dilbanded ; and, fecond•
lv, fuch individuals as withdrew from corps which
llill &Red. The latter he fhould not-take into his
calculation; for as new members were daily enrolling
themfelves, in the wrote of a few months he was con•
vinced vie grand total would be found little inferior
to what it was when the meafures which had been the
fubjet of fa much mifconception were firlt propofed.
The number of Volunteers belonging to dilbanded
corps amounted only to 11,186. With refped to the
new ar&ngements, he refleded with fatibfaltion that
he had the li,nour, twelve yeari ago, of firlt (*Omit-
ting them to the Houfe. He was iscm Canguins

isoegh to hope that much immediate advantage
icould reiblt•from their adoption; but ht was goof(
'dent that Ayr would ultimately‘ produce the rnoll
effets upon the charadter and compofition
tette awry. Though their effect was not fo rapid
•nt Nagy pet lons expeded, he would contend that the
,new meafores could not he raid to have abfolately
failed. If the low bounty had not produced a great
number of Alen, it had the effeB of entirely putting
an end to that great comet of the diminution of our
military firengti, he mvattt defertion. Since the new
meafures bad been ad pled, it was inconceivable how
much the number <A defertions had been reduced.
The plan, he was perfbaded, if beadily adhered to,
would, at no great &fiance of time, produce all the
advantages which were expected from in He would
notnew take up the time <.f. the Houle any longer,
but move the fill Iterdittion. .

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• . The Refolntion having been read from the Chair,
Lord CASTLE REAGIf. Paid he was not pie.
pared to deliver his opinion to the Hnufe on the lud•
den, on fo large a quellion ass that under slit-claim,
in all its detail:, involving the general militAry po-
licy of the Empire, and tile inndamental changes that
had taken place in the ian Seffion of the bill Pat-na-
me/v. In the view of the viclent propofitinns, under
all the circumllances that accompanied them,•he
confidered the preterit Parliament to be placed in a
fituation of extraordinary difficulty. Feeling him-
fell individually placed in Inch a fit uaticn, he expeet-
ed that when Parliament was called together in filch
a manner, there was !lime great nnd prefling qua
Lion, filmic paramount and ennui trilling motive,which
Ihad induced Islinitlers to the line of condat they,had
followed ; but from the opening of Parliament up
to the prefent moment, he had found nothing parti
cular on which the Houle was to be called upon to
decide, but the ordinal y detail of bufinels ; excepting
indeed that great meal-tire of negotiation with
France, which it might have been better, certainly,
at feria as, well, not to have difcliffed during the
Chrillmas holidays, hut at the time molt convenient
and fnitable to all -. a meafure in which the charaeler
and interest of this country, andthe interelt et Eu.
rope at large, were lo much concerned. With that
tingle exception, no mealnre whatever of important
concern had been fahmitteci to Parliament. Whether
this was for the credit either of the country or them-
felves, he would leave to the conlideration of Isli•
niters. It was but doing jiittice to the Right Hon.
Gentleman who moved the Refoln;ions to fay, that
every thing on his part had been candid and fair. He
might, however, remind him, that in the courfe of
tall Seffic.n he had (though certainly not immediately
in his Majelly's Council', yet in a high official littia•
tion) moved not one, hut leveret Estimates—not one,
but 1 ur Outing Bills. This lie mutt confider as
tending but little to the facilitating of public tranf
aCtions, and as doing little f-r the public ht:finefs.— 1
His Lnrdfhip proceeded to obterve upon the motion, 1
of which notice had been given, for ten theurand I
more men for the navy. He did 'lnd wean to quer-
don the propriety c:f the progoied vote, hut he ci uld
not admit this anticipation of fu; plementary mea-
litres. He Gould corder the vote prupored at once to
there fucceffive pre pal:ions ;and on the lame ground
of objeCli: n to an in eeular ryllem of proceeding, he
lamented to find Parliament called upon th it night,
!placed under peculiar ciictimflances, as it then was,
Ito sore, not limply for any maker y meafure, but for
new military fyilemr, coupled with old ones, in the !
fame ettimate crilleftively, and without an rpportu-
n'ty being given of dtainguithing the merits or de•
fees of either. This he conceived to be a fy Item on
which it was impriffible for Parliament or the Conn- I
try to proceed, and particularly improper in a new I
Parliament, before that Parliament had had an op-
portunity of examining and unilerfianding what had'
a'ifen from the old military fyliern of the country,
and what had aiiien hum the new saie of the Riglit
Hon. Gentleman ( !kir. Windham). A vote on -ac•
count of public let vices might not be 4.j:lted to ;
but I'vlinillers delibetately proceeded to call upon the
Houle to vote the expences, and lanelion fo bar their
meafures, before they ceaild be fairly and fully con•
fidered and examined. Tire Right Hon Gentleman
Ihad anvi with great candour ; Ina he lamented that
the Right Hon. Gentleman had taken fo very limit-
' ed a view of the nuellion. He had paid every p ill-
; hie attention to his fpecch ; but he mull ark him,
' why he did not hate the effeEtive ftrength of the mi-
litary force of the counti y- as competed with the pro-
vilion that Parliamert is as now called upon to make;
! thereby to jutrify ni.ilters, and to thew Tome ra-
I
tional hopes of our tailing a force loch as thould
canfilme the fupplies to be' voted ?Commenting upon I
the 240n0001. of favings, his Lot clihip oblei ved, that
the Right Hon. Gentleman always avoided the a'nen-..
ironing of thh: new expenditure, and the aCtual
Rrength againft the ererny. He thould be glad to
vote the fupplies Minifters alked, it he could lee any
reafon to expect a.greater degree of vigour exerted,
which might jullity the Katfe in looking to a preatet
proportion of the fupplies being fpeedily and pro.
perly expended. The mind of the Right Honourable
Gentleman was too fair and too rogical to reit upon
a comparifon of films, rather than on the real effec-
tive firength of the army, in forming a inn conipa...,
tifon of the new meafnres with thole which it-..bid
fuperfeded. He bad done all, perhaps, that was in
the province of the Secretary at War; bo.t though
not in the Cabinet, he might haVe been expeCled to
tell the Houle by what immediate or quick policy
he was to raife the numbers of the army to the
amount the fupplies fuppofed. He had Itated the
grofs amount, but not as compared with the prefent
etlablithment. Now the grofs number of our frrce
was Mated at 334,180, which, with various necellary
deduelions, making about one eighth, amounting to
4t,700, left 292,400 men, to be voted upon the face
of the refolutions. In comparing the effative mili-
tary force with the returns un the table, and in fat
lowing the Secretary at War tin ough his obrervations,
the Noble Lore felt confider:able difficulty, having
had only from the preceding day up to that moment
the opportunity of feting and examining the papers.
—The deficiency in rank and file he confideted to
amount to 37,000 men. Now, in calling for fupplies
fur thefe 37,000 men, not now exilling, he should
find no diltrutl nor difficulty in our refources—he
could even vote a larger provition, could he but
fee any rational ptobability that the meafures of
Minitiry were likely to raife them : but he would
fay that the Right Hon. Gentleman had made
out no fatisfaCtory cafe whatever to call upon the
Houle to vote the fupplies for there 37,000 men.

Gentlemen on his fide of the 'Tonle hod to.er, called
a captious Oppofition ; hut he thotio'it it his bounden
dilly to prefs this matter as far as he could on the l'
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attention of Parliament, even „ its might be
the tail oppolition, under all the el: cumtlances, that
he might give them on this fobjetet. fie did rot blame
Minifiers for endeavouring, to rai'e the 'force of the
country to the higheß pitch ; 11. hr thought it the
indifpenfable policy of this country I. catty it to tha
higheß pnffible degree. In thi% 1t: ,;e field of polo
rical and military dircuffion, it feerned extremely dif.
ficult to find any point on which Gentl.men 'were
agreed, or any thing impost-int to he taken for
granted. There was, however, this c' nfolatory cit..
cumßance, that the propriety of carrying our army
beyond its prefent Rate of firelight was univeriath.
admitted, both within and wi•hutit thole wal's; and
nothing that had happened fince the last Parliament
had, he believed, induced Gentlemen to alter their
opinion upon that fubjet. • He apprehended that,
fince this criellion was lag difctitfed,:: nothing hart,
occurred from the attempt to conciliate France, mot
to obtain a peace confolent with •he interell and ht..
floor of N., country, to lead u.: t , il, down wi,;;
a (mailer military force. The fi ,n,y, it wac true,
was now remote, and removed itom the power of
menacing our internal recur; t y --t he greater part of 11;.f
force was on the banks of theVill.ila: but at the period
of the diktat on of Tall year, it was on the bordps of
Hungary, and 'bereft,: e, as to the immediate danger,
the crellion was the fame ; our internal fccurity twat
t fafe then as it is at the preiltit moment ; and if
we were to lookr the future duration of the war, it
limprifed that the Right Honourable Gentleman rt
the head of the Mi'itary Department, would Oh*
that we ought to be able to ca:ry on our operations
acrnfs the feas .(not to (peak of the Continent) as
well in our prefent circumliances as at the period
when the Houfe la% debased the Military Syltem of
the Country. But if the Right Hon. Gentleman,4
former periods of the av:tr, thanght military increafe
fo neceirary, and even was inclined to take gloomy
views of our fituation, he sCorald aft him, whether
he did not think that the exertions he then ahnitgla
fo neceirary, would not beegaally fo now, fhonld
the enemy be able to fettle his projeSs in Poland, to
liberate his armies horn the Vistula; and t., menace
an attack on this country, when - his comparative
fituation sdnuld be fo much bettered, after his fut.
cellos; and even in his maritime means, lush a
they were, enveloping this Country from the
Sound and the Baltic to the extremities of Europe!
He had even gone with that Right Honourable
Gentleman in his gloomy views, and he promifed him
never to thew any indiq,fition to ft.pport our public
exertions, or to make faciifice, for the fake of the
I country. The late MioinerF were pledged to Paths
ment, as had been Hated to the Home. not merely
generally to increafe the army, but he had himfef ,
had the honour to date ro the Houle the particulr
ways and means by- which it nas prop led to add,,,
durints the prefent vest-, from 20,C00 to 254'00 men.
The Right Hon. Gentleman went before iim in lia
view of the neceility of increafe. What his Majelly's
Minillers relied on for the accomplilhment of theft
views, he should be ready to furnilh him with in de-
tail ; but Itrong as his own intentions and expelta-
tions were, that Right Honourable Gentleman was
more fangnine. He remembered him prailiog flee
i great qualities of our army, but contending that itt
! was great in every thing but in the immediate crigs.
A late Right Hon. Secretary of State (Mr. Fox,) to
vihn't talents the Noble Lord paid high compliments,
called on the country to 11211 from the panic of inva.
. lion, and to recover her cc niequence on the Continent,
and, thoretore, he felt himfelt jullified in calling on
Miniflers for an extetdion of the military force of the
county ; but above all, it was to be expe&ed from
the Right Hon. Gentleman oppotite, who had at.
, racked and maligned the late Government, as well
las that at' my Lord Sidmouth, for lowering and de.
Igrading the charaBer and force of the country bythe
we aTonefs and infufficiency of their military meartnes,
arid who had taken Inch iorins to difplace them, rather
through the fenfe of Parliament, than the want of
confidence of the Sovereign, for the purpofe of mak.
ing room for an adininiitration which he might deem
worthy of h;st confidence, or rather, perhaps (which
was a fair and natural ambition ?
, for one whereinhe
should have a iituatimo in w.bic 1 le might have the
power of creating -an.wmf,acitording to. hi; oten
views : Above all, he Amnia' fay'- it •wasan.be apex.;
ted from that Right.ftbrh—Gentkman, that in the
execution of his own intlifty. pr.reeti the Houk
Ihould find realizid f inte pr.ariarin at leaft of the pro-'
mites he had made. .Whe4qtylolf.lonrii then proceetki
to Rata the.,fastmtailtA Att t 0 change p 4io ..
''Y Vi Of VW
0 v_er ti ittilailtigroy.tatii,oiiat,t6 mpa red . with what had
heen.effeeed doting the Perfonsl adminiftration.ol
the Right Hon. Gentle Man. On the eit of. islonth;
1806, she amount of the effedlive force wa514.8,781.
[Here the Noble Lord made fome4ttif#ltis'On the
irregularity in the return which have ilatei
the number at 249,6 co afr;tit,tpoo higher.] Not
on the tit of January,,the.grofs amount was 254,64
men. The increafe of the Militia was fumewbo
about moo. • The whole itcreate, the Noble IA
.contended, which had been made to the regular forte
of the country by the Right Hon. Gentlemak =out
ted to about 4000 men. He would take it at front
to sOOO men Comparing this meafure with what
preceded\ it, he mutt call it a molt melancholy di tee
fence. In five months, by Mr. Pitt's Bill, as it vt,
called, or the' Additional Dr.Ence Bid, 5700 m:'
railed ; and 3000 men were railed bytween 0
2olt of Match and the 2tft of June. Had not th
Right Honourable Gentleman onpofite adopted
hint given him by a Right Ii -tor r tile Friend r
his Lordfitip's once high in other, and receir J
through the frith Militia 3000 men, he would bare
come to the Houle difgraced, by the total failure t
all his promifes and projees. Our forces ailibt
aoainft the enemy, the Noble Lord reckoned at
86.000, and after dedo&iorts for cafualties, &c. be
confidered the ailing force at 6o or no,ooo men:
and, therefore, unlefs we chofe to delta from offer'
floe, and turn to deferrive meafures only, we OA .1
a. his Right Hon. Friend, then abfent, had faith eerre
to the queftion, whether we !hall have a peace s'
tended with all the difadvanrages of war, or a Of
itripped of all its glories and advantages ? a fort or
,
philofophical military fyilem dellruaive of the veep
obica of hollilities. Nothing was left pleafant to fors,
Lordship, than to prefs comparifons upon the Right.
Hon. Gettlemaa perfonally
between him and oche` il
but be might. nand a comps, ifon with himfelf. Het