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ken at confillerable length on the criminal remiffnefs
of the firefent Adminiftratinn : he denied the junice
of the accofation, and would never coufent to liften
to the charge without repelling it; and he had no he-
fitation in declaring that it was a weak and groundlefs
calumny. From the period of the Peace, every atten-
tion had been paid by his Majetly's Minitlers to keep
np the molt refpedable force that could bedeviled for
the fafety and defence of the Empire, and for that
purpofe not a Engle Company of the rlialar forces
had bean difbanded. The fpeech of the Right Hon.
Gentleman had accufed his Majefty's Minifters of
Bombe: 41g and ficeping, but he thought he had no
occalion to go farther than to the votes of Parliament,
and the Journals of the Honk, to repel In folll a
charge. He eonfeffed that he had liftened to the
fpeech of the Right Hon. Gentleman with the greaten
Cuprite, and with feelings alfu which he would not
then name. He difdained, he laid, to make any con•
cealment of our ci.cumftances : the people of this
country loved troth, and from him they thould al-
ways have it ; but he equally difdained to fink or
droop their fpirits, by drawing a picture of their fi-
tuation in colours of exaggeration. He difdained to
alarm them, as the Right Hon. Gentleman withed to
do, with the idea of foon- tieing the enemy in the en-
virons of the Capital. With the hearts of the people
in our favour, he was affured we had the means of
rendering the Country impregnable, and he could
confider the oppofition to this Bill as tending only to
&limy the credit, (pion, and independence of the
Country. He was pofitively confident of our ability
to bane the efforts of all our foes, and he would
never for a moment fubmit to the idea, that we thould
owe our fafety to the forbearance of the Firft Conful,
or even of all Europe combined. He was determined
to take the molt city and evident means to fatisfy
the people of this country, that if they chofe to be
fife, it is in their power to be fo ; and to evince to all
Europe, that if they are determined to attack us,
they will find its prepared at all points to repel their
attack, and to thew the world, that, in a jun cattle
like ours, the people of this country will brave every
danger, and prefer an honourable death, to the al-
tertratore of fubmitting to the arbitrary mandates of
the greaten Tyrant that ever by his deeds defaced
the pages of modern hillory.
Mr. it:meal-owl fisted, that it was his intention to
offer his fentiments very fully upon this fubjed on a
future Rage of the Bill.
Sir Wv.. Cie's, approved of the principle advanced
by the Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer), that the country was quite competent to
its own defence againft any peffible combination of
powers, but (lrongly recommended that no meafure
thould be retorted to, incontinent with the principles
of the Conftitution, or ungrateful to the feelings of
the people.
The Bill was read a firond time and committed as
the Secretary at War (hated, pro forma, and, upon
the Report being received, it was ordered to be taken
into farther confideration on Monday next, and to
be printe.l.—Adjourned.

Mena, June )3.—The Government yenerday
Oiled an order, conferring on Lieutenant-General
%viva the chief command' of the Batavian troops.
In confequence of the fame difpofition, the 54th demi
brigade of the French army has arrived at the Hague,
here to remain in gatrifon. The troops are to be
quartered upon the inhabitants of the town. A
French regiment of chalkiir cavalry is expeacd to
arrive at the fame place within a few days.
The Government has ditrolved the Council of War,
and replaced it by appointing a new Board of Admi
nittration, at the head if which is Mr. PTMAII. lately
, a Member of the G.)vernment i Major-Generals
Tubbs von Ni and /3ott Houma are promoted
to the rank of Lieutenant-Generals, In that with Lieu-
tenant-General, Dusting csau, there are now four Ge•
nerals of this rank in the Battavian army, all under
the command of Lieutenant-General VICTOR._

General D sold. s goes to-morrow from the Hague
to alTume at Deventer the command of the Referve,
cr the Army of England, which will be augmented
, to 25,000 men : atioa French troops have, in the
mean time, gone thither from Helvoetfluys,with 4oco
Betavians. Other corps are expetacd. They write
from Beis-le-Duc that forty battalions are to pars that
pl..ee on their way to join the Army of England, and
that under General bloars IR.
The 54.111 demi-brigade, immediately after entering
the Hague this evening, fei zed the pcR the neareß to
the Palace of the Legiflatire Body. The Dutch
Officer, who before occupied that poll, was difmiffed
with his troop to the main-guard.

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