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Tre.rrilt•,the tatorefaithtnlftrtice theywitt ••renaer you,
sal that arms can he not only put into their hands
with filety, hit with u.e in the vay of preventing
tumult, of 34.Eiting the police, and of reltrainhl de-
predation. I own t din& it a ronft defirahle thing
to promote this ipecies of civil &fence even in time
of peace, atat the military may not be related to on
e-ery oceafion. But in time of war what weld(' he
the ineftiniabte valise of Each a force ? Suppole the
snemy landed in great nod commanding number:—
Let us tuppofe what however we do not believe will
hapocn—that the e•ent of a battle fhotild be dil&
trolls in the Eoglitll army. With every poiEble rt
fpe6t for the bravery of our troops, the limpolition
ought to he imagined, and the calamity guarded
spina. in that cafe, what would be the conk-
quence if yon had an armed peafantry That the
enemy would reap no advantage beyvrad the actual
field of battle. They would even after their viaory
remain in a Rate of pofitive impotence. They could
Ma afterwards fcour the country—they could nut
fend to any town, village, nr even to any farm for a
eagle load of hay. without a detachment and an
akort—they mull be broken into a thoufand pats to
provide themfelves with food. and he enfeebled by
their divifion; or -ritherwiCe they mat be confined to
the identical fpot of their glory, while out ownbeaten
army would have time to recover and to reinforce
• Its ranks. I !Fate it fairly, becaufe we muff view both
fides of a queflion. The greatell courage, engaged
• in the ben cattle, does not always command fuccefs ;
hot let us view the other fide. Suppole what is
much more likely to hapr..n, that an army of freemen
lighting for the fecority of all that was dear to them
.lhould beat the invaders. What would be the con-
fequence of a tingle viftorynto them ? The annihila•
lion of the enemy I It would not be as it is between
Mactemling armies, in a martial tetritory where the
thisabitants were Quiet fpeftators of the battle ; but
. bent a vanquilhed enemy could find no filcher; no
fufpenfion ; no breathing time ; no recovery. No cal. I
• lying point could he found in a country where every
• man was armed, and where every hedge was an in-,
trenchment. I recommend this fpecies of defence
- the more carnality, becaufe it will be the means of
=tweeting all the errors into which we have fallen,
'and I mull take blame to myfelf. in common with
.others, for having Coffered an affertion to (land as
part of the preamble to the Defence Bill, which is
'utterly untenable in cooßitutional law. It certainly
is impollible for the Members of that Houk to watch
• ever every word and fentence of every Bill that is
brought in. And therefore the particular authors
,of each Bill are looked to as more peculiarly refpon•
.fible fen glaring errors. I believe that 99 ont of too
nikEtspati without being critically and carefully exa-
mined as they ought to be, by the Members of the
Hook, continent with their thief and rigid duty.—
But it is in a particular way the duty of Miniliers,
that no Bill shall be foffered to alien any falfe or
-dangerous doetine, in the perfuafion that it may
pats unobferved in the hurry of legiflation. In July
58,3. the alarm of invafion was fo imminent, accor-
ding to Minillers, that the Defence Bill mull be pal-
fed hy acclamation—and the zeal of the country being
proofed to meet the invafion, which was to take place
'is. Auguß ; no time was to be 101 l in weighing and
judging of the Bill. Accordingly I find we over-
looked a moll krious declaration in the preamble of
the Bill, and which certainly if I had fern, I fhould
have exerted the utmoll efforts of my mind to have
corm/led, namely. " that the King has a right to
command all his liege fubjeas to take up arms,'
&e. a doftrine which, to be admitted as true, ought
to have been qualified and defined. It may be Paid
that his Majefiy has the right to do juftice ; but he
is to do juftice according to law. And fo is the
prerogative of calling forth his people in arms. It
mug undoubtedly be laid of any community, that
they muff pads the means of preferring themfclves,
and that, on the principle of the fear papal firma
ma
the power of calling forth the phyfical firength
of the community mull refide in it ; and that the
King, as the head, reprefents the community, and
is the organ of its will. But this fpeeies of reafon-
ing would jollity the moll arbitrary affections; and
all fuch reafoning the fpirit of our conflitotion ut-
terly reprobates. The rights which our Sovereign
poffeffes are defined as well aslimited. And this has
been moll fenfibly as well as ably Rated by a great
Judge, who, freaking of this fort of abilraa right,
made tale of there words—" For I freely declare, that
" ancient precedents, unlefs fupported by modern
o ufage, in cafes of prerogative, have little weight
ss with me." N•ohitig can be more true than thefe
words at the learned Mr. Jtirtice Fofler; and nothing
can be more applicable to this drange afTertinti in the
preamble of this A. No loch right can be claim•
ed by the King. No fuels right, however it may
have been part orate undefined prerogative in ancient
times, can be exercised after the words of the Ilatute
in the zgth of Edward 111. a Ratute made in an
epoch which I re'pet:. becaufe the flatutes of that
peitod wete nt:.rked his their wifdom, and by the
principles of found leittlati,n. In a flatute of that
year i 7 is ex p:efly ueclared, " no perfon 16.11 be
liable to (erre but Inch as ate bound by their tennres."
It', indeed, axle were loch a pi cirgative it would be
iu.vraa;cable. The ‘,.nflittithat Lad %vilely planted an
int-parahlz eh:A over the Awe, and, thank Goo.
not ,i•t the aoti,•iit nalelined prey, v rives eau be
eseicited araintt the liberties of the people. To what
an event, aid to what complete overtlimw of every
rhii.g for which our Nocella% have fuccefsfully con•
tended sinned this tight ;,o? Motley has been, p::rhap%
bv trained m..tap:ior.,:alled the fn.csesnt war. If his
NT.,.:a.1%. had ,%e. right of commanding the military kr-
viceot his tul.itcl•,he mutt ;silo be tuppoied to have the
right iii maint.iinin.zilicm:andt..tlic powei u. the pot fe
ht raison .rut i t tiie ban hot the Rcprefertatives
I ILL: thit only to fht.v Low itopro-
i:,:e it i. to introduce inch .111 es.

late, anB theti `to any ?art of the coaa, *Ste.'
This Aft, thet-ercrre, without any or qualitica:
tion of rank, age, or Ration, empowers the King to
compel any indivl.dual, however ant for military
lcrvice, to terve in the ranks eiatlly on the tooting
of vilified coltFers, to be fabjea to all thc feveritizs
of military duty and of martial law. If this really
be the prerogative of his Maj-fly, it is one which can-
not be contemplated withoot an:tiety. Not to fopprfe
the exiflence of great and violent abuce, it is fufficient
to know that Arch power is liable to abufe ; and no
man with the fentiments of freedom and thc confi•
dance of independence can feel pet feetly eary to think
that re a law fo unmitigated and fo unqualified he
may be fubjeft• Is it potliblc to reflect on fuch a
power without feeing bow it may be abufed and per-
verted ? It 'may be an extreme cafe, indeed, to (late
that its fireeping-proVifions give authority to the
King to take the Prince of Wales, place him under
the command of his footman, and march him in that
inferior capacity tgaintt the enemy. I know that
loch a.cafe is impotlible, but it illuflrates the bound-
left authority which the Att rotate's, and which in
rnOny inflancei it is quite eafy t., c..nceive might be
eieretted. Might not a tiadefrnan or•a farmer be
hurried away firm his farailv anJ occtipmi..nh and
placed under the command of a corp"tal
their own fervants? Perfilis of every lima :11,y

be pitched upon by malice or by teveng., a •
perform military fervice for which the. AI . I
tee that fuch a fcheme of things does • ..al to
;shore, and the monfirous abufe and ii with
which the executionnf it would ne arrende..,miiithave
prevented the attempt to carry it into eclat at all I
do not underaand exadly the mode in a hich theft pro-
vifions are to be reduced to pradice. T the quota of
men to he furnithed by a parifh, was to be herd by bal-
lot, the inconvenience might frequently he very great,
even where a fence of abille did nr.t aggravate the cafe.
The ballot might, without any of rank,
age, or circumaances, compel any man to ferve in
perfon. In truth a principle .nore inconfiflent with
that found and rational equality which all laws and
all human inflitutions ought to aim at in the impo6
lion of burdens, never was devifed. In pradice it
mull be produdive of extreme inequality, hardfltip,
and grievance. From a true equality the principles
of fubordination flow, but in the operation of fuck
meafures as this, all dittindions are annihilated, and
every thing is levelled under the difcretion of the
Crown. Indeed Minillers themlelves on come occa.
lions have acknowledged enough to (hew that they
were themfelves convinced that the General Defence
Ad could not be carried into pradice. It was laid
by one of them, that the Defence Aft would " have
given way" ; and in it mull, for fuch extravagant'
powers could not have been exercifed without an
ahole that would have proved fatal to the meafure.
But Rill Mini tiers contended it had been of ufe, as it
backed the Volunteer fyllem. What ! was it then
thought necctrary to goad the people of this country
forward in the defence of their hooks, their property,
and their liberties, by the terror of thefe fevere pro.
villons ? I am certain that the fpirit of the nation re-
quired no Inch fpur. Why fuch bugbears then ? Why
thus compel the volunteers on, like a front rank by
the bayonet of that behind it ? But. is truth what was
this bugbear—Minifters admit that this ad might
have given way ? What was the value of this threat,
this flimulus of the General Defence Aa which had
its ufe? At any rate, if the people wanted a fpur, as
they do no!, would you employ a menace, which itt
fad, had in it nothing that could really alarm. At
lead you ought not to threaten what you cannot en-
force. I remember an anecdote of one of your prede-
ceffors, Sir, who is allowed to have maintained the
dignity andauthority of the Chair, in arnannerfuperior
to all thole whowent before him, however he may have
yielded to thole who have come after him. It was a
cuaom with that perfon (Mr. Speaker Onflow), when
any Member was guilty of any irreularity, to cry
" take care, Sir, or I will name you.' And nn one
oceafion, a Member ventured to whifper the Speaker,
"And what would be the confequence if you did name
me r' The Speaker replied, " GOD only hnows."—
Now in the fame manner Miniaers have thought it
convenient to keep up the terror of the General De.
fence Aft. in order to Itimulate the Volunteers ; yet
they are featfible, that the menace would fail them,
and if they were to be alkcd, what would be the
confequence of their threat ? their anfwer would be,
Gun only knows ;" for nn man could think of put-
ting in pralice a meafure fo pregnant with opprcliion
and iiijullice. In the Volunteer Bill, which was
lately fo much the fubjed of dircuflion in the Houfe,
it was argued to be unjust that a farmer fhould,
againa his will, be dept'ved of the taboor of his fer-
vant ; arid this pt nvifion, I understand, has been al-
teted in the other Houle. But indeed it was of tittle
conlequence to talk of the hardlhip of the farmer be-
ing deprived of his fervant, if he himiell was liable
to be taken and fent to ferve in the army or militia,
in Cornwall or Northumberland, or any other place
the moll remote from his abode. But, in truth, the
very atrocity of the fad made it impoilible to put it
in caccutir.n ; fo that, in reality, it was as little cal
crriated to be Willa, as it was altogether linnet cflary
as a annulus to the zeal and to the patriotilm of the
country. Has ing teen, therefore, that the GcneralDe-
fence All was neither neceffary in irrror.-m, and could
be of :1/, a .Jil as a bugbear, what rtraftical good was
t c.dcul.octl to afford in flrengthenrog our means of
r,lnahrie, ? I have repeatedly !fated in 'hit
I lonic, that I conceived it defirable that, in addition
to our other means of defence, we fhould have an
armed peafanary. Miniders themfelves gn fo far as
to fay, that an armed peafantry may be of life to back
the Volunteers, as the latter will be of fervice to back
the regular army. They have never, however, pro-
voted any rational praOical means by which this
adsantage can be obtained. Let us, therefore, gu in-
to the Committce, arid d:fettb. the fubjed. Let us
there try it we cannot des ife lime mode of arengtlien.

ahrnave:l,rca,:njd, jrnecpnrop.44efredth
their we may com
ic)) their errors) remove their eon-
L'rritererilitubrill iceldreuftetht-a---1
tradielions, and encreafe their effeit. I have ale:24
hinted the general, importance of calling f.,1:11 the
'exetti,ais an armed peafantry, and in this, even
they w:,o think mute highly of the volunteers tvill
petit:illy concur, because the armed peafantry is not
intended to fuperfede the volunteers. As to a de•
-tailed plan on this head, I do not propole to trouble
the Houle with any at prefent. Neither am I pre-
pared tc: lay how far this fervicc fhould he voluntary
or compulfiny. That the voluntary zeal of the
country would fimply every thing that could be de-
fired I am perfaliy cons inced. At the fame time,
if it Ihould be thought necelitry to make the fervice
in Come degree compulfory, I will not fay that it
might not •roper to make firme provition for it.
Ne; etthclefs, the means of calling forth that aid
mull be freed from that injtdlice and inequality to
which the General Defence Ail would now be liable.'
—How likewife is this force to be armed ? Aad if
mulkets cannot be furnillicd to all, Purely thole who
are molt inclined to delpife the pike, mull admit that
the pike is a much better weapon than fpades or
pitch links, with which alone the peafantry are now
aimed, even were they fo arrayed and organifed as
to he capable of being employed with effea. There,
however, and many other queltions which are natu-
rally conneited with the futnea, and which will no
doubt be more particularly inilded upon this even-
ing, will be proper for the confideration of the Corn.
mitre, which it is the purpofe of my motion to in-
flitute. I (hall therefore conclude with moving,
that a Committee be appointed to take into confider.
ation the ftate of the public defence."
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
" Sir, I am induced to offer myfelf to your n Ake at
this moment, rather than at a more advanced period
of the debate, for the purpofe of combating the argu-
ments which the Hon. Gentleman has urged at con-
fiderable length, in fupport of one of the molt ex-
traordinary motions, that, within my parliamentary
experience, has ever been fubmitted to the confide-
ration of this Houfe. I have another inducement
alfo, arifing from tOme incidental circumaances in
the fpeech you have juft heard, for trefpaffing, at
this early hour, upon the attention of Gentlemen.
The .Honourable Gentleman has alluded to the zeal
and unanimity which at prefent (even he is candid
enough to confers) pervades all ranks and clailes of
fociety ; but hia approbation is qualified by the ob.
(creation, that it is a zeal and unanimity folely to
be attributed to the fear of invalion, inferring there-
by, that his Majefty's Minitlers, neither by their
mcafures nor their conduit, have conduced either to
excite or maintain it. The Hon. Gentleman has
adverted to fume dircullions which took place at the
commencement of the war; but it mull be in the re-
colleition of Gentlemen, that the obfervations which
fell from-him on one of thole occafions, drew fords
the reprehenlion of the Houfe—on another queftion,
I had the benefit of that Hon. Gentleman's fupport.
When a motion was made, the tendency of which
was to condemn me and my colleagues for engaging
in the war, that lion. Gentleman refufed to fupport it.
By his vote on that queltion, he did, in the fullell and
moll unqaalified manner, abfolve and acquit us en-
tirely from the guilt of having commenced that war.
But, Sir, we do not depend for our jollification on the
accidental approbation of that Hon. Gentleman, great
as the effect of his approbation might be. We build
it on much more folio and extended grounds, the al-
molt unanimous vete of this Houfe, by which it has
been fanitioned and confirmed. I cone now to the
Honourable Gentleman's prefent motion, certainly
one of the molt extraordinary that has been ever
brought before this Houle ; for which there is no
precedent in the parliamentary hillory of this coun-
try; to which there is nothing analogous in the par-
liamentary tikes of this country; and which I am
well jullified in deferibing as a nnealtire molt uncom-
mon and extraordinary, when coupled with the
itrange and fingular matter that the Hon. Gentle.
man has contrived to mix with it. The objea of his
motion is to appoint a Committee, to revile the Ails
that have been paired for the defence of the country,
and to confider of and pros ide ad.:citrate means for the
proteition of it in future. Sir, there is no man in
this Houle who more highly values the privileges of
Parliament than I do, there is no man in the Houle
who will he more ready to :alert and maintain them.
I know that by the conllitution it is invelled, and it
is fitting it fhould be, with very great and exterdive
powers, and I will not deny its ti, ht to inllitate a
Committee for the pm-poles that are prorofed. Brit,
Sir, while I admit the power of the !Joule to do this,
I think I may lately anply to the dircretian of Gm
Carmen, that they will not, by fuppor:ing the mo-
tion, countenance the ellahlilhment of a Committee,
which, in its proceedings and refult :null terminate
and become, to all intents and purpores, a Commit-
tee of a purely military nature. Such a Committee
would be rather a novel and uncommon mode of
manifefting either the authority or the prudence of
this Hem*, and one to which, I am perluaded, it
will not eafily recur, except upon much flrnnger
grounds than tisc lion. Gentleman has brought for.
ward in fupport of his motion of this night. There
is fomenting peculiar alio in the matter of the I urn.
Gentleman's motion. For realons peculiar to him.
filf, no doubt, but which the Houle will have lit-
tle difficulty in Fuelling at, he has totally omitted
all mention or .11tition whatever to the navy, and
has wholly excluded from hia conlideration the I nor
hundred thonfaral compoling fo eliesi-
nal a part of our mtaas of defence. Bust this pects•
harity us not to Ise exclufively appropriated to the
purport of his motion, or the vat ions details that it
Is intend, d to embrace. He has fo word;:d it, as to
take in all deferiptions of pen', as in thi. Houle,
with all their 11-ating and coot' adiaory opia.ons ;
one M:111 ol*fling to ton great ate. • one

The Finn. Gentleman, as I Rated before, hi, beer.
ph. afo.l to declare, that the prefent unanimity mote
eittirody front the attual danger of the country.
lzaotv not lay what dexterity of argument the Hen.
Gentlentan will be able to reconcile thole two ob•
vations, that, as he rays, there is no clang:o of
invallun, and ag,in, that our unanimity is entio..y
owing to it. Nor ant I very folicitous on t at head,
whin 1 recollea, that during the laR war, tA,,t
Honourable Gentleman continually airo•rted, that it
was the injaniee of that war whiell prevented
us from being unanimous then. Dri.ing that war, I
believe it cannot be imputed to that Honourable
Gentleman, that he ever earn: forward with any
propels:ion to avert ally danger with which the
country might have been menaced, Nor during
the :lanai hoflility, has he ever favoured
Majefty's Mininers with any projea or fuggeflior
of his, or given them in any way whatever the ad
vantage of his great talents. Indeed the Hon. Gen.
tlernin has laid, that if Milliners had frankly corn- •
municated to him that they were really apprehenlive
of danger, he would have concurred in any augmen-
tation to the public force they might have thought
neceiraty for the public defence. But, Sit, was it
neceffary that this fhould have been made the fubje
of particular and fpecific communication to him, or
to any thinking mac in this country ? Is it poflibia
that Hon. Gentleman would have Phut his eyes, and
doled up his enlightened mind againft the aaive, un-
ceafing, and immoderate ambition of France, (lima-
lated and invited to the exertion of that ambition,
and poffeffing the means of gratifying it, in the poi.
fznion of fo many hundred leagues of lea coal, ex-
tending almoft from the Texel to the Adriatic? In the
courfe of the Hon. Gentleman's fpeech, he has fre-
quently adverted, but with a partiality which I have
reafon to complain of, to the declarations of Minifiem
refpeaing the probable duration of the Peace of
Amiens. Sir, we never did pledge ourfelves for the
continuance of that peace. On the contrary, we
always thought, and omitted no opportunity of de-
claring fo, that the bell fecurity for the continu-
ance of peace was to imprea France. and not only
France, but all Europe, with a conviaion that oar
firength, our fpirit, and our means, were whole and
inexhaufted ; and that although we were willing to
adhere to the peace we had made, we were ready
for war, whenever infult or aggreffion, on the part
of any power (herald compel us to it. It was. Sir,
from thefe motives, that our peace eflarblifhment
fo greatly exceeded the peace efiablilhment of
1792, an augmentation which brought down on ns
the confure of the Hon. Gentleman. I come now
to the Hon. Gentleman's motion, narrowed and
reflriaed to a degree, inconfittent with his Wind
candour, and unworthy of his great mind. He has
thread his obfervations principally to the Regular
and Militia force, omitting the Navy ard Volun-
teers, and has recommended, with his accullnmed
zeal and perfeverance, the adoption of his favourite
project of adding an armed peafantry. He has
chiefly relied upon two points for the appointment
of this Committee, from which he affeas to fuppofe,
that In many advantages may bc derived : one is,
that the pernicious principle of recruiting by com-
petition may be abolifbed in it, and next, that
the extent of fervice may be altered from life to a
term of years. I unit I (hall be able to prove,
to the fati_faaion of th: Houle, that it would not
be juaified, that it would not be prudent nor adrift-
able in it, to proceed to the formation of fuch.a
Committee, upon fuch (light and infufficient reafons
as have been mentioned. My Noble Friend who
fits near me, (Lord Catilereagh), has Jived, from
authentic documents, that although the recruiting for
general fu vice was not fo great at prefent, as it
was on former occauions, yet that it was as great as
circumnances gave usa sight t r cape& When Gen-
tlemen, Sir, are informed, that the perfons who are
entrulled with his Majefty's Government, were com-
pelled to collet% and take out of your population no
left than zoo,ooo men for the purl:tore of recruiting
your army and your navy, and that within the (pace
of little more than twelve months they will ceare to
exprefs any furptize that the recruiting fervice fhould
have experienced a momentary celfat ion ; when I de-
clare to this houle, on the part of that Government.
that there is at prefent a regular force in this country
and in Ireland, compufed of troops of the Line and
Militia, of no h-fs than 184,0c0, I wilt it will be ac-
knowledged that his Majelty's Nlinifiers have not bion
waifs or improvident in making adeqttate piepara-
ticns for the defence of the country. When gentle-
men relic& upon the difficulties we had to encounter.
that we had the islilitta to raife, that we had the
As my of the Line to rccr nit, that see had the Army
of Referve to eflablifh, that we had the Defence Atl
to prepare, arid that we have a regular army, Line
and Militia, of ,54,000, that we have acro,ooo Vo-
lunteers, that we have zo,ooo Sca Fencibles,indepcn-
dent of troops in Ober points, in r,art icons and in ei4o-
- Making in the whole a rorce little lhor t ot eight hun-
t!, intiurnbet by acie,oco t han
r. it eon-thin. of the enemy can bring for ward.
I fay. Sir, when Ineh difficulties and Inch fucecfres
ate wei:ibod aphid each other, I train the Houk
and the conort y Wi!l admit that we arc not that in-
capable and inc, mpctent defeription of men the
H.nn. Mover of ti•C 4,!it,llinn before you cndeaveurs
to rept dent us. Ti.i , Sir, could he proved by 41,-
cunit.:ll the mcfl arnhcatic and iriclragable; and
titoo,y b, fur many te.ifans which will be obvious to
Gentlemen, 1 feel lhr.'n objo:lion to the produc
tin rit tech inl••trratko, yet I will content to give
thole Gentlemen, nl.O mat, the want of it a ground
ut erntplaint and accrtf.ri.tn againd fllirillers. ar
account of the nalitar y arid t..idAt f.v,c .11 (tic rosin
try as it :tonally is, let riprin the el ,n7,.fi,
ti. n :!:.it tliry ton at!: fur the d.du nof it
I Ant pee to ajio!, Sit, 01.0 if (thil an account were
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l:.il, how negligent It's let it mg and confirming whatever is well conceived in the part a our force, another lamenting any attempt the Lit argument the Honr•orable Gentleman has 1,0, wr
• , And it is nr yin the preamble of tin An indent fyliem of defence, by that which all tonfidLe at its diminutinn flume terenimending a neater 1.17,,:td in ityport of his nnau•n. The Holiontahle
o y at e d oTc:rats th•or cpc;,cJ ti• nle• nfefltl and impnttant, thongli in different &glees. and form a letter addition to the re7,uhir army, and Geidletnan has Fora :it culdiderable le1:4111 into fi
•ir the • il,11:• if the En oral Let us there J icnfe how the prafanriy are to be cal- others,who differ as to that particular Ipecies of na- the confiJcration of that piinciple cipseffed in She it
11:ietire As, tun? pret•-gative whit?. is al- led mit, aimed, and arras Let us &feta', how, val force we Omni,' employ ; feme etc:ling a large Defence AP, that it is Majclty's prerogative I:
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felted to he :tau ant in his !Staidly. It Elates that: in cafe of emergency, they are to be eniplt.yed ; how number of (mall sedel., and I me a WWI number to call upon the fervices <f all ranks of his filbjeas ft
~, or tie appearance of th, emniy tar. it fire alms cannot be funnel, pikes may not of large a-dills ; all, all Ode, the lion. Gentleman capable of bearing arms in cafe of invafion• Silo ID
13 true.: the r atl, :t Shall be lawful fry Ma- Ivs lel adva.., .ite he pin into their hands; and wlisiher has found mean; gratify, in their individual ca- ciiituding that bill, that principle was frequently p
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are 'ruler it may b•.: nerdriry tu place them tinder niaitial I prices and opinions, and to include them all within alluded to in debate, but never cppofed ; for it was If
11.- that it (hall ht or by 'shit o..cr may be rendered fubjett to the commds of this (weeping and general mutiCo. I admitted, generally admi:ted, that his Maids, t.
, . :1` 6311 I v'k', !•.! • "ride are fit r i•tfts for difcudon in the come rr'.w to another part of the Hon. Gentleman's tared fuels api ciugative in cafe of invasion, and the n
• l.. m Ti. : • ; t . I , indeed, can they he Alt:lime:it, in *li.ch he has laud this he did not ot- only oiretti,,n was, I well remember, whether he do fc
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