Star.
London, England, 1803-06-30 00:00:00

LINT Ili RESISTS.

The SCCIRTART at WAR Rated to the Houk, that
as he bad melon to knows that kveral Gentlemen had
f rther objeaions to date to the Bill for railing the
inpplementary force, he fhould be leave to move,
Lb
. t that Bill be now taken into further confiders-
int y recommitting it to a Committee of the whole
• ; and that when the Houle had refumed, he
itould take the liberty of moving that the Report be
received. and the Bill be read a third time to•mor
in v. The Houk accordingly went into a Commit.
see, and the Secretary at War proceeded to dare to
idtat Committee tome additional amendments which
Int had thought prudent to propofe, in order the more
*slily to obviate tome of thofe °Nations which could
hs dated againd the wording of the Bill. He men-
tioned, that in regard to Volunteer Corp., it was in
contemplation only to a:cepa of the fervices of thole
fr.o were railed, and continued under the Aft of lad
of parliament; and that in order to entidc
Corr to exemption from the prefent Bill, it mull
he Acorn, that they had been embodied previous to
Ilk sad day of June indent. excepting, however, from
Cosh provifion, the Artillery Company of London.
Mr. C. Weans laid, that he flouts not pretend to
fecide with regard to the propriety, or impropriety of
allowing inch exemption to extend to Volunteer
Corps in general; yet he thought it WAt but fair, that
too Corps of Volunteers, who may have both offered
their fervices upon the very fame day, fo long ago as'
Ow month of May left. fhould be put upon an equal 1,
Footing, thoughithe Cervices of one Corps may have
*en accepted, and thole of the other rejefled by Go-
vernment ; he fhould therefore propofe, as a further '
spendment to that claufe in the Bull which related
to Volunteers, that the word " ?Aral" Mould be
rubflitnted in place of the word •• aropred."
The Cbtalkb Luta of the Even Kula thought, that
Do perfon Ihould be exempted frOm the Ballot abort
llh take place by the prefent Bill, except thole who
time aftitally enrolled, and the fervice of the pani-
c-liar corps accepted previous to the 22d day of June.
Toe number of Volunteer Corps whole kr vices were
Offered to Government. was fo conliderable, that if
all of them had been accepted it would have been '
found to drake feverely agarnd Inch a IWCAllate as the
v•-efent ; and the extent of the ice vice which was 4.
f. .1 by them, was totally inadequate to the purpofes '
of the preteiit Bell. He was far, however, from
undervaluing any of thole offers of fervice which
had been made to Government by minty refpatable
ditties of individuals, unite under the 111111 C of Vo•

luntett Corps but he thought it wis Moe Vendee!,
to abliain from accepting of the ferviees of all of
thbfe Corps, until the pleafure of Parliament was
known. It would be improper, and very unjufl to
hold out any inducement to itseDviduals to enter into
Volunteer Corps, for the mere purple& of :voiding
the prefent Ballot: and, therefore, he illouglet it notes
proper that the fervice of no perfon fhould-bewe-
cepted, who was not duly enrolled on or before tlnt:l
sad of June. Were it otherwife, he was convinced,
the effed would be, to narrow the operation of the
Bill for this fupplementary force. On the whole,he
hoped that the Committee would fee the propriety of
the claufe as it then Rood. He thought it quite an-
advifable to alter it. _ - -

Dr. LAURINCI thought that the anfwer which had
been Rated to the obfervation of the Right Hon Gen-
tleman was quiie infufficient and unfatisfadory. It
did appear to him, to be fomewhat unfair in raffia.
meet to thew fuch a degree of partiality to tome vo-
lunteer corps, and rejed others, whole offers were
equally acceptable. All of there corps had been equal-
ly invited by Government, fo long ago as the month
of Ma: h laR, to make offers of their Cervices ; and it
would now be reckoned by many of them unjuß in
Government to fay to them, " Your fervices are not
now to be accepted ;" while, at the fame time, Inch an
evident partiality was (hewn, as, in his opinion, even
amounted to a violation of good faith. He thought
Government ought to have given them fuch anfwer at
the very time they made their offers, and not deprive
them thus, of the opportunity of being exempted from
the prefent ballot.
The CIIMICELEOR of the EXCHErd/IR raid, that
though his Majeßy's Mefrage did give encouragement
to volunteer corps to make offers of their Cervices,
yet by that means it was not to be underflood, that
Government had become fettered as to the indifput-
able difcretioa which belongs to the Executive Go-
vernment, to advice the releCtion of thofe corps whole
fervices might be deemed moll expedient to accept at
that conjundure. The Houle, and the country, were,
in a manner, bound to believe, that fuch a feledion
had been made with the utmofi candour, and &idea
impartiality. He could not, therefore, conceive how
the Hon. Member had ken caufe to Hedge a viola-
tion of good faith, in regard to their condo& in thofe
particulars. No fuch exemption was held out to vo-
lunteer& at that time, as an encouragement to them
to make an offer of their Cervices, as no loch meafures
as thofe before the Houle were then at all in contem-
plation.
General GASCOYNE thought it would have been
. better had the exemption not gone fo far, for he felt
himfelf averfe even to grant the exemption to the
extent which was propoled, as it was known by the
public, Come weeks ago, that tome meafures of the
prefent kind were about to be adopted, their having
been Come hints thrown out that every feventh man,
between the age of 18 and 45, was to be called on to
ferve in the Supplementary militia. He was rather
inclined, therefore, to carry the date of exemption
fomewhat further back.; for it was, in his opinion,
rather too recent. He propofed tire IR of June, in-
Read of the ard ; and at any rate he wifhed to affi-
milate the whole volunteer corps in the country, fo
that no fymptoms of partiality could be alledged to
appear on the part of Government.
Mr. Para R sox (aid, he was confident no idea of ex-
emption had been the means of prompting volun-
teers to offer their Cervices to Government ; and that
when they were called upon to extend their Cervices,
according to the exigencies of the Rate, they would
moll willingly do fo. He was convinced, that though
the Gentlemen who competed volunteer corps, could
not be Ryled profeffional foldiers, they might well be
denominated good Engliffimen.
Sir WM. GLAtlf laid, that he had the honour to
command a troop of volunteer cavalry ;—that up.
wards of :9 men had lately offered their Cervices, and
he had accepted of them, antecedent to the date men
tioned in the bill. He (hould think it extremely hard
that they thould not be exempted from the prefent
ballot, fur as far as related to themfelves, they had
done every thing which the Aft requires.
The Si (Arra v at Wee Paid, that the men allud-
ed to by the Hon. Gentleman, certainly fell within
the pre(ent bill.
Mr. /Nee laid, he raw no ground to give an ex.
emptioa to the men alluded to, more than to others;
but, at the fame time, he hoped that thefe perfons
were not aduated by motives which would prompt
them to lay claim to fuch exemption. The very
fame motives which induced them to offer their Cer-
vices as volunteers, would, he alined, make them
extremely defirous to enable his Majeßy to levy this
other force for a more extenftve fervice. If people
went on, one after another, to add to the catalogue
of exemptions, they would be the means of narrow-
ing the more efficient and more Rridly-trained force
about to be railed, which, however, in his opinion,
would by no means fuperfede the neceffity of volun-
teers. The prefent meafures, he thought, were to
be adopted for the purple of forming that corps of
referee, which would love as a point to which the
voluntary exertions of the country might afterwards
rally. He trußed, that on a future occafion, the
volunteering fellem would be carried to the uttermoß
length, and that people would be convinced, that by
delaying their voluntary offers, they only obeyed the
Government of the country, in affifting the execution
of this urgent and neceffitry call for compulfory fer-
vice, which the law exatis. He believed that at one
time the volunteers had proved a great inffrument
towards the falvation of the country, and he was Rill
convinced, that a large proportion of them might be
of great ufc in every cafe of internal danger, and a
lefs proportion in cafes where the degree of internal
danger Is fuperfeded by that of the external. He
fbould hope, that if any exemption fhould be granted
in future, it Arnold be after this great ballot has been
completed, for in the very bell of infrtutions it was,
in his opivion, always proper to guard againff abufes.
He objefted, therefore, to carrying the exemption:
to any greater length than what was already proper(
ed by the Dill.
Mr. Wvsxa explained.
Mr. Fu ear expreffed a with, that tl.ofc who had
attended drill five days dining the kit y:ar fhoald
be exempted. _ _

Sir Wu. Glair ftill thought that thofe who had
done all in their own power, by cooing forward and
offering their fervicer. Sould in all etas where their
Cervices had been aOnally accepted by the Vona
inauding Officer of any corps, previous to the aid
Jut, though not poi:river woad, be ezesapad.--

; He (poke entirely from a fenfe oT duty, asdiiot from
raqi ate fmallea with or defire to narrow or mil
barrel's the prefent meafure, to which be witted the
stmoft foccefs.
• The CNANCILLOR of the Excmattyla raid, that
dote who bad made offers of their Cervices, would
not be held to be bound by fuch offers,but would have
future opportunity given of renewing thofe offers.
The SICRITART at WAR Paid, that in order to
ivoiclasky Anther difcutfion on this point on the pre.
fent rnwaidn, he draught it neceffary to apprize the
Houfe that'll* octant toll* in a Bill particularly
relating to Volunteer and Yeomanry corps, on much
the fame plan'as wat adopted lea war. varying, he
believed, only as to fume particular regulations,
which the difference of circumfLuicest'esuitered *gest
(dry. At prefent he wilhed the aside to %art as it
was, via. " That no perfon atonid be elempted'erbo
had not been duly and actually Enrolled, and ferving
on or before the aid June." An objeftion harms
been made, that it was not ezaßly defined in what'
cafes the volunteers were liable to be called on to go
from their particular diaries, a defultory comma-
tion took place on that head, and at length
The SECRITART at WAR propofed to amend the
claufe, which now only raid, " in cafe of invafion' "
by adding thofe further swords, pr appearance of
invalion t' which amendment was adopted and added
to the claufe.
The SICIIRTART at Wait raid. he had a claufe to
propofe to the following effect That thofe ezill-
ing Regiments which were enlifted for the limited
fervice of Great Britain and the 10ands thpuld not,
of any account, be called on, or even allowed to en.
lilt in Regiments that were for general fervice until
they had actually received a difcharge from tie Co-
lonel of fuel Regiment for limited fervice to which
they belonged." He thought it abfolutely necelary
that the men who were to be railed by ballot for our
home defence and fecurity, thould have every podible
affurance that Government intended ariftly to keep
their faith with them. He could not, in point of form.
introduce the claufe, till the Houfe had now gone
through the Bill ; but when he did fo, he flattered
himfelf, it would meet with the approbation of the
Houfe.

Colonel CRAWFOILD Paid, he was extremely lorry to
hear that any Inch claufe was intended to be intro-
duced. He should feel hinsfelf obliged to objea to
it, as he was convinced it would tend very greatly to
injure the fpeedy filling up of the regiments of the
line, and thofc were certainly the molt efficient force
to be relied on againft fuch an enemy as we had to
contend with.

Mr. SH ea s DA “ expelled hinsfelf to coincide entirely
in opinion with the Right Hon. Secretary at War, on
the fubjea of keeping Maly the faith that Mould be
pledged to the foldiers to be railed for the Army of
Referve. He objefted, however, on ill occasions, to
foldiers being made a deliberative body; for if theyare
they from that moment become a difobedient one.

-Mr. PITT Paid it ought to be dillinftly underfloor!,
that where there are men left in the limited fervice.
and it %V neceffat yto fill up any particolarregiments,
his Majefty fhould have the choice from which he
would take them, whether from the regiments for
general fervice, or from thole railed for particular
fervice, but then the right of volunteering fervice
fhould be left entirely to the free will and choice of
thofe who were willing to go from one fervice to an.
other. He. hoped, however, that his Majeßy's Mini.
Rers would take efpecial care the recruiting fervice
Mould not be flopped or impeded by the ballot; moll
particularly for the Guards and the Cavalry, which
was during the 'aft war a very numerous, aaive, and
gallant body of troops, but which he hoped to fee
increafed to a large extent. He hoped alto, that the
time was not far diltant, when we fbould find that we
had made ourfelves perk** Life at home, and were
alto able to carry our moR ative and energetic
efforts abroad. When that moment came, he had no
doubt but we fbould fpeedily fee what the zeal, fpirit,
bravery, loyalty, and patriotifos of Englifhmen would
produce ; he doubted not but we &mid have volun.
teen in abundance. eagerly and anzioufly preffing
forward to the goal of glory, not only for the pur-
pole of repelling the attacks of a haughty and inva-
ding foe, but in carrying the thunder of the Britilh
arms, and Britifh vengeance, arinfl fuch of the
foreign poffeffions of the enemy, tn every quarter of
the globe, to which the wifdom of the Executive Go.
vernment may think it proper to dire& their energies.
Willaing. as far as it was poffible, in conformity to the
opinion of an Hon. Officer over the way (Colonel
Crawford) to fill up all the regiments of the line with
the utmolt expedition, he thought the moR effeetual
means of doing this would be. that after the men
were trained. his Majeßy Ihnuld have power to
draft from the Army for limited fervice, in order to
fill up the regiments for general fervice ; for infiance,
where there were 750 left ofan old regiment, to keep
them together, and then take the sso wanted to com-
plete it, from the limited fervice.
Colonel Caaw roan expreffed great fatisfation in
having his amnion fupported by fo high and truly
refitedable an authority as that of the Right Hon.
Gentleman.

Mr. Stisaioan expretted a doubt and fcar that the
men, knowing beforehand they would be anted to
volunteer, would impede the ft/vice.
The CitsocasLoa of the Excitsckpla maimed the
Houle, that the recruiting for the Guards and for the
troops of the line, was now going on with more aai•
vity and fuceefs than ever before.
General Taasavors espreffed his eonviuion that
every effort would be neceffary to be ufed. and every
degree of aaiwity to be retorted to on the relent
occalion, for we were now railing an army to as
againfl a mon vigilant, &Rive, implacable enemy,
Who is now ftudying every means,and adopting every
meafure, by which be can mon deeply and feriouny
injure us.
Dr. LaUtilICS thought, that in a cafe of loch
emergency as the prefent, the Government had a
tight' by the Conflitution, to retort to compulfive
meafures in order to raife men, and that preffing for
the land fervico was equally legal as doing fo for the
tea fervice, and that it had been done In Lin war.

Mr. Smiatoss denied this doarine, and infilled,
that it was altogether unconllitutional. He alto de.
nied that any fuch meafure had been retorted to
during the lel war. Nothing further, he faid,had been
done in that way, than compelling parifhes to raife
certain quotas of landfnseq, proportionate to their
extent, for the lea ferrice. He would not at prefent
$o funk/ iota the quebiort. but would be ready to

arduous, and important dilkuffion which had ilraul
occupied the attention of the Houk, be fhould not
trefpafs tedionny or unneceffarily upon their patience,
but mould as fliortly as poffibk call their attention tol
the objets of the motion he intended to have the hal
near of lubmitting to the Committee: for however
important the fubjea of preparation for public de-
fence, and molt important he would allow It was, yct
it mould not fuperfede the neeeffity of attention to the{
internal improvements of the Country; efpecially
thofe improvements which had the ftroagen tendency
to cultivate and preferve the ftrength,--the refources,
and wealth of the Country. Already hattibe Hoofer
voted to his Idajelly's difpofal a fun of mood. for
the purpok of opening roads, and attains bridges in
the Highlands of Scotland. and thereby facilitating
the intercourfe, improving the agTiculture, aiding the
fifheries, and opening inlets for improvement in the
manufaaores, commerce, and wealth of that impor-
tant part of the United gingdont, from which this
Empire derived fo much of its flrength, and from
whence fo many invincible regiments were from time
to time drawn for the defence of the Country. The
meal-ore which he had now to propok was to follow
up the former, and which was not only of the ntmoft
importance to that part of Great Britain, byt to the
ecimmerce of every part of the United Emptre--Ire.
land as well as this Eland. From the third Report
of that Committee upon the Highland Survey, of
which he had the honour to be Cbairtnao, and which
Report was now upon the table. the Committee was
already apprifed that the-project to which he alluded,
was the opening of a navigable canal acrofa the High.
lands of Scotland, from the eallern to the wefiernlea.
The projeB at firft might appear not oily arduous,
but inti.raaicable, but it appeared, upon a mirffite
furvey, that though .the track through which this
Canal was intended to pals was extremely mountain.
ous, yet there was a chain of deep valleys to favour
the operation, and thofe enntaintng, in the line of
go miles (which was to be the extent of the naviga-
tion from feu to tea) 29 miles of lakes, which were o:
unfathomable depth, and capable of navigating the
large; (hips in the navy of England. The remaining
line to be artificially cut was but act' miler, which it
was propofed to make so feet deep. and of a propor-
tionate width, navigable for (hips of war. This wink,
in its operation, would be attended with mach kfs
difficulty, and with infinitely lefs expence in propor-
tion, than the Royal Junaion, and many other Ca-
nals, cut throagh different parts of this country; for
the higheft pcint of land through which this cutwas
propoled to be made, was but too feet above the level
of the tea at high water. The advantages of thie
meafure, when completed, would not only be of in.
calculable benefit to that part of the United kingdom,
but of the utmoll importance to the commerce and
meal operations of the Empire. It would not only
infure. without rifts or uncertainty, the paffage of
the whole Baltic and North Sea trade to the Irint
Channel in feven days, during the rummer months,
which by the prefect dangerous navigation, round
by the Shetland and Orkney Mends, cannot be
eweaed in left than a fortnight or three weeks,
and is the aormy months, in twelve days at far-
then, that conveyance, which, by the old naviga-
tion, can rarely be effdled in kis than three munthh
and this with the moll imminent runs, and freqpently
insmenfe loft, not only of valuable kips and cargoes,
but of the invaluable lives of able Britith feamen
and upon .be mon accurate calculation which could
be made, the whole expence would not exceed the
amount of: the loffes by fhipwreck on the average of
' the lan five years. A psojea fuck as this. which not
only would enable this country to carry on, with
little or no fins, and with fuck certain and extraordi-
nary celerity, a commerce which now amounted to
fair alarm annually, and which would alto fecure
inch important expedition to our naval operations fur
the defence or the Empire, by opening acro(s the
Inand, from Eaft o Well, a ready. fate, and rapid
channel for our naval Squadrons, was a projea of filch
, high national importance, as induced him to rely upon
the prompt concurrence of the Committee in the
' motion he had been inaruaed, as Chairman of a Se-
lea Committee, to make—namely, that a turn not
exceeding soaztool. be granted to his Majelly for the
purpofe of opening the raid navigation by the way of
Fort William and Inverneft. The motion was agreed
to anis. raw. and ordered to be reported to-morrow.

.llmeet
the learned Gentlemin on the point whenerr:
he pleafed.
Dr. Ls ttastics ;Milled that he was right, and pr
felled himfelf ready at any time to argue the poi,
with the Hon. Gentleman.
After tome further converfation. the Honk prc
ceeded with the chutes of the Bill then before then,
The next point upon which difeulfion took place,
was an amendment propofed by the-Hon. Mr.Poosi,
that in the permilLon given lathe foldiers of the Ar.
my of Referee to volunteer for general fervice, the
words " the Artillery and the Uwe. Ihoold be it.
ferted. This produced many fuggelliona from the
Secretary at War, General Tarleton, Mr. Pitt, Mr
Sheridan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and other
Members ; bat it was the fade of the Committee
.the words " general fereicek were fufficiently expl,
cit o convey the idea that the penniffion was for tht
of the Country. whether in artilleri,
cavalry, °cold regiments of infantry, and therefore
Mr. Peels withdrew his motion..
The rermiliviqg eludes of the Bill were gone throug:,
and fume new cats were brought op by the Secret...
ry at War, which wire altupted.
The Chairman then hi the Chair. and, with the
leave of the Hoofer, repotted forthwith ; the amend.
meats were read the ktond time and agreed to, an;
the Bill ordered to be engroffed, and read the third
time to-morrow.
HIGHLANDS OP SCOTLAND.
The order of the day ling read for the Hook to
go into a Committee of Supply, Mr. L H. BROWNS
moved that the third Report of the Committee upon
the Survey of the &cub Highlands &mild be refer.
red to the bid Committee. Ordered, and the Houle
refolved into the Committee.
Mr. I. H. &Lowe a raid, that after the very long