Star.
London, England, 1803-06-21 00:00:00

'NUMBER 4529:

lICTUALLING-OFFICE, jwr 9, iBe3.
THE COMMIsSIONiiRS for VI .T 11 ALLING
XIS ArAyEsrr, NAVY, d, bereiy:ive Notice'
That on. Friday the Bth of July next, they will be ready to
receive Tends's, in writing (fealed ap) and treat for the fupply-
Ing, on feparats Contradts, of SEA PROVISIONS, RUM, and
FRESH BEEF, to His Majefty's Ships and Yetis at the laands of
GUERNSEY and JERSEY conjointly, for Twelve Months eer-
als, and farther until Slx Months warning Mall be given on either
Gde for the termination of the Paid Contrads. The mode of pay-
Dent to be by Bills bearing intercit ninety days after dates
The CeroAtion Centreat meg eAm at the Secretory's Ofir,
r**ix: t e the .114soefiere at Grergry awl Yrefry
44 el Perim* yak welt theta proper t. wade tendert ribea the fold
kettle**, ere defied tithe astsee, that n• reyerd will it &d to dray Tea-
Pr that *lt al is deduced to the Beers I kfire Ow ••Clad w the fad
Frier(' the Bth of Yo(y and, aor raki, the Perfew who maks& Tesler,
whew Pert o bit Ilhdf, atm& to eitfirrr_lir his when &allege.
rod that fwd Teethes es rattails retrieve:eat Prices epee bete dairies,
end Prim meth ioferior to the reel odor goon ether:, will Ie eoefseitred
we•iseproper to he amine!

IdARLIAMENT.4IIT.PRUCEEDMGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY. JUNE so.

Cowed were heard at coalldieshie letedi,eabibor aan API
eal Tiellabee w Thdlifons, andlie IbtaJefies Amway Gale-
; after whkh their Lordidpe adjourned the farther ecarddara.
co of the Cafe till Thorfday.
Ota the Modem of Lord ELLasioaocon, the Amendments
Lade by the Commons to the Capital (*nee ReguLstine
We taboo Into eonfideration, In the Gouge of which, his Lord.

IN in sorwer to a q.dtlon pat by Lord Snarristz, tatcd that
t DUI In eineltion did not extend to Ireiattd, becaufa Ireland waa
be atedtcd by a leparate Ankoeltocora were thee
ad and weed to by their Lordiblpa.

Lord Petnital recited Copies of certain Boner of McCall
r Scodand, du. which, after a variety of oh( ?Cation- relative to:,
IC general fu*dt, from the Earl of SOPPOLI4 in the coerfe or
aich he flared his opinion that Government Should gin MCC
:adicable &Mance to the project of the Caledonian Can-4. and
=Borate the condition of the lower order of people in Scotland,
ardaalarly the Highlanders, were ordered to lie on the Table.
Lard Poznan fpokc &only in explanation, in conform:cc of
inc points which fell from the Noble Earl.
MIS MAIRSTY9II %IMAGE.
Lard Hosaat role, and fait!, that in confeqtience of

he order of the day, to take into confederation his
dajeßy's moll gracious Meffage of Saturday lak. it
ras his duty to rcqueft their Lordfhip‘' attention Ma
kw oblervations lie had to offer on that fubjea :
aid be was very happy to think, that in woat he
ad to deliver, he fhould not have occafion to tref-
fs at any great length on their Lordthips' time
d patience. Nothing could be more evident. than
at at this momentary crifis it was incumbent on
ore to whom the Government of the Country is
trotted, to de every means to put the fame into as
mpkte a Rate of defence as poffibk. and to lean
thing uocifayed that may ;attribute to the bray
• fecarity of the kingdom. The enemy we had to
• tend with was well known to be extremely naive
d enterprifing ; and it mull be evident that no time
haiever ought to be 101 l in devil lag the molt app.*
ate means of counteraaing his holtile defignc.- 'rbe
ge which had jun been read. (hewed their Lard-
ips that his Majelly's Government thought it necef-
ry to provide a large force hi addition to what
ad been already voted by Parliament hi the way of
regular army, militia, and fupplementary militia.
adverting to the plan which his Majefty'sMinillers
ad thought it neceffary to adopt, he thould do no
ore at preknt than give a mere outline or &etch, in
rder that their Lord-11)4)s might, in the intermediate
me of its being fubmitted to their particular dif
ffion, turn the fame in their minds, and thereby. be
Ailed to form fuch opinions as might be of (creme,
bringing the fame as near to a Rate of excellence
the united wiftiom of the Houle might naturally be
ppofed to do, more than the efforts of a few inJivi
ate could pretend to. Whatever difference of opi
on, however might happen to exilt among their
oidlhips as to the plan itfelf, he was certain that
ere would be the utrnoil unanimity in voting the
ddrefs, which he Mould have the honour to tubmit
their Lordihips. In listing the plan for the ex-
aordinary force that was thus intended to be railed
r the defence of the kingdom, which, as he before
.ferved, was a mere outline, he begged their Lord.
:ps to recollea, that it would be impoffible to carry
y filch Ideafure into without employing Come
tans of a compulfory tendency. He would, there-
re, as concifely as poffibk, give their Lordfhips the
an propofed to be adopted. In the cootie of the
It war, the militia forces of this country, amounted
ti 4,369 men. At the prefent time. the Militia
ready called out would be mono men, includiog
:Wand and Ireland ; and in addition to the regular
rmy, and to this Militia force, it was intended to
ile by the pPefent plea, a body of men amounting
ao.ono in England, and ichocio in Ireland: to be
ofen by ballot, according to the mode of the
1 and the way of officering there men was ire.
tided to be from officers on half pay in his Majelly's
relict, thrice who had been officers of fencible mgt.
•ents, and thole who bad been employed in the Eall
• dia Company's fervice ri—that tbefe men fo re.
aively railed in England and Ireland, were to be
ternately employed, as might be deemed necelfary,
r the defence of each pan of the Gaited Marlon),
d the &ads of the Channels that this levy of men
to cootia of Woes from the age of to 45,
100 are to be liable to lent. according to the rule of
e Militia. This being the outline of the plan, be
d not think it neeefary to trouble their Lordair
ith say thing
_further, than to move an Addrefs see
wer to his Mickel; moll ' Speech, *hie.*
tog headed to the Lord was read by
Lordthip, and was to the fame purport as that
ved in the Commons.
His Royal Higheiefe the Dube of Ctaaanca Said,
at in what he was about to fiats to their Lowdfilifis.
begged it to be onderiteod that it was not his ta-
ndem to oppofe the Addrefs. nor to throw any els.
ids or Impediment in the way of his Diteitty's
Mi-
Ras.Ds Me proffieution of any piss thezczlit
a die
.cellary m adops fee the defence and ,
agdoin but. as be could um airprove of at est-
e whisk had bees fubmitted to their Lordlips by
Noble Searstary of Seats, be tbeeglit it his dety

TUESDAY,

to. requeft their Lordfhips' attention to the reafons
which induced him to differ on that head from his
Majefty's Mioitters. His Royal Highnefs then took
a retrofpea of the various periods at which this coun-
try had been threatened with invafion, from the time
of Henry VIII. to the prefent moment, and of the
very large force which this country had been eaa
bled at different periods to raife. He tnentioned, that
in the reign of teen Elizabeth, it was an hillerical
faa, that could not be doubted of, that a force of up
wards of 589,000 men could have been brought into
the field, had it been neceffary ; that at various pe•
nods Since that time, particularly in the time of King
William, when James IL invaded Ireland. and when
the greateft threats were made of an invafion of this
country alfo, by a man who was, perhaps, not to be
compared in all rupees with the prefent Ruler of
France, but who cobid at lea vie with him in ambi•
tion, and in enmity to the glory and profperity of
Great Britain (Louis XIV.) the reined efforts had
been made, and with the happielt effeas. Confider-
jag. therefore, the prtfent fituatiou of this kingdom,
which had enereafed of late years fo mach in parila-
'ion. as VA as Scotland and Ireland. he by no
means dreaded the confequences of any invafion. if
we bad a proper force, and that force p operly di-
reeked. He profered himfelf to be a very warm a.t
mirer of the militia &Ilan, and paid many cothpli-
ments to the Noble Marquis (Townfh:rid) who, he
laid, was the father of it. He, notwithitaibding. could
not approve of the prefent plan of railing a force to
defend the kingdom, became it went upon a fyfteni,
merely defenfive, which wa,, what he thought by no
Imeans the belt. As, however. he could not approve
of this plan, he thought it necefrary that he fhould
mention what, in his opinion, would be more effi-
cient; and, therefore. were he to advice his Majefty
on that fubjea. he would fay, that a force of 40,000
men, intlead of so,ssoo, fhould be railed, not by bal-
lot, but by the old mode of, what he called the King's
bounty; and that the Cervices of thefe men, inflead
of iseing'confined to the reciprocal defence of Eng-
land and Ireland. Geerofey and Jerfey, which he
fuppofed meant the Iflands of the Channel, fhould be
extended to carry on offenfive operations in Alia, in
Africa, in America, or in Europe ; and that the
mere defence of the kingdom Should be left to the
militia and the regular army. With regard to the
threats of Bonaparte on the Cubjea of invafion, he
dreAed them not. If he were to land in this emus.
try, he fhould not at all fear to face him, whom he
emtfidered to be the Corfteap Harlequin of mlrallitt
but who. be had no doubt, would be made to repent
feverely of his attempt, if he mould have the auda-
city to make it, and Ibould have the good fortune to
cfcape the vigilance and staivity of our Beets. He
repeated. that in having, thes vvcs hls opinion dif-
ferent from the plan motored by the Noble Secretary
of Seats. be had no intention of throwing the lean
impediment in the way of his Idajelly's Government;
but he thank he could Mk eoufillendy with his
duty to his King and country. withhold his fend-
meats, or give a talent vote on matter of fo much
importance. He concluded by Saying, that he fhould
give his concurrence to the Addrefs.
Earl Gaosysuoit Spoke very portly, in favour of
the plan. of which the Noble Secretary of State had
given the outline, and thought Government had aced
very wifely in recurring to a mode of defence, fo con-
hitutional and confonant to that of the Militia.

The Earl °Mateo Aaron fpolie very pointedly avian
the plan. which, he laid, was neither more nor lefs
than a fraudulent attempt to lay a tax upon certain
claire' of the community, and fubjea them to pay a
very heavy (um out of their own private piaci. in
order to lave the public pork. By this mode of bal-
lo ting, every defcription of perfons was liable to be
e flied out, Wit fell to his lot: and if his Aviation in
bfe was loch that he could not go hisofilf, he mull
find a fubititute, at the expellee of what i not of
thr:e or four guineas, as ,iras the cafe floes years ago,
but of fifteen, fifteen, twenty guineas, or more. A
nobleman or commoner of the &A femme, would be
taxed no more by being balloned. that one of the
lowed order, which (hewed that the plan was alto-
=unequal and unjuft i for he kppofed their
'pa could not think that in cafes ',here a man
was Lot able to paying aibbiliiinuts %km he mull at
aU events go in perafts toast uttplimlin of his bufi-
nets and his family ; if they ad to, be was.afraid
they would find in the hour of
_y and drallim's
lit
fuch difficulties as they wage allk to get 00.1*
—He fhould, thereforeogive the- his derided or
polition.
The Earl of Sumo' fold, be mold hive "ROM
that he could have heard hews 1114811•• MI6 of
making out plans of the different parts of the °mew
try according to the Wiens of the Roams That
great and warlike people never foot out a (=so
dillant provinces, without putting him is
of a plan of the whole Country, with patticabw tis•
fignations of all the (Iron' places and defiles weigh
it contained. His Lordibip (poke pith:daft ordlV
necefiky of having a very bong sad ARUM and
fituated in as central a part of tbs iromporrirghri
fible, with carriages emits-seed few of
conveying them areas the Comery whit as each
Itif=as pebble. For what filmiest ear hissiag
force in the North, when we are seasehed in
the South i or in the Eaft when we are &washed is the
Wei: whereas ea army of :woo =las eakhod as
be rearmaseaded. waskl be ready to tars at any part
of the Kingdoms la is scarfs of a few hears. As a
mainery_auss, be would alto &riot* reesseitessai it
to his liajelty's Unlike% to have an army ofreferve,
the solassaael of which amid be gives to ewe at the
moil able Owserak is the Elagiont. He could nun-
cios one every way worthy of that high and impor-
tant trolls my. be woad go to far as aanally to
imation bins his Lordiliip then named Lord (hey.
Thom was alto another Noble Earl whom he had in
his ec (looking towards Lord Moira, who fat near
hint wheat° ought to be eutruiled with a command,
and thought that the Noble Lord who bid proved.
biaskit in able a General, sad who had pined