The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-03-14 00:00:00

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llis==.2kaammegzgoluaki:Fx=ohne:
regarded this eisH am. as' etiertily groundles with 'that
which had Imo tenthalte fooladation of tbe Suwon-
sips of litislialsttesCurplMAo2. Attachment to Bri.
tish liberty, sod the Coustitetion, was too strongly
implanted nett in the most busbies( the natives of
this country, to soppohe that foreige allurements
could havit aeg serious elect. Ewsselo the poorest,
" 'gest tattle dyed to olitra his soul esefuren. •
dear the bill that Isfen bins Male UMW."
Be may 6n • liner climate and utentieellant plains:
bet he has left at homesosatedear 'relative, souse bro-
ther, to whom his heart
" Tares with cesselon polo.
And drapes tack rename," Mimi lowing dohs."
If, however, it was wished to drive people out of the
country, so better On& amid be adopted than that
which Ministers had resorted .to in the last Session of
Parliament. TIP esnoliplisb such iss object, it would
only be Necessary to tocimit the Sespansion of the
Habeas Corpus Art, end to exposothem to all the
mochinatioos of Spies and Inforniers. From the
view he had taken of the stasit,of our force, he
thought that a deduction of 13,000 'risk hemede.—
shosid therefore move, that inste4 of the words
" 113,000 awn," in the Bill, " 100,000" be substi-
tuted.
Earl BATHURST maintained that the elnollat Of
force was so antitheft was silrietly oecessary. • As
to what was said by the Noble Earl; that only 60
odd Members of the House of Commons could tie
found to Support the proposed astablisinnent, it war
easily answered by the feet en the other side, that
Mit of 668 Members, only 40 odd Members could
to oppose it. With regard to the details of
llielklibliment9 the force in hilted was actually
iliiisintsheil two thousand since tits last your, and the
litinaining force it wee geoerally agreed mu sassily
-necessary. -With respect to the colonies, the Noble
'Earl had argued shyest' increase of force was not no-
' emery in Canada, because the United States had
• only an army of eight thousand men, but be kept
• set of sight that the United States bad a militia of
• dal houdred thousand men, a part of which was re.
!primly called out to service. The'Noble Berl also
had not touched upon the colonies acquired since
1784, for which. force was necessarily required ; as
to the old colonies, there was no increase of force
since 1786. There remained in the Home Service,

and when the Noble Fiat! tented as if the People
were to be enslaved by the Army, was be aware of
the 1111101111 i of force actually distributed on the home
"ettlico--was he aware of the (area allotted to Guern-
sey sod Jersey ? The forte allotted•to Scotlaud was
2,300 men, and this very !err @anent of men was,
according to rho Noble Lord's notions' to enslave
the whole Scottish People. Wee the Noble Earl
aware of the force required for the Dock-yard ser-
eice....was be aware of the force 000eseary for the
protection of the coast, to penult the intresion of
a free trade ? With respect to the latter, it bad al-
ways hitherto been the system, that each man should
only have one day's defy is four; bat now, owing
to the diminished 'moan of force, the del required
was one day in three, a fact which sufficiently showed
that the number of troops had been reduced to the
lowest possible amount, for a service ton, which
was required from Suffolk to the Land's &ad, and
from thence to Bristol. Deducting these different
services, and the service of the metropolis and ten
miles round, then ealy remained for all England end
Wales 4,000 men, an amount whieb readers' per.
testy ludicrous the 'opposition that they could en.
slave the People. The force, therefore, altogether
now required, was the lowest possible 'mesa that
could be voted consistently with the actual wants of
the country.
Earl GROSVENOR said, that all be had beard
only convinced him more and more of the injurious
tendency of the measures of Government with re-
spect to the Army. The principles on which Mini-
sters acted were inceasistent with the Constitution of
a free country. hi his calculation of the troops ne-
cessary for goading the dock-yards and the coast,
the Noble Secretory of State had left eetirely out of
view the Militia and the. Yeomanry Cavalry. There
wise° occasion for a large Army to perform the set-
' vices which bad been alluded tn, and its employment
was only a proof of the inclination of certain persons
to those principles of foreign despotism which at
present so moo prevailed. There was a cereals de-
scription of persons in this country to whom a face-
tious story, told by an Italian author, would very
well apply. According to that story, there was a
rich and powerful island, in which the persons who
formed the Ministers and Council of the Monarch
wished to possess themselves, In his name, of all the
power of the country. They Bettered the Monerch
in those things to which Sovereigns are generally
much inclir.ed. Splendid military establishments, and
a m.)st brilliant Ceert, was maiehined. The cense-
qUPIICP, however, was, that a general discontent pre-
wailed through the mortify. An hottest courtier,
who u ished to open the eyes of his Sovereign to the,
danger of this state of things, assembled in a zoom ini
the Palace a number of baboons, cats, andffirgs,
dressed up in the fantastic drones which had Weasel
the fashion of the day, some in the dress of 060 M,
of the Guards, others had chains thrown round their
necks. In one corner of the room sat' some et those

'nimbi., representing the Council, to which, aH the
test were drawn, and connected by a chain. Having
' made- his arrangements, the courtier contrived to
bring his Royal Master intliAlmkgpartment,
so enraged at the ridicule cast on his favourites, that
he threatened to plunge adaggerinte the breast of the
courtier. The latteel howeirer, begrd that his Ma.
jeMp would dismiss theCoencil for /2 mouths, and
thisedeice war -romplietterith. • The honest atom*
retired, aid rotor* at the fold of the 12 menthi,
when there was %thing bstst &cleat and happiness In
the country. Iletbentiekltlit Ilis..Royal Master, " if
• you are not sittis4edo.ollolgeleer dagger in my keen
- now."—Witb thiss:47B:l4ebia imperfectly stated,
es it Wei nnidisti pd below the bar, his Lord.,
abip terminated histrephy...
The Aurandmemt ecthen pet. aed negatived with-
otit a division ilfterrmbiels the t3ill was passed.. '
• The aletiny,,hhierake Bill, the Kiloteleletet Jail
Bill, and somm lamer Hills, vets mad a-third time,
aed imssitti.4lo4 nursed.
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. SW AN N bronzlrt in :vital far amending the Waterloo.
btiilge Acts, which %%4. rend a tint time.
A Petition Iva, prftentrd from Montrose against the Untie
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