The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-07-07

words in explanation, when the houfe divided.
Contents for the amendments =
Peers 81
Non-Contents againit it =
Proxies . $50
! Being majority of one in favour of Earl Car
| lilies motion.
BiNto enable His Majs9t TO accept tie s,-viee; et
ne LiiI5 Militia.
Lord Hobart moved, previous to the I'd read
| ing ofthe Bill, that his Maiely's meiIage on the
| loyal and ipirited offers of the Iriih Militia,
| ihould be read. His Lordihip declared, that he
| preiumed there would be no difference of OPT
MON in that horie, with refpett to the principle
| which gave riie to the pretent bill, and which,
carried to further extent, would function the
policy OF vocational interchanges of the militia
OF the two countries. But that was not the
queitlon now before them. The prudence or
nsce,ilty OF fuch reciprocity was not now to be
dilcuHed but as it appeared onthetace of the
bull before the Houfe, they were called upon
merely to determine, whether they would or
would not enable his Majefy to avail him.
ieif of the ipirited offers that had been made to
him from motives ofloyalty to his perfon, and
OF kindneis and attachment to the welfare and
intereits of this part Of the empire. As he pre-
| on that point, however there may be on others,
he would no longer detain their Lordihips, but
| move that the bill be read fecond time.
Lord Boringoou felthiInfelf under the neceiIi-
ty of oppoiing the fecondreading of the bill, up
| on many considerations, but principally two,
| which in his mind were deoifve againf the
! meature. One was, that it would tend, in fome
meaiure, to fubvert the principles upon which
the militia force was originally efabliihed (; and
| the ether was, that it was withdrawing force,
which, however uncomfortable in itfef, was ne
ceEary for the defence of Ireland, ard could af-
ford no material addition to the force already
collected for the defence CT Great Britain. His
Lorcfhip was no enemy to the principle, that all
parts OF the United Kingdom ihouId aiilt each
other reciprocally, but he would rather fee that
diipoiition manifefed by other meafiires than
mere Interchange of their feveral militia for
ces. He wiihed really 20 fee the PRINCIPLES of
the Union fairly acted upon. 1t was now four
years ilnce that great political change had been
affected, and, what he would ak, had the 90
vernment done for Ireland? If he could areue
from what had paffed, when he conGdered fbe
correspondence that had paf1ed between No
bic Peer OF that Houfe (he alluded to Lord Re-
deidale and the Earl of Finga) and that Noble
Lord IT'LL remained in high official ftuation in
that country, he was fulfilled in entertaining
lone doubts of the intentions of Miniffers to-
wards it. If Minifers approve of the conduct
OF that Noble Lord, why not declare 70 /. If
they did not, 1T was incumbent on them to diff
avow the opinions he had promulgated, and TO
REGAL him. But this, however, defirable in point
ofJuitice or of policy, he defpaired of feeling ac
compliflled, when,he recolletfed, that tbe sreat
vital and efential principle upon which the pre-
tent mlniiters held their official iituations was
oppohtIon to the only meafure that could give
iatlSfactlon or permanent tranquility to Ireland.
The Duke of Cumberland and the Marouis
ot HeadtorE rcte 1t the fame time, but the latter
though called upon by the Chancellor, gave way
to the former.
His Royal Highncfs, faid, that he would
occupy but very fnall portion of their I ord
mp time. lie role for the purpofe of expref-
ing Interpretation of theBill, as tending to eta
bliih that principle, which he hoped TO fee.
within fhort time extended much further. It
was his anxious with, that the two countries.
winch had but one common interelt, fllould
wlenever 1T was neceGary, interchange their
Mllitias. Since they were become one United
Kingdom by law, be trufted that they wonld NOT
be ieparate either in feutirnent or practice. He
thought no more diftin6fion, in any refDe6t
whatever, ihouid exit between them, than be-
tween any two neighbouring counties OF Great
Britain and therefore, as this meafure would
tend TO eitabLil that cordially and acouain-
eN'-~~ thSSIi, ludt WdS I'D UtlifaDl6 In e.
very point of view, it had his hearty concur
rcnce.
MARQUIS Headfort Imported the bill, and ex-
preaed his regret, that the great mnifter who
had brought about the meaiilre of the Union.
was not at prefent at the head of his Maiefy's
Councils.
Earl Fitzwilliam oppofed il, as Interfering
with the principles upon which the militia o
England was originally formed, and as deroea
tory from the honour of the nation, which poi.
telling $4,000 volunteers, 10000 Militia, and
$4,000 infantry, with due proportion of artil-
lery and cavalry, fill was reprefented 10 be un-
der the necefity of accepting the ftrvices of
10000 irfl militia.
The Duke OF Norfolk would vote sgainft the
meafure upon constitutional grounds, although
he acquitted the Miniters of any blame whate-
yer IN the tranfaction, which was in fome mea-
lure, he hadreafon to fuppofe, forced upon them.
he could not concur in the with ofa noble Mar
gus for the return to power of Member ofan-
other houfe, much lefs in his opinion of his me-
rits as Miniffer. He thought that the confi-
tuition had been more violated, tbeceuntrymore
opprefed and impoverished by taxes, and the
fate of Europe reduced to more diGgrace and
humiliation by his meafures, than by the rafb-
nefS OF incapacity of all the administrations
that had preceded him.
The Earl Of Limerick Imported the Bill, and
retcrted with much force the argument advan-
ced by Noble Earl, that tho praGice,of volun-