The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1825-05-05
FOREIGN.
ENGLAND AND FRANCE.

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Ampnss, our foreign extracts tsays the
Baltimore Federal Gazette the reader will
fud one Of, ia our opinion, erireme interest,
respecting the augmentation OF tiIr British
army. An attentive prfusal Of the article
L. which "e allude, will open IL The reader
some curlous circumstances norths pattleu
! u notice. Tile considerable augmentation
of the British army, IN n nonleut of pro
found peace. would ofitsrif claim attention
hut there are features n tie whole OF the
intelligence, aud particularly IN the pnrt
ofthr Parliamentary debate on the prnp"s
ed augmentation, peculiarly striking aud
Iimpurtant-iudeed we can scarcrly call
thai u d.bute y here almost all the parties
seem 10 agree, and where nearly all the
SPEAKING WAS on one side, and decldt dly III
favour OF the measufr. The Ministerial
aud Opposition sides III the liuuse, with one
or two exc spilons not only agreed rs to
the necessity of the augmentation, but As 10
the ground upon which that augmentation
WIS called for--ExTfRaAL PRESSURE! Ii
va, GOT called for ny any thing danse Gus
~ the INTERNAL state OF tie British en-
pire, but almost exclusively with a view 10
| fore IN relations.
" There was nothing Whatever" said The
Secretary at War, IN the state Of the three
countrie-, England, Scotland, aud ireland,
to cali for the proposed ausmeBtatiun.-
! The grounds of the increase we're partly
fxTEHNAL and patty c9L0NtAL--hc must
| hook not only To the necessity OF maintaining
suniclr garrisous, but pro, de for rein
! fplccnrni, IN case Of those emergencies,
which, in all human affairs, must from time
To- timr occuri' We shall endcayour To
give the meaning of this Parliamentary
proceeding m future number, the not least
! remarkable incident IN which is the com
| pllmcnt paid by the British Minister, PEEL,
To sir Robert Wilson, and also a striking
mark If courtesy towards INN from the
! Secretary nj War. France, Spain, and the
Holy Alliance have, ii Is known, their irGls
Of Sir Robert, and il may be asked, have
circumstances rendered it good policy in
the British Cabinet now To c0nclIlatr him :
The course # Ministers was very different
towards him twelve or eighteen months
since. The statement of the Dublin EUen.
Post, Journal nrl informed with regard to
F,cuch Atlalrs, is not to be treated lightly.
II the account be true that France Is 50 far
advanced ia military preparation, England
would IN this alone find Justification for
the increase of her army.
augmentation Of Tie Army.
The extensive augmentation of our army
was voted last night without any thing like
opposition. Lord PaInrrstor, in propos
ing the estimates, SAID it WAS quite itnpos-
sihIe foi any one u suppose that there was
aus thing in the internal condition Of Great
Britain which required the augmentation,
or Indeed in the slate of any of the three
countries forming tin United kinSdom.-
His Ierdship. however, was more expli
cit ia stating that for which the augmenta
ton was NOT wanted, than that for which
! WAS. However, though several mrm
beIs prGfessrd II 10 understand his state
ment, and no Que member protested tn un
drrsland it, yet all seemed, by Il sort Of
mysterious sympathy to know that the
Noble Lord had very good reasons for
what we did Colonel Davis" thought
the appearance of our relations with fo
reign States required the increase of the
army" Sir Robert Wilson considered &c
! vervalncruasc of our establishment as an
"xcrescence on our constitutional sys
system, forced on MS by foreign pressure
and not at all the natural growth of oul
domestic wants, aud he was not Disposed
to view the present augmentation fthe AZ
4 my with any feeling of constitutional ea
lousy" and observed "that it was impos
,ihle that the indefinite occupation of Spsi,
could he much longer admitted wilhou
some reconnaissance from Great Britan
Nolhiog wa
so wasterol to a nation as to be obliged t,
arm on a sudden emergency" Mr.. Srcre
tery Peel spoke of the handsome manne
in which the Hon. and gallant General ha'
b"rne his testimony to the necessity of Al
increased force in our sarrisoos abrp d.
thhtes'lmon! wasperi"ctly consistent Wit
r his character and knowledge as an officer.
All the mrmnrrs VIII" followed took M
same We" OF tie augmentation.
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