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good effects to be expected from 
the bill. 
Lord Moira, regretted that the 
description of men to be raised un- 
der this system, would be much in- 
ferior to that of the regulars. He 
considered this as a mere contin- 
gent force, inadequate to answer 
the purposes or the expectations of 
the country, at the present crisis. 
A large disposeable force was the 
only one which would enable us to 
contend manfully with the enemy. 
He seemed to prefer the regular 
force so decidedly to all others, as 
to agree in the amendment, pro- 
posed by his royal highness. His 
iordship concluded, by a very ani- 
mated appeal to the spirit of the 
British nation, to come forward 
and make such exertions for the 
public defence, as would preserve 
this country from ages of slavery. 
Aftera long and desultory conver- 
sation, the report was received, and 
the bill ordered to be read a third 
time the next day, the 5th of July, 
when, upon the question being put 
for the third reading, 
Tord Suffolk, expressed an ap- 
_ prehension, that the present bill 
did not go far enough for the object 
for which it was intended, “He 
complained of our best officers be- 
ing unemployed. Ile paid the 
highest compliments to earl Moira’s 
character, both private, political, 
and military ; and regretted his be- 
ing without situation, He also 
regretted that the hero of Egypt 
(lord Ttutchinson), should have 
only a subordinate post assigned to 
him. He thought the system of 
granting commissions, entirely ac- 
cording to routine, was, in fact, 
risking the safety of the country, 
for the sake of forms. His lordship 
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ISTER, ‘1803. 
expressed a strong partiality for the’ 
marines, and considered this coun- 
try as not favorable to the opera- 
tions of cavalry ; and added, that 
our troops should be more prac- 
tised to firing with ball; that we 
should set less value on German 
tactics, which brought such josses — 
on Austria ; and concluded by re- 
commending a military council; # 
measure, to which, more than to 
any other cause, he attributed the 
successes of France. 
Lord Darnley, in delivering 2 
speech full of confidence in the 
strength of the country, and the 
spirit of the nation, reprobated se- 
verely some speeches of a contrary 
tendency, which had been made 
both in that house, and in nu 
place. 
The bill was then read a third 
time, and passed. 
Thus, without a division in either 
house of parliament, was carried the 
first measure of government, which 
seemed in the slightest degree cal-+ 
culaied to retrieye the errors, into 
which it had fallen. Whether its 
eflects were commensurate to the 
necessity which was now allowed on 
all hands to exist; or whether it 
were not an ill-judged and inade- 
quate mode of replacing the coun- 
try on that footing, w hich the hour 
of approaching peril, rendered in-’ 
dispensible; it shall be our task 
hereafter, in the detail of the pro- 
gress of the war, during the period 
which our annual limits embrace, 
to investigate. Certain it is, that 
its enaction fully established to the 
conviction even of the most preju- 
diced and partial admirers of the 
peace of Amiens, that the fabric of 
that gallant and triumphant army, 
whose prowess and march of yictory 
had, 
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