CONTENTS. 
CHAP. XIV. xe 
Secretary at War brings forward the Army Estimates for the Year—De- 
bate—Opinions of Mr. Windham—Pitt—Addington.—Budget brought 
forward by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.—New Taxes—Objcétions by 
Lord Folkstone.— King’s Message announcing the Commencement of Hos- 
tilities against the Batavian Republic—Another on the Augmentation, of 
the Means of Defence of the Country—Thanks voted fox Goth.— Army of 
Reserve Act brought into the House of Lords by Lord Hobart.— 
Speeches of the Duke of Clarence—Earl of Caernarvon—Suffolk—Moira— 
Lord Mulgrave—Grenville.— Address. of Thanks voted unanimously.— 
The same Measure moved in the Commons, by the Secretary at War— 
Debate—Mr. Windham—Chancellor of the Exchequer—Address carried. 
—Clergy Bill read a second Time in the Lords.— Army of Reserve. Bilt 
read a second Time in the Commons—Debate—Mr. Calcraft—Sheridan— 
Elliot—Yorke—Pitt— Windham — Addington.— Bill re-committed—De- 
bate—Colonel Craxford—Mr. M‘Naughton—Windham—Chancellor ‘of 
the Exchequer—Mr. Johnston—Hutchinson—Archdall—Lord de Bla- 
quiere.—Bill finally passes the Commons, and, after a Debate, the 
Lords.— Remarks. : 182 
CHAP. XV. 
Proceedings of Parliament on the Property Tax Bill—Chancellor of the 
Exchequer moves for a Committee thereon—Debate—Opposed by Alder- 
‘man Combe—Mr. William Smith—Supported by Mr. Addington— 
Lord Hawkesbury— Mr, Erskine— Recomimitted.— Debate _on_ the 
Irish Army of Reserve Bill—Speeches of General Gascoyne—Loftus— 
House cleared—Renewal of Debates on the Property Tux Bill—Mr. W. 
Smith—Addington.—Unexpeéted Motion of Mr. Pitt—Division—De- 
bate resumed next Day.—Desultory Conversation—Bill passed.—Addi- 
tional Proceedings on the Defence of the Country.—Sccretary at War 
_ proposes a Levy en Masse—Speech—Debate—Mr. Windham—Lord 
Hawkesbury—Sir Francis Burdett—Mr. Pitt—Lord Castlereagh—Mr. 
Fox—Addington—Bill read a first and second Time—Debate resumed— 
Mr. Sheridan—Kinnaird.—Last Debate thereon—Colonel Crawford— 
Mr. Pitt—General Tarleton.—Bill passes the Commons—Debates 
thercon in the Lords—Passes with little Opposition.—Remarks.— Pro- 
ceedings on the Affairs of the Prince of Orange.—Observations. 192 
CHAP. XVI. 
King’s Message on the Irish Insurreélion.—Speeches of Tord Hobart— 
Lord Limerick.—Address of Thanks unanimously carried-—Proceedings 
in the House of Commons thereon —Bills brought into both Houses for 
the Trial of Rebels, and for the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Att. 
Discussion in the Commons—Mr, Addingion—Windham—Sheridan— 
Hutchinson—Lord Hawkesbury—Dr. Lawrence—Lord Castlereagh,— 
Debate closed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Windham—Bill 
passes in both Houses the same Night.—India Budget.— Debates on the 
Defence Aét.—Mr. Sheridan’s Motion of Thanks to the Voluntcers—And 
Vou. XLY. 3Q Mr. 
