HISTORY OF EUROPE. 39 
CHAP. III. 
Military System—Army of Reserve Bill—Additionat Force Bill—Notice of 
a Motion for the Repeal of the Additional Force Bill—Petitions against at 
— Conversation in the House of Commons arising out of a Question put 
to Mr. Windham by Mr. Long—Conversation in a Committee of the House 
onthe Army Estimates—Mr. IV indham Refuses to fir a Day for bringing 
orward his Military Plans—Debate on the Ordnance Estimates—Debate 
on the Motion for Leave to bring ina Bill for the Repeal of the Additional 
Force Bill—Dcbate on the Production of Military Opinions on Enlistment 
for a Term of Years—Additional Force Repeal Gill—Debate on the First 
Reading—On the Second Reading—On the Motion for going into a Com- 
mittec—in the Committee on the Third Reading—in the House of Lords 
on the Second Reading—Mutiny Bili—Debate in the House of Commons 
on the Clause introducing limited Service—On bringing up the Clause—On _ 
filling up the Blanks in the Clause—On the Third Reading of the Bill— 
“Debate in the House of Lords on the Production of Military Opinions— 
On the Clause of the Mutiny Bill introducing limited Service—On the Third 
Reading of the Mutiny Biull—Debates in the House of Commons on the 
Chelsea Hospital Bill—The training Bill—The Volunteer Officers’ Bill 
—and Militia Officers’ Bill—Increase of Pay to Infantry Officers, and to 
Officers and petty Officers of the Navy—Greenwich Hospital Bill— 
Foreign Troops Enlisment Bul. 
nt E shall procced, in the next 
place, to give an account of 
‘the measures of the new ministers, 
and, first, of those submitted to the 
consideration of parliament ; be- 
ginning with their military arrange- 
ments ; which, in our opinion, ofall 
their legislative regulations, were 
the most important in their object, 
the most wise in their contrivance, 
the most beneficial in their tenden- 
ey, and considering the formidable 
opposition made to them, the most 
creditable to the character of the ad- 
ministration. 
No subject had, of late years, so 
frequently engaged the attention of 
parliament, as to devise a mode of 
increasing and recruiting the army, 
effectual for the attainment of its . 
object and suited to the circum- 
stances of the country. Project af- 
ter project had been proposed. Ex- 
periment after experiment had been 
tried. The coarsest instruments had 
been used till they were worn out, 
and the most complicated machi- 
nery had been resorted to, without 
success. [very possible variety of 
form had been given to our military 
D4 establishments, 
