HISFORY OF EUROPE. 
jesty’s government, on the subject 
_ Sir James Pulteney and general 
arleton objected in the strongest 
terms to the plan of the right hon. 
Secretary. The former was of opi- 
hon, ‘that the character of British 
soldiers would be materially injured 
by the introduction of limited ser- 
‘yice,” and among other objections 
to that form of engagement, he 
suggested, that the prospect of re- 
turning to their friends and families 
might have a mischievous effect on 
the minds of those, whose term of 
“service was nearly expired, and 
 Tessen materially their promptness 
nd alacrity to encounter danger. 
; he latter boasted that ‘‘ he hadi in 
is pocket the clearest proofs of 
the efficacy of the additional force’ 
Dill,” and from its success in Lanca- 
shire, he inferred, that where it had 
failed, the fault iay with those who 
had been charged with the execution 
of it. Whereupon sir W..W. 
Wynne rose and observed, that 
Denbighshire had procured the-men 
it was bound to furnish by the act, 
from Manchester and ‘other manu- 
facturing towns in Lancashire, by 
means of crimps, and he had no 
doubt that Lancashire had raised its 
own quota from the same places, 
_and by the same instruments. 
Colonel Crawford, colonel Gra- 
ham, and Mr, Hoddlestone spoke in 
favour of limited service ; and lord 
_ Temple, Mr. Charles Dundas, and 
Sir William Young vindicated those 
_ entrusted with the execution of the 
additional force bill from the im. 
_ putation cast upon them of having 
ae to do their duty. 
Th e subject of limited service was 
“Bain broughtbeforethe house (April 
th) by Mr. Yorke, who moved for 
tee production of copies of “all. 
such military opinions in writing 
“as may have been given, in conse- 
_, quence of a requisition of his ma- 
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of recruiting the army in. future, 
by enlisting for a term of years,?? 
This motion was objected to by mi- 
nisters on the ground, that the opi<- 
nions called for were private and 
confidential communications from 
certain general officers to the com- 
mander in chief,.and that to lay 
them hefore the public would be 
unfair to those officers, and would 
tend to prevent such unreserved 
communications from being made 
infuture. Itappeared in the course 
of the debate, which was desul. 
tory and uninteresting, that there 
was great diversity of opinion among 
thé officers consulted with regard 
to limited service, Of 14 opinions 
given to the commander in chief, 
7 were in favour of limited seryice, © 
6 against it, and one doubtful. 
During this debate the house was 
reminded by general Walpole, that 
the experiment of recruiting for 
a limited term of years had been 
tried in the American war with the 
best effects to the recruiting service. 
On the same day the additional 
force repeal bill was read a first 
time. It was opposed by Mr. Per- 
cival on the ground, that the addi- 
tional force bill had been gradually 
and progressively becoming more 
productive since the question was 
debated last year, and that it was 
now actually furnishing from 300 to 
400 recruits a week. It was main- 
tained on the other side that not a 
Single man had been obtained for the 
army by the operation of this bill, 
who would not have been progared 
without its operation. 
The repeal bill was read a second 
time on the 30th of April. Before 
it was read, Mr. Canning moved as 
an amendment, that, the second 
reading of, the bill should be poste 
poned till that day three weeks, in 
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