356 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



the ministers of his Majesty, if 

 they shall aJvise him to continue 

 the militia embodied when no 

 circumstances exist in which the 

 external relations, or internal situ- 

 ation of the country could make 

 the continuance of the militia in 

 their embodied state a matter of 

 expedience for the general welfare 

 and benefit of his majesty's go- 

 vernment and dominions. 



It may not be improper to add, 

 that as by the statute 42 Geo. 3, 

 c. 90, section 111, his Majesty is 

 empowered, in the cases there 

 stated, to embody " the whole of 

 the militia force of the country, or 

 so many of the regiments, or such 

 part or proportion of them or any 

 of them, as his majesty shall in 

 his wisdom think necessary, and 

 ir. such manner as shall be best 

 adapted to the circumstances of 

 the danger ;" and as by section 

 144, it is provided " that it shall 

 be lawful for his Majesty, from 

 time to time, as he shall think fit, 

 to disembody any part or propor- 

 tion of any militia embodied under 

 the act, and from time to time 

 again to draw out and embody 

 any such militia so embodied, or 

 any proportion thereof, as to his 

 Majesty shall seem necessary." 



We are of opinion, that if the 

 external and internal situation of 

 the country shall, at any time, in 

 the judgment of his majesty, call 

 for and justify a reduction of the 

 militia force of the realm, such 

 reduction, by disembodying, can 

 be governed only by the sound 

 discretion of his Majesty's minis- 

 ters ; and that if a partial reduc- 

 tion of some legiraents shall at any 

 time be ordered, it by no means 

 follows that any other regiments 

 or any person serving in any regi- 

 ' ment, not included in his Majes- 



ty's order for disembodying, are 

 entitled to, or can claim to be dis- 

 charged froiti service, but that it 

 must be in the discretion of his 

 majesty's government, acting upon 

 their knowledge^ of facts, and 

 upon their constitutional responsi- 

 bility, if they shall see proper, to 

 suspend any order which may have 

 been issued, but not in fact carried 

 into execution. 



We have, &c. 



W. G ARROW, 



S. Shepherd. 

 Lord Viscount Sidmouth, &c. 



Parliamentary Report on Weights 

 and Measures. 



The Select Committee appointed 

 to inquire into the original 

 Standards of Weights and Mea- 

 sures in this Kingdom, and to 

 consider the Laws relating 

 thereto ; and to report their 

 Observations thereupon, toge- 

 ther with their Opinion of the 

 most effectual means for ascer- 

 taining and enforcing uniform 

 and certain Standards of Weights 

 and Measures to be used for the 

 future ; and to whom were re- 

 ferred the Reports which, upon 

 the 26th day of May, 1758. and 

 the 11th day of April, 1759, 

 were made from the Committee 

 appointed to inquire into the 

 original Standards of Weights 

 and Measures in this Kingdom, 

 and to consider the Laws relat- 

 ing thereto ; and also the Stand- 

 ard Weights and Measures re- 

 ferred to in the said Reports ; 

 have examined the Matters to 

 them referred, and agreed upon 

 the following Report : 

 Your Committee, in the first 

 place, proceeded to inquire what 

 measures had been taken to esta-< 



