- Houfe divided twice upom it—the firs 
/ 
270 
for not raiGng their refpeCtive numbers ; 
and a circular ktter, addreffed to the 
Lords Lieutenants of the counties, has 
plaibly ftated that it will be _higidly 
exacted. 
Mr. Pitt has fince intreduced another 
Bill into the Houle of Commons, the ob- 
je&t of which is to add 17,com men to our 
difpofable force. It is intitled <° A Bill 
for the more ipeedy Reduétion of the Mi- 
litia, by allowing them to volunteer into 
the Regular Army.’? The number to 
which the militia for England and Scot- 
land is to be reduced by this Bill, is 
40,000. The number permitted to vo- 
Punteer from each militia regiment is to be 
regulated by the quotas of each county. 
The commanding: officers of thefe regi- 
ments are to felect a certain number wil- 
ling to volunseer for the regular army ; 
and if the ae iE in a regiment amounts 
to four-fifths of che number expected ac- 
cording tothe quota, the regiment Is ex- 
empt from the operations of the Bill. If 
the number of volunieers falls fhort in a 
regiment, the commanding officer is to 
divide his regiment into two equal por- 
tions, and one half is to be exempt from 
the operations of the bill ; the other half 
is to be fubjeé to the applications for vo- 
Junteers of the recruiting cfficers from the 
reguiar army. The engagement of men 
volusteering from the militia under this 
bill is to be for life and for general fer- 
vice, The Bill contains a provifion, that 
if militia privates, being, under a charge 
of mifcondu&, under trial, or_fentence of 
a court-martial, offer to ey ee the 
regular army, their re{pective command- 
ing officers fhall be inveited with a power 
of refufing their difcharge. The oppofi- 
tion to this meafure was very great ; but 
Mr. Pitt’s motion for the prefent pafied 
without a divibon; it being os that 
the ape fers of the Bill will divide the 
Houfe in fome fublequent Rage. 
The Bill-for laying an increafed duty 
en falt has been itrongly oppefed. The 
time on the mction of Lord Wilkam Ruf- 
fell; when the divifisn was, fer the Bill, 
93 3 againit it, 60 3 majority, 33- “She 
feeond time on the motion of Mr. fohn- 
ftone, when:the diviffon was, for the Bi!l, 
3583; again it, 585; majority, 100.— 
The Chanceller of the Exchequer wi:h- 
drew the propofed newduty onfalt exported. 
The Bill for increafing the duty on 
horfes empleyéd in hufbandry, is thrown 
out of the Houfe. The following was 
the divifion on this queftion :—for the 
fecond reading of the Bill (that was the 
State of Public Affairs in March, 1805. 
fApril f, 
flase), 75 3 againft it, 76 ;/majority, fF. 
The Bill was oppofed by Mr. Plumer, 
Mr. Coke (of Norfplk), Sir Watkin | 
Williams Wynne, Mr. Fox, Mr. Ham- 
blyn Williams, Mr, Dickens, Mr. Giles, 
Mr. Grey, Sir Robert Buxton, Mr. Baf- 
tard, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Spencer Stanhope, 
Mr. Fellowes, and Mr. Baker (of Hert- 
ford), ard fupported by Mr. Pitt, Mr. 
Canning, the Attorney General, and Mr. 
Hufkiffon. The new taxes which have 
been propofed to the Houfe by Mr. Pitt, 
to cover the deficiency occafioned by the 
throwing out the above Bill, 
withdrawing the propofed new duty orn 
falt exported (which is about 400,000l.}, 
are as follow : 
New duties on glafs, calculated 
to produce : £.80,006 
Bricks and tiles, rod, pe thou- 
fand ; 37,000 
Auctions—of estes.) one ixth ; 
per cent. 3 goods, one-fifth 31,000 
Coffee, 6d. per Ib. 23,000 
Cyder and perry for fale ‘(ex- 
cepting the counties in which 
they are the common beve- 
rage) Ave . 15,008 
Gilt and filver 9 wire bra 5,000 
Vinegar ‘ . 1F,00@ 
Slates and ftones carried conte. 
wife, 20 per cent. : 4,408 
Barilla, oil, turpentine, &c. 22,008 
On gocds imported, 23 per -- 
cent.) --. So ite ti 176,000 
409,400 
A Bill has been brought into the 
Houfe of Commons, by sir William 
Scott, to relieve our famen, in the cafes 
of prize-money, from thofe exa€tions, vex- 
atious delays, and other enormous bur- 
thens, which have long difgraced that 
branch of our laws and public adminiftra- 
tion, and often robbed the poor feaman 
and peity officer, or their wives, children, 
and relatives, of the reward of their gal- 
Jant fervices. “Fhe Bilb goes—1. To re- 
sulate the defcription of perfons who are 
A be intitled to prizes.—2z. To deferibe 
he fun@ions of the Court which is te 
aseie the various cafes of prizes ; “and— 
3. To regulate the management and dif- 
‘tribution of prizes, after t! ey have beem 
adjudged. The declarations of the firft 
head are built upon the royal proclama- 
tions relative to this fubdjett, all nght in 
prizes being, in the firit inftance, velied 
by the Conititution inthe Crown, and’all 
regulations transferring the property te 
the captors being founded on the {ponte- 
—«DGOWS 
and his 
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