recommend and regulate itself; because, while the established clergy are so well dispersed and so well disposed, through the whole kingdom, all interference with their exclusive duties promotes nothing but dissention and infidelity;--because the best mode of rendering the nation better would be for every individual to reform himself, to study to be quiet and mind his own business; and, because even those who would be most active in the suppression of vice, need only look into their own hearts to find sufficient employment for ali their zeal and all their compassion.--I am, Sir, &c. &c. A Beneficed Clergyman.

Oct. 6, 1803.

DOMESTIC OFFICIAL PAPER.

(Continued from p. 500.)

Pay at the rate of 6s. per diem may be allowed upon special application, through the Lord Lieutenant, and upon a consideration of all the circumstances of the Corps, for an Adjutant (who has served at least 5 years as a Commissioned Officer in the Regulars, embodied Militia, Fencibles, or East India Company's Service) to regiments of Yeomanry Cavalry, consisting of not less than 300 effective rank and file; but the permanency of this allowance of pay must depend on the terms under which the Corps have agreed to be trained and exercised, and whether for a greater number of days than 20.➖➖➖➖➖➖ -Pay, at 3s. Ind. per diem, including 9d. for the horse, may be allowed upon special application, through the Lord Lieutenant, and upon a consideration of all the circumstances of the Corps, for a Serjeant Major (who has served at least 3 years in some of his Majesty's forces) to Corps of Cavalry of not less than 120 effective rank and file.The sum of 1201. per Troop per ann. will be issued half yearly, at the disposal of the Commandant, in lieu of pay to Serjeants and Trumpeters, and of all other expenses whatsoever. If a Corps or any part thereof shall be called upon in cases of riot or disturbance, the charge of constant pay to be made for such services must be at the rate following per diem, being the pay of the regular Cavalry, and be supported by a certificate from his Majesty's Licutenant of Sheriff of the County, viz. £. s. d. 1 12 10

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Serjeants receiving constant pay, and all Trumpeters (or Buglemen) receiving pay, either at a daily or weekly rate, to be attested and made subject to military law, until they shall be regularly discharged by the Commandant, as prescribed by statute 43 Geo. 3. cap. 121.

An application must be made to the Secretary at War by the Commandants of Regiments or Corps of Yeomanry when duly accepted, for the allowances granted to such regiments or corps ; and upon receiving his sanction to the claim, the amount thereof may be drawn for upon the general Agent for Volunteer Corps in bills at 30

days sight-Every officer, non-commissioned officer, and private man to take the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors.———— -The dates of the Commissions of Officers of Volunteer Corps rest with his Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, who must be addressed through the Lord Lieutenant of the County.----- All proposals for raising or augmenting Yeomanry Corps for any alteration in the title of the Corps, or names of the officers must he transmitted through the Lord Lieutenant of the County, to his Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department. All applications for arms and accoutrements should be made through the Lord Lieutenant of the County, directly to the Board of Ordnance; and all applications for ammunition for exercise and practice should be made through the Inspecting Field Officer of Yeomanry

and Volunteers to the Board of Ordnance annually. Ammunition for service should be drawn through the medium of the Inspecting Field Of ficer from the dépôt under the orders of the General Officer of the district.--The arms, &c. fur nished by the Board of Ordnance to Corps of Yeos manry Cavalry, are as follows:Pistols

All effective members of Volunteer Corps and Companies accepted by his Majesty, are entitled to the exemptions from ballot allowed by 42 Geo. 3. c. 66. and 43 Geo. 3. cap. 121, provided that such persons are regularly returned in the Muster Rolls to be sent in to the Lord Lieutenant or Clerk of the General Meetings of his County, at the times, in the manner, and certified upon honour by the Commandant, in the form prescribed by those Acts and Schedules thereto annexed.--The Monthly Returns should be transmitted to the Inspecting Field Officer appointed to superintend the District in which the Corps is situated, and to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.

REGULATIONS for the establishments, allervances, Sc. of VOLUNTEER INFANTRY CORPS, ACCEPTED SURSEQUENTLY to AUGUST 34, 1803.-Dated War-Office, September 28th, 1803.

A Regiment to consist of not more than 12 Com. panies, nor less than 8 Companies. A Battalion to consist of not more than 7 Companies, nor less than 4 Companies.A Corps to consist of not less than 3 Companies. Companies to consist of not less than 60, nor more than 120 privates.→→→ To each Company 1 Captain, 1 Lieutenant, 1 Second Lieutenant or Ensign.(It is however to be understood, that where the establishment of any Companies has been already fixed at a lower number by Government, it is to remain unaltered by this regulation.--Companies of 90 Privates and upwards to have 2 Lieutenants, and 1 Second Lieutenant or Ensign; or 3 Lieutenants, if a Grenadier or Light Infantry Company.--Regiments consisting of 1000 privates, to have 1 Lieut. Col. Commandant, 2 Licut. Colonels, and 2 Majors.→→→ No higher rank than that of Lieut. Col. Comman dant to be given, unless where persons have already borae high rank in his Majesty's forces.→→→ Regiments of not less than 800 privates, to have r Lieut Col. Commandant, I Lieut. Colonel, and a Majors.Regiments of not less than 480 privates, to have i Lieut. Col. Commandant, I Lieut. Colonel, and 1 Major.--Battalions of less than 480 privates to have 1 Lieut. Col. and 1 Major.Corps consisting of 3 Companies to have 1 Major

Commandant, and no other Field Officer. Every Reg ment of 8 Companies or more may have I Company of Grenadiers, and I Company of Light Infantry, each of which is to have 2 Lieutenants instead of Lieutenant, and I Second Lieutenant or Ensign.Every Battalion of 7 Companies, and not less than 4, may have 1 Company of Grenadiers, or I Company of Light Infantry; which Company may have 2 Lieutenants instead of 1, and 1 Second Lieutenant or Ensign.--One Serjeant and 1 Corporal to every 20 privates.--One Drummer to every Company, when not called out into actual service.-Two Drummers when called out.

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An Adjutant, Surgeon, Quarter-Master, and Serjeant Major, may be allowed on the establishment of Corps of suficient strength, as directed by the Militia Laws; but neither the said Staff Officers, nor any other Commissioned Officer, will have any pay or allowance whatever, except in the follow- " ing cases, viz:~~If a Corps, or any part thereof, shall be called upon to act in cases of riot or dis turbance, the charge of constant pay may be made for such services, for all the effective officers and men employed on such duty, at the following rates; the same being supported by a certificate from his Majesty's Lieutenant, or the Sheriff of the County; but if called out in case of actual invasion, the corps is to be paid and disciplined in all respects as the regular Infantry; the Artillery Companies excepted, which are then to be paid as the Royal Artillery.

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The only instances in which pay will be allowed by Government for any Individual of the Corps when not so called out, are those of an Adjutant and Serjeant Major, for whom pay will be granted at the rates following :- -Adjutant, 6s. per diem; Serjeant Major, Is. 6d. per diem, and 2s. 6d. per week in addition, if authorized by his Majesty's Secretary of State, in consequence of a particular application from the Lord Lieutenant of the County, founded upon the necessity of the case: but this indulgence cannot be allowed under any circumstances, unless the Corps to which the Adjurant may belong shall consist of not less than 500 effective rank and file, and he shall have served at least five years as a Commissioned Officer in the Regnlars, embodied Militia, Fencibles, or East India Company's Service; and unless the Corps to which the Serjeant Major may belong shall consist of not less than 20. effective rank and file, and he shall have served at least three years in some of his Majesty's forces.~~ Drill Serjeants of Companies are to be paid by the Parishes to which their respective Companies belong, as is provided in the 43d Geo, Ill. cap. 120, sec. 11. and no charge to be made for them in the accounts to be transmitted to the War-Office-Pay at the rate of one shilling per man per day for twenty days exercise within the year to the effective Non-commissioned Officers (not being Dili Serjeants paid by the Parish), Drummers and Privates of the Corps, agreeably to their terms of service. No pay can be allowed for any man who shall not have attend.

ed for the complete period of twenty days.— When a charge of constant pay is made for an Adjutant or Serjeant Major, his former services must be particularly stated in the pay list where in the first charge is made.--The allowance for clothing is twenty shillings per man, once in thice years to the effective Non-commissioned (fficers, Drummers and Privates of the Corps.--The necessary pay lists will be sent from the War-Office, addressed to the several Commandants, who will cause them to be filled up, and who will take care that the certificates be regularly signed whenever the twenty days exercise shall have been completed and the clothing actually furnished to the men. The allowance for the twenty days exercise may be drawn for immediately, and that for the clothing, in one month after the receipt of such pay lists at the War-Office, by bills, signed by the several Commandants, at thirty days sight, upon the general agent: unless any objection to the latter charge shall be signified officially to the said Commandant in the meantime.The whole to be clothed in red, with the exception of the Corps of Artillery, which may have blue clothing. and Rifle Corps, which may have green with black belts. Serjeant Major receiving constant pay, and Drill Serjeants paid by the parish, to be attested, and to be subjected to military law as under 43 Geo. III. cap. 121.-—All applications for arms and accoutrements shall be made through the Lord Lieutenant of the County directly to the Board of Ordnance, and all applications for ammunition, for exercise and practice should be made through the Inspecting Field Officers of Yeomanry and Volunteers to the Board of Ordnance annually. Ammunition for service should be drawn, through the medium of the Inspecting Field Officer, from the dépôt under the orders of the Gene ral Officer of the District.The arms furnished by the Board of Ordnance to Corps of Volunteer Infantry are as follow:-Muskets complete with accoutrements; drummers' swords, and drums with sticks; spears for serjeants.The articles furnished to Volunteer Artillery by the Board of Ordnance, are pikes, drummers' swords, and drums with sticks.--Spears are allowed for serjeants, and pikes to any extent for accepted men not otherwise armed.The following allowances, in lieu of accoutrements, &c. where required, may be obtained on application by the Commandant of the Corps to the Board of Ordnance :~10s. 6d. per set in lieu of accoutrements; 38. each drummer's sword belt ; 2s. each drum carriage.-Such Corps as have offered to serve tree of expense, and have been accepted on those terms can claim no allow ance under these heads of service.Every Oficer, Non-commissioned Officer, Corporal, Drum. mer, and Private Man to take the oath of allegiance and fidelity to his Majesty, his heirs and successors.If the Commandant of a Corps should at any time desire an augmentation in the establishment thereof, or any alterationin the title of the Corps, or the names or dates of commissions of the officers, the same must be transmitted through the Lord Lieutenant of the County, n order to the amendment being submitted to his Majesty. All effective Members of Volunteer Corps and Companies accepted by his Majesty, are entitled to the exemptions from ballot allowed by 42 Geo. III. cap. 66, and 43 Geo. III. cap. 121, provided that such persons are regularly returned in the muster rolls to be sent in to the Lord Lieute nant or Clerk of the General Meetings of his County, at the times, in the manner, and certified upon

honour by the Commandant, in the form prescribed by those Acts and Schedules thereto annexed.The Monthly Returns should be transmitted to the Inspecting Field Officer appointed to superintend the District in which the Corps is situated, and to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.

SUMMARY OF POLITICS.

CHANGE OF MINISTRY.

Great as are the dangers, the real physical dangers, which menace this empire from without, and which now are not to be avoided, still our internal dangers, arising from the incapacity and selfishness of the ministers, are infinitely greater. Never mind that, says, Mr. Sheridan. When the country is in danger, "ask not tubo is the minister, but "subere is the enemy;" and this sentiment is, of course, applauded by Mr. Addington. Never look at me and my follies, and my places, and my rapaciousness, but look towards the coast; go, ye cowards, and fight, and not stand here prying into the conduct of those who have brought the battle to your doors. This doctrine may suit very well Mr. Sheridan, who wants to get a place, and Mr. Addington who has twenty places, which he wants to keep; but, few other persons will, unless they are actuated by similar views, attempt to maintain it. The opinion of Burke, on this subject, has very recently been cited: "It is said," says he, "that, whatever our sentiments may have "been before, all the policy we have left is

to strengthen the bands of government. On "the principle of this argument, the more "mischiefs we suffer from any administra

tion, the more our trust in it must be con"firmed. Let them but once get us into a

war, and then their power is safe, and an "act of oblivion past for all their miscon"duct." The great Lord Chatham, while Mr. Pitt, speaking upon this topic, on the 7th of January, 1740, said: "It is my opi

nion, that our time cannot be more use"fully employed, during war, than in set"tling the degree of confidence that may be "reposed in those persons, to whose care

are entrusted our reputations, our for"tunes, and our lives." Such was the opinion of two of the greatest statesmen that this, or any country ever produced; and, against which opinion, no one will scarcely be found impious enough to oppose the place-seeking maxims of Mr. Sheridan

The doctrine he inculcates now, is, besides, directly opposed to that which he has held on former occasions: "The Right Hon. Gent, has made.. a strange assertions according to him, the worse the

But, the fact is, we do not enquire “ cubo is "the minister?" We enquire what he is, and what he has done. It is not bis name, or his person, that offends us so much it is his qualities and his actions; his ignorance, his pusillanimity, and his selfishness; the ruin and the infamy to which he has exposed us.: And, as to asking "where is the

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enemy?" That would be ridiculously superfluous: we know but too well where he is now; and, if he should come any nearer to us, the inquiry will, certainly, not be more So that this eulogized, this lofty, this loyal and patriotic sentiment is, when it comes to be examined, mere unmeaning verbiage, a turn of words, like one of those with which the jack pudding amuses the bumpkins at a wake: and thus it is that this poor cozened nation has, inch by inch, been led to the very brink of destruction.-What, however, excites the greatest degree of indignation, is, that we are requested, and even commanded, on pain almost of being stigmatized as traitors, to show all this forbearance, all this hitherto unheard-of indulgence," towards men, who have, both in doors and out of doors, employed every means in their power to vilify and to injure all those, who have endeavoured to prevent the dreadful mischiefs, which they have brought upon their country. The base arts they made use of to inflame the rabble, all over the country, against the noblemen and gentlemen, who had the wisdom and the integrity to oppose the peace, or rather, to prepare the nation for its fatal consequences, are fresh in the memory of every one. "PILOT," a work which was established for the express purpose of supporting the minis try, and which contained the most atrocious falsehoods against every one who opposed them, was conducted by a man, who, during the last war, passed several years in jail for PILOT, was selected by the Addingtons, and seditious practices, and who, as editor of the paid by Hiley Addington. I speak here of a positive fact. "THE PILOT," a publication more false, scandalous, and infamous than any that ever, either before or since, issued from the British, or any other press, and which publication was devoted to the libelling of all those who were in opposition

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"country is situated, the more ready should the "House be to lend their assistance to ministers. What "would be the effect of such doctrine, if it were "to be adopted by the House? Would it not an "nihilate their first duties ?"—Mr. Sheridan's Speech, 16th Feb. 1801. See his censure on the ministers on that occasion, present Volume, p. 324 and 325

to the ministry, was paid for by Mr. Hiley | Addington; and, that the money came out of the public purse, few persons, I imagine, will doubt.In parliament, and by the means of parliamentary reporters, what species of foul play is there, which has not been resorted to? Misrepresentation upon misrepresentation, falsehood upon falsehood; over and over again a hundred times has the minister himself been detected and exposed, and still has he returned to the practice of the most shameful misrepresentation ever heard of in the world. His statement of today has been denied: he has revived it tomorrow: again contradicted, again convicted, he has sunk for the present; but has started up again, the moment his opponent has been lifted from his neck.-

"Detect his fib, his sophistry, in vain;
"The creature's at his dirty work again."

-And this has been the constant practice of all his colleagues as well as of himself. But, the complete instance of the " candour" of the ministry, who set up such pretensions to the forbearance of their opponents, is exhibited in the "CURSORY REMARKS," which, under their auspices, have lately issued from the press, in the shape of a pamphlet. This pamphlet, is, I greatly fear, the production of a gentleman named BENTLEY, a gentleman whom I know not personally, but for whose talents, and, generally, for whose principles as expressed in his former political writings, I have a very great respect, and whom, therefore, I sincerely lament to see engaged in the service of persons, on whom he must look down with contempt. His resentment against Mr. Pitt, if the cause of that resentment be truly stated by Mr. Pitt's friends, I can readily excuse. But, however great his provocation; however great the rage that he must feel at being rejected, because he refused to be a mere tool of George Rose, which was, I take it, the real state of the case; however just it may be to make the ex-minister feel the weight of those talents, the existence of which he denied, because the possessor of them would not consent to be a slave; however fully MR. BENTLEY might be ju. tified in lashing, with out mercy, the follies and the faults of Mr. Pitt, nothing, most assuredly, can justify the use of that series of misrepresentations and falsehoods, that shameful sophistry, that low, that base courting of the rabble, which prevail from the beginning to the end of the "CURSORY REMARKS." And, if the writer is not to be justified; if the man, who has been ill-treated by Mr. Pitt, is not to be

justitied in writing these libels against him, what shall be said of Mr. Addington? And how, with this publication before him, can he have the assurance to talk of candour, or to hope for forbearance? Let him not pretend, that he knows nothing of the origin of this work. This hypocrisy is more shameful even than the fact, which it is meant to disguise. The "CURSORY REMARKS" contain a relation of facts and circumstances, which nobody but the ministers could possibly com municate to the writer of the pamphlet. Besides, out of the two thousand five hundred copies that have been published, a thousand have been bought by the treasury, and upwards of seven hundred have been circulated under official franks! And yet the candid and pious Mr. Addington knows nothing of the matter! Though the public, amidst all its pecuniary difficulties, will be called on to pay two or three thousand pounds, probably, for this libellous pamphlet, Mr. Addington knows nothing at all of it! This is the answer to every inquiry; this is the miserable subterfuge, by which he thinks to shelter himself from the vengeance of present times and from the detestation of posterity. It is this shameful falsehood by which he hopes to elude the charge of a breach of faith, of. divulging the secrets of the Cabinet to a hired pamphleteer, and of committing, towards Mr. Pitt, an act of baseness and of ingratitude unparalleled in the history of parties.

-To dwell on each particular part of the "CURSORY REMARKS" shall be reserved for a time of more leisure. It is, for the present, sufficient to observe, that the pamphlet, which has been truly styled the Ministerial Manifesto, and which contains a premeditated and most violent attack on the persons as well as the principles, on the pri vate as well as the public character, and even on the families and friends of all those who are, in any degree, hostile to the ministers; that this pamphlet has been published just at the prorogation of parliament, just at a time when all the persons attacked were dispersed over the country, and compelled to devote the whole of their time to its defence, just at a time, too, when these very ministers were deprecating all discussions, calling on us to "suspend all party animosities," bidding us "not ask who was the minister but where "was the enemy," and when they were representing it almost as an act of treason to call for their removal! Such is their idea of

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unanimity," and such their method of obtaining it! So much weakness and so much arrogance, so much baseness and so much ine" solence, never was before exhibited in the