It was said to be most unparliamentary to pass a bill one week, and the next week to pass a resolution condemning that bill.

It was true that the bill had been passed before the death of the Electoral Prince was known in London.

But that unhappy event, though it might be a good reason for increasing the English army, could be no reason for departing from the principle that the English army should consist of Englishmen.

A gentleman who despised the vulgar clamour against professional soldiers, who held the doctrine of Somers's Balancing Letter, and who was prepared to vote for twenty or even thirty thousand men, might yet well ask why any of those men should be foreigners.

Were our countrymen naturally inferior to men of other races in any of the qualities which, under proper training, make excellent soldiers?
That assuredly was not the opinion of the Prince who had, at the head of Ormond's Life Guards, driven the French household troops, till, then invincible, back over the ruins of Neerwinden, and whose eagle eye and applauding voice had followed Cutts's grenadiers up the glacis of Namur.