... would be to state the proportion of armed men in each of the principal states to the population. and the proportion of the military expenditure to the revenue. In Great Britain, effective forces, the proportion of armed men to the population was one man ...

... a petition from Mr. Kirkland, complaining of the corporation of Dublin—referred to the committee on corporations. Mr. H- GRATTAN supported the petitions. Sir H. HARDINGE regretted that, in consequence of being unavoidably absent elsewhere, had been prevented ...

... by good men, but on the principle that it might not be perverted or misappUed by weak or wicked men (cheers.) Mr. Rolfe, Sir John Dalrymple, and Col. Peel, supported the clause Lord Darlington, Major Beauclerk, and Major Handley, opposed it- Mr. Abkrckomky ...