Excerpt from A Free and Candid Examination of a Pamphlet, Entitled, the Substance of a Speech: Intended to Have Been Spoken in the House of Lords, by R. Watson, Lord Bishop of Landaff, Nov. 22, 1803; With Strictures Thereon To proceed without further exordium to the subject before me, the examination of the speech: No man can feel more the noble sentiments, no man can pay more cordially the tribute of praise due to his Lordship for his animating address, his patriotic, exhilirating and nervous language, his truly pious depen dance on the God of Battles, and under his providence, on the paternal care of his Ma jesty, the wisdom of his councils, and the well-known bravery and loyalty of his subjects. The first object of discussion then is, his Lord ship's proposed plan of militia rotation, surely he cannot be aware, or does not well weigh, how much agriculture and manufactures would suffer from so much time taken from them as that by which the effective labour of three hundred, thousand men would be reduced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.