6th. The faid Drill-Serjeants and Corporals from the army to continue in the pay of government; but the Adjutants and Town-Majors to be paid, if they defire pay, out of a fund voluntarily raised for that purpose in the feveral counties and towns. 7th. Agreed. 8th. Arms, Accoutrements, and Ammunition, to be furnished at the expense of the counties and towns, if required; or of the officers, if they are generously difpofed. 9th. The said arms, &c. to be kept by each man, in his own boufe, for his legal protection. 10th. Rejected. 11th. The officers to take care, after exercise, that the men march regularly, and return home with their arms. 12th. Agreed, with this addition-A set of Laws, or Articles, to be drawn up by the Officers, and fubfcribed or openly confented to by the men, after a diftinct reading and explanation of each article. "Confenfus facit Legem.” 13th. Agreed, the words counties or being inserted after the word respective. 14th. The high sheriff of each county, and chief magiftrate of each town, fhall then (on due notice to government) have power to order the faid corps to march to any part of Great Britain, as the publick fervice may require. 15th. Agreed, in case of actual invasion; but in riots the magiftrates to call out their refpective corps: and, as to rebellion, or civil war, (which GoD avert!) no fpecifick provifions can be made for fo dreadful and improbable an event. 16th. The counties and towns to pay the men who require it; but such, as enrol themfelves without pay, to wear fome mark of diftinction, and the officers to ferve at their own expense. 17th. Agreed, in case of actual invafion only; but the words, and receiving government pay, to be omitted. 18th. Officers difabled in actual service to be rewarded by a new order (as a star and ribband, orange coloured or mixed), or by an eulɔgium proclaimed and recorded by the Sheriff's of their feveral counties, or the chief magiftrates of their corporate towns; and the men to receive a comfortable fubfiftence at their own homes, with a fixed annuity for life out of the voluntary fund. 19th. The widows and children of Officers and Men killed in the fervice against invaders to have also penfions for life. 20th. The companies called out as above to be discharged ipfo facto, as foon as the invaders are repelled, or the particular fervice terminated. A Company of LOYAL ENGLISH ADVERTISEMENT. A SHORT defence hath been thought neceffary, against a violent and groundless attack upon the FLINTSHIRE COMMITTEE, for having teftified their approbation of the following Dialogue, which hath been publickly branded with the most injurious epithets; and it is conceived, that the fure way, to vindicate this little Tract from fo unjust a character, will be as publickly to produce it. The friends of the Revolution will instantly see, that it contains no principle, which has not the fupport of the highest authority, as well as the cleareft reason. If the doctrines which it flightly touches, in a manner fuited to the nature of the Dialogue, be" feditious, treasonable, and diabolical," Lord Somers was an incendiary, Locke a traitor, and the Convention-parliament a pandemonium; but, if those names are the glory and boast of England, and if that convention fecured our liberty and happiness, then the doctrines in question are not only just and rational but conftitutional and falutary; and the reproachful epithets belong wholly to the system of thofe, who so grossly mifapplied them. |