Mr. Whitworth then goes on to lay down some general
propositions which sound amazingly familiar. Incidentally he speaks of the " classes men," or, as we should say, the men of the grou pa, not called up for service. These men, he tells us, "having received for the Defence of the Nation tho Privilege of Exemptions as their Bounty, are bound to await, if within the legal distance pre- scribed by that Act, the Orders of his Majesty, so Trained, so Disci- plined, so Cloathed, so Armed, for the express purpose of Defending the Nation upon any Invasion, Insurrection, Rebellion, or an Alarm elan Enemy appearing upon the Coast." He next deals with another point which, curiously enough, has been raised very recently—the argument that it is sufficient to trust to the honour of the Volunteers in the matter of resignation.
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