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.1 . , FRENCH PAPERS. I . . , , 'TROY THE JOURNAL DES DEBATS OF THURSDAY:: PARIS. MARCH 13. . . . . The inconveniencies inseparable from a war with. Spain are too generally felt, and too well appreciated, to - permit . us to. announce without a profound impres sion of sorrow that the last hopes of peace have almost disappeared ; but our just sorrow is tempered by the conviction that in drawing the.sword from the scab bard we ire fulfilling a national duty, and a com mand of honour. Everything has been done to draw from revolu tionary Spain a single proof of a Wish to, put an end to the excesses which disquiet Europe, and compro mise France. There was no question of the sacrifice of liberal institutions, or of foreign intervention, nor, in a word, .of anything which could compromise the interests or Wound the honour of Spain. It was only required of. misled men to substitute for a destructive itticiri p .Witholit object and without limits, that iode ydentAiiitit Of Royalty which is the life-spring of opiratiCiliOcietY.. Spanish liberty was only asked to recognizethe rights of. legitimac lot .she refused. she is then no tonger liberty. • .No veil now covers T,Te L ltfOusiraits at anirchy—no consideration tem feta' its fury=no friendly or pacific voice can stop its progress. • -Facts tinnily indilputable and shocking have just eilal4ithed the orstrageotis captivity of Ring Ferdi nand., jt. is Evident that' f4tiOn is determinectio.carry its crowned prisoner iu its train, and the propOvitions for Stripping him even of the shadow - of royalty find no longer any obstacle, except the fear df opening the eyes of the multitude - tin the real state of things. But what man of 'sense; what enlightened nation, can henceforth be deceived by, this empty :image - of royalty?. Who can fola moment doubt that the King of Spain is now as completely a captive as if he were already loaded with' The base chiiins,with which his Ministers haye . dired.to.nienace his auguit person ?. . 'But the reiolittionists out of Spain have, by their suggestions, given to their copfederates at Madrid the word of order for a blind resistance—for an impla cable fury, in order to lender fruitless the efforts made by reason andloyalty to prevent a deplorable War. They sacrifice Spam to rlie infatuated hope of reviving the flames of a universal revolution along with a general war. That hope will not be realized. The invisible, and yet incontestible presence of the Revolution of 1 1 793• in the Councils of Spain, necessarily unites all Go vernments in one common wish—that of repressing a - knovin enemy—an irreconcileable enemy, whose ter rible excesses they well recollect. Such will be the uecesiary consequence of the late events at Madrid: they will have, at least, the me lancholy advantage of justifying the foresight of France, : and the .measures which she has taken for her own security. PROM Tilt PILOTE OF WEDNESDAY EVENING. PARIS, MARCH 12. The ordinary Cartes, in their Sitting of the 2d, unanimously passed a_Decree, in which they ordered the Ministry, in twenty-fours, to report the execution of the Decree for the removal of the,,Piieritiient. By the same Decree; the Cortesdeclaire that neither the Report upon the situation of Spain, which should be presented by the Ministers at the opening of the Session, nor any Other.4eport upon the saint subject, shall be heard until after the translation Of 't - be Go vernment, and then only in the place where it shall haVe been established. . The Society Of the Communeros, by an unani mous decision, has tniito with the Masens; and driverificiin its bosom Bertrand de.Lis, as bought over by fo- Feigners,- and as occupied only for some months past I 7064 :tic/diviiiOni lifTSPain. The Society has pro • ~. . ..• . . p •. •• ... . • pt 44 py.me.notoiciny.!Starilisneu between the Com- Mown* and the. Masons, in order to reform tbeir *litotes, anti toisrritedistruttians to all the provinces itVoi-ilersto unite khd electrify the public mind. ' 'he latest news received from die frontiers of Spain e t tl o s o u a s . A l hat gina hat .be a . tremiked tn o ell .1 1 : 11 nt o f‘ a lu fe n . w ioi h p is al us• at Municipality of of thiCtown (mot° 'piastre's, and • that 96;000 Were s - l to f ied Mm on lie spot. 'This Constitutional mil w ill quickly repair to the frontier nearest #l4 erdagne, where a considerable body is concentrated, chiefly ' 'it is said, composed of foreigners. - , .. PAIATATX CORRESPONDENCE . • ••• PARIS, 4I ARC 11 tr. " The Englishlitistris of Saturday last, containing the Report of the Dinner proceedings.of the London Tavern on.friday, itia the Protest of the 62 Mem hers f thethamber of, Deputies against the expul sion of,M.,Mannel, were yesterday seized by the po lice.' Copies of them, however, had arrived by special couriers a day before, and thus the account of the Dinner appeared in the French Journals of yeiterday. lkliine eft .ern cared to copy the Protest. This latter document was taken by the Law Officers from the band of the President of the Chamber, and submitted to Council of Ministers, to determine whether it did not Warrant a prniectition against its 62 subscribers. Nothing but the number and respectability of the sig natures, and the dangerous agitation that such a pro ceeding-would excite, prevented the . ' Council from plscing the Deputiii on their trial for sectitiims writiog: —The Ministers would, however, eagerly seize an opportunity of prosecuting any printer, bookseller, or journalist who should give it 'to 'the work, and there fore all those parties are on their guard *.Lithogra; phic copies, howeier, are largely di,stributesf; and thus, in Paris at least, every person-who feels an in terest in such Objects may obtain a perusal of it.— Printers and bOOksellers 'bare been apprised 4 the' Police, that ,if any copy alit appears its their Shriciai they will be deprived of their licenses (or irekti), and have their shops shut up. Mercier, the serjeaht of the National Guard; wbo fr.ft4d to an est Pitahtter, is to be tried by a Council of Piscipline. The utmost punish ment.that it can inflict is dismissal and a month's imprisonment. Even this' moderate punishment the Authorities May be aftaid Wh to Whet, Trci . in a sense of shame, 'and a fear of irritating die rat ional Guard, whose services will be now'moreveteisary-than ever, when a great art of the troops is sent to the frontiers. ~ Th e re a re various rnoidiirs in town to-day, re specting- the relation4etweei Fraoce.aod Spin, but none (.4 them can be traced to any authentic source. -- .crated - 'Chi - that Mina had entered accounts was at Barce that the King had con- h was •stated on 'Change, France, but Mina by the last lona. Another rumour was, . I ! '7 fbailttd to leave. Madrid. and that dials hsh sailor had ofFe'red to wreaking with%.*ECtivort. hive no aciounts later *an the 34.. f. . !t ! i m A ß lna 11 4 Wilt eciolVlC P. M. • ge The French Ministry, whoa founded their hopes of finding . ir pretext-for aveielirirtiteLeiar, siering it unneceseary by the intrigues carried on at Madrid, have, ti F ibe lirsurriyalsfrarn Spain, sur rendered all such expectations, and .have resolved to comtioce hostilities as speedily and ae vigorously as possible. Orders have accordinglrbeen transmitted to General Guilleminot, the Chief of the Etat-Major, to place everything in readiness for active operaticni. The attack will be made on the side of Biscay, and the Spanish territory will be entered between the Ist and the sth of April. " The Duke of Angouleme certainly sets out on Saturday for the army, and his arrival_on the frontier will be the signal of invasion. The French expect an easy victory, from the divisions of the kingdom and the distractions of the Capital." hiARCH 13, HALF-PAST TWO. • , ;141 7 The people of the Stock Exchange, at least, seem now to believe a little more in war. The Funds now are . at 76f. 90c. money, and 761. 80c. for time bargains." Futroi 63.1 WEDVESDAY.—Five per Cents. opened at 78f. 10c. fell tb 77f. 80c. and closed at 78f. Aftes the bourse a decline to 77f. 40c. took place. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 14. Mr. AlasoN presented monthly Returns frotn the India House, which were laid on the table. Dlr. Romance, and other , Members from the House of Com mons, brought up the Assessed Taxes Reduction Bill, theirish Arms Bill, end Severn .Bridgcliill, which were read a first time. The Earl of LI NIER PCK presented a Petition from Daniel Bairett, Esq. Clerk of the Crown for the County. of Limerick, complaining of the operation of the late Act of Parliament, which - reduced the fees and emoluments of his, office. The. Peti tioner stated that the compensation he now receives is inade quate. No allowance was made for Special Commissions, and adjoinned Assizes. The emoluments on . the whole were so much reduced, that the office, which was Of importance in the administration of criminal justice, could not be properly . enecuted. The Petitioner concluded by pra ying ,the House . to take his ease into consideration. The Petition was read, and laid on the table. Lord CA LTHORPE presented a Petition from the Rev. William Burgess, a Commissary and Vicar-General in the County of Essex, praying that the peculiarities of which he had been deprired by the New Marriage Act May be prOuidedfor hi some future law.—The Petition was read, and referred to the Committee on the Marriage Law. The Earl of DARN LEY said, he held in hie hand a Petition from the Bankers, Merchants,and Manufacturers. of Wakeiiilkl. against the Insolvent Debtors' Act. The Noble Earl addressed a few observations to the Noble and Learned Lord-en the Wool sack, expressing a hope that his Lordship was not Altaic to the Amendment of the Act. The LORD CHANCELLOR-said it would be In the roes& leetion of the House, that the Act for relief of InsolvetirDebleei was brought in by a Noble and Learned Lord (Redesdale), net then in his place. It was not his intention on that occasion to discuss the merits of the Act ; he should Only say, that the Noble and Learned Lord, in a private conversation, bad told him It was a good Bill when it came into that House, but the improve ments made elsewhere had destroyed the effect the Bill was ori gin:illy intended,to prpduce. 'he Earl of LIMERICK said he was glad the subject was likely to come under ibe consideration of the House. The la. solvent Debtors' Act hacCeerntinly done Incalculable mischief # Ireland.•aThe Petition wilt theniaid on the table.—The .Hotta adjourned to Monday. • 'HOUSE OF COMMONS. • Mr. MASON presented Papers from the East India Home, containing the Resolutions Of the Court of Directors relative to the granting of Pensions . Mr. L. KECK presented a Petition from Sparldirw, Lei cestershire, againsrthe-Laws for the Recovery of Small Debts.— &faired to' the. Committee. • Mr. BARRY preeents4 a_Petition from Yorb against the In solvent Debtors' Act.—Orel,i9 be ittntt a ti• • Mr. DUN DAS ptestated a IPetidOn, from Leith, . praying modification of the Tax on Apprentimso—Laid on the table. Lord RIIRINGTON 'resell* a Petition from .a tow n in Devonshire . , against the coal' Duties.—Laid on the table. Mr. BEAU MONT preaented a Petition front Durham against . some parts of the General Turnpike Act. The Petition war ordered to be printed. Mr. TW ISS brought in a Bill for appointitlg Assessors to re: inlet* the Proceedings it. Elections. The Bill was read a first ' time, ordered for a second reading on Monday, and to be printhrg Sir. J. 'MACKINTOSH' rose to give noticithit he sboug upon the earliest possible' occasion after the recess, bring fiseL Willird a motion upon the subject 9f the Criminal Law, pursuane to the Resolution of the House of last year. The ear t imt he found open was the 13th of May, and he savi noVer . day accordingly. - Mr. WA RitE moved for Returns of the number drelagos lel Eogland where there were Courts of Local Jurisdiction the * administration of Criminal Justice ; stating the number of See sion; held in a year, and the number of persons cotreicted i to gether with a statement of their offences, since the year HMO, ' Sir T.. AKLAND gave notice, that. on...Mondarifttrt_ Hon. Friend. the Member. for &amber (Mr. • Wilbet'forl4. would. preient a Petition from a large body of clunhern. **it abolition of slavery in all parts of Abe British dominions. The Irish Grand Jury Presenttnent Was read a ieened time, after a few obseivations front Sir Jon)! Nrwroavi Mr. C. Hulcumsos, Mr. S. Rica, and air: *Dawson, and was commit ted for Monday. On the motion of Mr. ; Pilaf., '.the Prisoners Regulation pip was read a second time, and committed for Monday. Dr. LUSHINGTON gave. notice, that 911 Tlesday se'ttniOt he should submit to thelfoose a motion on the subject of FM /e. • On the motion of Mr. PLutccre,a Committee was iptrOtOted"to inquire into the state of the Local Taxation of the City of Dirbilm A Message from the Lords here annotincelt,their assent to "several gills. Sir ROBERT WILSON presented a Petition from ry certain , Inhabitants John , Southwark, praylnglor a to.ficili tate the lieCoye of Small Debts.rrfteferred to' the Committee on Small Deb'll. • • - KING S PROPERTY BILL. • The iIiTTORNEY.IGENERAL moved the Order of the Daylor the Houie going into a Committee on this Bill. )IKNNET said, that his recollection-failed him very much, if he bad not heard the late 'Marquis of Londonderry *ate, that his Maiesty bad presented the freehold of Brighton Pavilion to the Public ; and his impression on thisglint was dm stronger, inasmuch m he thought the .flight Hon. Member for Knaresborough had observed in answer, that it was a most mu nificent present. If this were the cue, some notice of the eh-- entrusiettte might be necessary in diefreient Bill. While upon rills b e wished to ask the Bight onourabie Gentleman op ? Mile whether the repairs. to. that alace had been paid from time to tithe out Of the Civil List, or oat of the Privy Purse ? if I t he.bripes, the Palace, so•far-is those repairs were concerned, , yer,pohlic property, and the King ho more right to disposej of k rk ok la o had to dispose of Win dsor Castle, or any other Pa— lace which he inherited in right p(iiii CrOwn. -Mr. Secretary PPM way convinced the lion. Member must have labciured under a niistalie when he imagined that his late lam,ented friend, the Marquis of Londonderry, had. made any' state:neat rEslkctitig the Pavillon to the elect mentioned by:the floe. Gentlemen. Sikh *immure as that allured to - was never in the contemplation of his .Majesty, though he had, most -rally, presented. to the Adak .the ' l ibrary . of his late Royal Father. There could be no doubt that all . progeny iahe t rited by' his Majesty; in right of .his Crown; was .poblie property: but .the object:of the present Bill was merely to ettable,lsim t 4 dire pose of the real property which:belonged to him wittpiXe . otas a subject. • With regard to the gni-intim of the 1i0n...4441mi, re ,'petting the repairs, be was net, at tliat niumatti . pitaired to glee a podtive Ammer; but be appiebended Bill the txpeixie of them was defrayed out of the Privy Purse. Mr. BENNET explained; and the House went into a Cotu. mittee. In the Committee, Mr. BENNET said, be presumed there would be no object . • ,t l as - *sum - 5, if any, had ls Majesty dismissed them from his s.ervic. -Serelnt reasintr i tt il aTtr i brrioney. , • 1 r'tbey had done wrong in bringing charAes-against-t: eye" ~ toeir ARE said, that ad re net t ,- the evidence ' ' Colonel which they could not - substaat aft, the 'r 40,011mrofttee.on the _( Osf, fir,woold be found Mat . in theirttirip . of4ht_t? have been- per on their Mal ' 4. coge i terable items, feffuinithre ',Wed at the Paviliots, 4re cheated M the late Lord Hertford.'{ accounts, and•defrayed 1 and heard in the r defence. The case ; 'however, did -• out of tha QviUAst. . pot step here ;forthe letter went on tristatehis.bla fr N. jesty's dliaiaProu'ition in Other • respects, and Itsenwf; haci M b r een . Secre paid tary ou ry il l . ob eiv served it us; •t f te r r f e u nza tu n r o e, d b o u n t lt th t e ha p t r s e u se m n i t added . .that his Majesty had been pleased to diseitits - '': 13ill was confined to else disposal of real property. After if few words from Nlr. Banta,' Mr. Scantarr, and the :Mtn' igrarnin: W.; teirlee- - St; (hit lerellibili 1111ra — Arroaxiv-Gamaaat; the HonseresuMed, and the Report was Irressipn Witt abtrirdlty united ; ; Acid inevery point.). t . • ordered to be received on - Monday. . vtevr;. the twozfold 'exercise of the *power:Moen.- ': 6 t A _A- ,L, j . • . lig UTI NV BILL ,-- COURTS - MARTIAL. Lord PALMERSTON moved the Oder of. the the infliction on an Officer, tried' by •uCtitirt.Mertial, - : say for' the Houser:jilt; into a Committee on the 'of a punishment severer than that 'awarded by the --. Mutiny bi11..-2.Dti the question' that the SPEAKfi ,Court. The next casetuirhich heshotild refer, was : - should leave t. tt the Chair, .that of 'Sir Williaffilt-eirlier;sehd-Wid been!cdrivicted ... Colonel DAVIES rose,, to mew that it be an in- of an O ff ence whitlitendefetthintliabie-ta be disitrii struction 'to the Committee to insert a clause in the sod, who was yet inffeied."te Mita% in. active cum= Bill, to prevent' the dismissal of any Officer without uiand for a considerable perioskttud irreilltett'disthgatesi the previous sentence :of a Court-Martial ;' and also without any further complaint being made against; to prevent. the Infliction on any - Officer of . a greater him. The next case was that-of ath effscerof thi-phies. punishment than that awarded by the sentence of a Sothe.diScussions had arisen, inlhecourse of Which Court-Martial. His attention had been more closely one Of theofficers lampooned the rest; andffiey,lit re: drawn to the subject by the case of the dismissil turn, - engaged with each' other that they would-avoid . Of his Hottourafile and gallant Friend the Menibet hit society, and they also solemnly bound ffiemseives • for Southwark, whose services were known not fo support each other in rejecting any'ch a llengeonly to that House,' but to the country at large,. and which he might.send to eitheref,them. Some time, whose military conduct bad, in fact, become inter- afterwards the officer in question' did clvallengu.enu woven with the ptiblic events 'of Europe. On exa- of them, and the challenged consulted his brotHerofz urination, he found. that there was no justification freers, who .repeated their engagement to support'hir for the exercise of this power by the Crown, but that honour in the refusal, and, in consequence, the chal.. such exercise of it was in direct violation of the lenge Was refused. The challenger then posted the terms and The spirit of the Mutiny-Act. In this other:as a coward ;and although there is, in the Ar: Act, great care was observable throughout,- to guard tides 'of War, the most severe prohibition against the liberties of the subject. It mentioned almost, duelling, and a Royal approbation and support 'of every possible crime, and declared that all such the honour of him who shall refute a challenge, this crimes should be punished by the sentence of a Court- 'officer, for refusing the challenge under the.circum- Martial. Even mutiny, a crime of all others which otances he hadmentioned, was dismissed without a required summary punishment, was declared to be .trial. 'The next base was that of Captain Isaac Cof punishable only by such a sentence; yet, accord 4 n, and it was one wherein the power was exercised to ,the interpretation of the law given - by his Majesty s brinflietingi severer punishment than iliac awarded Ministers, Officers, and those alone, were placed oiit liy.the.senterice of a Court Martial. Captain Coffin of the protection of the Statute, and might, without: Svcs tried on a charge of presenting fal-e musters trial or accusation, be stripped of rank, characto!, He was acquitted of wilfully presenting false mos honour, and • emolument ; and thus stigmatized and ters, but he was sentenced to be deprived, f the cam distressed, might be turned upon the world. This, !nand of his ship. The Adnairally, however, dis- - he should endeavour to shew, was illegal. By the missed him from the service. He appealed to the it 35th 'section of the Mutiny Act, the Crown was en- Judges, and they unanimously decided that the dice' abled to make Articles of War. The question then missal was illegal. In all these cases he wished to was, who was to be the judge of The violation of be understood as distinctly stating, that it was not those Articles? Not the King, surely; for that would the Sovereign personally whom he was charging be to make the King legislator, accuser, and judge. with injustice.. His complaint was against the ad- This must be admitted, according to the known and visers of the Crown. The next case Was that of his acknnatleclged principles ofjustice; and this appeared honourable and gallant friend, the Member far alto to be admitted by the Mutiny Act; for, by the Southwark, the circumstances of which were in the 37th sec tion , it was declared, that in order to bring recollection of the House, and therefore it was unite to jiisttce..those who 'Should offend against the Ar- cessary to repeat them. Upon that case, however, he ticles.nf Sur, his Majesty should have the power would say, that he did not believe there was one roan of appointing Courts-Martial. Nothing could sheik in the -Hooke who would say, upon his honour, that • more clearly that Courts-Martial were considered he believed Ministers had not acted upon false infix es the only means of punishment—(Hear, hear).— motion which had been given them ; and 'yet the This was confirmed by the authority of Blackstone, House had, by a large majority, refused all. inquiry, and that of all 'military writers of any note. He and h ad refused to call upon Ministers to state the should not waste the time of the House by arguing grounds on which they had advised the dismissal of that it was improper for the offices of accuser, judge, his honourable and 'gallant friend. Against the and legislator to be united in the same person. The exercise of such a power he protested; because there 'House, by the course of its own proceedings, in cases was a legal constitutional mode of punishing mili of irtipeachment, decided' the question ; for, when 'the tary crimes, and because even mutiny was not punish. House impeached, the accused was tried at the bar able but by that mode l , Many were the advantages of the Upper House. He would here remark, Nat which the Crown possessed, 'even in the prosecution he' was arguing and should proceed upon' the sup- of this constitutional mode of punishment. kit were •, posed admission, that dismissal was a punishment. If suspected that a garrison was disaffected, and that : it were not, his case of course fell to the ground; the officers of it were favourably inclined towards •but al dismissal had never yet been denied to be a an accused, the Crown might order the trial to tato severe, perhaps the severest punish ment •to an honour- place wherever it pleased. Not one of the privileges able• mind, he should not trouble the House-with allowed to an accused by the Municipal Law was any argument directed to that point. He found_ by allowed him on a Court-Martial. -In ordinary cases, the Articles of War that the power of dismissal was an accused was allowed the right• of peremptory. not claimed by the Crown. Those .Articles.enume- .challenge: here he was not allowed it, although die rated the ; gravest offences, all indeed which it was :Court, which was appointed by the Crown, bad to possible ,to conceive man capable Or committing . ' decide the facts. In ordinary cases, a Jury mitt even.the undefined and almost tincfefiliable offence o agree unanimously to convict; but here a majority ungentlemanly conduct, and yet it provided that all 'was sufficient. In cases of life and -death, a major these shouldbe 'tried by Courts. Martial. Nay, ther rity of nine out of.thirteen was requir ed ; but in every Winton tUony, that all crimes, offences, and neglect( case not capital a bare majority was sufficient, anchas not,...thellin (*fore enumerated, should be vied - .14, man might be sentenced to tcansportation upon Lire ' , NUM - afill%imental Courts-Martial. ,After this, casting vote. -These alone were tremendous porous,. he really thought himself justified in saying that the but - even these were not sufficient for the Advisersof - power now assumed in the name of the Crown was the Crown, who punished without any trial at,alla . -.. an assumption of power beyond .that of Henry the It had been said, on the discussion an this subject... Wail; Eighth. Though that King went so far as to declare year, that the members of a Court-Martial-might kV that his there proclamations had the effect of laws, he fairly supposed to have a fellow-feeling towards their • presided fin' the trial of those who should be charged eompanion in arms. •He - (Colonel ,Dasies,) tea*, with a disobedience of them-...:they were to be tried however, that experience hod abundantly sbewn o that before nine Privy Councillors. He trusted the House if there was any bias it was rather in favour of the woad bear in mind the good old constitutional Crown, from which all military honour procimaledi *him, theta' power given 'to the Crown was so rather than in favour of a friendless eccturnhe-.4 given, net to gratify caprice or arbitrary will, but to On the whole, he submitted that this was a mqstnoet promote the general:good of the People. By a constitutional power, especially when it was coo* Return made to the House, in consequence of a dered that it might have the effect of renderrittgAlle motion ht had made for that purpose, he found Army too dependent on the Crown, and thus s :in that, since the year 1795,. no less than 989 Officers some measure, separating the interests of the soldiers had been dismissed his. Majest y 's service without the from those of the People. To tolerate such : armee previous sentence of a Court 7 Martial-' 7 -( Hear, hear).— would, be thought, be in that House a pnlitiatil.aus- Here them were, at once, 989 cases of injustice— cite. He was aware it might be said, that autasaaTi (Hear, hear, from the Ministerial Benches). He was in general, took part with the People against the •• g entitled to call them, and should call them cases of King.' This was true to some extent ; and was IF.. injuitice—Peers frnaz the Ministerial Benches) — He emplified in the army of King James 11. of Englilnd- regarded not the cheers of the other side. What it a He apprehended, however, that religious feelings:had? -Man had committed the most cruel assassination in had much influence upon the soldiery on that cocas the open face of day, and . in the presence of a thou- sion ; and that if'those feelings had not been excited sand Witnesies? What, in such a case, was done„by by the conduct of James, they would not hare joined the laws of this country ? Was the assassin taken and the People against him. Honesty was the best poi hung up at the next lamp-post? No, he was brought - licy, it would be found, both at home and abroad, - to trial, and was even beard in his defence; and if he and he was convinced that to make the Army at al' were not, injustice, would be committed upon him. a safe instrument, it was necessary to place it beyulad Allowing then, for the sake of argument, that every the reach of this power. The Hon. Member .cogo one of these officers was guilty of the offence of which chided' by Moving— • • -.i he was suspected, and on suspicion of which he was 4 that it be an instruction to the Committee to insert aZ 1 : 1 dismissed, still was the case of every such officer a lii the Idutiny'liill, providing against any Officer beingitial:...* ' be ' service but by sentence of a Court-Afartial • and .. ' ' aga' case of gross injustice He would 'now proteed to punfshtnetit bring a warded to any Offi ce r, non-co lay before the House a few of these 989 cases, and o fficer, or soldier, beyond that adjudged by a Court-Mar* • he pledged his honour to the House that be could Lord PALMERSTON assured the Houte.that if' _produce a hundred more than he shoulJ, the circuni- rising to state his reasons for objecting to the esaties stances of which were not less strong than those of of the Honourable Member opposite, it was not.bil: ahe.easei he should. notice. The first case was that intention to follow his example of referring to vying . of the officers of the 88th Regiment. These officers authors of various times its support of what he.air were eight in number, three Captains and fi've Lieu- vanced. If he could not adduce to the,House anang .tenants. They had brought their commanding offs- gument sufficiently consistent to recommend itsdlf 4 4l er, .Colonel. Ross, to a Court-Martial, upon various 2,vould• not endeavourto bolster it up by quotihg.pag': 'charges, •and they proved but one of them, ancl• the sages frOrn authoriwho had probably token a pr..' tlentence of the Court was, that in respect of the one view of the question. The reason which .he - proved, he should be reprimanded. The letter of the offer to the 'House to reject' this motion was, Judge Advocate stated that his Majesty confirmed was one which tended_ to abridge what had the sentence ; but it also conveyed a stricture on the prerogative of the Crown from tire earliest periodssif conduct of the prosecuting officers, and stated that English Monarchy, and which was necessary for.* maintenance head. ,The, 'wish tolike .to itt-siplendc -aton).would f tpt a prerop Abe Honoural .04 pserogati tll prerogativ *rip). He a Illat:4het•Prero 'earliest practi rer . to the Stai be riamd, tha toga of Char piitant gotert iiie;.Wid and; further :r t v he e e s was rn con idered the matter, th placing had I Crown. If tl wai the consts (erred to, he w year, which, i the power to A dismiss them. cised this lrrerc framing artid ingly, in the Second, articl spewed the pc appeased, inds Whether the Court-Martial themselves des the Crown cou' If, then, it was periods, they to see if any and if not, it si occa.ion to ob present that B and elsewhere Army, and t leges. In his gate the Crow not possess b which were n( laW.•And, ind to skew that process of law the Laws and The Mutiny 11 to maintain a nevershekss was requisite t , ing to more s[ law those who of law. The blish Courts-) trial and punis -Act did not A It then went o Articles of tations, further being adjudge tain crimes sp • had contended nishment awat Palmetvton) di of dismissing mein of service own breast. in the case qt Crown was e e bsaid. that In-tinny cases ist4l, in piac Was on the sid said that the S service since' A' rood oppressio that. he had 34 SO be injustice, oppression in i krot—thin this day, nor Lah 4)611i g been 14 .WV4, thtatigh Pa rl power, shewii 111•404 by rthps4 Shilvanirso t A l die dignity to et command of •cia,ef trunk' ttve loot iit, Pr, .Ipu,st. '6 Coort-M artia Agice of ~kg, of din. 'read I 446 " X 0 acts PA4tsive *tight Qom. :his vs Men elle bit b7tire who year to p ar arid their Ilan suPPoIe the c: - tiPt"Pf the ch L'Aglaberproc.e 4 constaUs .; the cobject of 11 4rtd n which an.b edecamoies 4 CIYALI itPi • • Mil C aS iOnt . WOUM Co nn Martial and. the Offic that the civil their righ ts vi pertpinitinge diked ,b y *it cati onould s , the lie w sus were tremendous powers,. babe injustice, fficient for the Advisersof • oppression in i without any trial at : a11...:- • just assertion. icussion on this subject's,* UtosAdis missed a Court- NI a r tial • might bit isilue--thin w ellow-feeling towards their this day, nor n • (Colonel •Ltaviesj•foußd, - tagalg h toshei od abundantly shewn s that ^ having been ch as rather in•favour of the , la MVO, a :4t glitary Isoamar primed.% . 1 thibligh Parlt F a friendless aceased.e— , I Power, ahewin, command of a I that this was a McOit *I /0 .4 1 1 1 / 14Sr fthsll4l cially When it was conoi• ahatuaokroo ob se effect of renderirig4i rlkeilignity 1 Wa•illustratett the Crown, and thus,:iii , Le44:tuniito the he interests of the soldiers To tolerate such : a pow4r ~ hat House a guiliticui,tru- *ewe( Cratity F. , -ht be said, that autasueYt ti " tot Plit, 1 1 the People against the Cler,„ . 9 .MTt. refer iome extent ; and was IF- unat-Martial, ing James IL of gnglaful. • PrAetice of con that religious feelings.ltad ~kg, . o f eou the soldiery on that ooca- ( lair Woad be o ings had not been cid* / 11 4h1 feeder ley would not hare' jobtei d tis•CllXO acts c Honesty was the beat po? foa‘ite "eight I th at home and abroad, c__ _ 44l4 r•ltis No t to make the Army at lii • "'°,_ tht . the biltf cessary to place it beyond . 07 rose who .n The Hun. Membei.cove - , Year to fear 1 . and their harm be Committee to insert askof. " s uPPale the cas unit any Officer beipg44# 4 l# 119 0 the chi Court-1114rtial,• Ina.ZAr tore i t ale **be . proc t ee ally Officer, non-CO ft constae kludged by a Coott-lfaxt* •I , . 1 ..., • . am assured the House.thetifr .I. _,''''''. l lloge of hi as. objecting to the asseialll • .r ... ,_,Amtp, tnet.g. opposite, it was not hi.; l t e n.i n . eh an blil pie of referring to •. ": .' -•• Awceunies of l support of what be. .laps..%Wil kii s iduce to the , House anoint catina, - wout.4 s nt to recommend itsdifeho C "," . k.lartial: I ster it up by quoting s pairs and the tkif icer I probably taken a partial :at the civil LA reason whick •he nseamie alit rights viol r this motion was, thatii r i ert rinfritiged • abridge what hadisoirs ~.._ __l t ted'hy those -on] the earliest peiodsel c .,7 l uni, the else rich was necessary for *a me would supp 4 . , 4