The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-08-26 00:00:00

CAPTAIN CAREY AND THE EX-PRINCE

NAPOLEON.

the Majesty's troopship Jumna, from Natal, with
Ro Marines and Carey on board, arrived
in Ilymouth Sound on Wednesday evenior. The
rsissntathe of the Prose Association had
ndirvtsw with Captain Carey, who la only and':
nominal arrest, and bad perfect freedom on boari On
the arrival of the Jaunts in the Sound the Rev. A. F.
Carey, the vine of Barham. Delon, the captain's
father, asked that his son might be pemitted to go
ashore, but that privilege was denied. Captain Carey
received the representative of the prew in a very
eourteous manner, sod when asked to state his cme as
to how the late Prince now by his death, he paid that
he (Captain Carey) had been reconnoitring and
choosing a line of ads ance for the army, under
from Lod Cheltusfoni. He onweiuently
chose one, and warn ordered to make a map of it.
The day before the fatality to the Prince, Captain Carey
said he rode out with Colonel Buller, and told that
ofSctir that there was a donga thirty feet wide across
the reed which be had chosen for an advance. He
vest beard that the Prince was going out over the
r0e.1,, to make a more detailed report and to choose •
camp, Under thaw circumstances, Captain Carey
thought Ne would go. out with the Prince, and
reconnoitre the road still further. In this way he
wont out, and n 0.4 not upon any duty whatever. Ife
um e party, but the
not given the command of th
Priam had the eoie entire charge, and
in.veaienoe and order
idmply for hie own personalvey That
thloerWtiPrinoshishadmathP the (14" ht 'w warn evident
control of
_the psi. had been
from the fact that whenever Captain dare; -eaten
=eat out he hsd always received v. •
whereas en the occaaion when the
ene Wed he had nobietrueemn. whatsoever. Captain
ames7 awsertad,_agata aad again that he tim not on
than but that be was rdad out for his awyninforma-
tiec. speaking of the r.ulu attack, esprsin Carey said
that when It was made they acted m as to ears their
own lives. The cries of the Zulu. win Of iOth
character ea to startle the__ buries, anno d one could
love brought them up. If= had tried to make •
Mod 1$ would him boss and Ult had been

made they would all have lost their Hem His desire
wee that the evidence at the cour-martial should be
Pub'Med, so that the nation might be enabled to judge
of kis conduct in the matter. Upon being told that an I
addreas of sympathy, numeromly signed, had been
prepared for him in Plymouth, but could not be pre-
sented to him, he being under &meet, Captain Carey
replied that he WM gratified to know that hia fellow-
countrymen remembered him.
Captain Carey ham been released from arrest, and
ordered to return to duty, the proceednurs of the
1 court-martial having been ounalied for illegality.
1 The Portsmouth correspondent if the Press ASSOCi&•
tion telegraph. that Captain Carey ha. not yet
received any forum' document relating to the vmdiet,
of the court-martial, nor have any yet been sent to
the general commanding the district, Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar. The general'. instructions were
from the Duke of Cambridge, and he was directed to
explain to Captain Carey that the ‘fueen had
manifested considerable interest in the eft.e, and had
graciously expressed her entire concurrence with the
deciaion, which exculpate,' him from the grave charge
which had been alleged egainat him. Captain Carey
might therefore consider himself relearned. Colonel
Harriaon was blamed for not taking full precautions
in respect of the escort, but Lord Chelmsford was
completely exonerated, se he was under the impression
that Colonel Harriman had especial charge of the Prince.
As regarded Captain Carey himself, the commander-
in-chief and her Majesty regretted that he did not me
his way to help the Prince, but they did not consider
him to have at all acted in a discreditable way.
Captain Carey then applied for permisaion In r'
leave, when the general gave him a few days, . •
that if Captain Carey would mud in a fo
application it would be extended. Prince Edward,
in conchndon, said he had no idea what the finding of
the court-martial was. .

Captain Carey, it seems, wad actually found gillty
of come of the offences alleged against him and was
sentenced to be dismiss...A from the service. The state-
ments made by the Government in both Houses in
reference to the paition .4 Prince Louie Napoleon
were grossly inaccurate. It was " impossible," Perla-
went was told, that the Prince could have been in
command of the reconnoitring expedition, because he
held no position in the Queen'e Army. Yet we arc
now coolly informed that the Prince really did com-
mand the little tarty, awl that Captain Carey, no far
from being its leader, himself accompanied the Prince
am a volunteer. The truth having come out, there is
nothing for It but to bury in oblivion the extraordinary
statements of the Prime Minister and the Duke of
Cambridge; the sentence of the Court-Martial has
been quashed ; and Captain Carey Is to retain his rank
in the service as if nothing had happened.