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'earls the penal. outliority ON the Genres?. tie
had coomeisai.ved asd •pestuuted. It is, to tine.
superfluous p;uve what IS loqOvid dentit. and is
not denied, that It musts, pasimoriate rnistbre had
broken out between these two high authoritio.
77. The Commaniter.ia-Chielof an army. m ea
open dud ardent oppositiou ti the Gioverittneut which
he serves, it no trivial event, and constitutes a state
of things from which none cousegneuces applicable
to this question have appeared to us to follow.
7`. We consider their circumstaucte. thereforei
as turoishiug a new modiaciniun of the military
principle brat asserted ; and we are of opinion, that
in such extraordinary and momentous iiiierseuries.
it it fit end necrttery to require, that as Aker
whose duty it it to give currency to the indent of
the Contioander-in-Chief, should, contrary to the
general principle of blind obedience which ought
to prevail ur ordinary times, direfully consider these
orders. sod deliberote seriously upon their nature
and purview. before he pulibehes theta. The cir-
culatiou, in heated arid ruining times, of a seditious
address to the army, has uo &otology to the principle
of military obedience, to • military order in thr
common (boleti' h of sod cannot be govern-
ed by the seine rules.
79. We are. after mach and serious reflection,
decidedly of opinion, that this restriction of the mi-
litary principle. the general Importance of which we
nevertheless feel most sensibly, cannot impair the
obligations of military subordination and obedience,
in any manner or degree, prejudiciul to the natural
and legitimate o'ljecta of military co iiiiii mod ; cod
that, in times of trouble, it way afford a must solo-
tury and necessary protection to the Government
mud people. ageing the possible perversion of nolitari
supremacy telhe purpehes of teilltiOti or faction.
be. In a natural and wholesome at lie of things.
the obedience of subordinate °the. rs is to be
idiot ; admitting of 110 deliberation, end soLjeet to
no responsibility. except for plain and insuifest
crimes. lu ?Mai distempered seasons of open con-
tention' with Governmerits as are now in question,
addresses from Commanders-in-Chief to their ar-
mies, hating reference to such debate., are a tit
subject of deliberation to those whose office it may
be to transit:in them; and a rommisihrlity belhoging
exclusively to such occasions, toast attach even to
their official and 'Muntenia acts.

01. in conformity with the,e sentiments, we have
no douht of the responsibility of the late Adjutant
and Deputy-Adjutant-General of your army, un
the occasion of publishing the General Order of
the 38 t h January; and ire are of opinion, that if
the author of that order is himself guilty of st di-
tion. u we esteem him to be, these contidertini
°thefts of the Staff, who cotiserited to be the in-
struments of his crime. are under ail the circum-
stances implicated in the guilt and snbject to the
penalties of the offence.

42. If there mere doubt, however, upon this gory-
firm, which, as weighing general and fund/noel:tol
principles against particular modifications of them,
must always be s delicate one. we cannot quit the
subject without repeating, that it is not a tit matter
for the iiithrference of the army itself. In what
particulars a tidiest may consist; snder what dr-
comstances the Official instrumentality of an officer
in the critne of • superior, shall subject film to per-
soaal responsibility, are questious to be dist.ussed in
colder blood, and by a ditfereat description of coun-
sellors than are alwacs to be found in numerous bo-
dies at a period of Lent and irritation. They are
worthy of the inforfted sod *partial deliberation
of lii. 1111.4jesty's coufi.lential Savants lad Achim,*
and of t'.;e fttipreine Rulers of the *nay of Will
the llonourAhle the Court of Direictoys.

ed. To snatch a question of diet nature and ins:
portsoce from the decision of thaw anthorities, at
thy very moment of its foe rind reference to their
judgment, and to east it as a source of discordant
violence into the midst of an army already warmly
agitated, is the part of incendiaries and not of
&wads, either to the army or the State: It is a
great crime, and being that of which the officers,
who hare lately expert...iced the murk. of your dis-
pleasure have appeared to you on a careful investi-
gation of the facts to have been guilty, we have no
hesitation, although we deeply lament the occasion
of this necessary oeverity, in approviag and Cora-
mending the vigilant truer?! wilts sr hAlt yon have
in 11 s• man of great difficulty amid dat:ger asserted
the legal untharity of your Curti-mut lit. presente4
the factious contagion from spreading through the
tionouralile awl hitherto untainted ranks of -the
Coast Army. and provided for the recurity and lb.,
tegrity of the British. Empire in India. -
Va. Yon mitt pereetse. that Much 'or what MU'
been said on the Menthael, is apjihscable
Address to Major Boles.
85. This is a:.• n nseasiire connected with a
military combination. • it assumes the cognizance
of a tenedion which belongs to littler foal higher
It'proitoti:lcei. in the name of drally,
open censure of the Goserunient, which lie arum'
is bound to •bey. •
In these respects it mamas on the same foot-
ing, and partaken us sill the erijaiinthisialthe paper
or bare already corwideresi. oust there js. in the
addreire to Major Boles. a character of transcend-
ant guilt and danger. which is peculiar to itself.
• We allude to the scheme of which it professes to
lay the foundation, of a combinitinn of private
power to contest with the poorer of GurtrAttunC
°victimised resources of resistance, mutual support
against the hand of justice; and indemnity egoista
the legal corioeirsence of crime's. •
e 7. We do not know how it is possible to approach
much nearer that erlreme crier,, which he so em-
phatically menaced is the Memorial, without reach-
ing it. We treat, however, confidentl,y, that those
who have been improvidently betrayed unto thosedop-
perate cows, s, will have been awakened to a sense of
their perilous situation ; and that by arresting the
progress of the foreman, you will have saved their
inconsidecite folowers front the ruin and dishonour
to which their leaders were contacting them.
SC With Tepid to those who have t.krn a lead-
hie part in those criminal transactions, we ksl that
every principle of tried and established policy, appli-
cable to such conjunctures, and every obligation of
your hula. forbad the eitension towaids them
of a false and miischievous leaky.

8:.. %Ve cantor also entirely in the sentiments Cr..
preSnd is your. Genera! Ostlers 'of the Ist ult. that
it is not sofficieot for Akers bottling comrosoJs to
avoid partleriation it, such procteattigs. but that it
is time posittvc sod ioJispeasable dsty to adort the