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London, England, 1821-10-10 00:00:00

lame( waslieyead all doubt salbjeet to ata►tial law, aad it
U ►e now said limit I as es larger is Ibis predientint, I
desire to waive all objection de the jetiedletioa da sisilitary
tribes's', is order that as ebidaeie Nosy be ialerpeand to the
inquiry 'Alai coml.
m It is with eitsteigaed Feistiest., that I spin prewinre to
resided poor Royal Highueas of those services which you
were formerly pleased Is acknowledge, but the strange shwa-
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trou is *4WD .1 co Now as isosecoses Übe, placed compels
use to refer your Royal Righttes• to your letter of the Satb
January 1813. 11611 the illorinniesto to which It relates, In fee•
they support of eiy claims to /Notice nu the prevail occasion.
" I have the hoover to be,
" Tour Royal Highness's moat obedient Servant,
" R. WILSON."

" florae Guards. October 9, nil.
" sia—l knee to orison ledge t►e receipt of your letter
of yesterday, urging 'gaits au investigation lute your eon-
to slick I eau only reply, that baying laid your lamer
application before his Majesty, sod communicated to you
bis Majesty's wrath/lieut. spew it, I do not consider myself
warranted is taking any further step.

" I am, Sir, yours,
. w FREDERICK.
" To Sir Robert 'Wilson. Ceienesamier is Chief."
Although in the above correspondence the Duke
of Y oak appears merely in his military character,
us Co tttttt we must not forget (hut
he is the first Corsisoisaioner in the list of persons
to whom the Kies, on his departure for Hatiover,
thought fit to delegate his powers. His answer,
therefore, may be considered as the final answer
of the Executive. The severity of Sir Roomer
WILSON'S case is so clearly stated in his letter, we
can add nothing to enforce it, and little remains
but to express our surprise sod (egret for his fate.
To punish a man without charge or trial is so re•
volting to British feeling and every principle of
British justice, the Treasury scribes on the
first °lgraine of the business justified the re-
fund of • trial, upon the alleged ground that so
all officer on half-pay he was not amenable to
military law; bat Sir ROBERT WILSON in his
answer contends that before his dismissal Le was so
subject. and that if any "Objection Dow exists he is
ready to waive it; so that the justification attempted
is of no avid. The whole argument, therefore,
resolves itself into the sir nolo sic jubro. The
die is cast ; there cats be no revision of the
sentence. The case having been decided once,
his Royal Highness says, " he does not consider
himself warranted in tsking any further steps."
Like the laws of the Medes and Persians, it is
immutable and irrevocable. An innocent man may
be 'offerings severe punishment, but this is not to
excite any frefing of regret or remorse. While
the filen its Council can sit in deliberation
upon the case of every capital convict of the
Old Bailey, the case of Sir ROBERT WIL.
SON is not held worthy of reconsideration. It
would he only so much time thrown away upon it,
and his long series of splendor, and meritorious ser-
vice in hie profession, instead of enlisting kindness
and favour, oil his side, is converted into the mean,
of punishment. In no other line of life could the
property expended by Sir RoasaT WILSON in the
army have been confiscated at the will and pleasure
of Ministers.

---" Oh ! it is exrellent
To have a giant's strength"
Rut we hope we shall never menu see a giant's
strength exercised in this (way. The means of vin-
dicating his character being tits refu.ed by
Government, Sir ROBERT Wt Lsox eau only look
fur redress to the country and the House of Coin.
moos. The one has it in its power to make him
compensation for his pecuniary hum, and a vote of
the other may heul his wounded feelings.

We have received some more Paris Papers of
Saturday's date. It is stated, under dry head of
N'ier.tia, that the King of ENGLAND is expected in
that capital about the end of the present month,
and that preparations have already commenced
for Isis reception. When his MAJESTY kit Eng-
land, it was not expected be would extend LIS
journey beyond Hanover.

We have received Halifax (Nova Scotia) Papers
to the 1811 i last. They contain an account of a
dea►ructive fire which bloke out in that town on
the preceding day.

Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke id.
YORK held a levee at his office at the Horse Guards
as Coinniander-iu-Cliief, which was very uuweruu.ly
*trended.

Lurd SIDISOUTH has returned to town, and on
Monday tratuucted business at the FlOnie
The Earl of LIVERPOOL remains at %Vollmer
Castle. His Lordship uut expected in toots fur
sonic days.
The Right Honourable NICHOLAS VANSITTART
arrived its Downing-street UllUtlihlyg trout his beat
Us Kent.

The vitriol's reductions in the contemplation of
Ministeis which ure interstled to be made before the
1.1 of January next, it is now said will amount to
Iwo 'millions a year.—(Preming l'uper.)
• Letters received in Glamow on Friday, by the
Jamaica mail, state that the appearances of coin-
mereial affair. in the countries adjoining the bottom
of the Cult of Mexico, were rather more cheering
than at the data of the laid accounts. We regret
to learn that intelligence brought by this mail af..
fords *cry gloomy prospects to the planters in .14--
m.nca fur the ensuing crap. Excessite dry wea-
ther, both Ira that island mid Cuba, bud severely
injimed the canes, and we learn that the smite
injury lee. bees; widely and *eyelety felt in most of
Ucr Windwsid

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