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dor, ;host issforneation, from the total igaorrace In
which Sir Her Dalrymple's entire ani4 criminal
silence had left them, they very natanily mit only
discredited. bet absolutely disbelieved to be paten.
blr ?" I had indeed flattered myself that Parini-
mein would have made up for the delicieueies and
oinisisiitis•of the Court of Inquiry ; of which tins
very cite Lance. among many others, being pas-
sed uniecticed, forms a very strikiug and un-
accountable one. %Vide respect to yrnrreelf, my
Lord. it should seem to prove, that we are puiely
wad exclusively indebted to the Niag, tOr so pro-
perly and pr irtly noticing this more than suss
picions tend deliberate supinession of inforinatiou
in Sir Llew Dalrymple, sod that 1•3.1 nut His Me-
jesty inarkcil it, tines whole nothing could be more
pointed and strong, the country might have been
to this day ignorant of its obligations to Sir Hew.
I had likewise fully expected that your Lord-
ship would have olfered something liken defences
far the sispereessiatis is Portugal—And a pretty de.
fence you offered, truly : because, forsooth, a
*rimless thing, had la:•en done before, therefore,
con and your conea4iies were justified in delibe-
rately doing a senseless thing again I'y the same
rule which you seem to have set yourself, of se.
veirly reproving Sir Dew Dalrymple at one time,
for mi. omisri is, and passing it in er at another—
by .Cll,l inconsistent and contradictor) role, the
l'onveletion is defended to the debate Iry Sir Arthur
Wellesley himself, Omagh he posisteil ill protest-
ing against, ate.l cosiletsisisg it, on the precedent
of the Coisventioa of E.O pt. • The stepercession
on your part, in :he first instance, is defended on
the formal, official, empty, nothiogless grained
of tRe mere etiquette of the service—that thongh'
Wi'llenky was the •to ..4 wooer tram, from his
known tiled talents, nhiltti..s, anal liraver-, to coin.
mend 19,040 wen. 1.0.• 11141 trice: yet. wiles the
force increased to 13 or 29,4101, that, thorefore,
and tier lsre only. a commander of -perilr rank.
fin-anode, Ly perky% file ziht;le viol., more, notch.
'prdent., or ,sly external urclisustunce. however
uothingless, or lens ever foreign to the real and gr-
. ground of expectation to he formed of the
capacity and experience of Cant .ieperior Officer,
was egolipenwitly necessnrm/ to he appointed over '
his hied, in the very heat of actions while that
head 1,1.14 in the very set of Lein;; bound with lau-
rels. Upon this g ... mt. what enemerageineut does
it hold Out to every future Cnininairler—aent what •
comfort to the country ?. Who. may not
umrrason-
ably expect, the us %tient victory dowels upon linn,
to receive so official suminous to sheath his 'mord
at a moment's sionce--arrest the glowing ardour,

and the pursuit of liar vietorionv troop% like o pack
of stole-lootu.h., and their Commander, like it)tne
of the Metaaterpheraea of Ovid, to lietortie iti4tot-
taileoloily inotioulemr, and as bilellt too. to any
piorpolea of re trance, as a marble statue ? Hot
allow sue to quote your defence of tile ruperee.-
040111 in your own words The Noble Lord
(Henry Litt,) had objected to the aiipoiutniciit of
differeot Persons to countisuid, but it was a prin-
ciple 'low; known in the anne ; many in.tancer
could be collected fmni the history of the hodeuiri-
pregn in the Low Cotiotrier, where the Crownianders

linged hands.jour tinges in forty-..g/.t hours !"
(.1t this precedent there WIOI a langh, us well these
" As to his Right Ilon. Friend also had
Iron superseile.L, 144.i11111ed with the cs aaaaa :ry in soil-
issiratioss of his talents. lie its's. superseded, not.
from any distrust of his conduct, (for which flatter-
in; 11. elaration he casanot but Ise gratefisl)—bot
because a superior forte would not be cumulated
to an it fcrior (ttlicer, without doing great violence
to th• service !"--Co.nl--very good, my Lord !
admire your ►espect awl tenderness for the service,
of all thittio; hut, did it never occur to you, that,
to avoid this bugbear •• doitsg a yodeller to the
servive," yoll were slosog iris inc,alenlal.le vio-
lence and injury to the Islamist, nl• winch that ser-
vice forms ass e.x aims part ? I 11111 104 in the pro-
fundity and aesitcsie.s of your- Lordship's logic !
So, you iYoulsl leave free 'llse whole, through an
empty vomplos.ent to a part of that whole ! And
pray, say Lord, slay I abk, what ••
great vuolroce,'
or tam/ violence at all, would Sir Armor 11 ellesley's.
concluding what he had to hrillossitly all hat eve
eluded, have done to the arrive ? Would it have
given ilissatedisetiom and to whom ? To the army
the.) *miler Isis coinsmord nod victori iiii auspices ?
Would the 110.1111111V14 isl.tautly, on 10:111.A' reillfOreedt
rested 011 their sums, stood sit ease, mail fallen to
eilllVll,ll the Meter, •nil 11111 e that
now v we are double our forowr !somber, we must
no longer Ire• catuumniled by our favourite Ge-
neral, its whom we have every confidence, and be
led on by him to victory and ultimate c plate
sisccess.—No! slot one step can we now advance
with propriety, tow use trigger trill we 1101, 10111,
till a Cos ttttt ander of superior rack—we care nut
Iso, or what Is,: may be, whether brave or a coward
—a clever fellow or a Wondering blockbead—aa
experienced soldier, or actin's who hiss never smelt
prosslo: —so as he is but of superior rank—we care
out whether we bare ever sit eyes ao huts before,
or ecru have ever heard his name—that makes no

differesiee--he's the man tot our osemey. But
not o••r peg will we hudge•'tdl we ha•e a Com-
mander of superior rank—that's fiat." Ili this the
konl of •• great violence to the service," way good
Lord and Mater of Ilia Military Curesenakei tied
Sir Cleineut Cottrell of the Amy ? If tar--bat