The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-08 00:00:00

It will be remembered that at a particular neriod of the Penis..
solar War, the Duke of Wellington issued to the Army under
his command certain General Orders, rebuking la very strong
terms its bad discipline and disorderly conduct. It is understood
that a similar address has lately emanated from his Grace, In his
new character of Prime Minister ; and the following paper, pur.
porting tq be such a document, has been transmitted to us with
an assurance that it may be fully relied upon as genuine. We
cannot say we give this assurance implicit credit, but our readers
will judge for themselves.—Eorroa.
Head-quarters, Treasury Chambers, el Noy., P 1 P.
General Orders addressed to all the servants of Government
acting under the command of Field Marshal his Gram the Duke
of Wellington, First Lord et' the Treasury, Lord Warden of the
Cinque Poi ts, a Commissioner of Trade and Plantations; and of
the India Board; of Chelsea Hospital ; Prince of Waterier) hs
the Netherlands; Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain, and of Vit
toria in Portugal; Field Marshal of Austria, Prussia, Russia.
France, and the Netherlands; Marshal.Geeeral of Portugal, and
Captain-General of Spain ; a Grandee of Spain of the higher
class ; Baron, Earl, and Marquis of Wellington, of Doum, and
of Torres Vedraa ; Viscount Talavera ; Knight of the Garter;
Grand Cross of the Bath, and of the Royal Guelphic. Order of
Hanover; and Knight of the great Orders of Europe.
Ills Grace the Field Marshal, First Lord ref the Treasury, hi
entering upon the conduct of afilars in the first Parliament vt
the new reign, deems it necessary to address all descriptions of
persons associated under his Grace in the service of his Majesty,
for this purpose of filly impressing their minds wills a sense of
the nature of the service they are called upon to render ; as well
as of the dun subordination and implicit obedience which his
Grace the Field. Marshal, and First Lord of the Treasury, is
fully resolved tit enforce Of his Grace's determination on this
head, a memorable example was herd out to all the servants of
Government, in the dismissal coon after the Premier and Field
Marshal was called to the head of Areas, of =individual in other
respects well deserving to be characterised as a most useful anti
laborious officer of State ; but who, unhappily, having been all
his life engaged in the civil service, had imbibed notions which
prevented his demeaning himself in a manner accordant vlith
that wholesome discipline. on which his Grace's military expe-
rience has taught hint to set so just a value, and of the advantage
of introducing which into thecivil departments of the King's see.
vice, the Field Marshal and Premier entertains the most =doubt-
ing conviction. The discharge of this Abider was attended by
the resignation of several persons attached to him from a simila-
rity of opinions, principles, and habits. In sup lying the vacant
places, his Grace experienced a momentary difficulty, and the
Kin?'s service sustained possibly some Inconvenience ; but
whatever may have been the superior capabilities of the
malcontents, and the evils occasioned by the loss of their
services, it will have been seen, from the firmness and constancy
with which his Grace has adhered to their successors, supporting
them throughout all their failures and-mischances, and in consi-
deration of their good intentions and submissive disposition,
overlooking manifold errors and defects on their pad. 110 W high
a place in his Grace's esteem is allotted to the qualities of mind
displayed by those last-named individuals. Wise observations
of the Field-Marshal and Premier will be understood to refer to
those civilians whom the necessities of business lay him under the
irksome obligation of associating with his gallant comrades in the
conduct of affairs. It would, no doubt, have been his Grace's
highest pride and ambition to have formed a Government exclu-
sively and entirely military ; but certain clerkly qualities, only to
no found among civilians, are indispensible in some public depart-
ments those more especially connected with the finance, such as
the Mint and Exchequer. It is true that the Home Department
does not fall within this description, that department unquestion-
ably affording a field for the display of the highest qualities be-
longing to the character of a soldier. It is, nevertheless,
tilled by a civilian, yet by one whose total devotion to the
Field-Marshal and Premier, whose dexterity in political ma.
'oeuvres, and whose readiness to march and countermarch
in ready submission to orders, might vie with the molt of
the most distinguished officer of his Grace's staid: But it is
matter of great felicitation to his Grace, that although a few
civil servants be necessarily associated in the Government for
the performance of the more.heavy official details, they yet hold a
duly subaltern position, and arepersone of temper the most facile
and accommodating. Meanwhile, the Field Marshal and Premier
has the glory of presidieg over an Administration essentially, 4111 i
t'ar beyond all example in the annals of England, military ;
having in his Cabinet two General Officers, apt to conceive anti
prompt to execute the plan of operations laid down for them;
while his Grace is bold to say that every inferior office which a
military man is qualified to till is so occupied. His Grace has
also reason to rejoice In seeing in command at the Horse-Guards,
and at the head of the Ordinance, two officers, the associates of
his foreign campaigns ; through the medium of whom, trained
as they have"b%. at in the discipline of camps, and habituated to •
receive his Grace's orders, both departments are as completely
under the range of his ace's influence and controul as if he
himself continued personally in the direction of them ; while by
the recent nomination of another gallant General Officer to the
Chief Secretaryship of Ireland (an elites too long tilled by a civi-
lian), that country is placed under proper military regulation.
In contemplsting these arrangements it is impossible for hits
Grace the Field Marshal and Premier to refrain the express
sion of his satisfaction at the unity thus Wittily established
throughout all the various departments of his Onverninent, an
end being happily put to all those weak notions of individual re.
sponsibility in the subordinate members of Government, as well
as to the vain conceits on their part of personal independence, by
which public operations have been long so miserably obstructed
and embanassed. The whole is now happily subjected to the
=trout of the Field Marshal and Premier 111111#14:14 and, lit
fine, such dispositions have been made as enable his Grace,
not less in the most minute details than in the grandest opera.
titans, to issue his own orders, and make known his own plea-
sure, with aboolwe certainty of perfect and implicit acquiescence
throughout all the multiplied branches of the King's service,
through the enflict of the arrangement made with reference to
the coatuuttid of the army, which was so long directed by s late
illustrious member of the Royal Family, on a system entirely
exclusive of all Ministerial interference, as well as by the revival
ot the Board of Admiralty, which was, fora period, Mutinies
tered on a like noxious itinciple of independence, together with
the preference every where given to military =novel the conso.
quoit invigoration of all the departments of Government, by au
infusion of the spirit animating such men, anti the mend the-
crimination exercised in the selection of the civilians admitted
into offics, it may be his Grace's boast that the legitimate power
and influence of those who hold the supreme direction of affair;
in Great Britain has been concentrated and corroborated to an
extent which cannot fail to be attended by great results. That
power and that influence, so concentrated and corroborated, it is
ins Grace's firm resolve to make subservient to the purposes and
business of Government; and his Grace . thus holds out to per.
sons °revery state and degree, within the range thereof, this his
solemn wanting, that each of thorn do, and shall, according to
hilt several capacity, be aiding and assisting in and towards the
furtherance of the orders of Government without In the least
presuming to canvass or cavil at the same, as they and every of
them shall tender the permanent enjoyment of their several
places and preferments whatever they may be, and value the
unrelenting displeasure of his Grace the Field Marshal and
Premier.
Haying Addressed so much to all classes of the officers of Go.
vernment generally, the present is a fitting occasion for his
Grace to signify his commands to thew whom their ditty may
call to serve the Administration in either House of Parliament.
As respects the attendance of Peers, his Grace, ever willing to
relieve those who serve under him from unnecessary hardship,
has the satisfaction of saying that the constant attendance of
their Spiritual Lordships (which will be secured by due regard to
translations in that body) exonerates his Grace from making
any particular call on the punctuality of the temporal Peers, the
number of Mamie; in waiting being at all times sufficient, in
conjunction with the Lords in office snit the Law Lords, to se,
cure majorities:. But by all Members of the House of Commons
anxious to join the ranks of his Grace's friends and supporters
and by all now included in those ranks, the Field Marshal anti
Premier desires it may be understool, that at a quarter Ixtbre
three o'clock precisely the Party Members whose duty it may be,
for the day, to serve in putting the Speaker in the Chair, will
essonble in the House ; and on no pretence whatever to retire
until the great body of the farces of the banisters shall occupy
their positions, and the general engagement of the evening cont.
inence; after which, on application Mate proper officer, leave
to quit the House '(or temporary refteshment may be obtained.
It is also expected that other Members (not so ai before ap.
pointed to escort the Speaker) hhall Ilaye dined and be in readi.
mess to take their places at five precisely; and if, when both
parties shall have selected their ground, it appear that the opera.
tient of the evening are likely to be extentital, and always pros
riding that the Leader of the Ministers shall not betray such
manifest signs of weakness and nistress as may make the
presence of the meanest individual needllii to give !inn coon.
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Tory till the division.bell shall ring ,• but on no pretext what.
some- gelag beyond the reach of C 411; And when called, enter.
ing the House. and resuming his place with sufficient premix.
tasttee'doteut
Weide to hear the Speaker put the question—as the character of
a sluggard Is every way unbecoming a Tory militant—and his
Grace has known instances of a vote being lost, by roam of
the voter (although very zealous) not being able to state, when
required, the subject of the division. Hi' Grace desires it may
be moreover distinctly understood that he expects and wishes for
no more fano his Members than lie should from his soldiers;
and that the occupation In patient silence and steadiness, of the
assigned post, Is, in his Grace's aoprehensiou, the real rit of
both characters. Proper persons will be appointed and inmesteucted
to speak; and will, as ordered. is fitting time and manner dis.
charge that duty; but his Grace will visit with his severest dis-
pleasure all voluwecr babblers, it being his earnest command
that except on the accustomed signals, no cry, either of applause
or disapprobation shall proceed ffoni the benches occupied by
his supporters. His Grace also declares that any attempt to
fasten a quarrel upon a Member attached to the Oplassiboll
forces, will meet with his severe animadversion, such attempts
being only attended by a ftsrther accession of popular cond.
denee steel esteem to the individual so menaced, and expos-
ing in a manner carefully to be avoided, the weighty per-
sonal interest in thwarting the efliirts of Opposition which
the servaitts of Govermeient have. ! In reference to the con-
duct of the debates about to ensue his Grace lays his cum.mends upon all whose province it rosy be to engage therein, that
they carefully abstain item any rash and preouteptuouS effilla le j
reveal the motives of Government. It is seldom that the real •
motives of a Cabinet are, such as It is, proper to avow ; and his
Grac has wen the Servants of Government frequently ditconi..
Med inheir etibrts to palm fictitious reasons upon the world. in
ids opinion all elaborate reasonings, abstract disquisitions, and
general expositions of policy, whether nireign or domestic, are
dangerous and mischievoua, generally invnleing the Kra= who
adventures up= them in discrepancies not to be reenuciled
without betraying more than is prudent (tithe views of Govern-
ineitt and the real potation of Obits, and occasioning endiese
charges of inconsistency and tergiversation caleulated to degrade
Statesmen ln the apprehensions of the vulgar. All that his
Grace's officers aro to do, therefore, is, in distinct terms, fully,
and yet without idle amplificetton, to state the measures resolved
upon by his Grace's Government, adding, after the manner prac-
tised by lii, Or em Mosel() (Or ahow of reason, a few plain argu-
ments drawn limn the very surface of things, and obvious to the
meanest understanding, but not entering any depth into the
scatter. In reply it too be permitted to torture and pervert the
reasoning* of the Opposition; and it'. as in the present state of
parties must often happen, conflicting statements or arguhmente
shall lie made tin of by Oillhrent Members of the very etero-
geneous Opposition now in the field, it will be prudent always to
rest satisfied with desiring the one Member to answer the other.
By this inanosuvreLit is evident that the fully mid extraVoilloKe
of any part or the opposition May be made eneetually to routs. Use the sagacity and ability elf' the rest.
\Vital respect to recruiting his forces, the Field Marshal and
Premier desires to make known as extensively as portable, hie
readinetaa to weicerne into its camp inert of every variety of eel-
'Mons sect anti party, comet they whence they may, provided that
they bring with them a withers spirit of obedience; (tattoo with
alacrity about the work appeinted to them, and accepting in
!thankfulness and contentment their allotted portion of pay.
SPhe members of his (Grace's immediate Staff and .Crittinet 'Arc
iierinittexl to suggest Mr his Grace** consideration eat!) Its own
individual opinion; but in that spirit of implicit compliatce,
and with that complete aubuilesion of private judgment doe to ,