The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-17 00:00:00

THE MUTILATION OF A CHILD AT THE HORSE GUARD

—The public was greatly shocked a few days since b
the details of as atrocious a piece of barbarity as th
savage mind could conceive, and the most brutalised of
our species could execute, upon a young and helpless
child, at the head-quarters of that British army renowned
for gallantry and mercy under the most trying circum-
stances in warfare. The poor child, Lambden, has
beyond all question been injured for life, and without at
all commenting upon the scene at Bow-street, on Friday
last, before Mr. Jardine, who made two payments of 7s
to the widowed mother of the infant, we may state what
has been done by the War-office authorities. The act of
cruelty, it will be remembered, was committed during
the Earl of Derby's administration, but the resignation
of the noble lord's Cabinet precluded the inquiry ordered
by the Right Hon. W. Beresford, Secretary-at-War,
being carried out. The succeeding Ministry, however,
had not lost sight of the matter, and their sense of re-
pugnance, sharpened by the interrogatories of the press at
the brutality, was marked by an immediate order on the
par tof the Right. Hon. SidneyPerbert, present Secretary
at-War, for a searching inquiry being instituted. On
Tuesday week last, the parties acting as servants at the
War-office, and who, by their own evidence, were the
only persons present when the inhumanity was perpe-
trated, and all of whom denied all knowledge of how the
injuries were inflicted, were summoned by Mr. Benja-
min Hawes' Under-Secretary-at-War, to appear before
the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. The whole circum-
stances were thoroughly gone into, but as consistency
with the statement before the magistrate at Bow-street
was the safest course, the Secretary-at-War failed to
elicit anything which could criminate the morally ac-
cused. The Secretary-at-War, than whom a more
humane man does not exist, as his long-known philan-
thropy testifies, expressed himself very strongly upon
the case, and held out an inferential threat that the ser-
vants would have time to consider the propriety of arriv-
ing at a decision as to giving up the name of the
offender, or all being dismissed, without any benefit
whatever for long servitude. This, it is to be hoped,
will bring the inhuman wretch before the bar of public
justice, to meet with that punishment he or she so justly
merits, and until which time the public feeling must re-
main outraged.—Dispatch.
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