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were to he met with, and the sentence in the
case before the House might be of use to them, for
it served to slim that my Lord this, or my Lord
that, would look.in vain for favour or promotion
in the army, if he were not attentive to his duty.
The precedent; indeed, which this sentence afford-
ed, promised the most salutary results, while it
completely negatived the idea of favouritism. In
fart, there could be no 'possible presumption to
excuse that idea ; for how could the suspicion be
entertained where the decision was against twen-
ty-six Officers of the first families and connertions
in the Empire, and in favour only of one old Offi-
cer of no family connections whatever in the
country—of an Officer, indeed, who had raised
himself to rank in the army by his Own merit,
""d who had enjoyed no favour but what he de-
rived from that merit, particularly in bringing the
regiment to which he belonged to the highest
state of discipline ?—(Hear, hear, hear'.)--"The
Right Hon. Gentleman concluded with declaring
his conviction, that no Parliamentary ground bad
been laid for the motion under consideration, and
therefore he expressed a hope that the House
ivrottld see the propriety of declining to interfere
Avith the sentence of a Court-Martial, to which
interference, indeed, he trusted that Parliament
would ever be adverse, unless very strong grounds
should be made out, imperiously calling for a de-
-viation from its general practice.
VYSE spoke in favour of Colonel Quentin,
and could not consent to that House becoming a
Court of Appeal on the present occasion.
Mt. BRAND said, in the reign of George 11. in
1745, the House had, in one case, thought pro-
per to interfere with the decision of a Court-
Martial, in the case of Captain Norris, when, in
the teeth of Mr. Pelham, the Minister of that day,
they had voted the proceedings to be " partial,
arbitrary, and illegal." He commented on the
hardship of Colonel Palmer's case, who had not
signed the letter which had been mentioned, who
had engaged in the prosecution but in obedience
to the commands he had received, and conducted

biinself with the utmost forbearance, te►nl;erance,
and candour, while he anxiously laboured to do
justice to the cause confided to him by those
who had so often fought, and conquered, and
Wad by his side. lie thought there was no-
thing in the proceedings before the Court-Mar-
tial to justify the conclusion come to at the Horse
Guards. On this account, he desired the Mi-
nutes might be produced, that the grounds of it
should be seen. He contended there could have
been no jealousy of Colonel Quentin that would-
have set on the °dicers to endeavour to get him
out of the regiment; for as he had never been na-
turalized, he could not have retained the corn-.
tnand beyond the 17th of next June, when the
suspension of the Settlement Act would expire.
Mr. Serjeant BEST was confident it must he felt
by every 6ne that read the names of the Officers
removed from the 10th Hussars, that-tbe Regent,
in issuing the order for their removal, had made a
great sacrifice of private feeling to public duty.
Notwithstanding the relaxation which was ad-
mitted to have taken place in the regiment, Lord
Combermere and Lord Edward 6omerset had ac-

kuowledged there was still discipline enough in
the hour of trial to secure those results which
constitute the soldier's glom They
.had been
praised not merely for their valour, but for their
steadiness and discipline. He contended Colonel
Quentin could with propriety have done no
other titan he had done, and shewed that the
only proper course that could be pursued, was
to call' a Court-Martial. He then took a retro-

spective view-of the conduct of tf►e Officers con

cerned in the prosecution, and noticed the delay
which had occurred in bringing the charges for-
ward, awl time intimacy which, in the mean time,
had subsisted between Colonel Quentin and some
of the parties. He contended no sufficient ground
had been made, out to justify any interference on
the part of that House.. In time case of Captain
Norris, the decision that the proceedings before
the Court-Martial had been ." partial, arbitrary,,
and illegal,", of itself proved, a case had been
made out very different from the present..
Mr. IlEtersoN was of opinion that the sentence
of the Regent, far from being severe, was one of
great lenity. -

-Sir C. gURRELL could see nothing to complain
of in the conduct °Elbe Officers who had been re-

moved, and should vote accordingly. Consider-
ing the Due di Quiche a most important witness
on two of the charges, had been absent, he
thought the sentence the hardest thing that could
be imagined.
After a tew words from Mr. I'. Moottg, Colonel
PALmHa replied. No fact that he had advanced

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bad been disproved. The question now before
the House he conceived .to be this—whether the

Charges were founded or unfounded—if they

were the former, interference might be proper—
if the latter, they deserved what they lied met
with.—The House then divided—

Ayes 37
Nue4 . . . . .
Majority against the Motion . -107
Adjourned at Twelve o'clock.

ABSTRACT OF IMPORTANT PARLIAMENTARY

PAPEILS.—( Co be rept/arty.)

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the Nary, 1,314,50 N. :—to toe Paymaster of the .Forces,
V!`.3,oo.ol.:—Remains

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expired and expiring Laws, the Property Tax Act is recorded
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