The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-29 00:00:00

u no longer young; he has a family ; and plundered as he has
been of his early and hard-earned means of living, how is ho
to live ? The cost of bringing his claims before Parliament
-This Session cannot •be less than five hundred pounds. Why
(lid not Hobhouse permit the humble and reformed Commons
to decide upon them last year ? Is it not enough to deny
Mr. Buckingham justice, without inflicting on his honourable
Poverty ruinous expenses ? Or is Sir John determined that
we shall never forget the Honourable Company ?
No matter. Tho people of England will not consent to be
deprived of Mr. Buckingham's services in Parliament. If
200 petitions have been sent in favour of his claims, there is
public virtue enough in the nation to subscribe a sum of
Inioney for the purchase of an annuity sufficiently large (and it
need not be large) to lift him above the sneers of the enemies
of free trade and the people, in or out of Parliament. We
have now an opportunity of refuting the assertion so scornfully
blade by an Honourable Gentleman in the honourable and re-
formed House, that we are always ready to petition, and never
to Pay. Surely the representatives of commercial constituen-
f,lek---the Hindleys, the Strutts, the Ewarts, the Thorneleys,
te Scholefields, the Brothertons,"the Hutts, the Potters, the
!entineks, the Listers, the Stricklands—will support subscrip-
" nns in their respective boroughs, to secure a decent compe-
tency
~
to a man who has lost fifty thousand pounds, with all
prat it might have made, and spent two-thirds of a most active
lira in fighting for mankind their great battle of commercial
l'ertY ; a man who has done more for free trade than any
ot:,er man now living ; a man who has been the suffering in-
sltvrinilent of God in giving to India an unfettered press, and
110 has opened for us a new market in the East, ten years, at
least, before we could have obtained it without his assistance.
Oh that it depended upon the navy to decide whether Mr.
nekingham should have an independent crust in the evening
of his troubled day ! There is not a British seaman, in any
Part of the world where our bannered cross is flying., who
id not gladly give a month's pay to " The Sailors' Friend,"
the great, the eloquent, the down-trodden, yet still uncon-
quered and victorious, advocate for the., abolition of flogging
and impressment-
The people of Sheffield have at this moment before their
ey,es, in one of those deadly strikes, of which the corn mono-
ii`nY is the fruitful parent, a powerful reason for concluding
that We have not one friend too many in the House of Corn-
-411, °''s• When I was a lad, there were neither strikes nor
Z",s. If a man left his master in those days, they parted
With breakino. hearts. But we had then no anti-profit laws ;
Merchants avd manufacturers could afford to stock goods ;
241,1 d When the orders came, they were executed out of
-Teir. But we have now a law which, restricting food,
child it cannot restrict numbers, causes every additional
b,7 to subtract something from the national rate of
; so that no merchant or manufacturer can now afford
10 keep goods in stock, for there is not five per cent. gross
I"fit on them ; consequently, when the orders come, the
goods are all to make, and as time is an ingredient in the pro-
duction of all useful things, strikes and unions, in the present
'tine of the law, are inevitable, whether they succeed or not.
_ And will the artisans, the manufacturers, the merchants, of
rse°e commercial Sheffield—will the ELECTORS of Nottingham, by
oZhig to aid such men as Mr. Buckingham, when trampled
uni—piolit the enemies of free trade and the nation, give effectual
vslio;;;'; to laws which declare, " That trade shall quit
.our
Vito ."--laws which, converting the principle of population
a curse
von shall , compel the workman to say to the widow, " Thy
bound net work 1"—to the orphan, " Thou shall not be
to th tipprentice r—to the virgin, " You shall not marry I"
Sur master, " Your orders shall be executed in Germany ?"
stir Y'l"eY will not aid the rancour of party vileness, by the
au
fairi PoPular desertion, and giving Mr. Buckingham's
injostings tLe consecration of ingratitude, make them sacred to
eaPabl
are Ce' a monument for ever of the deeds which monopolists
„ e of
-Meg of d psrpetrating at home or abroad, and their advo-
reppe. afending, in that honourable assembly which is said to
of __vent, not the palaced paupers, but the self-supported men
Great Britain.
What
It/rat th is the loss of workmen's wages, and merchants' profits,
th e destruction of our cotton or file trade, compared with
iineuk'timate consequences of those laws, which, if they con-
eat: will drive all trade from this country, and produce a
o!tro-
e such as never yet has been witnessed under heaven,
ii
',can° ,of horror, a Niagara of blood If the workmen of
otgland wit:h for good and steady wages—if the masters do
wealnttend to remove their capitals to other lands—if the
hed,tnY Wish to live in peace, and the peaceable to die in their
At,:,;,they take good care that the service of such men as
aept!illloeflibinregalicrn in Parliament shall not be thrown away for
fal
SellOO w Countrymen, I am he who never yet told you a
d
Sheffield, Feb. 27, 1836.

EBENEZER ELLIOTT.

RITISH AUXILIARY LEGION.

11110„.. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
ivt7sEDINGS OF A BOARD OF OFFICERS, HELD FOR THE
POSE OF INSPECTING AND REPORTING UPON THE
‘°.liZS AND INTERIOR ECONOMY OF THE -- REGIMENT
The Board, after a minute examination of the books of the
it,,a Regiment, is of opinion that a culpable want of accuracy
bi;;llst systematic arrangement appears to have existed in these
with ,', 'which are above stated to have been produced before it,
That
exception of those of the paymaster.
'at the extreme inaccuracy which pervades the Companies'
ti• gers,, and other books, could not have existed, bad the Corn-
%ending Officer exercised that superintending control ,over
which it was his particular duty to have done.
That the Board is satisfied, from the statement of Lieut.-
Colonel that he had many difficulties to contend with,
In_...r_e!pect to the total inexperience of many of his officers, but
Fin it cannot but be of opinion, that every circumstance called
~r4Yriously on a Commanding Officer to keep a watchful su-
verntvndence over everything connected with the interior
tt:p• c"). of the Regiment; and particularly in respect of the
eitrunts a the men irregularity in which is at all times cal-
di aed to produce the most serious injury to the welfare and
soipline a a corps
(Signed) Brigadier-Gen. M'D OUGA L L.
Lieut.-Col. CHURCHILL, 3d Regiment.
Lieut.-Col. SWAN, sth Regiment.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. HARLEY, 9th Regt.
Major SHAW, 10th Regiment.

Lien
th AEMARICS OF THE LIEUT.-MINIMAL. •
Lie e subject of the opinion of the Board, in which the
~n2lt•-General fully concurs, he will abstain from any com-
tZt, beyond the expression of his hope and belief that the
n ;21 er nin command of the - Regiment will use every
11°11_oe ow rto establish that system of organization and discipline in
7,,,ltegiment, which it so much stands in need of
Head-quarters, Vittoria, Jan. 15, 1836.