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London, England, 1840-10-08 00:00:00

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CHARLES PEARSON, City Solicitor.

CA YT. J. W. NOLDS A',1.3 THE
EARL. OF CARDIGAN.

TO THE EniT,ta OF Tli}: TIMES
Sir—The Earl of k .1 igan has Mended at the
opinion, a h4ore which he was not sum
n:ouned by Capt. Jolla lt,ynolds or myself. The
court-martial upon Captain Richard Anthony Reynolds
is concluded and the sentence passed.
Following, therefore, the example of the Noble Earl,
I think I may now address the public through your
valuable and independent columns, though this is the
first communication, I believe, that through a 'pretty
long life I have ever, directly or indirectly, with name
or without name, made to the public press.*
The present, Sir, is neither a " black nettle" nor a
political question. It is a question, whether the feel-
ings of officers in the British service shall be insulted
with impunity? whether they shall be goaded on by
daily, by hourly insults, private and public, offered to
themselves and their brother officers, until in an un-
happy moment they may forget themselves ? and then
—I cannot finish the sentence.
Generous British public! the case has come home to
your hearts ; and you have taken, as you always do
take, perhaps too warmly, perhaps too hastily, the ge-
nerous, the honourable side.
We shall hear much about the divcipline of the army,
about subordination, about the great evil of a civilian in-
terfering in military matters, and the dreadful conse-
quences that :nay arise from appeals to the public, and
from the House of Commons assuminc, the command of
am
the army—all in the present case declatien to
offence mis-
lead. insubordination is truly a great military ,
though not an ungenerous one. But what shall
opwe say
of that which causes insubordination—I mean pres-
sion? It is—but I expunge the words with which I
bad characterised it.
As to the rest, the evil is not ibutn thein inter
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civilian, public, and Parliament,
which calls for their interference, and the responsibility
rests with those who have so misconducted themselves.
I take not one atom of it.
said before, the Earl of Cardigan has
But, as I
bowed to the public opinion. The nets of his solici-
' toors, by his authority, arc his acts. He has declared
that be would endeavour to right himself in public esti-
mation, if not prevented from addressing a newspaper
by the regulations of the service ; and he has also
de-
clared that the state meant
of Captain John Reynolds'
case, which has appeared the papers,
leave to point out to the Earl of Cardigan
coarse, not contrary to ~he regula-
tionsrepresentations.safelwill of the service, by NV by which alone, he
public opinion.
can gain that object which he
heart—to right
himself in •
Let him, as the greatest acknowledges. to have at
favour that can be confer-
red upon him,,soliilltiutelsiletafraoere
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to put himself upon trial bet
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I steal no
His Lordship can have no
request, became on a difficulty is making this
occasion, when remove/.
from the command of
the remarks of a general Car eogcuimrotu-eirnutta'inrtiainyt,ci:hin.esccciiiude:pepe coal
to the Crown, and solicit though the
act by which he was removed was the act of his Sovereiaen.
This is a very different ease. The charges which he
cont3la 1,,i,;;.-finally.sniations have never been finally.
settled by
competent authority ; for, unealattao its