The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-06 00:00:00

my communication on parade, in the pre-
pence of those otlicers only who Nere the proper persons.

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,p is toter n? He has two conversatioos the course'
of that cl..y with Captain Jones, who he now sneers
at as •• ray friend ;" but who, on that occasion, gave
Lim, according to his own acknowledgement, mast
counsel—cautioning him against the desperate
course on which he was about to enter, and warning him
e nieviteble consequences which he was bringing
en his head. Let it not be forgotten, while Captain
te:o,cl,, is charging me with an urelue readiness to make
use of private conversations to his disadvantage, that
%seat I am now referring to was not brought out by -any
rumination of Captain Jones by mc, but by the sue:-
thine of Captains Reynolds himself. In defiance, however,
tbis urgent and repeated warning he persists in writ-
ir g the second letter. He rejects the fri,ndly advice,
tvhich pressed him at all events to take a night to con-
sider of it. No, his mind is made up, and the letter is
accordingly in due time despatched. Is there any want
of counsel or deliberation here? Captain Reynolds
seem?: to tLink that he is justified in writing such a letter
" provided that he does to at a time and in a
scanner not to excite other officers and men to acts of
insubordination." What a monstrous doctrine is this!
Oae by which every officer and every man in the regi-
ment might daily address similar letters to their command-
ing officer, provided there was no proof they had shown
them to any of their comrades. Ido not stop to expose
the iatility of this principle ; but if it were ever so correct,
does any oie suppose it to be applicable here ? or, after
they have seen of the communications and consult-
ings on the first letter, that the second, if allowed to pass
with impunity, would not have been, 1 would not say.
exhibited in the barracks or mess-room, but almost
posted in the streets of Brighton ? In truth, had I any
option in receiving it, except at once to forward it to
etie Horse-guards, for higher authorities than myself
thereafter to pass judgment upon it ? With what face,
if that remained unpunished, could I ever again have
met Captain Reynolds, or any other officer under my
eionmaand, or how hope to maintain any portion of that
uuthority, which I had thus openly allowed to be de-
fied ? But putting aside all military considcratioes, and
:twitting at that letter es a private gentleman, is there
etty one member of the Court who would not shrink
fr stn seeing his name appended to such a composition?
Does the charge go too far, then, in denouncing it as
4` unlmcoming an officer and a gentleman." Why,
then_ , should I detain-you any further, except by a few
words to the generally-offensive and tyrannical conduct
which Captain Reynolds is pleased to impute to mc?
Upon this subject he has, in his defence, said much,
though he. has proved nothing. He instances, indeed, my
tone and manner upon parade, on the morning so often
referred to as" offensive and irritating," and describes its
effect upon him as " maddening and goading him beyond
the bounds of patience," and he adds that Capt. Jones
and the Adjutant must have observed it. How hap-
Tens it, then, that when he had both these officers under
cross-examination, he never bethought himself of asking
them that question, which, if his statement be true,
would have al once afforded some palliation for his ex-
citement, and, what he would no less rejoice in, have
exposed me to censure. Not a question, however, does
lie put in the remotest degree bearing upon that point,
:Ind when he 'had the means of proving this allegation,
if it were not unfounded, and yet declined to use them,
I think 1 may Uri), claim credit for temperance and
calmness of tore and manner beyond his power to im-
pugn, From his failure to prove this assertion, of which
the means were within his reach, the Court may judge
what credit is due to Captain Reynolds' other allega-
tions, which you have decided to be irrelevant to this
trial, and have therefore declined to entertain. He
has accused me of insulting and irritating conduct in
the regtment generally, and especially of arbitrary,
tyrannical, haughty, offensive, and vindictive deporitnent
to himself ever since I have been in command of thi_i
reeiluent. As no evidence of these allegations has been
.
yen,
I may content myself with a simple denial of the fact
asserted. I might, perhaps, remind Capt. Reynolds, on
the
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other hand, of services done by me to him. When
speaks
tt of his services in India having been treated
I, •
y, me with contempt and reproach, how will he recon-
ee that statement with the fact that after his return
from India 1 spared no pains to reinstate hi
regiment, and that in the face of many difficulties, and ..tnhde
to the disappointment of other officers It was tO"myhis princely property in the North
Geer,
mribmie Dukeof
his
visito f
to Sutherland
Strenuous exertions that h,e,
whichoelea that position in the upe fords of 10,000/., due by his tenants who were in ar-
regiment, without purchase,up to real Is to his Grace.
this moment? Does this look like undervaluinneldl OF HORSES FOR FRANCE.—
sT PTURCHASE
serr:ms ? Is it the conduct of one who is6henlddivan3. The statement that very
falsely to the public as speaking contemptucusly of hp-
..rgvervouarrichna,ses SEPTEMBER
horses
were to be made in Germany
chats officers ? But this is only one instance out of issr the
many of the exertions I have used in support of those French Government is fully confirmed. French
liorse.dealers have already arrived in this kingdom, pro-
Indian officers whom lam charged with affrontieg, and ',jaded iwith large sums for that purpose.
whom or whose; services I declare I have never
I might refer PRI,I?.PARATIONS FOR DOING HOMAGE.—
word or action treated with disrespect. iEnurt. SEPT. 05.—The number of strangers here con-
to the friendly offices which, till his own conduct made I 51nb'es ' i"c'ease,
October, which is that fixed for the ceremony of doing ho-
them no longer possible, I have had pleasure in render- and it is supposed that by tbe 15th of
usage, they •e will be 30,000 or 40,000 strangers here. Not
hie Lim ; but l desist. Captain Reynolds says that our -.only are all the hotels alread full, but the price of lodg-
ten, being' on terms must necessarily have arisen horn my rings in t:rsiveaa t,eehtoaukseeslohdas. so risen that many famibliesmletsavnes
conduct towards him. So far from that being the case, :been ad
•of the iro.a railway, asgetonngvseantiePnottassdaimfwhich,
tt is the result of a long system of unbecoming arraign-
•of Berlin.. Preparations are making
which the • Estates and the City the entertainments
meet of my conduct and insubordinate and disrespect-fur.'it were by means
f, :r the gr eat fete of th
fill treatment of my authority which he has of late pur-
inll give to the King, and.
, evieil Ibe present. Very large sums are sub-
e King the Palace, at which
scfeci. One other observation on!y of a
ebtaevrotasiunbras
eernitb
2ttin
personal n3turi
d fa
notic-, earl that partly because it is put forward.
,ur, ~everAxurdly, as a justification of his letter, ark. ;1 Son 9Mt tubers
200ba ugoilvlaerns,bayntdhesoEmsetnsr;
leecituee I achnot I de "
the feet referred te as
larger • art '3.
i:c , C .e •-
r‘p,..ats, is I f 113 de euce, to be true. I i l'l3E CROWN PRI
.Doaa the refer; NCE.—HANOVER, SEPT. 27.
nce made to certain eircumstentces that '
peace —We I) ear nothing positive: rrepecti„„
, the success of the
ter, myself arid Mr. Brent, or, as Cap- ,Operatto, oa the Crown Prince. As more than Or(
:E.Et "6, s him, "the miller of Canterbury." weeks h eve elapsed since the operation, and the banda
t tire that upon some fracas bee is alma, !y taken off, one should think it must now be
clop,
I.lll(itertt 11th kinuara and flint gentle. parent ihEthef he would recover his sight or not. Ti
we hear nothing certain and (Acid, on the sus
tai noel that they were a belief which I then
enter- fact that
weed end offer to take upon the eggressers, step for_ 'et, is • considered by_many as clamoring the great hop,
upon myself the renew_ t', e held out of the successto
retthe operation, but i
-4 their conduct,
, ee, tee, h, • ;.-,s foolish as premature munce hopes,
'out no one kno rather than “ive ti '
' h of the Crown Prince continues
to be very good,
tows this bett 7
who was the senier er than C„ptain et t ate as much danger was expected f
rom
tier
of th • /cry fortan , ,
Ilunthergh papers, Oct. 2.
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