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were well or ill founded ? An inquiry
wouldr. have satisfied the public mind.
Cardigan was one of the ari:tecracy—one uf that body
who were, as the people believed, always shielded by those
in power of whatever acts they might be gu;lty. is
mitted that the Press had in relavon to this affair been ht
many instances ridiculously extravagant ; but the Rig t
Hon, Gentleman was mi taken if he thought he could se
public opinion at defiance. Had he been some subaltern
officer, an inquiry or a di,missal would have been tile
sequence. He complained of tint! Government for n•
ot
having instituted a Court of Inquiry. d
of
But
tat yard
Lord JOHN RUSSELL would only say one wor
to the Court of Inquiry. Each one of the facts had been
inquired into by Lord Hill as they had arisen. Evil °linac
must believe the Lord Hill had acted inpartially, r
after each case had been inquired into by him, any fart the
inquiry would have been contrary to the rules a
,tai
army. did not believe that Lord Cardigan r
derived any advantage from his rink or coucectioor;
On the contrary, he bel'evel that conduct such ' it!
would have been passed over by t.:e press and the Put' lei
with rcry little notice in a mere simple Lieutenant-Colonca
of a Dragoon regiment—(Cheers)—who did not haPPneo
to be a Peer of the realm, and from attacking wh far
great degree cf notoriety could have accrued.
from his rank having shielded him, he thought it had
contributed to increase the pub'ic excitement againEt;
rrai and to give weight and gniorde to many cha'br lci:
whieh, in any other case, would have been thought
volous.—(Che nat. ) • fat
Lord HO WICK had not anticipated that that Roe _f
I subj,...et would hare been brought under the attent:on er
the II mse that eveni H ! did not think the ansejet
of his Noble Fread altogether sai-feetorv. He °re,:
no strictures on Lord Hill, for in such a case the ,s't,`"-
mande--in-Ch'ef had douttle:s consulted with ala "`„;
guided by the Gov,..rnme at, and therefore they eel). 7,-0,
reTonsible. H 3 agreed that it would be the 81;13
injustice to dismiss an cfficer without a court-marts`' no
also that nothing could be more improper than to pl'ea
offic ron half-pay as a punishment. In a former nuid
happy transaction relating to Lord Cardigan, he.C),ang•
not but think a great error hid been cominittad l' cos
him upon t!:e balf-oay list, from the consequenura
of which they were at thei present moment in some m'r,oos
suffering. He thought that had been a most injud,l,c'
determination that hid been come to in the case of ualiv,
Wathen to place Lnrd Cardigan on half-pay without
adc-
ing given him an opportunity of being heard in h°. en
fence. He did not think his Noble Fiend bad err
any reason for the non-appointment of a Court of Inquird.b.
• a such
Nothing was more common than the institution ens
a Court, in cases in which the state of a rngioent btu,
unsatisfactory, in which the officers did not live in dit,
mony together, and in which the discipline
able to the regiment. He did not doubt but tha: 'web
Hill had adjudicet-d rightly in each of the cases those
had been submitte I to him, but the frequency 0'
▪ of
disputes rendered some inquiry int.) the general sPt,,;:ber
the regiment re, ensary in order to ascertain w" ;ant
those frequent quarrels bad been occasioned by anY -diog
of temper or discretion on the part of the Comic° the
Officer. He could not forget the court-martial, igloo
case of Captain Wathen ; and the subsequent re'`Qtardie
of Lord Cardigan to full-pay and the command of a „so,
ment made it necessary that an inur should he 1;cull
tuted in order that the public might beaconvinced tha`ti J.
and ample justice has been done to all rrotelia
was not erf,ora
Further than thin, it was notorious that when '3l' be
Reynolds was brought b-fire the court-marlsaloca
pleaded in extenuation great provocation. HI (Acted
Hoick) thought that the court-martial had the
properly in excluding the evidence with respect Tor
provocation. If there had been a violation of diiltup
on the part of an officer which no provocation cool
toed'
tify, that might have been a ground for the Crown et-Lir.t•
ing its mercy, but it was no part of the duty.a the -cis tae
martial to inquire into it. He thought, lookiog,a bas
high character of all the officers in the regiment' Ihrell
impossible that what had taken place should hauvc
passed over without investigation.—( Cries of n
eotell
He thought the cause that had been 11,1"'itilb
was highly unfortunate for the interests of the -acre
army—(Hear)—and if Lord Cardigan's conduct bad 010
such as he was willing to believe it was, he had beeeared
seri-msly ill used by withholding the inquir.
that such an inquiry would have been moat satisfactorY, it
the army and the nation at large. For these
this
appeared to him, the course that had been pursued irls
case was not satisfactory, and was not calculated to
mote the real interests of the British army.
Sir H. VIVAN had beard the speech of. Lord
Sir Noble) 1,1‘1,1
who had just rat down with regret, The Noble Le 16.0.
blamed Lord Hill for not bringing the case of Lord Lord
dig-an before a Court of Inquiry. He thought that'' and
Hill had acted in the only manner he could have annes'etri
he believed that Lord Cardigan could hardly half olio
otherwise than he had done. He had a high op at; this
Lord Cardigan as an officer, and at the very time teat
matter was going on, he had placed a son of his '"0 the
very regiment, and that alone he thought would Prnt;
feeling he entertained towards Lord Cardigan- `•itleh• l°
sorry to hear what had been stated that night by the
Lord. , bee°,
Mr. HAWES regretted that the subject had not
brought forward by a military Man. It was said thatng
were no means of inquiry in that House. Acentcl;ircgt
that, officer after officer might be driven from h's, ato
meat, and no redress be obtained. He believed ti3n;ereo
not the commanding-officer possessed some other 1.-1 bay''
but that which attached to his office, the result woo' 000
been different. There was one way of treating thearoosll
who had suffered under Lord Cardigan which he 0e•
had boon omitted.alll
Hregretted that the constituleerS
the army had not admitted of giving redress to the 3
serving under Lord Cardigan. hindc sai4
li
Sir H. HARDING E concurred in what had hi
by the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies' 0$
the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary at W7,,,arti rathe,t
accusation in the present case was against Lord 11";00411`
than against Lord Cardigan. He thought the ata't,(l.'
regarding Lord Cardigan was very exaggerta• eve;
(" Hear, hear," from Colonel Sibthorp.) Ler;
there had been a cabal in the regiment. ""--01eat"
Cardigan joined the regiment in India, the first Itea
after his arrival he was assailed by the public pre icy bs
Gallant Officer then referred to an attack wiji°,tated'
been made in one of the Evening Papers, enoor'
that upon Sir Henry Fane complaining to the e":-ft,"
admitted that the attack proceeded from an ottue` "00
11th Dragoons. fie could show by various otheed 10 A
did time permit, that Lord Cardigan was trot'
r th°
manner equally questionable. •g ° I
Lord HO WICK said that if proof were wantle ore,
necessity for inquiry, it was furnished by what ha bor•di
stated by the Hon. and Gallant General,—(Hear' 't as
With regard to the form of instituting an
Ginettnut'ire/co'calootoi°,
not been denied either by the Right Hon.
Secretary of War, or by the Master-General of t.t.h d hire,
mince. In the former tribunal the same mistake had
an
made as in the recent one, the matter was hushed la, •
put an end to without being thoroughly sifted. sar'
Sir DE LACY EVANS said no one 00'U' r o.l°'
prised, when they considered how delicate the rnetljetee;
that no miitary man had brought it before the tooled
The allusion to what had taken place in India'
ken
greatly to strengthen the view which had been ta ,athe
the Noble Lord the Member for Northumberland, as
not
necessity for inquidry.
Mr. HUME i I not blame Lord Cardigan at (440
he blamed the conduct of the officers of the Horse
and the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Macaulay).
The vote was then agreed to. cedt°:
The following votes were then proposed and NO
79,7151. for the payment of officers.
15,1.181. for defraying the expenses of the ".°).s
t i y
r A sylum. s for dir
15,839/. for defraying the charges of allowance-
tinguished services.
83,00('l. for the payment of general officer'• to' re'
67,000/. for defraying the charges of allowaacelt
dated and retired officers.

60.608/. for defraying half-pay allowances.
142,000/. fir pensions to officers' widows. .
_ecr;ag al'
A vote of 42,0001. for super'annuattons and '
d
lowances was then agreed to.
leaTvehetoCsrtAalgßaMiAN
ronthNeionnd reporteda3. progress, and ot.ai se
uld
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Lord J. RUSSELL said that on Monday hoffli,tee °I
move the Order of the Day for going into a Cuelijo'Or''.
,
Supply, when he hoped the Master-General of . ea. „
nance would be able to move the Ordnance E'ttilclarlif
• Col. SIBTHORP inquired of the Uncle"- polsG
for the Home Department whether a get-Atoll° ,
Vizard was appointed Solicitor for the Home-office'
Mr. F. MA ULE answered in the affirrnatiie. Apr,
Colonel SIBTHORP then gave notice that oevarrsi!t
day he would move for a retura •., f a copy of tat 'of' Ai°
for Mr. Vizard's appointment—of the al'"that of.
salary—and the allowances made or payable to
vidual. , rota
rti
Mr. FOX MAULE said he would bring uP -14
on Tuesday. yfeo4sl
Colonel SIBTHORP gav:. notice 'that Ou orict%
he should move for a return of the number of c°,oortc''
distinguishing the age and sex, who had beca tres3:iolBr
beyond the seas during tle last seven years;_ alio 3courtri'
return of those who had not been sent out of the
made up to the latest possible period. (JO'
The Lease and Release 8.11 then passed throuli olalit
mittee, and was erdeted to be read a third time 011 d of, a'
The other Orders of the Day were then diq":c next'
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