The Sun.
London, England, 1810-05-11 00:00:00

STAMP OFFICE

'Mr. WIIITIIREAD gave notice, that he would,
on Monday next, move, that tier be' I.,id
fore the House, Copies of Coiresp.:idene-.1 be-
tween the Heads of the Treasury and Stamp Office,
relative to- the regulations which bad .hcen so long
in agitation. • -

CAPTAIN FOSKETT.
purduant to notice, rose to motfe
for the produaion of certiin• papers_ relatit4 to Cap= .
taint Foskett. His anxiety on the sUbjeat did . not
flow from fears for the fate of hiS 'motion ; but if he
had .-rty, it was becauie -an illustriouS perSonage
was implicated.; -When he first introduced this "sub=
jea,. it -was .not with the intentiOti•of creating-
litary discussion in the• House; the grounds he aa..'
ed on he had well examined. He had 'wished the
House lolenforcea standing law, not to make a -DOW
-one. -Having -gone- thui far, he -would npt again
have come forward, had not aspersions- been, cast on
the'pharaaer of Captain Foskett by Gentlemen-au
the other side °fate House.. He now conceived it
ta•beJ44nty to Captain. Foskett and to an illustri-
ous. personage, to call for official proofs of those ac-
cusations; The papers he held in his, hand were •
cotiiplete..-.;.-irivas• not his intention to enter into their
military charaeter—their authority was well ground.;
ed.—On the merits of the case he had no diSposition
to descant; the papers he only intended lo use a 4 •
defensive weapons• to•proteet the -charaCier of Cap-
tain Foskett from the ..wanton attacks which . had
been made. •He intended them for no other nee ;.
he therefore 'moved, 'f that there should .be laid be-
fore the House copies of mmorials and other papers
.frotn• Captain Foskett, of the 15th Light Dragoons, •
to the offices of the Commander in Chief and Adju,.
Cant-General, from May 4, 1800, to February 14,,
1810; and also the various answers to the same."
SUTTON -observed, that thoiagh he agreed
with the Honourable Gentleman in the manner- he
Ind introduced his motion to the House, still he.
thought he had not advanced 'sufficient grounds for
the introdudion of those papets., which were-of such
a nature as probably to be produalive of mischievous
consequences. When the petition. was *first prel..
sented to the House, he conceived its only object to'
be to charge the Commander in Chief with a direct
:breach of the law. If persons disappointed in .pro=
'motions were thus allowed to appeal to the Hews
and ransack the offices of State,' .it would go to a
subvetsion of the sj stern under which the ArMy is
-now so properly condualed,.and in' the end produce
,great awl general mischief. If these papers were
only for the phrpose of -elucidating the Articles of
War, they should be produced ;-*but as it was impos;•
sible,twanake things • clearer than they were, he did
notrsev. any occasion for introducing them. The
first complaint in the petition is of .a junior being
prornoted before a senior officer. This Was redress-
ed ; that too,- Of not being sent- to Spain, was cn
the point of being redressed, when the tegitnent it=
came home. With. respect to not being -pro- -
.meted in • 809, the Colonel,of the regiment cannot
be blamed- for withholding what he had not; indeed,.
he thstpght- it Hardly possible for: any yerson to say-
tha.t promatiO was a matter of right; that length.