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London, England, 1806-10-15 00:00:00

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The following is a candler', of the ocireefrellgeooe vadat/defy
palled between the Right Honourable Melaka Fiesearasec,
and the liunouiabk A. COCIIIIANI Josorrowt:
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aIR, H STIMIT. 67, MAr 11,21106
In confequence of the *mice which yon gave this
SafGoo in Parliaments Ante you were appointed .Se-
cretary at War, that hisithsiedy's prefent Minitters
would remedy the grievances of which I had com•
plained loft year, and which were of futh a anagni•
, rude as to uccafinn your haticiug them an the Houfe
of Commons before you gone into place, I have been
' in the anxious axpeElation, for tome time pa, that
juiliee would be rendered no [ZIT.
It it unnecetTary for me to bring to yodr recollec-
tion the affurances which you gave me of your fup-
port before you came into cflice—they lace fince
been repeated to me, and I can only attribute the
delay in rendering me juflice, to the tsecellity of your
attending to the more preffing duties of ycur depart. ___

ment.
I am aware that you arc not a Cabinet Minifter.
I am fenfible, however, of the inflnence which you
muff poliefs with the Members on military fubjeas,
and I cannot help bringing to your recolleftion the
generous affurances of fupport which one of the
Members of the prcfent Cabinet (Mr. Fox) gave to
me, in your prefence, whenever my cafe thnuld be
agitated—he was then out of office—now he is in
power.
My private affairs have [stared material injury by
the perfeeution of thole who ought to have proteifted
me—from his Majefty's prefent Miaifters I did exist&
redrefs, and I may venture fairly to affirm, that the
Public at large, and more efpecially the Military
part of the Nation, have for fume time pall confider-
ed the point of renchring me juliice as fettled and
uoderftood.

1 tree that you will forgive me for requelling an
early and final deeding:l on my care ; for if the door
Ihall be finally Phut againfi my anxious wins in unite
with shore of my family who are daily pining lau•
rels in his Majely's fervice, and who have evinced
the loyalty and attachment of the name of COCII
Last to the King's Perfon and Government, I mull
then make the ftrongeft immediate exertions fur re-
trieving my idjured ;merely, and endeavouring to
Pave the remains of a fortune which the vindictive
attacks of injuftice and malice had fa cruelly confpir-
ed to ruin. I have the honour, dtc.

(Signed) A. COCHRANI joHnsront.
The Rl,E,he Hou. Gen. hum rticx, ar...%&e. &A.
(COPY.)
SIR, WAR OffICIT, 14fAr, 406.
. . . .

In anfwer to the letter I had the honour of receiv-
ing from you, on Wednefiay lafl, I beg leave to ob
terve, that you are entirely gni daken in rap/yarns me
to have flared in the preterit Sellion of Parliament—
, that Lis Majefly's Miniders would remedy the
grievances of which you had laR year complained,
and which I had thought of loch magnitude as to
oecation my noticing them in the Moire of Commons "
,It is undoubtedly true that, in the lall SelGon of Par-
liament, I adduced the hardfhip of your cafe as 'a
error; exemplification of what I conceived to be an
evil e sifting in the military adminifiration of Hike ;
and it is likewire true, that in the prefent Sefton I
Rated my having been led to relinquifh the intention
I had announced of bringing the queßion under the
conficieration of Parliament, in the hope that his Ma-
jeßy's prefent Government would be induced to ap
ply Tome proper remedy to the evil of which I had
complained, and thereby preclude the neceffity of re-
torting to arty Parliamentary. Interference upon the
tubjea.
This, Sir, is a flirt but coirealflaterrient Of the rum
and tubfkance of all that has been raid by me in rela-
tion to this borings, both in the Nit and prefent
The grievance which appeared to me M talLfor re.
drefs, and as deeply affeaing the intereflaff asewhole
army, confihla in the exercise of an startups. And, as
conceive, unatithorifed power by the' Judge Advo-
cate General which, in its confermences, exptifit to
danger the honour. rank, and &union, of every Of-
ficer in his Malady's fervice.
Although that office is nu looser in the hands of
the perfon by whom you juftly confider yourfelf to
I have been aggrieved, and although it is now fortu-
nately confided to a gentleman from whom no one
wbo is acquainted with his charaCter can ever feel the
flighted apprehenfion of Coffering injuflice, I Rill con-
tinue of opinion that the Judge Advocate General
cannot be, with propriety or fafety confident(' as the
confidential and refponfible adviret of the Crown upon
ruble& of a purely military nature, and fuch as relate
folely to, the government and difclpline °litre army.
With refpea to the iudividbal injury you have yam-
felfreceiveds,fo far am I hum recolleaing thofe afro -
elicit of 'rapport you late yourfelf to have received
fiats Me (either before or finee my coming into of-
fice), that I am fully confident Of •never having, in
any one of our frequent eonverfations upon the fob-
jea, omitted to esprefa, moll difiinaly. how much it
was to me a alibied of regret that I had no Neer
whatever to affiß you in the objea of recovering your
rank in the fervice, to which I have no hefitation in
laying, I confider you in indict entitled.
I certainly remember, that when you met Mr. Fox
at my houfe, he delivered a very decided opinion
upon the ittjullice of the treatment you had expe-
rienced, and, as I know his fentiments upon the lub-
jea to remain uoaltered. I have no doubt that, order
anydifeuttoagf your cah. you would be certain of re-
ceiving thelblilfnjpport of Isis opjaion and influence.
Agin the left Interview I hid the honour to have
with you, you communicated to me the contents of
a letter, which I was lorry to learn you confide red as
a final rebid from his Royal }fishnets the Com-
mander in Chief, to accede to your application to be
reftored to your rank, it could not be without con-
fiderable furprize that I read your requeft to receive
from me an ear6randjfaelkyou upon your cafe, a cafe
which, I confers, 1 thould have thought it perfatly
unneceffary to have apprifed you, the department I
fill has not the (malted power to influence, and cer-
tainly Rill lets the authority to decide.
In the hope that the determinatfon to refute you
the rellosmion of your rank in the army may not
prove fo irrevocable as you hem to apprehend, '
I have-the honcnr. &e.

(Signed) Illteß•ltD FITZPATIICE.
Heaourable A. C. Jos re ST ow a, Harkey Una.
(COPY )
414 Arington-Mut, Sept. s, 1806.
I cautot vial, find words to exprels the furprife

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with which 1 oilePred in M. CoSbeit's papa of Sa-
turday laR the accufation brought forward Akainft
me under your name, of having Pirfeited engage.
ments to you, which I had fi partitulsrly, both in
conierfation, and in one initonre, I.,rtunatelb in
writing, etplained myklintoß di tlinctiy never to have
cOntratted.

AVhilft you were writink (if indeed you did write
the paper to which your (feature is affixed), I mull
prelbme that yon had loft all recoll:etinn, not only
of whatever had parted between us in our frequent
interviews, but alfo of two letters of the dates of Bth
and lath of May ►all,, copies of which are herewith
tranfinitted for the purirle of calling them t+ your
remembrance ;in what manner elfe c-us it be account-
ittf for, that a gentleman Ile-told have thought fit to
repeat is priat, an alfertion, to which he had above
three months before received the moll erolieit, dared,
and unqualified contradifition, in wiling ?
Not being difpufed to enter into any controverfy,
either with Mr. Cobbett himfelf, or with any writer
in newfpaper, I have preferred addreffing this
letter to ynorfell, accordink to the eflablifhed prac-
tice which her ufually prevailed amonglt Gentlemen
in their mutual communications. Bur as you have
thought proper to adopt another win*, by arraigning
my condua in a public Nrev!lnner, after having re-
ceived a full explanation of it, which I muff conclude
from your acquiefcence in to have been fatisfac-
tory, I null that sou v.ll feel yourklf bound, upon
every principle of Office and fair dealing, to give
eqcal publicity to my politive denial of a charge for
which I am under the necelllty 4.l,:eclaring their cliffs
nn foundation whatfoever.

That I never pledged myfelfinp/Hir, to endeavour
to procure the reilotation to the rank y. .0 held in the
army, will appear by a reference to all that 1 am
dated (even in Mr. Cobbett's own report) to have
raid in Parliament : that I did in p-tu..re to yoortelf
difclaim the having given any Inch pledge,
my letter of the tath of May Mfficiently rettifies.
With rare& to other ohfcrvati:Ati you have
thought proper to iatioduce. although comeious it
(bould teem of their being tureign to any quellion at
iffue between us, and relating only to my public
fituation, as they appear to me to confid in a repeti-
tion of remarks copied, alrood verbatim, from th,.fe
which have already been publithed under the name
of Mr. Cobbs', I (ball certainly not allow the mere
variation of their fi.gnatnre to draw me into any dif-
caion of thofi topics.-1 have, &c.
(Signed) RICN•AD FITZ PATRICK.
Hie. A. Celan= labia:me.