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London, England, 1820-09-12 00:00:00

ADDRESS OF THE LEICESTER .MIL.

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' The following Correspondence .rtas. pulsed
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the above subject: .
• Leicester, August 27.
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• " Sts—As Lieutenant Colonel of the Leicester Regiment of
Militia, I request the favour of you to send me the names of the
two individuals whose signatures were to the Address, purport-
ing to be the Address of the Privates of that Regiment, to the
Queen, and also to mention from whom you received it, and by
'whom it was presented. I ask these questions, as it appears
that the Privates of the Regiment never even heard of the Ad-
'dress during the time-they were embodied; and I observe it'
beats date three days previous ta their dismissal.—l have the
honour to be, &c. (Signed) " M. lIULSE
" To -Alderman Wood, 31: P.
&c: &c."
" London. August 30.
" am honoured with your letter of the 20th, request-
ing me to send yon the names of the two individuals whose sig-
natures were to the Address lately sent to me, purporting to be
an Address from the Privates-ofthe Regiment under your com-
mand; also to mention from whim I received it, and by whom
it was presented ; and I should undoubtedly at once give you
the information dt;sired, were I not induced to infer, from the
particularity and frame of your questioning, that the Address is
consithsed by the Commandants of the Leicester Militia, of an
improper character; and thatsome proceeding may be in con-
temptation 'against the individuals of the Reziment, by whom
the Address was signed. Your omitting to assign the ultimate
object of the inquiry, fortifies me in this supposition; and I
shall not therefore feel myself at liberty to send you the names
of the parties without their previous concurrence, tiolcss it ap-
peared that the Aderess was not intended by the Privates of
the Regiment to have been presented to her Majesty. If the
Address, purporting to be an Address from the Privates of your
Regiment, was nut, in truth, authorised by them. I shall not be
fouud backward in exposing the deception, but shall be most
anxious to give you all the information in my power. For the
present, however, I must decline doing more than referring you
to the Serjeant-Major, who, I am informed, was disp*tchtd by
the Officers of the Regiment to repress the shouts of the
vates of the Leicester Militia in favour of her Majesty; from
whom, I should apprehend, you will be able to obtain much
more satisfactory itifortnation than it is in my power to give.

" 1 remain, your obedient servsint,
(Signed) " mArrziliw WOOD.
" To Licutumid-Colonel Hulse." •

" Arlington-street, September S.
" S/R—Having seen two letter which have recently been
exchanged between yourself and the Lieutenant-Colonel cf the
Leicestershire Regiment of Miatia, I feel it incumbent upon
me, as its Colonel, to inform you that the cueations put to you
by Colonel Hulse, were not asked with any clew of proceeding
against those tren whom you might name, as having signed the
Address to the Queue, purporting. to be frum the Privates of
that Regimen:. lam not aware of any proceedings that euelti
be instituted against them ; certainly not, after it has been satis-
factorily ascertained that the two ninnes, which it is understood
were alone subscribed to the Address, were affixed to it with-
out the knowledge of the men themselves, by individuals not
belonging to the corps. An instance of such palpable fabri-
cation is scarcely on record, and the detection of it was due to
the insulted honour and military character of the Regiment;
and since it was evident either that the person to whom the
suppc sititious Address was transmitted had been egregiously
duped, or that her Majesty, to whom it was presented, hod been
slianufully imposed upon, Lieutenant-Colonel Hulse felt himself
called upon to afford you the opportunity, which I now offer, of
assisting in the exposure of the transaction.
" I observe that your letter alludes to the reported.sbouts of
the men in favour of her Majesty upon the disbanding of the
regiment. I transmit to you the copy of a letter, which, upon
that particular point, I have received from my Quarter-Master;
in which the real circumstances that occurred upon that occa-
sion are fully detailed. It is right that I should add, that ill-
designing persons are at this moment making the most active
exertions to entrap some of the Privates into a late avowal of
their sanction of the Address, in the teeth of the positive dis-
avowal which was fully and decisively given a few days since
by 420 Privates, to the Non-Commissioned Office who went
round for the purpose of ascertaining the real state of the case,
and who, from accidental circumstances, were unable to see the
remainder of the men.—l have the honour, &c.

(Signtd) " RUTLAND,
" To Alderman Wood." " Colonel Leicester Regiment."
6' Brandenburgh House, September 7.-
" My Loan—ln answer to your letter of the toth instant, I
have first to observe, on the extraordinary circumstances,, that
an Address from the Privates of a Regiment, to'their lawful
and persecuted Queen; should tie deemed by their Colonel an
insult to the honour of the regiment. This idea, if it have no
other merit, has at least that of novelty. The soldier does in-
deed assume the military garb; but in cheerfully performing,
this part of the duty of a good subject, he does not forfeit Ms
civil rights, much less does he forfeit the right of exercising his
, judgment, and of acting agreeably to his feelings as a man. •
• " That the men had a right to express their attachment to her
' Majesty, and their abhorrence of the treatment that she had ex-
perienced, I know full well. lam convinced that the Address
contained the real sentiments of this regiment. And I know
that it was agreeable to her filajesty to receive the same.
" As to the inquiries said to have been made of the men toe&
vicisially, and reported by the Serjeant-Major, Adjetant, sad
Quarter- Master, I ant too well acquainted with the nature of the
powers of such persons over the men, to pay the smallest atten-
tion to such reports.

" The account which you are pleased to give me of ill-design-
ing persons even now engaged to entrap some of the Privates
into an avowal of the Address, induces me to inform your Lord-
ship, that I have this morning received an Address signed by
3W of the Privates, accompanied with a letter, stating, that a
much larger number would have signed it, if they could have
obtained the Address at their residence.
" By one reflection,however, I am consoled, and that is, that
the Private Soldier has at last come to be considered as a being
whose feelings and wishes are worthy of attention.--I have the
honour to be, &c. (Signed) AI A TTIIEW WOOD.
4.4 To his Grace the Duke of Rutland."

" Arlington-street, September 9.
" have to ackuom.ledge the receipt of your letter of the
7th inst. With respect to the Address which you state your-
self to have received on that day, signed by ;500 Privates of the
Leicester Regiment of Militia (which Regiment, it should be re-
marked, has been disembodied more than six weeks), it is singular
that it should have been thought necessary to obtain additional
signatures to an Address,- which three weeks since you published
to the world as having proceeded from the rade of the Privates
of the Regiment. It is impossible that a more striking pre-
sumption can be afforded to the Public, of the truth of the
charge of gross and infamous imposition and forgery, which at-
,lachts to the Address presented by you to her Majesty on the
17th of August, than the facts that the Address which pur-
ports to be from the. Privates of the Leicestershire Regi-
ment,' bad, according to your own admission, only two names
subscribed, and that, except by the two persons whose names
were so subscribed, the Address bad never been seen or heard of.
As to the additional signatures, to which you appear to attach
io much importance, I will only transcribe a sentence in the let-
ter which I yesterday received from my Adjutant, dated on the
6th instaot I have this morning been informed, that an Ad-
dress to the Queen, with upwards of 200 sipatures, was yester-
terday forwarded; but I haye no doubt, were it possible to age
the list of the names, it would be fot;tl that many are down
who never belonged to the regiment, others are affixed with the
decided dissent of the parties, and some have been obtained by
false representations.'—There is nothing in the remaining pirts
of your letter which appears to me to require any comment or
reply.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient humble ser-
vant, (Signed) " RUTLAND,
" To Aid. Wobd. • " Colonel Leicestershire Regiment."
A report has appeared in the Fublic tapers stating
the arrival of Lord Bynow in town. Ihe report is
erroneous. Recent letters from his joisiship butte,
that he is at' Ravenna. • .