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London, England, 1810-01-22 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER

Quebec, October 4, 1809.
The Commander of the Forces has lately had occasion to see
in a Halifax Newspaper, a copy of an Address presented by the
Serjeants of the Ist Battalion Royal Fuzileers, to Captain OR a,
on that Officer relinquishing the Adjutancy, in consequence of
being promoted to a Company, So novel a circumstance,
could not fail to draw the attention of his Excellency, it being
the first of the kind that has come to tits knowledge during
the forty-six years that he has been in the Service; and as the first
instance has thus (so fat as he is aware at least) occurred on the
part of the Army, with the charge of which the King has been
pleased' to intrust him, he feets himsel: called on by every oh-
ligation of duty to his Majesty and the Service, to bear his tes-
timony against it, by a public expression of disapprobation.
His Excellency does not mean, in this instance, to ascribe any
improper motive to the Serjeants ; he has no doubt that .heir sole
view was to express their regard and gratitude towards an Offi-
I cer, who, in the intimate connection that bad officially subsisted
between them, had very commendably conducted himself with
kindness to them, without departing Conk that strictness of dis-
cipline which was indispensable to the discharge of his duty.
rlut while his Excellency thus does justr..kt to the intention of
the Serjeants of the Royal Fuzileers, he desires, at the same time,
very seriously to ohs rye to them, that, in presuming to meet,
in order to deliberate nn the conduct of their superior officer, they
haVe in fact, howevLr unintentionally, bLen guilty of an act of
great insubordinai.ion.

masters not that the design of the Meeting, or in whatever
manner the Address was unanimously 4rsorici to, was solely to
express their llll.spect and esteem ; the very circumstance implies
discussion, and by that discussion they.tendered thentselves ob-
noxious to the imputation alluded to.
Who indeed shall say, where such a practice, if once introdu-
ced,
shall end ? If the Non-commissioned Officers of a Regi-
ment are permitted to express theirapprobation of the conduct of
the Adjutant, why may they not exercise the same right with re.
spect to their Commanding Officer ? Or, what reasons can be
given why they should not be equally entitled to express their ;
disapprobation? Indeed, sboull the practice become general,'
the merely withholding the former would imply the latter.
General Sir James Craig is the more desirous that his senti-
ments en this subject should be distinctly understood in the Fu-
zileers, because i; appears on the face of the Address of the her-
jerits in question, that it has been countenanced by the Officer
who then &mounded the Regiment. The Commander c f the
Forces does no more than justice to the character and services of
that Officer, when he admits, that, feeling as he does the dange-
rous tendency of the practice which lit is censuring, he oho teels
himself the more bound to oppose it, in the first instance, Irvin
the strength which it might. otherwise derive from the sanction
which he arp. ars to have given it.
Demo ant-Colonel PA KEtinAst will, however, believe, that
though t v. 40. imposs.ble the General should avoid this observa-
tion upor his error, yet his doing so can by no means detract
from ti!t• esteemn with which he has been taught to view his du.
tarter as ak: officer, or the confidence which he should be disposed I
to place in his service. (ziigned)
EDWARD BAY N cs, Adjutant-General to the
Lritish Army serving in North, America.
The reason for which the Commander-in-ChieQtas
directed the circulation of this Order, is, that he may
avail himself of this opportunity of declaring to the
Army his most perfect concurrence in the sentiments
therein expressed by the distinguished and experienced
Officer by whom it was framed, on a subject which
appears to have been by some very much misunder-
stood. The circumstance of inferiors of any class of.
military men assembling for the purpose of bestowing
praise and public marks of approbation on their supe-
riors, implies a power of deliberation on their conduct,
which belongs to the King :done, or to those Officers
to whom his Majesty may be pleased to entrust the
command and discipline of his troor.
It is a procedure equally objectionable, whether in
the higher or lower ranks of the Army ; and as the
Commander-in-Chief cannot but regtrd it as in priti-
ciple subversive of all military discipline, he. trusts it
is a practice which will be for ever trinished from the
British service, •as deserving of the highest censure ;
and he directs the Officers in command to act accor-
dingly.
By command of the Right Honourable the Com-
mander-in-Chief. (Signed)
HARRY CALVERT, Adjutant-General.

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