The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-09-24 00:00:00

Ni EL GORE AND CORPORAL
GEORGE.

Do the 13th and 14th instant a Court Martial wax•
held at Pintails Barracks, on a Ltairraa•NT•CoLoa IL
tioas. My attendee was drawn to this matter by
the hallowing paragralk. whieb appeared in all the
1"16e..1e MorttlPS P.Mtett.of tha.lfiti Jostens. The
1/urritik was tlatise words :
" a ire.hajmy to..otals. that in the anemias of yea-
wtiaiii„Vol.Uore received a letter from John Beckett,
"'Esq. Jades Advocate, coagratalatiag Lim upon the
" smolt it the deliheriftion of the Court, val. a
"fhibibed • katurairrible aerptittett. The letter added,
" Waal tilt thkegd aka pronounced wicked and ntaliciors,l
" and that an isnotedistie peosecaltiox would be instituted
" agatilittinAlorporal. Of ;envie the decision of the
" Conte tied bate received his .hrajeety's alleviation
" pellets ea this eonseitiicatloo."
t bate great reinctneacto meddle with say of the
curtain stales of tbem•intillmated gentlemen. But,
having hid my ittention drawn to the matter by this
caries, pare/mph ; struck with the happiest:a which
she &Hems of the News-papers so uaanliettetsly felt
,srptipo ocasion ; aid perceiving their happiness was
sot 1n,110,0t dl dlasiaished by the prospect of setting
sty 0, kiliselllslt'prosacotion" Of the Corporal, .1,11119
04V,,*ik a t1ii41•4.4.,ma5. I ant having look-
eihneo 'it I strowilseevelo4ll)troat deal more alas
sufficient to aceoottt for dile extraordinary happiness.
0. the 15:b of the =oath tbe report of the trial ap-
peared in the Old Pores, pretty much at length ; but.,
merely a notice of the eaters of the charge appeared
in the *se ring Chroatele, *Lich, however, Lad in the
above peregrapb. On the 19th a new Edition of the
whole appeased in , the New Times, which ,Iltdities
will be !Goad esbilsineil to the article I am now writ-
•••• .•• • P
When I samo to read this sow glides. the *abject
assintserf:iiriikthyleit.tt*lneal importance. Perhaps.
after.
44 It if itileftl.'llol have taken this sorsa Dottie of
the affeia.lbod sat bawd tbatCommt. Boas had
Mr. ..filalphita' aittlig so lei. side daring the Trial
Arrd,'ebta'll!oLloxeilh'suit, la his defence, used the fol.
bowleg 'Verdi :—" J omen, tra I am confident 1
shall'mtire,that the charge and •allthe evideseetipast
," it. as it plates to me, is atterly false autos/am&
.sr eel. it nosy ,saturany be, asked what eau have is:
deorn site preweater to wake snob an accusation,
ft-when Ito knew ditto be Utterly •aufeanatal? .1 am
•W' siablAti dlOito; N eves to surmise tite4sesonal
ntotivektplE,Att,lol4Weal; bat, I am soup :So ark-
,!' *er,r, slits these times gee fi•eitful is Meissen' of the'
."extramedinery racemes to which men may Ise tarried
4• by car" wort Ached of their strperiort lo rdok aid
• authority, sot, by the distinction which Melhopt fr
A* gels is Fertile Amtsi of society by malignant as-
.° tlerslots atill daring attack: upon those who
*1 elevated aloes then, is station and is character."
will sot say that it was lot skis which prevailed
seer my reluctance to meddle with a matter of this
sect. Hero is a general attack upon the people at
large. Here is a repetition ofthe cuckoo cry of want
of respect to• our 'Genera." Where are these daring
attacks that Colonel Hotta bap perceived to be a* com-
mon ? Wes it he or waais Ns: A • , that dis-
covered this pretty WWII for the Corporal's charge.
Where did the Colonel discover that there were per-
sons in society beneath biro ? I almost became
li-
terally sick at reading several parts of his defence;
but the
.put white he talks of being well horn. I
really novo impute to his Learned Friend. However,
as 1 shad come to it again 11)e-end-bye, 1 will say no
mare of it here; and will preceeal. to , in the
first place, the wife • of the charge, and then, to
state my view of the erideace and the defence.
As to AO nature of the charge, the best way will be
'to take the description of it Liven in the newspapers,

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which is as follows :
" A Coust-taartial was held on Friday at Portman
•' Barrack., and contianed on Saturday. for the trial
of Li..titenant-Colonel Thomas (lore, of the Coldstream
" thirds, on a charge of having on the 2d of August
" Li, at a public house in Oxfisodstreet. associated with.
" *adjoined company with, anddraok beer la ills Corporal
" Smut.' George, of the Coldstream regiment of Foot
•' boards; such cou.lnct being uubecoining the character
" of an offi -r and a gentleman, ■nd to the prejudice of
" good order and military discipline."'

Now, as to the nature of this charge, we mast not
lightly observe that-there was no crime in giving a
Corpormt a rat *fleece', and, even, drinking with
C irporxi ; tot, It ii Ltainst the older. of the army;
it is contrary to aU the swages of onr army; and
Colonel Gort himself, calls it a disgrsceful art, and
s.ys, that the charge had tilled his mind with the
do.rpest ansiety. I agree, then, that the charge, if
false, automated to a great ulfru.•e in the Corpo►al ;
and tbittrit was of a very serious nature nitb regard
tn the prison accused.
There can be ao doubt then that he most base been
Atatretarly happy at bring acquitted of this charge;
end I am not shoat to ch3tlroge the arqnittal ; to

call the propriety or justice of it in qu, bawl ; but to
give * s.nt of szinitniqr up of the evidence; which
appears to be the more necessary, as no such ►uaunieg-
up 111111 been put into print, though the defence, at full
)(wit, containing the above quoted peliticsi doctrine,
has duly and truly rustle its appearance, through all
the news-papers of tbs kingdeut.
Before, however, 1 proceed to this somusing-op,
there are some preliusirary remarks, which suggest
t.temselves as accessary to give us a fsir still into the
matter; to give us a sort of history the ploceed•
inge; fur, uhless we II tse Ibis, tie must blowier
,Jong reading or talking aboutwithout having
scarcely as ilea of the sources whence the several in-
cidents spring.

It appears, thee, that the drinking scrne took
place on the mum! of Angu4 ; that tleorgc made no
public mention of this until the 11th of August;
that after this there were No eJaniinnlions of
Geoaot, and of Sum and MASON. by the ojfic.rs of
Colonel Closes regimen. We are left to conjecture
here, whether Osmium wee in the same regiment with
the Colonel. or not. In the charge, it is said, that
they are both of the Coldstream Guards; cud yet
Gtoatia talks of Colooel tiones officers, ■nd fro-
quietly we have the mention of the officers of Cut
Goen's regiment. However. it appears that by of-
ficers dooms o_ort or other, thus were two exint!os-