The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-06-16 00:00:00

TFSMAN.

provincial troops in Pion Scotia, &c. There are
four • bcrmau Lieutenant-Generals, four Major-
Generals, and nineteen Colonels, many of whom
haft, the rank of Brigadier.Geuterals, and oleo
command not only Englishtoen, taint Eiuglfiflt
offieers. There are not wily Germans in high
command in this country, but there are Frene
men also.. There is one Frenchman of the
namd of Montalembert, who is on the Stafilo
sex ; and I understand that there arc, or there
were, two of them lately intrusted as overseen of
a duck.yird in Wales. Althotigh the law says
that no foteigncr shall be employed in any office of
trust, civil or military, yet the whole culinary is
full of those foreigners so employed in places of
trdst. The two acts which author-4 l the intrudue..,
tiun of these German troops into this country were'
not enacting statutes, but merely acts of indemnity.
The law of the country was sue!' as was agreed to
at the bargain made at the Revolihion by the Act
aif Settlement, and thee act prohibited furrigners
from holding those situations of trust. There
'are trete no less then tl3of these German officers'',
tired if we take in all the foreigners *ha hold'
Ain of trust in our military service, contrary
to the law, there are no less than MS. The At.
torney-Generit has mis.etated the fact, when he
represents those German Legions as entirely or
I principally composed of Hatioverians who have en.
listed front attachment to their legitimete Sovereign.
It is' a very small part indeed, nut more than four
or five thousaud, whoealisted in Hanover; thegreat
bulk of them .1s composed of persons enlisted in
the. prisons of Spain and England. I have heard
that a considerable number of them were enlisted
from the prisoners of Dupont's army. When an
artupof foreigners-is raked together In this man-
ner, when.thelrotteers command over Englishmen,
teed whets part of them ate brueght to witness' the
flogging dour local militiamen, how can I avoid
Joeling the greatest indignation ? and. feeling (as I
etust do). this indignation, why should I nut be
,permitted to express it ? And- if I do express this
indignation whish L feel, lo somewhat of angry
language, ire you ',poll-that ncceutit) to presume
that I am guilty of 4cliberately wishing and contriv.
hug to subven the Government of the country I The
Attorney-General talks of the gallant conduct of
those troops at the. battle of Talavera. Now I have
heard that they behaved very badly at Talaveri;
and if I had expected the Attorney-General to make
this assertion, I 'should certain!), hevii brunight in
pocklit t letter, which think will warrant
one ie saying that they behaved badly there. 'The
letter is from an Offic.er of the Ilorse Artillery
(Lieutenant. Frederick Read), and directed to
person.in a high situation io this country. Among
other things, it states, " that if it was not fur the
timely arrival of the 20th regiment, their whole
brigade would bate been taken, in consequence
of tire cowardly conduct orthe German Legion."'
It is not merely from this letter that I .derive
my information on this subject;- but I have
.anoken With many Officers from Spain who
;pained through my neighboilrhood in the conts
•$ 's whom I invited to take up,their quer-
*: at .nsy house at Bosley. All these Of&
cue agreed in stating that the Germans had be:
bayed very ill. One of their Odors, Indeed,
planted the standard close le the sweaty, and.
endeavoured to rally theM, but -it was impost.
ble. The Atterugy4eitetaV must have boon
Much misled whgu he Kittle this statement; and,
helmet I do not wonder at it when I recollect, ,
that since lienin; I'ortugel, the Officers have not
been allowed to write, or even to "peat about whet
takes:place in that part of the world: The Attors
neysGeeerel, appeals to the tesdmony i 4 all in•
whine oeighbuerhood these Germans hue beds
quartered, to say what well.conducteti troops they
are. Now.aa to what I know of. them', their the;
rector is directly the reverse. I shall first spoilt
of the regimes( commanded by the Duke of
Brunswick ;, and in giving their Character I. Ana
first pate whit was the opinion of the Archduke
Charles, respecting this regiment. The Arch. -
duke, in a letter to the Duke of Brunswick, states,
" It is with great concern that I learn, that the
troops under ;the command of, your Highness in
Saxony, have been guilty of such extortions and
excesses as to dishonour the army, render for-
gotten all the atrocities committed by the French,
and dispose the minds of the people against
the common cause. I have therefore given
orders to General Kieumayer, commanding in
&stony, to see that the most rigorous military
discipline be preserved, as long as a corps _eon.
Wises there, which, like that under your coin.
mud, is composed of.people having no country."
Suckle the character that the regiment of the
Militia Brunswick had in Germaoy. When they
came to this country, oat;. of the first pieces they
were sent to was the Isle of Wight. There they
committed all manner of violent:es, enormities and
devastation. They were Charged with committing
two murders t I cannot pretend to lay they\ ac.
-tually did commit them ; bat this I will sty, -I have
seen a letter stating that the bar of a public house
Mad been chopped through with their eabeees 1104
the landlord putt in the greatest danger of his
life, for not supplying them With liquor. In
short, Off were the terror of the whole neigh.,
ikearliondi 'who rejoiced must sincerely when
they were sent of some where else. Neverthesi
less I do sot pretend to deny, that many bf them
may be very good mass butt yet I have an objec.:
doe to their being emplOyed in this eountryli oa
the ground that our ancestors objected, that 04
never can participate in the feelings eftlngfish.
men. Their attachments Ile not to England but to
Germany. , It is impossible, from the feelings of
human stature) that it should be otheraise.. The
graves of their fathers and their properties (if they
have any) lie in Germany, and there are theft sr.
factious also. This is* principle of human nature
too strong to be eradicated. if you take a Lap-
' Lander Ginn his ewtt country and bring hits bete, he
• atilt suppose that there is something in Lap. ,
laud superior to any thing he sees elsewhere.
When Germany shall he completely under fluid!.
Wakes( Bonaparte, if he should ever httmle this
country, is it German troops that"hre fit to 14
tent for Ward to oppose his armies, ' I'llefietoin
my: eonseience dial it would be 6111 tleingtxoiasa
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iiiiiit.ire:ya:",iredinwiaiiesiwlwr.rtahhttkhhhoerefriseri
guard of
Trojan at t will be like the
Greeks. Asether &silence ef thevalne of thossult troupe
was reeinitildiapiaretat Guadalou;mo. A. part eeelluti
60th regimosacc,wll9 ; Were wadi Germain 74
liwwisaYesrtnaiblulisthetetle ,atertyjrmi iirnghteutienre of
this
regt
they kept 414 Whole neighbourhood in serene
an-
, • et rof
"lydonalathroms.e. GI 4eiollasanlYtrohoarpes bsilludcelaihrtr",eniirstniantatrute
Ettclir:ebigusitaesetisepeittliairitigoil
tritiu:ueautuete a into the country j and I. ant cf.rnvi
cluanftse:debninaajgethentshtyhteatentichthib;g.re?g;i:;:leiyi
n
tj
' (as I. thought indecently) in wituessiag, if test e°l
nut bear °ltithYflathPosaissihe:tesaluoadmpreb°tggitotheisihtnteleitoigchht°trilhagleartytYci.srinitisaswtl::::i bet 1 trisst
i.
you will bethelievpetothhetireofwmuy
ca
npon.bbiaidst
planting, ous, five very
all depend dr, the seeerity
thep property,
orftY n 9 ly
of the country, under the Governmue of hit Ma
jetty jesty and his successors; and I must h• the greatest
beast antifoot, as well as knave and ;raiser, if f
could seriously and deliberately intenol the sub.
version of the Cloverusnont, or to du my briery tie
the-country. have now nothing more to lab
ythao:111, tmoythLaenk Lord, for Gentlementheattentienate the
ith sou
have been good enough to favour met"
The ArrettothiP.Ocetstae now rustt• to reply in
nearly the following terms 1..." May it pleate
your•fiordship..Gentlemen of the 41. cy ; 1 can.
not help thinking that the presiem Defendant
would better have consulted his own fs:ney ant!
the character which he has, to answer one ends of
this day's purpose, placed so high, if he io4d follow.
ed the example of his own prissier an.; pohlisloto-,
and admitted the libel % of which be stands accuser:,
made lid defence, and suNered judgle.rat to have
gone against him by default, rather thin have
sorted to such a defente as he has this day made
for he has only made it the occasion for tate ring Ise*
slanders against innocent and natlefendee pet.ote,
to whom ha has thought proper incideetatoy to et.
lode. It has pleased the Defendant to coluekiit
loudly of delay iu bringing the 0108efilt;f0.furrnitioli
to trial. He his 'stated Wet the sass pub‘
listed on the. of July, 18011, and he sooks%
fitly wea upon to answer tot it at .tit
I 'tattier period) 'why am I, at length, wilts% t .
'hailsuppossitilllPtiteseeution wasdolieetOt oketaitt
,up in June- 1810 to *nswer for an oe-t.ze tem.
'pitted in J41.1109r1 will tell-you wh; ~ re t frig
tell you by the course ce this •
court:i CoiM- set bong the Defendant to trial
-soolielef hi WOO lathe enabled me to have dent
so, bet lie 'Weida not do it. His leartiehie seet
the Beech will tell yolk that a person tieing to the
country is' setltled to fourteen days tootles cut ,
trial; that!': a. Defendatit is entitled to an impart
lime, *MO Will give his cue a wk.lt tet'ra's deist
(and thil present 'Defendant actuality hid this);
sad that a Defendant cannot be made teflo.
Without threat telt* the •last only of whie., a
Periesiadq• Now if the Prot Ddentiertl hr 4,
la 10 the lest' tale; so of trial creole
have been given him for the sittings after lest
AH011.14,11 but knelt, not plead till the ltd% sot
the *tier coming on the filth of the month% .
and he wit Itleadhig tilt theist, 14. days entices
-olueld net him Seen giten him. If be had tired im
terry It) days notice would have been eoettet, and,
the Mat night have
.ceniv on; but he lived in the
Country; 'itntf, therefore It was that I said his hoool
timid tille...o€llt eflitil living in the covets,' in the
present ddisyief whieh he now dares to complain,
thought latter' myselel bate shown that he Innis
'self was the:cense .Of 'it. He stated, 4.3 a t;,;1, .
sad tbeseeels- lee to hold in your remenihraossi
as 'a steediefulit his credibility, that he was
brdeghtliti'te• beano, and wee 'told ,when he
'taints thevei'aeirerilron't try you nowt go hack .
again, and totifiViiother time." lie said that s •
thus be was' trelatedi and for this assertion obese
'is no more' foundation than for ay hums- ,
time which might spring frum the wildest
imagination of 'the wildest' person. • I aft Strr
to say that it is a dr, cold iuvention. mode
oily for the purpose of serving this trial. I Wptild&
not speak so positively 1 but of what I have stilted
lam certain from my own knowledge,: 11he BOA :.
ft:pliant has urged, as a reason why heshould AO% to
be prosecuted for this libel, that there hive been . I
others which were worse, and which were eithee,
not preseeuted at alt, or 'the pruseCiVisins of which • ,
were abandoned t'ffeeesier tali et enslaneje l t
is true there was such a libel in the'Rernies Pests • •
as Adele which the Defendant has allot& ; it is ;
trueOlest /et' thiflibel 'a teosecation we' insoles.
M ted by iny•learned et most hononrahle .preoleres. 4 • •
'sot, Sir A. Pigott; and it is tree that that prJse,
coition was not further carried ono but out fec the. •
reason Assigned by the Defend:Off. II sise,ll. In the. ,
hearing of doe learned ceutisel fur the A.s!iterattys, ;
to whose cars ptoteetttions Of the same noun, ,
with that le The Morning Poet are intrv,s‘eo!, r. 04
whose opinion upon that prosecution, jointly with
mine, is new before me: , There is no comparisue
in the degrees of wickedness, beteree the printer
of a libel and the person who is the slather of it;
and though it is sometimes found accessary,
by pre:tweeting the elrcuiators of a libel, to 4441
printers and publishers from the °genre, pee_
there is no occasion in which, wherever the embus' '
can be got at,
present, visorso
nt bfee tCu
irahol or
no isn ~ nwoTthhoper
heofatevhreerred sufferedlb en ij
ane
ujtsad wgi
mo setildne:
;ego against them .by default, are iisnueeld when
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ch:)rbUlio:
.catheuseprobeseeisuinoti.ottitiagitninst
gforeco.
thedis ;ftetonoliati%ogre-vitieetiorlihhsnoteinidc:erhaetsitaptninoestlifyeaPnrceejtiii!li:b:tEalepfirtejeZt: •
; and if it can be pu;Tell
fission lolin,'as I Cotter myself I havt 0,010.
d 045,... the 'Conti of Bench, doubtless
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