The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-12-21 00:00:00

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' ' Are Mawr trito lied served it India, bat whom
"Wan we eeild not kern, opposed the eausedinent,
-dbetendittg that 411,110fSi illeillekolll had occurred, both
"1i 'woe esval and miter? history, ~here subordinate
rs wertlipublicly disliked for particular opera-
while the Commeeders under whom they act-
Won not at all-noticed. Therefore the. vote sow
"web, dot be said to involve any refection
' teed Moira, fee whose character he Lett the
enspeet.
• r. liewarth, Mr. P. Moore, and Mr. Dixon
followed en the same side. The latter observed, that
:' Lad Nelsen was thanked by Parliament for his
opientlid achievement at the Nile,wbile Lord St.Vin-
' feet wile was the Commander-le-Chief under whom
' that'4reat !tern acted, was odt mentioned in the vote
' iiif thanks. Yet the omission Was never deemed any
reflection upon, or in the slightest degree insidious,
• lowird Lord St. Vincent. Why then ‘hould the
present preposition be conceived to involve any re-
flection noon Lord Moira?
MT. 11. 'fens, forcibly supported the original mo-
tion.
After some further remarks, the amendment was
withdrawn, upon the recommendation of Alderman
Atkins.
Mr. 11. J %resew moved for the production of the
dispatches received by the Court of Directors f rom
Lord Moira, from the commencement of the late war
up to the latest period, excepting only those of • se-
cret nature.
Mr. CR4T4 the Chairman) asked, whether the
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an moot to ezelutle the answers
sent by th rt of Directors to those dispatches 1
'tiding, it e who I would not serve to furnish
the Court with ato view of the subject. Such
view caul/I'llot, in ' be afforded, until the arrival
of farther dispatches ludic.

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them, and that that opinion ought to have been ex-
pressed, whether in favour of, or hostile to, the
p7oble Lord alluded to. He could not approve of
any departure from the established precedents of the
Court, and he agreed that it did not seem regular,
according to those precedents, to notice the merit of
a subordinate officer, while the Cimmatider in Chief
was totally overlooked. Still he could have no hest-
teflon in aseeding to the proposed grout. For. he
, i • *as well acquainted with, and highly appreciated the
~ 'writ of General Ochterlony. Hereshe Honourable
Geniteioan entered into tug historical detail of the
. life Of General Ochterlony, who had, he sold, been
no ililli than 34 years in the Company's service with
very gloomy prospeets, it the recent display of
.lids great talents attiiteiell universal notice. This
Olkcer hod, he added, beta brought up in the school
•II! arh.Cterigany's striate, and it was. he was con-
,Stored. essential to the interest of that service, amply
.fir i'v.it'att each an Officer, In order to afford due en.
y, filityetent and adevigte stimulus to the exertion
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'-, .... ....* • t'iMr. Gamut. denied thet tie proceeding ender con-
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. . \. attention iurelved Any depsiture from precedent.—
~ ' . The Papers upohmUch the proposition was ground-
..: , . ----- id were open tied*** reading of all the Proprietors,
anti. in this 'epee wee had been done to communi-
tette infonnetlesilri-the Proprietors than was required
• . ' toe thelkoitaws or br laity precedent. Some of the
Treittieters . had, it appeared, read these Papers,
. Thud ill wasr sorry to witness a caspesitien not to
..', reset very libelee et ft eof the'inretution thee af-
.itted. As to the oboervation that the merit of the
Cameientler in Chief and the Army should have been
brouihe tinder the consideration of the Court be-
feletelie peesent mooing, was proposed, he contended
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dila! there was no rule whatever to influence the dill-
crVitei of the Court of Directors upon that subject,
andtitsliii •est WOO becoming to abuse the exercise
of-thefdiscretion, because it did not conform to the
1 eiteitenf particular hiclivideals--still less was it be.
corn,* to Censure the Directors before it was known
what Way meant to propose with regard to the Com-
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4: Illeeledeo. in Chief. Bat whatever might be the opinion
Wespittsfleg -the system of the Commander in Chief,
r . ': . 'zraeleteetetteeedirectiote the war was conducted, that
• • religfelettkettskil km Ito connection with the merit of
-*WINO/ 'teller eonsideratien, that merit consist-
ihtlirevielleellir military opeeetkre ; &orates* the
*intim* before the Court might be adopted without
ikeei.dicias any questions that might hereafter arise
1 Afith respeet to other points connected either with
. ..-..llllffie Snits ef the. Commander in Chief, esthe policy
Ithe war. The Court of Directors had, then,
tin the course which they deemed most regular
ri,, ilia ',pettiest, and if they were called upon to stir.oriflee. their judgment to others, that surrender
Nreeld teem to deprive them of the executive limbo-
/ eltyl 'which" coostitutioselly belonged to them, and
'which, he Ispett,-they had exercised to the satisfactioe
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Weed of the style cud
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- %CI ' iblee".. Proprietor, lhati-
I,: ti variants imitimentiessee any voodoo sebseettetto
i litt essositliretrip'setheithdyt pima be termed to
illtit--ehiisr $t ellhetality. Bet this;, he observed,
jies tt4iNhe Hirst time in which lb. Chairman had
. 1 I 01.41114 lie to repress himself in 'such a querulous
, ?... . 10.4.10v....-141 cry a... Tier, orderl— Mr. Kinnard
ti the candour of the Assembly is justifies-
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. "If hit worth, and bore testimony to the he-
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. A of Me Worthy Member (Mr. Jack-
• .. iffillf}to wheat the Chairman's censnrities remark ap.
•t; .; Ovettlrte refer, and especially in that Member's pre-
= a those ByeAsets which scared to the Pre-
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'mete controllieg intones le the disposal of
tbelifileds. The.H.e.Neetber enforced the epi-
' shit •Mr. Jackson, with respect to the propriety
' of‘treeng thanks to the Cominander-in-Chief and
tirettetity before a motion of this nature was brought
I I &rowed, observing, that the merits of a single Officer
''t - werelhos rather invidiously selected, and that such
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a aelectioe seemed to east at least an indirect re-
! fleet-len open his comrades and seperiors. The me.
' vita of this Officer he (Mr. K.) did not mean to dis-
pute, but he thought all the Members of the Court
'Shoed have an opportunity of judging of those
) merits by reeding the disputchea alluding to them.—
With a view then of affording that opportunity he
. • Isrepotied an amendment to the following effect :-
144 Thet.while the Court highly estimated the merits
•1101 d iterate's of -Gen. Sir David Ochterlony it was
;PIK expiatlieet to adjourn the discussion, upon the
''lpetetf tie Wove It, until the Members bad time to
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Allitlkalipdoisevents open which the Court of Dine-
• / . ! . ellifers thee* proper te recommend the grant of 10001.
I ' . -.W.yost to that 01fi.0.."'