The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-09-07

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Gus. he was ridicu'ing the MEASURE. and in saying
i fqg thtni," he meant nothing more than ridi-
cule of Lord Castlereagh. The use made Of Bo.
naparte's treatment of his soldiers, was to make
the trestmeRt of the Local Militia warning to
Ministers to desist from that measure, Were we
| never to complain Of soldiers being i'll treated !
| II we were to see soldier hogged to death, was
| no tongue. no pen, to move in his defence The
object WAS to .ridicule the measure to cause
| the practice to be done away for the future, A
young Fellow, with smock frock, sentenced to
| five hundred lashes for mutny But this was not
| mutiny-a squabble about marching guinea.
He had told lord Csstlereagh; that by that me a.
sure he had Just made thes- men soldiers enough
to dislike lsbour, and yet not soldiers enough to
cease to be laborers. -
The man who meant to excite dissatisfaction in
the army, would not have taken such open mea-
sures as had been imputed to him he would have
proceeded more secretly and insidiously II eve
~ passage that is written were to admit of such
forced constructions as had been put upon MS pa.
per, the press must be silent, writers would
have to confnc their columns to the praises Of
meniu power. The employment of the German
troops was that circumstance which had excited
his Indignation to see those foreigners brought
to superrtend. or perhaps infiict punishment on
misied young men, who had been concerned in
the squabble at Ely, excited indignation in his bo
som more than the punishment itself Our an
cestors had always dislkea foreign troops; al
most every body dsliked them, and surely that
dislike could not be construed into any thing ia
cobinical
There were no fewer than four or FIVE German
Generals, who were of the British staff and one
OF whom even commanded an English General
Since the year 1885, this force has Increased from
"a, to 81 200 men. We had 81 ia Foreigners,
four generals, four lieutenant gene' ais, and I9 CO
loneis There was also a Frenchman, OF the name
of Monslembert, on the staff IN Sussex, and two
frenchmen at dock yard in Wsles-that was
directly against law Both the acts of Parliament
by which German troops are allowed to be ia En-
gland, were, in truth, merely acts ct indemnity,
FOR the Declaration of Rights, and other statutes
had declared the holding places of trust by TO
reigners, either civil or military, illegal There
are no less than US German officers in our SER
vice, and including foreigners of other nations,
there were 1909 foreign officers in our pay Of
the number of foreign troops in our service, not
more than four or five thousand men had been en-
listed in this country-many of the 81 900 had
been even enlisted in Spsin-taken out of prison
there, having been in Dupont's army Why then
were these men brought 10 superintend the lash.
nag the backs OF his own countrymenf Ii had
been asserted that the German troops had beha
we'd bravely at the battle of Talavera He knew
the contrary to be the fact. He had letter from
an officer OF the Horse Artillery, lieutenant Ere
derrick Reed, an officer high in government, in
the office OF Ordnance, in which it was asserted
that from the cowardice of the German legion,
some English regiments would have been cut off,
II the 29th had not come to their asslstance-
This was confirmed to him by several officers
who bad slept at his house in Botley, after their
arrival in England. A German officer of the
name OF Landreth, had indeed seized standard,
| and endeayored to r.;iy his countrymen, but it
was found impossible With respect to their con.
duct IN quarters, he was himself able to form
some estimate, as he lived in the neighborhood
where they were guar tered But he would first
read document, which would show what had
been their conduct even in Germany
(Mr. Goblet then read letter from the arch
duke Charles to the duke of Bruins wick Gels,
reprobating the excuses committed by his corps
in Saxony.)
These were the very men now in our pay. On
their landing in England they quartered in the
Isle OF Wight, where they commtted every spe
cies of brutal excess-from whence they were
| sent to Ireland on account of their enormites. -
They had even been accused OF committing two
murders.
A landlord who had refused them liquor, bad
been attacked by them with swords, MS own
bar, in the most ferocious manner and the ter
ror of the inhabitants of Newport exceeded any
thing that had been seen in this country--At
Guadalupe, the Goth regiment we were told had
run away The depot OF that regiment was a,
Huntington, and was filed up principally with
foreigners, and vagabonds taken from our gaols,
| whence they were shipped OFF to the Goth regi
ment in the West Indies, where they had an op
/; portunity Of shelving their bravery-by running
away.
| Under these impressions he had written the ar
| ticle IN question, and he trusted that the jury
would see that it could arise from evil lntent-
on, but from tie irritation of his feelings alone
| He wrote the article from no bad motives. Eve
ny advantage he possessed was prospective--all
his prospects, his property his publication, even
the very trees he planted depended on the CONT.
nuance of his majesty's government. His pros
poets denied the assertion He could not be so
stupid, so senseless, absurd, as to desire the
overthrow of the government under which he Ii
we'd. He called on the jury to make his case their
own, and if they did that he was sure they would
acqut him
The Attorney General thought Mr.. Goblet
would have better consulted his interest, il, in
stead of the defence he had made, he had admit
ted, the other defendants had, that he had pub
lished libel, instead of adding to it by the
dial he had uttered in his defence. He was not a
constant reader of Mr.. Cobbetts Register but
it had not fallen i'll his way to see many publicati
ons which should lead him to believe that MIR.
Cobbett was man " more SHINING than sinned q
gainst."
Mr.. Goblet in defending himself had disprsi-
sed the taste and style of the allcdged libel. But
as to the evil intentions imputed 10 him for that
publication, he treated that as mere trihe-as to
Any wckedness OF intention that was quite out of
sight. II would be OF no consequence to any one
OF Uhat opinion ar. Goblet might be but he, the
attorney general, would ask the jury, had Mr..
Cobbett merely offered an opinion on this sub
ject lie would ask the jury, was there any thing
| like discussion in the paper, Did MI. Goblet IN
that paper, seem to think there was any wiser