Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-07-12

ingpdrfs OF our Government, will have done for US
| something that which pirates of republican prin
cples" in the midst of wide and wild mal-admin
lstration, and even turns our defective system com
pletely upside down, by sacrificing the best publi
| servants to the foul purposes of the "spoilsmen'
and to the folly of rotation-fhaf party does AM
will do nothing, or worse than nothing:
"We spoke again Of the army of England. He said this
the whole expense Of keeping at presentone hundre
thousand menwas about eight million sterling all miltar
pensions included and added that was about as much
pounds sterling the expense Of keeping up the army of III
United States en thousand that tme) was in dollars
This he explained in part as formerly by mentioning III
very great preponderance Of artillery in our army on peac
establishment relative numbers considered He remarke
that navy also much expensive than the British
which he ascbed TO having the best of every thing in
This said with his usual courtesy though suppose
other and probably stronger be that have not
arrived at the true practice of economyone of the last at
ainments Of experience and skill in armies and naves whe
united with comfort and efficiency Some of the battles
the Peninsula touched upon the Duke of Wellington
sat opposite to us and it remarked how fortunate 1t hat
been for England that he to America after the
peace of Paris in 1914 inferred that there had been
intention of sending the Duke command in the war
against the United States and afterwards heard dis
Herodotus tells us of people in Africa who
were, to legs, what the Cycops were as to eyes,
and who went faster upon their one leg than bpedal
nations can contrive to do on two. 1t seems that
England abounded, in Mr.. Rush's time, in spec-
mems of this sort, as will sufficiently appear in an
occurrence which he witnessed at the table Of
Prince Esterhazy. We should like to know
whether these mutated people talked in style Of
valor half as laundering as multitudes of gentlemen
in this country who never were and probably never
will be in harms way. We quote from the book !:
''Dmner announced eight O'clock and when the
company seated, incident probably struck ALL On
the night of Prince Eserhazy the French Ambassa-
dor chief guest and his left the Prince of Hesse
PhlpPstha and the Marquis of Angesey Amongst these
three there but three legs The French Ambassador
had lost of his in the French service the battle Of Le
sic; the Prince of Hesse Phlppsha of his the
tie OF Borodno in the Russian service and the Marquis
Angesey Of his the battle of Waterloo fighting in the
ranks of England When attended the Prince Regents
first evee my attention drawn the number Of manned
and wounded English officers present and here, this
ing, were accidentally assembled side by sde three officers
Of different naons each of high rank and each having lost
a limb"
Another curious fact of the same sort is related
at pages 1913, l24. He is dining at the Duke OF
WELLNGToN's, with General ROBERT GooDLoE
HARPER (of Maryland) and others. We shall give
the whole paragraph:
" The Duke at the head Of his table, the Duchess sat
opposite. The former talked with the which long in
tercourse with the world in its greatest circles gives The
quantity of food necessary for soldiers being spoken of he
said that he had commanded them of many different nations
and never knew any that could long subs under the trials
of campaign, with less than pounds day. whether
bread OF some kind altogether mixture Of bread with
animal ood and added that this applied the native troops
Of lnda who required their three pounds Of rice in the
wenyiour hours OF the population Of India then subject
to England he remarked that it had always seemed him
overraed he could pretend accuracy, but he doubted
it exceeded twenty millions This struck me the MORE
having been under the prevalent belief that greatly be-
yond that amount Perhaps there might be seen in the re-
mark characteristic of the Dukes mind not TO be led away
by exaggeations More conversation passed. which had the
greater charm from the company being small and without
mony beyond that which ntnscay belonged the table
such In the Of it newspaper paragraph was
messed at the seat of the Marquis of Angesy One of the
Marquss brothers, who captain in the navy Lord
Uxbrdge, the Marqus and of his daughters being
all at his country seat il stated that the Marquis had but
leg his brother but arm that his clutches
from wound in the knee and that his daughter had lost her
hand whilst attending her husband of the battles in
Spain The Duke said that the lady had lost
her hand; the rest he believed was"
But we must pause for the present.