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they ooght not to have done ; for tbelcingly power is # e § £ ssaapy to ^ the coBsUUition , and xke
^«^ ouglit to be free homL all those restraints imposed byDrs . Willie aad SimmoiBs , before he cOuid Jbe judged competent to transact affairs of state . The
House divided ; when there appeared for Mr- Whifbread ' s ^ notion , eighty-one , against it one hundred and ninety-eight . A question of this kind must come home to the feelings of every Englishman , and it ought not to be Uurred over . Either the king was in a sound mind , or he was
not ; if he was not , the ministers are guilty of treachery to their king and their country ; if he ^ as in a sound mind , they are free
from every suspicion of guiJt . A charge has been made against them x it is repelled by assertion ; the House has interposed and prevented an inqtury . We lament the decision for the sake of both
parties , and for that of the nation at large . A question of this high importance , affecting so materially the characters of men of high rank , should not remain undecided * We remember the
Roxuatn who wished his honour made of glass , that his fellow citizens might know ^ the whole of hi * conduct . We could wish to se § the iTiijiisters of England as tenacious of their honour , and when it is
attacked give every facility ^ o the accuser to bring forward his charges * Mn Wardle broug ht , on the ca « e of a corporal in a militta reeiment ^ sentence ^ jt ^ re ^ eiw one
thousand lkshes , ot ; which l > e ikatl only two hundr ^ l ,, stfid 0 | i the offer bein ^ mad e to 4 iijT ] to irec eive the remaining ..-eight hvn % « 4 W go to ai for # ign ^ r ^ jjiff )« i ^ ibe gre-
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fe « d t ^ Ja&& ^^ s 53 hp chv ^ nuts qad ^ mi ™^ cdate » t i fe ^^ # P «^ tt tkt . |^ cond on wiiich fee was fom ^ guflty r w ^ jg p ^ y ^ 4 kre ^^ fully of liis coloEieij - ^ ije tjiri charge- we x ^ oukl tmt collect . It
appeared that this corporal' bad made complaint of abuses in the regiment * and the anover of the question stated , that the disre . ^ pectful language towards the
colonel was not a thousandth part as bad as what had heeu said by a gallant admiral against his com * * nanding officer , who had since been restored to tfce service : and
a xaore remarkable fact , that some German soldiers taken in the act of desertion wese not sen * tericed to be flogged , nor was the lash ever inflicted on their backs ,
The colonel of the regiment de > clared , that he had done nothing that was not necessary for n # - tary discipline * The advocate general courted all inquiry when a subject < : ould wirfi propriety be brought into discussion , which he denied in this case . Sir F .
Burdett observed , that he heard nothing but assertions on botli side ^ , except that the mover undertook to make go ^ d his asser * tions ; and he could n 6 t see the propriety of taking all for
granted that was said on one side , and rejecting every thing on theother . Asiar as he understood the case it appeared , that . Corporal Curtis had preferred crjiarges against a comraissioned ofSeer , and
thecolonel had in his opinion impi « - perfy refusedyto receive them , ft was natur ^ f ^ r -the ^ omv ^ ^ ^ to say tfeal : ja&ti <; e h ^ d not b ^ - deme hi ^ He appeals / ^^ cof ^ ia ^ a ^ r & the 4 i&trip ^^«^ thi ? ^ i * in a yery ui ^> c « o » u ^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/56/
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