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soldiers' coats as easily as the impressions from them make holes in people ' s heads . And tell him , that notwithstanding all this , ye are peaceable men , seeking only to better your condition by all fair and peaceable means ; and if any thing has been done unfairly , ye have
Henry Brougham to keep ye in countenance , who breaks the law with impunity with his * Penny Magazine , ' and punishes others by law for doing the same thing . And so speed ye , my merrie men , in the somewhat uncertain navigation by which ye must work out your own ultimate salvation . We will talk more on this subject at a future opportunity .
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Military Mercenaries . —There has been some controversy in the * Times' on the subject of acquiring commissions in the army by purchase . The writer who advocates purchase , quotes the Duke of Wellington as an authority . * It is the promotion by purchase which brings into the service men of fortune and education , men who have some connexion with the interests and fortunes of the country , besides the commissions which they hold from his Majesty . It is this circumstance which exempts the British army from the character of being a ' mercenary army ; ' and has rendered its employment not only not inconsistent with the constitutional privileges of the country , but safe and beneficial . An
officer must be in turn a gaoler , police-officer , magistrate , judge and jury . * * * * . He must never make a mistake either against the internal rebel or foreign enemy ; he must be the governor of a province , must manage a legislature , perform the duties of a lord-lieutenant , &c . &c . and all the most difficult and arduous practices of government . '
What a curious confusion of logic seems to prevail in this Irish duke's brain ! The army is not mercenary , because purchase is the only mode of getting into it . If it be a buying army , surely it must be a selling army , or there are no such things as commercial principles . It would be a curious trade , where all buyers and no sellers occurred . Verily , verily , the * Great Captain of the age' does not excel in reasoning , cold-blooded though he be . And then he lets out his purpose so naively , while specifying the different offices military men should fill . The army is to rule the country ; and the aristocracy , —the * men of fortune and education '—are to be the exclusive rulers of the army . Amongst his long list of qualifications he has forgotten that of executioner ; had he filled that in , the producing classes of the community might have made an apt quotation from wonderful William Shakspeare :
' What ! shall we be tender ! To let an arrogant piece of flesh threaten us ; Play judge and executioner all himself ?' The Duke says , c An officer must never make a mistake , either against the internal rebel or foreign enemy . ' By this it would seem that he holds it no * mistake' have driven Jive thousand men into a river , and written such a jocose account of the a Hair as that contained in the famous despatch to Sir T . Munro , from the camp at Snoodnetty . You err , Lord Duke ! It was a mistake . I do not speak to
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864 Notes on the Newspapers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 864, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/60/
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