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you of the humanity ; that is a tiling I know you scoff at , but it was bad policy . Those who know it , and have taken some pains to extend the knowledge of it , will take yet more pains to frustrate your hope of one day ruling Merrie England in conjunction with Henry Lord Brougham and Vaux , once the pretended friend of the people , but now known far
and wide as an apostate . Take yourself away from the public gaze , and occupy yourself with things they care not for . Register the amount of fruit and wine not consumed at the dessert , write autograph orders to your small tradesmen for your household supplies , and make your evening visits , which are paid for by the nation . The people are too much occupied to notice , you , unless you are thrust upon them .
The Editor of the * Times' seems to think that the concerns of the army are of much importance to the public ; he is deceived , they care nothing about the army , except to see it got rid of with as little trouble and as little suffering as possible to the individuals at present composing it . It is a nuisance , and , what is worse , it is an useless and expensive nuisance . Much talk has been made about the honour of the officers in the army . Now what is the fact 1 Whenever they
pledge their honour , the phrase is ' as an officer and a gentleman . ' This distinctly marks the fact , that being an officer is a distinct thing from being a gentleman . A few days back a Captain Battersby was held to bail for an assault on a child ; he pleaded drunkenness in his defence . The next jlay there , appeared in the fc Times' a letter from his solicitors defending him from the imputation cast upon his character * as an officer and a gentleman . ' The rationale of the matter with
regard to standing armies is , that the time for them is gone by . Officers are , it is true , useful upon an occasion of emergency , though even that fact has been much exaggerated , for Buonaparte ' s best officers were taken from the ranks of the people , with little previous training , and even upon the Wellington showing , it would seem , that the simple fact of purchasing into the army makes a man an officer without more ado . The United States , to whose institutions we are
so much accustomed to refer when in want of political examples , has already given us a rule for this matter . Their cadets , from all the States , are sent at the expense of the nation to the military college at West Point , on the Hudson River . They receive there a military education , and when they have passed the regular period , they retire to make room for others , and go into the ranks of private life as merchants , tradesmen , lawyers , or any thing else which-may happen to
suit them . Some few join the army , and but few , for 6000 men along * the enormous frontier , offer but little hope to ambition of the warlike kind . One remarkable feature in this college is , that all the cadets being trained alike , they are officers and privates in rotation . When one has got to the top of the class , he is an officer for a few days , and then again goes to the bottom . These men are spread all over the Union , and in case of a war , they can readily be brought forth , either at the call of patriotism , or in the hope of advancement ; and they are found efficient . Let New Orleans and Niagara speak to it .
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Thunderers , Scaramouches , and St . Simonians . —Whenever the
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Military Mercenaries . 865
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 865, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/61/
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