Lord Cardigan seems destined to be the pl-gue as well
as the pet of the Horse Guards, The Adjutant-General has been instructed to re- primand Major Morse Cooper, for having, in defending himself from attacks of an anonymous newspaper correspondent, thus alluded to the conduct of Lord Cardigan— "For the information of Mlles, Twill state the true reason an-I circumstances of my leaving a regiment wherein 1 had passed 'the morning of my life—all my best years,' twenty .one in number. I left it on account of the overbearing conduct and unendurable insolence of its Commanding-officer, which rendered the tenure of my con son insecure; and from experience I hold the opinion, that no Captain or suealtern of ordinary spirit and gentlemanly feeling is safe under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel the Earl of Cartiinau."
The Adjutant-General, in his letter to Major Cooper, says-
" The highly offensive and insulting terms in ishich you have assailed your late Commanding-officer, for the manifest purpose of provoking him to a hostile collision with you, would, in any case, have been wholly unjustifiable; but when Lord Hill adverts to the circumstance of your having left Prince Albert's Hussars without, to his recollection, having ever made objection to, or preferred complaint against, any part of Lord Cardigan's behaviour towards you while you were serving under his orders in that regiment, and to the further circum- stance of a period having elapsed since you quitted the regiment more than sufficient to have allayed any tialing ot. irritation which may have been excited in your breast durlog your regimental connexion with Lord Cardigan, the General Commanding-in-Chief is constrained to say that he can tiud no pre- text or excuse for your midget."
Major Cooper is furtIer informed, that had he been amenable to the provisions of the Mutiny Act, the consequence of his insubordination would in all probability have ken the loss of his commission, by the award of a Court-martial ; and that Lord 11111 only abstains, in the pre- sent instance, front the adoption of "an extreme course," in the confi- dence that Major Cooper will, on reflection, be sensible of the great im- propriety of his conduct.
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