SIR FRANCIS BURDETT.
IN the list of the minority on Major FANCOURT'S motion for the abolition of military flogging, we look in vain for the name of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT. Where on that night was Westminster's Glory ? Did he vote with the majority, in favour of flogging; or did he purposely absent himself from the debate, on a question with which the whole of his better life was identified? A few years ago, so injurious a supposition would have been deemed in- credible. But not a few reputations have fallen since the Duke of WELLINGTON fell; and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, once the col- league of Coettemse and the friend of CARTIVR I G HT, is dwindled down to a convenient Government tool. Have these Ministers no mercy? we wish they would give the old man his miserable Peer- age, and let him go to the other place.
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