The Gazette of last night contains the promotion of Lord
BRUDE- NELL from the Half-pay Unattached to the Lieutenant- Coloneley of the Eleventh Light Dragoons. Setting aside his Lordship's Toryism, this appointment is exceedingly objectionable in a military point of view. It is a common reply when the propriety of the proceedings at the Horse Guards is questioned, that Lord HILL disregards politics, and looks only to the good of the service ; and civilians are chid for their presumption, if they doubt the judgment of the Commander of the Forces on this point. But the public have a military certificate of Lord BRUDENELL'S unfitness to command a regiment, in the decision of the Court.martial, which not long since inquired into hie conduct in Ireland, although, nominally, Captain IV/m-1EN was on his trial. The decision of that Court-martial was followed by the removal of Lord BIUMENELL from the command of the Fifteenth Hussars, on the 1st of February 1834. The Government may rely on it, that the public do not easily forget such misbehaviour as that of Lord BRUDENELL ; and whoever may have thepower to make the military appointments, to the King's Ministers belongs the responsibility to the nation that the ap- pointments shall be unimpeachable. But who among them will have the assurance to justify the promotion of Lord BitUDENELL ?
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