We learn from the Courier, that Lord Brudenell owes his
appoint- ment to the Eleventh Regiment of Dragoons to the influence at Court of his sister, Lady Howe. Her Ladyship :will ere long, we suspect, become sensible that she has done her brother no real kindness. The public had nearly forgotten the misbehaviour of the personally insigni- ficant Lord ; but since he has been so injudiciously thrust forward, it Is not surprising that the particulars of his conduct towards Captain Wathen, the honourable acquittal of that gentleman, and his own removal from the command of the Fifteenth Hussars, are all ripped up again. The Times yesterday had the folly to put forth an apology for Lord Brudenell, and a defence of his reinstatement in his former sank la the Army,—in utter forgetfulness, apparently, of the strong censure passed in that journal on the conduct of Lord Brudenell when Colonel of the Hussars. The Courier, however, supplies a quotation from the columns of the Times of 4th February 1834. wherein Lord Brudenell is spoken of as one " who makes spies of inferiors: upon their seniors in command—who encourages non-com- missioned officers and private soldiers to undervalue and misrepresent the officers placed over them by his Majesty—arid, above all, who resorts to the insufferuble meanness of eavesdropping for the careless private conversation of gentlemen, and taking down their words without their knowledge, with a view to flame penal charges against them, as future opportunity may serve." The Leading Journal then mimed the dispensers of military patronage against promoting such men as Lord Brudenell- " his officer (said tie. Times) was it man of nn experience. We are told that he never did fair regimental duty for more than three years of his life. Ile was not less incapacitated for MUMMA by temper than by ignorance of his business tea a commanding officer, both professional and moral. Such a matt, than &re, never ought to have been placed at the heal. of a regiment, more especially to the rejection of other gentlemen who had been Alajors in the Army b,f.re he got his Cornet's t *ssion. I however, we feel confident that such an error will not again be perpetrated, at least not soon."
We shall have occasion again to speak of Lord Brudenell and his ap- pointment; for Sir William Molesworth has given notice of a motion on the subject in the House of Commons, and lie is Lot the man to be deterred from bringing it forward by any blandishment at Court or bullying at the Horse Guards.
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