"Tbe bpettator," Sprit 5th. 1851
HOUSE OP COMMONS: SUPPLY VOTES
THE Vote of £16,901 for the Royal Military College was opposed by Colonel Reid, upon the ground of special objection to the examination of officers necessary to promotion,—a regulation most humiliating to high-spirited, high-bred, and high-minded officers, who will not submit to be pedagogued like schoolboys. Mr. Fox Maule defended this regulation con amore, as it is one of his own devising.
Among other excellent reasons in its favour, was this—that you have already begun to educate the soldiers, and if you don't keep the officers ahead of them in the general and professional education they are now receiving, the officers will fall into contempt with their better-informed inferiors. Mr. Fox Mauls will probably come before the House with a proposition for providing persons of their own rank and station to instruct the officers—by attaching to each regiment a captain without a company, on whom shall devolve the duty of instructing the officers. The society of such a man will be courted as a man of Information and letters.
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