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and Forests, to make this demand in the most expressive manner, and to 

 leave him only the alternative, of giving up his Avhole accumulation of 

 Surveyorships and Agencies under the Crown. 



We see that the Committee pronounce in the most distinct manner as 

 to the principle of the affair : they give it as " their opinion, that no 

 Surveyor or Architect employed on behalf of the Crown, should be 

 permitted to have any interest in buildings belonging to the Crown." 

 The principle is thus established ; and what is declared to be erroneous 

 for all time to come, can scarcely be unexceptionable for the past. But 

 in this 6th resolution a strong liint is embodied, which we expect to see 

 duly acted upon. No Surveyor is to be permitted so to possess him- 

 self of public property, " until his duty as Surveyor of the Crown rela- 

 tive to such land or buildings, shall have entirely ceased !" Colonel 

 Davies may have lost his cause, but we must hope that the public will 

 have gained theirs ; that Mr. Nash will have good sense enough to see 

 the inconvenience of retaining those leases, and that future Surveyors wiU 

 look to the moral of his tale. From fraud, we are as willing to exonerate 

 him as the most zealous of his defenders. We go no further than the 

 Committee. But to their full length we go ; and the Colonel may con- 

 gratulate himself on having done a public service at last. 



It is curious, that in the same Session which struck the grand blow of 

 Protestantism in this country, the insolence of popery abroad, should be- 

 come the subject of discussion. 



" In the House of Commons, Sir Robert Inglis presented a petition 

 from the ministers, churchwardens, and inhabitants of Wainfleet, All 

 Saints, and Saint IMary, praying that Protestant soldiers may be eman- 

 cipated, and placed on the same level with popish soldiers, who caimot 

 be required to attend Protestant religious services. In recommending 

 this petition briefly but eloquently to the House, Sir Robert adverted to 

 the case of Captain Atcheson and Mr. Dawson, who underwent the 

 extreme punishment which the government could inflict vipon them, viz. 

 the prevention of their commissions, for having remonstrated against a 

 command to assist in a popish and idolatrous ceremony." 



Sir Henry Hardinge, in his speech, declared that no repulsive cere- 

 monial was ever required of the troops. But Sir Henry had of 

 course taken the trouble to forget that troops make a part of the 

 peculiar pomp of every principal ceremony of foreign papists. In 

 Portugal, the Wafer has a regular convoy of troops ; and woe be to that 

 man who does not drop down on his knees to this mummery ; and 

 kneeling in a Portuguese street is a formidable affair, to be paralleled 

 only by kneeling in an Irish dunghill. So much for the civihans. The 

 British soldiery were expected to pay their homage as it passed their 

 guard-houses ; and in many of their foreign quarters, have carried 

 tapers in the popish processions, walking bareheaded, and going through 

 the regular ceremonial, hke well drilled monks. 



The British officers in question, certainly would have acted more in 

 conformity with military usage, by firing their guns when they were 

 ordered. But the measure of justice exercised towards them, appears 

 to have been stretched into severity. The loss of their commissions was 

 one of the heaviest punishments that could have been awarded for the 

 most violent breach of duty. The consciences of gentlemen, probably 

 offended in no slight degree by the scenes and ceremonies round them. 



