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1 Court Martial on Capt. Warrington 1832

handle is hein.trials/acun0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COURT MARTIAL ON CAPT. WARRINGTON. In obedience to the orders of the Command- on the following morning, when a detachment or-in-Chief, the Officers who had sat in judg- was again called out to stop the proceediugs of ment on Lieut.-Colonel Brereton, assembled the rioters in Queen-square, lie again permitted on Wednesday, January 18, at the Merchants' the troop to proceed on such service under the Hall, for the purpose of trying Captain War-,, sole command of the said Cornet, whilst he rington, of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, on certain remained in quartets: such conduct as afore- charges connected with his conduct during the said, on the partolCapt. Warrington, evincing time of the nots. The Colurt consisted of the a want of vigour and activity requi.ite in the following distinguishcd individuals:-- situation in which he was placed, being highly Lieut.-General Sir Henry Fane, President; unbecoming and disgraceful to hi character as Major-Generals Lord llurghersh, Sir John an officer, and calculated to bring dishonour on Ross, Rt. Ellice, and Sir Chas. Bruce; Colonels his Majesty's service. Lygon, 2nd Life Guards, Duffy, uiiattached, The charges having been read, Sir Henry Warburton, 8th foot, Arnold, Lambert, Gre- Fane rose and said, It is my duty, Captain nadier Guards, and Forster, Artillery; Lieut.- Warrington, to call upon you, by the direction Colonels Keyt, 84th Foot, Chatterton, 4th Dra- of the Commander-in-Chief, to know when goon Guards, Grey, 2nd ditto, Clarkes 5th ditto. you will be ready to meet the charges which The President took his seat about one o'clock, you have just heard read ? It is not the desire and, after the King's wdrant had been read, of the Court to take you bysurpiise. You shall the oath was admiistered to him, and after- iiave all reasonable time allowed .to prepare wards to the other members of the Court in your defence, and perhaps you can now inorm succession. the Court what delay you would require. Captain Warrington then entered the room, Capt. Warrington rose, and handed a written and took his seat on the left of the President, at paper to the Are 'dent, which he read, and a. table appropriated for him and his profes- Ashich was to the following effect Mr. sional advisers. President and Gentlemen of this honourable The Deputy Advocate next read the charges Court,-It is with reluctance that I trespass for against the prisoner-three in number :-the a moment on your valuable time : but as 1 fl.'st, that when in command of a troop of the have only now heard the charges against me 3rd Regiment of Dragoon Guards in Bristol, read for the first time, I trust that it will not be at the time when several public buildings had too much to postpone further proceedings till been fired, and when his presence and the ser- Vedneslay, the 2bth instant, when I shall be vices of the troop were urgently demanded, he ready to enter on my trial, and when I trust I refused either to order out the troop or to corn- shall be able to produce witnesses justificatory municate the information he had received to of my conduct, notwithstanding the recent me- Colonel Brereton, commanding the district, lancholy death of Colonel Brereton. and thereby leaving the city to the mercy of the The request was at once granted by the mob:-the second, that on the reading of a Court, and the proceedings were adjourned to letter, sent to him at his quarters by the Mayor WEDNESDAY, J.nUARY 25, .--irecting him to take the most vigorous, ef- When the Court again re-assembled in the fective, and decisive measures to quell the riot Berchant's hall. and prevent the further destruction of property Soon after ten, the President, Sir Henry -he neither acted on those orders, nor did he Fane, and the membershaving taken their seats, transmit tme contents or communicate the pur- the charges against Captain Varrington Ns ere port of the letter to Colonel Brereton, but re- read over sriatha, to each of which he pleaded tained it in his possessien without taking any not guilty. step whatever in reference to or in consc uence Sir Chjs. Dalbiac then addressed the Court; of the same, for upwards of an hour afer his and, after alluding with very considerable feel- receiving the said letter, during which interval ing and emotion to the unhappy termination of time the rioters being left without opposition of the prevous Court Martial on Col. lirerc- or control, sacked aid fired several houses, and ton, submitted the following brief detail of the destroyel a reat amount of other property :- circumstances which led to the pi e.ent trial:- and the third, including four counts, that i hen, 1 General Lord I-lU had commanded a Court in consequence of Colonel B. withdrawing his of Inquiry to assemble at Bristol, on the 17th men, there were no other troops in the city, and November, to investigate the conduct of the lie being the only Commissioned Officer, except officer who held the command or the troops, a Cornut of six month,' service, he (Capt. AV.) during the unfortunate occurctce. which took instead of leading the troops himself, sent ade- place in this ciiy on the 2Jth, 30th, and 31st of tachinent under tne sole command of the said October; Capitainu Warringtuu's troop of the Cornet, he (Capt. AV.) remaining inactive in 3rd Dragoon Guards had formed a part of the his quarters ; that he was afterwards absent force which was placed at the dilpfis.jl of the from his quarters a considerable time, and when Municipal Autho,rities of Bristol, upon the oc- the troop was called to protect the ishiop's casion above referred to, ('apt. W. being him- Pdlace, such detachment again proceeded un- sell' in command of the troop; his evidence, der the command of the said Cornet ; that, on therefore, was deemed essential to the investi- his return to his quarters, instead of proceeding gation, to which the proceedings of the Court to join the troop, he retired to bed; and that, of Inquiry had been directed; and he was ac-

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