“Sir George Warrender describes Mr. Brougham as bidding the army look to me for redress instead of looking to their own officers. Why, really, I do not see why this should hurt the gentleman’s feelings so much. What harm could it do? What could the public or the soldiers learn from any speech of Mr. Brougham more about me than they know already? They all know very well what I am in jail for.… The newspapers were kept full of me and my _crime_ for the best part of a month; from the newspapers I and my crime got into the caricature shops; and, in short, while in jail myself, all those (and very numerous they were), who were in hopes that I was gone to my last home, used every means in their power to blacken my character.… “Surely Sir George Warrender might have trusted, in such a case, to the _understanding_ of the army! He might surely have confided in their _taste_ not to look up to me instead of their officers, especially after the repeated assurances of Sir Vicary Gibbs, that the army _despised_ such writings as mine, and held their authors in abhorrence. After this, I think Sir George Warrender might have spared any expression of the wound given to his feelings at hearing language that tended to induce the army to _look up to me_ instead of looking up to their own officers for redress. ‘_Indiscreet language!_’ As if the subject had been all _tinder_: as if there had been imminent danger in even warning me, lest the soldiers should hear, or see, my name! Really, though sitting here in a jail, I can hardly help laughing at the idea.” * * * * *