"EXPERIENCE" DOTH NOT ESCAPE 'SCOT' FREE.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4216, 6 July 1882, Page 3

"EXPERIENCE" DOTH NOT ESCAPE 'SCOT' FREE.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) Sib;-—A Tery short time since the - Thames papers used to teem with ridiculously laudatory, fulsome, and untruthfully glowing reports of the Thames Scottish Battalion. To such an extent was this, carried, that many of their own members were so disgusted that they * would not attend any parades, and from personal knowledge I am aware this largely contributed td its demise. But old times hare changed—scarcely a paper now appears but we hare an unmanly and , contemptible attack on one or other of the officers or companies who have the hardihood, forsooth ito live after them. Here ■is a sample: At the last parade in Short* land,: the late adjutant and a lieutenant of the defunct corps were present, and a few.days afterwards a conglomeration of " the'most bilious and malicious character appeared in your columns under the mis* nomer of " .Experience." This I unhesitatingly state to be a tissue of falsehoods : in no particular is it correct. And such appears to be the gentlemanly conduct of ;,,late officers! To me it seems like the bird that fouls its own nest—fiUhy in the extreme. let this would-be, but dis» ' appointed, district adjutant have a cure for the softer, and possibly more congenial, occupation, for which he involuntarily resigned the sword, and attend to his business; and will the bumptious vendor of postages see to his red tape, and E reserve the "gentle blood," and mayftp he will hare enough to do. Let them pocket and hide the envy and chegrin which in this they only expose, and thus hold themselves up to ridicule, and let good men and true, who still are willing , to serve their Queen and country, be nothing daunted by this ungentlemanly and mean attempt to injure a capse which they, hollow hear tedly, were > ipposed to espouse? Shame on such cr luct!— I am, &c, Honesv Scot. P.S. —Since writing the aboVe, I see another scurrilous and insulting attack upon our worthy and respected adjutant, Lieut. Grant. This is the more despicable since he, of course, is prohibited from defending himself. This, doubtless, is a portion of the plan for wiping out the other companies, and if persisted in I purpose being in the fun also. I will ■■''{ favor yon with a series of letters detailing ¥>' the origin, progress, rise, declension, and demise of the most rotten (I'll find a name for it) that ever existed, together with the causes which led to both birth and wealth, noticing all the leading characters, &c. It will be both interesting and edifying, especially so in some quarters—so lead on Macdun? It's but few games that only one can play at. Fair and honest criticism is a iewel, but vindictivs spleen—the result of foiled jobbery and trickerywill be reprobated by all true men. We will ornament those gents with leather medals, adorned with wild goose feathers, and surmounted with beheaded doves.— I am, &c, - H.B.