Petition to the king, submitted to His Grace the Duke of Wellington, 14 Jan. 1829, by T. Atchison, Esq., late capt. in the royal regiment of artillery, who having been ordered by British authorities to perform the idolatrous services of the Romish Church, contrary to his Protestant integrity and conscience towards God; his civil rights as a British subject, and the express stipulations of the coronation oath; foreign also to his public engagements as an officer; respectfully requested to be exonerated from these idolatrous and unmilitary services; and his request having been received and complied with, without censure, by his superior officers on the spot, prayed relief from the severe sentence of the court martial, by which he was dismissed His Majesty's Service ...
Atchison, Thomas,Captain in the Royal Artillery.
London, 
1829.