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F. ' ' THE I 4VI)(4N 44R2Wr- , f lil ;
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. GENERA L Illf ORDERS THE &IMMANDER-IN. ),
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iti4 II eadmiartert. Cnlcorta, A og. 29, 1825. . . .
at At a Native General Court.mattial arternbled at theauhe ort ,
iis ' the 2911 of February, 1825. Shield Atolls, fitepAy at the 3d Com. • ril .
az, 1 pang 40th Regiment of Native Infantry, was *deeded upon the . .
,ut . undemientiourti charge, viz.-
nat let.," {With mutiny, to having, at theisland of Checluba. on ;
lea the 9dlßeptember, 11F14, glint. wiat Lis :intake% Shank Futty Ma. . , • •
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;(1, Mulled, Harlin of the said Company and Regiment, his Superht ' '
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in Officer.
tr. 2-ally. " With the murder of Shairt: Etat', Mahnmed, Havildar,
10 of the 3:1 Company VP It Regiment Native Infantry. at the Island il
it, , of Cheduba, by shooting hint rani a musket on the 9th September,
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1824." I
II Upon which charge the Court came to the fhllowing decision :- •
ea.. Ovi glom awn I.'ENTENCE-.-" The Court having maturely '
tit. "Welled and considered the evidence In support of the proxecution. ,si
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a., together with what the prisoner ham urged in his defence, is of opt.
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rp. nion that he is guilty of the whole and may parrot' the chargiti}re.' • ;I: '. I
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lid Cured against him, which being in breads:of the Arrtdes a wet, • •
.he the Court does sentence hint the said primate, litialek Annie, Sew , •'• .
a poy of the 3d Company 40th Regiment Native Infantry, to about :.,
id, in irons upon the road: for the spare of theta years, to be discharged ••
.to the service, and never again admitted." ' •
10 .., fiAtIREE• MAY 27. 1826, 10 A.*.''
at ICE VISION OF SENTP.NCE.. The Court ilarir:Tre-assembleds4,' : 11
L; in obedience to station orders of yesterday. pertmant to ins .• • . i• .
ng received from his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. . . • •..'" • •
is lA• •me cited in a letter from the Judge Advecate f•leneral, under date the,
he 30th March, 1825, directing a revison of the ranwence awarded ~ .h •
by Shairk Annie, Sepoy of the 40th negitneet Native Inflntry-
m " The names of the President ae.,l Members are tailed over, and. .• e
11W being found all present, the letter from the Judge Advocate Cin-
dy nernl is read and fully eaplained to them ; and the points In eluei. ,i
lg. dation, to which their inner particular attention is directed for seri. •
a ors consideration. having been mattirely neighed and deliberated , ,
,h_ upon, and appearing w them so tiosnswerably clear and decisive as
to render them sensible that their eriginal judgment. as already re- ' •
tits corded and disapproved of, was totmeird in error, arising from w
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Isconeeptlon of the laws alapplicahle to thee,* upon which they
were bound most imparrialty to decide; and being now impressed
with this conviction, they are cecertatily cnristrnined to reverse
their sentence accordingly, and to adjudge the prisoner. Sheick An-
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nie, Sepoy of the 3d Company 111th Regiment Native Infantry.
to be hanged by the neck until he is dead, at such time snd place 4.
as his Excellency the Honourable the Commander-in-Chief may
direct." Approved.
(Signed) EDWA RD PAGET. General, I
Commander-in. Chief in India. '
REMARKS ST HIS EXCELLENCY TUE COMMANDER-IX.
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The original award of this General Court-Martial was founded
on the great and most dangerous error, that irritation and disap- 1
pointment, resulting front imagined injury, could palliate enor-
mous clinics, and justify a Court in visiting the perpetrator of 01 r . '0
those crimes with comparatively light and incommensurate punish. , Al
meat.
It was under the convicticm that the promulgation of such a
•enterne would have been pregnant with inflate iniscliief, that the t i .
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Commander-in-Chief was pleased to order its vision ; and it af-
fords him very sincere satisfaction to ti•iii, that the Court. after
mature reflection, have seen their error, and most honourably and .:
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creditably corrected it, by passing a sentence equally demanded by i !
ba justice and discipline. I
!, The prisoner, Shaick Annis, Srpoy of the 3d Company 40th
1 Regiment of Native Infantry, has justly merited the sentence of 1 i:I
' death passed against hint ; but, under all the circumstances of the
case, the Commander-In-Chief is pleased to commute it to tans. ).1.1
portation for life.
By order of his Excellency the Commander-In.Chief, , • i
W. L. WATSON, Adjutant-Gen, of the Army. ~ : t
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l''ll EUROPEAN GENERAL COURT MARTIAL. t
:e, Head-quarters, Calcutta, Aug. IL 182.5. - 0 •
i_ At an European General Court Martial teld at 04wnpure on , .
' Tuesday, the 12th of July. 1825 of which Lieutenant-Colonel /'
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Murray, C. 11., his Majesty's Ilhh Cancers, is President. Assistant. e 0
nd Surgeon John Alexander Davidson Watson, of the 32d Regiment ' 1
is Native Infantry, was arraigned upon the under-mentioned charge, • . •
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'5. " That Mr. Assistant-Surgeon John Alexander Davidson Wat. M
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son, on being ordered, shout the 14th of Mae last, to ?rented in
a medical charge of the left wing of the II th Regiment of Native '' •' .
°S Infantry, on its march from Altahabad to lanknow, repoved him- •
of selfsick, sick, thereby nubjecting himself to the report ef a Aledical e
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of Committee ; that there was not found any existing active disease to
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a% interfere with hie, Mr. Assistant-Surgeon %{'a son's, perturtuing the
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ordinary duties of his profession, and causing the w:rg of the 11th
or Regiment to proceed on its route without a proper medical officer, / 1
,_ such conduct being a disgraceful evasion of public duty, and highly -4 • . ' •
`)C prejudicial to the service."
tat Upon which charge the Court came to the following decision :-
:e* FINDING OF THE COI:RT.-4:le Ci.Ort having deliberately
la; weighed all the evidence adduced in support of the charge, together
nu with what the prisoner has brought forward in his defence, Is of
an opinion, that he is guilty of the charge, with exception of the 1.1
words, " on being ordered, about the 14th Slay last, to proceed in I .
T- medical charge of the left wing of the II th Regiment Native La•
fanny, on its march from Allahabail to Liu:know." in the fomer I • 1, '; ;
id part of the count, and of the word '• disgraceful," in the latter I , '.5
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part of the count, of which the Court acquits him. '
SENTENCE.-" The Court having found the prisoner guilty of
3.- so much of the charge-viz. of having reported himself sick, thereby 4
to subjecting himself to the report of a 31edical Committee, that there
was not found any existing active disease to interfere with his, Mr. . •'ilt
Assistant-Surgeon Watson's, performing the ordinary duties ut his • ill
,s_ profession, and cuisine the wing of the I Ith Regiment to proceed
r; on its route without a proper .Medical Officer, such conduct being
of an evasion of public duty, and highly prejudicial to the service,
s- which being in breach of the Articles of War, the Court Both sea- -,!
v, tenet. him, Assistant-Surgeon John Alexander Davidson Watson,
A • rte to be reprimanded by his Excellency the Commander-in• Chief."
Li_ Disapproval.
(Signed) EDWARD PAGET, General, ' P ' ~.
Del Commander-in-('hief in India. 1 • 't:
REMARKS HY HIS EXCELLENCY Tut: COMMANDER.I.N..
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m The Commander-in-Chief disapproves n: these proceedings, be.
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ve cause he does not conceive that a reprimand is at all proportioned to i
he the conduct pronounced by the CORSI "an evasion of public duty, t )
• and highly prejudicial to the service."
Is But if lie were even of a different opinion, his Excellency could
3., not confirm the•sentence, as the Court have inadvertently exercised i
;It an undue power in sentencing a prisoner "to be reprimanded by his
se Excellency the Commarder-in-Chief." The extent of a Court's
to power, in such a case, is to award a reprimand to be pronounced in
such mode as his Excellency should direct.
, Assistant-Surgeon J. A. Davidson Watson is to be released from I 0
Of arrest, and Bourn to his duty. f
its By order of hie Excellency.the.Commander-ineChief.
!S, W. L. WATSON, A djt.-Gen. ot the Army.
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as MR. TRELA WNEY.
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ds Copy of a letter from Edward Ti—
relawney, Esq. to a friend i
in Tuscany, dated Cephalonia, Oct. 2S, 1325. Ll'
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he " 3!y shattered hull, no longer sea-worthy, was towed into this, 41. port by the Cambrian, Captain Hamilton. I have been near going
" down-two shots between wind and water-all my timbers carried s• 'I
I, away standing and running rigging cut up-two balls entered my
n- back, broke my jaw, breast bone, cut all the nerves of my right
eelarm, and, in short, all but did my business. After a two months'
etruggle between my constitution and these severe wounds, /
- he which 1 suffered daily death, the former triumphed ; since
which I have been daily gathering strength. I was wounded
)N in the beginnino of June. It is too long and complex a story
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rat to detail the how and wherefore ; only that it was by the most
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ell villanous treachery. Two Englishmen were the traitors; one of '. •
f them, the principal mover in the affair, was killed on the spot-his 1 4 •
o ; I name Fenton ; the other, , after I hod kept him five weeks, ironed ,• 0 I* •
hr hand and foot, on bread and water, on his makin a depo-
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I a sition of the whole business, and in consideration of Its youth, 1
re, i I allowed to escape-his name is 'Whitcomb. They were man- ~ . 4
"t" Igaud to undertake this assassination for a considerable corn of
money, to be paid on delivering up of the fortress I was •
holding for General Ulysses. the Greek chieftain. After being
'Y- wounded, I continued two months on Parnassus, and being under
I a strict blockade, could procure neither :foster nor medicine ; so you
it may imagine what a host of evils I had to contend against ; but
fortune befriended me. Whilst I was thus lingering on between s
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li. lite and death, Captain Mimi! on, the senior officer in the Archi-
pelago, heard of my perilous situation, and twice sent to the nearest
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see point of embarkation a sloop of war, the Sparrow hawk, Cape 1s:
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del tain Stewart. Indeed several Captains on the station volunteered . . t
of to bring me cff: On the second appearance of the Sparrowhawk. I ,
ma- succeeded in getting on board of her, but with great difficulty. I . •
was then brought, first on board the Cambrian, to see Hamilton,
and then conveyed here in the Zebra, Captain Williams. Good •
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an living and doctoring on board the man-of-war, in which !remained
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ge nearly three months, did wonders for my health. Itly right arm,
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tot of which, for four mouths. I was entirely deprived, is now begom.
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Mg animated with returning life, but not to its former strength : I .
i ant afraid it will not be what it was. lam writing with my left 1
• 1 hand. I have lost all my books, papers. &c., and spent tigelve . '
11° hundred Pounds to serve the Catch, and yet the English papers
la- call me 'I urk !-Noun, truly.
iat " E. TREI.AWNEY."
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a. On the 4th ult. the Catholic Bishop of Quebec died. I
?re Saturday's Gazelle contains a promise of pardon to any I . ,
ad one (except the person who actually committed die same), i I,
he who shall discover his accomplice or accomplices in thie
ill. murder of Joseph Healey, residing alone in a cottage io • !li
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ant Homer's-lane, near Warden, Northumberland, gather ;
ere and the offer of a reward of one hundred guineas to any
'ed person (except as aforesaid) who shall discover the said'of-
er- lender or offenders. --•
tie EXTRAORDINARY FCIVERALOD Friday last, a funded •
the moved from a house in St. Antdrew'r-iatie, and as the pro-
ia- cession passed along the members who composed it pa.
we dually dropt off, until three or four,were left in charge with
Ig. the body, who, instead of carrying it to the Church-yaret
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red conveyed it to one of the dissecting rooms in the city.-7 . .
I Glasgow l'i'ce fre.t.t.
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