The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-19 00:00:00

OTAHEITE.

Captain PECHELL asked the Right Honourable and
Gallant Baronet opposite (Sir George Cechburn) whether
any intelligence had been received at the Admiralty relative to
certain indignities which it was alleged, in a letter publi•hed in
morning newspaper, had been offered to her Mejesty's ship
Talbot ? The letter stated, that unless the captain of the
Talbot adknowledet,ed the French protectorate, and saluted
the French flag, she was forbidden any intercourse, except
with the Salamander, station al there also, and French boats
were sent round the Talbot in order to prevent any communi-
cation with the shore. The captain refused to submit, but
sailed away from the place iu disgust, leaving the Salamander
at Otaheite.
Sir G. COCKBURN said that if the Gallant Officer had
given notice of his question he should have been able to answer
it more fully. He would, however, state that no reports had
been received at the Admiralty conveying intelligence to the
extent mentioned by the Gallant Officer.
Captain PECHELL gave notice that he would repeat the
question on Monday evening next.
FLOGGING AT WINDSOR.
111 r. WAK LEY said he wished to ask the Right Hon
Gentleman the Secretary at War a question arcing out of a
report that appeared in the Morning Ciro/tide newspaper on
Monday last, of two men having been fl tgged at Windsor.
The men, it would appear, were flogged for refusing to strip
naked is the presence of the other wee. He wished to know
if that report were correct.
Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT said the men were examined in
consequence of a disease prevalent among them, and which re-
quired a very close medical examination. F,surteen of the men
examined on the occasion in question were infected with this
disease. The punishment was icflicted in consequence of their
refusing to march to tke black-hole. and to obey the commands
of the comraanding officer who ordered them there. He need
not tell the House that it was essentially necessary that the
commands of the officers should be implicitly obeyed. The
commanding offieitr stated to the Teen that they had committed
a most serious offence and commanded them to lw confmed for
f :rty- eight hours, and when the order was given th men made
no remonstrance, but shortly afterwards the sergeant returned
and stated that they refused to march to the black -hole. The
commanding officer then sent for the men and told them that
they were guilty of a great military crime. The sergeant then
give the men the word a second time, when the men again re•
fused to march. The officer himself repeated the word
two or three times, and they continued their refusal
to march. He ordered them back to the
guard-room and
again remonstrated with them, but they still pers:sted in their
refusal. The officer having heard the statement of the surgeon,
and the feeling which was displayed toward his orders, then
elmost immediately convened a court martial which awarded
ie puniehment. He had stated these circuneitsme s, because
wished that there should be oo false impression with regard
to the ease.
Mr. V‘ILLIAMS said that the Right Hon. Gentleman had
not answered the most important part of the question—namely,
whether it was
presenceusual that the soldiers should be
each other'snsuch numbers. inspected in
111 r. S. HERBERT' said that it was customary in the army
that there should be a strict examination h.fot e the surgeon,
and it was also customary that they should be ordered to bathe
together. The inspection generally took place in the room of
the men in the morning.
Mr. WA KLEY believed that there was nothing more re.
manhoodstark than
pu'sive to the common feeling of
hould undergo such an examination that soldiers
Tht tihnt what were
Fence of a laree company of soldiers. tie knew not
soldiersat the effect
in the pre-
*he arrangements in the army, but he thou
eat would he very dangerous. There were sevettt
pre-
sent confined in one of the metropolitan gaols iyn con
misconduct, and he thought the practice which was ;rear" nof
resorted to, tended to destroy the feeling which should existleae in
t

the army.
RECOMPENCE FOR SERVICES IN CHINA.
Captain BERKELEY rose to bring forward the motion of
which he had given notice for a Committee of the whole House,
to consider the propriety of an address to her Majesty,
humbly requesting that she would be graciously pleased
to grant a pecuniary recompense to the officers, sea-
men, soldiers, and marines, engaged in the operations
against the Chinese Empire, in the years 1840, 1841, and 1812,,
,The Hon. Member then called the attention of thedon u
seHose to a
Alittonierial presented to the House by lir. Gor r
allowing the amount of money that had been taken during
the
war in China, and contending that the growth; laid in
rnenaorial,were .ufficient to show that the memoriali.t was en-
titled, tnaffrize money. He neat referred to what he called the
author- 41af the "greatest warrior of the age," to show that
thear ssslcili that Lad taken place in China were in fact a war.
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