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A Court Martial ma indeed dischirge a Prisoner
from legal penalty, but how far the party shall be
again employed is a separate question. An Officer
who could conceive himself justified in putting him-
self at the head of mutiny on the mere suggestions of
another, or on any pretext whatever, can never in the
opinion of Major-General Gowdie be thought fit to
be again entrusted with any important command.—
He feels himself therefore imperiously called on to
recommend to Government, that Lieutenant-Colonel
Doveton be removed from the exercise of all military
functions until the plealure of the Court of Directors
shall be taken on this case, allowing him in the mean
time to draw his proper allowances.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Doveton is released from
arrest.

The above order to be read at the head of every
Regiment and Battalion on the establishment.
GENERAL ORDERS, HEAD QUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
CIIOULTRY PLAIN, 21st MAlcit,lBlo.

The Right Honourable the Governor-General in
Council having addressed the subjoined orders of
Major-General Gowdie, commanding the army, to be
published to the army, they are accordingly published
in military orders.
FORT ST..GEOILOR) 41st MARCR, 115104
G. 0. BY GOVERNMENT.
The Officer commanding the army having laid be-
fore the Governor-General in Council the proceedings
`of a General Court Martial on the trial of Lieute- 1
nant-Colonel Doveton, and having recommended that'
Lieutenant-Colonel Doveton shall be suspended from
the exercise of his military functions, receiving the
pay and allowances of his rank, until the Honourable!
the Court of Directors shall signify their pleasure
upon a case so important and extraordinary; his
Lordship in Council has taken the proceedings of the
said Court Martial into the most serious consideration,
and as well in deference to the recommendation of
the Officer commanding the army, as from entire
concurrence with his sentiments, has resolved to trans-
mit the proceedings to the Honourable the Court of
Directors by the earliest opportunity. His Lordship
in Council is further pleased to order, that Lieutenant
Colonel Doveton shall be suspended from the exer-
cise of his military functions, receiving the pay and
allowances of his rank, until the pleasure of the Ho-
nourable Court shall be known.
The Governor-General in Council cannot, without
extreme regret, publish to the army a formal dissent
from the judgment of a tribunal so much entitled,
from the ends and nature of its institution, to respect,
as a General Court-Mari d; but no establishment,
devised and administered by men, can be exempt from
human fallibility, and the consequences which must
result from a tacit sanction of the principles on which
this erroneous judgment must have been founded, ap-
pear to the Governor-General in Council so funda-
mentally subversive of every security which the law
has wisely and providently supplied against the
greatest danger with which society can be menaced,
that all the subordinate considerations of delicacy
towards public bodies, or tenderness towards indivi-
duals, which might properly weigh in ordinary cases,
must yield to the higher and paramount duty of pro-
viding for the permanent tranquillity and safety of
the public.

The Governor General in Council cannot, therefore/
too distinctly avow his entire concurrence in the sen-
timents of the officer commanding the army, on the
present occasion, and his Lordship in Council will
ever acknowledge the deep obligations of the British
Empire at large, as well as of this portion of it, to the
firmness and energy with which Major General
Gowdie has, with personal reluctance, no doubt, but
with a manly devotion to his public duty, opposed the
establishment of false and unmilitary principles* by
withholding his confirmation of a sentence from which
*they would hereafter claim support ; and has coup.
cted their pernicious tendency by a solemn asser-
tion of those civil and military tenets which the Le.
gislature has, on this branch of our public duties, ex-
clusively acknowledged, as conformable with the I
duster notions of the military character, or compatible
with military trust. Those cardinal maxims are, that
In every calamitous case Of mitiny or revolt, whether
partial or general, or “ on whatever pretext" that-
monstrous offence may seek to justify itself, the first
obligation of every officer or soldier is to oppose its
progress by every effort of persuasion. His second
is, to separate himself from the guilty ; and the last
and most sacred is, to join the standard of his Sove.
reign, his employers and his duty, and to strain every
nerve of zeal, activity. and courage, in subduing the

criminal party.
It is in conformity with these just and important
principles, and with a lively sense of their powerful
and decisive influence on the discipline of armies and
safety of the State, that the Governor General in
Council has deemed it expedient and necessary to
adopt the firm and judicious adviie of the Officer com-
manding the army, and to poitpone the indulgence of
personal disposition and every other inferior motive to
the more sacred care of providing in an extraordi-
nary conjuncture for the interests and security of the
public. _

By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General
in Council. (Signed)
A. FAx.coma.a, Chief Secretary to Govt.
Di order of Major-General Gowdie,
gookinsodias the Army.

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