The British Army in India: Its Preservation By An Appropriate Clothing ...
The British Army in India: Its Preservation By An Appropriate Clothing ...
Julius Jeffreys
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This was unquestionably a military offence meriting the severest punishment which in these days of reasoning humanity could with propriety be inflicted. He was sentenced to transportation as a felon. If a soldier ordered to India, dreading the life there, were to follow that example, he would, Jawing made himself a fehm to escape being sent to a tropical climate j be the only man in the regiment whom the public would from that moment shrink from transporting to one ! All his former comrades wou...ld continue to be ordered there without any adequate or acceptable inducement, while he and his new compeers, burglars, garotters, &c,, would, if transported at all, have the • finest climates in the world selected for them ! And any one who, with the author, should argue that the dangers of a tropical climate offer natural instru- ments of punishment especially suited to deter men from the commission of heinous offences, and under a rightly managed system to be instrumental to the reformation of those transported to them, would run .
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