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    would have destined to perform the commissariat duties ) was so deformed and crippled , that it was evident it would never attain a healthy size , or be able to perform its functions ; and the left ( which , before the wound that he received at the siege of Namur , he insisted was sufficient to symbolize the whole medical departments of an army ) was so miserably shrivelled ,

    and the fingers so disjointed , that it was quite clear it would never be able to perform any delicate manipulations . The remainder of the body ( which he conceived to represent the whole army—privates , corporals , sergeants , sergeant-majors , &c ) , was obviously composed of materials so ill assorted and ill adjusted , that it was more than probable that the slightest privation or injury would lead to its total disorganization ! Of a

    truth , when consigned to its wet nurse at the Isle of Luckless Dogs , it appeared a most pitiable object . Now , it hath been a custom of great antiquity among all the old women of England , Ireland , Scotland , \ Vales , and Beiwick-upon-Tweed , to drown all monsters immediately upon birth—just as our waiting-woiiien in high life drown puppies , cats , rats , mice , and other fuinoiis intruders . And this led to a violent political altercation , one party contending that it was a politico-physiologico

    monster , which ought , for the honour of the nation , to be forthwith destroyed ; the other , with equal asperity , maintaining fexactly the contrary ; which angry discussion was at length put an end to by the father declaring , with a crown oath , that hfe never beheld a finer bantling in his life ; and the Queen mother—who was very anxious about her throne—protesting that she would give it every support in her power , nay , that shfe would even allow her own daughter to nourish it to the

    best of her abilities . Matters being thus arranged , the father and the mother , anxious about the well-being of the child , committed it to the care of an old lady belonging to the parish of Westminster , who promised faithfully that it should be well fed and clothed , and engaged a number of servants to assist her in the task of its tuition , and superintend its future career . No sooner ,

    however , had the old lady got the child fairly out of its father ' s sight , at a place called Bilboa , than she adopted the Spartan principles of education ; she submitted it to every sort of unnecessary fatigue and exposure , and occasionally whipped it severely . * This led to much murmuring ; fora law had recently been promulgated ( which she had herself vehemently advocated in several small coteries in Westminster ) , that all corporeal punishment should be abolished in the army and in * And here we could add a note to those of our Correspondent , which would produce no small sensation on the subject of " Flogging , " but the best time for it to ' ¦ iioi ybt iirrlv « d . *~ Ed .

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    50 History of the British Auxiliary Bantling *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 1, 1837, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1828/page/3/