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own terma ; and there was clearly no obligation on the part of the individuals accepting them to enter into : a ® y ^ further stipulation . They were \ not called upon to specify whether the period of their servitude was ta be for on © © r ; two years ; the spirit and letter of the condition left it optional .
They engaged to enter the service under the conditions the Government itself proposed ; and after having done so * that Government had clearly no right to turn round upon them and object to their availing themselves , individually or collectively , of any particular privilege embodied in its own
conditions * upon the ground that they had not observed certain forms , and entered into certain specifications which were not required , stated , nor even hinted at , in the original agreement . Then > ag ^ in , the penalty attached to those who repudiated this ex-parte decision , is something new in the code of military law ; they are sentenced to forfeit the gratuity they n ^ ve already earned , and , furthermore , the arrears of pay al&ady dp ^ to them;—th at is to say , the Government punishes this " xniljtary offence" by very coolly putting its hand into their poq ^ ets and defrauding them of the money they have already ea ?? ied , and which ought long previously to have been paid to them . But this is not all . They are sentenced , fttrthenaope * to such other penalty " as military law or circumstances may admit . " Yet , the fact is , that the officers who insisted on acting upon their own interpretation of this condition were permitted to retire from the service without being brbught
to a Court Martial ; without being gazetted as desejrjtets from the Queen ' s cause ; without undergoing any species of milifery ignonainy ; while the unfortunate private soldiers wfco , were guilty of the same offence were committed to the , 9 ££% as prisoners , forced to work in chains , and sulyect ^ i tp qyery description of degradation . Was this eve * v ? hande 4 justice ? Certainly not ; and we say , without any hesitation , that in our opinion General Evans had no right whatever to insist oa those men Who preferred retiring at the end of one year , servragTkny longer in the ranks of the Queen ' s army ; and evfc * y iha& * iWiio , under this unwarrantable impressment , has since falfjfc ^ in action , may be said to have had his life literally Mqrift ^ d to an ij irauityqs an 4 tortuous interpretation of 9 . cbndit ^ honestly read , doe ^ not admit of any such mis U ^ d ^^ ncfing . In the midst of a ) l this , General Evans endea ^ oyrs , ttffi e ^ pp e from all responsibility by declaring that u he h ^» wo ^^ If no more interest in this matter than any other individual of the Legion , excepting that , as senior officer for the time being , he feels noore anxious for the honour , respectability , and prosperity of the corps > than any other officer ; " &c > This wili not do . When the organization of the British Auxiliary Legion
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The Civil War in Spain . 205
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 205, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/15/
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