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The young man must write such a letter of contrition as would be an acknowledgment of his great fault; and with a sincere promise, if his captain will intercede to prevent the impending court-martial, never to so misbehave again.
Without allowing Clerambault to explain himself farther, Camus sprang at him, as if he meant to shake him by the collar; but restraining himself, he hissed in his face that he was the criminal, and deserved to be tried by court-martial at once. The raised voices brought the servant to listen at the door, and Madame Clerambault ran in, trying to appease her brother, in a high key.
The court-martial was held by virtue of a warrant from His Royal Highness Prince William Frederick of Gloucester, the General commanding the district. The president was Colonel Bolton; the judge-advocate, Fletcher Raincock, Esq., barrister-at-law. Something was said of a private nature by Colonel Earle to the Adjutant Carmichael, who, instead of replying, took no notice of the observation.
I will punish the soldiers for trespass or waste if adjudged by a court-martial, because they disobey orders; but soldiers are men and citizens as well as soldiers, and should promptly resent any insult to their country, come from what quarter it may. I mention this phase because it is too common.
The moments dragged miserably. He wished they would assemble that court-martial and have it over with. He would not care what they did, he thought savagely. He was sick and tired of the whole business the war, the South, General Beauregard, Fanny Glen, everything, everybody!
The singularly vibrant voice that had been echoing in his memory since New Year's eve was saying directly behind him: "I shall give them all the chocolate they want, Captain Harold Phipps, and you may court-martial me later if you like!"
From the top the stars and stripes had been broken to the breeze. "Fire at once!" he cried, "and then court-martial the fool who broke out that flag!" The two three-inch rifles barked their message of death into the sky. For agonizing seconds nothing happened. The guns roared again. Below and behind the fleeing plane, two puffs of white smoke appeared in the sky.
He has offered armed resistance to authority and seriously wounded two officials in the discharge of their duty, and he is now a standing menace to the peace and order of the town. Surely, in such a case, a court-martial is justifiable." "Whatever the man has done," Montanelli replied, "he has the right to be judged according to law."
The whole country was eventually proclaimed to be under martial law, and many persons were at the orders of the local military commander tried and punished by court-martial for offences, such as the discouragement of enlistment or the encouragement of desertion, which might not have been punishable by the ordinary law, or of which the ordinary Courts might not have convicted them.
"Ferdinand, by the grace of God, etc . . . . wills and decrees the following: "Art. 1. General Murat is to be tried by court-martial, the members whereof are to be nominated by our Minister of War. "Art. 2. Only half an hour is to be accorded to the condemned for the exercises of religion. Another despatch from the minister contained the names of the members of the commission. They were:
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