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Updated: July 11, 2025
Swift and condign punishments by the law-martial, for even trifling offences, is the best means of discipline yet devised.
Swift and condign punishments by the law-martial, for even trifling offences, is the best means of discipline yet devised.
Swift and condign punishments by the law-martial, for even trifling offences, is the best means of discipline yet devised.
The lieutenant-governor addressed the convicts, after which the whole gave three cheers, and then every person, beginning with the lieutenant-governor and Captain Hunter, passed under the Union in token of a promise or oath to submit and be amenable to the law-martial then declared.
Swift and condign punishments by the law-martial, for even trifling offences, is the best means of discipline yet devised.
The troops were drawn up in two lines, having the Union at their head in the centre, with the colours of the detachment displayed, the Sirius's ship's company on the right and the convicts on the left, the officers in the centre, when the proclamation was read declaring the law-martial to be that by which the island was in future to be governed until further orders.
"Cultivation was suspended," says an eye-witness; "the courts of law had long been shut up; and the island at large seemed more like a garrison under the power of law-martial, than a country of agriculture and commerce, of civil judicature, industry, and prosperity."
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