Notice of the Trial of Lieutenant John Maitland (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Notice of the Trial of Lieutenant John Maitland Public attention having been a good deal occupied by the Proceedings of the Court Martial, assembled to try Lieutenant John Maitland, upon certain charges preferred against him by Major Thomas Magrath, the Editor ventures to hope that the following pages may not prove unacceptable. It had been his intention to have presented the public with the proceedings in detail, but they have been swelled to such an inconvenient size as to render that design impracticable. And he regrets that impossibility the less, as the evidence quoted in the following pages has been carefully compared with the record of the Court, and is so fully stated as to enable the reader to form a judgment on the whole case without difficulty. The Editor forbears, at present, to make any comment on the patient temper and impartial spirit displayed by the gallant Colonel who presided over that Court during its whole proceedings. Those points will be canvassed elsewhere. Nor is it my purpose to impugn its verdict. However unlooked for, that verdict has pronounced Lieutenant Maitland to be guilty of a breach of military discipline. But the public will decide what the Court has left undecided. They will pronounce upon the moral guilt or innocence of the parties, and they will consider how far it is consistent with the honour of Her Majesty´s service that matters should be allowed to remain in their present position. Toronto, 13th April, 1841. The evidence for the defence was not concluded for several weeks after the Court had opened; when Lieutenant Maitland, feeling himself unequal to the task, desired that his counsel (Mr, Blake) might be permitted to read his address, and cited in support of the application the case of Lieutenant Curtis, tried in January last, when such permission was granted as a matter of course. The Court, however, declined to comply with his request: and has thus, it is to be feared, by such high sanction, re-established a custom no less absurd than inconvenient. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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