Excerpt from The Parliamentary Register, Vol. 2: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates That Have Occurred in the Two Houses of Parliament, in the Course of the First Session of the Fifth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Captain Bennet moved to insert several clauses relating to the infliction of corporal punishment in the army. The first clause was to make it unlawful for any general, com mandin officer, court-martial, &e. To inflict the punish meat 0 flogging 'in any of the troops serving in Great Britain, Ireland, the Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man. 2. To make it lawful to sentence the troops serving abroad to receive corporal punishment, provided this punishment did not exceed 100 lashes. 3. To make it unlawful for any omcer, after a part of the sentence had been inflicted, to order any man to be brought out a second time to receive the remaining lashes. In the proposal to insert the last clause, he hoped for the concurrence of the judge advocate (mr. Manners Sutton), who had on a former occasion declared his opinion that such renewal of the punishment was illegal. He then mentioned an instance related to him by an oflicer lately come from the peninsula, of a general who, disapproving of the mode of punishing a soldier by confinement, had ordered the black book to be brought, and finding him debtor so many lashes, immediately had him tied up to the halberts to receive them. 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.