If I were court-martialled and shot, there would be no disgrace to me, an officer on secret service, but a whisper of it might steal to Portsmouth and give deep pain to one there.

It is full of German intrigue and you will be glad to know that the imaginary spy is caught and court-martialled.

We were given to understand that it was only the blue bands on our arms which saved us from being court-martialled on the spot and shot by the grinning Tommy at dawn.

"As I am in command," he said, "I should be court-martialled if I denied my own superiority.

Even John Quincy Adams justified his acts in Florida, when his enemies were loud in their complaints of his needless executions, especially of two British traders, Arbuthnot and Ambruter, whom he had court-martialled and shot as abettors of the Indians.

"AND MIND YOU, IF YOU DON'T FULFIL YOUR OBLIGATIONS YOU'LL BE COURT-MARTIALLED!"

The Marker was not court-martialled for spreading alarm and despondency in His Majesty's forces; but (b) The quality of mercy was fearfully strained.

You may now be guilty of disobedience of ordahs, and I will not have you court-martialled for the same.

" The parson read that, whereas Captain Wells had been guilty of grave misdemeanors while in command of the Army of the Callahan, he should be arrested and court-martialled for the same, or be given the privilege of leaving the county in twenty-four hours.

Mary Mesurier would have laid down her life in defence of her son's greatest fault, and James Mesurier would as readily have court-martialled him for his smallest, and yet, somehow, a kind word from him brought the tears to his son's eyes.

Lincoln: The General tells me you've been court-martialled.

Sandwich, the, Matthews court-martialled on.

They all agreed that after his range was found an artillery officer who missed it by from fifty to one hundred yards ought to be court-martialled.

McGarry then threatened them, and they in return demanded that he be court-martialled for murder.

If they did not, they ought to be court-martialled for needlessly risking the precious lives of trained men.

On June 17, 1898, Aguinaldo issued an order to the military chiefs of certain towns in Cavite providing that a soldier wasting ammunition should be punished with twelve lashes for a first offence, twenty-four for a second, and court-martialled and "severely punished" for a third.

A soldier found wasting ammunition shall be punished with 12 lashes; in case he commits the same offence again he shall be punished with 24 lashes; and on a further offence of like character by the same soldier, he shall be court-martialled and severely punished.

A soldier who has been found with no cartridges by reason of throwing them away during an engagement, shall be court-martialled, and severely punished.

KEPPEL, AUGUSTUS, VISCOUNT, son of the Earl of Albemarle; entered the navy, and was in several engagements between 1757 and 1778; when encountering the French off Ushant he quarrelled with his second-in-command and let them escape; was court-martialled, but acquitted; he was afterwards First Lord of the Admiralty (1725-1786).

"'Tumble out, Tim,' says I, 'or I'll have you court-martialled and shot.'

There was something about him that suggested a young officer out of uniform, come home with a browned face to try to get himself court-martialled.