ABSTRACT
According to a circular issued from the Horse Guards in 1833, the application of flogging was limited to certain offences—viz., Mutiny, insubordination and violence, or using, or offering to use, violence to superior officers; drunkenness on duty; sale of, or making away with arms, ammunition, accoutrements, or necessaries; stealing from comrades, or other disgraceful conduct. In the annual returns which were ordered to be made, offences were arranged under six classes—viz., Violence to superiors, insubordination, disobedience, disgraceful conduct, making away with necessaries, and desertion. Offences against morality were classed under the heads “disgraceful conduct” and “making away with necessaries.”
