30 JULY 1831, Page 15

"MAN-BUTCHERS TORTURED.

"Although we have the most unconquerable antipathy to every man who wears the royal livery of blood, yet we cannot forget that they are men —at least, that they still retain the humanform ;—and for the same reason that we should learn with disgust that even a tiger had been wantonly tortured, we shudder on hearing that a fellow-creature (although a man. butcher) has been brutally maltreated. " The papers inform us that on Friday last, two privates belonging to a regiment headed by the Hero of Waterloo, alias Saviour of Europe (1! 1) had the flesh cut out of their backs with.the cat-o'-nine-tails, till Nature was overpowered, and they could bear the agony no longer I"