CAPTAIN BOWEN-COLTHIIRST.
[To me Rums or see " flesurrox."1
SIR,—The Home Secretary is an equity lawyer, and may disdain baring recourse for his guidance to the Manual of Military. Lase. If, however, he can overcome professional repugnance, he will.find that the fifty-seventh of the Rules of Pa ooedure directs that when it IB found that a soldier has committed the offence with, which he is charged, but was insane at the time of 0001111i66/011, he is, until the directions di His Majesty as to his dieposal-are known, to be confined in such manner as may be best calculate,1 to keep him securely without unnecessary harshness, "as he is not to be considered as a oriminal, but as a person labouring under a disease." I think that the claim you make on behalf of Captain Bowen-Colthurst Is only that he should be treated by the Home Secretary while in his custody in the same spirit'ae that in-which military law required him to be treated while under military control.—I am, Sir, Sc., A RUDER. [Yea; that is our argument. We cannot conceive upon what grounds of either law or humanity the Home Secretary can resist 11.—Eri. Spectator.]
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