"The soldier Hutchinson, who was flogged at Charing Cross on
Monday, July. 14, came out of the hospital on Wednesday last, after enduring a month of dreadful suffering in the cure of his wounds."— True Sun, When Sir Merreew RIDLEY reads this, it will perhaps render him cautious of believing military men when they certify in regard to the suffering of a flogged private. Sir MATTHEW was made the instrument of deceiving the House of Commons, by a statement that HUTCHINSON'S flogging was not so severe as bad been represented, and that he would be able to leave the hospital in a week. It seems that he was obliged to be under the surgeons care for a month ; so that his flogging was three times as severs as Colonel BOWATER wished the public to believe. It is not the number of stripes, so much as the mode of inflicting them, and the state of the sufferer's body, which makes the flogging a severe, ore comparatively lenient punishment : this is well understood in the Army.
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