XVI MEMOIR OP COLONEL 



some, and of divers miscarriages and disorders of others. 

 Jackson was accused. 



1 That contrary to express order, he had marched 

 without any to search the woods. 



2. That he took but few pikes, and those he 

 placed in the rear, as if he feared only his own party. 



3. That he put others in the van, and himself 

 brought up his rear. 



4. That he was the first man that run, and when 

 there was a stop, he opened his way with both hands to 

 get foremost. 



These being proved before a council of war, he 

 was sentenced to be cashiered : his sword broken over 

 his head : and he made a swabber to keep the hospital 

 ship clean, which was executed accordingly. And well 

 it might, for sure it was much gen tier than he deserved.* 



* The Revolution in England, having necessarily raised great 

 numbers of individuals to the rank of officers, from the lowest sta- 

 tions, a kind of equality reigned among the soldiery. The following 

 instance of that equality is a curious fact, and displays equally the 

 republican manners, and uncivilized spirit of that age. 



Adjutant-General Jackson, who had been the first to run during 

 the engagement, was tried by acouit-martial, convicted of cowardice, 

 cashiered with ignominy, and condemned to serve as a SWABBER on 

 board the hospital-ship!! General Venables, with a naivete" common 

 to the writers of that age, which, though seldom respectable, is always 

 pleasing, makes the following observations on this sentence. After 

 mentioning the terms of it, he adds, " And justly, for the benefit of 

 the sick and wounded, who owed their sufferings to his mis-behaviour. 

 A sentence too gentle for so notorious an offender, against whom 

 some of the Colonels made a complaint for whoring and drunkenness 

 at Barbadoes ; but not being able to prove the fact, he escaped ; 

 though considering his former course of life, the presumptions were 

 strong, he and a woman lodging in one chamber, and not any other 

 person with either, whivh was enough to induce a belief of his offence , 



