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to Europe on board a Ship that will probably be despatched in a few days, and has therefore made at his [ILL] request that a [Court?] Martial before which he is desirous of having his conduct submitted may be assembled as early as possible.
I have the honour tobe Gentlemen,
Your most Obedient
Humble servant
G. Stibbert
Fort William
9th Dec: 1784.
I say that this seems to me to have been erroneously stated by the General, because on the 8 of December 1784, the only day that intervened between the arrest of Mr. Thomas and the date of the General’s letter to the board, Colonel O’Murray by the General’s direction wrote a letter to Mr. Thomas containing a denial of a request that he had made, not for a speedy Court Martial, but for a Court of Inquiry, and the business of such a Court, as we are told by Major W. Scott, is to see whether there are grounds for a Court Martial.” Major Scott also informed us that surgeons in the military
service