It is not shewn even by those, who assert it, how the fact can be made out.

We are left therefore to draw the comparison ourselves, and to fill up those important considerations, which we have just said that the _receivers_ had omitted.
That military punishments are severe we confess, but we deny that they are severer than those with which they are compared.

Where is the military man, whose ears have been slit, whose limbs have been mutilated, or whose eyes have been beaten out?
But let us even allow, that their punishments are equal in the degree of their severity: still they must lose by comparison.

The soldier is never punished but after a fair and equitable trial, and the decision of a military court; the unhappy African, at the discretion of his Lord.

The one knows what particular conduct will constitute an offence[097]; the other has no such information, as he is wholly at the disposal of passion and caprice, which may impose upon any action, however laudable, the appellation of a crime.