Note 60 — A NARRATIVE, &c.

The danger that had been incurred was sufficient to authorize Government to take the most decisive measures to guard against the revival of such combinations against authority: and though numbers who might have merited punishment had escaped, not one object of benefit to either individuals or the army at large had been attained; and it is therefore quite extravagant to assert such a termination could ever have tended to encourage future proceedings of a similar nature.