PERSECUTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2110, 2 October 1885, Page 2

PERSECUTION.

The English Admiralty have a way of making a man's life a torture to him if he comes under the ban of the authorities. Two years ago the Hon, Phillip Tyrwhitt was reported by a certain captain, then serving in a ship at Plymouth, for using abusive languade to him on shore, in conjunction with another young officer, and both were sentenced to be dismissed from the service. The Admiralty, however, on a reconsideration of the case, reinstated both officers, but took away all their seniority ; and Mr Tyrwhitt, as further punishment, was appointed to the vessel on the West Coast of Africa, and has since served on every ship thereon, being periodically reappointed to a fresh one as his late vessel was ordered to proceed to a more salubrious climate. He eventually reached the Boadicea; and on that ship being ordered Home, lie was appointed by the Admiralty to the Rapid; buton joiningthat vessel was appointed by his captain to the Goshawk, wherea vacancy existed. About three months previously Mr Tyrwhitt had applied to be allowed to resign his commission, but his application was refused to be forwarded. On joining the Goshawk, he went through a similar form, and o.n no notice being'taken of It, he intimated his intention to do no further duty. He was placed under arrest, reported to the Admiral,' and on the arrival of the Boadicea at Ascension, a hurried Court-martial assembled, of which Captain George Parsons was the president, the customary twenty-four hours' notice being dispensed with. Mr Tyrwhitt merely placed before the Court the fact of his having resigned, but the tribunal ignored it, and dismissed him from the service.