ABSTRACT
SIR,―It is much to be regretted that any check should have been offered to the stream of benevolence setting in for the poor creatures left behind by the troops on their embarkation for the East. The statement which occasioned it emanated from three colonels of the Foot Guards [see pp. 44—5], who, in the formal terms of the Queen’s regulations, have laid down the law of the service with respect to the women to be borne on the establishment of a company. This stringent rule, however, it is a happiness to think is not binding upon the public, for the generous know of no law in the distribution of their charity, but that of nature—that of humanity.
