The Virginia Gazette

LIEUTENANT BOYKIN, of the 1st regiment, would be glad to know whether a general court-martial is or is not the highest military tribunal he ought to be subject to? If it is, he would then be glad to be informed of the reasons that induced Col. Woodford to petition Col. Howe to order him from his company to appear before the Convention, after he had been regularly tried and acquitted by that court? If there be a judicial power superior to this, he wishes to have the law appointing it explained. He considers the ordinance under which the troops are raised, and by which he means at all times to govern himself as his only guide: By that he is taught to believe that a general court-martial is the last resort for officers.

Quere, Was not Col. Woodford's petition similar to the conduct that raised the discontents now prevailing among the officers at Norfolk?

Lieutenant Boykin acknowledges the justice of the Convention, in admitting the authority of the general court-martial, but wishes he could have been heard before any censures were passed upon him.