The colonel of the regiment was waited upon by the government clerk, Venden, with a complaint against his officers, who had insulted his wife.

His young wife, so Venden told the story--he had been married half a year--was at church with her mother, and suddenly overcome by indisposition, arising from her interesting condition, she could not remain standing, she drove home in the first sledge, a smart-looking one, she came across.

On the spot the officers set off in pursuit of her; she was alarmed, and feeling still more unwell, ran up the staircase home.

Venden himself, on returning from his office, heard a ring at their bell and voices, went out, and seeing the intoxicated officers with a letter, he had turned them out.

He asked for exemplary punishment.