§ MR. FLAVINI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Patrick Hennessy, whose regimental number is 1780, enlisted in 1846 in the 95th Foot, and served through the Crimean war, and was engaged in all the battles, and wounded at the battle of Inkerman; also that he served throughout the Indian Mutiny, and was specially noted for his bravery in action by General Sir H. Rose, and in China for four years, and also in Egypt, Malta, and Africa; and whether, seeing that Patrick Hennessy is now aged 77 years, and was discharged in 1868 with a pension of 8d. per day after twenty-one years of active and 796 foreign service, the War Office authorities will now consider his case with the view of increasing substantially his present pension of only 8d. per day.
* MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMSNo, Sir. I have told the hon. Member before* that the case cannot be reconsidered.
§ MR. FLAVINDid not the hon. Gentleman request me to again put this question to him?
* MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMSI do not remember doing so. I told him the case could not be reconsidered; that we had looked carefully into it, and that nothing more could be done.
§ MR. FLAVINBut does the hon. Member not remember that last October he asked me to put off the question, in order that it might be reconsidered?
* MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMSI have no recollection of it. But I repeat the case of this man has been looked into over and over again, and nothing more can be done.
§ MR. FLAVINWho is to support this old soldier?
§ [No answer was given.]