Star. — London, England, 1811-02-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN OffILLIGENCL ViENNill, t JANUARY SS. -•. • r 'nitre is no longer any, doubt respecting the March' of trobps, who were waitng orders, to' the Turkish frontiers. NAPLES. JANUARY 14.• They are to work during the winter, without re illation, in constructing gun-boats and chaloupcs, In all the ports of this kingdom. The Royal flotilla destined for the expedition against Sicily, will be at least doubled. NUREMBERGH JANUARY 91. According to news from Vienna of the 16th inst. Peace has been concluded between Ru s s i a and the orte. We are yet ignorant of the details • we only know for certain , that Moldav i a and Wallachia are decidedly given up by the Porte to Russia. FRANICFORT. JANUARY 29. The French troops in the environs of this town have made a movement. Most of the neighbouring can tons who have hitherto been without troops, Are now occupied by them. There remains at Frankfort, the .35th regiment of Light Infantry, and a company of the 33d of the line. The Prince of Hohenzollern, who, afterhaving serv ed in the campaigns upon the Danube and Ebro, had been employed in the war department, has returned to his estates. France has continued to him his ap pointments. • STUTGARDT, JAN. 28. By an edict of the King, dated the 26th of this month, the towns of Stutgardt, Tubingen, Louis bourg, and Eilwangen, will take the title of our good city in all acts and rescripts which shall take .plge • concerning theme . . NAPLES, JANUARY 9. - The garrison of the capital has been changed since the return of his Majesty from Calabria. It is re placed by the first Neopoliran Regiment of Light In fantry, by the regiment of the line of the same name, and by that of the Royal Calabrian. DIJON, JANUARY 24. By order of the prefect of the Cote d'Or, a seques tration has been placed upon all property and mer 'ehandize belonging to the, Dey of Algiers or his subjects. NAVAL INTELLIGENCZ. The extr' East-India ship Mary Ann, Captain WI. THERITEAD, arrived at Plymouth frost Bombay, spoke on the 20th ultimo, in lat. 3. S. long. 26. W. the American ship Montezuma, with a cargo of spices from Banda, bound to London ; she also spoke, in lat. 12. S. long. 7. 10. W. the ship Caledonia, CANA, from the Cape, all well. FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 22. • • Arrived the American 114 Robert and Betsey, frerri A.ondan, for New-York, leaky: the ship William, Baower, from ortsirroutli, for Savannah, with loss of foremast ; the brig Liana, avias, from Jersey, with bale goods, &c. for Cadiz, with lass et forretopinast, and her foremast sprung. Also arrived this day the transport ships Flora, MACLWOIT ; and two others, from Portsmouth, behind to Gibraltar; sailed from thence in company with a fleet under Convoy of his Majesty's ship DAMN!, and parted from them yesterday.—The packets are only waiting a fa renurahle wind to proceed with the different mail. PLYMOUTH, FEBRUARY 2!. Arrived the PRINCiIIa eIIIMIL6TTL frigate, and the 'Pew r- Agoto,..of 18 ginu, jam 4eruiSl a and tho St. Josef Spanish hig ger, from Corunna, with wool.—Sailed the FOXBOVND brig of svar r on a cruize. Went out of harbour, the AMAZON fripte. The sloop Two Brothers, of Dartmouth, was run foul off here on 'Thursday night by a collier brig, and sunk; her crew were all waved. The following prizes have arrived here, viz. an American ship taken off Bourdeaux, by the Menus tha Hero French brig, laden with iron, taken by the VALIANT ; and the American brig Adolphus, laden with cotton, &c. taken by the LYRA. PORTSMOUTH, 1 7 IE BR VARY 24. • Nothing arrived or sailed tosiay.—Tbe American brig Colt, with bale goods, is sent in by the Homsnaroo, Sir Tuowss ISTAINZS. She was detained by the HAMADA/AD Off Madeira, •npon suspicion of being bound on an illegal voyage to the LAIC Ins!ies.— The Beauty schooner, from Philadelphia bound to Ro chelle, with a cargo of cotton, is sent in by the Ilea°, Captain waton.—Admiral STOITORD arrived at the Cape niGood ilupe the ratter end of December, in his Majesty's ship ScisioN, with theAsTorai frigate, to succeed Admiral BE ITIE in his eons suand.-.•-' Captain HirculNu is appointed to the STRONIZOLO, and Captain GRIFWITUS to the VOLCANO at this port. DEAL. FEBRUARY 24. Arrived several ships, and are sailed for the River. Arrived the Ecuo sloop of war, with the Cgs:Suttee French privateer, of 16 guns and 63 men, which she captured off Scilly, 10th instant, after a chase of ten hours. Tie privateer s on her last cruize of Ave days, took four ships ; two from Buenos Ayres for London, viz. Faith, and the Traveller, and two others.—Wind.S. SHEERSESS, FEBRUARY 24. . , Arrived his Mayivy's ship Pa rv,a, from Chathans. Passedlay the Note for the Downs several sail of Merchantmen. The 3-ra aLiti• gun-brig to itsptcted to take convoy to Heligoland en tie 24 of March. • LEITH, FEBRUARY 21. Arrived in Leith Roads, on Siturday, his Majesty's gvn.brfg FANCY, Lieutenant SINCI,4I.It ; and on Sunday, his Majesty's trig CIIII/ORCA, Captain RAMAGIL both from a cruise;—also the 'MAMA!, °Lux, of I.estb, from Malta•, the Alexander, from Ile Sore, and iDanish vessel from Christiansands, with wood; on Monday; and Isis Majesty's ship ARDENT, of 64 guns, with Vrepsh prisoners from Portsmouth, on Tuesday morning. —Sails d, en Tuesday aftserso..., Cs*** moo guabrig, and as * entiZi. • °. . BOMBAY, SEPT. 17, 1810. _ _ • _ _ _ Arrived last night the Exeter, from Portsmouth, In company with the following ships, under convoy of the PHOENIX, 44 guns, Captain Bowan, viz. Indus, Diana, Earl St. Vincent, Thorny' Grenville, Harriet, Lord Um, Carmarthen, Midas, and Juliana. The fleet touched at Madeira, where they left the I.ord Eldon and Carmarthen, and were joined by the Ann and William Eersley. On the 29th Eine the fleet fell in with the General Wellesley, country shlp, for Bengal; left Portsmouth 23(1 May. ^ .J~ .. ZwitrtteritLlCENCß. f ro m all thePaPsnos aatfrosetamilllisiet la • l'intski am - .. . .. 'al ma s s, l° der which ; labour, net... Merely on the score of une. the most aggravating manner, evidently ;forthe pm-. tibal talents and learetl;•tif on account of the high pose of inflaming the minds of the soldiers, rendering l influence of the office of the Attorney-General ; not them disaffected to the service, and subjecting the public to all those calamities which would follow the merely because lam defendinglhe cause of those pro: i s. - secuted by the Crown, a circumstance which throw effect which this publication was calculated to pro • i an odium upon defendants, in whose favour, in civil: duce. The Attorney• General assumed it as a fact, prosecutions, the presumption is; but because this that wherever there was an army, it was absolutely &erg! of libel is brought forward at a time. when the necessary that that army should be governed by laws licentiousness of the press has reached a height which which were not applicable to the rest of society, In' orrice time even families, it was necessary that children should be obe- I it certainly has not attained at any f in this country ; a licentiousness, whereby every boun alient te their parents, servants to their master; and where this obedience did not obtain, the most serious dary is removed, and every obstacle overwhelmed. I domestic evils were found to ensue. But there the ' will not say that no character is se exalted; because it is not of the attacks upon exalted characters that I evil ended. In the army it was otherwise. If once the army was let loose from its code of laws, not only complain ; but I will say that no character is so hum would fellow the destruction of the military system, ble and so private, as to have escaped the libels of but the dowrfall of the whole state. It was unneces-. those who seek to gratify an idle curiosity, or to flat ter a still less excusable malignity. To point out as sacy to state the consequences which would ensue. It an object for the tongue of slander the men who is could not be said, that this publication had not a ten- endeavouring to enter into private life, is with some deity to these consequences; for what could tend to the road to popularity—with hundreds the means of that end more directly than to represent the military a base subsistence. It is unnecessary for me to state code as cruel and oppressive, and administered with the nature, consequences and grounds of this licen unnecessary severity ? Could such a representation i tiousness of . the press ; and I am far from saying there as this be exceeded in atrocity ? Yes, it could. The is nothing to extenuate it. It arises in a great degree English army could be brought into comparison with ' from that love of publicity with which many are the French-army, and the preference given to the lat. seized, to a degree which leads them to value their ter. Having thus opened the principles, upon which , existence only in proportion as it is passed before the n the Attorney General.was sure the Jury would de - gaze of the world, and to care not what they do, so tide this publication to be aslibel, he pi de& to as they be but talked of. In this particular the pubs read and comment upon it as follows : • • lic at least are liberal, and never tail to reward him " ONE THOUSAND LASHES! ! , who -ho panders to their gluttonous appetite. The con " The aggressors were not dank with as Bonapa rt e would have ' sequences, however, are fatal to the press itself, tend treated his refractory troops."—Speeek of the Attorney-General. in g to alienate the minds of the fastest friends to its This was the first motto, and implicated the libel freedom, and to lead them to doubt whether its abuse which followed it, so closely; tbut-the ATTORNIY-GL were not greater than its use ; till at last, instead of steam. took it to be a continuance,of thetlibel for which blessing its light, thercome to consider it as a source Mr. Cobbett had received the sentence of the Court. of certain mischief and" of' doubtful good. , Insteed The second motto consisted the reports of military i l 4 confining public discussion to the characters of punishments, collected. from all the London newspa - great men, and of, public actions, the press is eau: pers Of whichit might be necessary to inforM some; pied in private scandal, and in ripping up the secret of the Jury, that sixty different ones were published t histories cf humble individuals. It is no small bard every week) and represented in one mass. 'shi p in the presert case,tdo, that the defendants come This was the second motto ; and now the libel ! 1 into Court after the judgment of several general li commences at once r--- .. because,: the subject. of the libel being only ' " The ATTORmyr-Gt Ps z am. said what was very true ;--these ! bets / stated, it is natural. to conclude, that this is of the aggreisurs have certainly not been dealt with as Bonaparte woillil , • Mr. Cobbett,or M ' have , treated his refractory t r o op s ,nor indeed as refractory ' same species with that of -which ~ . T. Saturday the dispatches were finally closed at the ilized country whatever, save . All boa 1 1 y. re se lip b een convicted. The Attorney . troops would be treated in any eiv .. , _.,, •snsees, to draw a parallel East India Hope, and delivered to the Pursers of and except only this country.—Here alone, in this land ofliberty, ' General has endeavoured •• , I A the undermentioned ships, viz. • .in this age of refinement — by a p eo p le who, with their usual con . ' siitency, have been in the h abit of reproaching their neighbotrs between this case and that of Mr. Cobbett, in which Hope, Captain . PANDIRORASS ; Taunton lt Castle, Captain • will the cruelty of their punish ments —is still Inflicted a species it is unnecessary to fillow him ; for I trust I shall not RICSAIDION ; and Princess Aintlia, Captain E. BA 161 " ; for of . tomirt, at least-as exquisite as any that was ever devised by the . proceed far before I shall 1 • *' • d have consrice you that Madras and China. , infernal trirnuity of the Inquisition.—No, as the Attorney-Ge- the light is not more different f rnm darkness, than the I Rose, Captain SA N nic ANDS ; Metcalfe Captain Is st. • neral justly says, Bonaparte dots net treat his refractory troops in , Climatic, Captain SwiNvoN ; Castle Ed e n, Captain . C . CKE '-... osxmiT t this manner :there is not a man in his ranks whose back is seam- Prese t is f n case rom all and each of those that have ' for Madras and Neural. ' ed with :he lacerating cat-o nine-tails •—is. soldiers have never preceded it. The conseque nee.however, of all these Marchioness of 1' seter; Captain BAYNLS • and Union C al , apt n ' comrades stripped k p r ejudices yet been brought up . to view one of th eir ms - , is excessively hurtful to my case ; and, in- FAIRIAZ ; for St. Helena at il he l ' i rga . • ed —his limbs tied with ropes to a triangular machine; his back i , d, I have to v withstand a tide and torrent of • Pre.l 3- Northamptea, Cap t ain BAZZLIt j and Union, Capt. RANKIN t, . al . . . . 'e torn to.the bone by the mer al cutting whipcord, appliel by dice directed nuts -a-days to almost every thing which for Bombay and Bengal. . persons who relieve each other at short intervals, that they may . Admiral Sir Jots: Bousase WARREN arrived on bring the full unexhaosted strength of a man to the work of t Comes in the suspicions sliaoe abatis printed. But Friday at Portsmouth,. in the Swtrassate,74 , ,Captain • scourging. pie r in soldiers have never yet, with tisagitng tars, : listened to the piercing screams of a hirtnangertiture so tortured : • I should not have counselled the present defe d to make a struggle 4 ants to-day, unless their ease and merits Ls° I' I) ; from Bermuda, having been selievest in the t h e y have never seen the blood Oozing from his rent fiesl3;•--tLez :were of an individual nature, and of such a nature command H of the Halifax station by Rear •Admirel 'have never beheld a surgeon, with dubious look. 'pressing the ERBERT SAWYER, whom Si! JOHN left at BeSmuda agonized victim's pulse, and it ealmly caleulat il i i n oa, toss Tl 4 blow, as will, I trust, induce the Court and the Jury to how far suffe r ring y s . " i textrernr, in stretch forth their friendlyhand to prevent then from ;family, the 21st ult. Sir JOHN and Lady WARREN, end s , s onc4. upon i le. In I .. era can 01 any . utterly sinking. 'lf I can shew that the intent' of ton set off on Saturday morning for Londrn. The notion of that mot bearhouumpg a u! , z hib i d s „„ oa Ai, side' . the defendants was good MI (all th • X was laudahle or. .swlrrs EMIL is ordered to Plymouth ; to be docked and 'bell—++i .1/Via Alitiory Plitifie i , L l, l 01 • • - • • ..• -• • 1 The whole of the above. p aragra ph, t h e Ammer ' . sat ii anotherscluision), thee' are they innocent and . . fennel coatiotterl, wale eomperison with the 'trend*. f botistettleable. InWhateVer light the ectelpolitiott and theolavious tendency . pf it was to elevate th eir con. I may be considered critically, anA. as a piece of feria . .mml. tip oiNgo MISCH, FEL st ' duct, and to debase our.own. He then read the fol. , ting e althoitgh it be not an original article belonging ...,. ..-••• • 'Ma JUNO* inn% ANIS AMMO& • . . ' lowing part of the Libels . Ito the paper , tam content to consider the defendants , • Moon the trial- of this criminal information, only i lo Weirs o thoseirbont we have forced—he ifersnee; It esSy be OR d the footing of its authors ; and if you should not two:Special Jurors appeared, viz. Saints Bishop and esld.Ls punishes them some manner ; that I- very tr Pl i e;Tle fro- attri bute . guilty intention to them as its composers, Geo..Bagsger, Eeqrsh. .. . • *risen: his refractory troops, occasionally, in ehates ; • and hi ag. t will be your duty to acquit them. This will he Oravited capes, be puts them to death. But any °fittest severities ~.., Ttestion you will have to decide; but at the .• o After some CORsollatiOn. the ATTORNST-crIgNIRAL 'Tiprefgrable to tying a human ereature up like I dog, and curries '-''' . prayed' au sake, when the following common Jurors la. &Ala pieces With whipcord, Who would not go to prison same time, I _w . ill not disguise to y.O tha t y o u have . etedeop the Jury r.' . :• . • tor two yea r s , ( as Bo na p arte sent his military offenders, the At- now to try a far more t ivirtaitt q *estioi_ w hether golaert , Maynard, Henry,Tieykini, Thomas Rifson, John Sea. eh torney-Gerol supposed) or In uked for almost any term, rather f r om this time an Eaglishm in shall have the privilege t btoek, David Miller, Willism Lonsdale, John Rotten,. Walter tent, occa than bier thertluil : ite, the almost Insupportable torn . 1 t 1 Roe Richird Bolton, and John Nuns. . phoned by the itditcoort of seven hundred or a thousand I's le. 'of free discussion, and, if d;scussion, of express:. 4 of Mr. RIGHABDSOv . opened the pleadings, by stating P his mercy compared with such suffering,. Besides, wha: is his opinions against, as well as for, any political mea. a ma eat n ood for after that this was a criminal information fi led against n ...an he ir ever lle lia.s hatithecat-o%nine-tailsacrosshis back ? :are or statistical system ? The present is not an :n. again hold lip his head among his felloWs ? One 'st ince of the convass of indi vi.itol character, of a par ' john - Hunt and Leigh Hunt, the printer, and two of bribe pouf wretches executed ax Linc oln . last Friday, it is sta'ed, the proprietors of the Axe/deer, Sunday Newipaper, had been severely peniakrd in some regrew: T he _ probability is, . titular error if policy, or abase of syst .ni ; (I do oot. fora seditious libel,' to which the defendants...had that to this' odious, ignominious fing ng, may be tract . . d 1 ,,,,,, d &iv that an Englishman has th it privilege of discus -1 pleaded—Not GuiltY. ' - endand it cannot be doubted that he found the gallows less moo , too; but that is not now the qiestona); the pre. ; - cruel than the halberts. Surely, then, the Atto,uey - Cuncral sent question is as to his right .f discuss:ng a gene : The ATTORNEY - GENERAL stated, that he ha d ought not to stroke hit chin with such compliceticy, when lie thought it incumbent on him to presentee the defen. refers to the manner in which nona t larte t t e r b ea u ; ., S t h u i a s t stibitdreieriss.—as his own opinion as to a particular cast of policy, whic presentrah I had almost sai,i,on abstract qucstinn,—ofgorino . h ' dents for aLibel ; the tendency of which was not only We uc h de . S F ise atld e •det nj est y tho i s: w ho F ,ce w es ouid thcrei.kft inthis country. it has pleased the Legislature to adopt. It is a question y We l i be rt ygive all credit to to excite the disaffection of the soldiery, b re- now eed the 'wishes of some of our great men ; whether wehave aright to endeavour to make that per. ing that they were treated with improper and exces- yet while any thing remains to us in the shape of lree die. feet which we all so greatly admire—the constitution I. sive severity, but (*hat was still more mischievous) cession. it is impossible that we shou sink u int a o l t h he ab f le ‘ C v t e S d i.t u v u ,r , y t of our army ; it is a question w!iether a mon, eche to represent the treatment of Bonaparte towards his i e n n wh t ic a h e the Fr ra e l a c eh onditi P o l i e t a o re f li 'l uo l" n g aparte's t ill:NeC itg te: we really mealy anxious for the elory of the army, may • pro troops, and the means which were used to enlist ` 7 . (and we l speak the honest; conviction of our ltrarts), see nothing mote the good of the service, by shelving wherein its ,• them, as infinitely preferable to the system eniployed veconarly pitiable id the let er his soldiers when compared.with system is h urt f u l , an d b y po i nt i ng out t h ose t wee l in Great Britain. The effect of this libel was obvi. that of our own Were we called opon to make our electlon be- which prevent its attaioment of a greater degree of ously to excite discontent and , dissatisfaction in the - oritvieenorothe whatever services, the cau uu iedr us set w te o f u or id o a r t onrescdeedrectuidieeraubre to e a perfection. Upon the soldier's feelings of nonotir de. hinds of the soldiers . Who' hail already entered the mi n a& !L e one egree removed from for , a liability to be petid the safety of eine kingdoms ; and, with this. , British service, and to disincline others from entering .. - h o od like a heats. It is Idle to talk about renderin g the situa. consideration before him, is not that man the bene. 1 into that service. How'fatal such efforts were to the Lion of a British soldier pleasant to himself, or desirable, far less factor of his country who endeavours to refine those country; it was mOneceisarey , for the . Attorney-General "'immutable, in the estimation of others, while the whip is held to•state. The defendants had chosen to select for'ove r his head—and laver his bead •ow for lo no country in not ions of honour to the' uttermoat pitch of piefection I Europe (with the exception, perhaps, of kussia, which, is. yet in ' These are the questions in this case ; and these your ;heir motto, what'they supposed him to have said upon a _fast of barbarity), is the military character so degraded. We verdict wil decide. It is well known that for many the occasion of a former trial of this nature, when it have heard of an army of slaves, which had bravely withstood years the attention of the Legislature has been almost became necessary fur the Attorney-General to prose. she aseerds sua t in the o ir t ut be ast . er t , being e de fi fea 4. ted , jtio. a i nd iu di t ter it sed fac b m y bare etelusively called to the importance of military policy. cute Mr. Cobbett for animadversions of extreme se- . T hi e verity and'injustice, upon an occasion of a mutiny s brought so g fercib t ly to their minds their former state of see - It is.not necessary for me to go into a detail of all the in ; vitode and disgrace, that every honourable impulse at once fori• plans which have been at different times proposed; it the Local Militia, which was punished by a Court- I stook their bosoms, and they betook themselves to flight and to s su ffi cient to state, that all of them have had one Martial, with a sentence of lashes, the infliction of , howling. We entertain an h aaliety C t in bn t u m t y t l h a e te eha thelr r lf t : r . ;t: e tl i te object in view, that of bettering the condition of the part of which was remitted. The defendant on that , so countrym o r i ln Port . u s g:a r l o , op w s . en bu w t ec we m e ow own that we should g soldier. To some of these plans it is, however, ne. occasion for his motto, or text, a statement of - tremble for the result, were t i lieFrench General to dispatch agalott ceesar y that I should direct our attention. The the circumstance from the newspapers ; to which ' t h em a f ew h un d re d drummer ,each brandishing a ter-.'nice-tear." fi rst I s h a ll ment i on i s t h at of s hortening the term of he subjoined a libel of extreme malignity, upbraid- If there were to be made any alteration in our mil'', military . service. Upon this subject Sir Robert Wil ing those who endeavoured to suppress the mutiny, rary code, it must be by increasing the number of those son, whoie presence in Court prevents me from say. and insulting those who stood by to see it punished. On that occasion, too, the defendants took an op- offences punishable by death ; and if a proposal were ing, that, as there is not one officer in the service .made tothis effect, theAttorney-General should like to snore distinguished for gallantry.and skill, so there is portuniey of speaking of the manner in which /Irina- know in what terms of severity the writer of this libel none more distinguished by an ardent, almost amonn parte was supposed to recruit his army, taunting and reviling those who talked of his severity, and telling would attack the proposer of such a measure. The ting to a romantic, attachment to the profession of Writer struck his balance between the supposed hard- arms ; not one in whom Bonaparte has a deidlier (I them it vraeridiculous to animadvert on his cruelty shipsof our army and the real one's of Bonaparte's, and had nearly said a more personal) enemy, or this coins while so much gi eat r existed in our own army.— gave the final preference to the Corsican. Could the t r y and its allies a better friend. This gallant of& After oliserving in. th:t.case Uro3 the mild sentence Jury hear this without indignation ? Was it possible cer, in the year 18041 published a tract upon the sub and still milder infliction which attended' the mutiny not. to see that the tendency of the libel was to _lie. ject of improving and reorganizing the military sys of those men who had risen upon their Officers, 'the- nate the soldier's love of his profession , and disincline tern. It was addressed to Mr. Pito*hose attention Attorney-General supposed be did use the *sentence ,every * body else from embracing it? Could any thing w a s then 'directed to the subject , and mentions, which the present defendants had selected for the be more pointedly mischievous ? The whole libel was among a variety of causes operating to deter men motto of.their We 1..." The aggressors were not dealt , ,ittio y offensive : every sentence had the same ten- from military enlistment, the length of the term of with as Bonaparte would have treated his refractory I i done,- Of this tendency there could be no doubt i that eillistpient. The writer is, perhaps, warm in troops."—Speech of the .efeterney-General. He.repeated andihe Jury would therefore heat from his Lordship much of Ms language ; and I should have held that I this assertion now ; he verily believed it :in Bona- that this was a most mischievous and seditious libtl. author cheap indeed who could have touched upon parte': army. the offenders would not have escaped The publication of the alledged libel was - then such a siilsject with all the coldness of a regimental with their lives. Mr. Cobbett having been convicted proved. . ' return. •' Is not this enlistment for life," the gallant for this libel, the present publishers took up • the sub- Mr. BROUGHAM then addressed the Court and the writer asks, o declaring to the world that the mai. ject ; and whereas Mr. Cobbett took up a particular Jury on behalf of the defendants to the following ef• tary service is so ungrateful, that it is necessary to se. instance of military punishnient upon which to tom- feet:—'s In rising to support the cause of these defen- cure.the soldier, otherwise he would never stay in it?" anent, the present writers took all.they• could collect ! A ,1 , . abo,W,antly Sensible of thodilficulties un. He then talks of the liabili' ' the West __ . Ie ts“. , tai -le liability to seriti,ce in Je India Islands as another great drawback to enlistment. I may not agree with the writer in eve• y one of his ar guments; but GOD forbid that I should impure a libel to the gallant officer. He proposes that the West Indies should be given up. " That charnel-house," says he, " must be closed for ever against Bri tish troops." Did Sir Robert Wilson mean by all this to disincline the regiments already there, or about to embark thither, from the military service? Far be it from me to impute any such intention to him. This is the language of free discussion, and the gallant writer speaks warmly because he thinks strong. ly." . Honour is the nature of the tenure by which the soldier holds his sword; anchnpon the subject of mili. tart' punishments, the writerenters at once inlangeage certainly not weaker than that of the publication before you. " The second and equally strong check to mi litary inlistnient," says he, "is the frequency of military punishment. The late Sir R. Abercrombie," he adds in a note, a was an enemy to it for light of fences; and. Lord Moira, and almostevery General in the service, are universal enemies to it." And how is there any chance of subverting the system, unless, by facts and reasoning, the country and the legisla. tore are convinced of its error ? Sir Robert Wilson does not represent a picture of military punishment, too frightful as it is for patient examination ; bet be does say that there is no mode so disgraceful as that of punishment by flogging, and more inconsistent with the' military character; and is justly severe when he sees that punishment, which should be awarded only to crimes- of the blackest die, inflicted upon petty breaches of military law. He attributes his early respect for the army to the circumstance of his having bees educated in a regiment, in a face of 1 which the triangle: were never planted, and of which every man therefore walked erect and conscious of the dignity of a soldier., "There is no maxim, (hkob. serves,) more true, than that cruelty is a mark of cow4rdice—humanity of bravery. To a command. ing,e4ficee. possessing-the latter qualities, a thousand methods of commuting the punishment of flogging foe* better mode of punishment would suggest them- . szNes.” lie then proceeds to say, that if a return wtse made of the number of soldiers ppnished, the astonishment of the public would be excited ; and fv. laces an instauce of an Irish Qoinkna,nder who once flagged 70 men in one day, and-resumed the employ. :meta the next morning. "Corporal punishments (he concludes) never reform a corps; they break the dier's spirit, without mending his disposition : the cat-o-nineaails defeats every end of punishment, only rendering tl:e soldier despicable in his own eyes, and the object of opprobrium in those of ethers." I admit that this;is a topic g delicacy, but it was the gallant officer's duty to touch upon it, from which, as an upright man, he was not deterred by the fear of having attribteed to him motives by which he was never acatiated. lieafterwardsremarks the melancholy truth, that:Military ptinishments*Subdue every amiss. ble disposition., ,and familiarizes gentlertun by every right of education and birth, to scenes with which no other, civilized nation is acquainted. " Why be asks) s:iotrld En land be the last to adopt the .hs. mane systeM ?. France allows of flogging only i l k her marine: and in no other country, save and cacao" England alone, is that system constantly resorted to. [Taro mil'