Star. — London, England, 1813-12-08 00:00:00

1111/IMalnismassaffisistisowsw MILITARY PROMOTIONS. t. FITtVrW 7 - -P4MI44PfrARY P ...---- ', y ... BOMBS OF LOR.It ~. .. 4 1.-' • IVAit-OFFlelt i , 1210211111131 i. i The kidgment in the case ell a.. 7th Iteginseht of Dragoon Guards-Cornet James Bennett to bo bowman, was postponed till toonorrow, Lieutenant, without purchase; vice Miler, Appointed to the - The Militia Force Amendment Bill, t sth Royal Veteran Battalion ; •••-•.!-Illocost, Gent. to' be Comet, and Sugar Bill, were committed and r ....... vice Bennett. - . . '-' . . The Marine Mutiny Bill, West 4th Regiment of .Dragoonri-Tis be Comsat-Bit:Wit Coney. 'sod Pollee Bill, were brought up from . Gent. by purchase, vice Witlitanley, who'retires; ad Robert a first time. . , . ... Lawrence Townsend, Gent. withoutpurehesh viesrHodson, The Mutiny Bill was committed and reported,-A.djourned.' t promoted. . . NOUSE OF COMMONS. 10th Regiment of Light Dragoons - - Richard Bbry,l*alliser, Gent. to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Somerset, promoted. The Irish Spirit Intercourse Bill, and the Irish County Police 16th Ditto-Arthur Ingleky. Gent., to be Cornet, without par- BM, went through the Conuoittee. To be reported to- morrow. chase, vice Burke, promoted. The Irish Illicit Distillation B il l was read a second. time. To 2lst.Dit!to-Samuel Carter,. Gent. to be Cornet, without.pur- be committed to-morrow. chase, vice Heystflisg, promoted. The Report of the Committee of Supply was reeeived,'and tt 25th D'eiAlames d rdon Brunton, Gene. to be Cornet, by . the several Resolutions agreed to. purchase, vice Coles, who retires. , .. • The-Lords' Amendments to the Scotch Police Bill were lit Riginsent of Foot Guards Co be Ensigns, without purchase *greed to; • -john Francis Miller Erikitie, - Gent. vice t riatchbull, do. The Report of the Insolvent Bill was brought up : the Bill • (teased ; and Frederick Thornton Gould, Gent. ',vitt Sir Tho- was recommitted, several amendments by Mr. LOCKHART were teas Style, deceased. Agreed to, and It was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. • .. , ' Ist Regimens of Foot-Ctptaln EI. Wetherell, from the VOA Sir I. SHAW brought up the Replrt of the London Militia Chasseurs, to be Captain -of a Company, without pitriliate, Bill, which was recommitted, amended, and ordered to be read vice Macdonald, appointed to the 2d Royal Veteran Battalion. 1 a-thleld time to-morrow. ' ' • .. : •.• The East India Shipping Bill was read clitilend dose . tom- sd Ditto-Lieutenant John Cowcher, from the 39th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Williams, who exchanges. :' ' mitten to - nwelliw• I . ' ' ' '.. . :: 1 Bth Dion-James 13eyd, Esq. late a lieutenant in the Regiment, M r . TIERNEY pre s en t e d a Petition *oft the Depisty Swe tt) he PaymiAer, trice Gravel, who 'resigns. I veyors-General of Customs in the Out-ports of Ireland, praying to he put on the sae footing with similar person in other parts Bth Ditto-Gentleman Cadet George Augustus 'l44 47 )ertitOlt, ' frcitn the Royal Military Collegia to be Ensign, vice Erskine, of the United Kingdom.- Ordered to lie on the table. whose appointment has not taken place. - • r. Mr. HARVEY gave notice., for to morrow of a Bill fdr the 12th Di to- , Lieutenant Joh.: Borthwick, from the Edinburgh ' better preservation of Wild Fowl. ,Militia, to be Ensign , without purchaae, - - • siEWOATe PRISON. 14th Ditto--lieutenant Robert' Innea, from' the' Royal West. The Hon. Mr' EDEN rose; pursuant to his notice,, Middlesex Militia; to• be Ensign, .vice Abbott, Who • • reeigns. . _ ito state his object as-concisely as-possible. It was not . - - • ... , a duty imposed by, law, hut it was a practice lath i lino-Ensign Samuel MlCaill to be Lieutenaht, with o ut . gene purchase, vice Carmichael, promoted in the 60th Foot ;,Ensign ' rally acted upon by Grarid Juries at Assizes, to visit Henry Senior, from the 60th Foot, to be Ensign, vice M'Caul. ' the public jails, and to report the result or their era.' 49th Ditto-Brevet •Major George Tod to be Major, without nations to the Jedge,, stating . what • appeared to' . . purchase., vice Tucker, promoted on the Staff in Canada; Lieu- 1 12 • li . • tenant limes Brooke to be 'Captain of a Compinf,s . riee Tor; them as faults in the administration of the priscm.7- -Ensi3n William Clark to be Liesiterfant, without porehase t erice rTite Grand Jury of - die City of London had, last Scanners promoted ; and Ensign A. Rishard.oo,to be. Lieute. I week, visited the' prison of ' Newgate , and had made Darn, without purchase, vice Brooke . a representation • of • its present state, for a cOpy of Slit Dutra-Ensign Richard Wood, from the Sligo Militia, to be 1 bear:. . 1 which he should . Move. • It-stated, briefly, that in Sid D. to-Lieutenapt E. J. Priestley' to be Adjutant, vice that part. of the prison which should contain 60 Moore, deceased. , women, there were now confined 120: that in ano ssth pitto-Quar:er- Master -Serjeant.-- Foote, to be Quarter- • ther part, which was intended to contain 100 persons, Master, vice Macfidd, promoted in the 7th Royal Veteran . • Battalion. there were at present 310 debtors: that the prisoners 37th Ditto—Lieutenant Mark Ransford, from the Kildare Mut: were in a deplorable state, from wantof clothing and - tia, to be Ensign. of bedding, and were exposed to the severity of the Seth Ditto-Lieutenant Edward Williams.. from the Sd Feint, to I season, the rain beating in upon them through ne be Lieutenant, vice Coucher, who exchanges. - glect of the building. He need hardly add a com tad Dioo-To be Captains of Companies, without Purchase Lieutenant Willtani Freer, vice Cap-I, killed in action • and merat upon such a statement, but he wished to bring Lieutenant Bernard Murphy, vice Murchison, dead Of his the matter home to the feelings of the House. He wounds. TO be Lieutenants, without purchase-Ensign W. then referred to Mr. Newman, the keeper's, state- Carruthers, vice Edward Freer, killed in action ; and Ensign ments before the Committee of the House of Cont. M. H. Warren, vice W. Freer. 'ro be Ensign-Robert Mul caster Atichmuty, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Carruthers. mons. ,He had said that the place of confinement for 47th-Ditto-Lieutensot John Craigie, to be Captain of a Corn- women was destined to receive only 57, but that by .parry, Vice Hawkins, deceased; Ensign. Dasid Calder to lie appropriating the Infirmary and other apartments to ISeutenant, vice Ctaigie. the same object,. room might be found for 100: yet zsd Ditto-John Witfield, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Coffry. now their number was 120. The 'principal. room for 36tiS Ditto-Lieutenant J. G. Finn to be Adjutant. the women was only 36 feet by 14 feet. .It was . in both Ditto-Ensign Edward Jones, from the 6th Garrison Baca- tended that each woman should have a space of three lion, to be Lieutenant, without purchase. To be Enrgns, feet six inches; whereas now one foot nine inches in without purchase--1. Gourville, Geo. pcittie, and Atexartder breadth was the whole that could be allotted to each l'itelean,•Gents . . vice Senior, appointed - to ate .1 etlt Fuot t •ro be Surgeon-Assistant-Surgeon George Vert:seinen, from' he unfortunate woman. Many of these women had with Hospital Staff. ' them two or three children. Such was the calamity 634 Ditto -Lieutenant G. W. SaVage, to be Captain of a Corn- of their situation. Many of them were-cony lets, but patty, without pis -chase, vice Ouseley, promoted on the Staff the . taw - never contemplated such an aggravation of .in Portugal; Lieutenant James Seer, from half-pay of the 55th . foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Irwin, who eschlnges. - their'sufferings under punishment. Some prisoners old Ditto-Lieutenant J. Boyd to be Captain of a Company,' were awaiting the first opportrinity for their transpor vice Maine, deceased; Ensign- David Fraser to be Lieute. cation ; others were not convicted criminals, but xrere nant, vice Boyd. confined on stispi‘ion, and though yet to be tried, oath Ditto-Ensign H. Stuart, from. the limerick City Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase. . were mingled with the basest and most abandoned 93th Ditto--Ensign G. Wood to beLieutenant, vice Rogers, die- characters. Could it be supposed that any one con- . missed the service; Robert Montgomery,. Gent. robe Ensign, (wed 'with such depraved companion's could leave vice Wood; Hosital-Assistant T. Wadlter to be Aisistani. . ... such scca.ty without-being correpted ? A's far as the ; Surgeon, vice M arkham, promoted in the York Light Infan try Volunteers. Report 4.4,the Grand Jury related to the situation of.l lit West-India Regiment- Lieutenant F. Collins to be Captain the debtors he should say little, trusting that the new 4 a Company, without purchase, vice Duke, promoted in the, Bill would operate in that respect as a permanent York Cbasseurs • Ensign I. Mackenzie to he Lieutenant, vice . remedy. All the debtors id Newgate he should pie. I . ParkinsonoleceLdd; William Alexander Callow Gent. to be ; F-nsign, v ce . Mackenzie; Hospital-Mate RichatdV'alsh to be . some to be .insolvent, or they would not remain in Assistant-Surgeon, vice Noble, deceased. such a prison as that, but go to the B-nch er the 3d Ditto-Ensign R. Turnbull to be Lieutenant, vice Bradshaw, i Orin.. To ensure the redress of a great evil, it was deeeased ; Archibald MiTavish, Gent. to be Ens gn, vice t uie f il) t o ma k e the 'facts public ; therefore he should Turnbull. , . . i . t move foe the' production 61 this paper. After the re'. •Sth Ditto-Hospital-Assistant J. Johnstone to be Assistant-Sur. ' _ goon, Wde Walker, whose appointment has not taken plice.• • cess be should propose a -Committee to enquire into 6th Di-to-Lieutenant W..E. Grant to be Captain or . a Company, the subj ec t, and a l so to as cert a in whether th e intend _ vice Luder, deceased; • Ensigns . B Fenniger, vice Fraser, 'dim- ed new prison would be adequate to the desired relief: missed the service; and J. Church, vice Grant, to be Lieute- L. , rae t h e n mov e d for a copy of the Report of the ' •nants; J. Johnson, vice Penniger ; and R. Wickearn, Gems. vice Church, to be Ensigns; Serjeant-Major - Henderson, Grand Jury of the City of London, Ares rated by vice Anderson, wbo resigns, to be Quarter -Master, them to the Judges at the Old Bailey Session, Con t3th Ditto-Lieutenant William Hadley, from the 1020 Foot, to taining an account of the state of " the Prison of, -be Captain of a Company, vice Wii.gheld, deceased; Wiliam , , ate. isiew - - . . • , Stead, Gent , to be Ensign, vice Rely, di , missed the service. g- - Royal West-India Rangers-Hospital Assis ant Williant Ken. Sir W. CURTIS seconded the motion ; but war .needy to be Assiitant-Surgeon, vile I homson, deceased. • convinced, that.great pact of what had fallen from 4th Garrison Battalion-Ensign A. Moran to be . Lieutenant, the 'Honourable' Membei' • would, without purchase; George Armstrong, Cent. to be Ensign, . • - be.confuted. •- • .- • ' • • • vice Moran. - - . 6th Ditto-Lieutenant H. R. Dighy, from the 52d Foot, to be -Mr. AldsrMan COMBE said-a few words to the Captain' pf a Company, vice O'Beirne, who retires; Benjamin' same effect• Bayley, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Jones, promoted to 015 ( i° o ! Mr. JAMES SHAW said, that it would appear Foot. I that the magistrates had done every thing, in their Bth Roinl Veteran Battalion-Lieutenant R. Miller, from the r , power for the required relief. There were 335 deb. 7th 191 . asoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Bennett, placed en the ttetired List. tots in Newgate. One - object Was nearly realized for lc th Ditto-Lieutenant I Harrison, from the . Royal.Waggon t h e re li e f $4l Newgatv, by the cnnstruction of a new I rain, to be Lieutenar.t. Prison for the Debtois, and which would - be capacioui Royal Conic= Rangers-Col. Hudson Lowe to be Colonel. enough for five hundred persons. The Newgate cri-. York Chasseurs-Lieutenant H. Floyd, from the 19th Light Dra goons, to be Captain of a Company, without eurchate,. vice We- 1 ininals were 417, of whom 202 were convicted and ' Coen'', appointed to tte is( Foot ; Serjeaut Major J. Lowry, sentenced to hanspottation. Three weeks azo the, from the '4lst Foot, to be Quarter Master. 1 Sheriffs, with the attention they always paid to these: HOSPITAL vrarr. iuhjects, ma.le a representation - to the Secretary of Purveyor's Clerk Thomas Vaughan to be Deputy Purveyor to the Forces. • ' State for the Home Department, requesting shipping llospital Assistant A. Finegan tope Apothecary to the Forces. Po be provided early to carry out the convicts, or To be Hospital Assistants to the Forces-Francis M'Donagh, and some other means to be' adopted. Lord Sidmouth ', Frederick IS. White, Gents. - - The King's German Legion. had promised to do every thing that was possible.-", - Ist. Regiment of Dragoons-William Jones, Gent , to be Cornet, When the debtors should be removed horn New. vice Bosse, promoted. gate, and the 4.00 convicts sent off, there would be 2d Ditto-Tronp Se jealit Major A. Mess to be Cornet, vice F. only 300 left in Newgate, which had a capacity to, Nanne, who resigns. ' hold a greater number. Ist - Regiment al Light Dragoons-George Leopold Conze, Gent. Mr. Alderrhan ATKINS commended the general to be Cornet, vice Leopold, whose appointment has not taken' place. • care and good conduct of the jail. The women pri. • . Bed Dium-Ernest Soest, Gent. to be Cornet, vice D. Schulze, soners required much more trouble to preserve order deceased. • among them than the others : and it was very diffi- Sd Ditto-To be Cornets=Charles de Hellen, Gent. vice Ode , kers; promoted; Francis Baroh Heymert , vice Krause, pro- cult to enforce the necessary cleanliness. rooted; Augustus Baron Hodenberg ; and Haas - Baron -110- : Mr: ABERCROMBY supported the motion, but denberg. imputed no. inhumanity to any person. He was Ist Battalion of Light intantry--lii be Ensigns: Gustavus Best, h appy t h at t h e motion was s o c h eer f u l ly met, and Gear. vice Lattenz, superseded; Lewis Baron Arden, vice that an examination was to follow. As a Member Kessler, promoted; 'and Adolphus Augustus de Geeszkow, vice Koester, promoted. . of Parliament, he had occasion fOr visiting Nee - gate ' ', ed Dino r --Elidap A. Madman to be Lieutenant, vice Klein. and he thought Mr. Newman, the keeper, entitled to buret, who resigns. To be Ensigns: Frederick de Robertson, every possible praise for an anxious desire to dis. Gent. vice Earle, remota; end Augustus Friedricks, Gent. vice Masbean. : - charge the duties of Iris stat i on.. Yet he must say, Ist Batt. of the tane...-TobeLlestrenanta-e•EnsignWilliamßess, that the sight of Newgate was a disgrace to the Me vice Boyd, kilted. la lied - es; ; mid .Ensign ..-... Wilding, vice tropolis, particularly as it regarded the places of con- Weskit, who reigns.. . pro., _ fieem u ent for 'the women . . Those depraved females rei atria... 4.44.. r. L v ichtr to be lieutenant, vice Dk4 4 4, mutest 4, char!es Angustus lien der Sodeh r Gent. to-be hasten, . " 11113 t be more difficult to govern than other persons, . Sth dittis-A.:isLitt ,se.jeant William Walther- to thin Atisian, *i t : ;suit the average room was far ' too small . for them: IPAPOs.r) r" Ac v d ' ' - .: - ..•, - : . ~a Unlest -some protisied WO made for classing the dif: - - - . . . . •.. all efforts. it *et ',NW be praised the condutt of the of the blegistrafes, . hoped, the;new bill would remedy* for one, cause of tlie froth thepreatirs of convicts, seemed desirable, that a more ..carer Sp& than Botiny Bay should be selected, that convicts might be removed more, frequently. _ The motion was agreed to t: , . • NSW 111604. VENT BLLJ. On the question for the third reading; Mr. Serjeant BEST contended that tie Bill never could be acted upon, if passid in its present state. It wits quite inadequate to-its proposed functions. By 'O se 'clause, the debtor's concealment of £2O was lade a bapital °genie. '"But as the law required the deliberations of two kirks, a grand and petty one, for the conviction of inditiduals, would it be right in this case to proceed against persons on information, and without those provisions ? The amended bill provided, that notices to creditors should be given in the London Gazette, or some newspaper or news papers. A newspaper might be chosen which the creditors might never read. There was also a con tradiction in the clauses respecting the bringing up the prisoners before the justices. It would be impos sible to execute the act. Prisoners under particular judgments for malicious injuries, sec. or being frau dulent debtors, were entitled to no benefit. But how was the Court to be regularly put in possession of these facts ? Hbw could.it enforce the clauses.under Flis act ? Prisoners might be in the King's Bench or eet, for debts incurred in Cornwall or Northum berland. How were their creditors to oppose frau. dulent debtors ? Most they come up to London with I their witnesses ? Some debtors' frauds were of such an extent and consequence, as even to take from the injured creditors the ability of objecting to their libe ration. The defects in the bill ought to be remedied, or it would be better not to pass the bill. As to the debtors in Cornwall and the distant parts of the king dom, he did not think it proper that they and their creditors should be brought up to • London—but he thought the bill should have allowed those creditors, who had legal and valid objections to the discharge of their debts under this act, to substantiate tisuse ob jections in the country. He was not averse to the general principle of discharging from imprisonment on the curio bonorum ; but he thought that it would be possible to discriminate between those who had become insolvent from mere misfortune, and those who were fraudulent debtors, of whose circumstances were reduced by idleness, extravagance, and gaming. To those who were merely unfortunate, he should wish that there was no imprisonment necessary. in order to t eke the benefit of the Act, as he was• con vinced, that even passing the threshold of a prison was sufficient to degrade and destroy the future com forts of an innocent but unfortunate man. To those, however, whose debts and embarrassments were ow. ing to their own faults—to those who had dissipated their means by extravagance and gaming—and to those who inflicted on their creditors the additional wrong of driving them to the expense of an action at law, when they had no just defence, to such persons, he thought that thy three months' imprisonment re. quired by this Act was not sufficient punishment.-- He should pr pose a clause, that they should be im. pi isoned for twelve months within the walls of a jail, before they could cl Om the benefit of the Act. To ' the unfortunate, however, he wished that the benefit!' of this Act mittla be extended without any imprison ment at all. He wished to 11,1 d nut a temptation to them, when they knew thainselves in a state of insol vency; to come forward to their creditors, and on the cessi tonlrum to obtain the benefit of this Act ; in. st.tad of holding their creditors at arms' I•Algth, and driving them to the expense and delay of a law -suit, by sham pleadings, and other nsodes, which were often taken to delay the rec ,very of a just debt. He thought that the principle of the bankrupt law might well be applied to them, when they shou,ld prove satisfactorily that their insolvency proceeded from misfortune, and that they had fairly surrer.dered their property. In fact, the imprisonment of those persons was an injury to the creditors, as part of their means was then necessarily divided among jailors and other officers. He was then proceeding to offer his clauses, when— . The SPEAKER informed him, that this was not the proper stage to offer clauses ; but that it would be competent to him, if the Bill should be read a third time, to offer any clauses or amendments he might think proper. . The Nil was then read a third time. Mr. Serjeant BEST then proposed his first clause, which went to extend the benefits of the Bill to debt , ors not actually imprisoned. .111 r. HORNER was glad to hear the Honourable and Learned .Gentleman avow himself a friend to the principle of the reirio bon9rum, and be therefore hoped that he would not do any thing to delay or obstruct ihe passing of the present Bill, although he might have some objection to its details. There was no doubt that many improvements might be sugges ted. in this Bill, and that there would be various op portunities, not only in the course of this session but in subsequent sessons, to suggest those improve ments. He therefore wished that the Honourable and Learned Gentleman would defer to some future opportunity the consideration of those ideas which he had now, for the first time, thrown out. The sug gestions of the Honourable and Learned Gentle man were novel, and would, if adopted, form the greatest innovation in the existing law that had ever been atteniped or proposei. What could be a greater innovation than to extend the provisions of the Bankrupt Laws to persons who were not traders ? Another of his clauses went to create -a new species of crime, and to punish with 12 months' imprisonment in a jail, persons who were now not subject to such severity of puaiihment. He was not prepared to say that those propositions were not wise or expedient; but he was perfectly prepared to say, that it was impossible that the House could adopt such a great innovation on our laws without the most mature deliberation, and the fullest time being al lowed fOr the consideration of those propositions. It appeared to him impossible that any Court of Justice or any tribunal whatever could enter so completely into the motives of, the debtor, or the history of his whole life, as to pronounce whether his debts had been contracted from extravagance or idleness ; or whether his insolvency Was not the result of misfor- PA&CZZDJNG& fgeiii 1i ods of erinimils ) all A t ' ' *bud ineffectual. DEclum, 7711••• li ' ". ~ .4- ,Alderman SMITH and defended that i it against the . sr. •,. .. s : r. LOCKHART hot m. tbew .,,,, a 0- #' . • a permanent rented A reign' -•- •••• ~. yii. The other cause, Iron It if ' - aililliali. Illa* was temporary. It seem( ras ea • - cc, vement, and dealer sp.& tune? He thought. it =eh better that those slues. tions should be left, as they were at present, to the judgment of those who had had dealings with them, and had chosen to give them credit. fhe Honour. able and Learned Gentleman appeared to have read the Act with very little attention ; as he had com mented at some ligsgth on a clause respecting capital punishment, which was not to be found in the Pill. He had also mistaken that clause which allowed tices . at Quarter Sessions not only to take the ezamir x. tion of the prisoners, but to certify their opinion to the Judge of the Insolvent Court, whether the prisoner ought to be discharged or not. ,Mr. LOCKHART thougtit that his Honourable and Learned Friend (Serjeant 11:st) deserved .great credit for the attempt to discrimin,te between frau • dulent debtors and those who were only unfortunate He though., that in many cases too much talc* cor• passion h a d 6een , ozoitrcl for the debtors, when el. creditors were the oojects who were most deserving of comrssinn. .Nlr. A BERCROMBY hoped that the liontatrable and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Serjeant Best) world the --e Seat )srpone the - of for _ pro poi _ ...c consi._ .ation _ the sug liestions which he had offered in tee shape of clauses. ',lmovations of such importance could not be adopted. ,tvitliout the most serious consideratioa. There would -be many opportunities of improving the present Act; •and when toe Legislature should turn tLeir serious at.; tention to the subject, he had no doul,t but ver y c o ns i-. aerable improvements would take place in tha sys- • iet.n. The immediate object, however, of liberating e numbb-• of insolvent ciribtors flora imprigaiinerA,, oue:it not to.be postponed on xceotritt of any specu lative improvements which might be suggested for• the general system. • Mr. HAMMER thought that .the was much indebted ioibe Llanied Cendemotir • jeant Lest) attemptio• to make a distinction be.. tiveen the different classes of debtors. He believe,:, 'that, in nine cases out of ten, the creditors were more to be pitied than the debtors. The first clause, proposed by Mr. Serjeant BEcT was then put and negAtived ; anil the second cl was withdrawn.—Adjourned. • 4 I ~. FROM LAST NIGH ["S GAZETTE. ADMIRAITY.OFFICE, DITEMBER 7. COPY OF A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN FARQUHAR, 01' lIIS MAJESTY'S SHIP DMIREE. His Majecti's .i$ Desiree, a Cushaver, Dec. 1. SIR—I have the honour to acquaint you, that the French batteries of Phare and Napoleon hay,• yesler day entered into a capitulation, and this morning surrendered to a detachment of hislmperial Majesty's Russian troops, commanded by Colonel Alexander Radinger, and his Britannic Majesty's Squadron (as per aaargin) under my commend. On theilikh ult. I arrived here (from Bremerkhe) where / found Captain Green, of the Shamrock, had collected the squadron, to co-operate with the Russia* troops. On the same evening, I ordered the gun boats to take a position above Napoleon, and to can. nonade that battery, in concert with the Russian. troops, and advanced the squadron ready to attach Phare (in Cuxhaven). On the 29th a brisk and well-directed fire was kept upon Fort Napoleon by the gun-boats, aid from field-peces from the Russian line, with considerable. effect; and their tirailleurs annoyed the enemy in both batteries by a constant fire of musketry,•which we returned with vigour, and from the battery of Phare red hot shot were fired, which burnt several houses in the town. During this time, we were employed in landing guns from the squadron, and erecting a battery with in four hundred ygrds of the works of Phare. On the morning of•the 30th it was completed, and presented to the enemy a formidable appearance, consisting of 10 guns, viz. six 18-pounders, two 31- pounders, and two 6-pounders. The morning was quite thick, and obscured our works, but as coon as it cleared, and we were ready to commence our at tack, the enemy threw out a truce, which bas ended in the surrender of thew two extremely strong batte ries, consisting of 26 heavy guns, two 13-inch mor. tars, and a blockhouse with a garrison of SOO men and officers, who have bet made prisiners of war. The expedition with which Captains Green and Banks (who had the direction of forming and com pleting the seamen's battery) performed that service, I trust, will speak for itself. Lieutenant Kaultain, whom I had occasion to mention on a recent rccasion, as a volunteer, cona.. nued his services, and with all the officers and men of the squadron, employed on this occasion, merit my best thanks, as well as the gun-boats (under the direction of Lieutenant Hamner), who particularly distinguished themselves, by their well-directed 6i4 and by the injury they did to the enemy's works. I have very great pleasure in stating to you, S;r, that in the last ten days the small 'detachment of Russian troops, commanded by . Colonel Radinger, assisted by his Majesty's squadron undcr my.corn mand, have been tortunate in reducing tour strong batteries, consisting of fifty iseavf guns, (=minter% and eight hundred men and officers. .alT.prisonqxof. , war; and I cannot help expresting the katisfaction which I feel in acquainting you, that the whole.of . this service has been carried on with.tise greatest cor diality between the co-operating forces, both•Mficer? and men ; not the smallest misunclet!taading on any occasion. . . I am extremely happy to state that the loss on this occasion has been very trifling ;—on the part ot the Russians, two killed and three wounded:—we have sustained no loss. • • I have thought it right to forward this clispatca, without delay, by Sir Geo. Keith, in the. Redbreast. who takes to England the officers of Fort PhAre, who are prisoners of war. Two days ago I had the pleasure to learn, that Stadt had been taken possession ot by a Russian de tachment, under the orders of C.lt Strogonoffe. (Signed) Ain iIUR FARQUHAR. These batteries were complete, with provisions of all kinds for six weeks, and a very consider Able quan tity of military stores and ammunition of every de scription. Ts William Young, Esq. Admiral of the White, ate. • Desiree, Shamrock, Blazer, Piercer, Redbreast ; gun-beer, Not. I, 8,3, 1,5, 8, 10. [This Gazette also contains the Proclamation of the Prince of Orange, which appeared iu our Paper of Mouday.] \