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Vie are eoncerned to state that same nistinder. standing seems still to prevail between the civil: power and the military in the presidency of Madras. The decision of the Court Martial, appointed for the ; trials'of Lieutenant-Colonels Dovrton and BILL, And I ot her officers of inferior rank, does not seem to have roved satisfactory to the Commander in Chief on that station, or to the Governor-General. The first of these officers was Aelwaratly acquitted. The Sen tence was sent back to be reVised,• and the Court Martial persisted in thfir former opinion. This de cision, as well as the principles upon which it.was founded. was strongly reprobated by the Comman der in Chief, who recommended to Government that Lieutenant -Colonel DOVETON should be suspended f :oin his military functions, until his case was sub mitted to the Court of Directors, but that he should b e permitted to draw his allowances in the mean time. Lord MINT° has sanctioned what is thus recom. mended, and censured in very strong language the grounds upon which the Court Martial decided. A private letter of the 16th April states, that the General Orders issued on the sentence of the Court MArtial had excited great disgust in all ranks. The President, General WARM, of the Xing's troops, MIL resigned his Staff appointment, and was about to proceed to England. The officers under accusation, who had preferred the alternative of being tried by a Court Martial to quitting the service, had, it was said, in consequence of the orders of Government on Colco-1 rtel DOVETON'a acquittal, requested to be dismissed.' Lord MINT° continued at Madras at the end of Nardi. The Modeste had been dispatched to Cal cutta for General Hawar, who, it was reported, would take the command of the Madras army, until the arrival of Sir S. AUCHMUTY from England. The Governor-General was expected to return to Bengal soon after General HEWITT'S arrival. A large expedition was fitting out at Madras, the destination of which was kept secret. The prevail ing cpinion was, that it 4?'as intended against the Isle of France. Colonel CLosE's army, which had been irrk2 up, after occasioning an immense expence, was ordered to re-assemble. The Niowing documents will put our Readers in possession of the facts that have been suffered to tran pire re,pecting the disputes with the Army : GZTERAL ORDERS, HEAD-QUARTERS Co F THE ARMY, CROULTRY PLAIN, MAIM,' 20,1810. *G. O. BY MAJOR-OMER/Ij, GOWbIE. Further extracts from the proceedings of the Ge iteral Court Martial which assembled at Bangalore on the Ist day of November, 1809, and of which Major-General WAICDE is President, are published to the Army. - Lieutenant-Colonel John Doveton, of the Bth Re giment N. C. and late commanding the detachment of Troops serving at the frontier station of Jaulnah, ordered in arrest by the Officer commanding the Army, on the following charges : CHARGR I.—For conduct subversive of all good order and mi /litsrf discipline, and in breach of the rules and articles of war, for the better government of the Company's forces, by having, in violation of his duty, and the great trust reposed in him, as com manding a most important and critically situated frontier station, shamefully abandoned the post committed to his charge, by moving his detachment from the station of Jaulnah, on the 14th of August last, and with a mutinous and seditious design against the exhting Government of Fort St. George. 2.--Fur having previously to his march used endeavours to stir sp and excite the troops, ander his commond, to join in a mutiny and ;edition against the existing Goveraiment of Fort St. Grow. S.—For having affixed his name to a mutinous and sedidous paper, sated the Dechration, expressive of tint Intentions with Which the force had commenced their march. By Order of Major-Ueneral Gowdle, command* the Array. ?en Sr. Gcorge, (Signed) T. 11. S. CONWAT, 00. 9,1809. Adjutant-General of the Army. SENTENCE AS PASSED ON THE STH FEBRUARY, 1810. The Court are of opinion that the Prisoner, Lieu tenant Colonel John Doveton, is not guilty of the charges preferred against him, and do in the most full And most honourable manner acquit him of all and every part thereof. (Signed) RENZI' WARDE, Major-General and President. W. Oasts sr , Deputy Judge Advocate. REVISED SENTENCE AS PASSED THE 13TH FEB. 1810. The Court, in obedience to the orders of the Officer commanding the Army, having reconsidered the whole of the evidence before them, do not find any reason to alter their former opinion. (Signed) • IZENRY WARDE, ' Major-General and President• Oastsar, Deputy Judge Advocate. The Officer commanding the Army has deeply to lament that he cannot subscribe his approbation to the above sentence ; the Prisoner has rested his de fence on the pretext of having joined the mutiny for. the purpose of preventing the excesses of his But the articles of - war having expressly excluded such plea, it is impossible to warrant an acquittal in apposition of the very letter of the law itself. A second ground of the Prisoner's defence appears' to be a private and confidential letter from Captain Zydenham, the Resident at Hydrabad, recommend ing to Lieutenant-Colonel Doveton to adopt the above Conduct. Advice contrary to law can never consti tute an authority for criminal acts, let it come from 'what quarter it may. But the letter in question was iltogetherunofficial, being marked confidential,' and tot only not reported to Government, but seemingly carefully concealed by both parties from its know ledge until the amen it was produced is Court al a of ifs A Court Martial ma indeed dischirge a Prisoner from legal penalty, but how far the party shall be again employed is a separate question. An Officer who could conceive himself justified in putting him self at the head of mutiny on the mere suggestions of another, or on any pretext whatever, can never in the opinion of Major-General Gowdie be thought fit to be again entrusted with any important command.— He feels himself therefore imperiously called on to recommend to Government, that Lieutenant-Colonel Doveton be removed from the exercise of all military functions until the plealure of the Court of Directors shall be taken on this case, allowing him in the mean time to draw his proper allowances. Lieutenant-Colonel John Doveton is released from arrest. The above order to be read at the head of every Regiment and Battalion on the establishment. GENERAL ORDERS, HEAD QUARTERS OF THE ARMY, CIIOULTRY PLAIN, 21st MAlcit,lBlo. The Right Honourable the Governor-General in Council having addressed the subjoined orders of Major-General Gowdie, commanding the army, to be published to the army, they are accordingly published in military orders. FORT ST..GEOILOR ) 41st MARCR, 115104 G. 0. BY GOVERNMENT. The Officer commanding the army having laid be fore the Governor-General in Council the proceedings `of a General Court Martial on the trial of Lieute- 1 nant-Colonel Doveton, and having recommended that' Lieutenant-Colonel Doveton shall be suspended from the exercise of his military functions, receiving the pay and allowances of his rank, until the Honourable! the Court of Directors shall signify their pleasure upon a case so important and extraordinary; his Lordship in Council has taken the proceedings of the said Court Martial into the most serious consideration, and as well in deference to the recommendation of the Officer commanding the army, as from entire concurrence with his sentiments, has resolved to trans mit the proceedings to the Honourable the Court of Directors by the earliest opportunity. His Lordship in Council is further pleased to order, that Lieutenant Colonel Doveton shall be suspended from the exer cise of his military functions, receiving the pay and allowances of his rank, until the pleasure of the Ho nourable Court shall be known. The Governor-General in Council cannot, without extreme regret, publish to the army a formal dissent from the judgment of a tribunal so much entitled, from the ends and nature of its institution, to respect, as a General Court-Mari d; but no establishment, devised and administered by men, can be exempt from human fallibility, and the consequences which must result from a tacit sanction of the principles on which this erroneous judgment must have been founded, ap pear to the Governor-General in Council so funda mentally subversive of every security which the law has wisely and providently supplied against the greatest danger with which society can be menaced, that all the subordinate considerations of delicacy towards public bodies, or tenderness towards indivi duals, which might properly weigh in ordinary cases, must yield to the higher and paramount duty of pro viding for the permanent tranquillity and safety of the public. The Governor General in Council cannot, therefore/ too distinctly avow his entire concurrence in the sen timents of the officer commanding the army, on the present occasion, and his Lordship in Council will ever acknowledge the deep obligations of the British Empire at large, as well as of this portion of it, to the firmness and energy with which Major General Gowdie has, with personal reluctance, no doubt, but with a manly devotion to his public duty, opposed the establishment of false and unmilitary principles * by withholding his confirmation of a sentence from which *they would hereafter claim support ; and has coup. cted their pernicious tendency by a solemn asser tion of those civil and military tenets which the Le. gislature has, on this branch of our public duties, ex clusively acknowledged, as conformable with the I duster notions of the military character, or compatible with military trust. Those cardinal maxims are, that In every calamitous case Of mitiny or revolt, whether partial or general, or “ on whatever pretext" that monstrous offence may seek to justify itself, the first obligation of every officer or soldier is to oppose its progress by every effort of persuasion. His second is, to separate himself from the guilty ; and the last and most sacred is, to join the standard of his Sove. reign, his employers and his duty, and to strain every nerve of zeal, activity. and courage, in subduing the criminal party. It is in conformity with these just and important principles, and with a lively sense of their powerful and decisive influence on the discipline of armies and safety of the State, that the Governor General in Council has deemed it expedient and necessary to adopt the firm and judicious adviie of the Officer com manding the army, and to poitpone the indulgence of personal disposition and every other inferior motive to the more sacred care of providing in an extraordi nary conjuncture for the interests and security of the public. _ By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General in Council. (Signed) A. FAx.coma.a, Chief Secretary to Govt. Di order of Major-General Gowdie, gookinsodias the Army. I.; I, IMPAL brit La - CE Net . PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER. 4. • Arrived the Active cutter, Flom Morlair, with a Messenger and dispatches ; the Ofturgs gap, from a cruize; and ESPIEGLE sloop, from Torbay.—S4iled the Mary privateer, on a cruize ; the Coisacic sloop, to the Westward; the ELIZA impress tender, for Swansea ; and a Cartel, with dispatches for Morlaix. The STEADY gun-brig sailed again last evening to rejoin her convoy.—At six this morning, a fleet of merchantmen and transports passed by this port from Oporto, under convoy of the HARPY, of 18 gnus, Captain S. BLAMEY.—The passengers by the Ame rican ship brought in yesterday by the Mary priva teer, consist of 13 distinct families, with their property and effects, from the Isle of France, for Bourdeaux. The Mary belongs to Messrs, ALDER and Co. mer chants, of Plymouth. PORTSMOUTH, SEPT': S. Arrived the RAPID and Pun.Ps schooners froth a cruize, RIFLEMAN from Ireland, and the WTI/TYING schooner from Lisbon. Last night sailed a large copper-bottomed transport, under convoy of the PORT MAHON brig, laden with ammunition, &c. au. on a short expedition for the North of Spain. Sailed his Majesty's ships LEOPARD for Chatham, PENELOPE fot Plymouth, FORTUNE, * Admiral FREEMANYLE, for Cadiz.and the Mediterranean, and the BAREADOES man of war, for the East-Indies ; the FIRM gun-brig has sailed with a convoy for the Dowlbs.—Wind W. DEAL, SEPTEMBER S. :Arrived his Majesty's ship HORATII with the EAitr. WWII, CHARLES GRANT, LADY LUSHINGTON, and the SIRWILLIAM PULTE..EY, East Indiamen, under convoy ; also arrived the Pedro de Millo from Rio Janeiro • and the Experiment, Dona% from New South *ales, and are sailed for the River.—Wind S. S. W. SHEERNESS, SEPTEMBER S. Sailed the ATTACK gun-brig, with a transport for Heligoland, having Government stores and provi sions on board ; and the ACUTE, to Yarmouth.— Arrived the ACTIVE cutter, from the Downs. This day the crew of the MACEDONIA, Captain Lord FITZ ROY, at the Nore, was paid wages, and will sail in a day or two. YARMOUTH, SEPTEMBER S. Arrived the HEARTY gun-brig, Lieutenant WICK.. DAM, from a cruize, during which she has made se veral captures. Sailed the MANLY gun-brig, on a cruize ; and remain the ROEBUCK, ABOUKIR, CHAN TICLEER, and VIXEN gun-brig, and HAWKE cutter. One, P. M.—The BELVIDERE and NEMESIS frigates are arrived, and have brought in a privateer (schooner) captured in the Baltic.—Wind W. N. W. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVESEND, Ser•r. s.—Arrived the Duke of Savoy, Iralrwater, from Quebec. Sailed the John Watson, --, for New-York; and the Princess of Wales, Metcalf, for Prince Edward's Island. AMSTERDAM, AUGUST 25. On the 20th, the Vengentr du Continent privateer, carried Into the Tezel a vessel frem St. Michael, J. G. H4rtke, master. On the Ist, was carried into A iiihurg, the Mary and Betty brig, sailing under Prussian colours, but actually belonging to bl..ry port, in New England, W. l'hornburn master.- She was bound from Halinstadt to Liverpool, with a cargo of timber On the 4.h was carried into the same, the Nimrod, Smith, bound from New York for Elsineur, with a cargo of coffee, sugar, &c. The Vigilantie, J. IL Master, of Bergen, arrived in the Tezel on the 20th, a prize to the French pinnaces the Heise and Ha 'canna's. Oa the 19th, the Passepartout French privateer, cap tured and carried into 'Terscheiling, the Elias en Johannes, P. Spui, master. According to letters from Riga of the Ist inst. the following vessels have been released from detention, viz. the Bergeseren, J. F. Welgehs; Cupid, J. C. Hansen; Speculation, P. J. Eber hard ; Elizabeth, N. A. Hultin ; Christina, John Gaaren ; Die Gute Hoffnung, J. H. Busch ; Jurgen Dreyeu, P. M. Theusen. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. The East India Company's ship Swallow, for the capture of the Dutch ships at St. Helena, June 1795 will be paid on the Ist of October, at the East India House, and there recalled on the first Monday of every month for three years. • The Kite, for the capture of the Britons, August 29, 1807, on the 14th Inst. at No. 93, Norfolk-street, Street, and there recalled on Tuesdays and Fridays fir three months. The Musquito, for she detention of the Fortuna, October 21, 1809, on the 7th instant, as above, and recalled on Tuesdays and Fridays for three months. The Kite, for the capture of the Jonge Regnier Wolft, April 10,1806, on the 12th Instant, et No. 9, New Broad-street, and there recalled en Tuesdays and Fridays for three months. The Comm, for the Frederickswaern, captured August 14, 1607, at No. 3, Brick-court, Temple, and there recalled. The Emerald, for the Incomparable, captured October 8,1809, and Fanfaron, Nov. 5,1809, at No. 67, Fore-street, Plymouth- Dock, and there'rerailled on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The Daedalus and Goelen, for the captute of the Hector, Otto. bee 16, 1887, at No. 3, Philpot-lane, and there recalled. • The Tweed, for the capture of the Antoinette, Sept. 30, ISO; will be paid as above, on Tuesdays aal Fridays. The Inconstant, for the Vitibeirnitia Catherine detained Sept. 4, 1807, at N.. 11, Cecil-street, on the B th Instant, and there recalled. The Cerberus and Prometheus, for the Waffer and Nicholas Murioff, captured July 24 and.2s, 3809, will be paid as above. The Cockatrice, for the Die Perle and George, detained Aug. 98, 1807, will be paid as above. The Snipe, for the St. Johanna, captured Sept. 2, 1807, at No. 3, Lion's Inn, and there recalled. The Alert, for the Twee Gebruders, Fortuna, and Concordia, - - -- _ - and ed April 5, 1569, at Nb. 2, Jim...street, Adelphl„ reealled. The Kite, fur the Neptunus, captured May 8, 1809, on the 14th instant, at N 0.23, Norfolk-street, Strand, and there recalled. The Spartan, for the Ellen, captured June 10, 1807, on board, at Plymouth, and recalled at No. 9, Austin Friars, London. The Plover, for la Boheinienne, captured October 1!, 1807, on her arrival, at Mr. Greeuway's, Plymouth, and there recall * for three months. The Royalist, for le Prince Eugene, captured Feb. 23, 1810, so the 14th inst. and recalled at No. 83, Norfolk-street, strand, for three months. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India-House, when Messrs. RALPH and THOMAS WESTROPP, merchants, were appointed the Company's Agents at Limerick, in the room of Mr. DE14)116 .-LYONS. The following are the Passengers aErived in the last East India ships PLR CIIARLES GIANT — Mrs. Pendergast, Mrs. Mousier, Mrs. Forbes, Mrs. Hungerford, Miss Ashburner, Mr. Pender. grit, Mr. - Howler, Major Lloyd, Honourable Company's ser• vice; Captain Horton, his Majesty's astii Regiment; Lieutenant Lewis, Royal Navy; Captain Hodson, Honourable Company's Artillery; Lieutenant Hays, his Majesty's sash Regiment; Mr. Clarke, Paymaster, ditto; Mr. Maitland, Master, Royal Navy; Mr. Scott, Surgeon, ditto; Mr. Balues.—Children, Miss Pander gast, Miss Paulina ditto, Miss Helen Elisabeth Houner, Miss Fanny ditto, Miss Mary Hamilton, Miss Catharine Forbes, and Miss Catharine Hungerford; Masters—Thomas Hungerford, John Hungerford, Henry Vigers Hamer, Charles Forbes Houner, Charles Fitzgerald, Guy Pendergast, George Money, and George Forbes. Pca LADT LINIRINGTON—Lady Seaton. Psi EARL Hewa—Sir B. Sullivan, Captain and Mr.. Brow, Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins, from Bombay, liko (Eva 44 limagm PaalVaTlMlT+4llkilla . Seio •• • 1111. T Hit Majesty's big Cron., Cope fit,ram lb& 'Mouth, in 30 oays, arrived here yes t erday with the rep coad June mail His Eicellency MajOr-Geotral Mait land, Governor of Grenada, came passenger in this vessel, and proceeds in her this day for his Govern. Ment ; after which the brig goes on to Jantaica.... rCaptain Taynton, Aide de Camp, is with the General. The St. Christopher sloop of war and Grouper bri gantine, from Martinique, arrived on Sunday. Same day, the ship Amelia, from Madeira, bound to Anti. gua, pissed this anchorage. The Ringdove sloop of war sailed this morning 'for GU 'loupe, with the naval dispatches brought o .t by the Crocus ; and the Swaggerer, with the homeward-bound trade, viz.—the Olive Branch for London ; Severn, for Bristol ; Mary, for Cork ; and Betsey, for Dublin—are now proceeding to sea, to touch at St. Vincent and Grenada, fin the gene. ral rendezvous. The :hp Watt, from Liverpool,bonnd to Point 4. Iletre, Ga idaloupe, is reported to 'lave been upset is heavy sqinill off that port, and five of her crew t• have perished. JuLv 28. —His M. lesty's sloop cf war Frolic, tiom Sr. Lucia, arriv e d here on Wednesday ; and this morning arrived, from the same place, the Mouche army schooner—the former with the Gloist and Peruvian men of war, and the latter with id Emma, Teazer, and Maria army vessels, remain 4 Ibis anchorage. The ship Irlam, 36 days from Liverpool, arrived yesterday. -On Thursday, the Irlam fell in with IS sail olAmericin vessels, to windward of this island. The brig Eliz i Henry, of North Carolina, s.ruck off Needham's Point, about one (*lock oil Thurs. Jay, and hang on until midnight ; but received in. start and most active assistance from the Gloire. and was then got off and brought to anchorage. through the zealous exertions of Lieut. Church, &IS of that ship. The hurricane season may be fairly said to be now set in ; the weather being, since four o'clock this morning, to the present hour, (three P. M.) boisterous and threatening. The vessels in the Bay ride very hard at their anchorage, a strong sea running, and the wind freshening and varying from the S. E. to the S. W. being almost direct In shore. One small sloop has parted and gone ashore in the bite of the bay; but the danger does not alto. ;ether appear either immediate or imminent to then in general. BRIDGETOWN, JULY 11. His Excellency Sir George Beckwith (our long. nominated Governpr) may now momentarily be es. petted. The Mouche army schooner, precursor of his voyage, having arrived this morning from Saint Lucia, from whence Sir George writes his Hon= . he President, under date the 16th inst. that he has the satisfaction to acquaint him that he intends leave nig that island on the following evening (yesterday) .0 his Majesty's ship Pearlen, for this island, and ho ped to reach Carlisle Bay soon after the Presider received hit letter. In consequence of this information, his Honor* the President has commanded the Troop of Life Guards and the Royal Regiment of Militia to hold themselves in readiness to receive the Governor with the accustomed Colonial honours; and Colonel Je. nett, of the Guards, that the corps may be timely apprized of this order, has presented this notifica• don to them, and that he expects a full and punctual attendance. KINGSTON, JAMAICA, JULY 21. The Brazen sloop of war t of 18 guns, Capt. Ship heard, arrived on Sunday, from Bermuda. The Corporate body of this city has passed an al.. dinance, to take effect from the Ist of August next, relative to the meetings of slaves in this city and pa. risk ; and imposing a severe penalty on persons hiring out huts, yards, rooms, and other places, to slaves; and permitting them to assemble therein during the night ; such places having often been used for unlaw. Ifni purposes, and become a refuge and receptacle foe thieves, idle and runaway negroes, and other dime. ' derly persons. The Lady Coote sailed from Port Glasgow on the 31st of May, and on the 14th ult. spoke the Helene sloop of war, of 18 guns, Captain Worth, and learnt 'that they had retaken the ship Janet, Warden, that sailed from this port on the 30th of March for Glas. ,gow : she had been captured by a French privateer schooner three days previous, and was steering direct for France. The Helena was in quest of the privy. teer, and had sent the Janet into port. On the 12th instant, to windward'of Antigua, she spoke the Raven sloop of war, of 18 guns, Captain Black, which sailed from Port Royal on the I Ith ult. as convoy to the Windsor Castle packet. Let ters from the packet, forwarded in the Lady Coot' by the Racoon, were received on Wednesday in this city, which state that they had a Yeti pleasant and uick passage so far, and made Crooked Island eight days after leaving port. The Dasher touched at Grenada and Martinique. 'Ai the first-mentioned island, she learnt that there were some small piratical vessels, manned by Spa niards and Frenchmen, cruising off the coast of West Florida, and that they bad taken several vessels. At the last island she understood that American produce was very abundant, and selling at reduced prices, in consequence of the great number of Americans that had arrived there. The brig Elk, of 18 guns, Captain Coghlan, from Havannah, arrived since our last : she brought in with her the ship Holland, one of the Beet that sailed from Portsmouth under the convoy of the Hyperion frigate, but which was run away with and carried into Havannah by the crew, after having murdered the Captain and the Mate. Five of the matinee's arrived in the Elk. two of whom were committed - to gaol, to take their trial at a Court of Admiralty Sessions. THUNDER Sroasse.—Ws may expect from there. sent suitor state of the atmosphere, and consequent accumulation of electric fluid, that it will not pass off without more storms, accompanied by thund et likhtning ; and it it certain that on the 19th of Nese Month, there will be a rides show." indeed the five Tweniy Thousand Pound ,Prizes to be drawn on that day have already tkitrAti the whole body of siva*. tures& - j . • 4.: - •*' 1