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THE INQUtRt MINUTES OF FVIDENCE. THIRD DAY, FEBRUARY 6. ; r g en r.lbged, on Saturday, to omit part of Mr. itiNIGN r't; evidence, we now insert it entire.] Ne ts KNIGHT, Esq. Inspector General of Army E N . o i w k, e eas called in.—Examined by the Committee. .. er : von consulted respecting the nature and the ,f the Wolcheren Malady before the sailing of Expedition ?—No, I do not recollect any question e kind. ere you consulted on that subject at any subse t per i o d, and when ?—I do not recollect being :r ated tor that purpose ; there was an order sent 7r e of the medical department to go to "Walcheren ; %%Its the only thing I know of; it did not fall : a m y province. e ydu acquainted with the nature of the Wal ,n disorder, and the period at which it regularly s ?—I am acquainted with it by having read Sir Pringle's book ; that is the only knowledge I of i t; and kilowing what the nature of remitting here is in the fenny grounds, I apprehend the vzo f it is similar to the epidemic of the fenny p y places in this country, aggravated perhaps : h e n umber of men assembled together ' • but this a k merely from reason in g from it, not from any rience in my official situation ; it does not fall hi „ La y province as Inspector-General ; the medi queition properly belongs to the Physician-General. l. wa s, however, known to you before the sailing of Expedition, that at that se: son of the year an wou ld be liable to that disorder in the Island of a kheren ?—Certainly. l'ere the hospitals in the island of Walcheren at ador your inspection, or did you receive reports ?—Not in the least ; it did not belong to - • Ing the triga4e, tuft ait . . •. . from the army. • - Have you now witted your Satiation is Surgeon to that regiment ?—Yes t I have not been for years. Was it by word H of mouth nor by letter, that those representations you have stated Fere made to the Se cretary at War, of the impossibility of procuring Hospital Mates for the service in Walcheren ?—I said I could not speak particularly to dates, nor was I certain that after the business of Walcheren it had been so ; but I rather thought it was about An gust or September, but I spent from recollection only. If it was made, it was a written one ' • but I beg to speak with distrust of myself here, because I speak entirely from memory, but with an anxiety to answer any questions put to me. If any representation of that find was made, it must have been by letter ?—Yes ; but I beg not to commit myself to its having keen made ; but on ma. ny occasions before I have done it ; and indeed, oak letter in the Fifth Report of the MilitaryCommissioa ers will show that I have particularly noticed the dif ficulties I had to encounter. 'Do you recollect when the first application was made to you after the Ist of September, for an addi. tional number of Hospital Mates for Walcheren ? ff I recollect right, different requisitions were receiv ed, and as fast at we could provide them they were sent.—[The Witness was directed to withdraw.] The Chairman was directed to report progress, and ask leave to sit again. re:e the articles. such as bedding, furnished to hospitals, furnished from your department, or you any connection with it ?—I had no connec with it. Have you any knowledge of the state of the sick returned from Walcheren now in this country ? returns came to me in the course of office. They are not in point of fact under your care or rintendance ?—Not abroad. Those that have returned from Walcheren ? se that have returned have not been under my natendance further than as regimental sick. Tin have stated that a letter was received* at the d of which you were a Member, directing that of that Board should repair LI Walcheren I state date of that letter, and by whom it was signed ?. coot recollect the date, but I believe, and take for ed. it was signed by the Commander in Chief, casenitted through the War Office in the usual you Rive that informatien on a future day ?- fllt t certainly. were any applications made to you to provide a er of Hospital Mates for the Island of Walche ?—There were requisitions made: Di you meet Vith any difficulty in providing a icietu number of Hospital Mates to meet the de mi; of the service N...-I found great difficulties, not :iy in finding them for the service of Walcheren, 3t many (idler destinations. Was an , : additional pay offered by you, in order to :lice perms competent to undertake the office of .7.r,spital Mates, to embark for Walcheren ?—There as none. Have yon any reason to believe, that by an offer additional pay more Hospital Mates could have sn procured cannot speak to that, not having ad it ; but many statements have been made of the piculties and the obstacles in obtaining them ; I i itte represented upon several occasions the great Vdtia of the lower order of Medical Staff, and have ointed out some of the causes of it, which perhaps et not within our reach ; whether any additional ay wouM have done I cannot say, I had no autho- to offer it. Did you state in consequence of the difficulty of ~ iding Hospital Mates for the service in \\riddle- i to any superior authority . , and to whom, the iiculty you found in so procuring them ?.--I can from memory say whether I did upon that spe -1 occasion, though Prather think J did, but upon y others I have ; I rather think I did urn that Faun. !With whom would you in your official capacity. tosoct business 'upon a question of that kind ?- Ith the Secretory at War. Was the Secretary at War apprised of the difficulty 1 providing Hospital Mates for the service in Wal , in the month of September ?—I cannot speak date, but I believe there was some communi- • made upon the subject ; hut by reference to the keort of the Military Commissioners, a letter of trio this subject may be found, I think in Au °'t Or September ; but coming down suddenly for setamination I have no means of giving more pre. infilmatien. Afte r the pressing demands arrived from Walche. for additional Hospital Mates, was any particular • :ttmade upon fiat special service to any superior ...gooty ?—t will not take upon me positively to Ir It Vas upon that special occasion, though I rather ...tve it, because the same wants existed in Porto in Sicily, and in the West Indies, and we were to divide our medical strength as we could, ,:ording to the exigencies of the service. p r o you believe that if you had been enabled to offer ...odo:kal pay, it would have been in your power to 4 . 1- e procured m ore H os pit a l M a te s for the service of .voicheren do not feel myself competent to say L'Galdi because I think there are many other con 'rations which weighed against the obtaining a - ; 4 6 rot number of inferior Medical Officers ; how . wntild have answered I cannot say ; but 7 ra .l.: (look it, on account of the known sickness of the -`mate and the mortality that followed it. la Point of fact, you were not furnished with any !it%raorclinary me ans o f procuring Hospital Mates, to t the extraordinary demands made by the disor 4, that prevailed at Walcheren was not, to the of my recollection. ,"u have been Surgeon to one of the regiments of was , , 1 ? whom are the returns made of the state of the "cc is the three r e • of Guards l'en at home ? regimentslV 1 hey are made to the pective Commanding Of. c s'l'f fie regiments, a nd to the officers command- . .'• ;r • " • Willi' OF itaioi sualg. *CIL The Antiwar Ginitaal. obciassist a rdie aaf lora Criminal Intorniation agaierst a Cifent!eman of the Pottle of Joseph Ratcliffe; gsq. a Magistrate of York shire, for refusing to hear a eo*nplaint in a case of 'Meting, whereby the advice *at injured. • " On the motion of Mr. Jams, a native of Sweden was breught up on a return to A Habeas Corpus, to be discharged. But it appearing that he had been taken on board- a French privateer, and volunteered his services to his Majesty's Navy, oil tottdition of being liberated from prison, he was remanded batk to his ship. Mr. Scatuarr said, he had instructions to. Move fot leave to file a criminal information against Magis trates, whom he would not, for the present, name, but he mentioned the matter now o lest he should be told next term, that he should have brought the mat ter forward sooner. He could not move it now, on account of a defect in the jurat of the affidavit ; and as It ,must go down again to Pembrokeshire, where the transaction arose on which the mocha ewes ke grounded, it would be impossible to Move k dals term, and he hoped to have leave now to move ttrptt term ; for the general rule.was, not to aßovilany mo tion to be made against a Magistrate, if a,term intervened between the thing complained of and till application. Lord EGLENBOROUGH.-•.“ ,XOll cannot make your motion in this term, and in the next you will be too late."-Leave refu sed. By a mistake of our Rephrter; in 'the STAIt of last Wednesday, Mr. KNIGHT was called Apothecary Ge neral to the Army, instead of Inspector General. The former office is a sinecure. Mr. KNIGHT, on the con trary, has employed the incessant labour of many years in cleaning the Augean Stable of much abuse and corruption. He has saved thousands and tens of thousands to the State ; and whenever he retires from his present situation, the Public will lose the services of a most able, zealous, indefatigable, disinterested character. Lady CATHERINE ANNESLEY is shortly to be led to the Hymeneal Altar, by the Right Honourable Lord BOLTON. 1 On Saturday the dispatches were finally closed at the East India House and delivered to the Pursers of the under-mentioned ships, viz. Alfred, Captain Martin, Woodford, Captain Welstead, Ma dras and China. _FJphinstone, Craig, Bombay and China. PASSZNGEIts part ALP RED—For Bengal, Mr. Montague Ainslie, 'writer; Mr. Allen, Cadet. For Madras, Messrs. J. H. Pybus amid R. Anderson, writers ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Andersen ; Mrs. M. C. Kinchant, Mrs. A. Handley, Miss L. 11. Plestow, Mr. H. fallarton, Mr. Butts, and Mr. Dtfnmore, cadets ; Mr. J. Bird, free mariner; Mr. J. H. Counter, free mer:hant ; Mr. W. and Miss Counter. For Prince of Wales's Island, Mr. W. Bennctt, writer; Mr. J. Mannington. PASSE:MLR% PER Woooloan—For Bengal, Mr. J. Robertson, cadet. !or Madras, Major B. Dud, Mr C. Teasdale, free mer chant ; Mrs. Teasdale ; Mr. W. Nunn, flee mariner ; Mrs. J. Armstrong; Messrs. Pulley, Slade, Walker, Montgomerie and Grienslaw, cadets. Pi IMENGZILS PER Ecvnittstoert —For Bombay, Mr.H.Mor gan, surgeon ; Mr. J. Levingston, free mariner ; btr.W.A.cmitb, Mr. R. B. Macklin, and Messrs. G. Grant. Reynolds, Goodburn, . and Still, marines; Messrs- Clark, Mason, and Williamson, ELOPESIHNT.—An elopement has taken place which reside s. will make a very considerable noise. The elegant Mist '1 PRISONERS OF Walt.—We have the pleasure to state, ELWES, daughter of GEORGE ELWES, Esq. eloped with that in consequence of a petition lately presented to a young clergyman of Oxford, of the name of Dui the French Minister of Marine, at Paris, all the fish- p i gj a ki w ho • ed in theplot teas assist ermen belonging to Hastings, who were captured by tlemeit of the cloth, on Wednesday morning last - • the memy at the commencement of hostilitie s , .Have Mr. ELwEs is, perhaps, the richest ready-monied corn-1 been released, and have returned to their native moner in England. She is under age, but was not country, (except one, who is daily expected.) mit - di a Ward of Chancery. The plan of elopement Friday morning Mr. Abraham Goldsmid was at. was devised by three clerical gentlemen: .One of tacked by an over-driven bullock in Fenchurch-street. them, under pretence, of paying .his addresses ton 1 The furious animal first threw him down, and then lady on a visit.to Mrs. ELwxs, contrived to be re- i attempted to gore him. Fortunately some passengers ceived into the family in the character of her lover, came to his assistance, and released him from his pe- white he was treated with the utmost respect; and rilous situation, but not until Mr. Goldsmid had re- this give him opportunities of arranging the matter ceived several con:asions on the back part of the for his friend Mr. DUFFIELD. On Wednesday mbrn head. We are happy, however, to find none of them ing he prevailed on Mrs. ELwEs to accompany his are attended with danger. Mr. Rous, who was in own intended wife a shopping ; and in their absence; 4 company with Mr. Goldsmid, wasalso knocked down, he handed with the utmost openness, Miss ELWES to and received some trifling bruises. The bullock next the door, near'which a chaise and four was drawn up. directed his course towards the city ; and after creat• He met Mr. ELWES in the hall, who asked them ing considerable alarm, and doing infinite mischief, he where they were going; she was without a hat or was thrown down in Watling-street by ropes, killed, bonnet, and sajd she was only going to her mamma, and conveyed to a slaughter-house. who was waiting for only g reverend gentleman Some days snce as Mr. BROWN , of Ark Hall , n ear p roceeded with her, placed her in the chaise, by the Coventry, was walking in his grounds, he discovered side of her gallant, and returned to the house with the a person in woman's apparel, in apparent distress : utmost unconcern. Mr. Etwes had enquired in the on inquiry he was told she had lost her way, was tir- mean time, how long Mrs. ELWES had been out, and ed, hungry, and destitute. Mr. BROWN humanely seeiagher conductor i eturn, inquired where his daugh took her to his house, and the night coming on, de.. ter was. The clergyman, with perfect rang froid, told sired that she might be accommodated with a bed, him he had delivered her to the man destined to make and ordered his servants to make up some clothes for ber happy ; and that she was off to Gretna Green, 'her. One of the maids was employed in this service ' where he advised him to follow, and assist in the ce after the rest of the family and the stranger had re- remony. The distress of Mr. ELWe,S, and still more tired to bed, when soon after she was alarmed by the of Mrs. ELwES, on her return, may be conceived. footstep of their new guest on the stairs. The girl They both set off in a poit-chaise and four, on the ran into a closet adjoining the kitchen, and saw the north road; but we believe they proceeded no farther stranger enter, and take from her clothes a dagger than 'St. Alban's, where mit having beard the least and a pair of pistols, which she laid on the table, and account of their route, they resolVed to return ; and liben opening the door communicating with the yard, yesterdayno tidings hadbeenneceitectofthehappy pair. "dialed, doubtless to bring others of the gang. The A very alarming Riot took place at Gravesend on girl at this instant sprang from the closet, shut the Thursday, which was renewed on the following day. door, and alarming the family, prevented the rob- The following particulars have been received, but we bery which was intended. The pistols, it is hoped, hope the statement will prove tole an exaggeration will lead to the detection of the owner, who appears of the facts : to have been a man in female attire. .6 A party of Artillery Drivers, about 14 or 14 in amber, from the barracks at Northfieet, came into the town Lae at i 2t di Bow-syterr.—SaturdayJoteph Alders, a well known armed, some with bludgeons, and others with swards, character, was brought before Mr. GRAHAM, charged by two or three corporals, and paraded about in a most limos with attempting to commit a most daring robbery. It manner. They first attacked a feeble old man, whose WIN et tothe tide-bell, and beat him so dreadfully that his lifmls et appeared that on Saturday, as the carriage of Miss Robinson, of Thorpe-green, near Boroughbridge, was pr y considered in danger. They then proceeded all sorts of violence in every part oldie town through = passing through Little St. Martin's-lane, conveying passed, striking at every person they met. The girls L. Miss R. from the country, on a visit to Mr. Sergeant become gineral, many of the inhabitants, ksaigod by ii i mii duo. Ons Low and his Lady, at their house, in Spring-gar- termen belonging to the piace s attae.ked and.... dig 4 =sata out of the town. The remainder of the nlOlllllllll4 dens, her trunk, at the back of the carriage , was at disturbance. On Friday. morning skew MOM de dill linden tacked in the most daring manner by the prisoner, were brought before the Mayor at the Town-Hall, and are row who was observed by several witnesses to take a large in safe custody. One of them, a corporal, appeared to have been knife from his pocket, open it, and begin to cut the the ringleader, and on have stimulated the others to acts of l e t. n ye : . , the extent of which is not yet ascertained. On. Friday straps of the trunk. Information was given to the tag a patty of soldiers entered the town, assemblid round coachman and an alarm having been given, the psi- the cage where they were confined, and threatened to rescue them. soner ran off. However, one of the patrole happening A renionstrance from one of the inhabitants was answered by a to be passing at the time, assisted in the pursuit, an torrent of . oaths and curses. At this. time the market hall rung, an alarm was raised, and the people flew to the spot like ,Jigkt he was at length secured. . ning ; one soldier was seized, and the others immediately took to Amsden, one of the patrole, and Homer, both flight. But they were pureuel by the inhabitants, who, knowing proved the prisoner having been convicted, about 12 the shortest way towards Nerthffeet, intercepted the Wilson is months since as nreputed thief, under the Police Act. thatoute, and brought back about is or 14 of,alietnat trial:vie asnd, and delivered than into the *ands of the civil Mr. GRAHAM conv;cted him again, under the same power. They are alknow guarded by about.%) spiel sonstrbier Act of Parliament ; and i f this conviction is confirmed who were sworn to for the parpopird OR Friday night at ten he will be subject to two years im p ri- o'clock , a party 9 f,tiee Cobham Yee unassisted by tl:e and - by the Sessions, sontnent. • , • • • lay of 41r town, had fawned a guard , andenteced en dlity. l l ; . sailli ' . . . • FEB. 10.—The Court was applied to for a Habeas Corps to bring up the body of Elizabeth Baylis, an infant, between the age of 20 and 21 years. k.was stated, that in December, 1809, Miss Baylis had gone to Kingsbridge for the recovery of her health ; that she had been followed there by a naval Officer of the name of Langden a distant relative of the family, who, after some solicitation, prevailed on her to elope with hiin. The application was now made, that she might be•brought back and restored to her family. Lord ELLENSOROUGH conceived, that as no com pulsion appeared to have been used in the elopement, it was not in his competence to grant the order. It could not be required that the Court should grant its Ha/mu whenewr a man and woman walked away to gether. ADMIRALTY COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, MONDAY, YCICUARY S. This day the Right Hon. Sir WILLIAM &Orr pro tteded to the adjudication of the following cases : Junge Jan, Dicker; Twe Gesusters, Hofher; Noitgedaght, Alberts.—These lighters with cargoes taken fros t vessels trading under licences, were captured by and of his Majesty's cruisers.— I Cargoes restored, and captor's essences, costs, Ste. deferred. I Twee Gebroeilers, de Boer.-- this vessel, under Papenburgh I colours, laden with pitch and tar, was captured near the Dutch coast.—Further proof ordered. , 1 Rapid, Plenting.—Tbis v . isseel was under American colours, laden with colonial produce—The Court after giving Its opinion on the question of property, directed the attendance of 1 unity Iklasters as to the situation the ship was found iu at the time of I capture. • . k to • • tilt LAtit tit JAW 4iiiiiiteiti PHYSICIIdr-011041tRAI.,111ADRAs. .t . . The whole life or-this eitibeildY iiheful and vette-. tinted character, of which nearly 50 yearsl 4 4o spent most honourably in the service of the Cordtlitly, wag one continued course of the Most ardent acid active • benevolence. Dri ANDEMON commenced his Medical career id the COMpeny's" land service at the siege of Manilla; and. Was afterwards placed in situations of the greatest trust and responsibility,. during the subsequent arAu bus•Wars and severe service, which established The British dominion in - the peninsula ;in all'whieh rime he was the friend and companion of die renowned eh:trailers, who then commanded the Company's ar- Mies. His anxious kindness ter, he sick, hit *Mimic i ted exertions, his general philantlitopy and nobleness of mind gained him universal esteem: . He was called to Madras in 1771, as nne of the Presidency Surgeon* the best situation the . Gover nment could then give him ; in 1781 he became klead Surgeon; and hi 1786 he was placed at the head of. the Medical Board, with the title of Physician Ge neral, an honorary distinction subsequently ordered to be discontinued, but which, from regard to' his merit and services, he was allowed to retain during • his life. ' . Polsessing an ardent desire for scie' rice, a sound • judginent, and very retentive memory, he was al 4 4ays I thankful for books, as he could seldom find sufficient • to occupy his mind ; of 37hich he frequently cum= plained. He thus acquired much general and usefril knowledge, as is evinced by the extensive printed cor respondence he carried on from 1786'611 his death. On his voyage to India, having witnessed the' greatest distress at sea from scurvy, and haying at terwatds seen.the height of human - misery from fa mine, during !'hose's invasion of the Carnatic, these occurrences made strong and lasting impreisions on his mind, arid led, in a great measure,' to his nutne rous .. publications on 'a variely of important subjects connected with the general improvement of the Com pany's poisesSions, and calcrilated to promote the comfort and happiness of the inhabitants, and to pi.- vent the recurrence of such dreadful evils. His naive thus became universally known, and was never men% tioned by the natives but with respect and reverence ; they looked upon him as their father and their friend . These publications, printed and circulated at hi: own expellee, will best bespeak the warmth and be • nevolence of his heart, and prove that in the attain ment of whatever-could benefit his species, no labour or cost was spared. His letters on the Cow Pox,.and those on the use and culture of the Nopal, of -wine t he made extrusive plantations for : the public benefit, thew the enthusiasm of his mind in pursuit of such -. objects ; deeming them religious obligations, they at times absorbed his whole attention : the benefits al ready produced will stamp him;; benefactor of men kind. . • Always eminent" in his profeltion, kind and . it- tractive in his manners, with generally a great flow of spirits, he was long courted and adored. . A . i etranger to deceit himself, he. could with difficUlty be liersuaded of. its . existence 'in Others, and' therefore 'apoke his sentiments freelyesn'all occasions, without •• ing to offend. Liberal•hi. all his actions, and "Vabove every selfish passidni he was aver the pa tronesaid encnurager.cd mexit--rhis purse arid his best eisdeavoars were ever-ready to telieve distress., • : ~. . Nitta mind thus noble, - generous,and-htnnane; his. • PerW -'' n and deportment were graceftiraiict di*itifild ; • his countenance comely and . interesting; i his keen, . expressive, benevolent eye spoke to every feeling hear*: ' • 'Hospitable in the extreme, his house was constantly • .... the asyluin of sickness,'df friendship, and ofceing,rfieti -.• • • on their first arrival in the cquatry. .His . able sti 4- .: almost always crowded, and who that has ever iVit: , ..: ..,:., nested* it can forget the' kind welcome - and , happy ,-• , nest that prevailed, - with thepleagatit, sport% tn- - •,' structive argument,Of which he.was so fond ! Happy withiq himself, his mind admirably well re- , I gulated, seldom allowing his temper to be ruffled, of even old habits to continue, when deemed improper, he attained his seventy-second year r . with a 'remark , • • able flow of health and spirits, when he 'wit suddenly i attacked with a disorder in his bowels, whfch, On the • 6th of August last, terminated his invaluable life. In his last moments he expiessed much g ratitudd for the anxious solicitude shewn by the settlement tor . his recovery. His strong mind and amiable qualities never forsook him. 1 To those who knew him, this will appear but a r s e a a p n u d blic great mi man. sfor ~ -The fele l and o ss o f i m so pe s r u f pe e c r t i s o k r e a t c h ch o a f ra th c i character tune, and will be most severely felt. Natura Jima valere, et mends viribus excitari, et quasi einodam divine spiritu affiari.—Cicato. 1 He was interred with military honours. The Union 'flag was hoisted in the fort half mast high, And minute guns were fired during the mournful proces- • sion, from his garden house to the burial ground.— - , His remains 'were attended to their last home by a ' detachment of the Royal Artillery, and his Majesty's : •••• Royal Regiment.. The coffin was carried by artil- lery-men, and the pall bearers were the Honourable • • 1 Sir THOMAS STRANGE, Chief Justice, Sir B. SULLIVAN, the three Members of Council , the Comman der in, I Chief, and Dr. BERRY, as chief mourner. I The p r ocession was closed by a large concourse of all . ranks, Europeans and natives , anxious by this public, though mournful testimony, to shew their respect and veneration for departed worth. A meeting of the Medical Officers at the Presi dency was held soon after Dr. ANIJERSON'S death, to consider the most effectual means for etecting * I suitable monument tubs memory; and it being stated i . ' that the settlement at• large had it already in con templation to enter into i general subscription for that • purpose, it was resolved to intite the Medical Gentle' men on ble Coast Establishment, to join in in:thing:: l up the sum 'one thousand guineas, as their propor.. lion towards the general contribution. , -------,... • • • . - . Tuesday night, atom twelve o'clock, the ita t eheiiii of Klause Saimaa and cob 'hosiers, in Wood4treet, - .Cheapside, .was attempted to be broke open; but' the famkr. beinialarzned, the thievea,deaisted out rah 4 §unday se'nnight; as some boys wetrwalkinglikair * R ut the Ixoch, opposite the slaughterlhouie • t at r e pi l ' i . mouth, one of then!, discovered' Ail) ' e g otit . .. • washed up on the beach, wiuch he - • - 4n 4 wpm • in 158 guineas, and a few lialfisisimps so _ . ion had taken place betwes6:aome of .ilair•••••• they could tot tasilY is ,nano.; '• ". 1 '' • • . ~ . s . . • I .rw ... _;# :'i~