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ALES arrived your that , had regi tent as 2d vo- :hapter :rim if was of master, ;der obli in An 26th, or village nart4cl ig reli. command to, who were first ...onfirmed THE ARMY. nb t h at wer e sent with Sir Cn Am.'s S trans ` -rt an s ajor der ,s, all -General SPENCER, having been boll eel m entioned, in the Day of Biscay, aP ; dto the different ports in the wet- aF. . 3111 ' 541 o i rhc kingdom. ret i urne As the object of this Ex - Stei is by no means laid aside, the exertions to get her wit] ,i n r eady for sea have been very g reat ; in ' l P s : that t h e y arc all now perfectly refitted, and Pro. r whi 6 fit for a' fair wind again to start. firs f still kept secret, but is generally • . tination i s nes to h e the Mediterranean. knc 6 i s a r umour that pa rt of the German Legion wo 1 Britis h reg iments will proceed to Sweden in „,.a. f Ba. a. t reg i men t s a re going out with Sir GEORGE his s to Halifax. The 7th and Bth regiments are the l • num= • Wl Jetiral Mvana v came up to Portsniouth, Sa- act f ro m St. Helen's, where he had arrived on am , from Cork, as stated in our Paper of Sa- Pr( f A part of the 6th regiment of Dragoon be e' et I/ o yal Carahineers ; the 17th regiment of . wr , e a nd the 241battalionoI f the 34th Regitneut, of p i t h him in several transports. The • aM . p i t h the Horse and Foot Artillery and ro 4 go res on board, were left at Cork, waiting di m i en . • The Campion transport, Lieutenant , Sc I NA also arrived last week at Portsmouth, cute! from Buenos Ayres, brought home 124 , ul I , of 71st Regiment , and 54 seamen and ma.lot cc t• gto his Majesty's ships Diadem , Rai - hr - Diomede, and Leda. They were taken pri hE - s eieh General BERESPORD, at Buenos Ayres, on p; e, I* of 4u g ust, 1806, and were marched to Ca- m Oar& of 900 miles into the interior, sc e • ; rd Cordova, to the south-west of the Andes ; p e whence they could not arrive in time at Monte 21 4 to be embarked at the final evacuation of the fr 4 ; the Campion left Buenos Ayres 16 days t h l • that time. She left Captain CORBET, in the a: d • with the Charwell and Hermes sloops , and, h if „pia cutter, cruizing in the River Plata. She ! at St. Helena on the 11 th of November , and 30 men of the St. Helena corps, who were taken with General BERESFORD. More than 200 (principally of the 71st Highland regiment ), who ; • entered into prosperous engagements in farms, Iri the Spaniards had stocked for them, refused to re the country, and they are left behind. A num-I! re h e if them had married the native women. The r; • .', is the last British vessel that was to leave r ed America ; Captain CARROLL, of the 88th regi- and Captain HAMILTON, of the s th regiment,l ily were left by General Wurrmocte, as hostages ' of the fulfilment of the treaty, came home in her.— , ad left the Agincourt 64, Captain Hiu, at St. He- : • waiting the arrival of a fleet of Eatt-Indiamen, .:ch she was to bring to England. 1 he nd Of the detachments of artillery which arrived at us from Monte Video, under the command of Co- ck Soar, the troop of horse artillery is stationed at et, ennor, two companies are quartered in the castle of d , kstown, and the remainder are doing duty at the aE in Cork harbour. Ifi ell General Pat ocorr has received orders to proceed it- Halifax with 5000 men, to reinforce that place. 1 T• The Expedition now in preparation, is supposed the be of magnitude from the circumstance of the • Board being directed to engage an in- apt • number of transports, notwithstanding the rd's at present in the service is great to an unpre- • -ted extent. An advance of one shilling per ton err month is offered for coppered ships. r e, The transports that returned from the Copenhagen r t ...hon are all ready for service, having taken in a idea -Is supply of stores ; and about twelve sail have Gallions, near Woolwich, to rendezvous till .her orders. Many more w ill sail thither in a few icier. 'P. l ac - General ACK'. %vn, who had been appointed to the SOS on his arrival from South America, and • lately commanded Cork Garrison in the absence sal G eneral HorsroN, has been removed to the Eng- Staff, and is on his way to London. Until the :, • of General HorSTON, Baron DE ROTTENBURGII, I ' lof the 61st Regiment, will command Cork mixt. Monday last, the Peggy's Success, one of the trans- ° s which sailed from England under Sir CHARLES y ax, but parted company on the 27th ult. arrived -•ave• One hundred and nine of the 4th battalion t • • Ile Ki ll" 11 German Legion were on board. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. t; I '4sGOW JAN. 11.—Having observed in your • •Per of the 6th instant, a paragraph stating that Fevre, of whom STER.NE makes mention, had ed in Leven's, now the 25th, or Edinburgh regi eat of Foot, I beg leave to correct the statement a: '• ". and to transmit extracts from the 2d vo •' of STERNE'S Works duodecimo edition, chapter ew, 14; 1 75, wherein Le Fevre asks Corporal Trim e master, meaning Captain Shandy, , e was o ''l," and desires the Corporal to tell his master t hattht person hi s goo d nature has laid under obli lot tions , to him, i s one L e F evre , a Li eu t enan t in An &•,, I also beg leave to state that the 26th, • ian Foot, was originally raised at a villag Airshire, called Maybole, by a Clergyman nariat meron, in consequence of the then existing rel out feuds, who placed the men under the cm/man a ' one e 47ched Angus, the person above alluded to, wh F , them to Sti r ling, where they were fir reed into a regiment, and the command confirme • -1 An tis as Colonel. OLD BAILEY. Saturday, J. Adams was tried, under Loral Ellen borough's Act, for cutting and wounding W. Barret, Police Officer, on the 26th of June. It appeared that the prosecutor, assisted by Lee, Headborough, went to quell a riot in the parish of itepncy, when they advised a refractory woman, ./idi a child in her arms, to go home, and informed her that if she did not do so, they would find a lodg 'ng for her. Whilst holding this conversation, the nsoner sallied forth from a court, with a .weapon, which the witnesses believed to be an iron bar, and first attacked Mr. Lee, who evaded his blows. Barret next became the object of his fury. The prisoner knocked him, down, and gave him some desperate 7ounds and bruises about the head and body, and was afterwards heard to say, he meant to kill him. garret was beaten into a state of stupidity, and kept is bed several weeks. Mr. Justice LAWRENCE, who tried the case, desired the Jury to determine on the facts generally • Ist, Whether the prisoner was the man who committ ed the act which was alledged against him in the indictment; ad %fly, Whether he did so with intent to do the prosecutor some grievous bodily harm. If they should decide these points in the affirmative, it would then 'le a question referred for the Judges to determine, whether the act done was cutting within the meaning of the statute. The Jury . found the prisoner Guilty, reserving the point of law for the determination of the Judges. • John Turner was indicted for stealing 601bs. of in ligo, value 201. the property of Messrs. Coles, of Scott's yard, and St. Dunstan 's-hill. Mr. C. Coles stated, that the prisoner had been Ipwards of two years warehouseman to the firm, but never was authorised to dispose of any indigo. A considerable quantity had been miased from the ware 'louse, on St. Dunstan's-hill. On cross-examination ie stated, that the prisoner had been arrested by the iartners for money which he had had for disburse ments, but which he did not account for. The pri soner's situation was worth about 1001. per annum. R. Skinner, porter to Messrs. Coles, stated that he packed up two boxes of indigo, one weighing 27 or 281bs. and the other 2 t or 25, which were sent away from the warehouse, by order of the prisoner by Lee, the Vauxhall carrier. Witness had lived 11 years in his service, he had seen the prisoner filling the boxes, and on witness being asked by one of his masters, if he had ever seen any property clandestinely taken from the warehouse, he stated what he knew. John Lee, 1)i iver of the Vauxhall errand -cart, pro ved having taken two boxes from the prosecutors' warehouse, which he conveyed to No. 10, Paradise- row, Lambeth, where Turner lived. The boxes were delivered to him by Skinner the porter, but the priso ner was present. Some time after the delivery of the boxes, the witness brought back three boxes from the prisoner's house, and conveyed them to the house of a Mr. Robins, No. 23, Old Change. Witness believ ed that two of the boxes were the same which he had previously taken to Paradise-row. B. Robins stated himself to be a dealer in damaged cotton. He had known the prisoner above two years, and on the 27th of November he received from him, by the errand -cart, three boxes, two of which contain ed indigo, and the other indigo dust, besides 181bs. of East India indigo in a parcel, and 211bs. of cotton. Witness received a letter from Turner, which he, the prisoner, afterwards destroyed. This letter mention ed the weight of the goods delivered by the carrier, which the prisoner said he should allow witness a com mission for disposing of. The prisoner sent witness another letter, he being then in a lock-up-house, to de sire him to attend him there ; and, on the prisoner being informed, that the boxes had been sent from his house, he expressed his approbation. On the follow ing Thursday witness himself was taken into custody at the suit of the prosecutors, and confined till the fol lowing Monday. Mr. Woodham, of Wading-street, received two boxes of Robins on the Ist of December, but he did not know what they contained, and he sent them back after having been two days in his house. It was proved by the servants of Robins, that these boxes contained indigo, and that the one which con tained indigo dust, was emptied into Robins's dust hole, and the other was buried four feet under ground, in Robins's cellar, from whence it was taken by Cart wright, a City Officer. Mr. C. Coles proved, that the indigo produced was worth 9 or 10s. per lb. and it was such as had been taken from the warehouse of the firm. In defence, the prisoner produced a written paper, fearing, as is stated, that if he attempted to prove his innocence by speaking, he should be overcome by dwelling on the falseness of the allegations. It went on to state that he was placed above temptation, and that he had been possessed of very considerable sums belonging to his employers, at different times, in some instances to the amount of 100,0001. and he consider ed himself rather entitled to the thanks of the prose cutors, than to become the object of unmerited per secution. He did not, however, attempt to prove how he came by the property. Mr. Toulmin, a Common-councilman, stated the prisoner to be a gentleman of education, amiable manners, and extraordinary abilities. Mr. Jacobs, a merchant, also spoke highly of the prisoner.—The facts, however, were clear, and .he was found guilty. George Russell was indicted for a capital offence, that of stealing a piece of gold wire value 21. 10s. the pro perty of his master, Joseph Glenny, in his dwelling house. The case was quite clearly made out against the prisoner, for the gold wire was taken out of his pocket, and he confessed that he had robbed his master before, who offered to abstain from prosecuting him, if he would tell to whom he was in the habit of taking the , gold wire, but he obstinately refusing, was taken be fore a Magistrate, and committed for trial. Guilty —Death. His master, who is a watch-case-maker in Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell, said, that the prisoner was a man of weak understanding, but obstinate ; he reason to believe, was under the dominion of a wicked person, who received the property; that was the pro per person to be punished ; as to this poor creature, he wished the Court to have all the lenity that was consistent with justice. The Jury joined in this senti ment, and recommended the prtsoner to mercy on the ground which had beat humanely stated by the I prosecutor. The folicseetng were convicted or felony, viz. Sarah Atitins, for stealing a cotton gown, the pro perty of W. Ward • and A. Dunstan, for stealing a carpenter's plough plane, the pioperty of T. Garness. And six were acquitted, viz. John Gard, Eleanor M'Creaf Mary Wood, Mary Jennings, Thomas Morgan ; and John Charles Forger Roper, a very young man, and an officer in the royal navy, who was capitally indicted for feloniously stealing, on the sth of December, in the dwelling house of Robert Dunbar, a certain note or order for the payment of money, of the value of 331. 19d. the property of the said Robert Dunbar. After the case had been stated by the Counsel for the prosecutiOn, the following witnesses were' brought forward in support of the same, who stated. to the following effect : • Alexander Allen, a Clerk to Mr. Dunbar, who is an Insurance Broker, and resides at No. 16, Old London street, Fenchurch-street, stated, that on the sth of laia month, he received an order which came from Mr. Johnson for 331. 9d. He put tlk! order into a tin box, which lay on the desk. He locked the box, but the key was left in it. On his cross-examination by the prisoner's Counsel, he said he left a young man of the name of Osborne in the office when he quitted it.— Mr. Osborne is a Clerk in the house. John Bakeway, another of Mr. Dunbar's clerks, said he received the draft in question from a Clerk of Mr. Johnson, and gave itto Mr. Allen, the lastwitness. Charles Neal, a Clerk of Mr. Johnson, received a draft from that Gentleman for 831. 9d. for Mr. Dun bar, which he gave to Mr. Bakeway, the last witness. - Samuel Suett, a Clerk of Mr. Dunbar's, saw the prisoner come to their office about half past four o'clock, or later, on the evening of the .sth of Decem ber, in company with Mr. Thomas Osborne, the bro ther of Mr. Osborne, one of the prosecutor's Clerks. Mr. Thomas Osborne went up stairs to see his father (who it would appear was also in the house), and begged to leave the prisoner" in the office the while. He saw. the tin box standing on the desk ; he put it into an iron chest. When he left the office the pri -Isoocd..ankeerv,s there alone ; the iron chest was not then "Thomas Osborne, an officer in the royal marines, stated, that when he went up stairs at Mr. Dunbar's, he left the prisoner in the counting-house ; when he came down - • he found him there alone • they then went together towards the theatre. When in the Strand, they stopd at the Shop of Mr. Stunt, a shoemaker, where Mr. Roper, the prisoner, bought a pair of boots, and paid for them by means of a draft fin- 3:51. 9d. which he said he had from his guardian, Admiral Savage : he had the boots and some money as part of the account of the draft. They went after wards to another r.hop : The prisoner said, as they were coming along Fenchurch-street, that he had got a draft for 331. William Marshall,- foreman to Mr. Stunt, shoe maker in the Strand, said the prisoner came to their shop on the .sth of last month ; the last witness was in company with him • he purchased a pair of boots, and presented a dr aft for 331. 9d. After consulting with Mr. Stunt, he gave him 31. ls. in parr of the C.: • der, and the remainder of the amount he was to call for on the Monday, which he did. Peter Crump, a servant of Mr. Stunt's, received the amount of the order at Messrs. Lee and Co. Bankers, 71, Lombard-street. One of Messrs. Lee's Clerks stated his having paid the amount of the order to the last witness. Mr. John Lomas Johnson, on the drafuteing shewn to him, said it was the same which he had sent to Mr. Dunbar's on the day mentioned. Mr. Robert Dunbar said, that Mr. Johnson was.not directly indebted to him, but from the moment the order in question came into his possession, he conceived it to be his property. An objection was here taken, as to the strict legal validity of the order in question, and on account of its consequent inadmissibility as evidence—the sum of this appeared to he, that by the provisions of the Act which exempted from the Stamp-duty of Two Shilling drafts upon persons acting as bankers (to a certain amount), drawn within ten miles of the place where payment is made—it was necessary that the name of the place where the order was drawn, should be men tioned and engrossed in the draft ; this he contended was not the case with the draft in question, as the word. London, mentioned therein, referred merely to the local residence of the bankers. The Counsel for the prosecution contended, that the place and date appeared adequately on the face of the instrument, which was purported to have been drawn in London, and therefor e within the meaning of the Act. This fact was afterwards acknowledged by Mr. Johnson. The opinion of the RECORDER was rather against the objection, it appearing on the face of the tnstru ' went that it was drawn in London. ' The prisoner being called upon for his defence, stated in a faint and tremulous voice a circumstantial detail with respect to his going to the prosecutor's house with Thomas Osborne, &c. He acknowledged he saw the tin box lying on the desk with-the key in it, but protested that he never touched it; neither did he see any thing of an iron chest. The two Mr. ()storms came out with him from the prosecutor's ; one of them parted company at the corner of Grace chuah-street. In that street Mr. Osborne told him he had got a check, and asked him where he could get it discounted. He then mentioned Mr. Stunt's shop, where they went ; and concluded by relating what had passed at the shoe-maker's. No witnesses appeared in his behalf. Mr. Rh:CORDER then summed up the evidence, and delivered a very impartial and appropiate charge thereon. He noticed the objection of the prisoner's Counsel, which, as combining a consideration of fact as well as of law, they would have, on view of the instrument, in some measure to decide. The Jury retired to consider of their verdict, and after three quarters of an hour's deliberation, they re turned into Court (at half past nine o'clock,) and pro nounced the prisoner—Not Guilty. had Last night. between 10 and 11 o'clock, Lord TRA. VALCIAR, the only son of Earl/sTELsox, died of a typhous fever. He was an amiable and promising . youth. A meeting took place on Sunday se'nnight, in the ph een i i ' Park, Dublin, between Mr. T. of the War- Office, and Mr. C. of the Treasury. The High Sheriff was on the ground at the time the parties arrived, and held than to bail in the sum of 10001. FROM. SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DOWNING-STREET, ).A.NlLtAlkir 16: The King has been pleased to appoint Sir George Prevost, Bart. to be Lieutenant-Governor of the province of Nova Scotia, in the room of Sir John Wentworth, Bart. His Majesty has been further pleased to appoint Major-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. to be Commander of the forces, with the local rank of Lieutenant-General in Nova Scotia only. WHITEHALL, JANUARY 16. The King has been pleased to order a letter, directed to the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Hereford, recommending unto them the Reverend William Leigh, Clerk, Bachelor of Laws, to be chosen into the place of Dean of the said Cathedral Church, the same being void by the death of Doctor Nathan Wetherell, late Dean thereof. The King has been pleased to present the Reverend Samuel Birch, Clerk, Master of Arts, and Fellow of Saint John's Col lege, Cambridge, to the united Rectories of St. Mary, Wolnoth, and St. Mary, Woolclwrch Haw, in the city ...rid diocese of Lon don, the SAM being void by the death of the Rev. John Newton. The King has also been pleased to present the Rev. William Long, Clerk, Bachelor of Laws, to the Rectory of Pulbani Saint Mary's, with the chapel of Saint Mary Magdalen thereunto an nexed, in- the County of Norfolk and Diocese of Norwich, void by the death of the Rev. Thomas Borven. The King has also been pleased to present the Rev. Michael Stirling to the church and parish of Cargill, in the county of Penh and Presbytery of Dunkeld, void by the death of Mr. J. Ps Bannerman. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, JANUARY 15. Copy of a Letter from Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Pam, Bart Commander In Chief of his Majesty's Ships and Vessels In the East Indies, to William Marsden, Esq. dated on hoard his Ma- jesty's ship Culloden, Madras Roads, Sept. 28, 1807. Sir—l have the to our to backs • the copy of a letter from Cap- tain Lye, of his Majesty's ship Bombay, stating the capture of le Jaseur rench national corvette, which you will be pleased ro lay before the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners ache Admiralty. I have the honour to be, Sce. (Signed) tow ARO rELLevr. His Majesty's Ship Bombay, at Sea, July 11, 1807, Carnicolau S. S. W. 18 leagues. lat. D. R. 10. 6. N. Long. 93. 10. E. Sir—l have the honour to inform you of the cap ture, yesterday evening, of the French national brig le Jaseur, of 12 guns and fifty-five men, and com manded by a Lieutenant de Vaisseau, (the Little Andaman N. W. eight leagues) after a chace of nine hours, by his Majesty's ship Bombay, under any command. The brig left the Isle of France the 15th of April, and had not made any capture. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) W. J. LYE. ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, JAN. 16. Copy of a Letter from Vice Admiral Douglas, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Ships nnd Vessels at North Yarmouth, to the Hon. W. W. Pole, dated the 11th instant. Sir—For the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, I transmit two letters from Captain Farquhar, of his Majesty's ship Ariadne, stating the particulars relative to the cap ture of the two French privateers Treace et Q'iarante and l'F.gle, which are arrived at this port, agreeably to Captain Farquhar's directions. 1 have the honour to b:.., titc. (Signed) B. Dow; LA 5, Vice Admiral. His Majesty's Ship Ariadne, January 7, 1808' Mundy Foot, W. S. W. 11 leagues. Sir—l have the honour to acquaint you, that this morning, being off Huntly Cliff about four leagues, I observed one of his Majesty's brigs to the south ward, at ten A. M. she bore .up and made sail to the eastward, and we perceived her to be in . pursuit of a -- - lugger. We immediately joined in the chace, keeping the wind of the enemy, and at one P. M. having closed within gun shot, we had the pleasure to sec the lug ger surrender to his Majesty's brig Ring Dove, which was nearer to the chace than - the Ariadne, and had fired several shot at her. 1 She is a French lugger letter of Marque, (le Trente et Quarante) commanded by Monsieur Fanqueux, carrying sixteen guns, 6 and 9-pounders, 14 of which were mounted, with a complement of 66 men, 65 on board, has been sixteen days from Dunkirk, and had not made any capture. She is one of the largest lug gers out of France, and a very fine vessel, only three months off the stocks, well found, and I think fit for his Majesty's service. I have sent her to Yarmouth, and have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) . A. FARQUHAR. His Majesty Ship Ariadne, Jan. 8, 1908, Huntly Foot, W. N. W. 6 leagues. Sir—l beg to inform you, that, after the capture of le Trente and Quarante, we stood during the night towards Flamborough Thad -- and at day light th is morning another lugger was discovered in the W. N. W. to which we immediately, gave chace ; having, at the same time, made the signal No. 3, to the Ring Dove, which was in company. Soon after eight we observed the lugger was chaced by two brigs, one cf which proved to be his Majesty's brig Sappho, and the other belonging to the Excise, called the Royal George, commanded by Mr. Curry, and to whom the lugger surrendered at about a quarter before. ten A. M. ; and I have the satisfaction in adding that credit is due to Mr. Curry for the capture, although, from the situation of his Majesty's vessels, her escape was impossible. The prize is a French lugger l'Egle, commanded by Monsieur 01 vier, sixteen guns mounted, three and four pounders, and a complement of fifty.sia men ; left Dunkirk nine days ago, has made one capture, the brig Gabriel, of Yarmouth (in ballast), whi c h she took last night off Scarborough, and scuttled her. I saw her still above water this morning, and ordered the Ring Dove to examine her ' - and Captain An drews has since reported to me, th at the Gabriel was sinking so last as to make it impossible to save her ; the master and crew were found on l,rsard l'Egle lugger, which I have ordered to Yarmouth with the other prize, and purpose seeing them in safety to that port. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) A. FARQUHAR. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. wAR-OYFICE, JAN. 16. • 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet John Gwynne to b- Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Watts, promoted in the 60th Foot. 16th Ditto—Cornet William Hay to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Martin, promoted in the 72d Foot. st Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain Anthony William Darn ford to be Captain of a Company, vice Major General Archer, deceased • Ensign the Hon. James Stanhope to be Lieutenant, vice Dur nford. Ist Regiment of Foot. To be Lieutenants—Lieutenant Charles Hunt Lorimer, from the 6th West India Regiment; Ensign David Kennedy Kirkland, from the 27th Foot ; Ensign Ttomas Whyte, from the 70th Foot ; Ensign John Juxon, from the 25th Foot ; Ensign Geo. Brock, from the BSd Foot ; Ensign J. 0. Kearniy, from the 41st Foot ; Ensigns David Denker, Duncan M'Gregor, Wil liam Pollock ; Lieutenant John T. Connell, from the 7th Gar rison Battalion ; Ensigns William Baling, Conner, Ri chard Vaughan ; Ensign Charles M'Kenzie Fraser, from the 78th Foot ; Ensign Barry Fox, from the 47th Foot ; Ensign A. W. M'Kenzie, from the 78d Foot; Ensign Kent, from the 50th Foot ; Ensign George Jackson, from the York Light Infantry Volunteers; Ensign Richard 0. Jenoway, from the 47th Foot; Ensign loins Barr, from the 82d Foot. CTunt aatr.