Star. — London, England, 1810-04-25 00:00:00

THE ARMY. Aler General HOUGHTON has arrived at Ports , ;t: :d will take his passage is the EUTUVALUS, ~2;1, where he is to have a command in the ~4,} - , Major General WIIETIIAII reviewed. the on Soutlisea-common ; the Dorhatn . t( be inspected on Southsea-commOn on pest. ;.; .r King's Own Dragoons, which were lip to town in consequence of the riots, on Friday, Saturday, and Monday next; far Their heavy baggage, which was left at ..:erbory, is to be forwarded to Guildford, but Tir ulzimate destination is supposed to be the Mid- 1.. m! district. Detachments of the second battalions of the 25th ;In d 81st regiments, have rectived orders to hold t hor.selves in immediate readiness, to march to Ports mouth, it is supposed to strengthen the first batta lions on service on the Mediterranean station. . Lot week two troops of the German Horse Ar t.:ller marched through Lewes, on their route from p,„e le s..7 . Castle, to Bexhill, it is said, preparatory t o 0 reduction. T:irrr,:ay last, the first division of the Fifeshire under command of Major RUTHERFORD., and frlo Iv the second division of the same regimen:, into Aberdeen barracks, to , replace the 75th t . , ;r:el;. frrenoon, the Ist division of Ole 75th r c . :;l.t•at marched into Glasgow, from Aberdeen, ro L.,ll'):lrk at Greenock for Ireland. ::!!':rd3y T; Royal Bucks Militia, from Chatham, will ,i ti •e at Dover in two divisions, to-morrow. The scl Militia, are also on their march for Do- from t:lc Sussex District, and will arrive there Cle cure of the present week. CitVe7CIM, APRIL 2 3 2.—The Royal Buckingham. marched from Rochester yesterday morn. • to Dover, the Perthshire will follow on Thursday 2...,giment of Dragoons, or Queen's Bay, will l'c7e to-day front 'London, on their route to ; the 3d Dragoons, 52d Regiment, and : - , r1 : 1 York 'Militia arc expected to follow. A hand , me brigade, consisting of six six-pounder brass guns two howitzers, arrived at the Royal Marine Bar., ri - 3 at tLis place from Woolwich, for the service of highly us'lul body of men, the Royal Marine Arillery. 1t is crener:ilty expected that the Brigade tf Guards, which left this place a few weeks back 1,f,nd: . :1, will shortly return to their quarters at C:iltivali Barracks ; the air of the metropolis having Five,' so notions to the soldiers, that there are up ot five hundred men at present in the Hospital. A lcie,ade of Horse Artillery left this place to-day EmtarroN, APRIL 23.—The sth Infantry marched f-7,at hence to return to Lewes at about eight o'clock tins morning ; and about three hours subsequent.to. f'z'r cl , Tarture, the South Gloucester Militia (first 6Ni:1,19 from Cuckfield and Reigate, whither they lad been marched in consequence of the late disturb ance in London, ,took possession et their old guar ten here. The second division will march in to-mor- rpr. When the first division renchod the Northern of the town to-day, their band struck up a lively martial air, which was answered by a men y peal from the bells of the parish church—the latter a forcible demonstration of the estimation in which this rcgi ;:lent is hell in this town. , , , , , 1 TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. SIRT11!! late Order issued by the Commander in Chief, for distinguishing the classes of Regimental Officers, by mans of epaulettes, &c. of various kinds And devices, has by no means given general satisfac ;ion to the Army. From time imniernoiial the epaulette has been the thief distivtishing badge of the British Officer ; and it will be a very long period before the soldier can ieconcile to his mind, that an Officer, stript of his •paulettc, has not at the same time been stript of his :auk and dignity, in his eyes. What possible benefit, or saving, Sir, can the coun try derive from a Subaltern Officer, one of the most pre.rnising part of the Army, being ordered to substi tute a sir Serjeant's fringe, instead of a bullion kraulete ? A distinction might have been made be ta-ten the r;ink f Captain and Subaltern, h a more 4:l:cate and as effectual a manner. For instance.. a; C.ip:ain might wear au epaulette of bullion on the; and a strap on the shoulder ; without mo -1-'s:ing the po;r Subaltern's epaulette at all. Or the, raight wear an epaulette with a star, like of the in.:lms, with or without a strap on the left. rught nor the. Sobal tern's epaulette be formed frir;tr,' ; or, might he not year it on 6. ‘ inStn• I(' ri shoulder ? Ear, there i; a class of Oflicers in the Army, who, ')y tats novel Order, will be icdncetl to a state of degradation. I mean. the Paymasters and mw.tens of Regilr.nts, who are to• be stripped of uie eTmilletle entirely.. • This is surely unmerited ; nor can it be said of the -%17t1,r5, at least, tliat there crists any necessity for a distixclii.ti in their dress from the other - t•iKs of the Service, the distinction being already made, and well understood. The Surgeons, ..r,laLaur under peculiar disadvantages in • the Ser z;e, fr.l.n which others are exempt ; and this may be t'faed as a reason fraithe scarcity of Army Surgeons. .hd I cannot but think, that this new Order, as de triv:lig them of the exterior decoration: of Officers,, Riff more powerfully operate against the entrance of "tng Surgeons into the-Army, than any of the other causes which have always hitherto been found to de ter them from a military life. NESTOR. It will be seen from the following communication, that the effects of the shock of an earthquake, felt at Malta, have been very much exaggerated :- ---- FLTRACT OE A LETTER 12.011 MALTA, DATED TEIRDAILT 1 21.. I " ''here is an idea that Sicily has suffered from au earthquake , a' , Eye days age, a slight tremor NV3S fch there. It was very tr:ning; no accounts since tint time have been received froin and sve heard nothing of it at G'agenti." CAPTAIN LAKE. PAPERS RELATING TO CORRESPONDENCE: BETWEEN THZ ADMIRALTY AND SIR ALEXANDER COCHRANE, TOUCH.. ING Tllt CONDUCT OF THE HONOURABLE WARWICK LAKE. Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty to Sir ALEXANDER COCURANE. Admiralty-Office, 7th June, 1909. Sir- - --I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Ad. miralty to send you the accompanying copy of a letter from Mr. Chas. M. Thomas,late purser of the Demerary, addressed to the Right Honourable Charles Bathurst, stating that he resigned his warrant to you, upon condition of being dischaiTed from the ser vice, but that he is still detained a supernumerary on board the Neptune; and I am to signify their Lordships' directions to you to state the case of this person. I am, &c. (Signed) J. BARROW. The Hon. Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, K. B. Leeward Islands. Extracts from Mr. Thomas's letter to Rear-Ad miral Sir A. Cochrane : " I am, Sir, in possession of facts which, if more I provoked, I will bring forward, which will involve, if I not all, at least the greater part of the Captains of the squadron under your command ; at the same time that I will not commit one of my brother officers ; and having, a most retentive memory, I shall recur thereto for some facts as far back as - the year 1806." I " I am fully master of my subject, for I never pre tend to handle things to which I am incompetent, like the late Convention-mongets of Cintra ; and, if I fall, I'll fall gloriously." " I shall give the substance of what I know in the first instance, to his Majesty's Ministers ; and if they take no notice, 1 shall take a walk to St. Stephen's Chapel, and report it there. I already anticipate the remarks that will appear in Cobbett's Regis:er : I shall make my own comments in the Barbadoes Mercury." " If, Sir, you will not leave me alone, I will light such a torch in England, which it will be out of your power to extinguish : and I will make the year 1809 I memorable in the historic page by the discoveries I shall cause in almost every department in these re gions." " Voltaire has observed to this effect, g that streams always become more impure, the farther they are re moved from the fountain head ; I will undertake to prove this assertion just." " Captain Dowers having acquainted me that I am to go on board the Pelorus before the mast, I do pro test most solemnly protest, against such a proceeding until the Lords of the Admiralty shall have submit. ted my case to the King." No. 2, is a letter from Mr. Barron to Sir A. Cochrane, dated _ July 14, communicating Mr. Thomas's charge against Capt. Lake. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Copy of a Letter from Sir ALEXANDER COC:IXANE, to the Se cretary cf the Admiralty. GRAVESEND, APRIL 24.—Arrived the Nehon, Herberts. front SIR, Poir k ei& at Sea, August 4, 16 0 9. St. Vincent's ; the Sir Sidney Smith, Branford, from Rio la- I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, neiro ; Dart, Malcomb, from Madeira; Grinson, Wilson, from dated the 7th June, enclosing the copy of one written Jamaica; and Robert, Cranly, from Malta.—Saikd the Phcenix, by Mr. Charles M. Thomas:lately Purser of his Ma.. Rose, for Surinam. jetty's sloop Demerary, to the Right Hon. Charles The three colliers of Sunderland, the Arrow, POPE; I Bathurst, and signifying to me the direction of the Atlas, BELL ; and Oak, Ssuett, mentioned in the I Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to state the Harwich letter, received at Lloyd's yesterday, to case of this person. have been taken off the Kentish Knock, by a French privateer, are retaken and sent into Ramsgate by his About three years ago my Secretarr found him wan- Majesty's brigs BLOODHOUND and CRACKER. dering about the streets at Barbadoes , without clothes. money, or friends, and be applied to him (though an 'lire Adventure, CRAUFORD, from Gibraltar to utter stranger) to get him received on board a vessel of London, has been taken, retaken, and carried into i war, to keep him from starving. The Captain of the Dartmouth. I, flag ship, hi .consequence received him, and he was The Fenwick, JACKSON, of North Wales, is lost at soon after employed in the office, and when he had the Orkneys. served about eighteen months, promoted in his turn to The Europe,BeeneTT, from St. Cmix, is arrived at be Purser of his Majesty's sloop Heureux ; ever since Dublin, with five feet water in her hold, having been which time he has been an extremely troublesome on the Bar. character. He has served with several Captains, with The Humphries, HASTINGS, from London to Hon- ‘ none of whom could he agree, and was constantly duras, run on shore off Old Harbour, Jamaica , the i pesterinme with letters of complaint ; one of which 26th of February, and it was feared would be lost. I aga inst v.. was the conduct of the late Capt ain Combe, of the Henreux which I directed three Captains to The Nonpareil, BRUCE, from St. Michael's to Lon-1 on, was taken off Shoreham, the 11 th nit. and 'car. I ar- enquire into, and found that his representations were - d ! frivolous and without foundation. After this he was tied into Treport. I removed into theDemerary, a smaller sloop, at his own The Hyperion frigate, from Pmrtsmouth, and the ! request, where he continued the same line of conduct, Challenger sloop of war, from Cork, with the fleet, : and when I round, by the representation of his two have arrived at Jamaica. 1 last Commanders, that be never kept any accounts, I The Cupido, —, from Pernambucco, is lost on I directed him to be superseded, and to be sent to Eng. Oporto Bar. Part of the cargo saved. I land in the Acasta, which was d o n e betbre I received . , The Larkins, CORM, from Jamaica, is arrived off ; your letter on the subject. Penzance, after throwing pert of her cargo and guns I Asa specimen of his itch for writing, I transmit overboard. • . ; herewith an extract or two from his letters to me, Tann A BOSTON Pere a.—Captains Telford and ; where in he accuses half the Captains on the station ; Fowler, Maeters of the American shis Phoenix and • but. immediately.after I received another , o f which I p enclose a copy, requesting fOrgiveness of what he had Louisa Cecilia, of New York, have arrived there from ; Guadeloupe, and inform, that they sailed from-Nese ! dunee I therefore thcreg ht the best wa y to g et rid of York early in November, for Gijon in Spain, an d him was to send him to England, that the Victualling Lisbon ; that, on the 23d and 26th of November, i _' Board might lay hold of him, if he should be - deficient they were captured by • four French frigates from ; in his vtetualung ; as for accounts, he has none what they bound to . Guadeloupe • that the Louisa Cc- I "'- cilia was hoarded from la Clorinde frigate . Captain St. ! I found him to be that sort of character, as unfit Clique, the C:iptain and crew taken out, sent on board i for an Officer in not; and as for trying him by a 1 C.ourt-Ivlattial, I did think it worth while, nor Ow frigate, scuttled, and sunk with all her cargo on . board. Captain Fowler adds, he was put clouer in ;_ worthy of such an officiel proceeding; for the punish. the fore-peak, under three decks, to mess with the ; Men . tof indeed him would, in fact, be no punish boatswain and his crew, in the hold with. English pri soners. He remained in this dark rser —I have the honour to be, Sec. tke. ; Ment at all ; f believe he has never been con filthy hole till the firmed as a pat . 7th of December, when himself and crew were put I (Signed) ALEX. COCHRANE. on board le Loire frigate, and there put down oe- ,fie Hon. W. w. r a c• tween de oleo witloother prisoners, where he remained i dated Halifax,Ntrir. 1, ackuowledging. the receipt of Mr. Barrow's four days, till after the capture of the British frigate ; ' No. 4 is a letter profit Sir A..toehrane to Mr. W. W. Pole, Junon, when, there not being room for all the psi- i of Captain Lake's proceeding ; but that, being assured of the sai stating, that be.wat *were of irregularity i letter of July 14; .. 1 seriously admonished Captain soners, he was permitted, by his pressing so li citatiollS, i lor's (Jeffery's) safety, and ba .. -:"Il_ rest: . to go into the gun-room. On board the Clnrinde, Lakes he had consentedthe b the thirteen American prisoners were only allowed • ••••••••••...•••••• for their subsistence what was given to seven English prisoners, which was six ounces of meat, a pound of bread, and a pint of water per day ; that while the Americans were treated with cruelty and contempt, the English Captains, mates, and passengers whom they had taken, messed most sumptuously- with the French Officers. On the 17th December they were landed at a small place, 1.5 miles to the Northward of Basseterre, to which they were marched. along shore, over hills and cross creeks. About a week after, the Americans seamen were all taken up and put -in -prison, but the.officer3 were paroled. The English officers were allowed half a guinea a day to subsist on, while the Americans were refused a single cent,- though they often applicd for relief. The situ ation of Captain Telford and the crew of the,Pboenix was exactly similar .to that Ail V r a . ptain Fowler.— These gentlemen. remained , Ise puadaloupe until the island was captured by the. British,. when they. took passage for, Antigua, and f r om , t h ence came. • home via St. Bans,. compelled to leave their unfot -' tunate crews in prism aiGuadaloupe, but in the hope they would be releasedliy the English. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 23. Arrived the MUROS brig of war, from Guernsey ; and the FAVOURITE sloop, from a cruize.—Sailed the Swim, of 74 guns, Rear-Admiral STOPFORD ; and Caemarms VII. of 74 guns, Captain Sir J. SIDNEY Yeeeto-fer the Rochefort station; the ENCOUNTER gin -brig, for Falmouth ; and the MARINER gun-brig, on a anize.—Went up Channel this morning the Fa votuite, Captain FREEMAN, with dispatches for Go', 'remnant on board from Sierra Leon and Goree. • PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 24. Arrived the FLY, from the Downs.—Wind S.W. DEAL, APRIL 24. Sated the Bonihay, Earl St. Vincent, Harriet, and ROya), George, for the East Indies, w ith the whole of the outward•bound under convoy of his Majesty's ship Tamcuto, tor Portsniouth.--Vind N.E. SLAVE TRADIL:.•-it appears by the Papers laid be- 1 fore Parliament, relative to the abolition of the Slave I Trade, that there were strong objections on the part. 1 of the Portuguese Governinent, in 1807 and 1808 to the Abolition of the Slave Trade ' • but in a mettro randum frerri the Foreign O ffi ce, .dated March 96, 1810, it is stated, that N an article on th e subject :of the Slave Trade .has been inserted in the Brazil Treaty; now under consideration, stipulating for the adoption, on the part of the Prince Regent, of mea sures for effecting a gradual abolition of that-trade throughout hit domituons."—No step relativeto this subject appears to have been taken by. the Spanish or SwedishGovernmentsi to. the latter t here d oes not appear to Itavebeen any, c ommunication. Public will please to observe that the only Person in Partnership with the late Sir J BRANS COWS, at the time that Firm .- shared and sold the Grand Prize of OneThOusend Tickets, which pro duced 41141765, (in. last April Lottery) was E. twos, who is now removed to N•sl. 2, Corahill, near the Mansion-house. CHATHAM, APRIL 22. The DIADEM was on Friday taken into dock to be fitted for a troop ship. The TExEt. is completed for the reception of powder, and will shortly be trans ported to Sheerness. Mr. DUNCAN, the Master At tendant, took the Vzc tmder jury rigging to Sheer ness on Friday, where she is to lie in ordinary. The Bristol late prison ship hai also been taken there to be broken up. The PRINCE OF WALES man of war has had a thorough repair ; is coppered, and will be put out of dock next spring tides. The RR:SOLUTION and Attnnre have sailed from Longreach to the No re.— The Rua remains in Longreach.—The NASSAU will be warpea down to Gillingham Reach, to-morrow, and take out the prisoners from the RocuEsTEn, which ship will afterwards be broken up. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. Mercury, for l'Esperanza and St. Gelid's, captured February I a t and March 30, 180 1 , on SaturZay, at Mr. Brenec, Savill- row. Ned Flvin, for Tres Sostres, captured May 14, 1409, at Mr. Bentham's, Sheerness,, on Tuesday; recalled Tuesdays and Sa turdays. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS. AIIitTVED. DUE. AILRIVO.D. Dez. Dublin 0 0 Cadiz 0 0 Waterford 0 2 Lisbon o 0 Oottenburgh • 0 3 Malta 0 1 XX.teUTloiv. Morning Williar 11forg.*, for htealci:it hitt, and robbing the house of Mr. Gu t a ri, c olien•drapeti in Bedford -street, and E,hrard Mfg And Geor',7er lon, for a similar crime in Wapping, were etectited the Old Bailer, pursuant to their scluencc.—A ep() . ? t was circulated yesterday, that Nl:iddc.x had been re spited during pleasure, in consequence of sonic pro ceedings which were had at Bow-stteet, tesp:ecting Thomas Haetiwici, another of the robbers, as will be seen from the following Police Report : • • . . Bow.srntr.r.—The man of the name of Willi:4n Maddox, who was ordered fur execution this day, for breaking open and robbing the shop of Mr. Custard, in Bedford -street, Covent Garden, of woollen clo t h to the amount of 414,00, has furnisll?.d the ?..tigis trates with some additional information en the sub ject of the robbery. Some doubts as to ilrf. degree of his guilt ware consequently entertained, end exer.: tions were made to procur a respite, but it would seem that his statement was not so satisfactory as hAd been expected by those who humanely interfered for him. • One of ete men, reported to be concerned in the robbery, is a well-known houSebreaker, of the mime of Thomas Hardwicke, who has been extremely shy since the Officers received information that he broke open the shop of I , Tr. Gust:ird. Oa Monday, At: ;Is and Lavender, two of the officers, knowing ;hat he resided on the Surrey side of Weaminster Bridge, waited upon the idge some time, till Hardwicke came up With a dog on der his arm. The officers took hint into custody, and conyeyed him tollow-street o:iice, where he under , went an examination before Mr. READ in the evening. Ann Maddox, .the wile of the unfortunate man executed this morning,. stated, that on the morning of Twelfth Day last, between five and six o'clock, she and her husband were awaked by a knocking at their window shutters, at their house, in Bottle I-kap-yard, St. John-street ; her husband inquired who was there? and was infcrmed by the prisoner, it was he and a friend ; and that they wanted to come in. She and her husband got np and let them in. The man who came with the prisoner, is called Bill Cook ; they had a cart and horse at the corner of the court, and re quested to leave some things that were in it for a short time, which she and her husband agreed to.— HOne was a bundle in a coarse cloth, and the other was a brown paper parcel, which was put in a drawer, and they requested it might remain there. After they were gone, she had the curiosity to examine what the bundles contained, when she discovered that the large bundle contained woollen cloth, and the brown paper parcel contained two pistols, two iron cress, and several pick-lock key ; and they remain ed in her house, till the officers belonging to Hatton- Garden came and seized them, and apprehended her husband ; which was done, in consequence of a cart nod horse having been seen at the end of the yard, where the witness resides, answering the description of one seen near Mr. Custard's house, at the time of the robbery. Upon the circumstances of the pro perty being found in his possession, also the pistols, crows, and pick-lock keys, he was found guilty. He, however, had a very good character given him. Maddox- gave in to the . Secietary of State, a full statement, in writing, of the origin of his acquaintance with Hardwicke, whi p was - by selling him a dog. • Hardwicke was committed for further examination. Mr. Gustard attended and stated, that his shop was broken open and robbed on the night of the .sth of Janaat y last, or early in the morning of the 6th ; the latter was Twelfth Day, which was in a certain de gree a corroboration of Ann Maddox's evidence, as she did not know the day of the month, but only' could recollect it was the morning of Twelfth Day. WORSHIM MEET. •-• Yesterday Robert Keen was charged with stealing a large quantity of cartridge powder out of the pouches of the Royal Westmore land Militia, quartered at Hackney, which were in the Military Warehouse. It being a strong case, he was committed to Newgate for trial. GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday S. Crawley, porter to a mercantile house in the City, was brought before the sitting Alderman, charged with having defrauded his employers of considerable sums of money, by substi tuting false, in the room of real charges, for the car riage and shipping of goods, &c. He did not deny the charge, but said he had not committed the act aledged against him wilfully. The worthy Alder man (llostvita.E) gave him his option either to be committed for trial, or enter on board the tender, the latter of which he most prudently chose. Harrox-GARDEN.—Yesterday a chaste virgin, con. siderably advanced in the vale of years, was charged before the Magistrates of this Office with wilfully and maliciously beating a male biped ? dila: a man, on the head, with a certain utensil, not commonly used as a weapon of defence. The complainant stated, that by misadventure he had entered the chamber of the accused, when she rushed on him with the fury of a Sphynx, and not only destroyed his best wig by the contents of the utensil, but injured the pericra nium which that artificial scalp covered. The defen dant alledged in vindication of her conduct, that the complainant had threatened her immaculate virtue, and (like Virginia or Lucretia) she preferred death to dishonour. The Magistrate considered the gay gallant to have been rather rudely handled ; but, under all the circumstances of the case, discharged the Lady, with advice not to use her weapon in fu ture with so much dexterity. Mr. VANDONE, many years porter to his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, died suddenly, on Sunday, at his lodgings in Market -street, St. James's. CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK•LANE I APRIL 25.—The Market today continues as of late, few arrivals of Wheat coastwise, but tolerable supplies of foreign ; fine fully at last prices ; other qualities heavy sale.-- Rye in request—Barley and Malt maintain their prices—Peas and Beans of both kinds likewise—There are rather considerable supplies of Oats, and this trade supports last currency.—Flour without alteration. GENRIAL CURRENCY As UNDER. Wheat, 78g. 9Cs. 1045. Beans, (old) 579.635. Fine ditto, 110). 114 s. Tick ditto (old) 48s. 535. Rye, 465. 525. Oats 2'.4 •245. 235. Barley, 245. 485. Od. Polaod ditto, Ws. 335, 64. Malt 68s. 765. Potatoe ditto, 36s 04. White Peas (boilers) 114 s. 701. Rape Seal, 451. 511. Grey ditto 455. 50$. Fine Flour 851. SOP—Secorals 30* . ISs.