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It is sold iu I.on.!un, wholesale and retail, by Messrs. lisvmr and Bi.tw, Pcilutners, Cockspur-street ; and Retail, price 2s. 9d. by one is;Y:3 or more in every principal Town ; but it cannot be genuine, .:less the names of the above preparers are engraved on the Pur er „ neat stamp, which is fixed over the cork of each bolt. Prnyer Sponge Hoses are sold by Bayley and New, as tonal.— !ls abort may also be had, audit:lake:44 by a similar stoup, !!tam's Letxt.n alat.XL4ll, in bottler wt :Is. 9d. or with glass stspp:rs, at is. GI TO I'IIE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Plymouth, September 29. Sin—A fortunate accident having put me in pos session of an interesting official correspondence be tween the Board of Admiralty and Lieutenant-Ge neral Texcir, I am desirous of submitting it to the Public, through the medium of your respectableJonr nal. This correspondence must be left to speak for itself, for indeed I fear to trust myself with one syl. lable of comment upon it. Of Lieutenant-General Tr cri, however, I may and must speak; he has served his country for nearly lialf a century, his pub lic character is that of spotless honour—his private, amiable and generous, even to romance, and his at tainments in literature and science have commanded the respect of every circle in which he has moved. The abrupt dismissal (I may not more particularly decribe it) of this high• minded soldier and accom plished Gentleman from his command, has produced, n6t only in his own corps, but in the neighbourhood at large, a sensation of which it is impossible for me to convey an adequate idea. ' The official correspondence relates, as you will' perceive, to the re-appointments of Lieutenant-Colo nels SAVAGE and ABERNETIIIE, after they had been dismissed from the service, in consequence of the charges which the former brdkight against the latter. That the Public may fully comprehend the corre spondence between the Board of Admiralty anilLiett , tenant-General TENCH, I subjoin the Charges, with the Sentence of the Court Martial, and the dismissal of Lieutenant-Colonels SAVAGE and ABERNETHIE by the KING. Your obedient servant, A BRITISII OFFICER. MEMORANDUM. At a General Court Martial, held at Woolwich, on the 7th day of January, 1818, and continued by adjburnment until the 19th of the same month inclusive, for trying Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel Abernetbie, of the Woolwich Division of Royal Ma rines, upon the following Charges, brought against him by Lieu tenant-Colonel Savage, on the half-pay of that Corps : FIRST CHARGE. For conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in making use of offensive observations in the course of conversation with Lieut.-Col. Savage, in the Marine Library, at Woolwich, on or about the 15th day of February, 1815, in the presence of Major Stransham, Captain Thomas aarke, Captain Connolly, and other Officers, after repeated intimations from Lieut.-Col. Savage, that if he persisted in such obsenrations, he (Lieut...CoL Savage, should be compelled ta notice them in a more serious manner; for persevering in such offensive remarks• until Lieut.-Col. Savage was provoked to call him (Lieut.-Col. Abensetbie) an impertinent fellow, and afterwards to repeat the same in the strongest terms. SECOND CHARGE. For conduct unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman, in as serting, on or about the 11th December, 1817, a palpable false hood, in declaring on his honour to Brevet-Maor Nicolls and other O ffi cers, that he (Lieut.-Colonel Aberneth le) never beard f.ieut.-CoL Swage apply to him the epithets mentioned in the first Charge, viz. that be (Lieut—CoL Abcrnetbie) was an im pertinent fellow, and other expressions to the same effect. THIRD CHARGE. For conduct unbecoming an Officer and a Gentleman, in send ing, on or about the 11th December, 1817, Captain Robert Clarke, nearly three years after the date of the transaction men tioned In the first Charge, to read a paper written by Lieut.-Col. Abernethie, which contained the most scurrilous abuse of Lieut.-Col. Savage, for the obvious purpose of provoking him to fight a duel, and for afterwards causing a similar paper to be put up in the Marine library at Woolwich; and for sending his brother, Mr. Abernethie, on the 12th December, 1817, to de mand satisfaction of Lieut.-CoL Savage, on account of opinions expressed by Lieut.-CoL Savage respecting Lieut.-CoL Aber. netbie' character subsequent to the insult mentioned in the first Charge, and in consequence of that insult not having been no ticed by Lieut.-CoL Abernethie; he (Lieut—Col. Abernethie) also knowing that Lieut.-CaL Savage had declared to Captain Robert Clarke that he would not meet Lieut.-Ca Abernethie, as he had permitted ilbe Insult mentioned in the first Charge to remain so long unresented, and thereby forfeited every claim to satisfaction as an officer and a gentleman ; and also for sending on the following day, the 15th of December, 1817, Lynn to demand satisfaction of Lieut.-Col. Savage, notwith standing the decisive answers given by Lieut.-Col. Savage, both to Captain Robert Clarke and Mr. Abernethie, upon that point. FOURTH CHARGE. For conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, in com promising scandalous disputes, in which he (Lieut.-Col. Aber nethie) has been engaged with junior officers, more particularly with lieut. Pollock, on or about May or June 1816, who on that occasion threatened to horsewhip him. Upon which charges the Court came to the following de.. cision, viz. The Court, having duly considered the evidence on the part of the prosecution, and what the prisoner, Lieut.-Col. Thomas Abernethie, had to offer in his defence, is of opinion that the first charge is not proved, and does therefore acquit him of this charge. The Court is of opinion the second charge is not proved, it appearing in es idenee that the prisoner, while he denied having heard the particular expressions " impertinent frllow," and " damned impertinent fellow," admitted with the same breath language equally degrading:and that he evinced no intention either to conceal or soften down the offensive expressions he had received front Lieut.-Col. Savage; the Court does therefore ac quit him of palpable or intentional falsehood. The third charge not being cognizable before a Court Martial, the charge was not entered into by the Court. The Court is of opinion that the prisoner is not guilty of the fourth charge; and that the charge, absolutely destitute of proof, is urrotiJus and malicious, and does therefore acquit him. The Court feels itself imperatively called upon to comment upon parts of the matter which has appeared during the course of the trial; and wishes to express, in the strongest manner, its disapprobation of the offensive language which took place i n the Marine Library, and which, for so long a period, was suffered to remain without explanation or honourable adjustment. Before closing its proceedings, the Court thinks itself impe riously called upon to refer to the general conduct of the prose cutor on this occasion and is of opinion, it canuot, in terms suf ficiently strong, convey its reprehension of his bringing forward circumstances said to have passed at periods so remote, as Charges against an Officer, when nothing appears to the Court to have pre vented the prosecutor from preferring such Charges at an earlier period, had he been actuated by zeal for his Majesty's serviee,or Jealousy of the honour of the Marine Corps ; the Court therefore thinks it expedient to record on its proceedings the high disappro bation it entertains of the general conduct on the part of the pro. iecution ; nor can the Court conceive that the prosecutor acted under a proper regard for his own character, in bringing for- Ward these charges against Lieutenant-Colonel Abernethie, at the very moment when he (Lieutenant -Colonel Abernethie) was demanding reparation for reiterated and , rorent injuries • for if Lieutenant-Colonel Savage conceived that Lieutenant-Colonel Abernethie was out of the pale of demanding reparation, these reiterated attacks were both unjust end unmanly. The said Charges'and Sentence, with a Minute of the Pro ceedings, having been laid before his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, his Royal Highness-has been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to approve of the finding of the Court. His Royal fighuess, taking into his consideration, however, the animadversion of the Court upon the offensive language which took place in the Marine Library at Woolwich, and which, for so long a time, was antlered to remain without expla nation or honourable adjustment, and which offt•nsive language, it appears by the evidence, was first addressed by Lieutenant- Colonel Savage to Lientenant-Colonel Abernethie, his Royal Highness feels it to be due to the good orda and character of the Royal Marine Corps, to take notice of Lieutenant-Colonel Abernethie's conduct, by removing him to the permanent Half pay of the Corps. And his Royal Highness, further taking into consideration the . conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Savage, and concurring in the strong censure pronounced upon it by the Court-Martial, is pleased to direct that the name of Lieutenant-Colonel Savage shall be removed altogether from the List of Offliers of the Royal Marines. And his Royal Highness is further pleased to direct, that the Charges and the Sentence of the Court, and his Royal High ness's pleasure thereon, shall be communicated to each of the Divisions of Royal Marines, and entered in the General Order Books thereof. By command of the Lords (Signed) (COPY.) kavßeMarine Barracks, Plymouth, Aug. .1, 1821. tecived this day from the Officers of the Ply mouth Division under my command, the accompanying Memo rial, addressed to the Bight Honourable the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty, which I forward to you, in order to its being laid before the Hoard for their Lordships' gracious consi deration. I beg to add, that the assembling of the Officers for this occasion had my sanction, and the prayer of the Memorial has my concurrence. At the same time, in union with the Me morialists, I hold it to be a duty attached to my situation to re cord my own view of the marked distinction which exists be tween the case of lieutenant-Colonel Savage and that of Lieute nant Colonel Abernetbie, and most respectfully I solicit their Lordships attention to it. The infirmity of purpose, or error of judgment, which caused one party to wait for three years before he demanded honourable satisfaction, and the other to refuse it when called upon (although the whole period was marked on the side of Colonel Savage by every aggravating circumstance which studied, malignity could invent or pursue), invokes my pity for both those Officers. But the man who could subse quently plan, and bring forward with deliberation, charges be fore a Gene ral Court-Martial, through which he aimed to effect the ruin of him whom he had thus previously injured, has my ' unqualified execration. W. TENCH, Lieut.-Gen. J. W. Croker, Esq. icrs of the Admiralty, J. W. CUOKEIt. To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Ad miralty, the Memorial of Officers of his Majesty's Royal Marine Forces at Plymouth, 4th August, 1821, humbly sheweth, That your Memorialists, in the recent appointments which have taken place on the promotion and removal of some of their bro ther officers, have viewed with much pain and concern the re appointment of Lieutenant-Colonels Savage and Abernethie to full pay, after the marked and disgraceful conduct as set forth in a Memorandum from your Lordships, bearing date the 23d Janu ary, 1818. Tour Nlemorialists, in drawing your Lordships atten tion to the docuinent stated, in which Lieutenant-Colonel Aber nethie is placed by our most gracious Sovereign (then acting in the name and on behalf of his late Majesty) on the permanent list of haff-pay, and Lieuteoant-Colonel Savage at the same time re moved from the list of officers, cannot, after the public manner in which those officers were so disposed of, and for such conduct as is therein set forth, but most respectfully approach your Lord ships with a conviction, that on a reconsideration of the Memo random alluded to, they will be found to have so far disgraced their characters, although not to an equal extent, as appears by the distinction of punishment commanded by his Majesty, as Offi cers and Gentlemen (which opinion his most gracious Majesty ap pears most fully to have entertained), as entirely to preclude their ever serving in the Corps of Royal Marines; and in soliciting which your Memorialists have no other object than their own characters, and the honour and respectability of their corps, and for its continuance. Your Memorialists, as in duty bound, will ever pray. Signed by all the Officers of the Division at Quarters, and by those of other Divisions, who removed front hence in con sequence of the late arrangements. (COPY.) Admiralty Office, August 8, 1821. Sin—Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty your letter of the sth inst. and the Memorial which accompanied it, I am commanded by their Lordships to express to you their surprise and displeasure at the Hue of conduct which you have thought proper to adopt, in sanctioning so improper an interference on the part of the fficers of the Plymouth Divi sion of Royal Marines, as is set forth in the Memorial. You will perceive by the inclosed Copy of a Letter from Lieu tenant-General Sir Henry Bell, the Colonel Commandant of the Corps, resident in London, that their Lordships took those steps which they considered most proper, to ascertain how tar it might have been their duty to have submitted any opinion to his Ma jesty, adverse to his gracious intentions towards Lientenant-Co lona. Savage and Abernethic ; but their Lordships did not by ally means consider it necessary to inquite the particular feelings of the Plymouth Division of Royal Marines, respecting au oc currence at Woolwich; nor would their Lordships, under any circumstances, have sanctioned the calling a meeting of mostly Junior Officers, to pronounce ou the character of their Seniors, or to decide on the propriety of admitting. such Seniors to take their proper rank and command in the Corps. Their Lordships therefore desire me to express to you their entire concurrence in the view taken by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Bell, of the extreme impropriety of the Officers of the Plymouth Division of rlarines, in signing the Memorial which you transmitted ; and their Lordships still more deeply deplore, that an Officer of your rank should have so far forgotten his sta tion and his duty, as not only to have encouraged this proceed ing on their parts, and have for:Tarded to their Lordships so im proper a document, but also to have himself written a letter worded in a style even more indecent and more incorrect than that of the said !Memorial ; and from which their Lordships are led to believe that you are but imperfectly acquainted with the transactions to which you have so improperly adverted. My Lords therefore direct me to convey to you their particu lar censure for your conduct on this occasion, and to desire you to inform the Officers who signed the Memorial, of their Lord ships displeasure at their uncalled-fur interference. And I am further directed to convey to you their Lordships' commands, that on the receipt hereof, yon forthwith give up the command of the Plymouth Division of Royal Marines (should Colonel Vinicombe not have arrived), to whatever Officer of the Division on the spot may be next in seniority to yourself. I am, Sir, &c. &c. Lieutenant-General Tench. JOHN BARROW. (COPY). Cadogan-place, Aug. ; 1821. Si have received your letter of this day's date, ;closing a letter from Lieut.-Gen. Tench, accompanied by a Memorial from the Officers of the Royal Marines at Plymouth, and signifying to me the commands of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, .to take the same into my" consideration, and to report to their Lordships thereon. I have to request that you will be pleased to relate to their Lordships the tollowiug circumstances. On the 23d of July last, having, in obedience to the commands of Lord Melville, waited upon his Lordship, in company with Lieutenant-General Lewis, his Lordship inquired of Lieute bant-General Lewis, as Commandant of the Woolwich Divi sion, whether he conceived there would be any disinclination on the part of the officers of the corps to Lieutenant-Colonels Sa vage and Abernethie, who had formerly belonged to the Wool wich Division, retur n ing to do duty amongst them? lieute nant-General Lewis, in reply, distinctly stated to Lord Mel ville, that he was convinced there could not be any; that, on the contrary, Lieutenant-Colonel Savage, though now on half pay, and the officers of course not called upon to associate with him, was nevertheless constantly in the barracks with them, on terms of friendship and intimacy. Lieutenant-General Lewis and myself, at the same time, fur her stated to his Lordship, that Lieutenant -Colonel Abemethie was also much noticed and respected by many of the oldest ofg ' eel., of the corps, and that we conceived there could be no ob. jection to the restoration of his rank. Under these circumstances, it is with the deepest regret that I have read the letter MIS memorial from the officers of the Plymouth Division, which has this day been referred to me by their Lordships orders; and I cannot help submitting it as my opinion, that the officers of this division have acted without due discretion, in thus unadvisedly stepping forward and appusi-g themselves to the act of grace which his Majesty bas been pleased to extend to Lieutenant-Colonels Savage and Aherne- Wet after those officers had suffered a very considerable length. of punishment for the error fornierly committed by them. I cannot help further remarking. that it appears extraordinary that the objections to these officers should proceed from the officers of a division who cannot be so well acquainted with ad the circumstances of the ease ' as the o ffi cers of the division where the transaction occurred, and who have made r.o objec tion to their restoration. Since I have received your letter, in order to prevent any mis apprehension, I have again seen I.ieutt•nant.General I.ewis, who entirely concurs with me in his recoilectioiref what I have stated to have passed between Lord Melville and ourselves on the oc casion above alluded to, and be has again repeated to me the same sentiments on the subject with regard to these officers. 1 am, Sir, Ate. John Barrow, Esq. dte. 11BN1tY BELL, Lieut.-Gen. (COP Y). Royal Marine Barracks, Ilyinouth, Aug 18, 182.1. Bra—llaving intimated in a late public letter to yon, my in. tention of submitting, for the consideration of the Right lion. the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, certain observa- Liens, framed with a view to the explanation of the part I took, in forwarding the Memorial, dated on the sth instant, from the officers of, and at this division of Royal Nlatines, with my ac companying letter on that occasion, to the Board; I now beg leave, with the most profound respect, to pffer, through you, to the attention of their Lordships, what follows :—I presume * believe, that If information had reached the officers whose •signaturesare subjoined to the Memorial, and myself, that the restoration of Lieutenant-Colonels Savage and Ahernethie to the serving corps, was an " Act of Grace," emanating from the King, and that this extension of Royal clemency had proceeded, from a representa.ion of the Board of Admiralty, founded on tie Report made to their Lordships by • Lieutenant-General Sir henry Bell and Lieutenant-General Lewis ; in such a case (whatever might have remained the state of private opinion re -1 lative to those officers) not any public manifestation of the senti. mews of the Memorialists would have gone forth, and 1 myself should have equally refrained from addressing their Lordshipi oo this subject. This leads me to lament that the circumstances I have stated were not made known here, as certainly such a de: elaration of the opinion of Sir Henry Bell and Lieutenant-Gen. Lewis, respecting Lieutenant-Colonels Savage and Ahernethie, aiippears 'in the copy of their letter transmitted to me, came totally unexpected upon every officer of this division ; and con sequently, although it may seem to speak the voice of the corps, such a document can hardly be considered as conveying the sense of more than one of the Marine Divisions. _ _ With reference to that passage of your letter to me, which re marks that scarcely one of the officers who signed the memorial was senior in rank to Lieutenant-Colonel Savage, I have to ob serve, that the signatures of Major-General Cole and Colonel Mackintosh (both senior), were not deemed admissible, frau those officers having quitted the serving corps; and with the ex ception of them, not any senior officer to Lieut.-Col. Savage holds an appointment at Plymouth. Surprise on the part of their Lordships senile to be excited at a representation of the eligibi lity of the officers in question proceeding from a division which, from local causes, it has been presumed, was least likely to be apprised of the circumstances that passed publicly at the Cours- Martial held on Lieutenant-rolonel Abernethie. But can it be matter of wonder to their Lordships, that so memorable an event as the trial of an officer of high rank, followed by the pro mulgation of the sentence, and that too accompanied with a • Masxostarronat," which. by the express command of the Board of Admiralty, was inserted in the records of the Four Divisions, should occasion an extensive correspondence, and promote much interchange of opinion in every branch of the corps? and this presumption being admitted, in connection with the frequent removals of officers front one division to another, by which means members of the Court. Martial are found serving at the Marine Headquarters at this moment, will, perhaps, furnish A sufficient reason why the officers of this Division did not consider themselves as less competent than those of any other, to form judgment, and lay it, respectfully,before their Lordships. 1 now, with all possible deference, entreat permission to offer, for their Lordahips' gracious consideration, a few words with relation to the part I individually acted on this occasion, in which my feelings, from the view their Lordships have taken of my letter, and their consequent indignation thereupon, have been so severely wbunded, premising what I am about to sub mit with my. solemn declaration, that no motives of personal hostility have ever existed against Lientenant-Colonel Savage on my side, and that the principle on which my conduct was framed was singly that of maintaining the dignity and reputation of the corps, in which I have served forty-six years, consistently with the high relative station I held in it. My view of the subject may have been erroneous; but I dare venture to affirm, that neither the moral principles of a man, the liberal (:clings of $ gentleman, nor the honourable sentiments generated by a mili tary education, have been departed from by me. When the re-appointment to active service of lieutenant-Colonels Savage and Abernethie was communicated to me, I could not avoid re. ferring to the Divisional Register of all puddle transactions, to which the sentence of the Court-Martial, 4111.1 the command of the King, pronouncing the punishment of both these officers, stand recorded. Here I found the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Savage stigmatised by the Court, and confirmed by the mandase of my Sovereign, as " UNJUST Ann UNMANLY." Certainly I any not aware of the English language containing epithets which can *sore forcibly impeach both the head and heart of the man to whom they are applied than these do. Upon them i as a public document, I conceived I had a right to farm my judgment, al though it would not become me to enter upon any defence of it here, differing, as I have unhappily done, from their Lordships on this point, and wishing, as I do, to steer clear of aught which could be interpreted into matter of fresh aggression. Sentiments of respect, associated with feelings of regret and compassion, foe the excitement of a warm temper, if stimulated by honourable motives will not be found . wanting in the Board to which lam addressing my cause. It was the lot of hint who now presents himself before their Lordships, to enter the Royal Slarines at a period when the honour and respectability of the corps was cherished with enthusiasm by its old officers, and inculcated. with earnestness on the minds of the youths who joined quar ters; and the first military impression stamped in my bosom re mains uneffacetL How many noble effects have I not witnessed springing from this Esprit de Cops. It has again and again ci.i. mated the Marine of every rank and class to forget his situation of comparative depression, whenever the cause of his King and Country demanded his exertions on the deck or in the field. There are certain principles influencing Woman conduct, which, though not abstractedly just, it would be dangerous for autho rity to tamper with, and unwise to wish destroyed; a watch. Ad jealousy over the interests of the profession they are mem. bers of, and a quick sensibility to any invasion of its characts r, cannot be too highly milted, or too dearly cherished, by all military bodies ; - they lay the foundation of all that it disinte rested and elevated in the minds of soldiers. Annihilate them, and what is the substitute? Petty selfish competition'', as de structive to the respectability and harmony of every corps wherein they exist; as injurious to the service of our country. Under the full force of this early imulanted principle, I do out scruple to acknowledge, and I claim the benefit of such annc knowledgment from their Lordships, that if too large a portion of the high and honourable spirit, which is my pride, kindled in my bosom on this occasion (principally) of Lieutenant-Colonel Savage's restoration to the serving corps, yet was the purpose I contemplated, whilst remonstrating against it, of such a cha racter as may defy accusation or reproach ; to the severity with which it has been visited, it is my duty to bow from Isencefor. ward in respectful silence. I have the honour, &c. W.ITKIN TENcii, Lieut.-General. . John Barrow, Esq. &c. &c. ace. THIS MONTH. HAZARD and Co. the . Contractors, remind the potic that the Drawing of the present 310 N EY LOT TEIrf will comente on the 7,oth of 'PI IIS MONTH. They have the greatest pleasure in acknowledgin the r e peated t est i_ u nties of approbation bestowed on the Scheme, which combines all the paigis that the Public have so long called for. There are THREE 01: £:40,000! THIRTY OTII ER CAPITA LS--All Sterling Money ! NOT TWO 111..%NKS to a PRIZE! No CLASIiES--.lnd no STOCK PRIZES! HAZARD and Co. h the already had the pleasure of selling Au. the £30,000 PRIZES in present ttery and hope to re pot their good fortune in the p Lottery. They shared and Sold, in the last Lottery. 1.5.703 a I'rize of £21,000 6,054 - - £15,000 At thsir Old and very nit-tun:oe Offices, 93, Royal Exchange ; Cornbill; and 3C4, Oxford.strtet.