The Statesman. — London, England, 1810-09-06 00:00:00

IV D 1 A. GENERAL ORDERS, H tAo-QUARTERS OF THL Ait)lY. Calmliry Plain, 7.oth March. 1810. G. 0. BY "MAJOR-GLNLR.II, SOWDIE. Further extracts from the proceedings of the General Court.AlJrtial which assembled at ilatsga. lore, on the Ist day of November, 1809, awl of sthich M ijur.Geiteral IVAarn as President, are poldishod to the Army. I;eutenant.Col.mt-1 Johto Doveton, of the Bth :re..l tient N. C. and late comsnanitiog the detach. silent of troops verviog at the frontier station of JAultilli, ordered in arrest bv the Officer command. ill; the Army, on the following charges : Ulf An c;t: I.—For conduct subversive of good order and militia) Aiscipline, and in breach of the rules and articles of war, for the better government of the Comploy's fortes, by having, in violation of his duty, and the great trust reposed in hint, as commanding a most important and ci itically situated frontier gallon, shamefully abandOned the post cominifted to his char. t e, by moving his detachment from the station of on the 14th 14 August last, and with a motinous and seditious design agailut the existing Government of Fort St. George. 2.—Fur having, previously to his March, endeavoured to stir up mid excite the troops, ender his command, to join in a udoy rind sedition against theexisting Goverment of Fort St. George. 9.—Fer having affixed his name to a motifs - ma and seditious plier,styled the Declaration, expresi,ive of the intention. with sitioe.l the force had corumeneeri their march. By order .4 Major-GeneralOmedie. commanding the Army. •Fort St. Grow, (sign del) T. Ff. S. CON IV Ay, 9th Oct. ISu9. Adjutant-General of the Army. SENTENCE AS PASSED ON TM 55TH realtudaY, 1810. The Court are of opinion that • the Prisoher, Licutenant.Colonel John Doveton, is not guilty of the charges preferred against him, and do in the most full and most honourable manner acquit him of all and every part iheroof. (signe4 W. ORMSBY, (Signed) HENRY WARDE, Deputy Judge-Advocate. idaj. Goa. and President. REVISED SENTENCE AS PASSED THE 13TH FEB. 1810. Tee Court, in obedience to the orders of the Officer commanding the Army, having reconsi. dered the whole of the evidence before them, du not find any reason to alter their former opinion. (Signed) W. 0 R BY, (Signed) HENRY WA ROE, Deputy Judge-Advocate. Major-Gem and President. The Officer commanding the Army has deeply to lament that he cannot subscribe his approbation to the above sentence; the Prisoner has rested his de. fence on the pretext of having joined io the mutiny for the purpose of preventing the excesses of his men. But the articles of war having expressly excluded such plea, it is impossible to warrant an acquittal in opposition of the very letter of the , law itself. A second ground of the Prisoner's. defence sp. pears to be a private and •confidential letter from Captain Sydcoliam, the Resident at ifydrabad, re. commending to Lieut.-Col. Dovetnn to &opt the above conduct. Advice contrary to law can nem coustitute an authority for criminal acts, let it come from wh'at quarter it may. Bnt the letter in ques. tion was altogether unofficial, being marked " con fidential," and not only not reported to Govern ment, bet seemingly carefully concealed by both parties from its knowledge until the moment it was produced in Court by Lieut.. Col. Duvetua as a du. clement of his defence. A Court-Martial may indeed discharge a• Prisuner from legal penalty, but how far the party shall bel again employed is a separate question. Au Officer who could conceive himself justified in potting him-1 self at the head of mutiny on the mere targge&tions of another,. or on any protein whatever, can never, in the opinion of Major.Gmt. Gowdie, be thought fit to be again entrusted wjth.any important cos►. nand. He feels himself therefore imperiously called on to recommend to Government, that DAreton be removed front the exercise of all mili tary functions until the pleasure of the Court uf , Directors shAll be taken on his case, -attuning hint in the weal' time to draw his proper allowances. Lieuteuzut-Col. Julio Doreton is release 4 from arrest. Tito above order to be read at the head of every ltP•giment and Battalion on the establi‘hroest. GENERAL ORDERS, HEAD-QUARTERS OF THE AIOIY. • Cimaititry Plain, 21st March, 1810. The Right Ilonour.itilu the Governor-General in Council having addressed the subjoined - Orders of Major-General Gowdie, commanding the army, to be published to the army, they are accordingly..pub !Med in military orders. Fort St. George, 21st March, 1810. G. 0. BY CUTER:OII4NT. The Officer commanding the army haring laid be. fore the Governor-General in Council, the proceed.. imp of a General Court Martial on the trial of Lientestaist.Colenel D.,vetois, and having reCOM• mended that Lieuten.int.Colonel Donttoso stall be suspended from the exercise of. kis military.fancti!m o receiving the pay and, allowance of his rank, un.: til the Honourable *the . Court of Pirectars• shad signify their pleasure upon a cage se tnspnrts . ant and extraordinary; his lArdvisip id CoUncil hAs taken the provedings of the said Court.Martill Into the must serious consideration, and as nen in . deference to the recommendation of the Officer commanding the army, as from entire concurrence %%jib his sentiments, has reiolved to transmit the proceeding, to the Honourable the Court . of Direc tors by the earliest opportunity. Ili. Lisr.iship in Council is further pleased to order, that Lieutenant. Colonel Doveton be suspended from the cxer. cisc of his military functions, receiving the pay and allowances of his rank, until the pleasure of the Ho. nourable Court shall be known. The Governor-Gcneral in Council cannot, with. ant extreme regret, publish to the army a formal dissent from the judgment of a tribunal .so much entitled, from the ends and nature of its institution,, to respect, as a General Court Martial ; bat no alsiabliahmeut, devised and adosiiii-tercel by men, can be exempt from human 131111)44j, and the conic. quences which mast plait from a tacit sanction of the principles on which this erroneous judgment Ina sit have beau founded, appear to the Governor. General in Council so futidamentally subversive of wry s i A o rity which the law has wisely and prove. dotty supplied against the greatest danger with which society can be menaced, that all the subor. dilate considerations of delicacy towards public . . THE STATESMAN. bodies, or tenderne►s towards indiviirds, which might properly weigh in ordinary cases, most yield to the higher and parri,tiount duty of providing for the permanent tranquillity and safety of the public. The Governor-General in Council cannot,' there. fvre,- too distinctly avow his entire concurrence in the sentiments of the Officer commanding the army, on the present occasion ; and his Lordship in Coun. dl will ever acknowledge the deep obligations of the British Empire at large, as well as of this portion of it, to the firmness and energy with which Major. General Gowdie has, with personal relectancr., no doubt, but with a manly devotion to his public duty, opposed the establishment of false and on. military principles, by withholding his confirms. Live of a sentence from which they would here after claim support; and has counteracted their ', pernicious tendency by a solemn assertion of those civil and military tenets which the Legislature has, ust this branch of our public dutie►, exclusively ac. knowledged, as conformable with the jester ne... lions of the military character, or compatible with military trnit. Those cardinal maxims are, that in every calamitous case of mutiny and revolt, .iirhe. thee partial or general, or " on whatever pretext" that, moustrons.offenee may seek to justify..itseg, the first obligation of every officer and ,soldier is to oppose its progress by every effort Of . peks,* - son.— . His second is, to separate himself froni . the euitty ; and the last anti mogt sacred is, to join the standard of his Sovereign, his employers, and his duty, and to strain every nerve• •uf zeal, activity, and courage, in subduing the criminal party. It is in conformity with these just and important principles, and with a lively sense of their power. tut an.: decisive influence on the discipline of ar. mien and safety of the state, that the Governor. General in Council has deemed it expedient and neeresery to adopt the firm and judicious advice of the Officer commanding the army, and to postpone the indulgence of personal disposition, and every other inferior motive, to the more sacred care of providing in an extraordinary conjuncture for the interests and security of the public. By order of the Right Honourable the Goverstor. General in Council. (Signed) A. FALCONAR, Chief see. to Gov. fly order of - 111Ajor-Gen. Gus die, commanding the Army. A YOUNG LADY hi ISSING. LEFT her Friends, in the vicinity of Piccadilly, yesterday. about Twelve o'Clock in the Morning, sup la a fit of Mental Derangement, A YON LADY. Cr on a Black Cambric ur &velvet II Gown. Black Silk Hand kerchief tied round her Neck. a large Sloaell &usenet Bonnet, Whits Cotton or Grey Silk Stockings. and Black Shoes, a *more Pearl Broli.o, with Hair in tar centre, on her Hand kerchief; about k ive Feet High, grey Eyev, long Now, small Mouth, with aood set ef Teeth ; very long light Brown Hair, very Thin and Weak throagh illness. It is supposed she took a small Parc4.l with her containing Wearing Apparel. Had (only a few Shillings in her Pocket. Whoever ma give well inforntatioa to Mr. Jackson, F dyer mith, Nn. IK, Charlotte-street,. Rathbone-place, as will en able her Friends to recover her, shell be handsomely rewarded. Sept. fi, 1810. OR,DNANCI; tiOltek.S. . TO ISE %OLD BY. AUCTION. • : )- ttire .• By Mr. ISADI•Eft. At tiii s • 1 itory, Goswellatreet t TO-NO t010W . ,._ at 12. rip HlRlTclever, active sod lug. size SUPE R:. IL. NUltEfe/saY .atel3 ape told ao almost at * redaction hark* taken piece. Most of them are young, in high enuditioh, and capital goad goers; calculated for new devisees' Gigs. Mail-couches, Pust-chaise, and various other purposes. To he viewed prior to the sale, and posttively,sold oitheet teServe. .Al‘n several clever Rocklike. Gig, Jultrwqr Urns the whole übnat 90 Wks. • N. R. Public Days retry l'uesilly lopi Friday. , . • firl ;o'4ll I% S 1114,1 lIA k 1 f lIN P. (Y11,14..*c 3 perCesiaited. (Ant.) 13 per Cert. Cons. 67} 6B Omnimas 3i 3 dip. 'THE STATESMAN. • LONDON: Tll U DAYY, sstrctisst 6, IW. - WE this morning received a Gettenbasgh Mail. 'lll*another part of our paper we have given extracts from the papers brought by this conveyance. 'SERVIA, it seems, is to be united to AUSTRIA. This is another of NAPOLEON'S changes.—The arti. cle from the NEAPOLITAN Head-quarters, stating, 'that 30 of Joactum's gun-brigs beat off 80 Engli•b ships of war, is a gasconade of rather too ludicrous •an aspect! Joachim has a hard game to play,. and• we should nut he surprized to see him also sent to the baths of Tepid; or some other ssife and feint place of retreat, ur rather rest. 0 TH4 active cartel, arrived at Plymouth from, Tite*Tay, bringing Mr. NET, wills dispatches from Mr. MACKENZIE. Mr. NET Itn. mediately set off fur town with the dispatches, and the Active was kept in readiness to carry him back, on his return from Loudon. The contents.of these dispatches have not transpired, but a Morning Pa per states, that " The only olistaele which now remains to prevent the conclusion of so arrange ment for the exchauge of prisoners, isoccasioned by a proposition of Boxaraare's, that the English shall be the last exchanged ; that is, that the Spaniards and Portuguese shall have the precedency !" And the same Paper adds, that " This proposition proceeds evidently from LIortAPAUTE'S suspicion of the Clelity of our .Guvernment, and not com. plied with because we are equally jealous of bins." We cannot believe the FRENCH EPA PERO it ever was sincere in his propositions on this subject. As our Government advanced to meet the great object, he receded. If he had been sincere, be never could have made the proposition, that the Enorasu should be the last *exchanged, giving the SPANISH and PURTUGUISE the preference. That, indeed, w o uld be a singular couCession for our Government to make! It is enough surely, that we lovhhly ex. Rend our blood and wealth for SPAIN and PORTE. i: enough for Englishmen to die in the field for SPAIN and Pitaruom..—Must thole of them that fall alive into the prisons and depad of the enemy, whether from the' chance .of' war, or the perfidy of that enemy, musk ! dm% still linger and pine in confinement, wbiN flits' men whose battles we arc fighting, are re. stored to liberty and air ? Why, if one English pri g , softer in France died in consequence of the delay in his liberation, arising from the accepting of this arrangement by our Government, we should, aay, he was murdered. And is the preference to be given to the Spanish and Portuguese, to the exclu: sion of those entrapped, ensnared persons, utile:e ft/11y and basely detained by Napol.soN at the commencement of the war ? England's folly, ie bearing with the ignorance and misconduct of her 1 vile Ministers, dues deserve chastisement from 'some hand. But it would be too much of Mortification, as well as evil, to receive it from *we very Ministers,, by the medium of this de. I trading and unjust prOpositimb We would rather . Ni' England perish, than see this wrung committed! .41ed we do not believe thit hilulitirtmeen any nett wrong to be committed. • - Wit have spoken (avow. ably of their intentions in the negoclation.; and ate give them credit forbeing guided by a proper feel. ing throughout. However Ibis . be, NAPOLEON'S tropOSitiOa is so absurd, that he could mean n 0..., prop, ') thing by it but to elude the EICSANOR. And on his head, be the deaths in prison, that may follow. , from his barbarous policy ! A MINISTURIAL Paper of last night acquaints the public that MAMMA has only concentrated his army, but not actually retreated. It was expected that he would endeavour to bring Lord 1V T'LLING. TON to an action, and that he would mask Almeida, instead of losing time in attempting a siege. A Treaty of Commerce has been arranged with the Deputies from the Caraccas, in the 4th article of which, we understand that Great Britain, on her part, engages to protect the trade of those settle. ments against any hostile attempt that may be made to destroy it ; a singular embarrassment thus arises from the 14te blockading Pruclaination of the Re gency of Spain. THE following Advertisement is published in owl of the last Barbadoes Papers received Wirnte,l, for - U..l'l.es' and Div rtELL'it, from SO to :45 " good Barbadian NEGROES, ill one or mute lots, and not lest than eight or ten in a lot s with a full proportion of work• " l people, for which a liberal price will be given, and " payment wade agreeable." Whyi lluw can this nation. expect to escape the visitations, the beery visitations of Wine Prowl. dance, if it will continue this system, which curdles the blood of every humane man, of disposing of ►alional beings, with a living soul, and quick and impetuous feeling, like so many beasts of burden ? You cannot, yeti will nut escape from the yen. &nee that overspreads you, if you do not wholly abandon this traffic, if you do not restore to Abe Negro race the rights- which Heaven gave, and you took away I It is no matter whether NAPOLIHM , live or mot to be your scourge. A' rod will ,100 ~ found to bruise you—a rod, beneath which yog i will expire, and expire with tortures even greate/ than those you have indicted upon your Negrp, victims! Chose then ! Abandon this unholy trathc, or pedal ! ..4.- We have given some very important officialdom ments, received by the recent arrivals from INDIA, and relating to the former military disturbances in the Presidency of Madras.' Our power in INDIA, which Mr. PITT Mad consolidakel l and which the Marquis 'WELLESLEY bad (to use a French phrase) conquered, is crumbling very fast A private letter of the lath April states, tit the' General Orders 'mined on the sentence of the Court. I Martial had excited great disgust in all ranks. The President, General. WAane, of the King's troops, had resigned his Staff appointment, and was about to proceed to England. The Officers under accusation, who had preferred the alternative of being tried by COnrt.Martial to quitting the service, had, it was said, In cousequesce of the orders of Government on Colonel Doivrott's acquittal s requested to be dismissed. Lead Mm NTo confined, it Madras at the end of March. The Modelle had been dispatched to Cal. cutta, for Gull. HEWITT, irloh it was reported, would take the command of the Madras army, until the arrival of Sir S. Aucustuvv from England. The Govertior.General was expected to return to Ben . gal, soon after Gen. Hewnes arrival. A large expedition was fitting out Madras, the destination of which was kept secret. The pre vailing opinion was, that it was intended against the Isle of France. Col. CLOSE'S army, which had been broken up, after occasioning an immense expence, was ordered to re-assemble. ,-- ime l PAptfts were yesterday received fr o m Bums Ayres to the 14th of June, which add some, tercsting particulars to the intelligence wa' laseff 1 1 communicated respecting the state of the RIK ° Winn in that quarter ►►f South Ameri4,4 .Maldonado and Colonia had concurred sittb;.tha t capit,►l in refusing to acknowledge the Regency at Cadiz ; but a difference of opinion prevailetrat Monte Video. While the inhabitants of that place min i s tk aetiefichnsing a Deputy to send to Buenos ; 05 peop le received the G t e t : i A l yies o 5 0t. p . 7 ., is . tr i es lif sel arved frettlCaitliz, With a i l i cct iv er owe irreceo4itsgs in Spain, up to the mid. les A i iidieg3„breaght: N 4y . kbis ship with grist 147. :birimi Regency wes e immediately acknowled gs d , i ltnif Miss **l Ire De ueee yere celebrated, On llCe ougt ot i jlf4fait . OßTAlCapiwing coot affairs is the moth er tesoury. , Thaucconnts arbich bad been receiv e d, were iimeeidilstelyiciitampnicated to the Provisional GeriesissioaT44lneasta Ayres. That Junta, k ee . ever, repeated their arguments against seici ) ,„. ledgiag an authority not officially notified., Of Ibis agitation the Portuguese, it is expect c d , w i s h t o take a4vantage, as the New Gfaveriinietit have published an order, stating, that one of go t Commanders has been furnished with the means of repelling the Portuguese, who have encroached utt the Spanish frontiers. A caution published at Buenos Ayres, and addressed to the Men:lnuits, respecting the destination of their vessels, is wun i ty of notice. It states that his BRITANNIC MAJI:111 ship Bedford had detained and sent into Perusal. buco, a Spanish ship from Lima, bound to Cade, under the simple pretext, that, in case the French should happen to be in possession of Cadiz, they would capture her.... Tho notice adds, that such detentions as these must he attended Stith serious inconveniences.---It does seem, that our seizare neutral, or even friendly ships, is be . be extended all over the world. Well ! We shall see what we we get by that !...We have given setae farther ea. tracts from the Caraccas Journals. On the 18th of June, a Revolution took elms at Carthagena ; the Governor was seized and seat off to Havannalt. The old Governor, who bad boa dismissed by the Junta of Spain, had been Ma o stated by the Revolutionists, to head the pram Government. The Committee were sitting to form new regulations, and the Merchants bad petitioned to have the duties on imports reduced to 10 per cent. •those on exportS to be entirely taken of. Curthagena professes allegiance to FERDINAND VII. bet rejects the Spanish Amts. `• Preparations *ere 'made in the latter end of last month, at Dorstee .Atttd Dusseldorf, for the recep. 'ticks of Boa etealtery DRthis,Way to Amsterdam. ` Tbe'moneventarkeifentipl:es to experience much idepreation. ,C . onsols - Me Money were yest e rd a y , dune at 071, kind tf OMOlum way at a disc: at of . 44 per cent. ' • , A. II ,-. The British toreeinSitilitintsted 01 25,000 men, lid . thallotilta; stationed in the Straits of Mei:Simi, el l asiels .1400 'gun.boats and other armed vessels, well-manned and equipped. The following is an extract of a letter froi 4 British (Nicer, dated off St. Domingo, the 19th of July:—" To skew you what a decided cheracter Ceetteroeue is, and what. examples be milors :—a few days ago, be behisatied a Colonel, and- tkdi, • mated the whole regiment; upwards ot skkty wits either shot or bayonetted. This was 'thirst in en. sequence of an action a short time before?, with the besieged, in which thli regiment did not behave well." :t We are informed by a Gentleman lately•frou At. tacapas (Orleans lerritory), that in passing through the perish of Iherville, he found encamped on the bombs iof the hilitliaaippi, on the American -vide, elpreat Dumbest' air.french families, who had I. , .heuu - sirilikirout WltlitiTturida, by order of the h Avantak, op etnente)- Iseppears that throe days voeshi:rertitgiortadisasigklle dispose of their pro. txgrty, vim itai n op o o r ksivis of his Catholic Ma. ri,,=1,11 , v . J'''' atbil. , ClSleraif i lifiecton was held at the East India House, when Messrs. RAA.,II and 'l'oo. 1111A5 Waktraos.r,kAle4glapnth were appointed the ComPan,ell . , c.I4A ,ikli „limerick, instead of Mr. Dltt Ski kir r p s. There:Alo luk Alpe - arrived off Weymouth the3d inst. undei coetoy of his Majesty's ship floristic), and passed Portsmouth the following day, sig.:. Earl Bowe, Sir William Palteney, Lady Lush. l ington, from Bengal ; and Charles Grant, from 1 Bombay. Sailed from St. Helens the 12th July. On the i 25th July; in 8. 36. N. and L. 23. 40. W. the above ships fell in with the under-mentioned extra ' ships, under convoy of Ms Majesty's ship Leda, viz. Earl Spencer, Lord Keith, Monarch, Bata. via, Plebe, Larkins, and Tyne. The Charles I Grant sailed from Bombay the 17th of April. The following are the Passengers arrived in these ships:— PER CHARLES GRAIT—Mn. Pendergast, Mrs. Hower, Mrs. Forbes, Mn. Hungerfard, Miss A6hburner, Mr. Fader mast, Mr. Runner, Major Lloyd, Hoonurable Compton 's yr. vice; Captain Horton, his M‘jesty's 84th Regiment; Lillie* mat Lewis, Royal Navy g Capt. Hudson, flononrable Gasps ny's artillery; Lieutenant Mao, his Majesty's 114th regineillt Mr. Clarke, paymaster, dins; Mr. klaitlitod, master, Roysi Navy ; Mr. Scott, r.urgron, ditto; Mr. Baines.—Children, 141 0 Peodergast, Miss Paidioa, ditto; Miss Belot Illisahoth Ros ner, Miss Fanny dint* bliss Mary IHminikon, Miss Catharins Forbes, mid Miss Catharine Hangerford.—Masers Thomas Hssngerford, John Hungerfora, Henry Vigen Houser, Charlet Forbes Moaner, Charlet Fitzgerald, Guy Pendergai, George Money, mid George Forbes. PER LADY IfSHINOTON—It Seaton. Psa !CARL i owx —Sir R. Su inn, Capt. and Mrs. Brower Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins, from Bombay, list from St. lleleaa. Pita PELTED DY--riftees children. The Lion man of war, with the•PKIIIiAN Au. BASSADOn, Sir WILLIAM and Sir GORE OUSELEY, and Mr. Montan and suite, arrived safe at Madeira in the beginning of last month. Sir Goat landed, and remained on shore three Jays. The following singular circumstance occurred on Itindil-last, at a gentleman'•, residing in the nelghbillithortd OfiDulwich : having a few friends 11) 'to diiiit'shllth' h : rile afterward* invited them to take a ii.l4ltlvitstt hill' ar•lfeits;.leating in the dining.r , om uktietlititi4 flilt ( kifintist4 On the table. The ll* !iiit'i ViVilitt ; ii t trifilitfliclear away, to his great i t tA3 .. l l 4 w i i l ' fLi gh" 46 it,_ i i vA rfiii / t that one of the *lotion' uttcr"'l" oOdNi'lietite rdyl of the sun, haviiig eiklfettidlliedf'Utgel`tioint, or fuels*, which shone. 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