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Hone Guard., March 25, 1819.
At a General Court Martial heldoi at Vl'hiteliall
0,, the 1.1 of February, 1819, l continued hy
atliour ))))) rills to the 13th of the same mouth,
Brevet Lieutenanh.Culouel Philip Hay. Major in
the 114th II assert, Was arraigned (you the under-
mewl 111 l eti elm gr.. wig,
" Ist. For fraudulently misapplying several sums of money
received by him, I.teetelial
t-Colonel Hay, for regimental
purpose., that i• to ray, pint of the produce of • eertain re-
milliner of OM( made In Paymaster Deane, and of three
seversl d'art' or bills of exchange fur 2001. each, drawn by
him, larreteliatii-Colonel Hay, on Messrs. Greenwood, Cox,
soil Co. Agent, eon the said regiment, on account of art's-
ea. ie.' flunk hill to the said regiment, wad charged to the
Recount of Paymaster Deane, while he, lienteaant-Cidonel
Hay, cuounalideil the depot of the said regiment at Bright-
helinsinue, in the mouths of February, Morels, April, and
May, 1814.
" 21. For fiarilutently roiaapplving • certain other suns of
754 f. 1114 or some part thereof, being the produce of
one draft or bill of exchange,dided on or about the 18th day
of Jaanary. 1815, drawn by Paymaster Deane on Captain
Joules, at 31 . Greenwood, Cur, and Co. and intrusted to
Lind -Colonel Hay, fir the payment of other clothing and
necessaries furnished to the mid regiment at Chichester, in
or about the month of January, 1815.
3il. For conduct todwcoming the character of an Officer
and • (lealltaisati in having drawn and obtained hills on
Messrs. Greensmil, Cos, and Co. Agents of the said regi-
strar, sad on Captain Jane*, and is having received several
sums of money, in the years 1814 and 1815, to be applied in
payment for regimental necessaries, and clothing furnished
to for said regiment, and not duly appropriating the same,
sad in refusing or neglecting to *croon( for the same bills
anal sums of money, and suffering debts due for such iterte
amies and clothing to Messrs. C. and J. Prater, London, sod
to Meows. Ridge, Chichester, to remain unpaid on the lath
of J iilke, 1818, to the hindrance and prejudice of the service,
and of the said regimeut"
Upon which charges the Court came to the fol-
lowing decision :-
14 The Court hawmt investigated the several Charges pie.
ferred against Lieutenant-Colonel Hay, sad having had
under their consideration the evidence offered in this taw, as
will in support of the Prosecution as on behalf of the Pri-
soner, Lieutenant-Colonel Hay, they du, upon the first and
second Charges, most fully and most honourably acquit him.
" And upon the third Charge they do ntost boaourably
acquit him.
Elie Prince Regent is pleased, in the same and on the
behalf of Ids Majesty, to approve and eoafirm the riesling
mail sentrtiee of the Conti ; hut, although the Court appear
by the reideuce open the face unite poweediugs to have bees
justified- its their lull and honourable acquittal of Brevet
I.ieot. Colonel Hay, es to the fraudulent misapplication
rlaraed upon him of motley which manse to his limas, yet
it (hits appear to his Royal Highness that this (11%.
car luau been wantiog in the accuracy and regularity which
would have been essential to prevent the confusion that
has, in many inatatices, reputed the pecuniary concerns of
the regiment dnriug the time he runisiiroded the (tepid.
This cutsfusion and irregularity, as well as Ilse discredit
attaching to the regiment, from the non.psysamit of air.
manila for equivocate and necessaries, appears to Isis Royal
Nighties' to have proceeded from the extraonlinary and
most unusual system prevailing in the 18th Hussars,
of pi emitting Lance-Seijeant I,atiick, the Nlaater.tailor,
to be the respousible person for procuring and disbars-
big payment fur the equipmcuts provided by stoppages from
the awn, in direct contradiction to, and disobedience of, his
Maji sty's regulation% on this sulejert; and his Royal High-
ness considers the Comossuiling °Ricer who has taken
upon himself to permit this system, and to invest this
Madre-tailor with such a power, as necessarily respon-
sible for nil the inconvenient., which in this case has re-
sulted to the tutu Hus.ars, and must always result front
such unwarrasitalge and misplaced confltleiwe-, this mamba.
sihiltry mthl appear to Test sown Lieutenant-Colonel Mur-
ray, is a perish:r degree, by the extraordinary proceeding
of reinstating this person in the same initial of master-
tailWeil after he had taken the berwlit of Ilse Insolvent Act, in
Under S. get quit of di hiseontracted by him during the time
lie tAd previously 'recopied the same situation in the regi-
ment.
The Prince Regent tonal/lees sorb inallnitiou and segli-
atiicr in a Cummanitiog Officer to he highly reprebnisoltle
,ioildeserring of hie won ked iltiapprohation, which his Royal
alsclintris has heels accordingly pleases, to command shall be
coninstinirsierl to Lieirlenstisl4l\dunel Murray.
'(]nu Conssnander-in-Chief directs, that the (sequoia;
eh.ierres husk rued against LicuteColiniel Philip Hay, of the
1811, Ilissysis, together with the toiling of the CUM'S, sad
Ilse Priori' Regent's pleasure literrou, shall he entered in the
cis 111.1:11 (triter Boot. and rend al the Head of every Begi-
n,. lit 111 his Alejese)'a merrier.
St Command of his Royal Highness
Th.. Coniusander in-Chief,
HARR Y CALVERT, Adjulanhaelseral.

ROYAL VISIT TO IRE'LAND.

?hr Drchlin Weekly I Penal'', Jim rwri

Neatly three ITOMilla 'MCC stilled that it lOU
thr iidentino of 114 flo)el flightless the Duke of
SO.•eX 10 VOIt OS, lieteivt.ie neg It 'Aril pitta... of
his falier's dosisininsoi. From the time of holy
James sand king Wilhain, who fought their last
battle for tie Crown of shese !rah's, in I.elind, fat
Sovereign, or Soverrug,,'T s^.l. ever illsltrd our
!Jones, except the Duke of (1 ir.live, shoot thirty
Vtqlf• 30•11. whoWei* then a mire youth. This pie.
st-t.t (•.unly is the noor Amy
in ElOOpe. Of of ally Millard. 111,61 rift Tyr:l)rd the
sceptre of the firitaili Isles. They beer Irre;.,
with a few exceptions. georrally isheinplo) rd. :mit
it was not until the Coot hired was liberated front
the doinitostiou of Friture, that they left Eiigl
The Government of Canada, said subseqiiesitly
of Gibrelter, which were successively to
the Doke of Kent, forms the °lily exception in tla-4
Slatetibrilt. From that period, now upwards ot
twenty years, the English Princes hare remained
iu London mid its viciiiit y. until the Duke of Cam-
bridge Wall sent to 114los•Vr.f. It is oat our phjeet
at present to discuss the point, whether 34 I ly
Whit+ &Milk SO closely " oiled soh the Tionite
should be suffeied to spend the lust
'cat, of their
lives in:inactioo. '%e know it has been she policy
of Parhoutrut to prevent, as 14 ;Is pusvii.l4l, their
employment its tlw duties of Ow State. Even the
Ponce of Wales wes Hever aliowril to conosiaild
more than a tegiment of dragoons—ti' c Doke of
York, its fact, is the only Ptince Boit has been en-
gaged in Ile. duties of a great otherr. %Ve due
quite Rome of the arguments with which the lobo-
cities for ibis order of things are really to ',rove the
propriety of limiting, iii the persons of the Wienl
fainily, the exercise of those talrots which they
clieri-h and pioniote tunnel; theisiselers; trot we
have never been conviocril by those arguntessis.
We always thought it hard that the Priners of the
Blood, who have a greater interest in the glory of
the Throne, and in the preservation of the Consti-
tution, than any other individuals whatever, should
Ise kept 141 the hack ground. Yet this system has
been persevered in with undiscrimieating severity,
and the Princes have been cut off completely from
the means of rendering themselves serviceable to the
State, by the legitimate exercise of their virtues,
or their Wrote. The consequence has bren, that
we scarcely know any of them, as politic mei', hat
Iris Royal Highness the. Duke of Sussex. The
illustrious Prince. deprived °full hope of rendernig
service to his country, us a soldier, or as a great civil
officer, has appeared in the House of Lords as a Se-
nator, and has realised all the bright anticipations of
his friends-. and he has proved to the country that a
son of the Crown may be not only an able Legisla-
tor, but a splendid Patriot. The first speech deli-
vered by his Royal Highness, in the House of Lords,
was in favour of the Catholic people of Iselaild, and
was one of the clearest and most convitsciog—mw
of the most logical and eloquent, ever delivered in
that august Assembly ; in language pore, precise,
and pointed, and, at the sauce time, (Listing. ar-
dent, and impassioned ; this, his Royal Highness's
maiden essay its public life, will never lot lurgotten
in Ireland. It is the first instance in which :I mein.
her of the House 4:f Brunswick came before the
Hereditary Counsellors of the King, and volunta-
rily offered himself as the advocate of an oppressed
mid long-suffering people. His Royal Highness
knew the Irish people only by report ; he heard
that they were not without We'd ; he saw that the
most able Senators, and the most eloquent men
in
both Houses of Parliament, were Irishmen ; he
heard that they were brave—that England never
fought a battle in which Irish blood did not flow in
rivers—that they were never engaged iii a contest
which was out seconded by Irish valour. Hitherto
he has only known them by report ; he will now
see their country with his own eyes ; lie will now
visit their metropolis; he will imw mix iu Social
converse with them ; he will mow hate au typo, tu-
nity of witnessing Heir gratitude to him, and their
loyalty to his 'Boohoos Hotter. Ile will see that
the Catholics of Ireland heel as they might ; he will
wituee.s the Oros% expression of their regards end
their devotion; and when he departs from this coun-
try, he will early with him the conviction that—the
country should be free.
%VC have heard that in about a month Isis Royal
Highness will be amongst us. Macke-toles Hotel, in
Kildare-street, is engaged for himself and his suite;
he will he presto' at the Installation of St. Patrick.
Before his Royal Highness leaves London, the
Catholic Question will be debated in the House of
Lords. Heaven grind that the hopes of the people
may not be disappointed I Heaven WHO( 111;11 his
Royal Highness may be Nie bearer of good tatting.
of great joy, of peace and good-will among men I
If it should be so—if the Bill for the Relief of our
countrymen should pass 100 • law, aided by the
influence of his Royal Highness's antliority sod
minie.rhy the exercise of his great talents, and by
the assistance which he will receive from the exer-
tions of the powerful advocates of Civil and Itch-
gious Freedom im that House, then a ill he come
to Ireland as the guardian spirit of her rights. rod
as the herald of inviolable loyalty. frail the Clown
of Britain to the people of lietand.

. _
Accounts frotu Cadiz shoe, that the Viceroy of
Perri, in order to prese►ve a c 1111111 l aisication with
soar putts as were occupied by the Insurgents, had
given notice of his intention to pais chase several
ships, which were to I►e arriteil; and us Linos had
been thrown open lir the British trade, he hail HO
difficulty in precirring vessel•.
Levies, and I'.,prs. in the /nth silt. from Haven-
nah have hero received, by whirls we learn that the
fleet of Svairisili ►hips which sailed front that pas t ou
the 26tir of February, tinder convoy of a frigate and
sloop of war, for Cadiz, had a few days after their
departure experienced severe weather, and were
compelled to return to the island. Several of them
narrowly escaped being captured by the Insurgent
privateers, and had the vetula continued nu their
voyage, no doubt several of them would leave
fallen nits, the hands of the swat►., if trepanned
from the ►lops of ovr accompaining them. the
skive turtle with the coast of Africi u, January and
February lam had hi:en leSs active Ilia,.
liatunteaG Dia►y 1111 l anis sisal) a tined! :i.t of
winch had arrived within that period, brit a idrin-
ber 'Wrestle's were preparing to leave enha, and
would return after baring fresh supplies of ittArtie4,