The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-05-21 00:00:00

TILE ARMY.

We lay before our readers the following General Order,
which issued from the Horse Guards on the sth April,
ISt!, for the purpose of illustrating the last General Order
that has been issued from the same quarter, and which has
reference to the affair that recently took place between the
Marquis of Londonderry and Mr. Battier :
GENERAL ORDER.

Hots": tiusens, APRIL ii, 1819.
It has been reprnientak' to his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent, that Lieutenant as Hasker, and Ensign Edward
Ring, who have recently been placed upon the half-pa=te.
ifelh regiment. here grtualp Unshed and ehallesrsi
Colonel Frederic*, commanding that regiment, upon the grounds
of his conduct towards them in his capacity of Commanding OIL
ea, while they were co full pay under his orders.
" As it would be highly injurious to the disciplined the service,
to permit the notion to an with impunity, that when an Officer is
placed upon half-psy. he shall feel at liberty to set aside all the
restraints of decorum and subordination, by indulging feelings of
personal resentment towards his former Commanding Officer, his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf
of his Majesty, has been pleased to command, that his displeasure
upon this gsgrant act of misconduct shall be marked bye taiipit the
names of Lieutenant 11... -.at Hasler and Ensign Edward Ring,
from the List of the Anil.
" The Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of his Ma-
jesty, has also been played to con:tuand, that sa Lieutenant
Richard William Larnbrecht, on the half pay of the 3d garrison
battalion, who was the bearer of the challenge from Ensign Ring
to Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick, appears to have been equally cul-
pable, his name shall in like manner be erased from the List of the
Army."
The Commander-in-Chief has received the l'nnce Regent's com-
mands to promulgate to the army the above declaration of his
Royal Highness's pleasure, on the subject of Lieutenant Thomas
Hacker and Ensign Edward Ring, and of Lieutenant Richard
William Lanihrecht, in order that Officers on half-pay may be
sensible, that whenever they so far forget their duty as to give vent
to feelings of personal animosity and resentment against their
former Commanding Officer, on the grounds of his conduct to-
! wards them in his official capacity during the time they were seer.
Ping under his command, they will not fad to draw upon themselves
the Royal displeasure to the wire extent, as is hereby expressed
against the individuals to whom this order especially applies.
The Commander-in-Chief has it further in command to express
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent's approbation of the line of
• conduct adopted on this occasion by Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick,
land to declare, that any Officer who shall prove so unmindful of
' what is due to his station. and so regardless of military discipline.
as to accept a challenge given on grounds similar to those on which
these I Hikers presumed- to challenge their fanner Commander,
will incur his Royal Highness the Prince Regent's highest dia.
pleasure.

By command of his Royal Highness the Coonnaoderan-Chief.
HARRY CA LVERT, Adjutant-Genesi