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GENERAL ORDERS.

Ate General Court Martial held at
the oth July, lend, and eotitinued, by adloo►n-
ntt:nts, to the 3d of August following. Coptaiii
(ii.onGE Joni iIALLILAV. uf the 10th Rigiinesit
of Foot, was arraigned upon the folluwit4 charges,
viz.—

Ist —" For utioffirer-tike conduct In preferring charges
aGsirt Lieutchant end Adjutaut Spike, and Lieterhaid
9..ti.ig trerterellaatrr Siuquon, of the said rctii Regiment
of Fad, to Licutewint Colonel Newman, then being the
Commanding Officer of the same Retrinieut, ow or shout the
th tiffune lees, which charges were sealants, in:tattoos,
and groundless.
Per conduct highly unbecoming the character of
an 0 dicer, in preferring um. plaints quint Lieutenant-retort
Newman, his Commanding Officer, to Lientrent General
Lord Charier Fituiry, in the month of Jane lees, withont
Acores; the same to be forwarder, through the regular clut-
oel, altheogit Lieutenant-Colonel Nweinan had offered to
forwmil say tearylatut Captain Hallility might have to make
ardent him, or any other Officers of the Regiment, being
highly periodical to good order snit military d.scipline.
std—" Fur personal disrespect is Lieeterant.rolotiet
Newman, his Commanding Officer, us the/swede, at Weeley
Barrack*, on Saturday, the id July, lie ft, in realm ng to
interfere with the duties of Liestenie t-Coluuel D uremia,
then Commanding Officer of the Regiment, and for making
use of very ungentlemanly and insulted empresaire to Utast..
Colonel Newels's, audits° applicable to Isms and Lienienaut
Simper, of the toils Regiment, us bat.ifig bees admitted
that Lieutenant Sampson was then acting in obedience to
the eiders whieli he bail recited frnii Lieutestant•Coinsel
Newman ; be, Captain baring made use of the fob.
lowing expressious, in &hie. r to an ohs, ,entien of Irene-
Colvin) Newman It is of no couseedence—birds Of •
feather flock together !'
4th I barite—" For disgraceful coni!..!tt, acbeecroming
character of an Officer and a Genestuen, is neaking
disrespect' al language at Mast the fttlieer• of the
men, es front of the Most-Ream, ore ur about the 1 stir or
16th of May, 16tH, ht *.lrtg, ' that he would he rural
if ever he war co:m.lll,d with such a rurally salt is Iris
aseanir the Officer of the said loth Register.
ells Charge--" For omitting the Parade, on the ler of
Jose, Hut, without .eave, and refitting to retern ebeeer-
dared to to do hy hia:,er Short, the thee Comessidsag M-
eer of the Parade sod difijraceirilly sending a *-riot ease.
hood, by the Serleaut-Major of the Regiment, lu dettrleg
him to tell Major Short, Ord I e, Coyish' firatilay, was goon
away, "ruin point of fact Le was Got."
t: pan which charged the Court came to the foildwing de.
Ch air
The Court having wen and maturely considered the evM
desire adduced in support of the charges tie dint the Plinner„.
as well an the Obielvations sad statement moditki
way of defence, is of *endue, that the Prionet,*
Halite!, is ace gouty of tire attach! earldahlall Y Ilbit
&arse ; but that he is guilty of having
*great Lientenant and d d intact 'Spike, and ' pal
Acting Quartet-Master Simpson, to Lientesi net
Newton, the Prosecutor, unbecoming as °Myer% "refry
although the Curt feels itself band to nay, Ilia it does eat
*pp'-, to it, that the motives which indeed the Pres AO, to
prefer lowly charge*, owe either matters or maims.
That Court n of spioion, that the Pierre is ',pity of the
accord charge; that he is set gaiter of the drat pert of the
third charge ; but that he le gabs of lambic belined situ
errand 4:thruspeet to larariena,tellismal Newmae, the
Proscenia, his Commumillag Often. is hewing made use of I,
improper etpreellmse Ware him ' • althewits it doss Doi apv .
pear to the Court, that such eiryrrestune wise leteaded by
the Prisoner to ppl7 to tine, Lketeneet-Colonal
Ihe Court is firdear of *rake, that the Primmer is set
gqiity .4 the fourth Charge, and the' alert &Mr dander* ,
ern hip thereof.
Witikr -nt to the it appears te the Cited,
that thePrieamr`sbeewolry stymeta Oy poniard; by
put into, and kept is arrest, fart effere stated and sol=
against hive ti that charge, audio haring beer severely is.
prisnmided iA indent, end afterwards reamed from sort;
• said therefore the taitit correct that that Cline smelliest
to hone heirs etcfereml by troterat-Colosal NOWIMUI, the
Prosecutor, against the Primmer, mid it has thmedere
*yeti to penced spun the Wireatig.tion of it.
For uffeiltesiof width the Court hath as ford the Priv -
loner to be ge,/re, it dodo rtvidge, that he, the Prisoner,
shall be suspended "en rank and pay, ur tle von qf tares
ino,tka
Haring thus performed a wavy anplessant part elite dote
with respect to the Prisoner, the Court considers daert
esespelled to tern its attention to the condpet of t 14.,.
Officers oaf the second battalion al tbQ garb Ruprited, whir
composed the issue that battalion at the tier the ersters
of the Isle trill Martial an the Prosser sae oftlicialty mew j
rouoicai cd to him, mad who refined to re-admit the Pinner.
as a member of their mess, after it bed cow to their karate
ledge, that Ho Thirty bad bars graciously pleated to I
tend his forgiveness to Ur Prisoner' and to coinstate
hie reek se a Caprivi is the loth Regiment. TY,
lid MS great concern at the 'natters's' of dwell Olken to •
the mertitin evirride.ntion winch His Majesty was pleased
tr rhea' lett I:Uh lite Peron' sot basin befit by any means
satisfied with the reasons which was attempted lo he gat*
for the mohair, to *hick these Officers caw • br the
Court omeicia, that it was the duty of these (4fwers,
they had any charges ataium the Fri* ~.nee for migintlanier
ler confect ..h.!st be o es so ender arrest and awaiting lbw
petthertiou of the eritere of the late Cecil. IC:dial, to
huve rtmaitted them to the Coommuidiog Often id the Bat-
talion, for the parrot of their being laid before the thread
Officer eunimanding the district, as soon as the offence on
which such chanfrs could to founeed err to their herr-
ledge. The Court, is erects. dto be sh..end to setae thti
ciesdnet of Lieuteetud-Colonet Nee man, the Psessentor, re
haring confirmed sa improper arrest of Liseteries Spike
and Simpson, and at th, same time contrived I. err ire
eith those Offerer", sod capermit them to dine at air mese
wean en under arms; ii:so in leerirg, on the preart
occasion, prefi reed the fifth *butte eg•ii.,i the Penman.
•hea be. Lierenant.roloael ;taw man, mutt bare bleu ten-
acious that he hail before polished the Pi,•nser far the uf,
fere in such charge aheced 'Astor him, by a 'pubic
censure aid admonition inverted in to area of the bat-
taboo.
His Majesty has been ?treed to approve mid canary the
today sod se!ll4llCe of Or. Court ; but from van". • therm
sinews of the condect of the Prosecutor, [seat.-Cromel
N*41111211, all they appear opal the pl.:weedier, ud m they
have Men noticed by the Curt ills lies, Les enuiragag.
ed that it should he almond to the Leann=
that he does ant think bun • tit person to have the
sat the ad Battalion of the loth Reginaret, and th t he win
remand from ; aid rit further spree*
ne., the prucceiliog*, and which has bees fatly rimed is
Ike ..pinion of the Court, that the Officers of ilas xd Bat-
talion of the tor Regiment, oho compare the Sheila that
battalion as the time the ,enteric Ist the We (tuna Ifortral
on Captain Hallilly sus offieusity err eanitredela bon, did-
sot Ent that attet:ttes to list lielliflll coosideratir whit h
His Mlajettly was g acioody pleased to emend towards the
Primmer, by Tel to Sal ats I in as • anemeler of the mma, which,
ante such pardon from Hs Majesty, it was their duty to
bar dune, sad by their r,itleet of sorb duly, Its. Majesty
was then-fore reseed to ensured, that a: bridal be tali-
sus 1, it to those Officers, That 11,4 i-er.p%.*, for If, p,,,es
ce napes-ltd.
HU Meyer has been further pleased to commend, that it
may be intimated to Captain Hathlim' that, having bees
trite tried lay a Gentile Court Martial. In but a which
he was sentesiced to be tutored and, by tier on Purl, oi be
*iinieeded Boar R.'.k and Par for three Manir, Ma.
jetty dope out think him a lit pergola to remain tiny loser
is. the loth Megurat, and that be will be inniediately re-
zoned Goo it.
His 11„e-al H.zetriess the rossaarks.in-rivaf is pleased
to direct, taut the foregoliar tinges, together with it e
and setasoce of the tcurt and Ito Mejest, r
it. ore, she". he reed at Os- Lead of every ti, aad
%red on the Kr O,
By room, of L • :toe :I Lehrer f inevosiolar-ir-Chieg,
Sagradj HAMBY it. 11.ek2T.
Aillitact-Gosere of mks Farm.
Sense cords, tteit it,

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1:111PORTi1N7 STATE PAPER.

BON Arks Tie.

MICITLIIT •P MI iiULINIRSI TUE rorc iGAINIT

To Spar Parana,* athei, Carer D'Affaires of the Kiog-
slam# Italy.
FiV.lO tit Querenal Palace, May /9, woe.
His larilibets liiisteg received the painful uotili- 1
cation .q 1 the ueion which is shout to take place, of
-kis tem-ditch* of linnet., 'Amerada, Anemia, aid
Catneriate with the kiugdom of Italy, maid the
cruel uviAlineta which this rigorous treatment
cannot hint,• hate cl,iarger.l the Cardinal tlabrielli,
Pre-&cretary of Slate, to snake the following freak
sieelaratimi to yoar Most Illustrious Highness.
The Holy Futter hoe seen, with infinite pain,
that the fo7,:e of the reposom, contaitA in the 'tote
of the 19th Qt April, addreniatl to M, Le Febvre,
the Chalge DAliitirs:o. has not prevented his Im-
p-mi..! anti Hraal • Majesty fees pottieg.His threats
in e.,:e.tutioili fie has even, Kith the same feelings,'
4hat this ' powerful Musierch, in whose band* be ,
?hated, at the altar. the sceptre, and the rod of
451tItlinti !Mai procceded, .contrary to every species of
right, tonintet, mom him a new spoliation of the;
Mit pied Oahe States which remains 4 Is him. • -
-- Bat .4et has hero the astonielligetit Of his Holi-
ness in phservitigAdoeioe, dated one day anterior
to the note of VLlChautoagny; *got Hyatt heart
lila :thinner had. cursed Ins proposition, and re-
ceived in 11114,M, tlic fate of the *fee Deurped pro-
rinses was already derided ! • • . .
rue asteniehorm t of the holy. Father was still
farther augmented. when he saw it assigned as I
legihootte mute of 'thit spoliation, that he had con-
rrtatitle refined to make oar upon Eoglooti, mud
to confederate with the. Kings of Nupliz and of
Italy: flowerer, his Holiness had never ecuend
to represent, that his sacred character of ',th-
inner of Peace—the-God, whose representative
he is vino math, being the God of Peacc--tbut
his quality of universal Pastor, and of the coin-
mom Futfiei of ail the Faithful—that the holy
laws of
,lustier, of Which, es the Representative of
the God. who is their source, lie ought to be the
guariliaa vied the avenger—could never permit
hew to enter into a permanent system of war, and
much less still to declare. war, at/the/HI any mo-
tive, against the British Government, from which
• tie had never received the 'lighten offence. flow-
erer, the Holy Father conjured His Majesty to re-
fleet. that not having, and not being in the capa-
city of latent* ennintes, because he I. the N tear of
JesturCUriak, vibe slime ieto the world not to fo-
ment, bin terilintrne animosities, lie could not hind
knout t .-nti lin successors, its perpetuity, us the Em-
perm washed, to make war for the quarrels of ano-
tLer.
lie. kis Violin's' bad tiloo urged the incalculaWe
min which yawed reallito religion, should he tree-
ter into aretteu of perpetual confederation, and
that, withont comproamunghis hooolir, without in-
curring usioersal hatred, without betraying his du-
ties and his tonecienee, he pooh not place himself
i to tie sitisat‘oa, by the lelguepropmed, of hecoin-
'
! lag the enemy of every state, even a Cede he So-
%reign, arid of Wilding hiais;if tamales war upon
hoe But all the .mpreirestations, sad all is. RA-
Aga so frequently Submitted to Hi- Majesty with
paternal mildews, bale not produced the least ilia-
leteamii. . • . .
It has bees sought to justify the spoliation upon
soother entteet, -by ausigitiagas the second motive
orate produced it, that
.the interests of the tie;,
kingdoms, and of the tea armies of Itely and Na-
SW demanded that their commansicationseliould
sot be interrupted by a histile power. --•
If by this. power is meant to be tintleratood Eng-
land, the history of almost two centuries will chew
the falsity of this "specious pretence. The Catholic
Princes of Spine, and of the House of Minna,
from the Etnperor Charles V. to Charles 11. •of
Spain, possemed the kingdotin of Wept& and the
duchy of Milan, which forme at presort the prin-
cipal part of the kingdom of hely,
.and they never
'perceived that their interests were compronsimd t
they sever experienced this pretended obstacle to
the communication of their armies. They were
freqiently at war with Great Britain, and still
oftener with Frame, bat, they were never appre-
hensive of an intermediate debarkation upon the
territory• of the Iloly See ; stilt km did they pre.
tend to force the Pontiffs of that period to unite
and confederate with thew, or to despoil them of
their poosenioas, should they have refused.
Hut pewee history aside, what risks could the;
interests of these separated kitigdonis even run ?
The neutrality of the.llnly Father,, recogaised and
respected by all other Powers, and the measures
taken to prevent its violative), are more than suffi-
cient to place these interests in security.
To render this security stiil greater, and to take
away every sort of pretext, his tioliness carried his
compliance as far as be consistently could ; he de-
clares' himeelfdispoited to Shut his ports against the
English durieg the present war, and to employ his
troops to guard the cools of his States fruta every
hostility whatever.
Hut what attack could be dreaded upon these
two kiegdeGns. which border upon the State/ of the
Holy See, while French troops, fur so long.a period,
eithout regard to the interests of the public or of
individuals, have violated his neutrality, occupied
all his ports, and covered all his roasts
If, however, by a hostile Power, it was wished to
designate the person of the holy Father, his cha-
racter itself, mild and pacilie, pins an end to this
leje,*::::::. ,;;;j:::::::.:::; :eat the better to refute it,
Ins Holiness calls to. witness the Fretich empire mid
the kingdom of Italy, in favopr of which be alined
two Concordats, whose violation has been the source
.• of perpetual grief to his heart, in having constantly.
bat in vain, pressed their faithful execution. Ike
calls Europe itself to witness, which has seen him.
in his old aim, iti tin most rigorous .eases of the
year, traverse the Alps, and proceed to Paris, not
without exciting the jeulnosy and disgust of 'other
Ireat Powers, in order to consecrate and crown His
mperial and Royal Majesty. He calls to witness
the whole French temps, from the Commander to
the meanest *oldie', either those who have traversed
the States of the Holy See, or thine who have 'v-
oided there, whether
~they. have netexperienced in
the Papal territory A reception die must friendly,
and a hospitality the most generous ra hospitality
whirls cost hitter tears to the Holy Fat/NT, who was
iadiapeitsality obliged to load his subjects with im-
posts for the inanatenauce cud, payment of tin

?mach troops; in short, his Holiness ealls to wit-
uess His Majesty himself, fer when he has not
ceased ea all *meeker to testify the street particular
regards.
But if his Holiness were able to testify the ear-
prise excited by the two Best articles advanced to
jurtify this spoliation, he wants words to 'sprees the
prufou od astonishment produced by the expressions
contained in the third. It beans upon the donation
of Charleiliagne, and it is remarked, that that Wad
made for the benefit of Christianity, and not for the
wlvaiitego of the enemies pf our holy religion. It
is well known Out this celebrated and glorious
'Monarch, whose memory will be eternally blessed
by the Church, did not give to the Holy See the
pravilicer which hare been usurped. It hi-notorious
that they were, ut an epoch very minute from his
age. in the pomession of the Roman Poutiirs, incon-
sequence of the voluntary submission of the people,
who were abandoned be the Emperors of the East ;
that the Lombards having afterwards occupied the
Exarchat of Ravenna awl the Pentapolis, which in-
crude these provinces. Pepin, the illustrious and re-
ligious father of Char emague, recovered them, and
restored them :n /Sipe Stephen; that that great Em-
peror, who was the honour and admiration of the Bth
cbntury, far from wishing to revoke the geueron
and pinus (lunation of his father, approved awl
confirmed it under Pope Adrian ; that far from
wirbing to strip the Roman Church of her posses.
irons, he had no other intention than to secure and
aggrandise them ; that consequently in his will he
laid an express obligation on his three sons, to pro-
tect the Stater of the Church with their arms; that
he reserved to his successors no right of revoking
that which his father Pepin had done for the advan-
tage oC, the Chair of St. Peter ; that his role design
was to protect the Roman Pontiffs' agaiost their
enemies. and not to compel them to excite enemies;
that ten centuries which have passed away slue% the
days of Churlernague, a thousand years of pc:seeable
possession, render useless all more ancient investiga-
does and all ulterior interpretations; that even if (hut

pious I'rince had, instead of a• free restitutiuu or
gift of these territories, restored or given them fur
t e profit of Christianity, it is more the wel-
fare nf Christianity, or, to speak etrietly, of
thekeatholic Religtou, thatthe Holy Father wishes
peace with all the world, avoids to provoke the re-
sentment of any power, and refuses to interfere in
political quarrels. After so many voices have been
reseed ugaiust different Popes, who have, for the
best reasons, engaged in wars, the Holy Father can-
not perceive why it can be attributed to him as •
c r that Le refused to assume • warlike charac-
ter, aud, at the suggestion of u foreign power, com-
mence a war without any provocation, and which
must be very prejudicial to religinii and his subjects.
His Holiness cannot on any account overlook the
injure which is done him in the forementioned de-
cree. wherein it is remarked, that the gift of
Charlemagne was not made for the &wefts of the ene-
mies of ore lialy Religiose; thereby accusing
Hall 1:4i86 of betraying the saterests of the Chart-h.—.
• This accusation her madeaiively impresiriosi on the
mind of his Horiest', who for upwards of three years
hesbeen seffering permeation in hefted' ofneligion,
stud-for having acted fan Wilily iii his Apostolic ca-
pacity. He has suffered it, that he might not im-
plicate himself in a permanent system of warfare. ,
and that he might not, by his cond act. obstruct the;
tree exercibt the Catholic worship.
thy floliness hath submitted to it, because he
could not admit the principles which were frequently
intimated to bins, which were. that if his Holiness
was Bishop of Rome, His Majesty was, notwithe
standing, the Emperor of it, and that the Holy
Fa-
ther ought to submit to bim in temporal matters, in
the same manner as His Majesty submitted to his
Holiness in religious matters ; that the territories of
the Holy See appertained to the French empire,
and that therefore the Pope ought always to make
common cause with the Emperor and his successor. ;
What he ought at all time. to consider the enemies
of France es his own, sod that he ought by conse-
quence to Heroine a. part of the Federative system
Of the Empire.
The solemn oaths which the Holy Father bath
made to inaiutain his liberty and independence, so
essential to the Catholic religion and the free exer-
cise of his supreme spiritual power, do lint ulluw
him to subscribe to those destructive and fatal
maxims. Ili. Holiness suffers this persecution, be-
cause lie would not cousent to die pretensions of
His Majesty to noinioate as many French Car-
dinals as should form one-third of the sacred
College, which must bare sapped the fundamental
base of its Constitution, attacked the independ-
ence of his spiritual power, and *gain introduced
those unhappy disasters which the church still
deplores. His Holiness suffers, bemuse he
would not enter into an offensive and defensive
league against any power in Eorope. Catholic
or otherwise, to the manifest injury of reli-
gion. If this refusal implies an abendoninent of reli-
gion, let I leaven, the Church, the world, and pos.
terity judge. The Holy Father bath the most con-
scientious reflection, that he never did any injury
to His Majesty, or to France; but if His Majesty
actually had auy complaints aguiust hirlloliness per-
'tonally, that would not justify him in resenting on
the Catholic Church, by irrevocably and for ever
robbing it of that very property which the same de-
cree declares to have been bestowed for the good of
Christianity, nor to rob that Church, which is not
the proprietor, more than the Pontiff, who is only
the *geniis'' of it. That Church having the spi-
ritual superintendence of every other, bath, since
the peace of Constantine, been enriched by the piety
of Monarchs and people, and hath, by an admirable
order of Providence, first accumulated considerable
property, and afterwards different states. that it
might maintain its spiritual Government with more
decency, liberty, and advantage—this very Church,
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which His Majesty would ace to a state of de
gradation, and incapacity of exercising its divine
supremacy.
(lie Holiness cannot sufficiently regret the error
into which His Majesty bath fallen, since, in his
decree, whereby he deprives the Holy See of a
part of its /goatee, on the ground old that they were
not intended to Isencflt the sonnies of the C'er.t':44:,..
Ilia Majesty has published in the same
state., that code, against winch His Holiness bath
so often, hut anattecessfully, complained, on ac-
count of the articles it coati's' contrary to the
Grionel and the Lams of the Church, particularly
tl.uss of marriage and diverees

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