The National Register.
London, England, 1811-06-09 00:00:00

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The corps of cavalry-that are to keep the ground, will assem. •
ble on the great, road, leading to Kingston, beyond the Green
Nl.in, at eight o'clock.
The Commanding Officers of brigades and divisions are de-
sired to be provided with. two field returns of their respective
commands; which, after passing his Royal Highness, they will
deliver to the Adjutant-General.
No carriages, excepting those belonging to the Royal Family,
and to Foreign Princes, or Ambassadors, are to be aduriited
within the lines of videttes. No person will be admitted on
horseback, except naval and military Officers in their uniforms.
No servants, except those belonging to the Royal Family, art
I to be admitted.

The troops are enjoined on this occasion to perform their
duty, and carry the orders they receive into execution with the
utmost exactness ; but at the same time to avoid, as much as
possible, giving any offence to individuals.
By command of his Royal Highness the Commander is
Chief. • HARRY CALVERT,
*Adjt.-Gen.

Horse Guards, Bth Juneo 8 I 1.

COURT MARTIAL, CHELSEA.

Wednesday the trial of Lieutenant-Colonel Johnson, of the
1091, or. New South Wales Regiment, for mutiny and usurpa-
tion, terminated, after thirteen days' anxious investigation.
The Court consisted of the following Members:—
The Hon. G. M. SUTTON, Esq. Judge Advocate; •
I.ieut.-Gen. W. KEPPEL, President;
Lieut.-Gen. Sir D. Baird, Colonel Burnet,
-------- l'slilner, 'l'yers,
---- Finch, -- Anson,
D. M'Donald, a---- 01.aughlin,
W. Dowdeswell, ---- F. W . Butler,
nijor-Gen. Paget, Lieut.-Col. J. Lord Probe,
Kerr, s----- Patterson.
The charge against the priSoner was as follows-
-4e That be, Lieutenant-Colonel George Johnson, did, on the
c26th of January, 11108, at Sydney, in the Colony of New South
Wales, begin, excite, and join in a mutiny, by putting himself
at the head of the New South \Vales Corps, then under his
command, doing duty in the Colony, and seizing, and causing
to be seized and arrested, and :mprisoning and causing to be
imprisoned by means of the above-mentioned military force,
the person of William Bligh, Esq. then Captain-General and
Governor in Chief of the territory of New South Wales.
Our limits completely preclude the possibility of entering
into any thing like a detail of the circumstances of this inter-
esting case ; the most we can pretend to give our readers is a
1 saccinct picture of the most prominent °fits features.—The
1 prosecutor, Captain William Bligh, rendered celebrated by the
' affair of the ship Bounty, was im the year 1806 appointed bv his
Majesty to he Governor over New South Wales and all its •
dependencies. On his arrival at Sydney, he alledges, that he
found the Colony in a very wretched and distressed state, in
consequence of the recent overflow of the river Derwent, and
likewise from the excessive use of spirituous liquors, which
was indulged in to excess by all ranks of the people, and more
particul-trly by the officers of the 102 d regime tit, quartered in,
the Settlement, who were particularly interested in the barter
and traffic of that commodity to the people. The measures he
adopted to suppress these abuses produced such a happy refor-
mation, that at the close of the year 1807 the Colony was in a
state of prosperity, contentment, and happiness, unknown dur-
ing the administration of any former Governor. At this period,
a settler, named M'Arthur, who had formerly been an officer.
in the lOad regiment, and who was represented by the Govtrnor
to be discontented, in consequence of his restrictions upon the
barter of spirits, was accused before the Criminal Court of the
Colony, which was composed of six of the officers of the 1( e2d,
and the Judge Advocate of the Settlement, with seditious prac-
tices, in having refused to obey a 'warrant of the Judge Adwo;
care's, for violating one of the Colonial Regulations. At that
Itrial, Mr. M'Arthur objected to the Judge Advocate presiding, - •
I in consequence of his having a personal quarrel with him ; and
more particularly, he objected to his presence upon the •esta•
blished pr.nciples of British law, that no man could he prose-
cutor,l judge, and juror in his own case. • The officers of the.
Court took part with Mr. M'Arthur, and refused to allow th
is.e.
. a Judge Advocate to preside. Governor 13ligh, on hearing cia