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London, England, 1825-11-16 00:00:00

FitENCII PAPERS.

(From the Eloilr, dr:tedThfonday, Nov. 14.)
CORFU, Ocr. IS.—Aeconnts from Zante state
that Colococroni, with 14,000 men, defeated
Ibrahim Pacha in the beginning of October, neer
Maraihonissi, and forced him to take refuge with
a very small number of troops at Mistra, where
be is blockade 4.

Letters from Prevesa, dated October 6, an-
-nounce a convention concluded between the Ca-
pitatt Pacha and Mehemet Ali, since thce junction
of the two fleets. The latter promises to indem-
Dify the Porte for all the losses it may sustain in
its marine, and to remain without•' with the
Egyptian fleet, and not Ero to Constantinople.
The revolution in Candia has not had the suc-
cess that the Greeks expected from it, but they
were still masters of the fortress of Grabusa.

On the 21st of September (Oct. 3) the Turk
threw into a battery of Missolonghi a letter, in
which they desired an interview with the Greek
Generals. +The letter was Eent back with this
short answer—that the Greeks would not, cm-
rnunicate with the Turks, except with arms in
their hands. The next day but one there was a
new affair, a mine blew up one of the works
raised by the Turks, who have been obliged to
retreat into their entrenchments at the greatest
distance from the fortress.

There is a report of a new popular commotion
at Smyrna, of a lire which has destroyed 1,200
houses, and of a frightful massacre. It is affirmed
that the French shiiis of war in the port of that
city greatly contributed, by prudent, humane,
aod at the same time vigorous measurer, to free
that unfortunate city from entire destruction.

On the 12th of October Karaishaki attacked
the Turks in garrison at Caravassara, which
serves as the depot for the ammunition and pro-
-visions of the Seraskier. The Greeks, it is said,
marched with drums beating and music playing,
and succeeded in their enterprize. A young
Greek rushed forward to set fire to the powder
magazine, but fell a victim to his self-devotion
before he could attain his object.

A report is spread that Miaulis, having con-
-winced himself that the Turkish and Egyptian
Beets were united in the ports of Alexandria, and
were preparing to sail to convey new supplies of
troops and ammunition to the Morea and Acar-
Dania, had filled with stones several vessels lately
captured, and sunk them at the entrance of the
port, thus preventing the enemy from coming oat.
PARIS, Nov, 13.—1 t is by mistake that some
journals have announced the arrival of General
Roche at Paris. The Greek Committee has
heard nothing which can induce it to think that
he has left Napoli di Romania. At the date of
his last letters (Sept. 17) he was impatiently ex-
pecting the expedition which had been sent to
Greece, and as it reached Zante on the 20th of
that month, and was to sail the next day, it must
have reached Napoli by the 25th. What may
have given rise to this news, and at the same time
proves it false, is, that the journals have said
-General Roche came with M. Vidal', who en-
tered the Lazaretto of Marseilles a month ago,
and was himself the bearer of the letters of Ge-
neral Roche.

M. Charles Dupaty, Member of the institute,
. has just died.
(From the Journal de Paris of Sunday.)
MuNrcll, Nov. 7.—The changes just made in
our Cabinet are but the prelude to an entire re-
organization of the Ministry, which will soon be
made public. The retreat of Count Rechburg,
Minister both of the Royal Household and of
Foreign Affairs, has caused great sensation. He
enjoyed in the highest degree the confidence of
the late King, and was thought to be much at-
tached to the Constitution given by that Prince
to Bavaria.

King Louis I. constantly presides in the sit-
tings of the Committee which is ordered to effect
,retrenchments in the-War Department. It is
affirmed that the army, now nearly 40,000
strong, will be reduced to 15,000 or 20,000.
Should this be the case, there must be a great
reduction in the Staff, and a good number of offi-
cers will be put on half-pay. Thus we shall see
no army, hardly equal to a division in the other
States of Europe, have a Field Marshal at its
head—namely, Prince Wrede.
The Queen of Saxony having recovered from
her illness, the sad news of the death of her bro-
ther, King Maximilian, has been communicated
to her, and the Saxon Court has gone into
mourning.
MADRID, Nov. S.—The Superintendant-Ge-
neral of Police has communicated to the In-
tendants of the Provinces the following official
letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the
Minister of Grace and Justice :
" I have laid before his Majesty the King your dispatch of
the 30th last, in which you transmit to me that of the Super-
intendant-General par interim. Ilis Majesty being made ac-
quainted with several facts contradictory of the note conununi.
cated by the General Deputation of Asceytia, feels that the
assembling of French troops on the frontiers cannot, nor ought
not, inspire his Royal mind with the least uneasiness, consider-
ing the proofs he has of the legitimate intentions of the Most
Christian King, and the lively interest he takes in the lawful
rights of his Crown : moreover, as the troops continuing in
Spain remain only by the express consent of his Majesty. I
am commanded to inform your Excellency, that, far from
being alarmed by the communication of the Superintendant,
his Majesty sees in it a new method of repressing the revolu-
tionists who may have the hardihood to conspire against his
august sovereignty, trouble public repose, or disobey his orders.
" Not only has the confidence of his Majesty in the rectitude
and good faith of the Most Christian King, his uncle and ally,
not been changed, but his Majesty has received new proofs of
the friendship and lively interest which the Most Christian
King takes in the preservation of the laws and tranquillity of
S-Pain. Consequently, the absurd reports propagated by the
ignorant and malevolent respecting the assembling of Trench
troops on the frontiers of the kingdom, have not been able to
disturb his Majesty's mind, as he has received positive declara-
tions on the subject from the Government of his Most Chris-
tian Majesty, as your Excellency will see in the subjoined
copies of a dispatch from the Ambassador at that Court of the
7th instant, of a letter to the same of the 26th, axi of another
letter of the 22d of the Commander of Pampeluna.
" Having therefore communicated to our Lord the King the

dispatches which your Excellency has thought fi4 to address to
me of the 23d of July, the 13th aml 2-'.th of August, and the
4th and 7th instant, his Majesty has commanded that proper
measures be adopted by your Excellency to tranquilize people's
minds on the pretended entry of new French troops, and pre-
vent any improper interpretations.

" Moreover, his Majesty desires that you would signify to
the Intendant of Police of Barcelona, that the expressions
which he made use of in the dispatch of the 26th, in which he
says the French are becoming a third time the barbarous and
cruel instrument of our nation's ruin,' have excited his discon-
tent to a very high degree, and that he cannot with indifference
behold the army of the lawful successor of St. Louis, which,
by its discipline, has attracted the admiration of Europe, came
in 1823 to assist Spanish loyalty in the holy cause of religion
and the throne, compared to that of the Usurper who invaded
our territory in 1808. The which I transmit to your Excel-
lency, that you may make it known to all the Intendants of
Police in the kingdom," ,Arc.
(From the Constitutivnintl.)

PARIS, Nov. I.4.—There are reports in circu-
lation of a total change in the Ministry. Only
the Duke de Doudeauville, it is said, will keep
his place. It seems to us difficult to believe that
the present men can long retain their power
when they have used it so much to the disad-
vantage of France. Never was a system better
calculated to make the administration the scorage
of the administered. 11 we consider in what way
M. de Villele has sported with the public fortune,
and enriched himself by the losses of the people,
nothing is more natural than to give credit to
these reports, which are every day gaining ground.
M. de Villele cannot cure our financial disorders.
If he falls, MM. Corbiere and Peyronnet will
not be secure. They can never repair the mis-
chief they have done by interfering with elec.
tions, and by their open contempt for public
morals. Who are to be their successors we do
not know, but we trust to the Royal wisdom.

THE ARMY.

General Sir THOMAS BRADFORD and suit•
sailed on the 13th inst. on board the Exmouth,
from Portsmouth, for Bombay.

The 2d and 3d divisions of the 99th Regiment of Foot,
sailed on the 11th instant, on board the Soutliworth and Lay.
km transports, from Portsmouth, for the Mauritius.
Three companies of the Ist Battalion of the 60th (the
Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps), marched on Monday, in
pursuance of previous orders, from Weedon to Stockport.
A detachment belonging to the 56th Regiment of Infantry
marched, yesterday morning, from Westminster, for Hull.

INDIAN ARMY.
GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL..

Head quarters, Calcutta, Juno 2.

At a General Court-Martial, held at Fort William, on the
30th of May, 1825, of which Major-General Dalzell was Pre-
sident, Lieutenant R. A. Macnaghten, Deputy Judge Advo-
cate General, was arraigned on the following charge:—

Charge—" Lieutenant Macnaghten, Deputy Judge Advo-
cate General of the Presidency Division of the Army, placed
in arrest by order of his Excellency the Hon. the Cosnmander
In Chief, on the following charges :
" Ist, For having, at Calcutta, on the 29th of May, 1825,
sent a challenge to fight a duel to Captain Kennelly, of his
Majesty 87th Regiment.
" 2d. For highly improper and unofficer-like conduct, in
having, on the same day, sent an insulting letter to Captain
Kennelly, after Captain Kennelly had refused to meet him,
and had informed him, that if he, Lieut. Macnaghten, wrote
again on the affair, the letter would be laid before the Com-
mander•in_Chief, such being the unanimous opinion of his
(Capt. Kennelly's) brother officers as to the line of conduct he
should adopt."
By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
(Signed) W. L. WATSON,
Adj.-General of the Army.
Adjutant-General's-Office. Presidency of
Fort-William, May 25, 1825.

Upon which charge the Court came to the following decision :
"Sentence—The Court having maturely weighed and con-
sidered the evidence on the prosecution, and what the prisoner,
Lieut. Macnaghten, has urged in his defence, are of opinion,
on the Ist charge, that he is guilty.
" The Court are also of opinion on the 2d charge, that Lieut.
Macnaghten is guilty to the extent of highly improper conduct,
in having, on the same day, sent an insulting letter to Captain
Kennelly, after Captain Kennelly had refused to meet him,
and had informed him that if he, Lieutenant Macnaghten,wrote
again on the affair, the letter would be laid before the Corn.
mander.in.Chief, such being the unanimous opinion of his
(Captain Keanelly's) brother officers as to the line of conduct
he should adopt.
"The Court adjudge the prisoner, Lieutenant 31acnaghten,
to be cashiered."

The Court having performed their duty in deciding on the
case submitted to their judgment, cannot close their proceed-
ings without recording their feeling of disapprobation at the
gross invective against Captain Kennelly, and the indecorous
observations upon the decision of a former Court-martial, which
the prisoner has allowed himself in his defence, and which they
should have considered it their duty to have checked at the
time, if they had not felt that, in vindicating himself against a
charge, the consequence of which was certain, the prisoner had
a strong claim to their forbearance.
(Approved. )
(Signed) EDW. PAGET, General,
Commander-in-Chief in India.

The Commander-in-Chief entirely approves the sentence of
the General Court-martial ; he, nevertheless, after the most
mature and deliberate consideration of all the circumstances of
the case, is so much inclined to believe, that the troubles and
embarrassments in which Lieutenant Macnaghten has involved
himself and others, are more attributable to great error in judg-
ment, than to any otheecause, that he is pleased to remit the
penalty awarded by the Court.

After the proofs, however, which Lieut. Macnaghten has af-
forded of the total absence of that calm and dispassionate judg-
ment so peculiarly requisite in an officer holding the Staff ap-
pointment of a Deputy Judge-Advocate General, and especially
evinced in the instances of the " gross invective against Captain
Kennelly, and the indecorous observations upon the decision of
a former Court-martial," so justly reprobated by the Court
whose proceedings are now under review, the Commander-in-
Chief will consider it his duty to recommend that he msy be re-
moved from that office.

In the mean time his Excellency is pleased to direct, that
Lieut. Macnaghten may be released from arrest, and return to
his regimental duty. '
By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
W. L. WATSON, Adjutant-General of the Army.

A CURIOUS CASE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. Ib.

Samuel Burgess, a person not yet eighteen, who has occa-
sionally added to his name the epithet Reverend, accompanied
with the following array of capital letters, LL.D., F.A.S '
was opposed by Mr Pollock, on the part of Messrs. eaden
and Co. of the London Tavern. He conducted himsal 'th-
out any of the embarrassment thatdkeherally attegks a first
pearance, or any apparent sense of Bt furnish
with two pocket handkerchiefs, one white cambric and the
other coloured, he shifted them from one hand to another with
much gracefulness, and drew them alternately across his nose,
with a gravity of manner that would not have been discreditable
to the most sage expounder of philosophy and morals.
Examined by Mr. POLLOCK—I have been a bookseller. In
November, last year, 1 was in custody before, for three weeks,
in Whitecross-street prison. I got out through the instrumen-
tality of the Governor ; I was put out of the house by him. It
was not under the Act I came out. 1 paid nearly half the
debts that were then owing. I owed then about one half of
what I do now; my present debts are 3761.
Mr. PoLt.ocx —Are you a Doctor of Laws as your card in-
mates; it has the initials LL.D. (sheaving a card) ? I was de-
ceived by a person who promised to obtain for me a degree of
Doctor from Aberdeen. He told me he had obtained it for me,
and I did not discover until after that card had been written
that I had no right to it. I assumed the title before I went last
to prison, about a fortnight before. I went to prison on the
11th of March last.

Mr. POLLOCK—Pray are you a Fellow of the Antiquarian
Society ? I published a topograpbical work some time back,*
copy of which I sent to the President of the Society.
COUUT—Ah ! Who was that I don't know who it was.

Mr. PoLLoci—Who was the President ? I don't know
his name. 'The same person who told me that 1 was a Doctor
of Laws told me that I was Fellow of the Antiquarian Society.
Mr. PoLiocit—Who is that person ? Is he a Doctor of
Laws too ?—The person I mean is the Rev. Mr. Austin, of
Walthanistow. 'rite second edition of my work was published
in August, last year. It was a biographical sketch of the late
_ _ _

Poz.i.ocx—l thought you said the work was a topogra-
phical one ?—Why it was a topographical description of the
Palaces of Kew and 'Windsor, witk some account of the King.
It was both biographical and topographical.
Mr. Poi.Lock—Then you sent your work to Lord Abe:-
deco ?—I never sent rto book to Lord Aberdeen. I did not
know he was the president. Mr. Austin afterwards intbruied
me that I was not a fellow, and I dropped the title two days be-
fore I was arrested. I did not use it after that. I remember
ordering a dinner on the 15th of February, at the London Ta.
vern, for eight persons. Upon that occasion we drank some
expensive wines, such wince as were recommended by the pro-
prietors of the tavern.
Mr. P.—TenerifFe? Yes. Mountain ? Yea. Sherry ? Yes.
Lisbon ? Yes. Port ? Yes. Champagne ? Yes.---(Much
laughter in Court.)
Mr. P.—You ordered another dinner P--Yes ; I ordered
another for the 9th of March. I left the choice of wines to
the tavern keeper. The amount of the first bill was eleven
pounds odd. The second bill was never delivered; no agree-
ment had been made as to how he was to be paid. I spoke to
the proprietor about a large charity dinner for two hundred
persons, that was to be held afterwards at the London Ta.
Tern. This never took place. I went into prison a week after
the last dinner.

Here Mr. Po LLOCK read an advertisement,. announcing that
on the 22d of March, a public dinner was to be held at the
London Tavern, by the friends of the Protestant cause, the
Rev. Samuel Burgess in the chair, to be assisted by several
of the Clergy and Laity of the highest respectability. The
Learned Gentleman read another advertisement, announcing
that the friends of the education of the Protestant poor would
take tea together, on a certain day, when the Rev. Samuel Bur-
gess, of John-street Chapel, Mile-end New Town, would de-
liver an appropriate discourse upon the occasion.
Mr. PoLiocir—Were you at any time minister of John-
street chapel, Mile-end, ew Town ?
No ; but there is a chapel there. I had a promise of being
made minister of it, and I intended to call it St. John's chapel.
A clergyman, a friend of mine, said he would use his interest
to have me appointed to it, if I subscribed to the thirty--nine
articles.

Mr. Abraham Alexander, a partner in the firm of Bleaden
and Co. of the London Tavern, said that the insolvent first ap-
plied to them respecting a dinner on the Ist of February last.
—He said the object was a charitable one, for the
.education
and clothing of the poor children attending divine worship in
St. John's-street Chapel, of which he represented himself
to be the Minister. insolvent said he wished to hold the An-
niverssry of the Institution at the London Tavern, asking what
the charge for dinner to each person would be. Witness said
that they prepared dinueni at various prices, from 3*. up to 51.
or 101., and that the general price for Charity dinners was Bs. a
head. He replied, that he must consult the Stewards, and that
Alderman Key and Dr. Collier were of the number. Insol-
vent then went away, at the same time ordering a dinner for
eight on the 17th of February following. He came accord-
iegly, rather later—than was expected, in the full dress of a
Clergyman of the Church of England, with a gown and
band. There were only two more with him when he arriv-
ed. They had fourteen bottles of wine, four of which were
Champaigne. All this wine, however, was not drank by him
and his two campanions. After dinner the insolvent went
to die tavern opposite, where there had been a Public
Meeting, and fetched other gentlemen with him, some of
whom witness knew to be respectable Dissenting Clergymen,
and other persons of respectability. The bill for the dinner was
sent to Collet-place, Commercial-road, but not paid. Insolvent
said be would discharge the whole on the 10th of March fol-
lowing, where he intended to meet a few friends upon the same
occasion. He had another dinner on theath of March, the bill
for which amounted to 191.75. &l. The Chairman was then so
much intoxicated that he was not able to write orders for wine
any longer. Insolvent expressed a wish to have a vocal per-
former sent for, which was accordingly done.
Mr. POLLOCK-Were there any profane songs sung upon
that occasion ?

- - Nir. Commissioner LAW-It is of no consequence in this case
whether there were or not.

Mr. PoLt.oc a—They were very merry ?—Yes, very merry.
Mr. POLLOCK—And very noisy ?—They broke twenty-five
shilling's worth of glass ?
Insolvent—A great part of that glass was broken by the
waiters.

Wituess--I delivered the bill of this dinner to the insolvent's
mother, and it was only then I learned that he was a person to
whom I ought not to have given credit.
Examined by Mr. HEATH, on the part of the insolvent—
You said the Chairman was so much intoxicated that he could
not give orders for snore wine ?
Witness—He could not write orders, but he could give or-
ders. I made no remark as to his age, nor did I make any
inquiries. My making inquiries with respect to persons order-
big a dinner would depend on the character in which they came.
I trusted the insolvent, because he came in the character and
dress of a clergyman, and said he was catering for a public
charity. I have now, though I had not then, great doubts
whether the insolvent be a Dissenting Clergyman. • The
great dinner for two hundred never took place. An offer
was made to me -of having the debt paid in two years,
which I should have accepted if security were given. I was
offered 51. down. His mother never offered WI. No offer
was made, except by the insolvent and his mother. I came
here upon public grounds more than any • thing else, not
wishing the insolvent to go forth upon the public. 1 visited
hip; in Whitecross.street prison, in consequence of letters he
sent to Isle, and offered to accept 151. for the whole debt. That
was only half the real amount. They know little of the busi-
ness of tavern-keepers, who suppose that half the amount of
their bilis would Ise sufficient paysnent.
Insolvent examined again by Mr. POLLOCK—I am a Dis.
renting Minister. I consider myself so. I preached in several
Chapels, and that in John-street was promised to me. lam
about 111 years di age.
Mr. HEATH submitted that, considering the prisoner's
youth, his haVing been in prison eight months for this debt, its
having been contracted in a tavern, and not for goods with a
view o afterwards disposing of them improperly, he was a fit
obiect to be dealt with mercifully by the Court.
Mr. PounocK went over the evidence for the purpose of
showing that the debt had been contracted under fraudulent re-
presentations, and that therefore the insolvent was not entitled
to his discharge.
Mr. Commissioner Last, said, that if this were a case of
tavern keepers giving credit wantonly and knowingly to a young
man, the matter would be quite different. But here deception
had been used, and rendered successful by a great deal of con-
trivance and ingenious management. The means resorted to
for obtaining credit were disgraceful. The debt was fraudu-
lently contracted. However, in consequence of the youth of
the insolvent, and the time he had passd in prison, the judg-
ment of else Court would be more lenient than it would under
different circumstances.
The insolvent was remanded for five caletadar months.

BARBAROUS OUTRAGE.—On Monday night a
valuable mare was killed, and nine cows houghed
and their tails cut off, at Old Bawn, near Tal-
light. -The mare and cows were the property of
Captain Colwell, who cannot assign any other
reason for this terrible proceeding than his having
dispossessed a non-paying tenant.—(Freeman's
Journal.)