The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-25 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

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We understand that. General Orders have beets
issued for a Court Martial to be held on Quarter:Blaster Law.:
hiss, of the 4th, or Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, on a charge of
having received 5 per cent. on the amount of bread supplied to
the regiment by a baker in Barrack-street, of the name of Duffy,
in whose premises the Lord Mayor, a short time since, seized a
a large quantity of bread, deficient in weight, and of bad qua 4
lity. It will be recollected, that the last time this regiment
was quartered in Dublin, the Quartermaster, a Captain, and
another individual, were tried by a. Court Martial, and that the
Captain was ultimately removed frtnn, the service.--(Erabliri
Evening Post.)
The detachment of.invalids vtliich recently:arrived at Ports:
mouth on board the Duchess of ork transport from Barbs does,
has been ordered to Chatham.

A detachment of the meo belonging to Chelsea Hospital;
which have been raised for the three yeteran Conipanies has
been ordered to Chatham, preparatory tO embarkation for sew:
foundland.

ARM Y.--:-(INT DIA.) .
Head-quarters, Camp, Meergunj, 29th December' 182.1.
At an Luropean General Court Martial re-assenibled. at Se.i
crole, Benares, on Monday, the 27th October, PIA of which
Major-General Thomas Brown, Commandant of Buxar, was
President, Captain Ringsted Plantagenet Field, of the Cerps
of European Invalids and Fort Adjutant at' 'Baur, was at',
reigned upon the undermentioned charges,
For scandalous, infamous conduct, such as is unbecoming
the character of, an office; and a gendentan, in the follewipr,
instances:

Ist. "In having towards. the latter end of last year, or•thr,
beginning of the present' (1023), in direct disobedience to the
orders and regulations of the Bengal Army, laid liiinself
pecuniary obligations,to tVillinm Jackson, Garrison Serjeant at
Buzar, in the tbllowing transactions, viz.
First. "In borrowing from the said Serjeant Jacxson,
sum of money to the amount of eleven hundred (1100) Rupees,
or thereabouts, fr. which lie, granted' promisors note to the
said Scrjeant ackson, which note was taken up and dischari3O,l
by him (Captain Field) on or abotit the 4th of August last,
subsequent to certain complaints having been prefeired against
him by the Scijeant.
Second. "in borrowing from the said Serjcant Jacksau
several articles of household furniture.

Third. "In borrowing from the said Serjeant Jackson, the
sum of threo thousand (3000) Rupees, or a considerable pro-
portion of that amount, with which he purchased a-Bungalow,
of which he pretended to be, and for some time was, the oaten•
sible proprietor; though he had subscribed an acknowledgment
that it was the property of. the said Serjeant Jackson.
2d. "In having, about the month of January last, seduced,
and violated the person of Barbara Jackson; daughter of Syr.,
jeant Wm. Jackson, the said Barbara Jackson being at the
time residing in, or frequently visiting at Captain Field's house
at the particular request of and in attendance upon Mrs. Field,
his own wife. _ _ .

3d. "In having at various periods, subsequent to ►uch via.
halm and seduction, administered, and attempted to administer,
and endeavouring to persuade the said Barbara Jackson to take
certain deleterious drugs and potions, with the criminal inten-
tion of thereby procuring abortion.
"All and every part of such conduct being in violation of
good order and military di►cipline, and in breach of the Articles
of War."

Upon which charges this Court came to the following de.
cision

Finding and Sentence.—" Thu Court having maturely
weighed and considered the evidence adduced, with what the
prisoner has urged in his defence, is of opinion, with respect
to the first count of the first charge, that he is c Guilty of bor-
rowing from the said Serjeant Jackson a sum of eleven hundred
0100) rupees, or ;hereabouts, for which he granted a promis-
sory note to the said Serjeant Jackson, which note was taken •
up and discharged by him (Captain Field) on or about the 4th
of August last,'—but acquits him of scandalous, infamous
conduct such as is unbecoming the character of an officer and it
gentleman, also of acting in direct disobedience to the order*
and regulaifona of the Bengal army.
That he is guilty of the 2d count of the first charge, viz.
In burrowing from the said Serjeant Jackson several articles.
of household furniture'—but acquits him of scandalous, infa-
mous conduct, such as is unbecoming the character of an of
and a gentleman, also of acting in direct disobedience to,
the orders and regulations of the Bengal army.
" That he is not guilty of the :Id count of the let charge.
" That he is not guilty of the second charge, and honourably
acquits him of it.
" That he is not guilty of the third charge, and honourably
acquits him of it,
The Court having found the prisoner, Capt. R. P. Field,
of the European Invalid Establishment, guilty of the first
count of the first charge, and of the second count of the tint
charge, as specified in the finding, which being in breach of the.
Articles of War, does sentence him to be reprimanded in such
manner as Iris Excellency the Commander-in-Chief shall be%
pleased to direct.

Confirmed.
EDWARD PAGET, General,

(Signed)

Coniniander.in-Chief in India.
Captain Field having been honourably acquitted of the
weightier parts of the foregoing charges, the Commander-in-
Chief would gladly have confirmed the above sentence without
observation or remark, if in doing so he did not'feel that he
should thereby stamp with his authority as dangerous and per-
nicious a doctrine as ever crept into the Proceedings of a Ge-
neral Court Martial.

Here is on officer clearly and distinctly convicted of borrow—
ing money from a non-commissioned officer to a large amount,
niandnasttiaodnnetci reouuinsgi
degraded
ghtrio:bi
eeodut
by
yl tel
respect
actuate uthl aii
nmt euseevl every and for this grave offence against those high principles of bosoms
under t
this
aegrcyruanv min,
royoanb:11::
to teach him that his authority and controul vanish from the
or
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gations to one whose duty it is to obey hini, and whose inch.
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striking at the very root of discipline, of which almost every
page of these proceedings affords illustration anti proof, the
General Court lilartial, it seems, is of opinion that a reprimand
is an adequate punishment.
Be it so. Captain Field stands reprimanded. He is forth.
with to be released from arrest, and return to his duty, lint.
having thus carried into effect the decision of
the Court, the
Commander-in-Chief owes it to himself and to the Officers or
die Army, to declare that a due regard for their honour, their
respectability, their authority, must necessarily induce them to•
bear this verdict in their recollectiou, not as a beacon for their
guidance, but as a dangerous rock to avoid.
The Commandant ot ttuxar will keep a vigilant eye upon the
future conduct of Crarrison Serjeant Jackson, whose past mis—
behaviour and disrespect to Captain Field would be fit subject
captain hail not forfeited his•
cll.
icon
tnodiiigr
on t
epcut
inoins punishment, eintist ,
unworthyf
the Money transactions with the.
Berjeant, afibrding another tolerably potent illustration and
if
proof of what is lisely to become of the order and discipline of
this army, if such acts as those' of which the Captain stand*.
convicted are only to be checked by the tender voice of repri—
wand.
The Commander-in-Chief cannot close these remarlot without.
noticing for the serious consideration of future COurts Martial
that captain field will ,have been unnecessarily kept in arrest
during A period of five or six weeks in consequence of the find
ing of the Court having been so unintelligible an to render it.
necessary to return the proceedings for explanation and arneu„:-
Meal. NV. L. WATSON-
Deputy Adjt. (}en. of the Amy

As Mr. John Collier, son of Mr.
one of the proprietors of the Farm Mill, near Witney, was in
the act of of ling the works,one of the pins caught part of his dress,
and drew in one otitis arms,whicliovith one thigh,watdreadfully
lacerated. The body was then dragged in,and the head crushed,
and completely severed from the body, from which It was found
at a distance of two or three feet. The poor creature used
every. effort to extricate himself, but finding that impossible, he
exclaimed, " Take care of my wife and children !` which were
his last and the only wards he watt heard to otter.. A person in
the mill, seeing the danger he was in, ran to stop the works, by
shutting draw water ; tit alas, could not effect Ida intention
in time to save him. Poor Mrs. Collier (whose residence adje.ina•
the mill), having heard what had happened, ty_lit into th.a.l?c.—
tory, and cried out, " Do spe.ak to MC Aglaia !!' fret-11VMM it
woul4 appear that she was not aware he was at tte inowient,a
Iceofrtpslev.ithrtlwteo tolercepinuleds,,wtahse
youngest ethic weeks.—(Oxford Jonr.ahl
ienweshi:t2w4othr,yazi.of ifstage ,Itgutowthutt.,.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Etoile, dated Monday, Aug. 23. )

PARIS, AUG. 2t.—We have this instant re-
ceived information, by way of Constantinople,
:that the Greeks have attacked and re-entered
Ipsara. Three or four thousand Musselmen pe-
rished, and the Greeks did not leave Ipsara till
they received intelligence that the Captain Paella
ssas coining back to attack them. This news has
revived the courage and the hopes of the Greeks.
The Egyptian expedition is the only thing which
can be wholly fatal to them.
After mass the King received the great Officers,
the Ambassadors with the Pope's Nuncio at their
head, the Ministers, Marshals, Peers, Deputies,.
and a- great number of functionaries, civil and
military. General Prince Joseph of Savoy Ca-
rignan had the honour of a private audience with
the King, and to present his young son, who is
going to Turin.
A contract has just been made for the repair
and Improvement Of the prisons of St. Lnzare and
St. Pelage. These works, the expence of which
is estimated at a million and a half of francs, con-
sist in various new buildings appropriated to the
system of classification, which is adopted for the
general amelioration of all the prisons of Paris.
They will be commenced immediately, and
finished, it is said, by the end of next year.
The Moniteur of Sunday contains various Royal
Ordiniiices ; the first suppresses the offices of in-
spector and Director of the Royal Printing-office,
and decrees that that establishment shall be di-
lected for the Niue by one officer only, who
shall be called Administrator of the Royal Print-
ing-office. The second directs that the disposi-
tions of the Ordinance of the '2d October, 18g2,
shall lie applicable to the functionaries and clerks
of the Royal Printing-office, who have been dis-
charged in consequence of the suppression of their
emptir,yrnent. The third, divided into sixty ar-
aides under ten heads, relates to certain pensions
to be granted to the chiefs, clerks, and workmen
of the Royal Printing-office.