The Sun.
London, England, 1802-06-29 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SI
• THE Sentence'of the laie General Court Martial,
held at Chelsea, on •Lieut. Genetai INNEs, of thu
Royal Marities,- not having been Officially made
known to 11. e Public in the extent it was given by
the Court, the folloWing purport, of the Sentence
(the au•henticity of which may be relied upon) may
not be ui.Jccelitable to your Readers, and particu-
larty to the friends of the General.

AMIC US.

astb Tune, 1502.

PURPORT OF THE SENTENCE.

" The Court having, duly considered the evi-
dence against Lieutenant. General INNEs, as also the
General's defence on the first Article of Charge
preferrO against him by the Lords Commispioners
of the Admiralty, viz. Far having permitted
Lieut. Co!.. Berkeley to bear Serjeant ,M‘Gruger
on the Monthly Returns of his Recruiting Patty,
for a time specified in the Charge, after be had
desertedfram the said Party, are of opinion that the
C .rge is vexatious and frivolous, and therefore
they do most honourably acquit the said Lieut.:Gen.
INNE f the same."

re.spea to the second Article of Charge,
viz. Discharging Serjeant Pinn, of the Royal Ma-
rines., (without the permission of the Admiralty, the
Court are of opinion. that Lieut. Gen. INNES aced
very property in discharging the said Serjeant Pinn,
and therefore that they do most honourably acquit
Lieut. General INNES of this Charge also."
N.B. It is supposed the Court were induced to
Pass the last semence so pointedly, from'a considera-
tion .of the long and faithful. services of the said
Serjeant Pinn, he having served in the Marine
Corps twenty-four years all bUt one month, and
been the principal means of preventing the spirit
of mutiny from spreading to the Marines at Chat-
ham, some few years past, and also from the cir-
cumstance of ,he said Serjeant Finn having request-
ed _his discharge upon receiving a public donation of
Sixty Pounds, es a 'reward for that particular meri-
torious service, and which he hoped would enable
hire to provide for his large family better Than by,
ternainingin the Marines.

The Public will, doubtless, recolleft, that, in
the month of December last, there was a very alarm-
ing Insurrection of the Negroes in the Island of
Tobago, which was suppressed by Brigadier-Gene-
ral CARMICHAEL, who discovered, in that trying
situation, • a degree of prudence, resolution, and
promptitude, rarely to be met with. Every one
must be happy to perceive (what appears from the
following documents) that the General's merito-
rious and dis,ingui:.hed services have received an
acknowledgment, the most satisfactory that could
have been conceived to a Gethleman of his proles_
lion and character.

Tobago, Feb. 23, 1802.

SIR,

We taketheearliestopportunity your return to this Colony
bas afibrded us, of conveying to you the resolutions of both
Moues of the Legislature, and we avail ourselves of the'op7
pertunity it affords us, of assuring you of the high conside-
utioh with which we have tile honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient and humble Servants,
(.Signed) JOHN BALFOUR,
President IA the CounciL
ROBERT PATERSON.
Speaker of the Asurnbly.
Brigadier Centred Carmichael, Tobago.
4.xtraa from the Minutes of the Couxell and llSSelfrkly. of Tobago,
Febr;44frj 4,180 z.
•
RESOLVED UNANIMOUsLY,

That the Thanks Of ooth Houses of Legislature, and a
Sword of the value of Oneklundred Guineas, be presented to
Brigadier General Carmichael, for the services he rendered
this Colony, on the discovery of the late intended insurrec.
tion, and that the President of the Council, and the Speaker
of the Assembly, do transmit him a copy of this resolution.
(Signed) FAIN I3ALFOUR,
President of the Council.
ROBERT PATERSON.
Speaker of the Assembly.

Heactestarteni Sear&rousb, Feb. 26, 1802.

GINTIAMEN; -
I am favoured with your Letter, conveying the very dis-
tinguished honour conterred upon me by the Legislature of
Tebago.
I can assume no superior meat for any efforts attached to
my official situation, in the conscientious and just discharge
of which every Orticer is responsible to the Supreme Tri-
bunal.
On that occasion, Gentlemen, my public duty and per-
sonal good wishes were.congenial in any exertions that could
tend to the benefit of the inhabitants of this isl'and.
The huinan'ty that has. ever characterized the British
proprietors of Tebago, was not less conspicuous, than their
promptitude and energy, when decisive measures could
alone-rescue the community from a massacre, the most ware.
ton and atrocious that ever revolted against nature. '
It is but justice to observe, Gentlemen, that in the neces-
sity of gaining immediate intelligence of the Movements anti
del,igns of the Conspirators, in the military examinations, not
'e the many 'Chiefs who confessed th© intention of indis-
criel:nate carnage, tittered to pdlliate their turpitude by al-
Legee ill usage, but their kele incitement waa a delusive
/lotion of Liberty, and Jferverted idea of Freedom, which dis-
solved all ties of gratitude, friendship, and consanguinity,
as evinced ie the avowal of their merciless designs against
oten kindred and colour, who might feel the dictates
of nature, for their indulgent masters, and the families where
they• had been nurtured with benevolence. - •
The fortitude of the inhabitants under aftliaions staceeed-
ing•eech other at short intervals, is unexampled; in two
calamities of sickness and rebellion, they participated-with
the garrison, and their own sill-lei-jugs seernedebSorbed in the
solicitude to alleviate thosd of His Majesty's troops by every.
olonial aid anti :military co-operation:
The Sword they have done
.me the honour to bestow, I
shall retain as a sacred pledge of, loyalty and affe&ion to my
King aid Country, and always hold it ready •to serve in their
. .
tause ; but it not require any men lento to animate the
esteem and regard that will ev,.2ebe lively in .my breast for
the Gentlemen of -1'
en I.,e7tt, Gentlemen, you will do me the favour to com-
municate those high aelitio,ents, that can but be very feebly
expressed by wards, and assure you that I will ever re-
. . . .
teamwith sincerity, .
Your faithful }limbic Servant, .
(Signed) H. 1.. CARMICHAII... •
Brigadier-General, COmmanding His
.Majety's Forces in Tobago.
The Hon. JOHN BALFOUR, Esq.
• President of the Council.
The Hon. ROBERT PATERSON, Esq,
Speaker of the Aiseinbly.