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i4ORSHAI4t, LIONDAy, mAttcrt so; rr
Murphy and James feffiron; :a .tn-tporpt
anti private, ita the 76th.
,Regiment Of, Foot„ we(
indided for the wilful- murder ,of ,Mark and
Williaut White; gunnCts in til'efo'kal
The affray which led to, this catastrophe
followS Stone, the landlord of the
Moon Tnn ar Rattle, said, the Prisorteii, with other
soldiers' of the 7oth, Were billetted. at his
On the evening ,of the sth of Deceliabe'r,' he went' to .
bed about ten o'clock Crut hearing a grc:it,noiSe, he
wit op between one and two'.. The noise proceeded
front a s carrel amoiigsl the soldiers , there were ten
or ve twe of them-in the tjp,.rooin;b6thecould r 4,
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say:wltc't bet' the .Prisciiiers were of the party. He
endeavoured' to quiet ditrri; but Riding he could
not stiCeced, he werii to the Gorge to:fetch the
Plikers he' returned, i'lieh• the Officers -came iri
abOut tW.enty minutes-, and then .he saw two men
lying dead. The Prisoners belonged to the loth
Regiment, and the the Royal
ky.
John Forbes, a serjethrit of the on, said be was'
in the tip..roOal of the Half_Moon, between twelve
and one,
,on the sth of December. The company
consisted 'of some of the 7oth, a party of Dragoons,
and some Artillerymen. After the quarrel began;
the 76th turned the ArritlezyMen out of the tap.
room ; they returned in about two or three minutes; •
and with large sticks endeavoured to force open the
door. The 70th withinside kept them out fir a
considerable time, by ~placing the chairs and tables
against the door; but as they persisted in endea.
vouritig to force their way into•the•room, the Pri.
saner, Murphy, took a firekek, and a'cartridgc from
out of his pouch. The witness asked him what.he:
was about todo;—Murphy went on and loaded the:
piece; but he first took the ball from the cartridge,
and laid it upon the table. Having loaded the
piece with blank cartridge, he fired. The . a,nil.,lerymen drew back for a short time, but shortly
fired at them from the outside with a pistol, as the.
witness' conceived. Some of the 7oth then cried
out murder, saying that the Artillerymen had gone
backward and had got possession of the arms and
dmmunitiOn of the.7oth, which was in an outhouse
backward. 'Murphy up m this reloaded his piece:
with, ball cartridge and fired again. By this time"
the door was fOrced open, but the Artiilerytne,n did
not succeed in getting in. Fannon also loaded .and
fired with the same piece which Murphy had before
discharged. From the confusion which ensued, the
witness could not say Wherlierthere wan any more
firing ; but gOing up stairs,. and looking out of. the
window, he saw two men lie dead in the street.--:
. A guard
_then came up, and • secured those on. the
outside. On cross-examination, he, said that lan.
nor) was a corporal in the Regiment, and that he had
been much beat and
~ill.treated by the Artillery-
, men before they were put out of the room. While
the Artillerymen were at the door endeavouring to
force their way into the rap-room, they said,
,that
when they got in,. they would sacrifice the 7oth to
their revenge; .and the Witness and all his comrades
thought their lives in imminent danger.
SerjeantDow, of the 7oth, deposed to the same
effect. On cross.examination he said, that the Ar.
tillerymen were quartered at the barrack, and, it
was a great breach of military discipline for them
to be out from their quarters at so late an hour.—
The second Artilleryman who.was shot, run up to
the door, and exclaimed, " Stand here !—Die one,
.die all!" • A piece was soon afterwards fired, and
the Witness saw him .fall.

Mr. KNOWLYS, Counsel for the Prisoners, sub-
mitted, that the case, as made out in evidence on
the part of-the Crown, would not am-Aint even to
manslaughter, but was justifiable hcm:cide. The
deceased were soldiers, in a state of indiscipline,
bcirig away from their quarters at improper hours.
Ic was proved also, that thq. attacked the Prisoners
and their party, and that they denounced vengeance
upon them if they had procured admission. The
Prisoners, on the contrary, were within their quart
ters, into which the deceased were forcibly endea-
vouring to obtrude, for most mischievous purposes,
and the Occident, however, much to be lamented;
had happened in repelling their unjitst aggression-,
The Learned Judge. being. of the same opinion,
the Jury,'under his advice, acquitted the Prisoners

Yesterday a Quarterly General Court was held at
the East India House; after a few words from Messrs.
JONES, ADAIR; and Mr. RocK, on the subje& of
Ceylon, the Court adjourned till the 4th of April,
ro ballot for the return of JAMES STRANGE, Esq. to
the company's Service at Fort St. George.
The Eletttion for the Borough of Ilchester termi-
nated on Saturday last, after one of the most:severe
c,mtests ever known ih6re.' The Candidates were,
Sir EDWARD O' B. Barr.. Colonel OGLE,
and JOHN MAI;INERS, Esq. On Friday, Sir E.
at the head of .the. poll ; but at seven
o'clock on Saturday evening Mr. MANNI7RS had a
majority of three, when the RetUrning °facer finally
closed the poll, and returned Mr. M. &fly elected.
Colonel Oct, g prefers a Petition to the House of
Commons.

We received yesterday the smaller Paris Papers
to the i idi instant, and Dutch Papers to the 3511,
but they contain nothing of any consequence.
Fourfidiermen have been arrested sat Havre, for
having maintained a secret understanding with some.
English vessels.
According to some of the Paris Papers, a Privateer
of BOulogne' landed on the 'English coast, with part
Of her crew, took . a small redoubt, and carried the
garrison of six men prisoners to D!eppe
It is said, that BONAPARTE left Paris to avoid
the torrent of petitions from the friends of Mo.
REAU, PicHEGaU, and the other accused persons, ,
c% horn he has ordered to be executed the moment
his obsequious Courts of Justice shall have found
them gusity.
The Armies in Holland and Hanover, it is said,
meant to petition in favonr of .MoRFALt • but their
Commanders refused to forward their A4emorials.
Several Officers have been arrested and sent to Pa, •
ris, as instigators of this measure,
This morning about ten o'clock, a fire broke out
in a court near the Obelisk, in Sr. George's-Fields,
and we arc sorry to add, that a Root 10C1011. wo-
man perished in the flames*

From the LONDON GAZE` rE,lMarch 20, 1804.

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* • • IF:ir -6 Mee, March • , •
tst West India Regiment, Lieutenant-Camel' Alexander
4:tainitie, from the 7;th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Maitland, who exchanges.
.3il Ditto, Captain Charles Philip Rels6n, from the 7th Light
Dragoons, to be Major, by porch ise, 4ice Grant, promoted
in the 7otlt Foot Major John - White, front the New
Brunswick Fencibles, to he Major. lames Crook, Gent.
late Ading Provost Martial m the Forces in Egypt, to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice,Godfrey; whose Appoint-'
mein does not take place.
6th Ditto, Enign Tracey, from the 7th West India
Regiment; to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice P-
. rington, deceased. •
7:h Ditto, Lents Ritter, Gent. to be. Ensign, without' pur-
Chase, Vice Tracey, promoted in the 6th West India Re6i.:
Sth'Ditto,. Captain William I. Bourchier, from the 391;i
loot, to tal;:Calitail of. a
.Company, vice Harrison, who
• exctianges. Lieu? errant Alexander
,Cameron, front the
4rh West'lndie Regiment, to be Lieutenant.
Rol al Staff Corps, Lieutenant the Hon. Charles Stanhope,
toe sed Foot, to be Captain ofa Company.Company.Shannhan, Gent. to be Ensign.
bric- Ritagers, Lieutenant Edward O'Rourke, froth Half_
pay of tlßt,sth FoOr, to be Lieutenant. Volunteer
‘4/iire to be Ensign, vice 'Van' Bream, promoted in the
York Light IWiintry Volunteers. Peter Cockburn, Esq.
, to be Plyrivsplr,
6• ' -
11 Battalion of Reserve, Charles Stanley, Gent. to,be-En-
' sign,' vi-f.e Gardiner, promoted' Ridd, Gent. to be
Ensign, .vita Keen, prontotetVin;the tOth Battalion of Re._

serve. •
, . •
isth Ditto, Ensign Francis Nelson, from the t ith Battalion,
to be. Lieutenant. Ensign James kzeii; fro6l the 6th Bat-
tallow; to be Lieutenant, vice Hoppe'', deceased. -
&atli Ditto, Ensign. Wiltiaift Tturmati, twin the 66th Foot,
to be Lieutenant
ieAln Maclean, Gent late Quarter-master to the
.0011,0 r-tort benctbes, to be Qaarier-toaster,'_ViCe Caine-
run, .v. by returns to his loriter Half-pay.
rpb Ditrn, Ensign. fames M'Artliur to be Lieutenant. Geo.
Yull,'Gent. to be Ensign, vice 11,1•Artliiir.
l~eivlrunswick FenObles-, BreVez Nlaj& Samuel Blake De.
from the 3d Vest
the
Regiment, to be Major,
vine White, removed to the 34 West India Regiment.
Dieu roles. ReB -',
went, Francois Louis' Bourgeois, Gent. to be
ft pilot, vise Sandoz, promoted.-. •
Reitneut, Ensign loseph Tugginer, from the 6th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice D'Arregar, deCeased. •
The King's German Legion. ,
To be Lieutenants, with temporary Rank' in .the. A rmy, Se.
cond Lieutaiant . William Lewis Langielit. Ensign Au-:
gusto's De Hattortr. •
To be Quarter-master—Ensign rolin Schilvester, from the'
Noird Scotia Fencibles.. •
York Light Infantry Volunteers, Captain M. Van Wester-
holt to be Captain of a companv,• with temporary-Rank-
io the Army. Ltisign William Hu: Van Braam,, front the
York-Rangers, to he Lieutenant. .
ad Royal Garrison Battalion, "Arjeant-Nlajor Richard Street
to be Ensign, vice Jones, placed on the Retired List.
' sth Iltto, Assistant-Surgeon S. Eagland, from Half-pay
of the gth Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Saunders;
removed to the ad Garrison Battalion.
7th Ditto, Captain lames Stevenson, from the sth Garrison
battalion, to be Captain of a Company, vice Mansfield,
placed on the Retired List.
Royal Waggou.Train. To be Lieutenants —CornetGilbert
Aird, vice Day, who resigns. Cornet Basil Jackson. -Cor-.
net john Kirkwood, vice Gwyllym, deceased.
To be Coinets—Elisha Day, Gent. vice Aird. Quartermas-
ter William Smith, from the 6th Dragoons, vice Jackson.'
-John Fletcher, Gent. vice Kirkwood. Quarter-master
--Harrison, from the tst Dragoons.

Chippenham Traep of Willa Gentlemen and reontamy cavalry.
Comet Henry _Headley to be Lieutenant, vice FoMe, resign-
ed.- Edward Bdynturn, Gent. to be Comet, vice Headley..

.IV,rth Devo'z Gentlonev and Yeomuuni Cavalty.

Gent. to be Col;net.

Fife.rhire Gentlemth ald Ye,,nnurrjr Cavalry. .
Cornet David Mel.frum to be. Lieutenant. Williain.Ravne,
Gent. to be• Cornet, vice Melttrum.
- .I;rumbala'ash 17.danteer

•
I.- B. Hale. Yin. Gent. to be COrnet, vice Eccles, resigned.
Wickharn, Gent. to be ,Surgeon.

Kiricuihright Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry,.

Cotner Robert johnstone to be Lieutenant, vice Livinstrat,
promoted. lames B4rber, Gera; to be Cornet, vice Hope,
resigned.
ist or Western Regiment of Krorfulk Gentlemen -arid Yeomanry
Cavahy.

Lieutenant Becker to be Adjutant, with the 11r,;vet
. Rank of Captain.
Richmond Volunteer Cavalry and I,rfantry. •
Captain Carrington Smith to be Major-Commandant.
Western Regiment of Somerset Gentlemen and Yeomanry Caraky.
Wellington Troop—Lieutenant_Rich:mi Baron Bellett to be
Captain, vice Bellett, resigned. William Prottor., Gent.
to be Lieutenant, vice Beliet.
Wo-,s,ule*hive Gentlemen auct: Yeomanly Cavaby.
Richard Lawrence, Gent. to be Veterinary Surgeon.
'Rion and Bourne rdunteer Corps.
Sir Charles Warre Nlalet,-Bart. to be Major-Commandant.

Ayrsbfre Regiment 5.1 Voimnr.reri.
John Kelso, Cent. to be Lieutenant, vice Drynan, resigned.
%v main Kelso, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Kennedy, re-