The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-31 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A Detachment belonging to the 40th Regiment of Foot
has received orders to march from Chatham on the Slet
instant, for Deptford, for the purpose of embarking on the
Ist of November, as guards, on board the Georgiana con-
vict ship, for Van Diemen's Land.

INDIAN COURT-MARTIAL.
Heal Quarters, Simla, April 11, 1828.

At a European General Court Martial, assembled at
Dinapore, on the 6th of March, 1828. of which Lieut.-
Colonel G. Warden, of the 46th Regiment Native Infantry,
was President, Ensign George Tebbs, of the 12th Regiment
Native Infantry, was arraigned on the following charge :--
CHAROE--" For manslaughter, in having, when ou
Board a budgerow, in the river Ganges, near Buxar, on the
afternoon of the 16th of December, 1827, unlawfully
levelled a double-barrel fowling-piece, one of the barrels of
which was loaded with powder and shot, at Sewchurn, a
native boatman, belonging to the budgerow, and having
then and there killed the said sewchurn by the discharge
of the contents of the loaded barrel, thereby inflicting upon
him mortal wounds, of which he died on the evening of the
same day."
Upon which charge the Court came to the following
decision :

Finding and Sentence—" The Court, having maturely
weighed and considered the evidence adduced on the pro-
secution, together with what the p:isoner has urged in his
defence, are of opinion, that Ensign George Tebbe, f--f the
19th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, is guilty of the
charge preferred against him, and they do, therefore,
sentence him the said Ensign George Tebbs, to suffer im-
prisonment for the period of one calendar month."—Con-
firmed.

(Signed) COMBERMERE,
General Commander-in-Chief.

Remark"' by the Right Ron. the Commander-in-Chia:

The proceedings of this Court-martial were accompanied
hy an earnest recommendation of the prisoner to the favour-
able consideration of the Commander-in-Chief. Consi-
dering the highly creditable testimonials to character ad-
<Weed, by Ensign Tabbs, and the feeling of deep remorse
evinced by this officer, from the period of the fatal occur-
! rence which led to the present trial, the Commander-in-
Chief would gladly comply with the solicitation iu his
farour, were it possible to do so with a due regard to the
administration of justice; but it appears to his Lordship
that the Court, in pronouncing
,judgment, have them-
selves accorded to the prisoner the fall benefit of thos;±
considerations which might induce a mitigation of punish-
ment.
It is clearly shown, that the fowling-piece was levelled
at the deceased in sport, in a moment of thoughtlees in_
discretion, and that the discharge of the loaded barrel was
an accidental event never contemplated by Ensign Tebbs;
I yet the homicide which ensued thereupon, though involen-
, tary, cannot be deemed either justifiable or excusable.
The Commander-in-Chief does not deem it expedient
that the penalty which the Ltw apportions to this offence
should ho altogether remitted, and an imprisonment of
one month's duration is, in his Lordship's opinion, the
least punishment which can with propriety be inflicted in
the present case.
The sentence of one mouth's imprisonment passed on
Ensign Tebbs is to be carried into effect at Chuner.