The Sun.
London, England, 1810-10-06 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, OCT. 3.

A General Court Martial, for the trial of Cap-
tain Ellman, ot the centre hattahon of the Sussex.
-Local Alitia, was vesteiday opened at the
,Castle..
and which 'consisted of Lord' Biook, of the War-
wick Militia, President, one Field Officer ae.A two
Captain. re the Royal Scotch GiouCester Militia ;'
one. Fidel Officer and two Captains of the Oxford
Militia ; two Captains of the Warwick Militia ; two.
Captains of the Leicester Militia and one Field
()dicer arid one Captain ofthe Ve‘retisey battalion'Of
tie Local Militia. Brigade Major Reynolds, JUdge
Athocate.
Captain Ellman was attended by his Counsel and
Solicitor, Mr. Horn and Mr. Hoper.
The charges preferred against him by his Com-
. mander, Lieutenatit-Col. Graham, were as under
First-. For disobedience of orders of his Grace the Duke of
Norfolk. a. Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex, in-not
stepaiiing to the head-qnarters of his regiment, on the 17th of
Se,,tember, gueeably to the public notice advertised on the
3d of September, in the public county papers
Second.- For disobedience of orders, in refusing to join his
regiment on the 17th of Ssptember, as expressly directed to
him so to do,,by Lieureirant-LolonelsGraham, as Coinmand-
- ant of the said' regiment, by a letter under date- Sept. 7th,
1810, to that purport. and acknowledged by him to have been
received being breaches ot the Articles ot War.
It appeared by. the opening address of Co/oriel
Graham, that Captain Ellman bad been originally
balketel to serve in the Pevensey-battalion of Lecal
Militia ; to avoid Which, he had paid the fine, and
subsequently selicited and obtained a Lieutenancy
_in tie centre battalion of the :Local Militia, when
the fine previously Paid had been returned to him ;
that he had preferred holding a commission in the
centre battalion to that of l'evensey, in CQUSC-
quepee of their mustering-point being nearer to his
business and residence at Glynde-; that he had af-
terwards the honour of obtaining. a Captain's com-
mission, partly through the interest of Culoael Gra-
hatn.; but that on finding the mustering point ot the
battalion had been changed from that of Lewes to
Brighton, he would fain hare exchanged his cora-
misiion for one its the Pevensey battalion ; but. not
succeeding accordant to his wishes, he bad tendered
his r, signation, which resignation had not been ac-
cepted ; that his neglecting to join his regiment at
Brighton followed,, which, occasioned• him to be put
under annrrest, and ultimately brought to trial.
The correspondence that took place, between Co-
lonel Graham and captain .Ellman,- on the subject,
' of the tendered reignatibn, was fully explained,
and the leasers read in Court by. ale Colonel.
It appeared that the latter had strongly recom-
mended ti) Captain Ellman to bestow the .required
attentions-to, his military duties, as theconsequelices
of hi. neglea must necessarily prove very unplea-
sant to hiuis: If ; but that his retnonstrancei and per-
suasions had proved-ineffectual..
The case the Colonel observed, was certainly de-
serviig of the most serious- Consideration of the
Court, as lie bad strong reasons for believing that
not less than six subaltern officers of the Sussex
centre Local battalion were awaiting the result.
of the investigation,, thit their cuticle& might .be
regulated thereby, in regard to their owu corn-
rnis4orls.
The first charge was substantiated by the man-
date of ffie Lord Lieutenant, as ' advertised in the
Lewes Journal, which was read ; and alio-confirma-
tion of the nun-attendance ao his duties, of Captain
Elltuan, on the 17th of September; by-the Adju-
tant of the regiment, Capt. Agar,
The prisoner hereupon enquired Whet heethe man.
date of ;he Lord Lieutenant could be considered as
applying, to him, 4s commissioned officers. of• the
corps were not therein mentioned ? which-question
the Judge Advocate told him he might reserve for
his defence.
To establish the second charge, Capt. Agar prov-
ed that the notice to attend his military.deties on

the 7th of September, had, at the express desire
of Colonel Graham, been transmitted to. Capt. Ell-
; man by Elia), the Adjutant,-but to which he had re-
ceived no written answer; though after he had put
the Captain under an arrest, which happened on
Friday, the 28 t h of September, he, the Captain, had
acknowledged .h:s having received it. The let-
ter, or notice, a copy of which was sent to Cap-
tain Ellman, by Captain Agar, was read by the
Judge Advocate.
The Earl of Chichester gave evidence on the se-
cond charge, in which it appeared that Colonel Gra-
ham, in cne or two conver,ations which. he had had
.with his Lordship, had stated various particulars te-
specting Capt Ellman's cctiduCt, and had expressed
a hope that the Captam would not urge matters to
extremities; that his Lordship had declined parti-
Cularly inteitering on the sobjea, but had obi
served that he could not encourage any otficer to
exchange from one regiment to another, without
the sanction of his Colonel and the Lord Lieuten-
ant. His Lordship, on being interrogated by the
prisoner to that effeet, did not recollect to have had
any application from Capt. Ellman's father, on the
suojett of his son's quitting the centre battalion, but
he did with Colonel Thomas, and to whon, he had
given nearly the same answer as he had previously
done to Colonel Graham.
George Hoper, E.q. 'being sworn, admitted that.
Colonel Graham-had had a long. conversation with'
him on the subject matter between the Colonel and
Captain, though he did not consider the conversati-
,
• on as having the extent of his being regarded as a
mediator between them—The Court was here or-
dered to be .cleared of strangers; and on their be-
ing again admitted, Mr. Hoper was further ques-
tioned, though the general conversation at the time
alluded to, between him and Colonel Graham, had
been deemed by the Court as irrelevant ; Mr.
• Hoper, therefore, merely further deposed, that he
had, some days after, mentioned what had passed
to Capt. -Elltnan, but that it had, not influenced, or
apiwared to have.any etre& upon him.
Here the Court -was adjourned until this day,
when it was re-opened at eleven o'clock, and Mr.
Ellin:in, the prisoner's father was swore: To a
qtiesi.)on fiotu Colonel Graham, as to his having
told him that if his son did not attend to his mili-
tary duties, lie must report him to. the General—a

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injury of the ,stiivice, which be, hid not failed fr
rt cotrounicate to the Lord Lieutenant ; none of, the,
resignations tendered therefore had ben accepted,
and no Officer had a right to expect, uoder such cir •
cutimattees, that an exception would be made in his'
favour.

The Colonel read a letter
,w hich he had 'received
front the Duke of Norfolk, after the closing of the
Court yesterday, approving of his (the Colonel's) con-
duct throughout this affair, and, if we heard rightly,
observing, that the calling out rof the COmmissioned‘
Officers when the battalion received orders to be
embodied, rested not with the Lord, Lieutenant, but
with the Commandant of the Corps, and thereby
of course xonetating Captain Ellman, completely
from the effects of the first charge.
• The Court was ordered to be cleared as soon as
Colonel Graham had concludeed; that they
.might
proceed to their decision, the result of which will
not, be made known until after it has received his
Majesty's-sanction.
• At four o'clock this afternoon the Local Mikia
• were reviewed on the slope of the Down, to the
Notili of this place, by PeneralliOustoun.

. . .
•vithout fai}l conviction. .Silence was obtained ‘c I,h "
great .diffiAl er
culiy fin such an immense:crowd.
which, M. Sicard caused several of, dealr— d
.
ar
diunb pupils to speak. • Vidor spoke
eh
."of
midtty and difficulty, having so long lust the use
speech ; lie read with pain and great hesitatiotqte
a book which was procured for the purpose. 'do
broke off: , observing, that his feelings v‘ ere
strong to sillier him to proceed. When the Abbl.
observed that the Prefect of the Police had given
one of his shirts to the young man, who was abs?:
lutely naked, and other clothing also, he being.,l:.
great distress, a collection was made in his fav°";)
This had a great effect:on him. Victor observed t°
the Abbe that he had so entirely accustom
himself to the illusions of his part' that he had".ll;
learned his hearing, He described as one of t d
most powerful profs to which his conalancY L
a
been put, an experiment practised on him in Salt
ieriand.' I was in a room, under
I.v interrogail'd
said he, “.hero had • been previously susperwe't
unknown to me, immediately behind Me, a gre"is
vase full of copper money, suddenlythe cord wa
cut, and the whole came tumbling down with a Proi
digious clatter.—Yet not the slightest indicatian_.°,
any emotion was discoverable in'my countenanc':i
Such was the termination of a deception which
ituposeil on parts of
,Germany, 'Switzerland, it3l):
Spain, and France ! The pens of Paris are.prelo7,
memoirs of this singular raring than ; he has luit
nishedsthe materials during his long detention•
is revolted that they will contain uncommon ides'
and very interesting adventures.

A magnificent dinner was given on Wednesday AI
•
ti
praycot-house„by Lady TILNEY LONG, in honour
her daughter's coming. of age. Amongst the Coir
pany present were Lord C. SomEusET, Hon. Aira
'WINDSOR, Mr. CODRINGTON, Mr. METHUEN all
family, .Mr. B. DICKENSoN,, Mr. CaAwFogb, Slc;
A tine ox was roasted whole, and distributed ail;
the populace, with profusion of strong beer. In t;
evening,,the pleasure grounds were lighted with
[legated lamps ; a neat transparency ornanlehle
the centre of the house, and a grand displJy of 61;
works concluckd the entertainments of , the EDP
, computed that upwards of 5000 persons were
present. Ihefestivities will continue the whole of
the:week.

13UON A PARTE'S family are destined to be the stern:
est commentators upon his policy, the severest critic':
upon his life. They afford, in their own persons'.
and by their own actions, the clearest evidence t";
his tyranny is intolerable, even to themselves.---C1139
has abdicated a throne, preferring the life
n",,e,
exile to all the honours his brother could best°,
upon him. A second remains a prisoner in the 1111Uit
of an enemy's country, a King, without the P°'4,l
of a King ; fearful of thrusting timtelf in the to"-I'
of his subjects, desirous of throwing off the ri'h es
of royalty, but obliged still to be the poppet ahot
instrument of his brother, and seeking in the vice
drunkenness a short oblivion of his apprehensi°/i;
and his cares. A third, to whom N4PoLEot4 o,eo,
every thing, proclaims that he is unsafe in
minions, and flies for protection to the very P°`,co,
which 13UOAPAIITE is fightingagainst,. thus fort"' st
,ing the severest refutation of. his. calumnies ag3i`l
us. One only of his family, JEROME, seems 10 cl.p 4
to NAPOLEON—an union ce oented by a congeni3-
tl
of vice—both having repudiated their wives.
Bges.—A Gentleman, la4t Meath, walking ttl hi
flower garden, had his attention arrested by tbe
f be
lowing curious circumstance large wild 1:',11
observed to go into one of the' bi:e hives, from
of
in less than a minute,. he v.6s expelled by three of
the hive bees, who. brought him' out abd. left 'l'-oa
The intruder, however, made a second assay, „
was .again ejected by the rightful owners of the
nement ; but, notwithstanding the two fair o'ir to
logs be had received, he returned a third thud 3,
the assault, and entered the. premi es. 'Die ,
bitantsos it is conceived, now thought it high "10
to punish him for.his temerity; which they did'g
four of them brought him out dead; and lovri.n
laid him at.the extretnity of `the:stone on which bi
hive stood, returned to their habitation.
A law for the suppression of Duelling has P:'`ed
in the Illinnois territory, in America, founde-,0,,
the Virginia code. The punishment of the survtr,
duelist (if his antagonist die. within three months f,
the alders,. abettors, and counsellors thereof, to 5t1..0
(Cr death by hanging.—The. challenger, us persot
accepting a challenge, is. declred. incapable ever
ot
holding or being elected to any office of profi,ter,
trust, civil or military, within the territory ro
sons. when entering upon the. duties pf office, areed
swear or affirm, that they have never been engfi'oo
in a duel; either direaly or indirealy, in any
whatever.

MARRIED. •-'
irge,
On Thursday, George M. Hoare, Esq. of Morclen •
Surrey, to alias,Angelina Frances Greene, daughter of r
Greene, Esq.

• , DIED.
Cird'
On the 23d ult. after a long illness, Mr. Edward ' •gisi
eve; Merchant, of' Portsea, much* lamented by
circle of relatives and friends.
On Friday-morging, at Greenwich, William Collins.
of jOon-street, Adell+o
nh Saturday last, a pthi. Dover, John -Kriap,' Esq. C4'-
and Paymaster of the Royal Miners Light-Infantry.,,,
On Monday the Ist inst. Mrs. Hal, wife.of Mr-.
Pill, of Stone's-End, Southwark, '9'
• On the zi•inst. at Lymington, Miss Ann Crailan, aged
third daughter of tne late mr. Crallan. rov.
On Tuesday. night, the ad inst. Mr. Stephen
Grocer, of Piccadilly, aged ts ; he ma' seized with•'''i-or-
,pleetic fit behind his counter, about four o'clock in the an re•
noon, from which, by medical assistance, he was 51-
covered, but a returning fit the same night proved fata may.
On Friday se'nnight, in ClGriinel, the Rev;,Thholli,,,, ber:
On the 2,5rh ult. at his house in Edinburgh, Mr- „":iies•
Spence, Dentist to His Royal Highness the Prince a ;dal