The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-02 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

CounT-MutTIAL.--,Wednesday last the Court
ris.,:,!iled in Dahlia', on the trial of Capt. John
WH ITE, eldest Captain of the 4th Dragoon Guards,
five different charges preferred against him by
06tt.Btu.
• Ist Charge.—For conduct highly Prejudicial to
military discipline, in conducting:him,,elf in the
most.disrespecfnl manner tOwards Ilk command-
ing Officer, Major Ogilbie, when attending a
meeting of the Officers o►t the twn-squdrons of
-the regiment, as,embled at Tullomore, on the
10th day of May last, by order of'M►+jor Ogilbie
pursuance of Lieutenant-Colonel Ross's orders
to that effect.)
2d Charge.-.-For insubordinate and unofcer•
lilce conduct, highly subversive of military
disci-
- One, when attending the meeting of the Officers
on the said Mb -day •of May last, in. declaring
-.that had he known the titroose for which
.Major'
Ogilbie'had ordered time Officers to assertible, he
would not have .attended the meeting-ordered.
3d Charge.—For conduct highly subversive of
military discipline, in refusing, at the meeting of
the- Officers- on ►he said 10th day of May last, to.
obey Major Ogilhie's order to read a letter (when
handed to him by Major Ogilbie), addresseal to
],Major ()gable by the Adjutant, for the purpose
of desiring him to call on Capt. White, to state,.
for the 'domination of the Officer coMmanding fhe
'regiment, why be bad not complied with the:
order of the 21st of January last, relative to the
men's overalls.
4th Charge.—For 'conduct unbecoming of an
Officer and a Gentleman, in ►writing a letter to
'Lieutenant-Colonel Ross, dated May 14, 1817,
saying that he, Captain White,' email have wished
that the copy of the Rcport made to Lieut.-Col.
'Boss, on the 6th instant, sent by Major Ogilbie
-to Captain White, agreeably to his r.riiiests, had
been attested by him Lieutenant-Colonel Ross ;
thereby insinuating, that tl►e copy of the Report
sent to him by Major Ogilbie was nut a true, and
correct copy.

• Additional-sth Charge.—For conduct unbe-
' ' -coming an Officer, and to the prejudice of dis•ci-
pline, in hiving acted in an improper and disre-
spectful manner before a Regimental Court-Mar-
tial, assembled at Philipstown, on the 3001'3une.
last, such conduct being calculated unjustifiably
to encourage in the minds of certain soldier‘ be-
longing to his troop an impresiion that they had
been furnished with overalls charged at a higher
price than they ought to have been, and tending-
to excite in the said soldiers a feeling that
.the
Court were not•disposed fully and impartially to
investigate the justice or otherwise of the objec-
tion stated on their parts to the prices so charged
in their seconnts, for ' which purpose the Court
was specially instituted.

• •
A Court-Martial will be held in Portsmouth
garrison, On. Thursday, to try Lieutenant-Colonel.
-ALAN, of the 55th regiment, on charges preferred
aLI-tiust. that Officer by Major-General BAYLEY,
Lieutenant -Governor of Guernsey. Major-Gen.
Lhrd HOWARD will preside, and Captaii, EYRE,
late nu -the Staff at Hil•,ea, will sit as Deputy
Judge-Advocate on this occasion.

WINCHESTER, AUG. 30.—Yesterday the anni-
versary of the Club for the support of the Ind,e-
pendence of this County was celebrated at the
George Inn, in this City The meeting, though
not numerous, was highly respectable. Among
the company present we noticed the Earl of Car-
'larval', the Earl of Northesk, Lord Portchester,
Sir Henry Tichborne, Bart. Sir Thomas Baring,
Bart. and other gentlemen of the county.—The
Wittier and wines did great credit to Ashcombe,
aPd gave general satistaCtion.

TEILINDER STORM.-On Tuesday afternoon,
pliant six o'clock, Edinburgh ‘vas visited by a
tremendous torrent of rain, preceded by three
vet y loud peals of thunder. The lightning struck
the railing whiA encloses the Earl of Moray's
pleasnre-ground, opposite the north end of Cha-
lotte-street. It passed on in an easterly direc-
tion, carrying off the ra.ling and cope-stone,
till it came to a stone pillar, where, being inter-
rupted, it seems to have exploded, and razed the
parapet wall to its fonnaation, carrying the rail-
ing and stories, in fragments, into the grounds,
and destroying the shrubbery. The railing and
cope-stone, for the first- eight or ten yards, were
merely carried off the wall, and placed in a virti-
cal posture ; this may have arisen from the easy
conduct that iron Abrded ; but when the fluid

met opposition, it seems to have exploded with
tremendous force, as the wall is there razed to
the foundation for many yards, a considerable
part of the street carried away, and the iron-rail-
ing shattered to pieces. The effect of the shock ex-
tended to at least 40 yards. The violent rain for-
tunately was not of long continuance, otherwise
June . damage might have been sustained in tlie
lower parts of the city. As it was the Cotvgate
was for some tune flooded ; the water extending
the full breadth of the street in many 'Nees, and
presenting the appearance of a rapid stream. A
most remarkable and interesting occurrence took
place at the foot of St. Mary's Wynd ; a boy,
about seven or eight years of age, was carried
away by the torrent, and swept into the common
sewer, the grating of which had been lifted to carry
°if the w a er. All hopes of his recovery scented lost.
Tr.e mother stood by (encircled by a prodigious
crowd) in the greatest agony of grief : when a
eiroutryman, driving a flock of lambs, came up,
and learning the circumstance, borrowed an um-
brella front one of the by-standers, and descended
into the sewer. The boy had recovered himself
while in the sewer, and attracted by the voice of
rthe countryman, laid hold on the hook end, of. the
umbrella, by which lie was; drawn towards his
deliverer, who produced hittt alive•to;the- over,
filed mother and -the astonished spectators., after.
•he bad been upwarils of 20 minutes in the sewer.
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We are nitieli'cririerlied to state that a typhus
leyer, of vyiy tnali itxnt nature, prevails in va-
ij(stis interior of Ireland. The cou-
togioil most rapid strides in all direc-
tions......" • "