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London, England, 1817-11-06 00:00:00

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Witt; 'TT:if-wet to the VI )seiner Ctibral
Calheiros riatddo e Letnott, a iliSclooged
of-the 3i regi'Ment 'Of infantry', ii`af-inetris frOM tl
evidence of the witoesstirin c-,,:artiit,atiotO Nos,
4,6, and 'l, that the Heensed read a paptl. to them
which appeared sedilions, and a proclamation,
being that read in' the preSetiee of the. witnesses,
No. V). On the public, promenade ; and' it appears
front the answers of the Said accused, aiid his de=
clarations upon oath, as to What i'slo4Cts ;he third
evidence, and the interrogatori....s of the Append)*
2.;i, that the said itemised confessed lie was
not• ignorant of the Cat!9e of hiSt apprehension,
and that he had allowed hituself to be enticed and
seduced to' beenme a member of tt society which
had for its Object the subVeisiOn of public order,
the dissolution of the existing 'Government, and
the installation of another under constitutional
forniS ; and declares that he received the first
notice of the society from• Antonio Pinto da Fon-
seca 'Hives, who, 'at the Same time) showed the
proclamation which the accused carried away iii
his pocket, and for which he *as introduced along
With Jose Ribeiro Pinto, to whom the proclama-,
tioo was also:shown 3 that being shown the ap-
pendix No. I, he recognised the letter therein, but
denied that he had written it, or that Ribeiro.
Pinto bad written it with him, declaring .that he
was ignorant of the author, and • that he found it
one morning in the Rocio, near the Botequint of
'the Madre ile Pens,
.written in it good character,
bitt very dirty ; that he took a holey to copy tit
and make it pass for-his own;and read it to
ferent'perSons, but that it was, at last, lent to one
who never-returned that he acknowledged for
assOciates Ribeiro Pinto; Colonel Mcinteiro, Ma-
jor 'IN-ices, Jose Joaquint Pluto !far 'Jose
Campello, the 31eilitept Fratresc%.Ailtottio, Hen:
rope JOse Garcia ; and from What he had heard
trout it iheito Phan, there,appeat; folic! other metil-'
begs ; that he knew nothing of the Regenerating
Council, but 'that he inferred it did exist, and'
that Ribeiro PintO told him that Gomez Freire,
Baron Ellen, and others, were members of that
Connell ; and that the said Ribeiro Pinto, Colo-
nel Monteiro, and Maim. Nives were the only per-
sons in a situation which enabled than to. make
the necessary declarations in these respects. In
the answers to the second interrogatnries he re-
pea'ted what lie said of Fonseca Nives,-adding,
that the latter told him that Gomez Freire was at
the head of the society, and that iltron Ebeh was
Also a member; but never considered, the said
Fonseca Nives -as a member, notwithstanding his
baVing a knowledge of the society; that he knew
the proclamations were printing; and that part of
'then' here delivered when the accused was order-
er!, in commissibri for Santarem ; that the accused
and Ribeiro Pinto Went to bargaio,reapecting the
printing-fire S's, and two clays al"ter itibeird Pinto
gave'him on the publie promenade, five rtioidores;
all hitt one nett/ erciadO, to buy, the pret,a sail
utensils, and ,to cause 'it to be conveyed'to .the
house of the said Ribeiro Pioto, on the day of the
insurrection ;t and that if the types wete tiOl sof-
t he thwild purehase mote', for Which the
said:Ribeiro Pinto gave him other five mOirlores,
in paper money; which he TeCe VA:11 troin,Niijor
Nives, who was present, and to the "rrenai do
Paco; t hat the papers for the accosed, received
by the Commissioo; were,a certificate, some,in-
strnetiooa, a' parcel of printed proclamations, in
tvlikli there might be about iliac or ten copies,
and a list . incliCatipg the sccrrspoodence. its
i ell as the forces and resources on which the
society might reckon, which last papers
.were
Setritniew, in the pOssession of his brOther-io-
law Frauci•co Leite Stoke (lit Gana and that the
' Comtnisskm from whoth the accused received the
papers consisted of Coldnel Monteiro, Jose Ribeiro
Pinto, nod the architect in Whose house in the
library they were delivered by the hands of Col.
Mouteiro, this delivery having for object the dis-
patching the accused to the town of Satitarem,
his native place, in order that he might
.engage,
and enrol 'as members ail such persons as might
appear suited to tlie.society ; and that he did not
succeed in enlisting any person, but that he re-
ceived the oaths of two officers, one of whoa}
was Christdvao.da Costa: this contradict ion of.
not enlisting, and yet receiving oaths, "wits- re-
tharkablc. In the
,replies to the third interroga-
tories, We did not recognize Verissimo Antonio
Ferreira da crsta as a 'limber, notwithstandiug
he drew tip the analysis respecting the regulation,
calling an extract or abridgment of the said ana-
lysis, on 'two pages of paper, a prinlamation,
which use accused asked and made a copy df, but
lost or ntislaid it"; that he regards as certain that
Ribeiro: Pinto had been on a mission to tras dos

Montes, and acting for other provinces; that the
accused had been employed on a mission to San-
tarem, and another to the province of Beira. In
the answers to the fourth interrogatories he re-
cognized the papers-in the appendix No. 3, found
in the privy of the house of his brother-in-law,
.Francisco Leite Sodre thi Gamia, as the identical
papers he had received, and Which he gave in.
Santarem to his brother-in-iaw to keep, declaring
that they had never been opened, and that the said
oaths never were joined therewith ; because, on
the day after the delivery to his brother-in-law,-
hebad put them into a drawer, in which the said
papers were kept, his brother-in-law' not being
at borne.. While the accused was confronted with

Antonio Pinto cla Fonseca Nives, the latter de-

dared that he e,!ceiti•ed the first ibforioHtioo' of

the society previously, on the lOth of Narch of
the presetit year, trout his cousin, Jose Iliheiro
Pinto, and not from the prisont.r Cabral, to whom
it. was communicated some days after ; it was
after this that the accused showed him four or five

and beSides several days alter, but
he is not certain whether it was when he was'p.re-
sewed, bot,it was after he had brought about an
interview between theaccnsed and Pik cousin lii.
heiro Pinto, *which' was do le in consequence of
the desire of. the accused to be' accitutinted with
ins cousin ;---al.l these citcumstances were ad-
mitted by the accused when confronted, wir4 the
addition that the first prociatn a tion which Fon-
seca Nires said the accused had shown him were

those ww•liich he copied from the paper which. VC'
rissimo Antonio Verreintconti,led t o
WHS x detildled one, having different or apparently
daeretst objects. _

(To he contir,ued.)

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liernve,Ourcik,—"Oct. SI, i 8; 7.

...• •
At a Generd Cont-tNiartiAl; as St.
Oar::sell, in the Island of Jl•ni-barfoes., tlte ISI7, Deputy ,i'6'sistant Cottit»issnry. Gel
ne'ral wititt.T lirigtn was >zt t aii ueil Atpcon th,e'.ttit •
durtnentiotted C;lFarges, viz.
" lat. Fir havint,t;et.ween t 95th March; la IG, and loth
Marc.7l3, 15;7, en
mal?ezxted, frandolenti)..niisappiitd, hay. 7.
h. 3.1. allowed- to be *cht*zlet.t, cir frduoulently
Puhlic Cah entrusted to his c;c!•,..., :inoino; ilty.to One 'A liou-
sand T‘i.6 Ifilndrea and Twetve Pounds, N'itti:CSl•sillink,: and
Seven: rence Sterling', thereahOnts, lxing contrary to his
Ins t: and i,t trench of the Articles 'of WHi.."
" tld: For tiaing.; bet u:teti the ^z 4h Al arch, SIG; and 24th
...'t.broarv, 017, einhezetd, or ,fraiiiintetitly utirtpt,lied, _or
havi:yg-;;ltowed to lie iii1)e•v.;2?:!:1,:or fratedille:itij rinsapplied,
PobliC St vres conituittelltii ids Charee, hekin; ci f cieut (11),:
Tinsweilid Nistic;*i-Intictreci nod Set einy Nine Poandl of 046,
:Ind Two 'l,lloosi,tor Itinidred nlict Ninety Kou,r Pound.*
Of Rite, on his Liteoniit,>; ciniftiiry to his Instruc-
tions, and in breach of the Articles of War." . .

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Upon which Charges the Court came to thi
following der
•
" The Court having maturely weighed arid considered the
_Evidence produced ost the-pact of the Prosecution, against the
Prisoner, Deputy Assistztut Commissary General Roliert Ward,
as sell as what the prisoner hits ailedged ltad stilimitted to
the Court in his Defence, is of opinion as follows, viz. :
".With respect to the Eirst.Charge, the Limn is of opinio4l4
that the plislther; Deiptity Assistant Commissary General
Robert Ward, is, and dot h aceOrdingly find him, G!,;lty t benx-
eif,'ttiht the• Court nisi) Genii that the 'Sum of 121'2/. 7d.
Sterling is pow _doe from him to Government in'that
pacify. • '
" With respect to the Second Charge, it appears to the
Court, that as to the Rice, the Prisoner has not I c-taincti, ur
applied tiny part of it to his own use, hot that the deficiency '
iirthlst Articte has ttrigen froin ate over-issue which the
saner made to the Regiments that were at that time stationed
lit. St. Kitts ;' and That as to t h.e Oats, the ;Obiged iledeiencl
iu this Article arises partly bout his having ;gnoianily issued
morothan he ought to hare done to the Officers there, :slid
that the Defalcathm as.to the' t, aitide r may Prolsebly have
been in consequence of wastage, and other hisses incidental
to an Article Of thiintature'i 'the Court, therefote, At•qtei4
the Prisoner et.this Second Charge, but at the same
oropiniOn, that he ought-to he thargtid 101 tab's.. *eight
of Oats to'be ace:quite& for by him to Gpvertiment, that ;pun-
tity'heingAlte' balatsccadmitted to hive herr; iN'his ha*Mit .
issued."

" this being the opinion aad finding.nf The Cob rt, the
Prisoner, Deputy Assistant Commissary General Robert
.Ward, twin', &dared Ottittv of theFiFst Charge, the Court
sloth sentence and adjudge that he be Disinisstit his N'lajesty's
Service., and that he,be also rendered incapable of servia;
hii Majesty in any Office, Civil or M.litary.'
The Prince Regent has• been pleased, itt the naTe and- ors
the behalf of his.Majt:sty, to approve and ciniti!..-m the
and tivntence of the Court ; and to command that the Sen.-
-fence-should he forwarded to the Lords Commissioners of
Majesty's Treasury, with a view to their Lordsltips'.> adopt
such procettings as they may think proper, for the !impose
of recovering the hiss and dakllagC sustained in this case..,
The Commap.der in I,.;liiet directs drat th; Charge. preferred
against Deputy Assistant Commissary General Robert lVari,
together with the Pindingand Sentence of Colfrt, and the
Prince Regent's pleasure thereon, Aball he entered in tiie ;;e-
-meral.Order Book, and read at the Head ofevery Regitneut 4.4
his Majesty's Service.
•
.By Cori of his Royal Highness,
The Commander in Chief,
HARRY CALVERT„Idj.
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