Star.
London, England, 1808-01-28 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER.

" Horse Guards, January. 19, I/!08.

" Sir Charles Hotham, Bart. Colonel of the East Yorkßegi-
ment of Militia, has been tried by a General Court Martial on
the charge of being drunk on duty.' The Court has found Sir
Charles Hotham Guilty of the Crime alledged against him, and
has sentenced him to be Cashiered, which sentence his Majesty
has been pleased to confirm, and has commanded it to be thus
publicly communicated to the Army, in crder that Officers and
Soldiers of all descriptions may be made sensible that no conside-
rations of rank or station of life, nor even of past services, will
induce his Majesty to pardon an offence of this nature, so inju-
rious to the discipline of the Army.
" His Majesty has, at the same time, been graciously 'leased
to declare hi:great regret on feeling the necessity of dismissing
from his service an Officer, to whose good character so many Ge-
neral Officers have borne testimony ; but under all the circum-
stances of the case, his Majesty has it not in his power to pay at-
tention to the recommendation of the Court, and is reluctantly
obliged to confirm the sentence to its extent.
(Signed by his Royal Highness the Commander in Chiefs
Command) " HARRY CALVER r, Adj. Gen."

By a letter from Captain Wood of the Commerce
of Gardenstown, dated Drontheim in Norway, 19th
November last, we understand the following masters
of British vessels are at present prisoners of war there,
viz. John Hall of the Edward of North Shields ;
William Robinson and George Irwin of Maryport ;
James Sangster of Peterhead ; William Monro of
Cromarty ; and Robert Potter of Newcastle, wrecked
going to Archangel.
Tuesday arrived here, the smack Mansfield, of this
port, Robert Moor master, from London, On Sun-
day morning the 17th, about ten leagues E. S. E. of
the Scares, discovered a brig with only the mainmast
standing, without any person on board. On search-
ing the cabin, the charter party for the voyage and
some letterss were found, which discovered her to be
the Orpheus, of Gottenburgh, Johannes Hayherg
master, bound from Dram, in Norway, to Leith, with
THE ANTIOPE TRANSPORT.
a cargo of timber and deals. Captain Moore, from
appearances, supposed that all the crew had unfou- ,
The following melancholy account of the loss a I rt
nately perished, as the beds were lashed on deck. The
the Antiope transport, Captain MOLLENY, with part i vessel was in a very shattered state, having the fore-
of the 90th regiment, is contained in a letter from Ha- i mast towing alongside, with a good deal of rigging,
verfordwest :
yards, &c. the sails fast to them reefed, the cables
" We embarked at Portsmouth on the 16th of December last,
and on the toth set soil with a favourable wind for Cork ; we had dragging overboard, and the hatchesoif. After taking
very pleasant weather for two days; but after passing Scilly, we 1 out some trifling articles, he left her.
were becalmed two days. On Christmas evening it began to blow 1 The same vessel was also seen by the Jolly Bache-
very hard, and the gale increased to a hurricane, the sea rising to for of this place, on her passage from Sunderland ;
such prodigious heights, as to alarm the most experienced sailor on
board, and our situation was rendered still more dangerous by a but she having lost her boats, and sustained other da-
of the vessel could not be discovered .
fog so thick, that one end mage, in a hard gale on the 11th, was unable to save
from the other. Great quantities of water dashing over the deck, any part of the wreck or cargo.
and rushing down the hatchways, all hands wet to the skin, and We are happy, however, to add, that by a letter
perishing with cold, our pumps choked below, our sails any rig-
front Leith, to a gentleman in this place, dated the
ging tearing, it was with extreme labour we kept her afloat, by
~,,a,
bailing the water out with buckets. The morning's light afforded Lylil instant, we are informed, that the Captain and
us the view of the Irish shore, but the wind then shifting, proven- four of the crew were taken front the wreck by one of
ted our making any harbour on that coast ;we passed all that night • the Leith London traders, and brought into Leith ;
at.the mercy of the winds, and in the morning we saw land about and that means have been taken to find the vessel, for
two leagues from ns, but thirst not approach it: the sea ran so high
that the Captain and crew expected every moment to be dashed to the benefit of the underwriters.
pieces, nor did they exactly know where they were. We put The smack Caledonia, Captain Hayley, also ar-
about again, and experienced a dreadful sea ;we were now five rived here on Tuesday from London. On Wednes-
days without change of cloathing, and starving with hunger, not day the 13th, on the passage, he was informed by the
being able to serve out provisions ; yet this WAS trifling compared
to what we afterwards experienced; the ship was left to the mercy master of a fishing smack, that the preceding night
of the waves, sailors and soldiers fell on their knees to prayers fur he was boarded by a boat from a French privateer,
deliverance fr,nrt their dreadful situation ; but, happily the vesst.l mounting fourteen or sixteen guns. The following
found her way into Saint Bride's Bay, in Pembrokeshire, where day, during a hard gale from the N. N. E. he saw the
surrounded by prodigious and almost inaccessible cliffs, she dashed •
privateer a little to the southward of Flamborough
ona rock, not essi ly to be discovered: our situation here was th e most .
alarming that can he imagined ; not a boat could venture to our Head, close in, lying to.
relief, hundreds of people were viewing us without any possible i FROM LLOYD'S I IST.
means of affording the least assistance ; our mainmast fell over- The Rittenhouse, Moffatt, front Teneriffe for New Orleans,
board with a dreadful crash, and swept away two poor fellows, has been taken by two French privateers, and carried into Cube
who, together with four others, that attempted to swim ashore, The vessel is cleared, and the freight paid : the cargo is retained
were drowned before our eyes. We landed on the evening of the for further proof.
29th, without any thing but what we had on, except a few of our The Brothers, Philips, from Jamaica for Philadelphia, L cap-
men that saved their knapsacks ; but the officers lost all their tared by a French privateer.
baggage. After we hat lquitted.the wreck, some hardened wretches The Hope, Irwin, from Dominica for Liverpool, is on shore
go. on board, and robbed the vestal. Wear. now in Haverfi.rd- near Carnarvon,and it is feared will be lost.
w, st, in very respectable and good quarters. In the midst of the ' The thicaine, ---i—va,tfecroMn,
afLoteadranoripsfogagr Ste.rnDoet
mtollnftwr'uistioc:rs,
shocking scene, a soldier's wife was delivered of every fine boil and tared by two French priv.teen,
both are likely to de well." and carried into Cubs.

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L4W INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. In.

JOINT STOCK COMPANIEL

In a motion made this day, on the part of a pur-
chaser of certain shares of a recently estabushed in-
surance Company, for leave to pay the price into the
hands a the Accountatit General, and for an order
on him to execute a conveyance of the shares so pur-
'chased,

The LORD CHANCELLOR said, there were in this
country a great many societies, consisting of a num-
ber of individuals pbssessiag shares of a joint stock in
trade, and yet having no legal existence. He kne..-,
that when the affairs of 'any cf el.! individual Mem-
bers of these Societies came into that Court, it had
been the practice to convey the Shares of such Stock
into the name of the Accountant-General, he being
taken bound to re-convey them. Now, his Lordship
thought it proper that it should be understood, that
the Accountant-General could not, and must not, ex-
ecute any such conveyance.—lt was not for the Offi-
cers olthat Court, by any act of their's, to recognize
a Society which had no legal existence.
The Counsel said, he would look into the case, and
if it should be in the situation alluded to by his Lord-
ship, his client must apply to be liberated from his
purchase.