Star.
London, England, 1808-03-23 00:00:00

THE ARMY:

The Members of the Court Martial upon General
WHITZLOCKE, met again at the Boardroom, Chelsea
College, yetterday, and were hi deliberation, with
closed doors, upwards of an hour.
The General Court Martial at Chelsea, will ndt be
dissolved, when the sentence on Lieutenant General
WHintocica is announced. We hear that several

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other Officers will be brought to trial, among them

some General Officers.

We believe the Brevet will certainly appear in nen
Saturday's Gazette : it goes a good way down : it
will occasion vacancies in the chief command of the

following districts, besides leaving room for vacan-

cies in Majors General :
The York District—The Severnz—The Northern—The Eastern.

We are glad to hear, that through the skill and at-
tention of Dr. GRANT, the fever which has prevailed
among the garrison at Plymouth, is.giving way. The
Cardigan and North Hants Militia have, however, lost
many men by it.
Lieutenant-General Sir JOHN CRADDOCK is hourly
expected from Madras, where General M'DowALL
has succeeded him in the command.

The army will learn with joy, that there is now but
little doubt that that excellent, active, and enterpris-
ing Officer, Sir ARTHUR WULLESLEY, succeeds to the
Chief Command of the Army in India.

Among the Regiments sending out recruits and
reinforcements to the West Indies, the 96th are now
sending out 200 very fine lads.
The ever memorable 21st of March, when the im-
mortal ABERCROMBIE fell, was celebrated by parties
of the military in different quarters of the kingdom.
The 2d Regiment of Life Guards, commanded by
Colonel Lord CATHCART, had yesterday a field-day,
in the Five-fields, Chelsea.
Last week there was a grand review of the troops
at Weymouth, by the Earl of CAVAN, Commander in
Chief of the South West District. He first reviewed
the second battalion of the 53d, eight hundred fine
fellows, and then the Ist and 2d Regiments of the
German Light Dragoons. Lord CAVAN was atten-
ded by General LINSENGEN, and a numerous Staff.
We understand that in Yorkshire, in Kent, and
throughout the Kingdom, orders have been given to
pull down unhealthy barracks, and supply what is
wanted in others. ' Why were barracks ever built in
unhealthy situations, or improperly constructed ?
Ought it not to have been part of the duty of our Me-
dical Board, particularly the Physician General, to
have attended to this ?
When we have finished our extracts from the Fifth
Report, we will be enabled to present our Readers
with the Report on the War Office, and the office of
the Commander in Chief, which, we hear, will be fully
as interesting as any which have come from the Mili-
tary Commissioners, and which they have nearly
finished.

The following Gentlemen, who usually divide with
Opposition, voted on Monday night with Ministers,
upon the two Copenhagen questions, viz.
Mr. Banbury Tracy lion. Mr. Brand Lord Folkestone.
Mr. Greenfell Hon. Mr. Lyttleton
And the following Gentlemen, who are supposed
to be of the same party, did not vote at all, viz.
Mr. Granville Mr. C. Wynne Mr. 0. Williams
Lord Temple Mr. Smith (Norwich) Sir R. Milbanke
Sir W. W. Wynne Col. Hughes &c. Ste.
The Westminster Petition has been given up. Mr.
SHERIDAN'S Committee found the charge of bribery
against Lord COCHRANE not supported by witnesses
of due credit; and on the Treating Act, that is, on
the charge of giving a little beer and meat to voters,
on their passage to the poll, Mr. SHERIDAN would not
allow them to proceed.
Lord HAREWOOD is to be elevated to an Earldom,
by the title of Earl of NORTHALLERTON.
At yesterday's Board of Agriculture, Sir J. Slu-
m/tut, Bart. was re-elected President, GEORGE SMITH,
Esq. Treasurer, and ARTHUR YOUNG, Esq. Secretary;
after which, the Earl of MACCLESFIELD, the Earl of
EonrsxoNT, Sir CHARLES MORGAN, Bart. S. STAN.
HOPE, and BENJAMIN Hosuouss, Esqrs. were elected
ordinary Members of this Institution.
CITY BUSINESS.—The LORD MAYOR held a Court
of Common Council yesterday. After hearing va-
rious petitions and reports, Mr. Jam moved a reso-
lution relative to the military force of the City, and
for referring it to a Committee to consider the best
means of increasing the same,upon which Mr. WAITH.
MAN, after several appropriate observations, moved
an amendment of considerable length, asserting the
rights and privileges of the City of London, and
chewing that they had, on all occasions, contributed
in an equal and larger proportion towards the ex-
peaces of the State, than any other part of the king-
dom, which amendment was supported by Mr. QUIN
and Mr. Deputy GOODBEIIERE, and, after a long dis-
cussion, agreed to.
The Thanks and the Freedom of the City were
voted to Captain ROGERS.—(See Advertisement in the
preceding page.)
11w: Navigation Committee presented a Repert
relative to the Bill before Parliament for erecting a
Bridge over the River Thames, which being read, a
petition was prepared, r a 1, agreed to, and ordered to
be fairly transcribed, and signed by the Town Clerk,
and presented to the House of Commons by the
Sheriffs, attended by the Remembrancer.
Daustv-LANE—Was crowded last night to witness
the Performance of the Haunted Tower, in which
BRAHAM, BANNISTER, and STORAGE, were the chief
objects of attraction.
COVENT-GARDEN--Had last night also a very nu-
merous and fashionable audience. The Comic Opera
of The Travellerz in Su itzerland, written by Mr. BATE
DUDLEY, was revived with the whole strength of the
Company. It was very judiciously cast, and pro-
duced an admirable effect. The scenery is admira-
bly picturesque and beautiful ; and the introducticn
of an incidental dance by the Misses ADAMS, Br.c. pro-
duced a very pleasing effect.

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The Duie of York, Captain DUNN, from o-
Mingo for Liverpool, is arrived at the Isle of Isla—
she sailed from Gonaives on the 2d ult. and left there
the Hellen, ISaait, of Liverpool ; Elizabeth, of Lon-
don ; Ann, PRESCOTT, and the AleTaßil, WATT'.
FALMOUTH, MARCH so.
Arrived this day (10 o'clock) the Auckland packet;
SCHUYLEIt, with mails from Malta and Sicily, 20 days
passage from Gibraltar ; also arrived his Majesty's
Schooner Pilchard, 10 days from off Ferrol,_ having
left our small squadron under Sir RICHARD KING all
well. General Prince PIGNATELLI and a Sicilian
Messenger came over in the Auckland.—Wind S.W.
I•LYMOUTH, MARCH 21. _
Came in the Hetty, Captain Mooationsa,. from
Lisbon, with salt and fruit, for New York, detained•
by the fleet under Admiral COTTON ; St. Anna
French chasse maree, laden with wheat and rye, cap-
tured by i'Aigle, of 36 guns; American ship Gos-
port, -Captain DUFFMAN, from Glasgow, in ballast ;
Bremen galliot Vrow Riskina, Captain HENDRIKE,
from Bourdeaux, with wine, detained by the Snap
Dragon privateer ; Defiance, of 74 guns, from the
Channel Fleet, and gone up Hamoaze to refit ; The-
seus, 74, Audacious, 74, and Achille, of 74 guns,
from the fleet off Ferrol ; Growler,of 14 guns, from
a cruize, having been ashore on the coast of France
in chace of a French corvette ; Alcmene, of 36 guns,
with victuallers from the cruizing squadron ; Entre.
penante cutter, from the Westward.
Sailed for Portsmouth, being about to join the
North Sea Expedition, Centaur, of 74 guns, Admiral
Sir SAMUEL HOOD ; Tribune, 36, Racehorse, 18, Eu-
ryalus, 36, Fleche, 18, and President, of 36 guns.
The Edgar and Implacable, of 74 guns each, came
from Hamoaze this morning to Cawsand Bay.
This afternoon arrived the Spanish ship Vigilantia,
of 200 tons burthen, from Lima, laden with cocoa,
bark, and tin, bound to Corunna : she was taken the
18th instant, in lat. 40. 0. long. 10. 0. by the Ame-
thyst, of 36 guns, after a long chace, in which she
threw her guns overboard.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH'22.
Arrived bis Majesty's ships Coquette, Ant, and
Rebuff, from a cruize ' • and the Roebuck, Capt. MAT-
THEWS, from London for Africa ; who got on Ram-
say Flatts on Sunday last, lost her rudder, and was
obliged to throw part of her cargo overboard. Put
back his Majesty's ship Daphne. Sailed the Boadicea
and Hearty on a cruize. The Bold gun brig is ap-
pointed convoy for the Downs.—Wind E.
DEAL, MARCH 22.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Oberon on a cruize. Ar-
rived his Majesty's ships Mutine and Royalist, from
a cruize, and remain in the Downs with the rest of the
Iships as per last.—Wind N.E.
ABERDEEN, MARCH 19.
Tuesday evening last, the William, JOHN Low mas-
ter, a schooner belonging to this port, having, on her
passage from Sunderland that day, during a brisk
gale, sprung a leak, owing to which she was oblige/1
to attempt this harbour after the tide was far back,
struck and lay on the bar, and next flood was forced
in at the back of the north pier. The crew were . •
brought on shore by the life boat, very much ekhatts...
ted by labour at the pumps and by the severity of the ,
weather. The vessl still lies on the beach, and it is•
feared, if the weather does not soon moderate, will
become a total wreck.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, MARCH 22.

EX PARTE PARQUEZ,
About a fortnight since, Mr. Parquet Vt.titioned the Chancel-
lor to be discharged out of custody, upon the ground that he had
made a full ana faia disclosure of his effects under a commission
of bankruptcy awarded against him. He complained of the great
length of time be had been imprisoned, and the inn:natality of
his creditor, tendering, at the same time, the affidavits of two
medical men, who stated, that if the petitioner was not speedil:
removed out of prison, his life would fall a sacrifice.
Sir Samuel. ROMILLY supported the prayer of the petition.
Mr. HART, on the other side, insisted that the petitioner had
not made a full and fair disclosure of his effects ; but if he would
find security In 20001. for his not quitting the kingdom, the credi-
tors would consent to his liberation.
Upon this offer the case stood over till this day ; and, on being
called on, Mr. Parquet's Solicitor informed his Lordship, that
death had relieved his client from his suffering-, and hoped the
Counsel employed against him would intercede with their clients
to pay the expences of bis funeral.
The CatattceLiost enforced the propriety of this recommen-
dation.
Mr. HART said, he did not know how he could interfere per-
sonally ; but he trusted, after his Lordship's recommendation,
that his clients would do what was proper.

INQUESTS.—An Inquisition was taken yesterday at
Tordsgate, Islington-road, on the body of Mrs.
Esther Astel, who on Sunday night, while sitting
alone in her parlour, waiting for some inmates,
alarmed her servant in the kitchen, by shrieks, and
who, on going to her apartment, found Mrs. Astel
at the door, enveloped in flames. Her dress, which
it is supposed had caught fire while she was dosing
in her chair, was reduced to tinder, and the servant,
in her fright, was unable for some time to afford as-
sistance, and the unfortunate woman, who was 60
years of age, expired the next morning.—Verdict—
Accidental Death.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARL-LANE, MARCH 23.—The
supply of Wheat to-day is again short, htit fully equal
to the demand, and dull in sale ; Fine nearly equal
to our last quotation ; Ordinary • rather cheaper—
Barley and Malt keep their price—Grey Peas, and
Beans of both sorts this week are heavy sale,• and
rather lower—Rape Seed higher—Oats are likewise
in short supply, and this trade supports the prices
quoted—Flour continues without variation.
GENERAL CURRENCY AS ORDER:

Wlseat, 4S$. 565. 725. Beans (old) 525. sr.. od.
Fir.e ditto, 745. 765. Tick ditto (old) 59.. 55.. cd.
Rye, 455. 50s. Oats, sss. as.. Ms.
Barley, 40s. 455. od. Poland ditto, 89s. 40e. of
Malt 643. 74s Potatoe ditto 00s. ess Od.
White Peas (bollers)l62s. 1725. Rape Seed, SOL 541 OL
Grey ditto 50s. 56s
Fine Flour 555. 604.—Seccests 50s. 55i.