The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-24 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The under mentioned Detachments arrived in town this
morning, from Scotland, on route to the following stations
—the 35th, for Jersey ; the 41st, for Dover; the 2d
Battalion of the 60th, for Portsmouth ; the 2d Battalion
of the Rifle Brigade, for Plymouth; and the Ist Battalion
of the 60th for Plymouth. . .

A Detachment of the 24th Foot arrived in town this
morning, from Norwich, on route to Athlone.

A Detachment of the 40th Foot arrived in town this
morning, from Norwich, on route to Chatham.
A Detachment of the 96th Regiment of Infantry arrived
in town this morning, from Norwich, on route to Plymouth.

GENERAL COURT MARTIAL.
Norse Guards, Nov. 12, 1827.

At a General Court Martial, held at Chatham, on the
13th of September, 1627, and continued by adjournments
to the 15th of the same month, Lieut. John Smeaton
Brooke, of the 45th Regiment, was arraigned upon the
under-mentioned charges
Ist. For being, on or about the 27th June, 1827, in
the public streets of Chatham, out of uniform, and dressed
in plain clothes.
2d. For being, on or About the 27th June, 1827, in
the public streets of Chatham, in a disgraceful state of in-
toxication.

3d. For assaulting and striking Corporal John Graham,
of the 63d Regiment of Foot, on or about the night of the
said 27th of June, 1827, near tke garrison of Chatham,
hethe said Corporal John Graham being then Corpotal
of the Piquet Guard, and in the due execution of his duty.
Upon which charges the Court came to the following
decision :

" The Court having most maturely deliberated upon,
weighed, and considered the whole of the evidence and
matter adduced in support of the prosecution, together
with the statement offered by the prisoner in his defence,
is of opinion, that he Lieut. John Smeaton Brooke, of the
45th Regiment, is Guilty, in part, of the first and second
charges exhibited against him, inasmuch as it appears to
the Court, that he was in the town of Chatham, dressed
in plain clothes, on the 27th June last, and likewise that
he was not sober; but the Court do not find that he was
in the streets during the day; on the contrary, it was
during the night; nor has it been proved that he was in a
state of intoxication so disgraceful, as the terms used in the
second charge actually imply.
" The Court do therefore acquit him of such parts of
the two first charges as would have led to a belief, had he
been found guilty of these charges in tote, that he (the
prisoner) had actually been, during the day-time, in a dis-
graceful state of intoxication ; though it is clearly proved
to the Court that he was dressed, at the time alluded to, in
plain clothes, contrary to the standing orders of the Army,
and that he was not by any means sober at the period
when the circumstances occurred which form the grounds
of the third charge, upon which the Court do find him,
Lieutenant John Smeeaton Brooke, of the 45th Regiment,
Guilty, viz.:--
" Assaulting and striking Corporal John Graham, of the
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, His Grace the Commander-in-Chief directs, that the
foregoing Charges against Lieutenant John &neaten Brooke,
together with the finding and sentence of the Court, and
his Majesty's confirmation thereof, shall he entered in the
General Order Book, and read at the head of every Regi-
ment in his Majesty's service.
By Command of his Grace the Commander-in-Chief.
HENRY TORRENS, Adjutant-General.

Thursday an Inquest was held at the George,
Morgan's-lane, Tooley-street, on the body ofJottx NAYLOR,
aged 17, son of the Master of the David and Ann, Hull
trader, who fell into the Themes on Monday evening,nff
Cotton's Wharf, and was drowned. Verdict—Accidental
Death.

THE AZORES.—The first coajectures the
wbyhi li
oLuxuaus, which, if it
Europeans made respecting the existence of the American
Continent, were suggested in these Islands,, on observing
many unknown plants, stumps of trees,
,luo remains of
dead bodies, brought by the current to their shores. An
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did not give the idea to him of the existence of the Ame-
rican Continent, it considerably strengthened his opinion
on the subject,...Londoll Weekly Review.