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London, England, 1820-07-17 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Satiirdan the Ist And 3 .Battalions of the Ist
Regiment of Guards; were reviewed' in Hyde
Park, by his Royal Highness tlie Duke of YORK.:
'His Royal Highness, 'attended. by the Duke of
WELLINGTON, Colonel. LAMBERT, &C. entered.
the
,Parknt nine o'clock. The BattaliOns being
drawn up in line; they .were received .with
tary honours.. The .usual manoeuvres and pro...
ceedings, relative, to a review, took pltice. Great
encomiums were Iliad, as. fo their steady and sol;.-
dier-like apPearanee ; and their 6olutions* and..
firing were admirable. A imst nunibei.a persons
were 'present;
The Life Guar& gill be reviewed to-morrow-
bn Hounslow Heath.

Detachments of the Stii; 36th`, and 76th Regi-
ments, embarked last Week at Cowes on board_

the transport ship Nancy, Buoolzgs, for Malta;
and sundry detachments on hoard' the transport
ship Thomas BUT/MICK. I:7 for Quebec.
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The 33d Regiment from Edinburgh has taken
the Duty at C;ilasrgo-sv instead Of the 13th Regis.
ment, which-is removed to . Stirlinv.
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litl IMAM' i'ROMOTION.S. 1.
frar-Office, July 144
, Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, Cornet Edwin Dash..
wood, to be Lieutenot; by ptttcbase, vice Brander, who
retie 4s.

12th Regiment Of Light Dragoons, Lieut. Lodge Niorres
Prior, from half-pay .West India Re•girneut, to be Paymaster,
vice William Ottway,, who vxchanges•
19ttf Dittb, -I.,irtit Richard Benclianip frcim 16th Light
Dragoons, to be Captain, br purchase,' vice Stewart, woo re—
tires. = .

---21;t. Ditto,' Lieut. George' Aitkin to be taptitn, by pui—.
chase, vice Underftood, win) retires ; Curie Frederick Charlet
Gannu►g to be Lieutenant, by purchase, rice Aithin ;
Liam Underwood, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase; vice Gan:;..
ping. _
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1;1 or Grenadiei Regithent of FoOt Guards„captain Benja-
min Charlewood to be Captain of a Companyand Lieutenant
Colonel, by, purchase, vice Ramsdel; who retires; Lieut.
Sackville Walter L. Foxto be Lieutenant and Captain by
purchase, vice Charlewood ; Lient. George Frederick Har-
rington Hudson: front half pay of Ott? Regiment, to be En--
sign and Lieutenant, by purchase, Vice Fox.
• 6th Regiment of Foot,. Charle*Lee Martin, Gent. to be
Ensign, by purchase, _ vice Eden p.reipoted. -
I,2th Ditte, Ensign Joshua John youtiden, from half.pay.
73d Font, to be Ensign, vice Stephen Lewis, Oho exchanges.
. 13th Ditto, Limit.. Jamtis Campbell to be Captain, with Out
purchase, vice Staunton; appointed to the sth Koval Veteran.
Battalion • Ensign.Willjam Pynt tee be Lieutenant rice Camp.-
,bell; Arthur Steel, Gent. hi be Ensign, vice Pytie.
19th Ditto, Ensign S. G. Bagshaw to he Lieutenant, with-
'out purchase, vice Taylor, dec.; Ensign Hugh Henry Roses
hem 93d Foot, to be'busign, vibe 13agshavv.
22d Ditto, John lenut ledge Majendie to be Ensign, by pnr-
.:chase, vice Keppel, prsitnnt.:A in the Cape Corps.'
39th Ditto, Ensign Joseph O'Meara, front balf•pay stti
Wig IndiA Regiment, to be .c..tisigd, lice JulinD'Aleara, who
exchanges.
43d Ditto, lieut.:William Fraser, flow half-pay Rifle Bri-
gade, to be Lieutenant, vice John Echlin Matthews, who ex-
changes; receiving the difference. -
47th LAW), .Lieut. Egerton Charles Isaacson, from half-
pay 51st Foot, to be Lieutenant, Vice Thomas Luttrell, who
exchanges; receiving till: difference.
50th Ditto; Lieut; James Briggs, front half-pay 91st Foot,
to be LieuWnant, vice William Nowlan, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference.
60th Ditto,' Captain Charles'Leslie, from half-pay of the
Regiment, to be Captain, vice James L...Nixert, who ex-
changes.
68th Ditto, Lieut. inward Rowley Hill, from half pay 49c1
FOot to be Lieutenant, rice George At chbold; who exchanges,
receivinw the difference. - •

93d'Drtto, Nlatthew Casson, Gent, to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Rose; alypoint-ed hiihe' 19th 'Foot.
Ist Royal Veteran Battalion, Lientenants James Dowd,
frpm half-pay of. the Ist Foot, vice William Williams, who
returns to the Retired List; .Arthur White Foril, front half—
pay 95th Fuot„,-vice Lorimer, who returns to the Retired.
List : to be Lieuteaants.

ad Royal Veteran Battalion, Lients. Anthony Robinson,
from half-pay sth • Garrison Battalion,' vice George. Fraser,
who rettuns to the Retired List,;,Dennis.Eugene 111`Creban,
front half-pay 4th Feut ; Hoe; from half-pay 9tlx.
Foot, vice Corbett, Whose,appirititinent has nut taken place;
-to be Lieutenants. Ensign' Ewen Cameron, from half-pay
sth West India Regiment,.vici-,-Thotaas Harrison; whose ap-
pointment has not taken place; to be Ensign.
4th Royal Veteran Battalion, Lte'tttenants Sampson Hugh.
Cox, from hall-pay lst Garrison- Battalion, vict-Nlitnro, ap-
pointed to the 90th Foot- tieorge Levick,
.from half-pay tat
Garrison Battalion, vice John Buchanan, who returns to the
Retired List Hugh Fraser, from - half-pay Cape Rugimenr,
vice M Whose appointment has not taken place ; to be
Lieutenants.

sth Royal Veteran Batialion,'Lietatenant Charles Courant
Bailey, trout half•pay 31st Foot; to be Lieutenant, Vice Boyd,
appointed to the 7th Royal Veteran Battalion.
Gth Royal, Veteran . Battalion, Lieuaenants JaMeS Ker-
Lieutenant ;
shawe, front half-pay gd Garrison Battalion i William Gale
liaslthaut, froth half-pay Itith Foot; Henry Terry, front half-
Iry 90th Foot; to be Lieutenants.
atit Royal Veteran Battalion, Brevet 'Major John Siania.
firolifn-Phartylt9-p4att: 712'°d'I''otOot,i)o be Paytnas-
ton, trout 13th Foot, to be Captain, vice Humphrey, dee.;
giln.lntautry Volunteers, to be LietittT
Lyaku.vutiti
a.
siTtoel:l
.1,
,(,)iii,,,,Rfaroem,
ter of a Valera:oß,
i,atliai
9th Royal Veteran Battalion, Captain Jan Grant, front
78th Foot, to be Captain, vice Colton, who ieturns to his for
titer situation un the Refired List; Lieut. Mark Claticey.,
halffrtraohntt,sic t. P''',l ar '..1 a t.(nt , vil4o :Itol ;) tv tlat Attit4 wt,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT'OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 15.

DE BOSSET t). SIR THOMAS MXITLAND.

This was an action brought by Col. I)eßosset
it4ainst Sir I'. Maitland, as GOvernor ofthe lonian
Isles, and Commander-in-Oief of his Majesty's
forces in those Islands and in the Mediterranean,
for having, from supposed maliciouS motives, sus-
pended and diimissed the plaintiff from the situ-
ation of Inspector.of Militia in those fslands, net
having received the authority of his Majesty,
through the medium of the Commander-hl-Chief,
Its Royal Highness the Duke of York, for so
doing, by which the .plaintitf alleged he had sus-
tained hijitry in his military character and pecu-
niary concerns ; and tor the injury this sustained
he, now. sought to recover a compensation in

daniages.
Mr. DENf3.t,l stated the ose to the Jury, and
called the following witnesses in support of his
statement, having first put in a Commission, dated
March 24, 1816,- appointing plaintiff Inspecting
Field OfficA-n- of the Militia of the lonian Islands;
chat of April 1811,, appointing him LieUtenaht-
Co!oncl on the Continent of Europe ; and that
of June of the wile year, giving him rank in the

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M. A. Coleman produced a copy of the Com-
Mission of Sir T. Maitland, as Commander-in-
Chief of his Maje4y's forces in the Nediterra-
4ean, &c. Gibraltar excepted, which authority he
Ivas to exercise according to the articles of war.
The 22d Article of War was pat in and read.
It provides, that •no Cbmmissioned Officer shall
be cashiered or dismissed the service by any
Commander, except upon the sentence of a COu
mrt-
. artial, approved by the Ring, or by some Per 7
son -appointed by his Majesty for that ptirpose
under the sign manual. •

Sir 11. TOrreiis, now Adjutant General was
Seeretary to the Duke of York for ten years.
KJIQWS the plaintiff; who is a foreip-n Officer in.
tho British service, and was on half-pay as a
Lieutenant-Colonel ; produced an order of • Sir
T. Maitland, dated the 26th September, 1817,
suspending the pay of the plaintiff as Inspector
General of the forces from that date. It is usual'
that.the appointment. or disinissal of an officer
Stioilld be coninnn through the Commander
in Chief, the Puke -of York. Witness was not
aware of any such order being made by his.R.oyal
Highness,- nor had Sir Thomas communicated on
the subject with the Commander in Chief pre-,
sious to the order being made. A coMmander on
a foreign station has no power to dismiss an offi-
cer, without the sentence of a Court-martial ;
here Was no Court-martial. The first intimation
witness-had of plaintiff's dismissal was from him-
self., Witness did not hear from Sir T. Maitland
until afterhe had written to him on the subject.
After the order was explained, the plaintiff con-
tinued-to receive Ms pay as Inspector General,
till he exchanged'.
Cross-examined.---Al the time the order was
issued, Sir T. Maitland was teord High Commis-
sioner of the -lonian Islands, under' the charter
ratified by the 151-ince Resent, and' in that charac-
ter he would not be:called on to correspond with
the Co:ninanderzio-Chief, but with' the' Secretary
of State. At the tune the. order was made, wit-
ness was not aware of any authority' which Sir
Thomas had to make its but he 31917 knew there
was an authority from the Secretary ,of State.
Knows that the- commission of Lieut.-Colon-el
Was givea to defendant at the 'express recommend-
ation of Sir T. Maitland.
• Rte-examined.--,The order from the Secretary
or State's Office was a .written decument. Wit-
ness first heard of it from Mr. Goulbeurn.

The CffrEF. JUSTICE said, the plaintiff was in
this.difficultyl—The allegation of the defendant
was, that the order was made by him • in pursu-
ailce of his Majesty's pleasure. Now the plaintiff
said that. the allegation was false. On the exami-
nation in chief of Sir 11. Torrens it so appeared ;
but his eroSs-examination altered that fact. His
Majesty's pleasure -was not communicated through
the War Office, but it was communicated through
the office of the. Secretary of State. It rested
with the plaintiff to-negativ! this fact.
Torrens' re-examined—lt was usual for
C9mmanders on foreign stations to receive orders
through the -office or.the.Commander. in Chief ;
but he was bound to obey the orders of the Se-
cretary of State, though in such case the Corn-
Mander was bound to, apply to the Commander
in Chief for an explanation. It was not: usual
for orders to be communicated for the dismissal
of Officers except through the office of the Com-
mander in Chief. • • ••

Sir John Osborn, Lieutenant-Colonel Triquett,
Itichard Bussey, Esq., Assiitant Commissary-
General, and Sir William Clinton, gave evidence
aS• to military forms and the publication of the
order in question;
Mr.-SCARLETT, for the defendant, submitted
tiptt no cast- had been made out against the de-
fendant.

• The CHIEF JusTicr, considered there was
itcient to go to the Jury. .
Mr. SCARF_;ETT then proceeded to address the
Jury
,on,the. part of the defendant, and. submit-
ted, that the plaintiff must have laboured under
some e74raordinaty delusion, since so far from
the defendant having done, him any injuxy from,
Malicious feeling, he had done every thing in his
power to serve him. The interest of Sir T. Mait-
land procured him the appointment ; and at the
time he was charged :with doing all he could
to -injur e him from Malicious feeling's, he was
exerting his whole interest to preserve. his re-
initatiou. By' the constitution of the lonian
ISlands;' settled in, lSi6, it Iyas provided that
these Inspectors of Militia should all be either
lonian or British-born subjects. On this charter
Airiving in the lonian Isles, ratified by the King,
Sir:chomas wrote to Lord Bathurst to endeavour
to obtain au exceptiOn in favour of the. plaintiff,
but, in reply, received from his Lordship a di-
rmtion to carry the charter into effeet ; and in
consequence of theso'
,directionsthe plaintiff was
distni6seci;, he well knowing the reasons of his

dismissal. Sir Thomas Maitland, so far from en-
tertaining any vindictive feeling towards the plain-
tiff, had .always endeavoured to promote his inte-
rest, and was still anxious to do every thing he
could to serve him.

Mr. Goulburn, UndeT Secretary of State for
the Colonial Department, prOduced a copy.of the
Charter of the lonian Islands, as ratified by. the
Prince Regent on behalf of his late Majesty, in
1816, in which it was provided, that the Lord
High Commissioners, the Residents, the Inspec-
tors, and Sub-Inspectors of Militia, should be
Britisli or lonian born, subjects.---The witness also
produced the 'Communication of Sir 'l'. Maitland to
Lord Bathurst, pointing out that this article of the
Charter would affect the plaintiff and . other of-
ficers, unless foreign officers in British pay could
be considered as British officers ; and the answer
of Lord Bathurst. to Sir T. Maitland, containing
the communication of the Prince Regent's plea-
sure, that no foreign officers should be employed
Inspeciors of Militia.
Sir 11.Jorrens produced the',..prders for dis-
•continging. two other officers (foreign) as Inspec-
tors,. his Majesty considering their longor;services,
in that situation as inexpedient.
Lientenant-Col. Rait, Deputy Adjutant-Ge-
neral of the forces in .the Mediterranean, knew
.that Si r T.'Maitland had received Lord Bathurst's
dispatch and the charter previous to his making
the,order_to the 'suspension of the plaintiff.
. CrOss-examined---There was a German Officer
.still continued as a Sub-Inspector, but there was
.no foreign Inspector.
Mr. DENMAN replied, and contended that the
malice existed in the manner of issuing.the 'Order,
.and no part of the defence negatived that of the
charge. •
The CHIEF JUSTICE summed up ; and the Jury,
after a short deliberation, found a verdict for the
plaiutiff---Damages .1001: