Star.
London, England, 1808-12-28 00:00:00

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Thursday a detachment of the 30th regiment, con-
itiesef eight officers and 1.50 men, marched from
[rite, on their route to Portsmonth, to embark for
w join the Ist battalion of that regiment now

r-
p service there.
Ten thousand stand of arms were sent on Monday
om the Tower to Woolwich, to be sFpped immedi.
As, for Lisbon.

Orders arrived at Ramsgate on Sunday, to prepare
the embarkation of the Guards from Chatham.
be transports from the Downs are directed to pro..
ed for Ramsgatt harbour. The Guards an to
ebark first, and the 88th regiment, Ist battalion,
,wins for the present in the barracks.

xtx rs
ibe mode of conducting the Nthlical Duties of the British
or, and on the Constitution if a Board for the direction
tkaToti with some Remarks on the comparative utility and
„imam of General and Regimental Hospitals, Sm.
mibi nullo discrimine agetur. ,

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Continued from our latt.)
inenlioned the ends that should be kept in
wio the formation of a Medical Board for the
Aral direction of that Department of the Army; we
imeuest to mention the means which would seem best
Intel to afferd that relief and assistanct to the sick
,oxraded soldiers of our armies, in every variety
'climate and situation, which the service and the
ori.af their circumstances entitled them to ex-
; aid this naturally leads to the consideration of
rferal and Regimental Hospitals, as far as such
,:ablUhrcents are calculated for these purposes.
On th.e relative merits of these two species of Hos-
tits, many discwsions have been lately entered into ;
d many arguments have been adduced by the fa-
wners of each establishment in defence of their re-

tie systems, in perhaps the same proportion as'
individual interests of the persons concerned in the
.cussice of the question might become affected by;
probsble to-,d f.nal determination. Most of the'
tseet advocates fur General Hospitals art the
rne preens who vauntingly insist on priority of
skin the Physician over the Surgeon, and on the
prior endowments which they, alledge the Army
leicians possess to the other Medical Officers of 1
*department, seho, they maintain, are compara-
fele math less useful to the service, and should be
play subordinate in their duties ; while, cn the
eery, must of the retainers to the systems of Re-
eal Hospital without hesitation, argue the
• cacy and almost inutility of the other class, and
Tattack the mode in which they have been hi-
moccitelucted, alledging withal, the incapacity of ,
pemuts directing and employed therein,' to per-
the necessary &airs required of them by the
:et. In treating this subject, it is obvious that
.c question is momentous, and of great national
port: the abetters of each system have exhausted
• possible argument that could affect them in the.!
of their respective opinions ; and the public
, sickened with volumes of exparie represents-
is at present divided, and unable to decide on 1
.superior merits of either. It is certain that both I
- establishments will be more or less preferable 1
• . particular circumstances of service, and that
are but few occasions Where General Hospitals!
k entirely dispensed with safety in times of war.,
at these Hospitals have been sometimes found use-
, even under the grievous mismanagement so
cis complained of, has not been denied by the
•st strenuous opposers pf the system ; but it is
mile tree that their establishments have been mul-
lied beyond measure both at home and abroad ;
, thaw far from answering the purpose which
*have been expected from them, viz. more per-
- reif to the sick than could. he obtained in
g4mental Hospitals, they appear to have often
• ;inductive of culpable confusion and expense,
' say evident benefit to the service, or to the
arming therefrom. This seems to have been
• - I:* the case in the. instances of forming large
• - Hospital Establishments of Officers and Ser-
ts, is many parts of England during the present
, where no patients were admitted, the circum,
Qs of which were fully investigated by the Copi-
sionen of Military Inquiry, in the progress of
r labcktrit and submitted by them to the House
wamons• This syston of profusion in tire ties-
,ment of Medical PePots and Gerferal Hospitals.
ngland, had at one time Leached so enoTmoas a
, thit it has been said, some stores of medicinerk:=
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Which had been formed to meet the supposed
.ties of service, had become superfluo and
places where they had been deposited forgotten
he Projectors, he the variety and magnitude of
ether undertakings •of a similar nature else-
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bat General Hospitals are not in all cases nem-
' ta Great Britain is now commonly admitted ;
lthe abolition of many, of these expensive esta-
. .ts in this country was certainly proper. The
g-uPs however, of all the General Hospitals
. kingdom, except the York and Isle of Wight
. and, in particular„the abolition of those
leighbourhood of Portsmouth, was, we think, a
as unwise as it was precipitate; and, that it could
hoe been dictated by persons unacquainted
the enntingencies of military service, and igno-
of the inevitably bad conszluenets which the
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