Star.
London, England, 1809-10-10 00:00:00

00Ifla MARTIAL.

GENERA;. ORDERS.
llorse Guards, 26th September, 1809.
At a General Court Martial held at Portsmouth,
on the 16th August, 1809, and continued by adjourn-
ments to the 25th of the same month, THOMAS MOR-
TON, Esq. Apothecary to the Forces, was arraigned
upon the under-mentioned charges, viz.
Ist. " For embezzling and converting to his own
use various articles from the public stores entrusted
to his care, at Portchester Castle, viz. sugar, starch,
oat-meal, rice, barley, linseed-meal, portable soup,
oil, sheets, and flannel, at different periods between
the Ist day of November, 1808, and the 29th day of
July, 1809; particularly on the Ist November and
29th December, 1808, or on one or other of the days
of these months, or of the month immediately follow-
ing; on the Ist and 15th days of February, 1809,
and on the Ist and 15th or March, or of one or other
of the days of these months, or of tho month immedi-
ately following ; on the 2d, 3d, 4th, 14th, 15th, 16th,
20th, 22d, 23d, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th,
30th, and 31st days of May, 1809, or on one or other
of tke days of that month ; on the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th,
. sth, 6th, 7th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 20th days of June,
1809, or on one or other of the days of that month ;
on the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 21st, and
22d of July, 1809, or on one or other of the days of
that month.

2d. " For directing at Portchester Castle, on the l
2d day of May last, or on one or other of the days of
that month, a cask of sugar to be made up from a
quantity of damaged sugar, which had been regularly
condemned as unfit for service by a Board of Medic it
Officers, and for sending this cask of damaged sugar,
along with other casks of good sugar, on service,
knowing it to be had.
3d. 44 For forcibly seizing and burning the papers
and books of Thos. and Wm. Justin, packers of the
stores at Portchester Castle, on the 22d of July last ;
which papers and books were of the greatest conse-
quence on the trial of Mr. Morton, as being written
testimony, having obtained a search warrant from a
Magistrate, under the pretext of searching the houses
of the said Thomas and William Justin, for silver
probes and other articles, none of which were found."
The Court was of opinion, that, in respect to the
first charge, the prisoner had been guilty of having
'embezzled from the public stores '.rt Portchester
Castle, and applied to his own use, sugar, oat-meal,
barley, linseed-meal, portable soup, oil, and flannel,
but it did not appear to the Court that there was suf-
ficient proof that the prisoner had embezzled or ap-
plied to his own use rice, starch, or sheets.
The Court found the prisoner guilty of the whole
:of the second charge.
In respect to the third charge, the Court was of
opinion, that the prisoner had been guilty of forcibly
'seizing and burning some papers, but not books, of
Thomas and William Justin, packers at the public
Stores at Portchester Castle, on the 22d day of July
last, which papers were of the greatest consequence
on the trial of the prisoner, Thomas Morton, as being
written testimony ; and also of having obtained a
search-warrant from a Magistrate, under the pretext
of searching the houses of the said Thomas and Wm.
Justin for silver probes and other articles, none of
which were found. '

The Court adjudged the prisoner, Thonrts Mor-
ton, to be smissal from his Majesty's service, which
sentence his Majesty has been pleased to confirm.
The Commander in Chief directs that the charges
before specified, together with the sentence of the
Court., shall be read at the head of every regiment,
and.entered in the orderly books.—By command of
the Right lion. the Coinmander in Chief,
HARRY CALVERT, Adjtpant-General.

rang and' restive, and he could not leave him in the
treet. He did accordingly, brought out the chest,
Ind delivered it into the cart, which drove away, and

he saw no more of it.
- Another man, who is alto a porter,, then tame for-
ward and proved that he saw the prisoner on Thurs.
day, about two o'clock, in Cheapside, with a chest of
soucbong tea upon his knot ; that he walked with
the prisoner some distance in the street, and conversed
with him, and that theprisoner turned down Iron-
monger-lane with his load.
The prisoner totally denied the fact, and he was re-
manded for further examination on. Wednesday.
MA RLBOROUGII-STREET.—Yesterday, a case of the
most unparalleled barbarity. was heard before the Ma.
gistrate of this Office.
William Marlhorough, and Ann, his wife were charg-
ed with starving almost to death their infant daugh-
ter, aged six years, together with a series of other
atrocious cruelties, hardly to be equalled, even in the
history of Mrs. Brownrig.
It appeared in evidence, that the prisoners keep a
potatoe-warehouse, in Goodge-street, Oxford-street,
and that the little complainant is the offspring of a
former marriage of the husband's. For reasons un-
known, even to themselves,' these unfeeling parents.
inflicted the most cruel hardships on the unhappy
child; frequently, and for twtnty-four hours at a
time, did they abandon her to the cravings of hun-
ger, without a morsel of bread to support her tender
frame. The apartment to which she was consigned
to pass the dreary night, was a cellar, under ground,
where pigs and potatoes were kept. A heap of nibs
bish, and a potatoe-sack, formed the couch on which
she was accustomed to lay her emaciated limbs to rest:
But this, however, horrible to relate, was not the:
worst of her sufferings. By way of wholesome chas-
tisement, it was their constant practice almost to flay
her alive with leather thongs, at the end of which
were fastened pieces of iron wire. For many months
was she thus exposed to the lingering tortures of these
wretches, until at length the repeated cries of the un-
happy sufferer excited the curiosity of the neighbours,
and induced them to inquire into the cause of the fre
qnent mournful groans which echoed from the pri-
soner's cellar. Means were found to interrogate the
little brother of this unfortunate child, and from him
they learnt the barbarous treatment his sister 'bad ex
perienced. On a sudden, the recital of her wretched-
ness excited the neighboured to rise against the au-1
of her sufferings ; a considerable number of the
inhabitants went in a body to the prisoner's house, and
demanded the child to be delivered up. This they
refused to do, when the party, no longer able to re-
, strain the calls of humanity, rushed into the house,
and after a good deal of search, found the wretched
infant concealed under a bedstead, almost famished I
with hunger. Her miserable skeleton exhibited marks
of the most sanguinary violence. The remnants of
Ilher flesh were cut and bruized in so shocking a man-
ner as to deprive her of every appearance of huma-
nity.
In this state she was conveyed to one of the
neighbouring houses, and offered some food, which
she instantly devoured with the rapacity of a hungry
!tyger. The prisoners, who made some resistance,
were in the mean time secured, and conveyed in cus-
tody to the watch-house. The only excuse they plead-
td for this wanton cruelty was, that the child was so
one to pilfering, that they were obliged to resort to
the severest punishment, in order 1.0 prevent her from
coming to the gallows.
The Magistrate, however, having expressed a be-
coming indignation at their brutal conduct, ordered
them to be committed for trial, and the Parish Offi-
cers were bound over to prosecote.
In the course of the day the mob broke every win-
dow in the house in Goodge-street.
Harros GA It DES.—Y estcrday Mr: 0)-ger, William
Brewer, and William Price, three persons in the employ
of Mr. Hurst, pipe-maker, in Cow-cross, were charged
with combining to raise the price of their labour, and
abruptly leaving his employ.
It appeared on the-25th of September the men in-
dividually demanded additional wages, viz. instead
of 14d. per dozen for pipes they required 18d. this
demand Mr. Hurst refined to accede to, and on the
following day they, together with another man named
Gotobed, quitted his service. The combination was
proved by a woman also in Mr. Hurst's employ
In their defence, the defendants contended, that
though they had demanded an increase, yet they had
not combined ; but the Magistrates were of a diffi!-
rent opinion,. and therefore ordered the defend-ants
either to stand committed for the offence, or to find
bail to appear at the next Sessions.
A turnpike-gate keeper, at Potter's Bar, was char-
ged with extorting one shilling and ninepence for the
duty of a horse, which a Mr. Waller had hired from
a stablekeeper, in Hertfordshire. Mr. Waller shewed
the man the ticket, but he obstinately persisted in
taking the duty, for which he gave a receipt on the
back of the duty ticket for the day. On this plain
proof of his guilt, the Magistrates convicted him, and
he was sentenced to pay a fine of 40s. and costs.

The Public will, no doubt, be pleased to learn-that
bliumsan's Warehouses hive been so far renewed (the
walls that were impeffect-havhit he en .entirely takers
away and rebuilt), as to priclude thr pessibility of tfie
least risk of accident : the weather has, indeed, ma-
terially impeded the progress oldie building, and the,
sale of that valuable Stock has of course been neces-
sarily extended, and will, we understand, be conti-
nued till the whole is sold off, previous to the grand
display of the entire new one. The only inconve-
nience now experienced is, the necessity of Ladies
alighting from their carriages a few yards behw or
above the entrance, and even that distance completely
under cover.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
On the 21st ult. the Rev. David Duncan was ordained Minister
of the church and parish of Abernethy, vacant by the death of his
much respected father, the Rev. William Duncan.
Thursday se'nnight the Presbytery of Kelso ordained Mr.
.Tinian Trotter, to be Minister of the church and parish of
Sprouston, vacant by the trauslationzof the Rev. M. Thomson, to
Furth.