Star.
London, England, 1812-10-24 00:00:00

ThE ARMY. . . .
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'llia Regiment de Meuron hasbeen given to General
WALKER, who kat s'ofrequently distinguished himself
in the Peninsula,: and was so desperately wounded•it
the storming of Badajos--Pokrani gal mertat fait..
Captain VRAZER, of the Guards, who was latelzAo
severely woitnded In leading_ a storMing party, is the
son of the late General M.E=EIE FRAZER.
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Doctor LIDDEntsALT., who lately died in Valladolid,
was an officer highly fespected by the whole of the
'Marquis of Wet.LiNoror'S Army. His funeral was
'attended by Sii STAPiETONCOTTON,Dr. EATERY,
CAMERON, superior of the SCOt.l.Collitt, bythe
Gentlemen ri the Irish College, and may Officers..
Major. General ViTILDIR, has been r.etioved from
the Staff, in Mirth Britain, to thr gu;tern District,
antd appointed to culumand iberßrigade at Wood-
bridge, in Suffolk. . •
The autumnal allowance jlf amronnitibn for the.
.exercise and practice of regiments of infantry, now
in the course of delivery, consists often rounds of ball
cartridges, and, twenty rounds of blank cartridges foil
each soldier bearing arms. , . •
The two regiments of .lAfe Guard& which have
just marched from the Metropolis, were placed on the
.establishment on the 25th June, 1788, and to which
the Marquis of LOTHIAN and Lord 4rdneisr ivere
then appointed Colonels: .
The,unserviceable arms add accoutrements of the
detaChteents at Canterbury, have been delivered up
in the ordhanee stores, in order that they may be for-
warded to the ruiver of London.

The Sligo Regitnent of Militia, now stationed at
bunmow, Braintree', &c. have received orders to
Larch for Norman-cross. Yesterday se'nnight the
Officers of the above re,giment were most sumptuously
,intertained at dinner by Lieutenant-General thump
tut, at Nekton-Hall.
On 'Wednesday a Court Martial wag opened before
.Major General DYarn and a Board of Officers, CIO
,Quarter Master Wice, of the Scots Greys, for the
.purpose of investigating a charge preferred agebast
him of overcharging the necessaries of the men. The
examination of the witnesses continued until Friday
when the prisoner begged till Monday to prepare his
defence.—The Court granted his petition, and ad-
journed to that day.
Monday morning, a party of the Perthshire Mi-
litia marched from Edinburgh Castle to Leith, from
whence they escorted the crews of.the American ves-
sels lying in the harbour,. as prisorers of war, to the
depot at Pennycuick. These fellows, while they
marched through Edinburgh, continually huzzaed
and laughed, betokening their regardlesness of their
situation:


ESCAPE OF Fir.NCH TkiSONERS..

The breachet of parole among the adherents of
the Great NAtsotaox, who are prisoners of war in
thik country, still continue; and the.seuing in of the
Rovember nights will, no doubt, increase, their Ire-
, quency.—An intelligent correspondent (himself a
-foreigner) suggests, that if clauses to the following
effect were introduced the law recently passed,
*taking it felony to aid or abet a French prisoner itt
'fits escape, the practice would be soon pia a stop t 6.
Every person sending money or letters to a pri-,
'inner of war through any other medium than that of
the Transport Office or the District Commissary,l
'sbotild be punished as an accessary, if the prisonee
thus supplied with money, Makes his escape.
, tiery isitner of war convicted of receiving a
letter or money in this clandestine manner, ought
alioibbe,put under some closer restraint than usual,
""kt being mustered more frequently before the Com-
missary at the Depot.
The Commissaries at the depots ought be se-
lected from among our invalided or half-pay officers
—these Gentlemeno who have been themselves soli.
diers, and perhaps pritoners of war, would be far
better qualified for the situation titan the shopkeepers
'or ConatrY attornies who are now employed, and whO
'lrequehily, without knowing it, provide the prisoner ,1
; With the very disguise in Which he escapes: