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London, England, 1812-09-16 00:00:00

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Pith Ditto—Err/et Lientehant-Colonel the -notontable H. R.
Paket,ham, front the 741 Wet-India Regiment, to be Lirsue-
nant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Maxwell, who 'retires.
Ist Ditto—Ensign Eager to be Lieutenant, by ruckus)
'vice Batter,, who retires.
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1 Ditto—Hospital-mate James Knox to be Assistint•eurgenali
vice Jones prom in The 38th Foot.
6 Ditto—Ensign W. H. Robertson to b., lieutenant, without
purchase' vice Murchison, promoted; Gentleman Cadet James
Cromie, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice
Robertson.
38th '"

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COkFESSION OF A CAPTAIN OF THE
N 1 FRENCH GUARDS.

The following has been largely circulated throttle* the French
Armies in the North, of course we are not answerable for its
authenticity ; but we must be permitted to say, that it is dtitwn
up with much spirit, and contains many bold truths.—EDlT.
ss .CONFESSION OF A CAPTAIN OF THE FRENCH GUARDS,
WOUNDED AND TAKEN PRISONER BY THE RUSSIANS
AT THE BATTLE OF POLOTZK.
" I have seen twenty years service. I fought under
Ditum, who was assassinated by cowards. I was
made a Captain.in the field of battle,—where Botia-
NoNviwg pretended, that the only loss to theßepub-
lic consisted in the amputation of the finger of a dra-
goon !—This was the zra of the first invention of
Bulletins : the art has since been perfected; they now
lea ith more probability, but not with less effrontery.
I next served under LUCKNER, who was assassinated
fot" demanding payment of his arrears. My next
master was BEAUHARNOIS, who was most barbarously
treated by the Patriots of France for the services
`which he had rendered them. Tired of serving exe-
cutioners, I frequently risked my life, that I might
cease to be their instrument : I courted death—it fled
before me : I am indebted to my temerity for a great
reputation for bravery. I was offered higher promo-
tion, but I refused it—thinking that any rank which
.brought me nearer those butchers, would make me
more directly their accomplice. I did right : the can-
dour with which I delivered my sentiments on all oc-
casions would pet haps have produced my assassina-
tion, or my services would have been rewarded as
those of many brave French Generals have been.
" I have fought under PICHEGRU. Brother Soldiers,
be not astonished ill shed a tear to his memory :
those only who knew him intimately can appreciate
his worth—the times in which he lived were unworthy
of him : Ire ought to have flourished the days of
EPAMINONDAS, CAMILLUS, CINCINNATUS, and &Iwo
he is forgotten, or rather he lives in the hearts of a
few brave men only. Posterity will never be ac-
quainted with his virtues, for his contemporaries,
ashamed of having sacrificed him by their apathy at
the moment when he devoted himself to his country,
have been silent on that score. M ty his venerable
shade rejoiceat hearing his name still pronounced with
tenderness and admiration in the desarts of Russia!
•' I was present with Monrau in his retreat from
Suabia !—Nloaeau, the worthy pupil of PICIIEGRU,
and who has received in exile his reward for services,
which, in his master, were requited with death !
" Here commences anotter epoch :—while the
Brigands governed France, few of them were to be
found in our armies : wl:en they ceased to have a
majority in the administration, they established an
ascendancy among us. War, until then, although
not a lucrative, WAS at leard an honourable profession :
plunder, and the horrors which accompany it, were
prohibited ; but they were soot licenced in order to
deprave us and render us the tractable pupils of Ty-
ranny. We no longer recognise France as our parent
country—we no longer fight for glory ! • A blind
subserviency to the Chief, who permits the pillage o:
the vanquished as a consequence of victory, and whc

. Ditto—Ensign John Wheatley to be Lieutenant, without
purchase. vice Waddington, who resigns; As,istant-Surgeon
Dillon Jones, from the Sfal Foot, to be Surgeon,vice Donohoe,
promoted.
40th Ditto—Ensign Thomas Campbell to Le Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, vice , Queade, promoted ; Assistant-Surgeon William
Jones, fronathe 95th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Boattlower,
promoted.
td Ditto—Surgeon Alexander M'l.aehlan, from the 71st Foot,
to be Surgeon, vice Erley, promoted.
4th Ditto—Ensign Richard Perry to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Austen, who resigns.
sth Ditto—Captain Marcus Richardson, from the 63d Foot, to
be Captain of a Company, vice Robinson, who exchanges.
16th Ditto--Captain Archibald Campbell to be Major without
purchase, vice Campbell, promoted In the 3d West ind:a
Regiment.
50th Ditto—Brevet Major Herman Stapleton to be Major, vice
Armstrong, deceased; Lieutenant V. R. Lovett to be Captain
of a Company, vice Stapleton; Enstgn John W. Plunket to be
Lieutenant, vice Lovett.
S2d Ditto- -Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Walker to be Surgeon,
vice Maling, promoted; Hospital-Mate Wm. Macaetney to be
-Assistant-Surgeon, vice Williams, promoted in the 9th Foot.
Seth Ditto—Ensign James Whyte to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Hill, promoted in the 89th Foot ; James Wm.
Young, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Whyte • Hopital-Mate
Charles St. John to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Desailly, Pro-
'moved in the 4th Foot
spth Ditto—.To be Captains of Companies, without purchase—.
Lieutenant Alex. Mancor ; Lieutenant John Belches, from
the 4th Foot.
To Le Lieutenants, without purchaseEnslgns Edward Mitchell,
Paterson O'Hara, Charles N. Vevers, and Hugh Robison.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Alexander Howard, Gent. ;
Edmund P. Duncan, Gent. vice Mitchell ; —.--*Edwards,
Gent, vice O'Hara; Peter Robertson, Gent. vice Vevers ;
George Dixon, Gent. vice Robison.
60th Ditto—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign James
Kent, vice Hughes, promoted; Ensign 3: W. Patterson, vice
Trumback, promoted.
To be I.trsigns, without purchase—Joseph Stewart, Gent. via
Kent; John Hay Crawford, Gent. vice Patterson.
61st-Ditto—Hospital•Mate David M'Loughlru to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Fisher, deceased.
6.1 d Ditto—Captain John Robinson, from the 45th Foot, to be
Captain of a Company, vice Richardson, who exchanges.
67th Regiment of Faot.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—Lieutenant Charles Rains ford,
from the Royal Westminster Middlesex Militia • Ensign Lu-
cius French, front the Annagh Militia, vice Bradford, deceased.
71st Ditto—Ensign Charles Moorhead to he Lieutenant, vice
Dillon, deceased ; Edward Bovill, Gent. to be Ensigli, vice
Moorhead; Assistant-Surgeon A. Stewart, from the 85th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice helacklachlan, appointed to the 4Sed

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44th

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Foot. - -
72d Ditto—Ensign James Gowan to be Lieutenant, without par-
cliase, vice Bell, promoted; George Mackay, Gent. to be En-
sign, vice Gowan.
88th Ditto—Ensign H. P. Delme to be Lieutenant, without put.-
chase, vice Weir, who retires tal Mate Andrew Gregg

to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Stewzrt, promoted in the 71st
Foot.
69th Ditto—To be Captains of Cornpznies, without Purchase—
Litutenant William Hill, from the .513th Foot • Lieutenant

Ware Adamson, from the 3d West India Regiment.
To be Lieutenants—Ensign and Adjutant Patrick Agnew, Ea-
sign I. S. Reynolds, Ensign Allen Stuart, Ensign R. Chapnitis.
To he.Etrilgns— Hewetson, Gent, vice Reynolds ; William
Saunders, Gent. vice Stuart ; William Windham Phelan, vice
'Chapman.

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91st Regiment of Foot.
To be Ensigns—John Burcharn, Gent, by purchase, vice Mac-
dougall, promoted; Ensign D. Van Majten, from the Ren-
frew Nightie, wit'lout purch.i'e.
95th Ditto--Holytal Mate Robert H. Hett to be Assistant Sur-
geon, vice Jones, promoted in the 40th Foot.
3d West India Regiment—William D. Barclay, Gent. to be En-
sign, without purch.ise, vice Ritisdall, removed from the service.
id Garrison Battalion.
To be Lieutenants—Lieutenant Roger Finnan, from the 89th
Foot, vice Kelly, appointed to the Bth Royal Veteran Batta-
lion; Ensign Robert Garrett, from the id Foot, vice Hebl,
appointed to the 73d Foot.
Bth Royal Veteran Battalion—Lieutenant Richard Kelly, from
the 2d Garrison Battalion, to be Lieutenant.
Royal Newfoundland Feucibles—Charles Davis, Gent. to be En-
sign, vice Kemble, promoted in the Gleng:.ry Fencibles.
Nova Scotia Fencibles—Edward Davidson, Gert, to be Ensign,
vice Shari, promoted in the Glengary Fencibles.
Canadiln Fencibles.
To be Lieutenants—Ensign J. F. Gunter, vice Read, promoted;
Ensign Benjamin de Lisle, vice Macdonnell, promoted in the
Glengary Fencibles; >rnsign Hugh Fitamaur.ce , vice M‘Mil-
lan, appointed to the Glengary Fencibles.
To be Ensigns.--Narcis Duchesnay, Gent. vice Gunter; Edmund
W. Antrobus, Gent. vice De Lisle; John Carrol Peach, Gent.
vice Fitzmaurice.
The King's German Legion.
261 Regiment of Dragoons—Lizutenant William Sept to be Cap-
tain of a Troop, vice tinier, killed in action ; 'troop Serjeaut
Major William Kalckreutb, from the Duke of Brunswick's Ca-
valry, to be Cornet, vice Kohlstedt, killed in action.
id Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet Charles Wiebold to be
Lieutenant, vice Gruben, killed in action.
2d Battalion of Light Infantry.—Ensign G. D. Grame to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Fincke, killed in action.
7th Battalion of the Line—Ensign Henry Schaefer, from the De-
pot Company, to be Ensign, vice Corlien, promoted.
York Light Infantry Volunteers.
To be Ensigns,' without purchase—Phillippo Grassi, and An-
tonio Grassi, Gents.
SrArr.—Lieutenant Jacob Hopper, from the 4th Garrison Bat-
talion, to be Adjutant ef a Recruiting District, vice Keane,
who returns to his former half pay.

admits tis to thy.- foul orgo.s, while he ieserves to
himself the glory.—This is the ruling sentiment of the
Soldiers whom he command; ; this is the impulse of
their bravery and devotion ! I need not tell you that
this Chief is our present Emperor, and that his as-1
sumption of the purple produced the same revolu-
tion in the army, which it has produced throughout
Europe.
" Every thing was new-modelled according to the
views of the man, who, from the moment of his being
placed at the head of the army, conceived the vast pro-,
ject of subduing the world ! Figure to yourself what
must have been ii‘y astonishmeht ; I, who was, until
then, accustomed to read nothing in the proclamations
of my Genentls, but what was conformable to strict
military discipline and the true principles of glory.
Alas ! other niaxims were then introduced into the
military code, and.che same General who at the foot
of the Appvnines, had said to his soldiers—" Beyond
these mountains lies wealthy Italy—you are naked—
you are hungry—thfire will you find food and clothing
in abundance !" This same General sought no more
than to pervert the honour which ought to animate a
soldier, and to excite his passions, in crder that he
might see that in success consisted the means of gra-
tifying them.
" We ceased to be Citizens;—from that day, when
in the nations around us we saw only slaves destined
to be plundered, we lost all attachment to our coun-
try to follow the lot tunes of an individual, to whom
alone we looked for the reward of our bravery, and
all the fruits of conquest.
" Soldiers ! I was in the expedition to Egpyt.—l
saw those very people massacred, to whom our Ge-
neral had said, that he respected more than the Ma-
melucs "GOD, 'his Prophet, knd the Alcoran ;"

Deputy Irspector of Hospitals Gatiri;.l R. Redmond to be In.pcc-
tor of Hospitals, vice Balfile' deceased.
Staff Surgeon William Lidderdale to be Deputy Inspector of
Hospitals.
Surgeon John Erley; from the 42d Foot, to be Physician to the
Forces, vice Snow, deceased.
To be Surgeons to the Forces,
Surgeon William Hill, from the 4th Foot.
Surgeon Thomas Donahoe, from the 38th Foot.
Surgeon Charles Boatflower, from the 40th Foot.
Surgeon Alexander Baxter, from the 4th Foot.

thought myself entirely under the influence of Maho-
metanism, when I saw from the. Proclamations of
BoNsPaurs, that the Divine Coran, which he had
never read, was the delight of his heart, and that he
intended to make a pilgrimage to the Tomb at Mecca,
had he not been prevented by the Hero of Acre.
Thus we at one and the same moment employed
violence and lies, massacres and illusions : thus, un-
der the influence of our Commander-in-Chief, we

Surgeon John Cole, from the 68th Foot. were by turns executioners and Jack-puddings (Sal-
Surgeon J. Maling, from the 52d Foot, vice Lidderdale, promoted.
To be Apothecaries to the Forces, tim-banques), soldiers and charlatans. And the
Acting Apothecaries Richard Morris and William Price. soldiery, whose openness and candour were prover-
To be Deputy Purveyor; to the Forces, bial, were now compelled to become hypocrites, to
Purveyor's-Clerks Francis Bishop and Thomas Smyth. facilitate the subjugation of mankind.
2d Regiment of Royal East India Volunteers. 4, After having been•the soldier of the Republic, I
/..nsign William Andrew Hunt to be Lieutenant, vice Partridge, found myself in some measure the Seid of a new Ma-
resigned; and William Moberly, Gent. to be Snrign, vice Hunt. ,
omet—a man who called himself the Envoy from a
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The resignation of Lieutenant Finnan, of the 59th Foot, as
stated In the Gazette of the 15th ult. has cot taken place. 1 GOD in'whom he did not believe, and the instrument
Tlie appointment of Lieutenant Robert Brownrigg, from the of a PROVIDENCE whom be saw only in fatality.—
Wexford Militia, to be Ensign in the 29th Foot, without" pa- . After having seen the Egyptians killed, their women
chase, as stated In file Gazette of the ifth inst. has not taken place..
Haaavras in the Gazette et the 15th ult.
ravished, and their goods pillaged, 1 found myself
for Assistant Surgeon Philip Walter, from the Ist Foot, to be 1
on board the skiff which conveyed' BoNAPARTR to
Surgeon to the Forces in Porrugal, under the command of Europe. How great were the transports with which
' he was received i I saw him on the 18th Brumaire--I
lleut..General Sir W. C. Beresford only, vice Robertson,
• Maad Assistant Surgeon Philip Walter, from ditto, to be diuo,
, was in his suite when he imprudently gave up Cesar • vice Tliovaas.
Commissions in the Bedford Militia. ' and his fortune, to the dagger of the first person who
Richard Floinkin Geut. to be Lieutenant. Datedjace 24, 1812. chose to think, that by killing him he would rid
James Bridge, Gent. to be guaign, Dated July 18, 1812. • France of a CROMWELL. Be was my General—l
4th stegiment Oxford Local Militia—Henry Dixon, and George w s .
. not accustomed to respect the men who menaced
Rowland, Gents, to be Lieutenants. Dated August 4, 1612.
James Hitching., Gent. to I)! ?Align. Dared August 17,114. him, nor the Government which he dissolved, and I
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North Hants Militia. s thought it my duty to save him—l put myself at the
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Cluistoplser Morris, Gent. tolcslgn. Dated Ruse 21,1412. head of my Grenadiers, and I arrived in time to re-
VirillLtin Viney, Gent. to, be ditto. Dated August 26,1812. .
dive in my arms the fainting hero 1
Eitaaruss in a former 11,12ette.—For Captain John Gull= iota
Major, read Caftan JOllll Pitli.ei to be Major. w ' !`• From that Mimi? 149 sees every kiagdoga of .. .