Star.
London, England, 1812-01-25 00:00:00

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THE AltNtY.

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R LITTER FROM THE SECRLTARY Aar WAR TO
wojEgAL OR OTHER OFFIONICS COMMANDING HIS Mita
JOY'S FORCES, RTC.
Wat-Orrice, lAN. 10, 1814,
Its,
prime Regent having taken into consideration the ex-
aspences to which a Regimental Officer is sbbject;
ce of succeeding without a regular Staff Appointment
tt4/, command of his• blaje sty's troops abro'ad, by the death or
• of the Commanding Officer; his Royal Highness is
in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to order,
17,twiep a command shall so devolve upon a Held Officer, or
sward inferior tank, the Officer succeeding to the tettipo-
fe command shall, if possessing the rank of a Field Officer, re-
an allowance of 20. per diem, and if below that rank, an
~wsnce of 10$. per diem ; the same to be paid for the period
ion which he shall actually exercise the Command, and in ad.
gdao to his regimental pay and allowance&
you will be pleased to notify this 'communication to the troops
oas your command, with special directions that the same be
ifdy awned as a standing order on the station.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your must obedieut bumble Servant,
(Signed) PALIIERSTbN.

Lieutenant-General RO*LAND HILT, it is confi-
aendy reported, is to Lave one of the vacant Red
Ribbons.
Four hundred of the Guards reached Portsmouth
yesterday, and were immediately embarked for Por-
tu;aL
yesterday morning additional troops of the Hotse
Guards (blue)
marched from Reading to Notting-
lin; and orders are issued for the dispatch of two
ibrary regiments, in consequence of the unfortunate
existence of the continued destruction of private pro-
perty in that neil.;:iliourhood.
That excellent Regiment the Royal Meath Militia,
commanded by the Marquis of HEADFORD, en.h.trk-
ed last %vett at Cave, in the transports which con-
'eyed the Third West York Militia—they are bound
to Pnrtsmouth, under convoy of the ROLLA. Twenty
of the Meath that did not volunteer, h :ve I-lurched
far

It is stateJ, that the next reqiments that will fill,
low, are the South Coil:, Galway, Kerry, South
Mayo, and Queen's County.

The Garrison of Cork consists of a Brigade of
Artillery, Brunswick Dragoons, depot of the 2.1 Ger-
sun Cavalry, Third West York, Northumberland,
and Kerry Regiments of Militia
The 7th Dragoon Guards, fmm the Sussex Dis-
trict, are to relieve the 2Sd Light Dragoons in the
oat duty of Kent, and the Ist division is expected to
wive at Hyrhe, by the route of the coast, on the Ist I
of February. The 23d are under orders to proceed
to Guildford Barracks.
As A testimony of respect from the military officers
stationed in Canterbury, a grand entertainment was
given on Monday last, at the Fountain Inn, to Lieu-
tenant-General Nicou.s, on the occasion of his relin-
quishing the command of the Kent district. Major-
General HAY presided at the head of a company of
fifty, in which were included the officers of the Staff,
Lieutenant-Colonel Wins, and the Field Officers of
all the different corps.

Usenet Stator.—Report states that General Si-
tio& and the Frenchmen concerned with him, were
a:intern consequence of a plot to arm the French
risollerS of war in this country, and to facilitate the
landing of the French in Cornwall, which the Gene-
ral had recommended to his Government. How far
these rumours are founded, it is hard to ascertain. It
is, however, we believe, pretty well known that the
escape of French prisoners of war was organised into
aregular system ; that they had their regular routes,
their regular lodgings appointed ;—and that the
smugglers from our coasts were bound, as the price
tither re-admission into French ports, to bring such
and such prisoners of war as were designated to them.
—When we consider this active intercourse of French
primers with France, their number in this country,
and the facilities afforded to them by the too great
number of their countrymen suffered in England, we
mast own that there must be serious grounds of ap-
prehension, especially when we recollect the. threa-
tenol vv explosion" by which Bonaparte promises to
end the war between the two countries, and Ole mys-
terious escape and residence of Lucien in England.
lie, too, sent his child* ens' Governess lately to
France, no doubt to acquaint his brother with the
Progress he has made itt the poem of Charlemagne, the
adopted prototype of Napoleon. Vie believe, how-
ever, that the more immediate grounds of accusation
against General Simon are, as we first stated, to
hare caused the death of a French prisoner of war,
who, on account of his honourable conduct, had
obtained his exchange from this Government.
On this subject, we underst:md, from good autho•
that a letter was found, addressed by the Gene-
ra to one an itinerant laceman, desiring him
to acquaint friend L---- (the chemist arrested) aa that
Imbed taken such measures as would secure the pu-
nishment of Detaches (the man shot in France) so
justly deserved for his infamous conduct."
We are even given to understand, that General
Simon, according to the present system of French lo-
gics, not only owns the tact, but even assumes no un-
common merit from it.
In a letter he addressed to a man in high situation,.
since his arrestation, he is said to have stated, that no
doubt he would be surprised on hearing that a man'
of honour had broken his parole, but this he should
attribute to the conduct of the 'Vrinsport Board to-
wards French Prisoners, compared to which, the con-
duct of Algiers, Tunis, and Marcie, was mildness
itself. He was less intimidated by the idea of a
fwilltule (of being shot) than by that of a Ist-ism--
Notwithstanding the fortune of war, which had
thrown him into the hands of the English, he still
considered himself as a Frenchman, and as authoris-
ed by the laws of nations, to acquaint his Govern-
ment with the infamous co iduct of a Frenchman,
who had betrayed his own countrymen.
The General also doells with great indignation on
the attestation of his friends, or supposed friends ; in
'It); the General's letter, which we hope will be
Published, is a curious morceau, well worthy I distin-
guished place in The Afonitenr.
General Simon has lately, we believe four or five
months aso, been promoted from the rank of Gene-
ralof Brigade, to that a General of Division ; we
believe he has also been created a Baron. Bonaparte
u not in the habit of rewarding his weruccesefe/Gene•
eels for their mittieny serficea.