Star.
London, England, 1812-04-01 00:00:00

PARIS, MARCH 20.

A council of War was held on the 13th instant, on
Captain Saint Cricq, late Commander of the frigate
Clorinde, composed of the Admirals Rusilly, Gan.
ieanme, Missiestx, Emeriau, &c. on charges—lst,
for not doiug all in his power in the action of May
20, 1811, in which the frigate Renommee was cap-
tuted-2dly, for having separated himself from his
Commander, almost at the instant of the act:on,
when he shotild have kept very near, and have made
no movement which could have carried him to a dis-
tance-3dly, for not having, although the Clorinde
iiras in a sufficient condition, made any attack on the
enemy, a little while after the separation from the
Renommee, and almost at the moment when the
enemy ceased his file on that ship ; the result of which
attack might have been the abandonment by the
enemy of his pt:rsuit of the Renommee, if she were
not too much reduced, or, on the other hand, if the
enemy had been rendered unable to take possession
of her—and, 4thly, fcr having voluntarily failed in
his mitsivn to the Isle of JAVA, which was prescribed
to him by his instructions, dated December= 1810,
should he be unable to enter the Isle of France.

The Council sat, by adjournments, till the 18th
Inst. and examined a number of witnes es ; one of
Wham; Gerot Fabritius, a native of Enkhuysen,
Lieutenant in the Ciorinde, not being familiar with
the French language, was, at his own request, exa-
mined in the English tongue.
Oa the evening of the 18th instant the Council
decreed, by a majority of six voices to two, that
Jacques Saint Cricq, member cf the Legion of Ho-
hour, formerly Commander of the Clurinde, was
guihy of disobedience to the orders of his Comman-
der, but not in presence of the enemy ; and con-
demned him to be cashiered, and declared unworthy
to serve, as well for that fault, as for having taken
Nn part in the second engagement, in which the lte=
imminee yielded ; and for having abandoned that
frigate through a f ilse manctuvi e, irresolution, and
want of judgment ; and that, in conformity with the
article of the law, which 'vas vead by the Presi Jens
(" Every Commander of a ship of war, guilty of dis-
obeying the orders or signals of his Commander,
shall be deprived of his command ; and if his dis-
obedience occasions a separation, either of his own, or
another vessel of the syladion, he shall be cashiered,
and be unworthy to se; ye ; if thts takes place in pre-
sence of the enemy, he shall be :onelernned to death")
the Council condemned the accused, Jacques Saint
Cricq: unanimously, to three years imprisonment in
such place as the Government should appoint. They
tardier condemned him- to be degraded from the Le-
gion of Honour, and to pay all the costs of the pro-
ceedings; and ordered 200 copies of the judgment
to be publicly affixed.
Francois Pollee, Captain of the Nereide, Member
of the Legion of Honour ; and the Lieutenant De-
fredot Duplanty, were acquitted from all charges
touching the Inss of the Nereide and the Renommee,
which they commanded after the death of their te-
spective 'Captains ; and their swords wete ordered to
'be returned to them.
The two dissentient voices in St.Cricq't case, were,
one for capital punishment, and the other us the apt
plicatiou of a particular law.