Star.
London, England, 1807-05-28 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR.

By the Royal George, Admiral Dociworrw's
hip, we have received letters from Gibraltar to the
loth intl. but their contents are not of much imps..
tance. On the gth, Admiral THORIIIIOROUGH had
arrived there from the fleet off Cadiz, on his way to
Sicily, to take the command of the Britith fleet in
the Mediterranean. By the_fame channel we have
received accounts of a

MUTINY AT MALTA
Haying broken out in Faossec's Regiment, orrt-
poling part of that Garrifon, and which had been
attended with the molt melancholy confequences.—
This regiment, which was chiefly cornpofed of Alba-
nians, and other foreigners, from the Levant, being ex
tremely difrati,fied wi:h the mode in which they had
been railed, and at the drcfs and difcipline they were
obliged to adopt, broke out into open Mutiny in one
of the Forts where they were quartered, at the en.
trance oldie harbour. They cut the Adjutant and
one of the Captains to pieces, wounded Lieut. Colonel
Scrivstrestaryst, and would alto have murdered
Lieut. Colonel BARNES, their Commanding Officer,
had he not been luckily abfent at the time. The
mutineers remained in pofreffi •rt of the fort for feveral
days, during which time they obliged the Officer of
Artillery, on rain of death, to fire upon the Town;
and feveral (hells were aCtually thrown by them into
the place. All provifions being cut off from the mu•
timers, they threatened to blow up the Fort if they
vete not fupplied ; which being refuted, fome
them attempted to put their threats in execution,
and aCtually let fire to the powder magazine. Troops
were then fent againfl them, and about zoo of the
principal ringleaders were fecured, of which z 6 I.ad
been hanged, when the Royal George failed from
Malta, and a General Court Martial was fitting on
the remainder. The twenty fix who were executed,
died in the moll daring manner, glorying in the crime
they had committed, and curling the fervice and
Government they had been enlifled into.
. The event of the mitchief effeCted by there del
peradoes is not Rated in the letters that have reached
us, but enough has tranfpired to (hew the danger
and ruinous confequences, that may refult from a
lryttem which has been carried of late to a confider.
able extent, that of forming foreign corps in our
fervice. Dillon's regiment, as our Readers may re-
coiled, was difbanded in Gibraltar to avoid a mutiny
there, and now Malta is brought into the molt immi-
nent danger, from the fame tante ; for we have only
two Britifh regiments there : all the reit are foreign
troops, and a good deal of untafinefs is felt on that
(core. Foreign corps railed in the Mita fervice are
often a vile job, to ferve fome needy foreigner, at
the expenfe of the public purfe. The men are picked
up by crimps any where, and boundlefs promifes are
held out, which, in the nature of things, cannot poi-
fibly be realifed. Corps of foreigners railed in a
regular manner, from among the regular peafantry
of any country, might be expeCted to poffefs as many
good moral qualities, as can be looked for from men
in fimilar circumflances ; but fuch corps we can
hardly by any pdfibility obtain. If we compote
corps of all the vagabonds of the earth that can be
colleeted together, what can we expal from them ?
Such troops, under particular circumfiances, will
ever prove more formidable to their friends than their
enemies.