Star.
London, England, 1801-10-22 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDERS•

Head-quartets, Chatbam,2sth Oc`tober, 18:1.

LEAVE OF AESENCE.—Lieutenant-General
HuLSE has the honour to announce to the troops,
Rationed in the Southern Dittri& that in conic-
quence of the alterations which have taken place la
the circumftances of the country, the COMMASDtIt
in CHIEF approves of the indulgence of leave of
abfence being granted to a certain proportiort of
Officers belonging to the Militia Regiments under
his orders.. At the fame time his ROYAL
NESS &fires, that care may be taken to retain with
each regiment of the above defcription at lcafi
half of the Field-Officers and Captains, and twc-
, thirds of the Subalterns; but id inflances where
there are only three Field-Officers on the eflabliat-
ment of a Regiment of Militia, his Royal. }Lox-
mass will not objesf to owe only remaining with the
regiment, provided the Genera} commanding the
&Aries of opinion the prefence of the Officers
miky be difpenfed with.
The CoststAnnta in CHIEF is likewife &firms
of extending the indulgence to the regular troops,
and therefore leaves it to the difcretion of LlM-
renant•Oeneral Hu css to comply with filch ap-
plications for leave of abfence as may be recom-
mended to his attention by Commanding Officers
of Cavalry and of the Line, not allowing them in
any inßance to exceed more than one-third of "
Officers of each rank.

Yeflerday morning his MAJlsry, attended
the Equerries in Waiting, rode out on horfeb.ii
accoompanied by Prince ADOLPHUS, PRINCES!
SoPHIA and AMELIA, and MA TOWNSIIt ND.
The Earl and Counters of HARCOURT are on
vifit to their MAJESTIES.
The Lox° Ciaancsi.Loa has appointed Wednt
day next, the 28th infant, at two o'clock, to 7
ceive the LORD MAYOR Eleit at his houfe in Bei
ford-fquare.

T. MATTHIAS, Efq. Clerk to the Earl of Ayr,
Treafurer to the QiLepi, arrived at Wm,
for yefterday, to pay her MAJESTY'S Hollfellul
their Salary.

Yefterday a Court of DireCtors was held at the
Eaft India Houle, which adjourned at fix o'clock
till Wednefday next.
Yefterday an overland Packet was received at
the Indic Houle, with advices from Bengal and
Madras, which we do not And contain any tl2iag
interefling.

Major-General Lord CHABLIS SOMERSET bensy,
about to change his quarters from New Rogursi
to Afhford, all reports from the third battalion u
the 9th, fecond battalion of the 52d, sehel
Kent Militia, are to be fcnt to the latter place.
Enfign Mir/GAY, of the 9th Regiment of Foot
is appointed Aid-de-Camp to Major-General Dos
Captain Orway, of the ssh Dragoon Guards,
appointed Aid-de-Campto Major-General WHYTI
Captain Souse:, of the 4th, or King's own, Rs
giment of Foot, and Captain Mu aasty, of the 9tLi
are appointed Aid-de-Camps to Lieutenant Gene
sal Sir JAMES PULTENEY ; and Er.fign CHA Mlli
of the 19th Regiment of Foot, is appointed Aid.
dc-Camp to Lieutenant General Hu es s.
The aad Regiment of Foot had a moll dread•
ful paffage to the Cape of Good Hop: lag year.
Out of 650 who embarked, zoo died of a malig.
nant fever before they reached their deltinatim,
betides, a great number of women and childsn.
Among the dead, one Officer only was numbered.
When they reached St. Simon's Bay, not rem
than t 5o of the remnant force were able to meet
and the crew of the (hip was fo reduced, that trn
were obliged to have fume men from the men
war in the bay to furl their fails.
Letters of refpe&able authority, received by
haft mail from Lifbon Rate, that a contagious
ver, attended with the fame fymptoms as th
which proved fo deilruetive at Cadiz about I
years ago, had broke Out at Medina Sidonia, abs
twenty miles S. E. of that city, and carried
from 15 to :oaf the inhabitants daily. The Span"
Government,horever, had taken the molt pros
and efficacious means of checking its farther pi
grefs, by drawing a cordon of troops round this
town of Medina, to prevent all commiinicatioe
with the other parts of the kingdom, and by
dering the immediate employment of the difinfes,
tive procefs fo fuccefsfully praElifed in this country
by Mr. CRUI ICSHA 11K, of Woolwich, and in Francs
by the celebrated GDYTON DI WAWA r•
From the fame communication we /earn. thol
Admiral Massa Erin had been deprived of hi, corr
maiul, and had retired in difgrace to Bilboa:
JeaCon is aligned for this proceeding, bet it is•
improbable that it has originated in come. mews
derlianding with the French naval officers at Cast!

Yuit is this Paper was going to prefs, the Park
and Tower tuns were fired in confequenee of the
iheentier of Alexandria to the Iltitifh arms ; and
the ditatches announced in 'a preceding column
were publilhed in a