Star.
London, England, 1809-04-06 00:00:00

SPORTING mrELLIGAYCZ.

pIZWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, lOC
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5.
Grosvenor's b. c. Woodwell-head, by Whitelegs, boat
tarbord's br. c. Generalissimo, by General, Bst. 41b. each.
ioogc. b. ft.--Three to I on Woodwell-head.
Thornhill% Ralphina, Bst. 71b. beat Ld Sackville's grey c.
. Stamford, Bst. Ab. M. SOgs.-2 to 1 apt Ralphina.
itwell's Clinker, beat Major Wilson's Juniper, Bst. 71b.
C. 200 gs. h. ft.-Five to 4 on Clinker.
,eepstakes of 100 gs. each. Two-year old Course.
Armor's 1. Chryseis, by Asparagus, out of Lady Jane 1
tyne's f. Zoraida, by Don Quixotte, out of Lady Cow 2
f Cavendish's f. by Ambrosio, out of Spinster -
lrafton's 1. by Sorcerer, out of Pepp&mint - 4
7 to 4 against Chryseis.
slption Plate of 250, for 4-yr olds 7st. 3-yr olds Bst. 71b.
and 4-yr olds 9st. Two-yr old Course.
luabury's b. f. Agnes, by Sorcerer, 3 yrs old all 1
. Cavendish's b. c. Hymen, 3 yrs old - 2
Orb b. c. by Gohanna, 2 yrs old
,es's b. c. by Hambletonian, 2 yrs old.
averie's b. c. Red Cross Knight, by St. George, S yrs old.
'yndham's ch. c. Election, 4 yrs old.
,ake's h. f. Nymphina, 4 yrs old.
losveror'sb f. Mop, by Sir Peter, out of Maid-of-all-
• • 2 yrs old.
svenor's b. c. Woodwell-head, 2 yes old . - dr
Gratton's ch. f. Morel, 3 yrs old - - - dr
The Judge could place but 3.-S to I agst Agnes.
ransittart's Burleigh, Bst. 21b. beat Mr. Shakespeare's Dis-
st. 71b. R.M. 200g5.-2 to 1 on Burleigh.
Third Class of the Oatlands Stakes of .50p. each, IL ft. D. I.
19nbury's b. 1. Agnes, by Sorcerer, S yrs old, 7st. - 1
Grosvenois Sunbeam, 3 yrs old, 7st. 121 b. - - 2
e 5 j Mass Sophia, 3 yrs old, 6st. 81b. -
L3dbroke's br. 1. Trisnbush, 3 yrs old, 7st. Ilb.
C. BrownesDsiville, .5 yrs old, 814. - -
sbakapearei e Zodiac, aged, 9st. 101 b. - -
Twenty-two paid forfeit.
to 1 apt Agnes, 4to I apt Sunbeam, 7 to S apt Miss
and 2 to 1 agst Zodiac.

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THE ARMY.
• OBSERVATIONS
Sly TVS RANSACKS OE THIS COUNTRY, TS RESPECT TO
THE COMFORT 07 THE ARMY ; WITH STRICTURES ON
THE DCITSIS, &C. OP THE OPPICERS EMPLOYED IN
THAT DEPARTMENT.—Xoncludedfromresterday's STAR.
The scite chosen for the erection of a barrack should
be similar to that preferred for a standing encamp-
ment. No sinister interest, or undue influence should

NAV4L INTELLIGENCE.

predominate in the choice of the spot, which should
be the most healthy, not the cheapest and most at-
tainable. The barracks ought not to be built on the
summit of a hill, but rather on a gentle slope, or
rising ground, where good water is procurable in suf-
ficient quantity. The aspect of the building should
not be exposed to the N. E. wind. The ground should
be amply sufficient for every purpose, and should be
always well inclosed with a high wall, or strong
railing, not easily to be scaled.
Besides the ground necessary for erecting the dif-
ferent buildings, a large space should be set apart for
a parade. Every barrack, capable of containing one
thousand men, should have a parade ground at least
250 yards long, and 150 broad ; this would include
a space equal to nearly eight acres. A separate spot
of ground should always be enclosed for the hospital,
and for the uses of the patients, &c.
The following buildings and convenlencies should
pertain to every barrack of any considerable mogul,
tude, viz.
Officer's guardroom and guard- Soldiers' cleaning-rooms,
house, Soldiers' messing-rooms,
Black holes, or dungeons, Married soldiers rooms,
Cooking-houses, Taylor's, shoemaker's, and ar.
Wash-houses, mourer's work-shops,
Stole-rooms, Stables, forage-barn,
A large hospital, Barrack-master's store-rooms,
Staff Serjeants' room, Water-engine house.
Without all these essential requisites a barrack
must be considered as incomplete, and unfit for the'
purpose of troops. It is owing to deficiences of bar-
rack conveniencies that buildings have been converted
from necessity to other purposes than those for which
they were originally intended : hence it is not uncoil);
mon to find sleeping-rooms converted into cleaning.
rooms, taylors and shoemakers shops ; cooking-room
into wash-house, &c. &c. &c.
The sleeping-rooms of the soldiers should never be
larger than 36 or 40 feet long, and 24 feet broad;
and no room of this size should be suffered to contain
more than 20 men, and each man should have a se-
parate bed. Bedsteads are preferable to fixed births
for the soldiers, because the former may be removed
and washed, and they admit of the rooms being more
effectually cleaned when not encumbered with fix-
tures. Two small ventilators in the cieling of each
room, constructed in such a manner as to be occa-
sionally shut up, are perfectly sufficient, with the as-
sistance of fire for the purpose of circulating the air
of the apartment, without the farther aid of perfora-
tion through the walls and roofs, communicating with
the external air.
Married soldiers, with their families, should always
be separated from the other men. Delicacy and
propriety point out the necessity of this measure.
The size of the guard-house should always be in
proportion to that ofthe barrack ; and if the barrack
is capable of containing more than one corps, there
ought to be separate guard-houses for each corps.—
This, at least, is always desirable. The dungeons,
or black-holes, as they are called, are always impfo-
perly built. Being intended as places of punishment
for offenders of a certain description, the principal
object that has been kept in view in the construction
of black-holes, seems to be to render them as gloomy
and horrible as a Turkish jail : they are, threefore,
generally built in such a manner as to exclude the
air and light, and are partly below the level of the
ground, so that they are necessarily close and un-
wholesome. Celprits, condemned to such solitary)
mansions of penance and misery, are liable to suffer'
from real causes of sickness, sometimes for many
days together. To render confinement in black.'
holes a terrific punishment, it is scarcely possible to,
disunite it from danger. Uninterrupted solitude, the
dreary contemplation of the dungeon walls, and d*
privation of a bed, for several long days and cheer-
less nights, are sufficient of themselves to inspire
dread, in ordinary cases, without the concomitant

LOUTH, AND PLYMOUTH DOCK, APRIL 4.
led, after post last night, the SWALLOW, of 18
:aptain MILNER, from Milford ; the TEamii-
of 18 ditto, from Chatham ; and the Neptune
ider, from Dublin, with impressed men.—
Cawsand Bay, the VALIANT, of 74 guns,
the fleet off Rochefort ; and the SANDWICH
igger, on a cruize to the westward ; TRIUMPH,
the eastward; and CONTEST gun-brig, with
)1 victuallers under convoy for the squadron
:hefort.
M.—The signal has just been made for the
;ANT to get under weigh, and she is expected
this evening.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 5.
his Majesty's ship ST, ALBAN'S, with the
ig ships •under convoy, viz. the Coutts, Mar-
Ely, Glatton, Royal Charlotte, Princess Ame-
tmes, and Albion, for the East Indies ; Sir S.
BRANDFORD, for the Cape of Good Hope ;
Trance, ISBETER, for Madeira ; and the Lark,
IN3, for Lisbon. His Majesty's ship CQMET is
tted convoy •for Newfoundland, &c. and will
.morrow. Wind N. E. fine breeze.
DOVER, APRIL 5.
•
le hi this day, with the loss of all her anchors
►les, the brig Senhora de Bom Successo, Cap•
:e FaAwcisco REIZ, of and from Faro, with a
4f fruit, bound to London.—Arrived hi the
from a cruize, the ROYALIST, BADGER, CHI
and ROLLA Sloops ; the former remains, the
ater.sailed again this afternoon.—Passed by,
several sail of vessels from Portsmouth for
mins. The Mary transport (U M) arrived
!sterday with stores 'from Plymouth.—Wind
and moderate.
DEAL, APRIL B.
d through the Downs the Jane, JACKS, for
.—Came down from Sheerness, the PANDORA,
!mains in the Downs with the rest of the ships
last.—Wind N. E.

_ YARMOUTH, APRIL 6, perils of exposure to damp and confined air in ins-1
.ved this morning a Danish privateer, taken by proper
. cells. In cases where' this mode of penites-
tiary punishment should not be deemed adequate to
RANGER sloop of war, in the Cattegat • she moun-
t', . the offence, the additional horror of abstinence may
n• large guns besides swivels. After she was be inflicted, and the delinquent may be loaded with 1
Ned by the English, she fell in with and engaged irons. But in all prisons of this nature, the principal'
vanish Indiaman for an hour and a half, and was objects to be attained are gloom and security, with-
-ins to carry her by boarding, when two priva- out risk of health. The number of cells, or divisions
hove in sight, which obliged them to leave for one man each, are generally too few. A barrack
for 1000 men should have at least six separate dun-
(—they had only one man killed, none wounded. geons. Each dungeon should be eight feet long and
Lively, ELDRIDGE, of and from London, boundi lour broad. Except the entrance, no part should be
atenburgh, with sundries, is put in, having I, open but the top or roof, which should be eight or ten
' a leak.—Remain the ROEBUCK, Vice-Admiral : feet from the ground. Each prison should have a
window, or glass casement at the top to open and
As ; ALEXANDRIA frigate, CALYPSO sloop, and shut, over which should be a strong iron grating ;
izaa gun-brig.—Wind E. N. E. and each prison should have .a door to itself to fasten
FROM LLOYD'S LIST. on the outside, or in the irea or outer passage. The
\vastno, Arm s.—Passed by the Whim, Dalziel ; and bench or bedstead of each cell should be moveable,
)olwich, Boford, L-om Gibraltar; Joseph,. Dickenson, from I . -
Jurgh ; Drummond, Richmond ; Titus,Haslop ; and the land occasionally taken out to air.
;arrington, Bennington, from Malta. Sailed the Marquis In the building of soldiers barracks it would be ad-
Ilesley, Le Blanc, for India; and the Fame, Harvey, for • vantageous if every four or five rooms were distinct
ulerrf• from the others, so that the men of each company
ivxn.--In Standgate Creek, the 'Thomas, Dixon, from should have a separate door, and not intermix with
ar; andthe Isla, Bowden, front Malaga. At Portsmouth, the men of other companies.
lin, M`Leod ; Cynthia, Waytk ; and the Rolla, SpringaU,
Malta. At Liverpool, the Hope, Orchard, from Malta; Serjeants should always have rooms separated from
Cunningham, from Gottenborgh ;
_,Jane, Maßenzie, and the men. The practice of lodging Non-commissioned
:ass, Parker, from Newfoundland. At Plymouth, the Officers among private soldiers tends to breed famili-
in Packet, Richardson, from Gijon. At Hull, the Advice, i and relax discipline ; the propriety of separa-
, from Gottenburgh. At Burnt Wand, the Ann Jane, Ro- arity,
from Gottenburgh. At Beaumaris, the Sarah, GW,frum I Don is therefore obvious.
'burgh. At Cork, the Friendship, Butler, from SL Übe's ; I Before we quit this part of our subject, it is proper
Trader, Bell, from London; and the Concepti'n, O'Neil, , to remark, that the proportion of fuel allowed to the
iLdta. At Belfast, the Catharine, Brown • and Union, i soldiers should always be regulated according to the
from Mdta • Sally, —..:..; Trial, Conran, mid the Sophia, . -
arg, from Alicant. At Madeira, the Marla, Cowley, from necessities of the troops, the actual state of the weather,
:rix,ol ; Emilia, Bulphin, from Bristol ; and the Mary; Gib. • and the nature of the barracks. The time of the year,
front Lisbon. I and the number of men, are erroneous and uncertain
'le Two Sisters, Ingate, from Nevis to Loudon, data whereon to regulate the issue of fuel, being both
itured and carried into 'Granville. . - , very variable. The heat and coldness of the weather,
l
ie Christiana Maria, Martinson, from Stockholm, the feelings of the men, and the construction of the
.aptured in the Sound, by the Danes. , grates and cookery places, are the only sure and best
The Augusta, Campbell, from the Clyde to Ja- criteria.
la, which sailed from Cork•Stlst January, under j Officers' barracks should beat a sufficient distance
43y of his Majesty's ships Mr/11a and Phipps, from those of the soldiers.. The most convenient form
!cl 48 hours after sailing ; and, after experiencing for Officers' barracks is a series of separate buildings
serous weather for 23 days, was totally wrecked, of four, six, or eight rooms each, on one or two
It four leagues from Fignera, on the coast of floors, with a good kitchen on each floor. The size
',nal, 13th•Ftb,-.—Mate and five' Men drowned. and abape of tie cofficco' barracks are in general as

SPORTING I
isiZWMARILET
WEDNESD4
Gen. Grosvenor's b. c.
Cot fiarbord's br. c. Genera
li
Q'
. !poss. h. ft.--Tlnie to
Mr. Thornhill% Ralphtna, I
wit, by Stamford, fist. Ab.
Sir &Sitwell's Clinker, beat
Y. C. 400 gs. h. Fit
sweepstakes of 100 gs. ei
Gen. Grosvenor's 1. Cbryseis, 1
payne's f. Zoratda, by Do
G. Cdih sf.by At
poke oGraftn's 1. b7ytoSo4rceragi
A subscription Plate of 250,
and 4-yr olds 9st.
sie C. Bunbury's b. f. Agnes,
IA G. H. Cavendish's b. c. H
Stawelrs b. c. by Gohanna,
gr. Ellen's b. c. by Hamblen
gtgouverie's b. c. Red Cros
Nir, Wyndham' ch. c. Electice
yr.lake's b. f. Nymphina,
OGrosveitor'sb f. Mop, by
Works, 2 yrs aki•
G,n, Grosvenor's b. C. Woods
pillte of Gratton's ch. E More
The Judge could plan
Mr. Vanshtart's Burleigh, 1
aunt, Bst. 7111. R.M. 200 gs—
. Third Class of he °mix
Sr C. BunburY's b. It. Agnes,
Glosvesee's Sunbeam, 3 y
Eiweee Its Sophia, s
sr.sr. Ladbrokes sr. 1. Trirnbt
.C. Brownes 5
t.shikopearels Zodiac, al
Twenty-t
Even to 1 agst Agnes, 4 t
544.3, sad 2 to 1 agst Zodi:
NAV4L IN
PLYMOUTH, AND PL'
Arrived, after post lat
g;^.,, Captain MILKER,
GINT, of 18 ditto, from
(1) tender, from Dubl
Sailed from Cawsand Bt
to join the fleet off Rc
hiedlugger, on a cruize
ci74., to the eastward;
a fiat of victuallers uni
off Rochefort.
5 P. M.—The signal
TERMAGANT to get undt
to sail this evening.
F ORTSMO 1
Sailed his Majesty's
following ships • under cl
quis of Ely, Glatton, Ri
La, Thames, and Albior
Smith, BRANDFORD, for
Perseverance, ISBETER,
HAWKIN3, for Lisbon.
appointed convoy •for
tail to-morrow. Wind
• DOVEI
Came in this day, wi
sad cables, the brig Sei
feria JOZE FRANCISCO RI
cargo of fruit, bound
Roads from a cruize,
ROKEE, and RoLLA slot
three latter.sailed agai
this day, several sail of
the Downs. The Mt
here yesterday with st
E.N.E. and moderate.
DEAI
Sailed through the
Cadiz.—Came down 1
and remains in the Dc
is per last.—Wind N.
YARMO
Arrived this rnornin,
the RANGER sloop of w
ted four large guns b
manned by the Englisl
Danish Indiaman fa
preparing to carry her
steers hove in sight,
ter--they had only of
—The Lively, ELDRID
to Gottenburgh, witl
sprung a leak.—Rema
DOUGLAS; ALIZANDR
811117.111
FROM
GIATISZND, Arm S.-
the Woolwich, Boford, La
Gertenburgh ; Drummond
Lord Carrington, Donning!
of Wellesley, Le Blanc, f
Londonderry.
&stet D.—ln Standgat
Gibraltar • andthe Isla, Bot
the lirm:M‘Leod ; Cyntli
from Malta. At Liverpo
Thetis, Cunningham, fron
the Success Parker, fron
Lontion Packet, Ricbardsc
Major, from Gottenburgh
bin on, from Gottenburgh,
Gottenburgh. At Cork,
Neath Trader, Bell, from
from Malta. At Belfast,
--, from Mdta • Sally,
Limburg, from Alicant.
Lien-y. 01; Emilia, Bulpb
lon, front 1 Ishon ,
The Two Sisters,
is captured and carril
The Christiana Ma
is captured in the Sot
The Augusta, Ca
nlaicas which sailed
convoy of his Maje
Parted 48 hours after
boisterous weather ft
about four leagues
hinds 13th:ktba,