Star.
London, England, 1814-03-14 00:00:00

TRUB PHIL.WTHROPr.

We have this day the gratification to announce in '
bur columns a series of benevolent actions, from an
individu.4l, altogether unexampled in our recollection;
that such of our Readers who delight in instances of
hum.tne 'conduct, which dignify 'the character of
man, and exalt it to a degree of perfection almost
ideal, will enfoy a proud exultation to learning the un-
bounded liberality of JAM= Wass, Esq. justly styled
the Philanthropist, for his chief delight consists in
dispensing a princely fortune to alleviate the suffer-
ings and relieve the Jistresses of his fellow creatures.
--During his recent stay of a few days at Hythe, he
disuibuted little- less than Two Thousand Pounds I
The deialied tradesinad add the distressed labourer
gartkipased largely in his bounty; but the widow
and the or were the marked objects of his soli.
eitude. To these, in many cases, his donations were
to an extraordinary amount; indeed, his munificence
appear.ld to know no other limits but the sum neces-
sary to relieve them from present want, and to cheer
their future prospects.
He was not satisfied, however, with affording a
tempoiary relief, but determined to render his bene-
ficence of permanent utility, he has selected 20 boys,
whose parents frogs their indigence were unable to
' give them trades, and has lodged upwards of five hun-
dred pounds, to be applied in premiums to put them
'out apprentices, besides furnithing the greater part
,of them with clothes. _ _ _

Nor did the wives and children of our gallant sol-
• diers escape his kind attention, but to insure a proper
distribution of his bounty, he placed it in the hands
d the Commanding Officers. The following letter
was addressed to Mr. WEBB by Major WELLS,COM-
Landing the 43d Regiment :
Hythe Barracks, March 7

2814.

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terropted health, wherever you direct your steps, IWu going
to have coupled happiness in the wish, but for its being sUper-
fluous, as that blessing must necessarily accompany such unpre-
cedented acts of benevolence.
" That you may have the eatisfsetion of knowing that your
extraordinary liberality to the 43d Regiment Will not intentionally
be abused, I take the liberty of troubling you with the annexed
copy of the Regimental Order, which I have thought right to
issue on this unlooked-for oceasion.--liVith sentiments of teal
respect and unfeigned admiration, I have the honour to be, Sir,
your inexpressibiy obliged, and most obedient serv.int,
(Signed) " jos. ws.t.i.s,
Major Comm. Sri Batt. 43d Rekyglit Infantry."
21) BATTALION, 43D REGIMENT LIGHT INFANTRY.

REGIMENTAL ORDERS.

' Hythe Barracks, 7th March, !RI 4.
The Commanding Officer having been most unexpectedly
presented by the Philanthropist, JAMES WESS, Esq. (who is
passing through I iythe upon his unexampled tour of general be-
nevolence to his suffering fellow-creatures), with the princely
donatien of eEloo, to be distributed (with one reversion hereafter
caplan:ed) among those women of the Regiment who, either on
ae,•otne cat their families, or from having their husbands on ser-
vice, e most in want of charitable assistance, directs that a
Committee of distribution (to consist of the Officers in command
of Companies and those composing the Staff), of which Major
WELLS will be himself the President, do assemble at his quarters
te-morrow morning, at eleven o'clock, to consider of the most
desirable mede of carrying the philanthropic views of the bene-
volent donor into the fullest effect. All such women, therefore,
of the Regiment as conceive themselves objects of this gratuity,
will attend the Committee in the morning, to prefer their several
claims to become sharers of the bounty.
' It may be proper to notify, that the donor, Mr. Weep, has
himself specially directed that £2.0 shall be appropriated to the
sole use of the child, Thomas Lackay, whose mother being dead,
and whose father being now abroad with the Ist Battalion, he
considers to be in the light of an helpless orphan. This sum will
therefore be lodged in the hands of 'the Paymaster, for the
child's sole benefit, and the remaining £BO will be at the disposal
of the Committee. Jos. wet.i.s,
Major Comm. 2cl Batt. 4:nl Keg. Light Infantry'
Whilst at Hythe petitions reached Mr. WEBB from
the debtors in the Castle, and the prisoners in the
gaol at Dover (at which place he had previously be-
stowed considerable sums) and it is almost needless
to say, that the wretched supplicants were in each
instance presented with a liberal gratuity.
Who can contemplate the career of this truly great
and good man without feeling for him sentiments of
the highest admiration ; instead of dissipating his
ample resources in fashionable foliies, or worldly
gratifications, he devo!es his time and his wealth to
purposes of real usefulness, and in earn,:st endeavours
to rescue suffering humanity from poverty and
misery—to hundreds of the unfortunate his liberal be-
nefactions have been the weans of welcome, but most
unexpected happiness ; and if an Englishman has
Just cause to boast of the prJverbial benevolence of
his countrymen, surely this unreserved devotion to the
cause of misery .must excite his liveliest exultation,
and render his national pride laudable, when the soil
which gave him birth records'in its annals the history
of a WEBB !

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
(From Saturday N.ght's Gazette.)
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Bedford.—Bedfordshire Militia.
Lieutenant Samuel Wallis to be Captain, vice Ames, volunteered
to the 40th Foot ; Lieutenant Thomas Davies to be ditto ; En-
sign; Henry Leach, William Sweet:Mg, Fmk. ick John Riz,
and Arch n, Gt nt. to be Lieutenant.; James Robert
'Storrs, /Racket Harrison, and James Biodrick, Gents. to be
Enegns.
Ist Regiment of Bedfordshire Local Militia..-Corneilus Sviin
Se:whom, Gent.-to be Lieutenant.
Commissions signed by his Majesty's Commissioners of Mews-
nairdey for the City of Lordon.
Royal West London Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant William
Gurney to be Captain, vice Risbison,resigned ; Ensign Wil-
liam Maunder to be Lieutenant, vice Shaft°, resigned ; Ensien
William Hamilton to be ditto, vie,: Gurney, promoted; Jolin
Steele, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Alien' volunteered into the
Line; William Hill 'Tyler, Geut. victiMaureit r, promoted ;
Edward Chase, Gent. vice Hamilton, promoted.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Coutry of
Kent.
East Kent Militia—Edward Dudman, Esq. to be Captain; Wil-
liam Mona, Gent. to be Lieutenant; Edward Young, and
Lewis Faqir, Gent. to be En-iens. •
West Kent Militia—Thomas C Evans, Esq. to be Captain, vice I
Terry, resigned ; Robert Turbeville Bingham, Esq. to be ditto,
vice Wan, peened to the Line; Er ign Richard Hodges to
be Lieutenant, vice Hour Mon, gazetted to the Line; Ensign
Josh. Wakeftird to be ditto, vice Kett:Ailey, gazetted to the
I.ine ; Ensign William Guy to be ditto, vice Hindi., interned
to the Line; Thomas Stephens, Gen:. to be Ensign, vice Two-
peny, who did not accept; John M‘Gregor, Gent. to be ditto,
vice Hodges, promoted.
Commissious signed by the Lord Lieutenant of"the County of
Essex.
John Pepper,J.liarles Welstead, John I.etch Martin, and Wil.
ham Joseph Lockwood, Esqrs. to be Dqpury Lieutenants. •
East Essex Militia—Captain Joseph Collin, from the Ist Essex
Local Militia, to be Captain, vice Bygrave, appointed to the
16th Foot.
Commissions in the 2d or- East Norfolk Regiment of Militia,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County ef Norfolk.
Ensign Robert Barham to be Lieutenant, vice Bayes, resigned ;
George Trends, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Barham, promoted.
Commission in the Doreetshire Militia, signed by the Lord
Lieutenant.
William Thomas Cook, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Wall, resigned.
Commissions in the Royal Ayrshire Miliva, signed by the Lord
Lieutenant of the County of Ayr.
lieutenant Adlum, of the South Haan Militia, to be
Captain; Hugh Shaw, Gent. to be Ensign.
Commissions in the Norhumberiand Regiment of Militia, signed
by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Nonhuniberland.
Lieutenant Thomas Reed to be Captain, vice Davison' appointed
to the 2d Regiment ; Ensign George Chambers to be Liente-
nam, vice Reed, promoted; Charles B. Ridley, Gent. wbe
Ensign, vice Coulson, deceased; Juba hone, Gent. to be tlitto,
vice Bell, promoted.
Commission in the Shreeesbuty Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by
the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Salop.
Captain Dallas to be Major, vice the Hon. William Hill,
resigned.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the West
Riding of the County of York, City and County of 'the City
of York.
lit West York Militia.—. George Wood, and Samuel Hart, Gents.
to be Ensigns.
Id West York.—Ensign Frederick Hay to be Lieuftnant • Geo.
Taylor, and Francis William Oddie' Gents. to be Ensigns;
William Burrows Naylor, Gent. vice Hope, resigned.
3d West York... Captain Stamp Brooksbank to be Major, vice
Raison • Charles Frederick Chivy Palmer, Esq. to be Cap-
tain ; BUller Rolle Langford, Esq. to be ditto ; Ensign Leonard
Leaf, to be Lieutenant; Ensign Thomas Gee, vice Norton,
resigned ; John Lockwood Harrison, Gout. to be Ensign ; Ro-
. best (lacy, Gent. to be ditto (resigned before he joined) ; Ed-
ward Bracken, Gent to be ditto.
Ist or Halifax Regiment of Local Militia. -Lieutenant Jamb
Heaton to be Captain, vice Cartwrigbt, resigned 1. Ensign
Charles "Webb to be I.leutenant ; Joseph Thompson, Henry
- Wiggleswortb, and John William Caduey, Gents. to be
!assigns.
4th or Sheffield Regiment of Local Mdse.-Lieutenant Joseph
timid to be Captain, vies Taman, resigned; Lieutenant
Charles Richard Clarke to be ditto, vice PrWhon, resigned;
Ensign Thomas Waking to be Lieutenant, *vies Nowill, pro-
meted ; Wit ism Maki, Gent. to be ditto, vies Wintry, re-
signed John Much Gent, to be Resign.
IRE 9r Stralfunh mad riebbili Regimen el Leal Militte-4aasee
Dillon, • Erg. to be Genie, we" Wenlll, vorigesd Jebel
'tarps, ee be lasetwessoeile Tyne. resigned.
ilk sr fikAttrces old Chplitempe &W_..& of Lout. Militia—
ebsties Palmer, gdwaird T s sad Edward inbenitt. OM&
to be Lielseeastei S4WIII QM, to be Alsip: