Star.
London, England, 1822-11-08 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Desehmenu belonging to the undermentioned Re :irntrtl
via.-s-ne Ist (or the Royal) Regiment of Foot, General 6 Luec:e:
Marquis of Hawraev, G.C.B. Colonel, beating on its colour",
and appointments the following honorary distinctions: "
mont-op-Zee," "&. Luck," " Egypt," " Busato," 44 Salarn,„,..
44 Vittoria," " St. Sebastian," " Nive " " Peninsula," '.N,4.
prre," •• Waterloo"—the 17th (or Leicestershire) Regiment of
Foot, Gen. J. CIIIMPACIM, Colonel—the 24th (or Warwickihirt)
Regiment of Foot, Gen. Sir I). Bairn, Mat. G.C.B. and K.C.
Colonel, having on Its colours and appointments the followil.
honorary distinctions: " Egypt." " Talavera," " lug
tes:'
D'Onor," '4 Pyrenees," " Ch-thes," " Peninsula"—the 3nth (or
Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot, Gee. R. 'Mas:nres, Colo !,
bearing on its Colours and appointments the undermentini
honorary distinctions: 4' Egypt," 44 Peninsula, " Wats:doe-,
the 46th (or South Devon) Regiment of Foot, General it
W , Colonel, having on its colours and appointments
following honorary distiertion in commemoration of its setsr.,,
" Dominica"—the 53d (or Shropshire) Regiment of Foot, lie„
tenant-General RowLatto Lord G.C.13. Colonel, htuini
on its colours and appointments the undermentioaed honor:tr...
distinctions : alavera," " Salamanca," "Vittoria," "PI tenet
" Nivelle," " Toulouse," 44 Peninsula' —the 89th Reeitnen" uE
Foot, General Sir G. Recewtru, Colonel; and the 25th
goons, disembau ked at Chatham on the 4th inst. front on bassthe 13;rossa transport, from Madras.
The remainder of the 26th (or Camernnian) Regiment of
Lieutenant-General G. Earl of DAI.IIOUMV, Co!lr
having on its colours and appointmems the following Isom,
distinction : " Egypt," disembarked at Cork on the 31,t ult.
the Ist inse. from on board the Sophia and Ocean t:anspor.l,
from Gibraltar.
• GENERAL COURTS MA ItTIA L.

At an European General Court Martial, held at Cawnpuee,
on the 22d December, 1821, at which Lieut.-Colonel M.seci.oa,
C.O. of the Artillery Regiment, was President, -1/f. GE0554
DALT, Apothecary, was arraigned on the under nit Mit Med • le.r2e,
whilst he was doing duty in the I lospital ut his NlAje,ty'. e;h
Light Dragoons, viz.—" For beine..runk in the Hospital on ,he
night of the 22d of October, and bleeding a patient while in th4t
state, about the hour of half-past nine, e. st."

Upon which charge the Court came to the following decitioro
The Court having maturely weighed the whole of the evidence
produced, together with what the prisoner had urged in his e,
fence, are of Opinion that he is Guilty of the crime laid to h's
charge ; which being in breach of the Articles of War, they CI
sentence him, the said George Daly, Apothecary, to he piai4
at the bottom of the list of Assistant Apothecaries, which
tence was approved of and confirmed._

H ASTI
W. IL PA TR! CKSON,
Off. Dep. Adjt.-Gen. of the %my.
At a General Court Martial, held at Kaim, on *he tiih Nov.
1841, private David Flannery, of his Majesty's 17th Light lira.
goons, was arraigned on the undermentioned charges, viz.
For violent and insubordinate conduct in the Barracks cf
the Regiment, on the 30th October, 18.21, in the following in.
stances, viz.

1. In having resisted a guard ordered to take him pri,ers7,
and in having attacked the said guard with a drawn s‘vmd.
2. In having forcibly made his escape from the essert %el-)
were conducting him a prisoner to the Geard-room, and in iLiv-
ing, when the gitArd attempted to seize him, turtowly assaul--,1
Serjeant Gallahar, being then in the execution of his ullica.
Upon which charges the Cow t came to the tollinvio:;
The Court having most maturely considered the lir.t
if the charge, viz. in havitig resisted a guard oidered
hint prisoner, and in having ?tracked the said gua:il
' drawn sword ; with the evidence adduced in support there
together with the defence and the evii:tmce 93 the F trt of
prisoner, are of opinion that he is Gizi til of the same.
The Court having further considered the second instance o!
the charge, viz. in having forcibly made his escape tie
escort who were conducting hint a plisuner to the ;;uiird-rrio,n,
and in having, when the guard again act:lmp:est to WiZe
furiously assaulted Serjeant Gallahar, being then in the executicl
of his office, witk the evidence thereat, and also what has hear
alleged in the defence on the said second inst:nce of the Ch. 177-:,
are of opinion that the prisoner is Guilty of the same, wish
exception of the teem " forcibly."
The Court having found the prisoner David Flannery Guihi
as above stated, which being violent and insubordinate cordtict
and in the breach of the Articles of War, they do thisref.7c ler-
tence him to be placed in solitary confinement for the splcec:
twelve calendar months, at such place as his Excellency the Cunt-
'sander-in-Chief may please to direct.

(Signed)

CIL COLVILLE, Lieut.-Gen.

REMARKS ET THE COLM&NDER-IN•CHIEF.

Ist. The Court upon this trial fell into a material error in en-
tering upon evidence as to the former desertion of one of tl.?
witnesses for the prosecution, with the intention, at the insane:
of the prisoner, of rejecting his testimony, had it been proved.
2rid. The crime of desertion has its distinct punishment a:-
lotted to it; 'and it is not deemed to involve that spcei?s of I,er-
jury to which, the law attaches—the lasting infamy of maki:
the person Sound guilty of it iocempetent to give his evidence is
a Court of Justice.
Id. Major-General Cook will receive instructions through
Adjutant-General, respecting the place of confinement of I,e
' prisoner.
The foregoing Order is to be entered in the General Ord.•r
Book, and read at the head of every Regiment in his Majest:::
service in India.-13y order of the Most Noble the Connuaude:.
in-Chief. (Signed)
TIIOS. W3IAIION, Col. Adjut.-Gon.

The destruction of St. Ethelbert's Tower, at Car.
terbury, was one of the least excusable of all the o
rages perpetrated against antiquity. It was pretendel
that there was danger the edifice would fall of itsci.;
but the fact is, the assailants themselves proved
solidity, for they battered it two days, without maki::g
any impression upon it.

The following letter, received in Glasgow, conta;;.;
late intelligence from St. Domingo, dated Port-at:-
Prince, 31st August:
" My departure from hence being postponed, ena•
bles me to relate to you an event, occasioning in C.-3
meantime much agitation in the public mind, a.:l
apprehension for the future. I mentioned to you the
opposition the President encountered from a cabal
native merchants, eager to acquire that iotbeti;.:
which they deemed themselves entitled to from
cation and talents, in which, however, the Public as.-
pear to have placed little confidence. A petition wa3
presented to the Chambre des Communes, containino,,
some reflections on the administration of the Net:-
dent, and, if we may venture to believe public tepee!,
much personal invective, chiefly as 'elated to
policy towards foreigners. No sooner was this dr.
ment read in the Chamber, than the head of the Po.:
appeared, ordering every Member to quit the p!:1:0,
which they quietly submitted to, thereby giviv C.e
Commandant an opportunity of seizing the ditiii-
fected Members, and sending them, without mu 6
commotion, to prison. Sttoug patroles in the ine.ni
time paraded the streets, and an embargo W. 15 laid
on alt Haytian vessels. The Senate is now tittin;!;
what may be the fate of the prisoners will shortly !;i2
apparent, Government procedure being in such cast:s
wonderfully expeditious. Their object evidently
to exclude ibreigners from participating in the con.-
metce of the island as resident merchants."

ti SEPTEMELR 14.—Only two of the individuals
above referred to have been shot; the remainder ATC
banished twenty-five leagues from the cayital. They
are well away, being notoriously hostile to our pre-
" fession and colour. The garde .nationals,
.aud citi-
zens in general, manifested the best spirit towards
the existing order or things throtOtout the late dis-
turbances. The coffee crop will be below an average,
having suffered from duce months of dry %ea h

X. 4 VAL INTELLMENCE. -

The lbantli,lltrst, from Liverpool to Donegal Bay, was on
alsorefh the titer royk.on the 4th inst. and would be obliged
to discharges
The Martha, Brat, from Bristol, was lost on the 21st Sep-
tember, on Cape Sable.
The sLaria, arrived at Liverpool from Bermuda, fell in with
the wreck of a brie on the 46th of August, in lat. Si. IQ, long.
12. 5. She was about 520 tons, hrd a billet head, with a harp
painted on each aide of it. 11cr bell was marked "A. P. I.T.
Ilrenten, Stockitattn, 1791." She had lost her foremast and bul-
warks, and was tituber
The Hunter, from Svleltitolm, and the Ceres, from Liver-
pool, were driven on shore at Charleston, 27th September.
The Victory, of Dungarvnn, from Swansea, struck upon a
ro:k at Came, coast of Wexford, on the 30th ult. and immedi-
a!( iv foundered ; crew saved by the boat of the Preventive Guard.
TLe smack Good Barns, of Yarmouth, from London to Gi-
jon, was driven on shore about 40 miles N. of Bayonne, on the
lsth ult. and burnt by order of the Board of Health : the crew
perished.
The Hope, from Bristol for Glasgow, was driven on shore on
the 4.1 inst. in Glenluce Bay—cargo expected to be saved.
WATFRFOKII, Nov. 6.—The brig Harmony, of Aberdeen,
from Sliramichi to Dublin, was stranded in Tramore Bay early
on Saturday morning. It is feared the vessel will go to pieces;
crew saved.

HEt.Drii, OCT. 30.—Yesterday evening we had the ati,laction
to see, for. the first time, the lamps lighted in the new Light-
house u hich has been erected in the stead of that hitherto lighted
with coals, on the fort of the Er( Prins (Hereditary Prince.)—
The Light is a stone tower, built on the fort, and is on the plan
of that which WaA placed some years ago by the English Engi-
neer, Mr. Rottivsox, on the church steeple of Atiestcopelle, in
the island of Walcheten. M. Mantra, of the Hague, who
made the limos, &c. and M. 'lbws, of Amsterdam, who made
the concave mirrors, have done their utmost to equal those at
Westeopelle, made in England ; and competent judges are of opi-
nion they have succeeded.

FA 1.1160 111, Nov. 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived off this port, the
Lonisa, BILHAM, from London for St. Michael's.

FL:MOUTH, Nov. 6.—Wind S.W.—No arrivals or sailings.
PoRTsItoUTH, Nov. 7.—Wind W.—Arrived, the Louisa
helmina, Tarrrox, from Damburgh fur Bahia; Diens trans.
port, from Cork ; and his Majesty's ship Itsocaa, from New-
foundland. Sailed, the Palmyra. for St. Domingo; and the
Enterprise, Cone, fur Jamaica.%
DLitt., Nov. 7.—Wind S.W.—Came down from the River,
the Nassau, TIMMAYYZ, for St. Michael's ; Margaret, WILDGOOSE,
for Grenada; Castle Lachl.n, Salim, for Jamaica; and several
others, particulars unknown, and remain iitthe Downs, with a
1.1..-ge fleet of outward-bound, as before, still detained by con-
ttr.ry %shads.

l'avertroot., Nov. 6.—Arrived, the Vittoria, PATTERSON, from
Jamaica, with considerable damage, having experienced a dread-
ful hurricane on the 26th September, in lat. 32. long. 74. which
olthged them to throw 40 tons of fustic overboard, and to cut
the topmasts away, to ease the vessel: they lost their boats, bul-
warks, and everything off deck.
Ctrsum-;louse, Nov. 7.—Ships Entered Inwards: Leander
and Nelens, from' Ihmburgh; Eliza, from the South Sea Whale
Fishery ; Bmito, Ihll-, and Brighton, from Petersburgh ; ‘Vil-
liam, from Klima; Commerce, from Bordeaux;
from Santander; Britannia, from Stettin ; Mars, from Malaga ;
Elizabeth, from Charente. Entered Outwards: Hying Fish,
Ostend ; 'Waterloo, for Sierra Leon ; Jack Tar, for Jamaica ;
'row Maria, for Amsterdam. Cleared Outwards : Gratitude,
for Gibraltar ; Salus, for Ilamburgh ; Resource, for Trieste ;
Hibernia, forWaterford ; Thistle, for Jamaica; Robett, for St.
Übe's; Unity, fur Dublin; Najaide, for Palau.

Extract of a private letter from Verona, dated the
f.'sth of October

4, The first day's gaze in Verona presents such a vast
variety of curiosities, natural and artificial, modern
and antique, that, like a Visit to a museum, you are
puzzled which object, or class of objects, to describe
first. A visit, indeed, to- this place, at present, is a
short cut to all the Capitals of Europe: Goths and
Visigoths, Muscovites and Scandinavians, are here to
be seen in peaceful contact with the more polite but
swindling SOuthrons. The fi st happy news that greets
your ear, is the tidings that yon must pay from 10 to
15 fr. for your bed—probably have a double-bedded
ream, or be charged more on moving to another hotel.
This, my dear friend, gave me a pain in the side, for
leaking with my mind's eye down the vista of do-
mestic (not political) economy, I conjured up a hun-
dred charges on the same moderate scale. The chat-
ter, however, of an Italian Major-donna soon dis-
persed all these visions; and we were taught to feel
that it was a great favour to let us have such rooms
at any price. To use a classical phrase, 'we were li-
terally in for it.' You cannot walk in any. street in
Verona but you rneet..-a host of ecclesiastics in their
own peculiar costume. One would imagine -that
Martin Luther had risen from the deid, and was
again cited to appear before the Chief Priests."
Letters from Verona to the 30th ult. mention;
among other rumours, that it is very currently re-
ported in Italy that the kingdom of Naples is to pass
under the dominion of an Austrian Prince ; this would
he preserving the cause of legitimacy in a way quite
consistent with the members of the Holy Alliance.
The rumour, however, is entitled to little credit. The
following extract is interesting, as shewing that, with
all their cant about legitimate Monarchies, the Holy
Allies do not thick-it expgdient to discountenance
the king of SWEDIN. We may add, that the Panics
lt,-yar. here spoken of is a remarkably fine, intelli-
gent, manly youth : VIMONA OCTOZCS 20.
" The Prince Royal of Sweden and Norway ar-
rived here on the 27th ; and, notwithstanding his in-
cognito, was immediately recognised and treated c-
cording to his rank. His Royal Highness found a
Guard of Honour stationed before his Hotel by or-
der of the Emperor of Austria, and a Chamberlain
of the Emperor appointed to attend on his person
during his stay. Yesterday the Prince dined with the
Eniperor and the Imperial Family."
The new Gate in Hyde Park does not please every
boJy. The lovers of the Pittoresque expected an or-
Latnental arch; and they complain, that, as the low
on-work of the present structure is invisible, at a
distance of two hundred yards, the gate-posts appear,
to stand alone,• and to be without gates. Moreover,
although the execution of the iron-work be good, the
design of it is objectionable. The weapon in the centre
the Roman/woes his too much resemblance to a
n,cdern halberds and the virga end in-spear-heads,
ui!icit is wholly unwarrantable.
Oxa ER It T, the truly Comic Comedian., if lie may with
r7opriety be so called, has been seriously indisposed
ever since the close of the Haymarket Theatre. He
s now. however, so far recovered as to have been
tnabled to recommence his engagement in Jemmy
Given, last evening, at the Adelphi Theatre.
Mr. Kewst finibhes his northern campaign this week,
at Whitehaven, and then joins the theatrical, forces
cantoned at Drury-Lane.
Yesterday afternoon, the wife of Mr. Husalann, of
Thingerford-market, went out with the intention of
purchasing a new gown, and just as she reached the
top of Castle-court, in the Strand, she fell down. She
attempted to speak, but in Every necessary
medical aid was resorted to, but in vain, for the vital
'park of life hid fled. A card about her was dis-
covered, stating her place of residence.

.... . • . •
ARCTIC LAND EXPED/T/ON. '
PURTIIKR PARTICULARS.
Captain FRANKLIN and his assistants explored the
Arctic Sea as far as the 117th degree west longitude,
and in doing so corrected a material error committed
by HEARNE. One great advantage accruing from the
journey will be an extension of the fur trade ; for it
is a law well enough understood among nations, that
the Power tvhich first visits an unknown region thereby
establishes a sufficient claim to its natural produc-
tions; and but for the Expedition, the Russians, from
their settlement at Behring's Straits, might easily have
penetrated to the east, and thus lessened our chances
of carrying on a traffic, which has already been con-
siderably circumscribed by the progress of civilization.
When at the farthest point of their progress, the Ex-
pedition, with suitable means of conveyance, might
easily have got round to Hudson's Bay; but situated
as they were, and possessing only a few slight canoes,
it would have been perfect madness to have dared the
perils of an open and ever-agitated sea. At this time
they were totally ignorant of the movements of Cap-
tain PARRY; btll supposing that that navigator had
appeared on the coast just as Captain FRANKLIN was
about to abandon it, what, we ask, would have been
the feelings of our adventurous countrymen !
As it was, the travellers had to abandon their ca-
noes, and with them the whole of their baggage, ex-
cepting books, papers, and a few other necessaries
which they contrived to carry on their backs. The
story of their sufferings from cold, hunger, and fa-
tigue, has already been very widely circulated; but
it is not, we believe, known, that just as these suffer-
ings were at their height, they caught a solitary elk—•
a circumstance which, in the first moments of their
transport, they regarded in much the same light as
the manna rained from Heaven. Judge then of their
despair, when just as the knife or the hatchet was
raised to slaughter the devoted elk, the animal by a
strong effort escaped from their toils, and hurried
away to wilds as yet unvisited by a human enemy.
Never perhaps was there a greater disappointment ;
from something like hope they were again plunged
into the lowest depths of despair, and such altogether
was the effect of this incident, that the bare recollec-
tion
of it, even at the distance of nearly twelvft months,
never fails to move Dr. llacuancosoN to tears.
After the lamented and cruel esturder of Lieutenant
HooD, our townsman and the English sailor were
twenty days' march behind Captain FRANKLIN, who
had pushed on with the sponger of the party, in the
Confident hope of being able to send his companions
supplies. But before these supplies could reach them
they most providentially fell in with a party of In-
dian bunters; and from these " stoics of the wood--.
and men without a tear," they experienced a series of
humane attentions which might well put to the blush
the boasted civilization of European nations. At one
glance the sagacious Indians penetrated into all the
miseries of our countrymen's situation, treating them
as patients in every sense of the word, and adminis-
tering food not as they would have had it, but as
best suited their impaired and exhausted frames. At
their departure they made them various little pre-
sents, particularly of shoes finely ornamented with
porcupine quills, and altogether the kindness which
Dr. RICHARDSON arid his companion experienced at
the hands of these Indians, fully realised all that C P-
BELL has so finely fabled of the " Oneyda people."
To this relation we have only to add, that there is
no truth whatever in the report that the Canadians
were so enraged at the loss of the eight hunters em-
ployed in the expedition, that they were upon the
very point of offering violence to the persons of the
British Officers. Indeed how could this be? The
surviving (nadians, of course, informed their friends
that everything had been quite fair, and fostered their,
natural love of the marvellous, by an account of mon-
sters seen by land and sea (many of them approxi-
mating far nearer than the mermaid to the human
form), with a thousand other grossly exaggerated re-
lations of personal peril, suffering, and achievement.
Dumfries Courier.

A BLACK CAT, OR SAILORS' SHPERSTITION.—Cap-
tain Stewart, who was cut off in the very bloom of his
distinguished faculties and professional talents, when
cruizing off the Italian coast, had passed several days
without seeing a ship ; he learnt that the men ascribed
this inauspicious circumstance to the Captain's having
taken a black cat on board from the last port they
had touched at. He immediately called the men aft,
and asked them if it really was so? they without hesi-
tation confirmed the report—" overboard with the
blade CAI r-44 That," exclaimed an old seaman, " is
worse still ; she must be landed." " Then lower away
the jolly-boat," said the Captain. This cat was safely
landed with much formality on an island in sight ;
and, as a coincidence of circumstances brought it
about, that same night they took the best prize which
they had captured in the Mediterranean.
The Duke of DEVONSHIRE, previous to his laying
the first stone of the new Church at Belper, in Der-
byshire, came from Chatsworth in his sta:e carriage,
drawn by six beautiful horses, the servants in their
state liveries, and attended by a considerable caval-
cade of his Grace's tenantry. Ott his arriving at the
outskirts of the town, the populace took the horses
from the carriage and drew him into it.

CALEDONIAN CANAL.—The following is an account
of the length of the Canal, and the depth of the cut at
the different parts :—From the Sea Lock at Clachna-
harry to Muirtown, the length is one mile ten chains ;
depth from the sea to Dochgarroch, 12 feet ; from
Nluirtown, through Loch Dochfour, to Loch Ness, six
miles 55 chains; depth from Dochgarroch to Loch
Ness, from 10 to 12 feet. Length of Loch Ness, 23
miles 56 chains s from the S.W. end of Loch Ness toll.
Loch Oich, five miles 35 chains; depth in this distance,
from 12 to 18 feet. Length of Loch Oich, three miles ,
56 chains—the shallowest part in this loch is nine feet.
From the S.W. end of Loch Oich to Loch Lochy, the
distance is one mile 65 chains, and the depth from 10 I
to 20 feet. Length of Loch Lochy, ten miles ; and
' from the S.W. end of Loch Lochy
.to Corpach Sea I
Lock, eiy,ht miles three chains—the total length being
60 miles 4.0 chains, of which 37 miles 32 chains pass
' through lochs or lakes, and 23 miles eight chains of
canal cutting. From Loch Lochy to the regulating
lock near it, there is a depth of from 12 to 18 feet ;
from the regulating lock to Neptune's Staircase, at
Banavie, the depth is 15 feet ; Apd from the ch.iin of
eight locks at Banavie to the sea at Corpach, there is
a full depth. of water in the canal of 20 feet. ' * I

I

, •
TRAPPist
One of the French journals gives the follosvitig kb-
count of the Spanish brigand who makes so conspi-
cuous a figure in the Army of the Faith, under the
aarne of the'Trappist :

_
During the wars in Spain, this man was a Cap-
tain of Guerillas. After the peace his mind took a
religious turn, and he retired to La Trappe, in Spain,
where he was received as a lay-brother.
" The Revolution. which desolated his country,
awakened all his ardour. After a long solicitatior,
he succeeded in obtaining permission to resume tee'
profession of arms.
4. He dresses still in the habit of his Order, and'the
words, ' It is the will of Goo,' are constantly in his
mouth. With a whip in one hand, itud a sword iri
the other,he adaances at the head ofhiivoop, crying
out to the enemy,' Fire upon me ; I am Brother An-
tonio ; I fear nothing. GOD'S will be done!" At the
taking of Urgel he repeatedly exposed himself, but
was never wounded. A third habit hat been just'
made for him, the two first, pierced with balls, have
been torn up by the soldiers of the Faith, who think
themselves invulnerable when they have about them
a piece of the habit of Brother Antonio."