Star.
London, England, 1814-09-24 00:00:00

DEAL, SEPTEMBER 21.

Arrived the Esmaralda, Fz:"Leuttica, from Sierra
Leone, and sailed for the River. Also arrived the
Seahorsc, Oswin, Doncombe, August', Wakefield,
and several oiher transports, with detachments of the
King's German Legion on baud, from Gibraltar ;
also from the same place, the Swift, Reward, Oxford,
Ann, George the Third, and Fairlove, store ships,
all ender,convoy of the Br.osso►t sloop of war—they
are under quarantine. Put back the Nautilus trans-
port, Rad several others, that sailed a few days ago.
Five o'C!ock.—Arrived the GLOUCESTIK, with a
convoy from the West Indies, which are sailed for
the River.—Wind S.W. and squally.
SCILLY, SEPTEMBER IS.

On the 19th an American privateer was dose in
with this island; a pilot-boat was along side her. His
Majesty's ships Poommusand °Possum being off im-
mediately g.lve chase. The Captain and crew of the
brig William, MiGis, from Senegal to Liverpool,
have been landed here : they were captured the 31st
August, by the I)eratum, American privateer.

It has been finally agreed upon for the Parlia-
ment to meet, for the dispatch of buiiness, on the
10th day of November, which will be ordered by the
Ponlug REGENT in Council this day at Carlton House,
and a Proclamation will be issued afterwards accord-
ingly.

By the way of France letters from Gibraltar to the
2d instant have been received, and the following is an
extract from one of them, with very paiaful

genCe I " GIBRALTAR, SIFT. 1.
"I am very sorry to inform you that the disorder
here, instead of being removed, as the public accounts
state, has re-appeared under very unpleasant circum-
stances. Not the least doubt of the existence of the
malignant lever being entertained, all the usual pre-
cautions which had been abandoned are aphi resorted
to, to lessen as much as possible the &fusion of the
malady."

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The expected general reduction of the addhional
Bittalint:s of the Regiments (fair Line eid 1:ot Ate
place th daf ai was expected. The second tote-
lion of Ate 47th. we understand. and that iSkttat:on
alone, it to be reduced immedi.ttelt.

A considerable redacti In in the Stair of the Kent
District, is to take pl,ice frtm this diy, aster .
which the head-quarters are to be fixed at Di met, and
Major-General PACK is to KSIIIITIC the command of
the District. Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Giltenoc.it
is also appointed Assistant Qnarter-Master-General,
in the room of Major READ, rernoved to the Stag of
the Garrison at Dublin.
The td Battalions of the 21st, Mai, and 91st rent;
meats, were landed at Deal, from Ostend, on Tues-
day and Wednesday, and have since proceeded front
thence for their respective destinations—the 56.11 to
Sheerness, to relieve the detachments of Militia doing
duty at that port, and 21st and 91st to Canterbury,
to remain for a short period, previously to their ulti-
mate destination in North Britain to recruit.

Yesterday the Ist division, consisting of about 800
of the Ist battalion of the Guards, which have been
disembarked at Ramsg ice from Brabant, msrched
into Canterburr, on their route for Isondon, an4was
followed by another division of 400 of the 2J and Sd
battalions this day, for the same destination.
Monday morning the Derbyshire Militia marched
from Cork for Monkstown, where they are to em-
bark for England.
Tuesday the Derby and Dorset Militias embarked
et Cove.. on board the transports appuhated to take
them to England.
The Oxfordshire regiment of mil tia, o mmanded
by Lieutenant-Colonel WALL, embarked at Cove oa
Wednesday for England.
GENERAL ORDER. --
The COMMANDER-IN-011SY is pleased to approve
of General Officers commanding Districts grunting
leave of absence to Officers, and turlonghs to non.
commissioned officers and soldiers, under the follow-
ing limitations and restrictions, between the 25th of
the present month and the 10th of March next, when,
in conformity to his Majesty's Regulations, all 04
cers and men are to be present wit* their respective
ltegiments. In the event of Regiments, or Batta-
lions, being in stations, not conirrised in Military
Districts, the Officers commanding are at liberty to
use their discretion in granting the indulgence of leave
i.f absence, under the same restrictions, to the Offi.
cers ant me:l under their command :
" r, one ball of the Captains, and one half
of the Sut:altern ere always•to• be present w.,h thir
"No ()facer (ex:-pt in the performance of emy, or for the
put-r s.: of joininy hit regiitent) Is to quit Unuesi Kb:Fawn,
wit t having brat rec.:swathe PalnaL Rum we* ip.xial pet-
" Oaken employed on the recruiting service, or upon the
staff of the army, are not to be Included In the number hcriby
fixed for the contttnt duty of the regiment or battalion.
" The applications for leave for Regimental Paymasters, and
Medical °Meer., are to contiaue to be male in the anode pra
icrled in pages 52 ant 5:: of the General Regulations of the
Ar:ny.
" In case of short leaves of absence being requested by Adjo.
tants Quarter-Masters, or Veterinary :surgeon, of notimenta, It
will be necessary that a special report should be ni.ide as to the
mode in whic:i their duties are to be performed dar.ng their
absence.
" The proportion of non commisslonel officers, tromperers,
drummers, and private menree-whom iterlinstas may be granted,
axe not to exceed ten per troop or company."
This Order does not apply to the Officers and Mai
doing duty at the depots of regiments on foreign
service. liAtenY CALVaIt; Adj.-Gen.

Answer from the Admiralty to the Memorial of
the Bristol Merchants :

" A./miralry-Offiee, Sept. 16, 1814.
4 SIR—I have reedy( d and *laid helot emy Lords
Commissioners of the Aciaiiralty, your letter of yes-
terday's claw, with the Memorial from the Merchants
and Ship owners of Btistoi which accompanied it;
and I am commanded by ti:eir Lordships to acquaint
you, that the several points ad vetted to in the Menlo.
rial have not failed to engage their serious attention;
but that, however desioats they may be of affording
idequate protection to the trade of the memorialists,
and although a considerable force has been, and is
now employed on the stations t• which the memo-
rialifts particularly advert, their Lordships not only
do not concur in the proposition that a number of
cruizers can afford complete protection against tl.B
occasional attempts of privateers; but they are satis-
fied, on the contrary, from the exi.lerience of ail for.
mer periods of war, and particularly in the instance of
the coasting trade in the English Channel, that nothing
but a system of convoy will afford the desired pro-
tection.
" Their Lordships have commanded me furtherto
state, that though they have no power by law to com-
pel the adoption of convoys lor the trade betwerm une
port and another of the Uoited they are
nevertheless desirous of in..king such .tt ingt.ments
for that purpose, as upon cornznunica: ion w4ll the
merchants of Bristol. or of any other port, may be
deemed proper and necessary.
" Their Lordships take this opportunity of stating
to you, fur the information of the Memorialists, that
from the accounts which their Lordships have re-
ceived of the descrtption of vessels which have formed
the largest proportion of the recent captures in the
Iri.ll and Bristol Channels, it appears that if their
Masters had availed themselves of the convoys ap.
pointed for their protection from foreign ports, or had
not, in other instances, deserte.i from the convoys un-
der whose protettion they h.d sand, before the final
conclusion of the voyage, many of the captut es would
not have been made. It is their Lordships' determine;
tion, as far as they may be ena!:led, to bring to pu.
nishment the parties who may have been guilty of
such illegal acts, and which are attended with such
injoriou., consequences to the trade of the country.
44 To the tiaservatism made in the Mk•rnori)l ai to
the course of communicatica which the Merc..an.s e.f
Bristol have adopted, my Lords c mm old me to re-
ply, that they are always happy to pay to the repre-
sentations of so respectable a body as the Merchants
of Bristol, every attention in their power..
" With regard to the observation in your letter, re.
'atin to the fitting out of privateers in the French
ports, I am to state that this matter has been long
since made the subject of a communication, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to thu
French Government, which has been answered by that
Government on satisfactory principles...
a' I am, Sir, your most humble servant,
4. J. Fowler, Esq. Mayor of Bristol. at J. W.CILOICIELE'


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INSOLVINT DEBTORS' COURT, SEPT. sts.
Captain Fsr►RON, a French Gentleman, was op-
posed on the ground of being an alien, and not giving
Mn assignment of his half pay to his creditors. The
Captain stated, that he had been twenty-seven years
in England, of which twenty years had been spent in
the King's service as Officer in the 15th regiment of
Light Dragoons.
Mr. Serjeant PALMER observed, that he should ex-
tend the benefit of this Act to foreigners in certain
cases, of which this was one; nor could the halt-pay
be given up, as it was to support his dignity, and to
ehtitle the King to his service if wanted. He was
discharged.
_ John Kennedy Mallsson was brought up for libera-
tion under the cessio bonorum Act, when Mr. P. SMITH
argued for his liberation, which was opposed on the
ground of his having, within the last five years, taken
the benefit of a former general Insolvent Act, which
constituted a bar, even under former general Acts,
insomuch that even the benefit of the Lords' Act,
Sid of George 11. was frequently deemed a bar.
Mt. P. Sham cited a case from his own book, de-
cided in a superior Court, to the effect of shewing,
that on solemn argument it was ruled, that the Lords'
Act did not bar a prisoner under former Insolvent
Acts, and a fortiori, the present Act being universal,
could not be impeded by any former, even general Act.
Mr. POLLOCK combated the authority of the learned
book. Mr. Serjeant PALMER was of opinion with the
Author and his book iu this instance.—The prisoner,
was liberated.

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