Star.
London, England, 1813-03-11 00:00:00

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THE ARMY.

The appointments of Aids-da-Camp to his Mk.
Wszlt, which. becorneriacant, are .to remain's°.
The death of Colonel Wmow, a jittadier, and
fine of his MAJESTY'S Aidegaia•Cansp, was occasioned,
by the fever of the count: '
Dr. CAnnia, Phyiictan• to 'the
.rories. who died-
fof a fever caught from the sick 'at Coimbra, was
is;ghly esteemed, as a scholar and a gentleman,
throughout the Army, and was a most esteemed ohaL•
tatter in every relation of private life.
The death of the gallant and distinguiuhed Sir
WILLIAM ERSKINE was occasioned by the fever of the
country, and the consequeoce of the fatigue of the
Oast campaign. Sir WILLIAM had the chief command
of the cavalry, British and Portuguese, in the Penin-
sula. He was the head of anancient family in North
Britain, and the son of Sir WILLIAM En.siuNE, Bart.
Who commanded the British cavalry, under the Duke
of YORK, on the Continent.—At present, Baron Boot
comniands the whole cavalry in the Peninsula, Bri-
tish, Portuguese. and Spanish, having General SLADE
under him ; but Lord UXBRIDGE will certainly go out
to take this most important command, and he is to
be accompanied by the Hon. General FANS, as his
second in command. General FANE is spoken highly
of as a cavalry officer.

The Brigade of Royal Marines, lately from Spain,
under the command of Lieutenant•Cclonel WtLLIAMSt
is reported to be again fit for service, mustering about
1:500 rank and file.

Detachments of the following Corps are ordered to
embark immediately from the Foreivn Depot :
DaLoN's
S.cilian Regiment . .
Corsican Rangers . .

Yesterday. se'imight a detachment of the 99th, or
Prince of Wales's Tipplaary Regiment, marched
from Horsham Barracks for. Portsmouth, to embark
and join their gallant corps stationed in North Ame-
rica.

The PmWit for the Local Militia, throughout the
West of EugLind, has just been completed : in con-
sequence the flower of the population, troth tl:e age of
18 to 30, is confined to a very limited service.
The Spring reviews of the troops in the Western
district have commenced with the Shropshire. itg;-
"went, on Monday last.
The conduct %of the Roscommon regiment of Trish
Militia, throughout its stay in the Wes Lent district,
II well spoken of.
• Whatever may have been the original motives for
the interchange of the Militias of the two kingdoms,
we cannot say; but whether such motives were founded
upon policy or mere experiment, we cannot but con-
gratulate both Militias (now upon the eve of removal)
upon their return •to their native soils, without the
faintest stigma upon their collective reput..tion as
soldiers, and hardly an individual slur upon their cha-
racter as citizens.

The North Cork, Limerick, and King's County
Militias, embark immediately at Portsmouth for
Cork; the Itoscoriimon proceed from Plymouth to
Cork ; the Leitrim, from Bristol to Dublin ; and the
Louth, from Liverpool to Dublin.
Beft,re the ernbaikation of the remaining Irish re-
giments, an egiial number of British regiments will
have returned to England.
Saturday se'anight, David /IP Water, a private in
the Berwickshire Militia, arrived in Glasgow, from
the detachment stationed at Kilmarnock, and was sent
off on Wednesday, under a military guard, for Edin-
burgh, to be tried for mutiny.

A French piisoner, of the name of Tardjf has
been committed to Winchester Gaol, from POI Chester
Depot, charged with the wilful murder of a :...flow-
pt isoner of the name of Lque, under circumstances of
grew t bitbarity.
The drummer of the second West York regiment,
• who, as has been mentigmed, pretended to confess
himself guilty of a molder in Ireland, it now appears,
fabricated the story only to get out of the regiment.
On the contradiction arriving from Ireland, a file of
inbliers was sent to receive him at the Hirwich fiat 1,
when be cut his throat,-but nut effectually, and he is

expected to recover.
Saturday se'nnight the man, Aitken' avho was ac-
clued, as formerly mentioned, of killing his father, at
enCa wath, was liberated from Lanark prison ; there
not being, in the ()Onion of the King's Counsel, suf.
ficient tridence againsthim to warrant ajussiciary
A [Mimi, of respectable connecti,.ns, formerly a
I Lieutenant in the army, is at present confined in La.,
nark jail. He was imprisoned in the first instance
for debt; but•there have since been afledged against
him the following charges of forgery and bigamy.—
About two years ago be married a_player'adaughter
ih Aberdeen. Having taken up his residence at
L Newton-Stewart, he .lived magnificently, and is snp.
posed' o have forged and discounted two bills on a
?mate banker. Before the bills became due, he
joined his regiment, but a reward being offered for
's apprehension, he absconded. A few wetits ago
he happened to be a passenger in one of the smacks
from London to Leith, and during the voyage be-
came acquainted with an accomphshied and 'hand-
- some young Lady, a nv,:ve of Ireland, who was ac-
companying her married sister and brother in-law to
their nsiderice at lkiggar. ,He waited on them home,
proposed formally for the ..young Lady, and with
I. consent of hzr friends married her. Soon after the
marriage he brought her to Glasgow, and aster con-
tracting in the Duck's Head Inn, a bill for .06, he,
-without the slightest warning, deserted her. The
unhappy Woman remained for some days expecting
iris return, without suspecting the villainy of which
Ihe had bCen the victim ; and then, with the assis.
tanie of her brother-in-1:ov, settled the bill, and re-
turned to Liggar. About a fortnight alter his dis-
fppearance, the man, meditating the possession of
her fortune, wrote her that he had left her so abruptly
only to accelerate a remittance, and *that he would
meet her at Symington some day last week—to part
no more. Upon this information he was, by a person.
in Biggar, to whom he owed 62.5, seized in the house
of a hospitable farmer, from whom he had secured a
cordial reception by passing himself off as the newly
appointed IstiaiLar of that parish.