Star.
London, England, 1825-07-29 00:00:00

INDIAN AR3IY,ORNERAL ORDERS.

Head-quarters, Calcutta, Feb 24, 1825.
In continuation of a General Court-Martial, held at emit-
pore, on Monday, the 17th of May, 1824, Corporal John Fitz-
Simmons of the sth company of his Majesty's S9th Regiment of
Foot, was arraigned upon the undermentioned Charges, vie.
" Ist. For entering the verandah of the barrack occupied by the
4th company of his Majesty's 59th Regiment of Foot, between the
hours of one and two o'clock e. u. of the 13th of March, 1824,
and then and there, with mischievous intent, discharging the con-1
tents of a loaded musket into the room of Sergeant Tinsley, of that
company, maliciously intending to shoot Eliza Tinsley, wife of Ser.
jeant Tinsley aforesaid, and thereby endangering the lives of other
persons then in the room along with her.
241. For designedly wasting, on the 13th of March, 1824, one
round of ammunition, served out for public service."
Upon which Charges the Court came to the following decision :
Szirrasez.-4, The Court having found the prisoner, Corporal
John Fitz-Simmons, of the Sth company of his Majesty's 59th
Regiment of Foot, guilty of both the charges preferred against him,
which being in breach of the Articles of War, does sentence him
to suffer death, by being hanged by the neck until he is deal"—
Confirmed. (Signed) EDWARD PAGRT, General,
Commander..in-Chief in India.
The above sentence is commuted to transportation for seven
years, subject to the concurrence of the Right Hon. the Governor-
General in Council.—Confirmed.

(Signed)

EDWARD PAC; ET, General,
(7ommander-in. Chief in India.

The Governor-General in Council concurs in the commuted
sentence of transportation for seven years, passed by his Excellency
the Commander-in-Chief on Corporal Piz-Simmons.
(Signed) A M H ERST,
EDWARD PAGET,
JOLIN FENDALL,

.The foregoing order is to be entered in the General Order-Book,
and read at the head of every Regiment in bis Majesty's service in
India.—By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
THOMAS hll3l A 110 N, Colonel, A. G.

The thermometer yesterday morning, at the R-yal
Excha';ge, in the shade, at ten o'clock, was 67, at
eleven 69, a quarter before twelve 70.
Two individuals of Lyme, Dorset, and two of Ax-
minster, Devon, were last week fined 1,2401. for pur-
chasing smuggled tobacco. The information was laid
by the man who sold the goods.
Wednesday an Inquest was held at Great Hale. on
view of the body of John Wesselby, of Bicker. De-
ceased had undertaken a journey to Great Hale, to
visit some friends there, and was Nlcen violently ill on
the road. He was found by some chance passengers in
a dying condition, and was only just able to articulate
" Let me alone, I am going," when he almost instantly
expired.—Vcrdict, " I)ied by the visitafon of G(13."
Wednesday evening an Inquest was held at the
Coach and Horses, Mary-la-bonne lane, before T.
STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Mrs. Mar-
garet an elderly widow lady, residing in the
above rieighboui hood. The deceased, it appeared, en
joyed the most perfect health and spirits up to the time
of her death. Tuesday last Ate was on a visit at her
son's house, its Mary-14-bonne-Line, apparently in her
usual state of health, and remained there for some time,
•iccasionally indulging in cheerful conversation. The
deceased had retired to an apartment, and taken bet
.seat on a chair, in which she was shortly afterwards
discovered in a state of insensibility. A surgeon was
procured, but Ale was quite dead. Several wititesse.
examined, and the Jury se:tuned a verdict of—
' 1)1-d by the Viatati..n ul

&LA's, Jut.V 244
this piste it in the greatest bunk imaginable; In icinsefftentte df
the strenuous exertions made for the importatioa of indigo prk-
itiously to the 48th instant, when the additional ditty of 50 per e:ent.
IL D(1 believe), intbting to a prohibition as respects the Britilh mer-
chants, corn aces.
'the stea . ket Victory hat Strived here With one hundred
passseugers, ' tended to past " a day in France ;" it so !..,,-
„gat petted, how*. that they were destiped to be disappoi-..e.d
in this vere. st intention, the packer, which did not I-a ee
London suffi utly early on Saturday, was compelled to put into
Margate for the night, and did not arrive here until this mortii-tgi
and then too late to enter the harbour. rbey were theyt-fore
obliged to lay at anchor in the Roads until late thit afternoon it
blowing a fresh breete, no boat could put off to land them. Thi
leave at an early hour to-mortow malting.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCEs

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IF ROM . Tlir NZW INGLAND COFFEE-HOUSE.

I.seraroox, JULY YT.—Arrived the Caledonia, --, frnnf
Charleston. Off the post, the Florida, from New York.
P. S. Nuts, ).M.—'There has not been ally communication trues
the Florida up to this hoer.
The RONIIIICT, SO, Captain N. Loccrea, C.B. is to proceed to
Belfast, to embark troops for Halifax.
The Ida, Trutt, from Jamaica; New Thomas, from Detnr rata.;
and the Ellis, from Grenada, are supposed to have arrived in the
Channel.

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FALmuuttt, Jute e.—Variable, light airs.—Oft the port, the
William Lushington, Sucaut. fron St. Kitts; Lortod, &moray:,
from St. Domingo; and George, Dies mon, Irani Derbice. *ailed
his Majesty's Alp Lvll4, fcit Plymouth.
PLYIIOUTII, JULY 27.—Whiti E. N. E.—Arrived the Brut•is,
Diaxacitx, from Mobile, in 50 days bringing part of the crew of
the Jane, of Liverpool, abandenevl in the Gulf of Mexico. Sait'd
the Bellona, WILICIIIAN, for St. Übe's.
Proiessiourts, Jett 28.-.. Wind S.S.R.—Artived the Princess
of Wales, KYLE, from Bourdeaux for London, leaky. Passed by.
the Nestor, Lewis, from Quebec; William, Gino:, from Trinidad;
and the Java, Daman, from the Downs, for India.
DEAL, JULY 28.—Wind N.E.—Passed through from the !fiver,
the Pursuit, Atte, for Jamaica; Doncaster, MAasuALL. for
bee; ikiton, WiLsox, for Alirasitichi ; and a transport, with 2'l
Agent's pendant. to the westward. Remain, the transport No. :;
and the Swedish brig Henrietta, under quarantine.
LIVER/001 JULY variable.—Arrived the William
Mahone, ILLnwitt, from Africa • and Reward, WA masa, Non
Drootbeim.
Drootheim. Off the port, the 'bonus Oilstone, from
Alexandria.

DORDRECHT, JULY 22.—The day beto-e yesterday,
the largest and finest part of the populous and opulent village of
Gravendeel was laid waste by a destructive fire, which broke out .e
half-past two in the afternoon, in the house of a baker.- and soon
spread to several streets. In the short space of two hours, nearly
100 houses, of which the greater part were not insured, were laid
.in ashes, and above eight hundred persons without a home. Of
fame streets only a few houses remain that were to windward; the
scene of desolation that it presents is most affiicting. No lives we' e
lost; but some persons have been more or less burnt. The
of the fire is unknown.—Yesterday morning, IP4ween nine and tori
o'clock, another fire broke out at Puttershoek, which destroyed a
house and farm, the owner of which was absent.
It appears, from Gibraltar Papers to the Bth inst.
that the Lieutenant. Governor, General Doti, has taken
the most prompt and effectual means of preserving the
health of the garrison; he has issue) a proclamation,
dated the 7th Inst. dividing the town and suburbs into
different districts, giving the names of the inspectors,
medical officers, and police.serjeants eppointe.l to each
district. The proclamation concludes nib recom-
mending thorough ventilation of the houses, ant strict
attention to cleanliness. The heat had been excessive,
but the Gnvernor states, " that if a disease of an epide-
mic nature sho,rld unfortunately appear am .ng us, its
progress may be instantly stopped, thiorigh the means
afforded to the community by the establishment of the
. civil hospital, and by the vigilance of the inspectors in
detecting its first germ."
Mr. Green and Miss Stocks ascended in a balloon
from Leicester, on Wednesday.
The A TTORNEY•GENZRAL has given his opinion," Prat
. if atsy person wantonly maim any animal, either by
-setting savage dogs at it or otherwise, he is liable to
. seven years transportation.
So great is the. drought, and the consequent deficiency
of water, that even the Lfe Guards, at Hyde Pai k
Barracks, were yesterday morning obliged to fetch their
water from the Serpentine River.
The interior of the Old Court of Justice, in the Old
Bailey, is now undergoing a complete repair. Scaf-
folding is erected its every part ; and independently of
the removal of the painting, plastering, and white-
washing, it is also intended to remove the cushions mid
other decorations of the Judge's Bench, and the Coun-
sels' Box, and to substitute new ones in their stead.

An important case was tried at Perth on Thursday,
before DUNCAN M6/slent., E•q. SherifF•Depute, acting
as Police Magistrate, under the Police Act, for offences
committed without the Royalty. It was an ag-
gravated charge of assault, which, in course of the
investigation, appeared to have arisen from the
same spirit of combinati9n among the mechanics,
which has been productive of such serious conse-
quences in some other quarters.—Paul Simpson, Alex-
ander M'Lean, James Ramsay, James Brash, and
James Russell, all journeymen tailors in Perth, vv.,
with the exception of the last, privates in the Royal
Perthshire Militia, at present on duty, were charged
with assaulting James Bell, also a journeyman tailor,
and a private in the Militia, on the even* of Tues-
day, the 12th instans. A number of -witnesses were
examined, after which the Sheriff sentenced Simpson,
M.Lean, Ramsay, and Russell, to pay each a fine
of five pounds sterling, and to be committed to jail till
payment of the same. None of the witnesses evidence
tending to inculpate Brash, he was accordingly acquitted.
SIIIP BURNT.—Thursday sennight, the sloop MaT-
tha, Capt. BOND, limy-loaded, took fire, %%bile on tier
passage from Maryport to Dumfries. Oil the fist a, -
pearance of danger, the crew made for the Carle, and
ran the sloop on shore ; and though part of the cargo
was removed with all possible expedition, the vessel
continued to burn from five in the morning till two in
the afternoon. By this time the tide began to flow,
which had the effect of saving the k.el and I iwer tim-
bers ; but in other respects the Martha is a complete
wreck. This is the third vessel that has been des toyed
in a similar manner within the last few osentbs.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, JULY 29.
There are this week moderate quantities of most descriptions of
Grain arrived. Prime Wheat still commands attentiises and hat*
obtained Monday's quotations ; but all other eons are extremely
dull, and lower. Barley continues to sell heavily. Bears and Few
rather look upwards. Oats sell heavily, but not at Invert prices
than on Monday. The Flout trade has been very heavy this week.
—Arrival. : English Wheat, 4,470 qrs. Haley, 1,930 qrs. Oat.,
9,600 qrs. Flour, 3,830 sacks. Irish Oats, MO ca.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, JULY 29.
The Mutton trade remains nearly anon Monday, su vatiatim oft
any moment having taken place the best Kodiak and Laerner
Wethers are quoted at 41. Bd. to 54. pa stone; and for the coarser
Meat, 4s. SJ. to 4s. 6J. per stone is the imitation. The stemma*
remains without any akeration, 4s. ted. to ss. per stone, beim Nit
price for the best bests Runts, Spayed Heifers, &c. and 4s. Id. to
4s. 6d. per moue, for the coarser. The Veal trade reipaills firaf at
51. to 6s. per stone ; and, Lamb looks a shade bent.. , ss. ad. to 6s.
4d. per stone being the quotation. In Pork there Is a doise-i, Ai .d
the price is 54. to Gs, per stone.—Rrasts, 343; Shaep,lo,s4lll; Ptv,
90 ; Calves, 460. .

lied, 4s. thi. to Ss. ptr stone! tution. 44. 441. to Se. Veto, S.
to CI. sa. Bd. to 6s. 4d. Pork. Ss. to et —llay perload, 4.23
.ss. t,r 5 : .C 4 to 1:5 10s. Straw, 421 18s. to Li Ss.

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