Star.
London, England, 1822-11-22 00:00:00

GENERAL MILITIA ORDER.

Head-quarters, Nov. 6, 1522.
Oanzitro--Tn future, during peace, no men who join the MI.
litla will be allowed to fall In with their companies till they have
attended drill fur six months, nor till they are perfect in every part
of duty recpired from them.

Such men who have been placed in the ranks without having
been properly drilled, will be directed to complete their drill.
Recruits under the age of 18, will not be placed in the ranks,
nor will clothing be delivered to them till after that age, or till
they have become effective, and can exercise with their respec-
tive corps.
Bey-recruits will attend drill for six mtmths, or till they are
perfect in their exercise ; and prizes will be distributed to those
who on inspection are found to have made the greatest progress.
Every recruit on his being called out will attend five succes-
sive days in the week, viz. from Monday to Friday: the drill
for recruits to commence in April, and end in September. The
next three mouths following he must attend twice a week, and
the remainder of his time once a week. He must be on the
drill-gruend two hours before-suu-set, and will never be more
than two hours at one drilL

A monthly return will be forwarded to Head-quarters by all
the Corps, in which will be specified the number of limes re-
cruits have attended.

Should any recruit fail to attend, his name will be transmitted
to the Commanding Officer of his Corps, and by bim to Head-
quarters, for the purpose of being transmitted to the King's Law
Officers.

If he cannot attend in consequence of sickness, or have any
reasonable excuse for his absence, he must notify the same to the
Assistant Serjeant-Major.
The Assistant Serjeant-Major of the Militia, with his Assist-
ants, will always have charge of the drill, under the superinten-
dence of the Field Officers, Adjutants, or some other Commis-
sioned Officers.

Those Non-commissioned Officers must be intelligent men,
and perfectly instructed in every part of their military duty, and
will be occasionally employed in other duties in the field. It is
supposed that the pay of the above-mentioned Serjeants may be
charged to the Annual Accounts of the Militia.
If Serjeants who are perfectly able to undertake the above
duty cannot be found in the Militia, Commanding Officers of
Corps may probably be able to select three young men willing to
be employed, and can send them to the Regiments of the Line
in garrison here to be instructed.
For the purpose of ascertaining whether the Ofdeen of each
Company know their duty, and of ensuring the individual steadi-
ness of the men, it is recommended that, once during the spring,
on sonic day on which the Militia has been accustomed to pa-
rade, every Company, in presence of the Commanding Officer,
be drilled by its own Officer, first without arms, marching in
line, filing, and wheeling; then at the manual and platoon exer-
cises, and marching with arms, and forming sections, subdivi-
sions, and companies. This short drill will not occupy much
time, and will be of much use in correcting the inaccuracies in
moving, that generally occur when Regiments have been some
months without exercise.

All the Serjeants should be taken out once a year, and in-
structed in taking places for the ichdon movement, and in taking
up distances for subdivisions and companies. For this drill the
Assistant Serjeant..Major must be furnished with a line divided
into paces.
It would be very desirable to erect sheds for the drill of Re-
cruits in bad weather; but it is thought the expense of erecting
them in time of peace would not be defrayed by the States, and
that the parishes would think them unnecessary.

Sir WILLIAM ADAMS has arrived at his house in
Albemarle-street, from a tcur on the Continent..
Mr. Mrs. and Miss ZEA have left Daw•lish for Bath,
where they were expected to arrive yesterday.

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The Marquis of WESTMEATH has arrived in town from a tour.
The Marquis of LAnnowx left town yesterday morning for
his seat Bowood Park, Wilts.

Wednesday evening, whilst Mrs. Kiss, the wife- of
Mr. Kiss, an attorney, in Gloucester-buildings, Wal-
worth, was sitting in the front parlour alone, she
heard a noise in the anti-room. She opened the door
of the room from whence the noise proceeded, and
there saw a tall fellow, with a dark lanthorn, ran-
sacking the drawers. She rushed into the worn and
endeavoured to secure the robber, but he flew out at
the window into the garden, and made his escape
over a high wall. His hat and lanthorn were left be-
hind, and under the window was found a bag, filled
with plate, apparel, &c. which he had dropped in his
hurry to escape.
About an hour after the above robbery was per-
petrated, a knock was heard at the door of an aged
woman, who keeps a mattrass-warehouse in Boling-
broke-row, Walworth. On the old Lady opening the
door, two fellows walked in, and said they came to
purchase a bed. Immediately after they entered, one
of them turned round and bolted the door ; the other
drew a pistol from under his coat, which he put to the
mouth of the old woman, and swore, unless she in-
stantly gave up her keys, and conducted them to the
place where she kept her money, he would bloW her
brains out. The poor old creature did not imme-
diately comply; she fell on her knees and implored
the villains' mercy. They tore her pockets from her
sides, which contained her keys. Having now fur-
nished themselves with them, they each laid hold of
her arms and dragged her up stairs into her bed-
room, where they again threatened her with de-
struction if she did not point out to them where she
kept her money, She then told them where to find
it ; and one of them stood over her with the pistol,
whilst his associate ransacked a drawer of upwards
of thirty sovereigns and some old-fashioned plate.—
The villains then seated her on a box in the bcd-room,J
and one of them proposed making her fast with a
rope, whilst they went into the rooms above, but the
other objected to this proposal,aad assured her, should
she attempt to create the least alarm, that moment
would be her last. The poor creature promised to
remain silent, but whilst the villains were up stairs
she crept softly down to the back of the house, which
is in lied Lion-row, and called out—" Murder !
thieves !" &c. and soon the neighbourhood was in
arms. The villains hearing the alarm at the back of
the house, ran down stairs, and made a precipitate
retreat at the front door, and effected their escape
across the brickfields leading to Kennington Com-
mon, taking with them the thirty sovereigns and
other property.