Star.
London, England, 1809-09-25 00:00:00

o,.ts discontent which, of late, has been trunitested
the Officers of the coast army, and which has led to
the suspension of five of high rank and respectability,
and cf various removals from commands and appoint-
ments. I dare not venture to express my apprehen-
sicns of the result of these important proceedingt,
which have excited the greatest agitation in this set-
dement."
By the India Goventnent Graetteof May the 4th,
it appears, that the most violent disputes existed be-
tween the Council and the Army. Several officers,
some of them of considerable rank, are charged with
preparing a sedition: paper, “ purporting to be a re-
monstrance in the name of the Army' against th•
acts of the Government under which it serves," and
• calculated to destroy every foundation of dhci-
one, obedience, and Sdelity." Other officers are
accused of circulating inflammatory papers, censuring
the suspension of Major 80x.&v., the late Deputy-Ad-
jutant-General ; and all these proceedings are attri-
buted to the example set by the violent and infem.
perate acts of the late Commander-in-Chief." A con-
siderable number of officers have been rebuked or sus-
pended in consevienee, and, among others, Lioate-
nant Coloneh I.l.llajukt7Bar„and j
LA
LEits,
Iv? I)ein removed from their commands ; Ljeute_
.nint,Colonel-Jorm Chet, AGE and CaPrirM.,cekiiss3
separated from the Staff ; and Lieutenant Co the-
Honourable A RTllnnt Sr. Lust Igat Major JOHN Da
MORGAN) Captain Jesmn MARSHALL) and Captain
Drams GRA NT) ordered to'hold themselves in readi-
ness to return to England. Inrshort, from whatever
cause these divisions may have arisen, whether from
the late Commander-in:Chief having chimed, like
his predecessors, a seat in -the Government, whe:
ther from usurpation ,attempted on the past of the
Army, or refusal of right on the part of the Couli-
cil, they appear to be of a most extensive and serious
ilea re. Distance alone renders the tenure of our East
Indian possessions a precarious one, hut at such a time
as the present, when the genius of our enemy is lurk-
lag about them, ready ta take advantage of every in-
cidental weakness, we ought td render ourselves more
invulnerable'than Achilles himself, and not leave even
abed exposed. Yet, alas ! the nation is at this mi.
mite distracted in head, and sick at heart, and the
very hands which should be its safeguard are em-
ployed in madly smiting each other.

Another account states, that when the Vtumxin
sloop, which brought these dispatches, left Madras,
the dissatisfaction, that had some time existed, caused
by the circulation of a vimonstrance against the act
of Government, in rereoVing the late Com:Eander in
Chief, had subsided, that all was einiet, and that the-
officers, who hid prepared and ciitnilated thti: pepi
were, by a general order of the Odtiernor' ban'ncil,
tithe 6th of MaT, to be sent home by ;hi ilestewhiels
was shortly expected to sail for EnghtnCirlie names
menticned are those above stated, with the addition
of Major ROLE,, namely, ColonehST. Ma•
ions BoLCS and Da MORGAN, and Captains GRANT
and 14.1isnAL.

CHANGE OF MINISTRY.

The new Ministerial arrangements are not yet set-
tled, nor has any thing transpired on which we can
place absolute reliance. We have already stated the
rumours that were in circulation last week on this
fltbject; and in giving,them we desired our readers
to recollect that most probably all of them were tine-
tired more or 'ess with party and family feelings
To this we may add, that some of the reported . ar-
rangements rest more upon the wishes of individuals
than upon any real or solid foundation.

We hat c reason to believe, however, that a fact
tirit has been strongly denied by some of our contem-
rotati,7s has somef,undation in truth—namely, that
Lards C:;ENVILLE and Derr have been actually sent
•
for in the present emergency.
This zewilutien was formed at a Council held on
Saturday. It was communicated to hih MAJESTY by
the Ea rruf Li ERPOOL and Mr. PEncavAL,on Saturday
afurnoxi, and his MAstaat's pleasure having bees
taker., two Messengers were Sent off from Windsor in
the evening. Lord GnExvu.tz is in Cornwall, Lord
GREY in Northumberland.

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tnwhile the folloWing resignatieuisare apcl to
have been determined upon, in.addition io the reAig•
"'ions of the Duke or PORTLAND; Lord. CASTLE-
itrmar, anJ Mr. CANNING, viz. Lord LEXISON GOWER,
i..31"1 CAMDEN, and the Earl of WESTMORLAND.: There
Tll then be six vacant seats in the Cabinet. The
who remain are-- -
Lord ELDON.
Earl of CHATHAM.
Earl BATHURST.
Mr. I'Ene4NAL.
Lord Mi.l.c.mvc.
Earl of LIVERPOOL..

The six se.its already vacated, or to be vacated,

70U1d, it is to be supposed, be kft to Lord GneN!
v!itk's distribution.—The Premiership and .the Fo-
reign Department are those which he and Lord Pim
5.3_d in the last Ministry.

Gozeite of last night contains his Majesty's or-
der for proroguing Parliament from the 28th inst. to
the 2d of Nuvrmber next, but it does not Stan that it
:s then to meet for the disfiaqh of busintu. •
This morning Mr. Sit AW, one of his Majesty's Bites?,
•cngers, arrived at the Secretary of State's "Office, in
°owning-street, with dispatches from Spain. —Mr
Abstance of the diApatches'had not.tranipired *hen
::is Paper was put to Press.