Star.
London, England, 1824-11-17 00:00:00

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

Commissions in the Kirkcudbright Corps of Gentlemen Yeomanry
Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Stewartry of
Kirkcudbright.
Cornet W. J. B. Gordon to be Lieutenant, vice Kennedy Laurie,
resigned ; William Gordon, Gent. to be ditto, vice Beck, re-
signed ; James Ochterlony Lockart Nlure, Gent. to be ditto,
vice Thrmson, resigned ; John Lamont, Gent. to be Cornet,'
vice Donald, resigned ; Henry Wight, Gent. to be ditto, vic-
Thomson ; George Whitehorue Laurence to be ditto, vice Gore
don, promoted.
COURT-MARTIAL AT GIBRALTAR.
Hoase-Gusans, 30rit OCTOZICIL, 1824.

At a General CourtsMattial held at Gibraltar on the 6th of
July, 1824, and on subsequent days, and re-assembled, by adjourn-
ment, on the 12th of the same month, Lieutenant Wita.tasf Gaovnc
Win, of the 94th Regiment, was arraigned upon the undermen-
tioned Charge, viz.
" For conduct highly unbecoming the character of an Officer
" and a Gentleman, and subversive of all Military Discipline,
" in using grossly insulting and outrageous language to Ensign
Cowaan, of the 94th Regiment, on nr about the 2Sth of
" June last, in consequence of th it Officer refusing to pay to
" Lieutenant WILLIAM Geeve AVIIITE the sum of £l2O ster-
" ling, which he then personally demanded, in fulfilment of a
" clandestine and unauthorized agreement, fur the sale of the
" Commission of Adjutant in that Regiment, for entering into
" which agreement Lieutenant WILLIAM Gaovz WHITE and
" Ensign CowAltD respectively had been reprimanded and ad-
" moniihed."
Upon which charge the Court came to the following decision :
" The Court having maturely weighed and considered all the cir-
cumstances of this case, is of opinion that the prisoner, Lieutenant
WILLIAM Gaova WHITE, of the 94th Regiment of Fuer, is Gerrity
of the whole crime laid to his charge ; and, having thus found hint
guilty, the Court (loth therefore sentence him, the said Lieutenant
WILLIAM Genes: WHIT=, to lose his present rank as Lieutenant in
the Army, and in the 94th Regiment of Foot, he being forthwith
placed at the bottom of the List of Lieutenants, as well in the
Army as in the 94th Regiment, so that his future rank in the
Army, and in the said Regiment, will bear date front July Bth,
1824, the day of his conviction.
" With respect to certain testimony which appears on the face of
the proceedings, wherein the credibility of Ensign COWARD'S evi-
dence is so forcibly called in question, the Court feels it unnecessary
to remark ;hereon, confident that it cannot escape the notice of
higher authority."

" Approved as far as the finding of the Court goes ; but when I
" look at the sentence awarded, It appears to me so wholly dispro-
" portioned to the serious charge of which the prisoner has been
" found guilty, so little conducive to the ends of justice and the up-
" holding of the discipline of the British Army, that I feel it to be
" my most indispensable duty to order that the Court shall re-
assemble, fur the purpose of revising their sentence.
(Sigurd) " CHATHAM, General and Governor."

" Monday, July 12th, 18'24.
" The Court re-assembled pursuant to the order of his Excellency
" General the Earl of Chatham, K.G. Governor and Commander-
" in. Chief of his Majesty's Forces at Gibraltar, to revise the stn-
" tence ; and, having maturely deliberated upon, and fully reconsi-
" dered and revised the sentence already passed upon the prisoner,
" doth hereby rescind its said sentence, and, instead theteof, doth
" now sentence and adjudge that the prisoner,;Lieutenant Wits.uss
" Gaove Wntrz, of the 94th Regiment of Foot, be discharged front
" Mjesty's ses•tuee. Under all the circumstances of the case,
" however, the Court ventures to submit a recommendation of the
" prisoner to the clemency of his Majesty."

The KING has been pleased to approve and confirm the finding
and sentence ; but, at the same time, to express his regret and sur-
prise at the view taken by the Court of the crime committed by
Liratenant WILLIAM GROVE WHITR, of the 94th Regiment, and of
which they found him guilty, should have been so inadequate as to
call for revision ; particularly as the commission of the crime charged
against that Officer originated in a clandestine and unauthorized
agreement between him and Ensign COWARD. the penalty attached
to which is clearly pointed out by the Act 49 Geo. 111. cap. 126.
clause 8. and of which no Officer in his MAJLSTY'S service ought tol
be ignorant.

Ills Alaaesry was further pleased to remark, that the conduct of
Ensign COWARD, as it appears on the face of the proceedings, has
been such as to render him unfit to hold bis filmesvv's Commission ;
and his 11/41saiurry has accordingly been pleased to direct, that he shall
Le removed front his service.
the Comm.%penni is-Cuter directs that the charge preferred
against Lieutenant Wir.u.sm GRove WHIT; of the 94th Itegiment,
together with the finding and sentence of the Court, and his Ma-
jesty's commands thereon, shall be entered in the General Order
Book, and read at the head of every regiment in his Majesty's service.
By Command of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief,
(Signed) HENRY TOR RE N S, Adjutant-Gen.

The bustle in the Foreign Market has given rise to
The exercise of much ingenuity for the amusement of
the jobbers. Yesterday a well-executed caricature of a
Bear raising IrunarDE from his grave with his wand,
nd with a scroll, " Rise, good humps, or I am
lost," was posted on the wall of the office, and also the
following rule-of-three proposition—" If killing 200 Spa-
nisi! soldiers Will produce a rise of 211 per cent. what
will killing 18,000 produce?—Answer, '225 per cent."
Sunday hist, when Mr. Cotton, the Ordinary of New-
gate, was performing Divine Service in the Chapel,
which was extremely crowded with prisoners, a female
convict who had been sentenced to die, was dreadfully
affected. She fell into hysterics, and was taken from
t►;t Chapel, but those who remained behind heard her
shrieks for half an hour afterwards. The circumstance
was awful beyond description. Mr. Fauntleroy, and
other convicts whose Lases arc considered desperate,
were listening with solemn attention to the Ordinary,
who was delivering a sermon calculated to fix the at-
tention of common hearers. The effect wai such that
the Ordinary could scarcely proceed. Mr. Fauntleroy
covered his face with his hands, and seemed quite over-
whelmed with affliction.

Monday l%st, Mt. Garnet, of the tell, in Fleet-street,
was alarmed by a strong smell of fire, which seemed to
e. ise from some part of his own premises; but being
unable to discover the cause of it, he was induced to
beieve that it proceeded from the late conflagration, in
the immediate neighbourhood of which his house is si-
tuated. The smell, however, increasing, a still further
search was made ye,rerday, and, forteately, was at-
tended with success. In the chimney-place of an un-
,:ccupied apartment in Mr. Garnet's house, had been
deposited a strong mahogany sea-chest: this was filled
with oid papers, which were covered with a moreen
cellain. It was discovered that the lid niche chest had
been completely consumed, and that the contents had
smouldered away into tinder. This circumstance can
be accounted for in no other way than by supposing
that some sparks from the burning houses bad fallen
down the chimney on the cheA, and that the thick dust
with which it was coveted had served as food It, the
lighted material., which at length had burned entirely
thro:igh the lid, and set fire to the papers within.
A xorxe.tt Firs--Yesterday morning, at about hail--
past two o'clock, an alarming file was fortunately di:-
covered by one of the watchmen of St. Dunst.tii', at
NO. 123, in Chancery-lane. Owing to the ere: tions of
ibis meritorious guardian of the night, a woman was
rescued from desttuction, and the threatened confiagra-
;lon was extinguished.

LAW izEPORf.

COURT OF CHANCERY, NOV. 16.

WAITER V. vanLey AND WILE.
The motion was for attachment for want of suffi-
cient answer, and the reason given by the defen•
dints was, that the defect could only be supplied by
the wife, who could not answer without the direction
of the Court, and the matter was of so new a character,
that the Court hesitated to give the order.
Mr. MURRAY, the Solicitor for the Lady, said, that
she was quite ready to answer if the Court should order
and empower her so to do ; but she was at present in-
capable, having been shut up on pretence of lunacy, in
the common gaol, for tr ree years past, by her husband.
The LORD CHANCELLOR directed that the time for
serving the attachment should be enlarged to Thursday
in the next week, and that she should be directed to put
in the supplemental answer.

HUSBAND AND SON, IN THE MATTERS OF THE- TWO

BLACKBUUNS, BANKRUPTS.

The LORD thin xcet.t.ort said, that having looked
into the cases, it di6 not appear to him that the know-
ledge of the separate and joint trading would affect the
right to prove under both commissions, if the petitioners
really possessed it at the time of receiving the dividend
under the joint commission. Upon this last point he
would bear the Counsel, after having drawn his own
minutes and subjected them to the inspec:ion of Counsel.

./()NES 111. THE ALBION COMPANY.
The plaintiff was trustee under a marriage settlement,
in which Lord Ennismore undertook to give 9,0001.
with his daughter, to Major Bolders; 6,000/. were to be
raised immediately, and 3,0001. subsequently, in which
the Major took but a life-interest. On the death of the
Major, the Albion Company came upon the trustee for
3,000/. the value of an annuity previously granted to
them, which would, in that case, override the claim of
the heirs. Accordingly, the Master of the Rolls had
ordered the money to be paid into Court. The present
application was to restrain the effects of that order pend-
in4 an appeal.
fhe LORD CHANCELLOR said that the trustee (who
acknowledged having the money in his possession in du,
form of Exchequer Bills), having no beneficial interest
to take, could have no objection to paying it into Court.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, NOVEMBER 16.

ISAAC DAY AND SAMUEL DAY V. THE GOVERNORS OF
CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.

The plaintiffs in this cause were carmen of the City
of London, and the suit was ostensibly for the purpose
of obtaining an order that the Governors of Christ's
hospital should refund the sum of 931. 12s. received by
them during the last years, and paid by the plaintiffs,
for permission to work their carts within the City of
London. The amount paid on each was 17s. 4d.
annually, and they had employed eighteen carts. But
the great question was, as to the right of tht Governors
of Christ's Hospital :o grant licenses for working carts ?
—a right which, it appears, they have exercised for up-
wards of a century, and which they claim by virtue of
the authority of the City of London.
Mr. BRASSES read the Bill, which set forth that the
light to receive a lee of 17s. 4d. on every cart worked
within the City had been originally vested in the Cor-
Foration of London, and had been transferred by that
body to the Governors of Christ's Hospital, for the tree
of the poor children harboured there. That the carmen
were now subject to an Act passed for their regulation
in 1681, which Act was no authority to the Governors
of Christ's linspital to demand such rent; and that they
had virtually admitted it themselves, by applying, in
1817, to the Corporation to take into consideration the
Act of Common Council of 1681, which did not au-
thorise their demand of the rent, and to pass anew Act,
which might legalise their future proceedings.
Mr. DANIELS, for the Governors of Chiist's Hospi-
tal, read their answer, which contended that the Act of
Common Council of 1681, fully authorised them in re-
ceiving the rent of 175.4 d. for each cart worked, and
that such Act was recognised by the Statute of the 18th
George 11.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that in equity, every
party who had an interest must be heard. It was clear
that the Corporation of London were thus situated, and
might make a new grant of this revenue to a different
body ; he could not therefore impugn. the right of the
grantee in the absence of the grantor. %%lien the par-
ties were properly before the Court, he should know
how to proceed with the cause, which would stand over
to the first day of causes in Hilary Term.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOV. 16.
The COURT, pursuant to notice, entered on the con-
sideration for rules for new trials.
LAUGHER V. POYNTRR.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, this was a question
whether a person having hired horses for the day, and
a coachman who is servant to the owner, is liable for
any damage which may arise from negligent driving ?
As the case is likely to occur very often, we think it
should be argued bef,me all the Judges; and our Learned
Brothers having been so good as to accede to our wishes,
let the case be argued on the 2J of February.

THE KING V. THE MAGISTRATES OF EAST BRIXTON.

Mr. SCA KLETT renewed his motion of Saturday for a
mandamus, commanding the Justices of the East Half
Hundred of Brixton to re-hear an application for a li-
cense, which was objected to on the ground that the
Magistrates could grant no license except at the Sessions
in September, or within twenty days after. The Learned
Counsel urged that the Sd Geo. IV. controuled the 26th
Geo. H. and empowered Justices to grant a license at
any period.—The Covet, however, thought otherwise,
and refused the writ.