Star.
London, England, 1812-10-19 00:00:00

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THE ARMY.

MILITARY PROAIO I lONS.

Royal Chrshire Altbtia
isl rd Puliston, jun. k.,q to be Captain, vice Twcnilow, re-
sip rd. Datet) dept. ite, 1812.
Jav tt Sav • ry, E'q to be ditto, vice Cotton, pri.nioted. DateJ
Septentber 251, I RI?.
Pero Clrt Ire blot tram, Cent. to be Ensign. Rep-: 19., IRI t.
itichar t li. w:trasi, Cent. to le tit.tri oct,tber I, 181
Stith, or Avrrhire Rt7,itnent pt
James Patrick, Erg to he Captain, vice Itutliven, dtrease4,...
Dated August 17, Its:.
The 2d Regiment of Guard's: under Cal Oriel BAR..
TON. set off on Saturday for Pyrtsmouth, to esiaark
for Spain.
Det..climents of the following i-e7iments hake left
Hythe tor the P. ninsula : Monday last, 150 rank and
file 2d East. 71st, under Captain PiPciEcr..: t Tuitaiy,
170 men belonging to the 3d Rice Corps, anal-
Capt. Giatioxs : detachments frnni the 51st IGBth
regiments, at I.:aborne Lees, have also maraiLid to
Pqrtsmouth, tor the same destination.
Orders have been received from the War-Office,
by the several regiments forming the Cavalry Depot
in Canterbury, to send off immediately as many
officers, privates, and horses, as can possibly he
spared, to join their re'pective regiments in the Pdnin-
sula. Two officers, three non-commissioned offieersk
and twelve privates, with thirty-five !losses, of the
(Queen's own) 4th Dragoons, will march. in cofise-
(pence, on Wsdnesday nest, for embarkation.
A eerachmcnt of 200 of the 48th Foot, thatched
to Portsmouth on Friday, to embark for Spain.
A detachment of the Royal Artillery Drivers and
horses embarked for Portugal on Thursday last.
A detachment of the 63d Regiment arriVed at
Portsmouth on Thursday last, and embarked for the
Army Dqii,t, Isle of Wight.
Detachments of the under-mentioned regiments
will arrive at Portsmouth in the course of the month,
and embark for the Peninsula : 3d, 24th, 31st, Oth,
50th, 5' st, .57th, 58th, 68th, 71st, and 95th. -
Lieuttnant-General WEIEfITA sr inspected the He-
refold Militia on Wednesday last, at Portsmouth.
l'he 55th Regiment of Foot, for some time quar-
tered at Carlisle, ate ordered to march for DoVer
Castle, in two divisions. They will be replaced at
Carlisle by the 74th Highland Regiment.
Thesituation of Commandant of the .Thniot De-
partment, Royal Military College, has been vacant
ter more than a yeir, during all which time the du-
ties of that office have been advantageously discharg-
ed by Colonel BUTLER, the LieutenantaGovernor.

The addition of a fourth company is ithmediattly
to be made to the establishment ofGentlemen Cadets
at the Royal Millary College. The command, we
understand, is to be given to Captain AnamiAm,
formerly Adjutant of theWestMidJles,•xMllifa, and
lately to the Military College ; who, we learn, has
been appointed through the interest of theOotertiett:
• this promotion will leave the Adjutatircy Tacna. '
The attention we have uniformly paid to./be con-
cerns o; the army, calls upon -US to apprize our.
Readers, that a New Military Worli,,hitving roe i 6
object the-best interests of that valuable portion of
the community, was publlshed ott the first Of the pre-
sent month, entitled the " Military Panorama a
Some soldiers bekniting• to the 2d Regiment of
Foot have been committed to. Shepton Mallet 'Gaol,
on the alledged charge of an assault, in which the
soldiers were severely beaten by superior ntimbers ;
butt application has been made to Government in
their behalf.

Saturday 'morning a Court Martial was held on
William Gaiter, lands:lan, on board his Majesty's
ship' Coqeette,in Peetintibeth harbour, for maiming
himself by chOpplng off his left hand, at the wrist
joint, on the evening of tie Ist of September. The
Viiitagreed that the chi4rge had been preyed, and
Bolding in. great abhorrence the commission of so
"ifitiCiobs and unmanly an 'act, by which his country
is Cleprived of his effective services, did adjudge him
to hernisploy'ed in the intik nienial situation on board
flinch 'ship of his Majesty, as the Commander in Chief
of his" Majesty's ships and vessels at Spithead and in
Portaouth harbour, or the Lords Commissioners of.
the Admiralty shall from time to time direct, an 4 to
be rendered unworthy for ever hereafter of being em-
ployed in any situation superior to landimin in the
Royal Navy. Rear Admiral H'ARGoooPtesident.
"Early on Sattu'day aeon-night' f siir torn and a boy
. belonging to Belfast, viz. Ms. ,men,
ot.
Cristo n' House Quay, J6M Scott, and CharlesbigGar.
rety, pilots, a Custom House officer, and a young lad,.
left thist 'harbour for Scotland, in an half deck boat.
'Betwe.n four and five o'clock, they were seen of Ayr
'harbour,' apparently in distress the life.bnat was
'sent out, 'but could render no assistance ; and be-
tween teniand eleven • ectodk at 'night dreadful cries
were heard, and, it is-Supposed, that iii running for
hat boor, they had struck on 'the bar, as part 'of
• their boat came on shore there. The bodies of the
penr men weir got in the course of the next day, twill
it was intended they should be interred the same
'everting.
Monday, es Mr. Thomas Dezn,'werstraren# the
Governor, fslargaret hay, Vif which hi it'esifie
Mas-
ter, on her par.age. froth Lotitton, he ;drottlied down,
and immediately' expired i• Itreing.4 wife and
yang childrettrolleplcife theirinst. •
Thuesdar se'nnight •as Mr. CAPPs,• of Spirftrmg,
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c•trlwtutr, passing a slyke.his loot tlipt, and he
ikrCke his
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and his house, a nation may call home het 11111'ra:is I
her defence and protection in time of war.
" But if this were not so, is our nation to &Una
into a ruinous war, in order to settle a question 4.
relative right between the government of a foreign
nation and the subjects of that government? Au
we to fight the battles of British seamen? Nay mores
are we to espouse their cause, in opposition to the
cause of our native mariners ? Fatal, indeed, would it
be to the i mpot ;ant interests of the navigating states
if the consequerce of this war should be,- that the
American flag shall give the American character tq_
all who sail under it, and thus invite thousauda cif
foreign seamen to enter into our service, and thrust
aside Lair own native citizens. England has aie
ways professed a willingness to adjust this subject
by amicable arrangement. She has repeatedly
called on us to do our part towards effecting such
adjustment. She has reminded us of the facility,
we may say the falsity, with which American protec•
Lions are obtained; of the frequent instances, in which
Irishmen, and even men that cannot speak a word of
our language, ate found with American protections
ia their pockets. She has expressly and officially
offered to prohibit, by severe laws, all impressment
from American vessels, if the American Government
would enact laws prohibiting American officers from
granting protections cr certificates of citizenship to
British subjects. She has, also, tin ough her Minister,
offered to restore every native eedman cur Govern.
ment could name, as being under impressment. For
years preceding the Declaration of War, our Governs
ment has been, in a manner, silent on this subject.
When the arrangement was made with Mr. Erskine,
the present Administration themselves did not con-
sider any existing difficulties on the subject of impress-
ment as insuperable obstacles to peace.
" The Blockade, and Orders in Council,—the other
causes of war, bear no better examination than the
subject of impressment. The Blockade, now so grie-
vous to be endured, we know was regarded, at the
time it was laid, as a measure favourable to our hue-
rests. We know this, upon the express declaration of
Mr. Munroe, then our Minister in England. We
have his own wr.rds, that it woull be regarded in
a favourable light," and that it promised to be
: highly satisfacturrto our commercial interests."
" By what train of reasoning this fiveur is now
turned into an injury, and an injury of such magni-.
tude as to justify war, we are utterly at a loss to cum-
. preher.d.

" We are equally unsatisfied with the arguments
used, to prove that the Decrees of France were repeal-
ed in November, 1810. Against such supposed re-
peid of the French Decrees, we have the express de-
claration of the French Government itself, as late as
March, 1812, alledging that those Decrees did then
exist. We have also hat daily evidence bt. their.ope-
ration, in the destruction of our property ; and some
Members of this Meting have conviction of the ex-
istence and operation of those D..crees, dwwil to the
very moment of our declaration of war; which con-
victions being produced by great and repeated perso-
nal losses, in the seizures, detention, contiscatirni, and
busing:; under those very decrees, are not likely to
be removed, by any ingenious comments on the terms
of an ambiguous, deceptive. and fallacious instrutnent
like the Duke. el Cadore's !.:tter.

". The conduct of France, in relation to the repeal
of her edicts, exhibits to our View, a scene of the most,
contemptible fraud and juggling. that ever disgraced
the Court of any nation. •
66 The British Orders in Conner, we are informed.
ere now revoked. 'We cannot but lament, that the
declaration of war was forced and hurried, as if to put
us beyond the benefit of favourable events. Every
attempt at postponement Was ineffectual ; and the
question was taken, at a moment, when, perhaps, a
month's delay would have removed the principal
ground of complaint, and averted the awful calamity.
" But although we lament the present war, on ail
acc rants, yet do we depredate it most of all, as we
view in it, as we fear, the harbinger of French alliance.
" On tie subject of any French connection, either
close of mere remote, we have made up our minds.
.We will, in no event, assist in noitigg the Republi,: of Ame-
rica wish the military despotism of Franc:. 1.1" e will have
no connection with her rinciples or her power. If
her armed troops, under whatever name or character,
should come here, we shall regard them as enemi:s. No
pressure, domestic or toreigu, shall ever compel us to
connect our interests with those of the House of Cor-
sica ; or to yoke ourselves to the triumphal car of the
conqueror and the tyrant of Europe."

Friday se'nnight, aliotit 6 o'clock, a fire broke out
in the forecastle of the ship Good Agreement, an Ips-
wich trader, Captain RANDALL, lying at Mr. SMITH'S
ship-yard, in GiOnsborough, which burnt furiomlf
for a considerable time. The seamen's cloaths and
bedding belonging to her, were reduced to ashes; but
the vessel has suffered no material injury.
Boxxits.—The match betwixt Pow en the scientific
pugilist and CA itrk:g the formidable Lancashire man,.
was made on Thursday night. The follown is a
copy of the signed agreement i
" 1. Power and .I. Carter ague to fight for one htuidreapilltd,
a side on the 16th of November, A stand-up-light in a Mem,
fret roped-ring. 'I he money to be made good on the 21 of No-
vember, or'llse Lao deposit to be forfeited. he battle to take
place within twenty-live miles of London, and the choice of place
to be tossed for on the ltd of November."-4igued by the No-
rdista Amateur Witnesses, &c.
-Yesterday se'nnight, abont seven in the evening,
the driver of the Leicester waggon as stopped about
Ruddington, near Nottingham, by seven villains, who
dragged him across a close, and cut and !seat him so

severely thu he died the next day.• The murderers
escaped.
The '

of Mr. M. HD'