Star.
London, England, 1812-01-23 00:00:00

ORDER OF THE DAY.

" Head-quarters, Mesaina, Nov.lo, 1811.
" Lieutenant-Genera! MAITLAND feels the greatest satisfac•
tion in notifying to the army the bravery and good condJet of a
detachment of the 62d Regiment, consistbig of ISO men, under
the command of Major DA ' . This detachment, with 50
Royal Marines, commanded by Lieutenant Piton, landed from
his Majesty's ships the Ihirealtust and the Titanic., in face of
the enemy, who were about 1000 strung, commanded by Gene-
ral NONATELLI CC RCIIIANA, attacked and carried the position
of the enemy, and being themselves attacked, repulsed the enemy
in a charge, driving him from his ground, and maintaining their
position for two days ; they also took a convoy of nine gun-boats
and twenty other boats, laden with naval articles, which were
in the bay of Palinurus; two batteries were also taken, with a
telegraph tower. The conduct of the Officers and soldiers is
considered by Major 1) u being glorious and conspicuous.
Lieutenant•Generai MAITLAND is very sensible that the intro.
pidity and judgment of Major assure conducted the troops to
this fortunate success ; and he sincerely thanks the Major and
all the Officers and soldiers fur their operations, which have bees
worthy of the reputation which this army has acquired."

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
WAR-OFFIC; JAM. 21, 1812.
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Surgeon John F. Wylde, from
the 24th Foot, to be Serrecal, vice Paddock, who retires.
s'h Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Jackson Close, from the 25th
Light Dragoons, to be Captain of a Troop, by purchase, vice
Stephens, who retires ; and Surgeon Owen Lindsay, from the
74th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Coates, who retires.
Sd Regiment of Dragoons—Lieutenant George Lloyd Hodges,
from the 61st Foot, to be Lieut nant, without purchase.
4th Ditto—Lieutenant the Honourable W. S. Bernard, from the
671 k Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Smith, who exchanges.
11th Regiment of Light Drapons—Surgeon Robert Gilchrist,
from the 1 lth Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Bullock, who retires.
Ist Regiment of Foot-Lieutenant William Gordon to be Cap-
tain of a Company, without purchase, vice Fraser, promoted;
and Ensign James Moiouey to be Lieutenant, vice Gordon.
Ash Ditto—Ensigu Thomas Duke to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Medhurst, who revisits.
7th Ditto—Lieutenant W. M. Hamerton to be Captain of a Cont.
patty, by purchase, vice Sines, promoted.
10th Ditto—George Wuodberry, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Balkeley, who retires.
12th Regiment of Foot.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensigns James Keappock,
David Dude, and Robert Blythe, from the 71st Foot.
To be Ensigns—Ensign John Hart, from the ist West India Re-
giment, vice Keappock; and Janits Peyton Ga'Jaher, Gent.
vice Doric

13th Ditto—Lieutenant Charles Morgan, from the id Garrison
Battalion, to be Lieutenant, vice Giedstanes, who exchanges.
26th Ditto—Lieutenant John Farquharson, from the 42d Foot,

to be Captain of a Cumpany, without purchase; Lieutenant
William Beecham, from the 35th Foot, to be ditto • and En-
sign Thomas William byes to be Adjutant, vice Nash, pro-
muted.

31st Ditto—Ensign Loftus Nunn to be Lieutenant, without put.
chase, vice Humble, superseded; Ensign I. M. Goodiff to bo
Lieutenant, vice Cilland, deceased; Ensign Charles Shaw,
from the sth West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Nunn;
and George L'Estrange, Gaut. to be Ensign, vice Goodiff.
36th Ditto.
To be Captains of Companies, without purchase,
'Lieutenant Thomas James, from the 37th Foot.
Lieutenant Charles Bayley, from the 31st Foot.
Lieutenant Robert Blakeney, from the 28th Foot.
44th Ditto—Lieutenant George Crosier to be Captain of a Conte
pany,. Vice Meekisson, deceased; Ensign Henry Elwin to be
Lieutenant, vice Crozier; and William Tomkins, Gent. to be
Ensign, vice Elwin.
63d atci—Captain Basil Fisher, from half-pay of the Sd Regi-
ment of the Irish Brigade, to be Captain of a Company, vies
Lindesay, who exchanges.
G7th Ditto—Lieutenaut Thomas Hall, to be Captain of a Com-
pany, vice Sankey, deceased.
To be Lieutenants—Lieutenant Hugh William Smith, from the
4th Dragoous, vice Bernard, who exchanges ; Elisio/John
Craig, vice North, deceased; and Ensign Herbert Vaughan,
vice Wilkinson, deceased.
To be Ensigns—Horatio Nelson, Gent. vice Craig; a.ndlosepb
Everett, Gent. vice Vaughan.
70th Ditto—Thomas Scott, Esq. to be Paymaster, vice Hutchin
son, who retires.
71st Ditto—The Honourable Charles Napier, to be Ensigoo with.
out purchase, vice Bllthe, promoted iu the 12th Foot.
77th Vitro—Captain J. W. Rogers, from the Ist Royal Veteran
Battalion, to be Captain of a Company, vice Cameron, appoin.
ted to the Ist Royal Veteran liatialiou.
78th Ditto—Major-General Sir Samuel Auclunuty, Knt. front
the 103d.Foot, to be Colonel, vice Sir James Henry Craig, de.
ceased.
88th Ditto—Captain Hamilton Bagwell, from the 6th Gard a=
Battalion, to be Captain ot a Company, vice Bury, who es-
changes.
91st Ditto—Brevet Major Donald Mae Donnell to be Major,
without purchase; Lieutenant A. Campbell to be Captain of
Company, without purchase; Lieutenant 1. V. Bryant, from
the 44th Foot, to be &tits, vice MacdonneU ; Ensign Checks
Stuart, to be Lieutenant, vice Campbell.
103 d Ditto—Major-General the Hun. Gorge Lowrey Cele,
from the 27th Foot, to be Colonel, vice Sir Samuel Audits:to.
ty, appointed to the command of the 78th Foot.
104th Ditto--Hospital Mate Wm. Woodeforde to be Aseistms*,
Surgeoo,mice Earle, placed on Half Pay.
21 Garrison Battalion—Lieutenant Joshua Gladstanes, from the
13th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Morgan, who melanges.
.9th Ditto Captain George Bury, from the Intik Foot, to be Cap.
lain of a Company; vice Bagwell, who exchanges.
lot Royal Veteran Battalion—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel A I.
Cameron, from the 77th Foot, to be Captain of a Company,
vice Rogers, appointed to the 77th Post.
12th Ditto—James Light, Gent. to be ins* ; Thomas Clerks
late Serjeant-Major at Geneva Barracks, to be ditto.
ERRVZT.
Major Christopher Bird, on Half Pay of the 99th Foot, to be
Lieutenani-Colonel in the Army.
STAFF.
J. H. M`Leroth, Fsq. late Lieut.-Colon olb the 99th Peet, fobs
au Inspecting ricld °Seer of Yeomanry and Volunteers, whit
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel while so employed, vice hie-
jog-General Sharpe.
Thomas Armstrong, Esq. late Lieutenant-Colonel in the Cold-
stream Guards, to be an In sPkting Field Officer of Yeomanry
and Volunteers, with the rank ot Lleutenant-Ceioael, was
so employed, vice Hardy, removed to the Staff in Irelmsd.
To be Depety Assistant-Commissaries Generals to the Pere*
Adolphus Veltch, Myler, Gent.
GARRISON.

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Lieutenant-Genatei Rowland Hill to be Governor of Maas's.
Castle, vice Sir James Heary Craig, deceased.
itosPITAL ETAI7.
John Quincey, Gee*. to be Hooped Mats for General Service,
The King's German Legion.
ed Regiment di Light Dcagoons—Lieetenant Gone Mak* la
be Captain of a Troop, vice Koch, decased.
Cornet Christopher Fahrenkold to be Lieutenant, vise Maier.
Watteville's Regiment.
To be Ensigns--Ensign Victor May, iroaatise avialaseam, •
v,ce G meets, whose appointment has net ghillag-sutss
de Chatelain, Gent. vier de Berii, pesamedg &tangle Mega* ,
Gent. vice Direata, promoted.
IntaioaaNDlna."
Lieutenant Clarke, et the BYd Fos, is sepereeisdo bow elpi
ow, witbeut have.


TO TH

EDITOR OF THE 874 R.
SIII I should not have intruded upon you while the
more important subject of parliamentary intelligence
has so great a demand for your columns, but front hav-
ing seen a letter in your paper of the 11th instant, sub-
scribed " a Naval Surgeon," noticing a former ()be of
mine upon the subject of the disadvantages of a par-
ticular class of Medical Officers, and that your paper
seems more peculiarly. devoted than any other to the
concerns of the army.
I shall, therefore, take the opportunity of noticing
some circumstances, which, when I made my first
communication on, or about the 17th December last,
escaped my attention. It gives me pleasure to 95-
serve a person, who has arrived at the ordinary rank
and emoluments of his profession, disinterestedly ad-
vacate the cause of his Juniors, the Assistant Surgeons
of the Navy.
In addition to the observations I formerly made, it
is mate-ial to notice this circumstance, that Assistant
Surgeons, who are rendered incapable of general ser-
vice by their former hard services, have precisely the
same half-pay as those who have not served twelve
months, and who retain their health and faculties in
full vigour, to establish themselves in private life.
. It is also notorious that the duty of a Veteran Bat-
talion is, from the numbers of sick and infirm men,
women, and children, uniformly far greater than the.
ordinary duty of a regiment of the line.
It is not meant that duty is ever considered a hard-
ship, but to shew the contrast between the situations
of the Military and the Medical Officer. The for-
mer retires from hard labour, the latter to it the for-
mer• also is very commonly promoted to his present
rank from the line, and has then the further prospect
of a step from the rank of Ensign to that of Lieutenant.
The Assistant Surgeon, perhaps, within a few
months of his promotion, and among the oldest Lieu.
tenants of his regiment in point of rank and choice of
quarters, is checked in his hopes by the effects of sick-
ness and fatigue, quits the society into which he had
entered in his earlier years, and whose habits ard
manners were more capable of assimilating with his
own, removes to a corps where his rank again com-
mences after that of the junior Ensigns, and may,
if he pleases, indulge himself in contemplating the
future impiovement of his moral philosophy, by the
• cultivation of his habits of patience and fortitude.
To observe every Gazette recording the promotion
of those who have had the better fortune to preserve

their health, and ability for general service, to the
rank of Regimental Surgeon, and to that of Surgeon
to the Forces, with the pay of 15s. per day, is upon
comparison calculated to excite no very pleasing sen-
sations ; and how much less so, when placed upon
half-pay, 'after eight or ten years service (as it is be-
lieved the Veteran Battalions will be the first to be

reduced Upon the return of peace) to observe Medical
Officers of the same rank, whose services may not
have extended to one-third part of that period, re-
ceiving their full pay and allowances in a regiment
upon the peace establishment.
If a private individual, when sick, expects from his
physician a calm and undivided attention, and an
animated interest in his personal feelings, of how
much more importance is it that a practitioner in the
army should be possessed of inducements to the exer-
cise ef these qualities, instead of having liis attention'
distracted, and absorbed in the evils of his situation,
when at the bed-side of a sick soldier; who has not
in the first instance the option of choosing his medi.
cal attendant, nor if he afterwards sees cause, the
power to change him ; and who has, like the private:
citizen, a family depending upon the preservation of
Lis life, for support.
. It can hardly be necessary to repeat, how far the
,situation of the class of Officers in question, is favour-
able to a conscientious and perfect discharge of their
*duty.
It is surely not unreasonable to hope, that were
this subject represented by persons of mere weight
than an obscure individual, to his Royal Highness
the Commander-in-Chief, whose interest in the con-
cerns of this department has been known to be excited
by merit, even when unsolicited, it would not pass
unnoticed. AN ASSISTANT 61;11G ON.
I January 14, 11312.

To touch the higher sensibilities of our nature,
requires the powers of a master; and whether it be'
done by giving to airy nothings a local habitation
and a name, or by giving animation and seeming life
to inanimate matter, was to generate and produce
sensations the most sublime and delicious, at once
evinces the greatest and superlative excellencies—die.
representation of the sea, with its fluid appearance—
' together with the ships in action, and the confusion
and distress from the fire and smoke in which the
ships are at times enveloped, in the Sea Finht repre-
senting at the NALMACIIIIis Princes-street, Leicester-
square, riVetts our admiration and delight, and
_stamps it aratirst Exhibition in London.
CARD.—J. Jourrsors takes the liberty of acquainting
the Nobility and Gentry, that she has within the last
fortnight, had a supply done of the principal inst..,
dients in the composition of Srtaacra's Oils:; and,
as many Ladies have thought the ProprietOr 'Was
dead, not having seen the Oils advertised for the last
five yaars, she takes the liberty of assuring them, that
the only reason for not making them public, as usual,
was her not being able to get a sufficient supply of the
above article from the Continent, to accommodate
even her private customers. -
To Medical Men of all descriptions, residing in,
any of the Provincial Cities or Towns in the United
Kingdnm._BAßNETT Gurtsr thinks it necessary to'
inform them, in order to save trouble and expenoe of
postage, he sells his Mediates for ready money only ;
but they may be had from any of the respectable
wholesale houses in town (which sell Medicines) and
receive from them such a discount as will be found
unusually liberal, on quantities not less than one dozen
ofany of his undermentioned new-invented Chyrnical
Preparations the Guestonian Lotion,for Gout, &c.
puestonian Pills, for Gout, &c. Guestonian
Pau, Guestonian Nervous Pills, Gnestonian Asthma-
tic and Consumptive Pills, Guestonian Tooth-powder,
which cures the Scurvy, and prevents the Tooth-ach,
Guestonian Toothpowder, which cures the Scurvy,
and gives the Teeth a most beautiful colour, Welcome
Guest, which cures all descriptions of Tsoth-ach,
Face-ach, Ear-ach, and Gum-biles.—An extract from
this pamphlet may be seen in the SEAR Newspapers,
ir€43l July, 1611, to Jamul, 161 a.
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