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TNE .ARM Y.
A detachmert, comistinuot 21 fine ladg, from the Royal Mili-
tary Asylum, marclied on Tuesday morning, for Chatham, for the
purpose of jui:iirg the Ist Battalion of the 60th (the iluke of
York's Own Ride Corps. •
Detschments.belortgirtg to the 4th (Queen's Own) Regiment of
Upht Dragoons, ths 2d, 13th, 21st, 24th, 31n, 41st, 44th, 45th,
47th, 59th, and 67. h Illeginients of Foot, the Royal Staff Corps,
and the East India Ciimpnly's Infantry, embarked on the 9th inst.
under the command of Staff Serjeant 311Gansoe. at Dublin, fur
Bristol, on route to the Deprs of their respective Regiments.
Detachments belonging to the sth, 6th, 13th, 18th, 24th, 27th,
30th, 31sti 36th, 38th; 41st, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 54th,
57th, 59th, 61st, 64th, 67th, 69th, and 99th Regiments of Foot,
embarked on the 14th inst. under the command,of Serjeant Site's
at Dublin, for Bristol, on route to the Depots of their Regiments'

GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL,
Held at Up-Park Barracks, Jamaica, for the trial oT Lieutenant
Jl3las MACI?1T0311, or the 92d Regiment.

Iloass GUMIDS, 220 JANUARY, 1821
At a General toqrt.llartial held at Up-Park Barracks, Ja-
maica, on the 24th ortie:ptember, 1824, and continued by adjourn-
ments to the 27th of the ,ante month, Lieutenant JAISIn MACIN-
TOSH, of the 92d Regiment, was arraigned upon the undermen-
tioned Charges, viz.
" Ist. For affixing his signature, withopt due consideration, to a
statement drawn up by Captain Warren, tending to falsify the
testimony of Assistant-Sufgeon Thompson, given before a
Court of Enquiry, held at Fort Augusta, on the 10th inst. to
investigate the circumstances of an altercation between Cap-
tain Warren and Ensign Wilton; though, in a letter addressed
to Major Charleroi), dated 15th instant, he states that, at the
time he did so affix his signature, he did not recollect Doctor
Thotnpson's evidence.
"2d. For suppressing, when interrogated by the said Court of
Enquiry, the statement contained in his letter of the 15th
instant, wherein he says, he saw Captain Warren turn round
and make a blow at Ensign Wilton, an his opinion with the in-
tention of striking him, such suppression being in direct dis-1
obedience of the orders of Major Charieton, President of the
said Court, directing, when the Officers of the 92d Regiment
wcre asembled, that they should state, without reservation,
every circumstance they had witnessed ; the whole of such
conduct of Lieutenant Macintosh, in endeavouring to invali-
date a testimony he was ignorant of, and width:Ming most
important evidence against Captain Warren, contrary to the
lawful command• of his superior Officers, being a breach of
the Articles of War, tending to subvert the discipline of the
Corps, and to defeat the ends of justice."
Upon which Charges the Court came to the following decision :
" The Court having maturely and deliberately weighed the whole
of the evidence adduced in support of the prosecution, as also what
the prisoner has stated in his defence, and the evidence brought for-
ward in support thereof, is of opinion as follows:
" With respect to the brat part of the Charge, viz. For affixing
his signature, without due consideration, to a statement drawn up
by Captain Varren, tending to falsify the testimony of Assistant-
Surgeon Thompson, given before a Court of Enquiry held at Fort
Augusta, on the 10th inst. to investigate the circumstance of an al-
tercation between Captain Warren and Ensign Wilton; though in.
a letter addressed to Major Charleton, dated lath instant, he states,
that, at the time he did so affix his signature, he did not recollect Dr.
Thonmsoa's evidence—' The Court is of opinion that he, the pe-
st:user, Lieut. James Macintosh, is Guilty; but that he might have
been induced so to affix his signature, in consequence of Dr. Thomp-
son's evidence before the Court of Enquiry having been misrepre-
sented to him.'

" With respect to the second Charge, viz• suppressing, when in-'
terrogated by the said Court of Enquiry, the statement contained
in his letter of the 13th instant, wherein he says he saw Captain
Warren turn round and make a blew at Ensign Wilton, in his opi-
nion with the intention of striking him, such suppression bring in
direct disobedience of the orders of Major Charleton, President.of
the said Court, directing, when the Officers of the 92l Regiment
were assembled, that they should state, without reservations every
circumstance they had witnessed; the whole of which coAduct of
Lieutenant Macintosh, in endeavouring to invalidate a testimony
he was ignorant of, and withholding most important etidence
against Captain Warren, contrary to the lawful canines/Ws of his
superior Officer, being in breach of the Articles of War, tending to
subvert the discipline of the Corps and to defeat the entlibf justice
The Court is of opinion that the prisoner,Lieutenam 11acottosli,
is Guiky of the said second Charge.'

" The Court having found -the prisoner. Guilty of both the
Charges preferred against him, with the reservation mentioned fn
the latter part of the hrst Charge,being in breach of the Articles of
War, it does, by virtue thereof, sentence him, the prisoner, Lieute-
nant James Macintosh, of the 92d Regiment, to be removed from
his Majesty's Service.
"The Court cannot close its proceedings, without expressing the
deep regret which it has felt in sentencing the prisoner, Lieutenant
James Macintosh, to removal from his Majesty's service. The
painful feelings which pervade the Court in passing -such a sentence,
although the Charges of which Lieutenant Macintosh has been
found guilty, eave no alternative, arise from the high and honourable
character, as an Officer and as a Gentleman, which Lieutenant
Macintosh has received from O'Steen of long service and experience,
who have bad good opportunities of forming a just estimate of the
valuable parts of character, and of knowing if any inherent un-
worthy traits existed. The Court is folly persuaded, that the con-
duct of Lieutenant Macintosh, previously to the unfortunate on-
currence which has been the cause of placing him in his present un-
happy situation, was such as to entitle him, in the most ample
sense, to the handwrite and honourable testimony which those
01114;es have borne to his character.
" The mild and very proper manner in which Lieutenant Macin-
tosh conducted his defence, was also such as to obtain the perfect
approbation of the Court.
" Under theft circumstances, the Court begs leave most humbly
sad resipectfully, yet in the strongest manner, to recommend the
prisoner Lieutenant Macintosh, as a proper object for his Ma-
jesty's clemency."
His Maass2l has been pleased to approve and confirm the
sentence of the Court;. but, under all the circumstances of the
use, as they appear on the face of the proceedings, his Maasury
has been graciously pleased to remit the sentence of removal
from the service, as awarded by the Court, and to command that
be Lieutenant htecnnoss, should be restored to the functions of
his Commission.
His Royal Highness the Comstatmen-no-Cnine, directs that the
foregoing Charges, preferred against Lieutenant MacinTosn, together
with the finding and sentence of the Court, and his MAJICITY'S
pleasure thereon, shall be entered in the General Order Book, and
read at the head of every Regiment in his Harem's service.
By Command of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chisf,
(Signed) HENRY TORRENS, Adjutant-General.

This morning, betwen one and two O'clock, a fire
broke out in'the house of Mr. Comma, cheesemonger,
No. 43, Lisson-street, Mary-la-bonne, which totally
destroyed the same, and damaged the adjoining build-
ings ; but, in consequence of the early arrival of the en-
gines, the fire was prevented from spreading further.
Nun= IscraosramaNTs.—The old houses in a line
with the Treasury, in Parliament-street, and extending
up one side of Downing-street, are now pulling down,
for the purpose of continuing, upon the scite, the beau-
tiful range of building whiCh begins with the new Trea-
The

I'HE rR EAD. %rjth L.

•
The correspOndence of the Secretary of State fin. the
Home Department,.And the visiting Magistrate'', tor-
geons,*c. of the severil.gaols it, Great Britain, shewing
the result of inquiries as to the effect of the Treat-wheal,
has been printed by order of the House of Commons. It
occupies twenty-four folio pages,bot the substance of the
repOrt lies within a much narrower compasi. In the
old and new gaols of Bedford, there has been no instance
of bodily mischief or inconvenience from working at the
I wheel, except in the case of one prisoner, who had Tani-
.
eole veins of the leg previous to commitment, and who
appearing to suffer some pain, was taken from the wheel.
In Reading and Aylesbury gaols no injury had been
felt ; but fir/tales are not employed on-the wheel at the
former prison...
At Cambtutge gaol there had been no instance of
bodily mischief to the prisonersfrom the wheel. Mr.
Pembetem, the Clerk of the Peace, in his letter, ex-
presses p regret that the Legislature has deenied it tie-
cessary to prohibit the employment of any prisoner on
the tread-wheel previous to conviction, is there are no
other means of finding employment in the gaol; and
the gaoler represented the prisoners as more otderly
when at the tread-wlwel,and desirous of being so em-
ployed, is order to entitle them to the increased allow.
ante of diet which is made when so employed. The
Surgeon thinks that, so far from the tread-mill being
injurious, it has a contrary effect.
At Wisbech no instance of bodily injury to persons
occurred from the wheel; the same WAS the case at
Knutsford House of Correction, in Cheshire; at Bcdmin
gaol, Cornwall ; at the Ca-tle of Exeter, at the gaols of
Dorchester, Durham, Chelmsford, Hedinham Castle,
Essex, Gloucester Penitentiary, tiprsles House of Cor-
rection, Newport gaol, in the Isle of Wight, and Hert-
ford gaol.
The Surgeons to Huntingdon gaol emphatically say,
"in no one instance do we know of the Tread Mill
being injurious to any one."
The returns from the following places also declare
that no prisoner has suffered bodily mischief or inconve-
nience from the Tread Mill, at the respective gaols,
namely, kitkdale House of Correction, in Lancashire;
Salford gaol, Leicester House of Correction, Louth
gadl, Lincolnshire; Boston gaol, Cold Bathfields prison,
Bridewell Hospital, London; Wymondham Bridewell,
and Walsingham gaol, Norfolk; Newcastle-upon-Tyne
gaol, Wilton House of Correction, Stafford County
prison ; Bury, Ipswich, and Beccles gaols, in Suffolk ;
Brixton House of Correction, Guildford gaol, Warwick
and Devizes prisons, Northallerton House of Correction,
Beverley gaol, York -House of Correction ; the prisons
of Havel ford west,Brecknock, and Carnarvon, inWales.

In the whole of these prison;, no bodily mischief or
inconvenience is stated to have been sustained by any
prisoner at the tread-wheel ; and in many instances it is
said to have been, on the contrary, actually conducive
to health. _ _ _ _

The Magistrates of Louth say, " The general health
of the prisoners so labouring is improved; and the
casestiof sickness or disease in the gaul are materially
dinnnrshed since the introduction of this employment."
Thee Clerk of Bridewell Hospital says, " the general
health of the prisoners appears to be rather improved
than injine.l by the tread-wheel ;" while At Swaffham,
"'tine prisoner, who..-liad been lately t!ischarged, after
having %yolked two years on the wheel, had thriven so
well, that he could not wear the clothes he brought in
with him ;" and the gaoler declares, " that the prisoners
generally go out in a better condition than they were
when first put on the wheel."
The Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne states, since the
erection of a tread-wheel in the prison of that town,
" the prisoners who have laboured thereon, have, by
the exercise, been improved in their bodily health." In
the gaols of Bury, Sevenoaks, Beverley, and York, the
tread-wheel has also been found rather conducive than
injurious to the health of the prisoners.
In a few instances, there have been some accidents,
though not of a serious nature. In the prison at Seven-
oaks, tivo gudgeons, not made of the specified size,
broke, by which the prisoners were twice thrown off the
wheel, but none of them were injured so as to require
a surgeon. At Nottingham House' of Correction, a
man, not on the wheel, incautiously putting out his
foot against the wheel, had it slightly injured by one
of the boards. At Lewes gaol, owing to the failure of
some of the machinery, a prisoner received a slight in-
jury; and in Edinburgh Bridewell, a boy had his ancle
dislocated, occasioned " by his own carelessness, while
sitting near the tread-wheel, during the interval of rest,
and while he was not working upon it."
At Winchester gaol, where a hundred men and
twelve women were daily employed at the Tread-m
there were only three cases of sickness; the first was a
case of a prisoner in a consumption, and not " any way
connected with his working on the wheel;" in the third
case it was difficult to ascertain whether the mill did
any injury ; and in the second, the Surgeon supposes
that the tread-mill, like any other exertion, might affect
the prisoner, on account of the peculiarly irritable state
of the habit.
In Lancaster gaol a prisoner is also supposed to have
suffered from the labour, and the seduced diet ; the
prisoners, however, stated, that if they had their ac
customed quantity of food, they should consider the
tread-wheel as much easier than their own employ merit,
as labourers at the canal.

Thus far, it will be seen, all the evidence is in favour
of the Tread-wheel ; the only two exceptions are the
reports from the House of Correction at Winchester,
and that at Shepton-Mallet, in Somerset. In the first
of these the Magistrates say, that—" Notwithstanding
the few hours to which the employment of each priso-
ner has been limited, the sudden check to intense per-

" ."•• • • •-• ••? •10 •ro 3 I is
amongst vagrants, refrs
actor! ttntioandry servantt, bn4
sTill offences but we can hiire no fiesititign
giVin.g it as opinion; that,it nrit '4. IT
he de.titictive but endangey thelivei Cif the
prisoners, to keep them, upon the treat-" tel fdr, 'the
number of hours p eacribed by the Aft of Parliament."
The snrkevn of the,danl and Biiilewerl 'concurs chi
opinion f Magt,trates.
The other Ca.e, in the report trim Shepton-4Allei,
was of n more scions c arae er The surgeon of that
jail reported, that the tread-wheel had a strong disposi-
tion to produCe rupinie; And he. reported nine cities of
rapture as having occurred in the prison, thoughfioe -
of the psi sons had had the disease at forme!' jimiods, In
•
consequence of this report, the President and three of
the Examiners of the C..llege of Surgeons (Mr. Noirjs,
Sir W. Blikard, and M . Cline) repaired t? Simplon-
; and, af.er an examination and mature consi-,
deratlon of all the circumstances; they declare them-
selves unanimously of opinion that the labaur of the
tread-wheel, at the velocity of 4.8 steps a minute, cannot
be prejudicial to the health of any person who is equal
to common libOui ; that seven out of the nine cases of
rupture Arose froT causes unconnected with the wheel,
and that in the two others also, is the 'surgeon bad not
eiamined the prisoners previously, it was not certain
that the disease did not exist before they began this
species of labour. .

NAVAL YNTELLIGENCE.
. .
On the. 23a and 99th ult. no less than SS ships paid the &mad
Duty. a very great number for the first month In the year. •
On the 19th instant, the Lammo brig sloop, el tee gems, was
launched from Chatham.

The Poeustiour, of ad guns, wif shortly be lunched at Chat.
ham. Another ship of 84 guns, to be called the Moioams, will
be built in place of the FORRIDA DLL
Foutoont, Fn. Vt.—Wind S E.--Sailed the Aurora transport.
Nicnou.s, for Corks New Braganca, Coeurar, for the Med:tena-
nean ;.and the Active, BANKS, for London.
Panthers, Ftta. 22.—Wind S.R.—Arrived the Watchful, Rat-
ite, from Altea, in
.27 days; and Rising Sun,
_Boob, from • St.
Michael's, in 34 days.
Poemmotrit, Frs. 121.—Wind &E.—Arrived the Henrietta,
Goon, from St. Michael's, in 15 days. Passed by down Channel,
the Honourable Company's ship Kent, Coss, for Bengal, Ste. and
the Gilmore, Laws, for ditto.
Dui., Frs. 25.--o Wind E.—No arrivals or sailing's.
Cowan, Frs. 23.—Wind KS.E.=Arrived the Nom transport,
Humours, from Gibraltar, in 16 d#yi.
SPORTIN=LIGEIVCr..

HUNTING.
The Fast Kent fox-hounds had a good day on Friday, the lath.
They found their fox la Mr. Andrews's-Covert, adjoining &outing
Rough, whence he ran to Miley, Sibton. Lyminge, End Pestling
wood ; down the hill, over Horton Park through the wood to Bra-

bourne Park, where he was killed, after as brilliant a thing of fifty
minutes as ever was seep with hounds.

Mr. Feilowes's bounds have lately been well 4104 ed, and have
afforded most excellent sport. On Tuesday, the Stb, they found at
Bycott Brake, and killed in good style, after a capital run. On
Thursday, they drew the Home Covers, and killed t*l) foxes. This

was the severest run they have had this season ; it was dark when
they ran into the second fox. On Saturday, they rand at Landen,
and after a long run (the Litter part of which was very quick). the
fox with difficulty reached LaylandWood. from whence four fresh
foxes were immediately started, and the hounds divided upon two,
one of which they had nearly run up before they could be stopped.
Two couples of hounds, however, stuck to the first fox, and killed
him about a quarter of a mile from the wood. On Tuesday, they
drew Layland Wood, found very quickly, after twining the long
range of covers for some time, and drove a fox to earth, which was
dug out and killed.