Star.
London, England, 1812-04-21 00:00:00

NATAL COURTS MARTIAL.

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THE ARMY.

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.In consequence of the disturbed state of our 11132111.. e
facturing towns, the King's (own' Staffordshire
htia have received orders to quit the Windsor chitp,
They are to proceed to the Eastern District, in order
to be stationed as circumstances may require.
Five Officers and 9.5 men, belonging to the 4th or
Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, embarked on Satur-
da), at Pi ctsmouth, to join their regiment now on
service in Portugal. •
The 57th regiment 2d battalion, will leave Win-
cheqer to-morrow, for Steyning Barracks‘
Thursday, the 97th regiment of foot marched into.
Gosport, and embarked for Guernsey, to replace the
03d Foot, who embark for North America.
A detachment of the Hereford Militia has marched '
from Gosport to Fareham, and relieved a part of the
North Cork. which had been stationed there.
• The Roscommon Regiment of Militia have orders
to relieve the Shropshire at Dartmoor prison, on thei
21st instant.
The Officers of the gallknt 88th Regiment, or.
• Connaught Rangers (whose heroism at Buenos Ayres.
Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D'Opore, Ciudad Ro-
diigo, Stc. and on every dreadful day that required
the exertions of Fallantry and courage, is the theme
of general admiration) have conferred on DUNCAN
CAMPBELL, Esq. of Torryburne, near Dunfermline,
late Paymaster of that Regiment, a proud memorial
of their friendship and regard. A piece of plate,
value one hundred guineas, has been lately presented
to him with the following inscription :—" Quis Se.
part hit," the appropriate motto of this distinguished
Corps.
The Eighteenth Report of the Commissioners of
Military Inquiry has been printed. I: states many
frauds practised in the delivery of the supply of bread,
&rage, and fuel to the troops. The principal are
committed in the article of forage, and in these the
Quarter-masters and Contractors divide the benefit.
In common with all sober.minded Britons, jealous
of the honour and credit of our country, we have
heheid, with grief and dismay, the fantastic and de-
griding fopperies which have, within these few years,
been introduced into the dress of the military. Can
any thing more rinii-Brithk be conceived than that,
at a moment when the minds and hearts of the British
troops are to be quickened to a just sense of the
migfity danger that threatens the empire, they should
have their time occupied and their tempers soured by
the disgusting metamorphosis of their persons.—
What a degradation ! to give to Englishmen the
aspect and appearance of Germans. It would be
sounder policy, when foreigners are so highly ho.
'Poured as to be admitted into the ranks of the British, '
to shave their _whiskers and dress them in the true '
English stile.—Make all your men look like English
and the enemy will dread them—give them the sem-
blance of Foreigners and the enemy will despise them.
e—This metamorphosis of our military has given the
most serious unea.iness to all the considerate part of
She profession. The following Petition to the Duke
of YORK was lately presented by a Nobl .•rnar. of high
rank, Colonel to a Regiment of heavy Dragoons:
TO alb ROYAL RICO N 6IS TOT COMMA/MLR ZS cigar.

A Court-martial commenced on the 10th, and I
continued by adjournment until the pith, on board
the Gladiator, in Portsmouth harbour, on. Lieutenant
W.. Henry thuslas, Commander o his Majesty's
cutter Barbara, upon charges of severely starting
with a eope's end, and ill-using several of that yes-
sel's•Oese ; as also, because the provisions were not,
regularly served but to them. A number of wit-
nesses were examined, from whose evidence it appear.
ed, that the Barbara was over-masted, and cruizing
a the Forelands, every exertion was requisite to
make and shorten sail ; in the execution of which duty
it was Lieutenant Douglas complained of their dila-
toriness, and started most pf the crew, as a summary
punishment. The Court agreed, that the charges
had been in part proved ; but, in consideratioud,
circumstances, did adjudge Lieutenant Douglas only
to be severely reprimanded. Rear-Admiral Hag.:
GOOD President.
A Court-Martial was on Friday held at Ports.
mouth on John Ramsey and George Marshall} sea.
men of the Porcupine, for desertion. They were sen-
tenced to receive fifty lashes each.—The Court of
wards sat on Mr. Phillip Moisson, Pilot of the Pickle,.
for his conduct on the occasion of the striking of that
vessel on a sunken rock on the 6th inst. It appeared,
he had made too great an allowance for the flood-
tide, and shaped the vessel's course too far west-
wird ; and was, therefore, adjudged to be severely.'
reprimanded, and admonished to be more careful in
future. Wm. Mahon, seaman, of the Ganymede,
for attempting to desert, and for having behaved in a
most riotous and disorderly manner, by striking Mr.l
T. Francillon and Mr. James Re) nolds, midship-
men, upon their apprehending him, was adjudged to
receive 300 lashes.
Thursday a Court-martial was held on board the
Salvador del Mundo, in Hamoaze, on James Salt, a
seaman, belonging to the Iris fi igate, for striking .the
Ship's Corporal of the said ship (doing duty as Mas-
ter-at-Arms) in the head with a carpenter's mallet.
Sentence—Death. Sir E. BULLER, President.
A Court-martial was' held at Plymouth, on the
16th and 17th inst. for the trial of Captain Lord W.
STUART, and the other officers of the CONQUESTADOR,
for the accident that befel that vessel in Quiberon
Bay, on the 3d ult. for not having taken care in the
steering and conducting of his Majesty's said ship ;
and for having, through wilfulness, negligence, and
other default, run the said ship on a shoal sand ; and
for having hazarded the said ship, contrary to the
26th article of war. The evidence having been gone
through, and Lord W. Stuart heard in his defence, I
the Court were of opinion that there was not the most
distant ground for believing that the said Capt. Lord
W. Stuart, and the other officers of the Conquesta.
dor, did not take care in the steering and conducting
the said ship, or that the said ship was through wil-
fulness, negligence, or other default, run on the said
shore or sands, stated to be 64 La Four," or that she
Was hazarded conaary to the 26th article of war :
and the Court doth in consequence adjudge Lord W.
Stuart, and the other Officers of the Conquestador,
to be severally fully acquitted.

Saturday se'nnight, the CONQUISTADOR, 74, which
got on shore on the French coast when running from
Basque Roads to Quiberon Bay, was docked at Ply-
mouth; and on the recess of the water from the dock
the damage she had sustained excited the astonish.
ment of all who beheld it. The whole of the keel
was gone from stem to stern, and the whole of the
deadwood, up to the lower brace. An escape from
sinking, under such circumstances, is unprecedented
in naval annals. Fortunately for the officers and
crew of the CONQUISTADOR' her timbers to the height
of the first *tor had been filled in by the shipwrights
and caulked, a practice that has lately been adopted
1 in the dock-yards, and has iu this instance preserved
Boxfwo.—.A fight took place yelterday at St. ship and crew. • .
George's-row, Paddington, between Fosgrove, a boat- if On Friday the Committee for managing the affairs
man, from Staffordshire, weight under le stone, and . at Lloyd's represented to the Admiralty Board, the
a man of provincial note called Trent. Billy, weight probability, that from the prevalence of contrary,
14 stone. They stood and hit without shifting for winds, a number of homeward-hound merchantmen
about three quarters of an hour. Fosgrove had an may be detained in the Chops of the Channel, in a,
advantage in being a dreadful heavy right-hand hit- distressed situation for water and provisions. A let-
ter at the head, and by frequent repetitions his oppo-i ter in reply was received from Mr. CROKER, stating,
pent was compelled to give in when no longer able to " that Admirals Lord KEITH and Sir ROBERT CAL.
stand. Paddington Jones seconded the winner.— I DER have been directed to use their best exertions to
The batde was for 20 guineas. I push out any creizers which may be within theti'
Thursday, the 9th inst. Mr. Joseph Elias Holland
i: reach, with supplies of water and provisions, for the
undertook for a considerable bet, to draw a gig with merchant vessels that may be beating about the Chops
a Gentleman in it (of Lambertonian weight) from of the Channel, and in want thereof."
the Whte Hart Inn, Colchester, to the Toll-gate at
The Church of St. Pellerin, Dep
distance of nearly three miles and a half; which he artment of the
Lexden, and hack, in the space of 50 minutes, a
Loire, was, on the 22d of Febrr.ry, struck by light-
did not accomplish by half a minute, being so much
ning, andburnt to the ground before the flames could
;
exhausted that it was necessary to call in medical be extinguished. ground
aid to save his life. . Thunder storms wire very generally experienced
Friday, a stag was turned out before Lord Clive's bounds on throughout France in February last, and, besides Oc-
Iftwkiernent, near Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. The animal casionirig the loss of many lives, had levelled many
warted towards Iltibury, then took a turn towards lirockton, public buildings, houses, Ste. , On the night of the.
and at length entered the town of Bishop's Castle, near the 23d, three vessels in L'Orient were sunk by Chun
Church. At first be passed through several gardens, and tasted A 2_ ~_
the early peas and beans ; but the hounds coming in full cry, he uer'°°"s.
sought shelter in the stable-pud belonging te the Three Tuns The most elevated point of the mountain. of Ar-
ian; being routed front thWee,he Bed to the yard of the Crown closum, near Chamberi, was, on the 17th February,
and Star; . and not finding more civil aceonifiation than from
the landlords of the former inns, he took t it Huh-lane; and detached from its base, and buried beneath its ruins
am entering the street at two Sr three places, he stood u Bay five familes, their houses, cattle, Bcc.
at the porch of the Harp his- Being market-dcartabiPwilias of On Thursday night, Lord Grimstone's house, in
goo persons were collected before the hounds
.up, said the ....
hurt. It is a that Grosvenor-square, was broken open and robbed of a
animal was secured without '
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The tnimble Petition of
Tour Memorialist havit g the appearance and comfort of his
regiment at heart, is induced to restore to remonstrate, with all
huntility, against the adoption of a arming toe the bead of the
Officer and Soldier, in the shape of a theatrical helmet which
Las been exhibited to your Memorialist, as likely to be itifficted
on the regiment, and although from its weight, its shapt, and
unfitness fir service, it will hardly be supposed that it can
poweilly tweet with your Royal Highness's approbation, yet it
appears to your Memorialist that the Tradesmen who exhibit
these things, rhould not be permitted to render the Kirke ridi-
talons in the eye, of the Public.—YoUr Memotiallst, therefore,
bores that he may be permitted to furnish Hats as usual, which
were due to the regiment last Christmas.

4 being bui
be sought shelter ally at the inns: Lord Clive sad a number of
friends were at this singular chase.
The fracas between A LIINA, Countess of Boca-
iNGHASI, and Lord.Hawae, about the smash of their
respective carriages, by running rathev too rapidly
Mtn fashionable contact with each other, has bcesi
isumptomised by mutual concessions.
• The Leicester coach was overturned oh Thanday;
near Stamlo:d, whets the coachman had his leg broke.
None of the passengers ewe materially hurt. • 1
Thursday, about half-past two o'clock, die Ply.
mouth and Exeter stage-coach, (the Mercury or Spa,.
nish Mail,) was ii?set near the Haymarket, offing to
its being uverloadea on the rod. Most of the pale
senger s were severely bruised.
An accident of a serious nature took place on Fri-
day night last, through the intoxication o&the ceach-.
man of .he Worcester mail, in consequence of which,
the coach in passing along Dorchester-bridge was
overturned, having a gentleman and lady from Kid,.
derminster, and a gentleman from -Burton . n-th•
water, inside passengers, who escapVd without much
injury ; but an outside passenger was aziouesy bruistdt

quantity of wearing apparel and other property.
Wednesday evening, Lieutenant Anderson, of
Kennington, had his pocket picked of near £2OO in
Bank notes, at the foot of Blackfriars-bridge, by some
street robbers.
Tuesday fortnight, at an early hour Of the morn•
ing, two murders were committed on the laads
castle Jane, in the neighbourhood of Skibbereen. A i
young man, on his way to Cork, with a sem of mom,
ney belonging to W. Horan, Esq. of Clont.ff, was
attacked, robbed, and murdered, at a short distance
from Castle Jane.
Saturday se'nnight, J.Took wasexecuted at Ipswich,
pursuant to his sentence. His behavour to the last
exhibited strong indications of extreme ignorance and
insensibility. His wife and 4 children were in, the
crowd collecting money ; but before he was nulled
off the Sheriff ordered two constables to take them
out of sight of the place of execuk.on.
A gendeman.named SPARKS, ho was gring fr m-
Dnban, to join the present thea.ric.,l con,p.oly in
Ccrk, unfortunately fell from tiff the two on bun.
d4y se'nnisht, near Jninstown, and was" kind..

MARRIED.

Tuesday, the 14th Instant, by the Rev. C. Matthew, the Rev.
Robert P. Crane, A.M. of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Vicar of
Tolleshunt Major, in the county of Essex, to Jane, eldest daughter
of John Gorr, Esq. Collector of his Majesty's Customs at the
tort of Maldon, in the same county.
April 16, J. Ord, Esq. of Duughty-street, to Mary, daugl ter
or the Rev. 1. kirch, Rector of Coring..am, Essex.
Las week, in Lincolnshie, Lorporal Dupre to Miss N. Trol-
lore, with a fortune-of 412,000. Miss T. fell in love with him
wiale he was un parade with the soldiers--the neat morning she
communicated her sentiments to him, which he joyfully *ca. pted,
at.o on the following thy hele.rher to the Altar ea Hymen.

At Agoada in the Fast India %, on the 29th of September, Cap-
tainloam Firmin liLackanore, of the Ist battalion 18th Itet,--
mem : he had served litany years with the regiment. and to M.h
ba alions, mid IVY. universally esti•emed I,y hi, brother °Seers,
for his urbanity or niarluers and bottevolrhee
wuicr. last ijuawy he pussemied in a most eimoent ship ee„ I.
had an extensive circle ut acq, ointance, amuraf whom his nit
Mori will king &swims( tole rrykr44l;
Uo th, I ihiiirant,si 1 stballan EfdpildespeeltlepeSpen..
; ltd thiveta of I ien atlt•• Oi th lA. opot4. ' • I.)e, '
iAt ihe adv.incyd 44;100 y ire, #450. J01N15;4412 of the LW:
Ropy hoe, kick apt If:lsociulattula, county or Meisb.