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iitred frOps the enemy is avowedly that of the captors,
when not otherivise stipulated. Are you acting in
the nastie of the King of Spain, or of his Allies ?
As we consider the people of the United States to be
unquestionably the only free people on the surface of
the globe, we cannot admit that you have already
arrived to such a point of degradation* Otherwise,
your demand is inadmissible and unjustifiable in the ,
eyes of the world; and if we must submit to it, all
the blame nits with you.
“ Permit me, therefore, Gentlemen, to reluest you
to lay before the President of the United States these
remarks, in order that a matter of so serious a ten-
cieocy may be duly considered. We have read his

ilfE ARMY.

CASE OP LIEUTENANTS ON THE ARMY.
TO THE ED/TOR OP THE STAR.

Sta.—.Contrbtced of your good Maim for the welfare of th•
Officers of the British ArMy. (many of whom, with their fas
males, are now starving in garrets, depending on Haff-ply for
their daily n:ppoit.), I hope you erMirmrt the following in your
Paper, so Mich patronized by the British Nary and Army.
In inset like the present, when the door* to promotion ate
abet, I hare bora reflecting on the situation of a certain class of
Officers, six. the Lieutenants of the Army, and ant inclined to
think that the following plan, for ameliorating their conditions,
(which, when on Half-pay with families, Is next to starvation),
if submitted to the illustrious Commandmin-Cidaf, would meet
with doe attention. My object is to obtain the rank of Captain
for all Lieutenants who are of eleven years standing, and who

the Army at barge ; th; adoption of which, I a certain would
afford you as much pleasure as your obliged Inimble servant,
A COWSTANT SUSICRIIIII AND AM 011.11 larriPely
January 31, 1811.

• COURT-MARTIAL.,
A Court Martial commenced at Woolwich, on the
7th ult. and continued by adjournment until the 19th,
for trying. Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel ABERNETME,
of the Woolwich Division of Royal Marines, upon
charges brought against him by Lieutenant-Colonel
Savnon, on the half-pay of that Corps, viz.
Ist. For conduct unbecoming an Officer and a Gentlemen, *
making use of offensive observations in the course of converse.
tion with Lieut.-Col. Savage, in the Marine Library, at Wuef.
wicb, on the 15th Feb. IBIS, in the presence of Major Strata.
sham, OiptainsClarke, Connolly, and other Officers, after re-
peated Utimations from Col. Savage, that if he persisted in such
observations, be (Lieut.-CoL S.) shoulAbe compelled to notice
them in a more serious manner; fos ering in such offensive
remarks ontililleur.-Col. S. wairpreveked to call him (Lieut..
Col. Abernetbie) an " impertinent fellow," and afterwards te
repeat the same in the stroogvn terms.
2d. For aiserting, on or about the 11th of December, 1,17,
a palpable falmhood, in declaring on his honour, to Brevet-Ma-
jor Nichols and other Officers, that he (Lieut.-Col. Abernethic,)
never heard Lieut.-Col. Savage apply to him the epithets men-
tioned in the first charge.
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3d. For sending, on or about the 11th of December, I'Bl7,
Capt. R. Clarke (nearly three years after the date of the trans-
action mentioned in the first charge) to read a paper, written by
Lieut.-Col. Abernethie, which contained the moat scurrilous
abuse of Lieut.-Col. Savage, for the obvious purposeof provoking
hint to fight a duet; and for afterwards causing a similar paper
to be put up in the Marine library at Woolwich ; and for send-
ing his brother, Mr. Abernethie, on the filth of December, 1817,
to demand satisfaction of Lieut.-Col. Savage, en account of opi-
nions captioned by him respecting liento-Col. Abernethies cha-
racter, Iruberquent to the insult mentioned in the lint charge (and
;n consequence of that insult not having been noticed by Lieut.-
' MI. Aberuethie) Abernethie also knowing that

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Aberacihie, as he had

the intuit mentioned in the first charge, to remain so long
unresented, and had thereby forfeited every claim to satisfac-
tion as an Officer and a Gentleman • and for also sending, on
the following day, Dec. 13th, 1817, Lieut.-Colonel Lynn to de.
math satisfaction of 'lent-Colonel Savage, notwithstanding the
decisive answer given by Lieut.-Colonel Savage, both to Capt.
R. Clarke and Mr. Abernethie, on that point.
th. For compromising scandalous disputes, in which he, Lieut.
('ol. Abernethie, has been engaged with junior officers, more
particularly with Lieut. Pollock,oo or about May or June 111%
who on that occasion threatened to horsewhip him.
Upon which charges the Court came to the follow-
ing decisions, viz..
" The Court having duly considered the evidence on the part
of the prosecution, and what the prisoner, Liaut-Col. Aber-
nethie, had to offer in his defence, is of opinion the first charge
is not proved, and does therefore acquit him of this charge.
" This Conn is of opinion that the second charge is not proved,
it appearing on evidence, that the prisoner, while he denied har-
ing heard the particular expressions • impertinent fellow,' and
• danuid impertinent fellow, admitted in the same breath la lguage
equally degrading; and that ke evinced no intention either to
concealer soften the offensivelxpresaions he had received fray
Lieut.-Colonel Savage. The Court does therefore acquit him of
' palpable or intentional falsehocd.
" The third charge not being cognizable before a Court-Mar-
dal, was not entered into.

The Court is of opinion that the prisoner is not guilty of the
fourth charge, and that the charge, absolutely destitute of proof,
is vexatious and malicious, and does therefore acquit him.
" The Court feels itself imperatively called upon to comment
upon parts of the matter which has appeared during the trial,
and wishes to express in the strongest manner its disapprobatioo
of the offensive language which took place in the Marine library,
and which, for so long a period, was suffered to remain without
explanation or honourable adjustment.
" Before closing its proceedings, the Court thinks itself !tripe-
riously called upon to refer to the general conduct of the prosecu-
tor on this occasion ; and is of opinion, it cannot, in terms suffi-
ciently strong, convey its reprehension of his bringing forward
cbrcumstances said to have passed so remote, as charges against an
officer, when nothing appears to the Court to have prevented the
p~oserotor fix in preferring those etarges at as earlier period,
Mad he been actuated by zeal for Ma Maney's service, or zealous
for the honour of the Marine Corps. The Court therefore thinks
it expedient to record on its proceedings the fog* disonstobotievi it
entertains of the general conduct on the part of the prosecutor;
nor can the Court conceive that the prosecutor acted under a
proper regard for his own character in bringing forward these
charges against Lieut.-Colonel Abcrnethie, at the very moment
when he (Lieut.-Col. Abernethie) was demanding reparation for
reiterated and recent injuries ; for if Lieutenant-Colonel Savage
conceived that Lieutenant-Colonel Abernedne was out of the
pale of demanding reparation, these reiterated attacks were both
unjust and unmanly.
" The said charges and sentence, with a minute of the pro-
ceedings, having been laid before his Royal iligluwas the Prince
Regent by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, bin
Royal Highness has been pleased, in the name and on behalf of
his Majesty, to approve the finding of the Court.
" His Royal Highness, taking into consideration, however,
--,anus of the Court upon the offensive language
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which took place in the Marine Aar), at wociwich, and
which for so long a time was suffered to Amain so long without
explanation or honourable adjustment, and which offensive kilo.
guage appears by the evidence to have been first addressed by
Lieut.-Colonel Savage to Lieut.-Colonel Abernethle, his Royal
Highness feels it due to the good order and character of the
Royal hlarine Corps, to take notice of Lieutenant-Colonel Abets-
nethle's conduct, by removing him to the permanent half-pay of
the Corps.
" And his Royal Highness further taking into consideration
the conduct of Laemenant-Celonel Savage, and covet rting in the
strong censure pronounced upon him by the Court-Martial, is
pleased to direct that.tbe uame of Lieut.-Colonel Silage shall be
removed altogether from the list of Officer* of the Royal hfarins
Calk{Signed) • " J. W. caoxEß."

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