Star.
London, England, 1811-04-02 00:00:00

• THE VVENING STAR.

LONDON.
• TLIESDAY, APRIL 4. •
MCP. OP STOCKS 411 IS DAY AT ONE n'cLoct.
I per Cent. Cons. money. 644—fir account Sal
Reduced *hut- -4 per C..nt. shut—S per Cent. Navy 911
Exalisq. fills par to Ss. 'pr.—Rends, 18,. prem.
A Heligoland Mail, which, arrived this morning,
has given an increased importance to the. intelligence •
received yesterday respecting the North of Europs,l
hastening to a crisis. As.
etists between Denmark
thrintri'ouithit Kussiao
a perfectly amicable root.
Danish seamen who were
navy of France, have beet'
halted on their journey, and now await the orders Of,
their own Sovereign. Serious disturbances are daily;
breaking out at Hambyrgh, where the cry of" Lorry
live the King of England,'" from the mouths of the;
oppressed and starved inhabitants, continually rings'
in the ears of the Satellites of Despotism.
The Swedish papers brought by the above Mah
contain a Proclamation by the King of Swam;, sis-•
'daring his incapacity to reign, and appointing Bast-
NADOTTE PRINCE REDENT. _
KLINGSPOR, ARNIFILDT, and BARON; 'thit. 114121/ISt
and most popular of the Swedish Generals, are im.
plicated in the late conspiracy to assassinate Boma.;
DOTTE.
Some demur has taken place in Sweden also, re-
specting the compliance with the demands of NApo.
poison ; nor is it likely that the Swedish contingency
of sailors to man his fleets will be permitted to leave ,
their native kingdom. ,
The following extracts from the above communi.i
cations will be found highly interesting : •
• • RANKS OF THE ELBE, MARCH IS.
A late Decree of the Counsel/ des Prize: has been
td may, it is thought, lead to

the cause of dispute, am ~it is
a misunderstanding between the Courts, of France
*ad Denmark. The American ship Washington, with
* regular licence (signed by the King of Denmark),
and-a cargo of salt on board, was seized last Voir, in
going into Tonningen, by a Fipench privateer ; aind,
e.s the seizure had been made within the Danish, do-
minions, the Court of Copenhagen took considerable
interest in the case, and had held out hopes to the eon-
aignees that the vessel woklfi be instantly released
'notwithstanding which, she has been condemned as a

—.acting
lawful prize.—The reason assigned 'for her condem•
nation, as, stated in' the official document, is, that
there was an. English army in Spain at the time of
the vessel's sailing from St. Übe's. Her papers,
however, were acknowledged to be in the best order;
and :he was seized within three miles of the baibdur
of Tonningen. •
HELIGOLAND, MARCH
The refractory spirit manifested by the Hamburgh
city guard, on being ordered to assume the French
cockade, appears to have been of a more serious na-
ture than was at first supposed ; and had not the most
prompt and energetic measures been adopted to sup-
press it, mi--1,1 have led to a very general ferment.—
of the

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did not seem to know how to estimate its Values be- ways ...,at -diaiipline, and then doubly so 1--- . light
They had threatened the house L._ ____: French Corn- . cruise
sides they were not warranted in counting upon pre-' from numbers ? 'Why were the two battalions, con-
and had actually .talt. en possession of the OB to N. Went out of ditto the Pies cc sChtiiiii.
cisely the same glorious results in the recurrence of si. Wining which. the Right Hon. Gentleman vapoured mandant.
ate, of the town before a sufficient number of French' At Lancaster Assizes. on Saturday; the A R .
in lar circumstances.
.A very little more advantag4pn so ouch, why were they withdrawn from the heights g
troops assembled and forced them to desist. They Nair .13/a Ea a L filed an information ex is, at the
the part at the enemy Might,have turned the male even of Barrow ? why was their position abandoned pre-
were afterwards marched out of. the town, and 150 instance of his Majesty's Commissioners for the Al
an-
against thesame portion of skill, discipline, and intre- cipitately to the Peach ? Who gave this order but a
of them, who continued to shew a disposition for mu-
.chaster,
fairs of Tates, against John Collier, a dyer, at M
piclity—numbers on the part of discipned troops were Spanitiv Geer t Mat I should not this-excite a jea- as the Writer and Author of a Libel OS. the
./i Oro &okra sime•a Sr nisi army is,ivt tiny, were brlblught back, chained together two by
a formidable advOntage, against which no skill or.con- logy iting to the inhabitants of this once Commissioners of the Property Tax there. The
nge could calculate with certainty. He thought itap _boa eold.loloaded spectatas at Baitisk bigoissa ? Did gyp, . ins tab Jury, without hesitadoe, found the defendant gelky.
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Hatle literal Gratim to subject them at least to the charge receivea Testeroay rcspruciii
k'thatitf bf being the cold-blooded spectators ? Was it then where affairs are evidently b
;sod tfOi either just or generous towards the men of these ttvo efident misunderstanding
ale loostalions, to call them by such opprobrlons terms tb9...:4 rrance, and hints ire tl
tgrritlter He, should not enter :into that part of the opt-ech of
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outlaw* the Hinton—rage Gentleman which related to the con." . -
t in the mean time, the
laniards f duct' of the Spanish war by the. Spanish people. He' ink
I—on thotl would merely state, that' notwithstanding all the on their march to man the i
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ern:4lol4am/ $y Major Nortissi. : •r. •tillecOn he shouP not apPiy to Oneraltrownrigß,
Q. Did you not, previous to Octobero take opp* . but to the Adjutant-General. Having afterwards
*unities in private and public societies, at Ceelten- waited on the Adjutant-General, lee had some con-
kon, of traducing my character ? A. Having dig- venation with him, in consequence.of vijsich he wrote
thud), stated, in a letter I addressed to the Adjutant aulOther letter to Major Northey, as follotes :
General, immediately after the Board had dosed, " Silt —ln consecpbenee of a cOniersation 1 'aye had *lilt Ge•
octal
y(.o'aul:ecrton,dlusetlia:ln not interfere farther ftit
urtheevireraborx,RbiTuetylocu. n-
that I did not consider Major Northey's character no
then in a more favourable light than I did before the satisfaction, but yal are at liberty to pursue any other measures
sitting of that Board, anii that I considered my own you suay think proper. (Signed) "A. LANGTON...
character and reputation deeply involved in the cir- On the same evening (the 28th August) a servant
cumstances of Major Northey's case, I did frequently delivered a letter to the witness from-Major Northey,
afterwards, in confaemity with that opintn, take op-1 which he returned unopened ; and in some day, after
portunities, in private conversation, to state explicitly he received another letter directed in a strange hand,
all the circumstances which I had previously stated but upon opening it, found it was from Major Nor-
at the Board. and many of which I had stated pri- they, and to the following effect :
vately in a conversation with Major Northey himself e Sit—l have received your letter, and have only to say, that
long previous to the assembling of that Board. I despise its contents as I do the person who wrote them.
Q. Did you, previous to the 11th of October, boast (Signed) " A. NOILTIIIT."
to a company at Cheltenham, that you had prevented To this letter he made no reply.
Major Northey's marriage ? A. I have no recollec- Cross-examined by Major NORTHEY.
tion whatever of having boasted of having prevented Q. %Vero you at any time previous to the .25th
his marriage, hut that circumstance being one of the and 26th of August, informed by Major Tidy that
principal features ire the case, I have no doubt but he had given you up to me as the author of the ca.
that I alltilied to it. , lumnies complained of in those letters ?A.I am
Q. Did you not at Cheltenham, in private society, not aware that Major Tidy ever clearly explained to
then state that you had done for that fellow, mean-' me that he had given me up as the author of the re-.
'ing Major Northey ? A. I have no recollection of port prejudicial to Major Northey's character, but he
leaving made-use of such an expression. stated to me repeatedly, in conversation and by letter,
Q. Did you not say that in consequence of these that he was aware of my being' acquainted with those
reports against Major Northey, he was not suffered to reports. .
remain in the army ? A. In the conversation I have Q. Do you mean it to be understood that you did
'mentioned between Captain Guthry and myself, I bet see or know of the correspondence between Maier
mentioned that having heard nothing of Major Nor- Tidy and Major Northey, previous to the Court of
they since the date ef our last correspondence, .I was Inquiry ? A. lam not aware that before my arri-
:not aware- even whether Major Northey was still.,-' TA in town to give evidence before the Board,of any
Major in the army. . . . correspondence having passed between Major Tidy
Q. You are desired to state whether at a party
.et and Major Northey, concerning the reports about to
Lady- Ab.doey's, at Cheltenham, you did not say, you be investigated. I did, however, converse with Ma.
Viel'e the calm of breaking off the marriage ? A. 1 jor Tidy previous to giving evidence before the
chtee no recollectioe of having stated that any inter- Board, and though Ido not clearly recollect, I have
Terence of mine wae.the sole cause of breaking off the little doubt that in this conversation, Major Tidy
match, as I iiefore stated:; in relating the facts I. Mentioned to me all the circumstances which had re-
might have mentioned the part I took. Gently taken place between him and Major Northey.
By the CouRT. To other questions, the witness stated, that Major
Q. How long after you first heard reports or knew Tidy had informed him that Major Northey bad called
any thing injurious.to his character, did you continue upon him for an explanation of the allusions in ques-
to associate with Major Northey ? A. The first tion —that Major Tidy, in several conversations, stated
thing whi,:h appeared injurious to his character, pro- to him that he had mentioned him to Major Northey,
ceeded from my own observation, in 'a few weeks af- as the author of some of the reports prejudicial to his
ter I first became acquainted with him in 1800, but character. A letter from Major Tidy to the witness,
these being only suspicions of my own forming, Ido dated 29th July, 1810, informed him of this circum.
not conceive that I had sufficient grounds at that pe- stance, but that letter was not received for two months
rind for avoiding his society. I cannot state distinctly after ; a letter of the 90th July on the same subject,
' when I first heard reports prejudicial to his character. he did receive in due course of the post, but he was
When' I first heard reports which induced me to almost certain, that previous to his going before the
avoid his society, was soon after my arrival in LisbOn, Board he had no such information. Major Tidy dis-
in the latter end of the year 1808. I did not imme- tinctly communicated this circumstance to him by
decely then avoid him, but when these reports were letter, on the 10th October, 1810.
accumulated against him, I, and the other Officers of After some further general questions as to the time
the Staff, became, by degrees, to be more and more when Captain Langton distinctly knew that Major
cool towards him, and at length avoided him alto- Tidy had given him up as the author of the calum-
gether. nies, the evidence on the First Charge closed.
Q. Did you not circulate I report of circumstances On the. Second Charge—Captain Langton stated,
which occurred in Guernsey, injurious to Major Nor. that he had not seen nor held any communication
they, long previous to 1806 ?A.On my evidence with Major Ni from the date of the last letter

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morning, and the names of the members called over,
and the usual oath administereit—
. The JUDGS ADTOCATIG:GENERAL proceeded to read
the following Charges :
Theta—That Major Northy did, on the 26th day of August,
1510, send a challenge to Captain Algernon Langton, of hip
Melesty's 61st (or south-Gloucestershire) Regiment of Pont,. irt
consequence of the evidence which had been given by Captain
Langton, before a Board of General Officers appointed to Over
tigate Major Northey's character, which met on the tth of Ais;.,
just, 1616.
Second—a That Major Northey, at Cheltenham, on the llth
of
October, MO, did, at-two different times on that day, behave
with insult antlignitrage towards Captain Langton, and did then
eorniuct himse in a scandalous and infamous manner, such as is
unbecoming the character of on Officer and a Gentleman.
The prosecutor (Captain LAN o'roN ) being then-
called upon by the Courr to substantiate his Charges,
be prefaced his statement, by assuring the Court, that'
it was not out of any personal pique 'or animosity
towards the prisoner that he prosecuted these char-
y, against him.; and he begged to impress it on
ate Court, that these were not voluntary charges se-
lected by himself, but that he appeared a! the prose-
cutor, and preferred these charges in obedience to the
positive injtmetioni of his Excellency the Comn'ian-
der in Chief. He then proceeded to state, that about
two years ago, he was et Lisbon, where he met ihe
prisoner'; that horn some c:rcumstances in the priso-
ner'sconduct, he (the proiecotor) and the other offi-
cers of the Staff were induced to treat hiin with a de
Free of coolness, and afterwards used to pass him by
:a the street without noticing him. He was then pro
seeding to state the particular circumstances of Major
Northey's conduct, when
The Roue A DVOCATK-OVIERAL observed, thatbe-
fore the prosecutor proceeded further, he wished to
state to the Court his objections to the line the pro-
secutor was then pursuing. The prisoner had been
pleated of those charges by a Board of General Offi
eers, which sat on the 7th of August. A Court cf
Inquiry, in his judgment, was a solemn mode of in-
quiring whether a Court Martial was expedient or
sot? and no Court Martial having been deemed ad-
visable upon the charges then prefet red against. Major
Northey, he apprehended the Court could not now re-
vive any evidence upon those charges. The only
ehargtg• cognizable by the Court were the written
charges then before them, of which alone the priso-
ner had had a copy, and upon which only his witnesses
were subpasaued tOr his defence ; the Court therefore
could not receive any evidence of any facts but what
were immediately relevant to the charges before them,
and to which alone Captain Langton would confine
his observations.

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before the Board of Inquiry, I stated a circumstance
which had taken place between him and me in the
latter end of 1800, audit was one of the suppositions
I before alluded to.
Some objections being mad. to thee. two questions,
the Court was cleared, and after some deliberation,
the doors were again opened, when the Court direc-
ted• the two last questions to be expunged from the
Minutes.
RICHARD L Awcintsn sworn and examined.
He was the landlord of the George Inn, at Chel-
tenham,and merely spoke of someof the circumstances
which happened at his house.
Mr. HoLMes, M.P. 'worn and examined.
Stated, that he bad ascompanied Major Northey
to-the Sheldon Hotel, ott the evening in questiotti
that he saw Captain Lanvon come down to the bar 4
he beard Major Northey say to him, he had come to
read a paper to him. Capt. Langton turned about,
and Northey said—" I new repeat what I said in the
morning ; you area scoundrel and a villain ; you
hive traduced my character ; you have been inces-
sant in your abuse of me, and I *now demand your
reasons for not giving me satisfaction." Capt. Lang-
ton, on this, lifted up his stick, with the intention of
striking MajorNorthey, when Capt. Hopkins, Nor-
they, and Capt. Guthry, of the 44tb interfered, and
said, " there had been too much of ;hat already."—
Major Northey repeated his expressions, and Captain
Langton asked him if he had informed the gentlemen
of the circumstances which led to this rencontre
The witness said he should be glad to learn it from
him. Capt. Langton then said, that about a year
and a halt before, in Portugal, he had told Major
of

Captain LANGTON replied, that as his character
and honour were deeply involved in this inves..iga-
tion, he begged the opinion of the Court might be
taken upon it.
. The Court having consulted for a short time, Cap-
tain Langton was informed that he should confine his
itatement to the charges immediately before the Court.
Captain LANGTON then declined making any fur-
ther übservations, and proceeded to ,call his witnesses
to substantiate the first charge. JJ
Major.GeneralT uRN ER :worn and examined.
Deposed that he was the President of a Board of
Inquiry, which sat on the character of Major Northey
in tit ugust, 1810; that Captain Langton was sum-
moned and gave evidence before that Board; that
the Board closed its pr,ceedings on the 25th of Au-
gust ; and that on the 26th, the opinion of the Board
vas macre public..
Captain LANs:raw :worn and examined.
6tated, that in consequence of an order from the.
Adjutant-General, he attended and gave evidence be-
fore the Board of General 0 licers, assembled to in-
vestigate the character of Major Northey, on doe 16th
and 17th of August ; that the decisioo of the Board
was made known to him on the 25th, and on the
same evening he received a letter from Major Nor-
` they to the following purport
" Thkt he sent a friend to him (the Witness) to
. investigate his conduct with respect to his (Major
Northey's) character, hut not finding him at home,
he was obliged to postpone his intention until the fol.
lowing day."
The neat day he received another letter from Nor-
. they, stating that his friend alluded to in the former let-
. . ' Ad send him.tOltim for

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mentioned in the First Charge, until the 11th of Oc-
tober following, when, being at Cheltenham, a mes-
sage was delivered to him at the George inn, about
eleven o'clock in the forenoon, that a gentleman wished
to speak with him, and on being shewn into an ad-
joining room, he found Captain Guthry, who had said
a few words respecting Major Northey, when that
gentleman entered the room, and began a conversa-
tion by saying, that he understood he (the witness)
continued to asperse his character. The witness an-;
swered him quietly, that be bad long determined, as
he (Major Northey) must be aware, sever to 'hold 1
any communication with him; he was then retiring
from the room, when Major Northey added, " then,
Sir, you are a d—d scoundrel," and not being pos-
sessed of more than„human forbearance, he was pro.
yoked to make use of a stick which he carried in his
hand, by breaking it across his shoulders. Having
done this, he (tke witness) retired from the house,
and not knowing what further insults might be in-
tended for him, he went immediately to a neighbour-
ing shop to purchase a new stick, and had just se-
lected one, when Captain Guthry came to him and,
told him that Major Northey was obliged to leave,
Cheltenham that day, and wished to know whether
he had any thing further to state to him ; he shewed
him his new stick, and begged he would explain to his;
friend that he was now prepared in the event of any
further insult being offered to him. At about seven
o'clock the same even►ng, in consequence of an alarm-
ing account he had received of the illness of one of
his family, he engaged a place in the Bath coach
for the next morning, and about nine, the same person
(Captain Guthry) again came to him, and requested
him, in favour

be wuld allow him to read a paper to
of Major Northey's character, in the presence of two
lather persons whom he had brought with him: He
answered quietly, but firmly, that he was resolved to.
-bald no communication whatever, directly or indisi
.rectly, with Major Northey, and assured him he was
called away from Cheltenham by urgent business, no
way connected with that of which they had been
speaking, upon which Captain Guthry lett him. In
about half an hour afterwards, as he was settling his
account at the bar of the inn, Captain Guthry again
came, and requested he would hear the paper read,
and upon his refusal, Major Nurthey came towards
him from an adjoining room, surrounded by six or
seven persons, and repeated the same insulting and
opprobrious language he had made use of in the morn-
ing ; he could not recollect exactly the words, but
" coward, scoundrel, and rascal," were frequently re-
peated ; but when he attempted to chastise this insup
portable insolence with his stick, he was prevented by
the persons present.
Q. What induced fon to act the part you did ?
A. My niece is married to Captain Hoplein Northey,
who is a near relation of Major Northey ; the family
were engaged to dine with me that day ; Major Nor.
they communicated to me what had passed in the
morning ; that his marriage had been broken off with
Miss Vyse, in consequence of these calumnies ; and,
feeling interested for him, I accompanied him to the
inn.
Here the evidence for the prosecution closed for
the day, and the Court adjourned until this day.

ter had left.town, but he show__ .. - Northey, • '
tbat ho had appropriated the property
fan explanation on hii return. To these two letters he
others to himself, and that he stated before a Boar.
'!sent an answer, in which he mentioned his intention
of General Officers, his belief of him that he was a
.:-.of leaving town that evening by the mail, in which
thief ; that he still continued to hold the same ()pi-
- ilia place was taken, hut that he should take care to
niOn, and that Major Northey now called upon him
''.':lse at home at two o'clock that afternoon to give the
to account for the evidence he had given before the
seqiiired explanation; that he waited at, home from
Board, when he neglected calling on him in Portugal.
'two until halt-past three o'clock, and r.o friend of Ma.
The witness remarked to Capt. .Langton, in the pre-
jor Northey's came to him during that period.-Ationt
sence of Major Northey and several other gentlemen, i
seven o'clock the same evening Captain Whitby came
that Northey told him that Langton had accused him I
'to him, and told him lie had come on the part of
of being a thief ; that Northey had shown him the
Major Northey, as he was apprehensive that he (the
sentence of the Board of Officers acquitting him of
witness) might have gone out of town before he had
the charges ; and that he had also shown him a letter
an opportunity of seeing him, and that he was not
from Colonel Torrens in reply to a memorial of his,
prepared at that moment to communicate Major Not-
demanding a Court Martial in consequence of Capt.
they's sentiments, he having just returned to town.—
Langton still persisting in these charges ; that the
Captain Whitby then went away, and about eight
Commander in Chief had declined granting the Court ,
o'clock returned with the following letter from Li ijor
Martial, conceiving that the words of the sentence
Northey : were sufficiently strong to acquit him of the charges ;
" Sin—As you must be acquainted with the opi.
that Major Northey understood that Capt. Langton
Wen of the Board of General Officers who sat on my
still persisted in calling him a thief, and he had called
character, and as Major Tidy has given you up as
on him now to give him satisfaction for slandering
the author of the slander against me, I call upon vo
his character in every place he went ; that he was-in-
to give me the satisfaction which the wounde n d
frel-
duced to come down there, as he was informed Capt.,
logs of a Gentleman and a man of honour demands.
Langton intended going to Bath early neat morning,
- Captain Whitby will fix the time and place. I am,
kr. (Signed) " AUGUSTUS NORTHET." and that as he (the witness) had accompanied Major
Northey, he could not help remarking, that the opi.
To which ht.. returned the following answer :
nion of three General Officers and the Commander
" Sin—l have received your letter, in answer *to ,
in Chief was put in opposition to his. Major Northey;
which I *es leave to say that I do not feel myself.
; then retired, and soon after reterning, said, I will now,
bound to grant you the satisfaction yon require, for
/ radil a still stronger expression than I made use of this
the evidence I gave before the Board of Inquiry..
Irioining, that of coward in addition to that of liar
stated cite same to yourself a year ag• at' Lisbon, and i
and sconnirel. Capt. Langton said he had never seen
I shall not answer publicly for that which you .tc/014
e letter of the Commander in Chief, and the witness -- .
On nursday tart, at his haves Abingtion-street, rndiard
410 notice of privately. I am net satisfied with the opi-I . .
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itrimediately sent for it. '
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lion of it to einem' lirownrigg." Signed)stating, that upon eldest sea etimillt Child, - ' . -'-' -
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court Martial, composed of
Gene Officers, assembled at the lioard-
Room, Chelsea'Coliege, for the purpose of investi-
gating 'charges pretecred against Major Augustus
Northey, Assistant Quarter-Master General, by Cap-
tain Algernon Langton. of the 6 1 s t Regiment of Foot.
Major-General FERGUSON, President.
The Court being assembled at ten o'clock in the
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