Star.
London, England, 1811-09-28 00:00:00

GENERAL ORDER.

Horse-Guards, August 40, 1811.
At a General Court-Martial, held at Kingston
Barracks, Jamaica, on the 18th and 19th of Decem-
ber, 18i0, Captain John M'lntyre, of the 7th West
India Regiment, was charged " with Conduct most
' disgraceful and derogatory to the Character of an
Officer and a Gentleman, in the instances specified in
the following Charges :
" Ist. In lorhiglng away from the Island of Barbadoes, a Black
Woman named Bewley, or Betsey Felice, or Felicite, and her son
Jean Thomas, on or about the 9th day of July, 1809, who were
not his property, and in selling the said Linsey, or Betsey Felice,
or Felicite, for I' mnsportation, to Mr. Camoens of Jamaica, on,
or about the 4th day of November, 1809, and after the said Sale
of the Mother for Transportation, taking her Son, Jean Thomas,
to Curacoa.
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" 2d. In addressing an extremely improper Letter to Lieut. ,
Smith, President of the Meta Committee of the sth Writ India
Regiment, doted 10th of December, i StO, containing most in-
sulting
expressions towards the Officers of the said Corps, by
whom he had been treated with the most liberal hospitality, nut-
withstanding that he hal some months before left the Quarters of
that Regiment considerably in Debt to the Mess Committee and
Mess Man, which debt is not yet discharged, although he, Capt.
M'lntyre, had in a previous Letter to Lieut.-Colonel Hamilton,
sth West India Regiment, acknowledged their very handsome
conduct in paying him so much attention.
SJ. In endeavouring to obtain Money as subsistence, by let-
ters addressed to Lieutenant Colonel Hamilton, Sth West India
Regiment, dated SOth of November, and td and 9d of December
last, and by memorial of the 4th of December, addressed to Lieu-
tenant-General Morrison, Commander of the Forces, although,
he, Captain M'lntyre, had previously given two Bills of El-
i change drawn on the Regimental Agents, dated 26th April last,
' one for Etis sterling payable, eight months after sight to Mr.
Lewis, anti the other to Mr. Charles Bernardi, for £79. 11$. 6d.
sterling, payable ten months after sight, and it appearing in a note
written by himself, that the period from which he is entitled to
subsistence, is not further back than the 25th October last ;"
Upon which Charges the Court came to the follow-
ing decision :
I'he prisoner Captain John M'lntyre, of the 7th
West India Regiment, having stood mute, and re-
fused to plead, the Court proceeded to pass the fol.
owing sentence—
" That the prisoner, Captain John M'lntyre, 7th West India
Regiment, is Guilty of all, and every part of the charges preferred
against him, and do therefore sentence him, the said Captain John
M,lnryee, to be Cashiered, and conetster hint unfit and unworthy
of ever serving his Majesty in any Miitary Capacity."
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the
name and on the behalf of his Majesty, has been
pleased to approve and confirm the finding and sen-
tence of the Court, and his Royal Highness the Corn-
mander-in-Chief directs, .that the charges preferred
again Captain John M'lntyre, ter ether with the find-
ing, and sentence of the Court, shalt be read at the
head of every Regiment, and entered in the Regimen-
tal Order Books. By Order of his Royal Highness
the Commander-in-Chief,

HARRY CALVERTS Adj. Gen.
GENERAL ORDER.
Horse Guards, 3eptensber 16, 1811.

The Commander in Chief has obser.cd with much
regret, that a practice prevails in the Army, of re-
commending Offizers, who have by their misconduct
rendered themselves obnoxious in the regiments to
which they belong, to be removed by exch Inge to
other carps.
A moment's consideration must convince Com-
manding Officers, that when Officers may be deemed
unfit to serve in any patticular corps, they must be
equally unfit to serve in any other of his Majesty'.
I(eginuats, awl that an chafe occasions, through a

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misplaeed lenity towards an undeserving
they are in fact doing a manifest injury to the service
at large. In urder to put a stop to this practice, by
which improper characters are, in some eases, not enly
screened from justice, but retained in the Army, to the
prejudice of discipline, and to the disgrace of the mili-
tary profession, his Royal Highness commands, that
with every paper recimmending an exchange, M cer-
tificate shall be forwarded by the Colonel or Com-
manding Officer, to the following effect :
" I, A. B. Colonel, Lieutenant-Culmiel, Major, or Ciptains,
Contnianding the Regiment, do hereby certify upon my
word Intl honour as an Officer and a Gertlentan, that the Ea-
change recommearled In the Papers now accompanying this Cer-
tificate, does out utiginate in any R•gtmental proceed ng of an/
kind, or iu a:iy cause affecting the houotic and character of
nor are there any grolnes of personal ultjection to
the Individual, of which I am aware, that have la the, smallest
degree induced en application for such Exchange."

No recommendation for an excheige will bereirrer
be attended to, unless ccompan'el by a CGr►ilicate,
according to the above form, addressed to the Corn-
mander in Chief, through his military Secretary.
By Command of his Royal Highness the Com-
mander in Chief, HARRY CALvEitt,'Adj. Gen.

GENERAL ORDER,
Horse Guards, September 18, lel I.
At a General Coutt-Martial.held at Bombay, dirt
the 29th of May, 1810, and continued by adj.itirta
meets to the 28th June following, Captain John Stir-
ling,* of the Ist Battalion of thsB4th Itt7iment, was
arraigned upon the undermentioned char7,es, viz.
1... For conduct highly unbecoming the dicer, in misapplying
certain sums of nviney received front some so'di, rs and others of
the regiment, in trust, by no- having deposited the am- a s in the
hand* of agents, as specifically set forth to be dons in his receipts,
In consequence of which the repayment of the said sums of mo-
ney has been withheld, to their injury, though repeatedly called
for by the parties."
S." For conduct highly improper sad disrespectful, in writing
s threatening letter to his Commander in Chief, the Hon. Major-
General John Abercromby, on or about the ILth of April last,
tending to his hurt and dishonour."
otTpon which charges the Court came to the follow-
ing decision :
" The Court having maturely considered the evidence in sup.
port of the prosecution, together with what the prisoner, Captaia
John Stirling,' has alletiged in his defence, are of the lollowing
opioions on the respective charges, six.
" On the first charge the Court are of opinion that the prisoner
is Guilty to the following extent, viz.—Of conduct highly %lithos
coming the Officer, in not having deposited the money in the
bands of .fig-nts, as Jet forth In his receipts to Serjeant Shore and
Private John Siddle, and withholding the money due to Serjeant
Shore, Private Slddie, and Mary Gray, when called for, which
it considered to their irjury.
" On the second charge the Court are of opinion, that the
prisoner is Guilty.
" Having found the prisoner Guilty of the Ist and ed charges,
as specified above, in breach of the Aricles of War in slith cases
made and provided, they do therefore sentence him, the said
Captain John Staling, to be Cashiered."
His Royal Highness the PRIXCE REMIT has been
pleased in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty,
to approve and confirm the sentence of the Court, and
' his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief directs,
that the charges preferred against Captain John Stir-
ling, together with the sentence of the Court, shall be
read at the head of every regiment, and entered in
the Regimental Orderly Book.
By Command of his Royal Highness the Com-
mander in Chief. HARRY CALVERT, Adj.. Gen.
• This Is the °Seer whose condu:t towards his wite appear.
ed so infamous on a trial for adultery in the Eut Indies, which
was given in the Papers about three weeks ago.

Saturday five French officers, who had broken their
parole at Jedhnrgh, and had proceeded to Blyth, with
a view to make their escape, were brought to Ber-
wick under a military escort, and lodged in gaol.—
On Sunday they set out for Pennycuick, escorted by
a party of the Forfarshire militia. Three of them
were good looking. young men ; one, in particular,
had a very interesting countenance, of whom the fol-
lowing anecdote is told at Jedbiirgli :—His parole
not allowing him to go beyond a certain mile stone,
one day, when he came to that ne file; ultra, wishing
to extend his perambulation, without violating his
honotr, he took the stone in his arms, and carried it
to a considerable distance.

Wednesday morning, about two o'clock, thirty-
seven of the convicts escaped from on board one 'of
the hulks stationed off Woolwich :—The manner is
which they effected it was as -follows : They cut
through the ceiling and timbers of the hulk, just tin-
der her bends, and taking advantage of the time of
low water, when the vessel had grounded, made a
hole through her bottom sufficiently hug. for a roan
to creep out. Having jumped on the sand, they wa-
ded ashore, and made off in a direction to..vards
Shooter's Hill. Several had their irais on, and it is
supposed many more would have got away, had not
one of the prisoners, in his great ansiety to get cle tr
of the ship, jumped upon a comrade below, wi; lus-
tily roared out, " Murder !" The alarm was instantly
given,
and the remainder were secured. The Indi-
tary are in pursuit of those who got off, and have al-
ready brought in fifteen of them.
Yesterday an Adjourned Quarter Sessions for this
City of London, for the discharge of prisoners under
the Insolvent Act, was held at Guildhall, behire the
LORD MAVOR, Aldermen Hunrea, Wooer, and AT-
KINS, the R ECORPER, &c. when all the prisoners on the
list were ordered to be discharged. No case, nor asy
point of importance occurred.
Early orly Thursday morning, a fire broke out in
a cottage touse, occupied by Samuel Lister, a weaver,
at Haley.llll, near Halifax, which immediately coin"
municated to an adjoining cottage, and both fell a
prey to the devouring flames. We are sorry to say,
that poor Lister, who w..s in the 79th year of his age,
in attern;uing to preserve some property, tell a victim
and was Leanly burnt to ashes
MR. PALMER'S MATCH AGAINST TIME FOR TWO
lILINDRLD GUINEASNIr. P. accompanied by a friend,
starts at five o'clock ;on Mond ry morning, trim the
top of Cxford-street, is to stop thirty minutes at
Dartford, to breakfast—thirty at Sit! ingbouni ; and
at Canterbury must ezt a roast c ipon, two pounds
of potato s, and drink two bottles of wine, and
arrive at Margate within the twelve hours.—neither
to be allowed to walk while the chaise is going.
—Bets are much in favour of the performance,
from Mr. P.'s capital judgment in driving, and hie
tri.:nds' appetite •in the eating department. Ti •
iorse as performed many extraordinary jou, flies.-
4r. P. I, very athl 'tic, weighs 18, and his friend 16
,tone. The chaise is built on purpose, and wei:Ai
44 !see Award weight.

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