Star.
London, England, 1810-09-06 00:00:00

Vie are eoncerned to state that same nistinder.
standing seems still to prevail between the civil:
power and the military in the presidency of Madras.
The decision of the Court Martial, appointed for the ;
trials'of Lieutenant-Colonels Dovrton and BILL, And I
other officers of inferior rank, does not seem to have
roved satisfactory to the Commander in Chief on
that station, or to the Governor-General. The first
of these officers was Aelwaratly acquitted. The Sen-
tence was sent back to be reVised,• and the Court
Martial persisted in thfir former opinion. This de-
cision, as well as the principles upon which it.was
founded. was strongly reprobated by the Comman-
der in Chief, who recommended to Government that
Lieutenant-Colonel DOVETON should be suspended
f:oin his military functions, until his case was sub-
mitted to the Court of Directors, but that he should
be permitted to draw his allowances in the mean time.
Lord MINT° has sanctioned what is thus recom.
mended, and censured in very strong language the
grounds upon which the Court Martial decided.
A private letter of the 16th April states, that the
General Orders issued on the sentence of the Court
MArtial had excited great disgust in all ranks. The
President, General WARM, of the Xing's troops, MIL
resigned his Staff appointment, and was about to
proceed to England. The officers under accusation,
who had preferred the alternative of being tried by a
Court Martial to quitting the service, had, it was said,
in consequence of the orders of Government on Colco-1
rtel DOVETON'a acquittal, requested to be dismissed.'
Lord MINT° continued at Madras at the end of
Nardi. The Modeste had been dispatched to Cal-
cutta for General Hawar, who, it was reported,
would take the command of the Madras army, until
the arrival of Sir S. AUCHMUTY from England. The
Governor-General was expected to return to Bengal
soon after General HEWITT'S arrival.
A large expedition was fitting out at Madras, the
destination of which was kept secret. The prevail-
ing cpinion was, that it 4?'as intended against the Isle
of France. Colonel CLosE's army, which had been
irrk2 up, after occasioning an immense expence, was
ordered to re-assemble.
The Niowing documents will put our Readers in
possession of the facts that have been suffered to tran-
pire re,pecting the disputes with the Army :

GZTERAL ORDERS, HEAD-QUARTERS Co F THE ARMY,
CROULTRY PLAIN, MAIM,' 20,1810.
*G. O. BY MAJOR-OMER/Ij, GOWbIE.

Further extracts from the proceedings of the Ge-
iteral Court Martial which assembled at Bangalore
on the Ist day of November, 1809, and of which
Major-General WAICDE is President, are published to
the Army.
-
Lieutenant-Colonel John Doveton, of the Bth Re-
giment N. C. and late commanding the detachment
of Troops serving at the frontier station of Jaulnah,
ordered in arrest by the Officer commanding the
Army, on the following charges :

CHARGR I.—For conduct subversive of all good order and mi
/litsrf discipline, and in breach of the rules and articles of war,
for the better government of the Company's forces, by having, in
violation of his duty, and the great trust reposed in him, as com-
manding a most important and critically situated frontier station,
shamefully abandoned the post committed to his charge, by
moving his detachment from the station of Jaulnah, on the 14th
of August last, and with a mutinous and seditious design against
the exhting Government of Fort St. George.
2.--Fur having previously to his march used endeavours to stir
sp and excite the troops, ander his commond, to join in a mutiny
and ;edition against the existing Goveraiment of Fort St. Grow.

S.—For having affixed his name to a mutinous and sedidous
paper, sated the Dechration, expressive of tint Intentions with
Which the force had commenced their march.

By Order of Major-Ueneral Gowdle, command* the Array.
?en Sr. Gcorge, (Signed) T. 11. S. CONWAT,

00. 9,1809.

Adjutant-General of the Army.
SENTENCE AS PASSED ON THE STH FEBRUARY, 1810.

The Court are of opinion that the Prisoner, Lieu-
tenant Colonel John Doveton, is not guilty of the
charges preferred against him, and do in the most full
And most honourable manner acquit him of all and
every part thereof. (Signed) RENZI' WARDE,
Major-General and President.
W. Oasts sr , Deputy Judge Advocate.

REVISED SENTENCE AS PASSED THE 13TH FEB. 1810.

The Court, in obedience to the orders of the Officer
commanding the Army, having reconsidered the
whole of the evidence before them, do not find any
reason to alter their former opinion.
(Signed) • IZENRY WARDE, '
Major-General and President•
Oastsar, Deputy Judge Advocate.
The Officer commanding the Army has deeply to
lament that he cannot subscribe his approbation to
the above sentence ; the Prisoner has rested his de-
fence on the pretext of having joined the mutiny for.
the purpose of preventing the excesses of his
But the articles of-war having expressly excluded
such plea, it is impossible to warrant an acquittal in
apposition of the very letter of the law itself.
A second ground of the Prisoner's defence appears'
to be a private and confidential letter from Captain
Zydenham, the Resident at Hydrabad, recommend-
ing to Lieutenant-Colonel Doveton to adopt the above
Conduct. Advice contrary to law can never consti-
tute an authority for criminal acts, let it come from
'what quarter it may. But the letter in question was
iltogetherunofficial, being marked confidential,' and
tot only not reported to Government, but seemingly
carefully concealed by both parties from its know-
ledge until the amen it was produced is Court