Star.
London, England, 1826-11-20 00:00:00

FROM ♦ sQND•T TAPIR.

It is well known that a Court of Inquiry has been for
some time past sitting in that. distinguished regiment,
the Royal Horse Guards Blue, in order to decide on the
truth or falsehood of an imputation made upon Lord
William Lennox, a Captain in the corps, of having been
the author of a series of offensive personalities against
the Earl of Glengall, which have appeared in the Age
Sunday Paper. A second subject of the investigation
appears to have been, whether the Noble Officer in ques-
tion did at any time, while on duty with his regiment,
submit his conduct to be canvassed by any person or
set of persons whatever. The Court sat more than once.
Its report is to the following effect :—That " the Court
having duly considered the statement of Lord William
Lennox, and the evidence given by the Earl of Glengall
and other Gentlemen, present at meetings held in Lon-
don on the subject, are of opinion that there is no
ground whatever for the report which has been in circu-
lation ; and that it appears to the Court, that Lord Wil-
liam'Lennox has, throughout, acted with justice and
candour; that he has shewn every inclination to have
his conduct thoroughly examined ; and that he has
afforded every facility to the investigation. On weigh-
ing further all the evidence and circumstances of the
case, the Court are fully of opinion, that Lord William's
statement has not been contradicted, and that no reason
whatever exists for supposing that his Lordship either
ever ha, written for, or been at all connected with, the
Age newspaper.

7' With rniect to the question of Lord William Lennox having
submitted his conduct to be scrutinised by certain Gendensestat the
time he wu engaged in doing military duty with his regiment in
London, the Court are of opinion that certain meetings, which did
take place, were not considered by Lord William Lennox to be
held for the purpose of any investigation, but in order to promote
an explanation of a misunderstanding which existed between the
tail of Glengall and himself; but that Laid William would will-
ingly at all times have submitted to, and was earnestly desirous to
promote, any inquiry by any means, which his regiment might think
proper to intidtute, in order to reuse his character from a charge so
preridicial to hisiionotar as an Oilleer and a Gentleman."
tie Report of the Court of Inquiry, of which we
have thus given the tenour, is understood to have been
presented early in the week to the Duke of Welling•
ton, who has since signiled Ms formal approbation
oti is contents.

Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet Conn.
cil wasleld at the Foreign Ogre. which Was attended by the Loam
Cusucau.oa, the Duke of WoLunorrest. tie Earls of LIVIIIIIPOOL,
RAIROWIT) WitorsioaLoszt, and BATIMUT ; Mr. Secretary Pam,
Mr. Secretary Contuse, Viscount Mni.otr-La, Lord Bizt.a>, Mr.
Humasou, and Tdr. Wynn. The Ministers did not separate till
111 o'clock.

Saturday, Earl MORLIT transacted business with Mr.
Secretary Camas at Ms Office in Downing.streel.
Mr. CROK RR gave a grand dinner on Friday at his re-
sidence in the Admiralty. to Sir WALeta SCOTT. Among the nu.
nierous and distinguished guests invited to meet Sir Waage& were
the Duke of WELLINGTON, Mr. Secretary Camases, Mr. Secretary
Pem., Mr. Husausox, Mr. Wastoe•Hossom,
Viscount Mat.via.La arrived in tows on Saturday
evening from his seat, Melville Castle, near Bdinbargh.
The LORD CHARCLLLOR, the Earl off
WRITMORLAND,
and Earl BATHIMST, paid visits yesterday to the Duke of You, at
the residence of the Duke of Rurcaeo in Arlington-street. His
Royaillighness was busily engaged on liaturday, as Commasider.in-
Chief,transacting tnilitary business with Sir H. TavLoa, hii Mili-
tary Secretary. Sir H. HALIMID, Dr. blacaacautsa., and Mr. MAC.
Ulm called en the Royal Duke on Saturday. •
Saturday morning two towered Artillery waggons,
containing his MAJESTY'S wardrobe, left the Royal Lodge to convey
them to Londonowltere the King is expected to remain a few weeks.
SMOCKING ACCIDENT.—This morning an accident,
which had nearly proved fatal to several persoifi, took
lace in the Five-fields, Chelsea. A new house was
Imilding, and the walls were finished on Saturday last,
alai the exception of the coping stones. This morning
the men were employed in placing these stones on the
parapet, when, all of a sudden, the walls fell with a
tremendous crash, carrying every thing in their way to'
the ground, a, also the men that were at work at the
tune. The cries of the sufferers were truly heart-rending,
mid in an instant the rest of the workmen let to work in
'emoting them from their dreadful situation,and it gives
u. great pleasure to state, that only two of the men have
kasiarued any injury. Them two are very severely hurt,
but their lives are not in any danger. We understand
that there is no blame attributable to the quality of the
material., and the fall of the building cannot be ac-
i 4 )iiiited tor.

THE GUARDS' CLUB-HOUSE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Sza....Having this day seen a paragraph In your Paper of the 9th
instant, wherein you describe the fall of the above building, I beg
leave to correct that part of the account given, which runs thus t
" It appears, that only a few months ago, the establishment under..
went a complete repair; and in order to make it more roomy, the
party wall on the South side had been cut in half, and four inches
raised against It, which had materially weakened it." Now, Sir,
having executed the last repair, which was completed in Octuber,
1825, I can state that no room was then obtained by encroaching
on the party wall; and that the canvas and paper covering the
same were not removed. The insertion of this will much oblige,
Sir, your obedient humble servant,
JAMES MORRIS.
79, Petit-street, Grosvenor.square, Nev. 18, 1826.

P.S. I hope the Editors of the other Journals, who have copied
your account, will give publicity to this also.—J. M.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 18.

Monday the Romney, SO, Captain N. Lock yer, C.B.
arrived from the lonian Islands, Malta, and Gibraltar,
with invalided detachments of the 12th, 23d, 43d, 64th,
and 88th Regiments,and Rifleßrigade, and the following
Officers; Maj. Champ, late of the 43d, and family ; May.
Terry, Town Maj. at Malta; Lieut. Dixon, Royal Artil-
lery ; Lieut. Bouchier, 23d Regiment ; and Mr. Hoyland
Apothecary to the Forces at Gibraltar.—The Romney
left at Corfu the Weasle, and at Malta, the Zebra,
Chanticleer, and Mastiff. The Raleigh had arrived from
Spithead,and sailed for Alexandria. The Romney was,
released from quarantine on Wednesday, and is now
refiling at Spithead.
The fallowing extract from a private letter from Malta
(received by the Romney), contains the latest intelligence
respecting the Greek Navy:
" MALTA, Ocr. I.—Sir Harry Neale continues in the
Archipelago, with nearly all tke squadron, a few of the
sloops being employed in convoying the trade thither
and back. The Greek pirates require the presence ol
the united squadrons of England, France, and Austria,
to keep them in check. The Greek fleet consists mostly
of brigs, not brigs of war, but they are all armed. Six'
of them lately deserted the Greek cause, and went pi-
rating. One of them is now here, sent in by the Medina,
Captain T. Curtis. She has part of the cargoes of several
different vessels on board, which she plundered. The
prisoners, in justification, say, gi We had no pay nor
provisions, and with arms in our hands, we were not
going to starve.* It will be quite impossible to protect
our trade, with our present force, if this example it
by the Greek fleet generally, and which there is
some reason to apprehend. The Greeks had an affair
with the Turks off Mytilene, about a fortnight since,
which lasted two days; but neither party could claim
advantage. The Pacha of Egypt has threatened to
come and settle the matter far the Turks; but having
heard that Lord Cochrane was coming with his sixty.
eight-pounders, be suddenly became indisposed. Lord
C. otherwise Mr. Hunter Blair, has departed this coast,
in his English schooner, sadly dissatisfied, for Marseilles."
This morning the Russian line-of-battle ship Con-
stantine, 74, Commodore Bell nghausen, ,Capt. Cussin,
and the Helena frigate, Captain Bat onbkoff, arrived
here from Cronstadt, last from Copenhagen (where they
lay a week), bound to the Mediterranean. It is no v,
we believe, fifteen years since the Russians had such a
naval force in those seas. • They are expected to sailin
about ten days.

The Orestes sloop of war, Capt. W. Jcini.s, wliile
lately cruising off the coast of Labrador, soddenly, in
a thick fog, tell aboard of an iceberg. and but for the
fortunate circumstance that she had just hove to to
sound, every soul would fiavi been lost, as she had just
previously been running seven knots. The first intima-
tion the crew had of the ice was by the jib-boom and
bowsprit being carried away, by striking against it ; the
rebound happily prevented her bows from touching the
mighty mass. and she drifted from'it : it was consider-
ably higher than the Orestes' masts-head, and appearing
completely to overhang them; it was drifting to the
southward. The Orestes left Newfoundland on the Ist
of September for Halifax.
A letter from Halifax, dated October 15, states the
arrival of the Jupiter (Admiral Lake) from Quebec.—
The Menai and Rifleman were ordered to sail for Eng-
land without waiting to be relieved ; the former was to
sail on her arrival from Quebec, the latter in about ten
days. The Contest, Lieut. English, had arrived from
Newfoundland, to refit. The writer, in his remarks on
the American curvetotte Lexington, Captain Sherbrich,
(which tried her rate of sailing with the Orestes) says :
The Lexington is not a handsome ship,
but carries
"'try heavy metal, and most astonishing masts, yards,
and tigging. She mounts two medium long_ 24 and
twenty-two 82-pound carronades (formerly Washing-
ton's guns) all upon one deck. These, however, are
only until others are cast for, when it is intended
she would mount twenty-four long twenty-four's, twenty
of them to be what are called the medium guns, and
the other four the regular long guns. Twelve more of
them are to be built, tor carry the same metal. No
single decked vessel in our service, will be able to cope
with any of them at long shot. During the time the
Orestes was in company with the Lexington, she con-
stantly had her guns run out, and the Officers declared
they could, at any time, pour in a broadside in a minute
and a half. Notwithstanding her advantage of masts
and sails, the Orestes beat her upon every point of sailing.
• We learn by the Layton, that the merchants in the
river St. Lawrence do not intend to fell any timber this
season, they having already afloat sufficient to load not
lass than One hunched ships, and with the prospect only
of having to send it 13 markets where it will scarcely
pay for the freights.

ANoxitrit CLUB-Uousr Accrostir.—As the labour.
as weie employed on Saturday morning, about a gun-
ter past nine o'clock, in piling up bricks in St. James's-
stieet, for the purpose of rebuilding Arihur.'s Club-
house, the vault, over which a large stock of bricks had
been raised for some days past, suddenly gave way, and
carded with its ponderous weight, live poor men, and
buried them iri its ruins. The wotkoten used every
possible exertion to relieve the sufferers, which they
speedily did, and conveyed them to the hospital; three
of whom are so mutilated, as to have little -hopes of re-
covery. No later than Monday last, a man nearly lost
his life oa these premises, by the falling of a piece of
timber on his beads •

There are now no less than 68 prisoners under sen-
tence of death in Newgate. who wete convicted at the
September and October Sessions. The Report expected
to be wade on Thursday will include only those of the
former session, the number of whom is 45, viz. thirty-
nine male', and sh females.

RANSGAvaussn 17.

This place has now assumed, its winter appearance end we coo-
gratulate ourselves on the munelrerfamilies here, and likely to re..
main with us. Among our latept arrivals are—
The Hon. Lady Swim, at Albion House; Lord and Lady MAN.;
MMUS, in Nelson's Crescent. att, a visit to the Dowager Dedham
of Hamcmurrsa ; Colonel and Lady Busaarru Susie. to Nel-
son's Crescent; Sir James and Lady Lacs and lmn), from Bou-
logne ; Airs. Miamian. in Albion-place; and many others in Wel-
lington Crescent.