Star.
London, England, 1803-08-31 00:00:00

Mr. JUSTICE HARDINCN CHARGE, at CARDIFF. Aug. $2

PUNTED AND PVILISUID AT TUE RKIVIST OF TBOSISTO WHOW
IT WAS ADDILISSSD, AND MNtct 'avast TWAT DAL
111 OPUS couar, Loa 13.

Gentlemen of the Grand Jury—When I contem-
plate the general fertility of your foil, and the unex-
ampled return of its prefent hart/ell, I cannot forbear
to exclaim, in the words of the Roman Poet (Strip-
ping them of their poetical habit, and retaining the
fentiment unimpaired)—
. Shall an Impious army take poffeffion of land fu cultivated!
Shall a Barbarian be the reaper of this corn
" See for whom we have (own our fields !"
Here the Poet has left us—but we can fill tip the
canvas, and we can give the anfwer to his quettions.
" For whom !" are we afked ? Hiflory will tell us,
and puts her real upon it. For thofe who will tear
from your peafants, under the mate of tribute, or
fubfidy, the Indefinite claims of unbounded avarice ;
will rifle their cottages, and when plunder has been
fatiated, will fet them on fire, commit outrages upon
their daughters, and their matrons, too Shocking to
be named, fet their trampling foot upon age, and
pollute, with forage intuit, all the d*encies of life.
I give you this pieture, to anticipate your abhorrence
of the features ; and your determination, that with
enemies like thcfe you will hear of no compromife,
till every musket, (word and pike (hall be wrefied
from thole gallant volunteers (the hardy and fpirit—
ed birth-right of your foil) whom you are in the all
of arming for the defence of all that is dear and fa.
cred in human life. Turning from your lands to
your mortufeaurss and your commerce, I feel no lets in-
dignation at the humiliating image of mercantile in.
Ritution to a vidorions tyrant, by the furrender of
your implements, and prollitution of the artificers.—
When I explore, and with grateful refped, the diver-
fities of religious opinion which have Separated, but
without enmity, our Proteftant faith in this part of
the world into Churchmen, Deenters, or Sefiaries, COM•
petitors in zeal for thcir Goo and their Klee, I
(budder at the exchange of that noble independence,
upon fo critical a fubjed. for his religion, who was
an Atheift at Paris ; at Rome a Paoli ; in Egypt a
Mahometan ; a military Pope at Paris again; a Jew
in that Parifian Synagogue, whole imprecations
aria this illand he has gratefully accepted ; and a
kind of demigod at the city-gates upon the coati,
which have told him, " that after lie was created,
Providence Income firpecflumu I" When I look at the
old famiies of this country, I am too proud, for them,
to endure the idea, that birth, like theirs, can be ever
bound in chains to foreign defpottfm, or can ever
grace the wheel of its triumph here. When I look
at the new wen, whom I revere no lets, and whole
talents or labours have inveffed them with claims
upon the foil, as well as the will, I call upon them
'to fultain their double intereft, with undivided energy
and fpirit. You have an extent of coaft, which ex-
pofesyou, in a peculiar degree, to the invader's at-
tempt ; but I am confident that he will not find one
inch of that coati uofortified ; I am not pointing at
thole batteries of military art upon which intelligent
Officers may have differed; but my allufion is to the
forts and the redoubt: of Belljib valour, erected in the
Shape of that valour alone, by men who determine to
be the Icill of the conquered; and who are fworn, by
a tacit oath, to refute a gift fo defpicahle as that of
life, at the expense of liberty, and of honour. I
have been much gratified in reading your "tarsi; to
the Korn. It was prepared, as I am told, by a Gen-
tleman who does this Court the honour to be one of
its Officers—your prefent Nigh Slfrery: It is in my
conception of it, moil eloquent, animated, and con-
flitutional ; it refleas the highell honour upon the
pen by which it was framed, and upon the fence of
the county by which it was adopted into their figna-
ture. I approve and commend your determination
to raife the military complement of your volunteers,
required by the law, to exempt you from its cow-
pulfory mcafures. As to a fubfcription for the ge-
neral purpofes of countenance, and fupply to this
national °Ned. and for fpecial exigencies that may
bear upon it (whether contemplated or unforefeen)
you are the bell judges of all Such arrangements, and
it would be impertinence in me to offer advice. But
with every due fubmiffinn to your better means of
knowledge, I cannot help fuggefting. whether it may
not be deemed eligible, that a general fund amid be
pat into honourable hands for the ioort of the roofs
and that a more fpecial one Should be appropriated
for the purpofe of relief to the widows and children
of thole kin is this cowry, who die in the field; of
relief to the wounded and their families, or of en-
couragement and recompence to extraordinary me-
rits and fervices—an expedient adopted in Welimor-
land by the fagacioos and fpirited mind of your Din.
cefan, the Bilhop of Lancia*. My view of it is. that,
of confidering it as an additional Spur to the Volun-
teers. We are all Speculators and politicians, at a
moment like this, on the fubjed of that coaft which
the invader is moil likely to fele& It appears to me
the fafeft conjeture, that his firft impreffion will be
upon the Sifter Ifland. But there he will find an im-
pregnable fortrefs in the memory of that recent out-
rage, which robbed an (able and virtuous magif-
trate of his life. The ways of Nov:Dance in this
world are too myfterinus to be fathomed by the 110-
man intelled ; but we know they err (becaufe they
me be) wife and good. Hiftory will tell us, that
vifitations upon the innocent and meritorious are of-
ten approved, in their effed. bleffiogs of incalculable
utility. The (word that was dipt in LtICRSTIA'S
blood gave Rome its liberty. The maffacre of the
Ntegoesest at Paris gave new energy to our ProteStant
faith in all parts of the World. I'he judicial murder
of Snorer and jursaiss's Campaign gave us the
Revolestiox. The infernal outrage of that night, in
Dublin. will be an army of champions agarnft the
foe, whofe enthity was bale enough to co-operate in
the affaffin's work. Where Gentlemen, is my Ca
leader P—ls it not in my hand' -It is a perfect blank—
There is not one prifotser for trial. It is another,
and Signal proof (in which your merit is a moll
brilliant part bf the evidence) that our Conflitution.
which is the envy of the world, has the charm (for I
can give it no other name) of reconciling peelers,
iwittaiaktow with lied aserakr-•-end the dilcipline of
exemplary obedience to legitintate GG.crnment, with
high (Pirko 03 les errnsplary, when the national
1
voice of bonnet calls it forth.

Ica izi Air) 30.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

WAR-ofrleg. AUGUST 30.
Royal Reytitent of Hate Gtards-Come, Philip Hammond to
be l. let:tenant. without porthole, vice Choi, promoted ; Corse:
Ge .rge Berkely, to be Lieceuant, vice Horfeley, prOmoted.
ad Re;iment of Dragoon Guards-Cornet Vi'arw:ck Hale Tonkin
to be Lieutenant, without parch:tie, vice Hanes, promote;
Cornet William Rogers, from half-pay of the Reitman, to be
Corn vice Tonkin. . .
6th Re;iment of Dragoons-Lieutenant John (Mawr to be Cap-
tain, by purchafe, vice Daniel, who mires; Cornet Joreph M.
Baldcbiu to be Lieutenant, vice O'Conor.
9th Regiment of Light Draeoons--Enfign Henry Thomas Parker,
from the 62d Foot, to be Cornet, by purchafe, vim Baldwin,
pro noted; Benjamin Chapman, F.fq. late Lieutenant in the Re-
giment, to be Paymafter, vice Mayne, who reigns.
loth Dittn-Charles Webb Dance, Gent. to be Cornet, by put,
chafe, vice Lord Alexander Gordon, promoted; Aillitant-Sur.
geon Taylor to be Surgeon, vice Chambers, appointed
to the Hofpital Staff.
13th Ditto-Cornet Arthur Henry to be Lieutenant, by purchafe,
vice Sampfon, promoted in the 9th Light Dragoons; j.doi
Irvin; Mors, Gent. to he Cornet. vice H
wry.
14th Ditto-MBllaot-Surgeon Ch.oles Waite, from the 85th Foot,
to be Affiltant-Surgeon, vice it: drop], 'rho refir,
/6th Ditto--James Cocks, Gat. to be Cornet, without purchafe,
vice Lloyd, promoted.
tyth Ditto-Cornet John Sharland Hardt to be Lieutenant, by
purehlfe, vice Mainwaring• who retires; Cornet Willkin C.
Faulkner, from half•pay of the 4th D.agoons, to be Cornet, vice
Tynd.ll, who exchanges, receiving the difference.
aoth Ditto-Surgeon --- Taylor, from the 28th Foot, to be Sur-
•Ton vice Cabe, appointed too the Hapital Stat.
2d Regiment of Foot-Henry Coldftrearn, Gent. to be Lain,
without purchafe, vice Culloden, promoted.
3d Dltto--Captain Wyndham Q2inn, from half-Pay of the 56th
Foot, to be Captain of a Company ; Lieutenatit Robert Brenan
to be Captain of a Company; Thomas William Harrington,
Gan. to be Enfign.
4th Ditto-To be Lieutenants, without purchafa-Enfign David
S. Craig, vice Pounce, promoted; Enitgn John Braync Holt:age,
vice Thorpe, promoted in the 3d Battalion of Referve ; and
Enfign Alexander Weiner.
To be Ailiflent -Surgeon--A IV a n t•Surgeon Richard Gibbon, from
half-pay of the 27th ?oat, vice Featheritone, promoted la the
12th Battalion of Referee.
sth Ditto-Lieutenant Richard Brooke Webber to lie Captain of
a Company, without purchafe, vice Hill, promoted Ih Lieute-
nain-Colond Stevenfon's Corps.
Bth Ditto-Thomas Edmund Dentin, Gettt. to be Poem, with-
out porthole.
tBth Ditto--Lieutennn Frederick Nettervlile, front half. pay of
the 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant; Enfign Aaron Webb Baker,
from the Nova Scotia Feneibles, to be Enagn:
234 Ditto-Enfign 'Thomas T. Blifett, tram the 3t ft Foot, to be
Lieutenant, by purchafe, vice Vernon. who retires.
26th Ditto-Lieutenant Jeplakin George Forth to Captain of a
Company; William Bygrave, and Ctotge Henke, Gents. to be
Enfigns.
28th Ditto-To be Captains of Companies-Captain Henry Cooke,
from half-pay of the it Regiment of Foot Guards; Lieutenants
Wlßiam Prefeott Meacham. and Want Irvine.
To be Liemenanta--Lientenant Thomas B. Straniewars, front
half-pay of the 40th Foot ; Lieutenant Thomas Battik, from
half-pay of the 46th Foot.
To be Entigno-William Henry Hartman, and Clifford Matt',
Gents.
To be Surgeono-415itant-Surgeon Grant, Nab the loth
Light Dragoons, vice Tay!or, appointed to the Jodi Light Dra-
goons.
30th. Ditto-To be Lieutenants-Lieutemnt Thorn's plant.
from half-pay oldie 34th Foot; Lieutenant Jahn Hitehlo, from
half-pay of the 17th Foot ; and Edina Thomas jeckfun.
To be holign.-WiMas Wallop Gan. vice !widen.
354 Ditto-Lieutenant H. W. bite:Roo to be Captain of a Cam.
”ry,, without purchafe, vice White, predated in the New
Btnnfwick Fencibks ; Rohr William Grundy to be Lieutenant
vice She ; Enagn Riebardfon, from half-pay of th;
kith Foot, to be Latin, vice Grundy.
35th DittoAtilitant-aurgeon Willlassi Comm, Nat half-}ay et
the 56th Foot, to tie Addlant-Surgeon, vice Robertfon, who
sylkefiCo.olieutenant Michael Ml:remit, from the 39th Foote
to be Lerman, Hee Church, who eedingen
35th Ditto-Lieutenant T. W. Hewett, from the 85th ?not, no
be Lineman, vim Watfoo, who exchanges:
3mlt Ditto-To be Liestemam.LLiestmants lama *dart, from
half-pay of the late goat Foot; Thomas Lightfoot, fruit half-
pay of the sth Poet; Thome U. PiilUµ abd Richard Ruffed.
ftem half pay of the asth Foot; 204 Richard Marsh. from
the 37th Foot, vice htentagh, who ezekarges.
es R Ditto-lama itaye, Efl to be Pa/Mader, flee Calembed,
who reigns.
44th Ditto--l. ant Finny Thomas, from half.pey of the
41 ft Foot, to be Lieutenant; Janis Hardy Baden, Gent. to be
Bodin ; John Goldrik, Gent. to be EnhaxQaarter Mader-
Seeptaat Jams to be tWiartm Mader
esthDbra....klndtew Haadm. Gent. gn, by purelife,
vita Cream; Whit retiree.
47th Ditto-Lieutenent John Conk toile Mislaid ofi Cologne, g
Liniment Warns ttW to be Capella of a Conageny ; in/as
Theism &Alm* to bc, Lieutenant, *lee Currie; MIRO
Surgeon Waken Teary. from the *Bth fat, to be dive%
vice Gunnar, appoints:alto the licipital Salt
48th Dittoamanant Robert kilillard to be Captain of a Nis.
pany; Willisat Meant. Gent. to be Enfign,
49th Dino-James Brock, If+ babe Paymaitcr, vice Jabs Brock,
who rages.
534 Ditto-Eakin Patrick Dal 4 frets halt pay of the 6th Poey
to be Enrage Satin Rtie„ from the sit Foot Guards, to
be Adjutant. with the Rae* of Lain.
56th Ditto-Captain Robert Owen to be Major, vttebolue Pereirki
vice Douglas, promoted Si the that Foot.
37th Ditto-Liatinent James Downing, from Itallf-pay a etig
h3d Feeit.to be Lieutenant; Lieutenant George Beholey, bola
alf-pay of Me poth Foot, to be ',hutment ; Agent kw.
gem Somers niche, hots half-Fay of the Old Light Dragenaw •
se be Alliftaat Surgeon.
58th Ditto..Capesin thiamine Frederick Tmokins, AMt hal&
pay of the late Reid Min Anidery, to he Captain eta Cams
rhsyl !ointment Genie Ogle tO be Captain of a Coaspady y
John itlearkint to be Littman". **hoot porthole, ales
Druks,.psemated; Lieutenant —Cowell, front halteaty of
the ad Foot lobs Lieutenant ; Lieutenant Edward Lloyd, from
half-pa, of die seth Fuegos he Linitenant; lobo Fitzgerald.
Gent. to be Raga f (arter Mater Briggs to b: &negro
bah Panes Rlehardfoe, from half-pay of the
40th Fmk, to be Falliet, vice Fetnyheigh, who etteihnges.
61d Ditto-Engin Charles Colts, from the sth Poet, to he
Lieutenant, by por4afe, vim Caoots, promoted in W loth
Foot.
66th Ditte...Lleutemot Alexander Macpherfon to be Captain de
Company.
To be Liattassis..Liancoants Devotee Vincent, fruit bait pay
of the sth Foot; Meows Sheplaemd, from half pay of the 25tia,
Foot; Joann saw, from half,* orbs each Foot,
67th Ditto-To be Cimino' of Sudan"
Reektort, fronaltalf.my et tie soth Lieutenants tempo
Cowell. and Mania GArry, froth Me 47th Foot; Frelerna I'.
Noble.
To be Uestenaats-Lianesents Petrick O'Brien, from half-pay
of the sth Weft India Anthem vice Noble, promoted;
ward Patiller. heat ball--pay of the 54th Fout.
To he Fnfteo-..Valentine Hailing. Ont.
To be Militant Adam Logan, Gent.
611th Ditto-heap Wilbaen GILL* to be Lieuteoant, by perches.
vice Crookihosk. promoted in the 3ttle Fat; fatau Samuel
One, from half-pay of the late Bth Welt leafs itegoonsat. e.be Enilin, eke Dideion,talse ca changes.
69th Litte....Usetemat Jens S. Cehburli. from half pay of tie
Ott Foot, to be Lientment ; steams John hey, hum hula
psi of the 35th Feet,to be Lkutenant.
imi Urquhart, Eli. to be Payer, vise btaekei-
a;o, fupertrainl.
tat Dim-Captain Liaitmeat Hewn Whams, bons half-pay
of the
_9lte tuns. by be Capita of a Company; Lienttoong
J . M. Doyle, hoe** pad Fvet. to be Captain of 'Compeer,.
To be Litistaiants-Linteseat I !maid 11. Wallama.reuat half•
pay of the 4th lone; Erign Antnita Thompfen ; Erfqpi se.
maul Harding,Gon tat ad toot. by web*, vice Wattiebenfito

petwooted.
kos flltto—liripital Mate WlGins Led= so be Made Om
i • en. vice Waite, in-moved t., eh- Cab Utibt Draosono
Istb Itet,l-1 1-tete.tet Watf te, frau tin jibb Peet, ft bo
Lieutarot, nos limo, *by esibtOro. Warne sonb

J.,me. Ferguffon to be Lieutenant, without
;t: 4• vice ‘l/4.,1,,tcr, promoted.
901 t i!t-..—Fnku Duncan Mac I.aren to be Licutenart, without
perch: e, vie. John Camp'ell, promoted; Afliftant.Surpon
from kalf•pay of the 37th Foot, to he Affiftant
Surgene, a ice Nl'Lachlan, who reigns.
111 Weft [flail Regiment—Lieutenant C. M. Roquebeau, from
the later t th Weft India Regiment, to be 1 icutenant.
3.1 Ditto—Enfign James Anton, from the late ttt► Welt India
Regiment. to be FnUan, vice Wife, deceafed ; Enfign Edward
Bremner, from half-pay of the late Bth Welt India Regiment,
to be Enfign, vice lirenan, promoted.
gth Laitto...Licutetiont John Lagontte; from the late itth Weft
India Regiment, to be I.i etaiant; Lieutenant John Harriett,
from d 'to, to be Lieutenant.
6th ditto—Patrick Conroy, Gcnt. to be Enfign, without porchafe,
vice Armll wing, promoted la the New Brunfwick Fencibles.
7th Ditto—Enfign J. Bremner, from the nth Weft India Rye.
meet, to be Enfign.
aft Battalion of heferve--Captain Hugh Marty, from the I fith
Battalion, to be Captain of a Company, with temporary rank in
the Army; Lieutenant Robert Ragurrler Dobkin, from half-pay
of the ipth Foot, to be Lieutenant; Francis Lewis, Gent. to be
Enfign.