Star.
London, England, 1804-02-16 00:00:00

tENIRAL BOrER.

The following letter from General Bnrst to Lord
EttDLEY, will thew that the General hears ample
teflimony to the good treatment he has received in
the places where he has been quartered.

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MT LOID.
I received the letter you did me the honour to write me, and I
lac not a foment In entwining it, in order to bear teitintony to
truth.
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Tbe sodas gives by the French Government to ode medals
Naha the Eeq peifoosrs of diftledtles in Francs, maid only
Mee been 00:11101101 by Why &W W 1 ikon Tiverton. sod the
corder of the twins GOValaelleet. 'Atka eadlood mom to Collision,
in the moontains of Derbyllibs That order, however, ha, iteg
been revoked in t y days. and bag ads at Cbeiterileid. it Is wins
Seders that I take this eggeetooky to do the nod merited joftiee
Fr
tits %habitants of dot Nash of whom feel towards the
French prifsners of war Ow dotiensobi dos to misfortune.
As food ss I was rams& dust CAM" I isoodistdy wrote
to Prase; sod I how to duet diet the Ms* Oove•itentot by
this time avoided doe. foe from bobs woad with rigour, I wow
dare flow the Meglitroteo sod leYf ftioot.tbe pretedlion Gitlin
taws. mod rho dwlrp whkit dilliogoilb geteeross taiodr

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viola I Savo the Mobs, to be. soy Ler&
Tour Walden mu* Wade, etoll °bads isms&
(Aped) The trued 001ord. Strom
godieadd. 76 Jam 1804.
The Rite Homostesbie Lord Brae{.

His Matsrrr's pernsiifion has been lignik4
through General Savage. to the 016eers of
.the Po.
reign Brigade. which (erred in Egilie, to wear the ,
medals trantinitted to them by the Damn) Stir:mot, "
for their didingniihed gallantry on the aseoupbla
atB of March. _ _ _

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Yeflerday being kept as a holiday by all the Pebble
Offices, a great number of the Volunteer Corps of
the metropolis were not to exercife, and feveral of
them had a grand Held day. The Excife Office and
Cullom Houk Corp., and the 4th Regiment of Lon-
don Volunteers, were infpefiedfiet car. HAZ11•011, in
the Eafi India Company's near Iffington.-..
Owing to the bad Rate of the ground, the borfe of
Lord /loon Saratoga, who commands the Emirs
Office Corps, 'Rumbled. and threw his Lordtbip over
his bead, bat be fortunately did not receive any ma-
terial injury.
The Prince Wallas, Frederick's Corm (St. ar
mem's Volunteers). were infpecited by Lieutenant
Colonel Penmen in Lincoln's Inn Gardens yefier-
day, and received the aroma refilmeny of the
fpelter's approbation.
The Grenadiers and Light Infantry of the Hon.
Artillery Company went out yefierday to. Wandf.
worth, when they praitifed fieldexacife the greater
part of the day.
The Regiment of Volunteers, for the Speicher,*
Hundred, in Middlefer, commanded by his Royal
Highnefi the Duke of C AAAAA cs confifis of Soo
men, which is a confiderable number beyond their
quota ; and of thefe the pardh of Teddington has
railed upwards of an hundred, when its legal propor-
tion amonntedoolyto fix. It cannot. therefore, but
be cou6dered u a great berdthip, that an order Gould
be iffoed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County, for the
Overfeers of that poi& to pay sos. a week fora man
to keep the arms in order, and for a drill ferjeant,
which can be confidered in no other point of view
than as a tax for the fupernumerary men it railed out
of refpea for the Duke of CLAILINCI.
Sir Mane Svgs.'s Corps of Weld Yeomanry Ca.
valry marched into the barracks at York on Monday,
to take permanent duty for fourteen days.

Stables for tyo bat bodes are immediately to be
crated at Hor6arn ; and others falficient for 80, in
the old barrack yard near Lewes.

Yefterday, purfuant toa warrant frnmhis Mayarm
a General Court Martial was held at Chelfea College,
to take into confideration a Charge, made by Tao.
WAS KIATI. Eiq. Surgeon General to the Army,
againft Roamer Goacioa, Efq. Phyfician to the
Forces. The complaint Sated, that Dr. Goatee.
contrary to the articles of war, and in diree violation
of his duty (with a view to create infubordination
in the army), had wrote a certain letter to Mr.
/ERATO, the purport of which was, to excite that
iafubordination, and which letter feemed to have
foch a tendency, by securing him (Mr. Kerr') of
trefpaffing upon the known cottons' of the army
in placing an inferior officer over a fuperior,
by putting a young Surgeon over the head of a Phi..
ficiao.—The Court was compofed of officers holding
the highell refpeeabality in publi opinion, and the
Prefident was Lieutenant General the Hon. H. E.
Fox. They went through the evidence on both fides,
at the conflation of which, a very feeling appeal to
the honour and jußice of the Court was made by
Dr. Goaunit, and the report of their opinion will be
publifhed as loon as it receives the Royal citation.—
Dr. GORDON was grilled throughout by Mr. Raarf
as his Counfel.
Yetterday a Court of Direaors was held at the
Eatt India Houle, when Captain THowas Bvasrom
Psiaca was fworn into the command of the TROMOII
Cattle, dellined to China. The Court adjourned at
fix o'clock sill to•morrew.
Sof Ivry or Aars.—.on Tuefday lan the Elation
of Five Vice-Pretidents of this excellent Inhitution
took place, when the five following Gentlemen were
duly chofen :
Rkbanl Clarke, Efq. Chamberlain
bir Robert Peel. Bart. M. P.
Natbanael Conant, I.lq.
Rkbard Powell, M. P.

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Thos. R owerofC, t fq. A Idermiul, P. R L -
TI4UMAS Pi rr, Efq. V. P. and F. A. S. was in the
Chair, and Wit.i.sam KIRBY and WILLIAM Luise.
Etqrs. were the fcrotineers ; the ballot clokd at two
ptecifely, and the elation was not declared till five.
It is laid that the decition of the Judges upon tile
cafe of Mr. Robot Allett is to be made known netts
tail day of the prefent Salons at the Old Bailey.
It is in that the two Gordon., who have bern
fo much fpoken of, will be tried in the Old Bailey,"
the charge of forcibly carrying away Mrs. Lee, as
the offence was committed in the county of Middle-
fez.—lf they flinuld be acquitted of that charge. the
trial for perforial injury done to that Lady will take
place in Oxfordihire.
Toefday it'nnight a moll refplendent meteor vras
ken at Perth, for a few fecund., at mid day. It u
reprefented by a gentleman, who bad the pleafure
feting it, to have lad the appearance of a bright bal,
of Culver, about two feet in diameter, with a 04
thirty or forty feet it: length. It Tanithed in a noo
• weactly direflioa