Star.
London, England, 1810-08-11 00:00:00

ECCLESIA.S I 'CAL PROMOTION.

Rev. W. Skitter, of Chri-t Church, in this university, Is presen-
ted to the vicarage of Counter, in the county of Becks, void by
the decease of the Rev. J. Slatter.

THE ARMY.

Major-General WHILIIIAM is gone on a visit to the
Prince of WALL, at Brighton. •
On Monday a grand sham fight will take place on
Clapham Common, consisting of the Ist Surrey,
Lambeth, Christchurch, Wandsworth, Kingston, and
several other volunteer corps in Surrey.
A private of the 4th Foot, 2d battalion, has been
sentenced by a Court-Martial to receive 800 lashes,

fur drawing his bayonet on his serjcant whilst on
board a transport at Spithead. Another man of the
same regiment has been sentenced to receive 600
lashes, for striking his serjcant.
An order has been received at Canterbury from
the War-office, for not more than one-fourth of each

battalim of the regular infantry and militia stationed
in the Kent district, to be employed in getting in the
harvest, and it is left entirely in the power of the
commanding officer whether any or what part of that
number shall be so employed.

Wm. Clifford, the private in the 7th Royal Veteran
battalion, who was tried by a general Court Martial;
holden at the Royal Cavalry Barracks, Canterbury,
the 17th July last, for repeatedly striking and kick-
ing his superior officer, was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to receive 1000 lashes, 750 of which were in-
flicted on him on Thursday morning, before the whole
garrison, which ware drawn out for that purpose in,
the Cavalry Barrack Yard.
Corporal Curtis, lately sentenced to receive 1000
lathes, but who was remanded on his petition to be
sent in a condemned regiment, has been permitted,
atter receiving 200 lashes, to volunteer into a regi-
ment on foreign service. Greenwood, and the other
private of the Oxford Militia, who were tried by a
131;g.,de Court Martial, at Shoreham, have been sen-
tenced to receive 500 lashes each, but have escaped
punishment by volunteering into a regiment on foreign
service.

Last week, a private in one of the regiments quar-
tered at Brighton, had a watch with a suitable inscrip-
tion engravedppon it, presented to him (at the head of
his regiment) for his bravery in swimming out, and
saving the life of a boy whom the violence of the
waves had taken beyond his depth,
Wednesday evening last, about nine o'clock, a se-
rious affray took place in a square in Ruttington-lane,
Canterbury, the particulars of which are as follow ;
—A soldier of the Queen's Bays, suspecting a young
man who lived about that part to be a deserter from
the navy, watched him for some hours on that day,
and saw him go into a house in the above-mentioned
square about halt-past eight in the evening ; the sol-
dier then procured the assistance of two of his com-
rades, when they all three went to the house, the sol-
dier entering the lower room he found the supposed
deserter sitting with a man and woman playing cards.
The soldier instantly seized him, and told him he was
his prisoner. Tile fellow broke away from him and
jumped out of a window at the back of the room,
but was secured by the two other soldiers who re-
mained outside, and on the-return of the former with

part of the guard which he had gone for, when the
deserter broke from him, they found a number of
people collected together, and their two comrades
dreadfully wounded, it is supposed by a large knife
—the one with two severe cuts on the left breast, and
the other, in the abdomen in so shocking a manner
as to he obliged to hold his bowels up while he was
'conveying to the hospital, where they both now lie
without any hopes of recovery.
Mornay night, in Dublin, whilst Lieut. MALONE,
of the 75th regiment, and Mr. AYCKBOWM, of Graf-
ton-street, were walking on Lower Ormond-quay,
they by accident jostled a person, and immediately
apologized, but the latter thrust the point of his um-
brella with such violence against Lieut. MALONE, that
•=riking him over the corner of the eye, the fatal con-
sequence was, that Lieut. MALONE died on Thursday
morning. Strict search is making for the offender.
Friday the 3d, Serjeant CORNELIUS, of the North-
Cork Militia, with three privates, apprehended at
Grange, in the county of Waterford, Treahy, a
deserter from said regiment, and on their conveying
him to Youghal, a shout being raised, a number of
peasantry collected, headed by a brother of Treahy,
and in a most violent manner attacked the party and
rescued the prisoner. The Serjeant fired, whose shot
is supposed to have mortally wounded the deserter.—
The tellows then pursued the Serjeant, who spiritedly
resisted when again attacked in a house; by the bro-
ther and others, who forcing the door, were fired at,
and the brother shot through the heart. The military,
after being most roughly 'whiled, effected their escape.