Star.
London, England, 1803-11-21 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOV. rst.

THS KING V. ROSS.
Mr. ATTORNEY GE/41meg. moved for the judgment
of the Court in this care. He was tried before Mr.
illitiCe CHAMSRE, at the laft affixes at Carlifle. His
offence wa,, affaulting and obthutling Come revenue
officers in the execution of their office.

The Court adjudged, that the Defendant fhould
he imp:Waned in the common gaol of Cumberhuld
tor the fpace of nine calendar months.

4 CdRD 70 THE EDITOR.

The Turkiffi Medal having become of general
adoption, not only by the Officers of the Battalions of
Guards, but by thole of other Corps, which were in
Egypt ; a Field Officer of the Army, who, with
many others of perhaps more merit, though certainly
not of more zeal that. Limfelf, ferved in that country
without obtaining the Medal, begs leave to mention,
through the Clrannel of your Paper, the following
particulars, a knowledge of which will, probably, be
neceffary to prevent the application of unfavourable
ideas to fuch an esclution :
After the action of the 21a of March had been res.
ported at Conlianttnople, it was figoifted, through
the Captain Pacha, to the Commander in Chief, that
the GRAND SSIMIIIa intended to mean the °finer.
of the Btitilla Army, which had h.ghnioully
guilheri• Wilt; with honorary Medals; preparatory
to which era& returns were feat for; and fa chaffs
was the plan propofed, that the names ern9 of fach in-
cliviJual Officers as had been nasally prefers: with
their Corps, on that brilliant occaion (or who might
have been difabled from 'Gi(ting thereat by wossads
on the two preceding ones), were permitted by his
Loielfhip to be inferted for this honorary Badge.--
According, therefore, only to loch fpecifie names
were the Medals fent down to Alexandria for dillri.
bution. To the General Offices* were given barge
Gold Medals, with the GRAND 8110111011% cypher. ,
let in brilliants; to the Colonels, Field Officers, Cap-
tains, and Subalterns, were given plain Gold Medals.
with the fame device limply ftanipt ; and the allot.
ment to thole different ranks difcriminated only by a
gradation offar.. The fame principle was adopted
in the diftribution to the correfpondent ranks oft he
navy.
To this arrangement, however it might have been
a fubjea of tome little degree of pardonable envy;
there, neverthelcfs, was never hinted an argument of
objection, though all, no doubt, were animated with
equal zeal ; yet the etfpojetioa to achieve, and the .&.al
witiewsweesi of a fervice, are diftina in their claims for
remuneration. The Regiments which arrived from
Europe, after the above memorable salons, lamented
indeed that they had not been in time to partake the
laurels of thnfe days; but they acknowledged, at the
fame time, the juice of the principle, upon which
they found themfdves excluded from a Badge, which
certainly was defigited to become thereby a mark of
the molt flattering diffinaion.
On the arrival, however, of the Army from India.
through Upper Egypt, die GRAND VISSIIR, who was
at Cairo, having communicated feparately with that
column, recommended the Officers thereof (without
reference to Lord H. the Commander in Chief) alto
for the Medal, when, as they had been engaged in
nti anion or confpictions cirtumflance whatever. to
mark a preference, their total general sampered return
of Officers and of Staff, Civil, and Military, down to
the Qtyrter.mafters of Dragoons, was at once given
in from their Adjutant General's Office. In cads.
quence of which the whok of the Divifion from Aria,
who, though no doubt impreft with Opal seal, Rill
had never an opportunity of attaining even a rifles*
view of the enemy, obtained the Medal, while a Corps
of Artillery, a Regiment of Cavalry. and two entire
Regiments of Infantry, betides a conaderable number
of individual Officers, who joined from Serifs. and
who, though abfent on the 2 bore an entire
and efficient part in all the other Cervices of the cam.
paign, and particularly in the operations agsintl
Alexandria. were excluded from that honorary dii.
tin lion, if fuch indeed it could continue to be called,
after a diftirsaion of fervice ceded to be eonfidered is
its appropriation. The intention of the Porte, how-
ever, with refpea to the army at large, was liberal.
To mark more folly the fentiments of the GRAVID
Stlol/101, with refpelt to the &kills nation, the Or.
II der of the Crelcent was gracioudy bellowed. by his
Sublime Highnefs, upon the firff and fecood in com.
mend, both of the military and naval forces employed
upon the Egyptian expedition,as well as his Majelty's
Ambafador at his Court; and afterwards to the
other General Officers and Admirals who held Chief
Cwwwwith, connedied with that fervice. The follow..
ing the writer believes to be the prefent diftinguiffied
lilt of (Britilh) Knights of that Order, certainly res.
dared more honourable from the view of the charac-
ters who bear it :
fed Milke.
Lord Haddam,

Fart atCavaa,

War=tetkelley,