Star.
London, England, 1820-07-26 00:00:00

TIE ARMY.
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The Light Horse Volunteers are to have a Field-
day on Wormwood Scrubs to-morrow, preparatory..
to the Review of the Regiment at that place, by his
Royal Highness the .COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, on Sa-
turday next.
The 14th Light Dragoons expect their route of
march from Canterbury, in the course of this week.
Saturday se'nnight, the Perth Yeomanry were in-
spected in the South Inch, in .the presence of his
Grace the Duke of Aram., Lord GRAY, and a num-
ber of other distinguished 'personages, by Sir Tiro-
MAs BRADFORD, the Commander of the Forces for
Scotland. The excellent state of equipment of the
Corps, as well as the precision and alacrity with
which it performed its various evolutions, were
highly creditable to every individual belonging to it,
and received the warmest expressions of approbation
both from his Grace- the Lord Lieutenant, and the
di,tinguished Officer by whom it was inspected.
Saturday sennight, a private belonging to the
13th Regiment of Foot, stationed in Stirling Castle,
was drowned while bathing in the Forth, and his
body was not found till the Thursday following.
Yesterday, as several baggage-waggons, heavily
laden with articles belonging to the 10th Dragoons,
wereproceeding along the Wandsworth-road, one of
them came in contact with a lamp-post, which preci-
pitated the wife of one of the privates, named Stevens,
with her child about two years old, to the ground :1
when the wheel passed over the infant, and killed it
on the spot ; ,the mother fell on het' head, and nar-
rowly escaped a similar fate.
Loucara Ea, JULY 15.—A daring attempt was
made last Friday night to surprize a detachment of
twenty men of the nth Regiment, stationed in the
Glebe-house in Clonfert, by an armed body of men,
upwards of twenty in number, some of whom spring-
ing unawares upon the sentry, knocked him down
with stones, and having filled his mouth with tow to
prevent his calling for assistance, robbed him of his
firelock, bayonet, nineteen rounds of ball cartridge,
and fifteen shillings in silver, while others endea-
voured to force the gates and doors of the'house, but
which, finding themselves unable to do without alarm-
ing probably the guard Within, they desisted from
their purpose ; and having tied ropes round the neck
of the unfortunate man, who they had knocked down,
they dragged him to a considerable distance, where
they produced a book to swear him, but on his refus-
ing to take the oath they beat him and kicked him in
the face in a cruel manner, threatening with impreca-
tions, that they would hang him on a tree close by,
as an example to his Corps ;but he still refusing to be
sworn, having already taken, as he said, an oath to
be faithful to the King, one of these savages, for by
no other title can they be denominated, presented
from behind a blunderbuss close to him, and fired at
him, the contents of which he received in his hands,
shattering both in a most dreadful Manner.. and car-
rying off one of the fingers. The soldiers became
alarmed at the cries of the unhappy man, who had
succeeded in crawling back to near the house ; and
he was shortly after conveyed in a post-chaise to
Ilead-quarte/s at Ballinasloe, where he now lies in a
very dangerous state. The Corps (the 49th Regi-
ment) have offered a reward of 1:50 to any person
who shall give information against any of the offen-
ders concerned in this dreadful outrage.
MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
Commissions in the Denbighshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed
• by the Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire.
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart. to be C,onumindant, with
rank of Colonel; Edward Lloyd Lloyd, Esq. to be Major;
George Kenyon, Thomas Fitzhugh, Joseph Ablett. Edward
Lloyd Rowland, and John Heaton, Esqrs. to be Captains;
Griffith Jeffery Morris, Joseph Peers, jun. Thomas FAwards,
John Rowland, and Bevis Thelwal, Gents. to be Lieutenants;
George Lloyd Kenyon, John Williams, and Ezsuperins
Pickering, Gents. to be Cornets; John Jones, Gent. to be
Surgeon.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding
of the County of York, City and County of the City of York.
William Morritt, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant.
Zd West York Militia—Stamp Brookshank, Esq. to be Liente-
nant-Colonel, vice Chohnley, promoted; Christopher Clarke,
Esq. to be Major, vice Brnoksbank, promoted; Jonathan
Layburn, F.sq. to be Captain, vice Thorold, resigned.
1 orkshite Hussar Yeomanry—William Markham, Esq. to be
Captain, vice Milbank, resigned; John Tennant Stansfieid
Tennant, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Fenton, resigned.
f.sthern Regiment of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeomanry Ca-
valry—William Hatfield Gossip, Esq. to by Captain, vice
William Gossip, resigned; William Chedwick, Gent. to be
Lieutenant, vice Boldrick, resigned ; Thomas Birch, Gent.
to be Cornet, vice Coulman, resigned.
I luddersfiela Independent Association—Lewis Fenton, Esq. to
be Captain-Commandant; Robert Dunlop, Esq. to be Cap-
tain • Thomas Anderson, James Campay Laycock, John
Sunderland Hirst, Tristram Ridgway,Gents. to be Lieutenants
Leeds Volunteer Infantry—John Hardy, Esq. to be Lieute
rant-Colonel-Commandant; Christopher Beckett, Esq. to be
Major; Henry Hall, Richard Woomald, John Bishoff, Roger
Holt I4igh, and Michael Thomas Sadler, Esqrs. to be Cap-
tains; William Smith, Christopher Bolland, Richard Coup-
land, William Baiston Smith, Ralph Markiand, and John
Wilkinson, Gents. to be Lieutenants ' • Richard Brantley,
John Upton, Matthew Bloom!, and Joseph Henry Ridsdale,
Gents. to be Ensigns.

Friday, the funeral of the late Bishop of Winchester took
place, with great solemnity, in Winchester. His Lordship has
bequeathed £3OO to the poor of Farnham, £3OO to the County
ibspital, £3OO to Bishop Morley's College in this city, and a
latge sum to be distributed amongst his servant•.
The venerable Bishop of D.-- having been lately
indisposed, the most sedulous inquirer after his Lord-
si•;p's health was the Bishop of —, the former one
worning ordered the messenger of the latter into his
room, and thus addressed him : " Make my compli-
ments to your master, and tell him that I am nearly
recovered ; but our good brother, the Bishop of
}.as got a bad cold and a sore throat, y. that will
satisfy him."
There is now every prospect of removing the
rocky shoal, called Scots Ground, off Plymouth, by
rreans of the diving-bell. The depth of the water
over it having been increased already from seventeen
to twenty-two feet. Should this laborious undertak-
irg succeed, large ships may at all times of the tide
work out of the Sound, with safety.
Early on Monday morning, an alarming fire broke
out at the house of a cheesemonger, Stepney-greer,
r:ile-End. Such was the rapidity of the flames, the t
the staircase was totally consumed before the family,
who had retired to rest, were awoke to a sense of their
extremely perilous situation. Fortunately on its dis-
ccivety by the watchman, and Consequent alarm, a
Number of the neighbouring inhabitants soon collect-
ed together ; blankets were :procured, and the fa-
mily, by leaping from the balcony of the first floor,
t. ere happily rescued from their hazai dons situation,
without 'lesson:al injury►