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London, England, 1816-05-22 00:00:00

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teeterdst The etemebbient of' the light dragoons
under thecomatand of Captain lreits, who are learn-
ing the esereise of the lance, had a, grand drill day
-at the Qneea's Ridiog-house. to which a great num-
ber of ctististwithed characters • were admitted.—
Anassag thent- were the Dukes of Beatironv and
PuIttLAND, the Beds of SEFTON, AYLEsPoRD, DART-
MUTH, ROSELYN, V.iiCount MILTON, Lords E.)).
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/MIME, DoUGLAN Colonel Mon GA No,'Scc.
The first battalion of the 3d ..Regiment of Foot
Guards is 6rdered to be ready for foreign service.
The 58th Regiment, alter an absence 'of thirteen
Yeats on service, have been impt,cted by hlajor-Ge-
netal ltsatmts, who was pleased to issue the follov.ing
- Brigade Order:
Birr Barad's. May 14, I Rid.
" In the inspection of the 58• h Regiment this day by M'sjnr.
General Kemmis, he found such correctness, both in the interior
arrangements, and in the field, that he is enabled to make a most
favourable r. port. The appearance of the men under arms, their
expert use t.l them, the firings and evolutions, are profits of the
vat anew's.. .• the pars, of the comManding and other ut
cas in their respective ranks,
• "-The cleanliness in the hattrack accommodation, the good
eider and system in the Regimental Sc',4l (oonterous as the
subjects are of both sexes), does Colonel Walker. jot Igment and
experience mach credit. The Major-General will have much
Oman in making the good condition of the 58th Regiment
known to the Commander of the Forces.-13y order,
(Signed) "H. FIRNS, Captain, and A. D. C."
' COURTS-MAR riAL.
• ' Holies GUARDS, MAT 10,1818.
•At a General Coon-Martial, held at Ghazepoor,
in the East Indies, on the 3d June, 1815, Surgeon
Jamas Hammon, of the 17th Regiment of Foot, was
arraigned on the undermentioned charges, preferred
against him by Assistant. Surgeon ARDLEY, belong-
ing to the s:ico4 Regiment:
1. For violently arempting to elver the quarters of Assistant-
Surgeon Artiley at slate hour, and when denied admittance, and
ordered to await on him the next morning; in having uttered
to him the thr, ntening expressions of 44 By Con, I will not
have done with you and instantly afterwards wresting a
spear from the hand of his Chnkvdar, and with the same making
towards the door of his quarters, which, had been previously shut
to y remit his entrance.
u. Far neglect of duty in refusing to examine and prescribe far I
private George Robson, a sick soldier of the 17th foot, when car-
tied before him fur medical advice.
3. For neglect alsa ro examine and prescribe for private Joseph
IPow, of the 17th too:, who could not stand without help when
broa.gh: before hint.
For.= act of inhumanity in declitting, when talledlitson,
to visit the wife of private David Met its, a toldier of the Regi-
men,, she hying at the point of death, in consequence of a long
tontiouad Weeding.
• Second aJditional charges proffered against Bur-
geotl Ar, MSCN, by Coionei Hsuovm.ex, command-
ing th't 17th Regiment of Foot.
1,4. Charge, for having falsely asserted, in a letter, dated
Gtolzepoor, Feb. '24, 1815, addres4ed to the &Tom-General
of the Knee Troop, f..r the infortnaCun of the Right kb none-
able toe Comm.inder-in-Claiel, the following '.-elaration," That
liardylinat's letter of the 014 curr-a., in reply to mine
is nearly a complete strive of lies from the beginning to the end,
and It is now useless to observe delicacy."
2. For having mast unwarrantably and unjustifiably, in the
mane letter, stated, tha: ii the Commander-in-Chief will net
now adept means to afford bins redress, he must confider him
accessary to those unjust proceedings.
To which charges the prisoner refused to plead.
The Court, therefore, most maturely deliberated on
the cjtargcs preferred against tile prisoner, Surgeon
James Hanson, and his repeated refusal to (lead
• before the Court, found him GuPty, and therefore
pronoanced him o.lty of all the charges: and every
cart thereof, and therefore sentenced him to be tru-
ing:eel tie Service.• Notwithstanding which the Count
begged permission to call the attention of the Right
How.urable the Commander-in-Chief to the long ar-
rest to which the prisoner had beer. subjected, in
lopes that it might give him some claim to his Lord-
ship's lenient consideration ; which sentence has been
approved and confirmed by General the Earl MOIRA.
Paymaster GEORGE SLADE, of the 6th Battalion
-60th Regiment, has been tried by a General Court
Martial, held at Kingston Barracks, Jamaica, on the
following charge :
" With defalcation and embezalrment of public and other
sums received by hint as Regimental Paymaster ta the Battalion."
And the Court having found the said GEo. SLAMS,
Esq. guilty with defalcation anci embezzlement, as
follows) amount in sterling money £1472. 12s. 2d ;
yet the Court have not considered. the sum of
£175. 18s. 2d. currency of a public nature, although
Rahn wledged by the prisoner, and therefore sentenced
him to be dismissed from his Majesty's service; and
further, that he be fined in the sum of Avoo sterling
bf Great Britain; and that he, the said-Gino. SLAM,
be imprisoned in any of _his Majesty's jails until the
said fine is paid : which sentence has been approved
and confirmed by the- PRINCE RECENT.

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FIRS AT SHANXI'S CAsTLl.—•This ancient resi.

dance of d Noble Family of O'NEILL, in the county
of Antrim, Ireland, has. been destroyed. In the
evening of Wednesday last, when Earl O'NeiLL,
and some friends, were at dinner, one of the chimnies
was discovered' to be on fire, which burned until it
approached near to the top, when the' chimney beest,
,and the firs` communicated with the timbers of the
roof, and spread with such-dreadful rapidity that the
upper storey was soon involved in one general confla-
gration. No exertions could stop the flames, and thp
venerable pile was reduced to a melancholy ruin.-4.
Nothing, was saved brit thelitle.detd; and valuable
papers of his Lordsbp's family, and his plate ; every
thing else was destroyed. •
Mies %an KlNO.—Yesterday many persons of re-
speciability came 10 give information at Qireen-4,
square Office, of their, being defrauded by the thaw/
celebrated lemile.—Mt. Champion, of landgatehill,'
confectioner, said the prisoner came to his mother's
house about a month 'ago, and inqtiired of her-if she
cpuld inform her *here she could have genteel and
respectable apartmentsl She informed the prisoner
that her own apartrrients were not then furnished,
but she would immediately get them, and till they
were ready she might remain with her son. The pri-
Niter accordingly came, to his house, and by her ap-
parent artless 'manners and simplicity, with the story
she Aas imposed oa arch numbers, be was induced to
let her remain : he glowed his wife to sleep with her,
as she said she was sabject to spasms, and when they
litre u her, she wit obliged to drink great'cluan-
seltiesornspirits ; she drank several bottles of brandy
griiilher stay with them : she also ordered peaty
worth of wedding-cakes, which were pee-
-4,_ aia gave- directions where they were tell be,
aut. • Seiesai other persons attended with • charges
against the prisoners oat she was ads ed for further

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