Star.
London, England, 1811-04-16 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

REGULARS AND MILITIA.
Rirruste of the RICVLAR FORLZ, including Foreign end Colon a 1
Corps, up to the 25tkof D.cembev, i 3; O.
Replan, at home -50952
abroad 157,207
• Total
MILITIA
General Total
Tweet. Rcoaurrs raised by ordinary recruiting in 1307-S-9-10.
Men enlisted for life 16,94
• For a limited period 15,905 •
Boys, for life 3,695
Fur a limited period 6,370 •
General Total SIMS
Mum of CASUALTICS in the Regular Army, by Deaths, Dlav
charges, and Desertions.
In 1807 . . . . 17,538 lln 1808. . . 24,544
In 1808 . . . . 10,487 In 1810 . . . 21421
Number of Men who have extended their Services from the
Militia to the Regular Army in 1807-8-9-10 53,1361
F.lfective Strength of Militia, Feb 25, Ism . . 114,446
Wanting to Complete 12 233
The Ist Battalion of the 60th Rep. 1000 strong,
is arrived at Cowes for the purpose of embarking for
the Cape of Good Hope, as soon as transports can be
provided. The China ships which were to have taken
;hem are sailed.
• Detachments are daily arriviog at the Depot in the
isle of Wight. A large embarkation will shortly take
place for the East Indies.

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Another detachment of Guards (400 men) will
embark from Portsmouth shortly, for Cadiz. '
Tuesday last the lith regiment of Light Dragoons
commenced their march from Radipole Barracis for
lillyznouth, to embark for Portugal. They go out
000 strong, and are well horsed and equipt.
The 21st Dragoons, at the Cape of Good Hope,
are to'to be relieved by the 9th Light Dragoons from
this coentry, and wiltthen proceed to India.
Ernuer FROM TIM BOMBAY COURIER,, DATED

- AUGUST 4, 1610.,
In our.taper of the 28th July. we announced the
Death
.9f Captain SAlllfikt; STORY* of his
Majetty'is 65th iegimento.. We bane since bees cep
voured with a eopy of the following Regimental Aft"-
Orders, by Lieutenant... Colonel SMITH. whieh we. li*ves
greirpleasure publishing, as. the Mos, sitisraetoe.
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tribute which can be paid to his memory :
Bombay, Situ day, laly 21, 161 0.
The Commanding Officer kas very sincere sorrow in atinoutic-
ing the Death of C.,ptain WrktiAss SAMYLL STORY, in whoni
the Regiment has sustained a heavy loss. The lieutenant• Col-
onel declares that he always considered him one of the heat Cap-
tains of a Company be ever knew; and he is desirous to point
out his steady conduct in this public manner, as an example which
may be always followed with honour and advantage by his brO-
ther Officers.—ln the field be was marked with the real spirit
of zeal and gallantry—in quarters, his close attention to his duty
and to improve himself in his profession formed hie only pursutt
and constituted all his pleasure. He was a most excellent soldier
and a correct Gentleman.—As niark of fespeet due to one so
generally and so justly lamented, Lieutenant-Colonel SMITH di-
rect. that the Corps of Officers do appear in-Mourning on all oc-
casions foe the space of two month frotit 114, date.
(Signed) II'ICLIAS.I HINDE,
Captain 65th Regiment, Attiug Adjutant.
• Captain WILLIAM STORY was Son of the late ANTHAT
Srozr, Esquire, of Newbottle, in the county of Durham; and
whose surviving parent, Mrs. STORY (now of Stockton), and het
fussily, are inconsolable for the loss of es &at a relative.


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OC.'HRiIIYE.

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We stated on Friday the circumstance of Lord
Cochrane's arrest at Malta. The following are fur-
ther particulars :
MALTA, MA lICJI B.—Lord Cochrane arrived here
-about two months ago in a brig of war, proceeded to
Messina, and has been tettirned about a month. •
One day entering the Admiralty Court, he went
into the Registry, an apartment behind the chamber
,n which the Judge holds his sittings, or the Court
. Room, •and taking down the table of charges there
-hanging, put it in his pocket, and walked away. The
Judge, Dr. Sewell, conceiving this to be an insult on
the Court, though not then sitting, required that his
• i , Lordship should be arrested.
• After a considerable delay the arrest was made;
and on Saturday, the 2d inst. be was brought into
Court, attended by Captain Rowley, of the Eagle man
of war, the senior Officer, Commi,sioner Fraser, and
several of the chief naval Officers in port. The charge
was read, purporting, “ That an officer in naval uni-
form, verily believed by the deponent to be Lord
Cochrane, on Wednesday, (I believe the 13th Feb.)
entered the Registry of the Adiniralty Court, and
there took down the table of charges. He held up
the table, as if to cause it to be seen by the King's
' Advocate, Dr. Moncrieff, there sitting, then put it in
his pocket, and walked away."
The Juige then addressed him, dwelling on the of-
fence. His Lordship, in reply, wished thatlxis.accuser
should appear, that he might have the opportunity of
cross-examining him.
The Judge explained that this was the course prac-
tised en these occasions. His Lordship at length an-
swered the accusation : '44 I deny that I took down the ,
' Table of charges as established by Act of Parliament,
from this Court Room." The Judge observed that he-
could not allow any but-a direct answer to the precise
tharge whicleavas made ; adding, that, if the charge
contri'vreedno crime, he should himself be responsible.
After much• hesitation, his Lordship .said, ~ I deny
that I wok down the Table of Charges from tin
C.ourt-rnom."
Here the matter was brought to an issue, the prise-
'Tier denying the charge, or pleading not guilty. The.
'Judge then said, he mast administer to him certain
interrogatories, and began to question him respecting
the matter. His Lordship answered not, but he con-
tinued to ask for the accuser or witnesses. The Judge
peremptorily required answers. HiseLordship theft
declared, if these interrogatories were persisted in,
he should be obliged to protest against the proceed.,
irg which had been used, and was using against
him ; he denied the authority of that Court ; he die.'
claimed its competence to take cognizance of a mate
ter made the subject of a criminal charge, and with;
respect to the table of charges, contended that it was
not placed in the situation in which it was explicitly
required it should be placed by a.. Act of Parliament.
The Judge answered, that the Act directed that the
King in ,Privy Council established the charges, but
that this had not been done With regard to Malta. He
had, therefore, ordered the charges to be hung up in
. the Registry, in order to comply as near as possible,
with the spirit of the Act. •
Lord Cochrane was allowed to retire, and make a
long protest agiiist all the Members of the Court.—
He was offered liberty on bail, but refused, and was
remanded to prison. There he remained till two days
-ago, when he made his escape. He is supposed to
it:‘yr effected this abat twelve o'clock at night;
his window overlooked the street, a reasonable height,
some two stories ; and that, casting a double rope
across an iron bar, In: ski down, afterwards drming
the rose away. A reward has. been offered for the
discovery of the aidcrs in his escape.

DECAYED BUILDINGS.—An Inquisition was held
before the CorAner for Middksex, on I.'hursday, at
the parish of St. Luke, on the bodies of Charlotte,
Elizabeth, and William Crew.
It appeared in evidence, that these three unfortu-
'Sate children with their mother, who lately • died iii
St. Bartholomew Hospital, constituted part of a fa. I
Wily of
.eight or nine persons who occupied a small
,botne in Ironmonger-row, • the property of the Iron-
mongers' Company. This house, with the one ad-
joining, were let last Michaelmas to Thomas Watts, a
builder, who undertook to repair them. He had
taken down • the front, and secured the floors as he
conceived. On Monday, about one o'clock, the oc-
cupier of the first house called to Watts that some-
thing was amiss ;,he found the windiws beginning
to break. and called the bricklayers to get some
Shores. Tlry went into the kitchen, and finding the
mortar crusEing down, ran out of the house immedi- 1
arely. They had not escaped half a minute when
both the houses come down with a tremendous crash,
the party wall having given way. Watts swore that
nothinthe had done to the houses occasioned their
falling. All the family had before quitted the first
house a few minutes ; but there were about nine per-
sons in the other, four of whom are since dead, and
part of the remainder are at the Hospital. The wit-
nesses were of opinion, in which alf the Jury concur-
led, that the houses were in a very dangerous state
when they were let, and ought to have been
.pulled
down. There are several other houses now standing
in the same situation of decay, which are probably in-
habited.
The materials were worth about .C 100..-
They contained a quantity of saw dust, which caught
fire irotn the fuel in the stoves, and consumed the
whole of the property of the poor sufferers.
The Coroner observed to the Jury, that the num-
ber of Untimely deaths which were continually oc-
curring, from the tolling of decayed buildings, h.td,
been and were much deserving to be the subject of
public animadversion. The existing laws hardly
seemed to furnish an adequate remedy, and the Co-
rmier comes when all the mischief is over. It 4-true,
as a nuisance decayed buildings are within the juris-
diction of the Court .Leet, or.they tray be presentpi
• by the parochial officers to the Grand.,lnquest of the
• ConntY i bui-wredress the-grievance effectually, a
public responsibity should attach either on the Dis-
trict Surveyors, or some officer should be constituted
*kb powcr to pull ~down public buildings ia,dauger
•ei• falling, or of properly repairing thieved theAlii-
gcy of • the nu Menu In the present-instance,: a
High degree of culpability attaches on the proprietori
e, these houses wrich were In s ruinous condition
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whets they w Tat:•and,h2 a situationinuckt*clas-
semis to be nhabitrah —Seek an instance of neglect
- , 'sad iscastic olseers-a siva*: mid-islitabie kaatestive
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to the pnblic *entity. Mao& ate peculiar to the
Coroner's Cunt, their public utility is, that they are
a fine in some measure discretionary in the hands of
a Jury to punish the misconduat of persons who have
offended, but not so as to inert' a felonious breach of
the Criminal Law. The whole of the materials which
fell are a Deodand, the value of which you are to as-
sess not exceeding the tree amount. Verdict—Casual
Death.—Deodand £lOO. -
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the teeth, render them of a healthful red, and the
breath delicately sweet, relieve and cure the most
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