Star.
London, England, 1810-11-07 00:00:00

THE ARMY'.

gatorday, the Oxford and West York I
of Militia passed through Winchesteii
jt ttli and Bristol.

to
Some time ago we copied from ariother, paper, at
icle purporting
to be the opinion of a Court of En-
art
city held in Great -George-street, Westminster, on
charges preferred by LietLieutenantXesses, of the Ist
Tyser Hamlets Militia, itteinet Captain DANIEL
otM RA, EA Of the same Regtmerit, and by which opi.
/lion the charges preferred by Lieutptant ICEMPitwe..e
said to have Peen adjudged frivolous, and
vexatious. It is but justice, however, to both parties,
to apprize our readers, that VW Zilch opinion as the
above has been announced in•Reghaeneator Brigade
Orders, and that a Court:of tn.:miry is a mere cus-
tomary tribunal, and not recognized by our written
Military Law ; the Members who compose it not
having the 'lowar to swear witnesses, or to enforce
their attendance. • •
General Tarleton's Regiment, the 21st Dragoons,
it to proceed from the Cape to India, and is to be
ricceeded by the 9th Light Dragoons, General Lord
Ros‘lyn's Regiment.
Brirrisit CA VALRY.—The luxury of a barrack stable
is at length found inconsistent with the rigours of a
campaign. Of the British cavalry horses in Portugal,
2 very considerable proportion is said to have suffer-,
ed severely, by a variety of complaints—arising, as it
is suppose;;, from a too careful system of treatment
at home, by which they are rendered unfit for entoun-
terin,,, the vicissitudes of a campaign. That eys,
ten of training, so perfectly understood in this *cam-
;Ty, the greatest pos,,ibie exertion of speed may be.en-
traded, admits to doubt ; but it is only by.tninute_itd
unremitting attention to the noble animals, thus con-
tributing to our amusement, that their health and
!length can be preserved. The transition from a.,
comfortable barrack stable, under the vigilant eye of a
commanding officer, to the hardships ot a campaign,
must necessarily affect the animal in ..propoitiori to
the care with which it has been treated. A. perfect
conviction that the treattnentof-one cavalry horses is
too delicate to render them capable of sustaining,
without injury, the.hqdships of foreign service, is
mid to have ptoclit, re. tesolution to alter the con-
struction of the barrack stables, which in future are
to be little more than open sheds—no that the horses,
by not being too snitch protected from the changes of
the
,atmosp tere, may he rendered less susceptible of
disease from the hardships of .actual service. It is
asserted, that the Horses V. the Ffineli cavalry, 'tho'
diminutivein nizel and in regard to what is termed
condition, these scarecrows endure the privations and
tardships to which they aro 'reduced with mach less
inconvenience than those of our one regiment : their
utivity is extraordinary and surprizing; ,

Sunday morning, the 26th of August, a duel Was
Night near Camp Bonlogne, in the Island if
loupe, between Mr..RAINFS, a Lietrenant in the. 6th
Wnt India Regiment, and Mr. rzaNam., atrEniign
in the same corps. The parties were tmly eight pees
asunder, and Mr. FEN/ELL wounded .Mr.—RAixEs;

the ball entered 'Mr. RAINES'S hip. and went through
at the other side, passing very near to the spinal
marrow. On the Bth September Mr. RAISES was
quite out of danger, and able to walk about.

Thursday evening last, while Dr. COLLYER was
reaching at the Rev. GEORGE.BURDER'B chapel, in
Fetter-lane, some person or persons contrived to open

the vestry window (the door being ticked) and to
tarry off the Doctor's coat, great coat, and a bag,
tontaining other articles.
The helpless submission with which the strange
and aggravated successive acts of oppression com-
mitted by the Ruler of France are received, may be
considered as one of the eruptions
from the volcano of

the Revolution, which ha; spread its devastations

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()vet the Continent, and totally altered the aspect of
European affairs. The powers which foreign invasion
compelltd the French G6Vernment to assame, con-
tinued when invasion was no longer to be dreaded.
The horrors of the Revolution rendered the nation fa.
taikr with suffering, which is submitted to with the
liatitince of despair. The Conscription, that tremendous
tinfailing engine' was deltvered in its full vigour into
the bands of one peeuliarly qualified to direct its force.
Th idea of resistance to domestic oppression had al.
most vanished, and if it had been entertained, the
best elements of resistance were converted " into in-
struments for suppressing insurrection at home and
carrying devastation abroad." All the old estalplish-

rnents-:forms—opinions and habits which might have
obstructed the formation and eniplOyment of thit en-
gine have been 4v:ept away by the Revolution. None
of those obstacles stand in the way which palsy the ope-
rations of old and enervated despotisms, but all the on-
' divided force of a powerful nation is directed to one ob-
ject—the execution of la gram/queue—the subjugation
of all other* states. Each as it is subdued becomes
an additional instrurdinit for *the destruction of whets.
—The engine is in constant operation, and gatheis
strength from exertion ; and While its power has io-
ereased so as to have destroyed all hole of sucteisittl
resistance among mast of those against **boil% itss
• turned, no compunctious feelings, no considelOtn
' 'of human calamit# can be expected to prevail upon
its manager to* arrest its pro . s. The centre of
Europe is united for the isub ligation
.of the Noah
arid South. In the gorth 'the' work is in a reit
es
measure accOmplishat, and new materialt are per-
Ittually forming far the destruction of sotitheriiin-
dependence. In the mean time all this is to be consi- i
dered by us as but one vast pteparation to turn the
whole force of the Continent formed in the best man-
, and carried to its utmost tension, againt these
islands. Already has its influence beer; severely felt, i
and it is certainly high time to ask atirse)ves wherfier
every thing Within our pOwer has lA* done to prepare
for the threatened tempest ? Awful as, the crisis is ;1
test as the danger has approached., much remains to
be done by us in the way eflieparation: We have:
often insisted on the ,neeestify of training our whole
youth to the use of arms—not merely to provide a
nursery for the standing army, but to prepare for
eontingency which may'hialre us hereafter wish, that '
the means of defending our homes had been the sub- '
ices of general milky and preparatory vigilante.— I
Would the inVader• of Spain and Portugal have been i
able so 1 to Malaita% hislegions in the Peninsula
had the pci aloti' 'been' prefmargesceained ro the use
otaret :Mitt '.
' DOC- I/IV is obvious.

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