Star.
London, England, 1811-09-07 00:00:00

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Our reaßers will recollect that via gaVe an amount
of a duel which took place a few mouths ago at Can-
terbury, between two Officers of the 23d Dragoons.
The dispute originated from some liberties taken with
the chatattfrs of certain indiviJuals in a satyrical
publication entitled " The Whim," and supposed to
be written by one of the Officers of the regiment.—
Thebusiness has since been brought before the PRINCE
REGENT, and the following letter on the subject has
been addressed to Lieutenant-General NICOLLS, Com-
mande; of the troops in the Kent district. The 23d
Light Dragoons,t and the Troops stationed in Can-
terbury, marched to Barham Downs, on Saturday the
24th August, when the commands of his Royal High-
nese the PRINCE REGENT were carried into eaect:
(COPY.)
" Horse-Guards, 15th AugUst, 1211.
" Sta—Your letter of the 10th July, and the several docu-
ments which accompanied it, have been under the Commander-
in-Chief's most serious consideration, and I am now commanded
to Inform you, that the circumstances In which Captain Pt-ter
Hunter, .of the Queen's Regiment of Dragoon Guards, and Cap-
tain Francis Goulbourn, and Lieutenant Quillinan, of the 53d
Light Dragoons, are implicated, are so novel, ond at the isms
time so extremely prejudicial in their tendency to the discipline of
the service, that his Royal Highness has felt it incumbent. on him
to submit the whale of the case to his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent.
" I am commanded to direct you, Sir, at the bead of the 29d
regiment *of Light Dragoons, and in presence of the Garrison of
Canterbury, publicly and solemnly to Inform Captain Hunter,
Captain Goulbourn, sod Lieutenant Quillinan, that by conde-
scending to become the authors of an anonymous publication, in
which the feelings of their Brother Officers, and some of the re-
spectable Inhabitants of Canterbury have been most unjustifiably
and wantonly injured, they have lowered themselves much in
the estimation of the Prince Regent, and have placed thensselveS
in a situation very derogatory and inconsistent with their rant
and station as Officers in the military service. The offence el
which they have been guilty Is most particularly reprehensible;
nor is the mode in which they have thought proper to offer repast
ration to the parties injured, less the object of his Royal High-
ness's most decided disapprobation, such conduct being a great
aggravation of the offence they have committed against military
discipline, and against that regard that every man owes to the
laws of his country.
" Under these circumstances his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent is alone restrained from exerting the rower with which j
he is invested, of removing Captain Hunter, Laptain Goulbourn,
and Lieutenant Quillinan, from his Majesty's service—by the
hope and persuasion that they were not aware of the evil tendency
of the measures they were pursuing, or of the fatal consequences
with which they were likely to be attended to themselves.
" His Royal Highness, however commands that they shall be
informed that their conduct hereafter shall be watched and it is
only by a representation from, their superior officers, that they
have learnt a due sense of their errors, by the marked propriety
of their future behaviour, b.sth as Officers and Members of So-
ciety, that Ids Royal Highness will ever be induced to allow them
to be promoted in the service.
" Captain Peter Hunter has been ordered to Canterbury, with
a view of receiving from you in the mode pointed out, his Royal
Highness's commands.
" It is the Prince Regent's pleasure, that this letter shall be
inserted in the orderly books of ad the. regiments in the Kent dis-
trict under your command, and in that of the Queen's Regiment
of Dragoon Guards. (Signed)
" HARRY CALVERT, Adjutant-r
" Lieutenant-General Nicol's, &c. &c. &c."

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NAVAL IrlTßumeNcs.
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-mint FALMOUTH, SEPTEMBER 4.
'- Arrived the General Porlier, &UDEN, from Cortums.
PLYMOUTH, SEP!! s.
We formerly mentioned that the whole of the Frenc'
prisoners were removing from Mill Prison on bahri
I the hulks, preparatory to being sent to Leith, as fast
as vessels arrive to convey them. While removing.
1 nine of them contrived to effect their escapes ben .4
. reward of 25 guineas being offered, six of them wets'
taken yesterday, and the other three were brought in
last night by the FOXHOUND brig of war, which took
them half way over the Channel, in a pleasure-boat,
belonging to Capt. WORTH, of the Navy, which they
stole from her anchorage in Mill Bay.
A large Bremen ship put in here last night, with ,
theloss of her fore and main top masts, in a gale,-
Arrived the LATONA frigate from Portsmouth•—ee-
veral ships, laden with timber and naval stores, have
arrived here during the present week.
PORTSMOUTH, SEP 11 MBER & .•
Sailed the ROSINA sloop of war with a fleet for
Ireland, and the SKYLARK sloop of war fort& Downs.
- DEAL; SEPTEMBER R. '.., r 2. .',..‘i
Sailed the DIOMEDE on a craize.
RAMSGATE, SEPTEMBER 5 I
The three transports Ariadne, Tuomrsoe; Royalist, -•
SMELT ; and Amphitrite, BROWN ; which arrived here
on Sunday last for the East Norfolk Militia, who have
extended their services to Ireland, still remain is the
harbour, the troops not having yet embarked.
GREENOCK, SEP ['EMBER 4.
Arrived here on Sunday morning the Johns, COCR•
RAMC, from Quebec, in '2B days. On the 10th ult. off
St. Peters Island, spoke the Easdale, --, of and
from Whitehaven, from Prince Edward's Island. On
Tuesday last, lat. 55. long. 12. spoke the Trafalga..,
AITKINSON, from Quebec to Liverpool, out 20 days, .
all well. Left loading tor Clyde, the Cesar, M'Beroa; •
James and Agnes, Staves:son ; and Trader, Dverr ;
the two latter to sail in a week ; and the Jean, Ly.
strew, for Ayr, to sail in two days after.
Tun NAVY.—Another ship of the line, to be named
la Hogue, of 74 guns, will be launched from the Royat
Dock-yard at Deptford, on Wednesday, the 18th inst.
when the tide will serve at half past two o'clock in the '
afternoon. It is expected that the beautiful first-rate
line of battle ship, now beilding at Woolwich, will be
completed in a few month's. This vessel into be cal led
the Lord Nelson; and as a grateful tribute to his se-
vered memory, she is to be graced with the full length
figure, and a representation of some of the achievement!
of the immortal hero.
The Argyle, Pontos, arrived at Newry, from Ca-
diz, in ballast, has been seized for not having either
manifest or cocket, and three small casks of rum, aid
thirty pieces of nankeen, having been found undir the
!ballast.
s There is a sharp look-out at present among our •
To THE EDI roil OF THE STAR. cruizers on the French fleet in the Scheldt, as they are
Caanuctogett, Seer. 6.—The Comet may be seen,
apparently ready for sea, and every arrangement is
from the bigtropolis. It was yesterday evening very I made to prevent their escape. The following vessels
conspicuous from soon after dusk until half-past nine 'aremionnmthoeu Downs :
tk, Bellona, Bedford, Diomede, Inconstant, Naiad,
o'clock, in a N. N. W. direction, near the horizon. ! i v„,14..„, Brune, Drake, mistigab. volcano. Liimit, vipe.
After having been about four hours below the ri -1 Phipps, Cordelia, and Cheerful men of war ; Mary, Nyesea.sest
zoo, it was again to be seen this morning in a N. N. E. ' Folkestone armed vessels.
direction, from half-past two o'clock until nearly day- --_-
light. Monday se'nnight a boat race, for 450 a side, be-
tween the boatmen of Blaydon and those of Snow,.
GLASGOW, SEPT. 4.—The Comet was observed on
don's Hole, was decided on the Tyne, from Hebbarn
Sunday and Monday eveni...gs, the Ist and 2d inst. at
the Glasgow observatory, and as position determined Quay to Newcastle bridge. The Blaydon boat won
by accurate instruments. It is around ill defined spot by above 300 yards. A number of battles arose out
of or light, has no tail, and is situated near the right hind this transaction, and were fought on Newcastle
foot of the Great Bear, a little to the right of a line, Quay.
passing through two bright stars,in that Constellation, I A young man of the name of Lucie, the son of a
tradesman in Conduit-street, was found drowned in the
called the Pointers. The uppermost of these is almost
equidistant from the Comet and the Pole. Its right i Paddington Canal yesterday morning, with several
exterior marks of violence. 'He had been missing
ascension, on the Ist at 9h. 25m. was 155 deg. 52
min. and declination 38 deg. 4 min. N. Whenever since Sunday last, and he was traced to have left a
the weather permits, its progress will be carefully public house at Uxbridge at ten o'clock at ni
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followed, so as to ascertain its path in the heavens. much inebriated.
Thins lay evening a boat, with four young •H".
WOODMEN OP A RDEN.—Monday se'nnight, the going down the River, between Limehouse and Black-
Woodmen of the Forest of Arden, held their Grand wall, ran foul of a vessel, by which the boat was up-
Annnal Meeting. W. PALMER, Esq. was Captain of , sat, when three of them saved themselves by i4v ii.g ;
Target, and the Rev. T. L. FRERE, Lieutenant ; the hold of the sides of the boat, and were rescued by a-
Gold Medal was won by VERNEY, E'q. and the wherry ; and the other, whose name was Welsh, a
Silver Medal by -- BRETON, Esq. On Wednesday
the Silver Arrow was shot for, and won by the Rev. teilor of Woolwich, was drowned.
Sunday last as several young men and wome i wee
EGERTON BAGOT. Miss GREENWAY drew the prize.
pleasuring in a large boat, in Penzance B iy, having
Friday the Bugle was shot for, and won by W. PAL-
with them in tow a small boat, in which were two
o
HER, Esq. Miss BAGOT dre boys, about fourteen Tears old—when about half aw the prize. Tile meeting
was numerously attended by the first rank and fashion
in the county ; and there were balls at the Forest mile. from land the boys requested to be put on shoos Hall, on Wednesday and Friday evenings. and a young man that was in the large boat jumpee into the small one to quiet them ; when finding it up!
BEDFORD RACES.—On Thursday, the second day, setting he returned, but seeing they were in the act .
the Hunters' Stakes were contended for in a manner
unknown to the previous annals of the Racing Ca- of drowning he plunged in after them, and it is stp-
posed the lads laid hold of him, as they sunk together
lendar. Strong gates or hurdies, four feet six inches,
'which is more than the average height of five-barred
in
gates, were firmly fixed across the race-course in four to rise no more.
Mr. Hill, foreman bookbinder to a bookseller,
different places ; and these High-Street, Southampton, was drowned while.
were to be cleared by the bathing, under peculiar circumstances, on Tuesday, .
competitors for the stakes, making eight clean ;lying last. It was his birthday, and lie bac:treated due,
leaps during each heat; no gentleman being permit- men in the shop with some beer on that occasion, 31141..1
fed to ride his hunter at a broken place. Accidental
obtained for them a holiday. The day being ex.
lameness in some of the horses entered, and perhaps tremely fine, they all went to bathe ; they had swain
in seine of the riders, reduced the list to two, Colonel some way, when Hill desired them to•return to the
WRIGHT, Mr. FLETCHER, Mr. C. F. PALMER, and shore, and he would go round a sloop which lay at,
Mr. Pam, having withdrawn their names. The gang shore,
a short distance off. In the attempt, however,
test concourse ever assembled at Bedford Races were, he sunk to rise no more! and what rendered the scene
however, gratified by seeing Mr. Sic on his bay still more distressing was, that his two children were
mare Fugitive, and Mr. on on his chesnut mare
Cecilia, standing on the beach, and were eye-witnesses of the
boldly start for the race. Mr. SPENCE cleared
all the eight formidable leaps in a bold and graceful distressing scene.
Oa the 29th ult. Mr. J. Herbert, attended by a
manner, being followed by Mr. TOWER, who also
peace-officer, and a party of the German Dragoons,
cleared six in a very sportsman-like style; but, owing quartered in Limerick, proceeded to the neighbour-
to the lameness of his mare, he was unable to coma- hood of Cordon, in order to value tithes, when a larg..
neighbour-
sue the contest, by being distanced in the first heat. snob assembled, who fired several shots at the party,
The spectators were delighted with this novel exhibi- from the wood, one of which killed the horse rode by -I
Rion, and expressed their approbation by repeated Mr. Herbert; another wounded slightly one of the
cheers. On the ground were—
dragoon horses; and a dragoon narrowly escaped,
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis and Mar-
'ebioness of Tavlstuck, Lord John Russo, the Hon. Moss Rumen, having had his shoulder-strap shot away.
Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, Mr. Butner!, Mrs. wet- An outrage of a most daring description, took place
mot, Mr. Leeds (the new Whig Candidate far Hunti4donshire), on Wednesday night about ten o'clock, between Net
Mo. Fym, Lady Heneage Osborne, the Hon. Mr. °nom Lord tiebed and Henley-upon-Thames, by a gang of mi.,
t. John, &c. Ste. &c.
The whole of the front of Covent-Garden Theatre creants that infest the woods in that vicinity. A ca,
in Bow-street, underwent an ablution , rage belonging to J. Parry, Ertl. on its way us tw
water being thrown up by the en o
yesterday, the empty, was thrice fired at by the ruffians, who, with
the house to every part of that fine engines
edifice ; belonging to horrid imprecations, demanded the coachman to s up.
so that but by the speed of the horses they escaped with sit
the figures in basso relievo, and the statues, now look veral shot holes in the different pannells of the cO4 t,
,as fresh as when they came from the' chissel of the but had any person been inside they must hate beet:
I artist.
killed.

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