Star.
London, England, 1811-10-02 00:00:00


Captain 3. H. Alpo, front the 34th Foot, to he Major le the
Army, he being appointed to serve in Portugal, under the
command of Lieutenant-General Sir William Cur Berneford

the Cominanderin-Chief; if he is a sentinel, by ir,.
forming his chief of the news, in order th‘t the la; et
may send off a dispatch ; and if he is any ether per.
son, by taking prompt and effectual measures to let
the intelligence be known as soot as possible at head.
quarters.
7. The States considering also that it is of essential
importance to the defence sd the country in case of
attack, to remove from the coast, and to put out of the
reach of the enemy, the hones and cattle of the ir.
habitants, have thought it their duty to enjoin svo-
men, old and young persons, who shall not be other-
wise employed in opposing the enemy, to drive away.
as quick as possible the cattle from the coast. to con.
vey them into the interior, and to carry off as much
forage and provisions of all kinds as they can. The
States promise and engage to be answerable to the
proprietors for the value of the cattle thus sent into
the interior, in case of accident or loss, or the cattle
being taken and employed for the public service
and the States declare, at the same time, to this*
• who neglect or fail to use these means of preserving
their property, by putting it out of the reach of the
enemy, that they shall not be attended to in requie.
ing indemnification in Cast of accident or capture.
i 8. A reasonable reward will be given by the States
to those who have the misfortune to be wounded la
the defence of the country ; and a pension to the wi.
slows during their widowhood, and to the children i f
those who may be killed ; the whole accordiax ta cir-
cumstances, the exigency of the cases, and the situa-
tiun of the families (Signedj
JRAN DZ Vataa.a. Registrar,

vice Doyle, promoted.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Surgeon James Sharpe, from the 16th Foot, to be Sargeon to the
Forces, vice Foreman, who resigns. •
The King's German Legion.
lst Regiment sf Dragoons—Cornet Harlow Phibbs, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Schnehen, promoted on the Staff.
York Light infantry Voluntfers—Assistant-Su rgeonThorn as Con-
nolly, from the 60th Foot, to be Assistant-:iurgeou.
Royal Corsican Rangers—Captani St. Laurent, from the
Sicilian Regiment, to be Captain of a Company, vice Fried-
berg, who exchanges.
Sicilian Regiment—Captain Muller Friedberg, from the Royal
Corsican Rangers, to be Captain of a Company, vice St. Lau-
rent, who exchanges.
MENIORANDUH.
The promotion of Ensign Grutteman and Ensign Mobner to
be Lieutenants, and of Serjeant Frederick von Berg to be Ensign
in the Duke of Brunswick Oels' Corps, as stated is the Gazette
of the 6th ultimo, have not taken place.
ERRATA in the Gazette of the 6th ultimo.
Duke of Brunswick Oels' Corps.
For Ensign A. von Grierahein to be Lieutenant, vice Unruhr (2cl)
who resigns, read Ensign A. von Griersheim to be lieutenant,
vice GirsewOld, promoted..
For Serjeant Auguste von Elterteip to be Ensign, vice Mobner,
read Serjeant Auguste von Elcerteiu to be Ensign, vice Grier-
sheim.
Commission in the sth British, or Ross, Caithness, Su-
therland, and Cromarty Regiment of Militia, signed
by the Lord Lieutenant.
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♦ice Ter-

Roderick Mackenzie. Gent. to be Amu.._
qer, resigned. Dated August 28, 181 I .
(For the Bankrupts, kc see the last 'Pagel

THE .S7WTES OF JERSEr.

EXTRACT OP A LETTER—DATED JERSEY, SRPTENLER ell.
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• SEPTEMBER 21.—The States were this day con-' " Government having trammitted to General lion,
yoked upon the representation of Lieutenant-General our Commander in Chief, that the French are medi.
rating an attack on these islands, the States of this
Doe, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief
of this Island. His Excellency communicated to the place have issued their orders in consequence, which
States a letter from the Secretary of State, announ_ you will find inclosed. The season when the enemy
ring that the enemy meditated an attack upon this will make the attack is the long Rights, and when the
and the neighbouring islands.
weather has driven our ships of war off the IA ec kadi lig
The Commander-in-Chief communicated to the
station off Cherbourg, and the frigates off this station. 4
States the orders I had given, in cnn•equence of this
information, boes to the troops of tae line and the
militia ; and the different preparations he had made
to repulse the enemy in case of attack. No, M.
The States could not fail to remark, in the wisdom The King of Sicily, levying taxes and impending
of the measures which his Excellency has adopted the-laws at pleasure, is not the same Icing with whore
with so much activity, that nothing. at the present we entered into alliance, but a usurper of authorities
crisis, has escaped his vigilance and foresight ; and which that King did not lawfully possess. We must
they return him their sincere thanks for this fresh
proof of his attention and indefatigable zeal for the discriminate between the monarch and the man. The
safety of the country, added to so many other proofs man is the same, but the monarch is different ; and it
'which have already acquired him the well-merited is not with the person but the officer that we have to
love and gratitude of the inhabitants. deal.
They are infinitely flattered by the confidence which I. The King, by usurping authorities which were
the Right Honourable the Secretary of State places
in the loyalty and tried zeal of the inhabitants of the not known at the time of our undertaking the defence
island; and they request his Excellency to commune. of the island, virtually so changed himself, as to be.
cate to him, that that confidence shall never be belied. come a party different from that one with which we
Their ancestors, who gave proofs in the most stormy entered into alliance. We therefore are under no
times of their attachment and inviolable fidelity to
obligations to this usurper. On the contrary, he has
their august Sovereigns, have left their descendants an
example which they will constantly follow from duty destroyed our .ally, and by so doing has placed i ur
and from inclination. The greatest sacrifices will army in a dangerous predicament, so that we ate
not be deemed too great to imitate so esce lent a mo- bound to consider him on this very account not as a
del, and to preserve to themselves and transmit to Sovereign with whom we are in amity, but as a
their posterity the precious happiness they enjoy tan-
I ruler, with principles inimical to those which in-
der the mildest and best of Governments.
His Excellency is no doubt persuaded that the duced us to uedertake the defence of Sicily; aid.
States will enter eagerly into his salutary views, and as a Sovereign who, if he has net committed ac-
will second his efforts to place the country in the best . tual hostilities against us, has placed us in a disagree.
possible state of defence. Animated by these senti• able situation, from which we ought to try to escape.
ments, and considering the fortress upon Mount St.
Helier as a very important point cat defence, and con- It may be called refining to make this dis ;action ;
shiering that the forwarding and completing that but when the practical consequences are examined,
work are most essential to the preservation of the the distinction will be found just and proper. We only
country in general, they offer their services to his Ex- engaged to defend the country against the common
cellency as tar as he shall think them useful for this engaged
enemy.
The Neapolitan Cabinet, taking advantage
object : and they invite their fellow-citizens to assist
with their labour, horses, waggons, and carts, when. of the presence of our military force, has assumed
ever they shall be called upon by his Excellency the ' powers which the Sicilian Government did not law.
Commander in Chief. i fully possess—and, instead of only defending tie
The States rely with the most perfect confidence
upon the paternal care of the Government for protec- !
country, we are at this moment assisting in reducirg
tion, and for the succours necessary for the defence of the inhabitants to the will of a despot ; by which we
the Island at this critical time; and they doubt not stand on the defensive towards the Sicilians, as ter.
that his Excellency the Commander in Chief will as towards the common enemy. This is not all—the
make such regulations on this head as circumstances
shall appear to him to require. I very usurping Government has not only, by the act
(Signed) JEAN DE VEULLE, Registrar. of usurpation, relieved us from the obligations of the
REGULATIONS. Treaty, but treated 'us with insult, and committed
The States of the Isle of Jersey have thought pro. acts of hostility against us. Unless, therefore, we cats
per, in the present conjuncture, to establish the fol. tall an enemy a friend, we cannot consider the law.
lowing Regulations, which shalt be printed, publish- less tax-levying Government of Sicily as the samewith
ed, and stuck up : had resolve!
i whom we were in alliance, and whom we
Art. 1. In case of alarm or attack, which alarm or " to protect in the common cause.
attack shall be considered as lasting till the troops are I
1 I. The British Merchants in Sicily presented a
released from duty, it is expressly ordered to the
tavern-keepers to keep their houses shut, and not to Memorial to the King, requesting to be exempted in
distribute liquor to the regular soldiers or the militia, their dealings from .the duty of one per cent. They
or to any one, without a written permission from an
grounded their plea for this exception on the Treaty
Officer commanding a detachment either of regulars
or militia, under the penalty if a tine not exceeding , of Madrid of 1667 ; by which the British were
300 livres and the forfeiture of the licence. 1 to enjoy all the privileges and immunities gran-
2. It is equally enjoined to all other persons not to . ted, or that might be granted, to the most favoured
sell or distribute liquors to the regulars or militia, or nations ; and they referred to several instances is
to any one else, without the permission required by which the lawful Government of Sicily had meg.
the foregoing article, on pain of a fine nor exeeeding 'nixed and admitted the principle on which they
SOU livres for each offence.
3. In case of alarm or attack, the soldiers, or other I claimed exemption. The present Sovereign of Sicily,
persons employed in the service of the Militia, are for- . on coming to the throne, bound himself to maintain
bidden to enter taverns, public.houses, or private the stipulations and agreements bf his predecessors;
houses, to procure liquor, without the permission of i July, 1791 he addressed
their commanding officer, under pain of being consi-
dered disobedient, and punished according to the ne ! and besides this, on the 23d of ,
. , a letter to the Parliament of the kingdom to this effect.
tore of the case. ' Yet notwithstanding all this, Circello the Minim!
.4. Constables are required always to keep a suffi- replied to the memorial of the British merchants, that
bent quantity of candles, in order to illuminate the
in the night. in case of alarmthey must submit to any impositions that the King
churches, without delay,
chose to make ; and that if they were not willing to
5. In case of alarm in the night, it is enjoined to
the inhabitants of St. Helier and St. Aubin, to place do this, they might leave the country. Nothing more
candles in the windows of their Louses, to give light flagrant ever issued from the revolutionary &ma-
to the streets. gogues of France. It seems that treaties, end even
6. The States, with a view of encouraging the vi-
I roya. proclamations,
successively confirmed and re-
eance of the guards about the island, and of rousing
newed, are, by the lawless tax-levying Neapolitan ca-
attention of all persons to the safety of the country
in these critical times, have agreed to grant the sum . binet, no longer respected ; and that conventions and
of 1000 livres to the first man, whether chief of a, agreements with foreign powers are, in the plenitude
guard, sentinel, or other, who shall descry an enemy's I
steps so inform his Excellency the
fleet destined for attacking this island, and who shall of its usurping spirit, as little regarded as the lasts
take the necessary
and constitution of Sicily. It is clear, therefore, that
Commander-in-Chief, as soon as possible; that is, if in refusing to grant to our merchants the privilege's
he is a chief of a guard, by sending, without delay. which for a hundred and fifty years we believe:{ they
a intelligent wien of his guard to carry the news is • had a stipulated right to, shah; the new and antisociAl

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