Star.
London, England, 1826-01-23 00:00:00

TADCASTEL( GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

Mr. Pittazgaroa moved that the Master should be
directed to approve of new scheme for regulating
and disposing of the funds belonging to this charity.
The school was founded in 1549, and endowed with a
small manor, a part of the profits of which were to be
devoted to the support of certain poor people. The
school had, however, fallen into disuse; and although
there was a master, he had no scholars. He was, how.
ever, in the receipt of almost the whole of the rents, and
the poor parsons indicated by the =sill of the donor
received no benefit whatever. The present motion was
.heiefore made to restore this institution as nearly as
was possible, with reference to the present times, to the
conditon which was contemplated by the founder.
Mr. BA Piaci appeared on behalf of the schoolmaster.
He stated that no person was eligible to fill this office
but such as had graduated at one of the English Uni-
versities ; and he was moreover precluded from holding
any other church preferment than the vicarage of Tad-
caster. The present schoolmaster, who was in all re.
spects duly qualified for his office, had held it since the
year 1792. The rents of the manor belonging to the
charity amounted to 1401. per annum ; but even if it
had been a much larger sum, he submitted that under
the circumstances of the case, he could not be called
upon to relinquish any past of it. lie reminded his
Honour of a similar case, in which, after a conference
with the Lord Chancellor on the suls.;:ct, his Honour'
had decided that the schoolmaster ought not to be de-
prived of the stipend which he had enjoyed, and that it
should not be dimini-hed during his life.
The Vice CHANCELLOR cencursed with this view,
and said, that after the schoolmaster had held his office
for thirty-four years. during which it was not improbable
that he might have refused some other preferment in
the church, he ought not to be de; rive,/ of any of the
advantages resulting from his appointment. He there-
fore pronounced an order for referring it to the Master
to approve of a new scheme relative to the charity—
not, however, disturbing the life-interest of the present
schoolmaster.

COURT OF ADMIRALTY, JAL 21.
GENOA PRIZE MONEY.

The arguments in a case which related to a sum of
1,291/. the tesid.re of the prize-money accruing from.
the capture of Genoa in the late war, now remaining,
unpaid in the books of Chelsea Hospital, were concluded.
The capture had been effected by the joint forces of his
Majesty and the King of the "L'we and the dis-
tribution was made to the captors in proportion to the'
force belonging to each Goveiument, under the
Act of the 47th of George 111. chap. 47. and a war-
rant front his S'lajesty. 13y mistake, the late Sir Ro-
bert Hall, a Post Captain in the British navy, and who
had the rank of Major General in the service of his Si-
cilian Alajesty, received his proportion in the former
capacity. The Sielian Guvet nnient, however, paid his
share as Major-General into Chelsea Hospital. It now
became a question whether this sum should be repaid
to Count Ludolf, the Neapolitan Ambassador, or be
liable to the claims of the representatives of Sir Robert
Hall, for the difference between Its share as Post Caw
'Ain and as Major-General (amounting to 5141) or be
considered the property of the Hospital?
Lord Srovizta. observed, that there were several diffi-
culties in the case, which required consideration. He
would give judgment 045 a future day.

We have received 1-14 Wax Papers to the 16th ult.
They contain no news of importance. The Ploy/social
Legislature nf Nova Szotia is prorogued to Fzb. I.
nivate I:nteis received by the Buenos Ayres Mail,
state that a revolutionary movement had taken place at
Valparaiso. The insurrec.ioti against the Goveintnent,
hoaever,.nad .übbititd.

THE ARMY.
A Letter from the Colonel of the 99th Regiment, dated the •th
of December, at sr a,saye, tflar they were then in lat.!. 30.10ng. 23.
and expected to cross the line next tl.iy, and put into Rio Janeiro,
an well.

The Regiment, which Is under orders to embark at Cork
for Ceylon. is going out as a reinforcement to the Colony, and nut
to relieve the s3d Foot, as was supposed.
A Detachment of tit* Royal African Colonial Corps. now at the
isle of has received orders tnembark for Cape Coast Castle.
to join the Head-quarters of the Regiment : the detachment is
under the command of an Officer . f the Yd %Vest India Regiment,
who is guiog out to join the Recruiting Company, which is
stationed at Sirrra Leone.

The Third Veteran Battalion, stationed in the garrison at Sheer-
ness, has been ordered to Chatham to be disbanded. The garrison
ditty in the mean while is performed by the 59th, who in a fort-
night will be replaced by. the Depot of the 67th, the 59th being
under orders fur New South Wales.

It is generally believed, that the intended reduction of the Royal
Veteran Battalions in Ireland, is for the present abandoned, the
ficiency these corps has arrived at, since the Short period of their
being embodied renders them most useful, particularly the First
Battalion. the Head Quarters of which is stationed in Galway.
This excellent corps has large detachments at considerable distances,
their present strength is eight hundred men, all whom are effective,
and fix for any kind of service.—Cork Advertiser.
INDIAN ARMY.
GENF:IAL ORDERS BY THE COMMANDER-IN.
CHIEF.

Head-quarters, Calcutta, Aug. 429, 1825.
At a 'Native General Court-martial assembled at t hedaba on the
22d of February, 1825. Shaicle Artois, Sepoy of the 5d Company
40th Regiment of Native Infantry, was arraigned upon the under-
mentioned charge, viz.

" Iv. With ;-nOtitty, in having, at the Island of Chedubs, on
the 9th September, 15244 shot, with his musket, Simla Forty A,la.
homed, Hari'Jar of the said Company and Regiment, his superior
Officer.

" 211 y. With the murder of Shaick Fatty Mahnmed, Ifavildar,
of the 3d Company 40th Regiment Native Infantry, at the Island
of Chetluba, by shooting hint with a musket on the fth Septem-
ber, 1824."

Upon which charge the Court came to the following decision :
Orimoti •en Sasvenca.—" The Court having maturely weighed
and considered Cie evidence in support of the prosecution, together
with what the prisoner has urged in his defence, is of opinion that
he is guilty of the whole and every part of the charge preferred
against him, wh!ch being in breach of the Articles of War, the Court
dues sentence him the said prisoner, Shalck Annis, Sepoy of the 54
Company 40th Regiment Native Infantry, to labour in irons upon
the roads for the space of three years, to be discharged the service,
and never again admitted."

Ramree, May 27, 184.5, 10 A.ll.
REVISION or Sariermea.—" The Court having re-assembled, in
obedience to station orders of yesterday, pursuant to instructions
received from his Excellency theCummander-in-Chief,communica-
ted in a letter from the Judge Advocate General, under date the
50th March, 1825, directing a revision of the sentence awarded
Shaiek Annie, Sepoy of the 40th Regiment Native Infantry—
" The names of the President and Members are called over, and
being found all present, the letter from the Judge Advocate General
is read and fully explained to them; and the points in elucidation
to which their most particular attention is directed for serious consi-
deration, having been maturely weighed and deliberated upon, and
appearing to them so unanswerably clear and decisive as to render
them sensible that their original judgment, as already recorded and
disapproved of, was founded in error, arising from a misconception
of the laws as applicable to the case upon which they were bound
most impartially to decide; and being now impressed with this
conviction, they are necessanly constrained to reverse their sentence
accordingly, and to adjudge the pri.oner, Shaick;Annts, Sepoy of the
3d Company 40th Regiment Native Infantry, to be hanged by the
neck until he is dead, at such time and piaci:sas his Excellency the
Honourable the Commander-in-Chief may direct." Approved,
(Signed) ED WAIt 0 PA GET, General.
Commander-in Chief in India.

11[11AZIL5 $1 Ate exerumme THU COMMANDIR-114•CHIIEF.
The original award of this General Court Martial was founded
on the great and most dangerous error, that irritation anti disap-
pointment, resulting from imagined injury, could palliate enormous
crimes, and justify a Court in visiting the perpetrator of those crimes
with conspahltively light and incommensurate punishment.
It was under the conviction that the promulgation of such a
sentence would have been pregnant with infinite mischief, that the
Commander-in-Chief was pleased to order its revision ; and it af-
fords him very sincere satisfaction to end, that the Court, after
mature reflection; have seen their.ercor, and most honourably and
creditably corrected it, by passing a sentence equally demanded by
justice and discipline.
The prisoner, Shaick Annie, Sepoy of the 3d Company 40th
Regiment of Native Infantry, has justly merited the sentence of
death passed against him - but, under all the circumstances of the
case, the Commander-in:Chief is pleased to commute it to trans-
portation for life.
By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
W. L. WATSON, Adjutant-Gen. of the Army.