Star.
London, England, 1817-03-25 00:00:00

DISTRIC r ORDERS.

" Head Quarters, Pontefract, March 1.5, 1817.
" It is with much pleasure that Sir lotto Brtro has received
from the Seeretary of State, Lord Viscount Stumm is, the
commands of the Putiocc R 'Gamy to communicate to the
Officers, Non.conantissiondd Officers, and Privates of the regular
and volunteer Force, assembled at and near Manchester, on the
itl:h instant.. the *satisfaction which his Royal H.ghrtess has duo
need front the Major-General's Report of their zealous and exem-
plary behaviour, and io signiftiog to theist his Korai Highness's
gracious approbation of their conduct. Ngned
" 1. Gies., Major of Brigade."
BATI'LE OF ALEXANDRIA:
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The Highland Society of London on Friday last
met to celebrate the Anniversary of the Baia: of
Altxrustirioh in the Freemason:* Tavern ; and this
Meeting was the most numerous and splendid, with-
out exception, of any which we have ever witnessed.
The Chieftains and most of the Members wore High-
land dresses richly ornamented, which gsve A :nest
splendid and characteristic appearance to the !sleet
ing. The Duke of YORK took the Choir as Preaident,
and he was supported by
The Dukcs of Aro,ll and Athol, the Marquis of tinnily, Lord
Limes Murray, Lord Kirkwall, Glengary, Sir Zaeas Mackin-
tosh, loveralluclite, CLuiranald, Struin, the Ilion. GOtitrey DOS-
Vid, the Hon. Archibald Niatilmiald, the Master of the Rolls,
Auk;tmus &tete, eir John Stnelair, Genera's La!bur, nisi-oy,
Maclean, Grant, Campbell of Minsk, Sir Neu Campbell, Lieu-
tenant Colonel Melt, Lieutenant Colonel J. Campbell, of the sitd,
and bcVrta Officers of the Royal Highlanders, Colonel Wood,
General Boyd ssl the American service, air Benjamin West, &e.
The gallery was filled with an assemt,lage of beauty
from the first families in the country, many of them
in the Highland costume, which gave to their ap-
pearance An additional grace.
Tina Meeting was held on the Anniversary of the
Battle of Alexandria, and which was also the date of
the incorporation of ti e Society. The dinner was
splendid, and the tables were decorated with splendid
emblems adapted to the occasion.
His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, after two
Or three of the national toasts, given in Garlic and
English, explained, in a short address, the i.ccasion
on which they were assembled. His Royal Hi;hness
then stated, that it was known to them all that it was
determined by the Highland Society to present a
piece of plate to tEe 42d Regiment, or Royal High-
landers, as an acknowledgment of the high sense en
tertained by the Society of the distinguished services
of that Regiment ; and it was with peculiar satisfac-
tion, that in the discharge c,i his duty as Chairman
of the Meeting, he naw addressed himselt to the ,
Marquis of Huntly, the Noble Commander of that
Regiment. 'Hie Royal Highness then enacted into
an account of the distinguiatied mauner in which the
Regiment had uniformly conducted itself, from the
time of its first formation in the early pact of the
last century, under the name sif the Black Watch,
throughout all the different wars in which the country
bad since been engaged, down to the present periud ;
it had distinguished itself nobly at Ticonderago, iH
the German war, at Quebec, Btc. in the American
war, in the early part of the last war, under himself,
on the Continent, ae Alexandria, In all the battles of I
the Peninsula and the &inch of France, last of all at
the eves-memorable battle of Waterloo. His Royal
Highness then passed an animated encomium un its
Noble Commander, the Marquis of Huistly. He
was not one of the Gentlemen of the Country who
chose to live Sit home at ease; he had, at an early
period of his life, repaired to the tented field ; in the
CAUSC of his country be had oaten exposed his life, and
shed his blood; and he was in every respect truly
worthy of being at the head of a Regiment, which
was Got more distinguished for its gallant conduct in
the field, than for ita uniformly comet and exem-
plary behaviout.
His Royal Highness then presented to the Noble
Marquis a richly chased Silver Tripod, with Hated
Bowl ; the legs of the Tripod ornamented pith thistle
foliage, and supporteclon a triangular plinth, on one
of the faces of which was the obverse of a medal
struck by order of the Society, to commemorate the
Battle of Alexandria, and representing the head of
Sir Ralph Abercrombie s on another face was the re-
verse of the same medal, which represented the taking
of the Invincible Standard ; the third face bore a
Gaelic inscription. These three subjects were seve-
rally encircled with laurel, and supported by an an:
cient alai a modern Highlander, with appropriate
emblems; the plinth rested on the backs of three re-
cumbent sphinxes, on a triangular base.
The Marquis of HUNTLY, in returning thanks to
his Royal Highness and the Highland Society, said,
it could not but ba highly gratifying to himself and
the other Officers of the Regiment of Royal High-
landers, that in 20 numerous and respectable a body
as he saw assembled there that day the Regiment
in- such . flattering terms, riot
had been woken 01
merely by the Commander-in-Chiefs but by the Com-
mander under which it had saved in the held. Had

any stimulus been necessary ;o induce the Regiment
to discharge itkduty in future with fidelity and zeal,
the manner in which his Royal Highness had spoken
of their past services could not have tiled to produce
that effect. The Family upon the Throne had the
strongest claims on the gratitude of the nation in ge-
neral, but more particularly of the Highlanders; and
if s spirit of disaffection existed in some parts of the
country, he hoped that the foolish and misled would
soon bee their error-4 sentiment in wilich, he WAS
confident, he would be joined by every person pre.
sent—(Altitlaw.f.)
The vase having been presented, the Duke of YORK I
resigned the Chair to his Grace the Duke of Ascm,
who is President for the year.
The Duke of ARGYLL having taken the Chair,
propo*d,

-"
Dole Alb7n" (",e Duke of Turk and Albany).
The Doke of Yortit returned thanks.
The Duke or Morn. then proposed—
" Nlorar na Fbreiecadan tlubti" (the Nfarquis of
bluntly and the Black Veatch).
The Marquis of HUNTLY, in a neat speech, eX-
pressed the high gratification which he felt in having
his name thus united with the Regiment of Royal
Highlanders.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of the'
Duke ni Athol, who ihortly returned tintriks.
Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, alter premising that the admi-
ration of the Poems of Ossian was not confined to this
country, but was very general on the Continent; read
a letter Irons the Duke of S4tie Cobourg, expressive
of the. high delight which he had received from
Highland Poetry and Music, and he concluded by
proposing the Duke of Saxe Cobourg as an Honorary
Member of the Society; which was unanimously
agreed to.
The following among other toasts were given in the
course of the evening :
" Tabor na feozag."—" May the Chiefs of Clans have many
followera."—" The Sword
_and Plaid."—" The Pipe sod the
Banner."

'I he Duke of Marlborough, Earl of Dysart the Marquis of
Lothian, the Earl of Moray, the Earl of Dysart,
General Sir
Jame 4 Stewart, General Sir Ronald Fergusson, Major General
and several other Noblemen anal Gentlemen were. a4l-
- Members.

When the Doke of ARGYLL withdrew, the Chair
was taken by the Marquis of /JUSTLY, who kept up
the spirit of conviviality, characteristic of a Highland
Meeting, to a late hour on Saturday morning, and
nothing could be more joyous and exhilarating than
this Assembly was throughout the whole night.—
Every thing was conducted according to the ancient
banquetting of feudal times. The great cup of
friendly pledge went round the hall. The whiskey
was drank out of the shell. A celebrated piper struck
up " The Gathering," as the head of each Clan was
toasted—while Gowc celebrated band roused the
company Kith those national tunes vdtich make the
heart ligt:tsome, and which no French Quadrilles can
long keep from the ball room, where dancers prefer
exhilaration to monotonous but graceful insipidity.
The humper ag,si Ow reel were kept up with uni-ter-
rupted vigour till six in the morning.
Friday. the Anniversary of the Battle of Alexan-
dtia, when the country was deprived of the valuable
services.of General Sir RALPH ASERCROMMI. was
celebrated at Gosport by the Officers And min of the
28th regiment, commanded by Colonel BROWN& As
a testimony of the high sense whichahe GRAND Sato-
NIOR entertained of the gallant achievements of this
corps. he commanded that a gold med4l should be
presented to every Officer who was present on its land-
' ing in Erfypt. Oa the above memorable day, the
28th was pasted in a redoubt a little in front of the
' reserve, where it received the first attack of a chosen
body of the enemy. which was repulsed with great,
' slaughter, after repeated efforts to take the winks.
Before General Srewafer's brigade could come to the
support of the 28th, And while they were warmly en-
gaged with the intantry in front, the enemy's cavalry ,
charged in their rear. when the rear rank faced about, I
almost instantly killed or wounded every man and I
horse in sight, and then resumed their proper front
with as much regularity as it nothing, had happened.
In this desperate affair the powerful effect of the
bayonet, in the hands of a British soldier, was most
ilioneurahly maintained, and the noble example of
Viatiitay DRS been gloriously followed by our Army I
id every subsequent battle.

Information has been received of the death of
Major PtDDle before he reached the Niger. Lieut.
CAMPBELL if now the Commanding Officer, and, it is
rtid, has proceeded to carry into execution the ()Weis
received by Major Paulus.

The ship Ales miler, Capt. SURFLEII, from Ceylon
and the Isle of France, is Arrived, atter a remarkably
quick passage of 77 days. The following Are the
passengers by her

Lleuteuant•Colanrl Gordon, 734 Regiment; Andrew High,
Depute inipector of Hospitals ; Capt. Ktiviiigton, Royal F.aigt
nears; Capt. Grant, Royal Artillery ; Capt. Ander.on, isith Rest.
met, Lady and Family ; Captaiu Remy, 734 animist, and Sun;
Capt. Turman, td Ceylon Regiment, and Lady ; Capt. l'botne,
80th regiment ; Lieut. Robinson, Royal Anillary; Lieut. Sulk
regiment; Elisign Johnson, linh regiment.

A cause of some importance letely came befnre the
Corporation Court of Enniskillen, the particulars of
which it may be useful to many of our readers to
know :—James Heavy, a private in the Donegal Mi-
litia, who was arrested under an attachment issued
by the PnovosT, pleaded the provisions of the Mutiny
Act, by which soldiers are exempted from imprison-
ment for debt, and claimed to be dismissed from cur
tody accordingly. The Psovorr, conceiving that the
law could not be intended to apply to disbanded mili-
tiamen, submitted the circumstances to the LORD
LIEUTENANT, who stated, in reply, that the PROVVIT'S
construction of the Mutiny Act was perfectly correct.,
inasmuch as the exemptions from arrests under ift2l,
do not extend to any men of the disembodied corps
of militia, with the exception of the Staff.

,t.griatens...—Captain SOllitaSZT, the eldest son of
cl)rd*ChnaLcs Somatturr, arrived, a few days ago,,
frc;rn Boulogne, accompanied by Miss HILATIICOTZ,
the daughter of Captain HZATHCOTE, on their way
to Gretna Green. It appears the happy pair took
their flight from a ball, when the company left off
dancing for the supper-room, sod immediately em-
barked for England. The happy couple, since their
northern union, have returned to London.

MUNICH. Moatcu s.—Her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales Arrived here on thir day before Yes-
terday, with a suite consisting of nineteen persons.
Her Royal Highness dined yesterday at Court, and
will recasin some time in this capital.