Star.
London, England, 1828-01-05 00:00:00

INDIAN ARMY.

DRIIIRTION OY A BRITHH OPTICIR. DURUM VIII SURMISE WAR.
Head. quarters, Cakutta, May 24, 1827.
The following Extract of a Letter from Lieutenant General Sr
H TAYLOR to the Right Hon. Lord Constituents, dated
Horse Guards, Nov. 28, 1626,11 published to the Army for gene-
ral information:

" I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lord.
ship's letter of April 20th, and its enclosures, on the subject of Mr.
Scott, late Lieutenant in the 47th Regiment.
" I am directed to express the concern and indignation with
which his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief has
learnt, that any individual bearing his Majesty's Commis.
sion, and that individual a British subject, could have been
guilty of the infamous crime of desertion to the enemy. His
Royal Highness approves of the anxiety shewn by your Lordship to
bring to trial so worthless a wretch as Mr. Stott. and sincerely re-
grets that any clause should have been introduced into the Treaty
with the Burmese which could throw doubt upon the legality of the
punishment due to his.crinte. As the question now stands, and ka
the face of the opinions given by the Advocate-General and the
' Judge Advocate.6eneral in India, his Royal Highness has no other
alternative but that of submitting to his Majesty that Mr. Scott's
resignation should be accepted ; but he cannot so far lose sight of
what he owes to the character of the British Army, and to the inte-
rests of the service, as to recommend that Mr. Scott should expe-
rience further indulgence, anti be allowed to receive the value of his
Commmission t, and his Royal Highness cannot but express his sur-
prise that an Officer, commanding a Corps, should, under circum-
stances of this case, have suggested, and recomqtended the extension
of such a favour to an Officer of his Regiment, who had claimed
protection, under the Treaty, granting an Amnesty to Culprits, anti
had thus acknowledged himself guilty of the infamous crime with
which he was charged.

" His Royal Highness desires that these, his sentiments, may be
communicated to the. Army in India.
" By Order of his Excellency the Commander in Chief,
" A. M A CDONA LD, Adjutant General of his
Majesty's Forces in India."

.Earl DUDLEY visited Viscount Goo‘nica and Mr.
Hermon, yesterday.
Yesterday the Marquis WELLEssarr visited the Earl
of Donal', Mr. Hums, Mr. Husaisson, and Mr. Sew= Ries.
Prince E,STERHAZY gives a grand entertainment to-
morrow, to his Royal Highness Don Moues, and a large party of
Noblemen, at his house in Caverklibh-square.
The arl of H A RROWIY, Viscount SA NOON, and Hon.
Mr. RYDZI, paid a visit last week to Earl Foattscue, at Castle
1-1111, where they remained one night, and left ou their way to
London, vie Tiverton. _ _

The Countess of Es zx had a card patty yesterday
evening, at her 'House, in Hill-street, Berkeley-square.
The Brazil Minister entertains his Royal Highness
Don Mimi= and a distinguished party to dinner this day, at his
house in Portland-placer
The Minister from the King of the Netherlands id
tends to give a fete to the Portuguese Prince.
Ea{i FITZWILLIAM arrived at his seat, Wentworth
House,nn Thursday, from Iceland; and is at present residing at
Milton Abbey, Northamptonshire.
The Marquis of LA NbDOWN on Wednesday entertained
the Burgesses of Caine, and the Members for the Borough, with a
sumptuous dinner at the Lansdown
,Arms. On this occasion the
whole Corporate Body were present.--Device Gametic.
Yesterday the dispatches for Bombay and China, by
the ship Edinburgh, Captain Haney BA:, were eased at the East
India House, and delivered to the purser of that ship.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.-o:ders have been received
here from his Royal Highness the Loa. HIGH Amatoat, to put a
frigate into commission; and we understand that a frigate is also
put Into commission at Deptford.
His Royal Highness Don MIGUEL was born at Que-
his a Royal Palace, about eight miles from Lisbon, on the 26th
of october, 1802, so that he is now in his 26th year. His only
brother, the Emperonit Brazil, who was 29 year. of age on the
12th of October last, has a family of four children—the eldest, the
future Queen of Portugal, is between e ght and nine years of age ;
and the youngest, a boy, and his only son, was born on the 211 of
Docensber 1221
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Wednesday the Rev. (CHARLES RICHARDS was in-
ducted to a Prebendal Stall in Winchester Cathedral. The pro.
motion of this Clergyman has given universal satisfaction. For a
long period he has been quite neglected, although many of his pupils
have been highly distinguished as divines and lawyers, poets dad
statesmen. Mr. CANNING always esteemed the preceptor of his
youth, and on many occasioni publicly acknowledged how much be
was indebted to him for expanding, by judicious culture, those
splendid talents which have so much attracted the admiration of the
world. A few years ago Mr. CANNING earnestly requested of Lord
Livaaroux to bestow some preferment on his aged instructor.
but his application was not successful. It is generally believed, if
Mr. CANNING'S valuable life had been protracted a little longer, that
his revered preceptor would have risen higher in the Chunk.--
Great praise, however, is justly due to his Pdsicsry and Lord
Gonastca•for giving.etrect so Mr. CANNING'S wishes by conferring
a dignified situation on the Rev. CHARLES RICHARDS, who has, fur
half a century devoted his ISbours to thepublicbenefac.--DerizesGasr