Star.
London, England, 1828-12-10 00:00:00

TIM ARMY.

Tile Depot of the 42d Royal Highlanders, tomeasnded by Ilajor"
lirsims, is removed front Edinburgh to Paisley.
The fiat( yearly Rumination of the Gentlemen Cadets of the
Royal Nlilitary College, took place at Sandhurst, Perks, on moo_
,y, the Sth tnst. when a considerable proportion of young Gentle.
men wtr. brought forward, and having gone through the necessary
taantinatim., to the entire satisfaction of the Board, received the
u.ual certificates of qualifications for Commissions. 4/n the sue-
mditig day (Tuesday) the Board re-assembled for the examination
of the students of the senior department, and consisted of the un.
damentioned Members :—The Right Hon. the Secretary at War;
Genera! the lion. Sir Edward Paget. Governor ; General Frederic
Naitland ; Lieut. General the Hon. Sir Alexander Hope; Lieut.
General Sir J Willoughby Gordon, Quarter Master General ; Lieut.
Get,eral Sir Herbert Taylor, Adjutant General. The following
Officers of the senior department were examined opon this occasion,
and received the usual certificates of competency to hold situations
upon the Staff of the Army t--Major Prosser, Unattached ; Capt.
Ogilvy. 69th Foot; Capt. Dunne, Unattached; Capt. Houston,
itto ; Capt. Macdonald, ditto; Lieut. Alexander, 15th Dragoons;
tieot. Adcock, 94th Foot.
The Seth Regiment, which has been stationed in India for the
last twenty-one years, was, according to the latest accounts from
Calcutta, in daily expectation of orders to return to England. The
Regiment was then comparatively healthy
A detachment belonging to the 15th Hussars arrived yesterday
at from Sandhurst.
Pot of the cavalry barracks in Hutme have been vacated for the
present, being out of repair. A squadron of the King's Dragoon
Guards have marched in consequence to Stockport, and a troop to
Oldham.
reduction of the army is spoken of in the military circles, by
Ishii' a saving of one million per annum is to be effected. As
prte o• the plan, It is said the depot companies of Regiments
abroad are to join their respective head quarters ; a general recruit-
establishment for all corps is to be formed; two companies in
each retiment are to be reduced, aid all pensioners of Is. a day and
ender to be called on to compose four Veteran Battalions, to be
formed sokly for garrison duty.
Lin came, Dec. 6.
Major Kualtsv, Queen's Bays, Las left this for Cahir. head-
quarters, to assume the command, in absence of 1.14:11t..001011t1
KEA KNSY, gone ou

COURTS MARTIAL.
(From Kau India Papers.)
Head quarters, Simla, June 25.
onntaat 01111111.

No. 243. At a General Court Martial reassembled at Cawn..
pore on the std day of June. 1828, private John Joyce, of Captain
Aothew's company, his Majesty** 38th regiment, was arraigned
el, the following charges—
. 4 For mutiny, In having, about nine o'clock in the morning of
the 11th of April, 1828, at Cavralpore, in the quarters of Lieutenant
and Adjutant Campbell, his Majesty's sSth regiment, attempted
the hie of the said Lieutenant and Adjutant Campbell, by present.
int at him a musket loaded with powder and ball, and drawing the
trigger, when the priming burnt in the pan. For having, at the
same time and places alter having been disarmed and secured, made
use of highly mutinous and grossly abusive expres:ions to Lieut.
and Adjutant Campbell, and •Lieutenant-Colonel Frith, C.B. his
Majesty's 58th regiment, his Commanding Officer.
" The whole or any part of the above being in breach of the
article' ot war."
Upon which charges the Court came to the following decision :
'I he Court having maturely deliberated upon the evidence be-
for,: them, are of opinion that the prisoner; private John Joyce,
Capt. Matthew's company, his Majesty's .18thjlegiment, is guilty
of both the charges exhibited against him. The Court having
found the prisoner guilty of both the charges exhibited against him,
and the same tieing in breach of the articles of war, do sentence
him,
the prisoner, private John Joyce, Captain atthew's torn-
piiy, his 51ajesty.. 38th Regiment, to suffer death, by bring shot
to death by musketry, at such time and place as his Excellency the
Cuniminder in Chief may be pleased to direct.
Approved and confirmed,
(Sigurd) COM BER M E 13E, Gen. Commander-in-Chief.
Nelnalks Oy the flight Hon. the Cornmandsr•in-Chief.
The gross act of mutiny, and the cool and deliberate attempt at
the murder of his Officer, of which crimes private John Joyce has
been found guilty, can only be expiated by the execution of the
sentence which has been justly passed upon him.
The Commander in-Chief has bad frequent occasions to prove
that the notations of the service to which the prisoner belongs,
whereby redress is Atm sled to every soldier who considers himself
aggrieved by his Officer, have been scrupulously complied with ; a
supposed grievance, if it had incited the prisoner to the acts for
which he has been condemned to death, could not therefore have
palliated his climes. as he must bare known that redress was open
to him, by an appeal either to his Commanding Officer or the
General Officer as the station But his Excellency is satisfied, from
his knowledge of the character of the Officer whose life has been
hued in such imminent danger, that no real cause for revenge,
could have existed; he is therefore led to believe that the act must
have suggested itaelf to the prisoner, as be hiraself states to his
defence, when he was stupified by four or five days' enatinued
messier drinking, though it does not appear in evidence that he
was iniusicated at the moment.

at must, however, he well known that drunkenness, by which
a man voluntarily deprives himself of his reason, is a vice which
rasher aggravates that diminishes the criminality of any illegal
act which may follow it. As an awful example to others, there-
fore, of the effects of habitual excessive drinking, his Ex-
cellency directs that the sentence of death to which this man
has been condemned shell be carried into execution in conformity
with.' warrant and instruction transmitted for the purpose to
Major-General Sir S. F. Wbittingham; and that this General
Oider shall immediately after its receipt be read at the bead of
every regimm of his Majesty's service in India ;.and on the follow-
ing they at the head of every troop or company in the ssrtica
To pre,. tit the commission or such atrocious crimes of which the
yri,oner bn been found guilty, his Excellency desires that, in all
uses where a soldier may be discovered to have exceeded the
bounds of sobriety, be may be placed in confinement. and kept
there until lie is perfectly restored to reason. Had this precau-
tannery measure been attended to in the present case, the life of a
fellow creature would, in all probability, have been saved, and the
Commander in Chief would have been relieved from tbe perform-
ace of a p ,inful duty.
The foregoing Order to be entered in the General Order Boot.
Head Quarters, Simla, July, 182 S.
No. 247. At a General Court Melia!, held at Fort St. George
on the Mb of May, Me, private William Cunningham, of his
I.tjesty's 8916 Regiment of Foot, was arraigned on the following
ch.rges,
_ .

" Fur mutiny at Fort St. George on the Ist of May, 1228, in the
following I:loaners—ln striking with bis clenched band sergeant
Janes Walsh. of the Light Infantry Company of his Majesty's 89th
Regiment of Foot, who was at the time in the execution df his
Ate, upon the private parade okthe Company; in making use of
abusive aud threatening language to the said Sergeant.
" 'I ;le above being in breach of the articles of war." I
Upon which charges the Court came to the following decision— 1
, " The Court having most maturely weighed and considered
'the whole lii the evidence which has been adduced in support
4 the prosecution, as well as what the prisoner William Cun-
ringbam, private in the light company of his 3lajesty's 89th Re-
giment of Foot, has urged. in his defence, is of opinion that he,
tie said prisoner, is guilty of all soil every part of the charge
preferred against him, with the exception ut the word' clenched.'
8 which it acquits him.
" 'I be Court having found the prisoner guilty, as above stated,
11.. th sentence him, the said William Cunningham, private in the
Ight company of his Majesty's 159.11 Regiment of Foot, to re.
cove one thousand (1,000) ladies with a cat of wine tails on his
hoe back, in the usual matinee, at such time and place as his Ex-
ltilenC7 the Cummander.in.Cbiet may be pleased to appoint."
Approved and confirmed—the half, however of the sentence
,Suri lashes) is remitted.
May 21. (Signed) G. T. WALKIIIt, Lieut.-Gen.
'lle foregoing Order to be.entered in the General Order Book,
04 read at the head of every regiment in his Majesty's service in
Ili4ia.--14 order of the Commander.in. Chief,
WILLOUGHBY COTTON,
Adjutant-General to his Majesty's Forces in India.
e
Captain fircaer rs is to be the new Governor of Sierra
Leone_ vacant by the lamented death of Colonel Luntgr.
Letters have been received Irons Malts, dated the
ail, of November. Admiral De RIGNY was under-
stood in have given notice to Count H tYDEN, that the',
fiesta of he 6th July being accomplished, the French '1
ftiairon was in future to be considered acting merely
lit a neutral capacity.
A numerous deputation of the Clergy of the d fferent
Archdeacotaies i f the diocese of L .ndon, the Piesident
and Fellows of Sion College, Sic. waited yesterday
aiorring on the Archbishop of CANTERIIVRY at Lam-
beth Palace, with at, address of congratulation ou his
Grace's elev..tion to the Ft imacy.
:I'here was, a few days ago, a Brea} crack across the
1
%.st turnpike road, opposite t i Fenham, and within a
bile and a 11,4 of this town, produced by the under-
mining of tome (if the colliesies. It has of coolie been
[roprily reFaited.—TyteMercary.