Star.
London, England, 1811-07-12 00:00:00

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Horse Guards, July 1:
All Galena Officers, when dressed in their uniforms as such,
are hereafter to wear one aiguillere on the right ahoulder instead
of epaulettes. They are likewise to wear plain hate with the
usual cords and tassels, with ostrich feathers round the brim. No
other Officer or Soldier of any description whitever, is to ewer
white feathers round the brio of the hat :—This is beacetorth to
be considered the exclusive.dissinction of a General Officer.
General Officers of Cavalry are to wear the cavalry feather
with the star loop.
Regimental Officers of Cavalry are likewise to wear the star-
loop with their dressed regimentals.
General Officers of,infantry are to wear ;he stand-up Infantry
feather with the scaledloop.
Aides-du-Camp of General Officers of Cavalry, and Majors of
Brigade attached to Brigades 9f Cavalry, are to wear alguillettes
on she right shoulder.
Aides-flu Camp to General Officers of Infantry, and Brigade
Majors attached to Brigades of Infantry, are to wear epaulettes
as heretofore.
This Order is to cancel those of'the Bth and 18th ultimo.
By Order of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief,
HARRY CALI/CRT, Aajutant:General.
A letter from an Officer .of the 11th Dragoons,
now in-Portugal, states, that the whole of his regiment
(800 strong) had been refreshed at Belem, and had
received orders on the Bth ult. to proceed to Elvas,
where it was to arrive on the 19th, eleven days being
given for a journey of 120. miles, no expectation exist-
ing of a battle before that time. A part of the 9th and
2th Dragoons, with some of the Scotch Greys, were
also on the road ; and, in the whole, the reinforcement
in cavalry now obtained nearly approached 2000 men.
The Buffs, consisting of ten °dicers, font Serjeants,
287 rank and file, in high spirits, marciSed on Mon-
day morning from Berryhead Barracks, T.,rbay; to
embark at Plymouth, supposed for Spain or Portugal.
The Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by
Lieutenant C. lonel Oswatn, was inspected on Wed.
nesday se'nnight by Lieutenant Colonel Macrxmoat,
who was highly pleased with the correctness of their
movements and with the soldier-like conduct of the
corps during their continuance on duty.
A detachment of 400 men are on their march from
Maidstone to embark for Lisbon, to join the brave
rusileers, who so nobly distinguished themselves in
the battle of Albuera.
Detachments of the 2d and 4th Heavy Dragoons
are now waiting at Plymouth for transports.

CITY BUSINESS.

COURT OP COMMON COUNCIL, JULY 11.
The Court having met pursuant to a Requisition
to tl'e Lord Mayor to that purpose, signed by several
individuals, were proceeding to the usual routine bu
'hen

siness, W
Mr. Duo?. rose to express a hope that every thing
of that kind might be waved, and precedence given
to the business for which the Court had been espe-
cially convened.
Some conversation ensued, in which Mr. Quin,
Alderman Birch, and Mr. Waithman,:took a part,
lifter which
Mr. JACKS was suffered to bring forward his inten-
deii motion for the'Thankeof the Court to General
Beresford, and the mops serving under him, &c. He
accordingly proceeded to state, that he would have'
been satisfied with the simple delivery of his motion,
if the opposition which had been recently made to a
similar vote in favour of the gallant Lord Welling.:
ton Wad not led him to apprehend some hostility in the
present case ;• he would therefore state a tew of the
most cogent reasons, why the tribute of respect now
proposed to be paid to General Beresford, and our
gallant countrymen serving under him, should be
gladly acquiesced in. It was certain that in no pun
try disl there originally exist a more enthusiastic and
daring patriotic spirit than in this ; every historian,
from Julius Czsar down, br-e honourable testimony
to the tact till the tim.t t Queen Anne, when the fos
reign relations of the country became so extended,
and the minds of her inhabitants were so much turn-
ed towards the wide Celd of commercial speculation
that opened before them, that the love of country
seemed in danger of being absorbed by more general
feelings, but which, nevertheless, arose out of a sense
of private interest. Recently, however, the spirit,
which for a time seemed to have been extinguished,-
had been again awakened. The glorious achieve-
merits of our naval forces had aroused truly British
feelings in every breast— and in emulation as it were,
of those, our land troops were now every day [tar-
nishing for the pen of the historian feats, superior to
which none had ever been recorded, and which had
moreover a decided superiority over all those which
had preceded them, when the indisputable legitimacy
of the object was taken into consideration. The splen-
did actions of Cressy andAgincourt had been sought
for the purpose of accomplishing the conquest of our
enemies territory. Cur warlike operations, during
the reign. ot Queen. Anne and her immediate succes-
sor, were intended to establish a balance of power
in Ebrope. But what was the object of the present
war ? It was not for the purpose of adding another
Crown to the head of our beloved 6overeign, how-
soever the tenor of his reign had proved that his en-
joyment of it would add to the happiness of our spe-
cies ; it was not to establish any titular dignity in
his favour, but it was to raise him to the tar more
enviable stati:4l of protector and champion of the li-
berties and rights-of the whole human race. He con-
sidered it as not a little extraordinary, that Gentle-
men who professed an ardent zeal for the ioterests.of
civil freedom, should yet be found active in opposing
its establishment in the Peninsula—and he had been
a good deal surprised, on a late occasion, at hearing
a Worthy Friend of his, who was an ornament to
that Assembly, maintaining that by our exertions
we were not serving the Spaniards, hut on the con-
trary, rivetting the chains by which they had been
galled for so many centuries. To this opinion of his
Worthy Friend there was another to oppose, to which
he could not but attach considerable weight, it was
that of the Spaniards themselves, expressed through
the medium of their representatives in Cortes assem-
bled un the 2d of May.—[Here Mr. Jacks read a
document to the above effect.] He. would also call
the attention of the Court to the view which the Ty-
rant of the Continent himself had taken of the sub-
ject in a message to that herd of slaves nicknamed a
Legislative Body, and which.he terminated by a me-
nace that we should feel his thunder. .'ff.AnE HEA-
VEN, the thunder was. a weapon to. be wielded by
other hands than his., As to the merits of the con-
test which. had called 'for the thanks of the nation,
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