The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-28 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

THE LATH OtHERAL SIR CHARLES ARGILL, BART.
Sir Charles Asgill entered the service on the 27th
February, 1778, as an Ensign, in the Ist Foot Guards,
and obtained a Lieutenancy, with the rauk of Captain,
in the same Regiment, on the 3d February, 1781. He
went to America in 1781, joined the army under the
command of the Marquess Cornwallis, served the whole
of the campaigns, was taken prisoner with the army in
October, 1781, at the siege of York Town in Virginia,
and sent up the country, where he remained till May,
1783; at which period all the Captains of that arm
were ordered by General Washington to assemble and
draw lots that one might be selected to suffer death, by
wav of retaliation. The lot fell on Sir Charles Asgill,
and he was, in consequence, conveyed, under a strong
escort, to the place intended for his execution, in the
Jerseys, where he remained in prison, enduring peculiar
hardships for the space of six months, expecting daily
that his execution would take place.
Sir Charles was unexpectedly released his con-
fei
finement by an Act of Congress, passed he interces-
sion of the Court of France. He return to Enkland
on parole, and shortly after went to Paris to make his
acknowlegments to the Queen of France, for having
saved his life. He was soon after appointed Equerry to
his Royal Highness the Duke of York, and after gradu-
ally obtaining promotion and other appointments, at-
tained on the 4th ofJ nue, 1814, the rank of General.
The balloting and enrolment fur the local' militia
is suspended, by an order in Council, for one year, from
the 16th of this month.
OnTsesday morning three squadrons of the first rexi-
meat of Dragoon Guards, under the command of Major
Turner, at present in Piershill barracks, and two pieces
of flying artillery, were reviewed on Portobello Sands,
by his Excellency Major General Sir Thomas Bradford.
—The regiment went through various msnaravres and
charges, which they executed in the most masterly style.
A detachment of the Royal Horse Artillery, under
Lieutenant Harding, marched from Limerick for Island
Bridge, on Monday last.
The nth regiment has marched from Buttevant to re-
place the 2tl battalion of the Rifle Brigade, quartered in
Kinsale, .Macroom, &c.
MIMININIMINNEMIMNIMIEMOI
EXECUTION OF THE MURDERERS OF MB
4:zi A KDS 11.
thing, t , SNP/ and ICeppe"
at the top of Ho monger Lane Gaolorp
t after 9 o'cloci
til very late VffiltiArisoners tiodapn
the same obstinate ardihood which marked the),
vious deportment ; ,
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Office, and swore
bell and Captain Webster, for an assault. (with the par•
titulars of which the public are acquainted.)—Tbe
informations were returned to the next Commission of
Oyer and Terminer. for the City of Dublin. The
Gentlemen swore against have been written to, to find
bail for their appearance to abide their trial, as they did
not attend at the Police Office when the informations
were sword.—(The Freeman's Journal of Friday.)
Mr. HUNT.—We mentioned in our last that Mr. Hunt
had arrived isiChaelar,ssa a visit to Mr. Harrison, a pri•
saner in oar castle. It was, it seems, a visit of charity,
Mr. Heat being the bearer of subscriptions raised in
Birmingham. for the prisoner's relief. The last Ches-
ter Chronicle is in eestacies that the opportunity was
seized by a party of tradesmen who met together at the
king's Arms Kitchen (more commonly cOia" Mother
Hall's) to decoy Mr. Hunt into their goodly company, for
the purpose of insulting him. A letter was written as
from a party of Reformers, requesting the honour. of his
company ; and this not answering the purpose, a second
letter, still more urgent, was dispatched, which Mr.
'Boot, in his ignorance of the choice spirits of Mother
Hall's,good-natoredly acceded to. Upon his arrival, the
gentlemen of Mother Hall's commenced their sport, and
proceeded to heap the grossest insults upon the guest
they hid so importunately invited. The details of this
sallemanly transaction are given quite con amore in the
Oironicle, pretty much as one might expect, where the
hero becomes the .reciter of his own glory. There is,
however, one portion of the tale untold, or infinite re-
lish, and showing the fiat hof this exquisite joke. Mr.
Hoot having withdrawn from the assembled wits
of the kitchen, returned to the Albion, and retired to his
owe room, into which he was presently pursued by one
of the kiteheners, and assailed by the most loyal vitupe-
ration,. As it happens that Mr. Hunt is under recogni-
sant:es to a large amount to keep the peace, his reply to
this spirited attack from the master of Mother Hall's
ceremooiesewas an appeal to the bell, and a request to
the in-coming landlord to clear his room of intruders.—
This was accordingly accomplished!—lf any one Id
be inclined to quote this transaction as a specimen
spirit of Chester, we beg they will add thi
ther Hall's, not a single individual, of any
has been found to speak of the outrage
tempt and disgust. We must not omit
be was Mr. Hoot from wishing to obtrude
the notice of the people of Chester, that he
place io the coach in a feigned name, to min
6013.—(Ilicetcr Guardian.)

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

trence,
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'king the management of none oeportment ; , . . .
and attending the wound- „„.. g
the time of writing ibis, ....a , and it will scarce y be credited, that en Saturday
nch has ceased ; but we they entertained
. themselves with tossing balf-pence.i
the immediate vicinity weak& ALI !elewbows
e fatigue of Use last three assistance of the Rev. M . Mann, the Chaplain to the
s place the forty of the prison, besides occasional) other ministers, wVse e1m...,
iystem of d' wino ato., tio.ns had ;tot the effect so rdently desired.a.l44l
prisoners were
e, was solely heir work. a
led ifnetwotnhie Chapel,aatee a
rwsihzen Mr. Man wPed his exhorts-
-3 victualled fo 2 months,
,lions SlPlimmin the most 'feeling inner. Keppetll,ol.l
r little ,a,Pre ettsian, I was ebswerirewiewsollilaexorable,. rotting his eyes from 1
1 succeed 111 c "ring IL ' one side to the other, and ;Audit' with his lingers, until be
i Tuesday, the ringapa- palled a part ot the quick of, when it bled. litoffell listened
1 li. sailed for e Nore, turfy&
is Assistant Obs rvators, eriff arrived iiaLlepola t 9 o'clock, and the
her of other Ast omical lancholy procession advanced towards the feesiscaf-
of proceeding to 'abon. fold. Stoffell wasitstrafirst on the platform, and stood
and renewing a ase of eiewpfiroo, while the rope was adjusting; Keppell fol.
living principally i view lowed with tiesowswe indifference brelirdseipeweratimand.
latitude and longit of Every thing being read , the clergyman andpr6oners led
the way. The prisoners begged their
Precisely on whet di is' thanksto be coeveyed to T. alters, go, er nor) for
e his summer occurs his kindness. The then loft exclaimed, "Loan, receive
loyal George yacht c e my soul," an were launched into eternity. After
rave her bottom clean hanging the usoa time, the bodies were delivered to the
.ded to the westward fo Surgeons of St. Thomas's Hospital for dissection.—The
the evening; since which owdminehmementimmeras immense.
Mooed at their moorin ...- .
George (Rear-Ad l ' Ilsmovat. or 'rite PINITICNTIARY AT MILLSANK.---
11 Sovereign, Prince i • ing. a •
d Lyra. The Lyr will is to be • diately
fr
spiral Sir Harry
if sale,
Pon
is
itrliosranii
way, and on that acconnt, as
well
IT il:daali.
the Hulks. Four ships are now in 'readiness to transport
I, Bart. for the M item- account of the dangerous damps Itiliseweemakmummudea
g, Lieut. John tt, for olinisFlTHltepeisallka representation was made to Govern-
expected from t River. ment by the Committee appointed to inspect it. The re-
mmand of the n, takes salt is, thawilowet 400 convicts are to be sent off to New
he Mersey, 26. apt, Per- South Wales, to make room for the present tenants of
to proceed to he South the Penitentiary, who are4seeherleb.to be sent on board
,dy dressed hi a blue coat the convicts; one at Portsmouth, another at the Nore, a
,ntly that of a ntlentan third at Sheerness, and a fourth ataWoolwich. It is ex.
size, was last cast petted that they will sail in about a week. We under.
at, on the N. .of the stand that this plan has been in contemplation these
Ais situated a t half twelvemonths. u Government has been 'tor unsatisfied
where the tinf unate at the state of the Penitentiar ; t • s
26th of March la and f an equate cause
sunk, and is distant et for the remo 1.-4110masimehape4)
From the state of e DvaLiSt VIKING Mut..—Yesterday Mr'. Hayden,
there was no doubt but Editor of the Evening Meil, attended at the Head Police
lately broke up, and that Office, and swore informations against Sir Colin Camp-