The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-28 00:00:00

ARMY*.

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GEN 1.:11A.1. ORDER.
horse Guard*, Jan. 16.
From the reports which the Commander-in-Chief
has received of the Regimental Schools, his Royal
Highness 'has the satisfaction of believing, that the
important and beneficial objects of these institutions
have generally been duly and successfully attended
to, by the instruction of the children on the plan of
the Rev. Dr. Bell, as proscribed in former Orders,
and by the introduction of good order, cleanliness,
and regularity.
There is, however, another point of scarcely less
importance, to which it is the Commander-in-Chief's
1. tilt most earnestly to call the attention of the
o mmandiug Officers, viz. that of taking care that
e children are, ns early as possible, instructed in
tt
4tte means of making themselves useful and gaining
their livelihood, and this his Royal Highness con-
calves may be effected at a very cheap rate, by em
playing the best qualified and best belm4ietl n omen of
each regiment in instructing the gills in plain work
aid knitting, and employing the tailors and boot and
sboe-makers of each regiment in instructing the boys
in their respective ,trades; by which means Xte
whole may, at a very early age, be tendered useful
to the regiment, and be enabled to gain !bait own
Sub,istence.

Tile Commander-in-Chief is of opinion, that by
an econotnical application of the funds lift their
disposal, and by a proper arrangement for the sato
of the produce of the children's work, Commanding
Officers will have it in their power to forward this
object without incurring any additional ex pence.
By command of his Royal Highness the Cots.
maoder-in-Chief.
HARRY CALVERT, Aij.-Grn.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL 'S BELTING ROOM, JAN. 23.
DERBY STAKES.
1200 & en nestplatst Sir Thomas I.': to 1 nest any other
1250 to L ago Sir Joshua Anticipation it„st Equator
9 to logy br. to Whalebone

ON THE OA&S.
300 to 50 agst Minuet 200 00 Mr. Pavne's and Len-
-450 to 25 agst Ditto ton's tillies apt the above
261 to 2.5 apt Ld. G. Coven- tw•o.
dish's f.

TEF: RIDDLEGWORT/I.
Even betv, eel! i:aphael and Sir JtNana.
Diqo ',Ltween Rapliael and Mr. l'a)n..'s filly.

ACCEPTANCES FOR THE FPI•F. lIA 1/ICA OS.
NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING:
Monday—Sweepstakes of 100g3. each, It. fr. B. C.
st. lb. I !.. t . lb.
Mender Billy 9 2 I Blaster . 8 10
Ihunlet. 9 2 I Cat 8 9
1 Merryeeld 9 0 Cwrw 8 3
Teadale .9 0
Teesday—Sweepstakes of
Alcohol .8 8
Emily .8 5
Hocuspoeus ...8 3
Wnoo Ball 8 -
isesday—Sweepstakes of IC
.Cll;,llapitosirrd Colt . : 8 12
licsorbots .BlO
Plifiiin a 8 10
(AA me 8 6
aloe:day—Sweepstakes 01
Utak:moor 8 0
Haphazard gelding, darn
by Waxy 7 11
Spectre
Bellaria

DN.. each, h. ft. T M. M.
Fugitive ~....E 2
ti,;.l. 10
Eaglet ....... . 6
Ir. ea* h. ft.-Aefens the Pint.
Dimon
llampden ..i
Tempest 7 10
Viol,.t 7 0
1043. each. tuft. T. Y C.
Haphazard filly, out of
. Trusty'stlaui .7 7
lobo .7 5
Dauntless ..7 4

TRALEE, JAN. 17.—Lieutenant navid O'Keefe,
of the Kerry regiment.—This unfortunate Gentle-
man, whose conduct for some time past manifested
the strongest symptoms of mental derangement, has
termire.ted his existence in such a manner, as folly
proves the state his mind must have been in, whilst
' the manner of his death is sincerely to be deplorA by
every Chlistian. The commission of an act of
suicide has hurried him into eternity ; n Coroner's
Inquest having found a verdict of murder against
him, fur having, on Tuesday last, shot a man of
the name of John Sullivan, a process sever, whilst
in the act of serving him with one of those orders
of law. At the instigation of his family, he fled for
the purpose of secreting himself for the present,
which he probably would have effected, bad the
situation of his mind enabled him to have pursued
any rational kind of conduct; but labouring under
a degree of insanity, which mnst have been et,6sider-
ably augmented by the death of the unfortunate man
whom he shot, he committed a similar act towards
himself yesterday evening in the neighbourhood of
Tullarees, about 12 miles from this town, and, by a
pistol-shot, put an end to his life ; as the circum-
stance which led to the death of Sullivan was likely
to beeome a subject of legal investigation, we consi-
dered any notice of it, heretofore, would be prema-
ture.—(Kerry Erening Post.)
On Wednesday nig'it a great part of the planta-
tion of young trees, on the ground of ALEXANDER
MURRAY, Esq. along the road side, from Nether-
street, Finchley, to Mill-hill, were cut down by
some miscreants. They were all left on the ground,
not one having been taken away.
The PRINCE REGENT has been graciously pleased
to appoint Mr. HENRY ALEXANDER, of Cork-street
(the Partner and Successor of Mr. WATIIEN PHIPPS,
and Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary ft); Diseases of
the Eye), to be Surgeon-Oculist to his 'Loyal High-
IIeSS:

SIR WILLIAM SAMPFINGITIN, BART.—Died, very deeply la-
mented, sit his hoose in Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, on
Thurtday last, in the aPernoon, January Vtith, between the
honrs of three HMI row., after a long and painful line s, which
he sustaincJ • ith vul. Christian fortitude, Sir William Charles
Farrell Skellington, hart. is the 73d year of his age. The fami-
ly of Farrell was, originally, of the Province of ,connaught, in
Ireland, au ! deu, railed from the Priuccs of A nnaly. The direct 1
ancestor of the Sketfingtons was John de Skeffington, living iU '
1188, whose son, Sir Ocoff:ey de Skeifington, was, in :921, pos-
sessed of lands at Skefiington, in Leicestershire. Sir William
was born June 21, 1742, and served in the First Ite:,iment of
Foot Guards for 2.5 years. Ile was ap pointed one of omi:squires :
to his Royal Highness Prince Frederick Duke of York, at the
Installation of the Knights of the Most Honourable Order a
the Batts, in 1/72 ; lie was a Deputy Lieutenant for the Conn-
ty of Leicester; and he was a Member of the Antiquarian
society. At the itiyortant crisis of 1794, Sir William was Co-
hind the Leicestership• Yesmianry Cavalry, objets was the
first regimest of Yeomanry that was completed, and made its
returns to Government. Sir Wm. SkeEington was distinguished
in private society for the urbanity of hi. manners; and in pub-
lic life the ditties or his station were up'orld by ardanr, and
maintained with firmness. He is succeeded in the title by his
only son.

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