Star. — 1807-05-28 (London, England)

GIBRALTAR.  By the Royal George, Admiral Dociworrw's hip, we have received letters from Gibraltar to the loth intl. but their contents are not of much imps.. tance. On the gth, Admiral THORIIIIOROUGH had arrived there from the fleet off Cadiz, on his way to Sicily, to take the command of the Britith fleet in the Mediterranean. By the_fame channel we have received accounts of a  MUTINY AT MALTA Haying broken out in Faossec's Regiment, orrtpoling part of that Garrifon, and which had been attended with the molt melancholy confequences.— This regiment, which was chiefly cornpofed of Albanians, and other foreigners, from the Levant, being ex tremely difrati,fied wi:h the mode in which they had been railed, and at the drcfs and difcipline they were obliged to adopt, broke out into open Mutiny in one of the Forts where they were quartered, at the en. trance oldie harbour. They cut the Adjutant and one of the Captains to pieces, wounded Lieut. Colonel Scrivstrestaryst, and would alto have murdered Lieut. Colonel BARNES, their Commanding Officer, had he not been luckily abfent at the time. The mutineers remained in pofreffi •rt of the fort for feveral days, during which time they obliged the Officer of Artillery, on rain of death, to fire upon the Town; and feveral (hells were aCtually thrown by them into the place. All provifions being cut off from the mu• timers, they threatened to blow up the Fort if they vete not fupplied ; which being refuted, fome them attempted to put their threats in execution, and aCtually let fire to the powder magazine. Troops were then fent againfl them, and about zoo of the principal ringleaders were fecured, of which z 6 I.ad been hanged, when the Royal George failed from Malta, and a General Court Martial was fitting on the remainder. The twenty fix who were executed, died in the moll daring manner, glorying in the crime they had committed, and curling the fervice and Government they had been enlifled into. . The event of the mitchief effeCted by there del peradoes is not Rated in the letters that have reached us, but enough has tranfpired to (hew the danger and ruinous confequences, that may refult from a lryttem which has been carried of late to a confider. able extent, that of forming foreign corps in our fervice. Dillon's regiment, as our Readers may recoiled, was difbanded in Gibraltar to avoid a mutiny there, and now Malta is brought into the molt imminent danger, from the fame tante ; for we have only two Britifh regiments there : all the reit are foreign troops, and a good deal of untafinefs is felt on that (core. Foreign corps railed in the Mita fervice are often a vile job, to ferve fome needy foreigner, at the expenfe of the public purfe. The men are picked up by crimps any where, and boundlefs promifes are held out, which, in the nature of things, cannot poifibly be realifed. Corps of foreigners railed in a regular manner, from among the regular peafantry of any country, might be expeCted to poffefs as many good moral qualities, as can be looked for from men in fimilar circumflances ; but fuch corps we can hardly by any pdfibility obtain. If we compote corps of all the vagabonds of the earth that can be colleeted together, what can we expal from them ? Such troops, under particular circumfiances, will ever prove more formidable to their friends than their enemies.