MY LORD,-Having laid before the Prince Regent the proceedings of a General Court-Martial, held at Chelmsford, on the 18th of October, 1811, and continued by adjournment to the 26th of the same month, for the trial of Captain THOMAS CHURCHILL THOMPSON, of the First Royal Surry Regiment of Militia, who was arraigned upon the under-mentioned charge, viz:

"For having drawn and received pay for private Henry Spong, at different periods between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of September, 1811, when the same private Henry Spong was actually discharged from the 1st Royal Surry Regiment of Militia, on or about the 24th of March, 1811, such conduct being highly detrimental to His Majesty's service, and to the prejudice of good order and military discipline."

Upon which Charge the Court came to the following decision:

"The Court having most maturely considered the evidence in behalf of the prosecution, together with what the prisoner, Captain T. Churchill Thompson, has urged in his defence, are of opinion, that in drawing and receiving pay for private Henry Spong, as specified in the Charge, he has not been guilty of the smallest intentional crime, nor actuated by corrupt, fraudulent, or interested motives, and therefore entitled to a full and honorable acquittal, and he is hereby most fully and honorably acquitted."

I am to acquaint your Lordship, that under all the circumstances of the case, His Royal Highness was pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to acquiesce in the sentence of the Court.

I am at the same time to desire that your Lordship will express the Prince Regent's surprise and regret, that the Court Martial should have adopted a judgment so perfectly inconsistent with their finding; inasmuch as the Court admits the prisoner to have committed the act described in the charge, which is not only most incorrect in itself, but contrary to every principle of law, order, and regulation, and proceeds to acquit him of motives which have not been alledged against him. I am farther commanded to order that, until a due investigation shall take place into the system of the corps, which could have professed to sanction by usage the practice charged against the prisoner, and admitted by the Court, Captain Thomas Churchill Thompson shall be prohibited from joining, and doing duty with the 1st Royal Surry Regiment of Militia.-I am, &c.

(Signed)

FREDERICK, Commander-in-Chief.

MY LORD,-Having laid before the Prince Regent the proceedings of a General Court-Martial, held at Chelmsford, on the 30th of December, 1811, and continued by adjournments to the 10th of January, 1812, for the trial of Captain RICHARD FRIZELL, of the 1st Royal Surry Militia, who was arraigned upon the undermentioned charges, viz:

1st." For disobedience of His Majesty's orders, in having, during the whole, or part of the periods between the 1st of September, 1810, and 1st of September, 1811, neglected to pay his company himself, and for allowing Serjeant John Medley, and the wife, or reputed wife, of the said Serjeant John Medley, to do so, by which means the comfort and interest of the soldiers were not attended to, and the men were charged more than they ought to have been for necessaries, or than such necessaries were worth, and the soldiers were subjected to various impositions-such conduct being highly detrimental to His Majesty's service, and to the prejudice of good order and military discipline.

2d." For highly irregular, and unmilitary conduct, in having, during the whole, or part of the periods between the 24th of February and 6th of June, 1809, drawn pay (or allowed his Pay-Serjeant to do so) for private Joseph Wood, late of his company in the 1st Royal Surry Militia, although the said Joseph Wood died on or about the 22d of February, 1809."

Upon which Charges the Court came to the following decision:

The Court having taken into their serious consideration the evidence produced by the prosecutor and prisoner, as well as the Defence and Reply, are of opinion, that the prisoner, Captain Richard Frizell, 1st Royal Surry Militia, is Guilty of the Charges preferred against him, in breach of the Articles of War, and do therefore sentence him to be dismissed the service; but in consequence of the good character given him by his Colonel, and other Officers of the Regiment, as well as the documents produced before the Court, beg leave to recommend him to the clemency of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

I am to acquaint your Lordship, that His Royal Highness was pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court.

Your Lordship will therefore acquaint me with the day upon which the sentence is made known to the prisoner, Captain Richard Frizell, as from that day he will cease to receive pay in His Majesty's service.—I am, &c.

Ar a General Court-Martial held at Chester, on the 21st of April, 1812, and continued by adjournments to the 23d of the same month, Lieutenant WILLIAM NASH, of the Royal North Lincoln Militia, was arraigned upon the undermentioned Charge, viz:

"For scandalous and infamous behaviour, unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, in calumniously circulating a report at Chester in or about the month of July, and in or about the month of December, 1811, prejudicial to the honor, character, and reputation of Adjutant Gibbon Cullen of the same regiment, by falsely stating to several persons that Adjutant Cullen had been brought before the halberts, and there stripped to be punished for theft, thereby tending to deprive the said Adjutant Gibbon Cullen of that influence, authority, and command, necessary to the discharge of his duty as an officer in His Majesty's service."

Upon which Charge the Court came to the following decision:

The Court-Martial after the most attentive consideration of the evidence produced in support of the Charge against Lieutenant William Nash of the Royal North Lincoln Regiment of Militia, and of the Prisoner's Defence, are of opinion, that he is Guilty of the crime laid to his charge, and they do sentence him the said Lieutenant William Nash to be dismissed from the regiment.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent was pleased, in the name and on the behalf of His Majesty, to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court, and the Commander-in-Chief directs, that the Charge preferred against Lieutenant William Nash, together with the finding and sentence of the Court, shall be read at the head of every Corps, and entered in the General Order Book. By command of His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, HARRY CALVERT, Adjutant-Gen.

GAZETTES,

Military Dispatches,-Promotions, &c. in the Army.
(Regularly continued from our last No.)

Royal Cheshire Militia-Richard Puleston, jun. Esq. to be Captain, vice Twemlow, resigned. Dated September 19, 1812.-John Sawry, Esq. to be ditto, vice Cotton, promoted. Dated September 22, 1812.-Peter Clark Mottram, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated September 12, 1812.-Charles Richard Edwards, Gent to be ditto. Dated October 1, 1812.

38th, or Ayrshire Regiment of Militia-James Patrick, Esq. to be Captain, vice Ruthven, deceased. Dated August 17, 1812.

WAR-OFFICE, October 20, 1812.

To be Lieutenants, without purchase.

Royal Regt. of Horse Guards-Cornet E. Bouverie.-Cornet C. A. Fitzroy.
To be Cornet.

Tathwell Baker Tathwell, Gent. vice Bouverie.

To be Adjutant.

Quarter-Master Simeon Hirst (with the rank of Cornet), vice Taylor, promoted. To be Quarter-Masters.

Corporal-Major Jasper Perry, vice Hirst.-Corporal Ambrose Hitchen.-Corporal Robert Lord.

1st Regiment of Dragoon Guards-Lieutenant J. M. Whyte to be Captain of a Troop, by purchase, vice Delap, who retires.-Cornet J. R. Gordon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Whyte.

12th Regiment of Light Dragoons-Cornet Abraham Lane to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Andrews, promoted.

20th do. James Mac Dermot, Gent. to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Ebhart, appointed to the 72d Foot.

21st do.-James Buck, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Aitkin, promoted. 22d do. Lieutenant Richard Slegg to be Captain of a Troop, by purchase, vice Warren, who retires.

Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards-Eusign Augustus Cuyler, from the 69th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Greville, promoted.-Serjeant Thomas Dwelly to be Quarter-Master, vice Tomlin, deceased.

12th Regiment of Foot-Captain Richard Bayley to be Major, without purchase.
To be Captains of Companies, without purchase.
Lieutenant John Spinks.-Lieutenant James Keappock.-Lieutenant Alexander
Adams, from the 84th Foot, vice Bayley.

To be Lieutenants, without purchase.

Ensign James Wadeson, vice Spinks.-Ensign Morgan Jenkins, vice Keappock.

To be Ensigns, without purchase,

John Blackall, Gent, vice Wadeson.-Henry Clinton, Gent. vice Jenkins. 16th do.-Lieutenant John Cosby to be Captain of a Company, vice Burke, placed upon half-pay.-Ensign John Gun to be Lieutenant, vice Cosby.-Gentleman **Cadet Edward Cleather, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Gun. 16th do.-Ensign Mark Hayes to be Lieutenant, vice Blakeney, placed upon half-pay. 21st do.-Lieutenant Robert Gordon to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Whitaker, promoted.

24th do.-Ensign John de Neys to be Lieutenant, vice Walton, killed in action.

To be Ensigns.

Serjeant-Major....... Fry, from the 95th Foot, vice Nunn, deceased.-Volunteer Henry Whigmore, from the 5th Foot, vice De Neys.

28th do.-Assistant-Surgeon John Lightbody, from the 71st Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Boggie, promoted.

33d do. Ensign Henry Bain, from the 1st West York Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase.

To be Lieutenants.

42d do.—Ensign Alexander Dickinson, vice Gregorson, killed in action.—Ensign Alexander Innes, vice Milne, killed in action.

To be Ensigns.

Volunteer J. Lane, vice Cullen, killed in action.-Mungo Macpherson, Gent. vice Dickinson.-Colin Walker, Gent. vice Innes.

To be Assistant-Surgeon.

Assistant-Surgeon Duncan Henderson, from the 48th Foot, vice M'Coll, deceased. 43d do. Ensign T. H. Grubbe to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Shaw, promoted.-Hospital-Mate Henry Edwards to be Asssistant-Surgeon, vice Cumin, promoted in the 88th Foot.

47th do.-Assistant-Surgeon Edward O'Leary, from the 52d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Harpur, promoted.

59th do.-Lieutenant John Fothergill to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Fairfield, who retires.-Ensign George A. S. Fane to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fothergill.-Lieutenant Marcus O'Hara, from the Antrim Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase.

60th do.-Serjeant....... Maxwell, from the 83d Foot, to be Quarter-Master, vice Verbregge, deceased.

62d do.-Ensign William Blakeley to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Robinson, who resigns.

63d do.-Lieutenant John Duport to be Adjutant, vice Church, who resigns the Adjutancy only.

69th do.-Edmund Martin Wightwick, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Cuyler, appointed to the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards.

71st do.-Hospital-Mate John Donaldson to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lightbody, promoted in the 28th Foot.

72d do.-Lieutenant Robert Bland to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Graves, promoted.

79th do.-Brevet Major Andrew Brown to be Major, vice Lawrie, killed in action. -Lieutenant Alexander Maclean to be Captain of a Company, vice Brown.

To be Lieutenants, without purchase.

Ensign Thomas Walbeoff, vice Macdonald, dead of his wounds.-Ensign James Hall, vice H. Grant, dead of his wounds.-Ensign John Powling, vice Maclean. To be Ensigns.

Lachlan M'Lean Cameron, Gent. vice Walbeoffc.-Volunteer Anthony Archer, from the 94th Foot, vice Hall.-Ogle Conner, Gent. vice Powling.

84th do.-Ensign E. J. Mockler to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Adams, promoted in the 12th Foot.-J. Hadden Slyfield, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Mockler. 88th do.-Assistant-Surgeon W. Cumin, from the 43d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Arthur, promoted.

$9th do. Lieutenant Gorge Jones to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice Crespigny, promoted in the 68th Foot.-Ensign John H. Latham to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jones.

93d do. Ensign Charles Gordon to be Lieutenant, vice Sutherland, deceased.Lieutenant George Menzies, from the Fife Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase. 94th do. Ensign Robert Macnab, from the Edinburgh Militia, to be Ensign, without purchase.

96th do.-Ensign Charles Dutton to be Lieutenant, vice Ashley, placed upon halfpay. Joseph Crips, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Dutton.

2d Royal Veteran Battalion-Captain R. Woods, from the 5th West-India Regiment, to be Captain of a Company, vice Lucas, placed upon the Retired List, Royal African Corps-Lieutenant Adam Fife to be Captain of a Company, vice Megaw, placed upon half-pay.

Royal York Rangers-Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John R. Ward, from the 27th Foot, to be Major, without purchase, vice Barclay, promoted in the Royal Corsican Rangers.

Royal Waggon Train-Lieutenant John Sidaway to be Captain of a Troop, vice Whittle, deceased.-Cornet Adrian Eyma to be Lieutenant, vice Sidaway.-Regimental Serjeant-Major Henry Winkelman, from the 3d Light Dragoons of the King's German Legion, to be Cornet, vice Eyma.

STAFF.

Captain Philip Bainbridge, from the 93d Foot, to be a Permanent Assistant QuarterMaster-General, with the rank of Major in the Army, vice Pierrepoint, killed in action.-Lieutenant A. Dalgetty, from the 101st Foot, to be Staff Captain at the Depôt at York Hospital.

HOSPITAL STAFF.

Staff-Surgeon Henry Irwin, M. D. to be Physician to the Forces.

To be Surgeons to the Forces.

Surgeon James Arthur, from the 88th Foot, vice Irwin.-Surgeon Wm. Harpur, from the 47th Foot.-Surgeon John Boggie, from the 28th Foot.

To be Purveyor to the Forces.

Deputy-Purveyor Thomas Hume Bowles.

To be Deputy Purveyors to the Forces.

Purveyor's-Clerk Samuel Cooper.-Purveyor's-Clerk George Winter.-Purveyor'sClerk William Clapp.-Purveyor's-Clerk Charles Soare.

To be Hospital-Mate for General Service.

Thomas Soden, Gent.

The King's German Legion.

2d Battalion Light Infantry-Assistant-Surgeon George Heisse, from the Foot Artillery, to be Surgeon.-Hospital-Mate J. D. Lange to be Assistant-Surgeon. 3d Batt. of the Line-E. H. Kuckuck, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Borgstedt, promoted. To be Ensigns.

8th do. Cadet-Serjeant William de Murreau, vice Buckler, promoted.-Cadet-Serjeant Edward Stanley.

The Duke of Brunswich Oels' Corps.

Ensign Schneider to be Lieutenant, vice Konowsky, superseded.-Corporal Biermon, from the Cavalry, to be Ensign, vice Schneider.-Hospital-Mate Ferdinand Hunerbein to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lieblen, who resigns.

Chasseurs Britanniques.

Ensign....... D'Olbrense to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice De Chaillet, appointed to the Bourbon Regt.—A. Dalton, Gent. to be Ensign, vice D'Olbreuse. Royal Corsican Rangers.

Major Delaney Barclay, from the Royal York Rangers, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Ansley placed upon half-pay.

MEMORANDUM.

Ensign Field, of the 41st Foot, is superseded, being absent without leave.—Ensign L'Estrange, of the 66th Foot, is superseded.

The appointment of Mr. Robert Paisley to be Hospital-Mate for General Service, as stated in the Gazette of the 26th ultimo, has not taken place.

Bedford Regt. of Militia-W. Sweeting, Gent. to be Ensign. Dated Sept. 19, 1812.

Downing-Street, October 25, 1812.

A DISPATCH, of which the following is an extract, has been this day received at Earl Bathurst's office, addressed to his Lordship by General the Marquis of Wellington, dated Villa Tora, 11th October, 1812.

The enemy have made two sorties on the head of the sap, between the exterior and interior lines of the castle of Burgos, in both of which they materially injured our works, and we suffered some loss. In the last, at three in the morning of the 8th, we had the misfortune to lose the Hon. Major Cocks, of the 79th, who was field-officer of the trenches, and was killed in the act of rallying the troops who had been driven in. I have frequently bad occasion to draw your Lordship's atten