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tish officer in having obtained, 

 under false pretences, passports 

 in feigned names from the repi e- 

 sentative of his own sovereign, 

 and in having made vise of such 

 passports for himself and a sub- 

 ject of his most Christian Majesty, 

 imder sentence for high treason, 

 disguised in a Britisli uniform, 

 not only to elude the vigilance of 

 the French government, but to 

 carryl^imin such disguise tlnough 

 the British lines. While the 

 Prince Regent cannot but con- 

 sider it as a material aggrava- 

 vation of Sir R. Wilson's offence, 

 that, holding so high a rank in 

 the army, he should have coun- 

 tenanced and encouraged an in- 

 ferior officer to commit a decided 

 and serious breach of military 

 duty, his Royal Highness never- 

 theless thinks it equally necessary 

 to express his high displeasure at 

 the conduct of Captain J. Hut- 

 chinson for having been himself 

 an active instrument in a transac- 

 tion of so culpable a nature, more 

 especially in a country in amity 

 with his Majesty, where the 

 regiment, witli which he was 

 serving in the course of his mili- 

 tary duty, formed part of an 

 army which had been placed by 

 the Allied Sovei'eigns under the 

 conunand of the Duke of Wel- 

 lington, under circtnustances 

 which made it peculiarly incum- 

 bent upon every officer of that 

 army to abstain from any conduct 

 whicli might obstruct the execu- 

 tion of the laws. 



His Royal Highness the Prince 

 Regent being unwilling to visit 

 these officers with the full weight 

 of his displeasure, which the 

 complexion of their offence might 

 have warranted ; anil also tal\.ing 



into consideration the degree of 

 punishment to which they have 

 subjected themselves, by violat- 

 ing the laws of the country in 

 which this transaction took place j 

 has signitied to the Commander- 

 in-chief these his sentiments, that 

 they should be published to the 

 army at large, in order to record 

 in the most public manner the 

 strong sense which his Royal 

 Highness entertains of the fla- 

 grant misconduct of these officers, 

 and of the danger which would 

 accrue to the reputation and dis- 

 cipline of the British army, if 

 such an offence were to pa^ with- 

 out a decided expression of his 

 Royal Highness' s most severe re- 

 })rehension. 



By order of his Royal Highness, 

 The CoM>iANDEU-iN Chief. 

 10. The Lady Campbell out- 

 ward bound Indiaman, lying at 

 (iravesend, was completely ready 

 for sea, except that she liad to 

 take on board twenty chests of 

 dollars for India. These were 

 put on board the Company's hoy, 

 and, with a viev/ to better security, 

 two young men from the houje 

 which shipped the dollars were 

 put on board, and the hoy sailed 

 on Wednesday with the night 

 tide. When off Greenwich, a 

 small craft came alongside, and 

 begged for some water, for 

 which they were in gi'cat distress. 

 The crew appearing to consist of 

 only two persons, no alarm was 

 excited, and the strangers fasten- 

 ed their cutter to the hoy. No 

 sooner, however, was the object 

 secured, than the two men hauled 

 to one side a large tarpaulin, 

 which discovered five or six more 

 men, who, jumping on board the 

 hoy, secured under hatches the 



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