1796.] 
famons manner, unbecoming the charac- 
ter of an officer and a gentleman, and he 
was therefore sentenced to be cashiered. 
The judgment of the court-martial 
upon lieutenant-colonel O'Kelly, was de~ 
livered on the 22d, when he was de- 
clared guilty of the following charge : 
“ For misapplyirg and converting to his 
own use, a part of the government allow- 
ance of coals (to the amount of 34l: or 
thereabouts) by causing, at different 
times, such coals, so allowed by govern- 
ment to the men of the said regiment, to 
be carried to his, the lieutenant-colonel’s, 
own house, and there tonfumed.’’ The 
sentence was, “ That he should forfeit 
the sum of 100). and be dismissed his 
Majesty's service.” 
A new board (consisting of five com- 
missioners yis arranged for the supervision 
of naval architecture in the dock yards— 
Brig. Gen. Bentham is to be president. 
At the court of Aldermen; on the 8th 
Inst, every prisoner in Newgate; 1h ad- 
dition to his allowance cf bread, was or- 
dered to receive each a pound of pos 
tatoes; and the bread is, in future, to be 
made with iio whore fhan two thirds 
wheaten flour. The number of prisoners 
in that gaol, is upwards of 500. 
Dr. Hodgson was liberated from New- 
gate, on the 26th inst. after an imprison- 
ment of upwards of two years, on a con 
viction of speaking certain seditious 
-words in the London Coftee- House. 
IMrpROVEMENTS.—According to the 
present scheme for wet docks, they are to 
be four in number, the longest to hold 
450 ships, the second 10s, and the other 
30. The communicating canal to begin 
Just above the Lea, and pass in a straight 
line to Gravel-lane into the docks~~-The 
plan of the corporation of London is to 
extend the present quays 30 feet into the 
river; to widen Thames-street 30 feet; 
and make several new quays. : 
Extrads from the LONDON GAZETTE. 
_ On the ioth inst. Capt. Cooke, ii the 
Quebec, captured, off Scilly; the French 
eutter L’ Aspic of 10 guns. 
__ On the same day; Capt. Stopford; in 
the Phaeton, captured, off Cape Finis- 
terre, La Bonne Citoyenne; of 20 guns. 
On the 17th, Sir W.S. Smith, in the 
‘Diamond frigate, aided by a brig and a 
lugger, burnt a corvette of 16 guns, and 
two or three smaller vessels; in the har- 
bour of Herqui, on the coast of France. 
On the 2cth ingt.on the céast of France, 
Sir John Warren, with a squadron of 
four frigates and a lugeer, fell in with a 
Heet of French merchant vessels; under 
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convoy of five frigates and two luggers. 
Four of the merchant vessels fell into his 
hands, and after a short engagement, the 
French men of war retreated through 
the Raz de Fontenay; leaving a 30 gun 
frigate also in his possession. “The other 
merchant vessels passed on; with one of 
the luggers; before the a€tion. 
Horse-Guards, March 17,1796: A let- 
ter; of which the following is an extract, 
has been received by the Right Hon. 
Henry Dundas, ont of kis Majesty's Prin- 
cipal Secretaries of State; from Major- 
General Leigh; commanding his Ma- 
jesty’s troops in the West-Indies: 
Ewtradt of a Letter from Major-General 
Leigh; to Mr. Secretary Dundas, deted 
Martinico; Faw. 215 1790. , 
I this day received Brigadier-General 
Stewart’s statement of the attack on his 
camp at $t. Vincent’s, on the 8th inst. and 
the return of the killed; wounded; and 
missing, ih that unfortunate a‘fair. 
The governor and a committee of the 
legislature of St. Vincent’s having written 
to the commanding officer at Barbadoes 
on the first of this disaster; Brigadier 
General Knox immediately sent off 262 
men of the 63d regiment; who had ar 
rived there; under the command of 
Lieutenant-Colonel Gower, to their as- 
Sistance. | 
Extrad of a Letter fiom Brigadier-Gens 
Stewart; to Major-Gen. Hunter, dated 
Kingston, Fans %3; 1796. — 
About three o’clock; on the morning 
of the 8th inst. the enemy mace an at~ 
tack on our left; where we had a threes 
pounder and a cohorn placed upon a 
tongue of Jand; which ran out about 50 
yards, thought, from the steepness on 
each side, to be almost inaccessible: On 
the first shot I immediately ran out as 
fast as the darkness would permit me; 
and was met by Major Harcourt, field- 
officer of the day. I found the men all 
paraded; and Brigadier-General Strutt, 
who had just then received a wound in 
his face, exerting himself much with 
the 54th regiment. I still proceeded to 
the left, but, from the darkness; could 
not distinguish the enemy from our own 
soldiersy (about this time; a French ofheer 
had got over our works, and was taken 
prisoner) and not being yet certain whe- 
ther the enemy had taken possession of 
the battery to the lefts 1 directed Major 
Tarcourt to reififoree that post with the 
piequet of the goth; Dut. before this 
could be done; I had coo much reason te 
believe it was taken, atid smmediately 
dispatched a messenger to Licutenants 
Colonel Graham, to bring up the whole 
ms or 
