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Newspaper
Courier
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 31, 1821
Page
2
A general court martial at Colombo, Ceylon, in April 1821 arraigned Lieutenant Samuel Robert Poyntz for intoxication and misconduct, including insulting letters and assault on a sentry, resulting in cashiering. Second Lieutenant James Sloper faced charges of embezzlement, false reporting, and repeated intoxication, with a verdict of disgraceful conduct and dismissal.
The Calcutta general orders report Captain T. P. Thompson of the 17th Light Dragoons faced multiple charges for actions in 1820 including an interior Arabia expedition and a November 9 engagement. The court acquits him on charges 1 2 and 3 and finds guilty only on a disputed report to the Chief Secretary dated 18 November 1820, while dismissing disgraceful conduct.
The Court, after mature deliberation on a letter from the Commander in Chief, adheres to its original finding and sentence. The order directs entry in the General Order Book and its reading at the head of every regiment in India’s service. Signed by C Colville and Thos. McMahon.
Paris reports royal ordinance appointing Duke de Doudeauville to direct the Posts. Other items note the king's council, a levy project, beggar licenses debate, olive-growers relief petition, and a criminal case ruling. Constantinople and Persia news cover Pacha changes, Ali Pacha’s foes, and regional unrest with passports and Black Sea storms.
An extract from a Margate letter details the Juliana Captain Ogilvie leaving Bengal in July, grounding on the Kentish Knock, abandoning ship after capsizing rafts, with 37 aboard perishing. Only a few landed at Margate to relay the tragedy and cargo hopes.
The narrative recounts a night shipwreck where the vessel sank after being struck. Six men reached a raft, four of them died by morning, two survivors were saved by a fishing boat. Passengers included Miss Heriot and a female attendant bound for London to join her grandfather in Chelsea.
The Naiad frigate leaves Portsmouth. Apollo royal yacht fitted for royal use with decks heightened. Promotions and appointments announced for captains and lieutenants across Royal George, Apollo, Active, Pyramus, and Forte. Reports cover Newfoundland station promotions, Bermuda quarantine success, and Jamaica base naval command, plus ships returning from Halifax and Bermuda and weather plagued voyages with multiple vessels driven ashore or paying off.
Westminster to Pimlico endured a dreary flood as Thames water rose and breached an embankment. About fifty houses likely uninhabitable and three hundred flooded gardens and cottages suffered. Residents fled to upper stairs or boats while watermen helped move belongings to safety. The two mile expanse from Millbank to Pimlico became a single water sheet.
Reports detail extensive inundations from London to Oxfordshire as rivers rose, shops and cellars flooded, embankments breached, and residents sought upper floors or boats. Bankside and Westminster areas faced severe water, with authorities saving the Lord Mayor’s barge and cautions about further rises amid gales and continued rain.
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