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Salis 1, bu-square • and of Mr. M u r ray , S urveyor and La d Agent, 6 Martin's:lane, Strand. John Medici, at the Osage, will Mew' the Lots. Letters of inquiry to be post paid. [PRICE SEVENPENCE. Lord ALTFLORP gave notice of three maims after the holi day"; the first fora Conunksee to take into consideration the laws concerning bribery at elections; the second for a Committee to consider the mode of taking the poll at county elections ; and the third fora regulation to prevent persons employed by the candi dates from voting for them. Alderman THOMPSON moved for Returns of the number of r:=lof Tobacco, Snuff, and 'agars, on which duty was paid, ed from the 10th of October, 1825, to the lOrh of October, 1826, together with the rate of Duty paid thereon, soli the amount of the same. A COMMON GU COUNCIL, bales in LOthe CHAMBR of the ILDHALL of the CITY of LONDON, e o THURS. DAY, the 30th Day of Nevember,lBl4. Renames onaelllngstar, HAT the Thanks of this Court be g iven to the ARight Hon. WILLIAM VENABLES, late Lord Mayor forte talent, zeal, and independence, with which he discharged' the general duties of the Mayoralty—for the firmness and impar tiality which be displayed in the adminietradoo of public justice-- 1w his uniform support of the yokes Charitable Institution of the Metropolis—for his unceasing anxiety to upheld the Rights and Privileges . of all classes of his Fellow Cltiaens—for the decision, energy, and judgment which be evinced, daring a recent period of commercial embarrassment, by the adoption of prompt measures, u well for the re-establishment of general confidence, as for the immediate relief of the appalling distresses of the Manufacturing Districts—for the liberal hospitality whisk be displayed dyeing Al. Xerorslty—and earetally for the ability and leopard:lll7 with which be presided over the deliberations of this Court—and for his uniform courtesy and kinduese towards all its hlembers. W OODT Li ORPE. This day was published. Iu post Ivo. prier 10s. a THE LAST of the LAIRDS; or. the LIFE and OPINIONS of MALACHI MAILINGS, Esq. of Auld biggings. What's the Laird doing, Jock ?" " Doing ! what should he be doing, but sitting on his ale stane, and glowring frae him?"—Sage Sayings of Jock the Laird's Nan. By the Author of" Annals of the Parish, 4. '6 The Entail,' it c. Printed for W. Blaekwinxi, Edinburgh; and T. Cada, Strand, London. Of whom may he had, by the same Author, 1. The AYRSHIRE LEGATEES; or, the PRINGLE F. 11. • 11tILY. Second Edition. To which is added, The CoATiIiIIMS of the Wasr. I2mo. 7s. ' 2. ANNALS of the PARISH. Second Edition. ttrno. Bs. 5. Sir ANDREW WYLIE, of that Ilk. Three Yoh. 12mo. Second Edition, LI Is. 4. The PROVOST. Second Edition. 12mo. 7s. • . The STEAM-BOAT. 12mo. 7s. 6. The ENTAIL; rar, the LAIRDS of DRIPPY. Three Vols. I2mo. XI Is. GOSS'S WORK&• Hotninens mina nostra sapit. Our page relates to man.—Mnirtsar. Just published, price 51. in boards, Sixteenth Edition, 1. T HE &GIS of LIFE; a Noa-Medical Coomien- JL tary on the indiscretions arising from Human Frailty, in which the Causes, Symptoms, and baneful Elects of Lues Ve nom, Cononbeeas Stricture. Seminal Weakness, &c. me fully de veloped; Pert 11. embraces Practical Observations en Sexual Debility, Self-Abuse, and Mental Irritation, with some interesting Observations on Vegetable and Anitnal Life; in Part IIL is a• Series of Cases illustrative of the preceding subjects, explaining . them in a familiar nurruses.--Dy GOSS and Co. Consokins Sur geena-Imarlora. Nature beads Omnibus essi si gas eltet Ar t Since Hs,tvax to all the fund ' "' - Its frugal application marks the wile. s. HVGLIAMA, a Non. Nledical Analysis of some Cons dental to Females, in which are offered some important nom on the peculiar debilities attending their e lcc u a ti can ce i, sla w pathies, and formation. The subject of Sterility is especially dvrek ern. Interesting and impoitam eases Mustrate the subject. Quo fugit Venus? Heu! quom color deeens. . Hor. 1 0 4. Od. Is. Whither flies roie? Ah! where the charmlng blear ? The above may be bad of SherwoOd; Gilbert, and' Piper, to, ta ternoster-row ; Chapple,s9,Pall.mall ;.S.W.Fores.4l, Piccaddlt • Callow and Wilson 16, Princesmreit, corner of Gerrard - street t Soho; T. and G. Underwood, U,- Beet-etreet ; Highley and 500, 174, Fleet-street; Onwhyn, 4, Catherine - st reet, Strand, London; )latchert and Stevenson, Burks and Kinoebroek, Norwich; B. Deck, Ipswich; Dutton, Bury St. Edmund's ; Sheppard, Ceres. street, Bristol ; Barrett and Duffield, Bath ; Hatt, Cambridge ; Todd, Briggate, w Leeds ; Wrightson, Birmingham • TreWlnans Exeter ; Woiste nhohne, York ; Gore, Liverpool; Harrop, Man chester ; 114 4 Phen, 155, Tnmgate, Gbagow • 9 . Caltommxpet, Edinburgh; Porter, 72, Grafton-street, Dublin ; and by all Book- Alkrs—(Price Si.) Messrs. Goss and Co. are to he-coondted, as usual, every day, at their house; and Patients in the country axe requested to describe minutely the case, enclosing a remittance for Advice and Medicine, width can be forwarded to'any part of the world. GOSS and Co. M. B.C. Surgeons, No.ll, Street, London. r,Fleet- THE CHANCE OF FORTUNE; Oa, SPLENDID EXPEDIENT: AN INCIDENT IN ONE OF TISE SOCTII SEA ISLAM/SI OFF one of those Islands that gem the Pacific, In spontan'ous produce of Nature prolific, A stranger ship lay ; inauspicious the breeze, And. crew with privation assail, and disease. The natives now paddle from shore their canoes, With store of provisions,but commerce refuse; Of nails, beads, and mirrors, the vessel bereft, And money, the medium of trade only left, The untutor'd natives no indocemem find To barter their stock, for the bane et mankind! The ravage of malady now to avert By traffic, the Captain resorted to Art 44 Despair not, my lads," he exclaimed to the caw, • I've that which will all hesitation subdue ; • " for.e and aft en discov'rneach pan his pursuits " Direct through the vessel in wards of old ,Doors." The sailors alertly the mandate (they'd, And twelve paii of Bate on the desk were dirploy'dt 0 All hands then to work rued by Vissiisst's fine lee These late rusty Bears in resplendence were net, - Attracting amaze, into rapture that grew, As now round the Seamen the blander. drew, And saw in each Boor's jetty utinror.libe glow The shades of reflection still glide to and fro f — Forestalling the market, twelve Chiefs new came forth. • And purchas'd the twelve pail! of Boors; and their wsrth (The health of the seamen at once to recruit,) kerid by large store of live cattle and fruit. Dbease thus completely removing, and want ; No comforts the remaining voyage then lacking, , Intlehthd, the crew still assert, fur the grant • • Of life .nd enjoyment, to NI/Assign's Jar &Ammo; ! taislasy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING prepared by aged e. 30, STRAND, London; And sold in every Town in the Kingdom. LIQUID le Bottles, 6d. 10d. 12d. and 18d. each. Also PASTE. BLACKING, in Pots, 6d. 12d. and lad. each. A Skißerg Pot of Pote is equal to Four Is. Bottles of Liquid. /k4it for WARREN", Blacking. FRENCH PAPERS. Pais Papers cf the 99th elf. have reached us. The Eire of that date contains some accooqts of the sup plies furnished by the Continental Committee to the Greeks, whiih ought to fill with aJditio na l shame—if any *amt. have actually befetriettditi 'Mimi lA6' pretended to assist Meets in this Omni,. ' • . At an expense of not mose than 200,000 francs, not quite 8,00(X. there 11441 been transmirted to Napoli di Romania up to the 28th of July 2 422,5.505. of fi iur, $83,9691%. of biscuit; rice 72 3091b5. maiziB3,Boslbs. chee.e 2,6841b5. forining a total of nearly three millions' of pounds of articles of food, which h4Te rescued whole populations from famine and destruction. is When this small expense, and these great results," justly observes that Paper,- are compared with the enormous eipenses incurred in England without any result, it is seen what seal and good management can produce, and also how many calamities spring from want of order, improvi drnce, and neglect." Now we never read a more cha ritable article than this. To call the wave and pillage of two millions sterling, 04 want of order, improvidence, and neglect," is so use a mildness of language, conceie., able only to those who know the polite urbanity of the French Nation. The res: of the article is also satisfac. tory, as. far as the'Conduct of the Greek Goirernment is concerned.--tr At this moment," it proceeds, " vfheti our countrymen are collecting fresh Means to prdeute relief for the unfortunate Greeks, it is encouragreg . :to see that the Government of Napoli, whilst displaYuks the most lively gratitude, takes the most scrupulous care of registering and 'sending 'mei . ' pts for every article transmitted to Greece. ?The details furnished by that Goverrint'mtumply justly it from all those charges of disorder atui dilapidati sto which it has been exposed, i n since whilst acknowle dging what, it receivesi, it also points out the uses to which it has been put." This is the mote important, as for the two last years our home plunderers had most cunningly ascribed all the*aste and all the want of •beneficial results, to the dishonesty of that very Government. According to accounts frqm Trieste, the ggyptian expedition was not to sail till the 6th of November, and was only to convey provisiOns, nw 'munition to Ibrahim Facha, wit* Wigs also to swell his exhausted troop? anny. IMPERIAL PA! HOUSE OF LORDS, Noumea 30. • Lord Manage and Lord genes took the oaths and their wets. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY reported the enlarge of his Ma ' jesty to an Address, voted on the motion of the Reel nf.Lauder. dale, for Returns on the. subject of Coin. The answer was, that his Majesty bad ordered 'the Returns to be laid before the Heise. Tbe Debt of *ELLINGTON presented a Petition from the Lord Mayne, Aldermen, Sheriffs, and corporation of Hoblio,l pAyini that no more concession may be Out& to the Roman Ca. tbolics.--The Petition was read and hid Go the table. . Lord KING saitt, he had • .retitions to present against:the Coin Laws. If *eked what occ asioned the greatest waste of la6Our, be dial& say the Chen Lens. The building bl a Palace at Pins.. lice, and the ere*" of the Egyptian Pyramids, were ancient and modern instances of waste o labour, yet the Corn Lairs were framed to produce a greater waste. Man was doomed to we by the sweat ofids -brow, in labour and pain; and the Corn Laws were framed to Wafts* all his toils and misery.. The mum would never remain quiet until the Corn Trade was• put in a Mot. ins with ether trades. The Noble Lord concluded his ebeereasiisos, by premeds% Petinoos from six hmorporoted trades in the town of Arbroath. The Petitions which complained of the elect of the esistini Corn Lam, were read and laid on the table Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMON& ,Mr. MARSHALI o presented nineteen Petitions Awn the To habitants of Ilkley, IfecieskW, and several other places in the neigh bourhood of Bradford, for the Repeal of the Corn. Lavrio—•Laid on the table. • .Lord FOLKESTONE presented s Petition from Freijerich Jones of the County of Gloomier, against the existing Game Lists. Laid on the table. ]IIr.4OIiiIIOUSE moved,• that Appendix (No. S.), p. 11511, in the root Return Abitraet, made in pursuance of Act 55 Geo. 111. sad presented to . ** House in the year 16111, via. table proportions of completive incsease on every point of parochial ex penditure for 1776, 1765,1105,1815, be reprinted ; and also, that a return of amount of money rased in the years ISIS and 1158 respectively by Puce Rates, sad of the population of 11111 and. 1621, be laid before the Mon.—Ordered. Mr. LIDDELL presented' a Petition front the Coroners of Northumberland { praying for an additismal allowance, in consi deration of the laborious duties which they were bound to perform. The Hon. Gentleman urged their claim to increased remuneradon, inasmuch as the rake of a Coroner was of a judicial nature portant to the community, and frequently attended with the ex pense and toil of dbtant and expositive travellitig. Mr. BELL supported the prayer of the Petition. pr. WARBURTON said he hoped, whatever might b e the de bf the House Vrith tespect to the prayer of the Petition, that aerampevossis would be: made to render Coroners' Courts 'open Courts henceforward. All other Courts were open to the public, and theetinduct of Magistratei was very properly under general view. The effects no doubt were-salutary, and he saw no trim why the Court of a Coroner should be suffered to form an creep ' tiers to the general role. The INtition was that laid on the table. Mr, LIGON presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of Kid. derminster, for the Reeal of the Corn Laws.—Laid on the table. Mr. HUME presenad a similar Petition front the Seamen of North Shields, in the County of Northumberland. The Won. Member in presesstine this Petition felt bound to ackowledge that he did not entirely agree in opinion with the Petitioners *ho stated that•tbe overcharge foe corn arising front the provisi ons of the Law was in Owr a. greater tax upon the nation than all the other taxes put together • and that it abstracted from the peopk's pockets no less than t 25,000,000 sterling, fur the sole bone" ht of the landowners. He was aware that the Petitioners regarded the tffects of the law as more serious than they really were; but yet the retina was entitled to rtception, as being respectfully worded, and he !Loped its prayer would be met by the removal of the unjust and oppressive law of which it eumplained.—The Peddle was laid on the cable. A Petition was presented from Jau*s Walker, complainhig of an undue Election for Dover. Ordered to be referred to the Committee. Mr. WILMOT-HORTON seeing the Hon. Member for Aberdeen its his place, took.occasion to inquire whether he had any objection to put off the modem of which he had given notice for to. mem* ' - Tiii.kilnlitexpressed his wiWngness to meetshe whites of the Gendentan, and the notice was accordingly postponed. s, money, and 'ammunition of the army half-pay was in round numbers 647 arso in great waist of Dia and in .1821:, tt was 766,0001. It was quite, clew vaisatiurisWiaethisig u o r% Tr 00444 take *mph sty M ini*ets asippte4 in .koemg up a *4O itoprok . c ipei k se - oWsea He ,RLIAMENT.' • fiats: Cep j ibe yeasi . 181/ and' 1826. increased . • 940,0001. to 1,270,0001. Up to 1825, it was never a very large proportion nould have been spared. The 'Hon. Gentleman here named several Officers of high rank, who had sold their half pay after a long period of service. He freely admitted that in the disposal of promotions the most pirfect impartiality was observed, and that political connexions never influenced the fa vour of the Commander-in-Chief, who equally distin guished merit among the fiiends of the Opposition as among those of the Hon. Glntlemen on the other side of the House.. Bat still where there was so extensive a force as 114,000 regular troops,he thought the patronage must be large enough without keeping up an enormous half pay establishment. •It was true there existed a re gulation by which no Officer was to porchasetwo steps ,at auseei Woes be bad been in the army for two yawn but this modifies witucendered altogether Dosage'', when ell that wow ft. ceslaryr to ki fulfilment was to aftpeAr a single tarn Is regimental", On the whole, bethought that the Noble Lord opposite bad agree deal to answer for. la the present year a new regulation, MA adopted. by Which bees tams might redo* Min their nasal nal sad perebabe.aa rbotiacbeil esumsbiles. Tbt esmeequelaces Sowing from such an arrangement were obvious, After a brief recapitulation, the lion. Gentleman cow cludedly moving for Returns of all Officers who had been per. milled.tatell their Full-pay. Half-pay, and Brevet Commissiods sincothe idlt Return in March; also a Return of the money re. crier(' and paid for the same. specifying the names sad rank it the Officer% when wid bow long they had served, and whether they bud been on foreign service or not. The Hos. MOM' also moved for similar Returns from tie Sth of January to the sth of April, thence to the sth of July, and finally to the 10th of October, lam—Ordered. Mr. DAWSON moved for Returns of the Acts of Sider mat, passed in the Courts of Scotland during the present year. After some conversation, in which Mr. Hums and Mr. W. Mats: bore a part, t►e mains ewe ordered. SAM Of CoMIII33IONB. Mr. HUME rose to submit his motion on this to ject. The effeCtive and non... fecal?. establishmenty4 4101111110 try, he said, were so nunserous, as to hayeles oolaaan excessive barthen to the country. In din year . 4817, the half-ply retired allowances had abstracted; no less than 2,800,0001. and great as that sum was, it 'had since been considerably encreated. In 1822, the 'plan proposed by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, bid indbced many people to expect relief from the burthen of the dead weight, by the dying off of those officers who had refired on lull pay. Now, in the last 'Parliament, he (Mr. Hume) had moved for certain Re turns, to ascertain how far this anticipation had been verified in Tact, and the result of those returns only proved that so far from diminution of any kind, the dead weight had pone on encreasing up to the period of his (notion. Mr. Vausittart indeed had said, that after a war such as this country had been engaged in, a war of twenty years continuance, it was inevitable that there should be a heavy hal&pay establishment; but he at the lame titne held out to the public the probability of a gradual decrease of about 115,0001. in the annual ex pense. This, howeyer, was far from king realized, as Would appear from the expenditure Since.the year 1822•' which proceeded in au encreasing ratio. In the years 1818 . and 1819, the Finance Committee in theirßeport tecommendedw decrease in the establishment, 'which they estimatedmigbt, after two years,.. reduced at ths'rate of 4 or 5 .per cent. per annum. Still no de crease ensued; on the contitry, there was a very con siderable encrease, &nigh Mr. Vamittart rested his state inent on the probable decrement of human life c according to - very *accurate calculations, which had undergone the review of Mr. Fuslaison a a Gentleman well qualified to ex press an opinion on such a subject. On those calculations it was sfiggested, that the dead weight would be entirely done away is 41 years ' • first by.the natural decrement `yof life, and secondly, y the number of those brought from half-pay to full pay. Now, how stood the fact as compared with tlis calculation ? In 1817. the amount _ 647,0001. clear that 'Vebich The motion having been seconded and put from the Chair, Lord PALMERSTON rose and said, that he felt no objection whatever to the motion of the Hon Gent. and his sole object in rising was to answer some obser vations which had fallen trom him in the course of his address, and which he could not suffer to pan without refutation. The Hon. Gent. did not appear to be aware of the circumstances which had led to the regulation of - which be complained, nor to have attached due impor tance ko the object contemplated in its introduction. That measure was designed to capacitate as many as possible on the half-pay establishment for an exchange to full pay. and also to give the army scope for pro- motion—( Hear). Those desirable ends were attained at only a contingent and reversional expense in the case of younger lives succeeding to older ones. A large belt.pay list was indeed the necessary and inevitable consequence of the sort of war in which' this country had been engaged ; and with so great an army, it was absolutely unavoidable on the arrival of peace. There were only two modes of being relieved from the bur then—either by the casual daath of the dependent par. ties, or by their appointment to full pay. Now a great number of those on the list were totally unfit to under take the duties connected with full pay, and was, there. fore, in the truest sense of the word, a dead weight. One great object, then, of the new arrangemens,was to enable such persons to transfer their commissions to those who were efficient, and capable of being transferred to full pay, either by exchange or purchase. The cases ad duced by the Hon: Gentleman in support of hit motion, 1 -.4letbieo far from heists a proot of the inexpediency '''sin complained of, the they rather proved . _ . .....e1y eccomplished she object "ought ill .die . . 00 • . ity-of an exchange. But the great object was to never held give scope for promotion in the Army, the want of than the half-pay was designed as a permanent charge which had previously been sorely felt. It was quite on the country, nor that any individual had more than plain to those at all conversant in such subjects, that a life interest in any cothmission which he might hold. unless Officers were afforded a reasonable prospect of But hi the oYder of thelath of M[4, - 1825, it was per- promotion, the proper degree of military spirit could not milted Offteers, not ever 60 years of age, to'sell their be kept up—(Hear). • He could assure the House from half-paty,,provided they had 'sought their comnsissioos, the result of his expetience that the regulatioa had been or were 12, years hulls service. The lift which beheld highly beneficial to the service • that it had given a —. sheaved bow many ha& availed themselves of thit new spirit, a new spur to the whole Army—(Hear)« ticenso, No fewer tbak Mr JoientenantaColonels, 45 Adverting to further observations of the Hon. Gentle. ie. Major; ISR Captain; GI I.denteaants, and 58 Ensigns, man, he could not agree that the regulation did not considerable benefit to the service, even in a con. rt had sold out their commissions. And to whom had Pa they sold them? Was it Ao persons of their , awn age? stitutional point of view. It was most desirable, he INoi four of the . Colonels, five of the M a j ors . - ionn a em contended, to connect the higher classes of society with of the Captains, and a great *umber o f t h e Li outenanu the Army; to rank among the Officers members of and Ensigns ,, Thad rel 4 s.'r half-pay, after having en distinguished families, who, however, could not be ex. joyed it for 40 years; 11 of them after having been 45 Pecrad to enter the military profession, unless they years, and two after basfitag• been 50 years in the army ; could advance to its h i ghest honours, and were afforded and they thus transferred their sommissions to young the profession was never a source of jealousy to their a fair opportunity of promotion. Their participation in meat,who succeeded to the places of their veteran predecessors, entailing an expense of half.pay on brother Officers ; on the contrary. they a ere generally r the country, probably for thirty years loner than the received with every demonstration of good feeling. For natural period. If it weae allowable to do so now, why es ideoce of the perfect impartiality a ith which promo- be would ask should it not be equally allowable and don was dispensed, without regard to the political con. proper at any future period ? and was not the obvious flexions of its objects, he appealed to die Hon. Gentleman consequence a perpetuity; of loss to the nation? The opposite whether, on any occasion. the Commander-in. amount of that loss might be pretty well ascertained by Chief regatded politics where the interests of their the average amount of service from the sellers and pur- friends were concerned ? and whether they did not re. chasers of Commissions, ,supposing the ages of both eeive appointments on the sole ground of personal merit? parties to be the same at the respective periods of their Re felt bound to say that it was utterly impossible for entering on •their Commissions. Now the Colonels any human being to administer patronage tn-re for the whom he before mentioned had served on an average public .good, or more disinterestedly, than was dune thirty-two years each, and the purchasers of their half by his Royal Highness the Duke of York— ( Laud pay, not more than sixteen, leaving the public at a loss Cheers). As to the suggestion of the Hon. Gentleman, for the value of sixteen years' service. • The forty-five that the Commander-in Chief should be compelled to Majors had served thirty-one years, and the buyers to stake his appointments' t, active service exclusively f whom they made the transfer only fourteen. The ave.rom the halt pay—the obvious consequence would be; that the army would be filled with the worst Chficen in rage of the Captains' service was twenty•six years, of the world. Some retired Ensigns would find it a 'that of the purchaser's, not more than eight and three rious hardship, indeed, if forced to resume the labours se quarters, so as to occasion I loss of at least the amount of their profession. Many of *them were old men, of eighteen yews' pay, The 61.Liewena nts averaged in their service seventeen years and a half each, their living on a small pittance with their families in the country. How distressing to such persons to enter into purchasers but two and a quarter. Theservice of the the junior ranks, from which they could not by possis 58 Ensigns was estimated at sixteen years and a half, while those to whom they had soldbia not served one bility rise, or be fit to rise, into higher ones. In fact, upon the proposed plait no Officer could reach promo day. In the last instance it was plain that the period [ton until all of equal tank had been taken from the half of the service, and the period of loss to the public were the same. • He complained not only of a substitution of P a l - • This would the Hon. Gentleman effectually cut new lives for old ones, but of a substitution of a new and off all men of distinction from the army. Then, in. increased rate of half pay ; for the purchaser of a cons- deed, would the army become that which be deemed it mission received more in the way than his predecessor. now to be. It was only in such a state as the Hon. It was, he contended, the proper plan, to fill up all Gentleman recommended, that a standing army was a source of political and . constitutional datiger—(Load vacant coinmissions out of the all pay establishment. Six hundred pro Motions took place every year in the cheers). indeed,. the proposition of drawing from the army, and of course afforded sufficient opportunities•for half pay, till the half pay was dissolved, was. one carrying such an Arrangement into effect. In 1822 which negatived itself, foe in such a case a Captain could never become a Major until all the other half there had been 6887 Offices, on half pay, and 6393 on full pay. In 18'29 the number of those on half pay was pay Captains were promoted. But by reference to 6373, of those on full pay 5096, making an aggregate returns of the manner in which vacant commissions of 11,489. Four years pieviousla• the whole -esta. were disposed of, it would appear that at least one iin three were given to Officers on half pay, and that he blishment did not elceed 11,250, so thgt then was an looked upon it to be about a fair proportion. Gentle. actual increase of 219 in the year 1823. Had the tog . men were, no doubt, aware of the difference between gestions contained in the Report of the Finance Cow brevet and f r ro ei m inben d t . sl rank, dut a k o l d the . Inconvenience arising to bre mittee of the year 1819 been adoptei, there would now be onl oaed y 8,000 Officers instead o f 11,000 and 100,0001. vet the arrangement whi g ek euabkd r regimental rank, unattached " charged ou the country for promotions, or at all events conasisdeoe. Since March, 414,234 bad bccn paid in for she ~~ -~ .1