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eriod where \ e were Geo. gland, and ! the troops the present epair of the r cause for been more nother sum • * v, since the LW no neces ty their own illy kept up , lied in corps e 14,000 wat is, a set of ,st necessity. to to its d.m. s, and whet spirit, there the country Lich Officers t taken place six synntlis ; out the La anger was re, as nbt only a very serious ricts. With- and without ►tugght to make ould assist us he only opera- scl totally from calling out of sem had neves ird not to give n to know each t ought to be sseoce from all in the hour of aintain, that it ocal Militia to improved, be". med. The °b in view WAS, to :ency, whenevet al security. xted upon the lie ernpitlmen; vice. Thr loss Nis not less than icing system, he 14,(X0 recruits 0, each of them Luppress his suf. the table, that ed, although hi Barrack-Master )ssess a salary of of the Military ice to that e x cel. ; entitled to his recution of the Yet in some ke had from his Is. He had to ras certainly top , ere employed at appear the root* ments in this ma. Insidetation. In 14 millions ;—.- ithout any consi T he estimaterwere ght it the duty of vas one part of the divide the Corn bring forward in suld be discussed. 00 in the depart. Now he - should L this department Of the )onstpay ! • (.4 h.) 'He re of the Finance acted the abolition r as ss ainectfre.— it Committee, ad. a salary 'Of stiloQo t his Lordship in leputy was some ! erable time, with my loss. The situa- I was, as he con the Finance Cone. ended to be abo. being Paymaster, horn he was him- something like a e General Officers ,e should. proceed :asion, as had been on, although there ase, as this office imply held at the t that the course ted to pursue, was y novel, inasmuch hrough the House finance Committee. lic could gain any )posed abolition of 'or in that case the raster the same sa 'een the two Joint- Paymaster of the inie settled at four was on the same Navy. In 1783, the proper salary I money from the .e than seven mil vas about twenty er annum was con proper salary for posed that it ought responsib►lity was 16, when the Noble asters, belonged to le Hon. Gentleman Lit then thought it necessary to move for the abolition of one of those offices as a sinecure. Mr. LONG denied that there was a real excess in the expence of the department at all equal to what had been stated by the Honourable Gentleinan. As to the office of Paymaster of the Forces, the emolu ments had been nearly as high as at present for nearly a century. The office had been called a sort of sine cure. As far as related to his office, it was nothing like a sinecure. When he first came into it, about 14 years ago, he found, that ever since the passing Mr. Burke's Bill, no accounts bad ever been passed before the Auditors, and there was an arrear of 25 years ac counts to be audited. This arrear arose in a great degree from the difficulties created by that Bill.— Those difficulties had, however, been surmounted, and all the accounts to the end of the year 1811 had al ready passed before the Auditors, and most of the accounts of 1812 were now before them. He had the satisfaction of believing, that there was now a system established in his office, which would prevent any such irregularities for the future. He himself had not been absent from the office for more than a week since he had held the situation. But although the same sort of attendance was not necessary from Lord C. Somerset, hiLLordship had always readil offered his assistance when he was much pressed with business, and had taken upon himself that part of the business which related to Chelsea Hospital, which was by no means a sinecure. Mr. CREEVEY, in reply, said, that it was mani fest that the only reason for splitting the office of Paymaster into two was—to make two Parliamentary places, instead of one. He believed that Ministers looked rather more to an increase of their influence than to gaining an increase of responsibility to the country. He would however contend that the split ting the place had thrown an additional burthen on the country. Although Mr. Long, whit discharged all the real duties of the situation, had a nominal sa lary of but g2OOO yearly, yet when it was recollec ted that he had a pension of £l5OO per annum, and a house given him, it would not appear that his emo luments were lesss man £4OOO annually, which was the old salary of a single Paymaster. The £2OOO given to the Noble Lord, and the £5OO to a Noble relation of his, who was his deputy, were expences which ought to be retrenched. Mr. I ADDINGI ON said, that the pension had been conferred at the command of his Majesty, as a reward for the long and important services of the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Long). Lord PALMERSTON then proceeded to reply generally to the objections which had been made.- 4s to the principle of limited and unlimited service, as there were some who preferred one, and some the other, he thought that Givernment were right in wishing to give every man an option to choose which of those terms of seis ,ce lie would rather enlist for. An Hon. Gentleman had been facetious about army clothing. If thenew helmets appearedtosometobefan tastical, it would appear to :Abel s rnoreridiculous to see the troops in the small three-cocked hats which they formerly wore, di ipping with rain, and li a bl e to b e knOcked off their heads in action. The Noble Lord defended the Local Militia and the Military College; and concluded by stating, that the establishment of permanent Barracks in Ireland would be less expen sive than the usual temporary Barracks. Mr. WHITBREAD considered this day one of the most important days in the Session, when it be came the duty of the House to. enquire, and of Mi. nisters to explain, the military resources of the country. The Noble Lord talked of savings of 10 or £20,000 with more levity than became his stuation. In his (Mr. W.'s) eyes, every saving, however small, was important. He iegretted that there had been any departure from the wise plan of his friend, Mr. Wind ham ; and was certain that men could be obtained more cheaply by that scheme than by the present mode of recruiting. No satisfactory intelligence was given, why the Life Guards, the most fit for do mestic, and the least fit for foreign service, had been seht to the Peninsula. He had been informed,/ that so little were they suited to the service in which they were employed, that in the first ten days after their arrival in Spain, thirty-six horses had been disabled. The Noble Lord had talked very pathetically of small three-cocked hats: he should remember that the Blues still wore them. In his own opinion, the substituted helmet, beside its absurd appearance, was too heavy, and even too dan gerous for the head—he himself had tried one on, and he found, among other things, a screw in the in side, which, when the helmet was forced down on the head by a blow, must inevitably fracture the skull. The method of dressing some regiments of cavalry was quite preposterous ;—let any gentleman in passing survey the men at the Horse-guards, with their tall tiait caps, without the least shelter from the sun ; and then let him think, if whiny or a regard to the comfot t of the soldier directed these altera tions. He had seen the 10th regiment rev Awed some years ago, under the command of Sir Charles Grey, and a finer or more fitly dressed body of men were never seen :—if a soldier equipped in the fashion of the present day had ridden through the line, the whole regiment must have burst into laughter. In compliance with the sable whimsical taste, the Eng lish saddles were supplanted by foreign saddles. It was true that the English were the best in the world; yet some person, who had been abroad, had taken a fancy to the foreign accoutrement, and the men and horses were therefore to be dressed in a style which every where, except in that House, was treated with derision. The Noble Lord had called his Honour able Friend facetious : the Board of General Officers 'sere far more facetious, for they made all England laugh every day—(a tait,;:h.)—He wished the colour of the regimentals to be changed to the original red ; for blue, which had lately been adopted in our army, led to great mistakes and confusion, as the English soldiers frequently mistook each other for the enemy. He thought more information ought to be given on the Irish barracks. The Noble Lord begged the House to wait till the next time of his appearance, for satisfactory intelligence. The Noble Lord should also be made to wait the same time for the money he demanded.—(4 /augh.)- 7 As to the office of Pay master, there was no doubt that one person could do the duties of the office, and that it had been split for the purpose of Parliamentary influence. - Mr. PEELS stated, for the information of the Hon. Member v. ho had just spoken, that Barracks were to be learned at New Town, Wexford, Kildare, 'r the neighbourhood of Dublin ; and It many other . _ places in Ireland. net the sum Called for was only 123,001); and he must assure the Hon. Member, that no money could be better employed than was this grant. It was grgoted to keep tip permanent Barracks. The expeece that the country had been put to for temporal/ Barracks had been very great, and he believed that the erection pf permanent Bar racks had been, in fact, a saving. Mr.iiVHITBREAD then observed; that no doubt the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Peele) would think him a very unreasonable sore of man when he observed, that he did not like t h at sort of bill of fare which had been delivered to him. The Barracks had riot been described, their state, progress, what was wanting, how much would be required to complete them ; in deed the House was without that detailed information which they had a right to expect. One word respect ing General De Lancey. Nothing, he thought, could be more galling to the public, than to make this an nual grant to such individual—(Hear.) Mt. PEELE further explained respecting the Irish Barracks, that the details in reality were before the House, as the estimates had been printed. Lord CASTLEREAGH insisted that it was a fundamental principle of the Local Militia Act, that the Militia should be a permanent internal defence, in order that all our disposable force might be exerted against the enemy, without exposing our own terri tory to domestic disturbance, or foreign invasion.— As to the dress of the army he did not think it a matter of Parliamentary discussion ; but he was ena bled to state, from the authority of cavalry officers, that thehelmet and saddle were both more useful than those previously adopted. Mr. WHITBREAD and Lord CASTLEREAGII mutu ally explained. Mr. BANKES thought there might be a deduction of 6 or £700,000 ont of the military expences of the year. He estimated the expence of calling out the Volunteers at 8209,000, and the exercise of the Lo. cal Militia at £150,000, and insisted that these forces were equally available for service by its being known where to procure them at the shortest notice, as by the drilling and parading. He did not expect to gain assent to this pn•position now, but he hoped Gentlemen would consider the matter. He then made some remarks against the double office of Pay • master, insisting that it was at once inconsistent with ceconomy, and was highly inefficient. Lord CASTLEREAGH rose again to observe, that Lord Wellington had expressed the strongest approbation of the Life Guards which had been sent out to him. With respect to the Volunteer estimates, whatever economical propositions were submitted, by either the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, or any other Gentleman, to his Majesty's Government, should be punctually attended to, and his Hon. Friend had indeed hinted that he had some retrench ments in contemplation respecting the volunteer esta blishment. Mr. W. SMITH agreed with the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) as to the expediency of keeping up the Local Militia, as a strong and permanent defence of the country. He then condemned in the strongest terms the dress of the cavalry, and said there was but one feeling out of the House on this subject. He denied that permanent barracks were less expensive than temporary, because permanent barracks must be a dead and useless charge in time of peace. If the Paymaster's duty could be performed by one per son, it ought to be performed by one person. Lord MILTON said, that opinions in favour of unlimited enlistments were entertained in high guar. ters, which certainly influenced those who came for ward to offer their services ; this accounted for the statement which the Noble Lord had made, that out of fourteen thousand recruits, twelve thousand had enlisted for unlimited service. Lard PALMERSTON explained, that what he had said with respect to small savings, referred-to the impossibility of reducing the great bulk of the estimate. Mr. HUSKISSON wished the postponement of the vote, as to the Home Staff, till more information could be obtained. Lord CASTLEREAGH expressed a contrary wish, as he thought there was no probability of a re duction of this part of the expenditure. There were not less than 130,000 men on home service in Eng land and Ireland. This body required a large super. intending Staff. The House then divided on Mr. Creevey's amend ment. For it, 40—Against it, 124—Majority against it, 81. On our return to the Gallery, Mr. R. THORNTON moved for the production of some papers relative to the East India affairs; and Lord CASTLEREAGH post poned his notice on this subject till Friday se'nnight. The other orders were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half -past Twelve o'clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Cons. .59f 581 59i 59—for ae. 5914-5 per Cent. 89 Bds. 2s. 3s. clic—Exch. Bills 3s. 6.. pr.—Omnium 6i The following Bulletin was yesterday issued by Government, and appeared in the greater part of our impression : a FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 8. " This morning a Messenger arrived at t:•:e Foreign-Office, Downing.street, with important Dispatches from Russia fur Go nnimeut, stating, among other important intelligence, that the Danes had called in their ships that were annoyin; our trade ; and have shut out of their ports all the French privateers. " Another Messenger, who sailed before the former, is also on the road with Dispatches for Government; the full contents of these Dispatches have not yet transpired." Nothing further has been suffered to transpire on the subject of the communications brought by the above Messenger, who arrived yesterday. That he is the bearer of proposals for a pacific arrangement among the Belligerents cannot be doubted ; for the Continental papers now teem with proofs of the tot tering condition of the monstrous tyranny which has so lung shackled the independence of Europe. The King of SAXOXY, that willing vass•.tl of the superci lious Corsican, who so far forgot what was due to the Electors of Saxony, as to pay a sneaking vi sit to his Oppressor, when he passed through Dresden on his flight from Itussia,—the King of SAXONY, that marrowless skeleton of a Sovereign ! now sends an Envoy to Path " to represent the entire exhaustion of his provinces, by the sacrifices made during the war." What is this but a prelude to the departure of Saxony from the Confederation ? In Prussia, too, the htrvest of revolt daily ripens. At Konigsberg, " the traitor STEIN," as BONAPARTE designates every honest man, has assembled a Regency to execute the func tions of Royalty in East Prussia, during the absence of the Sovereign ; and the first act of this new Coun. cii has been, a solemn ratification of the Capitulation by which General LOYonic renounced the service of BONAPARTE, and declared for his Country ! Austria also sends Ambassadars to Russ;a and to England. Theis names are publicly me nt i one d i n the foreign journals. Has the mission of Lord WALPOLE then been abortive, as the Moniteur long since informed us, and as its echoes in this country so often predicted ? The Oder is now avowedly the line of military ope rations. 66 Our troops are going to the Oder," says the French Exposé, 4g to set bounds to the system of Russian invasion !" How mighty has been the change, how wonderful the revolution which a few short nights of a Russian winter have produced in the mind of the Great Genius who over-ruled the des tinies of the world !" But it will not be the Oder which will stop the ca reer of the Russian arms. It is on the Rhine—once the territorial boundary of the most ambitious French man—that the struggle for the maintenance of the Corsican dynasty must take place. The Russians will be upon that R;ver, backed by the troops of their new allies, for Prussia, Saxony, Denmark, Sweden, and Austria, are now their allies—long before the new conscription has left the departments. There is nothing in the shape of a military obstacle to their progress. The French have an army no where but in Spain. That in France itself consists of an ill-sorted groupe of invalids, militia, and conscripts. In our last page will be found some interesting ex tracts from American Papers to the 30th of January. INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE PRINCESS AND PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES. -Yesterday afternoon as the Princess of WALES was returning in her carriage down Constitution Hill, her Royal Highness observed the Priacess CHARLOTTE in her carriage, passing along Piccadilly towards Hyde Park. The Princess of WALES immediately ordered her coachman to turn about, and, the horses proceed ing nearly at a gallop, overtook the Princess CHAR LOTTE'S carriage in Hyde Park, near the bsidge. Their Royal Highnesses threw themselves through the windows of their carriages, affectionately em braced, and continued in earnest conversation for about ten minutes. A considerable number of spec tators were very soon attracted to the spot, and seve ral.La4ies who were present shed tears at the affect ing nature of the interview. When their Royal Highnesses had separated, the Princess CHARLOTTE was observed, on continuing her ride, to be in high spirits, and apparently highly gratified at the oppor tunity she had enjoyed of an affectionate interchange of endearment with her Royal Mother ! The general satisfaction of the public on the com plete triumph of innocence over insinuation, slander, and calumny, is honourable to the National charac ter. While darkness and mystery were suffered to hang over the conduct of her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES, her friends and the friends of truth and justice were continually assailed by shrugs, significant gestures, sympathetic sneers, and profound apothegms. Indeed, the judgment of many was, as it were, carried by assault ; and had not the question been, in some way or other, forced into discussion, the unspotted character of the Illustrious sufferer would have been permitted to remain under a shade. To enquire whether the steps that were resorted to for having this business cleared up were the best that might possibly have been devised, is worse than folly. Why is so high a character as the Princess of WALES, the mother of our future Sovereign, left without a regular Council, to whom she may at all' ' times resort for advice ? Is it a matter of trivial moment that so high a personage should ha left ex posed to the effects of error of judgment, arising from causes of irritation which but few can appreciate ? Is it not surprising that, in such circumstances, so much self-possession and command of temper should have been exhibited, as have marked the conduct of her Royal Highness ? Yesterday Viscount CASTLEREAGH had an audience of the PRINCE ItEuevr at Carlton House. ° P The Marquis of Ht mortn gave a grand dinner on Saturday, to his Royal Highness the Pttmcs RE GENT, at his house in Manchester-square. Sunday Viscount CAsTLEREAcn gave a grand din ner at his house in St. James's-square, to twenty-four Members of the House of Commons. BREAD.—This day the LORD MAYOR, after inspect ing the Meal-weighers' returns, ordered the price of bread to rise half an assize, to take plwe on Thursday next. The quartern boat will then be Is. 60. The estimates fi r the service of the Transport Board arnoun: this year to £3,800,500. The princi pal items of this sum are £1,900,000 for the hire of transprts, supply of provisions to soldiers on board, &c. ; and £1,150,000 .Cor the maintenance, clothing. &c. of prisoners of war at home and abroad. . ISI,II 7 AL INTELLIGENCE. MA' ASR. DUE. AR*. SUE. Dublin • • I o °nullify 0 1 Lisbon 1 0 Heligoland . 0 u Malta - 0 0 Gott enburgh . 0 S Leoward Islands 0 0 Surinam - 0 0 The REGULUS man of war, and the MELPOMENIC frigate, sailed from Cork on the 4th instant, with the • 3d Garrison Battalion, for Mika. LII.S. FALMOUTH, MARCH 6. Sailed the. Adventure packet, with a mail for Co. runna. The Duke of Kent packet, v.. 411 a mail for Lisbon, has gone into the Roads. Arrived yester day, after Post, the Princess Elizabeth packet, with a mail, from Lisbon, in ten days.—Wind N. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 7. Arrived the COMET, of 22 guns, Captain Beaver, from Portsmouth, atd anchored in the Sound. The HERMES, of 22 guns, Captain &cowrie, went from Hamoaze to the Sound, after a refit. The ARROW schooner will go today from Stonehouse Pool to the Sound, after a refit. The ARM= frigate, which sailed on Friday to Portsmouth, takes convoy to the West Indies. The RIMi frigate also, Captain MAL COLM, now in the Sound, sails to Cork on Wednes. day next, and takes convoy to the West Indies. Se. 'veral other vessels here are also spoken of as about to proceed to the same quarter, in consequence of the depredations of American privateers. The Peanut sloop of war, now at this port, has orders to take on board an Envoy to Algiers, and will proceed to Portsmouth for that purpose. Remain in Cawsand Bay—the DUBLIN and CLARENCE, of 74. guns each ; the latter is refitting, the former will come into Ha. moaze.—Wind'N.W. very fresh. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH e. Arrived his Majesty's ships PLANTAGENET and Havoc, from the Downs. Sailed the BEAGLE, with a convoy, for ditto.—Wind N.W. fresh breezes. DEAL, MARCH S. Arrived his Majesty's ships WARRIOR and ALEX ANDER, from Portsmouth ; the latter has sailed for the Baltic, the former remains with the outward bound. Also arrived the BERMUDA, with a convoy from Portsmouth, which are sailed for the River. Five o'Clock.—Sailed the Warley East-Indiaman, for Portsmouth.—Wind N.W. HARWICH, MARCH B. The Diana packet, Captain 111 , Dowoofr, arrived during the night from Gottenburgh, but it is not un derstood that the brings any news of consequence from the Russian armies. COVE OF CORK, MARCH S. . Arrived the EARL SPENCER cutter, Lieutenant BOTHWELL, from Waterford, with new raised men. Wednesday sailed his Majesty's ship REGULUS, Cap. taro TAILEUR, and Murountrar. C.tptdin FALCON, with seven companies of the Sd Garrison Battalion, for Malta. Yesterday evening, his Majesty's ship JALOUSE, Captain Lowe, fired a gun preparative to the sailing of the Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar Fleets :—it is accordingly thought they will put to sea some time in the course of the day. LEITH, MARCH 6. Arrived in our Roads, on Thursday, the SNAEZ sloop of war, from a cruize. The Thomas and Ann, William and Ann, Dexterity, Raith, and Home Castle, sailed from hence on Thursday afternoon, for Davis Straits ; the Helen sailed yesterday, and the Success, from Bo'ness, passed for the same destina tion; the Rattler and Juno will sail to-day. The Bosand, Regina, and Eliza, are arrived at Copenha gen from hence. It blew very hard through the night, and this morning, from W. by N. and the ships in the Roads rode with two anchors down, and some of them drove. Captain CHARLES Ross, of the Amax% which ar rived at Leith on Wednesday last, was unfortunately washed overboard in a storm, on the 27th ultimo, when the APIILLES threw twelve of her guns over. board out of fourteen. LISBON, FEB. 22.—The following statement is con• sidered here as tolerably correct, respecting the num ber of men at present under the French banners in the Peninsula: — Army of Portugal 30,000 SOULT's :; t 4,000 SUCHET's 14,000 SEBASTIANI% . 12000 North of the Ebro lO,OOO At Vittoria . 4,000 Josepa's 17,000 Total ----117,000 _ On Friday last a detachment of sixty fine young Highlanders, for the 4:2d regiment, was landed at Gravesend, from the Inverness Packet, Captain MANN ; and immediately marched off to Portsmouth, io embark for Portugal. Their passage from Inver ness to the River. was exceedingly tempestuous ; in deed so much so, that it was found necessary to keep them shut up during part of the voyage, but proper means of ventilation, and the prudent circulation of a glass of Ferrintoth,kept them in tolerable health, and excellent spirits. The Danes, it is said, are to be allowed, by the late arrangements, an uninterrupted intercourse with Nor way, and are to trade genorally as neutrals. Ail ships, we understand, paying the Sound dues, will-be suffered to pass without molestation or investigation of cargoes.. Insurances to the B4ltic, its consequence, fell yesterday to the peace price. At the Assizes at Winchester, before .Mr. Baron WOOD, on Saturday last, Richard Rest, master of the Freeholder smuggling-boat, of Weymouth; John Bayte and George Davis, two of his crew ; and John Goulding and Minas Sims t of Stanpit, near Christ church ; were tried and convicted upon an indict ment, charging them with aiding eight French pri soners of war, who had escaped hum Andover, to quit the coast of Hampshire ; and were stntenced by the Judge to be transported—Rose, as the master of the boat, for his natural life ; and Bayte, Davis, Goulding, and S;ms, for the semi of seveu years.