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. . k i ted out; it arrived at an unwholesome season, and i n cons equence, it suffered most materially. Lord PALMERSTON said, he recollected a regi- M men t was, in 1819, sent out at a season or the year r lo r most desirable; and it afterwardi itiffered most • se y er ely; but it was sent dut tinder unavoidable and ru ing circumstances, and suffered, in consequence of an unusually unhealthy season. Sir R. FERGUSON wished to know whether a " pr esentation was not at the time made to Govern by the West India Merchants of the impropriety of sending these regiments out at that season ? Mr.GOULBURN had no recollection of any such repreeidatiqn beig made. Mrs HUME sa nd, he. moved at the time for Re turns On this subject, and it was but justice to Go rernment to say, that in the whole transaction Go- ' Ornment appeared blameless. Colonel JOHNSON said, he had frequently seen Troops embarked on the Continent without Quarter-- Masters-General. Sir H. VIVI A N said, they ought to have been there. Colonel JOHNSON named, as instances, the ern- I barkations at Lisbon, Corunna, and other places in the PenMstda. Colonel TRANT said, the gallant Colonel was mistaken in what he had stated as regarded Lisbon ; he himself acted as Quarter-Master-General on that occasion. Sir L. COLE thought the gallant Officer had se lected badly when he mentioned Corunna. Every person knew the irregularity under which the troops embarked on that occasion. The Quarter-Masters- General were, as far as his experience went, on all occasions most attentive and useful in the discharge of their duty. _ After some further conversation, the Gallery was cleared for a division : For the Amandruent • . - 60 Against it Majority for the original proposition —44 On the item for £922 for the Quartermaster-Gene ral of tiorth Bt itain, Mr. HUME proposed to reduce the vote to £620. After some conversation between Lord PALMER ,TON, Mr. W. SMITH, the LORD ADVOCATE, and others, Tire Gallery was again cleated for a division: For the Amendment - - 65 Against it 98 Majority for tke original Motion —35 On the item for granting t5lBO to the Judge Ad rocate-General, Mr. CHETWYND objected to this grant, as most profligate: it was more than was paid to the highest Judge in the land, the Chief Justice of the King's Bench. The Honourable Member then proceeded to state the items of the principal sums in detail, and contended that a salary of £2500, a house worth £5OO, allowance &Eli° for coals and candle, £6OO for a Deputy Judge Advocate, and £4OO for an hs sistant, besides £lOOO for House-keepers and Messen gers, was extravagant in the extreme. He was for paying public servants liberally. He thought the Officers of State were badly paid, so were the Judges. He wished to be economical, but at the same time to be just. He would be liberal to the Judge Advo cate. He would move, as an Amendment, that, instead of the sum proposed, it should be £BlBO. 11r. BECKETT the Judge Advocate) defended himself from the unjust attack, as he contended it vas, which had been made upon him by the Hon. Member, who had misrepresented facts. With re gard to the house, which the Hon. Member had de- , scribed as worth 5001. a year, it was an unfurnished house, which he had to furnish for himself, and which was assigned to him in lieu of apartments at the Horse Guards . As to the salary of 25001. that was fixed under the advice of Lord Grenville, instead of a smaller salary and fees. The office was one of great responsibility and anxiety, and he had reason rather to complain of breach of faith on the part of the Public, as it was contemplavd to keep the salary of the Judge Advocate equal to the other Judges. The Judges had all had an increase of salary since, but the Judge Advocate remained at 25001. ; and to com pare it with that of the Chief Justice, whose income was 18,000/. was a most extraordinary exaggeration. As to the labours of the office, the Courts-Martial in 1820 were 260 in number, almost three times the slumber which took place in 1807, when the office was regulated. With respect to- the Clerks in the office, there were three, one of whom had been in the office 50 years, and received £900; the other two had been each 17 years in the office, and one re ceived £250, the other £2OO. On the whole, he con tended, the sum proposed was not too much. Sir RONALD FERGUSON considered the grant proposed as a profligate one, and especially when it bas considered who received the salary. He cons% clered the Deputy Judge Advocate as the person who tiid the business, and deserved the salary of £2,500, if any one did. Mr. W. SMITH also opposed the grant. Mr. GIPPS was in favour of some reduction, al though not to the extent of £2,000. Mr. CHETWYND said, his observations applied to the system, and not to the individual. The speech of his Majesty, at the commencement of the Session, had led him to hope for Estimates very different from the present, and he had determined to give Mi nisters his support, but the extravagant items before him had forced him into opposition. Mr. DENMAN supported the Amendment. Mr. MARTIN was in favour of the original grant, as he considered it not more than a fair remuneration for the labours of the office. Mr. HUME had no doubt the Honourable Mem ber would vote for any sum moved from that side of the House. air. MARTIN- 14 1 call the Hon. Gentleman to •order—(Load cries of Hear, hear !')—l have a pre dilection to vote for the sums moved for, as I believe they are the least that the public service requires.- 1 am no more under the tontroul of those near me, than the Hon. Member is under that of malice l" —(_Cries 4of Order ! ) r. W. SMITH rose to Order ; the moment that *Rives were mentioned, the allusion was disorderly. Mr. HUME said, that up to 1806, the duty had been done for £l,OBB, and £340 as an allowance for a home, in the time of the late Sir C. Morgan. A Moraza here loudly called out—Q:4/16mi Mr. HUME had no wish to force the subject upon the House. Mr. BENNETT--" Gentlemen should recollect they ou_ght to listen as well as to vote Mr. ROBINSON hoped the Hon. Gentleman would 'persevere, as tilt impatience Ives not on the pan of Ms tide of the House. _ ------. Mr. HUME resumed, and contended that the al lowance made in time of war should now be reduced; He should support the Amendment. Mr. W. SMITH said, that Gentlemen who called' Out " Question" in that manner, came not to listen to the debate, but to interrupt it. Much confusion here took place in the House, from Members desiring to know if the observation was meant to apply to them. Mr. W. SMITH had applied the observation to no individual Member; but alluded to a noise from the lower part of the House. Dr. LUSHINGTON said, when the duty had di minished, the salary should diminish also. The esti mate might be reduced to £l,OOO, and he should move to that effect, by abolishing the office of De puty Judge Advocate, and Assistant Judge Advocate. After some observations fioni Lord MILTON, Mr. BATHURST, Mr. HUMS, Mr. BECKETT, MT. MARTIN, and Sir ft. FERGUSON, the House divided— For the original Resolution . • 92 For Mr. Chetwynd's Amendment - - 44 Another division took place on an Amendment by Dr. LUSHINGTON, for taking off £l2OO, being the amount of the salaries of Deputy and Assistant Deputy Judge Advocate-General; when the numbers were— • For the Amendment • - - 51 - Against it 85 Another division took place, when the numbers were, For the original Motion - - 82 Against it_ _ _ 53 Report on Monday. • The Timber• Repeal Duty Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time t,.-morrow. The other Orders were then disposed of, and at Half -past Two the House adjourned. • THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, APRIL 12. 1821. TILE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. This being settling day at the Stock Exchange, very little business is doing, as the different Brokers are employed in settling their Accounts; and up to this hour there have been no defaulters declared, although there have been four or five who have settled their Accounts in private, consequently they have not been publicly exposed. The various fluctuations during this Account are as follow ;--The Funds have been as low as 69 11 4, 72, q 2%, 72% ; and as high as 74 14—which makes the difference in this Account, of the various rises and falls, of 9% per cent.—The Funds opened this morning at 72 1 / 8 , which is their price up to this hour. CURRENT PRICES AT ONE O'CLOCK: Bank Stock 223 2231-3 per Ct. Redu. 71 3 / 4 71 1 4 3 per Cent. Cons. 72 1 / 2 715 72 • 4 per Ct. 89 1 /i 88%8 89-5 per Ct. Navy 107% 107 Long Anns. 18 15-16 3 / 4 —lndia Stock 228 India Bonds 465.475. pr..—Excheq. Bills, 4s. ss. pr. Cons. for May, 72% sh. We have received to-day the Path Papers of Mon- day, from which, and some private letters which have been received from Turin and Naples, we subjoin a variety of interesting extracts : PARIS, APRIL 9. Private letters state, that on the 21st a smart battle was fought near Galata, a small town of Moldavia, between the Greeks and the Turks, in which the latter were completely defeated. The Lausanne Gazette of the 3d instant says--« The post from Milan is still wanting. This sudden sus pension, at a moment when the season can cause no obstacle, gives rise to various conjectures which the cannonade heard on the 29th, and the position of the armies on the frontiers of Piedmont and Lombardy, would seem to explain." Letters from Villefranche, in Beaujolais, state, that the Prince of Cisterna has passed through that town with a suite of seven carriages. Letters from Naples, dated the 26th, state, that perfect tranquillity then prevailed in that city. The Public Funds, which were as low as 50, had risen to 58. It is said that the King entered on the 27th. FRONTIERS OF MOLDAVIA, MARCH 10. On the 7th the following Proclamation was posted on the walls of Jassy : " INNAIIITAITIS QT MOLDAVIA—We make known to you that' this day all Greece has lighted up the torch of liberty and broken the yoke of tyranny. I offer you, as well on my own part uen that of my countrymen, who are now here, and whom I have the honour to command, the assurance and the guarantee that you shall enjoy perfect tranquillity, and that your persons and property shall be respected. You may then follow your ordi nary occupations without being disquieted by my movements ; for the Government of this principality will experience no change, and the laws by which you have hitherto been governed will continue to be executed. " I assure you that DIVINE Plovnnawz has given you in Prince Michael Suzzo, who now governs you, a defender of the rights of your country, a father, a benefactor. Hs merits all these titles. Unite yourselves then with him to protect the ge neral welfare. If some Turks mike an incursion on your terri tory, fear nothing; for a Great Power is ready to punish their Insolence. (Signed) " ALEX. YPSILANTI. " Jassy, March 7." The moment this Proclamation was posted up, de tachments of troops appeared, who drove away or massacred the troops that inhabited the town. The people assembled to fly to their succour ; but the Princ• appeared, and quieted them, and assured them that everything was done by his orders. The Turks without the town were also massacred, and their property confiscated. The inhabitants every moment expect the Russians, who are already con centrated at Pruth, to the amount of six Regiments of Infantry and four of Cossacks. In Wallachia, the Servian Theodore has assembled 8,000 or 7,000 men, attacked the Turks, and now threatens Bucharest. It is said that the cause of these events is the decapitation of the Greek Patriarch at Constantinople. Well-informed men assert that the conspiracy extends through all the Greek Provinces, and that the object in view is nothing less than the 'establishrnenkof a new Greek Empire. P. S. The revolution extends over the whole of Moldavia, Wallachia, and Bulgaria. Many Turks 1 sought refuge in the mountains. Some have been pursued and taken, and sabred by the Arno'its. cruiting for the nett Greek Army is carried oa eseryl kereiai of men are iieeinbiesj ai Jassri the greater part are Russians. idDIEM OF TIM NATIONAL PAIitIAMENT TO . 1 liiiiit--Perntk ita to express to your Majesty our picenUnd sorrow, produced by circumstances of which, at least; the , prin cipal are known to you. We lived in peace amidst our house hold gods, and the td of July did not remove us from them.— Your Majesty thought we might be drawn aside and through the medium of your august Soo oh convoked the Elective As semblies, and thereby caused title nomination. Your Majesty supplied the formula for our plAVen, and . thus prescribed the bases of our oaths. In performing our duties, we -therefore, never could imagine that we iThre acting otherwise than consist ently with your wishes and the desires of thii People. Your Majesty departed for the Congrbss of Laybach, having vouch safed to accept the mission of preserving for at our existing state. But in the documents which came from that quarter. your Majesty clearly expressed the painful situation and the difficult circumstances in which you were placed when you found that you were not able to alter the resolutions of yout High Allies.-- Recollecting the preVious assurances of your Majesty, which we and *the Prince Regent had received from your own lips, we were induced to believe that any declarations of a contrary na ture must be made by you in a state of constraint. " Meanwhile a Proclamation was circulated in your Royal name, which held forth the idea that your Majesty was at liberty, and yet that you disapproved the system which was founded by yourself. We likewise learn that your Majesty is now in Flo rence, and that you intend to proceed to Rome. Contempora neously with these facts, we behold a great army passing our ' frontiers and threatening all that is most dear to us. " Sire I—Your Majesty's wishes have always been dear to the Nation; but if your name was pronounced with more particular veneration and affection, it was precisely at the time when you were pleased to establish a Constitution for us. All our mea sures, all our acts, have accordingly borne the impression of the most ardent love for your Majesty. We have exercised no pri vileges,. except within the limits, and according to the modes, which your Maj e sty prescribed. " If your Majesty now think it your duty to depart in any re spect from the system you once followed, be pleased to re-appear amidst your people-4o disclose your real intentions in the bosom of your family—to hasten with paternal kindness the ameliora tions which, in the opinion of your Majesty, our present situa on may require. Your people, 0 Sire, will be satisfied by main taining with your Majesty that just and noble harmony with which they have been constantly honoured, and which has by theist always been made a duty. But let not strangers interpose between the Nation and its Chief. Let it not be said that their presence is necessary to enforce obedience, attachment, and fide lity, towards a Monarch, from a people who love and respect him. Let not our laws be disgraced either with the blood of our enemies or of our brethren. In a word, let your Majesty's Throne have with it the hearts of your own subjects, and not seek for support from the swords of invaders. "We confide, Sire, these loyal wishes to that same Gon who witnessed our reciprocal engagements, who knows our pure in tentions, and your paternal solicitude. We doubt not that your Majesty's benevolent heart is disposed to share and give efficacy to these wishes. We may then still venture to hope that your glory, our honour, and the national felicity, would be the cer tain result. - - " Your Majesty may in the meantime be assured, that whatever we have done or may do shall be always conformable to the senti ments we have expressed, which are also those of your Majesty. " Naples, March 12." PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. TURIN, APRIL I.—(AT min). I have to announce a melancholy event which has just occurred here. The regiment of Alessandria, which commenced the Revolution, has been well re ceived by the inhabitants of Turin, and illuminations have taken place both on this and the preceding even ing,.in honour of its arrival and of its Constitutional sentiments. But the rejoicings of this day have had a most unhappy_ termination. In the course of the morning a disagreement arose between the regiment of Alessandria and the Carabineers, and it was in sinuated that the latter were not only unfriendly to the new order of things, but that they also meditated a counter-revolution. About seven this evening the regiment of Alessandria were assembled on the place San Carlos, and the place di Castello. At eight o'clock the carabineers were advancing by two diffe rent streets to the place di Castello, when they were fired upon at several discharges by the soldiers of the regiment of Alessandria, by which one carabineer was killed, and several wounded. Although this is all that is positively known on the subject, it is be lieved that the carabineers were the first aggressors, and that they had previously killed two soldiers of the regiment of Alessandria. The populace received warning to withdraw from the spot; but their curio sity got the better of their fears, and in consequence four of them were killed, and others wounded. TURIN, APRIL 2. The following Proclamation has just been posted up here relative to the events of yesterday. I observe that it makes no mention of the inhabitants of Turin killed in this melancholy affair : " THE PROVISIONAL JUNTA TO TIIE CITIZENS. " The effects of intestine discord, which has been excited among us, were growing from day to day more manifest,and we have now to deplore a most unhappy instance of it, hich has taken place before our eyes. Although the corps of Royal Carabineers appeare4 solely occupied during the last few days by their usual duty, yet certain extraordinary and inexplicable movements on their part had created just suspicion of their inten tions. This morning the rumour was spread that they were shortly about to march, no one knew whither, to some place to which their Colonel had preceded them ; and remaining all the day closely shut up in their quarters, they gave strength to this and other reports which were circulated. On the other side it was stated that a division existed among them, which might be productive of serious disorders in the Regiment, and thence communicate to the city itself. The Minister of War, there. fore, thought the presence of some other armed force essential to the public tranquillity, and to prevent the disorders which threatened it. It was ordered, therefore, for precaution alone, that two brigades of the Regiment of Alessandria should be as sembled in the place di Castello. " A considerable number of the Carabineers had already tra orened the streets of the city without opposition, when towards night a party of them on horseback, whether through impru dence or by design is not known, rode at full speed, and with drawn sabres, into the square, where the soldiers of the Regi ment of Alessandria were formed. There arose among them a natural movement to defend themselves against attack. A single discharge of fire-arms, no one could tell from whence, took place; it Was followed by others, and to this unfortunate accident seve ral fell victims. The country groans over the blood which has been shed, and its unhappy causes. The Junta will do every thing in their power to prevent a recurrence of such fatal events, and also to secure relief and succour to the unhappy persons, and to their families, to whom they have proved fatal. Meantime they exhort all cad citizens to concord, to peaceable conduct, and that they will repel the treacherous insinuations of the ene mies to public order. " MARENTIN I, President. a Turin, April 1, 'stn." Count Moncenego, the Russian Minister, set out yesterday morning for Modena and Laybach. The Junta has given him full instructions concerning the state of affairs in Piedmont, and the disposition of the public mind. It is hoped the intervention of Russia will suspend the advance of the Austrian troops.— Yet it is supposed that the bulk of the l'icdmontese army are extremely unwilling that any concession should be made for that purpose. The division of ' Alessandria, in particular, have resisted it so strongly, that all the instances of the Junta with that corps, to induce them to give assurances of that nature to Moncenego, have proved in vain. It is the nego► dation with that division that has delayed the depar ture tithe Russian Minister. LATEST NEWS FROM NAPLEPZ tire haire, ata lite hotir this fordnbon; received thB Milan Gateite of Saturday; the gist of March. It contains the fbllovring details, which had just been received from the head-quarters of the Austrian ArMy; dated the 24th Of Mirth. After that, in consequence of-the capitulation of Capua, hostilities had ceased, on' the morning of the 21st, possession was taken of Capua, and the divi sion of the vanguard of Lieutenant-General Count WALMODEN marched forward to Caserta and Aversa. The two divisions of Hesse Homburg and Stuttetheim encamped near Capita. On the 22d the Commander let the troops repose. The division Lederer arrived on that day at Capua. On the 23d the vanguard extended to Melito and Afragola, the main body of the army to Averse. In this spate of time the delivery of the forts iii Naples was entirely tegUlated, as also the entrance into the city, and the delivery of the fortresses of Gaeta and Pescara: On the 24th, in the morning; his Excellency the Commander in Chief, with the divisions Walmoden, Hesse Homburg; and Stutter= heim, and with the brigade of cavalry of Taxis, was on the Campo di Marte, before Naples; at eight o'clock. —At nine the seven brigades, at their head the Commander in Chief, entered Naples; and his Ex cellency made them defile in the presence of their Royal Highnesses the Duke of 'Cuomo and the Prince of SALERNO, who with their suite deigned to shew themselves at the balcony rf the Palace. The finest weather favoured this entrance, and the troops; to the no small surprise of many incledulous per sons, sufficiently refuted, by their fine appearance, the unfavourable opinion which the revolutionists had studied to spread among the people. The whole population welcomed the troops with the most boisterous acclamations, and with cries of Viva ii Re, which resounded on all sides. The mul titude that flocked from all quarters was so great that it was with difficulty the troops could proceed.. The people came to meet, them with branches of olive in their hands; of which a great quantity was distributed, particularly in the square of the Royal Palace. His Excellency the Commander in Chief, convinced from the first of the pacific intentions of the people, had ordered the army likewise to wear in their caps branches of olive; instead of other leaves which the Austrian soldiers are used to wear, which the people received with much pleasure. Neapoli: tan and Austrian officers have been sent to the Go vernors of Gaeta and Pescara, with written orders from the PRINCE REGENT to deliver those fortressese We have also received Madrid Papers to the 29th of March. They contain a long account of the contest carrying on for the supremacy in Morocco, between MULKY Isaautx and his uncle; but no other intel , ligence of import. • A letter received te-day from the Agent to LLOYD f S at Gibraltar, dated 22d March, states, that the new Emperor of Morocco, MULEY ISMAEL, had been found dead in his bed on the night of the 14th and 15th, and that his brother had been elected to succeed him. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, tiorouris, Aran 9.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Duke of York packet, with Mails for Jamaica; and the Janus, idioms, for Antwerp. PLYMOCTII, APRIL 10.—Wind W.—Arrived the American schooner Independence, Flume, from Salem for Copenhagen. Sailed his Majesty's ship Liz, on a cruize. PORTSWOUIIi, Aram I.—Wind S.W.--Sailed the Richard Plaskett, 'FULLY, for London. Dear., Amur. 11.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and sailed fait the River, the Earl of Balcarras, JAsizsox, and Thames, LS BrAnc, from Bombay and China. Came down‘from the River and remain, the Salamanca, Thets, for Naples ; and Ann, AlAvazws, for Cape Coast Castle. Dove's, Aram 11.—Arrived the Friends' Adventure, CHAP.. WAN, from London for Artindel, with loss of bowsprit. HARWICH, APRIL IL—Sailed the Lady Nepean packet, for Cuxhaven, and Henry Freeling, for Holland, each with a RAILWAYS, Aram 11.—The galliot Jenny, Form, hertz llamburgh for Oporto, -with wheat, got on the Goodwin Sa-d yesterday evening, and, owing to the neap tides, has not yet been got off. Several boats are employed in landing her cargo here. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the Thanks of the Court were voted unanimously to. GEORGE ABERCROMBIE, ROBINSON, Esq. Chairman, and THONI AS ItErn, Esq. Deputy Chairman, for their real and attentica to the Company's interest during the last year. A letter from Brighton, dated April 10, says -14 The KING was yesterday, from two to four o'clock, on horseback in public; and never do we recollect to have seen his MAJESTY in better health." T/rIE NEW Cnowet.—This splendid attribute of Royalty, which has just been completed by Messrs. RCNIML and amot, was on Tuesday deposited in the Jewel-house, Tower. It is much larger, loftier, and more magnificent than the former Crown; more appropriate to the dignity of the B:itish Empire, and the splendid taste of the Sovereign.—The new Crown is about fir. teen inches in elevation ; the arches, instead of sinking in their centre, are raised almost to a point, being themselves embosesdb and edged with brilliants, and supporting an orb of brilliants also, more than six inches in circumference. This is surmounted with a Maltese Diamond Cross of exquisite workmanship, en whose top and sides are suspended three remarkably large pearls. In the front of the Crown is a unique sapphire of the purest and deepest azure, two inches long, and an inch broad. At the beet is the ancient ruby, •Which was worn by Emma. the Black Prince and our Fifth IlEvity, in the victories of Poictiers and Agincourt. The sapphire and ruby are each inserted in a Maltese Cross of btilliants, while the other parts of the Crown are occur pied with large diamond flowers. The rim is encircled with diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, and rubies, of very considerable magnitude ; and the wholse is surrounded, immediately above the ermine, with large pearls. The several other articles of the King's regalia, and of the splendid Coronation service, are also placed ift the Jewel House. These have been all restore d : to their audio& splendour, preparatory to the 'Coronation. The Prince of Moldavia, against whom the G: eelie have risen, is the same who lately punished the bakers of his Capital in a truly oriental manner, by =Dias 'heti) by the ears to the doors of their shops I