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, ray winied•r . I ' of tiolt Hsu* a d»po•ition to vote for • perfeetly competent to uny Member to aeste it as hit opinion of .any vote that •it Weeded what was ireeeraary. or what ought to lx t*a~rted, and in the latter settee he had *Hider s 'the expression of the Hon. Member who .nisolie last but our, and not in the iateryttetitioh which had been put on it by the Hon. Neither who spoke last. Culosiel DAMES suid lie had not meant to allude 'to acy isidividual, nor to any particular persons of the Genileinen opposite; but he did say, and would agate repeat of the neijority of that House generally, that they were equally ready to vote fur one sum as another, if the Minister required it.. •The Hon. Gentlernal opposite had therefore unne cessarily taken up the time of the House, by inter rupting him when he was on the point of conclud ing what be had intended to say. He would now add, in reply to the observation of that Hon. Geo- Items'', that whatever he at any time said in that Ousts', he was perfectly ready and willing to repeat in any other place. Mr. MARTIN, of Galway. repeated, that he thought it au imputation which ought not to be east upon those Gentlemen who voted in the majority. The CHANcIII.I.OII of the E XCIIIQUIIR said, that, conceding to its fullest extent what had bees. stated by the gallant Officer, he could not agree .with his Hon. friend, in considering it es an im putation on the majority of thst House ; but he looked upon it as a high compliinesit to the charac ter of the Goverisineut, which stood so high in the confidence of the House.—(l.lreghler.) Mr. SCARLETT said, no doubt the result was a proof of the confidence placed iu the Government by the majority of the House, en which the Right Hon. Gentletnau had certainly • right to congratu late himself, and that confidence might very natu rally have grown out of the lung and intimate con nexion between theth. Bsit when it was eistioider ed that those votes were usually passed in very thin Hawes, and at a late hour of the night, he could not help thinking that the Hon. Member for Wor. 'enter was correct in asserting that if Mini.ters bad asked for ten times the amount of the present es males, it would hive brew granted. The Resolution was then agreed to, as were also several others, without any observation. On the desolution being read for granting 174,069/. 10s. 611 for the army pay of general officers, not bring colonels of regiments— Sir R. FER.IION rose to call the attention of ite House tot eh case which he had mentioned in the Clogglittce, and which he conceived • hoed line; armhose general office!s who, not cumin within a certain cumber on the list of each rank, were deprived of their half-Pay as general officers, and received o n ly the haft-pay of the regimental rank to which they had attained previous to being rained to the rank of general officers, which would not a ff or d a siatisneteseco for their families. He thought smite regulation should be made in favour of officers who hod served 35 or 30 years at leual. The Marquis of LoriDONDILIZY said, in the abs nee of his Noble Friend at the heud of the War Department, he could not give any specific information on this subject, but he had reaoti to believe that some regulation was in contemplation on the subject alluded to by the Gallant General. The Resolution was then agreed to. On the Resolution for a grant of 810,169/.191.9d. for the half-peg and military allowances of reduced of f icers, being read — 'Colonel Davtes - said he wished to call the par 'tient:kr attention of the House to the subject of the half-ixtr. lie spoke on the behalf of a meritorious 'class of officers, whom he considered to have been very ill treated. The number of officers on the half-pay of the •rnty, below the rank of General `Officers, was '8,616, and the sum paid to them was '765,7811. 16•. 2d. ; of this number 1,411 were 'cavorts and ensigns. Dariog the last four yeses arid • half 508 new commissions had been given, of which a very inconsiderable number had been 'filled up from the half-pay, the remainder being Oven to persons who were not before in the service. This was not only a hardship upon those officers on inilf-pay, who were willing to serve, but it was also a great injustice to the public; because, by tilting up those appointments from the half pay, the country might have been relieved of a considerable portion of that charge. He con tended that at feast half of the commissions disposable without purchase should be filled up from the huff-pay ; Sod he ►hould tattoo& early opportunity of moving an address to his Ma jesty on the subject. A similar address was unlit& inously agreed to by the House in 1740; but at present they had a mach stronger reason for it then existed st that time, in the vast increase or the half-pay list. Lord Per.stEasTON said he was quite ready to ad mit, end he could assure the House that it was so felt by the CoMmioder-in-Chief, that it *as most desirable to relieve the country from the burden of the half-pay, us far as it could be done with con venience to the public service. if the whcic iyf the first commissions were to be filled up bout the half-pay, the army would be entirely closed to those persons of the civil ranks of society from which it was ordinarily supplied. and he was sure that no thing could lie inure desirable in a constitutional point of view than to connect the army as closely us possible with the general interests of the country. With ►espect to promotions, it must be considered that persons who were in active service had certainly a preferable claim ; but whenever vacancies could be filled tip from the holt . ..pay, without prejudice to such claims, the Commander-in-Chief was always sunny parties. It seemed to have oirTy eft its with a givet number of diem, but that'tite r te woe else • great number of *lke& twee, - matey of whom might be wears who, under othe'r receesstatsees, would • not be deemed preferable candidates for commissions, but when the services of their families were considered, sweet be looked upolias fairly . entitled to the chalice of appenntneent. A notrer thing which had been kit en' irelyout a con. sideratirmeae. that many of these wise weie on half , pay wire unable to serve, and many were unwilling to return to full pay. Since the peace, from 910 io3oo officers retired upon half-pey voluntarily every rear, and would it not be on injustice to force them upon the full-pay establishment, for the sake of a pitiful sating of a few shillings a day ? The effect ' upon the prianootion of officers seemed also to have been overlooked. lu the regiment with which he was connected, the 14th, six companies had be come vacant since the battle of Waterloo. which had been filled up from the half-pay, and, the coo -1 sequence was, that the oldest Lienteuitot its the regiment at the bottle of Waterloo, was still a ' Lieutenant ; was it then just, be would Ask, that such a mode of filling up vacancies should be persevered in ? Colonel DAVIES wished to remind the Noble Lord, that he proposed to fill up only half the vacancies and new commissions from the half pee; so that there would still be a sufficient opeu nig for the admission of persons of the description alluded to. Ile wished to ask the genera Getter.) who spoke last, how many of the companies to which he had alluded wrre tilled up front the halt-pity by exchange on receiving the difference ? General GASCOYNE—" Not vise."—(A laugh.) Sir H. VYTTAN contended that is wassimpos tilde the army could be of kept up except by fresh admiseions. He also remarked upon the hardship of the cases of officers who after many yelowsersree being promoted to the rank Of General Officers, were found to retire upon the Intif-puy of their regimental commission's, which often del not amount to the interest of the money they had laid out in the porchste. Colonel DA•I ES said he wished to know from the gallant Generid, the Member for Liverpool, how many of the companies to which he alluded were filled op by exchange from the half-pay with or without the difference ? General GASOOTN IL replied, that four had been so filled up. Mr. HusaisSoe contended that the effect of the system recommended by the Gentheniu opposite would be wholly to strip the promotion of officers now iu active service, and to 'exclude bons the army those persons who might wish to cuter from the civil orders of society. Besides which, many of the officers on half-pay were old Ind word out in the service, and many, not less thou 1,762 since the year 1816, hod voluntarily retired upon the hole pay, and none of those could with any justice, be forced into active settrices Mr. Huns said, the object of his Resolution was not at all to affect the promotion of officers, but wily the issue or first commissions. anal to pretreat the introduction of fresh person., until all those on lislf-pay, who were willing to serve, were disposed of. If glut were fairly done he should not quarrel with the orrangeineet ; but there was another ens cunistince of which be had to complaio, which was, the appointment of individoels to first com missions, and placing them on half , pay bu the same dry on which they were first appointed. He had a list of not fewer than 71 Ensigns who had been so placed ; this was an enormous evil, and arose out of the at stein of selling commissions, which was done by order of the Commander-in-Chief, its order to give money to individuals whom he conceived to have claims. General GASCOTNE begged to correct the state ment of the Honourable Member as to the disposal of money produced by the rale of commissions, to which lie had alluded. The cases to winch he sup posed reference had been made, were those of offi cers' widows, who, on the death of their husbands, were allowed the inodnce of the sale of a commis sion of the rank below that of the deceased. Lord PALMERSTON said he held in his hand a printed copy of a return, by order of the House, of the number of persons appointed to commission", apd since placed upon half-pay, the number of Pinch, from March 1819, to Jeuttury 18i0, was only 19; the lion. Member, irupposed its bra statement of 71, must hate referred to former periods. . The Amendment was then negatived without a division. Before the question was put on the ori ginal Re solution— Mr,. HUME said, he wished to make a remark in reply to the lest observation of the Noble Lord. He held in his hand a copy of the return mention ed by the Noble Lord, who bud correctly stated the number set forth in it to be 19. But the Noble Lord. would perhaps recollect. that on a former oc casion he (Mr. H.) bid asked him whether his authority was to be rdted on ; sod the Noble Lord had told him, in reply, he believed it might. Now he held in his hand a hat which he had extracted from sere Army List, signed " Palmerston, " not only.of the 11 to which be bid before alluded, but of 69 more individuals— ( Leoghler)—who had been put upon half-pay osi the same day on which their appointments were dated, and of rhe.lrliole 140, there were only 14 which did not come vrithiu the period included in his Hesolution.—[The Hon. Member proceeded to read several ut the cases from the list in his hand, and *aid, if the Noble Lott! a lolled it, he would let him have the list to. refer to.)—Now he must repeat, that to appoint so many persons 10 new cummisoions, and to allow theta to retire on half-pay immediately, with little chance . of their ever tieing actively eMployed, was saddling the C'owprsag—(Generallaughtre ? its tobieh Ike Hua. Member himself joined.) —He begged pardon, he useont to say the cutudry, with a use less and unnecessery expense.. Lord PALmearTuw said, the way in which the duced before a porclumer appeared, to deprive the 'ollkeer of the permission which had been given him M sell his commissio. He incurred sufficient hard. ships in the redoctionof the amount realized by the sale, owing to the differreee between the half and full pay. Colonel Dames said, when the Noble Lord talked of the hardship in such a case, he 'reined to forget that by the prerogative of the Crowu an officer might at any moment be struck out of the list, and deprived o f his commission. Commissions were taken subject to the risks of such regulations, and the parties had** right*o complain of hardship. To allow persons to purchase half-pay commissions was nothing more ti give them an opportunity ig es of purchasing s on • m a cheaper rate limn they could by buying in o ilie public funds, and getting • larger interest for their smog than they could otherwise obtain. Sir H. HARDINDI observed upon the hardship of the cases df General Officers who, in consequence of the alteration of the regulation of 1814, at the recommendatiou of the-.Ftuence Committee, were reduced from the half-pay of their rank as General Officers, to that of the regimental rank they held when they were appointed as General Officer.. Upon a calculation of the average number of deaths of General Officers, which be reckoned at 20 each year, it would !eke ten years before any one of those so circumstanced at present would receive the half pay of his rank ma General Officer. This was a hopeless case, and be recommended that all such officers as had not retired upon half-pay of their own set, should from,the date of their appointments as General Officers, receive the full poy.of their regimental commissions. The various Resolutions were thessagreed to. Lord PALIIIRsTON gave notice, that to-morrow he should move the votes for disembodying the militia. Mr. Balms'. wished to know front the Noble Marquis (Londonderry), or some of his friend*, , what course was inteeded to be pursued with regard to the estimates. He understood the House would riot sit nit Thursday, arid the Navy arid Ordnance stood for to.morrow night. He should wish to know whether both were to he brought on? The Morquis of LONDONDRRRY said, that by accident the Ministers were unable to attend at an early hour this evening, but that this was not likely to occur again during the Session. lie therefore wished it to be understood that they should be ready to go into the public Wittiness at liall.past four every day in future, if that hour answered the views of Gentlemen on the 'opposite side. He was most anxious that all the estimates should undergo the fullest and most alliterate discussion. For which purpose he thought it would he desirable that Tuea days and Thursdays should be the days for notices, and Wednesdays and Fridays for Committees of Supply. Mr. Hung said he was desirous of doing every thing in his power to accommodate those Gentle men .who were intrusted with the charge of the esti mutes. He should be every day at Its post at half past four o'clock. At the suggestion of the SPEAKER, it was agreed that the Army Estimates should be received to-mor row, the Navy ou Friday, and the Ordnance Oil Monday. Colonel DAVIES gave notice, that to-morrow he should move no humble Address to his Majesty, praying that the officers on half-pay should get employment. COURT OF ADMIRALTY (SCOTLAND) DILL. The LORD ADVOCATE moved the third reading of the Scotch Admiralty Bill. Lotcl A. 1-IantLTON made rime objections, which we could Hot distinctly hear, to the clause which related to compensation. The LORD ADVOCATE said, he had consulted the Bar, mid all the legal bodies in Scotland, rela tive to this Bill, and the result of his inquiries made him confident to say that it did not coniaiu one single objectionable douse. Mr. HOWL said, lie hark 110 communication on the subject with any but persons interested in the BA I. The Bill was then read the third lime ■nd passed. SCOTCH COURT OF SESSION BILL. After a few ohsersurinns tiom Lord A. 1111111.- TON, the LORD ADYOC&TR, and Mr. Hutu, the Scotch Court of Session Bill was taken into further consideration, and ordered to be read the third time or► Friday next. Mr. Hums oioved for various returns relative to the pay and distribution of the Marines, Engi neers. and Artillrna ' -- After which the House adjourned at half-Nast eight o'clock. . . , 'Was far bend the 'hounds of wan Intl decoruek. bet before is the array, or which 147 were by perAseite... cases mcnti y the IlootMerokee iscnerea was fie was (pa to sure that the gallant 'Officer would HS wit I perelmse; that there were 1,4'10• this :—An ' _entitled to , Sall hit commis- Assigns Y. wkoz il tiii L. 7 sit 1 I not tell any Gentleman outside of the bar, that be matted, tit. lions ;a - hive a Cep- would vote I,ooof. where only 100/. was sufficient, ar„,d e g '="•( l 4+' . 1 , 4,,,, 1 ; 04 Imp taincua efemedir,.se eel trey ie Oen ; sad • . upon the Mi n i s te r ' s as ki n g it. r it might pp high khoserotraisiissiora were is a The Sraeotta said, it certainly had not struck —. t • flikargnej t . th e atg i es t eib m an d e d second but , and that ha the inte rlin between his . . SRI him that the Hoe. Member who spoke last but one for of filling OP all *kopeks from the hallegol. obtaining permis s i on tti sell end his Meeting with a was out of odor in what he was stetin . Undoubt. i m i s k s _ Wog Adua d u L m i sj , iiise."....Nielwr____ 0 ._ .. .. _ • emostrdered - iwbreaducted. feeitr ilt:Mildlincilusilf7ValW , o iiorlii earned iiitsiiirecT;ithout considerable its. thwt eat , ijr - e puvehrear "'solid Alston a re•mi•- iecheekiel, ,isore psy particular body of Members justice to many parties. It seemed to have beet . !ioa-ett helf-tpay. Bif it sorely would at be just, motto's* this It should be done. Mr. 111)118 said, be could not permit this Reso lution to pass without putting a plain statement of filch on record. He should therefore muse, as as amendment, the following Resolution :- 4 . That from the 15th Januaiy 1816 to the 25th Jauuary 1611, 1,611 lost ieleolosiees have been iaued tv persons 'll-1 1.: is it Ili Sti PIZ ESS. LONDON, WEDIONDAY, MAY 9. MI. Private letters from France, Italy, and Spain, con cello expressing the belief very generally entertained in the chief cities of these sever■L countries, that the Allies have resolved to extend to Spain the same measure of violence and iniquity that they have meted out to the unfortunate people of Naples. It is an important fact that such an impression should generally prevail, especially in Spain ; for if there be a spirit stirring among any considerable party in the couutry favourable to the restoration of the ancient older of shins, the hope of speedy assist- Inca from Austria and Russia must keep alive the uneasy feeling, and prevent the establishment of that perfect c.onfidenee in the present institutions which alone cat► make the people tranquil sod coo— teuted. In parts of Spain there are some, we are told, who familiarly mention the filo. Win& the for. troops may banisiismilkol to creel the PP" reveal; and it is even tided by those " prophets of ill," that King FtantoOtto himodf has desired the assistance of the Allied Powers in repressing the principle of freedom throughout . the Itiorlpw, would no rest) King's friends, but they are; in fret; his worst ene mies. FERDINAND is unfortunate enough even nnw not to posse,. the confidence of the majority of his people; but should he, in addition, be represented as a secret intriguer with foreign Princes, fur the purpose of inducing them toinvade his country, and bring upon his people, who have scarcely recovered from the horrors of war, the sufferings diet snot necessarily accompany the presence of hostile troops within their territories., who will guarantee his personal safety from the effects of their indignant vengeance The populace of Madrid have already offered vio lence to his person, and who can calculate the ,lengths to which thty may proceed, should they be taught, by the injudicious threatening. of the ultra royalist party, to regard their Sovereign not in thi light of a beoeficent protector, guarding Ins collo try alike from foreign violence end intestine die. co►d, but as • traitor, the greatest and most den. gerous in an extensive conspiracy, which has for its objects the present injury and di•gruce of a foreign invasion, and the future misery of arbitrary power in the hands of en exasperated and vindictive So vereign? It seems, by intelligence from Madrid, that the exchange of couriers between Morbid and Laybach has been of late unusually active, tied it is f►om this circumstance principally that the impression is derived to which we have alluded; but from whatever cause arising, such a belief is fraught with consequences too alarming not to command the attention of the Government and Cortes of Spain, and we may therefore expect shortly to heir of some disavows! on the part of the King of SPAIN of the desire of change that is imputed to him, some assurance that the Allied Sovereigits do not entertain the designs supposed, and also some heart-stirring declaration from the assembly of the Corte+, avowing its abhorrence of the principle of foreign interference, and adjuring the nation rather to endure the severest sacrifices than submit to the insolent domination of foreigners and despots. The Austria* Observer and the Mositevr, and their obsequious imitator in this country, have been of late very sagely arguing, that us the revo lutionary spirit has recently appeared ►o active in Europe and America—a+ i‘o malty countries have almost simultaneously been made the scenes of revolutions in the frame of government, there meet not only have existed somewhere a geezers! con spiracy embracing these several countries, and act ing with one object and one principle, but also the conspiracy must have been very limited in point of numbers. Whether the charge of conspiracy be urged as a matter of reproach and censure against these mysterious enemies of despotism, or be merely stated as • point of information to the world, we cannot clearly collect, but we are inclined to think that reproach is the pur pose of the writers. We ■re at a lots, how ever, in conceiving how the proposition of this gene ral conspiracy maintains the conclusion of there being but few hands employed i►► the great works which we have so lately seen with feelings of mingled surprise said pleasure. To influence dis ciplined armies, and turn their power •guinst the form of government which they have been long accustomed to contemplate with re►pect, to inspire large bodies of the petiple suddenly with an unusual longing after freedom, to cause the people of the several countries so to concur in the expression of this ennobling spirit as to make them the voluntary agents of choosing, iu distinct and separate places, deputies to represent them in the legishitiee assemblies, breathing the very spirit of the sup posed conspirators ; to effect these great objects, out in one country alone, but in several, not having all the same previous discipline of mind, or the same habits and customs, pruve in these conspire. tors the possession of the most extraordinary faculties, nienial mid corporeal, each we will venture to affirm as no human beings erne bef►re enjoyed. We are told of a certain sentence uttered by the Emperor of RUSSIA, who that " would blush were she to know by how few persons and with what poor pretensions her tranquillity has been disturbed." To our minds the wonder is, " that mankind have not long since found out by how few persons they have been defrauded of their rights, and kept iu u state of degradation and misery." It is at this reflection that Europe ought to blush ; still snore deeply blush when slit finds that such occasional efforts as the more ge nerous of her sous make to ennoble their existence, by assuming the port and dignity of freedom, should be thwarted by the effort* of persons who hold no higher rank in the scale of intelligence than the Autocrat himself, and his lfnpe►ial Ally the enlightened and learned FRANCIS. The character and conduct of the revolution in Spain proved irresistibly that it could not have been the work of a few persons, for during the time that the army of Andalusia lay in the Isle de Leon, besieging or besieged, • sufficient opportu nity was afforded to the King of SPAIN to appeal to the sense of his people at large, but not a town er province declared for his service. The success of the revolution was fur several weeks extremely doubtful, and if it rested exclueively upon the just, army in the Isla, Spain had not now enjoyed the fair hopes of future prosperity which her con.titu tion presents to her; but the army in every part of the country proclaimed the Constitution, the capi tal announced its adherence to the sp►tem pro. . example. If ever • revoletttn, were the work of the majority et the nation, the Spanish revolution may be prole:meted to be such, and in accordance with this feeling foreign Governments did not bee'. tate long to recognise the change in the political condition of Spain ; and Lord LiVElltooL s.• ing in Parliament the arrive of the 13ritish Cabins r, admitted that the revolution was accomplished with the general concurrence of the peoplr of Spain, at the moment that his Lordship attempted to thatingursh between the case of Spain and the cave of Naples. Portugal' and Naples fo:lowed the glorione example of Spain. Portugal hiss succeeded, bat Naples was nut powerfu! enough to preserve the rich treasure which she had snatched from the hand of fortune, but the occur rences in these countries falsify the supposition of their having been effected by a few periwigs. •• The couspiracy" extends beyond the Atlantic, and the Brazils are rapidly pursuing the course of the Mo ther Country ; but is not the conduct of the Bra zilians rather to be attributed as a necessary curiae. quence to the events in Portugal, than to the sup posed activity of some imaginary band of conspire. tors ? Tne death of CIIIISTUPIIE, and the insur rection of Prince YPSILANTI, we pre•ume, are to he attributed to the same agency ; hat shall we not find far better stud more artisfaciory explanations fur all these several revolutions in the peculiar cir cumstances of the countries in aim b they have re spectively occurred, than by attributing thirn to any knot of individuals, whatever may be their uum bers, their influence, or their talents? This in quiry, if pursued us its importance merits, would far exceed our limits; but it cannot but be observ ed, that the revolutionary spirit first displayed itself in Spain, a (-wooly which was previously regarded as the least likely to looter those wild notions of freedom to which speculative revolutionists would look for success. A knot of conspirators such is it supposed to exist, would have rather looked to France or Germany for converts or agents. Spain having commenced the act of revelutioo, a hat was more mons! than that other countries, equally de pressed by the form of their government, and where at the same time the heurts of the executive audio. rity were feeble, should endeavour to imitate her cosiduct, and what countries in Europe presented in this respect so strong a resemblanee to Spain as Portugal end Naples? Let the circutastuncee of these several countries be carefully examined, and we doubt not temperate and judicioas inquirer will find causes within each separately much more likely to lead to revolutions than the agency of any foreign clubs or societies, whose powers of opera. Lion must be far ton limited to admit the possibility of their accomplishiug objects so stave:ideas stud, extensive. The fiaytion official Gazelle of the 11th of March last contains the proceedings of the Special Military Commission appointed to try General JEAN Tinos RICHARD, and his accomplices Colonel MARY C _IIIETIERZ, the Commandant BELZUNCE, and Captain DOMINIQUX, who had been severally convicted of a treasonable conspiracy, and condenstied to death. The act of accusation charges them with having endeavoured to corrupt the minds of certaiu of the military, arid instigated them to insubordination and revolt against the Go verument ; and that, with a view of cLaudessissety armies; those whom they thought they had seduced into their designs, they demanded a supply of markets from a foreigner, residing at . Cspe Hayti. named Eloarsiaan ; whom relyig!, it is added, to deliver to them the arms on the night he was re quired so to do, alone prevented the spilling of Haytiati blood at the Cape. A letter from Portsmouth, dated April 30 (Mon de•), says—" Arrived the liedseiN , 18. Captivate Hutiw, from St. Helens. She left that place oa the Bth March, et which time BoN•rAaTa wit un derstood to be as well as he had betin for some time. He had nut removed into his new habitation. The Redwing has itrowght to England a large toed from the Cape and St. Hekna." The Porte, it it raid, has entered isito a negocia tion with Ali Packs, and revoked the orders ts►ard to the Paella of the More* to march against that It is reported iii the Millie ry circle that Generst the Hon. Robsrt Taylor, brother of the of Headline, will be appointed to the of the 6th dragoon guards, versa by the (bath sf the Earl of Carhampton• and thut Lord Eilw..E.t Somerset will be appoint e d to the Coloneicy of thr 18th hussars, vacant by the death of the Marquis 01 Drogheda.. The 18th hussars, at Caber and its cantonnimits, sup posed to be destined for India, have as yet resolved no of& rial order 00 that subject. The four troops of Scots Greys arrived is Clommi, bait there ; the trasspurts wit► the Bth dragoira guard. not having yet arrived in Waterford. A number of the militia regiments of the kingdom are to be embodied for training and exercise during the month. The American ship Ophelia brings as ac count that the trade bud been stopped for a short time in consequence of the death of a Chinese, who was shot by accident by the fifth Mate of the Hon. East India Company's ship Loadea, but that the affair bad been amicably settled by the English Supercargo and the Climete Government. ■ ■ IN El r f s I