The Sun. — London, England, 1824-11-15 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Conttitutionuel of Thursday.) PAstts, Nov. 11.—We have just received, by .*p-ress, the following news from Madrid, dated ,tbe 3d instant : The Charge d'Affaires of France, and the General in Chief Vont Digeon, went off yesterday to the Escurial, to announce to the King the resolution of his Majesty Charles X. to with dtaw his troops from the Peninsula, leaving only garrisons in • Ch i lls, Pampeluna, &c. The Charge d'Affaires is also to tell his Majesty that the troops will in no way interfere with matters beyond the circuit of the fortresses they occupy. " Although this news is positive and authentic, and though -the preparations have been already made for entirely evacuating Spam at the end of the month, I can guarantee to you, that when the Charge d'Affaires of France gave on the 20th ult. a note to our Minister of Foreign Affairs, announcing the posi tive instructions he had received as to the avacuation of the In tel ior of Spain, our (the Spanish) Government was so fright ened, that it immediately commenced new negociationm. making propoeitions which have been sent to Paris, and which, not withstanding the note transmitted to M. 'Lea, end the journey of the General and Charge d'Affaires to the Escurial, will probably neemien some modification in the first determination of the Cabinet of the Tuileries. " The negociation with the bankers of Paris for a loan is altogether broken off because these houses would not tnke the smallest part on their own ri'dr. It is affirmed, that instruc lama newly given to M. Burgos authorise him to make some overtures to other houses on the admission of a certain quan tity of bonds of the first loans of the Cortes, which would he reetived in payment of the loan proposed to be contracted ; but this is a report which I repeat without guaranteeing it. " It is stated as positive that M. de Talaru returns to Ma- Ohrsea, OcT. 19.—1 t appears by letter , ' from Constanti nople of the 12th, that on the 3d lug. the Greeks destroyed by Ere-ships, three frigates and several brigs of the Ottoman fleet, and that four days after this fleet lost at Mitvlene five frigates or corvettes, and a great number of smaller vessels. There, had been previous disastrous actions between Pattnos and )Itiaria. The discouragement of the Torte; is extreme. (From the Eloile doled Friday.) t!o r Nov. A fter breakfast, which took place at a quarter tti eleven, the King hunted in the forest. The table d'hountur ' both at dinner and at breakfast, was act oat with nearly 30 covers. Besides the parties we men tioned yesterday, who had the honour to be admitted to it, we ninet add the Duke d'Estissac, Field-Marshal, commanding the Department of the Oise ; M. Blin de Bourbon, Prefect of the Pas de Calais ; the Sub-Prefect of St. Quentin, and that of &mils ; the Mayor of Beauvais, and the King's Procurateur of that city. His Majesty dined at half-pant six. During the dinner, the hand of the National Guard executed, as yesterday, symphonies and favourite airs. A great number of persons were permitted to stand round the table in the banquet-hall. tfeNeither on his route, nor during. his stay at Compiegne, has the King received addresses. His Majesty thought it his duty to relieve the Prefects and other functionaries from that formality; but this evening, after dinner, his Majesty received a great number of Mayors of the surrounding communes. The au dience occupied more than an hour. The King returned to Paris at nine o'clock. FnEtecu Fowns.—Pants, Nov. 11.--Five per Cents., 101 f. Mc. 55c. tiOc. ; for the end of the month, 10If. Neapolitan (Pelmet) 89f. ; do. in francs 90$ ; do. in titer ; Spanish, 17i. —Royal Spanish Loan, 54 f.—(Cours it id /Wahine.) FOB, THE SUN. SURREY RESURR F.CTIONS. Mu. EDITOIt—My attention has been lately called to a very curious discussion, of which your Paper has been made the vehicle. Some time flare I read a Ballad in THE SUN, purporting to he ancient, and only puhlished on account of some alleged coincidence between certain circum stances narrated in it and others which had re cently taken place. • I must admit, Sir, that on the first inspection of that my impression was that it was a forgery. A correspondent of yours, " DETVCTOtt," roun d ly asserted this ; but he mixed up something about a Drama at the Coburg TheatrP, which, I conf?fi, I thought had little enough to do with the subject. I see that JE,GIDIANUS has replied to this, and defends the authenticity of his Ballad ; but the defence ob viously proves, that whatever may be his allusion, the whole has been got up for some particular °e vasion, about which most of your correspondents arti in the dark. :My present business is whit your correspondent tEntniAmus would lead US 10 Stipp°Sp that resurrections have taken place in the parish whenCe he takes his name. I.lw ELL is quite right in denying this. But then, Sir, he would insi nuate that Stockwell or Camberwell may be the place. This assertion is most. wanton. Stockwell, where 1 live, is not a parish, but a hamlet be loo2ing t o f al mbetli ; and as to any resurrections heaving t a ken place. by authority of •any kind, I. cun distinctly say that nothing of the sort is true., I hope some zealous inhabitant of Camberwell will not delay to confute, if he can, the uncalled for insinuation of EWELL. In this case, it SeeMS, troth lies in a well, and I trust some sagacious cartespondent will draw her out. Hoping you will insert this. ill justice to the 'inhabitants of is most respectable I rtinnin, Sir, Your very obedient fiervant, NAUUTUS. Stockwell, Nov. 13, 1824. JOrtitNitYMEN IWittosit lY Etittfuttnott,=--On Monday the greater part of the masons here 'struck work, in consequence of the Master builders reducing their wages. It is usual for the latter to make a certain reduction at this sea son, on account of the shortness of the day ; and yesterday being. the commencement of the winter hours, the masters simultaneously stated that they were resolved to give only fifteen shillings per week. The operatives conceiving this reduction out of proportion to the loss of time resulting from winter hours, refused .to work at the wages offered. In the course of the forenoon they held a meeting at the Weat-end of Coat,'.crescent, where a small Committee was named, and a wend meeting agreed to be held at the head of Blunts. field Links. At three o'clock about COO appeared at the 'spot appointed—a sort of natural. amphitheatre, near Viewforth Bettie. Here a set of Resolutions were proposed and agreed --to.--alte substance of which wa s, that they (the journeymen) 'would not work for less wages tha n 17s. p er week ; that they considered the depriving them of the dinner hour in winter as a great hardship; and, therefore, would not.work to any master who should not allow the usual period of rest for dinner in winter as well as In summer. A penny a Man was collected for the purpose of oiofraying any incidental charges. From the sum collected, it appeared that about PO were present. It was then proposed and agreed to, that a Society should be formed, with a view to give assistance to such of their brethren as might in future have occasion to strike from a similar cause. Before Air dispersed, it was intimated, as a general understanding, ;that in every case where masters cornidied with the proposed fwagis and time, the journeymen should instantly recommence their usual labours. We understand that many of the master builders have-resolved to suspend their building operations for .The present, In consequence of not being able to come to an ar- Ar angement with the operative masons.—(Edinbargh Observer.) YORK CATKI'DRAL.—This venerable pile was li g ht e d up with gas on Sunday evening last. It i 4 most tastefully illuminated, and is in perfect unison with the style of the buildinfi, Wsto CLUB:- • " We have heard of anoNter most important secession" from this pa triotic institution. At prestant we decline naming, tut the secret will not be kept much longer.-- &C/nester Chrunkles) INDIA. The Free-trader ship Sir Edward Paget, Capt. ,Tofu GEA ItY, R.N., has arrived at Portsmouth from Calcutta, which she left on the 18th of June, with a cargo of raw silk and indigo, sugar and saltpetre, valued at 300,0001., besides gold and silver specie to the amount of 30,000/. She has brought Calcutta Government Gazettes, which contain a detailed report of a gallant action between the Company's cruiser Vestal, as sisted by a few gun-boats, and a great number of Burmese war boats carrying swivels and one hundred men each, which tried to intercept her in her way down theriver from Tek N aaf and were so confidentofsuccess that before commencing the action they called upon her to surrender, and threatened, if she did not, to murder every man on board. A shower of grape and cannistcr shot, however, was the only answer, and not only were half the Bur mese boats and their crews destroyed, but the Vestal made tor the Simporee islands, where she compelled those which lay there to run aground, and mowed down their crews as they tied to escape into the jungles. She also silenced a stockade Ott the shore and swept the river so effectually, that although more thaw six thousand Burmele had been engaged one day both on the water and on land, there was not a single boat or a single enemy to be seen the next day. The Sepoys on board the. Vestal and the gun-boats behaved extremely well • but we are sorry to fi nd that some of the Provincial troops had mutinied and given up a stockade which they occupied to the 13nrmese. 7he latter, after the unfortunate affair at Ramoo, where the British loss, however, hail been considerably exag gerated, might, it is said, have found their way to Calcutta. —The greatest alarm was experienced for a few days in that city, which had ben left with scarcely any military protection since the sailing of the troops. All fears, however, had been removed at the date of these advices, and the Burmese not having profitted by the first. moment of surprise, had lost all chance of success and were said to he falling hack on their own territory. On the A ssem side of Ava their resistance was growing more obstinate, and apprehensions were entertained lest the war had been protracted to a longer period than had been anticipatedt Letters from Gorruckpoor to the end of May, were also received by this conveyance, which gave a very fa vourable account of the progress of Missionaries in that part of India. Great numbersof the natives had become converts, through the efforts of the Missionaries, to Christianity, and their example was daily followed by the inhabitants of the neighbouring villages. A new church was being erected at Gor nick-poor, and it was reported the consecration by the Bishop of Calcutta would take place in Jiine. Sir W. Franklin, Chief Justice at Madras, died at that settlement 19th May. Sir F. llacnaghten, Chief Justice at Calcutta, who was about to re turn to England in the Sir Edward Paget, was, by the death of Sir Christopher Puller, obliged to defer his departure. It is a remarkable fact, that Sir Christopher Puller enjoyed his aP ?ointment exactly th e same n um b er o f d ays on l y as his prede: censor, Sir F, Blossett. We have received a series of Singapore Papers from the 22d of May to the 19th of June, from which we extract the fol lowing : _ (From the Paper of May 27. ) The Right [lon. the Governor in Council having been pleas. ed to sanction the following Provisional Regulations for the Port of' Singapore, they are hereby publi s h e d for general in formation. Ist. The arrivals of all ships and vessels shall be imme diately reported to the Master Attendant in the ordinary re port book, and afterwards by the Commander in person, at the Master Attendant's Office, as soon as the vessel shall have anchored. 2d. The intended departure of any ship or vessel shall be reported to the Master Attendant 24 hours previous to her sailing, except in cases of emergency, which will be determined by the Resident. 3d. Commanders of all vessels are required when hoarded by the Master Attendant's boat, to deliver to the Post Office letter carrier, all letters, packets, or dispatches for the Settle ment, and to receive and furnish a receipt for Post Office packets which may be sent on board at their deParture. 4th. With the view of a ff ording an authentic record of the progress of the trade of the Settlement, all Commanders of European or square rigged vessels are required to give in be fore sailing, to the Master Attendant, an accurate specification of the goods imported and exported by them, such statement to 'be sealed and not opened until the vessel shall have quitted the port. To facilitate this operation, the Master Attendant will supply the Commanders with prop e r f orms . 6th. With the same object in view, a verbal statement of the Import and Export cargo of native vessels shall be given in by their Commanders. 6th. After reporting at the Master Attendant's Office on their arrival, and immediately previous to their departure, all Com menders of European and Native vessels are required to wait on the Sitting ;11agistrates, and supply them with a list of the passengers intending to remain at or depart from this Sa.- dement. 7th. All vessels, European and Native, will promptly re ceive a port-clearance, on application to the Master Attendant's Office, and such port-clearance will be given without fee or charge. Bth. All cargo boats shall be regularly admensured, num bered, and registered by the Master Attendant's Office, and such boat shall have marked upon her bow her number and tonnage. _ 9th. All cargo boats shall be supplied with good and suffi cient coverings, adequate to protect the goods received on board from damage. _ _ 10th. The following shall be the maximum of charges taken for boat hire, woodin o ,, , watering, and b a ll ast i ng, o f s h ips touch ing at the port, and whose stay does not exce e d f or ty- e i g h t hours, us well as in all other cases where no previous arrange ment or contract is made. Boat hire BB cents, of a Spanish dollar per royan of 40 pietas. Firewood per 1000 billets (of 18 rallies to billet), i Spanish dollars. Ditto ditto, boat hire included, 8i Spanish dollars. Ballast sand per royan, including boat hire, 80 cents. Ditto stone, ditto, ditto, 90 cents. Water, if with ships' casks, one dollar per ton, including boat hire. Ditto, where ships' casks are not used one dollar 12 cents. 11th. The business of supplying wood, water, and ballast for ships, and the employment of cargo-boats, shall not he con sidered subject to any official restraint or regulation beyond those already mentioned; and the mediation and assistance of the Officers of the Government, with regard to them, are deem. ed in the present advanced state of the trade of the port no longer necessary. 12th. Nothing contained in these regulations shall be con strued to operate against the most pert'ect liberty to ships to wood, water, an d b a ll ast, w i t h t h e i r own b oats . Alva/we, M ay 24 , 1024. Extract of a letter dated Calcutta, . .Tune 12, 1024, received by the Sir Edward Paget : " 1 enclose a Orriernment Gazelle Extraordinary, out only ten minute's, giving some account of an affair of boats, in width the I►ttle Company's cruiser Vestal had been engaged at Tek Naar. It is represented as a brilliant affair; but there are accounts in town representing it as a very disastrous business. Our party have behaved very well, but they have suffered se verely. Some of our gun-bolas, it 13 said, have been destroyed. Whether these report's cone front croaking people or not, it is difficult to say. The great alarm respecting an invasion from the Burmese has subsided, though all agree that they might have advanced upon Calcutta with the greatest ease.— They are still within our territory at Ramoo, strongly stock ad'•d. This is the scene of their victory over Captain Noton's detachment ; and the scene of their barbarities upon Captain Trueman. 'They say they will exterminate the Europeans. Itamoo is 80 mile* south of the Sudder station of Chittagong, or Islamabad, as it is put down in the maps." GOVERNMENT GAZErrE EXTRAORDINARY. Calcutta, June 12. lIRILLIAN'T AFFAIR WITH A FLEET OF BURMESE WAR. lIOATH, Extract of a letter dated Naaf river, .June 4, Honourable Com. pany's cruizer Vestal: --. " Yesterday, seven the Subadar, in charge of the stoc kade ut Tek Naaf, came on board, after enduring much hard ship and peril, to inform us that the provincial troops under his command had mutinied, and given themselves up to the Bur mese, after refusing to obey his orders to fire upon the enemy the preceding evening, under which circumstances he imme diately spike d the gun, and destroyed the ammunition belong ing to it, and would have done the same with the magazine, but the Sepoys threatened to take his life if he did so. He escaped to us in disguise, with his order:y, having seen the Burmese, whose force consists of 120 horse and a large body of foot. Supplies being now cut offend our stay of no further utili tweighed and stood d own t h e r i ver . A t Mu t we fe ll in with a fleet of B urmese war-boats,` r o 0 a td r l r e e k e p. n of them carrying swivels and one hundred men each, drawn out in order of battle; one came off with an order for us immedi ately to surrender the vessel, or every hand on hoard would be massacred. The gun-boats under lr. Boyce's command re. turned for answer a shower of grape and canister, and bore down upon them, firing as fast as they could l oa d. An ha. mense number of men were killed, and some of the largest boats totally disabled. Nothing could exceed the high. spirited conduct of Mr. Boyce, the artillerymen, and Mug Sepoys in the boat, under his command. " After silencing the boats and men on shore, who kept up a close fire during the attack, the vessel made for Shuporee Islands, where a great number of boats and men jay, who upon our pouring in a brisk fire, drew up their boats ran into jungle, but not before a Mt Lumber were killed; in fact, they were literally mown down by our great guns. By this time the gun. boats came u:). whi;ll were left to complete the confusion by clearing the shore and jungle, which they did most effectually. While the brig bore down on the stockade, situated on the op. posite shore, on nearing it they gave us three cheers, or more properly specking three war whoops, but our first broadside soon silenced them ; the boats likewise gave their assistance in this grand object. Night coming on, we anchored a little to the southward of •the stockade. All the men under arms and at their quarters during the whole of the night, expecting an attack in the dark ; but the great loss they sustained during the day, I fancy,. deterred them.. " This morning we weighed, and are now on our way to Chittagong; not a boat to he seen in theriver. I conceive there were yesterday atleast 2,000 men afloat, and twice that number on shore. To give you an idea of the havoc made among them would be impossible, and had not the night prevented, it would have been much greater. During our stay at anchor, we saw the place we left in the morning on tire, but as the villages were deserted some time ago, no great damage could have been done. Our decks exhibited a most motley groupe—men, women, end children, with 32 Mut; Sepoys, together with the Suhadar, Daroga, and Mug Jeniidars, who have put themselves under our protection." CHITTAGONG.—Accounts from Chittagong, timed the 27th, mention a report, that the Burmese had been repulsed in an attack on the Hon. Company's cruizer Vestal, and on our small host of Provincials and Mugs at Tek Naaf. Letters of the 20th state, that the Burmese had not advanced from Ramon, It now appears, that of the party said to have been completely de. etroyed at that place, more than one-half had returned to Chit tagong unhurt. A spy taken at Chuckerceah has given infor mation that the whole of the Burmese force at Rantoo amounted to 8,000 foot and 200 horse. Of these 1,500 had gone down against Tek Naaf, 1,590 had returned to the Pullungo, front whence they had previously advanced to Ranioo, and the remainder intended shortly to move on Hung. hung, a stage to the northward of Chuckerceah. The spy fur ther relates that the Burmese hail heard of Rangoon being attacked ten days ago. He adds, that they had four Sirdars, and only one hundred m e n kill e d, at R amon , t h at t h e G enera l Bundoola had reported progress to the King, and was waiting for further orders. Extract of a Letter from Captain Geary, of the Sir Edward Paget, dated Portsmouth, Nov. 12 :—" 1 sailed from Bengal the 19th of June, and from the Cape the 10th of September.— When oft' the Cape I was several days in company with an Eng lish ship of about 300 tons, with a poop, bust head, and quarter. galleries, but from her weather position I could not communi cate with her. She made a signal with four fla , gs, but I did not understand the . purport (Wit. She had lost all her weather works abaft the mainmast, evidently from stress of weather, as I observed the sea mule several breaches over her decks, and a strong gale of wind from the W.N.W. having come on, I have great fear for her safety." Extract of a letter, dated Calcutta, May 31,1024.—" A very considerable body of Burmese troops were ravaging the coun try in the neighbourhood of Dacca, an eastern province 171 miles from Calcutta. The Indigo crops were favourable, hut it is supposed would receive damage from the enemy, as the frontiers were defenceless, by so many troops having been with. drawn for the expedition." The Sir Edward Paget passed the Cape on September 16, St. Helena, 30th; Ascension, Oct. 2; and Western Islands, Nov. 3. Spoke, in Channel soundings, the Dove packet, Lieut. Crossby, from Buenos Ayres, bound to Falmouth.—The Sir Edward Paget brings home—Col. Knox, Captains M'Kenzie, Marshall, 'Britten and Lady, and Lieut. Rice, of the Bengal Infantry, T. •Dykes and C. Puller, Esqrs. ; Lady Puller, Mesdames Neyland, Phillot, M'Cawan, and Maningham, and 10 children. The p a s sengers on th e i r l an di ng h ere g a ve afare well dinner to Captain Geary, last evening, at the George Inn, expressive of their grateful sense of his kindness and gentle manly deportment to them during the passage, and the skill with which he had, their judgment, navigated the ship:— The Sir Edward Paget was precisely 12 months on her passage out and home, from Spithead, yesterday being the anniversary of her passing through the Needles outward bound.—( Ports mouth Paper.) THE ARMY. A detachment of recruits belonging to the 53d (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot marched on Saturday morning, from the Re cruiting Department in Westminster, for Weedon. Detachments of recruits belonging to the 2d (The Queen's giment of nfantry, marched on Wednesday last, from the Re- Royal) Re fiment of Foot, and the 27th (West Middles ex ) Re cruiting Department in Westminster, for Chatham. A detachment of recruits, recently arrived from Ireland, marched through London, on Tuesday last, on its route to Can terbury. to join the Ist battalion of the GOth (the Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps.) Detachments belonging to the under -mentioned Reg iments of Infantry, viz.—The 6th, 27 t h, 4 1 st, 43d, 47th, 50t t, 60th, 64th, 69th, 70th, 96th, and the Royal African Colonial Corps, embarked on the 13th ult. at Dublin, for England, to join the depots of their respective co r p s , Detachments belonging to the following Regiments, viz.— the Coldstream Guarda, the 34 Guards, the 20th, 24th, 37th, 41st, 47th, 51st, 152 d, 60th 64th, 69th, 70th, an d 87 t h F oot , embarked at Dublin, on die 234 ult. for England. Detachments belonging to the under-mentioned Corps, viz. the sth, 9th, 18th, 31st, 33d, 35th, 40th Foot, and the East India Company's Artillery and Infantry, embarked on the 26th ult. at Cork, for England. CHAT 11A)11, Nov. 12.—This morning, that fine body of, men, the Battalion of Royal Marines, were reviewed on the' Lines by the Commandant of the Corps, Lient..General Sir U. Bell, K.C.B. It is but justice to saw that it made a very fine military appearance, and went through the various movements according to the new system of Sir Henry Torrens, with the same accuracy and precision that h as ga i ne d for them so much commendation during the last summer. Dummy, Nov. 11.—The half-yearly Inspection of the bri gade of the Royal Artillery in Limerick, under the command of Colonel Thornhill, took place by Major-General Sir John Elley on Friday ; as usual, the efficiency of this well-con. ducted corps was approved of by Sir John. All out-posts of cavalry in Ireland are, by a recent regulation, to be re lieved from head-quarters every three months. A letter from an officer of the 93d Highlanders, dated Demerara, of the 26th August, states, that the Regiment enjoyed most ex cellent health.—The 92 Regiment are ordered home from tile %Vest India Islands. ['From SATURDAY'S GAZETTE.] War-Olice, Nos. 12, 1824. Ist Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant William Fawkener Cheturynd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice de Roos, p romo t e d ; H enry P eyton , G ent . t o be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chetwyntl. 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—James Richard Somer ville, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Bulkeiey, pro moted. 14th Ditto—. Tames Massey Dawson, Gent. to he Cornet, by purchase, vice Smith, promoted. Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards..—Second Li eute . nant George llPKinnon, from the Rifle Brigade, to he Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wigram, who retires. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign Willoughby Cotton, from the 62(.1 Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Graves, promoted. 2d Regiment of Foot—Paymaster James Somerville D a rby, from half-pay 21st Light Dragoons, to be Paymaster, vice William Bowden, who exchanges. 36th Ditto—Lieutenant George Cairns, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fraser; promot e d i n t h e 50 t h F oo t ; Ensign John Skerry to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Cairns; Hon. Francis Petre to he Ensign, by purchase, vice Skerry. 45th.Ditto—William Hope, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Harrison, promoted in the 113 d Foot. 50th Ditto—Brevet Lieut..Go' lonel John Fraser, from the :16th Foot, to be Major, b y purchase, v i ce P r i ce , who retires; Captain Thomas Shaw, from the 97th Foot, to be Captain, vice George Bartley, who reti r es upon half. ay 02d Foot. tilld Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Henry Balthazar Adams, from the Cape Corps, to be Lieutenant, vice Harrison, who ex. c'tanges. 62d. Ditto—AVilliam G uar d, G en t. to be Ensign, by pur. chase, vice Cott on , appointed to the Coldstream Foot Guar ds. 9oth Ditto_R —ns'6a Thomas Woodward Eylea t o be Lieu . tenant, by purchase, vice Maclean, promoted in the 95th Foot. 97th Ditto. -..(;captain William from half-pay 92d Foot, to be Captain, vice Shaw, appointed to the 50th Foot. Rifle Brigade—Gentleman Cadet James Saumarcz Came. ron, from the Royal Military College, to he Second-Lieutenant, uaitis. by purchase, vice APKinnon, appointed to the Grenadier Foot Cape Corp* ( Infantry)—Lientenant William Harrison, from the 53d Foot, to he Lieutenant, vice Adams, who exchanges: TUE ARMY IN INDIA. GENERAL ORDEIti, BY THE RIGHT lIONOURADL E THE GOVEIINOR•GENRIt AL IN COUNCIL. FORT Wit.r.tast, 19T1r APRIL, 1824. No. 117 B of 1824. —In continuation of G. 0. G. G., 17th February, 1821, the following extract (paragraphs 9 and 10) of a General Letter from the Honourable the Court of Directors, under date the 10th September, 1823, relative to furlough, is published for general information and guidance :- 9. In view to the effectual accomplish.. (Vide G. 0. 0. (i. ment of our object in learning those in 17th Feb. 1021.) structions, we have resolved that at the expiration `l)f two years from the date of quitting India, each Officer be informed by our Secretary, thut he is required to join the establishment to which he may belong at the termination of three years from the commencement of his furlough, unless he shall obtain an extension of leave from us, six months before the expiration of the said term of three years; that extensions of furlough will not be granted except in cases of sickness certified to our satisfaction, or in cases in which it shall be clearly proved that a further residence in Europe is indispensibly necessary ; and that any Officer failing, when two years and a half shall have elapsed from the time of quitting India, to apply for permission either to return to the service or to remain in Europe, will subject himself to be struck off' the List of our Army. 10. We wish to call your attention to these Regulations, and we desire that in all cases of fqrloughs being granted a second time, on account of private affairs, the grounds of such special induliFence are to he particularly reported to us, and the Officer receiving► it is to be apprised, that he will be liable to be ordered to return to India prior to the expiration of the usual term of three years. WM. CASEMENT, Lieut. Col. Sec. to Gov. Mil. Dept. FORT WILLIAM, 10TII APRIL, 1824. No. 117 C. of 1824.—The Honourable the Court of Direc tors having notified the receipt in their Treasury in London of the amount of the MAURITIUS PRIZE MoNET, and of the third distribution of that due for the capture of Colombo in 1796, the Bight Honourable the Governor-General in Council is hereby pleased to direct, that all parties having claims to the above prize-monies shall submit the same through the pre scribed channels to the General Prize Committee at the Presi dency. The Governor-General in Council is further pleased to direct, that the General Prize Committee shall submit for the con sideration and orders of Government all such claims as shall have been investigated and passed by the subordi nate Committees, such appearing to the General Committee to be established; on their receiving the sanction of Govern ment, they shall be passed by the Military Auditor Gene ral as a Member of the General Prize Committee ; the Bills to be returned to the Station Committees for the purpose Of being presented to the nearest Paymaster, who. will pay the amount to the President of the Committee, by whom the shares of individuals are to be discharged, the President obtaining a receipt for the share paid to each individual, which he is to for ward for record to the Committee at the Presidency. Agreeably with the tenor of the Acts Ist and 2d of George the 4th, cap. 61, claims may be preferred during the period therein mentioned for the above prize monies, after the expira tion of which no claim can bo received. WM. CASEMENT, Lieut.-Col. Sec. to Govt. Mil. Dept. FOIIT-WILLIA3I, 29T11 A Mtn., Mt No. 119 of 11124—The following clause to he added to Gl.O. 0. G. 29th Nov. 1921. " The above extension of the limitation of allowances, u to time fixed for Officers on leave of absence from their regiments or stations is only to apply to the cases of such Officers as ob tain leave on private affairs, and shall rejoin their corps or sta tion; but all Officers who shall, while absent on leave, proceed on furlough to Europe or beyond sea, shall be subject only to the provisions of 0. O. 0. (1. lath Sept. 1821." The Order Books to be corrected accordingly. Will. CA SE M ENT, Lieu t. -Col. Sec. to Govt. Mil. Dept. FORT WILLIAM, 29Ttt APRIL, 1824. No. 120 of 1824.—The Governor-General in Council is pleased to make the following promotion and appointment in the Ordnance Commissariat Department. Deputy-Commissary Lieutenant C. G. Dixon, to be a Com missary of Ordnance ; let Lieutenant Ralph Gore Roberts, of Artillery, to be a Deputy-Commissary of Ordnance—ln suc cession to Bt. Maj. Ferris, dec. The following promotion is also made by his Lordship in Council. II th Regiment Native Infantry. Ensign James Chicheley Plowden, to be Lieutenant from the 11th February, 1024, in succession to Davidson, deceased. Lieutenant George Frederick Frank Vincent of the 9th Re giment Native Infantry has returned to his duty on this Esta blishment without prejudice to his rank, by permission of the Honourable the Court of Directors. Date of arrival in Fort William 16th April, 1824. Captain Roderick Mackenzie, of the Ilth Regiment of Na tive Infantry, is permitted to proceed to Europe on furlough, on account of his health. Lieutenant George C. Holroyd, of the 29th Regiment Na. tive Infantry, commanding the escort of the Resident at Hy drabtul, is permitted to proceed to New South Wales, via Rom. bay and China, for the benefit of his health, and to be absent on that account for twelve months. WM. CASEMENT, Lient.-Cor. Sec. to the Govt. Mil. Dept. FORT Wit r.rAm, 29th APRIL 1824. No. 121 of 1824.—The Governor-General in Council is pleased to sanction the nomination of Captain John Elliott, of his Majesty's service, to act as Assistant Adjutant-General of his Majesty's Forces in India, from the embarkation and during the absence of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Tidy, C. 8., on Foreign Service, or until further orders. WM. CASEMENT, Lieut.-Col. Sec. to Govt. MR. Dept. GENERAL. ORDERS BY THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. Head Quarters, Calcutta, 20th April, 1824. At a Native General Court artial assembled at Dinapore on the 9th of March, 1024. Subadar Bothee Sing, of the Patna Provincial Battalion was arranged upon the undermen tioned Charges; viz. Ist —" For having, at Chuprah, on or about the month of September, 1823, confined Nuseeh Sins and Dnemally, Se poys of the Patna Provincial Battalion, belonging to the guard then under his command, on the pretence of sending them to head-quarters of the Battalion for trial, and released them again on their bribing him to do so. 2d'—" For having, on or about the month of September. 1823, demanded and received money from Buctour Sing, Se poys, Patna Provincial Battalion, for obtaining him leave of absence—also for refusing to allow Munourat Sing, Sepoy, to visit his house at the recommendation of the Surgeon until bribed by Sunmoo Roy, brother of the above mentioned Sc rkll or any part of such conduct being disgraceful to the character of a '.Native Commissioned Officer, and in breach of the Articles of War." Upon which Charges the Court came to the following de. cision : Finding and Sentence—" The Court having maturely weighed and considered the Evidence adduced, with what the prisoner has urged in his defence, is of opinion, that he is Guilty of all and every part of the Charges preferred against him, which being in breach of the Articles of IVar, does Sen tence him, Subadar Bothee Sing, of the Patna Provincial Bat talion, to be discharged from the Service." Approved and Confirmed, (Signed) EDWD. PAGET General. Commader-in-Chi e f in India. Before the same Court Martial re -assembled at Dinaporc on the 10th of March 1824, Jemadar Molloi Sing, of the Patna Provincial Battalion, was arraigned upon the undermentioned Charges ; viz. Ist—" For having, at Chuprah, on or about the month of August 1823, made an unauthorised deduction of four rupees from the pay of Sewchurn Sing, Sepoy, Patna Provincial Battalion. 2d.---" For having, on or about the month of September, 1823, at Chup ra h, con fi ne d H unsra j e Si ng , an d Surjoo Sing, Sepoys, Patna Provincial Battalion, under a threat of sending them for trial to the Head-quarters of the battalion, and subse fluently releasing them on their paying hint money as a bribe for so doing. " All or any part of such conduct being disgraceful, unbe coming the character of a Native Commissioned Officer, and in breach of the articles of war." Upon which Charges the Court came to the following deci sion : Finding and Sentence.—" The Court having maturely weighed and considered the evidence adduced, with what the prisoner has urged in his defence, is of opinion that he is Guilty of all and every part of the charges preferred against him, which being in breach of the Articles of War, does Sentence him, Je madar Molloi Sing, of the Patna Provincial Battalion, to be discharged the Service." Approved and Confirmed, (Signed) EDWD. PAGET, General, Commander-in-Chief in India. Before the same Court-Martial re-assembled at Dinapore on the 11th of March 1824, .Temadar Kurta Sing, of the l'atna Provincial Battalion, was arraigned upon the undermentioned Charge, viz. " For having, at Bankipore, on or about the Bth of February 1824, tampered with, and endeavoured to influence the evidence of Bhyroo Sing Sepoy, and others, whom he considered likely to be cited as witnesses against two Native Officers then under t ll yo b u e arrest, by expressing himself audibly in the following terms— those scoundrels who have gone and informed the Adjutant w do ill no a }live evidence, if you are called upon against them, but apply i a ) g ro a u in g s h t t th to e a Subadar urtm a ar n t d ia .T i. em an a d l s a e i v d e i r n ely ar p re u s i t ) , is t i h ie e d y , and he has promised not to give evidence against them the for your discharge and go home. I have spoken to Sewnauth Court-Martial will be held at Dinapore where the Captain and Adjutant will have nothing to say, if I can get five men who I will all give the same evidence in the Subadars favour, lie will be acquitted, and then those scoundrels will see what they will get'—or in words to that effect." Upon which Charge the Court came to the following dal. sion. Finding and Sentence.—The Court having maturely weighed . and considered the evidence adduced, with what the prisoner • has urged in his defence, is of opinion that he is Guilty of all anti every part of the Charge pretred against him, which being in breach of the Articles of iVar,/roes Sentence him, Jetnatlia Kuria Sing, of the Patna Provincial Battalion, to be discharged from the service." Approved and Confirmed, (Signed) EDWD. PAGET, General, Commander-in-Chief in India. NORTH ERN EXPEDITION. ( From the Hampshire Telegraph.) • On Wednesday morning his Majesty's (boo! very ship the Griper, Captain GEORGE F. LYON, most unex. pettedly arrived at this port, and ran into the harbour direct from Davis's Straits, with the signal of distress flying, having lost all her anchors and cables in fruitless endeavours to get into Repulse Bay, whither she was under orders to proceed, for the purpose of co-operating with Captain Parry in searc h of ' a north-west passage. The circumstance% which have led to the failure of this branch of the north-west expedition are attri butable to stormy and severe weather, which prevailed in a more intense degree than the oldest northern navigator remem bers, and to the extraordinary bad qualities of the ship p u n"' required. It appears that the Griper heft S:rness on the lat of July, and made Cape Chu(neigh (on the Labrador coast) on the 2d of August, having . fallen in wi th iceberiestihrF,e days previously, and from which time she ems hove wi th lest j e t ' In this passage she was found to cniA la, little iegrsti t ' , , , that the Snap (her provision tender) was frequeeilY l - ,a take her in tow. From Cape Chudleigh the Griper w snook _ . to stretch to the northward, to Resolution 'hilted, as the heist ice prevented progress up Hudson Strait : they were, however. fan the enabled to make slow advances to the westward, close to the Some t Savage Islands, until they made Salisbury or Not:hih:xi Island, but which place could not be ascertained from the ine. possibility of making observations off the Upper Savage 111-sods. be of samem doeseacriofpntaintinvesafcaEmseiteloiafflatouxthaemiti; wwhhojeahoPoeftrur endaitTgators Were before acquainted. They were dismissed with liberal ply sents, and appeared much gratified. From Salisbury Island_ tbe Griper proceeded to the south point of Southampton Islaielo,,:;;. which they were assisted by a strong current setting &rim I. r ii . Channel; but on their rounding Southampton Island, this cu rent, which then came down Sir Thomas Itowe'slVelcome (tie . which they wished to proeeed), was directly against them , and nearly caused their shipwreck. Southainpton Island wls fund. e : to be laid down with tolerable accuracy. Off the S.W. el'_u_''; the island the Griper was obliged to anchor, in consequern:d of suddenly shoaling her water: in a gale of wind she PB l, in one anchor, but brought up again with three anchors a-hra',_,,, quarter less four fathoms water : when the title fell, the se n a d Z iti so heavy that the rudder continuall struck the gra il Il' 8 ~ lifted almost out of the gudgeons :this was on the lst of tember. On the weather moderating, the Griper proceeded ire The Welcome, but a northerly gale of wind springing u p',, t er . ship was driven into Hudson's Bay. However, Dy 1 3 7,:i f ie, ante, and taking advantage of every favourable breeze o ~, , t , she reached Cape Fullerton, the larboard entrance of 1 41 1 f ;) River, and within about 60 miles of the spot (Reolse % can where she was intended to winter. The coast 00 the Ame ri can main land was found so rocky-and extremely asn,ge r° , w hence ,emu s, she was obliged to stretch off' for Southampton I"a n " by she endeavoured to make for Repulse Bay, but was drivenahat the tide directly to the southward and westward, against a p e a was supposed to be Wager hives. Here strong breezes. i.. heavy snow-storm set in, which made it necessary that the s hi p should be brought to with three anchors a-head and madees doss t The sea rose rapidly, and broke over the ship with; rem nin,c, force, forming thick coats of ice in an instant, so to co a i n i o the shrouds together half way up the rigging. The se? t he fell so fast that the men had much difficulty in keel' i l i eg i e g t decks clear. The ship all this time pitched so dresg il l e ' r ehe the cables came over the bumpkins, one of which was ~t s de. broken. During the night, p a large screen] of lee "!`,„, e . covered coming down upon the ship, but, most liepeilY+l.`ronjf ed before it reached her, and som e , sma ll portioes ofit , a struck against the bows, which didno da mage' 111,eri continued to increase, as well as the snow at o'cl e e' a ; a t he OI P the mo • rntng the starboard cable parted, and, on e t he e sea swinging to the other three anchors, she was struck ''',, the and parted from them all. Her situation at this tinw '''',, ri, most perilous that can be imagined, every individusi Itte°icre tarily expecting that she would drive on shore. Id ea , ns ic I) 'et nervation, however, were not neglected ; the tryssiis,f-eert I, on her, though it was so dark that noobject coul d be nn tc-- e' d e „,,, l i es and they did not know so much lay, from the compasses having ceased th e ship .' to act,, p le.- -- as it is supposed, directly over or near the Afagnetl e c.• ° wied Whilst presuming, in this distressing dilemma that tue foie had shifted off the land, as the water deepene d, a Si g ht ° obi sun, and subsequently of the other celestial bodic, 9 1: 0 4 tamed (of which they had had no view for some V e l i c omr, the ship was found to have been drifted out of th e e nt no after having attained lat. 65. 30. There was at monleinee, anchor left in the ship. Notwithstanding, it was yen the if possible, to winter a bo u t Chesterfield Inlet , or evl 0 on Southward of that spot. The persevering efforts , or „bore, board were accordingly directed to gain the AnrrciTien,e but finding that the ship got into the ithallows of ! w i t s , tor Bay, they were reluctantly compelled to edge P ay ,„leble Salisbury a Island, still hoping that a few fine and ', qv tad d• d ays would restore to them their lost ground. 4,!;eculter weather, however, still continued,and there was rouch_tnem. A in watering the ship at these placen, from a stream of l e r i 0 ,0, number e of natives came off to th em . in their canoes , rhere ti ked their clothes for iron and spears. At length. t he of the less s continuance of had weather, the wretched condit i . , oaf hip (from her incapaci:ies), the ' officers and crew 11 ° 11 1" ec he at y a freed more hardships tha n • s voyage+ t T eitin't on any previou -ed stage of' the season, with numerous other eoe t ° he e lep miseries, compelled Captain Lyon to consent til3t ailo roi l° should be got out of Hudson's Straits (an extent of , ew e of dangerous navigation); which place they had scat:et:l ts, 150 cd, when a southerly gale drove them up Davis's SP - . A er eialif , miles to the southward of Resolution Island. Provicieed on s a change of wind enabled them soon after to rt P ;ere in rii s southern passage homeward, and the Griper arrived j 1 ere in the state we have described. the geg " ' Though little has been effected towards Solving ~e , yet phical problem of a north-west pas - sage by this 7 3 ,7 1 ,; cane some most interesting elucidations of the deviation 0_ boo to pass have been brought to light. The comes' Abe bu tt waver and contradict each other when abreest of t" eor resea Islands; and, as the ship got to the westwatd, tbt „, loa ps got unsteady and useless. While the ship was tray ir .le at All, Rowe's Welcome, they frequently would not er g e. l id a _ e e l ite but stood in whatever position the card wa s plane the prinCO passage he discovered by Captain Parry through eer , te e Regent's inlet, it is considered more than p r obable+ 'w ate red never be irregular movements of the ice, that it may again. bad " ell The Griper spolce several whalers, all of which two e s te unsuccessful in the fishery ; no ship had more 'hi t° peresi% and many none wh a tev e r. From the Captain of the 400 whaler, Captain floe heard that Captain Farr exP with I bese t d ]tad been seen in the middle of' August, in lat. I. +,, en ' ice. On the whole the season has been more boietereni for :ff , consequently, the sea lees clear than it has been 1 10 1 0 1 d t ° years. It was very questionable if Captain Par r y e f f ec ted a able to reach Lancaster Sound. Had the ('riper '0(0 1 ' wintering either in Repulse Bay or Wager River, or iiti b a se field Inlet, Captain Lyon, with a strong partY+ I , °°l ( l .orK." made a land journey to Point Turn-again, near Lie, elre ei- Mine River, a distance o f near l y 7 0 0 ni n e s, for wide" ire,rel 's Lion they were fully equipped. Captain Parry, If he e e ee passing Lancaster Sound, and getting to the eoutWi ee ,,r “ se; Prince Regent's inlet (by which Captain Lyon was,.:i ir i e e, n to communicate with him), he will send a land eT B a y, It possible, in the same direction, as well as to Rentult° the hope of communie.atine with the Griper• es o f th e ! The Griper communicated with the Estiuhtutux natty n . i .,.,„ loaf tii o , Upper Savaoe Islands, and of snlisbury and Islands, all of whim , had frequently seen European!. ,_ .„ 00 were less savage in their habits and manners t han tht o r , ,T ee i northern brethern, hut they sliowed a strong thievish dis t p _ r a ' atii , they endeavour to steal' th e oars and iron work from It_e_ nw ,co The Griperalso communicated with the natives of Sontm: , ex • Island, who had never seen a ship before. They, hnwr e c e - e 's in pressed very little surprise ; they evinced more gent.tt and their manners than any other of the EMIUIIII/1014 " 1 '1; 1 , t he were much better looking and cleaner in their pestle ebe women were rather pretty. All those people resale ~.0 0 , Walrus-hide huts , which are described in Captain " last voyage. tir O f ttio The Griper is ordered to be paid off, and sold a O ,!le ter' navy. A vessel better adapted to the peculiarities his mere vice will no doubt be provided for Capt. Lyon and rte . season rot a ' i torious o ff icers and crew , on the opening of the eet to leave Cher investigation. Capt. Franklin, we understan t England, on hislend expedition, in February next ___-.... . has nted the General Infirmary with twritY Pn" D prese ou AVID CRAM, Esq., of,Newcastle-upon- TY ne A s ; anu , the 13unding.fund for the Philosophical So.iety's new TN with five guineas,