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FRENCH PAPERS. [From the Journal det Debate of Thursday.l Pauts,-Jut.Yt 9.—We see with. pleasure,'' "Ao articles of a Ministerial Journal, that the , Ilovernment is disposed to trent with the Hay 4iitos, and thus secure considerable advantages to the commerce of France. This should trap . qteillize the public as to the plan of re-conquering Hayti. Do the Cabinet 'Warriors know how many millions (francs) and how many thousand sohliera such an expedition would cost ? Have - . they reflected on the cruelty o f sending our brave soldiersto that dangerous climate ? They are.itot mere mercenaries, such as England sends , to inch places. Do they know that the defence •of Hayti is now on a better footing than when Buonaparte's brother-in-law perished there with ' 40,000 men ; that the mountains are fortified, and the-plains beneath them cultivated, while an army landing would find only ashes on the coast? • littt it is impossible a project can be in content plition, which, even if it succeeded, would Only' restore 1,0 us a heap of ruins. It is not only for the twitonr of the crown that the titular domi okm (tuuraineii) should be insisted on, but, to '-''protect the order no* established in the colony against the effects -. of a 'seditious or military usurpation ; and even to assist in resisting, if ne.‘ ceisary i against foreign, intervention. There may . , perhas, hereafter be an alliance, such as Is known in d i plomacy by the name of an unequal alliance ; but: at present, a simple conyention, to ' regulate our commercial relations, should alone b. gOtICIOded• . , , ' ', ' - J • [Prom thsJourrtal des..Dibals of Priday4l . PAllloiltif.,* . :Bo,--A great number of couriers *l4 o'Boo4 - 406 I'itstroburgh, - Vigil na, - and Ilerlin;'ind it . has ' kfeh 111411110144, hiet,' , the,Coun,of Russia insisted' on a solemn anininaninmts` Oaration in favour of the rights of the King .., tk - 'Boaln, tiVar" .. Spanish America, end With a - et - rent of sending -0 3 1 1111 TY tto o lPr ere- : . 'Bat the wishes of Alexander have long IM . teen known, they Me, that a mission' sent from the Allied rowers should endeavour to persuade the . Americans to return peaceably under. Fotheauirs sceptre; with the promise of an amnesty guaranteed by all' huidpe,M. at least to make arrange , molts which rni#lit accord with. the principles of legitimacy, and with the duties which the different parts of a State, even in separating, owe to each other. This is far from a threat or in. terference, and n toila will. certainly tier take any such step, • for she has lately endeavoured to persuade England to take part in the pacific measure she wishes adopted. Austria is perfectly . tranquil on this point, and - takes part in fanning an arrange went by which .Portogal will acknowledge the independence of Brazils, 'preserving the same dynasty on both Thrones, by a • mode of succession similar to that which regulated Spain and .. Nolte. Austria would never have meddled with such a trans ,.fiettonif she had not been certain of 'the consent of Russia. (Front ClA4rier,Yraticals.) •• PAR IS, July 30..-The Quoit/lignite reproaches the Ministry with having forsaken the principleeof the Holy Alliance. They ale following, it says, in the wake of England, while a glorious station was reserved for France amidst the Allied Powers. If this be true, the Holy Alliance Is melting away--.nations have 046 opposite interests, that they cannot remain a long time closely united. The Quolidienne may talk, but it will not per. elm& the nation that the friendship of Nieves is better than . that of a free people, and that it is better for us to rem ein Con• netted with a country destitute asocial institutions and know. ledge, than to unite with a country where the very institu. tions by which we are now governed have grown into vigour. The Ministry, it is said, in departing fl•otti the doctrines of the Holy Alliance, have weakened the Royal authority. This is hot so ; but it is by a corrupting administration and Invited "helve that this authority is weekened. Itecognizing the free efitatee of America, or St. Dotninges, wmild'hot do this t but it is done by demanding of the ptott.whic 'it :ettnnnt restore, in Oleo of taking ell the advantages the Mut* can give. trrotri dalo .7, 1 1 . 1 1 71 - • • * .140vP.JeLY30.—The Nine; I St* , eleebt Enema. M. tha AllAna* Pr pmnyvioe liqc to the King a bunt or hiseftoyal the eettkeete flordeattx, which is a yell gi>6o repemblithee‘, - • life Excellency the Count de Villeletrensacted business With 'bit Majesty. At two O'CitVk his Majesty took an Airing, and drove inwards thimird. Pent*, Jut.Y 30.-. European policy has perhaps never Agi tated a more Important question; one which may have a more direct infinenee on the people of our Continent, than that .which sit Milt moment occupies all minde-ewe in can the rvcogni. tien by Irtanco of the political independence of the block power which has arisen at St. Domingo. The conquest of that fine colony by the w hites would have e presented no more serious question than the ettnierous ces toons of territory which European nations i avc nestle to ,alert other alto successful or unsuccessful wprs, auid which e t.'etty have aflerwerde ratified by, treaties of peace or etnniperce. ant,the neurpetion of St. Doming!) by tlitthiturk slaves after die . fr;ghtful niesseere of their whitseneetete, end their eitabiish , e ee ee, ,such as it ii, in this tletolited ceontrs, coneecratee by 0.W:ill, Frence; thie peptiltition of Africans, who can :je;ifede front St. Domingo ell the remaining Etieoptisti establish. 'tient* in theA ; the necessary comnoinicatioes which tine nets Power, when admitted into the rank of independent nations, would have with Europe, and without doubt with Africa, front which it might obtain reinforcements ; the mix. tare of colour end blood which would inevitably result, and winch could not be prevented by Is vs or lIICHStITCS adininiS. trAtiOA WiJkli.Sbuail,thnfirm this newly recognised rower, and wouldbe in couirailietien to this very recognition... . it se elgh to hint At ,colvi4ratiptui sitew how serious eu • 'subject is. now . then Cali . we. comprehend the !l i ght intoner in which reettefel Journals treat tide tiocetion, ant above all, th e Art:Nle fa i t" . Jetted In the Joer t ial dee /Mots yesterday.. • • We sec with 1 4 eAs4res!' oils that Journal, ac by tli'enrileleet of a Ministerial Pepsi., that the Government ticeinS resolved to tr'etit with the lititteld4, 00 as to secure to French commerce 'tiro Conaidoritl4 vont/were which would accrue front time open. ft ,g of this new market," 'now can a JournOl, the ertielet of which ere evidently the e4Problibb of the idette or one of its Etlitore, and where the seedimente of the Government eennot be seen, make you admit teaks luPP* O / 1 . 1 0 1- 1? The Government has not told you that it was tio not know it any more than you ; but what we know very wall is that it Is false that French commerce trould obtain considerallie advantagett from a treaty with the bliteks. Nobody but you in, ignorant that the population of St. Owning* ie reduced 2110,04* boulos, that all the great Agri. coltural establishments are destroytei, that the negrocedo w ee make ell new plantations, wirer the ohl once to go to de cay, and cultivate as much Coffee as is neceneary to imontitin a minant of commerce, which supplies their, only with what is tib- Whitely indiepteetaLle. Iftraitiee„ where would be the guarantee et such a treaty ? 'i'o-day, President Boyer governs, but who will be answerable that his most cruel enemy will not govern e a _ ul e e sow r Europe has resounded with reports of a conspi. la cy which broke out its the midst of his Senate, and we know by what eriveri diet lie has been obliged to strengthee his powers. Midi is neither a republic nor a monarchy, end, as for its re. 1 4L i on , w i t h ot u r ► lot independence is preserved only of Franco which it denies, but ig favour of that SovereiglitY , Liliteeereguartl. What French fActura would think themselves and their fac tories safe ainidst a population still A prey to all kinds of agi latiart dui Juhrotra des Debats says of the dengere of ▪ upedition to St. Domingo, a nd the strength of the Haitians, is declamation, and pretty much resembles what it told us of the strength of the Conetitutionaliete in Spain, when it threat. .1144, our troops with the little knives of the Spanish woolen. "b 04W illgitiniACy d a nger by a war with the P e nins u la. Two of the bee bellow Port-au-Prince would suffice to LI! ,the Haitians into confusion—but perhaps he is in the • degas mhung, that oven euccees would flit restore us St. •eeeeneo and that there would remain for us only a he. of J Siarrio • . ,o "fitai Debais is very sensible of one of the Teirrele 7...."C. 100 " 4 of the renunciation of our sovereign u te: :: retain irt% del i ver op, the island to other Powers, and it we t by,tLeee t „. -4ww ,ereignty over Haiti ; but what does it mean oPiostroa? . -114163 h, which. it vault-by the :tame of unequal All thetaltie lett t Hese, vi e s i w o ft fr adds on the progress or civilization in reed.KOmigp r ,, L i t tfrf Iheitete in which the Negroes Congo 40,041. rltN in or, hw olwi . ti s enottlei be ttent to the reeetsrito. Jou rrodiAt, d ye 4 1 1 %, t,P9be sett ACCOniit Of the in:stake nf wi'l Li,e sporthh,poar are flit/Mint that St. D 01111 1 1 , 60 have b.e.crt conquered tor twe e wow rite 4 4 ,,, 9 7 ; :xjt . p. ,, bireaorts of lityti; ibc dot not this. , -wOulde not ;tele,to tprsu; weteldliteire to con vinee of Lib Stitiket • no 'bravura thst Debra: says no 400 • '.•••-• z of fait&lk. .thus ignorant. It is, therefore, in the Journal des Debate,only 1 contempt for its readers. In this position of Boyer, with respect to Spain, there is farther it great difficulty in the way of any kind of treaty, for would not a treaty of commerce be a kind of recognition Does the Journal des Debate think the measure would be well chosen for such an act? We are frightened at the incredible heedlessness of the Editors of that Journal. It is at least as celebrated as their versatility. In truth, we know of nointerest, public or private, absolutely none, which can counter-balance the considerations which crowd upon us, and which it is suffi cient to point out to an enlightened and prudent policy ; and perhaps, before we engage on so grave a subject, we should wait for the third generation of this anarchy, which has yet seen only two phases—the despotism of Christophe and the Presi dency qf ,Boyer. FRENCH FUNDS. PAItIa, JULY 30.—Five per Cents. opened at 98f. 35c.; closed at 98f. 10c. ; Loan of 1823, 104 ; Bank Stock, 1845 ; Neapolitan 5 per Cents. 84; Spanish Renter, 18; Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, Louis de Jan. 1825, 534.—Exchangeon London— One month, 25f.; Three ditto, 241. 85c.—( tours Authen• ague, July 30.) THE A It M Y. GENERAL. ORDER. Horse Guards, June 24,1024. Lest the General Order of the 10th ult. should be misunder stood, the Commander in Chief makes it known to the Army, that it was not intended thereby to cancel the authority given to the Commanding Officers of Regiments and Depots in the Circular Letter of the fhb June, 1818, (repeated in the General Regulations of the Army of lot January, 1822), for communi. eating with the Naval and Military Bilde Society, respecting .00. distribution of Bibles among the Troops ; but merely to forbid the employment of any subordinate Agents in the Army for,,pet forming a duty which is only to be executed under the consroul and superintendence of the Commanding Officers of 'Cons, and of Military Chaplains who will hold such Corte • spondence with the Naval and Military Bible Society as they may think necessary for the benefit of the Garrisons and Corps to which they are attached. By Command of his , Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, lIENRYT OR NS, Adjutant-General. [From the 14ox rm . GAtvEvrE of Saturday.] JVur Office, July 10,1024. MEttonawnust.—llis Alajesty has been Ideated to approve of the 2d Battalion of the 110th Foot being equipped and trained as a !title Corps; and has also been pleased to direct, that as both Battalions of that Corps are to be Hi& Battalions, the Ensigns shall in future be made Second Lieutenants.. War-Olice, July 30, 1024. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guarde, Captain James Chatter. ton, from the 7111 Dragoon Guards, to be Major, by purelutse, vice D'Este, promoted. . . 7th Ditto, Serjeant-Major Charlet% Hickman, from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, without purchase, being the Riding-master Ist m Grenadier Regiment of Footlimas, Captain liar dress Robert Saunderson, from half-pay 81st Font, to be Lieu tenant and Captain, vice William Hobert PhiUitnore, who ex changes, receiving the difference. let-Regiment of Font, Ensign Jas. Williamson to he Lieu. tenant, without purchase, vice M'Combie, promoted in the Royal African Colonial Corps. John Campbell, Gent. , , , to be Ensign, vice Williamson. 10di Ditto, Second Lieutenant Francis Damll„ from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieutenant, by purchase,vice Birch, who etirels. 18th Ditto, Ensign Robert Latouche to he. Lieutenant, by purchase, vice French, promoted. Gill Henry Peel, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lan-iche. 19th Ditto, Brevet Major Edmund Lockyer to be Major, by purchase, vice Broomfield, who retiree. Lieut. Hugh Henry Rose to be Captain, by purchase, vice Lockyer. 21st Ditto—Second Lieutenant Charles O'Hara Booth to be First Lieutenant, without. purchase, vice Brady, ominous.' in the Royal African Colonial (.7orps; Ensign Jo hnl Pentland, from the Ist West India Regiment, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Booth. 24th Ditto—Captain George Fitzgerald Stack, from half-pay 811th Foot, to be Captain, vice John Cathcart 31eachani, who exchanges. 29th Ditto—Captain Hon. John Hobart Cradock, from half.- pay 3d West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Denis Mahon, who exchanges t Quartermaster Serjeant l'hotnas Kneebone to be Quartermaster, vice Mitchell, duceawd. 32d Ditto—Surgeon William Ilampfleld, from half.pay De Aleumn's Regiment, lobe Surgeon,. vice John Harding WaL ker, 3f.D., who exchange& 48th -Ditto -A .listitertatit. Obr, • M *lsbell to be Captain, with. • out pu rch ate, vice Cu thbretten ofeetased ; Second Lieutenant Alexander Alt/trey , Hay,.frotn the ll4tkVont,, to be Lieutenant, trioa al ttritiAlt, . : . t... . . 54d, 'Ditto - Unwire .NV Amen, Gent ., to be t,:nsign, w itbout porehnee, vice Hay , promoted in the 411th Foot. 67th Ditto— Ass istant Surgeon ,lames Doyle, from half-pay 35th Foot, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice William Latham, who exchanges, receiving the dificrence.. 1311th Dittii, Capt. Henry Senior, froth half-pay 18th Foot, to be Captain, vice Stopford Cane, who exchanges, receivinitthe difference. Blst Ditto, Captain Edward Scoone.i, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Charles French, who exchanges. 112 d Ditto, Captain John Unman, from half-pay 75th Foot, to be vice IL S. Hart, who cull/v . 4oa. ilrimi:de.'‘Villiani Lloyd, Gent. to he Second Lieute nant, by purchaae, vice Dayrell, promoted in the 10th Foot. 1$ West India Regiment, Lyre G. Ellis, Gent. to be En sign, Without purchase, vice Pentland, appointed to the 21st Feet. :hi Ditto, Ensign John Spence t o he Lieutenant, without purchase, vice 51%arthy, deceased; Francis IVilliagl ‘Vatson, Gent. to he Ensign, vice Spence; Hospital Assistant Thomas M iirray, 111, D. to he Assistant-Surgeon. Royal African Colonial Corps, Lieut. James Brady, from the 21nt Fwt, to ha Captain, without purchase, vice M'Comble, deceased ; Donald Turner, Gent. to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice O'Meara, deceased. °d Royal Veteran Battalion, Lieut. Win. Gray, from half pay tith Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice George Pope, who retires to ltis former situation on the Retired List. WU; —Captain John Filthier, of the lion. East India Company's Service, and Paymaster of the Company'' , Depot at Chatham, to have the local rank of Captain while so employed. svAry.—lireeet Alajor \Veil. Cochrane, on halfpay 103 d Foot, t‘' be Inspecting Field Officer of Militia in Nova Scotia, with the rank of Lieutenant-C(400cl in the Army. Hose:Tat, SvaerL—Dr. John Arthur, from half-pay. to be rhysici.in to the Forces, vice George Denecke, placed upon half-pay. Assistant Surgeon Thomas Prosset, from half-pay :id Foot, to he Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, vice Wham, deceased. :11 lawn A NI)Obi•--The Christian names of Brevet Lieut.- Colonel Berkeley, from half.pay 11th West India Regiment, are " Sackville Hamilton." 1 4 ."aratimi in the Gazette of the 17th inst.--17th Light Dra goons, fur Robert I"ulke Murray Weenie. Gent. to be Cornet. &c. read " lion. Robert Police Greville, to be Cornet," &c. MAT,' ny LtwyrniNu.—Ou Saturday last an inquest was held at the Hose and Crown public-house, worth, Ott view of the hotly of Murtha Cooper. The deceased, it appeared, lived as laundry-m a id in the family of James Morris, Usti., of Elm-park, and on the night of the 14th ult., during the violent storm of thunder and lightning, was corning with another servant through the yard-alter work, with a large basket of washed linen, when a tremendous clap of thunder, accompanied by continued flashes of lightning, almost immedi. ately over their heads, completely transfixed them, and Cooper immediately sunk to the earth. surgical aid was procured, when it was discovered that her head and face had been struck by the electric fluid; over the right temple the hair was burned quite to the roots. The patient seemed to recover strength for three or four slays idler site complained frequ e ntly o f v i o l ent poins shooting through the head i the right eye closed almost immediately after the surgeon's examination, and the other, continuing to lose its perception, became at length totally bli n d. On Monday the hea t increased, and notwithstanding the application of blisters, leeches, anti cupping, which were severally resorted to, the poor girl expired on Friday last. After a few minutes' consideration, the Jury returned a ver dict, " That the deceased came by her death in consequence of an inflammation on the brain, produced by a stroke of electric fire, during a thunder storm." Deceased was only nineteen y atm old.. . _ A poor. woman, idow of an Irish Soldier, recently returning from India, with three children, conducted heraelf with so much propriety, that the passengers raised a subscription of forty sovereigns for her. With this store of wealth, which in her circumstances wax incalculable, she ar rived in Bristol, on her way to Ireland, and took lodgings in Fog's-court, l'ithay ; here the ardency of her feelings prompt ed her to confess her good fortune to the good woman of the house, and she sailed the following day in the packet for Cork : h av i n g- occasion, however, on her voyage to search her little handle for some article' for the children, she discovered that she hail been. robbed, and immediately became almost frantic with grief, calling upon the Captain to atop the thip, &c. She re tJ road, however, the day- after reselling- Cork, and having tained the assistance Of a:: able , andfictiverpolica.officer of Brix ;Aid 'it the goOsl- teortaa 'in' the 'rithay,- and vista fort, i.tiflrtte'o464l4 Ilyigraitt dili k ttlicd.in;Amo u h ia w kutrie skill in Is/Aro/01g the terrors oftlii latiJ, to recover back 344flici lost sovereigns. INDIA. ( From th 4 Oriental herald, Aug. 1, 1824. ) A highly interesting comffiunication on this sub. Ject, has been transmitted to us from a quarter porsessinglhe best information; and as it is dated so late as the 16th of March; it may be regarded as the latest as well as most complete view of the present aspect of affairs In India that has reached this country. In my last, I gave you some little examples of the vacillat ing policy of our present Government, and now I have to follow it up by telling you that the Burmese have availed themselves of the advantages thus offered them ; and now that they have succeeded in putting off the war till the season for active ope rations on our part is past, they are assembling a very large force throughout the whole extent of our eastern frontier, from Goalpara to Ranioo. On their extreme right, indeed, they are so numerous, that an attack upon. Dacca is apprehended, in which case our troops at Chittagong and Itamno would be com pletely turned, and their retreat, if not entirely cut off; would be tendered very difficult, particularly if the advanced state of the season ;should prevent the use of our small craft to assist them in getting oft; The Burmese hare lately been guilty of such outrages and insults upon our flag, that they must be either totally ignorant of our power, or very confident in their own resources. Our Government affect to think the former; but, what makes the latter supposition not improbable, is a report of disturbances on our north-eastern frontier t adjoining the B urmese terr i tor y, an d 'extending to Nepaul. If this should p rove true , an d t h e ti e . paulese be at the bottom of It, we may shortly expect to have our hands full. • • All this time too. the Russians arc quietly, but constantly approaching us.' Some men who were seen at our north western stations, and M far within our limits as Delhi, made no secret that an establishment war; being organised at Balk, which is not very far froni the limit of Mr. Elphinstone`a ex. do that they cannot find the route difficult. The ex traordinary, and in many cases minute, knowledge which some Russian officers were finindtopossess, with respect to the situa tion of our ..cantonments, and the disposition of the regular trbope, attracted a good deal of attention, when som e of our overland travellers fell in with their advanced posts; and lately we are told the question has been so far entered into by Rus sian military men, that the advantages of marching boldly into our territory, and taking up cantonments among the Mahratta States, during the hot season, have been weighed against the More prudent plan of passing the first year it 'ashore, and or ganizing the Sikh army. Should either or these plans be adopted, lam sorry to say think not so favourably as some do of our present means of resistance. Ever since [surd Hastings left the country, the policy of those at the bead of affairs towards the Army has been changed in every possible manner; the spirit of emula tion and honourable ambition of the officers is almost complete. ly annihilated ; and the privates are so worn down by sickness and hard duty, that desertion is snore frequent than ever ; and the men now enlisted are of a cast and appearance vastly in ferior to the men who were once the admiration of all be. holders. The Staff of the Army, too, is in a deplorable *titterer en. tering upon a war with ,an active and enterprising enemy. The Adjutant-tieneral's department is notoriously inefficient : pruned down to the lowest possible scale in point of economy, tt naturally requires the most active and intelligent head to carry on its duties. The Quartermaster -General's department it is more difficult to pronounce upon; its duties ate very ill defined, anti on attention whatever is paid to qualification; it is, however, a favoured branch, and active service would no doubt improve it. The Army Commissaliat is probably the best organized department of the stall—a little relaxation of the original regulation has communicated the quickening impulse of self-interest to sonic individuals; and [ am persuaded the public is a gainer by the change. The Ordnance Commissariat is the worst arranged and worst paid branch of' the General Staff; it is indeed the least favoured one of the service; and personal proscription anti secret infitience regulate every thing concerning it. The Medical Staff kits of late years greatly im. proved. Much, however, is wanting to complete it, particular. ly in its military, or lather, field department ; and a more en. couraging system of promotion would be highly advantageous to it. Of the troops it is sufficient to say, that the F.umpeans of his Majesty's service would be the point d'appui of the whole army : if they can stand service, there is no doubt that the lie. pop; would behave well ; but some officers who have seen re verses in thiccountry, are not very sangine on this head. It is generally acknowledged that the European constitution does not Kiln/ way Under bye orsix years sit exposure to ttin. but after that period, the British soldier, instead of being in. WAN f rz --- le, in nine cluite opt of ten, ruined , by it y brit aaa. thong s, bits ma etie.ay.,.ef hternisme is gristly titmihisbe "Whim we patuiltler ~then that a great portion of bur European troopsi have been many years in India, it is not too much to Ray that their superiority depends entirely on opinion, and that this opinion would stand a great chance of being considerably weakened in the event of a struggle with OM's, 11 1 , 07 of wham would be natives attain. and all, com paratively, retir and 'vigorous. It was very different with the French in the ware of the Carnatic ; they were situated pre eiselY.Aa we were; they came from a distance In ships; they i were, in tr m u ch, e I the cl i m a te a had been suddenly pl an t e d un d er a b urn i ng sun ; an d t h ey n v n i fact, e , and i manytethan u instanceso rtroops: ps mars, : yet theyopposed t o n are always cited is an example in point. Aii long, howeVer, as the European troops could make head againetan invading force, so long, anti no longer, would our native infantry he'to he depended on. A defeat would almost disband our army ; anti should we be under the necessity of falling back upon our supplies, or in order to concentrate, I question if one man in ten of our native troops would consent to leave the country lie was recruited in behind. I once knew four hundred old sepoys desert from one battalion in the course of four and twenty hours. On the Bengal establish men t the Engineers are deficient; the Artillery are disgusted and discouraged ; the Cavalry are smart troo ps , b u t diere and their of fi cers; the Infantry have scarcely any officers to d gisre; yet, it' well commanded, they Bard, their regiments being unoffi erred by staff App o i ntments would, to R certa i n po i nt, ma k e t o l e r a ble soldiers : but they have no morale, no Starninit ; the men who now fill our ranks arc vastly inferior to the aepoys of 1799 and 1004. From this, and from your information front other quarters, r" may judge of the real character of this so much vaunted antlien Army; for my own part I am quite certain, and I speak after having heard the sentiments of a great number of our most intelligent officers, that our forces will not keep the field inure than one it' attacked by an enterprising enemy, unlees wine v er y decisive measures are adopted. The first should be to restore the good humour of the officers, by pen. stoning off the Militaryy Secretary, and placing a Civil Servant in that office, and making the Commander-In-Chief the sole organ of the army with Government, instead of being, as he now is, a mere instrument in the hands of another. 2dly, To empower the Governnient here to grant promotions for extra ordinary services, at the reeommendetion of the Commander-in. Chief. &Hy. To give Officers to every branch of the service, in proportion to the number of men, anti so as to equalize the chences of promotion as much ma passible. 4thly, To snake a half-pi t y li s t s 0111 p used of all officers holding stuff situations, filling up the v( can !lee thug occasioned in regiments, with effec tive officers. Wily, To Incr e a se the number of regiments, so en to allow of a relief of every station in the army every two years. fithly, To hold out the benefits of the invalid and pen. sion establishments with a less sparing hand to those whose length of service, or infirmities.•render them fit objects for in , diligent consideration ; and, lastly, to encourage pronto- 4 'n' by establishing a liberal scale of graduated pensions. or retir ing of fi cers. An officer who was some years ago a l most t urn ed out of this service, i s now holding a high station in the Russ ian Army : those who know hint here think hint capable of an r thing : an d say that he huts such reason to h ate the [fen. gut Government, as may lead him to do all he can in oppose, tam to it. ing towards a c r i s i s wit h t h e B ur mese. After some partial Since writing SUCcess, we hav e rece i ved a severe cheek; the enemy however the above, matters have gradually been draw. troops ; hut thi s caut i on has f ortuna t e ly had its proper effect on our g retr e o a ffi t etl ee , withou t waitin for a second attack on the part of our rs , the iturtneYe d ur i ng a few man l iest Col. flutes, after having reinforced and taught them to treat their opponents with more respect. Repor t say g , t h at and then commen ce d a and taken the CDThroatiti Of Col. Bowen 's detachment, f o ll owe d re trograde movement in order to wait for fresh troops and a more favourable Keeton. Aleantime Government have at last istued a proclamation, declaring us at war with the Iturtnetw, an d t h e 13th bight Infantry is once more ordered to be ready for service, together with the 38th, the 20th Native Inflmtry, two Corn. panto,. Of Artillery, and a train of sixteen guns. 'These, it is attid, are to be joined by a much larger force from Madras, so as to amount to about 10 or 12,000 men, and to attack Rangoon, er some inikloot point on the coast, where they are to go into cantonments till the season for active operations commences. 'Troupes are OW gradually assembling on our Eastern fronti er , and a Regiment of Cavalry is ordered to Kissengunje to be at hand. A depot of Artillery is forming at Dacca : and half the rocket. troopia on its way to take its share of the ca mp a i gn . 1 AirVitlY% '4 l Vever., the ill cii'ect:t uf „droining the upper pro- Awes of troops Itas " begun to appear, in a pretended insurrection of one of Scindia's Sirdars, which, no:doubt . her occurred with the privity of the Mahroja himself; Gen. Knox has marched against these people, but we have not heard with what success. It is not known who is to command the two armies now form ing. Gen. Sewell or Gen. Pritzler would be proper persons for the first; but for our own nobody ventures to guess. Gen. D-- is not exactly the map to, inspire confidence ; the Corn- wander in Chief Is, I suppoic, too high in rank, and Gen. Ochterlony is too infirm. I should like to see Sir Gabriel Martindell brought on the staff again, and., so would the Army at large. Amongst the ordertlately ismueel,--is one forbidding officers to trade, and saying, that any one who is proved to have acted contraiy_to,it, not by Court but " to the satisfaction afthe Governor General in Coiliseii," shall lie considere d, ipso facto, as having forfeited the service ! This is looked upon as not only unjust, but insulting; for it seems to inter, that a spi rit of traffic exists to a great extent, which is most untrue.— Some officers to the eastward (in the islands) may have traded ; some others have bought landed property in Calcutta ; and some others, including the Military Secre tary, have bought up bills in the bazar : but this is all : and it is shameful to stigmatise a whole service, on account of these few individuals. " Another order has I ttely taken away the patronage of small appointments for soldiers and non-commissioned officers, from heads of departments, and thrown them all into the hands of the Adjutant General—a very unjust, and, on ninny ac- counts, a cruel regulation." PRICE OF STOCKS Ililt llt►nk Stock 0 311 A 3 per Cent. 1ted....924 93 921 3 perC,ent. Conn. 92 911 924 A 34 per Cent 101 A Disstl. lOl. 4 per Cent. {Amid. 101 100 ; New lll5/1 Bank Long Ann. 23 Imp. 3 per Cents►. 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The Journal des INbals and the Etoile are at issue respecting the alleged negociation for the recog nition of the independence of Hayti, the former paper expressing its satisfaction at the disposition manifested by the French Government to treat with► the Blacks, and the latter urging very powerful objections to the admission of a Negro Sovereignty into the rank of independent States. As our Readers are aware that the Journal des Debuts, since the fall of M. de CUATEAUBILIAND, is no longer a Ministerial Paper, whilst the Etoile is still an organ of the Ministry, the in ference which they will draw from the reason ings of the Etoile, is of course an unfavourable one for St. Domingo. What the Journal des De bate says as to the wishes and intentions of the Emperor ALtXANDICK is for the same reason (its being no longer in the confidence of the French Ministry) entitled to less weight than would hav• been formerly attached to it. In a Second Edition of THE Stitt of Saturday, we announced the receipt of dispatches by Go. vernment, communicating the details of another action fought between the British forces at Cape Coast Castle and the Ashantees. We now re• peat this intelligence, at greater length, for the information of those of our Readers who did not receive our Second Edition. We regret to per. ceive, that although the gallantry of Major CRIS. HOLM and his troops was crowned with victory, yet the British force was obliged to retire to its former position, in consequence of the coming up of the King of the ASHANT EES with large rein. forcements, and that our settlement, therefore, and the brave men to whom its defenc e is com. mitted, are still exposed to great danger. It o p. pears, that Major CHISHOLM, who commanded during the engagement, had made preperntions to attack the enemy, who were encamped within five miles of the Castle, and accordingly, on the morning of the 21st of May, he commenced his operations. After the ground had been cleared, and paths cut, not without great labour and fatigue, various directions, towurds the enemy's camp, the attack commenced. The engagement was long and SangUitiary; it lasted upwittis of five hours, when the enemy retreated precipitately, after experiencing very considerable loss is killed, wounded, and prisoners. The retreat continued for two days, but it was ascertained that the King of the ASUANTEES had subsequent ly joined his army with considerable reinforce ments, which it was es ti ma t e d would make the • • whole ends force amount to 16,000 men. The Fautees, and the rest of the co-operating native Powers, conducted themselves, during the battle, in a manner extremely unsatisfactory to Major ClllllllOOl, who consequently was not only pro' vented from pursuing the enemy, but obliged to re , tire to his former position. It was ascertained from the isoners, that the enemy had resolved to make an attack upon the Castle, which the presence of their King, it was supposed, would expedite. Out loss was inconsiderable. The rainy season had begun, and the prisoners reported that tho !small-pox and dysentry had committed very co!" siderahle ravages in the Ashantee camp. ill° following is an extract ►+f a private letter:— " C:ipa Coast Cud:, .:I:ay " The state,of this piece is, most, dreadful, t: o ;,i:ii; but war, confusion, oind disease. We had another touch at the tees on the 21st of tl:is month, and after a contest of five hours and a half, both sides ceased firing. We loit, however, about 150 killed, and upward of 800 wounded. 'We expect another and more serious brush very shortly, as the King himself is coming down with strong reinforcement. How it will end Gott only knows ; but, in the interim, you may conceive what Is 01 situation, when I inform you that we have more than COO° strangers (women and children) now in the town for protect: lo N and such a mass of disease and filth I never before witnessed. I have now for four months been almost incessantly in the bulb ' and you may, therefore, believe that I am, as indeed we all sr" most anxiously looking for a terminati on t o th e p re sent $144 Of things." It appears by tits letter of th e 31 s t, that • Ashantees were within five miles of the Castle. PORTSMOUTH, ,ir Y 91. This morning arrived his Majesty's sloop of war the Dr ir , Captain Charles Bow en , from the Coast of Africa, whyzi he lied been two years an d a h a l f employed, during which ee she captured 500 sla ves , a l t h ough lately her services h he"' partly directed from that object, by Captain Bowen hal been entrusted by the l ate Si r Robert Mends with the nab protection of all o ur sett l ements on the Gold Coast, which were menaced with destruction by the King of Ashontg._ These fortresses havin g b een put into the beet poss ible sest defence, and the Dri ver p rov i ng in a bad state, she was orde t;, to England, without being relieved. Commodore Bullent; the .'Maidstone, had arr i ve d at Cape Coast (which place i Driver left on May 29), and was refitting.—The tinned healthy, and was thus stationed :—the Maidstone ST. Swinger remain on the Gold Coast, to assist the forts in an pending contest with the Aehantees; the Bann, to Gambia Portendick, to protect the gum -trade and the interests 0 1- merchants in that quarter; the Victor, cruising in the Bightusy` Benin and Biafra, against the Slave Traders ; the Owen . e e „, e , dower, gone to Prince's Island to water, and to proceed ( 115 ;5 to England, via Barbadoes.—Capt. Woolcome, in the Benne...s ee , in with fad captured in March last a large Portuguese brig fr om Lagos, called the Bon Caminito, having 350 Slaves on Won: squadron COf; who had subsequently been all 'emancipated at Stern 10 ,',. This is the only slave vessel which has been captured mitre en. death of Sir R. Mends; but the inhuman traffic was colt! on with a daringness anti effrontery unequalled for some Y 4I IZ, owing to the, Brazilian States (that great mart for slaves) daring themselves fre e , an d the trade being sanctioned by . r e Governm e nt. Daily ski rm i s h es were ta k ing place between T.: Ashantees and the Fant ees , w hi c h generally' ended to?: disadvantage of the latter. There is little - doubt but W e l will, ere long, be driven under the guns of the British - Fortll and be compelled to abandon their country to their enent An action was fought within ten miles of Cape, Coast, belt" about 10,000 Ashantees and 6 or 7,000 W Fantees, assisted bil l few white troops, and 2tl detachment of the est India 11: gatient, comman dedC by Alajor Chisholm, Lieut. King, of Driver, who was on the field of battle, and who was wool on this occasion, says, that the Ashantee s were defeated, seep driven back a considerable distance. This success wall, "". doubt, owing to the exertions of Major Chisholm, as Il e r. regular troop under his ordere. The next day, howeveret, ligince was received that the King of Ashentee, with a r eees .' -. ful army, was within three days' march of Anamlleura te t o a u n n t r , y iun have all b e d e i e e t n io ti n r s e . l This caused the Fantees to disperse, and no entreatie*P',"; n English Commander of the forces could induce them to ";.' the field. In the mean time the armies of the Aahantes oll— f food lai' o g f tlt waste i in he habitants, fans te- Indian corn, yams, plantains, and b ananas, which ys ' neat. nmaining Fantees, who may be fortunate y enougn to esesr- ine , sweet, will, to all appearance, perish next year by fe n3 ;ho wasteJoh Taeker Williams, lesq., acting Coloni a l secretartio aken prisoner when Sir Charles 3l‘Carth y . SS th is Low living at the Dutch Fort of Through nee of mane intercession of the Governor of that Fort, the IV"; bs residing there was obtained for him, on condition that e t should, on no account, be allowed to 1-1' • until a r quit ....mina should he concluded. The following officers have rec e e a WM a tl l fallen victims to the climate :—.Ensign 31,1,ean, India Regiment; Hospital Assistant F. IL Ritnn,l re 7 te ritts l O'Meara and APKenzie, Royal African Corps; le" — APCarthy, 2d West India Regiment. eel° . The passengers by the Dri v er are—the lady of Lieut no t Colonel Sutherland, Commander of the Forces ; yet Olpherte, 2d West India regiment ; and Lieut. Arnsil lg of the Bann (invalided.) c altbit The crew of the Driver have hren comearatively hir although we regret to say that Mr. Charles Hunter, In l l;;Crit man, elr. Peter APKennan, carpenter; and three sctoint ,:lii;hsetropladnt.at:n4s,tbfai fell victims to fever at Cape Coast. The follewing vis ments had taken place in the African squadron, vign'„ COot' Prickett, to comm an d t h e °wee Glendower; Capta in r. ney, to the Bann ; Captain Woolcombe, to the Vial & of Wm. Pedtter (son of George Pedtler, Este of Hyde, opea W e m Wight), and M r . Geo. 31 anninidseiP i r nen, of the 3lt. Glendow er , were promoted to ben Lieut e nants of the •fisn of sa John Thomas, of t h e O wen (ilentlower, to be Licutendowen the Victor. Mr. Finlaison, master of the Owen °lea died lately o ft ' Prince's Island. whio. The follo w i ng is an extract froma letter received A by we (the Hampshire Telegraph) have the Driver c eite w se e ilb Cape Coast, May 28.—Since our most disastrous a - ! l ,i t y,p-- the Ashen tees, they have increased in te.tilidence. and set l ; t b e t we have been environed with difficultiee of ell kindel oc etsige: war here bears no bright prospects. A skirmish ha s e th t place, but without any other result than the ii Ashantees toward Cape Ccqw; which, in consequence „e the „ et , 10 01- ,: of ordnance stores (a most xtetonlinary ne g lect r"" over oen; where), we have not been al)1-; to prevent. One field bled are now at a complete stand ; tied they have beett e s" oo ll;r; take up a position and establish t;lemsdves in t ),' o ,,r. ji of' the Settlement, about two ireeee from the L: t h e $O O l movements must be guided by circumstances; b t l' eere eel. fr quantity of power and lead we have rent ening mu ss _', r ottese re to defend the fort in the last extremity. There is ro a i re as 1,,/, ball in the place ; and the ships of war cannot sP hoos es more than they have : even the lead intended for only twe ps been cut up for ainieunitiote Besides, we have are. poets; effective white troops in the Castle ; t h e others n e ce of colour and Fantees ; and tilt • rainy sickly seam s l c uly—jo ot 'mining. In taunt, Cape toast is now v er y. of Tra vis troops are all called in to recruit—we have a scarcity reettlinor sions, by which the white inhabitants are suffering a A ..‘„ nand r tbe, i s e /l e natives in our favour are not to be depended lie—,moot- o r tees are very powerful; malting in the whole an accu of ou r co 0 , horrible misery. It would be much to the a dventatre, een ceti try lithe place were ahandened. ll'e understand tnilai t icoSc i s o equally anxious with ourselves for peace; but their c? n n es et repugnant to the feelings and princieles of lenglishinei __cbieGt thelives of the Kin o: ankert and iiisbrother,anon7 o , o f tt the bravest of our allies, shoeld be rendered a see7,l em eeL pretty confidently ascertained, that the Dutch set tl e Eimine supply the Ashentees with gunpowder, whic h ir, so protract the war, the inhabitants of the place bellS4L tr out: me , your, and um strong a power for the Governor to ee e . t ee , i le the Div that the Castle is more a dependency - of the town,. see m et ? of the Castle. Colonel Sutherland has srtiven a. p etal' Leone, rind assumed the command of the forces r i 1 1