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PARIS PAPERS. ( From the Moniteur of Friday, May 21.) Pius, MAY 20.—NoncE.--Messrs. Bague- Sault and Co., who are commissioned to pay the first half year's interest of the Royal Bonds of Spain, which were to become due on the Ist Ja nuary, 1825, but has now been fixed six mouths earlier, viz. July 1, 1824, have the honour to acquaint the holders of these Bonds, that the payment of this half year will be made at their office in the following manner :-1. The piastre will be paid at the rate of sf. 40c.-2. As the payment is to be terminated on the said Ist July, 1824, and cannot be made in one day, it will commence on the 21st June next, at ten o'clock. 3. The payment will be made in two series each day, viz.:- 1 and 2-21st June, 11 and 12-26th Jane, 3 and, 4-22 d 13 and 14-28th 5 and 6-23 d 15 and 16-29th 7 and 8-24th 17 and 18-30th and 10-2ith 19 and 20— Ist July. 4. The holders are to annex to their Coupons a tfrordereau, signed by them, indicating the number and series of each bond. 5. The holders of Bonds belonging to several series may ..unite in the same bordcreau the Coupons of all the series in their possession, and they will be paid the whole of their Cou pons on the day when the first of these series is declared for .payment. (Signed) BAGUENAULT. [From the Etoile of Saturday.] MADRID, IJAY 10.—His Majesty has confer red the dignity of Muster of the Horse, vacant by the death of the. Count de Puebla, on the Duke of Hujar, who immediately set out for Aranjeuz. The Bishopric of Toledo, the great -est See in Spain, is given to M. Inguanzo, Bishop of Zamora. lalevolence has greatly exaggerated what passed at Saragossa a fortnight ago. The whole , turns out to have been a quarrel, caused by some drunken persons, who attacked the per sons whom they met in the street. The Roy— alist volunteers and a detachment of soldiers "hastened to the spot to restore order ; the ag gressors resisted, and fourteen of the most .riot •ous were arrested to be brought to trial. An officer was wounded in the tumult : two men were killed. (From the Oonstitutionnel.) PARIS, MAY 21.—1 t results from some tables just published by M. Benoiston, in a " Memoire sur lee En fins Trona'," that the number of foundlings has gone on in creasing in every State in Europe, except from 1790 to 1800.— During that interval the diminution amounted to a third; but after that period, and particularly since 1815, the number has constantly increased. There were 51,000 foundlings in France in 1798, 69,000 in 1809, 84,500 in 1815, and 138,800 in 1822. According to the "Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes," there were, in 1823, 932,130 births in the year, which gives one child abandoned out of every twenty-eight. It appears from the in formation given by the Government, that the provinces near the sea, in which there are most populous cities, and'which are the centre of arts and industry, containing 20,000,000 inha bitants, hardly give as many foundlings as the remaining 10,000,000 who occupy the centre provinces, from which Paris and Lyons are subtracted, as each of them supplies 6,000. Pants, MAY 21.—Five per Cents. Consols opened at 104 f. 65c. closed at 104 f. 65c.—Loan at 23, 14.—Bank Stock, 2,000. — Neapolitan Five per Cents. 95.—Rent d'Espagne, Royal Spanish Loan, 1823, 64.—Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 30c-; three months, 25f. 15c.—( Court Authen. ) S P A N. 13ARcErmNA, MAT. s.—The letters, which we received from Tarragona give usi but very little news of a satis factory nature. It appears that Some disorders of rather a seri ous nature, and stitich are generally directed against the negros, have taken place in that city, anti that in one of those tumul luotis scenes the Alcade, or Mayor, bad been wounded. Let ters from Satagossa give some details of the excesses to which the Vandals of that country have given themselves up. Another -explosion is feared, for we hear that the proclamations which the Captain-General has addressed to the people, are but tacit approbations of their ferocious conduct. It is confidentally re ported that a conspiracy has been discovered at Gerona, and it is pretended that it was got up by the military Ultra Royalists, .who compose a part of the depot which is in that city, and that several amongst them went into the neighbouring villages to -collect forces. We are still ignorant as to what was their inten tion ; all that I could ascertain was, that they had sent to the 'Government a courier extraordinary, without prejudicing the other measures which they thought right to take for the present. An armed force has been seen about the environs of Mon blanc, and which, no doubt, will often be seen, if we may judge ,by the reports which the Government of Lerida has addressed to the Captain-General, in which they plainly exhibit their 'fears from the picture they draw of the direful results which a horrible famine is likely to bring with it, and which they are afraid the loss of the harvest will consequently entail upon -them, anti which is already beginning to be felt. The news of the destitution of M. Frigola, Military In tendant. was currently spread about to-day; this news was generally received with joy. However, up to the present um 'merit, there is nothing to confirm - it. The only thing which might lead one to believe it, is, that it seems of late disputes of a very high nature have taken place between him and the Mar quis de Campo Sagrado, when the latter told him that he would put in force the powers invested in him by his Majesty for commanding the province, and that he would remove 'him from his employment. The Criminal Tribunal seems much • disposed to second the effbrts of the Marquis de Campo Sagra do ; .as a proof, it has devised means to put down any disturb -ane,es which might have taken place at Pigord, from the con duct of some persons who are already suspected, until the Captain-General, who had sent an address to the Court, should -receive fresh instructions. _ _ _ At Alelins del Rey, two prisoners were condemned to fifty blows, for having said that the Constitutional Government would be re-established in Spain. • The Archbishop of Creus has at last taken possession of his Archbishoprick. All the difficulties which were raised against . ..him have ceased. The Junta of Commerce of this city, desi -ious of propagating public instruction, wish to found professor. ships for the Englisa, French, and Italian languages. The Ist of July next is the day appointed for the admission of those who wish to obtain the professorships by sustaining their thesis. The salary of each is to be about 5,000 reals (1,250 francs) and he who can fill two professorships at the same time will receive a salary of 8,000 reals (2000 francs). The Comedy l'Rcole des Viellards, which has made such a noise in Paris, has just been translated into our language, by . the celebrated Jean Larios de Illedronas. It will shortly be brought forward at our theatres. -- Doctor Lusardi has already performed the operation of the -cataract upou many of the poor, as well as upon persons who called him in. For the most part these operations have sue .ceeded well. Colonel Mata who is so w e ll k nown f or hi s fanaticism for the absolute Government, has been made Sub-Intendant of Police, for the town of :dater°. It appears that this nomina tion does not please the inhabitants of that townots the prin ciples of the Colonel are well known to them. HAMBURGII AND DUTCH PAPERS. - 54—The Conservat eur ST. PETERSBUGII, AT .t:g mails state Impartial of yesterday has the , the followi iisc°onftathine " The foreign Journals received by the ia6' highly exaggerated accounts relative to present relations of the Ottoman Porte with the Allied Powers in gene.. ral, and with Russia in particular. These accoun ts n s l ta y failed ; "'lst, That M. Minziacky's mission has entire and 2d, That great armaments are making on the Turkish , ...frontiers along the Danube. " To this we answer:— . ."'lst. Th a t M. Mi nz i ac ky h as execu ted in the moat suc cessful manner the commission confided to him, having been. enabled to open his office for the concerns of commerce in the month of March, and consequently the relations between Rus sia and Turkey, which he had orders to renew, are in fact actually renewed, and at the same time on the most satisfactory . " 2d. That no official account has -yet been received of a -reinforcement of the Turkish troops in the fortresses on the Danube. It is, therefore, with gr ea t regret t h at.we h ave o b serve d , t h a t the most respectable French Journals have hastened to disse minate such 'false reports on the credit of the Augsburg and Nurentbur Journals, and to copy all that these Journals in their zeal for the cause of rebellion and disorder have been pleased to prophesy." STOCKHOLM, MAY 4.—The Government is engaged in ef. fecting the reduction of the Navy, which has been judged ne cessary. This reduction is to take place from Ist January, )825. We hear that above half of the Officers will be dismiss ed, but still retaining their half-pay ; and as they die, the pay of the survivors will be considerably increased. The nine com panies of sailors will probably be reduced to three or four. The moment is particularly favourable for the operation, be. cause ' by the death of the High Admiral Baren Stedingk, the great fleet and the galley fleet are united into one, and the dif ferences in the promotions ceases. The Gaiette of the sth contains a letter from the King to the Minister of Justice, requiring the acceleration of the opera tions of the Committee appointed to draw up a new Civil and Criminal Code. COPENHAGEN, MAY 11.—His Majesty Sets out for Jutland on the 9th of this month. An historical account of the Danish Asiatic Company has just been published. From the table annexed, we find that, from the year 1732 to 1745, 17 ships sailed for China, and 20 to the East Indies. Their cargoes were worth 3,973 , 474 rix dollars. The goods brought back in exchange were sold by auction for 7,470,761 rix dollars. Front 1746 to 1771, 49 ships went to China,—their cargoes were worth nearly 15,700,000 rixdollars. The sum realised out of the sale of the return cargoes was 30,539,807 rix dollars. From 1772 to 1791, 40 ships went to China, and 159 to India,—the value of their cargoes was nearly 21,470,000rix dollars; that of the returns 71,660,0( 10 rix. dollars. On the one hand, we here see with pleasure how im portant to the country this Company once was, but it is painful to reflect how this trade has dwindled away to nothing in later times, and how the 4,800 shares, which were formerly worth 10 millions, are now scarcely worth half a million. CHRISTIANA, MAY 3.—The operations of our Storthing are in general very uninteresting to foreigners. There has been nothing remarkable lately, except a debate on the payment of the Civil List of the Crown Prince in silver. The Committee has proposed to the Storthing to fix the sum of 24,000 rix dollars per annum for the household of the Crown Prince. BRUSSELS, MAY 20.—A very important cause was brought yesterday before the High Court of Justice at Liege, between his Highness Prince Charles of Bohan, appellant, and their Serene Highnesses the Duke of Bourbon anti Madame Louise tie Conde, Prince Louis de la Trimouille, and the l'rincess of Poix. The question relates to the property of the Duchy of Bouillon, the sovereignty of which was given to his Majesty the King of the Netherlands by the treaties of 1814 and 1815. The Court will have to decide on the effects of an entail made in 1696 by Godfrey Mouriel, Duke of Bouillon, and that of various decisions of the Congress of Vienna, of arbiters ap pointed the mediations of the High Allied Powers. M. de 1 alk, Ambassador from the Netherlands to the Court of Great Britain, arrived here on the 18th f r om th e H a gue, a nd will set out in a:few days for London. Eighty thousand lbs. of gunpowder, of the manufactory of Loysel and Co., at Fouqucment, arrived at Liege on the 16th, in four boats. These eighty thousand lbs. are the eighth part of the powder intended for the two fortresses erected in the pro vince of Liege _ His Majesty has issued a decree, prescribing measures of, precaution relative to the employment of steam engines. By this decree, whoever intends to introduce a steam engine into the kingdom, for any purpose whatever, must give notice to the Governor of the province ; he must state the construction of the machine, the name of the maker, the capacity and form of the boiler, with its safety valves, &c. ; whether the boiler is made of cast or hammered iron, or of copper or brass; and last, what is the degree of pressure at which the engine is intended to act. These declarations are to be transmitted to the Ministers of the Department of National Industry and the Colonies, who shall appoint two or more qualified persons to examine the steam engine, before it is set to work, and especially to prove the boiler, so that in proportion to the material of which it is made and its construction, it may be able to bear much more consi derable high or low pressure than that required for the force with which- it is intended to act, and that in the following pro portions : For a low pressure, the double • For a high pressure, the boiler being of forged or hammered iron, of copper, or brass, the double : If the boiler is of cast iron, sextuple. ' A project of law now before the ,Second Chamber relative to various financial operations, proposes; among other taxes, one on foreign loans, by means of a stamp duty, on all bonds, receipts, obligations, certificates, &c. in the following pro portion : If the nominal capital is 250 florins or under, 75 cents. ; from 250 to 500 fl., If. 50c.; from 500 to 1,000 ft. inclusive, 3 And for all sums exceeding 1,000 florins, 3 fl. for every 1,1100 fl. without fraction. The High Court of Justice has this morning confirmed the sentence of the tribunal of the first instance, which condemns M. H. Vanderstraelin, Editor of the Frien.l i!" . the King and the Country, to six months' imprisonment, 200 francs fine, and deprivation of civil rights for five years. FRANKFORT, INLAY 19.—An Ordinance has just been issued in the Duchy of Hilburghausen, and in the Principality of Schwartzburg Rudolstadt, prohibiting games ,of chance, on pain of a considerable fine, and even of imprisonment. On the 2d of this month a fire broke out in the suburbs of Schwartzemburg in Erzgeberg, which in less than four hours destroyed not only the greater part of the suburbs, but the whole town, except the Church and Palace. " NUREMBERG, MAY 12.—8 y letters from the coast of Italy, of the 30th of April, we learn that notice his been given in the ports of the Levant, that Russian vessels which ar rive there are under the special protection of the forte, and that every assistance is to be afforded them. As there are not yet any Russian Consuls in these ports, Russian subjects who arrive there will have to apply to the Austrian or French Consuls to obtain the necessary signatures or certificates. The instructions given on this subject make no mention of the English Consuls. All this has been arranged at Constanti nople, between the Russian Internuncio, Minziaky, and the French Charge d'Affaires. The appointment of some Russian Consuls and Vice-Consuls in the Turkish ports, is deferred for the present. The stipulations of the treaty of Peace with Persia are now gradually carrying into execution. The Per sian troops that were in the Pachalik of Bagdad have evacuated it, and withdrawn to the Persian frontiers ; but it is affirmed that they were previously guilty of variou§ excesses. Plenipo_ teatiaries are to be appointed by both parties to regulate the frontiers." HANOVER, MAT I.—The State and Cabinet Ministry of Hanover comprises at present, under the Presi dency of the Governor-General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, seven members, of whom the oldest, Count Munster, is in London ; and the Ministers Von Hardenberg and Ompteda are absent. The Foreign Department, which takes cognizance of the Military and Finance Affairs, as well as what concerns the Frontiers and the Post-office, is confided to Mr. Von Bremer : Mr. Von Arnswaldt is charged with the affairs of the University, the Church, the Convents, Seigneural Rights, and what pertains to the education of the schools. Mr. Von Meding has under his purview the Police and Municipal Affairs, as also what relates to mining, building, end the making of the high roads. The high office of Chief Justice is confided "to Mr. Privy-Counsellor Rumann. The military force of the Kingdom consists of two battalions, and two riding batteries of Artillery, a Corps of Engineers, four Hussar Re giments, two of Cuirassiers, and two Regiments of Lancers.— The Infantry is comprized in three brigades of twelve Regi ments, and a Corps of Sharpshooters. Thu.: is also the Land Dragoon Corps. and a Depot of Invalids.—( Humburgh Cot , respondenten, May 11. ) On the 28th ult. his Excellency Baron Ye XOLAI, the Russian Minister at the Court of Copenhagen, caused a solemn requiem to be performed in the Austrian Chapel in that city, for his late Concoct, ALEXANDRA SIM PLICIA, born Princess of BRAGLIO. The inside of the chapel was lined with black cloth ; the Katafalgue and- its side dra peries were richly ornamented with the arms of the deceased. The _Requiem of Mozart was performed in a very impressive style by Dillettante, as part ofthe imposing ceremonies. Th &gal lery of the Austrian* Embassy was entirely filled by the mour ners. In the body of the church there were, besides the Catholic aommunity, their Serene Highnesses the Princes of flEssx, the Members of the Corps Diploniatique. and the greater part :of the chief Officers of State, exclusive of azonsiderable num ber of friends and acquaintances of the deceased. On the -whole it was a ceremony of the most moving description, and ' the entire congregation seemed deeply to feel its awful solem nity.; for the late Baroness was universally honoured and re spected—and it had pleased Divine Providence to summon her to happier sphere" ere her virtues had full time to expland in this sublunary world ! Accounts from Stockholm, dated 23d April, say, that for four days the finest spring weather has been ex perienced, accompanied with a temperature of 14 to 15 deg. according to Raumur. The gooseberry bushes were in full blow, and t h e beautiful verdure of toe fields was daily in 30,000 ship e oi n a d s o i instead dd of po a tiertrole afd9iyrtoitne April, l e la n had exnamenced this year on the exported. was etL the case last year; The official statement of the number of deaths and births in the Kingdom of Hanover, for 1823, bears a strik ing resemblance, in its proportions, to what we noticed a few d a ys ago, respecting the Dukedom of Courland and Denmark; in other words, there is a vast excess in favour of population, the numbers born in Hanover being 52,807, and the number deceased, 32,220. FOR THE SUN. Mn. EDITOR—I have lately been much grati fied with SOUTHEY'S Book of the Church. In his life of WESLEY he seems to have given but little satisfaction to either party, by going too far for the one, and not far enough for the other ; and it must be confessed that he does appear to labour in that life under the suspicion Of entertaining, with the great and good Biographer whom we all must admire, some super stitious notions, which will sometimes break forth in the strongest minds. In this book, however, nothing of this kind appears ; he has completely redeemed himself from even the least suspicion of Bigotry on the one hand, or Infidelity on the other. Though perhaps even here the Infidel may exclaim against him for sl►ewing the Church in its true light, which is as revolting to Mai as Truth is when clearly revealed to the Liar; and the Hypocrite and the Bigot may run away in terror from the sight of his own picture, drawn as it is to the very life. The book itself is from its nature a compilation from others, or it never could be a true history. But no where do we see a more concise and striking view of the Church from its origin in this country, its progress, and consummation down to the period of our Reformation. We behold the Church just as it ascends upon our Horizon, in the time of Augustine, intercepted in its ascent in the ages since by clouds of errors and prejudices, till it was ready to sink again under the weight of Papal usurpation and general depra vity, and at length bursting forth in all its meridian splen dour at that luminous epoch of our great and glorious Re formation, when it is described by some of the more ingenious of. the Papists themselves as Ow yoice of our Saviour, who, when the ship in which he and his Disciples were fast asleep, was ready to sink, calls out to them, and they awuke at the call, and at his voice the waves which were about to overwhelm them at once subside. The calm, however, produced by the efforts of our great Reformers was only temporary; the presage of a storm, in which the Church was ready to be overwhelmed again by a fanatical faction, who troubled the waters once more, and were very near bringing us back again, to avoid their extreme, into the horrors of Popery, or leaving us under the intolerant anarchy of our own licentious passions. We have happily escaped from both, under the blessing of a kind Providence-- not but that the passions have been too much encouraged. by parties even in the Church, and the cloven foot of persecution and fanaticism has at times been discovered. But hitherto we have beheld its champions arise, as occasion may require, to hinder that foot from trampling upon its laws, and moderating the zeal of faction, to make heresies the most discordant which sprang from the opening of the Bible tend only the more to its light and peace. - Pandora's Box was open, and all fled and vanished into the common air ; but hope still lingered be hind. This hape flourishes more and more in the present day, when the spirit of fanaticism appears at least stationary, if not retrograde, thanks to the opposite spirit which has gone forth to calm the troubled waters, and to keep all as quiet and peace able as possible in the Church itself. This spirit is like the oil of salt which has been lately ap plied with success to lay the, dust, which was the great objec- ion to the new Mac Adam roads; and not only to lay the dust but to cement the materiaLs, of which the roads are made, more firmly and compactly. Nor will this salt ever lose its savour, while there are Prelates on the Bench, who have zeal enough to stand up in defence of the old way, and discretion to display that zeal according to knowledge, which is so necessary to keep it in its proper state ; especially in times like these, when the INlacAdamists, or followers of the new way, whi3 4 'may justly so be called from the Scotch or Calvinistic turn which they give to fallen Adam and his sons, are so ready to raise a dust wherever they' can find an opportunity, and require all the skill and ingenuity of the Church to keep them out of mischief in a right and reasonable temper. For even these new lights, if properly regulated, may enlighten rather than inflame ; and, under proper re straints, instead of exploding like gas, to the annoyance of the passenger, may become a very useful beacon to guide him on his road, for enthusiasts as they are, and looking, as they pretend, only to things above, they yet are found to look enough at things below—to,give a good I,nteSs when they may preach in a high tone and with a bolder front, and when they are obliged to whisper and lurk in secret corners. As one of our most zealous champions of the Church used to say—" to know the true character of Methodism, and its native disposition, we should see it in all its fortunes. And this our own country, productive of very strange things, bath given us ample means to contemplate. For they who now go under the name of Methodists Were, in the days of our forefathers, called Pre. cisians, terms of similar and almost equal import ; and being of their own devising, :thew how much the same spirit actuated them at all times. The elder Methodism, on its first appear ance, put on the same suffering exterior which we see the younger brother wear at present. During the firm administra tion of Elizabeth it . disguised, and but barely disguised, its na tive ferocity in a feigned submission, after having invited persecution with the air of a persecutor. Those times, we may be sure, would not suffer it to wait long for what it wanted. And then, as a precious metal which had under gone its trial in the fire, and left all its dross behind, the sect with great propriety changed its name from Pre cisian to Puritan. But in the weak and distracted times of Charles the First, it ventured to throw off the mask ; and then under the new name of Independent, became the chief agent of all the dreadful disorders which terminated that un happy reign. For independency was a name as well suited to the weakness of that Government which it defied and over , turned, as methodism is to the strength of this, of which it stands in awe. Nor is this pedigree, which makes methodism of the younger house - tor independency, invented like heraldic fictions to ennoble my subject. Whoever reads the large ac counts of the Spiritual State of the Regicides while under con demnation (written and published at that time by their friends to make them pass with the people for Saints and Martyrs), and compares them with the circumstantial Journals of the Metho dists, will find so exact a conformity in the frenzy of sentiment, and even in the cant of expression, upon the subjects of Faith, Grace, Redemption, Regeneration, Justification, &c. as may fully satisfy him that they are both of the same stock, and ready, on a return of the like season, to produce the same fruits. All the difference which distance of times and variety of circumstances have effeCted, being only this : The Metho dist is now an Apostolic Independent, and the Independent was then illallometan Methodist." G. The Frankfort Paper states, that the House of BEnciNiEs, in that city, is in possession of some most va luable pearls. They were bought of the Ex-Emperor IT UR BIDE, as he passed through Germany a few months ago. The Emperor of AUSTRIA has extended the patent of Nobility (that of Austrian Baron) to the Chevalier von PESCITIER, the public partner of the Commercial House of Films and Co. of Vienna. Mr. A NGERSTEIN has bought the fine mansion the barriers e il r i e n s c i k d h e e n a c t e h s , a o r f c l:is father i n. P a ll-M a ll, an d on in St. James's-sq uare , inhabited by the late Earl ST. GER- N yé understand, to be sold. THE ARMY. Major-General Sir J, LYozes Regiment, the 97th, now raising at \Winchester, will embark in January next, for Ceylon. _ _ _ On Wednesday the head-quarters of the 31th Regiment, un der Col. Dickens, embarked in the Princess Royal, Lieutenant Thomas Hewett, and sailed for Dublin. The 2d Regiment, or Queen's, will embark at Dublin, in the transports which took the 34th Regiment, and land them in this garrison. The Zephyr, with part of the 3d Veteran Battalion, from Cork, arrived last night, bound to Sheerness. She landed part of the Regiment at Guernsey. It is said that an Order will shortly issue, enabling Officers, after twenty-three years service, to sell their Commissions, whether obtained by purchase or otherwise. PROMOTIONS. [From the LONDOX GAZETTE of Saturday.] War Office, May 21, 1824. sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant-Col. James Maxwell Wallace, from the half-pay, to be Lieutenant-Col., vice Arthur Gordon, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 6th Ditto—Captain Win. Miles liington, from half-pay of the Regiment, to be Captain, vice Henry Stephen North, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 7th Ditto—Captain John Gowdie, from the 15th Foot, to be Captain, vice Bennett, who exchanges. Ist Regiment of Dragoons—Lieut. Augustus Wathen, from half-pay Bth Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Leathes, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Major Geo. Brown, from Bth Light Dragoons, to be Major, vice William Oislotv, who retires upon half-pay 42d Foot, receiving the difference. Bth Ditto—Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Lord George William Russell, from half-pay 42d Foot, to be Major, paying the difference, vice Brown, appointed to the 4th Light Dragoons. ]7th Ditto—Lieutenant George Trigge Greenland, from half-pay Bth Light Dragoons, to he Lieutenant, vice Thomas Nicholson, who. exchanges, receiving the difference. 15th Regiment of Foot—Captain James Bennet, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Gowdie, who ex changes. 32d .Ditto—Lieutenant John Birtwhistle to be Captain, by purchase,. vice Belcher, who retires ; Ensign Otto Ives to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Birtwhistle ; Frederick Mark ham, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ives. 36th Ditto—Ensign John Roberts to be Adjutant, vice McPherson, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 44th Ditto—Ensign William Clark Langmead, from the 70th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice John Mac laine Wood, removed from the service. 92d Ditto—Captain John Spinks, from the 12th Foot, to be Major, by purchase, vice Fulton, who retires. 98th Ditto—Lieut. John Carter Barrett, from half-pay 53d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Joseph Lord Wallscourt, who ex changes, receiving the difference. Royal African Colonial Corps—Lieut. Alexander Sword, from half-pay 91st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John George Blake, who exchanges ; Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Stewart, from the 11th Foot, to be Surgeon. To be A ssistan t-Su Ygeons—H ospi tal-Assistant William Fer guson; Hospital-assistant Thomas Rose Picton. Ist Royal Veteral Battalion—Captain Joseph Le Guay, from half-pay 95th Foot, to be Captain, vice Donald M'Arthur, who returns to his former situation on the Retired List. UYATTACIIED--Lieut. Edward Gorden Douglas, from the Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards, to be Captain of a Company, by purchase, vice James Alaclauchlan, who retires. IiREVET—Capt. Peter Edwards, of the 75th Foot, to be Major in the Army ; Captain Charles 0. Aveline, of the Hon. East India Company's Service, and Adjutant to the Cadets at the Royal Military Seminary at Addiscombe, to have the local rank of Captain while so employed, vice Lester who resigns ; Lieut. Talbot Ritherdon, of ditto, and Assistant-Adjutant at that Institution, to have the local rank of Lieutenant while so employed. HOSPITAL STASF.—Alexander Baxter, M.D. Deputy In spector of Hospitals, to be Inspector of Hospitals by Brevet. To be Deputy Inspectors of Hospitals by Brevet.—Robert Calvert, 111. D. Physician to the Forces; John 111 4 Mullen, M.D. Physician to the Forces; Dr. David 111 4 Loughlin, As sistant-surgeon to the Forces, has been dismissed his Majesty's service for a gross breach of dis - Cipline and disobedience of the orders of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief. Off i ce of Ordnance, May 19, 1824. Corps of Royal Engineers—Capt. John Henryson, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Alaclauchlan, retired on half-pay. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain William B. Patten, from half-pay, to be Second Captain, vice Close, retired en half-pay; 'First Lieutenant W Miller, from half-pay, vice Richardes, retired on half-pay. Commission in the 2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia. Major W. Mason to be Lieut.-Col., vice Durrant, resigned. Commission in the Ist and 2d Troops of Dungleddy Yeomanry Cavalry: Rich. Buikeley Philipps, Esq. to be Captain Commandant. Commissions in the Stafibrdshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cay. Lie - at. Henry Worthing,ton to be Captain ; Michael Bass to be First Lieutenant, vice Worthington, promoted. EDINBURGH, MAY 20.—This morning, about seven o'clock, the head-quarters of the 94th Regiment, under the command of Lieut:-Colonel Allan, preceded by the band of the Ist Royal Dragoon Guards, marched from the Castle for Greenock.— General Sir Thomas Bradford and staff accompanied them out of town ;. and, at parting, the General addressed them in nearly the following words :—" I assure you I take my leave of you with the deepest regret ; and I sincerely hope that your conduct will, in all respects, be such as it has been since you came here. And as I will receive constant reports, I hope you will acquit yourselves well in that country to which you are going. And now, my lads, I wish you a sate voyage, trusting that your suc cess will be brilliant, and that you will live together in peace and happiness."--This morning the Staff and four companies of the 65th Regiment, under the command of Colonel Dumas, marched into the Castle from Paisley. ROYAL NAVY, &c. The Seringapatam is to be commissioned at Portsmouth im mediately. :The following officers are appointed to her:—Capt. C. Sotheby ; Lieutenants L. Davies and W. Dickson (b.) The Dartmouth has been put into commission at Plymouth, and Capt. the lion. J. A. Maude, Lieutenants J. F. Forster, G. G. Stewart, and W. Molyneux, are apoointed to her ; Mr. W. Blair to be purser. The Snap surveying vessel proceeds immediately from Dept ford to plytnoutb, from whence she will soon after sail for New foundland, to resume the survey of those coasts. The Primrose, at Plyinouth, has received her sailing orders to proceed to the West Indies. When the Niemen left Halifax on the 30th of last month, the Athol' Argus, and Clinker, were in that harbour. The Salisbury, Menai, and Rifleman, were at Bermuda on the 20th of April. The Niemen is gone into Portsmouth harbour to be paid off. The Sappho has been recommissioned at Plymouth ; Lieut. J. F. Navell is appointed to her. Lieut. F. Phillips has been appointed to the Ramillies, as supernumerary Lieutenant, in the room of Lieut. Willes, who was unfortunately drowned, Mr. W. Johnston, Midshipman, has been promoted, and ap pointed to the Satellite, in the room of Lieut. Grant, invalided. Mr. D. D. Saumerez is appointed Lieutenant of the Argus, at Halifax, vice lanes, invalided; and Mr. J. B. Driffield to the Dotterel, in the room of Lieut. Duncan. • Mr. It, Gore, Midshipman, of the William and Mary Dub lin yacht, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. MEDICAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.--The Eighth Anniversary of the Medical Benevolent Society was celebrated on Saturday, at the Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen-street, his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, Patron of the So ciety, in the Chair, supported by Sir H. Ilalford, Bart., Presi dent of the College of Physicians, Sir M. Tierney, Dr. Latham, and upwards of JO others of the first Members in each branch of the Profession. After the cloth was removed, the Wiekha mist Grace was sung with great effect by Messrs. Fitzwilliam, Broadhurst, Clarke, and Master Smith, and the usual toasts of the King's health and that of the Royal Family having been drank, his Royal Highness, in an excellent speech, in which he proposed " Success to the Institution," stated the benevolent object which its promoters had in view, in affbrding relief to the distressed members of the Profession, and the great satis faction his Royal Highness felt in the increase of Members, and the progressive advancement in the funds of the Society, and which was afterwards more fully confirmed by the Report of the proceedings of the Society since the last annual Meeting, and the announcement of several liberal additional donations in the course of the evening. His Royal Highness left the Chair shortly after ten o'clock, which was taken by Dr. Latham, the President, who, by his attentions, added to the satisfaction ex pressed by the company in the entertainment the Stewards had provided for the occasion. According to a statement in one of the last St. Petersburgh Papers, Major-General BUTURLIN, who made the Spanish campaign with the Duke of ANGOULEME, will shortly lead to the Altar of Hymen the Countess of KOMBU R. LEY, with a fortune of two millions of rubles—about 80,0001. sterling. SIR 11. HARDINGE and MR. BATTIER. [FUOR A SUNDAY PAPYR.I We are authorized to publish the following Correspondence : __ U. S. Club, May 22, 1824. " My DEAN HARDINGE—I now address you on the subject of the message from Mr. Battier, referred by you to me, and I shall begin by noticing his letter in The Observer of last Sun' day, from which the following is an extract : " But I have no doubt of being enabled to prove that nil friend's signature was obtained to a document which he had not thoroughly examined, relying on Sir Henry Hardinge's being incapable of recording the particulars partially or untruly.' •" In reference to the above, I need hardly say that the insi nuation thrown out thus, if proved, would have covered yea with infamy. " I have taken some pains, as you know, to investigate this matter, and to place it beyond the contradiction of any man. Although no one acquainted with you would consider you cap' able of doing that which has been attributed to you, still it must be satisfactory to you to see, by the accompanying document , that the refutation is clothed in the subvantial garb of evi dence. I also send you herewith my note of the conferences which took place betwixt Mr. Hunter, the friend of Mr. Bat" tier, and myself, as well as copies of our correspondence. MY reasons for denying that Mr. Battier had any claim upon you are there detailed, and you may make such use of them as yo 4 may think proper; and I trust that the perusal of them will satisfy every man of high honour, and every friend to good order, that of acting otherwise than I had done. I should not only have betrayed the best interests of society, but should ha's* greatly compromised the dignity of the profession of which you are so bright an ornament, had I hesitated a moment ha mY refusal to suffer you to comedown to the level of a man who, at the same instant in which he was making a personal appeal of honour to you, was making to the world another in the un manly form of a foul aad flagrant calumny. " I remain, my dear Hardinge, very truly Yours, " CHARLES TURNER." " On the papers of the late Colonel Western being opened in our presence, there was found an exact cop _of the statement which bad appeared in the Morninn• Chronicle of the 15th inst. relative 'to the duel which took place between Lord London , - ' elerry and Mr. Battier ; which copy we find was forwarded , . with a note from Sir Henry Harding:. to Lieutenant-Colonel Western, through Mr. Battier, on the Bth instant; from which note it appears that Lieutenant-Colonel Western had previonsil ‘ examined and observed upon this statement. " There was also found another statement of the same officer (Colonel Western) in his own hand-writing, which was in sub stance similar to that which had appeared in the Morning Chronicle, and to which Sir Henry Hardinge had affixed the signature of •H. H.' But in which statement several erasures and alterations in pencil appear to have been subsequently, made by Lieutenant-Colonel Western. " There was also found a memorandum in pencil, relativo to what took place on the ground, on a detached piece of pap er- (Signed) " CHAS. TURNt.:II, Major-General " T. HUNTER, Lieut. 18th Hussars . " B. H. VIVIAN, K. C. B. " M. FRENCH. " Friday evening, May 21, 1824." " 32, Grosvenor-place, May 22, 100- "My dear Turner—l have received your letter, and the do cuments to which it refers and entirely concur in every 00 1 you have taken. I know Ineed not here express my acknow , ledgments to you ; but I must state my conviction, after hale ing witnessed Mr. Battier's incapacity to feel and act like man of honour, that I could not, without degradation to my' self and discredit to the profession to which I belong, have ex' tended to him the consideration due to a gentleman. " This conviction, if it had needed any additional force, would have acquired it from Mr. Battier's recent attempt to insult me in the street. His statement, that he ventured to raise his whip over me, is false, and, as you know, is disprove; by a gentleman, an eye-witness of what 'did pass. Be assured no conduct of his can ever provoke me to alter my determine' tion to consider him as utterly unworthy of my notice.-1 aro' my dear Turner, very faithfully yours, (Signed) " H. HARDINGE.” LORD BYRON'S AUTO-BIOGRAPHY- The following particulars relative to the de' struction of Lord BYRoN's account of his nwn life are from a periodical work : " About the middle of the year 1821, Mr. Mooat receive(' from Lord BYRON the manuscripts of his life. It was written on detached sheets of p a per, a nd was evidently not a seCO c copy. It contained his Lordships remarks on his conduct an feelings, from the earliest p er i o d o f hi s recollection down t° the year WIG ; and explained m an y o f t h ose circumstances which the public had most speculated. It is well known ' an d delicacy need not withhold an alhision to the fact, th a t Moore was, when he received it, in considerable pecuniall ti " . ficulties, and that the motive of the gift was, to enable to return to the country from whi c h h e was an unwilling ex ile ' Mr. Moore first offered it to Messrs. Longman, who declined purchasing it on any terms. Mr. Murray bought the pla n t scripts for the sum of two thousand guineas ; and his frien d ' say, that his chief reason for so doing was to second the vietd of the Noble Lord on behalf of the exiled poet. There is some ground for this assertion, when we recollect that Lord BY t r, was likely to outlive Mr. Murray many years, and that t" - work could only be of use to the heirs of the latter gen tlenaani It will he remembered, that the publication was prohibited uo n three months after Lord Byron's death.—lt was in Nov., 1891, 'that Mr. Moore received the money. About 12 months after: wards Mr. Moore called on Mr. Murray, and stated to him tit the production in question contained much that would be equaoi, prejudicial to the character of the Noble Lord and to DP own, and applied an expression to the work which we declin e quoting. He therefore requested Mr. Murray to empower hi° by a bond to make such alterations as he might deem nece B ; sary, and to be appointed the editor whenever the work sho ol " he published. To this Mr. Murray agreed, but demanded foo l Mr. Moore a bond for the 2,0001. to secure him the money 13 5 had paid for the work, in case Mr. Moore should so alter it i t ' to render it an unprofitable speculation. Mr. Moore agreed to the proposition ; the bonds were given, and thus the case sto n s until February, 1824, when Mr. Moore brought the assignmer of the work, which had not been pr.fviously delivered. l ui ; Murray then stated to Mr. Moore, that he was dissatisfied a t th . power he had given of altering the work according to the ideal of the latter, and that he wished either to get back the bo n ° which empowered him so to do, or to cancel the agreemen t ' and to deliver the work on receiving the 2,0001.; alleging ash ",:, reason, that " he did not wish to be the keeper of Lord Byroo honour." Mr. Moore said, that he would choose the latter A' ,, ternative, and promised to call in a week with the money, t° receive back the work. This Mr. Moore deferred ; at any rah' this he did not do. On the 14th of May, the news of Lo ra Byron's death arrived, and on the evening of that day ° Moore called on Mr. Murray, whom, however, he did 11 see. The next day Mr. Murray went to Mr. Wilmot Norton' the friend of Lady Byron, and stated to him all the circuit" stances connected with the affair. Mr. Wilmot Horton ws 6 satisfied to refund Mr. Murray the sum advanced, and to have the work destroyed. Subsequently the parties met a t the house of Mr. Hobhouse, where Colonel Doyle appeared $ 6 the friend of the Honourable Mrs. Leigh, Lord I3yron's sisterj and it was agreed to destroy the work. Mr. Moore objeot c _ A to the right which Mr. Murray claimed over it, and assert(s` that it was his property. Mr. N urray dented this dojo'', on the ground that the bond given by him to Mr. Mont only allowed him to withdraw the work, and to return o:,T. money, any time before Lord Byron's death, but that oft such an event, it was to be exclusively Mr. Murray's proper t L The day after, the parties net together at Mr. Murray's hou viz. Mr. W. Horton, Mr. Hobliouse, Col. Doyle, Mr, Moo r ' ,1 Mr. Luttrell, and Mr. Murray. Mr. Murray then decla r '.:l that he had no claim whatever on Mr. Moore for the sum Il e that Gentleman, while Mr. Moore persisted in his right to t it work. It is asserted that Mr. Moore did not mean to have it destroyed, but this we do not for a moment believe. B. itr. may, the production was torn and burnt in the room of ' 4 ,c liturgy ; and burnt, as our informant states, without the con s 'of of Mr. Moore. The circumstance has since been the toVie muc h conversation in the higher circles, and each of t h e parties has been considerably blamed by the friends of t'B, other. Although we have stated these facts, and again rot peat that we have them from the best authority, we do w ish to comment on them. We think it, however, our & L is to mention, that the gentlemen alluded to expressed , the highest terms, their s e nse of Mr. 'Murray's conduct, $ 6 , 0 , gentleman and a man o f h onou r. This much is certain: t",,,,e if Mr. Murray had chosen to publish the work, he would O tt , made a fortune by it; and that, in sacrificing his interesso, his principles, he has acted as few tradesmen would have d ° ,o We are certain that Mr. Murray received for the work no Ow than he had paid for it." A Commercial Letter, dated St. P e t e rsburgi l ; ; eP April 28th, says, seven Merchant vessels had already ar .. .. v o f at Kronstadt : several more were in sight, but on accoun t ice and contrary wind, were unable to reach the harbour. .I';‘ ice still remains at Oranienbaum. Yesterday the River filled with drift ice, on which account the passage across 0 i only accomplishable in boats. The bridges over the Ne va v not yet restored. ►.,, t 4 all 4 Pei 4 p et nen 1111 1 ) indi