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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Pvers, March 31. [THE • TIMES.] Letters of the 21st inst. were received yester day from Madrid. They are chiefly occupied with the proceedings of the different agents of merchants in London and Paris, who have visited that capital for the purpose of making proposals to the Spanish Government on the subject of a new loan. It has been generally supposed that al/ the competitors for this contract were agreed on one point—namely, that the acknowledgment of the Constitutional loans, in some shape or other, was to be an indispensable condition. It appears, however, that individuals have been found representing, or professing to represent, houses of the first rank in London, unprincipled and impolitic enough to wave this condition, and to make a contract with the Spanish Government, one clause of which is a direct breach of faith, in the absolute rejection of the Constitutional secu rities. The individual who has entered into this ceutract is an unsuccessful adventurer in the French funds, whose extensive speculation, and losses far beyond his power of payment, were much talked of in Paris about two years ago, and who is not likely to have so far retrieved that, desperate situation of his affairs as to have arrived at the means of taking any part, beyond that of agent, in any transaction of such magnitude as a contract for a loan. He may, therefore, Send himself to a project in which he had no-; thing to lose, and every thing to gain. But when the new stock is brought into the markets of London or Paris, the subscribers will of course demand a more effectual guarantee before they employ their money in such a loan, and the names of the real contractors, who have sanctioned this breach of faith through their agent, will then tie revealed. It will then, it is said, be seen, what houses have had the courage to brave public opi nion by avowing themselves the supporters of such a measure. The project must fail, notwith v•anding the prevalent mania for loan-contracts of whatever kind. The state of Spanish finance is too desperate to be retrieved by any but ca pitalists of the first class of respectability. If the parties who have made this contract stood high in respectability before this imprudent step, they must forfeit that character by making it on such conditions. The sum engaged to be raised under this nefarious contract for the Spanish Go vernment is stated at about 2,500,0001. sterling. [BRITISU PRESS.] On the Slave Trade Piracy Bill coining before the Upper House last night, the Lords dispensed kith the wonted formalities of going into a Com mittee on the Bill, so as to save time, and let it pass at once ; the object being, that it may reach the United States before the Congress is up, that the Treaty between both countries may be rati fied immediately, otherwise the Bill should stand over until November next, when the Congress meets again. The Marquis of Lausdown shortly expressed I}is warm approval of the me asure, and hoped that some stipulat ions in the Treaty would be inserted, by which the two nations would bind themselves to extend its provisions so as to make other Powers adopt the principles of this Treaty, and that they, in return, should bind themselves to extend the grea t p r i nc ipl e also, and make it imperative on those Powers within their influence to adopt its humane provisions. This Bill at length puts the 'abominable traffic, so long an outrage on humanity, on its proper footing ; it makes the man-stealer a pirate and felon. — The two great maritime powers of the civilized world, by uniting their voice and leaguing their strength in this sacred compact, will give a great example to the nations of the earth ; find it is impossible that France, or Spain, or Portugal, can longer persist in the infernal traffic, with so memorable a lesson before them. This Bill, like the Abolition Act of the great Fox, is every way worthy of the present liberal Administration of this country, and most honourable to Mr. Can ning in particular ; it strikes at the root of the evil, it annihilates this detestable barter at once : no power can licence it for the future ; shame and fear boils will prevent the continuance. We have had occasion, from time to time, to give the humble meed of our unqualified approbation to many of the measures of the present Ministry—measures most creditable to themselves, and equally bene ficial to the coantry at large. But this Bill is a . great concession to humanity in general ; it is the redemption of Africa ; it proscribes the accursed slave trade in the only way that can a nnihilate it all together ; and we may now really hope to see a close to this abominable traffic throughout the civilized world. [MORNING POST.] In the House of Lords last night the Slave Trade Piracy Bill was read a third time aml passed, its being committed having been dispensed with in order to expedite , its completion that it might reach the other side of the Atlantic before the American Congress had separated. On the salutary nature of tlds important, measure there was but one opinion, and the Marquis of Lans do-wn justly said, " that if it was gratify ing to see, England and America at last em barked in the same cause, it was nu additional satisfaction to see them embarked on a principle so intimately connected with their common ori gin and their common religion, and for the maintenance and extension of which their re specti*e• means were so peculiarly well adapted." In the Commons Lord Archibald, Hamilton moved that the Reports of the Commiss;oners of Incidiry on the Scottish Courts should he re ferred to a Committee of the whole House, on the•ground that the recommendations of those Commissioners had not been duly complied with. The reply of the Lord Advocate was most able and satisfactory. He showed that Most .of the. recotnmendations had been iatistied by new ActK. of Parliament, -or by enforcing the provisions of 6 . 1 d ones which applied to the different subjects. He alio announced that he intended to submit to a Committ e e a proposition, which Mr. Abercromby terwards admitted 'would effect a most im portant reform, by giving to the Gentry of Scot land a share in the Administration similar to that possessed by Magistrates in England. This, it was thought, would raise the character and add to the importance of the Scotch Country Gentle men, while it would confer great and general be nefit on the whole community. He then left it to the House to decide whether, after the expla nation which he had given, the motion of the Noble Lord was necessary. The House thought it was not, and told the Noble Mover so by the rejection of his proposition, the numbers for it being 76, and those against it 124. We rejoice to find that a decisive opinion was expressed last night by several of. the Members most intimately connected with thia Orange So cieties, that it was expedient to put down the processions in which those Societies were in the habit of indulging. Mr. Brownlow even declar ed 4 ' as an Orangeman, and connected with the most Orange town in Ireland, that whilst they existed, no man's life or his property was worthy a pin's purchase, and that all persons would quit the land where they were allowed to continue." It is to be hoped therefore that the good sense of the Orangemen of Ireland will render it unne cessary for his Majesty's Government to take any measure to repress so unnecessary, so irritat ing, and as it is now so universally acknowledg. ed, so dangerous a practice. Mr. Secretary Peel last night postponed the second readi ng of t he Alien Bill to FridaY, and Lord Althorp o bt a ined l eave t o b r i ng in a measure to abolish parish Settlements by hiring and service. NEw TIMEs.] . Th e publication of Sir Herbert Taylor's let ters to Lord Londonderry and Mr. Battier, places the affair of Mr. Battier and the Tenth Hussars in rather a new light. The Duke of York manifestly acted with great caution and delicacy throughout the whole business. It would appear from these official documents, that though Mr. Battier had previously belonged to two other cavalry regiments, and had left them with honourable testimonials, yet he was in fact incompetent to discharge the duty of a Cavalry officer. When he joined the Tenth, he was treated uncourteously and improperly by the officers forming the mess of the corps, and this circumstance called forth a severe censure on them from his Royal Highness. The officers acknowledged their error, and do not appear to have subsequently given to Mr. Battier any dis tinct cause of complaint. Lord Londonderry, it seems, was absent from the regiment during these proceedings, and was in consequence totally ig coral; t both of the misconduct of the mess, and also of the Commander-in-Chief's reproof ; but Mr. Battier complains of the Noble Marquis's behaviour towards him on the 24th of November. —The explanation is clear and satisfactory. Mr. Battier, it is stated, had been report ed unfit for cavalry service : had admitted this : he had intreated that his incompe tency should not be exposed : in consequence of his inability to appear properly at the Re view, he Lad obtained leave of absence, and had acted on it by absenting himself from regimental duty ; so that his subsequent appearance at dinner on the 24th was an irregularity properly noticed as such be his Commanding Officer, Lord Londonderry. The subsequent publication of Mr. Battier appears to he a breach of military discipline, which the Duke of York might have been justified in treating with severity ; but as his Royal Highness might in that case have been thought to act from personal feeling, he very emi t sideratel Y declines taking such a step. [HORNING HER , ILD.:I There are two Bills now before Parliament, Some of the objects of which might, we think, be united, with evident advantage to the public, in cluding no inconsiderable saving of expellee. We allude to the Insolvent Court Bill, and that for extending the powers of County Courts. By the first of these it is proposed to add a new Com missioner to the Insolvent Court, and to establish what may be called an Insolvent Circuit over the whole kingdom. The necessity for this, if it ex ists at all, arises, we apprehend, from the presumed incompetency of the Magistrates at Sessions to dis charge the duties which the present Insolvent Act imposes upon them. By the other Bill (known as Lord Althorp's), a Circuit of a different and more obviously useful nature is to be established, for the recovery of debts under 101., without the ruinous expence and delay attendant upon suing for such debts in the higher Courts. Now what we would suggest is, whether it might not be prac ticable to transfer those duties under the Insol vent Act, which have hitherto been performed by the Magistrates, to the new Judges under Lord Althorp's Act, and thus save the expence and in convenience of the Insolvent Circuit altogether. To such a plan we cannot foresee any objection. To the competency of the persons to be appointed under that Act none, it is to be hoped, can arise while, in fact, it will assimilate the practice to that which existed under the old Insolvent Acts, under which it was necessary, if we recollect rightly, to bring up all persons to be discharged before the Judges of the Courts in which they happened to have been sued. While on the sub ject of the Insolvent Court, STO must go one step further, and inquire whether every species of in solvency might not by degrees be brought under its jurisdiction,,, and the whole machinery of bankrupt commissions and Commissioners in time be done away with ? We do not pretend to be sufficiently conversant with the subject to say with certainty whether this be practicable or not ; and are aware' how much the very sug gestion will shock the prejudices of those who prosper by the present system ; but this we know, that insolvency must necessarily be, in general, a matter of business and common sense ; and why, therefore, the laws for regulating it should be (as the present Bankrupt Laws con fessedly are) intricate in theory, and slow and expensive in practice, is more than we cm) un derstand. Lord Althorp's 13111 will do away' with a great deal of legal jargon.. If a man owes his tailor at Uxbridge ten pounds, it will be no longer necessary to fill half a dozen sheets Of paper with a declaration, stating the debt to be due at " the parish of St. Mary-le-Bow, in the ward of Cheap ;" for we conclude that the I whole tribe of declarations, pleas, demurrers, &c. are to be done away with, and the case brought before the Jury on a summons, and the facts— and the facts only, immediately gone into, unen cumbered with legal quibbling and verbiage.— And when so much form and expence shall have been done away under one head, should it be found to answer, we do not despair of a si milar pruning applied to that part of our legal system to which we have alluded. IMORNING CHRONICLE.] We have heard but one opinion on the con duct of the 10th Hussars towards Mr. Battier, and that opinion is not likely to be affected in any measure by the letter of Sir Herbert Taylor to Lord. Londonderry. All that Mr. Battier advanced in his statement may be considered as proved ; and when it is admitted by those who certainly , do not regard him with too much fa vour or indulgence, that the treatment he expe rienced w as utterly unjustifiable, it appears to us most extraordinary indeed, to see his pub lication of grievances severely censured, on the score of its containing insults on the corps which had so grossly and wantonly insulted him. Sir Herbert Taylor 13 much perplexed to disco ver what motive Mr. Battier could possibly have had for going to the mess -dinner after he had received his leave of absence. There appear to the Military Secretary only two conceivable causes for this proceeding—an amicable or a hostile feel ing ; if the feeling was amicable, what then, he argues, what are we to think of the subsequent in vectives? If hostile, Lord Londonderry is held jus tified in having excluded him from the mess. On this we have to observe that amicable and hostile feel ings are not the only impulses which can be sup posed to prompt a man to go to the dinner be has paid for ; there is a third, a carnivorous or hun gry feeling, which may satisfactorily account for the singular occurrence of Mr. Battier betaking himself to the mess about dinner-time. If, however, the delicate beings of the 10th apprehended that Mr. Battier was coming in great hunger and great wrath with a design to devour them, and that thus they might be at dinner, in hamlet's sense, not where they eat, but where they are eaten — in this case, Lord Londonderry would have been I justified in shutting the drawing-room door against so fee-fa-fum a guest. But unluckily it so happens, that his Lordship, like a fashionable Colonel of a Regiment, professes to have been in utter ignorance of what had taken place in that regiment. As Lord Londonderry knew no thing of what had previously occurred, whether Mr. Battier came in friendship, in wrath, or in hunger, cannot bear in any manner upon his Lordship's extraordinary proceeding of ex cluding him from the mess. The point remains ktill unexplained, notwithstanding the Military Secretary's casuistry, and his position, that there are but two causes that cam account for a man's g oing to 'his dioner—friendship and hostility. We must freely own that the tone of pique which appears in Sir Herbert 1 ay lor's expression of the feeling at the Horse Guards is far from satisfac tory to us. The Duke of York feels affronted that an officer should appeal from his judg ment to that of the public, and his Royal Highness thinks that such a proceeding would warrant so severe a measure as that of dis missing him the service. Again we repeat, that t here appears a pique in this language, which by no means conforms with the opinion we bad Coll. ceived of the Duke's equitable conduct in such matters. The Duke of York acquired a high character for justice in the Army, and we trust lie will not endanger it by any proceeding, the motives of which may be mistaken. We believe the fact to be, that the Dandies are too strong for the Duke, but that is no reason why he should be wrath with Mr. Battier. The appointment of Col. Wyndham to the Tenth s h ows , however, that there is a disposition to restrain the impertinencies of these frail beings. Col.Wynd ha ns is a martinet,and not likely to respect the delicacy of-their sex.— Until the gallant Colonel has made something of them, it will certainly be prudent to forbid their frequenting public places—a measure we highly approve ; they must be taken care of till irrita tion subsides, or till the power of resisting its consequences germinate. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, March SO. - - Amato darn Ditto, at Sight .. Rotterdam l2 2 • Antwerp lianilmrgli AitOtta Paris, 3 Day's sight .. Ditto .. Botirdcaux, ditto Berlin Fintili fort on 1 lie ntin Pete' sburgh . 9 Vientil Trieste Madrid • Cadiz Billma 35 Effective Barcelona ieville fiihraltat Leghorn Gei.on .......... , 13i-Venie e , Ital. Liv 47 0 Malta 45 . -Napltti • 31 , i • Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia . 50 Dublin .... 9} Cork 'I4 pet Cent. BULLION. -- Portugal Gold,in.Coin Ar .O 0 0 pet oa Foreign Gold, in Bars New Doul)luons New Dollar:: Silver to Bari, Standard 0 4 11i BuLL-BArrtNo.---The Hon. Member for Gal way, it should seem, has it in contemplation to bring his Act into operation against Bull-baiting. For this purpose a question has been raised, whe ther, after the particular enumeration of cattle made by the Act, the words " other cattle " are sufficient to include the bull, who is not specifi cally named? and on the point a case has been submitted to the ATToaNEY-GENERAL and Mr. CONEYS, both of whom have given it as their opinion that the words " other cattle" nre suffi cient to include the bull, though not SpeCificiilly named in the Act. THE ARMY. THE TENTH HUSSARS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE 811 W. Seaham, March 27, 1824. Lord LONDONDERRY requests tine Editor of THE SUN to insert two Letters from the Military Secretary, Sir HERBERT TAYLOR, on the subject of a Statement from Mr. BATTIER, which ap peared in a Morning Paper of the 10th instant, and reached Lord.L. on the 14th instant, in the North of Ireland. It became his duty to ad dress his ROYAL HIGHNESS the COMMANDER-IN CHIEF on the subject of that production, at the same time enjoining the Officer in command of the Regiment in Dublin, as well as the Corps of Officers, to take no step in consequence of Mr. BATTIER'S proceedings. The necessary delay of communication, added to Lord L.'s removal to this country, has prevented his receiving an An swer till this day, which Answer is herewith an nexed for publication. To LIEUTENANT-GENERALMARQUIS or LONDONDERRY, G.C.B. . (COPY.) Horse Guards, March 22,1024. MY LORD—I have had the honour to receive, and to lay be fore the Commander-in-Chief, our Lordships's letter of the 14th instant, and I am' directed to say, that his Royal High nese-ia not surprised that the statement of Mr. Battier should have filled you with astonishment and indignation. His Royal Highness rejoices, however, that your Lordship's letter offers to him the opportunity of making some observa tions upon that statement, and of conveying to you, for such use as you may think fit to make of it, his view of Mr Battier's recent proceedings, and I will endeavour to execute his Royal Highness's instructions to that effect as briefly as the subject will admit, anti without entering into any unnecessary detail. Your Lordship is aware ' that when Mr. Battier applied for ' the exchange to the Tenth Hussars, he produced testimonials of his previous conduct in the Fifth Dragoon Guards, and the Eighteenth Hussars, whieNt were considered by his Royal Highness perfectly satisfactory. These testimonials were signed by Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, of the Fifth Dragoon Guards, Colonel Murray and Lieut.-Colonel Hughes, of the Eighteenth Hussars, and they spoke, without reserve, of his qualifications as an oficer and a gentleman. Upon his joining the Tenth Hussars, he experienced a re ception and a treatment from the officers forming the mess of the corps, which neither his apparent incapacity and unfitness for the duty of a regiment of cavalry, nor any exception taken to his manner and appearance, could justify, and which were, upon his representation, censured in the strongest terms by the Commander-in-Chief, and drew upon those concerned the expression of his, Royal Highness's unqualified disapprobation. The communication upon this subject was made to Lord Corn bermere, who was desired to reprimand the officers, and to ad monish them not to persist in a course which would expose them to marks of more serious displeasure. Before, however, my letter reached Lord Combermere, the officers concerned hat been convinced of the impropriety of their conduct, and bad acknowledged their error ; and al though they may not have felt inclined to place themselves upon a footing of easy or familiar intercourse with Mr. Bat tier, it does not appear that they, as a body, or as individuals, subsequently afforded to him any cause of complaint which could warrant further remonstrance, or call for notice from higher authority, or which could p rovoke hi m to `.personal collision." On the contrary, Sir Colquhoun Grant states, that Mr. Battier acquainted him that he and his friends were satisfied with the Manner in which his representations had been met., an d.the whole affair arranged with his brother officers. Reports were, however, made by Co lo nel Sir George Quen tin, through Lord Combermere and S i r Colquhoun Grant, of Mr. Battier's utter unfitness for the duties of a cavalry officer, abynddorifllthoer instruction to become c of hi s ever capable being i p sufficiently i m p rove d g of doing ju s ti ce t o his situation, or to the regiment. These representations were af terwards confirmed by a special report from Sir C. Grant. Mr. Battier was, in consequence, told, by order of his Royal Highness, that he had better remove from the Tenth Hussars, by retiring to half-pay, or (as there was nothing in the reports made which could affect his character as a Gentle man) with the option of purchasing a half-pay Lieutenancy of Infantry, whenever the opportunity should offer. To this Mr. Battier subscribed, and it was clearly under. stood that he should quit a regiment and a branch of the ser vice for which he had been proved, and, in fact, had acknow ledged himself to be unfit, anti in which lie never would have been replaced, if his Royal Highness had not been misled by the testimonials of his previous Commanding Officers. Thus stood.matters until the period of your Lordship's visit to your regiment, and Lord Combermere's review of it. Upon the occasion of the inspection of the regiment by Sir Colquhoun Grant, on the 19th of November Mr. Battier con veyed, through Lieutenant-Colonel Tayler, his earnest entreaty to Sir Colquhoun Grant that he would not expose his in. competency by exhibiting him in the Third Class of Riding Drill, and he again acknowledged.his unfitness for the situation he held. Sir Colquhoun Gram acquiesced in his request, and told him in the presence of sir George Quentin and Lieut.-Colonel Taylor, that as he could not appear at the Review, lie would ive him leave of absence, of which he might instantly avail himself; Mr. Battier stating at the same time that it would be unpleasant to him, under these circumstances, to remain with the regiment, and Sir Colquhoun Grant, knowing that Mr. Battier was to be removed from the 10th Hussars, concluded that he would at once take his leave—an impression which was confirmed by Mr. Battier's leaving the Barracks in Vlain clothes; and ceasing to do any duty, or to appear in uniform, according to regulation. Upon the 24th November, when your Lordship inspected the regiment in the morning, Mr. Battier did not appear, and was reported absent on leave, the official notification having been conveyed to him on the 23d, the leave having been given ver. b e lly by Sir Colquhoun Grant from the 19th. In the evening of the 24th, when your Lordship dined at the Mess, Mr. Battier thought fit again to make his appearance as an officer of the corps, and upon this occasion, the circumstances Occurred which form the subject of Mr. Battier's letter to me of the 7th December, which he has published. Upon receiving this letter the Commander-in-Chief ordered me to desire Lord Combermere to call upon Sir George Qum tin for his reply to Mr. Battier's complaint, and not being satisfied with the explanation therein given, he directed me subsequently to write to your Lordship, and to express his sur prise and regret that you should, by your proceeding on the 24th November, have appeared to sanction, and have actually sanctioned, a previous course of conduct on the part of the of ficers of your regiment, which had incurred his Royal High ness's displeasure, and had been marked by the expression of his serious disapprobation: Your Lordship's reply stated your entire ignorance of the proceedings which had incurred his Royal Highness's displeasure, and of the reproof conveyed to the Officers con cerned ;—it denied many of Mr. Battier's assertions, more particularly that which stated that you had threatened to take steps with his Royal Highness, the effect of which would be " seriously to injure his prospects in the Army if he did not retire from the INless," and it assigned, as a reason for your proceedings the fact previously stated to you by Sir Colquhoun Grant, that he had five days before given Mr. Bat tier leave to quit the regiment, of which Mr. Battier had ac tually availed himself, by not attending any duty since the 19th, your impression (as well as Sir Colquhoun Grant's) be ing that he had left the Head-quarters of. the regiment. This statement of your Lordship's is corroborated by Sir George Quentin, who was present at your interview with Mr. Battier on the 24th. His Royal Highness ordered me, in reply, to assure you that your explanation was satisfactory, and to censure in strong terms the conduct of Sir George Quentin, in omitting to apprise you of what had passed, and in suffering you to re main in ignorance of it when you desired him to speak to Mr. Battier, and to prevent his dining at the mess, adding, that his Royal Highness was confident, that if you had been duly apprized of the previous occurrences, and of his Royal Highness's view of them, you would, in spite of Mr. Battier's ill and ill-timed appearance at the mess, have felt anxious to concur with his Royal Highness in checking pro ceedings inconsistent with the principles of subordination and the acknowledged rules of society, which therefore his Royal Highness must condemn wherever they occur, and in main taining that respect for superior authority, of which some Offi cers of the Tenth had lost sight in the adoption of a line of conduct that had drawn upon them a reproof of which they had acknowledged the justice. Having given this general statement of the circumstances as derived from the official documents in my possession, I shall proceed, in obedience to his Royal Highness's commands, to make some observations upon Mr. Battier's statement, which is an appeal to the feelings of the army and the public against the Commander-in-Chief, whom be most unjustly and incor rectly accuses of having disiegarded his complaints, not less than it is a libel upon your Lordship, and upon the regiment, from which he has retired for the avowed purpose of resorting to such a course. The first parts of it are hardly deserving of comment. Mr. Battier complains that the Commander-in-Chief had in private visited the conduct of the Officers of the Tenth with his censure and'reprimand, " but had not been pleased to publish though out the army any manifestations of this displeasure. --His Royal Highness conceives that he may use his discretion in the manner of noticing any representation or appeal made to him; and that upon this occasion, he adopted .the course best suited to circumstances, such as indeed did produce the desired , result, as must appear from the statement of facts I have given, and from Mr. Battier's own admission. Mr. Battier states that, while the officers of the 10th placed him in Coventry, and withheld from him the marks of courtesy which in civilized society, are considered due to Gentleman and a stranger, each member of the corps ob served the cautious policy of shunning all risk of personal collision. He admits this. He expresses the feeling under which he' quitted the corps,—a feeling of decided hostility,—a feeling which leads him, when he had crossed the water, and, as soon as he had ceased to bear a commission in it, to insult and defy, not one member of it, but the whole corps indiscriminately , and yet this individual, who would seem, from his own ae count, to have courted " personal collision," and who now discovers grounds for insulting a whole corps which had been denied to him by " the cautious policy of each member of it, did not hesitate, very unnecessarily and very indiscreetlYs circumstanced as he was, to appear at the Mess after leave of absence had been given to him in consequence of his in treaty to Sir Colquhoun Grant that he might not be expoaed. to ridicule. It is reasonable to ask, what could be Mr. Battier's motive for appearing at the Mess at such a moment, and with feelings Such as he avows in hiti published statement? 'Were his ieteree tions amicable or hostile ? If amicable, his subsequent invee fives would betray strange inconsistency; if hostile, and eo: • posed to be so from any previous expression in other queft , of those sentiments now published, no better justifieeth-t: could be found for your Lordship's exclusion of him froth q'e flection c s on w s i i t d h er w s h i i t c -w h h 3 i ity r. circle to which he sought admission. unnecessary Aft After these to rem no a t r i k c s e , th h e is ena ßo yaler Hi ghness r Battier has favoured the corps of officers. I proceed to Mr. Battier's comments upon the Commander in-Chief's conduct. He states that, "in consequence of you: Lordship reporting him unacquainted with his duty, and unlit for cavalry service, his Royal Highness was pleased to take no notice of his appeal, farther than allowing him to purchase s Half-pay Lieutenancy of the Eighth Dragoons." As Mr. Battier thought fit to publish, without any previon 6 permission obtained from his Royal Highness, my letter of the 17th of Feb. which acquaints him that his Royal Highnesshad more than once expressed his disapprobation of the conduct observed towards him by . some Officers of the Tenth Hussars, it may be presumed that it was not from delicacy or discretion that he abstained from publishing also my reply to his letter of 7th of December, of which I now subjoin a copy for yob Lordship's information, and from which it will appear that Mr. Battier has taken care to give to the public so much only as would serve his own purpose, and to withhold the reasons assigned by his Royal Highness for not noticing further what had passed. I am directed to add, that however disposed to admit that Mr. Battier had experienced a treatment, while a member of the 10th Hussars, which was calculated to produce much soreness of feeling, and however willing to allow for the imita tion under which he quitted the corps, and even for the impres sion he may have entertained that his complaint had not met with the attention to which he considered them entitled, and which was in fact shewn to them—Mr. Battier's publication appeared to his Royal Highness to be so gross a breach of dis cipline, that his first intention was to have recommended to his Majesty that he should be dismissed from the service ' • and I was therefore ordered, on the 12th instant, to write to hint, and to desire he would state whether he was the author of it but as this publication, independently . of the insult offered W your Lordship, his late Colonel, and to the whole corps, cart , tamed also comments upon his Royal Highness's conduct, which might be presumed to be personally offensive to liiin, his Royal Highness has abstained from following a course which a sense of duty to the service would have otherwise pre', scribed, lest it might be supposed that he had been influen ce d by feelings of personal irritation towards an unfortunate Oa misguided individual. I am directed further to say, that his Royal Highness can not sanction your Lordship, or the Officers of your regiments taking any notice of Mr. Battiet's statement ; and to repeat , at you may make free use of this letter anti the inclosuro. I have, &c. (Signed) H. TAYLOR. A true copy, H. TA YLOIL • " Horse Guards, January 13, unit " Sin—Having laid before the Commander-in-Chief your letter of the Bth December last, and having, by order of his Royal Highness, made a reference upon the subject to Lieut.' General Lord Combermere, and to Lieut.-General the Marqui 4 of Londonderry, I am directed to acquaint you, that as hit; Royal Highness had already, in consequence of the report made, some time since, of your unfitness for Cavalry Ser .- vice, expressed his intention of recommending you when the, opportunity should offer for the purchase of a Lieutenancy °' Infantry; he does not consider it necessary to notice furth.t! what has passed in regard to you in a regiment which you lqu not be called upon again to join, the more especially as it aP' pears from the report of Major-beneral Sir Colquhoun Grant , that previously to your appearance at the Mess upon the occP: sion which produced your complaint, you had been allowed, at your own request, to absent yourself from the Review of the 10th Hussars, and had obtained leave of absence, of which yo , had availed yourself so far as any duty or appearance on paratiA were concerned. " I have, &c. (Signed) " H. TA StTLOB. " To Cornet Battier, 10th Hussars, Thompson's Hotel, Holles-street. " A true copy, H. TAYLOR The 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards has received orders fp' hold itself in readiness to proceed to Ireland. BRIGHT ox, I%IARCH 2.B.—The 7th Royal Hussars leave to-morrow. The orderly conduct of the Corps during their stay with us, will occasion their departure to be witnessed Ivio l regret. They will be succeeded at the Cavalry Barracks 1 1 the 15th Light Dragoons, some slight detachments of wh it reached us yesterday. MAIDSTONE, 31Ancrt 30.—A troop of the 15th Hassel! under the command of Capt. C. R. O'Donnell, passed throtlP this tow n on S a t u rday, on their route from Canterbury t 0 Chichester. [From the LONDON GAZETTE of Yesterday.] Commission in the Forfarshire Militia, signed by the I.!° rd Lieutenant of the County of Forfar.—James Cruichshank, Jun. Esq. to be Major, vice Forrester, deceased. The following fact is worthy of honourable re. , cord :—A widow lady, now living in the parish of S e bergharn , whose deceased husband had been unfortunate in trade , an d lc . her with two children dependent upon exersions, began busi ness after his death upon a small scale ; and after twenty yam'' of persevering industry, finding herself in a situation to as charge her late partner's debts, she privately waited upon evera f creditor, many of whom were in reduced circumstances,. an paid the whole in full, to their no little surprise and admiratict The writer of this (says our informant), who was a creditor of the latter description, thinks it his duty to make so meritorious an action public.—( Carlisle Patriot.) BIRTHS. On Thursday, the 25th inst., at Whitton Park, the ate , ' Sir Benjamin llobhouse, Bart. the Lady of the Rev. 0. TrCl Spencer, of a daughter. On the 30th inst., at 25, Berners-street, the Lady of 114 1, Revell Reynolds, Inn., Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 30th instant, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, John FAlwa r Gray, Esq., only son of John Gray, Esq., of Wembley:P r Middlesex, to Susanna Eliza, only daughter of Henry gee e Reynolds, Esq., of Bedford-row. Yesterday morning, at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Rist )B ,, — ; Lambert, Esq., of Gray's-inn, to Jane, youngest clavg"` e ' of the late John Gamble, Esq., of Hart street, Bloomsbury. square. DIED. On the 29th ult. at her house, Southampton-row, Buss.ol° square, Hannah Pettigrew, aged 72; a Member of the of Friends. On Wednesday, the 1 7th inst., Jesse Ainsworth, sq., 01 Wicken-hall, near Rochdale, Lancashire. On Thursday, the 25th inst., at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, the 91st year of her age, Stawel, widow of the late He nr y 13co Cay, Esq. At Laytonstone, on Thursday, in her 1 7th year , Jane, ele secon d daughter of Oeotte Halford, Esq. Printed and Published for the PROVEIETORS, at the OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. 8.9 CARSTAMS. ; )1, ,