The Sun. — London, England, 1825-01-03 00:00:00

FRENCH PA PERS. AUGSBURG, DEC. 25-. We have just recei►ed, by way of Bucharest and Widdin, letters from Constantinople of 2.7 th, - 28th, and 29th November. The -Grand Seignior has ordered - the formation `lf a new army of reserve, composed entirely of Asiatic troops. Orders have already been sent to the Pachas in Asia to send their troops without delay. This army is to he encamped about Con stantinople. The Grand Vizier intended to take the command of the Ottoman armies in person, but the Divan has decided that his presence is necessary at Constantinople, to preserve tram quillity. The extraordinary Meetings of the Divan have discussed chiedy the affairs of Greece. Some -Members having advised conciliatory measures, the majority, with true Ottoman pride, declared sl...at new efforts must be made during the winter to prepare a great naval force by the spring. Nothing has been decided on account of the pe nury of the Treasury. When the last courier !eft Constantinople, people spoke, though very cautiously, of a rigorous measure which was going to 1w executed, namely, the deposition of several of the richest Pachas. The Etoile, dated Saturday, among various articles from Turkey, in Asia, has one from Da mascus, stating that the destruction of Schiraz in Persia, by an earthquake, is positively confirm ed. ft happened the 20th June, 1824; and it is said only fifty inhabitants escaped. At Aleppo ..there have been smart and frequent shocks. ( From the Journal deeDebate. ) CADIZ, DEC. 14. The French division which is to occupy this place has taken possession of La Carraca, which will be fortified immediately. Several other fortifications are about to be erected in the Isle of Leon and Cadiz, and all the public revenues of the two cities will be administered by the French authorities. The vessels of the Royal French Marine give g. Pot protection to our commerce. The Amazone frigate returned yesterday from the Lazaretto of Port Mahon, from whence she conveyed two fri gates, and two mercantile brigs, which were per forming quarantine. Our trade is in a state of complete stagnation. Many shopkeepers are gone to begin business in other parts of ttre Peninsula, and not a few mer chants have followed their example, so. that the population of Cadiz is diminished one fourth. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, DEC. 31.—Five per Cents. opened at 101 f. 75c.,, closed at 101 f. 90c. ; Bank Stock, 1945 f. ; Neapolitan, 5 per Cent. 87i ; Rentes d'Espagne, 18f. ; Royal Spanish Loan, (1823) 57f. Exchange on London, one month, 24f. three months, 24f. 85c.—(Court Anthentique, Dec. 31.) ,ROYAL NAVY. It appears by the Admiralty List of the Royal Navy, pub lished on Saturday, that the following number of officers were, promoted during the past year (1824) :-14 to the rank of Captains, 40 to Commanders, 120 to Lieutenants, 7 to Masters, 17 to Surgeons, 68 to'Assistant-Surgeons, 2 to Pursers. Po aTsmon TH, JAN, 1, 1825.—The Aurora arrived at Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, for England, and the Tweed, from Per nambuco, on the Ist of November. The Spartiate and the Blanche sailed from the River Plate 20th Nov. The Alligator arrived at Calcutta July 27, from Rangoon. The Clinker arrived at Halifax, from Newfoundland, on the 29th Nov. On Wednesday the Ranger, 28, Captain Peter Fisher, ar rived with seamen from Sheerness, and sailed again yesterday, to lie at Shields ; the Bramble cutter returned to Plymouth ; the Arrow went on a cruise. The Niemen and Samarang are _come into harbour to relit. There are no ships of war at spit head. About 20 sail of merchant ships have reached this anchorage, from the Downs this week, and remain with about 150 sail of outward-bound ships before noticed. The Romney, Captain Lockyer, is ordered to proceed to Plymouth, to embark the Commissioners going out to North America. • The Falmouth, Tyne, Dauntless, and illorgiana, sloops of war, at this port, are ordered to be sold out of the service. A communication has been made to the working classes em ployed in our Dock-yard, to the following effect :—ln conse quence of the dissatisfaction expressed by the Artificers of the .other Dock-yards, in having to perform, in turn, interior work ; the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have ordered about 376 (which appears to be the number of shipwrights, caulkers, and smiths, who have been reduced to work as sawyers, scavel men, and labourers) to he forthwith discharged from Plymouth, Sheerness, Chatham, and Deptford Dockyards; but, as no complaining petition has been forwarded from this (Ports mouth) Yard, their Lordships have directed that none shall be removed. The whole of the men employed at this Yard have, since this official communication has been made, commenced working six days in the week, instead of five. DEVONPORT, DEC. 30.—0 n Tuesday sailed the Thetis, Champion, Orestes, Pylades. Scylla, and Jasper, on an experi mental cruise; the Scylla will part company for the West India station. The Lively, 46, Capt. W. Elliott. C. 8., arrived at Lisbon -on the 9th inst., and was to proceed on a mission for the Portuguese Government, to Algiers and Tunis. Arrived the Parthian. The Tribune is released from quarantine. Went out of harbour the Gannet. The Providence, Cowley, from Liverpool, for Sierra Leone, put. in here on Saturday, having been at sea nearly a month.—The • Committee of Lloyd's have sent to their Agent here 3701. to he divided among the officers and men of the Preventive Service, who so actively exerted themselves in preserving the valuable cargo of the John, of Bideford, which was driven on . shore near Wembury.—ln Hantolze : Britannia, Genoa, Windsor Castle, Boadicea, Har lequin, Bittern, Pike, Plover, Lyra, and Falcon.—Between Island and Main : Parthian and Vigilant.—ln the Sound : Tri bune and Gannet. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—Capt. W. James Mingay is ap pointment to the Hyperion frigate, which ship is ordered to be fitted on the establishment of a third rate, to lie in Newhaven Harbour, for the purpose of the intended Coast Blockade ser vire.—Lieutenant W. J. Hood, Lieut. James Short, and Mr. Lamey, Purser, are appointed to her. Lieut. Wm. Webb (2) has been promoted to the rank of Commander, and appointed to the rifleman, vice Montagu, promoted ; Lieut. Robert Stuart, promoted to the rank of Commander, and appointed to the Sparrowhawk, vice [lon. It. S. Dundas, promoted ; Lieut. Michael Dwyer is appointed to command the Bittern tender ; Lieut. John Adams (a), to command the Pelter ; Lieutenant Symonds, to be first of the Royal George Yacht, and command - Lll3 Calliope. NEW NAVAL ITNIFORM. Admiralty Office, January 1, 1825. ADMIRAL OF 'THE FLEET, FULL DRESS.—Coat of blue cloth, with a stand up collar of the same, white round cuffs, and white lapels to button back : the lapels sloping off to the front of Cie skirt : pocket flaps with three points; the coatlined with white silk, and laced with gold lace one inch wide, round the collar and pockets, along the outer edge of the l a p e ls, cuffs, picket-flaps, down the sides and folds of the skirts, and dia mond-wise on the hips. Nine buttons down the lapal, at equal distances; three on each pocket; three on the upper front edge of each cuff below the lace; with corresponding button-holes of gold lace half an inch wide, to each button: and three similar button holes on the upper part of each back skirt; two buttons on the hips, two in the centre, and two at the bottom . of the fold of the skirts; four rows of gold lace, five-eighths of an inch wide, round each cuff, below the buttons and under the lace of the button holes. The button gilt, one inch in diameter, indented, with a round rim, and within the rim an anchor and cable with a crown over, between two wreaths of laurel; two gold epaulettes, with forty b u lli ons each ; the strap plain with three silver spangled stars thereon. Waistcoat and breeches, of white cloth or kerseymere with but ..tons half an inch in diameter, of the same pattern as the coat. Waistcoat single breasted, with nine buttons.—Buckles (shoe or knee), gold or. gilt. Pantaloons of white cloth or kerseymere, ..rand half boots may also be Worn when convenient. Cravat or stock, black silk. Hat, cocked ; the flaps eight inches in the back, six inches in the front, and five inches at each corner; bound with gold lace two and a half inches wide, she Wing one inch and a quarter CM each side, with black silk cockade sist inches wide ; looped with gold lace one inch and a quarter inch wide, skewing a loop of two and a half inches; with a button of the same size and pattern as the waistcoat, and tassels with five gold and fivd blue bullion* each. Sword, cut and thrust, 32 inches long, one and one-eighth wide at the shoulder, etched with the roy a l arms , crown an d anc h or, nava l trophies ; stirrup hilt, brass gilt;- the back -piece a lion's mask ; the gripe white ivory, bound with three gold wires ; langets to the hilt,trith the anchor and cable ongraved thereon ; black leather scabbard, gilt mountings ; the chape four inches long. Sword knot, H IE : and gold rope ; with round tassels with gold fringe, and 17 bull ions, anchor and cable embroidered on each side on a blue ground. Sword belt, white silk, inch and a half wide, the pendants inch wide, with gold or gilt claspa, .buckles and swivels according to pattern. ADMIRALS.—The same as the Admiral of the Fleet, but with only three rows of gold lace five-eighths of an inch wide, round the cuffs below the buttons. Vic E-A DMI n.u.s.---The same, with two rows of gold Lacs round the cuflis below the buttons, and two stars, on the epau lettes. REAR-ADMIRALS—The same, with one row of gold lace on the cuffs below the buttons, and one star on the epaulettes: COMMODORES OF THE FIRST CLASS, CAPTAINS or THY FLEET wncx NOT FLAG OFFICERS, AND FIRST CAP TAINS or Snips.—The same uniform as is hereinafter ap pointed for Captains, except that they are to have nine laced button-holes on each lapel, Like Flag Officers. CAPTAIN s.—Coat the same as the Rear-Admiral, but to be lined with white cloth or serge ; with a slashed blue sleeve, the flap and case of which are to be laced as well as the rest of the coat with gold lace seven-eighths of an inch wide ; the three button-holes on the skirts are to be omitted; and all the other button-holes are to be of silk twist of the colour of the ground, instead of gold lace. The buttons to be of the same pattern as those of Flag Officers, but without the wreaths of laurel, and to he only seven-ei g hth s l of an inch in diameter. Waistcoat and breeches or pantaloons, cravat or stock, buckles, and sword, to be the same as those worne by Flag Officers, with the-difference of the button. Hat the same as Flag Officers, but the binding lace is to be only two inches, and the lace of die loop one inch wide.—Captains of three years standing to wear two gold epau lettes, with forty bunions, plain straps, with a silver anchor and silver crown over it on the straps.—Captains under three years standing to wear the anchor alone. COMMANDERS. —The same in all respects as Captains, ex cept that they are not to have the row of five eighth inch gold lace on the round part of the cuff. The binding lace of the hat is to be one inch and a half wide, and the lace of the loop three quarters of an inch, and the epaulettes not to have either the crown or the anchor. LIEUTENANTS.—The same as Commanders, but without the slashed sleeve, and without any lace on the coat—one pl a in gold epaulette wit hl forty bunions, and a plain strap oa the right shoulder. Hat the same as Commanders, but to be bound with black silk two inches wide. .11AsTER or THE FLEET.--Coat of blue cloth, lined with white cloth or serge, blue stand-up collar, lapels and r o u nd cuffs ; one row of half-inch wide gold lace round the collar, and three anchors (the Navy Office seal) embroidered in gold on each side of the collar : the middle anchor to be two inches and a quarter long. Nine buttons on each lapel, and three on each cuff and pocket, with corresponding blue twist button holes ; three buttons in the folds of the skirts. The buttons seven-eighths of an inch in diameter, gilt, indented, with a rim round three anchors. Waistcoat, breeches, or pantaloons, cra vat or stock, and buckles, the same as Lieutenants,, with the appropriate button, half an inch in diameter, when required. Hat the same as Lieutenants, but the gold lace forming the loop to be put half-inch wide. Sword of the same pattern and length as Commissioned Officers, but the back piece of the handle is to be plain, with a flute round the top and down the hack ; with a black fish-skin gripe bound with three gold wires ; the etchings of the blade not blued or gilt. Sword-knot of blue silk, mixed with gold fringe, but no bullion. Sword belt of blue silk or black leather, same size and shape as Commissioned Officers. MASTEUS.—The same as the Master of the Fleet, but no lace round the collar of the coat. Pit YSICIAN9.—Coat, waistcoat, breeches or pantaloons ; cravat or stock, and buckles the same as the Master of the Fleet, except that the embroidery on the sides of the collar of the coat, and the device on the buttons is to be an anchor with a snake twined round the shank and stock (the device of the old Sick and Hurt Office). Hat the same, but looped with black silk half an inch wide. A small sword, with a plain brass handle, according to pattern, ornamented on the handle with the appropriate device. SURGEONS.—The same as Physicians, but without lace round the collar of the coat. SECRETARIES TO COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.—The same as the Physicians, but the embroidery of the collar and the de vice of the buttons to be an anchor surmounted with a regal crown. On the collar, the crown and anchor together to be two and a quarter inches long. SECRETARIES TO JUNIOR FLAG OFFICERS AND CON/- 110DORES NOT COMMANDERS-IN-CHIEF.—The same as the last, without the gold lace round the collar. PuttsEs.—The same as the last, but the embroidery on the collar and the device of the button to be two anchors with cables, crossed saltierwise (the Seal of the Victualling Office.) SECOND .VASTER.—The same as Masters, but without the embroidered device on the collar, and with white waistcoat and breeches, or blue pantaloons, as may be convenient. ASSISTANT SU R cEox.—The same uniform as Surgeons, but without the embroidered device on the collar, and with white waistcoat and breeches, or pantaloons, as may be convenient. CLERNS.—The same uniform as Pursers, but without the embroidered device on the collar, and with white waistcoat and breeches, or blue pantaloons, as may be convenient. AIATES.—Coat of Blue cloth lined with white serge, edged with white cloth, stand up collar with a button and button hole of one quarter inch wide, gold lace on each side of the collar; single breasted at angles with the skirts ; blue round cuffs ; nine buttons down the front, three on each cuff and pocket, with corresponding blue twist button holes, and three buttons in the fads of the skirts. The buttons to be the same as those worne by Captains. Waistcoat, breeches or pantaloons, cravat or stock, buckles, and hat, to be the same as Lie u t enan t s . Sword f the same pattern as the Masters. GUNNERS, BOATSWAINS, AND CARIIENTERS.—Coat of blue cloth • if lined, to be with serge, fall down coll ar , bl ue lapels to button across, and round cuffs ; nine buttons on the lapels, and three on each cuff and pocket, with corresponding blue twist button holes, and three buttons in the folds of the skirts. Plain gilt buttons, with an anchor and cable engraved thereon. Waistcoat, trowsers or pantaloons white anti blue. Cravat or stock black. Hat cocked, bound, and looped with black silk. Sword, sword knot, and sword belt, the same as M asters. Minsnxp3tEN.—The same as Mates, with a white turn back on each side of the collar, but the coat not to be edged with white, nor to have the geld button hole. Swords of the same pattern as :Masters, but of such length as may be conve nient. VOLUNTEERS OF TILE FIRST CLASS.—The same as Mid shipmen, but instead of the white turn back, a button bole o white twist on the collar, with a corresponding button. MASTERS, ASSISTANTS, AND VOLUNTEERS OF THE SECOND CLASS.—The same uniform as Volunteers of the First Class, but with the Masters' button, and the button hole on the collar to be blue twist. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, UNDRESS.—A blue cloth coat, and blue fall down collar and cuffs ; lapels to button across the breast, at angles with the skirts, with nine buttons, and plain button holes on each side. Waistcoat, breeches, panta loons, or trowsers, blue or white as may be convenient, or or dered by Commanding Officers. Sword and sword knots the same as in full dress. Sword belts of blue silk or black leather of the same width as the full dress. Cocked hat, as in full dress, or bound with black silk round the edge. FLAG OFFICERS.—To he distinguished by their respective epaulettes and buttons, and by one, two, three, or four rows of gold lace, five-eights of an inch wide, below the button on each cuff, as described in the full dress, but over the twist button holes. CAPTAINS OF THE FLEET, WHEN NOT FLAG OFFICERS, COMIVIODORES OF THE FIRST CLASS, AND FIRST CAPTAINS AF SHIPS.—The same as Captains, but with the cues of near Admirals. CAPTAINS, -COMMANDERS, AND LIEUTENANT S.—To be also distinguished by their respective epaulettes and buttons, as described in the Full Dress. WARRANT AND PETTY OPFICERS.—The same as Lieu tenants, hut without the epaulettes; and those to whom a dis tinguished button is assigned to wear the same, as described in the Full Dress. Round hats, bound with silk, with a narrow black silk band and black buckle, and a black silk or leather cockade, with a loop of the same Material, and half the width of the loop of their Full Dress hat. All Officers may wear, in undress, at sea, a round jacket without skirts, but in all other respects like their undress coats ; and ik round black hat, bound with black silk, with a narrow black silk band and black buckle, and a black silk or leather cockade, with a loop of the same material, and half the width of the whole loop of the full-dress hat, with the appropriate button of the waistcoat size : or a blue cloth cap, with a band round it, of the same width and material as the whole loop of their full-dress hats. Patterns or drawings of each of the before-mentioned articles of dress are to be seen at this Office, and at the office of each Port Admiral ; and their Lordships direct, that no article shall, after this date, be made of any other pattern. Articles which have been already made of a different pattern from the fore going, may, however, be worne till the Ist of January, MN ; after which no deviation whatsoever from the establishment will be permitted. ,(Signed) J. W. CitoKEtt. INDIA. ON THE rRESENT STATE OF THE COMPANY'S A RM Y. (From the Oriental Herald.) "An angry and petulant negociation is said to have been going on -far some time between the Court of Directors in Leadenhall-tstreet, and the Roard of Controul, or rather, it might be - said, between the Directors and the Horse Guards, who seem to have taken the discussion out of the hands of the Commissioners for the Affairs of India--regarding the rein forcement of European soldiers, which are now required for that country, where, since the commencement of _the p,resent ware their - want - hasbeen - pressingly' . Mt. The Court are said to have intimated their earnest desire to raise men immediately, in their own name, and in England, sufficient for six battalions of infantry, to be formed into six European regiments, for the augmentation of the East India Company's army. This, however, has been met at the Horse Guards by an offer of six disciplined battalions of the King's troops, ready formed, completely officered; and fit in every respect for immediate service. The Company remonstrate, and state, that they have officers in India in sufficient abundance, which is notoriously untrue, as the paucity of officerS for the troops now there is matter of universal complaint. The Duke of York replies, that he has a large haff.pay list of mei itoriam: but almost starving individuals, who deserve to he better providedfor: and adds, moreover, that the nation ought to he relieved from this expeucc, when such a fine opportunity occurs for employ ing them. His Royal Highness is said to have intimated, also, that although there might be superior officers enough on the Company's establishment in India to fill the higher commands, yet, as it was known that all their regiment s , n a ti ve an d E uro - ' peen, were deficient in their complement of subalterns, it was to be inferred that the Directors intended sending out a proper number of cadets to supply the places of those ensigns who had been promoted to higher ranks in the new regiments recently formed in India. This morsel of patronage the Duke thought might as fairly be exercised by the Horse Guards as by the Company's Court: and when the relief which this would afford to the half-pay list of the army is considered, when it is also re membered that the number of King's regiments in India was reduced, at the renewal of the charter, by a number about equal to these six battalions now proposed to be sent out, it must be admitted that his Royal Highness did not want for reason in his view of this question of military patronage. It will remind those of our older readers of the not altogether dissimilar contests in 1786, followed by the famous declaratory law, affecting to clear up doubts, but really giving a new power to Mr. Pitt's new Board of Controul, the first of that series of covert encroachments by which the wily Dundas induced the country gentlemen and pro prietors of India stock to acquiesce in that effectual destruction of the Charter, in a circuitous anti tortuous mode which Mr. Fox proposed doing by more direct and straight-forward en actments. According to the latest ativices from the field of this diplomatic warfare, a sort of mezzo-termino proposition had been made by the East India Directors, which was to give half the "subalterships of the new battalions to racers on the King's half-pay list. This, however, was first declined at the Horse Guards.; but was immediately afterwards proposed to be accepted, provided half the superior officers might be also furnished from the King's army. This was in its return re jected by the India Company, so that the affair - remains in the status in quo ; and the Ixadenhall-street Dignitaries, incensed at this encroachment on their patronage, which, with many of them at least, is the sole god of their idolatry, prefer that mat ters should remain in the status ante bellum.—Sir Archibald Campbell, who commands the Burmese expedition, will, per haps, decide this knotty question, and compel the contending parties to agree, ere long, on some specific measures ; for he appears to be doin! , every thing with European soldiers only, although he has so fine a native army under his command.- 1 The waste of life, from fatigue and exposure, among the Europeans on the shores of the Bay of Bengal, during the rainy and tempestuous monsoon, must be very great ; and to supply this waste, fresh levies must be made and sent. In the end, too, the Court of Directors must yield to the superior weight of the Horse Guards ; but in the mean time there exists considerable cold ness, not to say a total want of cordiality, between the East India Company and his Majesty's Ministers, owing to these disputes, and to those also concerning the disposal of the Go vernorships in India, and other anticipated good things, soon likely to be objects of contention between h u n gr y ex p ec t an t s and keen hunters after place, power, and emolument in the East. Out of evil, good may come; . and as we are persuaded that much more injury is likely to arise from too close a union than from occasional differences between the Company and those set in authority over them, we hail all such contests as those, as indications of the dawn of brighter days; and hope, that when these temporary clouds are dispersed, the bright sun of a better system may pour its light on India, and raise it to that station-which it ought long since to have held among the nations of tlie earth.' THE BURMESE WAR. By an arrival from Bombay, early in the week, we have re ceived letters and papers from Calcutta to the beginning of Au gust, from Madras to the middle, and Bombay to the end of that month, from which extracts will be found in another part of our paper. From these it appears, that at Rangoon an at tack was made by the Burmese upon our troops which had been most gallantly repelled, with very considerable loss on the part of the enemy, and almost none on our side. On the Chittagong Frontier, also, there has been some rather harder fighting, which has been equally creditable to the British arms. From every thing that we can learn, it is evident that, however brave and resolute the Burman troops may be, they are not armed and equipped in a way that can in the open field, or even behind a field fortification, render them formidable to our soldiers. But still they possess one positive advantage over them, that of being accustomed to the climate in which they act ; and before we congratulate ourselves on our successes, it would be well were we to wait until we see what effect a September's residence in the Jungle will produce on our men. That the British arms will ithimately prove successful, no one who rectllects the former wars in India can for a moment doubt; but the are still of opinion, that much blood must be spilt, and much trea sure expended, before these presumptuous barbarians be brought to their senses, and we still think that the war, so far as it has gone, in the planning of it at least, has been ill conducted. An epidemic fever, but of no very dangerous nature, seems raging in India. Medical men have attempted in this case, as they did when the cholera first made its appearance, to give some satisfactory account of the cause of this visitation; but as in the case alluded to they have totally failed. In Calcutta, we can only say, that much of the fever which annually appears during the rains, arises solely from want of attention on the part of the police to the cleanliness of the city. When the late Mr. Elliot had charge of that department, comparatively little fever was to be met with ; but since that period it has been much more common, and at its first commencement can always be traced along the houses which border upon the common sewer, rich in the filth of eight months accumulation. The fears that were entertained for the fate of Madras, Bom bay and Upper India, from the probability that the long con tinued drought would produce famine in these districts, are now, we are happy to say, to a great extent dissipated. Showers have fallen at Madras ' and at Bombay the last advices state, that the rains had fairly set in. In Upper Bengal too we should suppose there can be no want of water, as a private letter states that the indigo crops in Purneah and Tirhoot were totally ruined by an inundation, and that such was the state of the sur.. face of the Colintry that the Budgerows (boats) of many of the unfortunate Indigo Planters were moored to their houses. The general opinion therefole is, that the Indigo crop of this year will be nearly as short as that of last. The Calcutta price cur rent of the 31st July, tates, that the prospects of the planter in Jessore and Dacca were stillgood, but that from the late sowings in these districts much of the plant was still in danger. —(Telescope.) ARMY-INDIA. COURT MARTIALS. Head Quarters, Choultry Plain, lOth August, 1824. The tbllowing are extracts from the proceedings of a general Court Martial held at Fort St. George, on the 23d day of July . 1824, on Ensign O'l•Halloran, of His Majesty's 69th regiment of Foot. " For having, in his Excellency General Sir Alexander Campbell's office in Fort St. George, on the 19th instant, made use of violent and insulting language to Major Leslie, of His Majesty's 69th regiment,. his superior offi cer ." FINDING AND SENTENCE.—" The Court finds the prison er, Ensign O'Halloran, of ll ix Majesty's 69th regiment of Foot, guilty of the charge preferred against him : does therefore, in virtue of the Articles of War, established for the better govern ment of His Majesty's forces, adjudge him to be placed next below Ensign Thompson, of His Majesty's 69th regiment. sAP C P A Ro v .i f.: B D E . A. M - r, L , D l (signed) General. -- -- Commander-in-Chief. His Excellency cannot allow the publication of of a sentence, so indequete to a crime of such magnitude, without the expression of his .entire disapprobtion. The following are extracts from the proceedings of a Genera Court Martial, held at Fort St. George on the 2d day of Aug. 1824, on Lieutenant Charles Stuart, of His Majesty's 69th re giment of Foot, placed in arrest by order of his Excellency General Sir Alexander Campbell, on the following charges :- Ist. " For having replied to an official letter, under date 17th instant r addressed to him by order of the of4cer oninuAnd. ing the dep.:St at Poonamallee,in terms highly disrespectful and insubordinate." 2d. " For contumaciously persisting in the expressions used in the aforesaid letter, 17th instant, after having been told, by the Fort Adjutant, to withdraw the offensive communication, and forward another of a different tendency." FramlNG A2fD SEITTENCE. 7 .:" The Court finds the pri soner, Lieutenant Stuart, guilty of the charge preferred against him, and does therefore, in virtue of the Articles of War, esta blished for the better government of his Majesty's forces, sen tence him to be placed next below Lieutenant Sargent, of his Majesty's 6,9t11 Regiment ; date of rank 14th Sept. 1823." DISAPPROVED. • (Sig - A. CAMPBELL, General, Commander-in-Chief. Circumstances have occurred to prevent his Excellency Ge neral Sir Alexander Campbell from re-assembling the above Courts-Martial, and it only remains for him to pronounce his disapprobation of the sentence, and to dissolve the Court. Lieutenant Stuart has been found guilty of using highly dis respectful and insubordinate language, in a letter addressed to his immediate commanding officer, Captain Edwards, and for. contumaciously persisting in such conduct. For this crime, so subversive of military discipline, and the well-being of th e ser vice, he is sentence to be placed one step lower in the list of Lieutenants; a sentence, under any circumstance, inadequate to the crime • but, in the present case, n o t i nvo l v i ng t h e slightest punishment ; for, besides the officer next below whom the prisoner is placed having gone to England for the avowed purpose of being placed on half-pay, the eight junior Lieute nants of the 69th Regiment will, on their arrival in England, be reduced to the same state, thus rendering it immaterial to Lieutenant Stuart whether he is for the present to be junior of that rank, or standing one higher on the list. His Excellency General Sir Alexander Campbell trusts, that had an opportunity been afforded him of pointing out these cir cumstances to the Members of the Court-Martial, they would, on revision, have passed a sentence commensurate to the serious offence of which the prisoners have been convicted. His Excellency takes this occasion of promulgating to the army, that if Courts Martial, composed as this was, principally of senior officers, will not support their own authority by duly estimating such trangressions, and marking them by adequate punishments, they must not look to him for aid. His exertions must prove ineffectual, and his interference unnesessary, when even the appeal to such tribunals is, as in the present case, futile and unavailing. These remarks apply equally to the Court Martial on Ensign O'Halloran. The sentences awarded to Ensign O'Halloran, and to Lieu- tenant Stuart, of the 69th regiment, are remitted, and those officers will return to their duty. His Excellency, considering it less injurious to the service that crime should go unpunished, than that he should sanction what is held up as a punishment, though in fact only an evasion of acquittal. BOMBAY MILITARY PROMOTIONS. 20th Regt. N. I.—Capt. F. Roome to be Major, vice A. J. 0. Browne, deceased.—Lieut. Wm. Foquett to be Captain, vice Roome. Ensign Isaac Munt to be Lieut. vice Foquett.— Cadets Wm. Jones and Douglas Cunningham Graham to be Ensigns. Aug. 9. Bth Regt. N. I.—Lieut. J. Neville to be Adjutant, vice Mar shall, promoted.—Lieut. J. W. Brown to be interpreter Bin doostanee and Mahratta, and Quarter Master, vice Massey, promoted in the 7th Regt. N. I.—Aug. 12. Lieut. R. Troward, 13th Regt. N. I. to be Line Adjutant at Dease, vice Morris, promoted.—Aug. 12. MARINE PROMOTIONS. First Lieut. J. Strover Criddle to be Junior Captain, vice Arrow, deceased.—Second Lieut. J. C. Hawkins, to be First Lieut. vice Criddle.—Second Lieut. W. Denton to be First Lieut. vice Middleton, deceased.—Senior Midshipman G. B. Harrison to be Second Lieut. vice Hawkins, promoted.—Senior Midshipman T. E. Rogers to be Second Lieut. vice Denton, promoted. MADRAS.-CIVIL APPOINTMENTS. Mr. W. Oliver, First Judge of the Provincial Court of Ap peal and Circuit for the Southern Division. Mr. C. M. Lushington, Second Ditto Ditto. Mr. J. Bird, .Third Ditto Ditto. H. S. Grams, Esq. President of the Board of Revenue. J. H. D. Ogilvie, Esq. Chief Judge of the Sudder and Foujdarry Adawlut. Mr. J. D. Newbolt, Head Assistant to the Collector and Ma gistrate of Ganjam. _ _ _ Mr. John 01: . r, Head Assistant to the Collector and Magis trate of Nellore. Mr. S. C. Clarke, Head Assistant to the Collector and Ma gistrateof 31 asulipatatn. Mr. A. Roberts . on, Assistant to the Principal Collector and Magistrate of the Northern Division of Arcot. _ _ Mr. E. H. Woodcock, Judge and Criminal Judge of Cud. dapah. Mr. H. Fetherston, Register to the Zillah Court at Combe. cunnum. • ( From the Calcutta Government Gazette of July 31. ) TILE EPIDEMIC.—The epidemic fever which we adverted to lately continues to prevail throughout Calcutta, and it is supposed that already about three-fourths of • the population, both European and Native have been affected by it. The disease is attended with intense head-ache, violent pains in the limbs, and red inflammatory patches all over the body. When these symptoms, which generally last three or four days, are removed, extreme langour and debility remain for some time. Whole families are suffering under the corn. plaint together, and in many houses scarcely a servant is left to wait upon the sick. Fortunately, no fatal cases have occurred, at least not one has come within our knowledge. Nearly three-fourths of our press establishment are laid up with the same disease, and a few days ago, in one public office in town, only three assistants out of forty-five were able to attend to their duty. The Hon. Company's ship Research, with the pilot-vessels Cecilia, Torch Planet, and Henry Merton, left the Chittagong river yesterday for Cheduba, having onboard three companies of the 2d battalion 20th ; fifty European artillerymen, two 6- pounders, and two howitzers, under the command of Lieut. K. Campbell, of the 43d regiment Native Infantry. It is rumoured that an attack is meditated on the island by our golden-footed friends; and it is not very improbable that they will make the attempt, considering the few troops we have there. Lieut. Hotham, of our division of artillery, proceeds in charge of the guns. Captain Webb, of the artillery, and lieu tenant Brown, of his Majesty's 44th regiment, proceed in the vessels to Cheduba, on sick certificate, and, on the arrival of the vessels at the island, they go thence to Calcutta in the Cecilia, which has been ordered to that place after landing the troops. The Henry Merton and one of the other pilot-vessels remain at Cheduba, and the Research will return to Chittagong, surveying the coast on her trip back." [Further extracts from the East India Papers last received.] H ead-qu arters, Calcutta, July 28, 1824. At an European General Court-Martial, assembled at Nag_ pore on the 23d June, 1824, of which Lieut.-Colonel Gall, Bth Light Cavalry, is President, Captain Alexander Brown, of the Hon. Company's Ist European regiment, war arraigned for writing letters, in which there was language highly disrespect ful towards his commanding officers.—Upon some of the charges the accused was found guilty, and he was sentenced by the Commander-in-Chief to one month's suspension from rank and pay. The f o ll ow ing is an extract from a private letter from Jamica : " PonT ROYAL, Nov. 15.—The Speech of his Grace (the Duke of Manchester) the Governor was so temperate and satis factory, at the opening of the House of Assembly, that there is every prospect of content once more visiting this unfortunate island. The Slave Trade is now carrying on with all its former wanton vigour, as well as piracy : in short the Island of Cuba is an emporium for every species of contraband goods, and a scene of every species of lawless enormity. Lieutenant Holt. of the Hussar, has been promoted to the rank of Commander, for his zeal and gallantry in destroying a'horde of pirates in the neighbourhood of Cuha. Lieut. Halsted is appointed to suc ceed him ; Mr. Wm. Geo. Buchanan, of the Isis is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to ihe Icarus, vice Halsted. All the squadron are at sea, except the Rattlesnake. Though only a few months from England, she is fifty men short of her compliment : she is a bad, unhealthy class of ship for a hot climate. The Isis ' is just gone to Vera C ruz . Th e Beaver has arrived from England, to relieve the Bustard. The Dartmouth and Britomart are daily expected, to relieve the Pyramus and Icarus." General MARTIN, a native of Lyons, who (lied in India, in the service of the British East India Company, bequeathed to his native town a considerable legacy. Some dif ficulties having arisen, M. De Regny went to London to settle the affair. All the difficulties have been removed, and the Mu nicipality of Lyons has now at his disposal 1,700,000 francs, proceeding from the legacy.—( Paris Paper.) MURDER AND ROBBERY.— On Wednesday evening last, a young man, a shepherd, belonging to Messrs. Brook, farmers, at Bexhill, was found in a pond, near that place, with his throat cut, and his watch and the little money he had in his pocket gone. At the time of the murder, the deceased had two dogs with him, one of which, an old one, left the fatal spot and went home howling; the other remained a t t h e p on d w h ere the body was found. Iw o brothers, of Bexhill, are in custody, suspected of having committed the horrid deed. It has been as certained that the prisoners sold a watch, known to have be longed to the deceased, to a watchmaker at Bexhill, on the fol lowing day, Thursday.—(Brighton Paper.) see our Fourth Page. •" For Tux Aultr. PRICE OP STOCKS THIS Bask Stock 9 291 1 3 per Cent. Red. 95 U 4 3 per Cent. Cons shut 34 per Cent . Ditto Red. 101 ii 4 per Cent. 1 ( Dissd. New shut Mink LongAnn.23 22 15-16th Imp. 3 per Cents. — India Stock shut Ditto Bonds 9Bs. 995, South Sea Stock shut PRICES OP FOREIGN r Austrian Bds, 5 per ct.... Brazilian Buenos Ayres Bds 92,1 Chilian, Bds, (1 per ct Colombian Bda.flperct. 904 Do. do. 1824 924 1/ :11 Danish, .5 per cent. lO Greek:Bds Mexican Bds 751 Gi Neapolitan, 5 per cent. ... -----. Scrip pr. DAY AT ONE O . CGOOIi Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills 10001. 2d, " Ditto 1id....... 14 Ditto 6001.2 d....... 69 Ditto lid. Ditto Small:— d. Ditto lid. 6l Ditto Advertised Bank fur Act. India for Acct. ...... 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G 111011 WATER AT LON DON BRIDGE TO-MORIIO Nlorninv„ 31 miniitem after I. I Evenimz., 2 minutem after Ti E l l T TILT -L. .•• SOLEIII QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDt4T Ji LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 3, 1825 By the Paris Papers of Friday, it seems . 0 0 the Chambers have not yet entered upon pupil business. The Commission appointed to preps l the Address in answer to the KING'S Speech ht completed its task, and on Saturday last a D' putation was to present the Address to his NV JE9TY. Affairs had not proceeded so ft vourably for Ministers in the Chamber Peers ; the Opposition Party there having ; is said, succeeded in sending. the Ministeri l draught of the Address back to the Spec" Committee to be amended. It appears, by letters from Madrid of the iOt! ultimo, that a new treaty was signed en the 100 i at the Escurial, between the French and Spank Governments, but the stipulations have bet / kept quite secret. The Clergy are stated to.o full of suspicion and anxiety ; they are appl hensive that FERDINAND s% ill at last he i n duce to listen to advice accordant with his true jut e rests and those of The nation, and that h e 111 3 be persuaded to adopt a system quite opposite fc that which he has followed since his restoratioC The Brussels Oracle of Ow 30th nit. s tate ° that all Austrian subjects, especially those ti the kingdom of Lombardy and Venice, are pr ° ' hibited from visiting Rome during the Cathol ° Jubilee of 1825, without permission from High Police at Vienna ; and th a t t h e a ffuir Professor Cousin is at length likely to be sot° settled. The Professor has been interrogated presence of one of the Secretaries of the Fred Legation at Berlin. We extract the followill article:— " AUGSBUR•, DEC. 0. 0 " We have before us documents coming directly f r om Long s which prove that the Britiib Cabinet manif es t s at p resen t t ,4 most favourable disposition towardi the Greeks. It appO D I that a considerable consignment of ammunition and stores, from England, had arrived at Malta, whence these articles '1 4 `',. 1 be forwarded to Napoli di Romania, being intended for the O' of the Greeks." From the Allgemeine Zeitung of the 28th which arrived this morning, ive extract the ( 4) :, lowing a r ti c l e , by w hi c h it w ill b e seen that ll .mission of Mr. STRATFORD -CANNING has g 1 0;, rise to many conjectur e s. The, objects of I' l ' l mission, we have reason to believe are accurate , ' stated by the German politicians : CF FRANKFORT, DWZ,- " The arrival of M. Stratford Canning from London, on way to Vienna, and thence to St. Petersburgb, has given politicians a subject for various conjectures,' which in o°s measure agree with the observations i n . th e C our i er on t he , ject of his mission. • " The discussions relative to the North-west Coast America have long been a subject of attention; bgt,l seems that the United Stat es were cons id ere d as aggrieved party, and that England lips assumed the vi o of mediator. lour or five month s ago it was reporte d t h a t t o negociations promised a favourable result, and it is affiro l t i that there is now no app r eh e n s i on o f any i nterrupt i on of frieti.e. ship between the Pow er s c o ncerne d. A more i nterest i ng o bJ 4 of this mission is presumed to be the termiiiation of the strugi', of the Greeks, it being 'affirmed by perscns, whose inealls. / information are unquestionabl e , th a t a ll th e great P ower sL resolved by a powerful intervention t o p u t an en d to the "N' guinary contest." --- - Frankfort Papers to the 27th txlt. were receisl this morning, but th e y d o not contain any int°, ligence of the least political interest. • Extract of a letter from the A gent to Lloyti l at Deal, dated Ist January :- 44 The Catherifil