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4 00;7,---7--- ~. \ C° : - 1 ...' C4 l s.: . • „ \ri . ok v")' - - i.ii?': t \., k- - -,4. 4 , 1,, ••••• -, idivi f ,. / zo 'Y ;I'M': •.. . ', r S. ,; r:," t; • J T It rYtizie, //zi ••>, NUT►IBBR 9262.] VICTUAL!: ING- OFFICE, April 27, 182-2. E COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL- His MAJESTY'S NAVY do hers r/ give No tice, That on Tuesday, the 7th of May next, they will be .. " (1 Y to reeeme,Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for Forty Bags of MIDDLE KENT HOPS of the growth of the. -year 1821: Anil also for One Hundred and Thirty Thousand BAVINS. 7.° be delivered - into His Majesty's Victualling Stores at 33 ePtford, the former immediately, and the latter by the end fit. September next, by regular monthly proportions. The Conditionl of the Contract may be seen at this Office. IV ' ) regard will be had to any Tender in which the Price '4411 not he inserted in words at length, or that shall '''‘V be delivered to the Board before One o' Clock on the said 7'4( ''''ia.l/ 3 the 7th May next ; nor unless the:Person who makes *fhe Tender, or some sax .is be t 4,4lf, attends to answer Wien called )%n•. NOTICE. —(GOODS IN KING'S WAREHOUSE.) Customhouse, London, 24th April, 1822. WIIEREAS sundry Goods, subject to Duties of Customs and Excise, have remained in his Majes ty' • • Warehouse, in the Customhouse, London, beyond the ' Mute allowed by Law, viz. Three Months, — The Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs do hereby give leftl CE, that unless the Duties due on the said Goods are l olly Paid, and the Goods taken away from . the said Ware on or before the 31st of May next, they will he lame • dia telY disposed of according to Law. By Order of the Commissioners, (Signed) G. DELAVAUD, Sec. IMPERIAL TWINE CLOTH for SHIRTING, &c. BY HIS MAJESTY'S LErrERs PATENT. % e Continent pas de lici , mais en possedent les agremens. I'HE NOBILITY, FAMILIES; and MER abi CHANTS, are respectfully informed the above desit- CLOTH, for promoting in the East and West Indies, as at a as the cold Climates, the most healthful temperature, r i 7 t4 f a n i , ts an ec d on b omy, is sold exclusively, wholesale, for Ex - Lj PieclB(l.-2s 6d..—and 64 . Prr yard, stampede, at " MILLARD'S .—Ys. Patent —ss Twine oth, , 110 C. at the Warehouse, No. 16, Cheapside, and t a i„ w here else whatever. The Pieces for. Sheeting con t from Two to Four Pair. Families in the country sending orders hare them executed as if present, where the greatest r 'ety of Foreign and British Goods are kept. This Day were published, in Bvo. price 35., !O URSORY SUGGESTIONS on NAVAL SUBJECTS, with the Outline of a Plan for Raisin g eatn en for His Majesty's Fleets in a future War, by Ballot. p rinted for the Author, and sold by F. C. and S. Rivington; ° •62 4tl-in, St Paul's Church-yard, and No. 3, Waterl o o-pla c e, all, . London. This Day were published, price 25., It INTS on CIRCULATION ; and the - tot; _Means o f Re-establishing the Prosperity of the A, l 3try, b y an i mprove d S ystem o f C urrency; un iti ng t h e 4 ,7antage s of a Metallic and of a Paper Circulation: with basis Etecount of the Paper Circulation of Scotland, on the of which the Prosperity of that part of the United KingdomßY the has principally arisen. ''Y the Right Honourable Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, Bart. iv t inted for Constable and Co. Edinburgh; Sherwood, . att . IY, and Jo nes, Paternoster-row; Harding, 36, St. James s tet L ........, , on n. IT4M3ABLE SUGAR PLANTATIONS io the ISLAND of GRENADA. 1 1 , TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, " • LEIFCHILD. by Order of the Assignees of Messrs. 41 1 OLDER° and Co. on TUESDAY, the 4th of JUNE, _ 422 2 at Twelve o'Clock, at the AUCTION MART, ALL those TWO Valuable and Productive ' 4 4d S ,UGAR ESTATES or PLANTATIONS, called T: VOLT • JOHN'S, advantageously situate in the Parish of St. of 7 ,, r ew, in the Island of GRENADA, containing upwards , 4a d v° Acres, together with the Valuable Gangs of blares, the Live and Dead Stock thereon. Ir",''Peseriplive Particulars may be had of Mr. Hoyes and — „ e° rele Gun Munro, in Grenada; at the Counting .l4l:` of the Assignees, 2, Lawrence Pountney-lane ; of E; r s. Lamb an d C u . S o li c it ors , 26, P r i nce ' s - s t ree t, Ba n k do+t.lgl4n(l; at the Secretary's Office, Auction Mart, Lon tilts' a nd of W. Leifchild, Land Surveyor, &c. Enfield, Mid . ". c : , / ,,, -- ---- - e 4 of SALE of the ASPEDEN ESTATE, near BUN TINGFORD, H Eirrs. lay Iv . TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, tf, LEIFCHILD, by Order of the Assignees of Messrs. 113",,,L0ER0 and Co. on WEDNESDAY, the 29th of MAY, PO - 1 ,`',..,at Twelve o'Clock, at the BELL INN, BUNTING th`:.u., in such Parts and Parcels as will he specified in the Pruned' ate Contract Particul ofawhich (u due N oti ess pr ceev iwioull h sly e di gi s pven ;) osed of by ~ . rI E LIFE' ESTATE of MR. CHARLES p l , k.zt, ROLDER O , aged 64, of and in TWO Valuable and AltZ tv e MANORS, a Capital MANSION-HOUSE , an , d iti tat , and several FREEHOLD and COPYHOLD LAlscDs, ley e in the several Parishes of Aspeclen, Laystone, Yard, Ivl4 a ud Cloth a ll , in the County of Herts, conta i n i ng i n the ailedle, about POO Acres of fine Meadow, Arable, Pasture, 5 " Oad Land. .si w. , ' 1 fiii i , ' • Leifehild respectfully informs the Public, that he part ; a uthorised either to Sell or Let the whole or any Ph uf the Property during the Life of Mr. C. Boldero, by P ar t Contract. itiarriculars may be had at the Secretary's Office, Auction- I llon, i , Lando n ; B e ll, B unt i ng f or d ; A nge l , Bury St., Ed- C . °1e1 ) :. Ram, Newmarket; Sun, Cambridge ; Thr e e C ups, `Ni l i t er; Bell, Chelmsford ; S wan , B e df or d ; Salisbury net; .atfield; White Hart, St. Alban's ; Green Man, Bar qf 11,Misbury Arms, Hertord ; Saracen's Head, Ware cliet— Ltifehild, Land and ( Timber Surveyor, Enfield, Mid „ P o ' ,. 4 ' Matti l li ming the Estates, application may be made to Mr. I trvi ew Woodward, at Aspeden ; and Particulars and Tickets Ph ea t i v the Mansion House and Gardens may be had on ap slrettl°,4 at the Office of Messrs. Lamb and Co. 56, Prince'5 ..z...............„"3' ..z...............„"3' the Bank. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. II MEETINGS, &C. ` *x, ugh Brown, merchant, and coal-master, Saltcoats, to b . e .11111ined in the Sheriff -clerk's office, Ayr, 10th and 2 7th 3r, at ii 41:/7illiani.lirown, of Law, , Saltcoats, to be ex it ilea in the Sheriff-clerk's hill office, merchant Ayr, 10th and 27th May, Ge ol ., lle,in,sge M'Arthur, grocer, Glasgow, to be examined in the at 11. o_ll,clerk's Office there, 3d and 17th 11ay, tovnoitors of Burn and Pringle, late timber-merchants, Fish 9.- 1 4 iil Inii_eet in . the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh, e,it at 2. ttetiritors of James Peddle, mason and builder, lately at SW ilki e i r ti 11°11se, Renfrewshire, meet in the office of David Cre. , .use, 10th May, at 12. ill troudiiteo,rs,of Walter Swayne, manufacturer, Dysart, meet e te ,,,, 3 inn there, 14th Ma at 12. . 111, Coffee of Thomas White, merchant Edinburgh, meet_ in of William Scott, accountant here, 13th May, at I. Wllrieuitors of John Laird nd Co. merchants, Greenock, and Joh r ; 1 4 ) aird and CO. Liveriaiool Co. receive dividend from q• W illi rri enni i, s ° ll ,, In. erchant, Greenock,. 22d May. 4e1.4,re. Aitclue, merchant, Edinburgh, has applied for a PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. MILITARY PENSIONS. Resolutions proposed and agreed to last night in the Committee on Provision for future Payments of Naval, Military, and other Pensions. (Mr. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.) 1. Resolved—That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the amount of the Military and Naval Pensions, and Civil Superannuations, may be estimated at about 5,000,0001. 2. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that this sum, calculated as an annuity guaranteed by Parliament, may be considered as a burden, forming a charge upon the public in come of the country, for the lives of the annuitants, subject to such regulations as are applicable in each case. 3. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the amount of this charge has been increased, principally by the long du. ration and extended exertions of the late war, from the sum of about 650,0001. to the said sum of 5,000,0001. 4. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that under this great accumulation of annual charge, and in the present state of the country, it is expedient to make provision for appor tioning this burden so as to ensure its final extinction, either by an equal annual annuity, terminable within 45 years, or by permanent annuities, with such provision for the repayment thereof as is required by the Act 32 Geo. 111. c. 55. 5. That it is the opinion of this Committee, that the Com missioners of his Majesty's Treasury should treat and con tract (subject to the approbation of Parliament) with such bodies politic and corporate, or other persons, as may be will ing to undertake to provide for the charge of the above-men tioned pensions and allowances, or any part thereof, in either of the above modes, and who shall give adequate security for the performance of such undertaking. If the Pensions are now Five Millions a year, they will, at the end of each one of the ensuing 45 years, be of the follow ing magnitude:— £5,000,000 After the year 1, 4,855,856 2, 4,711,708 3, 4,567,559 4, 4,425,561 5, 4,283,563 6, 4,141,565 7, 4,001,749 8, 3,861,932 9 , 3,722,116 10, 3,585,494 11, 3,448,872 12, 3,312,250 13, 3,179,476 14, 3,046,703 15, 2,913,930 16, 2,786,136 17, 2,658,343 18, 2.530,550 19, 2,410,392 20, 2,290,239 21, 2,170,077 22, 2,058,439 After the year 23, £1,946,801 24, 1,835,163 25, 1,732,433 26, 1,629,803 27, 1,527,124 28, 1,433,929 29, 1,340,734 30, 1,247,540 31, 1,164,113 32, 1,080,6 33, 997,2 34, 926,47 35, 855,687 36, 784,900 37, 722,536 38, 660,172 . , 39, 597,807 40, 544,487 41, 491,167 42, 437,847 43, 392,302 44, 348,757 45, 306,679 PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS FOR REGULATION OF THE CORN TRADE, APRIL 29. (mt. nusxissom.) 1. That the ports of the United Kingdom were shut against the importation of foreign wheat, for home consumption, in the month of February, 1819, the average price being then 78s 7d. a quarter, and that they have remained closed ever since ; the average price of the year 1820 having been 655. 7d.—of the year 1821, 545. sd.—and of the three first months of 1822, 475. 9d. a quarter. 2. That in the year 1819, the quantity of British wheat im ported into the port of London was 300,416 quarters ; in 1820, 399,009 quarters; and in 1821, 494,828 quarters; and that during the whole of this period of three years, the supply, in all the principal markets of the United Kingdom, appears uni formly to have exceeded the demand, notwithstanding the wants of an increasing population, and other circumstances, which have probably produced an increased annual consumption 3. That this excess of the supply above the demand mus have arisen either from an extent of corn tillage more than commensurate to the average consumption of the country ; or from a succession of abundant harvests upon the same extent of tillage ; or from the coincident effect of both these causes. 4. That in the fluctuation of seasons, the effect of the present corn law must be to expose, sometim;;s the grower of corn to the losses incident to an over redundant produce, and at other times the consumer to the pressure inseparable from dearth ; that the free importation of foreign corn, (the remedy provided by the law for the latter evil), if wanted to a great amount, must be precarious in proportion as the demand is unusual ; and that against the former evil the law affords to the grower no relief whatever. 5. That the alternate evils of redundancy and scarcity cannot fail to be aggravated by the alternate excitement and depression to which the agriculture of the United Kingdom must be ex posed, under the present system of our corn laws. 6. That another evil effect of this system is, to convert farm ing into a hazardous and gambling speculation, which, however prudently managed, must occasionally involve great losses to the capitals engaged in agriculture. 7. That a free trade in foreign corn, subject to certain du ties on the importation thereof for home consumption, was at all times permitt e d, prior to the Act of the .55th George 111. c. 26. , 8; That since the passing of that Act, by which such im portatiOn is prohibited until the average price of wheat shall have reached or exceeded, for a certain time, 80s. a quarter, and other grain in proportion, a great accumulation of f ore i gn corn has taken place in the warehouses of this country, and of the continent. 9. That to obviate the prejudicial effects of that Act, and to ensure a regular supply of grain, at prices as much as possible steady and moderate, it is expedient to provide for the repeal of so much of the said Act as prohibits, under certain prices, the importation of foreign grain for home consumption. 10. That in order to render this repeal safe to the grower of British corn, and gradual in its operation, under the present accumulation of foreign grain in the warehouses of this country and in the ports of the Continent, it is expedient to provide that the foreign wheat now under bond in the united kingdom may be taken out for home consumption, upon the payment of a duty of 15s. per quarter, as soon as the average price of wheat, ascertained in the usual mode, shall exceed 70s. a quar ter; and that at the expiration of three months from the date of such admission of warehoused wheat into home consump tion, or so much sooner as the average price shall exceed 80s. a quarter, wheat from abroad may be admitted, upon the pay ment of the like duty. 11. That the trade in foreign corn shall thenceforth be per manently free; but subject to the following duties upon im portation, or when taken out of warehouse for home consump tion :—wheat, .15s. a quarter, when the price shall not exceed 80s. iand when above that price, ss. ; and above 85s. one shilling; —rye, peas, and beans, 9s. 6d. a quarter, when the price shall not exceed 535.; and when above 535. one shilling ; —barley, bear, or bigg, 7s. 6d. a quarter, up to 40s. ; and when above that price, one shilling ;—oats, ss. a quarter, up to 43. L and wheb above that price, one shilling. ~-.\--,_•._. o i .: - :::: ,-,,, - -. •• l _. t.._ _.___,;•,- .--14' _ _--- 4a-lb, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1822. THE LONDON JOURNALS. EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, May 2, 1822. [MORNING POST.] A. Mail from Hamburgh arrived yesterday. The only article of its contents worthy of notice is a letter from Petersburgh upon the subject of the Russian Tarilf,(a correct abstract of which we gave in our k't). Our Readers must doubtless have remarked with regret the immense number of articles of British manufacture which by this measure are altogether prohibited; but that Russia will soon have cause to repent her con duct in this respect, very little doubt can be enter tained. When, in 1812, at the instigation of Buonaparte, the Emperor Alexander contemplated a similar expedient, he w as cet*.pelled not only to abandon his project, but to break off his alliance with the then existing Tyrant of the Continent, and even to hazard the safety of his Empire and his Throne in contending for the freedom of commerce. If England, in her commercial intercourse with Russia only, gave her manufactures for specie, there might in such case be some plea of policy for the measure of prohibition ; but the fact is, that we take in exchange the native products of Russia, for which she has no other market. The measure, therefore, we are sorry to observe, dis plays a most ungrateful, if not an hostile disposi tion towards this country ; but we have the consolation to know that it is a species of \hos tility, from which we have nothing to fear, and which will ultimately recoil upon its own authors. Although we are well aware that Rus sia has long been in the habit of seducing our artisans, and may in consequence be now capable of manufacturing many articles hitherto imported from us, yet unless the Russian Nobles can sell their tallow and their flax, they will be unable to purchase either foreign or domestic manufac tures ; their only revenue is in the produce of the soil, and without a market for that produce, their titles will avail them but little in the inevit *le poverty that must ensue. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The wisdom that continued several most op pressive taxes with a view to a Sinking Fund of five millions, and then proposed an addition to our Debt in order to obtain a relief from part of the annual burden of the pensions, which was so happily exposed by Mr. Brougham, on Monday night, received still farther elucidation last night. The pension speculation, is not very likely to prove peculiarly attractive to capitalists. The length of time during which they must continue to advance money, consequently befok , they can enjoy the benefit of their speculation, the chance of war in the interim which gives to it a pecu liarly hazardous character, are all certainly far from being a recommendation in its favour ; and any bargain entered into with the public cannot be expected, under such circumstances, to he very advantageous for it. Here against the debt paid off by the Sinking Fund, we have not merely to set off the fresh debt incurred bythis pension operation, but also the profit to be made by capitalists. How then can the Sinking Fund be better employed than in supplying the place of capitalists, and thus preventing the creation of fresh debt, and saving the profits of these capitalists to the nation ? But to crown the absurdity, while Ministers are thus buying up the Life Annuities of those having . pensions, they are every day selling Life Annui ties to all who apply for them. The folly of all this is so egregious, that if any man in ordinary life were to act in the same manner, he would certainly run a risk of confinement in a mad house. We have no hesitation in approving of any measure calculated to alleviate our present burdens, and therefore we approve of the prin ciple of throwing part of the burden of the pen sions on futurity ; but we cannot approve of this and approve of the opposite of it at the same time. We leave this to the faith and accommo dating spirit of the Country Gentlemen. [THE TIMES.] We have alluded more than once to the dread ful situation of the poor in the southern counties of Ireland, wherein, from the late unfavourable season, the potatoe crop has failed. It gives us much satisfaction to state, that private charity has begun to exert itself strenuously for the sake of the unhappy sufferers--a " Society for the Re lief and Employment of the Poor of Ireland" has been formed. At the head of it are several men of rank connected with the sister island, who have undertaken to promote a subscription, and to employ the first fruits of it in the purchase of potatoes. " Relief" may be a temporary, though a most urgent and indispensable object ; but " employment" is one which bespeaks more extensive purposes, and which will require the aid of more skilful arrangements, more per severing steadiness, and more regular and per manent contributions. We heartily wish suc cess to both branches of this benevolent and pa triotic enterprise. The least that the absentees from Ireland can do, is to return, in the shape of charity, to the poor wretches who live at rack rent on their estates—by whose toils they are maintained in splendour, but whose affections they have despised, and whose miseries they have enhanced while they dare not witness them—it is, we say, the least redeeming sacri fice by which such men can atone to their in jured country, to send back some small memento of the obligations which she has entailed upon them : and to assist the generosity of the people of England in prolonging the lives of a race of men to whom the wisdom of the English Government, and the huma;;ity of their own ter ritorial Lords, have left no property but exist ence. Subscriptions for this good work are re ceived by many of the principal bankers. If care be not taken to apply the fund judiciously, and to exclude the spirit of jobbing, the novelty of such an example will not be the least precious among the advantages which may be thereby se cured to the inhabitants of the South of Ireland. [NEW TIMES.I Consols fOr A c c oun t l e ft offj yesterday at 78i, and it is confidently expected that the quantity of money aboutitto be soon brought into circula tion by the payment of the Dissentients, and other measures of a like nature, will effect a much more considerable rise. The fifth of Mr. Vansittart'g resolutions points to a particular mode of „under ing effective the monied capital or tbe country. By that resolution it is provided that the Govern. ment may treat with individuals or great com mercial bodies, who may be willing to provide for the charge of the pensions, amounting at pre sent to five millions a year, but which it is meant to extinguish by redeemable annuities. Annexed to this resolution is an estimate (calculated, we presume, on the ordinary chances of life) shelving the gradual mode in which pensions to the amount of five millions might be expected to be reduced in 45 years. By this it would appear that the annual burthen would not be reduced to four Millions till after seven years; to three millions till after fourteen years ; to two millions till after twenty-two, and to one million till after 32 years ; whereas, by the proposed scheme (as we understand it,) the reduction of the annual burthen will be more immediately effected, and consequently a larger portion of the national re sources will be rendered available for public purposes. Although this transaction may be said to be in the nature of a loan, yet it is free from the objection of increasing the debt ; for in fact the Military and Naval Pensions, and Civil Superannuations, form a part of the National Debt, as sacred as any other part, inasmuch as the national faith is equally pledged to its pay ment, and the consideration given for it was in services as valuable as the consideration given for any part of the Funded Debt. [MORNING HERALD.] It appears from the Provincial Papers that a scarcity of good grain, particularly of wheat, has caused some advance of price in the markets, and that the purchasers seem rather on the alert. We also perceive in the Hop-market the proba bility of a start in the price. This strikes us as the effect of a principle in trade to which we have formerly adverted. After any article has glutted the market for a time, and the prices, in consequence, become ruinously low, a tran sition takes place, and the article again be comes comparatively scarce and dear. There is again an eagerness to purchase, and the most eager are those who were before loudest in predicting that the article would fall still lower. In trade of every kind, men very much resemble the flock of sheep in old Rabelais—when one jumps in, another and another follow, each hastening to purchase, before the price, as he apprehends, rises still higher ; and this impulse is communicated from man to man, and from town to town, avarice and speculation tempting men on, until at length the price rises so far, that it can go no farther;—then the bubble bursts—and then down comes the price of the article as rapidly as it ascended.— Before, all the sheep rushed in, because one had done so,—now, however, one sheep has disco vered the mistake, and endeavours to get out, upon which the herd follows as before. Thus the market vibrates between the extreme points on the one side and on the other, from a sort of mechanical impulse of imitation. [BRITISH PRESS.] The smallness of the majority on Mr. Can ning's motion must be a subject of surprise and regret to every person acquainted with the story of the times in which the disabling Statute of Charles 11. was enacted. Mr. Canning's mea sure is one not merely of political expediency, but of justice and of retribution for the greatest injury that could have been committed. The Sta tute which prevents - the Catholic Peers from sitting in Parliament would never have had ex istence but for the per of Titus Oates' and of Bedloe, and the enactment of it bears the same character of justice as did the arbitrary imprisonment of the Lords Powis, Arundel, Peters, and Bellasis, and the subsequent murder of the venerable and noble Strafford. The Act was an Act of attainder against the Catholic Peers, who, until that time, sat in Parliament by the privilege of their birth, and it passed simply upon the evidence of the convicted per jurers we have mentioned. If it stood upon the precise footing, and bore what might be called the technical form of an Act of At tainder, could any one so tar doubt the justice, the sense of honour and the probity of Parliament in the present day, as to believe that such an Act would not be reversed ? Yet it wants only the form of an attainder, for virtually it possesses all the characteristics of such a measure, and no man ought to vote for preserving it upon our statute book will:, is not prepared at the same moment to attest his belief in the evidence of Oates, and Bedloe, and conscientiously to believe as a-Chris tian, or as a man of ordinary understanding, that Lord Stratford was guilty. The very mob who surrounded the scaffold where this venerable and innocent Nobleman was to be made the victim of a terrific delusion, protested against his murder. In the very midst -of the panic that seemed to have unseated the reasoning powers of the whole empire, the ;affecting decht rations which Strafford made of his innocence ex cited the 'sympathy of the popula,:e, and'it per. haps afforded some consolation to We noble sufferer in his last moments to hear the rabble exclaim, "We believe you, my Lord! we belieie you to be innocent ! Gon bless you !" THE ARMY. ~~ Three officers and about 40 men of the 13th Light Dragoons, now at our Cavalry Depot, will leave here for Madras, on the 10th instant.— They will embark at Gra‘csend, on board the East India Company's ship 4stel. About 130 men of the 11th Light Dragoons will also leave this Depot on the'3oth instant, for Bengal. An order has been received at the Cavalry Depot for the detachment of the 17th Light Dragoons, stationed here, to be in readiness to repair to Romford, to take charge of upwards- of one hundred horses, belonging to the 16th Lancers, under orders for embarkation to India.—( Maid stone Journal.) Monday morning, part of the 58th Regiment landed at Portsmouth, and the other part, which separated in a gale and was supposed to be lost, arrived yesterday morning. They are quartered at the Military Barracks, Gosport. This Regi ment embarked in October, 1816, from Ireland for Jamaica, where they have been stationed ever since, and we are concerned to'state that they have lost five , Officers, 530 men, 110 women , and 200 children, which have been carried off by the local fever. The inhabitants ofJamaica have equally suffered from that dreadful malady. The .Regiment came home in the London Brilliant, and John and Thomas transports. COWES, APRIL 30.—There were embarked here yesterday, 10 officers, 107 meti, 10 women, and 4 children of different regiments, on their ' route to Chatham fOr Bombay ; also arrived a number of recruits from Southampton, for Al bany barracks. • DOBLIN,A PRI L 29.—The 12th Lancers marched this morning on their route to Ballinrobe ' • they are to be replaced by the King' s D ragoon Guards. READING, APRIL 23, PRESENTATION OF A SILVER CUP TO CAPT. MONTAGU. On Monday last an interesting event took place on Mr. WHEnLE's newly inclosed ground. After the drill', of the Woodley Cavalry, preparatory to the review on Tuesday, one of the privates of that corps (Mr. CHILD) addressed the Com manding Officer, Captain MONTAGU, and•said—That he w a s deputed by,the Quarter-master, the Non-commissioned Offi cers, and the Privates, to request his acceptance of a mark of their respect and gratitude for his unremitted attention to their discipline, and kindness to themselves. He expressed their determination to neglect no opportunity of shewmg their at tachment to him by their public services and private regard. On receiving the present, a very beautikl Cup, -with suit able emblems, and inscriptions, Captain 11.1wfwa.au said that, during the whole of his military services, he had never been caught by surprise by his enemies, but thit now h e must declare, that he had been taken by surprise by his friends, for he had not received the least previous sugges tion of the kind intention of the corps whom he had the good fortune to command. lle felt himself utterly unable to express his grateful feelings in words, but he assured them that this liberal and splendid proof ,of their approba tion would remain indelibly engraven on his heart to the latest moment of his life. The honour of being at the head of one of the oldest and most respectable Troop of Yeomanry in England was most gratifying to him. If his attention to discipline had sometimes the appearance of strictness, he was most happy to find by that public mark of their approbation that they did justice to his principles, and entertained that sense of his conduct, which he should always be most anxious to deserve. 'This extempore address was delivered in a forcible, and af fecting manner, and was followed by the repeated cheers of every individual present. GENERAL MEETING OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. • -~_ Yesterday the General Meeting of the British and Foreii,m Bible Society was held at the Great Hall of Freemasons' Ta vern, and at an early hour it was filled by a numerous and re spectable assemblage.—Lord TEzoxatoUTri was called to the Chair. The SECRETARY read the Report, which is extremely volu minous, and gave the most satisfactory details of the progress of the British Auxiliary Society; . and also of the Bible' Societies which now pervaded almost every part of Europe, and the most flattering communications from persons of the first rank in almost every province on the Continent .avere read to the meeting, and detailed the progress and the effects which the dissemination of the Scriptures had worked upon the people, in some instances amounting almost to an entire change of manners. In Catholic countries the progress was beyond their utmost expectations. Even amongst the Jews, the Chi nese, and the NI ahometans, Bibles had been introduced; and had gone on under circumstances of great promise. In the Society Islands also a translation of the. Gospels of St. John had been introduced,-after the establishment of a schooL In Patagonia Bibles had been circulated, and in every part of North America societies had been formed, and were flourishing. In Nova Scotia they had introduce l 'a translation, as well - as in Labrador, where some of the natives had subscribed seals and blubber for the benefit of the Society, when they were informed of its na ture and objects. In the remote parts of Scotland, societies had been established, and liberal contributions made towards the support of the present establishment: In Ireland they had also made considerable progress in the dissemination of. the Scrip tures. It appeared that the numberof Bibles circulated during last year were beyond that of the preceding year ; and altoge ther there were more than three millions and a half of the So ciety's Bibles in silent but active operation in almost every quarter of the world, and in almost every language:- The con tributions of the Society amounted last year to . upwards • of -103,0001. of which more than 69,0001. had been received from the Auxiliary Societies. The disbursements amounted last year to 510,4901. At the 'conclusion of the reading of the Report, his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester .entered, and was warmly cheered from all parts of the hall. The Earl of Harrowby, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Teignmouth, Lord Calthorpe, ,Mr. Wilberforce, and other Gentlemen, successively addressed the Meeting, and several ap propriate Resolutions were agreed to. The wheat in every part of the west•of Scot land is extremely promising, and the oats present a fine braird. There were some oats sown in a field near Tollcross, and on the fifth day they were nearly all through the ground. 'the coun try people are at present busy planting..otatoes. Mo ntrose market week butter was purchased in market at 9d. per pound, and eggs at 3d. per dozen ; and on Thursday last, potatoes were called through the streets, to be kill in the neighbourhood at 4s. per boll.—(Edinburgh Con rant, April 27.) S• PRICE SEVENPENCE