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items, There was a any of 4,269/. for gooneys. in myt
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places enttbnedha 111? ileitis 'there were no guns tot
view of There tens aVbairgir 'fir WU. odd fora Mailer-go
at Gray.iiitil, Where there bad been no guns since litfilF4
hillmeruth's celebrated letter: There was a gunner paid fdlf"
taktog sare of gust which bad been removed these tdOW4
years. The House ought to know at what places guns won
really kept. He wished also fur the different corps tout
Jisiingnithv fur which the vote wss required.
Mr. WARDssid, that the subject now mentioned by the
Hun. Member might be a fit topic for consideration best.
after, bit -there was not eoongh le the ergnment to ledges
the Committee to petiole. It was true, that the guns welt
to some instances spiked and laid up its store, but that
was to emotion for discharging the -goons-es. He ex-
patiated on the wholesome street on the morals send dis-
ciplese lathe Corp, prodaeed by bolding out the prospect
of those stations 10 non-comalissi 0000 rd veteran officers.
Mr. HUMS said. that many uf the gunners were Sub-
-I.ieulenasts receiving half-pay, besides the allowance of
;Rosner..
Mr. ( BENNETT recommended that the specific votes •
should be tarn for specific service..
Mr. WARD aectirrliagly withdrew the motion, and substi-
tuted it by a motion for greeting 4,261 a. for 57 gunners.
he itesolutiou (titer a few words from Mr. Hume) was

aoreed to.
Mr. WARD moved •igrant of 4,0901. fur the eagle alf
royal engoterrs is Greve Wilma and Ireland, • oak, SW
.ulcers.
Ale HUMP! wished to know nude► whit head he oloold
find and extra p y of the enicieeer department i. Oa
had no objective to the regular pip of the 'engineer eligiern.
tsnplurd, but there were 124 officers taut of the master
who were reed islets 'etre pay for Nominal duties its post
part. Ile did no think the pay nr.d allowane..• of those
who were actually employed at all inn much. Bid those who
were not aridly employed should be dismissed from their
o denial Julies.
Culoiod FRANKLYN justified the allowances to Logincer
Mr. numn said, his objection was not to the pay of
;hove officers when employed; hot there were Cornear
officers paid for services at Gravesend and Fevershaus where
were no works.
Colonel FRANKLYN and Mr. WARD said a few %voids

each.
Sir R.. WILSON jostified the allowances to ragtime.. ofli-
- errs nhn combined the claims of service mot science. Rot
contended that those •Ilonance should unly be grouted fur
real services.
After ri few words from Sir H. HARDINGE, the reaolu-
lion was agreed to, as were other grants for the sappers
and miners. together with the allowances for imstructsiso.
Mr. McIORE being called on lousily from boll. sides of
the Humor, ed that the Chairman should Report pro.
res., sad as.k leave to sit again.—{Hear, hear.)—This
Ec•itila,iuir was wand to.
The Report was ordered to betaken into farther considera-
'Lot uu Monday next.
he House resolved. on its visitor, to adjourn till Monday.
Tile other °flirts of the Day were disposed of, and the
Horse adjutanw d at ONE O'CLOCK.

PRESS.

• LONDON,
SATURDAY, MAY 19, le2l.
A Supplement to the London Gazette of Tues-
day lust was published yesterday, containing ex-
tracts from dispatches received at the India House
from the Government of Bombay. They com-
prise a copy of a letter from Colonel STANHOPE to
the Adjutant-General at Bombay, announcing
the fall of the fortress of Dwarka, on the 26th of
November, 18.20 ; and also a copy of a letter from
Captain TUOMPSON to the Secretary of the Go-
vernment at Bombay, dated Muscat, the 18th of
November, 1820. confirming the account pre-
viously received of the failure of the expedition
t.soinsi the piratical Arabs of Alashkarah, in the
Gulf of Persia. The substance of both these dis-
patches has been already made known to our
readers, but the details of the events, as now torn.

against the Arabs ,uatil the arrival of reinforcements.,
but he was betrayed and the town abandoned, and.,
he was compelled to .retreat to Muscat with the
Imagism, where the party happily arrived without.
having experienced say impediment from the enemy.
The artillery, we- lament to perceive, conducted
themselves extremely ill, and there were in parti.
cular two of who we presume are British, but
whose nag:aware mercifully withheld from publicity
by Captria THOMPSON, whose conduct appears to•
have been most base and cowardly. These men,
Captain Titostesou says, " I have iletermined on
sending to Bombay, with directions to report their
arrival to the Adjutant-General of the army. My
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sole reason for not placing them under arrest is, thut
such • proceeding might involve a necessity for
publishing at the head of every regiment in India,
that a detachment of •tpoys 114 d been deserted by
its officers; and I would not do what might con-
flue the Government ttieny specific course. At the
same time I shall transmit charges to the Adjutant-
, General, with lists of evidences. rixainst the event
of its appearing to he desirable to proceed in that
manner." The punishment of such men is due to
the honour and services of the army which they have
disgraced, no less than to the interests and charac-
ter of the empire which they have betrayed.
The circumstances of this expedition in general

suggest Due observation, which the experience of the
pest will, we trust, render It unnece►sary ever
again to repeat. The stability, the existence of
our empire in the East, depends mainly upon the
apparent invincibility of our troops. Our reputa-
tion, therefore, ought never to be intrusted to the
native troop. alone ; in every expedition or enter-
prise of difficulty, o considerable proportion of Bri-
tish troops ought always to be employed. Indeed it
has often occurred to us that the Directors confide
too much in the valour and fidelity of the uetive
troops, whose prejudices and peculiarities of opi-
nion frequently conflict with the views of the Go-
vernment Mold the interests of the empire, and are
often brought into dangerous collision with the
thoughtless impetuosity of young military men, or
the jealousies which continually arise between dis-
tinct bodies of the same army, The Indian urmy
■t
present amounts, we believe, to nearly 200,000
men ; the British troops in Iliiidoostans do not ex-
ceed 25,000 or 30,000 men. The disproportion is too
great not to 'excite some apprehensions for the pro-
bable evils that seem likely .to time from it, for
highly and proudly as we estim.de the tried heroism
of British soldiers, we cannot but feel that there is
■ point beyond which 'minim exertion cannot cal-
culate upon the probabilities of success, when °I:-
posed to such fearful odds as the native force main-
tained in lodia presents, with all its advantages of
arms and discipline, and aided by the resources of
the great mass of the populavion.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday last bare anired.
They are uearty tilled with the repotts of the
trial of the conspiracy of the 19th of August, and
the debate its the Chamber of Peers, upon the pro-
ject of the law relating to ecclesia•tiral penrions.
floth subjects remain under discusnoit.—The fol-
lownig are extracts:—
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PARIS, MAY 15.
The Kiog yesterday trunsucted business isiin the
Duke Hi' Richelieu.

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Till DWI OP DEVONSITIRE'S CONGER?.

`The Duke of Devonshire gave another concert on Thurs-
day evealag at Devonshire House, en the same grand scale
as the preceding one. The whole range of apirtinents were
most brilliantly illutsiasted. The company began to arrive
■bout ten o'clock; the COMM. commenced at eleven. Thera
were nearly troo persons of the but distiuction and fashion
present, among whom were—
Prince Leopold, Duchess of Kent, Duke of Gleucerder
Minces lehormursky and Cimitelli ; Dukes de'Friss, Port-
land, and Grafton; Duchesses of Rutland, Leeds, Dowager
Rutland, and Bedford ; Marquis'', of Lanadown and
Graham; Marchionesses of Salisbury, Lansdown, and
Loadonderry ; the Earl and Countess of Darnley and She
Ladies Bligh; Earl and Countess of Sef►on and the Ladies
Mulyneez ; the Countess of Derby, lady Mary Stanley,
Visruaut and VlColllllCire Grahrilie, Lord John Russell, Ludy
E. Manners, Earl and Couu,tess Maurer', Earl Roaslyn, the
Etrl and Counties. of Aheyne, Lady K. Forrester, Lord
Vsiblorto Earl Clanwilliam, Earl sad Countess of Clare, Earl
of F.A•, Lord and Lady Won. Russell, Lord IllountCharles,
Lady C.Stauhope, COollttill of Harroirby, Lady Mary Rider,
Lord and Lady Morpeili, Lady G. Wellrsley, Lord G. Sumer.
set, Lord and Lady Paget, Countess and the Ladies Grey,
dec. &v. ecc.

FASIIIONADLE PARTIES.

The Marchioness of Salisbury issued earth of invlistion
yeyterilay Cur it gram4l runt on the 2341 lust. at her house in

Lady C.Straiti's rout ou Thursday evening, in Great Cum-
be..land•plare, was bulk uumerously sud fashionably al-
it aided.

thr A. Hump, Barl.'s root on Thursday evening, in Hill.
street, Berk,ley-sqaare, was aitentiral by upwards uf 200 dis-
tinguished rashionables.

FA 4H10NA81.13 MOVEMENTS.

The Duke of Rolland leavee tows to-morrow for New.
market.
Lord Rivera left town yesterday for Lis seat, Dare Park,
wmai ket.

Lord and Lady G. H. Cavendish are arrived at Burling.
ton Horse, Piccadilly, from their scat, Latimer', B•orhr.
General Garth is arrived at his buuse in the Edgcisare.
road from his seat in Dorsetshire.
Mr. and Mrs. Deering left town yesterday for their seat
in Dents.

Mrs. Udney left her house in Portugal street yesterday for
Southampton.
Arrivals at Olnke's Hotel, Jerrayn-street :—Lady Warren-
der rrom the Continent; Mrs. Putts and family from Paris.
Departures Crum Milo—Dowager Countess Mimutnurris and
Lady Julia Aunesley for Gloucestershire.
Arrivals at Hoillsou's Hotel, Dover-street :—Mrs. Stock
and Miss Wall Gum Hampton Court.
Departures from the London Hotel, Albemarle-street s
Mr. and Mrs Anderdon and (Amity fur their seat, Reach.
house, Hants; Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Lee foi
Hants; Sir Prating WOW, Hart. and Mr. Scutt fur York-
shire.
Arrivals at the Dath Hotel, Arlingtemsire•t :—Major
O'Connor from Militia ; Mr. and Mrs. Atwood (rum Paris ;
Mr. and the Misfits Astley from With. Departures—Mr. and
Mrs. Jones fur their seat in Wales; and Miss Hicks fur
Bath.

Captain Sullivan left Greillon'a Hotel, Albemarle-street,
yeeteiday, fur Portsmouth.

The Duke of Yoae transacted military bosi.
nes* with his MAJESTY yesterday.
Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL had an midi-
duce of l►is MAJESTY.
ilia MAJESTY, we understand, has annonnred his
iutelitiou to quit Carlton House, and make Bur•k-
inl;hauu House his town residence in Ititure. The
defective state of the foundation of Cat Itini Hunar,
and the superior advantages of more open air :n►d
extensive gtoonds possessed by the latter, are the
causes of the change. The persons, male and fe-
male, attached to the Court, vilio St.

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