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to an account for this offensive language, but, with
the advice of kis_ brother officers. relinquished.

his 01'10%4 MAXISE,IIO,EIIgi submitted the case to the
Comussader.in•Chief. There is another version of
the latter account, in which the remonstrance of
Sir ltoseaT•WlLsoN is couched in terms which
could not possibly alfad any just ground of of-
tener, or have been to felt by Captain OA ES.
In a case where exemplary punishment has been
thus summarily inflicted, is is peculiarity desirable
that the offence should be dearly known and de.
fined. It must be therefore matter of regret that
an inquiry was not instituted into the conduct of
this gallant Officer, and sn opportunity afforded
him to make his defence before sentence was pro-
nounced.

A further extract from the Treasury Minute of
the loth of August will be found this day in an.
other part of our Paper. The extract which has
already appeared its this Paper related exellsively
to • regulation adopted for deducting a certain
rate from the salaries of clerks in office, from which
superannuation fund was to be established for the
bemlit of the contributors. The extract which we
now publish declares that the Lords of the Trea-
sury have actually compared the establishment of
the Treasury in its present state with its condition
in 1797, mud have chreced a plan to be prepared
for the purpose of reducing the department as
nearly as the incorporation of the Irish Trea-
sury and other matters will allow to the state
in which it stood in 1797, and that the new
plan is to commence on the sth of January next.
No greater number of officers is to he retained
than shall appear to be absolutely necessary, and
this principle is to extend even to offices which
may have been in exietence in the year 1797; but
it is provided that every person whose situation iv
not to he abolished, shall retain his present emolu-
ment (subject only to d payment to the superan-
nuation fund), until by promotion or length of
service he shall be entitled, under the new regula-
tion, to a salary at least equal to that which he
now possesses.

By this plain no immediate saving to any consi.
derahle amount will be effected in the public ex-
penditure, for, with one exception, all existing in-
terests are carefully preserved inviolate. The ex-
ception is certainly of a singular ware, for while
the Lords of the Treasury resolve without any re-
morse to abolish some offices altogether, and to de-
prive the persons now holding them of all Wary
whatsoever, they are tenderly alive to the intereets
of all persons whose offices they preserve, and from
the Hama-s of these fortunate gentlemen they will
not take one shilling for the public benefit. Upon
strict principle this may be correct. The lulrourer
is worthy of his hire, and why should he who does
nothing receive oily purt of the public money ? Why
should he? Why should a single sinecurist, who
never did ony thing for the public good, be suffered
to draw money from the pockets of the people ?
But there are considerations which must be some-
Miles admitted to operate in mitigation of strict
ju.tice, and we certainly should nut be pleased to
are one set of public officers deprived wholly of
their ordinary means of sub.isterice, while others
ore continued in the undiminished enjoyment of
their large salaries.

The Marquis and Merchioness of LONDON-
DERRY heft town on Tuesday evening for their seat
at North Cray. To-morrow the Noble Marquis
sets out for Himover.

Letters have been received from Constantinople,
dated the lith last. They relate entirely to e
menial affairs connected with the detention of vessels
laden with corn in the port of Constuntinople during
the recent embargo.
The people of Canada complain of the grievances
which they stiffer front the present commercial sys-
tem of England, and particularly (*tom the opera-
tion of the ecru laws. A copy of Mi. statement,
exit:cried finial the Quebec Gaisetie, is given in our
preceding columns.

The Aetrfourldland Gazette of the 28th ultimo,
which has arrived, mates, that advices had arrived
there from Labrador, with inforiusitioie that the
fishery, which at first proved very unproductive in
that quarter, had latterly become more favourable,
nod ,A;19% likrly to atfirrl those engaged in it it to-
lerably fair vo)agy. A setious goarirl is said to
have takcto place between sonic American seansen
and Nova Scotia fidminielt, steer l'apc Charles, in
which fourteen men were killed, but no particulars
had beers communicated.

We noticed a few week' ago that General Bo-
LIV AR had resigned his funcorms as Presidrut of
the republic of Columbia. It sporais, !weever,
by letters received f Cucuta. that the Congre•s,
in, their sitting of the 9th Alav notwithsistichrig the
very decisive tune lii whirls Ills re,ignation was ten-
dered, have unanimously tarred his It (limn As
the charterer of General llot.i VAR 'raiders it jai-
!lovable to doubt tiw sincerity of his re:lion:ration,
It reinvins ro be seers lin* ter his private irrelinations
will be controlled by die public wishes of his coon-
t ryruen.

THR 88TH EGIM FCT.--We ferl
pleasure in ending the atielition ..r our readers to
the subscriptions (56/. 17s. 61) Irons the
officers nod pairs tes of the 88th, ur ConiiHHOH
linstgets, ut uul of the fond for erseting u Tertis
inotoul to etninntatiorine his (11.iirst).4 VIML to Ow
native country. A like sum was forwarded to
London la few flays since by those gollstit fellows
for the proposed Aloninuent to Ins late MApiSTY
there.—(Dubltu Freeman.)

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