The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-05-12 00:00:00

SY TNT RIGHT HONOURABLE THE ROVERNOIL.GENTIIAL

IX COUNCIL.

Fort William, Dee. t 3, 1824.
A royal salute and three ,oldies of musquetry to be tired at all
the stations of the land forces serving in the East Indies, in honour
of the signal and decisive victories achieved at Rangoon, by the
British forces under the command of Brigadier-Gen. Sir Archibald
Campbell, K.C.8., over the Grand Army of the Burman Empire,
in the several successive actions fought between the Ist and 9th
inst., in which the enemy were completely defeated and dispersed,
with the loss of 9,000 men killed and wounded, of 250 pieces of
artillery, and the greater part of their military stores.
By command of the Right Honourable the Governor-General
in Council,
GEORGE SWINTON, Sec. to the Govt.

Fort William, Dec. n, 1824:

The Onvernor.fiencral will attend in mate that evening. at five
o'clock, the parade of the Royal Regiment, when a fru di 'joie will
be tired in honour of the victory at Rangoon.

THI. ARMY.

GENERAL ORDER.
flortss; GUARDS, HAT 2, 1825.
His Majesty having been graciously pleased to approve the
accompanying Regulations for the sale and purchase of Commis.
aims of unattached retired full and half-pay Officers, they are now
promulgated to the Army t and his Royal Highness the Com-
mantler-in.Chief enjoins the strictest compliance therewith.
By command of his Royal lliFhness the Coar.ander-in-Chief,
HENRY fORRENS. Adjutant.GeneraL
REGULATIONS TOR TILE PALE OF RETIRED FULL-PAY

AXIS lIALF-PAY CONIMISSIONS.
APRIL 25, 1825.
Half-pay Officers, and those on retired full pay, shall be per-
mitted to dispose of their Commissions as unattached half-pay Com-
missions. in the mannet and upon the terms hereinafter described.
To include the Officers actually serving in the Veteran Batta-
lions who may be considered as belonging to both lists, but who
cannot now sell ; as also (Cenral Officers, who may be in the receipt
of the half-pay only or that regimental rank on which they retired.
That the Officers on the retired full-pay, and those serving in
Veteran Battalions, shall receive the prices for their Commissions,
established by his Majesty's regulations in 1821.
That the Officers who were reduced to half-pay, having put.
chased or served twenty years, nod the Officers obliged to retire
upon half-pay, in consequence of wounds, or health impaired by
climate, shall also receive the same price for their Commissions.
That Officers having retired to halt:pay at their own request,
not in consequence of wounds, or health impaired by climate,
although they should have purchased, shall receive only the old
price, as established by the Regulation in force previous to 1821.
ACTUAL. PRICY.
Lieutenant-Coloneley £4.500 Lieutenantey
Majority . . 3,21.10 Second Lieutenantey
Company - 1.880 Ensigney
OLD PRICE.

1:700
.
bW
430

Lieutenant-Eolonelcy 11.600 I Lieutentuttey £650
Majority . • 2,600 ; Second Lieutenantcy . 460
Cotrpany . - 1.800 I Ensigney - 400
The Officers selling out shall receive the sum to which they niay
be respectively entitled under these regulations, is may be directed
by the Commander-in-Chief.
And is order to avoid the possibility of communication between
the parties, the purchaser will be directed simply to lodgshis money
for his promotion to the higher Commission, the seller being atter.
warJs selected by the l'ommander•in.ebief from the lista rogistrred
in his Royal Highness's OM, ; nor will any other than ea uncoil-
ditiowal resigns:top, nor any application which adverts to any ea-
; pec:ed vacancy, be admitted.
The surplus. if any, will. in all cases. be hitl,l at the disposal

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.f the Lords Conuniasionen of his Majesty's Traastry, fur the
public use.
'the price paid and received shall, in all cases, be that of the Tr.
fantry Commissions, as in the cases of unattached Commission.
which have been hitherto sold, whether the individual selling shall
be on the half pay ofiCavalry or Infantry, and the purchaser shall,
in all cases. be placed on the half-pay oflnfantry.
The individuals disposed to avail themselves of this arrangement
upon the terms specified, shall make application to the Coot.
mender-in-Chief, through the Military Secretary, when their
claims will be investigated and determined upon, and their names
Will be reeideved accordingly.

'Fbe purchasers will •be recommended to his Majesty by the
Commander-in. Chief. from the lists kept in his office.
The sales took place under the following restrictions No_peeson to be allowed to sell at either rate who has passed the
rigs of sissy years, or who cannot prodnce the certificate sd the
Army Medical Board t if in a foreign colony, the ceettficett of a
Medics: -hoard; or, if no Board can be assembled, of the ''izenior
Medical Officer, showing that his retirement does not result from
impaired constitution. threatening earlier dissolution than a person
of his apemay exneet in the common course of nature, •
No Offeer to be allowed to sell, unless he shall have ptochassd
his commission, or unless he shall have served twenty yeses an Coe
whole, if a Lieutenant-Colonel, Major, or Captain.
Fifieen years if a lieutenant. -
Twelve years if an Ensign, of which, at least, one half cm fulV
ray, or in the discharge of active professional duties, elect he
should have been placation half-pay in consequence of ineareity,
from wounds or infirmity, not Dow greeting his general heath and
constitution.
Those having purchased, whose services do not amount to the
above periods, or who have not been placed upon half-pay en ac-
count of incapacity, produced as above stated, to receive tnc value
only of the Commissions they may have purchased at either rate,
according as they have been reduced, or have retired at the.: own
request.
Those who have taken the difference. and who may be 011-.•wwiae
circumstanced as above stated, to receive the value of their Com-
missions at the old rate, minus the amount of the difference pre-
viously received by them.
Those who have been placed on half-pay in conscquenu- of the
sentence of Courts-martial, 9: of circumstances prejudleial to their
character, to be exclededeern the benefit of this arraogemerts; or,
if it be thought fit to retiree the flalf-pay List from them they
cannot be called into service.) receive a sum not exceeding value
of their annuity.
It Is tube understood, that no Officer on the Retired or Ref-pity
Litt, who may hold a garrison situation, will be permitted to retatn
it, if he should sell under this arrangement.
Further, that the general arrangement shall be limited tit those
actually on the Ilalf-ps• or Retired List; and the time allowed
for its operation shall be limited to one year for Officers at tome.
and to one year and a half for Officers residing in distant color.:ts or
countries.

Those Officers who have purchased Half-pay Cormnissiotte„ ae
unattached Commissions, would, after serving on Full-psit the
rank so purchased, be as admissible to the permission to sell what
they may have purchased.as any other Officers on Full-pay, ar ger
his Majesty's Regulations.
The purchasers of the Half-pay Commissions, above the rank of
Ensign, shall be invariably Officers on Full-pay.
No Officer shall be allowed to purchase two steps on Halfi.pas,,
without having served in the intennediate time two years on Full,
pay. it being of course understood that his general period of service
wtrild otherwise rrititlk him to the promotion.

LIVERPOOL, r'- CESDAY EVENING.

Wind N.ll'. to N.E.—High Water TO m. past S.
Arrived. the Lisette, Bayer, from Rostock ; Ann Dorothea,
Davis, from. ditto ; Frantz, Zeplin, from ditto ; 'Winona, 1 itym4on.me
from IVestport ; Helen, Brown, from Sligo ; Lindsays,
from New Orient! ; Bibby, King, from Dublin ; E
Gillis, from Newry; Catherine, Quirk, from Strangford ; -glega k:-
rine and Margaret, 111• Can, from Killala • Jessie, Hutchinson,
from liallina; Jason, Jackson. lino) Drogheda; Tiger. Boehm.
an, from Glasgow ; Brothers, C.:cat. from Dublin 3iLdespes,,
from Lea • City of Glasgow, Carlyle, from 011111 PW
Isle of Man; William and Henry, „„ Sligo; Peh""•
from Drogheda; Conway Coad My, athews, from Dublin; lITRtr
Ellen, Porter, from Killough ; Venus, Roe, frem'Charltoa,
clay.; James Scott, /11"Giae. from Dublin; Fisher, Radley,
Belfast ; Margaret, Jones, from Newry; Liffey, Bibby.. tun
Dublin ; Sally, Taylor, from Lancaster; Osprey,. Scott, fawn
Killala ; Oliver Neale, from Newport; Active, Riehie, from
Killala ; Ann, Thompson, from Ballina ; Atalanta, Kerrisort, from
Rostock ; Balance, Newman, from ditto ; De 'Lowe, Erick, from
Anclarh ; Louisa Augusta, Kilcher, from Donnie; Herman,
Fetu, from ditto; Mentor, Schultz, from ditto ; Neptunta, Arena
arils, from \Vinton..
The William Galt, Walsh, from St. Domingo, has arrived off
Falmouth.
Jessie, lallom, from 12ahia, has arri,ol at Macao,.
Jean Stewart, M`Kenzie. from Liverpool, Phienix, from
Hamburgh, has arrived at Pernambuco.
Dorset, —, from Alexandria, has arrived at MiKod.
Prince of Sase Coburg would sail from St. Dnednp about the
Ist week in April, and the Sylph, .11arsou, had wiamoneed load.
ing when the William Galt sailed.
Crosthwaite, Wilson, from Liverpool has arrived at Permam-
buco.
The Marmion, from 14crnlimbuco. sailed April Z. The Peterel,
for London, sailed.slarch 22, On 17th April, in lat. 26.51. long.
19.10, spoke the ship Farah, from Londont.forVera Cruz.
, • OLTIIZAD, MAT 9.
I,iteht breeze from N.N.ll'.
Two p.m.—A sloop is now off, homeward bound ; she has a flag
up 11'.R., if belonging to our code of Bags, must be No. 2; she
has yellow sides and a bend, bat supposed to be smaller than
No. 6.
The ship Bolivar, from St. John's, New Brunswick, is now
under way.
Note—No..6.io the Lindsays, from New Orleans.
Silted, May Io.—Corsair, Petrie, for Java; Manhattan, Hack-
staff, for New York ; Montezuma, Potts, fee Philadelphia—towed
out by steam VbSehl.
Our Cotton Market has had a little more life in it yesterday and
this day, and prices a little better. About 9,900 bags changed
hands In the three days.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS, 3IaY 10.
Since Tuesday last the transactions in Brain ban been very li-
mited, and prices lower. This dullness may be attributed to tho
favourable weather for growing crops, to the expected import from
Canada, and the contemplated release of old groan, bonded previous
to May, 1822, on paying a small duty thereon. These ideas seemed
to operate on the minds of the buyers at our market to-day, as few
sales could be made even at a reductior. of 6d. on IV heat and 2a..
a sack on flour. Oats in limited demand ; and the last quotations
may be considered nominal, or nearly so. The market, upon the
whole, closed heavily foe all articles. W heat in bond less inquired
after, and flour undet lock without any change.
GRAIN. a. d. a. d.
Wheat per Bushel 70113.—English . 9 9 a 10 9
scotch 10 3 a Ir 6 9
Irish . 9 3 • 10 5
Bantsie - 7 6.a 9 0
Petersburgh and Rigaf 4 8 a 3 3
Oats per Btillaßl of 451b..--Irish Potato - 9 4 a 3 8
English,Seotch&NVelsh 8 7 a 310
Common 2d. a 3d. lower.
Barley pet 601b.—English 5 3 a 6 G
Irish. . 3 0 a 5 3
Malt per 9 galls. (old) . - 9 0 a 9 3
Ditto (neal y6a 10 0
Oatmeal per 2401 b.— English - 3U 0a32 0
Dish - 23 0 a 31 0
Flour per 3001b.—English - - 62 0 a 33 •
Irish . . . .11 U a 64 •
American per 1961 b. (in bond) 24 0 a 26 0
Dantzic . 0 0 a 0 0
Foreign, fres II 0 • 0 0
Beans per Quarter—English . . 42 0 a 44 0
Irish - 40 0 a 41 •
Foreign - 0 U a 0 0
Peas per Quarter— English, White . 0 0 a 0 0
Ditto Grey - 0 0 a •
Foreign 0 0 a 0 0
IMPOIITSD TROY ?NZ 3D •PITI. TO TtIL 9Thl MAN
INCLUSIVE.
Barley :
Foreign . 2,335 rt.
Ireland 210

Wheat :
Foreign - 5.5441 qrs.
Ireland - . 3,067
Coastways - 479

9,086
Flour :
American . 4.000 brls
Europe - 1.931

236 qrs.
- 79

5,931
Ireland - 618 aka.
Coastwaye . 10

62U

Oats:
Foreign . 1.500 qrs.
Ireland . 19.513
loastways . 292

21.303
• Bonded before \l•e, 1822.