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.13VILDITALL•

Yesterday, Joisathan turlotg wits to-
have been
bronAht up for re-exarniustion, ou a charge of
sw 'lulling.
It appears that he had been in the habit of
watching the daily newspapers, and wheireirer be
found a robbery advertised, he wrote to the persons
plundered, that if they would iiiitose *MI. wise so
B. C. at Lloyd's Cirffet-hou.e, they would be pot
in the mode of recovering their property. SiPsrod
silversmiths were by this meatus duped; and olio
several coffee-house-keepers. Mr. seder, rife
Deputy Marshal, received notice of it ; he attended
several days at Lloyd's, but Furlong. know iii him,
did not attempt to approach the drawer mark.d
B. C. He was taken into custody, and remanded
for further examination on this day.
Mr. Many, an attorney, attended for him, and
begged of the worthy Alderman presiding, to post-
tame his examination, as his father died, yesterday,
in the King's Bench Prison, where his remains lay
waiung for interment; and that he should, an a
future day, he able to produce several minimises,
whose credibility there could not be a doubt of,
and whose evi.lence would, beyond all doubt, re-
store the unfortunate Voting man to that good cha-
racter which he had been hitherto entitled to.
The worthy Atdstan•re ordered that he should
be brought up on this day sennight, fot re-esti.
ruination.

Mr. Leach, proprietor of the Loodo3 Coffee-
house, and several ailverviutths, were its vraiung to
prosecute.

SOW-!T!ECT.
Yesterday Abraham Hart Brahma, who is in
custody on a charge of robbing Mr. Trainff, on the
night of the 30th of March, of his watch, in the
Strand, was brought up to the Office for twilitr
examination, it being suspected he had committed
lig sera! other robberies in a similar manner. A Gen-
tleman stated, that he was robbed in Little Queen- •
street, Liocoln'sann-fields, of his watch, by a maw
who ran against him ; he pursucd, and nearly came
up with him, but an accomplice glee him a vio-
lent blow, which knocked him down. The Pr,-
scalier resembled the man who ran nizanwnt him and
robbed him of his watch, but be cJii.d not identity
him.
The Prisoner wt.* committed fur trial.

The two Jews, Davis and Cohen, underwent an -
other examination. on a charge of rubbing the house
of the widow of the late Archbiahou of York, in
South A unley-.treet, of silver-spoon..

Counsel I.r both Prisoners were heard it consi-
derable length, who contended. that the prnlw•nv
being found in the possession of Davis, who keel •
a silversinith's shop, soil had given a B...guise wire.
and he having produced Cohen, who acknvolcd,:vd
he lied sold the spoons to hint. and 10;1011 h" he
heroine possessed of them, neither of them
to be detained.

Mr. \aara, however, wma ofa contrary opit.Con,
and comm.tted them for further •zami moon.

The Li-b-in letter,. of the 11th Itatr, tli it
'don geneeilly prevailed that the Paint lit "IT
woe about to triiiibfer hi• Court from the
to Mae;etre, •nd that be had obtonivd the ell .1 1.
r,nee of the British Government to the entity. !-
twist.

........ The ostensible IMOtive to this MEW rovga...
tom was the impaired state of his Revel illit‘hur•s's
health, «Owl' it we; ccpectc t would hm- Mires.
by the more cougen,rl ror of Morivra. Theta
• ere these. hosseacr. who sacnbed ot to a d•sorr to
be at h to take advantage of easy decisive events,
tasmarable to his restorsuoo. that taluht occur
Posetrigsl.

ROYAL 1i0.".7,1T.4RY COLLEGE.

svratcr FROM THE TENI3 REPORT OF TIE
conswissiorgio.

From the view which we had taken of what was
actually done by the Agent and Pty.-master of the
Collier, it occurred to us, that the whole might
probemily he executed by one peraoto and I saving
be thereby 'nude of the expense of oue of these offi-
cers., or of three hundred pound* per annum. The
Agent, it apeears, makes but very few payments,
except for what is drawn on him by the Paymaster;
and the accounts of paytnents, which he lays before
the Supreme lioar4l, and the Commistooners of
Audit, are more properly those of the Paymaster
than his awn. His chief employment consequently
seemed to he, to collect the suhscriptioue of the
students amid cadets. Under this impression we
thereforeoliought. that if the subscriptions could
b received by the Paymaster at the College, or
viol I he paid.in to his hanker in Loudon, ("which
nti slit wall be done, IN certificate or receipt of the
payment at either place were required. before the
clericals of the departinentt Were permitted to join
their respective classes) the office of Agent might
cefise, and we proposed a question to the Go.
veraoso Er i I Harcourt, to this reed. His
Lords hip's opinion door not coincide w,th moo
He think:4 it tosential, that there should bi
person of responsibility in Loudon, for the pur-
pose of conducting, with mole facility, the pe-
cuniary coos-erns of the College, and who, being
on the spot, and couvenamt with military agency,
inioht assist in palming the College accounts, in the
Office or Audit. We tuust observe, on this answer
of Earl f !eremite, that so far as pecuniary responsi-
bility is l-quoits, a like security may be taken of
the Payinoster, as is now taken of the. Agent, mind
that the Commosiosters of Audit will not probably
require much explanetion on accounts which mire aii
strictly examined, RI those of the Royal Military
College are stated to be. by the Collegiate and
Supreme Boards. I,tot if it were considered as in
any degree necessary that there should be a person
residing in Loudon, in whose name the money
iseuci or paid ou account of the College might
'tend at the Bank, sod who might accept the bills
drawn by the authority of the two boards, and who
might be at the same time the nominal Accountant
at the Office of Audit, it sesame to us, that this ad.
ditional service might well be executed by the
Secretary to time Siipreine Board, who is resident in
Loud 4/. aud that his present selnry, although
greater than we conceive it ought to be, for execut-
ing the duties of that office alone, would not be
more than sufficient for the executton of both ser-
vice:i. It omit be understood, however: that when
we make this suggestion, we consider that the sub-
scriptions may be collected at the College, or tie
regularly paid to a Botiker in London, iii the way
we have mentioveri, amid that the accounts are also
made op at the College, and examined in the same
way as at present. Even if the additional reationsi-
biliry of collecting the subscriptions were thrown
ou the Paymaster, we do not think that there ought
to he any aeri tional increase to his salary on this
account, or omi account of the security which easy
be required of hit,.
We shell slot noire any other of the General
Staff in this place, because such °tort vations as
in my he applicable to thelkl, may be inure Con-
eenieutly introduced in another part of ihe report.
This military part of the establishment of the
Senior Department of the College consists of a
Cnnouamidant and of an Adjutant. The Office of
lespeesor.Geiseral of lestruction, eliho ugh in-
chided in the list of the General Stuff, soens to be
attached also to Oils Departmoit, but this 'Are is
. now vacant, tied Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Howard
Douglas executes the duties of it, as well mix those
of Commandant, with winch advantage, as Earl
Harcourt states, to the Establishment. Ho Lord-
ship is however of opinion, that these offices are in
some respects so totally distinct from each other,
that it would he necessary that both should be con.
limier'. We had moaeeiveu, that if the office of
Inspector-General was properly filled, the office of
Commitolsnt would be unnecessary ; but whether
the one office or the other be discontinued, it is
clear that both, are nor well executed lay the same
person, and therefore we cannot but thick that our
suggestion is ileeerving of considerotion, especially
when it is known, that Otter are only thirty students
belonging to this dep 'nutria, who must be twenty-
one years of age, and must have been acceptoined
for soine years to military discipline mud subordiee-
tion; aid it may be added, that the Lieutenant-
Governor is resident at the station of the Senior
Department, and that it is a part of his duty en
' that the orders and Regulations applicable to the
. department are strictly observed.
Earl Harcourt describes the duties of the Adju-
tant of the senior department to have been hitherto
collie:eel to the conveying of the Lieteciiiiiit-Go-
vernor's orders and to at oug as an amanuensis ta
him. His Lordship does net tire any (million upon
the necessity of such an appointment, mit the es.
peuse, including pay, lodging money, coals and
candles, of upwards of two hundred and fifty
pounds per annum, aid therefore we think that
nearly the whole of this expense might be saved to
the public, by the discontinuance of this office r for
the duty of ormuseensis might be performed, we
imagine, by the clerk of this department. Oar
eng4estion is founded, of course, on the descrip-
tion which Earl Harcourt gives of the duties
of the Adjutant : but if there are any other duties
to :execute, for which such an astpoietwent is
wanted, our view of it might lot different; mad it
has beet. intimated, that the duties of the Com.
matidaut are at present of a nature to require such
assistance.
The cit il part of the senior department consists
of five Prof...eels, load foie Assistant Draftsman.
This number is calculated (mar thirty Students, said
is said to be necessary; for as the instruction at
Hugh Wycombe cousists partly in theory, and
partly iu the exemplification of that theory on the
ground, the Lientenent-Governor considers that
one or miler of these objects would be impeded, if
the estolOishusent of Professors were less. It was
searcely passible for us to ascertain this point. But
we must oli.erer, if it were intended that the sub-
seise 1111 l A of the studente should cover the expense
of their insti wines, that the calculation has not
bee,- ode; for the expelite of the civil
tog their eateries and bodging

*honeys enceeds owe thonsic d four handled pounds
per annum, without including the coal* and can-
dles allowed to them ; sod the sirtiscriptions of
thirty gUineas 4or each student, anima only to
nine 'hundred sod forty-live pi.nods, lcatritig a
deficiency, therefore, of bstween fire and a z
hundred pounds. The whole expense of this
'brunch of the College is estimated, for the present
year, iii the paper delivered to the Haase of Cum-
most, at upwards or bee thousand four hundred
pounds; w considerable part, however, of this ex-
prove, is incurred on account of the alkosionees
made to the studeuts of lodging-money, of coals
aird candles, and of forage-Money, most of ...kick
as the LieutenstitiCluvertior says, would be etptslly
made to the students, were they with their regi-
wentr.

The military branch of the Establishment of the
junior department of the College, consists of a
commandant. a major, three captains, and ass adjo-
•trot, with three rerjerrits and three druinmers.
The number of geut:ernen-cadets to whom this ea.
tela:isliment is attached. exceeds three Jous.dred.
They are admitted between the ages ofthirtren and
fifteen, and are clothed. lodged. anti fed out of a
general fund. constituted as we have before de-
scribed. They are instructed in languages., and iu
re•veral branches of science, hutting relation to the
military profession; and they are taught the whole
exercise nod discipline of a battalion of infantry.
The coarse of there studies is slid to require a re-
sidence at the College, of from three and a half to
four years. It lb obvious, how continual and • • •
ought to he the attention of those to whom the su-
perintendence over such various duties is untroated.
The Committee of the Board' oho visited Marlie.
had au opportunity of obaervitil many of the ar-
rangements, by which die-system is conducted, nod
they bear the fullest testimony to the order, rev,-
bu sty. mud merit, visible in every branch of it; we
conclude, therefore, on the wade, that this part of
the Establishromat at Marlow. is not greater than is
requisite for the minimal over the instruction. coo,
mind, and expense, oleo numerous a body of young
emieta,

The Professors are, nominated and appointed by
the Supreme Beard, alter an examination of the
caudidstes, in the presence of the Collegiate Board,
by the Senior Metter of the Branch, for which they
are Candidate*: thirty-two are attached to the
junior department. Tins number is said to lie plo-
portioned, by some rule, to the n limber of the ca.
def.*. We learn from the Commandant, Colonel
Butler, that, although, by the eugagenients of the
Profinisors, there is no limitation ti the duration or
number of their attemlanc.s during the day, yet
that none of*thein, e:i:cept those of Mathematic* and
foreign languages, (oho attend twice, two hours
each time) attend wore than once .-they : it may he
inferred therefore, we think, that this part of the
Estiblislunent is greater than is reqiesite. 'Cite
same inference way be drawn also from an obser-
vation made in one of Earl of llarcnures answer',
'rig. Teed by an areingement lately made, it was
hoped, Lust the same dumber of Profe-sors would
answer the purpose, when the establishment of the
junior department was completed to four compa-
wi er to four hundred cadets. This event van-
illa take place, we imagine, till the buildings at
San Iliur4 (the foundations of which are scarcely yet
laid) are capable of receiving so large a hotly, with
the necessary Staff, Instructors. and Servants, and
may probably therefore he distant. It should be
considered, consequeutly, whether it be expedient
that 4 greater number of Professors than mere Mantel,
should Ile retained in the mean time. It must he
observed, that the Professors are not permitted to
employ their vacant time in the private instniction
either of the eaglets or of others; and that some of
tile French teachers (who are emigrants) receive
some allowances from Government heyoud those
which they recrite from the institution,
The hous keeper and purveyor of this depart-
mem, are epienuted by the Governnr. Tim duties
of the last officer, and of the Quarter-Above, relate
to the receipt and disteibteion of the provisiotis sent
is for the use of the cadets; and these duties as
deo ritual by Colonel Butler, appear to Ire ass ellec-
twit check on the tradesmen who supply the arti-
cles, and severally on these officer,' who distribute
them.

The appointment of the domestic se►vant■ of this
Department is also in the Governor, but he delc.
sates that authority to Colonel Butler, the Com-
esacodantosbo being constantly resident at the eta-
the, is no doubt best enabled to joke of their
quelitications and cnoduct. .The number is said to
be liked by regulation, and that although they are
occasionally employed in the private service of some
of the officers of the College, it does not interfere
*uih the public duties of the servant'', and that a
smaller Humber would not be sufficient. even if they
acre not so occasionally employed. None of the
officers or servants of the College are permitted to
take any fee or emolument beyond their pay and
regulated allowances.

it is proper to mention. is this place, that there
are bulb pa.ture and garden•land belo:lgiaig to the
College at Marlow, that the officers of the Ciiiege
feed their cows in the exercising ground, consisting
of shout four acres and a half; that the Comman-
dant occupies another piece of pasture of about one
acre and a half, and about a quarter of an acre of
garden-ground; Unit one or two other officers of the
College, occupy other pieces of garden-ground,
And that these gardens are cultivated by the Cul.
itsge gardener. There is a garden also at Wycombe
belonging to the College, which the Lieutenant-
Governor occupies, but the public is at no expense
in the cultivation of it.

The privileges which we have jest enumerated.
are not allowed by the authority of the Supreme
Board. but by the permission of the Governor
alone, who admits that he is himself respousilale
fur the measure.

These lands certainly could not he made of much
value to the public; but when we consider how apt
indulgencies of this kind are to increase, and at
length to grow into nghts, which may sveatually
be compensated for, if thereat& taken away, we
think that there is an impropriety itt allowing them.
It may he added, too, that such inifulgencie a often
give occasion to reflections and reports, which, how-
ever unmerited, may lead to inconvenience ; and
we have reason to know, that such have been pre-
painted in the present ease.
We have now anbmitt-d Koch observations, re,-
pecting tke indiv.dual Officer, of the two Depart-

ments, so we Won& the circumstances called for;
but two or three other observations miry Le stated,
which are equally applicable to both departments.
The first which we shall make is, that sit of
the Military Stiff- of the College, with the escepa
Lion of Cafshtill Wright, whose Lieutreantcy on the
Irish Establishment was only recently Kara up,
(April 1809) and of the Adjutant of the Junior De-
partment, appear to 'cerise. iu addriou to their
College salary, the full or hull-pay of et:stain ranks
in the army, although, with the exception of the
Governor, they are attached to ow regiments, and
perform no duties. If the saltine* of these offii!crii
on'the establishment of the eons, ge, are inadequate
to their stations in it. (but which we have no reticent
to suppose). an aildiiison should Le made to them ;
but these Officers ought not, we think, to receive
the salaries or pay of two sitiaitiotis ti Mist they do
the duties only of one. 'lnc inconvenience of a
coot ra=y practice is °Lotion., fur, unless oil loyalties
like the-e, which it is our duty to institute. it will
not *plow, in any estimate or account of the es.
pencittute of the ILIA Military College, that tiu.:ll
an additiou is to be nettle to the expense of it, as
arises from the pay or *Liberal. of the Officer* who
kohl other situations.

Oor item observation is, that the Lieutenant Go-
vernor has forage for four horse's. the two Coin-
mindrints for three honer each, and the Major Of
the Junior Department, a *outlier anowiture for ten
harses. We inquired of Earl llarceiart, whether these
allowances were necessary tonards the execution of
the duties of these several officers? It stems, from
his Lordship's atiesser, that they eeie tiara hr the
Supreme Board, not with a reference to the duties
of the Officers of the College, but with regard to
their rusk in the army, and their situatiost in the
institution. We doubt much whether these allow.
'nets should be justified on such a prineiple.
Whilst Officers of the rank alluded to ere actually
serviug in the army, they ate required to keep the
number of horses for *lnch the forage ie drawn ;
but there appeals to us to be tio necessity of this
sort in the College, at least to the rxteut for which
the allowance is made; end ulthoneb the pay of
the. Office re of the College ought to be athlete to
their station and responsibility, yet it is partieulady
expedient, in an institution of this kind, to give no
allowance in addition, which may have the appear-
mice of being an unnecessary expenditure of the
public money ; for economy and a right applica-
tion of the public mon-3., are an necessary to be in-
culcated into the students of the toy depanmetsts„
as a knowledge of the Military profession itself.
Lastly, we may note the separation of the two
departments of au institution, whose general ob-
ject, mud mirth of whose sy.tein of iristruction, are
the same. It was occasioned, originally, it appears,
f, urn the went of aecommodet ton et I ligh Wycombe'
where the Senior Department, which was firer
formed, was fixed ; and Marlow was ash ctrl for
the Junior Department, us being the ucareat place
affording the renuirite convenieueies:
It femme be doubted, wit suppose, that this Pt.
par:item has produced werewiderable additional ex-
pt!,ll! to the Institiitior, in the establishment of
Officers and Professors ;sloe the same general super-
intendence risight hair served. fur both Depart-
ments. and wetly of the Prrifessuni alto might have
attended to the instructors, of birth. limier this
impression, we proposed for Earl flarcourt's
Diem whether, it the two I,epurturents Were sta.
iu one place, the superior inseagenteet of
the College might hut be carried on, under the
orders of the Supreme Board, by one GoVeritor or
Directur. cite Military Commandant, and an In-
spector-General of Instruction. assisted by a
smaller number of Professors than are deemed
necessary, under the existing separatism of the tae,
Departments ? Purl llareetirt dots - not concur
with us in the impression we had on this point.
Rat as it has leen resolveol to teem buildings ,at
Sandhurst, for the accommodation of the Junior
Department. and it would be necessary to ereet
others else for the Senior Department. at the same
piece, if the Iwo Departments were to be uidisal,
we agree with his Lordship, that the very great ad-
ditional expense of such tree; ions, may be a reason
for the resolution of the Supreme Board suit *to
unite them. Nevertheless, if tie two Depart meats
ore to remain separnted, and a Governor un.l
Governor are still to be home on the establislinieui
of the College, it seems that the stations of these
ofib ere should also be separated, and that one of
them should reside at the Senior. and the other at
the Junior Department; hut. by the arrangement
which has been mode of tine tritended building, at
Sindkurst, houses are to he presided for both of
these officers at the Junior Department, there by
causing a double expense of •hoeses, if one is to be
presided also et the *Wiwi of time Senior Depart-
meet for one of these officess.

The following authentic particulars of the cap-
tore of the East India Company's ships, eharttot,
United Kingdeon, and Wiadhom. have been derived
from L'Esperattce, French frigate.-fate the Laurel,
arrivi.tl is the River. The absee three reniels
iu company when they misfortunately fell 'in „ills
two Freiirli" frigate., on. a 50, and the eili.r
a 54 gun ship, and a corvette named La Crode,
of Stu guns, near the Sand Heads. Se; n.:
there were no means of camp., the India:tien
cleared for action, and made a gallant stand av„aio%t
the superior force of the enemy for an hoot aid Is
minutes, when they were compelled to %it ike.
There was great .laughter nil both silles. The fe-
male pas.eligers went put on ward La creole, slid
sent to Penang. The proses aICrP r,trrird t
Mauritius, where the Charitat and United Kin:cher
arrived no the .sth of January. The Laurel %ailed
on the 10th of the same month. at which time the
Sri:l4mm had not arrived; from whence it wns
inferred .he had been retaken by the British.
conj-ctiire is strengthened by the fact, that our
blot kadiog Pqmtdron, off the Moo itiu., chile d tht-
&c. into that harbour, end were ai.ono
ithingun-shot when they that. r. d. If the Wind-
ham should make her appetiraner in that ironer.
she would most probably be intercepted by out
squArno.
At the Norwich Corn Markt t, n.. Sward iv.
was nut so Inr4r a .apply' of groin on no the pt. -
Jrretltog wert, st;4d ultra, adv,a^...l 1.. p r e.
si!ls a brisk derie.till. Fine bailer id Al I:. I. -
Tit:4. nod really nupported lad werien u -
What 455. to 51.. Barley 14:. to 204. 1.; •
19, 1.0 20S. 016 I i.. to 14.. per cocoa's.

been accurately ura
tustruvtors,