The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-24 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

The East India Company't hhip. Kellie Castle, arrived off the
Right yesterday ; bile left Cla:na the %tit Dcretnber, and St. He-
lena the .sth Match.

The Repulse. which was despatched from Chins/311 the tub De-
c e ber . arrived at St. 1 k Jena tl;e :alt March.

The 'Thomas Grenville, in ommany with the Princess Char.
lotto of \Vales, arril t d afl Ikachy Head yesterday• The
Thomas Grenville sailed from Iteng,il the 22d December, from
Madras 2,1 January. and from St. lidera nth :llarch.
The floruitia, from Bengal, arrived at St. De &I March.

SHIPPING INTE I,LIGENCE.

FROM LI.OIIYS LIST.

FALMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Artivcd the Unity, Lanfery, from
Cette, in forty-on? days.

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PLTMOtrill. Aran. 21.—Arriets1 the Merchant, Wilson, horn
Charente; Dart, White, from London; liero, Morris, in iwoty
days from Terceira; and Ebenezer, front Seville.
PORTSMOUTH. A PH IL Hived his Majesty's ship,)s.plT,
front a cruise ; noon Easile, Thacker, from London, for Int!.a ;
and Le Charles, nuilpert, from Havre. Sailed the Jentioia,
Watts; and Priendsbury, Walker, for London.
DEAL. A raiz 22.—Came down front the River and remain,
with the Siren and Alacrity, the Jane, Wylie, for St. Lucia;
Latona, Lovie, for Den:crara ; and Flora. Passed through to
London, the schooner Spartan. from Lisbor.
DARTMOUTH, APRIL 22.—Off the port, the Clareirort,
Goodin, from Jamaica.

0 A V I,:S t: D, APRIL 22.—Arrired the Cossack, Field. from
Rio. Sciled the Ariel. Bowen, for Cape Coast Castle; Pudic.,
Sutherland, for Buenos Ayres ; Maria. Laing, for Stettin; An.
rota, Schroeder, for I'illau ; and Gtorgiana, Comieh. for Virginia.
Lie Estrocit., Arun. 21.—Arrived the Francis Ernest,
from Malaga; ard Matilda, Pallet. from Lisbon.
The following vessels arrived hap yesterday :—The Amela,
Ash, and Two Brothers, Willicnt, Om Lisbon, fruit; Industry,
Lingdanen„ Christiania. spars; Charlotte Gambier, Lstlicr. and
John, Brewer, New Orleans, cotton ; Lord Whitworth, Nl•Chirr,
Charleston. cotton ; General Lingan, Savannah, cotton ; Vets An.
riegina, l'otger, Antwerp, bark; Harmonic. Peruze. Memel.
deals ; Fortune and Cottager, Marseilles ; St. Patrick. Field. and
Commerce., Griffiths, Waterford, grain; Friends, Vow.
grain ; Diamond, ('odd, Wexford, grain; William, Derenn,
Newport. iron ; Vrow Rum Snips, Lune,ballaat ; Anne Psulina,
Potoff, Belfast. ballast ; Mary, Kennade, Isle of Man, herrings ;
John Guise; Freden, Carson; and Thrizo, lingers. London,
tallow, ballast, and wheat; Providence, Bennett, ard Trig, Con-
field, Ipswich, grain; Alert, Langley ; John, Lynch; and Janna
Hazzena, Jorge, Pooie. pipe clay and halkst ; 3:artha, Black-
burn, Cardiff, iron; Prow Elizabeth, .lairs, Ilull, ballast.
II Amn R 11, A SRI I. 9.—A Convention has been made between
the King of Great Britain and the free City of Hamburgh, to the
effect that fir the future the ships of both parties, under fumy tons
burden, shall he reciprocally exempt, in the ports of each respec-
tively, from the obligation of taking pilots on board and pa} ing
pilotage; and his Majesty has issued accordingly his Order in
Council to this effect. agreeably to an Act of Parliament pasted in
the fourth year of his Alajesty'a reign. entitled, "An. Act autho-
rising his Majesty, under certain circumstances, to regulate the
Duties of Customs and Drawbacks on Goods imported er exported
in foreign vessels, and to exempt certain ships from pilotage.

The Repulse, from China, had arrived at St. Helena.
The Catherine, Leonard, front Seville to Cork, put into Lisbon
with damage, and loss of • oats, bulwarks, (kr.
The Harmony, (lilies, put into N;;rth Shields on the 17th inst.
with loss of an anchor anti cable.

The Christiana, Turner, from Shields to London, was lost near
Wales on Friday.
The Thomas Grenville, from Bengal and Madras, is arrived of
Portsmouth. Sailed from Ikngal on the 22d of December, Madras
2d January, and St. Helena 4th ult.
The (lute Hain mtg. Trit ricks, from Hull to Bilboa, ran aground
near Gravelines. on the I Ith inst. and was totally wrecked the next
day. The greater part of the cargo saved.
The :11argaret 80% le, Porten,. from Charleston, arrived in the
Clyde, fell in with the wreck of the sloop Alexander Clunn. Lurk
from Charleston to Philadelphia, 16th ult. in lat. 35. long. 64. and
took of the crew.

The Unity arrived at Falmouth on Wednesday, in forty-one days
from Cette. On her passage she was hailed by an Algence brig of
war, mounting fourteen guns, which attempted to hoard her, but
owing to a heavy sea, she could not.

VESSELS Pri/lithi WITH.—The Lady IL Ellice, from Liver.
pool to Savannah, on the 23d ult. in let. 2d. long. 52; and the
Dempsey, from Port-au-Prince to London, on the 2d instant, in
lat. 40. long.

THE ARMY.

A General Order is now in circulation, addressed to Colonels
and commanding officers of regiments. Upon reference to the old
regulations for the purchase, sale, and exchange of regimental
commissions, we find that the forms of applications for the sale
and purchase of commissions, which prescribed a certificate, signed
by the parties, that no sum beyond that limited by his Maesty's
regulations, would be detnanded or accepted, are cancelled, rod
that the following parts are new t--
" Officers retiring upon the half-pay and receiving the difference.
forfeit all claim to further rank or employment, to the pension tor
their widows, and to compassionate allowance for their children,
unless they repay the difference upon being allowed to coma
in again upon ila same rank in which they retired, but they
forfeit their progressive rank during the period of their retire.
ment.'"

l'he required form to be accompanied by written eertificatts
signed by the commanding officer, :
let. That he has ascertained by reference, through the regi-
mental iment. to the respons!ble persons, that in each case there is
good and sufficient security that the purchase money will be Mnh-
coming when called for.
. .

•• That of the individuals so returned u purchasers, .1,8. C,
are in all respec,s deserving of promotion, and those whom he
would nut hesitate to recommend, whenever the vacancy 'lull
ott;:r, as tit fur the citifies of the higher and more responsible
commission. •

"11-hen the regiments and commanding officers are abroad, tEe
commanding officer is to state the security to which reference is
made, and the military secretary will ascertain through the agents
whether that security be good and sufficient, it being understood
that if the answer be not at once satisfactory, the individual will
be struck out of the list of purchasers.
" The quarterly return so certified, is to be the only communi-
cation made on the subject of promotion by purchase; and when a
resignation is sent in, it will be considered unconditional and irre-
vocable, and no successor is to be pointed out or recommended.
" In all eases, the individual selected for the purchase, or his
sureties, will be called upon to lodge the purchase-money with the
sgents.
If the senior who may have been returned as a purchaser, and
whose money shall have been certified to be forthcoming, should
decline the purchase when selected fair it, or his sureties should
decline it for him, he or they will be called upon to state the reason
for so declining to the Military Secretary, for the Commander-ic-
Chief's information ; and if the explanation should not be con-
sidered satisfactory, his name will be struck out of all future lists
of purchasers.
•• The candidates who may be selected from reference to the
quarterly returns for the purchase of promotion out of their own
corps, will he directed to lodge the purchase-money, without being
acquainted in what regiment they are to obtain the promotier, nor
sill any application for the purchase of promotion which points out
the expected vacancy be admitted.
`• That they do not intend to sell out, or retire upon half-pnr,
after eXecting such exchange, hut that it is their home Air intention
to join immediately, and do duty with the corps to which they ex-
change, the leave of absence which may have been granted to ei-
ther, or both, being cancelled by such exchange.
" No officer of cavalry, who shall apply foe permission to retire
on hall-pay, will be allowed to receive the diferenee between
full pay of cavalry and full pay of infantry, but such exchange
will be viewed as being, to all intents, an exchange to the half-pay
of laid branch of the service, receiving the difference bets cen full
pay and hall-pay, and subject to the restrictions applicable to such
exchanges.
" In exchanges to half-pay, either with or without the differ-
ence, or from cavalry to infantry, the application must be general
and tinconditional, anti the officer upon lull pay will Dot be al-
lowed to point out his successor, who sill be indiseiminately se-
lected br time Commander-in-Chief, without any previous notice to
the patsies.
•• Every officer who, from wounds, ill-health, infirmity, or age,
shall become unfit for service, and who shall be desirous of retiring
upon half-pay, will transmit his application through his Colonel, or
Commanding Officer, accompanied by • certificate from the senior
medical officer of the regime:it. expressing the cause of bis hemp-
ing unfit for service, and which certificate must be countersigned
by the Colonel or Commanding Officer."
• • N.B. The General Officer who makes the half-yearly confi-
dential reports, is hereby directed to state in such reports, his upi-
nion of the corns:mess of this certificate."

No Brevet, we unierstand, will take place at present.