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GEN AL ORDERS.
ET HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST ICOItt THZ
GOVE&NOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL.
Fort William, April I?, 1604

Ordered, that the following Extracts of a General Letter
from tire Ilimearable the Carat uF Direetors in the Military
Depaittnent, dated the 20th of April, 1803, to the Goverainr
General in Council, be published in General Orders :
" PA R. 1.. For a considerable time past, we have had under
our view the papers that have been transmitted from our several
Poisid.ocies, contaiirrog the applications of the General Offi•
cers, raquesting us to re.cmisidis uur Orders of ith June, 179 R
(lay while die Major Ganerals and Colonels of Regiments
were d.refted to abide hr the It egulatiou. relative to Furlough
arid Rutirenient prescribed for Officars of tli.• Army at Inv),
and intimating to us their hones, that they might be permitted
to remain its Europe with the enjoyment of their Pay and their
Shares of the Off reckuniugs, according to the practice in ilia
Majesty's service.
" 2. Tire General Officers who were on Furlough in Feropes
have also addressed us to the same 0,0, and joint applications
have likewi, heel* preferred firm a number of Officers of dif-
ferent ranks at home (including some of the foregoing), sug-
gesting a new erode of distributing the Offireckiming Fund,
by which the advantages from this source of emolument
might be extended in a greater degree than under the pre-
sent system. and not be confined to the Colonels of Regi-
ments, or Corps, couforinably to our Orders of the Bth Janu-
ary, 1796.
" 3 We observe that a proposition of a similar nature was
submitted to your Goveinment in 1797, by several Lieutenant
Calonels,and other Officers of the Bengal Anny.
" 4. B:forr we enter into a consideration of the subject thus
drought to our notice, we cannot omit taking this opportunity
t.• express, iii the most pointed terms, the disapprobation with
which we have seen the general associatirms of Officers of
differe t ranks formed fur these, 91114 similar purposes : Auuci
atnms completely sober-nave of that sy:steni of Military cur•
reaneis and sulendiriation which it Insist be your, and our
duty iu future, more gristly to enlace, since any relaxation,
in a point of such essential consequence, would infallibly be
attended with the most fatal disorder:, as repeated experience
has too often proved, when such pm /intro have been permitted
to prev.iil
" S. It will at all times be our inclination to agreed to the
comforts awl to the inn-mesa every pan of urn Army, when
made known tow thhitigh the proper channel of communi-
cation Rut we, at the sante time, must transmit to you our
most positive irnjunftkrus to adopt the strongest measures
which eircumstancos may require, to discountenance associa-
tions of the description to which we have those referred,
if a sense of propriety should not render such interfereuce
unnecessary.
s' G. We cannot, however, but entertain a sanguine hope,
that the Odic:T.of our Army of all ranks will be impressed
with a just sense of the liberal emoluments wh.ch they re-
spetively cairn , and dstiia hereafter from Lieu-murrain which
are only calculated to sow division among the eeveral ranks of
the service, to breed a discontented spirit in the Army at large,
and to exhibit a rums, of prne.-e.hrigs which never can exist
but to the denrudion of do .:mime and subordination, and
consequently to the degradation of the charaCter of the Army
itself."

14. We have determined to assimilate the .organisation of
the Native Cava,r: aseea* as pos.ible to that of the Native
Infantry, that two Regiments shall coirditute a Brigade of
Cavalry, enninanded by a Colony draviiir,,e his share of the
Ofkeekonings, and hey* b. Lieutenant-Colonel and Major,
as at present, attached sweeeb Regiment."
.4 16. It may possibly hellion:On necessary to encicat. the
Cavalry of the Fort of St. George establishment, by the ad-
dition of an Eighth Regiment, in consequence of the enlarged
extent of Territory now solar:crest to that Government, and
the subsidiary engagements with the Nisarn, nho, by Treaty,
is to have a crinsiderable body of the Compan Cavalry in his
employ. We therefore direct that this subject he maturely
ronsidtred by our Governor General in Council, to whom we
Irave it to make the arrangement suggested above, if it shall
be thought expedient or necieury ^
" 21. By the Regulations established by Marquis Cornwallis,
in 17713, for the. animal computation of the Off-reckonings,
those of the European Artillery and Infantry are calculated
upon the actual strength; bid in regard to the Native Corps, tire
estahlished str.mgth rs taken, whether the same be complete or
ant ; hence, if theseConas he deficient, the Company are cliarg d
with oLieekiiiiirigs fora greater number than are cluathed, and
the cloathieg bring issued to the effective only, tire fund for
distribution is thus encreaiesl.
22. It dots lint smear that these deficiencies in the Native
Troop have occurred its ally great degree at Bengal ; but at
Madras and Bombay, they have been considerable, and this in
some inerasurj accounts for the shares of the 011.reckuning
Funds at these Presidencies having been greater than those at
Bengal.
• 2:3. On the reduction of the Native Infantry to the Peae-
establishment, it may be expected, that the Regiments all,
without difficulty, be kept complete ; bet as the mode of ialcu•
bating the Off recksaingi above noticed appears exceptionable,
we direct that iu future the stuppagea from the men actually
cloathed b.: considered as the Fund applicable to distnbution,
and that the Ott reekonines shall be calculated upon the effee•

live strength only nf an the caps."
" 26. Having hated these observation; respecting the form-
ation of the Central Fund, the next point for consideration
it the 3escriptioa of Officers re hri are to share in it.
" 27. The a•gumtrts adduced by the Lat. Commander in
Chief in India (Sir Alurol Clarke) against the adoption of the
proposal node in Bengal in 1797, for distributing the surplus
of the Off.reckontngs in certain shares, as far as it would
are in our mind, oinclusive ; his ream.. gs are just 4:1.1 cun.
voicing, acid clearly point out the inespoitency of such a mea-
sure. .

" 28. Several propositions have ben submitted to our con-
sld :ration for extendme the distribuilui of the surplus Off,
reci.oning Funds, by including • certain number of Limits-
nant Colonels in the participation thereof, hut many objeaions
present themselves to an extioision.
" 29. With regime to the Lieutenant Colonels in a/nal
command of thine Regiment., the Colonels of which are in
Euritr, and whose claims to participate in the Fund are sup-
ted on that ground, we cuitemve that their situation differs
in no tar f ours that in which they are placed by the Colonel
be n; • Ma or General, either 011 the Staff or nut, arid resident
in India lo the host case, the Staff General may command at
a station whe7e his Regiment is nut ousted ; in the second, the
General is precluded front Any iiiteiference in the duty of his
Re.-inert, %slimly: present with, or at a distance froin it,
add...lto which, it inav frequently happen that the Colonel of a
R-giuterit lluoployudi DOa, rafCe, although hi. Regiment form
no part of the force lie commands its ail these instances, the
ckiin of the Lieutenant Cdonel has as good a foundation as
when the Caloncl is it Europe.
ti id. Farther, as the Regimenn of Native Infantry consist
of two Battalion', with a Lieutenant Colonel to each, and it
not imirequently happens th it the Battalions ate separated, if
the Colonel be absent altogether, each of the Lieutenant Co-
lonels may consider himself a. commanding a Corps, or if the
Colunel be present with one Battalion, the Lieutenant Colonel
in chaise of the onset may rtially lay claim to a participation
in the Of Fund
" SI. Again, timers:og the Colonel and both Lieutenant
Cikmels &Mem from the Regimmit, whether on furlough or
otherwise, which is not an imprub.ible cas., the M tire in com-
mand must equally be considered all entitled to participate in the
Fund, and thou the inconvensencies and ilAculties of an ex
tmision rd the Off reckonings in the manner proposed, would
be ineseased to tar indefinite degree, and the leading principles
of lite arrangement made in 1796, be entirely destroyed.
" Sl. Among the arguments brought forward its support of
the subotivisioni of the Off.reckonitir, it h is been suggested,
that the Officer in alual command of a Regiment dining this
absence of the Colonel, la exposed to adilitimial eapence ; we
are by no means prepared to admit the twee of tins argument,
it is net consistent, as we undmitand, with the practice in Ili§
Majesty's or any other senior, that a Ceinmanding Officer
should consider himself as called upon to incur extraordinaly
e; siege, in receiving and entertaining the Officersuf his Corps ;
we see no reason why, in our serene, at in all others, the
Commanding Officer should not live at mess with his brother
Officers, without aft:acing an capture which it inconsistent
with the fair emoluments of his situation : iiiol,viduals may feel
it difficult to break through an esiabliitu d practice of this na-
ture, however oinmtireable and incrinvenient in itself, but it
is the duty id the Goyernm•mt tudiscountipanee habits of use-
less expense, incompatit4e with th; we*regulated constitution

cf any Army, and to relieve, by the weght of their senclien
arid adisionitirm, the feelings of Officers, who iniAit otherwise
be reluctant to depart from what may have grown rip into
general habit.
, . " 33. Thy datension el the distribution of the Off.mkoo-
,Mg Fund to Lieutenam Colonels has b-en alio projeeett upon
another principle, viz. by allowing a errant number of that
rank to retire from the service ; with an addition to their pay
(ruin the Fund ; but, at we are if opinion, that the proviiioes
already made for this dm of Miters on their retiring from
our service, are ample, and on a snore liberal scale th in that
which obtains in any other service, as the adoption of a mea-
sure of this nature would infallibly occasion a great augineeta-
dun of expellee ; and as it would probably lead to claims of a
similar description (mm the Officer. of the next inferior rank,
we have thought proper to rejecl the proposal.
_ " 34. In fast we are convinced that the interests of the Lieu-
tenant Colonels are amply prorated fur, in the peospels held
out to them by the arrangement for distributing the Offireckon-
ings, which, after mature deliberation, we have resolved oil,
and which is as follows :
0 lit. That the Off.reck )))) ings at all the Presidencies from
the regular Corps of Artillery, Infantry, and Cavalry, calcu-
lated as above dueled, b.: thrown Mora General Fiord.
" 2d. That a retired List of General Officers or Colonels be
formed, who are to be struck off the strength of the Army, arid
considered altogether out of the service, the number to be
twenty-ono, ♦iz.
four from Bombay : the Senior Officers from all the Corps at
each Presidency, according to the dates of their Commissions,
to form this List, tailless it shad be thought proper by our
Governments to reserve any of this class of Olken; for the Staff
appointments.
";id. That each of the retired Generals or Colonels above-,
mentioned, be allowed the sum oil 5431. 15s. per 11111111 M horn
the Off.reekoning Fund, in ail pinion to (lie frill or half pay they
may be entitled to, according to the length of their atival ser-
vice in India.
" 4th. That the remainder of the Off-reckoning Fund be
divirdit among the Colonels of the Regiments of Infantry and
Cavalry, and of the Battalion of Artillery.
That ttre Officers last mentioned be allowed to reside
in Europe, with their shares of Off-reckonings arid their Pay,
subject always to the Court's Orders for their re•urn to their
duty in India, and if tiny decline so to du, diet are to relin-
quish their shares of Uff.reckunings, and retire from the servin:
on their pay only.
" 6th. That when an augmeMatiisn of the Armies in India
takes place, increasing the G.nieral Fund, the shares to the
Colonels above-mentioried in the ser•sice, are to be augmented
accordingly; on the other hand, if the armies be reduced so as
to diminish the General Fend, the it are to be reduc
in proportion, it being our intention that oh sweet sur;,lui re-
mains after providing for the retired List, in the manner stated
iii the 3d Article, it is to be divided ainongst the Culuaels who
continue is the ,err we.
" 7th. That if a redoctien in the number of Regiments
takes place, the Colonels of the reduced Regiment: are nut
thereafter to participate in the Off reckonings, until by vacan•
tier occurring, they are reinstated in the command of Regi-
ments.
" Rth. That the General Officers not on the Staff, or kept

in India by orders of our respective Governments, to succeed
to the Staff appointments (if such a shutif.l be
thought necessary), he allowed only their pay and share of Off-
reckonings, whether resident iii India or in Eiimpr, such Offi-
cers not being competent, by the existing regulations, to do
duty with their Regiments; it, however, these Officers shall
be employed on actual service, they are to be allowed the usual

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Matta.
" 3S- We have also to inform you, that after mature deli-
beration, we have resolved that General Officers on the Staff
shall continue to hukl the Staff appointments for four years
only, at the end of which, they sic to be relieved by other
Officers, unles, our Governments should ieappoint them to the
Staff, at the expiration of the four yeas, subject of course to
uur &ppm:whin.
"36 By the foregoing Plait, an opening is made for an ex-
tension of promotion in the army by the retired List, in view
to which, and the other advantages they will derive, when
they come to the higher ranks, the situation of the Lieutenant
Colonel is greatly improved : at the same time, a liberal pro-
vision is made for Officers of the higher ranks, whose constitu-
tions may not admit of their being employed in active service,
while those who continue in command of Regiments and Corps
have the option of coming to Europe, without a precise ►imi-
tatirnt of the time of furlough, and with the enjoyment of a
fair and reasonable proportion of emolument.
(To be concluded tomorrow. )

PINCE OF STOCKS
VIVM&A DA T.
. Bank Brock
3 per C,.,:1t. Mot
3 per C2lit. CV,SO S . )lj, Ex. tti.r.
4 per Cent 7si 7,4 i 'S
5 per Cant. bidory..•. 9Ol 891 Itx rcnr.
3 per Cent. Loyalty - 1 U Aptil lO
Lnng A rtsruitieto •
kith 5 per Cer:t 87
DeterwrlStwk 511
India Stuck .. lBO4. Ex. Div.
F.xehequer Milk pat 1.. rliv.
Cygnets for.. ..... .......... .....• •.. 59;1;i
T. 111511. Stock:Woke;
No. 4, Cornhill. and 9. Charing Ct'N.

PRICE OF IRISH STOCKS. Jon. 2
government Debentures, 54 per cent Se
Ditto, ♦ per cent . iSi
Dittu, 5 !.er cent 191

COURSE OF EXCHA
Amsterdam 313 6 2 U.
Ditto at Sight ...17 11
Rotterdam C. F. 12 2 2U.
liamburgh 33 6 till
Altona
15 B Lir.
Us. 25 16
Elourdaaux. .23 16

,IGE, Tuaeo•r. JAM 8.
Genoa
Venice Ai Ditto
[.,.bon
Open* • 6',l i,
Dublin

I 8.

Cadiz —in Pape,
Doe AI effect.
Madrid
Dittn 351 effe3.
Billies
Leghorn 49;
Naples 391
Debits me London (Jan. 2.

Portant Gold, in Coin
and Its per oz 4 0
Diubluuns . ..... .•; 0 0 4
New Dollars
Silver in liars .... • • 0 f.i ti
New Louis even U 6 t
Alen, on the Rink of Hullsnrt
4i Cent.
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HIRTII.
At Spriogkell. Sz•atlatid, on the Ist 11111•1111, Lady Hems
MaxwA, of a ,on

MARRIAGES.

At St Atigu•tine% Choral, Dr. X entigh. of park.
st,et, to Nit« Raul:in, daughter of Robert Rankin, Esq. of
Nett cattle upoo•Tyne. _ . _

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At St. l'etN's Church, Hereford, Gauge M.trkay,.Eiq• Fat
Major of Tilbury and Gravesend, to Miss Sarah Allen, dati:a.
for of the late Rev. June: Allen, Rector of Bistaupstorte,iad
Vicar of Yarn. in the county of Hereford.
On Wedneolay Let, at St. Mary de Lode, .le.teph
Fag of Little Dean, to Miss Eliza Apperly, sLast.
ter of Thomas AKerly, Esq of Wutton Hot ac, near Glou-
cester.
thi Thur....lay !sat, at St. Mary Mndalei Church, Oxford,
the Rev. Gilbert I I:4lthcote, M.A. sun of the Lite Sir Tb.oue
Heatl.coie,BArt. of liundey Lodge, and Fellow of ,Win Are
ter ('allege, to Aliw Sophia Elisabeth Wall, second lout ar
of Mutiu Wall, M.D. Clinical Prof: nor in OxfurdUsiverrin:.

DEATHS.
On Thursday night last, at his house in Lewes, in the .711th
year of his age, Henry Shelley, .sq.
On %Vednesdav, at her lodging: In Chlehester, Mrs. Cs
therine Fitzgerald, Lady of Capt. Fitzgcra rl, of the $9l
In-
(entry, now 0.1 his passage to jolts his remittent in I Ala, and se-
cond daughter of the late Right Rev. Sir W. Ashburnham,
Lord Bishop of Ch'cliester.
At St. George's, Granada, on thr: 4d of October last, D..
Charles Davidson, ion of th a late John Davidson, of Tilychetly.
At Greenock, on the Ist instant, in his ;4th year, Jobs
Dunlop, Esq. of Ws Majesty's Customs there.
Saturday seri night, aged 95, an ancient Israelite, known by
the name of Old Fr,nkfult, who for many years has lived et
Bristol, in a very abie 3 state, but whose situation had been
rend:red very comfortable from the charitable fund of tle
Nese Corigregati..... of Aux, since its establishment.—Ma: the.r
fund increase, since it is formed not to confine their laudai.i.,
endeavours to their own sect, but to promote the general
of philanthropy.
At his mother's house at Twickenham, the han. Cerny
Augustus William Curzon, eldest son of the lute lion Pe..a
Asaheton Curzon, and the Baroness Howe. He was bore
Rfay 14, 1788.

HIGH AV:%TER THIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE..
NI. •n. 56 min. after 6.—Even. '23 min. alter 7.

SALES BY AUCTION.

ACTON, MIDDLESEX.—TO GROCERS AND
OTHERS.
By Mr. PRICKETT,
On the Pietni:es, near tte Pound, Acton, Middlesex,
TO-MORROW, at Eleven o'Clock,
A LL the Genuine STOCK in TRAD F.
110USEIIOLD FURNITURE, die of
Kilmer, Grocer and Shopkeeper (taken in execution); rem
prising green and black teas, lump and moist sugars, coffee,
spices, mottled and yellow soap, 'iamb, blue, &e.; the fittings-
up of shop, scale:, weights, tinned and japanned canisters ; a
large quantity of coal. and fire wood, coal saki and measure.,
a close-bi.died cart and harness, a bay mare ; a few Ise: of
Household Furnituro, a copper set in brick, and venous effect'.
Mar be viewed; arid Catalogues had at the Place of Sale;
and of Mr. Puckett, I'l2, Aldervgate-e-trect.

PRINTS-, DRAWINGS, TRANSPARENCIES,
PR:FUMES, &c.
By Mr. RICHARDSON,
At his finless, No. St. comer of Villera atroct, in the Strand,
Ttl MDR ROW, at Six o'clock in the Eveiling,
A COLLECTION of PRINTS and DRAW-
./ 11 I NUS, in Landscapes after Nature; Views in tip.
Wight, small Figures, theatrical Puri,' u, SunlCw, Sketclio.
be. &c. in water colours ; several high-tinished paintings
iu
oil, from Sir Jorihuili Reynolds, of celebrated rhara-rers of ,n
Artist, who is under the necessity of retiring into the 1.111111 i•,.
iu consapionee of a long and severe illness of upwards is -.::•
yarn; also a law Transparencies for can'lle screens, and
tent lamps, of whisk article he was the original designer
To be viewed the morning of S.dei Catalogues may he I.
of Mr Richardson, No. 31, Strand; and of Mr. Clarke,
azllev, Howl-street.

PPM BR OE ES 1 R F..
Valualile sod (Immoveable Freehold Estate, with Rotr.ilt.
Manor, Fislierr, Petpetua 1 Advowson, .
*PETER COXE, BURRELL, and FOSTER.
At Garraway's, on FRIDAY, March 26, at Twelve,
AVERYvaluAble and improvcalde FREEHt)I.D
ESTATP, containing 1220 acres .1 Land, len
will, calks'. ( heat Tiefigarn,being a Parish and Lord•hy at it.-
situate in a delightful part of Vie voni:tr of Penittr.ik.,a..an., •
ing in 0.1111.!. Ave miles on the titralii;:e road from I I averfu
west, amd ten miles from hazard I consisting of sundr. ',Mei • .
orchards, Clarions, court lorlyes, barns, stables, eases, pieces a-•
parcels of richand ferrite arable. meadow. end wourdiaon. 4
screw of which are oak timber, 11.6111! ornamental 44 well as ;.-
fltatile, and with uniiielosod sheep walks; Cle eu a k,
fencer together with the next Prase/nation ad Perpet.,
Advoarsoti iif the Living of Great 'Freiman, and a.l the Bina,
ties, Mann' hal Rights, iii Court Leet, Court Barmi,ete. with sus
extent or noiwiy e near tw., mile. of the West KKK!, 0-1
skit. toe ',tate, a favo.iraole stream for eels, tout, and sal
mutt : there is good stone nit the Estate for building, and gent
Mill maw he erected at very hole expense. This propeity is sr.%
worth the attention of any Nobleman or Gentleman wino ma,
Walt In invest his money in land, in a part of the cm:titre where
the value of land is daily rising, as ire that part tit South Wales.
May be vie, ed ally time till the Sale, on appl.cation to Mr
Peter Axton, Belmont, near Havermrdwest, of whom partite.
ars may ba had one month preceding; also of Messrs. Shaw,
Docker, Yates, and Honson, Sl:nchest^r ; John Chaitibtriam,
Chester ; Hush lur. Bristol ; the Castle, and the
Mariner, Havetrardiorevt, the Whitt Hart, Narhelht at the
Mace of Sale; and of SiegtfS. Peter C.)XC, Burrell, and Foster,
. Thregmortmostreet ; where a Plan of the 6state may be sees.

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