The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1803-03-15 00:00:00

OFFICIAL NOTICES.

TO OFFICERS ON HALF PAY.
War-Office, itth March, 1/103.
MI Officers on the H:tlf--I•ay of the Lind Forc,i4, resident in
Great Britain and Irehold, who are not scrvi rig in the Militia,
who do not hold offices web! Government, me hereby required
immediately to transmit to the Inspeainf Field Officers of the
Bet:11;11in: Districts, within which they respectively reside, an
account in u rating of their age, past services, end present place
of abode, in order that their services may be called fur as CiTC JITI•
stance hall render it expedient: And such as think themselves,
from age or infirmities, unit for further service, even in
this country, are to accompany their reeiirts with sufficient
voichers of their inability, and the eauees t.,ereof. Such Of-
ficers On Half-pav as are serving ie the 'Militia, or .re otherwise
erg :guyed under Government, (Officers of the Yeoinality and
Volunteer Cures excepted, whos! retinas arc to he matte to tile
Inspecting Field Officers of Districts as above-mentioned,) are
to teat:sant similar accounts to the Secretary at War, specifying
also the nature of the poblie situatiens which they poetess.
. The laiesectitig Field 011icarsof Districts will make returns
to the Secretary at War of the names or the Officers who
report thetas •Iv^s in pursuance of the above notice. And every
tkfie.rr who shall negleetto mike his report, either to a District
Field Officer, or to the Secretary at War, aecoriling to the cir-
cumstance, of his situation, within one month front the date
hereof, will be conaidered as otherwise provided fur, or dva.l,
and his name will bs struck off the Half-pay list ac:ordingly.
By his Majesty's Command,
C. YORKE.

Downing-street, Mar:h 1803.
I have the honour to transmit to herewith
his Maiesor's %Vac ant, directing . to draw out
a d euthisiy the Militia of the county of , and
I have received his Maiesty's commands, to desire tact
will take the necessary steps for carrying this
measure into exceution with the least pessible delay.
I further to desire that will cause the earliest
eamniunication of the day and place which may be appointed
fur tlic asserabling of the Militia of the county of to
be 111 ad e to the Secretary at War, in order that directions msy
b.: given for the issue of the pay of the men, and that such
oyster arrangements may be made, on this occasion, as mute
nediatelv belong to his department.
conclude. that the intimation conveyed in the Secre-
tary of War's Circular Letter of the 6th of November last, to
the several Commanding Officers of Militia, respecting the
sons and accoutrements for the different corps, has Iwo duly
attended to ; but, in case the number necessary fur the
Militia should 'be incomplete, immediate application
must be made to the Board of Ordnance 'for the quantity of
arms, and to the War Office respecting the accoutrements that
arc still deficient.
I!) the eve it of the Militia of the Counfv of

not being complete, I am directed by his Majesty to recom-
mend that the most decisive measures should be taken fur sup-
plying the deficiencies, and for enforcing the several provisions
of the Act.

I have the honour to be, &r.
HOBART.

To his Majesty's Lieutenent of
the County of

A Court of Aldermen will be held this day at
Guildhall, to swear in RICHARD LEA, Esq. lately
cldlecl Alderman for the Ward of Coleman-street,
in the room of Mr. Alderman MACACLEY, deceased,
and on special business.
That part of the Surrey Militia already balloted
are ordered to muster at Kingston upon Thames,
at ten o'clock in the morning, on Thursday next ;
in the mean time the ballot, in place of being held
in each subdivision every fourteen days, is to be
held every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, un-
til the whole are completed. This will delay fur
some little time the embodying of the regiment.
Mr. ROBERTS and Mr. BOSANCICET, the Chair-
man and Deputy-Chairman of the East-India Com-
pany, whited on the Board of Admiralty yesterday
morning, to represent the situation in which the
Company's ships are placed, by their seamen being
impressed; in consequence of which, proteßions
have been granted for the purpose of manning their
ships, and enabling them to proceed on their respec-
tive voyages.
Lord ST. VINCENT presided at the Board of Ad-
miralty on Saturday, for the first time these three
weeks.
Major-General Moose has been down to Chelrn '-
ford Barracks, and investigated the state and disci-
pline-of the 83d Regiment, now quartered there,
an consequence of the various highway-robberies
that have lately been committed in the neighbour-
hood by the soldiery. The General has delivered a
circumstantial report Of the result of a very stria
enquiry, to his Royal Highness the Commander in
Chief.

During the press on the River, a great number
of American seamen have been taken ; in conse-
quence Mr. EavlNc, the Consul of ill* United
States, resident in London, has had a long inter-
view with the Lords of the Admiralty ; when all
those seamen who could produce satisfadory testi-
monials of their being Citizens of America, were
ordered to be discharged. Several, however, have
entered voluntarily, at the same time expressing a
wish that they may have an opportunity of meeting
the common enemy.