The National Register.
London, England, 1815-08-20 00:00:00

TILE NATIONAL REGISTER..

Before Marshal Brune killed himself, he tore a great num-
ber of papers. The fragments were collected and sealed up.

ROY ORDIN %NCR.

Loniq, by the Grace of God, King of France and Navarre ;
Having asceitained that the actual force of onr armies giedtigy
exceeded a peace establishment, and was especially disprot.ortionate
to the revenue of the kingdom, that the mo,t just, and at the same
time the most favourable principle tOr the formation Ida good
army, is to make the discharges in the first place fall ',pot) al-leers,
who being no longer in the vigour ()faze,
are less tit for active
service : wishing at the same time, to mitigate the effect of these
discharges, with rispect to those on whom they may tall betore
they have served the time peescribed by the regulations for of,tain•
ing the pension on retiring from service : on tie repot t of our
Minister Secretary of State and of 'War, we have ordered, and do
order what follows :

Art. 1. The retiring from service belongs of right and withont
any exception whatever, to Lieutenant Generals, Major Generals,
superior officers of the staff and of corps, &e. who be on the
first of Septi miter next in the 50th year of Omit service, or in the
35th year of their age ; and also those whom wounds or ihtirmitics
render incapable of active service, the General and Staff Officers of
Garrisons, who shall be at the.same period in the 34th )ear of their
service, or Goth year of their age. Other Officers of the Statfor of
sole inspectors of reviews, &c. who shall be in the .3111 year
of their service, or 50th of their age.
t`. The following may, on their own request or otherwise, be
placed on the retired list, viz;—The Chief Inspectors, Inspectors
and Sub-Inspectors of Reviews, Commissaries, and Officers of
Health, who shall, on the Ist September, be in the 1311 i year of their
service. General and Staff Officers of Garrisons in the 30th year of
their service. Officers of the Staff and of Corps other than superior
Officers, Sublhspectors of Reviews, Commissaries, Otfierrs of
Health, &c. who shall be in the '2oth year of their sect ice.
3. the reined pay, according •to the number of year. of service
fixed by the preceeding articles, shall be founded on the maximum
of seniority. The time of service required shall be tlimini.lied by
five years for Officers, Nlilitaty Adndnistrators, and others, who
shall have reached the age pointed out fur Ott it class in article 1.
4. Those who, after having 'served ten years, shall he declared
incapable of serving, shall obtain, whoever be their age one halt of
the maximum of retired pay, except the SO% erity of their wounds
entitle them to a higher pension in virtue ulour ordinance of the
17th of August, 1814.
3. Officers who have served less than tea year*, and whose
wounds render them uhtil to serve longer, •Isall tcycive at their
homes as a gratification one veal's pay on the peace fOoling.-
G. Officers who have aatlered amputation, awl arc employed in
garrisons, or otherwise, excepting in the flaspital of invalid. and
its collateral estapli•liments, snall all he, without exception, itttitled
to retreat with the fullest allowance of their respective rank..
7. Officers awl Military Administrators shall not be requited to
prove two ycars'service in their present ranks to entitle them to the
retired allowance of that rank.

8, Our Minister Secectary of State for the War Department will
carry into effect these arrangements, in the interval between this
date and the Ist of September, as far as regards the General an-51
Staff Officers of the runty, and the garrisows. and the y
ministration. All other heads at branches shall carry the execution
into ellect in their sevei al departments.
9. The arrangements specified above shall apply only to officers
in actual employment on the Ist of July, 1315; and they shall cease
to be available when the asmv shall be re-organized. The officer&
who shall continue to he comlnved will be nattier' tot lti ii,ri
th;eireFpf•cn
retire-
merit only on the scale of the established regulation', i
to the conditions prescribed by them. All new arrangements of
retired allowances, converted to full pay, or other arangements.
chargeable on the funds of the army, shall be replaced on the former
footing; nor can any maintainairee, but the retired allowance, he
granted to ultirers ceasing to he employed. Thee wired allow.
nitres cannot, in any instance exceed the maxi 11111111 established for
their respective ranks. Peosions granted to witluws and orphans
cannot exceed the litni!s fixed by our Ordinance:a the•l4th August,
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1814.
10. From this date no demand of employment in our household
trooos shall bv admissible, alter the person shall have set red ,20 years,
or shall have at tante I the age of 50, ori,i
11. Neither shall any person who has served- abor • . )1, or
k shove the age ut 60, he eligible for employment On .tlbn
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