The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-03-03 00:00:00

*klll'.4lVC E COMMITTEE.

•
the Seventh Report of the &het Committee,
appointed by the House of Conimons during the
last Session to iiwinire into the state of the Income
■nd Expenditure of the conotry, has been printed.
It refers exclusively to the extent of the Army Esti-
mates for the. service of the present year, and com-
pares them with the •timates rotr the year preced-
ing. We, however, look in vain in the Report for
any suggestions or recommendations tending to di.
minish an expenditure altogether disproportioned
to the financial means of the country•, and ■ fOrce
wholly inconsistent with the character of our politi:
cal constitution. It alludes, indeed, to a wish ex 4;
pressed doting the last Session by the Committee,
" That some means might he devised lbr rendering
the foreign poswssions of the British Empire more
efficient towsrds defraying the expenses of their own
military protection, *islet their Value to the parent
State must be greatly diminished by their commis-
ing a lasting drain un its resources.' To this wish
we most heartily assent; but considering the pro-
portion the force employed at the charge of the
parent State in the Colonies bears to the whole ins-
merles' strength of our military establishment. we
do not think that the country will remain satisfied
with even the concurrence of the Ministers in this
desire of the Committee. It appears, that. com-
pared with the Estimate. of the last year, there is
a reduction in the present year of about two
thousand men, which has takeu place in the
Irish Establishment. This causes a diminution

of expense to the amount of 74.0021. 10s.--
There is also a dimimition in the Public Depart.
ments of 16,557/.; in the Royal Military College,
of 2,6401. ; in Corps to be reduced, of c14=2.16 It.
These, with some further reductions, are counter-
balanced by an increase of expenditure ie several
other items contained in the Estimates, leaving
eventually in the entire, taken altogether, a dimi-
nution of charge for 1818, as compared with . the
former year. to the amount of 188,0271. 19s. 3d.
Among the items wherein the expense has in.
creased, we find, with regret, the half-pay and
military allowancee, exceeding the charge in the
former year to the amount of 3,et31. l Os. I id. We
are aware may be objected that this increase in
the hall-i y is the consequence of the reduction in
the effective strength of the army ; but we cannot for-
get the solemn promise held nut by Ministers in Par-
liament during the Session of 1816, that .04 all vacan-
cies occurring in the effective strength of the standing
regiments should be filled up by the Officers on
the half-pay of each regiment respectively." The
numbers of gallant j,oung men who had braved
the most arduous ganipaigns of the late wars, and
who new repose ill inglorious care, relying on title
promise of she 'Ministers, can attest how faithfully
it has been observed. Many have been driven by
impatience into the proscribed service of the
South American, Jitilependents, and have been
punished by an ex- post facto regulation for
not being. contented to starve at home, relying on
the golden promise; while in, every Gazette may be
seen the names of their snore fortunate rivals, who
are allowed' to obtain by pnrchase the poets that
ought in honour, amid on. the faith of Government,
to have been bestowed on the half-pay Officers
as the reward or their past services. The charge
for the half-pay and military allowances to Brie .
tish Officers, for the present year, Sawmill-to
6011763 f. 15s. 10,1. which might in a few years he
saved to the conntry.• if Ministers would adhere to
their original promise.

NAV4L INTELLibENCer

MARCrt 1.

Arrived the Vestals, Hearn. from Looduat'lwr Jsmsiits,
with loss of matistowsail-yard; slid the Prom Onus" from

a cruise. It has bluwu a hard isle all day.

PLYMOUTH, FPS. VI.
Arrived the Woodman, Bear, from Liverpool for Bawls.
Poway, FPS 4ll.The schooner Good Inteat, Poulrraioikpla Malaga lo
Loudon put iuto this port very leaky, having four feet wa-
ter in her hold, and was immediately hauled aground ; it is
thought her cargo must be landed, as the pumps cannot
keep her fres: 17 days passage.

FALMOUTH. FRU. 27.
Arrived yesterday the Norton packet, with mails from
Rio Janeiro, in 62 days; Traveller, Carr, fruits St. Domingo,
in 40 days, fur Liverpool.
Sailed the Laity Arabella packet, with a mail for Lisbon.
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The following packets have gone into the roads, viz. Doke
of llarthoonigh, for Lisbon ; Lord Sidnionth, fur Gibraltar
anti Malta, anal Manchester, f.'s the Islands.

DOTIL MARCH 1.
Arrived yesterday off this port, the Siiveya, Retianeourt,
from St. Michael's for Loodoto ; and to•day arrived the Be-
nevolent transport, (ruin the River.

Railed the Ariadne trausport, after stopping her Irak, front
L'Orimst ror Lcitsgsonutl ; and Brisk transport, fur Calais.
HARWICH, TER 2R.
Arrived the Dart, Rogers, from Shields to Plymouth, with
loss of anchor and c ible.

The Good Hope, Bonn, was run ou hoard of by a smack.
and had her bowsprit carried away.
Drat., MARCO, I.
Yesterday arrived. the Alert, from Shields; Isabella, from
Sandra-land for Bo utdcaux ; Pilot, Wallis, from Lookloo for
Lisbon, and remain in the DOwlle, with a large Meet of out-
ward-bound ships.
Came down trust the River, and remain, the Lady Ranks,
Walker, fur Madras; Riga packet, Lunisdale, fur Pernam-
buco; and several others, names unknown.
The Kis, George packet, King, with a mail and fifty
passengers, from Calais, landed them here, having been
forced in hereby the strung south west winds.
A►rived his Majesty's ship Pandora.

coax, vu. 23.

itvuitwoot., Weil. 28.
The following is a copy of a letter received by Mews.
Cropper, Demon, and Co. dated Tralee, Feh. 23, 1818:
" There has been a box found on this coast (about twenty
miles from this), containing a canny of 'open of Caine,
amongst which are an invoice and hill of lading for a quan-
tity 01'cm...in wool, shipped in the Bengal, and dated Cal.
coma, directed to your address, with a bill of exchange for
the freight on you. I have seen but a few of the papers, as
She people who found them were unwilling to pan with them
without a recompence for their trouble. Amongst the papers,
• I understood, are several bills of exchange and powers of
attorney, directed to people in London and Scotland.
" CHARLES *MAHON."

PRICE OF STOCKS TP.STERDAY.
per Ct. Ke4l 79iiii firths 8un1i5..95 97 pr.
3 per Ct. Coos—Mil F.x. Bills. 2..17 14 17 pr.
4 per Cents 99 ii Ditto, 4 .. 11 go pr.
per Cs. N. An— lOti Lottery Tickets,l9t.
B. L. Aisii...tof 11.16 Cons. for Acc...79i 78i
Irish 6 per C0t0... 1061 79 791

OP.f HI
CHASE.

Tire Prince Replied Stags Hounds meet on Friday, at
Digeetistliered ;Lends meet to.ntarro* at No-Mates-Land
had Oh Satarday, at broadwater, at liar:past ten.
The del of Derlsy's Stag Hosed, *lll meet this day, at
the Oaks, four miles drama from Croydon.
Juke Mishear, Fox Hounds meet use Tlsurrday at
Walks Lam; and us Saturday, at the Fox sad Goose, Scar.
H. Selliffe, Eat's Fox Honuda meet tomorrow, at
Redstone Home; tletottey, at Clsipstend.
The Haddam Meet tomturrow and Saturday, at Kam.
net, We "Mink disarm from Croydon.
The Ilethit Mid Keigkley harriers had a very use inn on
Illatisrdey lad. The dogs fined a hare nor Mr. Kaire•
delkl beet, shout eleven akisek, acrd van her we towards
Kusirworth vibe then took sbrosseh np liy
IlleMen, and pts tour& Ilkley hut doubling there, she
tease mead by Opined, and Do down to Bisset" again ;
and was killed' near the place where the dsses started her,
after molar a distance of lock* miles in eunsirlerably less
than two hours. Thirty-seven dogs were up at the &stir,
out of forty that started at Ord. The beet hunter its the
Geld was Mr. Hagar's grey gelding, bring 111111110di the only
one in at the death. The gensirnern of this hunt gave a bell
on Friday evening week, at the King's Head Ihiui flukey,,
when near sixty people were present. An eneelteni supper
was provided on the occasion, and darling was kept up t.II
a late hoer.—{York llama;

BURGLARY, AND A7TRMPT AT mulinift
AND SUICIDE.
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[0631 "Tut Liens MERCURY.']

About twelve o'clock lest night, as Mrs Ryley, who
keeps a small shop in this town, was pre-
paring to go to bed, abe was alarm:ad by a noise it Ilte shop,
which chesty adjoins the room in which she was sitting;
on lighting a candle sod lookiag into the shop, she per-
ceived a tnan with hialrand I. the till ; she
uttered a loud shriek, sad ran up stairs with an intention
to throw up the window nod alarm the wield s; but the
burglar, ow seeing bee, omitted the till, run after 10-r, and
threw her down spew the stairs, he forcibly grasp.d her
neck with llbe pagers of one bard, and placed tlw other
hand over her mouth, evidently with an intention to striinlAk
her. But the smile she bad previously made fortunately
awoke the children, who shrieked out so loudly as to indisee
him to relinquish his murderess grasp, and attempt to
escape. Mrs. Ryley, exhausted as she was, was able and
bad the presence of mind to open sliest/iodine, and call suit
" %Vila! Murder!" Fortunately the watchman sums within
call, and other assistance being at hand, Ilie wretch was se.
cured as be was attempting to make his escape by the grate
of the cellar, the way in which be probably entered the llus,.
He was takes into custody and conveyed to prisms, but be-
tween tea and eleven o'clock in the forenoon, a shirrs time
before his exainiseation was to have taken place, hr est his
throat with a knife which had been inadvertently left in the
cell by the person who had previously occupied it. H. was
immediutely removed to the lefinnary, where of COS. sr be
has the bentAt of the ablest surgical assistance. Wr under-
stand that the wooed is not cinotidered very dangerous, sod
it is supposed that be will be aisle to undergo an examina-
tion in a few days. The name of the PH issuer IS Thomas
Walls ; he is spines' by trade, and has only Deem worried
about a month—and we understand that up to this inn.: his
character has been irreproachable.