The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-11 00:00:00

MARCH 11.

THE ARMY ESTIMATES,

For the present year, hate beet' printed. The following is
an Abstract :-
I.and Purees, including the corps intended to C.
be robic,ll. for Grew Britain and Ireland,
11 I ,;46-I.7pense - - - - 4,702,611
Itegiluents stationed in frame, number 31.031.,
Expens.: - - - - - 1,234,596
Regiments in the East India Company's Ser.
%ice, number 28,491--Expense - .. 906,604
Emiodied Militia - . . 450,001611
Pay of General Officers - - . 182.727
Str.ff and Garrisons - - . 30053
-
Full Pay for Supernumerary Officers . - 111,302
Public Departments - - i hli Al I
Eschogul.4 Fees, Irish round:we, &c. - 117.n03
llab:pay anti Nl:lit:my Allowances . - - 4144068
In-rt.nstencrs of Chelsea and Kilnutinham
Hospitals -
Out-Pensioners of ditto - -
-
'Widows Pmsions - -
-
Volunteer Corps - -
- -
I awal Militia - -
- •
Fon:h.:n Corps, for various periods in 1:316—•
n nu's, r 21. 4B—E:•pcnse - .
Royal 11ilitary College -
ltoyel Military Asylum -
- -
Retired Chaplains, &c. -
-
Medicines and Hospital Expenc::s - ..
t'ompassionate Lit, :old Bounty IVarrants -
Commissaffid Ikpartmenr tlecland) -
Barrack Iv/apartment (Ireland)
Surrannuation &Bowe:n.l - -
Officers attached to the PortuLmese Army

liV.lB
855.:12171
9.3.,59n
12V,!Olti
100.000

376,c0)
:13,0119
59.1,13
17.530
60,466
14,424
219.0fe
215,f CO
17,9(4
55,000

Deduct from the above the troops in France and the East Indies, and
there ronains t:;:r,siiS men, of the expense of whom, 11,753,9.17 L 17s.
is chargssl to t;reat Britain, and 2,2.16,42141. ijd. to Ireland; making
a total of—s,wee,77sl, lac. 44.

A Flanders Mail notices the prompt and extraordinary
measures adopted to strengthen the frontier line of Bel-
gium. No less than 8.0(H) men are to be employed on
the tbrtiticationsl& Charleroi.

It appears from the Papers laid before the House .of
Commons, that the supplies made by us to Spain, in
111011ey, arms, ammunition, and military and naval stores,
from the year IS IJ to the latest period the same mule.
be made out, amounts to 4,357,8381.

By papers laid before Parliament, it appears, France
h:* already paid this country five millions of francs as
contr.butions, and upwards of one million of franca to-
wards the pay of the army of occupation. riese sums
have been deposited in the military chest of the Duke of
Wellington.
A Brussels Paper of the sth inst. says, " One of our
most celebrated lace-man.' fits lodes has had the mating of
the lace-dress intended for the Princess Charlotte of
Wales on the day of her manioge. It has just been
lent to London."

Private letters from Paris of Monday, mention very
serious disturbances to haVe again taken place at Lyons.
A strong military flaw has been dispatched to that city.
The King isstuted to have determined upon a complete
change of Administration ; and it is generally believed,
that the Duke of Angouleme will preside in the Council
of Ntinisters.

A fresh order has jusit been received at Calais, direct-
ing that no foreigners or strangers shall he allowed to
proceed from thence to Paris without a passport, from
their Ambassador or (ioverrunent. Several persons have
been obliged to return from the Ship Inn at Dover to
Loudon., in order to procure such passports before they
embarked for (Anis.

The restoration of old religious institutions seem to be
proceeding in Italy ; a Concordat is stated to have 'been
concluded between the Papal Nunciu at Florence, and
the Grand Duke of Tuscany, under which there arc to
be 72 Convents of both sexes in the Tuscan Stases.

INDR.—Advices have been received by the secret .7om-
mittee of the Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany, intimating that the decisive measures adopted by
the Earl of Moira, in consequence of suspicious appear-
ances in the conduct of the Nisi= and the Peishwa, had
been attended with the most satisfactory .results ; th,:se
Primes having, innnediutely on the approach of the Bri-
tish troops to their respective capitals, Hyderabsul and
Poonah,.ofFered to give the most ample securities for their
pacific and friendly conduct. —An arrangement was as
concluded, by IRMA the Nizsm agreed to place
his brother, the known instigator of his hostile dispesi-
thins, in close confinement, in a fortress belonging to a
third Power: the Pcishwa went further, and gave up
his Minister, the promoter of his military schemes and
preparations, who was brought a prisoner to Manhay,
there to be kept. as the Government of British India nmy
I its iiiscrction think proper. The dispatches tsmtairing
this intimation being sent borne in the Secret De-part-
ment, acenrding to the usual practice of ell official ttc;vices
from the l-ndian Government, are not yet officially reti-
tled from the select hotly of Directors composing the :.4e-
cret Committee. But we are assured, from souse of the
very best authorities, that the particulars which we have
stated may he relied an us authentic.

TRUNCEESHIV.—We hardly know a greater evil than the lid-
lowing,and yet the conseqttences of it tills the Court of Chin-
eel y kith business Altslutur lies, connoting to two pt•rsons„
in winos' he fancies lie can trust the di.posol of his i.equepis.
tile of them from pique or indolence. litmus the concern
the Cf at; t Chancery, to manatre that width his dyina A ivod
left to his management, porposel to moot : and, ;diet' de-
lay of years, out comes tate caw e, Jike '• a yes soil vicirtp rho,o"
the substance being mast,4 in salaties to liergivus. Or-
+leis of Ilat tea, owl Fria of Con..