The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MON‘DAY, APRIL 5, 1839

LORD BROUGHAM'S SKETCHES

OF PUBLIC CHARACTERS.

ord Brougham's "Hisorical Sketches of
( Statesmen."
WIT OF LORD NORTH.
" But if it would be endless to recount the triumphs
of his temper, it would be equally so, and far more diffi-
cult to record those of his wit. It app(a.s to have been
of a kind peculiarly characteristic and eminently na-
tural ; playing easily, and without the least effort ; per-
fectly suited to his placid nature, by being what Claren-
don says of Charles 11., a pleasant, affable, recom-
mending sort of wit ;' wholly unpretending ; so
exquisitely suited to the occasion that it never failed of
effect, yet so readily produced, and so entirely unambiti-
ous, that although it had occurred to nobody before,
every one wondered it had not suggested itself to all.
A few only of his sayings have reached us, and these,
as might be expected, are rather things which he had
chanced to coat over with some sarcasm or epigram
that tended to preserve them ; they consequently
are far from giving an idea of his habitual plea
sentry a-id the gaiety of thought which generally
pervaded his speeches. Thus, when a vehement de-
claimer, call.ng aloud for his (Lord North's) head,
turned round and perceived his victim unconsciously
indulging in a soft slumber, and, becoming still more
exasperated, denounced the Minister as capable of
sleeping while he ruined his country—th© latter only
complained how cruel it was to be denied a solace
which other criminals so often enjoyed, that of bavisg a '
night's rest before their fate. When surprised in a
like indulgende during the performance of a very in-
ferior artist, who, however, showed equal indignation
at so ill-timed a recreation, he contented himself with
observing how hard it was that he should be grudged
so very natural a release from considerable suffering ;
but, as if recollecting himself, added, that it was some-
what unjust in the gentleman to complain of him for
taking the remedy which he had himself been conside-
rate enough to administer. The same good-humour and
drollery quitted him not when in opposition. Every one
has heard of the speech which, if it had failed toinjure the
object of its attack, was very effectual in affixing a name
upon its honest and much respected author. On Mr.
Martin's proposal to have a starling placed near the
chair, and taught to repeat the cry of Infamous coali-
tion !' Lord North coolly suggested that, as long as the
worthy Member was preserved to them, it would be a
needless waste of the public money, since the starling
might well perform his office. by deputy. That in so-
ciety such a man must have been the most delightful of
companions may be well supposed. In his family, and
in all his private intercouse, as in his personal character,
he was known to be in every respect amiable ; of scru-
pulous integrity and unsullied honour."
LORD CHATHAM AS A PRIVATE MAN.
" It remains to speak of Lord Chatham as a private
man, and he appears to have been in all respects ex-
emplary and amiable. His disposition was exceedingly
affectionate. The pride, bordering upon insolence, in which
he showed himself encased to the world, fell naturally
from him, and without any effort to put it off, as he crossed
the threshold of his own door. To all his family he
was simple, kindly, and gentle. His pursuits were of
a nature that showed how much he loved to unbend
himself. He delighted in poety and other light read-
ing ; was fond of music ; loved the country ; took pe-
culiar pleasure in gardening ; and had even an extremely
happy taste in laying out grounds. His early education
appears to have been further prosecuted afterwards ; and
he was familiar with the Latin classics, although there
is no reason to believe that he had much acquaintance
with the Greek. In all our own classical writers he was
well versed ; and his time was much given to reading
them. A correspondence with his nephew, which Lord
Grenville published about five and thirty years ago,
showed how simple and classical his tastes were, how
affectionate his feelings, and how strong his sense of
both moral and religious duty. These letters are re-
printed in a work now in the course of publication by
the family of Lord Chatham, because the answers have

EXTENT OF « OUR" COLONIAL

POSSESSIONS.

In North America.—Upper and Lower Canada,
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island,
Cape Breton, and Newfoundland ; containing an area
of 435,000 square miles, or 279,400,000 acres, with a
population of 1,500,000 of white colonists.
In South America.—Demerara, Essequibo, Berbice,
Honduras, and the Falkland Islands ; containing an
area of 165,000 square miles, or 105,600,000 acres,
with a population of 120,000.
In the West Indies.—Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago,
Grenada, St. Vir cent, Barbadoes, Montserrat, Nevis,
St, Kitts, Arguilla, Tortola, and the Virgin Isles, New
Providence, 'and the Bahama Islands, and St. George's
and the Bermuda Islands ; containing an area of
13,000 square miles, or 7,720,000 acres, with a popula-
tion of 1,000,000.
In Africa.—The Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius,
Mahe, and the Seychelle Islands, St. Helena, Ascen-
sion, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Accra, Cape Coast,
&c. ; containing an area of 250,000 square miles, or
160,000,000 acres, with a population of 350,000.
In Australia.—New South Wales, Van Diemen's
Land, Swan River, King George's Sound, South Aus-
tralia, Norfolk Island, &c. ; containing an area of
500,000 square miles, or 320,000 acres, with a popula-
tion of 120,000.
In Asia.—C,tylon ; containing an area of 24,644
square miles, or 11,771,136 acres, with a population of
1,000,000.
In Europe.—Gibraltar, Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cepha-
lonia, Zante Maria, Ithaca, Paxo, Cerigo, &c., and
Heligoland ; containing an area of 1,500 square miles,
or 1,000,000 acres, with a population of 400,000.
Total.-1,750,000 square miles, or 1,120,000,000
acres, with a population of 4,490,000 of " British
subjects."
Independently of the foregoing, we have to add the
following territories, which are " under the management
and influenced by the Government of the East India
Company and the Board of Control in Cannon-row :
British Territories in Hindostan—Containing an area
of 432,423 square miles, with a population of 80,636,371.
Tributary Territories in Hindostan—Containing an
area of 563,610 square miles, with a population of
54,271,092.

since been recovered ; and it contains a great body of
other letters, both to and from him. Amongst the latter
are to be found constant tokens of his amiable disposition.
" The most severe judge of human actions, the
critic whose searching eye looks for defects in every
portrait, and regards it as a fiction, not a likeness, when
he fails to find any, will naturally ask if such a character
as Lord Chatham's could be without reproach ; if feel-
ings so strong never boiled over in those passions which
are dangerous to virtue ; if fervour of soul such as his
could be at all times kept within the bounds which sepa-
rate the adjoining provinces of vehemence and intem-
perance? Nor will he find reason to doubt the reality
of the picture which lie is scrutinising when we have
added the traits that undeniably disfigured it. Somo
we have already thrown in ; but they rather are shades
that give effect and relief to the rest, than deformities
or defects. It must now be further recorded, that not
only was he impracticable, difficult beyond all men to
act with, overbearing-, impetuously insisting upon his
own views being adopted by all as infallible, utterly re-
gardless of other men's opinions when he had formed his
own, as little disposed to profit by the lights of their wis-
dom as to avail himself of their co-operative efforts in action,
all this is merely the excess of his great qualities run-
ning loose uncontrouled—but he appears to have been
very far from sustaining the exalted pitch of magnani-
mous independence and utter disregard of sublunary in-
terests which we should expect him to have reached and ,
kept as a matter of courie, from a mere cursory glance
at the mould in which his lofty character' 'was cast.
Without allowing considerable admixture of the clay
which forms earthly mortals to have entered into his

British Territories beyond Hindostan—Containing
an area of 50,117 square miles, with a population of
297,054. _ _

Tributary Territories beyond Hindoatan—Containing
an area of -50,000 ■quare mites, with a population of
408,000.

Total--1,096,210 square miles, with a population of
45,612,517.

composition, how can we account for the violence of his

feelings, when George 111. showed him some small signs
of kindness in the closet, upon his giving up the seals
of office. I confess, sir, I had but too much reason
to expect your Majesty's displeasure. I had not come

THE ROYAL HORSE GUARDS
(BLURS).

Not long since we had occasion to_ call public atten-

prepared for this exceeding goodness. Pardon me, Sir,'
he passionately exclaimed, it overpowers—it oppresses
me ! ' and he burst into tears in the presence of
one who, as a moment's reflection must have con-

tion to the conduct of the officers of the lloyal Horse
Guards (Blues), and we feel sincere regret in being
again obliged to revert to the subject. Our readers
will recollect that a police report has mentioned the fact
of the Honourable Captain Pitt having been taken into
custody on Wimbledon Common, he having at the time
two pistols in a bag. Beyond these circumstances,
nothing has yet appeared in any of the Newspapers, al-
though the whole affair has been the subject of discus-
sion in every circle at the west end of the town. The
story is this—and we shall be most happy to learn that
it is exaggerated, and most ready will we be to afford to
the parties implicated the opportunity of explanation—
the story is, that Captain Maynard and the Honourable
Mr. M--, both officers in the Blues, were walk-
ing along Harley-street at night, and, seeing a person
with a cigar in his mouth, talking to a female,
Captain Maynard turning towards him, said, " You
sentimental —," The person thus addressed in-
stantly turned round and said, " Here is my card, give
me yours." The officers of the Blues are said, we hope
untruly, to have run away on the instant. The insulted
man pursued ; lie overtook them, and was knocked
down by the lion. F. M. Again the Blues are said
to have made a start, but were ultimately seized upon
and taken to the station-house, where the outraged in-
dividual, insulted and assaulted, declared that he wanted
only their names, and that he sought not to press any
police charge against them. He obtained their names.
First he sent a message to Mr. M— : they met, and
in the first fire the ball went through Mr. M.'s hat. Mr.
M. fired in the air, and then, in the most frank manner,
apologised for the outrage that had beeen offered to
his antagonist, assuring him " that if he bad known he
was a gentleman he would not have acted so towards
him ;" which, being interpreted, means this, that we, the
Blues, will insult every man whom w
e can
no respectable tradesman '-
will we allow to walk the streets at night
with his wife, sister, or daughter, without insulting him ;
but we should be very sorry indeed to insult a gentle-
man—that is to say, a person whom we dare not refuse
to fight. What will their Colonel, Lord Hill, say to this ?
After tho fight with the Hon. F. M—, the injured
party sent a message to Captain Maynard, and they
were to have met at Wimbledon Common on the morn-
ing that the Hon. Captain Pitt, the second of Captain
Maynard, was arrested by the policeman. Now, one
word as to the individual whom these Guardsmen
imagixed they could insult with impunity. His name is
Jennings ; not a long time hack he was a private soldier
in the 10th Hussars ; there he acquired the respect and
esteem of all who knew him, and his friends, desirous
of giving wider scope to his action, obtained for him a
a Cornetcy in Kinloch's Regiment of Lancers, in
General Evan's army in Spain. His conduct advanced
him to a troop, and such was the gallantry of this soldier,
and the accumulated testimony in his favour, that Lord
Hill had, within a few days before this occurrence,
given
him a Cornetcy in (we think) the 15th Light Dra-
goons.—Observer.

winced him, was playing a part to undermine
his character, destroy his influence, and counter-
act all his great designs for his country's good. But
some misplaced sentiments of loyalty may have pro-
duced this strange paroxysm of devotion. The colour
assumed by his gratitude for favoars conferred upon his
family and himself was of a more vulgar hue, and still
less harmonised with the Great Commoner's exalted

nature. On learning the King's intention to grant him
a pension (in order effectually to undo him), he writes
to Lord Bute a letter full of the most humiliating effu-
sions of extravagant thankfulness—speaks of ' being
confounded with the King's condescension in deigning to
bestow one thought on the mode of extending to him his
Royal beneficence'—considers any mark of approba-
tion flowing from such a spontaneous source of clemency
as his comfort and his glory'—and prostrates himself in
the very dust for daring to refuse the kind of provision
tendered by the King in a manner so infinitely gra-
cious'—and proposing, instead of it, a pension for
his family. When this prayer was granted, the
effusions of gratitude for these unbounded effects of
beneficence and grace which the most benign of Sove-
reigns has condescended to bestow' are still more extrava-
gant ; and' he dares to hope that the same Royal benevo-
lence which showers on the unmeritorious such unlimited
benefits may deign to accept the genuine tribute of the
truly feeling heart with equal condescension and good-
ness.' It is painful to add what truth extorts, that this
is really not the sentiment and the language with which
a patriot leaves his Sovereign's councils upon a broad
difference of honest opinion, and after being personally
ill used by that Monarch's favourites, but the tone of

feeling, and even the style of diction in which a con-
demned felon, having sued for mercy, returns thanks
when his life h.s been spared. The pain of defacing
any portion of so noble a portrait as Lord Chatham's

___ust not prevent us from making the traits of a some-
what vulgar, if not sordid, kind, which are to be found
on a closer inspection of the original.
" Such was the man whom George 111. most feared,
most hated, and most exerted his kingcraft to disarm ;
and such, unhappily, was his momentary success in this
long-headed enterprise against the liberties of his people
and their champions ; for Lord Chatham's popularity,
struck down by his pension, was afterwards annihilated
by his Peerage."

-------7-7
THE E
AR._Yesterday a Lecture on the Di-
,eases of the Ear was delivered by mr.
Sutherland, of
Caroline-street, Bedford-square. The peculiar diseases
to which this delicate organ is liable, together with the
danger arising
from the treatment of empiries, and even
d
of those professors who do not make aural surgery their
particular study, were descanted on with great force. The
lecturer illustrated his subject by the introduction of two
patients, the extremes of each other in point of age; one
was nearly SO years old, and has been blind for upwards of
..
addition to which privation he was af
half a century—in
fliuted with total deafness, buttas
been completely restored. by the remedial measures of
Mr. Sutherland his hearing
The other case was that of a youth about 10 years of age,
who had long suffered considerable
venience from polypus in the ”r, which he had entirely re-
moved without the slightest pain to the patient,
who is now
in the enjoyment of perfect health. The lecturer observed
that by a method peculiarly his own, he had frequently ap-
plied magnetism, and in many cases with the happiest re-
sults; but he reserved what he had further to say on this
subject until his second lecture, in
which he intended to
treat more fully
upon the structure of the internal ear, the
diseases incident thereto, and the mode of treatment most
likely to be attended with results beneficial to the patient.
USE OF A HAT.—The whole use of a hat is
probably not generally known—it is of more use than
covering the head. If, when a person fell overboard, he
had the presence of mind to instantly take off his hat, and
hold the brim of it to his chin, so that the hollow would be
upwards, it would keep him above the water as long as
ever he could hold it. This has been tried, and actually
proved correct.

posely not expressed, and abundant protestations of con-
science and duty, in which they who keep the con- ,
sciences of Kings are somewhat apt to indulge. I , FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
"It is obvious that to give any examples that could The name and case of Mr. Clotworthy Dobbin
at all convey an idea of this kind of vamped up, outside, Devitt may still be fresh in the recollection of our
delusive, nay, almost fraudulent oratory would be im- readers ; but as they are shortly to be again brought
possible. But one or two p es may' be rehearsed. before the public, we shall now briefly advert to them.
When he had, in 1788 first a
intrigued actively with the I For upwards of seventeen years Mr. Devitt filled a
Whigs and the Prince upon the Regency question, be- highly confidential situation in the General Post-office
ing apparently inclined to prevent his former colleague, i in Ireland, the duties of which he might now be ful-
and now competitor, from clutching that prize—sud-
filling, had he not been so unfortunate as to discover a
denly discovering
from one of the physicians the ap- i system of fraud in existence in that department,
proaching convalesence of the Royal patient, he at one I and of so extensive a character as probably
moment's warning quitted the Carlton House party, and i to form one of the reasons for the late con-
came down, with an assurance unknown to all besides, solidation of the Post-office department. These
perhaps even to himself not known before, and frauds he, however, disclosed so soon as he dis-
in his place undertook the defence of the King's covered them, and they formed the subject of a long and
rights against laborious investigation by the Earl of Rosse, then one
concluding sentencebs son and his partisans. The
of this unheard of performance
of the Postmasters-General, which terminated in the
was calculated to set all belief at defiance coming from
dismissal of some, and the prosecution of others con-
the man and in the circumstances. It assumed,, for the corned. In all these proceedings it appears that Mr.
sake of greater impressiveness, the form of a prayer, Devitt took an active and prominent part, and was
though certainly it was not poured out in the notes of mainly instrumental in bringing to merited punishment
supplication, but rather rung forth in the sounds that the parties implicated. But what was his reward?
weekly call men to the service : And when I forget
de-
my Sovereign, may Why, dismissal. He who had detected the
Whereupon linquents was punished along with them. This
Wilkes, seated my God forget me !'
may, however, have been a mistake, as that
known him upon the foot of the throne, and who had
long and well, is re orted to have said, order was, on an explanation being given, immediately
p
somewhat coarsely but not unhappily, it must be al- rescinded ; yet subsequent proceedings negative this
lowed, Forget you ? He'll see you first.' supposition, as will presently appear.
Another speech in a different vein is preserved, and Whether the overzeal of Mr.
_Devitt may have car-
shows
a noble character who was remarkable vied him too far in these matters we cannot say, but
some powers of droller certainly. In the same
debates,it does appear that a hostile feeling in a certain quarter
for his delicacy and formal adherence to etiquette, was excited against him, and that many and various an-
having indeed filled diplomatic stations during noyances were adopted towards him ; and that he was
great p irt of his life, had cited certain resolu- forced, in order to procure an inquiry into the reasons
for it, to address a letter to Earl Grey, then at the tions passed at the Thatched House Tavern by
some great party meeting. In adverting to these, Lord head of the Government, praying it. Earl Grey
Thurlow said, As to what the Noble Lord told you that appears to have acted with much decision in this
he had heardat the ale-house.' The effects of this humour, matter. He instantly acceded to Mr. Devitt's
wishes, and a most searching inquiry followed, which
nearly approaching, it must be allowed, to a practical
joke, may be easily conceived by those who are aware ended in a manner satisfactory to Mr. Divett,
how much more certain in both Houses of Parliament though not so to some others, and which convinced
the success of such things always is than of the most re-
the Government, that a reform in the Irish branch of
fined and exalted wit. Upon another occasion, his the department was absolutely necessary.
Steps were soon after taken with this view. The Score-
misanthropy, or rather his great contempt of ail man,
kind, broke out characteristically enough. This pre- tary and others were removed, and the whole establish-
vailing feeling of his mind made all respect testified to- ment placed under the control of the English Postmaster-
wards any person, all praise bestowed upon men, nay, General. Although Mr. Devitt was the chief cause of
all defence of them under attack, extremely distasteful these changes, all of which appear to have' worked well,
to him ; indeed, almost matter of personal offence. So yet it appears that he, who may be supposed to have
once, having occasion to mention some public func-
entitled himself to a higher and a better position than he
tionary, whose conduct he intimated that he disap- had hitherto enjoyed, was positively included in the
proved, he thought fit to add, ' But far be it from me number of those who were on that occasion discharged
to express any blame of :my official person, whatever —and was discharged, too, without the usual retir-
may be my opinion ; for that, I well know, would lay ing allowance. He very naturally remonstrated--
me open to hear his panegyric.'"
pleaded his long service his tried zeal his ac-
knowledged talents—and his admitted fidelity, and
produced the written testimonials of the Earl of Rosse
and of the Hon. Judges Jebb and Johnson, who had
full official and judicial knowledge of all the facts and
circumstances connected with the case, yet without
avail. He even solicited to be told for what reason lie
was dismissed—what offence was alleged against him ;
yet that, too, was refused. But even there the cruelty
did not cease : he had a wife—the mother of a large
family and a most excellent woman, who, by the kind-
ness of the Postmaster-General, had been appointed a
postmistress in Ireland, who was destined also to feel it.
She,too, was deprived of her appointment ; and thus were
both, at an instant's warning, thrown, with a family of ten
children, without employment, provision, or means, upon
the world. He has made many attempts to obtain a
re-hearing and revision of the case, yet in vain. He
even brought it under the notice of Parliament ; but
Ministers, for reasons best known to themselves, re-
fused the reasonable request of a full and fair investi-
gation. Since then Mr. Devitt's prospects have
brightened, and instead of being an humble dependant
on, or an humble supplicant to the Government, he is an
independent English citizen, and is about to avail himself
of his improved position, to bring again and powerfully his
case before a British Parliament. That he is entitled to
a fair trial every one will admit ; but even more than this,
that he is entitled to such a review—a rehearing of the
case as he seeks, we contend. His first dismissal was
in January, 1830, after the close of the investigation of
the frauds discovered by him, and when all the circum-
stances connected with him and it were fully known to
the Government. Yet with this full knowledge he was,
upon the prompt remonstrances of the Earl of Rosse,
restored on the 29th April following. If he were im-
plicated in any of the transactions which he exposed,
which is not alleged, and which was not believed by
Lord Rosse, or the Judges who tried the offenders, this
restoration operated as a pardon, and must be supposed
to have obliterated all previous blame, if any ex-
isted ; and we cannot therefore look farther back
in our retrospect of the case than April, 1830.
His next dismissal took place in February 1831,
upon the consolidation of the various branches of
the Post-office, and not upon complaint. If, under
this consolidated management, his services were not re-
quired, he ought to have been placed on the same
footing as others similarly situated, and have received
the retiring allowance. If he had offended previous to
April 1830 he should not have been restored to office ;
and- if he had offended between that date and Feb.
1831, he ought at the time of such offence to hate been
punished ; but as he was so restored-r-and as he was
not in such interim, so punished, ste,mnst infer that his
conduct was approved. and unexceptinnaNe.lsnd attri-
bute his dismissal to the circumstance' of the consoli-
dation alone. Indeed this must have been' the.
cause ; for why, if he had previously deserved
dismissal, not dismiss him at the time of his of-
fence, instead of waiting until the reason was doubtful,
and until he had acquired by custom and statute cer-
tain claims which cannot be objected to, without a
charge, and an apparently well-grounded charge, of
harshness and injustice ? A striking feature in the case
is that the Government have 'not alleged or stated
any grounds or cause for the dismissal. Now we are
of opinion they should have done so—that if he
was dismissed for offence, the cause of his dis-
missal should have been expressly stated to
him ; but as they have not done so, and
as Mr. Devitt continued in office uncharged with any
offence and unaware of any complaint up till the very
period when the reduction of the establishment, conse-
quent upon the consolidation of it, took place, it cannot
for an instant be supposed, and ought not to be alleged,
that any complaint existed against Mr. Devitt at the
period of his dismissal, or that he was dismissed on any
acccount but that of such reduction. Upon the whole
we consider Mr. Devitt effectually in office at the time
of such reduction, and fully entitled to be placed on the
same footing as his brother officers, as to the retiring
allowances.

His case will shortly occupy the attention of Parlia-
ment.

The Marquis Camden has purchased one of the
newly finished mansions in Belgrave-square, vis-a vis the
Duke of Bedford's.

When Prince Edward (the late Duke of Kent)
was ordered to storm Morns Tartisson, Fort Royal, on
the 17th of March, 1794, he placed himself at the head of
his brigade of grenadiers, and addressed them as follows :
" Grenadiers ! this is Sr. Patrick's Day. The English
will do their duty in compliment to the Irish, and the
Irish in compliment to the Saint. Forward, Grenadiers !"
THE LATE MR. JUSTICE PARKE.—On the
evening previous to the dissolution of this most excellent
man he called his family together to commune with them
on the important duties of a religious life and the conso-
lation it afforded to the dying Christian. " It was my con-
stant practice. (said the pious Judge) to read a portion of
the Holy Scriptures, and particularly the Psalms, in my
youthful days, and almost daily since I arrived at mature
age. In my desk will be found the Prayer book I used,
and in the margin of the 37th psalm my notes of the di-
vine impression it excited in my mind." At his Lordship's
urgent desire the book was brought by his son to the bed-
side, who, at the request of his venerable parent, read it
with due solemnity, the family at the same time responding
to the psalm ; at the conclusion of which his Lordship fell
into a calm sleep, and expired on the following morning.
The diamonds about to be presented to Lady
Elizabeth Hay by the Duke of Wellington were taken
from tke order of the badge of Saint Esprit, given to his
Grace by the King of France ( Louis the Eighteenth) at
the period of the restoration of the Bourbon family.
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—The 2d Dra-
goon !Guards have received orders to ;march early this
month from Manchester to Glasgow, to relieve the 15th
Hussars. The fith Dragoon Guards are also under orders
to remove from York to Nottingham. The Bth Hussars
from Dundalk, replace, this week, the Scotch Greys at
Athlone and Longford. The Scotch Greys are to be
quartered at Cork; they will halt at Fermoy until the Ist
Royal Dragoons embark for Bristol. Captain O'Brien,
of the 70th Foot, has been appointed Deputy Quarter-
master-General at Barbadoes, vice O'Halloran, of the 69th,
who sailed with the regiment for Halifax. Col. Mein, of
the 74th Foot, on being relieved by Lieut.-Col. Everard,
14th, at St. Lucia, proceeds, with the head-quarters of his
regiment, in the Elizabeth to Barbadoes, taking under his
command the two companies now stationed there, with the
draft lately arrived from Europe, and proceeds to Trinidad.
Major-General Sir Charles Napier, K. C. 8., assumed the
command of the troops in the Nottingham district, on
Monday last. On Saturday last the Lieutenant-Colonel
and Officers of the Ist battalion Rifle Brigade, quartered
at Weedon, gave a sumptuous entertainment to their late
respected adjutant, Lord Jocelyn, previous to his proceed-
ing to the seat of war in the East, on the banks of the
Indus. His Lordship at the same time presented the
battalion with an elegant chased piece of plate as a me-
mento of his regard. The 12th Lancers occupy the quar-
ters of the Inniskillen Dragoons at Cahir, the latter
having left for Newbridge and Dublin. The 6th Dragoon
Guards (Carabineers) move this month from Dor-
chester to Manchester. Major Grubbs, of the 76th Foot,
has joined the depot at Drogheda, and assumed the com-
mand of the depot companies in succession to Major Clarke,
who is underorders to proceed to join the service companies
in the West Indies. The 90th Foot, at Ceylon, will re-
move to Trincomalee, on the arrival of the 94th Foot at the
former place. The garrison of Barbadoes consists of the
b2d Foot and two companies of the Ist West India Regi-
ment. The head quarters of the 69th Foot, on board the
Elizabeth transport, were near being lost on the 29th of
Feb. On that day the transport was fell in with by another
vessel in distress and very leaky, having struck on a reef,
bound from Halifax to St. John's. The soldiers, about 150
in number, were all taken out of the Elizabeth and landed
at Shelburne.