The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, the Duke of Yon x held
a Levee, as Commander-in• Chief, at his Office, in the Horse
Guards, which was attended by between forty and fifty Mili-
tary Officers, among whom were Lieutenant-Generals Sir T.
Hislop and Skinner—Major-Generals Sir Sidney Buckworth,
Douglas, Darling;:and Montressor. The Levee lasted about an
hour, there not being any of the Officers presented to his Royal
Highness on any important business.
Two divisions of the 31st Regiment of Foot, consisting of
800 men, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Fearon, passed
through Maidstone on Thursday and Friday, on their route
from Portsmouth to Chatham, from whence they will shortly
embark for Ceylon in the East Indies.

( From Lost Night's GAZETTE.)
War-Office, Jan. 24, 1825.
2d Regiment of Foot--Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Jas. Flo-
rence De Burgh to he Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase ;
Captain John Johnstone to be Major, vice De Burgh.
To be Captains without purchase—Lieutenant ('has. Gird-
lesstone ; Lieutenant Edward Bennett Jackson ; Brevet Cap-
tain Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, from the 97th Foot, vice
Johnstone.
To he Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign Oliver Ro-
binson ; Ensign John Lewis King ' • Lieutenant John Small
Robinson, from half-pay 28th Foot ; Lieutenant John Smith,
from half-pay 27th Foot; Lieutenant George Mackenzie, front
half-pay 14th Foot; Lieutenant William Hunt, from half-pay
85th Foot; Lieutenant Henry Duncan Keith, from the 89th
Foot; Lieutenant James Robinson, front the 67th Foot ; Lieu-
tenant William Martin Lyster, from half-pay of the regiment ;
Ensign William Redford, from the 94th Foot ; Ensign Forres-
ter Owen Leighton, from the 56th Foot ; Ensign Richard Car-
ruthers, front the 26th Foot, vice Girdlestone ; Ensign Thos.
Knox, from the 20th Foot, vice Jackson.
To be Ensigns without purchase—Ensign S. Nuttall Fisher,
from half-pay 49th Foot ; William Samuel Torrens, Gent.;
William Ralph, Gent. vice Robinson; Lothian S. Dickson,
Gent. vice King.
20th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Edward Grant Stokes, from
the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Young,
appointed to the 65th Foot ; Scrope Berdmore, Gent. to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Knox, promoted in the 2d Foot.
26th Ditto—George Lord Ramsey to he Ensign, without
purchase, vice Carruther, promoted in the 2d Foot.
31st. Ditto—Lieutenant Colonel James Cassidy, from half-
pay 6th West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel ;
Lieutenant John Hutton, to be Captain, without purchase.
To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign anti Quarter-
Master Henry Astier ; Ensigns Charles John Hayman; En-
sign George Ruxton ; Lieut. Henry Harding, from the 89th
Foot ; Lieutenant Arthur O'Leary, front the half-pay 24th
Foot; Lieutenant Holland Lecky M`Ghee, front the 2zl West
India Regiment; Lieutenant William Booth, front the 65th
Foot ; Lieutenant Thomas Lillie, front the 48th Foot ; Lieute-
nant Alexander Douglas, front the 59th Foot ; Lieutenant Ro-
nald Campbell, from the 54th Foot ; Lieutenant Frederic Jas.
Ranie, from half-pay 513th Foot ; Second Lieutenant John
O'Gorman, from the 60th Foot; Ensign Colin Alexander
Campbell, from the 74th Foot, vice Hutton.
To be Ensigns without purchase—Ensign A saph Shaw, from
the 2d Royal Veteran Battalion ; Ensign Charles Primrose,
from the 73d Foot • Gentleman Cadet Henry Evans, from the
Royal Military College, vice Ilaymon ; George Francis White,
Gent. vice Ruxton.
To be Quartermaster—Quartermaster-Serjeant John W.
Waters, rice A stier, promoted.
37th Ditto—Cornet Montagu Harvey Grant, from half-pay
19th Ligh,. Dragoons, to be Ensign, without purchaSe, vice
Gardiner, promoted in the 48th Foot.
48th Ditto—Ensign Richard Gardiner, from the 3.7 th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Lillie, appointed to the
31st Foot.
49th Ditto—Richard Tyrrell Sparks, Gent. to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Stakes, promoted in the 20th Foot.
54th Ditto—Ensign Henry Fothergill, from the 64th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vise Campbell, appointed to
the 31st Foot.
56th Ditto—John Philip Hunt, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Leighton, promornoted in the 2d Foot.
60th Ditto—Ensign Richard Gibbons, front the 99th Foot, to
be Second Lieutenant, vice O'Gorman, promoted in the ilst
Foot.
64th Ditto—James Bunbury Blake, Gent. to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Fothergill, promoted in the 54th Foot.
63th Ditto—Lieutenant John George Young, from the 20th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Booth, appointed in the 31st
Foot.
73d Ditto—Adolphus Latimer Widdrington, Gent. to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Primrose, appointed to the 31st
Foot.
80th Ditto—John West, Gent, to he Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Thomas, promoted in the 89th Foot. -
89th Ditto—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Lieute-
nant William Harloe Phibbs, from the 2.1 Royal Veteran
Battalion, vice Keith, appointed to the 2d Foot; Ensign John
Thomas, from the 80th Foot, vice Harding, appointed to the
3lst Foot.
94th Ditto—Gentleman Cadet John W. Randolph, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice
Belford, promoted in the 2d Foot.
97th Ditto—Ensign Robert Prior to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Mitchell, promoted in the 2d Foot; J. M`Cas-
kell, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Prior.
99th Ditto.—James Murray, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Gibbons, appointed to the 60th Foot.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign Peter Kettlewell to be
Lieutenant without purchase, vice M`Ghee, appointed to the
31st Foot ; Gentleman Cadet Audley T. Grier, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, vice Kettlewell.
2d Royal Veteran Battalion—Lieutenant John Harris Ar-
nold, from half-pay 3d Garrison Battalion, to be Lieutenant,
vice Phibbs, appointed to the 89th Foot ; Ensign Thos. Gren-
ville Kearnes, front half pay 71st Foot, to- be Ensign, vice
Shawe, appointed to 31st Foot.
Commission in the Edinburgh Regiment of Militia.
Captain William Macdonald to be Major, vice the Most
Noble John William Robert, Marquis of Lothian, promoted.