The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-25 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

It is reported that the army is about to be increased by a
new levy of 10,000 men, of which number 5,000 are destined
for Ireland, and 5,000 for the East Indies ; the charge of the
latter to be defrayed by the East India Company.

It is likewise reported a Brevet is to take place in the Army
and Navy, shortly probably on St. George's Day. Every
,lleginient is to receive two additional companies. The Cavalry
is also to be increased in the same prorortion.—The whole of a
Regiment is never again to he sent to the Colonies or Garrisons
.abroad; if it consists often companies, six will be sent, and
four and a Field Officer remain at home.
The first division of the 99th Regiment of Infantry arrived
on Sunday, on board the Zephyr transport, at Portsmouth from
Leith, disembarked ;.esterday, and proceed to accupy the Bar-
racks at Gosport. The second division of the same corps is ex-
pected to arrive in a few days, on board the Diadem transport, at
Portsmouth, from Scotland, and is ordered to occupy the Gos-
port Barracks.
The 'present Earl Mount-Charles is Captain in the Clare
; it is supposed he will succeed his late brother in the
LieutenantXoloneley of that corps, and also in the representa-
tion of the County of Donegal.—( Cork Southern Reporter. )
It is repOrted that active measures are in preparation both at
the Ilorse Guards and the Admiralty, for causing a general
retirement. among Navy and Army Officers of each rank in
both services. The retirement, we understand, will be offered
to a certain limited number of all officers possessed of a given
seniority, who are to he put on a separate list, and receive the
same allowance as if they were on full pay. The object of this
regulation is, that the several lists shall contain none but effec-
tive officers. The general promotion is not expected to take
place before April.—( British Press.)

LITEUT-COLONEL HENRY HALDANE.
On the 11 th of January, 1825, died at Dunkirk,
Lieutenant-Colonel HENRY Ilat.pm4E, of the Royal Engi-
neerS, aged 68 years. He was the son of Colonel George Hal-
dane, of the King's Foot Guards, who died Governor of
Jamaica in 1759, leaving the subject of this memoir then only
an infant of three years old. The events of bis life belong now
to history more than 'to the memory of contemporaries, for of
his early companions in arms, there are not many who survive
him. He was appOinted an Ensign in the Corps of Engineers
in the year 1771. In 1776 he embarked for America, was ap-
pointed Aid-de-Camp to Lord Cornwallis, and was very actively
employed whether the army was in motion or at rest; he re-
mained there till 1781, when he returned with his Lordship to
England. Ile was- afterwards employed as Engineer in the
Island of Jersey, and at the New Works constructing at Gos-
port till 1786, when Lord Cornwallis being appointed Governor-
General of India, made Colonel Haldane his Private Secretary
and Aid-de-Camp. The influence obtained by these situations
needs not to be explained ; many of the acts of that justly-
famed Indian Administration, bear the impression of the mild
urbanity, tolerance, exactitude, and economy, for whiCh this
amiable man was so justly distinguished ; he might have made
enemies, but they would have been the enemies of ('ato had
they lived in his day. Ile had the sole and uncontroulled ma-
nagement of the: Governor-General's Privy Purse. lie was
afterwards appointed Quarter-Master-General of the King's
Troops in India, and was with his Lordship in all the actions,
sieges, and military operations, which took place during the
war against Tippoo Sultaun. He followed his Lordship to
England in the year 1794, and on his arrival found that he had
been recommended to Mr. Dundas, then Secretary of State,
for the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and, had he then obtained
that rank, he would, at his death, have been many-years in the
list of Generals.
When the Marquis Cornwallis was appointed 'Master-Gene-
ral of the Ordnance, he offered to his faithful friend and Secre-
tary the situation then vacant, of Commanding Engineer at
Gibraltar, but which, for reasons known to himself, he begged
leave to decline. lie was appointed on the Committee of En-
gineers, sitting at the Tower ; .and at the end of the year 1796,
failing his health much impaired, he retired on the invalid
establishment of the Royal Engineers, with his Captain's rank •
in that corps, and the brevet rank of Lieut-colonel, after a
.period of 25 years of active service.
' Contrary to the, till then, invariable practice of that corps, he
was not, in the year 1802, continued in the future Brevet Pro-
motions of the Army ; and he petitioned and memorialised the
Earl of Chatham, then Master-General of the Ordnance, and
those who succeeded him in that office, on that new, and to him
harsh, regulation. In the end he appears to have given oll'ence
to the heads of that department, by printing his official letters
on the subject, and Where his arguments seem answered by the
tic rob°, sic juYro, of authority. His high spirit thus publicly
courted investigation, in order that it might be shewn it was no
personal demerit in himself. . .
His integrity, courage, and honour, were without spot or
blemish. He was a man of great literary acquirements, an ac-
complished Persian scholar, and educated his sons himself. Ile
amused himself latterly in making an exact calculation of the
comparative Weights and Measures of France and England,
which he designed lbr publication, and he wrote a letter to the
Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's Government, towards
whom he always expressed the greatest gratitude, respecting
the proposed change in the Weights and .Measures of England,
which plan he highly disapproved.
To sinew the respect in which he was held in the town of
France, in which he bad resided with his family for the last live
years, the Officersof the corps of Engineers proposed to bury
him with full military honours, but, on consulting the Governor
of the Town, it was found to be contrary to existing regulations ;
but these Officers, together with the Field Officers and Staff of
the Garrison, and many others, followed him to his grave.
lie leaves behind him a widow and 14 children,_ seven sons,
and seven daughters. Of the sons, one is at the English Bar,
four have found protection under the father's virtues, having
been successively promoted by different members of the Last
India Direction, and two are of tender age. The daughters are
unmarried.

FOREIGN FRAUDS ON THE UNDERWRITERS
AT LLOYD'S.

Extract of a Letter from Henry Canning, Esq. to John
Bennett, Esq., Secretary of Lloyd's, dated Hamburgh, Dec.
21, 182.
Stn—l have the-pleasure to inclose, for the information of
the Gentlemen of Lloyd's, a translation of the sentence which
has been passed in the ease of Krieger and Marquardt, who
have been prosecuted for the frauds committed in the case of
the Dorothea. They will be found sufficiently severe to deter
others from attempting similar mal-practices.
(-Signed) HENRY_ CANNING.

TUANSLATION.—" At the criminal examination carried on
by the Directors of Demerara, and of the Admiralty, OcMelts
against the merchant Edward Alexander Krieger and consorts,
the Criminal Senate of the Royal Ober Land Court of West
Prussia adjudges accordingly, that the merchant Edward
Alexander Krieger,- is condemned, on account of rogueries
committed in regard to the assurance on goods shipped in Nov.
1323, by the ship Dorothea, to a pecuniary punishment of
25,483 dollars, and in the case of his inability, to ten years' im-
prisonment in a fortress. lie is also declared to have forB.!ited
the right of wearing the national cockade. 2d. That the Coun-
cillor of Commerce, Joachim Friedrick Marquardt, is con-
demned, on account of having cheated the underwriters in re-
gard to the insurance on goods laden by the ship Dorothea, to a
punishment of 7,854 dollars, for which, in the case of inability,
a:punishment of seven years' incarceration in a fortress is to be
substituted ; likewise on account of the great negligence of
making his oath as to the quantity of goods shipped, to a pu-
nishment of six months' imprisonment in a fortress, besides
which he is to be deposed from his office as Councillor of Com-
merce, and of the 'Admiralty, and'th.be'punished with the loss
of the national cockade." '
The case of the vessel above alluded to was, the Dorothea,
loaded at Dantzic, for Rotterdam and the Brazils, and insured
at Lloyd's; it appeared afterwards that the cargo consisted of
nothing but stones, packed up in trunks, but insured as valuable
goods. The vessel was afterwards lost, when they made their
claim on the Underwriters, which we understand fortunately
had not been paid.

DRI:ADFC.r. A FFRA Y.—On Sunday morning a
number of Iribhmen met at Bow-common, in or-
der to witness a pugilistic match between two of
their countrymen, which was prevented from
taking place by the interference of some peace
officers. On their return a general row took
place between the partizans of the two pugilists,
and coming to an open place, at the bottom of
Green-street, Whitechapel, a simultaneous fight
of about sixty of them took place. Many on
both sides were wounded. Information being
sent to Lambeth-street Office, several of the
officers repaired to the spot, and succeeded in
taking six of the most active into custody. One,
named Flynn, was so dangerously wounded, that
on his being conveyed to the London Hospital,
his re"i•l
divinesdecl:tredseinrvi danger.ce, The affray took
duringplace