The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-14 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

MEMORANDUM FOR REGIMENTS OF INFANTRY.
HORSE GUARDS, OCT. 3, 1822..

The COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF directs it to be notified, in
reference to the recent Regulations in regard to Officers' Dress,
that the Gorget is intended' to form part of the Officers' Equip-
ment, and to be worn on all occasions of duty hitherto esta-
blished by the usage of the service.
JOHN MACDONALD, Deputy Adjutant General.

Five Companies, together with the Head Quarters of the
15th Regiment of Foot, embarked to-day, at Liverpool, for
Dublin.

A detachment of the 3d, Dragoon Guards marched to-day
from Newcastle-upon-Tyne for Scarborough, where it will ar-
rive on Friday next, the 18th instant.

ROYAL NAVY, kc.

The new teak-built ship of the line Ganges, of 86 guns com-
manded by Captain F. A. Collier C.B. and K.S.L. lately ar-
rived at Portsmouth from Bombay and Trincomalee, ma the
Topaze frigate, Captain Price Blackwood, from Madras and
Trincomalee; the former left Bombay the sth, the latter Ma-
dras the 20th of May, and both the Mauritius on the 15th of
June, passed the Cape 25th July, left SL Helena 19th August,
and lay to off Ascension (where the royal marine garrison was
in good health) on the 25th of that month. These ships brought
specie, on account of, the Hon. East India Company, to the
amount of one million sterling, in dollars, rupees, pagodas, and
moors ;.which has been since landed and con veyedto the Bank of
England ; and both ships have come into the harbour to be paid
off, their crews having been absent more than four years. The
Ganges is manned from his Majesty's late ship Liverpool,
which was sold out of the service ; she was bought at Bombay

by a Persian Prince, for the purpose of being fitted out for the
protection of the trade against the daring pirates in the Punier'
Gulf. We learn by these ships that tranquillity prevails throughr
out our extensive Indian possessions, and that the affairs
of the India Company, generally, were never more pros-
perous. So much reduced are the new public expences, that
upwards of two millions of money have been transmitted
home from the Treasury within a very short time. The Mar-
quis of Hastings was in good health. The Glasgow frigate,
Captain Doyle was refilling at Trincomalee, for the purpose
of returning to, Calcutta, and to bring the Noble Marquis to
England, should he wish to leave his Government previous to
the arrival of a successor; and, in that case, General Sir Ed-
ward Paget was to proceed from Columbo to Calcutta, and
assumed the command-in-chief of all the troops in India and
its dependencies. The squadron under Sir Henry Blackwood
were thus employed :—a Leander, Rear-Admiral Sir Henry
Blackwood, Captain Charles Richardson, arrived at Trinco-
make 15th of May from Bombay, with part of the stores
from the naval establishment at Bombay, which had been
greatly reduced ; the ships of the line which had been or-
dered to be built there by the Persian builders, of teak wood,
are to be sent home in frame, that more employ might
be given to our artisans at home, in preference to the
native builders in that country. The Ganges has in conse-
quence brOught the necessary timber for one line-of-battle ship,
and part of another : some of it is of uncommon fine dimensions,
being 75 feet in length. The small frigates building at Cochin
China were nearly ready to be launched. The Tees, 28, Capt.
Coe, which arrived at Trincomalee from England, on the lbth
of May, sailed en the 28th with the dispatches she took out for
Bengal, whether also the Curlew,lB,has sailed. The Sophie, 18,
Capt. French, was at Bombay ; 'the Satellite, 18, Capt. Gore, at
Mocha • the Glasgow, at Trincomalee ; the Dauntless, 18,
Capt. Gambier, at New South Wales, Sir Henry Blackwood
had given orders for the squadron to assemble at Tricomale by
the 16th of July, as he expected Commodore Grant would
then have arrived from England to take the command, and it
was Sir Henry's intention thereupon to procceed to England.
It was expected the Leander would bring a freight of specie
from Bengal. The naval yard at Trincomalee was proceeding
with ; an extensive naval hospital was building there. The
place was very unhealthy ; Mr. Boyd, Surgeon of the present
hospital (formerly of the Leander) died there on the 22d of
May, of a fever, after twelve days' illness, being the third
chief medical officer who had died there within a short time. Mr.
Dobie, of the Leander' had been appointed to succeed him.—
There had been no newsfrom China since the Topaze left Macoa :
it wagunderstood the East Indi a Company's chief civil officers had
requested that, to prevent the recurrence of any future disputes, no
more ships of war might be sent to that quarter ; as the Chinese
always shewed an amicable disposition towards the subjects of
this country, the presence of ships of war there were not neces-
sary. When the Topaze left the Mauritius (15th June), the
Menai, 26, Capt. F. Moresby, C.B. was lying there. She had
taken three slave-traders from the Isle of Madagascar and toe
Mozambique Channel. The island was healthy. The Hyperion
frigate, Capt. Lillicrap, C.B. parted company from the Ganges.
and Topaze three degrees north of the Line, for Jamaica, she
having been relieved -at the Cape by Commodore Nourse,
in the Andromache. The Scaleby Castle (since arrived home)
and Vansittart, from China; Florentia, with one half of a
million of specie, on account of the East India Company, from
Bengal; the George Home and Hannah, free traders, were
lying at St. Helena, homeward-bound. Major-Gen. Sir Pine
Coffin, late second in command at St. Helena had embarked in
the Scaleby Castle. The following persons came home passengers
in the Topaze :—Capt. Campbell, Aid-de-Camp to the Com-
mander-in-Chief at Madras • Lieut. Norton, late of the Glas-
gow ; Lieut. Cockfell, late of the Leander ; Mr. Lush, Deputy
Provost-marshal at New South Wales ; Mr. Bligh, from Co-
lumbo, Mr. Alexander Russell, master of the Topaz; was un-
fortunately drowned off the Cape of Good Hope : He went
aloft, during a heavy gale of wind, to perform a necessary ser-
vice, when a sudden lurch of the ship threw him off the main.
yard into the sea, and he was never seen again. Mr. Smartley,
second master of the Topaze, died on the 19th May. The
Topaze brought mails from all parts of India. The Topaze
was actively employed four years in the East Indies, during
which she lost the lamented Captain Lumley, and many
other excellent officers. Of all the officers, only four mid-
shipmen have arrived home who went out in her from Eng-
land. She was the first ship of war engaged with the enemy
in our present King's reign. Iler services in expelling the
horde of daring pirates at Mocha and Muscat, in the Persian
Gulf, were of the most essential importance to the trade of that
country, and in which we had to regret the loss of several brave
officers and men. Lieut. Moriarty, who commanded the storm-
ing party at Mocha, and to whom the country is indebted for
the success of the enterprise, was so severely wounded, as to be
obliged to return to England; he has since happily recovered
from his wounds.
A letter from Ascension, dated. July 19, says—" The Ily-
perion arrived here yesterday, on her way to Jamaica, and is
now landing provisions and stores for this island. She left St.
Helena a few days since. The Admiralty have been very at-
tentive to us, having, with other kind supplies, ordered eighty
suits of clothing to be given to the men, ho work as gar-
deners, mule-feeders, water-drawers, stone-masons, &c. We
are all healthy."
The Conway, 24, Capt. Basil Hall, was at San Bias de Ca-
lifornia in May last, taking in a freight of two millions of dol
lars, with which she was to sail direct for England early in
June, so that her arrival may be expected very soon.
The Morgiana may shortly be expected to arrive in England,
she having left the coast of Africa, for the Brazils, previous to
the Myrmidon's departure from Sierra Leone, whence she was
to proceed homewards.
An armed brig, mounting 18 guns, under American colours,
called the New York, anchored at the Motherbank on Monday.
She has been fitted out, fully equipped, and manned with 80
seamen, at Flushing, and is said to be bound to New Orleans ;
but it is generally supposed that she is intended for the Patriot
service in South America. We understand that she was
formerly the Mosquito, one of our 18-gun sloops. The greater
part of her crew have left her since her arrival.
A small promotion of Medical Officers of the Navy has taken
place recently. Messrs. Rae, Greenish, and Rogan, Assistant
Surgeons, have, among others, been made Surgeons, and seve-
ral have added to the list of Assistants.—The Rev. Mr. 'White-
head, late Chaplain of the Gloucester has been appointed to the
Phaeton. Lieut. H. H. Cock has also joined that ship ; and
her former Master, Mr. Joseph Higgs, has been re-appointed
to her.
Saturday morning the Hon. Company's ship Vansittart, from
China, passed by Portsmouth for the river, last from St. Helena,
whence she sailed on the 17th of August. The purser landed
at Portsmouth with dispatches and mails, with which he set off
for London at 2p. m. The Scaleby Castle, from China, and
the chartered • ship Florentia, from Bengal, with 500,0001. in
specie, for the East India Company, went past on Thursday
morning. The Hyperion frigate, Captain Lillicrap, arrived at
St. Helena, the 13th August, on her passage from the Cape to
Jamaica. His Majesty's ships Heron and Baracouta arrived
at the Cape of Good Hope on the 4th July, and his Majesty's
ship Leven, the Bth, from England.
The equinoctial gales have blown with considerable violence
during the week, but with no injury to the ships lying at Ports-
mouth. The Active frigate, Capt. Andrew King, for Madeira
and Jamaica, was forced back to St. Helen's yesterday se'n-
night, whence she sailed again on Saturday, the wind having
shifted to the S.S.E. The Circassian, for Bengal, and several
other outward bound merchantmen, have also sailed.

REGGIO, SEPT.I7.—The learned world has
just sustained a great loss by, the death of the celebrated
Natural Philosopher, Mathematician, and Philologer, the Che-
valier D. GIAMBATTISTA VENTURINI, Professor Eme-
ritus of the University of Padua, and .Member of many learned
Societies. He died on the lOth instant, being the last day of
' the 76th year of his age.