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London, England, 1807-08-18 00:00:00

fl lions being sold for their fun value, although tl b
person retiring receives only the money actually paid
,
for his. Commisoion.

Fttsri•rttyct,
. . Commander in Chief.
Question subnistet4taanO3rdoft7esieral Officers, relative to
the Rank of Lieutenants who have been permitted to serve
in several of the Marching ReiimentS of root on lins:gn's
Pay.
" Previous to the.retlasStion of the forces in the
beginning of the year 176;3, the King was pleased to
direa, that none of the Ensigncies then. vacant in
the Corps serving abroad, should be filled up ;. and,
in • view to lessening the expense of the half-pay
Establishment, was further pleased to,dired,. that as
• many Of thy' -Lieutenants, who, by the Plan of the
Redation,, would have been reduced tO half.pay, as
there were vacant Ensigncies in each Corps, might
be permitted to. hold tliose Ensigncies. with the pay
annexed, and that they should succeed regularly to.
the first vacasat Lieutenautcies.—This order was
signified by Mr. Ellis, then Secretary at War, to Sir
Jeffery .Amherst, and to, the other Governors and
Commanders of his Majesty's Forces iu the West
Indies,: in the following terms •
" As each regiment to be reduced is to consist
of nine companies only for the future, haie the
King's commands to acquaint you, that if there are
any vacant Ensigncies in those regiments, as
many of the reduced Lieutenants as there are- vacant
Ensigucies have Hie Majesty's permission to con-
tinue in their respective regiments upon Ensign's
Pay, and that they shall succeed to the first vacant
Lieutenantcies.*

" In consequence of this His Majesty's Order, W.'
:veral of the reduced I,ieutenants were appointed to.
,act upon Ensign's roy,, and as fast as LieutenAntcie*
became vacant, were promoted to. tl4nl.
"But whereas it has happened in same Corps, that
LieWenants have. come iu either by purchase or by
exchange,: from the half-pay, before the Lietite-
rants serving on Ensign's pay could beProvided for,.
it becomes a question, whether they are to take
rank according to their first Commission in the re.
giment,, or only according to the periods of time
at which they respediively succeeded to the station
And full pay •of Lieutenant,„ as by the decision of this
point, it will be determined whether the Lieutenants
in those circumstances, or the Lieutenants who in the
interim come in by purchase or oxchante4 are to
have tie prve;:dence ?''.
Opinion of the Board, signifiedi in the Judge Advocate Ge-

news's Leiter.; dated January 29, 1766. •
have the honour to report to your Lordship their
unanimous opinion,, that the said I,,ieutenanlo 'COD,
ttnue Lieutenants in their respective corps, and re,
tam their rank; thQingn upon Ensign's Pay, ; iIX) new
commissions of Ensign being issued to them upon
the redeetien of their pay to that of Ensign, or of
Lieutenant upon their beingreslored to Lieutenants.
pay; both :wbi4ll w 41,44 be necessary if the former
Commission of Lieutenant should be considered as
superseded in the Regiment; and in conseciognce,
that they are entitled to: the precedence of such
Lieutenants.who may in the interim have come into
the respeaivellegintents by purchasga exchange, or
otherwise."

* The foßowing part of the Older was not afoot to the
Board :—" In yottr Rednelio►, Return you will bc *and to
specify the Vacancies, if any, and the Names of the Licuto-
nants that shall choos# to continue 'in Ow Regiments upon.
;hose terff4."
To a corntsued.)

1713L1C OFFICE.; Bow.SrazaT„...4Yeattirday John,
Green was brought before J. READ, Esq. charged
with divers felonies, Mary, the wife of R. Oliver,
of .Surrey-square, Kent goad; said, that on IV(onday
afternoon, the Igth instant, between three and fonr
o'clock, the Prisoner came to view her hOuse, as it
Was to lett, and she shewed it kin?. As soon as he
•was gone she discovered that two large table-Spoons
were missing. She went. to the door aaci saw the
Prisonerrunning.. She called out gf stop thief." He
was pursued, taken, And seen to throw the spoons
away. The Prisoner was charged withlt similar of-:
,fence by Elizabeth Fort, of union.-row, Kent-road,
in stealing a watch. He was Also Charged with a
like offence by Alice, the Aik 1-*e of John. Born, of
Union.c.ourt, Old Broad-street, in stealing a valua-
ble gold watch. The. Prisoner Was conitnitted for
• further examination, He lias lately returned from
New. South Wales.

01714,DHA1.1,.........ftaigis Mark, a sailor boy, who
had-ran away from his ship, and took refuge as a
pot.boy, with a publican named Wm. Carpenter,
was charged with having abscotided, with a O. now,
for which his master had sent him to pro:'nre change.
Alderman SCHOLEY ordered .the bey; to' be sent on
board the ship froth which he had run.
On Friday the sum of .564 in Bank Notes was
stolen from a box belonging.to.an healer in Houna
row, the amount of• his savings for 30 yearF.,, and'
which he had lately sold out Of the stoCks, and he
had been' silly enough to talk about it, and the cir-
cumstance a Alis being in possession • Of tile.
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was pretty generally known. On the discovery of
the robbery, .information was sent to. the
Otlice, Bow-street, and Adkins and Pearks were 04-
patched in pursuit of . the robber, and to endeavour
to recover the property. The Officers upon their
,arrival at Hounslow-searched every person belonging
to the inn when, ;the hostler reOdei, and the house
also, without being able .to trace the property, or to
discover the robber. TheOtfieersdetermined to' try
a scheme, and pretended to leave_ the town, but re-
turned to the inn two hours, and proceeded to
search again, when .they found the bank-notes
placed in the box belonging to the hostler,, whence
stolen, but the-robber rcnnains undiscovered.
FATAL EFFECTS or liOxibro.—About three o'clock
on Sunday afternoon, aottie persons in a public-
honse in the neighbourhOod of Sadlet's 'Wells, over
their porter, began to scan the titerits of some of the
-Prizefighters of the day ' . when the • debate became
warm ; at length two of the party, a carpenter and
an hostler, agreed to settle the dispute imMediately
'by a boxing match : each depositing a 'one-pound
note, which they laid as a wager; They withcireW to
the liold{ accompanied by the Company, and: follow-
ed by several 'spectators' The :ring being formed,
they sttlppe.4 and set to, 'They. had several knock-
down blows, can each side, Whbn after about t ini-
nnteir
.the heStler, whoSe.name
a bloW in'the ifOM46ll,*hiCh,d'eoiVed him ofbriaili
for sOnW 610'; wet ii taken ',apparently lieeliAS*,
and afterwards taken. tb bbit;ital,valew he died
yostertint"-

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