The Sun.
London, England, 1809-02-06 00:00:00

'which it has been attended —both to the service and
to the country.
They who are conversant with the interior of
regiments, and are in t')e.habits of intercourse with
'regimental 'officers, will duly appreciate the'benefit
his Royal Highness conferied'on. that 'meritorious
'.class of men, by the abOlition of the 'rank of Cap-
,tain Lieutenant.
" His Royal Highness's regllations for the sim-
plification of reginiental accounts, and for the speedy
and frequent settlement of all regimental claims, are
,WOrthy•the highest praise.
he situation of the Invalid Companies did .not
escape the ,Commander in Chief's , notice. They
were great and useless burdens upon the public; and
the :soldiers belonging to them were, ehtfly, an ,
idle, drunken set of old men,, who paid for the
cense, they enjoyed, by being pillaged by their supe-
riors. His RoyalHighnessbronght these indepen-
, dent,companies into the present Veteran Battalions;.
orderly, well-diseiplined corps, in which the old
soldier's, while they are treated with the considera-
tion to which their former services justly. entitle
them, are kept .itt a constant state of fitness for gar-
'rison duty; and there is every reason to believe, in
ease of emergency, would be found, as far as their
* bodily strength would allow, efficient troops as
'any ,in the. serviqe. In the year 1 rm., in conse7
kluence of a representation from the Commander in
;Chief, the Government of that, day, with a
ty whici! dyes it infinite, honour, ,granted full pay,.
itor. life,, to all soldiers who became blind in the ser-
vice,; and„they.:otended this benevolence to the
soldiers who were discharged with. good characters,
as being no longer fit for service, from the Royal
'Veteran Battalions. :t
The Medical;pepartment of the, Army has been
very much meliorated under his .Royal: 1-I.ighneo
administration and it is now undergoing a further
reformation. ,

a The recruiting of the army has, naturally, oc-
cupied the Commander in Chief's most serious at-
tention :—the Country has been. divided into dis-
triisls ; Field Officers have been appointed to the su:.
perintendance of them; and certain it is, that, in all
the various plans to which Government have had re-
course for the furtherance of this service, the milita-
ry part of the establishment has been 'mind efficient
to its purpose. It may be proper to notice a :very
essential benefit procured to the cavalry by the Corn-
',Dander in Chief's representations; nainely,, the
equipment of a dragoon, at the public expence, as
soon as he is Competent to perfprtnhis duty.. The
provision of the articles of cavalry equipment here-
tofore unavoidably laid every recruit under very hea-
vy protra6lecl stoppages, the disadvantages of which
will be readily understood - by every person conver-
sant in regimental affairs.
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" Flow far .the discipline of the army has been
improved--the skill and knowledge "of the offi-
cers increased, and the capability of perforthing with'
Promptitude' and 'soccess, important and decisive
many uvres in the field; in presence of the enerny,.has
been acquired—will best be ascertained by the re-
sults of those cootlias in which the British
.troops
have been engaged with the French ; since the latter,
by a loft series of Warfare, and of samessfill eittet-
prise, hue become the terror of the other artnielt of
Europe,"

As the Duke of YORWS Income bas been equally
the subject of misrepreseiktation, it inay be proper
to take also the follos,vilig statement from the work
before us.:—.7
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" Amongst other subjects of calumny, on which the'
Duke of YORK has been attacked, some writers have.
assaulted him upon that of his income ;—that the
public have a right to know. the emoluments a
public. Officer receives, as well as the services he
performs for them, I most readily admit ; and, there-,
fore' having briefly stated the services of the'Com—
mander in Chief, I shall as brit*, recapitulate his
income :—The. following w ill be found to ben cor-
rea summary of the Duke of YORK'S' real Annual
Military Ineow, taken upon an average of the last
three yelis, (1 905, 1806, and 8070 from the
Papers laid before Parliament

Nett Pay as Conmandor in Chief
Bat alict fa:Ago !Allowance . , .4 ;

3 joo per A _an.
21? I)at Ann;
Total Pay as Commander in Chief , 1,3527
"Iris neceisary, perhaps, to observe that'the an-
nual pay of the Commander in Chief does not equal
the amount of the. salmi of, many of the junior
officers of the civil-departments oi the State, and
is far within the actual expenditure attendant upon
the situation.

Co in Chief of the 60h Regiment,

"-The inenme arising from the tst regiment of
Guards dOets not exceed j,OOOl. ,per annum, but it
is in no manner dependant. upo►t the Duke's office
of Commander •in Chief, any more than his Par-
liamentary income. of which , aOr person • may in-
form himself, who will take the trouble of consult-
ing the documents laid annually *before the House of
Commons." •

MMIDER.—On Saturday► winning, abort seven.
o'clock, the body of a man, genteelly dressed in
blue, with naval uniform buttons, and supposed to
be a nival Officer, was found in a shocking stat'c,
inhumanly murdered; cline by the gate leading to
the house of Capt. Hardenstle, and neat 'the sign of
the Five Belli, Mew Cross, Deptford. On exantin-
Mg the body, it was found that the throat of the de-;
ceased was cut fatally through his neckerchief, that
he had several cuts and bruises abOut'the chin and
the lower parts of his thee ; the back of his head was
much cut and bruised-, And his hands melt hurt, all
supposed to have arisen .frotn an obstinate defence
to save himself from being robbed—all his pockets
were turned inside out, but one ; in that was found a
small slip of paper, as part of a bill made by H.
Daniels on a Mr. Johnson, for hair-dressing. This
was the only trace t4sat came Out. An examination
took place in the afternoon, before the Magistracy,
and a great length, but • nothing of any,import, sb
as to lead to a detedion, took place,
A shopkeeper and his wife were; on Monday,
crushed to death in Little Cockney-lane, Norwich,
by the WI of a stack of chimnies on the roof of their
house.