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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 31.—The Rev. William Grant Brough-
ton, of Pembroke Hall, was on Wednesday last admitted Mas-
ter of Arts.—The Rev. Edwin Eastcott, of Jesus College, was
on the same day admitted Bachelor in Civil Law.—The select
preacher to whom the Sunday turns at St. Mary's Church are
assigned for the present month, is the Rev. J. Lonsdale, of
King's college.—The meetings of the Cambridge Philosophi-
cal Society, for the present term, will be on Monday, Nov. 18,
Dec. 2, and Dec. I6.—The Rev. Thomas Wright has been in-
' stituted to the Rectory of Kilverston, Norfolk, on the presen-
tation of the King.

(CIRCULAR)--No. 471. WAR-OFFICE, 1822.
With reference to the instructions which have at various
times been conveyed to Army Agents with a view of preventing
over issues of public money, and of bringing to the immediate
knowledge of the War-Office. any irregularity which may ap-
pear in the pecuniary transactions of a Regimental Paymaster,
I am directed to call your particular attention to this subject,
and to apprise you of the necessity of your making, in all cases,
the earliest possible statement of any claims which you may
have to prefer against a Paymaster, as it is not the intention of
the Secretary at War to make any referenCe to you previously
to the surrender of the Bonds of a Paymaster or his sureties.
I am, &c.
W. MERRY.

(Signed)
To Regimental Agents

MILITARY RECORD
OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL ROBERT BRERETON,
Late Lieut.-Colonel of the 63d Regiment of Foot. -
This Officer was appointed Second Lieutenant in the late
104th Regiment of Foot on the 21st of August, 1761, but con-
tinued at a Military Academy till 1763, when he joined his Re-
giment, previous to its reduction. Ile remained on half-pay
from the reduction of his Corps until the 20th of January, 1771,
when he obtained a Lieutenancy in the 30th (or Cambridge-
shire) Regiment of Foot, joined his Regiment at Gibraltar, and
continued doing duty with his Corps, on a foreign station, and
in Great Britain and Ireland, till 1778. He was appointed
Captain Lieutenant and Captain in the 30th Foot in Septem-
ber, 1778. He served the two last Campaigns of the Amencan
war ; was present in the actions before Dorchester,. and on the
Santee River in 1781; and in four more inferior actions, during
the same and following year ; he subsequently accompanied
his Regiment to the Leeward Islands, and remained there until
1789. Captain Brereton went up the Mediterranean as Captain
of Marines, landed with Lord Hood's armament at Toulon,
and commanded a Corps in the action of the heights of Grasse,
Cape Buen, and in several other skirmishes in the attack and
defence of posts. He was appointed Major of the 30th Regi-
ment of Foot in October 1793 ; accompanied the'Army from
before Toulon to Corsioa, the December following ; was pre-
sent at the attack of the forts and batteries before St. Fiorenza,
and at the Sieges of Bastia and Calvi, in that Island. Major
Brereton obtained the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 63d (or West
Suffolk) Regiment of Foot, on the 27th of May, 1795 ; joined
that Corps at St. Vincent's, and accompanied it in November,
1796, to Jamaica. Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton was employed.
in 1798 in the suppression of an Insurrection of Maroon Ne-
groes, in the Island of Jamaica, for which service he received,
through the then Lieutenant-Governor, Lord Balcaras, his Ma-
jesty's gracious thanks, and the thanks of the Legislature of
the Colony. The Lieutenant-Colonel returned with his Regi-
ment to England in 1799, was subsequently employed, the same
year, in the Campaign in Holland, and was in the actions of the
10th and 19th of September, and of the 2d and 6th of October.
He was sent, in 1800, in the Expedition to the Coasts of France
and Ferrol, and was in the action when the enemy were driven
from the heights before that town. He was appointed Colonel,
by brevet, on the 29th of April, 1892—Brigadier-General, on
the Leeward Island Station, on the 25th of February, 1803,
and joined the Army at Barbadoes on the stli of Slay follow-
ing. Brigadier-General Brereton commanded a Brigade in
the Expedition to St. Lucie, and the advanced corps on the
attack by assault of Morne Fortunee, and remained Command-
ant of that Island till July 1807, when he obtained leave of
absence for the recovery of his health. He was removed, in
January, 1808, as Brigadier to the Irish Staff; received the
rank of ,Major-General the 25th of October, 1809, and retained
his Staff appointment in Ireland till the 4th of June, 1814,
when he received the rank of Lieutenant-General. He died
1816.

in
Two companies of the 58th (or Rutlandshire) Regiment of
Foot, marched yesterday from Chatham. One company is or-
dered to Harwich Barracks, and the other company to Land-
guard Fort. The above two companies of the 58th Foot will
be succeeded by two companies of the 10th (or North Lincoln)
Regiment, which have received orders to march from Harwich
and Landguard Fort, on the 6th instant, for Chatham, where
they are to arrive on the 12th inst.

[From the Journal des Debat: of Tuesday last.l
The following are the terms in which the Gazelle
of Venice of the 10th of October gives the details
of the last moments of the most celebrated of
modern sculptors :
" We have to perform a melancholy duty ; we have to an-
nounce the death of an individual, who was the glory of sculp-
ture and the fine arts--Antonio Canova. He arrived at Venice

on the evening of the 4th of October, and brought with him a
brother, to whom he was tenderly attached. They alighted to-

gether at the house of M. Antonio Francesconi,with whose family
Canova was connected by the ties of long continued friendship.
He was so ill upon his arrival, that he found considerable diffi-
culty in going up stairs to his bedchamber.
" From that night he began to experience violent fits of
vomiting, which came on every time he took the slightest
nourishment, and which were very soorl followed by a violent
and continual hiccough.
" Every asssistance was immediately rendered him by the
most skilful physicians in Venice, but it was with the greatest
difficulty that they succeeded in diminishing the frequency and
intensity of these two symptoms. They found it impossible to
eradicate the disease, and to open his bowels, which in spite of
all their exertions remained obstructed. The patient gradually
grew weaker and weaker, and at length, about noon of the 12th
inst. it was no longerliossible to doubt of the approaching death
of this great artist.
" One of his friends, M. le Conseiller Aglietti, undertook the

melancholy task of announcing the fatal information to him :
his pure soul received it with a calmness and resignation,
which formed a worthy termination to a life entirely consecrated
to works of benevolence and religion. When he received the
.sacrament, the sobs which sounded around his bed gave proof
of the sorrow of all the bystanders, and of the emotions which
were excited in their breasts by the lively piety with which the
sick man cast himself into the arms of his God. He dictated
his last will with a clearness, intelligence, and precision, which
distinctly proved that he was by no means disturbed by the
thought of the proximity of the moment in which he was to
appear before the throne of eternal Majesty.
" Some minutes afterwards, he fell into a kind of lethargic
sleep, from which he kept waking from time to time. He re-
plied to the questions which were put to him, and sometimes
spoke without being questioned; and at these intervals, which
occurred frequently, he uttered many religious phrases, which
were heard with veneration by all present. His friends enter-
tained for a moment a hope of preserving to the world one of
its noblest ornaments. _ _ _

" But neither the attention of his brother, nor the help of me -
dicine, nor the hospitable exertions of the family Francesconi, nor
the prayers of the town, which, from the first report of his illness,
had been divided between hope and fear, nor the wishes of the
great personages, whom respect, friendship, or gratitude, had
attracted round his bed, could protract any further the dreadfu I
moment; and on the 12th of October, about 44 minutes after 7
in the morning, the heart of Canova ceased to beat.
" It will belong to his historian to speak at greater length of
this immense loss, which, perhaps, will be only repaired after
the lapse of many centuries, and which will be felt, not only by
Italy, but also by the whole of Europe, since, as an illustrious
living author has said, when a man has attained to that degree
of glory to which Canova had arrived, he no longer belongs to
this or that nation, but is the common treasure and pride of the

whole universe."

FEMALE HEROISM AT SULI.

SULI, AUGUST 9.-CIIOURSCIIID had left to
blockade us Taller Pacha, and the Lelichtar of
the late Ali-Zebelen ; we defeated them, and
about one thousand two hundred infidels were
killed on the border of the Acheron, but on a
sudden Omar-Brione appeared at the foot of
our mountains with 15,000 men. We attacked
them, but in vain ; it was necessary to fight
retreating, with despair in our hearts, and fore-
seeing our approaching ruin, we resolved to kill
our wives and children, and seek a glorious death
in the midst of our enemies, but the Deity did not
permit the execution of such a project. When out
wives heard what was passing, they assembled to-
gether, and, after addressing their prayers to
the Supreme Being, said,—" What ! you will
assassinate us ! When have we refused to
help you—to load your muskets when you
fought on the ramparts ? How often have we
fallen on the enemy sword in hand ? In place
of killing us, give us arms, and we shall know how
to die gloriously.'—This Address changed our
resolution; we chose eight hundred of the
strongest women, and we gave them arms, the
men amounted only to 3000. The next day
we attacked the infidels--called the name of
Gon—Gon was with us—he redoubled our cou-
rage,'and we succeeded at length in beating the
Turks, and in chasing them from Suli. In this battle
:he women fought, armed with muskets and pikes.
I' hey took 250 prisoners ; on our part we took
1100 men, and four pieces of cannon ; and we
lost 167 men and 17 women."

DEGREES OF PRECEDENCE IN GEORGIA.—In
Georgia, a tract of country partly subject to the
Turks and partly to the Persians, a merchant is
less respected than a mechanic, and a mechanic
less than a husbandman ; but one of the most
respectable employments in Georgia, •is that
of a public executioner ; the profession is
deemed honourable, and the professors all
rich. If any man can trace a hangman amongst
his ancestors, he is extremely proud of it, and
never fails to mention it with exultation ; at the
same time observing, that nothing is so noble us
executing justice, and that the safety of the state
depends upon the extermination of criminals.
The County Meeting held last week at Bod-
min to consider of the Packet question, was
well attended by all ranks and parties ; and
the perfect unanimity with which the Re-
solutions were carried, is the best proof of the
common sense and weight of the impending evil.
Earl Falmouth moved the resolutions in a neat and
sensible speech ; and was seconded by the vene-
rable County Member, Sir William Lemon.—
Mr. Tremayne followed. It was essentially
necessary, he said, that Government should
be put in possession of the facts, and that
the interest of this, county and the country,
should not be whispered away. Mr. Tremuy lie
was authorised to inform the meeting, that
the Lord-Lieutenant ( Earl Mountedgcumbe) and
Lord Dunstanville, though unavoidably absent,
would cordially co-operate in every proper mea-
sure for averting the pending evil.