The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

OFFICIAL NOTICES.
(Ctitcui.An.) War-ffice, Dec. 24, 1823. .
Sin— I am directed by the Secretary at War, to annex far
year information and guidance, a statement of the daily rates
of allowance made to General and Staff Officers of ItlTirnents
M Great Pritain and Ireland, in lieu of forage for their horses,
for the ha!f-year ending the 24th inst. agreeably to which the
charges for the forages of the horses of the

proper charge has not been mad

are to be corrected where the
le in your :accounts, viz.
RITAIN.

GREAT B
Counties. Rate of Allowance. I

5. d.
Perks - - 2 0
Cornwall - 2 1
Devon - - 1 10
Dorset - - 1 9
Essex - 2 0
Hants , - - 2 0
Kent - - 2 0
Lancaster - .2 0
Middlesex - 2 0
Norfolk - 1 11
Northampton - 2 1
Northumberland 2 0
Nottingham - 110

Counties. Rate of Allowance
s. d.
Somerset - 1 10
Suffolk - - 2
Surrey - - 2 2
Sussex - - 2 2
Warwick - 2 0
York - - 1 11
North Britain - 1 11
Guernsey - 1 11
Jersey - - 2 1
The Counties in
which there are 2 0
no Contracts

IREI
Counties. Rate of Allowance.

.AND.

s. d.

Antrim
Down
Armagh - 1 7
Monaghan - 1 7
Cavan - 1 4
Fermanagh - 1 4
Londonderry - 1. 7
Dublin - - 1 9
Wicklow - 1 9
Kildare - 1 9
Kilkenny - 2 5
Carlow - 2 5
Queen's County 2 6
Louth - - 1 10
Meath
Wexford
Galway

2 4
2 4

Counties. Rate of Allowance.

Paymaster of the

1 8
1 9
1 8

Sligo - - 1
Leitrim - - 1 6
Mayo - 1 7
Roscommon - 1 6
Westmeath - 1 6
Longford - - 1 6
King's County - 2 1
Cork - - 1 11
Waterford - 1 11
Kerry - - 110
Clare - - 1 8
Limerick - 1 8
Tipperary - 1 9
The Counties in)
which there are,` 1 9
no Contracts )

I am, &c.
(Signed) LA V. SULIVAN.

(Cinctu.nrt.) War Office, Dec. 27,1823.
SIR-I have the honour to signify to you the King's plea.
sure, that whenever a vacancy shall occur in the Garrison un-
der your command, which in the ordinary course would be
filled up by the Governor without requiring the sanction of his
Majesty, through the commander in Chief, or otherwise, you
will be pleased to apprise me thereof for his Majesty's informa-
tion, stating at the sardi time the nature of the duties which are
attached to the appointment. —I have, &c.
Governors of Garrisons. (Signed) PALMERSTON.

War Offi Nov. 29, 123.
SIR-J have to inform you that from thece,
26th of DeceBmber
next, Officers commanding on the North American and other
stations, and receiving command money, except in the cases
provided for by my Circular of the 10th of January, 1812, will
be considered in the same light, with regard to their regimental
pay and allowances, as Officers holding Stafl'Appointments,
and will be liable to a similar deduction on account thereof.
I have. &c. (Signed) PALMERSTON.
The General Officer commanding his Majesty's Forces.

GEORGE R.
Whereas it has been represented unto us, by the Colonels of
our Cavalry Regiments in India, that a tropical climate is ex-
tremely injurious to all manufactured articles of leather and
iron, and consequently that the wear and tear of saddlery, and
other horse appointments is much greater in the East and West
Indies than in Europe, and that the established allowance of
off-reckonings is wholly inadequate to meet -the increased ex_
pence caused by such extraordinary decay of those articles.—
.And whereas, it has been found, that this additional expense to
a Colonel amounts on the .average to about one pound, three
shillings, and sevenpence halfpenny per annum, for each man
on service in India : our will and pleasure therefore is, tnat,
besides the present allowance of off-reckonings, a further an-
nual
allowance of one pound, three shillings, and sevenpence !
halfpenny shall be granted to the Colonels of our Regiments of
Cavalry, serving in the East or West Indies, for each Non- I
commissioned. Officer, Trumpeter, and Private borne upon the ;
regimental establishment, with the exception of the men belong-
ing to the recruiting troops, which are stationed in Europe.
And whereas it • has also been represented unto us, that our
Cavalry Regiments in the East Indies formerly received from
the Honourable. East India Company, a local allowance suffi-
cient to defray the expence in question, but which allowance
I was discontinued from the-25th of June, 1815; we thinking it
both just and expedient that the Colonels of our said Regi-
ments should be relieved from the loss occasioned by the dis-
continuance of that allowance, are accordingly pleased to direct,
that the allowance before mentioned, of one pound three shil-
lings, and seven-pence halfpenny, for each man per annum.,
shell commence from the 25th of June, 1815, inclusive. And
for so doing, this shall be, to ad persons whom it doth or may
concern, a sufficient warrant, authority and direction. Given,
&c: this 8:h day of December, 1823, in the fourth year of oo:
reign.
By his Majesty's command,
(Countersigned) PALMERSTON.
MILITARY OBITUARY.
Masoit-GErsznans.—Favicett, East India Company's Ser-
vice; vice ; Cooke, ditto, England; Atkins, ditto, Eas' t ;
Lang, ditto, ditto.
•
COLONELS.—Buckland, half-pay, 58th Foot Anderson,
Late of Royal illarines. ;
LIEUTENANT-COLONELS.— ROSS, half-pay 7th Foot ;
Lynn, late of Royal Marines; Clark, ditto; Grant, Eas't
India Company's Service, East Indies ; Wilford, ditto, ditto ;
; Elliott, ditto, East
Keay, ditto, on passage to England
Indies.
Alasoas.—Guthrie, 44th Foot, Fort William Bengal ;
McGibbon, half-pay, 62d Foot; R. Macpherson, East India
Company's Service, East Indies; Agnew, ditto, on passage to
England ; Dymock, ditto, East Indies.
CAPTAINS.—O'ReiIIy, 44th Foot, Fort William, Bengal ;
Cameron, half-pay, 95th Foot ; Stewart, late of 85th Foot ;
Hitchcock, late 11th Veteran Battalion, Exeter ; Phillips, Royal
Marines ; Judson, ditto'; Robertson,half-pay, Royal. Marines;
Lawson, ditto ; Sandys, halt-pay, Royai Marines ; Welshman,
ditto.

LIEUTENANTS.—Knat:±buII, Ist Dragoons, France ' • Sar-
gent, 44th Foot, Fort William, Bengal ; Richardson, 83d Foot;
Henderson, late 6th Royal Veteran Battalion ; Ritchie, half-
pay, 14th Dragoons, Dumfries; .Dickens, half-pay, 2d Foot;
Fernandez, half-pay, 4th Foot; Stanford,.half-pay, 6th Foot;
Morris, half-pay, 7th Foot ; Biddulph, half-pay, 9th Foot ;
Fairlie, half-pay, 37th Foot ; Glynn, half-pay, 40th Foot ;
Baxter, half-pay, 53d Foot ; Hall, half-pay, 60th Foot ;
Bridges, half-pay, 94th Foot ; Barges, half-pay, 83d Foot ;
Fowkes, half-pay, 101st- Foot ; Thomas, hail-pay, 4th Irish
Brigade; Cozens, Invalid Battalion, Royal Artillery • Ehr-
hart, half-pay, Royal Foreign Artillery; Leveridge, half-pay,
Royal Marines ; Beevin, ditto ; Donne, ditto ; Smith, ditto ;
Jeffreys, ditto ; Mackay, ditto ; Justice, ditto.
CPP.NETS,2I3 LATE VTENANTS,AND ENSIG if S—Speice,e4t4
Foot, Isle of Wight; Brooke Young, 83d Foot ; Sirath, late 6th
Royal Veteran Baualion ; Canino, half-pay, lath Dragoons ;
Barker, half-pay, 20th Dragoons, Hague.; Blennerhassztt,
Royal Marines, Ascension.; Wood, ditto, Martindale, half-pay,
Royal Marines; Menzies, ditto ; Cole, ditto ; D'Esterra,
ditto ; Cooper, half-pay, 37th Foot ; Bereng3r, half-pay,
41st Foot; Fitzherbert, half-pay 98th Foot; Lyst3r, half-pay,
Cape Rangers ; Sabine, half-pay, Waller's Corps.
PAYMASTE R. Nicolis, half-pay, 4th Foot.
So r.zolTOlt.—J . Wilkinson, Grenadier and Coldstream
Foot Guards.

MEDICAL. DEPARTMENT.—Deputy Inspector Morel, half-
pay ' - Staff Surgeon Dunn, half-pay ; Surgeon Carter, half-pay,
:kt Fcct. ; Surgeon Oliver' Wes;: Norfolk Militia; Staff As-
mistant Surgeon Johnson, Honduras; 2d Assistant Surgeon
G'Doud ; Hospital Mate Carter, half-pay.
CaAn.Arlf.—Jones; half-pay, 92d Foot.

The undementioned services due the 24th inst. viz.:—Retired
Full and Half-pay, Military Pensions to Wounded Officers,
Pay of Adjutants of Local Militia, Allowances to Reduced
Adjutants and -Serjeant-Majors of Militia, Foreign Half-pay
and Foreign Pensions, will be in course. el payment on the
15th of .January next.
We understand that Captain Graigg, of this city, together
with those officers of the Ist Royal Veteran Battalion who have
been recently appointed to the 94th and 95th Regiments,
which are immediately about to be raised, by order of Govern-
ment, have already selected upwards of 200 young men for the
shove corps. The attention of Government wiil doubtless he
directed to Captain Graigg, for his meritorious zeal and activity
in procuring subjects for his Majesty's service. This Gentleman
had at a former period raised upwards of 600 men for the second
battalion 44th regiment in this city, within the short space
of two years and nine months.—Lieut. Meyers of the
95th regiment, marched this morning with upwards of 150 fine
recruits for the 95th, to Kilkenny. He returns to this station
altetziving up his detachment.— (Cork Soutirrn Rep.)

In a preceding column we have given extracts
from the Paris Papers received since our last.
They are, as was the case yesterday, extremely
barren of political intelligence, with the excep-
tion of a Bayonne rumour of FERDINAND having
re-instated SAia in the Ministry, and a Madrid
article in which it is stated that the Council of
State is occupied with the affair of the amnesty,
which was expected to be promulgated on the
30th ultimo. The report from Bayonne is
most probably, premature, thought the King
of SPAIN has so often made precipitate changes
of his Ministers, that no measure of that kind,
however sudden or capricious it may be, can ex-
cite surprise. It is somewhat singular, that with
regard to the Amnesty, the Council of State is
represented as being chiefly embarrassed by the
capitulations which had been granted to different
corps of the Constitutional forces by several of
the French Commanders. These capitulations
generally stipulated that the lives and property
of the Constitutionalists who were parties to them, I
should be respected, and that the Officers should
retain their military rank. If the Council.of State,
therefore, had been constituted as a judicial tri-
bunal, and had been ordered to employ it-
self in the infliction of punishment upon every
person who had in any way served the Con-
stitutional Government, .we can very well Con-
ceive how the existence of capitulations, which
exempt great numbers of individuals from
penal inflictions, should embarrass those whose
office would be one of vengeance and no: of
mercy. But how it happens that the Coun-
cil is embarrassed in the preparation of an
amnesty, by the existence of capitulations by
which the operation of an amnesty is merely, as
respects certain persons, anticipated, is, we ac-
knowledge, entirely beyond our powers of un-
derstanding, unless, indeed, the term amnesty,as
applied to the forthcoming proclamation, is a
misnomer, under which there is to be fulminated
a sentence of wide-sweeping proscription and
vengeance !

By intelligence front Stockholm of the 9th
ult., we learn that the King has communicated
to the Diet in full assembly his answer to the

proposed measure relative to the publication,
of judicial proceedings. He states that he has
consulted the Supreme Court of Justice and the
Council of State upon the subject, and that he
feels convinced the publication of such proceed-
ings would augment respect for the laws, by giv-

ing every citizen an opportunity of teeing how
justice 'was administered ; but still as the question
was one of such importance as to require much
consideration, his Majesty rejects the proposi-
tion, leaving the existing practice to continue is
force until such time as the new Code may be
adopted.

CITY, Twedve o'Clock.-"--This being New Year's
Day, the Bank is closed, but the Stock Exchange
and Foreign Market remain open. Consols
opened at S 7 to at which price they are
steady. I do not hear of any Express having
arrived from Paris. A report prevails that Com-
missions have arrived in London from the Houses
of Assembly in Jamaica.

FOREIGN NIAREET. - Owing to the report
that SAEZ was again to take his seat amongst the
Spanish Ministry, Spanish Bonds loWered yester-
day afternoon per Cent., but this morning they
have recovered a little, and opened at 25i4i,9.0,
at which price they remain steady. The chief
business doing this morning in the above Market
is in the New .Austrian Loan, which is greatly
sought after. Owing to its being in the bandsof
great Capitalists, very little of it is afloat at pre-
sent. In Colombian there is scarce any thing
doing. In all other Foreign Securities the prices
are almost nominal.

The following letter, received yesterday, con-
firms the reportei victory of the Greeks over the
Turkish fleet :
" ANCONA DEC. 12.—Letters from Corfu, Cephalonia,
Trieste, and ealamata, confirm the defeat of the Turkish fleet.
Out of 52 vessels, only 22 have made their escape with the
Captain Pacha to the Dardanelles. Twelve have been taken,
burned, or run ashore, and the rest remain blockaded in the
Gulf of Lela by the reeks. I%lAvrtoconDATo is gone to the
relief of illissolunghi with twelve ships. It is said that the be-
sieged have made three sorties and gloriously repulsed the
enemy. It is even said that they have taken the traitor Bait-
N.AotnoTt prisoner. The inhabitants of Scapala, Schiathe,
and Schyro have put to the sword the troops which the Turkish
fleet had landed to reduce them.

—etters from Rio de Janeiro mention, that. be-
sides the titles of Nobility bestowed on Lord
COCHRANE, as Admiral of Brazils, a great num.
ber of Crosses had been distributed among his
Officers. Captain CROSBY had been madea,Corre;
modore. COCHRANE'S Correspondence relating
to his operations in Maranham and Para had
been published. In it he avows that he had no
instructions to go to the two latter places; but,
he adds, having followed the Portuguese fleet
that evacuated Bahia to a very great dist7.nce,
and being alone and without an adequate,,foice to
attack them, he deemed it most expedierft to givia
up the chase, and undertake an enterprite: whiefo
he was convinced was conducive to the i4`eresti
of the Brazils, trusting that his success would se-
cure the approbation of the Governmetit, ife
gives a long account of the contributionOte bed
levied, the manner in NvhicK he had orge4sedty
new Government, and provided for itso4o'eo,
and future adhesion to the Emperor.
announces his intention of shortly returning 4,1
Rio, when he would bring with him the bannere
he had taken.

ILetters received with the late Papers freak
Calcutta, state that the Governor-General iri
Council had, on the 11th of July, ordered foile
additional Regiments to the Presidenc7. 'These,
would, on the new plan, be equal to eight regi
merits. The want of a sufficient number of mili-
tary to perform even the current duties of reliefs,
escorts, &c., had been long felt ; and recourse
NVP.S had to irregular and local corps, and even to
new levies unattached to any regiment. It ap-
pears that the Siek Chief, RUN./ EET SING, 114;0
has lately so successfully invaded the country of
the Afghans, and placed himself on the throne of
the great SUBACTAGI7 at Cabool, or Cabul, has now
acquired such power, and with it the usual con-
comitant of usurpation—insolence, that in some
late discussions he even hinted he had many
Russians in his service, and that it would be easy
for him to get more. There can be no doubt
that the Indian Government will keep a watch.'
ful eye upon the future projects of RUNJEET
and the only poSsible cause for apprehension is,
that one Chief should possess
.the countries ori
both sides of the Indus, as is now the case with
RUNJEST SING.

The fluke of MONTROSE, we are happy
hear, is quite recovered from his late severe
attack of the gout.

Lady SOPHIA HEATHCOTE, we are sorry to
state, is indisposed, at her house in Grosveuor-

-square.

. .
The Daltu of ST. ALBAN,'I, who has fo,. iorne
time been confined with a severe fit of the gout,
is now in a greatly improved state.
PROSPECTIVE Drsconns.,--It is said that a
want of harmony is likely to arise between the
Argyll Rooms and the Italian Opera House, in
consequence of the , projected performance of
French,flays at the latter. It sew that the Fro-
prietors of the former have purchased the sane.
of the Crown for performing French Plays, 8..
Masquerades, and Concerts, which were to take
place under their direction ; but it appears that
the LORD CHAMBERLAIN has positively refused.
his licence to them, and forbidden the perform-
ance of French Plays. Of course it may be in-
ferred that his Veto must also be directed against
a similar performance at the Italian Theatre,
which do not possess the same purchased au-
thority.

The, NEW COMET was observed by a gentleman
in this town (Chelmsford) on Sunday morning, who has favoured
us with the following particulars :--" It is situated in the left
shty.ith:r cf Serpentarius, the nucleus forming nearly a right
angled triangle with the star Ras Algetimi, (a Hercules) and
Ras Althagas (a Serpentarius), about eight degrees south of the
former, and having about seven degrees north chelination,' and
252 degrees right ascension. The nucleus is not well defined,
and the tail, which extends about throe degrees, points towards •
the Zenith ; it is perfectly visible, though rot so large •or
brilliant as some that have arnearcd within: the lest tc.n or
twelve years. It rises a little before four o'clock, and may- be ,
well observed from five till day-break. The morning was very •
clear, and Venus, the morning star, was uncommonly brilliant, •
more southward, and below her the moon shone with great .
splendour, the shadowed part of her disk was beautifullY de.
fined, and it appeared as if surrounded by a faint