The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-19 00:00:00

THFr ARMY.

GENERAL ORDER.

HORi7: GUARDS, MAY 13, 1824.—The Co3tsrAmmEn-il;t-z-
CHIEF having received a Report from Lieut.-General the
Marquis-of LONDONDERRY, that his Lordship had accepted
of a challenge to tight a duel with Ensign BATTIER, late a
Cornet in the 10th Royal Hussars, uponr a point which hit
Lordship considered to be one of militaiy duty,. his Royat
Highness has felt it incumbent upon him to submit to the King
a transaction at variance with the'principles of subordination,
and therefore of a tendency, injurious to the discipline of the
Army s—The King has consequently 'conveyed to his Royal'
Highness his Majesty's commands, to express his Majesty'i
concern and displeasure, that an Officer of Lord Londonderry's
high rank and military reputation should have committed him-
self in personal collision with a Inferior Officer, by accepting' .
challenge for any supposed aggression proceeding from the
- xercise of his authority as Colonel of the Regiment:— And
his Royal Highness has received his Majestysi further com=
minds, to caution Colonels and Commanding Officers froni
falling into any similar error of conduct, which must tend .to
subvert all discipline and subordination, and therefore to de,
stroy the efficiency of the Army.
By his Royal Highness
The Commander-in-Chief's Command, '
HENRY TORRENS, Adjutant-General.

[From the Loarittix GiiirTE of latt night.]
War Ojice, May 17, 1824.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. Henry Ramui;
from half-pay 14th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Thos. Jervis,
who exchanges, receiving the difference.
Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Breiet Major George
Brown to be Major, by purchase, vice Sir Honry Floyd, pro-
moted ; Lieut. Thomas Paterson, to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Brown; Cornet William Parlby to be Lieutenant, by put.
chase, vice .Paterson: James Themes Lord Brudenell, to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Parlby.
17th Ditto—Lieut. Henry .Bond to be Captain; by purchase;
vice 111`.Neal, who retires ; Cornet Robert Lewis, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Bond ; Hon. George Warren Ecl;
wardes to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Lewis.
4th Regiment of Foot—Quartermastcr-Serjeant Peter Bayne
to be Quartermaster, vice Kelly, deceased.
14th Ditto-,--Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Campbell, front
half-pay Royal West India Rangers, to be Major, vice Charles
Gardiner, who exchanges.
15th Ditto,-Captain John Gowdie, from haMpay 19th Light
Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Fox, appointed to the 95th Foot.
17th Ditto—Captain Dapiel CaUlfield, from the 44th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Halfhiae, who exehanges.
44th Ditto-:Xaptain Benjamin Halfhide, from the 17th root,
to be Captain, vice Caulfield, who exchanges.
51st Ditto—Vere Isham, Gent. to be Ens'gn by purchase,
vice Rice, whose appointment has not taken place. _ _

95th Ditto—Capiiiin Charles Richard Fox, frOm the 151 t
Foot, to be Captain, vice John Mitchell, placed upon half-pay.
UNATTACHED.—Major Sir Henry Floyd, Bart. from the
Bth Light Dragoons, tO be Lieut.-Colonel of Infantry, by pur=
chase, vice General Dowdeswell, who retires.
HOSPITAL STAFF.---Assistant;Surgeon to the Forces James
Barry, M.D. from the half pay, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the
Forces.
.111Estonwarrmsr.--The name of Ensign WILLIAM BAT;
TIER, on the half-pay of the 35th Regiment of Foot, is erased
from the Half-Pay List of the Army.

Commission in the Royal Westminster Middlesex Regiment

of :Militia,

John Richard Birnie, E 4 to he Captain.
Commission in the Carmarthenshire Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry.
Sackville Gwynne, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Rees, resigned.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lientenant of the Counti
of Wilts.

Thomas Tugwell, Esq. to he Deputy Lieutenant; Thomas
Baskerville Dlvnors Baskerville, Esq. to be ditto.
Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Marlborough Troop—R.
Codringtoh, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Ward, promoted.
Commissions in the Staffordshire Regiment of Yeomanry Ca-
valry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Stafford.

Cornet Thomas Kinnersley to be Captain, vice W. Kin-
nersley, deceased • Henry Davenport, Gent. to be Cornet, vice
Thomas Kinnersley, promoted; Thothas Cave B. Cave, Geit.
to be ditto.