The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-15 00:00:00

CHICHESTER ELECTION.

It is reported that on Thursday evening Mr.
POYNTZ was 26 a-head of Sir GODFREY WEBSTER, and
that it Was expected the Election will close to,day or Monday.
It is not a little remarkable that no regular publicity has been
given of the progress of this Election, so that the absent inhabi-
tants or freemen might judge of the necessity of their attending
to vote. It has .been observed; that the
right of Election in
this City is'net correctly understood, and which in all proba.
bility arises froM the error of Mr. MALE, who; in his book on
Elections, edition 1018, Appendix, p. xcix,' states, that the
right of Election is in " the inhabitants paying scot and lot."
The same Tor, and not the only One; pervades:Mr. OLD-
FIELD'S book cn tbe RepreSentation of the Country. Whereas
it appears from CAniw, p.. 1,14, and other writers, and by. the
Journals of the House of Commons, that it had been soleninly
decideyl,.; " thatthe cOmmonolity of the Borough, together with
" the free Citizens, had the right of Election." We arc in.
thieed to point, out this .error in Mr. MALE and Mr. 01.1)-
FIELD'S works, that the same may be rectified in future edi-
tions ; but, we believe, if the Journals of the Rouse of, Com-
mons were regularly gone,tlirough, from the reign of Et.l*A.
BETII to the reignsof GEopou the First, many other errors
will be found. On this subject, and many other p`l:4nts which
will necessarily arise out of a constitutional review of the Gren-
ville Act, and its effects on the Representation of the CouotrY,
we reserVe ourselveti for another. =anion. We cannot, bow
ever, but lament that Lord JOuN RUSSELL, Mr. LAMITON,
and the other Whig adVocates for Reform, entirely overlook
the r(4trnining effect:of this Statute , on the ancient right of
Election in many'phices, and we, equally regret the unanimity
which prevails among the Whigs to perpetuate oceasionality in
an the Close &roughs!

THE ,KlNG.—(Brighton, Feb. 13.) The
Palace report of the state of his MAJI:STY'S
Health to-day has heen of the most pleasing cha-
racter, and most cheerful is the effQct it has upon
the town.

On Thursday afternoon,.. soon after the arrival
of Mr. VANSITTART and. Mr. BATHURST at the
King's Palace, at Brighton, the Right Bon.
Gentlemen had audiences of his MAJESTY, when
Mr. BArituasT resigned his Seals, and other in.
signiti of office, as Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster;' and the KING was gracious)y plen6ed
'to deliver them to Mr. VANSITTART, who sae-
coeds Mr. BATHURST. The Right lion. Gentle.
Men had afterwards the honour to dine with his
MAJESTY, and returned to town yesterday after-
noon, soorriater three o'clock.

Yesterday Mr. ItnaiNsoN, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, transacted business at the Trea-
sury.

Having, as our Renders are aware, uniformly
and strenuously advocated the cause of the
heroic Greeks, we could not but severely regret
that thy' Deputies of their Government were not
admitted to the late Congress at Verona, for the
purpose of asserting their claims to the proles.
tion of Christendom. A copy of the Note of
the Creek Government to the Congress, has
been received in London, ;Ind we find will ap-
pear exclusively, in the British .11fonitor of to-
morrow, together witlyan account of an import-
ant arrest, which proves that the Prussian influ-
ence has been destroyed in Greece.

THE ARMY.

TUE. DECCAN MIME CASE.'
TREASURY CIIAMIIERS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1823.
PItESENT,
THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL, •
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER,
THE HON. BERKELEY PAGET
VISCOUNT LOirrn ER, ,
LORD GRANVILLE, IL SOMERSET.
[EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTE.]
" Their Lordships having,heard Counsel in support of the
Claims of the Marquis of HASTINGS 4114 the GRAND ARMY,
and 'of thoie of Sir THOMAS BISLOP and the ARMY of the
DEceam, and having maturely and deliberateliweighed and
considered all the documentary evidence laid before them, in
behalf of the several parties, anti the arguments of the Counsel,
—are of opinion, that the most just and equitable principle of
distribution will be, to adhere, as nearly as the circumstances
of the case may admit, to that of actual capture : and that,
although they are aware that the principle of constructive cap.
ture must, under certain circumstances, in a degree be ad-
mitted, the disposition should be to lithit, rather than to ex-
tend, that principle :
" They are, therefote, of opinion, that the mode of distribu-
tion originally intended by the Marquis of Hastings, would be
most equitable and just, with respect to the booty taken at
Poonah, Mahidpore, and Nagpore ; and that the booty taken
on each of those occasions respectively, should belong to the
,divisions of the Deccan Army engaged in the respective opera-
tions in which the same was captured : But that, as the division
of the Bengal Army, under Brigadier-General Hardman, ap-
pears to have been put in motion for the purpose of co-operating
directly in the reduction of Nugpore, and to have been actually
engaged with a corps of the enemy, antecedent to the surrender
of that place, this division appears to their Lordships to be
justly entitled to share in the booty captured at Nagpore ; And
that such other booty, arising from the operations against the
Mahrattas in the years 1817 and 1810, as may now be sub-
ject to His Majesty's Royal disposition, should be granted
to such divisions of' the Grand Army. under the command of
the Marquis of Hastings, and of the Deccan Army, under the
command of Sir Thomas Hislop, as may respectively have
captured the same. •

" Their Lordships are also of opinion, that conformably to
the letter of the Marquis of Hastings to Sir Tho Mas Hislop, of
the 12th of January; 1818, Sir Thomas Hislop, as Cornman.
der-in-Chief of the Deccan Army, and all the Officers of the
General Stair of that Army, are entitled to particiPate in the
booty which may arise from any capture by any divisions of the
Army of the Deccan, until the said Army of the Deccan was
broken up on the 31st March, 1818.

" Their Lordships have felt it to be inconsistent with their
duty to recommend to his Majesty to give his sanction to any
agreement for the common division of booty, into which the
several divisions of either Army may have entered, as it is their
decided opinion, that if the principle of actual capture be not
adopted in this case as the rule of distribution, no other correct
Or equitable rule could have been adopted, than that of a gene,
ral distribution amongst the forces of all the Presidencies en.
gaged in the combined operations of the campaign.
" Theirlordships do not consider that, under all the cir-
cumstances of this case, it will be expedient to recommend to
his Majesty to grant any part of this booty to the East India
Company.

" Ana their Lordships will submit to 'his Majesty their re.
commendation, that he will be graciously pleased to direct that
his Royal Grant of the said booty may be made in conformity
with these principles."

It is expected that Richard, Earl of Cavan, K. C. Colonel of
the 68th Foot, and Governor of Calsilot Castle, gill succeed to
the Colonelcy of the 4th Regiment, vice General Lister, de-
ceased.

' It is understood, that Thomas Lord Lynedock, IIC.B.; Co-
lonel of the 90th Light Infantry, will be appointed Colonel of
the 58th Foot, vice Lord Cavan, who succeeds to the Coloneli;y
of the 4th Regiment.
`The Urania transport is ordered to proceed front Deptford to
Cowes, to receive on board detachments :belonging to the 49th
and 55th Regiments of Foot, for conveyance to the Cape of
Good hope, to join their respective Regiments on that station. ,