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BuLL-BArrtNo.---The Hon. Member for Gal-
way, it should seem, has it in contemplation to
bring his Act into operation against Bull-baiting.
For this purpose a question has been raised, whe-
ther, after the particular enumeration of cattle
made by the Act, the words " other cattle " are
sufficient to include the bull, who is not specifi-
cally named? and on the point a case has been
submitted to the ATToaNEY-GENERAL and Mr.
CONEYS, both of whom have given it as their
opinion that the words " other cattle" nre suffi-
cient to include the bull, though not SpeCificiilly
named in the Act.

THE ARMY.

THE TENTH HUSSARS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE 811 W.

Seaham, March 27, 1824.

Lord LONDONDERRY requests tine Editor of
THE SUN to insert two Letters from the Military
Secretary, Sir HERBERT TAYLOR, on the subject
of a Statement from Mr. BATTIER, which ap-
peared in a Morning Paper of the 10th instant,
and reached Lord.L. on the 14th instant, in the
North of Ireland. It became his duty to ad-
dress his ROYAL HIGHNESS the COMMANDER-IN-
CHIEF on the subject of that production, at the
same time enjoining the Officer in command of
the Regiment in Dublin, as well as the Corps of
Officers, to take no step in consequence of Mr.
BATTIER'S proceedings. The necessary delay of
communication, added to Lord L.'s removal to
this country, has prevented his receiving an An-
swer till this day, which Answer is herewith an-
nexed for publication.

To LIEUTENANT-GENERALMARQUIS or
LONDONDERRY, G.C.B.
. (COPY.)
Horse Guards, March 22,1024.
MY LORD—I have had the honour to receive, and to lay be-
fore the Commander-in-Chief, our Lordships's letter of the
14th instant, and I am' directed to say, that his Royal High-
nese-ia not surprised that the statement of Mr. Battier should
have filled you with astonishment and indignation.
His Royal Highness rejoices, however, that your Lordship's
letter offers to him the opportunity of making some observa-
tions upon that statement, and of conveying to you, for such
use as you may think fit to make of it, his view of Mr Battier's
recent proceedings, and I will endeavour to execute his Royal
Highness's instructions to that effect as briefly as the subject
will admit, anti without entering into any unnecessary detail.
Your Lordship is aware' that when Mr. Battier applied for
' the exchange to the Tenth Hussars, he produced testimonials
of his previous conduct in the Fifth Dragoon Guards, and the
Eighteenth Hussars, whieNt were considered by his Royal
Highness perfectly satisfactory. These testimonials were
signed by Lieut.-Colonel Gordon, of the Fifth Dragoon Guards,
Colonel Murray and Lieut.-Colonel Hughes, of the Eighteenth
Hussars, and they spoke, without reserve, of his qualifications
as an oficer and a gentleman.
Upon his joining the Tenth Hussars, he experienced a re-
ception and a treatment from the officers forming the mess of
the corps, which neither his apparent incapacity and unfitness
for the duty of a regiment of cavalry, nor any exception taken
to his manner and appearance, could justify, and which were,
upon his representation, censured in the strongest terms by
the Commander-in-Chief, and drew upon those concerned the
expression of his, Royal Highness's unqualified disapprobation.
The communication upon this subject was made to Lord Corn-
bermere, who was desired to reprimand the officers, and to ad-
monish them not to persist in a course which would expose them
to marks of more serious displeasure.
Before, however, my letter reached Lord Combermere, the
officers concerned hat been convinced of the impropriety of
their conduct, and bad acknowledged their error ; and al-
though they may not have felt inclined to place themselves
upon a footing of easy or familiar intercourse with Mr. Bat-
tier, it does not appear that they, as a body, or as individuals,
subsequently afforded to him any cause of complaint which
could warrant further remonstrance, or call for notice from
higher authority, or which could provoke him to `.personal
collision." On the contrary, Sir Colquhoun Grant states,
that Mr. Battier acquainted him that he and his friends were
satisfied with the Manner in which his representations had been
met., an d.the whole affair arranged with his brother officers.
Reports were, however, made by Colonel Sir George Quen-
tin, through Lord Combermere and Sir Colquhoun Grant, of
Mr. Battier's utter unfitness for the duties of a cavalry officer,
abynddorifllthoer
instruction
to become c
of hi s ever
capable being
i p sufficiently improved
g of
doing justice to his
situation, or to the regiment. These representations were af-
terwards confirmed by a special report from Sir C. Grant.
Mr. Battier was, in consequence, told, by order of his
Royal Highness, that he had better remove from the Tenth
Hussars, by retiring to half-pay, or (as there was nothing in
the reports made which could affect his character as a Gentle-
man) with the option of purchasing a half-pay Lieutenancy of
Infantry, whenever the opportunity should offer.
To this Mr. Battier subscribed, and it was clearly under.
stood that he should quit a regiment and a branch of the ser-
vice for which he had been proved, and, in fact, had acknow-
ledged himself to be unfit, anti in which lie never would have
been replaced, if his Royal Highness had not been misled by
the testimonials of his previous Commanding Officers.
Thus stood.matters until the period of your Lordship's visit
to your regiment, and Lord Combermere's review of it.
Upon the occasion of the inspection of the regiment by Sir
Colquhoun Grant, on the 19th of November Mr. Battier con-
veyed, through Lieutenant-Colonel Tayler, his earnest entreaty
to Sir Colquhoun Grant that he would not expose his in.
competency by exhibiting him in the Third Class of Riding
Drill, and he again acknowledged.his unfitness for the situation
he held.
Sir Colquhoun Gram acquiesced in his request, and told him
in the presence of sir George Quentin and Lieut.-Colonel
Taylor, that as he could not appear at the Review, lie would
ive him leave of absence, of which he might instantly avail
himself; Mr. Battier stating at the same time that it would be
unpleasant to him, under these circumstances, to remain with
the regiment, and Sir Colquhoun Grant, knowing that Mr.
Battier was to be removed from the 10th Hussars, concluded
that he would at once take his leave—an impression which was
confirmed by Mr. Battier's leaving the Barracks in Vlain clothes;
and ceasing to do any duty, or to appear in uniform, according
to regulation.
Upon the 24th November, when your Lordship inspected the
regiment in the morning, Mr. Battier did not appear, and was
reported absent on leave, the official notification having been
conveyed to him on the 23d, the leave having been given ver.
belly by Sir Colquhoun Grant from the 19th.
In the evening of the 24th, when your Lordship dined at the
Mess, Mr. Battier thought fit again to make his appearance as
an officer of the corps, and upon this occasion, the circumstances
Occurred which form the subject of Mr. Battier's letter to me of
the 7th December, which he has published.
Upon receiving this letter the Commander-in-Chief ordered
me to desire Lord Combermere to call upon Sir George Qum-
tin for his reply to Mr. Battier's complaint, and not being
satisfied with the explanation therein given, he directed me
subsequently to write to your Lordship, and to express his sur-
prise and regret that you should, by your proceeding on the
24th November, have appeared to sanction, and have actually
sanctioned, a previous course of conduct on the part of the of-
ficers of your regiment, which had incurred his Royal High-
ness's displeasure, and had been marked by the expression of
his serious disapprobation:
Your Lordship's reply stated your entire ignorance of
the proceedings which had incurred his Royal Highness's
displeasure, and of the reproof conveyed to the Officers con-
cerned ;—it denied many of Mr. Battier's assertions, more
particularly that which stated that you had threatened to
take steps with his Royal Highness, the effect of which would
be " seriously to injure his prospects in the Army if he did
not retire from the INless," and it assigned, as a reason for
your proceedings the fact previously stated to you by Sir
Colquhoun Grant, that he had five days before given Mr. Bat-
tier leave to quit the regiment, of which Mr. Battier had
ac-
tually availed himself, by not attending any duty since the
19th, your impression (as well as Sir Colquhoun Grant's) be-
ing that he had left the Head-quarters of. the regiment. This
statement of your Lordship's is corroborated by Sir George
Quentin, who was present at your interview with Mr. Battier
on the 24th.
His Royal Highness ordered me, in reply, to assure you
that your explanation was satisfactory, and to censure in
strong terms the conduct of Sir George Quentin, in omitting
to apprise you of what had passed, and in suffering you to re-
main in ignorance of it when you desired him to speak to
Mr. Battier, and to prevent his dining at the mess, adding,
that his Royal Highness was confident, that if you had been
duly apprized of the previous occurrences, and of his Royal
Highness's view of them, you would, in spite of Mr. Battier's
ill and ill-timed appearance at the mess, have felt
anxious to concur with his Royal Highness in checking pro-
ceedings inconsistent with the principles of subordination and
the acknowledged rules of society, which therefore his Royal
Highness must condemn wherever they occur, and in main-
taining that respect for superior authority, of which some Offi-
cers of the Tenth had lost sight in the adoption of a line of
conduct that had drawn upon them a reproof of which they had
acknowledged the justice.
Having given this general statement of the circumstances
as derived from the official documents in my possession, I shall
proceed, in obedience to his Royal Highness's commands, to
make some observations upon Mr. Battier's statement, which
is an appeal to the feelings of the army and the public against
the Commander-in-Chief, whom be most unjustly and incor-
rectly accuses of having disiegarded his complaints, not less
than it is a libel upon your Lordship, and upon the regiment,

from which he has retired for the avowed purpose of resorting
to such a course.
The first parts of it are hardly deserving of comment. Mr.
Battier complains that the Commander-in-Chief had in private
visited the conduct of the Officers of the Tenth with his censure
and'reprimand, " but had not been pleased to publish though-
out the army any manifestations of this displeasure. --His
Royal Highness conceives that he may use his discretion in
the manner of noticing any representation or appeal made to
him; and that upon this occasion, he adopted .the course best
suited to circumstances, such as indeed did produce the desired ,
result, as must appear from the statement of facts I have given,
and from Mr. Battier's own admission.
Mr. Battier states that, while the officers of the 10th placed
him in Coventry, and withheld from him the marks of
courtesy which in civilized society, are considered due to
Gentleman and a stranger, each member of the corps ob-
served the cautious policy of shunning all risk of personal
collision.
He admits this. He expresses the feeling under which he'
quitted the corps,—a feeling of decided hostility,—a feeling
which leads him, when he had crossed the water, and, as soon
as he had ceased to bear a commission in it, to insult and defy,
not one member of it, but the whole corps indiscriminately,
and yet this individual, who would seem, from his own ae-
count, to have courted " personal collision," and who now
discovers grounds for insulting a whole corps which had been
denied to him by " the cautious policy of each member of it,
did not hesitate, very unnecessarily and very indiscreetlYs
circumstanced as he was, to appear at the Mess after leave
of absence had been given to him in consequence of his in-
treaty to Sir Colquhoun Grant that he might not be expoaed.
to ridicule.
It is reasonable to ask, what could be Mr. Battier's motive
for appearing at the Mess at such a moment, and with feelings
Such as he avows in hiti published statement? 'Were his ieteree
tions amicable or hostile ? If amicable, his subsequent invee
fives would betray strange inconsistency; if hostile, and eo: •
posed to be so from any previous expression in other queft,
of those sentiments now published, no better justifieeth-t:
could be found for your Lordship's exclusion of him froth q'e
flectioncsonwsiitdher wshiitc -whh 3iityr.
circle to which he sought admission.
unnecessary Aft After these
to
remnoatrikcse,thheis enaßoyaler Highnessr
Battier has favoured the corps of officers.
I proceed to Mr. Battier's comments upon the Commander-
in-Chief's conduct. He states that, "in consequence of you:
Lordship reporting him unacquainted with his duty, and unlit
for cavalry service, his Royal Highness was pleased to take no
notice of his appeal, farther than allowing him to purchase s
Half-pay Lieutenancy of the Eighth Dragoons."
As Mr. Battier thought fit to publish, without any previon6
permission obtained from his Royal Highness, my letter of the
17th of Feb. which acquaints him that his Royal Highnesshad
more than once expressed his disapprobation of the conduct
observed towards him by
.some Officers of the Tenth Hussars,
it may be presumed that it was not from delicacy or discretion
that he abstained from publishing also my reply to his letter
of 7th of December, of which I now subjoin a copy for yob
Lordship's information, and from which it will appear that
Mr. Battier has taken care to give to the public so much only
as would serve his own purpose, and to withhold the reasons
assigned by his Royal Highness for not noticing further what
had passed.
I am directed to add, that however disposed to admit that
Mr. Battier had experienced a treatment, while a member
of the 10th Hussars, which was calculated to produce much
soreness of feeling, and however willing to allow for the imita-
tion under which he quitted the corps, and even for the impres-
sion he may have entertained that his complaint had not met
with the attention to which he considered them entitled, and
which was in fact shewn to them—Mr. Battier's publication
appeared to his Royal Highness to be so gross a breach of dis-
cipline, that his first intention was to have recommended to
his Majesty that he should be dismissed from the service ' • and
I was therefore ordered, on the 12th instant, to write to hint,
and to desire he would state whether he was the author of it
but as this publication, independently. of the insult offered W
your Lordship, his late Colonel, and to the whole corps, cart-
, tamed also comments upon his Royal Highness's conduct,
which might be presumed to be personally offensive to liiin,
his Royal Highness has abstained from following a course
which a sense of duty to the service would have otherwise pre',
scribed, lest it might be supposed that he had been influenced
by feelings of personal irritation towards an unfortunate Oa
misguided individual.
I am directed further to say, that his Royal Highness can-
not sanction your Lordship, or the Officers of your regiments
taking any notice of Mr. Battiet's statement ; and to repeat,
at you may make free use of this letter anti the inclosuro.
I have, &c.
(Signed) H. TAYLOR.
A true copy, H. TA YLOIL

• " Horse Guards, January 13, unit
" Sin—Having laid before the Commander-in-Chief your
letter of the Bth December last, and having, by order of his
Royal Highness, made a reference upon the subject to Lieut.'
General Lord Combermere, and to Lieut.-General the Marqui4
of Londonderry, I am directed to acquaint you, that as hit;
Royal Highness had already, in consequence of the report
made, some time since, of your unfitness for Cavalry Ser.-
vice, expressed his intention of recommending you when the,
opportunity should offer for the purchase of a Lieutenancy °'
Infantry; he does not consider it necessary to notice furth.t!
what has passed in regard to you in a regiment which you lqu
not be called upon again to join, the more especially as it aP'
pears from the report of Major-beneral Sir Colquhoun Grant,
that previously to your appearance at the Mess upon the occP:
sion which produced your complaint, you had been allowed, at
your own request, to absent yourself from the Review of the
10th Hussars, and had obtained leave of absence, of which yo,
had availed yourself so far as any duty or appearance on paratiA
were concerned. " I have, &c.
(Signed) " H. TA StTLOB.
" To Cornet Battier, 10th Hussars,
Thompson's Hotel, Holles-street.
" A true copy, H. TAYLOR

The 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards has received orders fp'
hold itself in readiness to proceed to Ireland.
BRIGHT ox, I%IARCH 2.B.—The 7th Royal Hussars leave
to-morrow. The orderly conduct of the Corps during their
stay with us, will occasion their departure to be witnessed Iviol
regret. They will be succeeded at the Cavalry Barracks 11
the 15th Light Dragoons, some slight detachments of whit
reached us yesterday.
MAIDSTONE, 31Ancrt 30.—A troop of the 15th Hassel!
under the command of Capt. C. R. O'Donnell, passed throtlP
this town on Saturday, on their route from Canterbury t 0
Chichester.

[From the LONDON GAZETTE of Yesterday.]
Commission in the Forfarshire Militia, signed by the I.!°rd
Lieutenant of the County of Forfar.—James Cruichshank, Jun. Esq. to be Major, vice Forrester, deceased.

The following fact is worthy of honourable re.,
cord :—A widow lady, now living in the parish of Sebergharn,
whose deceased husband had been unfortunate in trade, and lc.
her with two children dependent upon exersions, began busi-
ness after his death upon a small scale ; and after twenty yam''
of persevering industry, finding herself in a situation to as-
charge her late partner's debts, she privately waited upon everaf
creditor, many of whom were in reduced circumstances,. an
paid the whole in full, to their no little surprise and admiratict
The writer of this (says our informant), who was a creditor of
the latter description, thinks it his duty to make so meritorious
an action public.—( Carlisle Patriot.)