The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-24 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

The Seringapatam is to be commissioned at Portsmouth im-
mediately. :The following officers are appointed to her:—Capt.
C. Sotheby ; Lieutenants L. Davies and W. Dickson (b.)
The Dartmouth has been put into commission at Plymouth,
and Capt. the lion. J. A. Maude, Lieutenants J. F. Forster,
G. G. Stewart, and W. Molyneux, are apoointed to her ; Mr.
W. Blair to be purser.
The Snap surveying vessel proceeds immediately from Dept-
ford to plytnoutb, from whence she will soon after sail for New-
foundland, to resume the survey of those coasts.
The Primrose, at Plyinouth, has received her sailing orders
to proceed to the West Indies.
When the Niemen left Halifax on the 30th of last month,
the Athol' Argus, and Clinker, were in that harbour. The
Salisbury, Menai, and Rifleman, were at Bermuda on the 20th
of April. The Niemen is gone into Portsmouth harbour to be
paid off.
The Sappho has been recommissioned at Plymouth ; Lieut.
J. F. Navell is appointed to her.
Lieut. F. Phillips has been appointed to the Ramillies, as
supernumerary Lieutenant, in the room of Lieut. Willes, who
was unfortunately drowned,
Mr. W. Johnston, Midshipman, has been promoted, and ap-
pointed to the Satellite, in the room of Lieut. Grant, invalided.
Mr. D. D. Saumerez is appointed Lieutenant of the Argus, at
Halifax, vice lanes, invalided; and Mr. J. B. Driffield to the
Dotterel, in the room of Lieut. Duncan.

• Mr. It, Gore, Midshipman, of the William and Mary Dub
lin yacht, has been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.

MEDICAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.--The Eighth
Anniversary of the Medical Benevolent Society was celebrated
on Saturday, at the Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen-street,
his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, Patron of the So-
ciety, in the Chair, supported by Sir H. Ilalford, Bart., Presi-
dent of the College of Physicians, Sir M. Tierney, Dr. Latham,
and upwards of JO others of the first Members in each branch
of the Profession. After the cloth was removed, the Wiekha-
mist Grace was sung with great effect by Messrs. Fitzwilliam,
Broadhurst, Clarke, and Master Smith, and the usual toasts of
the King's health and that of the Royal Family having been
drank, his Royal Highness, in an excellent speech, in which he
proposed " Success to the Institution," stated the benevolent
object which its promoters had in view, in affbrding relief to
the distressed members of the Profession, and the great satis-
faction his Royal Highness felt in the increase of Members,
and the progressive advancement in the funds of the Society,
and which was afterwards more fully confirmed by the Report
of the proceedings of the Society since the last annual Meeting,
and the announcement of several liberal additional donations in
the course of the evening. His Royal Highness left the Chair
shortly after ten o'clock, which was taken by Dr. Latham, the
President, who, by his attentions, added to the satisfaction ex-
pressed by the company in the entertainment the Stewards had
provided for the occasion.

According to a statement in one of the last St.
Petersburgh Papers, Major-General BUTURLIN, who made
the Spanish campaign with the Duke of ANGOULEME, will
shortly lead to the Altar of Hymen the Countess of KOMBU R.
LEY, with a fortune of two millions of rubles—about 80,0001.
sterling.

SIR 11. HARDINGE and MR. BATTIER.

[FUOR A SUNDAY PAPYR.I
We are authorized to publish the following
Correspondence :
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U. S. Club, May 22, 1824.
" My DEAN HARDINGE—I now address you on the subject
of the message from Mr. Battier, referred by you to me, and I
shall begin by noticing his letter in The Observer of last Sun'
day, from which the following is an extract :
" But I have no doubt of being enabled to prove that nil
friend's signature was obtained to a document which he had not
thoroughly examined, relying on Sir Henry Hardinge's being
incapable of recording the particulars partially or untruly.'
•" In reference to the above, I need hardly say that the insi-
nuation thrown out thus, if proved, would have covered yea
with infamy.
" I have taken some pains, as you know, to investigate this
matter, and to place it beyond the contradiction of any man.
Although no one acquainted with you would consider you cap'
able of doing that which has been attributed to you, still it must
be satisfactory to you to see, by the accompanying document,
that the refutation is clothed in the subvantial garb of evi-
dence. I also send you herewith my note of the conferences
which took place betwixt Mr. Hunter, the friend of Mr. Bat"
tier, and myself, as well as copies of our correspondence. MY
reasons for denying that Mr. Battier had any claim upon you
are there detailed, and you may make such use of them as yo 4
may think proper; and I trust that the perusal of them will
satisfy every man of high honour, and every friend to good
order, that of acting otherwise than I had done. I should not
only have betrayed the best interests of society, but should ha's*
greatly compromised the dignity of the profession of which you
are so bright an ornament, had I hesitated a moment ha mY
refusal to suffer you to comedown to the level of a man who,
at the same instant in which he was making a personal appeal
of honour to you, was making to the world another in the un-
manly form of a foul aad flagrant calumny.
" I remain, my dear Hardinge, very truly Yours,
" CHARLES TURNER."
" On the papers of the late Colonel Western being opened
in our presence, there was found an exact cop
_of the statement
which bad appeared in the Morninn• Chronicle of the 15th inst.
relative 'to the duel which took place between Lord London,-
' elerry and Mr. Battier ; which copy we find was forwarded,.
with a note from Sir Henry Harding:. to Lieutenant-Colonel
Western, through Mr. Battier, on the Bth instant; from which
note it appears that Lieutenant-Colonel Western had previonsil‘
examined and observed upon this statement.
" There was also found another statement of the same officer
(Colonel Western) in his own hand-writing, which was in sub-
stance similar to that which had appeared in the Morning
Chronicle, and to which Sir Henry Hardinge had affixed the
signature of •H. H.' But in which statement several erasures
and alterations in pencil appear to have been subsequently,
made by Lieutenant-Colonel Western.
" There was also found a memorandum in pencil, relativo
to what took place on the ground, on a detached piece of paper-
(Signed) " CHAS. TURNt.:II, Major-General-
" T. HUNTER, Lieut. 18th Hussars-
.
" B. H. VIVIAN, K. C. B.
" M. FRENCH.
" Friday evening, May 21, 1824."
" 32, Grosvenor-place, May 22, 100-
"My dear Turner—l have received your letter, and the do-
cuments to which it refers and entirely concur in every 001
you have taken. I know Ineed not here express my acknow,
ledgments to you ; but I must state my conviction, after hale
ing witnessed Mr. Battier's incapacity to feel and act like
man of honour, that I could not, without degradation to my'
self and discredit to the profession to which I belong, have ex'
tended to him the consideration due to a gentleman.
" This conviction, if it had needed any additional force,
would have acquired it from Mr. Battier's recent attempt to
insult me in the street. His statement, that he ventured to
raise his whip over me, is false, and, as you know, is disprove;
by a gentleman, an eye-witness of what 'did pass. Be assured
no conduct of his can ever provoke me to alter my determine'
tion to consider him as utterly unworthy of my notice.-1 aro'
my dear Turner, very faithfully yours,
(Signed) " H. HARDINGE.”

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