The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-20 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.

J. Barrett Chant, Somerton, Somersetshire, grocer, from
Dec. 25 to Jan. O.
W. Is'?everd, Brunswick-street, Hackney-road, baker, friim
Dec. 25, to Jan. O.
T. Starling. lore of No. 7, Clarke's-place, Islington, book-
seller and stationer, from Dec. 25, to Jan. O.

BANKRUPTS.
Nicholas Truscott Ball, of St. Stephens in Barnwell, Corn.
wall, dealer, Dec. 30, Jan. 13, and 29, at eleven, at the White
Hart, St...Austell, Cornwall. Solicitor, Mr. Burnley, St.
Austell.
George Lamb. of the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhill, and
of No. 3, Strong's-buildings, ElaCkwall, merchant, Mc. 21,
Jan. 0, at. eleven, and 29, at ten, at the Court of Commission-
era of Bankrupts. Basinghnll-street. Solicitors, Messrs. Bir-
kctt, Taylortmd Cox; Cloak-lane.
William Frampten, Wych-strect, St. Clements Danes, vic-
tualler, Dec. 21, Jan.!, and 29, at twelve, at the Court of Com-
missioners of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Solicitor, Mr.
John Michael' .1113liony, Chancery Chambers, Quality-court,
Chancery-lane.
Pertrival.itt,ssell Gritton, Doncaster, deller in fancy articles,
Doc. 27, 29, and Jan. 29, at eleven, at the Swan Hotel, Bir-
mingham. Solicitors, Messrs. Ellis, Sons, Walinsley and
G4rrton,.42, Chancery-lane, and Mr. Hawkes, Cannon-street,
Birmingham.
at um, at the Court of Commissioners of Bank.
eleven, and
211,7king.ssex, innkeeper, Dec. 21, Jan. 3, at
E
rup:s, Basingball-street. Solicitors, Messrs. Darke ,and Mi-
chael, Red Lion-snuare.
George . Bagneli Woods,' Walton, Surrey, chemist and
drugist, -Dec: 21, 211, and Jan. 29, at twelve, at the (!ourt'of
Comniissioners of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. Solicitors
Mesmrs. Young and Gilbert, ill ark-lane.
tiHteonxot
Copp,T
tt, Erwood and Robert Crofts, late of Turner's-square,
artenTsiaff-lane, paper-stainers and paper-
Jan. 4, at twelve, and 29, at ten, at
alo)'icdea2ol3n7missioners of Bankrupts, Basingltall-street.
Solicitor; Mr. (IMP,. Tyson-place, Kingsland-mad.
Willizon Good, senior, and William Good, junior, Hythe,
Southampton, ship-builders, Dec. 23, at ten, Jan. 4, at eleven
and 29, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts'
Illasingball-street. Solicitor, bir,Eicke, 37, Old Broad-street'

DIVIDENDS.
Joseph Skidmore, Sheffield, scissor-manufacturer, Jan. 12
—John Cooke, Barnstaple, linen-Ara per, Jan. 17 —Robt. Cam-
Pion, Horsleydown.lane cooper, F .-- eb. oltobert llodgaon
Clarke, St. Alary-at.:11ill, 'wine-merchant, Jan. 0 -Samuel
(iarrod,
l'addington-strcet, St. ill stationer, Jan.
11--George Shoobridgc, Meapside, tailor, Jan. 29—james
Sherwin and John Drane, Gould-agnate, Cruteliedfriars, comb-
,makers, Jan. I.s—Genrgc Nlercer, Basingliall-street, woollen-
draper, Jan. 11—Henry Lucas, Liverpool, merchant, Jan. 11
---Jonathan Calcott, Shoreditch; draper, Jan. 22--Thomas
Bennett Smith and Alfred zqiiith, Old Trinity-House, Watts-
lane, Tower-street, Cornfacttirs, Jan. 8.
CERTIFICATES, JAN. r.
Joseph Duncan, Trafalgar-s9nare,Stepney, merchant—John
Humphreys Oarnons, late of No. 109, Newgate-street, silver-
smith—Thomas Bullock Watts, Yeovil, Somersetshire, spirit-
merchant—Thomas Dowman, Bread-street, Cheapside, ware-
houseman--Augustus Ciani, New Cavendisli-strc.et, Portland-
place, and Fulham Middlesex, music publisher—Francis
Eveleigh and Samuel Evtlegb, Union-street Southwark, hat-
manufacturers in al furriers--Richard Rowed, Hatlield-street,
I Christ-church, Surrey, lightertonn:
PA la .' 1:It511I PS DISSQ J.V
J. Manhy, jun. and 'l'. W. Cooper, Liverpool, ehemical-
manufactim. —Thomas Birks and John Wright, Staveley,
Derbyshire, brush-manufacturers—Joseph Warden and the
late William Mauston, Birmingham, dealers in iron—Thomas
Hardy, James Astrop, and Gould, Kensington-upon-
Hull, paper-stainers—Benslcy Arthur Warman and' Christo-
Mpher Lund, 333, Strand-117811am Cannon and Alexander
Muir, ClitheM.,l,4ooeashire, surgeons and apothecaries—James
Walkeri Dudley, WArcestershire, and George M=Coul, Leo-
minster, Herefordshire, drapers and tea-dealers—Walter Po-
mery and Walter Ninety Walkom, St. Austell, Cornwall,
shopkeepers--Iltipgli Trencliard Chalfey and Edward Sharp,
Chard, Somersetshire, thapera—Benjamin Young and Robert
Young, Waltham Abbey, Essex, brewers and maltsters—
William Sunden and john Nuttall, Bolholt, Bury, Lancashire,
calico printers-,--James Jackson, Wiljitun Falconer, and George
Gray, Alanchester (so tar-as regards W. Falconer)--William
KeaTtoo and William Taylor, King-street, Clerkenwell,
jewellers—Henry Skinner, Junta Heath, and Richard Brown,
Cullomptou, bankers *far as regards Win. 13cown, deceased).

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detachments neral TUltti ER is going out with the
of troops to the coast of Africa ;
and Archdeacon SCOTT (the first clerical appoint-
ment of this rank to the colony) to New South
wales in the Ilercules. A number of clergy-
men are also enibarked in the John Shand, for
the new sees in the West India Islancis.—( Harm.
shire Telegraph.)
We regret to state that Lady Nurouili, who is
HOW at Links, has been in such an alarming state
of health during the past week as to require the
advice and attendance of a physician. From the
latest account we have heard,. her Ladyship Is
somewhat better..,--(Backs Gazette.)
'July's P. MADDEN, Esq. Master
.of the Cere.
manias of the late Kingston Rooms, was on Tuelday last una-
npiously elected to that office at Clifton ; the, friends of Capt.
la xrrrCit, Master of the ceremonies at 'Marga who had
offered himself, having
withdrawn his name.—(Balls Herald.)
*The Operative Cotten-spinners still hold .out:;
but we hear of no acts, of violence , committed
I Oince our laiL--(Giusgoro Courier) Dec. 10.)

THE SUN.

SOLEM 01118 VICERE FALSUM AUDEAT

LON DON,
MONI)AY EVENING, DEC.2O, 1824.

Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday arrived
last night, but they are quite destitute of any
political intelligence of interest to the English
Reader.

FRENCH FUNDS.--PARIS, DEC. 17.—Five per Cents.
opened at 11,2. ; closed at 102.—Bank Stock, 1,987. 50..
Neapolitan Five per Cents., 117e.--Spanish ditto, .17i ; Ditto
Loan, 54.—Exchange on London, one month 25. 5. ; three
months, 24. 95.—(Cours Authentique.)

IVe also received last night Brussels Papers to
the 18th, the Austrian Observer to the Bth, and
the Allgemeine Zeitung to the 12th of this month.
The only intelligence of interest they contain re-
lates to the Turks and the Greeks, Which will be
found in another column.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—Saturday at two
o'clock, His MAJESTY held a Privy Council at
Windsor, which was attended by most of the
Cabinet Ministers, when it was settled that Par-
liament should be further prorogued to the 3d of
February, and then to sit for the dispatch of
business.

POLITICAL Rum° I) 1111.—We do not recollect a

period when there were more speculations hi di-
culation respecting the Foreign and Colonial re-
'scions of the Country that! the present. As to
the latter much has 'been said, and said truly, on
the present critical state of British India. The
frequent interviews of the Two Chairs with his
MAJESTY'S Government indicate an interest and
anxiety, evidently arising from the reduced state
in which the Marquis of HASTINGS left the
Military Establishments of those possessions when
he quitted India. It does not, we confess, in our
opinion, redound to the credit of the Court of
Directors, whilst it is much to be lamented, that
acting no doubt on the representations and views
of the Noble MARQUIS, they should have so
totally disregarded the representations of
the present Commander-in-Chief, and of se-
veral of their own immediate servants, esp -
dully of Mr. JOHN ADAM, who was so
of
the Co
much iMpressed with the ir»policy of the late
reductions,
niii:ny' s and of
Military the
ns
et
:et'city
, ta taugmenting he
direct-
ed to be raised, upon his own responsibility, four
new Regiments. For this most eminently useful
and necessary measure, he was rebuked by the
Authorities of Leadenhall-street, and, under the
influence of their communications, by the Board
of Controul. Not that any direct censure or re-
primand was conveyed to him : fortunately for
the Directors, their course upon the occasion
was not so direct as to lead them to record so
strikingly their own want of foresight, and igno-
rance of the feelings of the great population
they govern! It was intimated to Mr. ADAM,
that he ought not, on his own responsibility,
to have raised these Regiments, but as the
exigencies of the Company appeared to re-
quire an increased force, and these Regiments
were already embodied, he was told, they might
remain on the Establishment ! It is not to be
denied, that the. Court of Directors were misled
by too implicitly relying on the judgment of
Lord IlisTisias ; but that circumstance cannot
wholly relieve them from tile blame of their in-
judicious measures. It might to have occurred to
Glem that reductions are sometimes recommended
and made, not in the true spirit of economy, but
rather as the stepping-stone to present popularity,
and to produce scene eclat at that moment, when
it is most valuable—when past Services are to be
rewarded, and the individual is freed from future
j responsibility ! It was obvious to every person

acquainted with India, that Lord'HAsmas ob.
ject was to impress the Court of Directors, on his
leaving India, with a sense of his great finan-
cial skill and judgment, and that, with that view
he was reducing all the Establishments; and to to
ul ks„.
low a scale did he red them, dot at this mo.
meta-, even *.kt.,l,i the additio of the.four new rp.
gitnoA,Aere-akAtclifficient toett•-)at Calcutta
to furnish the usual guard for the Government

House! Under such circumstances, it is incom-
prehensible to, us, why Sir EDWARD PAGET'i
desire, that six more regiments should be raised,
was not met with cordiality and concurrence•
With whom the blame may rest, we pretend not
to say at present ; but we think Lord AMHERST
would have done wisely, in defiance of the in•
direct censure conveyed to Mr. ADAM, and even
in defiance of any but the most positive instruc-
tions to the contrary, to have increased the Catl;..

parry's forces.
We have also heard it mentioned as a sal jert
of animadversion, that so young an Officer ai
Colonel Sir A RCHIBALD CAmeneer. should have
been appointed to the Chief Command of the
Army sent to Rangoon, whilst there are so Many
gallant and, experienced officers in India, of su-
perior rank and older standing, both in the King's
and the Company's Service! Enough has already
transpired to prove that the Burmese are no des.
picable enemies, and that the war will present an
ample field for the display of talent
and great exertion. Why, therefore, the older
officers were passed over remains to be explained
Probably, the Secretary in the Military explained
pertinent can throw some light on this
ject, and explain the reasons of those gallant
officers, Sir JOHN DOVETOI4 and General Bruce,
for declining to take the command of the Army
on this occasion ; or, perhaps Major CANN'S°,
who, we understand, is the political Agent of
the Governor-General, and has accompanied
Colonel CAMPBELL to Rangoon, is better qualified
to elucidate them.
We should be the last, knowing the atod°ss
nature of Military service, to suggest objections
to the conduct and arrangements of an °liicer
intrusted n ith the direction of an important ex'
pedition, but we cannot help expressing Our sur..
prise and regret that those faithful and brave
troops, THE Sepoys, have not been more prod•
nently brought forward. At the date of the 135 t
dispatches they had not, we are ig iformed, beat
brought into action, and every Asiatic litotes'
how likely that circumstance is to excite discon•
tent and to damp the ardour of this branch of the
Indian Army, and particularly if they have the
misfortune to be attacked with the diseases °
the climate. The gallantry with which tlicle
it ad
brave men embarked at. Madras ; the spi
courage they displayed in the battle of Afa'
pore; the discipline and good conduct they
haveh
always shewn when led by experienced Britis
Officers,—entitle them to every distinction' awl
r
t
sdieiconsiderationrorouiitdahsoawuveere source
in
eo
been
nhienl existing
eeixtpiri: sttiibe
their
re acirru,eigiarrtidt:sntihuiaLsit:
ctily:
datedrcorroborationNiedras
ito
aodfs
r In
and dissatisfied.
subjoin an extract front a letter'
" You would have heen de
which mentions with approbation tine conduct
of
these troops:— April, last'
all having. vo.ln:.
seen your fine fellows embark,
leered for Foreign Service' on the first,m.tit.
outirleoplisnitohn ooff the Native
from Suea",,uth'
tion,'-without hesitating a moment,
Major— downwards' • but indeed it WAS SC. ‘11,1.0
the other corps named by Government, to t
t coasters,
great credit as heretofore of our gallao
' in heart,
who, though small in- compass, are big Lij have
and the oely- ,question they put was,— . ,I';f:and
atrearly fought in one war,
what we took in the Deckan), and as
and Conquete ~
jo;
have snot yet got our prize money for ill (Illea.l_'
li'ghted to have,
long before it comes, wben shall nT ge,"acfter
we are going to take over the, Sea ?" ii"', after
it -was explained that everfeffort was, makt"r'oe
those authorised in England, to obtan fro.rn,lid
Cempany what 'the K ing of Great Britain !;...,
Never ftlina'o,l
made over to them, they replied, "
*e have eat the Company's salt many year9,f,101...
if we don't get the nrize money due ,to ,-toast
,',„Il
ceremony of, our families will, as Coupon',
give at last." . -
enable, os
The next dispatches, however, will nse.
to form some judgment on the probable c°"
hat
that ~bat
(peaces and effects of this unfortunate war;
y,
we must say, that in the present redoced state.elci
the
betterin (jai': oniciikerdm;y ,y4w. t ehtalvliiiinikg it would have be
erlrly,
enaerrevse,oorru,
sorry to
to have been strained,
enot)rked 44
' d 'll
an
~
t e et°
' the energies of the. Supreme Goveronlen- -lc 400 !
to brio; .It. to an' early and successfol termina`tio
to learn that much dissatisfac r t
he C"
has been expressed
.at the late orders of t then
of Directors to reduce the 'forme!' Staff and'
°"' ,
Military allowances. To the credit of the ivy
recommended a suspension of these
mander4n-Chief and . .
a ' 5 cl the
part of the Cim'ecil'. t -
Court • notwithstanding, . nitilthe
, but, lt Is 5
enforce
Governor-General was determined to
them I or cr.

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