The Sun.
London, England, 1804-01-18 00:00:00

COPY OF A CIRCULAR LETTER

FROM MR. SECRETARY YORKE TO THE LIEUTE.

NANTS OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES IN GREAT
BRITAIN, DATED WHITEHALL, JAN. 14., 1804.

MY LORD,

Ills Majesty's Confidential Servants have thought it to be
their duty, on further considering the improvements of which
the Volunteer System is capable, to extend to it every useful
aid and assistance which it can receive, consistent with a due
attention to that principle of economy on which the whole
System is founded, and have resolved to allow of Adjutants
and Serjeant-Majors on permanent pay to Corps of the dif-
ferent descriptions of force, c nsisting of the following num-
bers,. without any other conditions or restrielions than such
as may be applicable to the whole Volunteer Establishment.

City Az.ay.--To every Corps, consisting of not less than
300 etfedive rank and file of Cavalry, an Adjutant on perms-.
nent pay will be allowed.—[Pay, when not called out into
;anal serve, 6s. per day, as. ditto for a horse.]
To every Corps of Cavalry under 300 rank and file, but
consisting of not less than three Troops of 4o etlective rank
atiti 41e each, a Serjeant-M3jor will be allowed on permanent
pay,—[Pay when not called out into aaual service, 3s. iid.
per day, including 9d. for a horse.]

Tzu NT ay.—To every Corps of Infantry (including Ar-
tillery), cons sting of not less thairsoo effeelive rank and file,
one Adjutant, and one Serjeant-Major; on perinanent pay,
will be allowed.—[Pay, when not called out into actual ser-
vice, 6s. per day ; ditto of Serjeant-Major; ditto !s. 6d. per
day,-and zs. 6d. per week extra.]

To every Corps of Infantry, consisting of not less than
330 effeClive rank and file, one Adjutant, but no Serjeam
Major, will be allowed on permanent pay.—[ Pay 6s. per day;
as above.]
To a Corps of Infantry, under 300 effective rank and file,
but consisting of not:less than three companies of 6a'privates
each, one Serjeant-Major will be allowed on permanent pay.
—[Pay, as abc,ve, is. 63. per thy, and as. 6d. per week
extra.]

When the Corps to which the Adjutants and Serjeant-Ma-
jot.; are appointed shall be called out on Adual Service by
competent authority, these Staff Officers will receive the pay
of their respeCtive Ranks, as in t::e Line.
The Adjutants are to be recommended by the Lords Lieu-
tenants, for His Majesty's approbation, in the usual manner;
but no recommendation of an Adjutant can be attended to,
unless the person recommended has served atleast four years
as a Commissioned Officer, or as a Serjeant-Major in the Re-
gulars', Embodied Militia, Fencibles, or East India Com-
pany's Service ; and the recommendation must likewise dis-
tindly express the actual period of the service of the person
recommended, and specify the particular Corps in which
that service was performed.

Serjeant-Majors may be appointed by the c,ommandant of
the Corps, from among persons who have served at least
three years as Non-commissioned Officers in His Majesty's
Regular, embodied Militia, or Fencible Forces; and the pe-
riod of such service, and the particular Corps in which it
was performed, are to be distinElly sp6Cified in the first Pay
List which shall be transmitted to the Var Office after the
appointment takes place.

All Adjutants and Serjeant-Majors who are placed on per-
manent pay, are to consider themselves as, at all times, at
the disposal and under the Commanding Officer of the Corps
for the time being, and are expeaed to give their attendance
whenever required, for the drill, good order, and manage-
ment of the Corps.

It is not intended by this arrangement, to make any altera-
tionfas to the appointment of Adjutants or Serjeant•Majors
without pay. They will still be allowed to Corps of suffi-
cient strength, as directed by the Militia Laws, and as before
pointed out by the War-Office Regulations of the auth of
September, ISO 3.
liis Majesty's Lieutenant of the --

At Plymouth on Tuesday se'nnight the Prince of
Wales's Battalion of Plymouth Volunteers, Lieut.
Colonel HAWKER, was reviewed in the Citadel by.
Major General CALCRAFT, &c. The day being
fine, there was a large concourse of people; the
Regiment went through the whole business of the
review in a very coned and regular style, and re-
ceived the thanks of General CALCRAFT, for the
very rapid improvement they had made in their
discipline.
Last Wednesday the third 13attalion of Carmar-
then Volunteers, commiinded by Lieut. Colonel Sir
Wm. PA)croN, was reviewed at Carmarthen by
Lieut. Col. STEWART, the Reviewing Officer of the
Distri,`.l, when the Officers and men went through
their evolutions with such a steadiness and `promp.
thud; as called forth his warmest commendation
they are a fine body of men, and have been cloathed
by subscription.

„.
Regimental Orders were isstked on Saturday to
the St. James's Volunteer Regiment, that a general
muster and inspefflon of the Caps, by the Inspea-
ing Officer of the Distria, would
_take place at the
Parade, at Burlington.house to-marrow morning
at half past nine o'clock military time, and that
illness must be duly *certified, and any other wr.
avoidable cause of absence must be particularly
expressed to the Commanding Officer of Companies.
Each Member was to be held responsible for his
musquct being in proper order and Hinted, and was
ordered to be provided with a twranrew and
driver.