The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-08 00:00:00

N.B.—The master, on his arrival at any foreign port,
where there shall be a British Consul or Vice-Consul,
shall deliver the agreement with his ship's crew, to such
Consul or Vice-Consul, which shall be returned to him
before leaving the port.—Friend of China and Hong-Kong
Gazette, Oct. 7 and 14, 1843.
PROCLAMATION.

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Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., G.C.8., her Britannic
Majesty's Plenipotentiary, &c., &c., in China, now makes
public, for the information and guidance of all her Ma-
jesty's subjects, the annexed abstract of the Supple-
mentary Treaty between her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland, &c., and his Majesty the
Emperor of China, which was finally concluded, sealed,
and signed, at the city of Hoo-mun Chai, on the Bth day
of October, 1843, by the said Plenipotentiary and his
Excellency the Imperial Commissioner Keying, &c.
His Majesty the Emperor of China having consented
to ratify the Supplementaiy Treaty, without waiting for
the previous ratification of her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland, &c., one of the. originalcopies
(of which. four were signed and sealed) has been for.
warded to. Peking for that purpose, and will be trans-
mitted, with a cepy of her Majesty the Queen's ratifica-
tion, to England, as soon as it is received back.
In the meantime, and until the Treaty shall be duly
ratified, exchanged, and published, her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Plenipotentiary, by this proclamation, enjoins
and requites all her Majesty's subjects, by their alle-
giance and loyalty to their Sovereign, to be obedient to,
and guided by, the provisions of the said Treaty, 'as set
forth in the annexed-abstract.

HENRY POTTINGER.
Dated-at the Government House at Victoria (Hong•
Kong), this 18th day of October, 1843.
God save the Queen.

THE ARMY OF'EXERCISE.
DIVISIONAL STAFF.
Artillery.—Brigadier G. E. Gowan, Commanding; Captain
H. M‘Donald, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General ; and
Captain E. F. Day, Commissary of Ordnance.
Cavalry.—Major-General Sir J. Thackwell, K.C.B. and
K.H., Commanding; Lieutenant J. D. Cowell, 3d Light.
Dragoons, Aide-de-Camp; Captain E. J. Pratt, her Majesty's
16th Lancers, Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General ; and
Captain H; Clayton, 4th Light Cavalry, Deputy-Assistant.
Quartermaster-General.
Infantry, Ist Division.—Major-General J. .Grey, C.B. ;
Captain W. L. Tudor, Aide-de-Camp; Captain J. Guyon,
Deputy-Assistant Adjutant-General ; and Captain J. Reid,
Assistant-Quartermaster-General.
2d Division.—Major-General T. Valiant, K.H. ,• Lieut.
Nelson, Aide-de-Camp ; Captain P. M'Kie, 3d Buffs, Deputy-
Assistant-Adjutant-General ; and Lieutenant N. B. Cham-
berlain, 16th Grenadiers, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-
General. - •
3d Division.—Major-General J. H. Littler; Captain I'.
Harris, Aide-de-Camp ; Captain H. M. Graves; 16th Grena-
diers, Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General ; and Lieutenant
E. Croker, her Majesty's 39th Foot, Deputy-Assistant-
Quartermaster-General.
• BRIGADE STAFF.
Horse Artillery. Brigadier E. Biddulph ; Lieutenant E.
G. Austin, Major of Brigade.
Foot Artillery.—Brigadier J. Tennant; Captain A. Huish,
Major of Brigade.
Engineer Department.—Major E. J. Smith, Chief Engi-
neer ; Brevet Captain W. Abercrombie, and First Lieutenant
J. A. Weller, Field Engineers.
Cavalry, Ist Brigade.—Brigadier A. Campbell, K.H., Cap-
tain Spottiswoode, 9th Lancers, Major of Brigade.
2d Brigade.--Brigadier D. arriott ; Capt. G. A. Barbor,
Major of Brigade.
3d Brigade.--Brigadier C. R. Cureton ; Capt. R. Pattinson,
16th Lancers, Major of Brigade.
4th Brigade.—Brigadier J. Scott, C.R, her Majesty's 9th
Lancers; Capt. R. Cautley, 10th Cavalry, Major of Brigade.
Infantry, Ist Division, Ist Brigade.—Brigadier W. A.
Yates; Captain C. Dickson, 51st Native Infantry, Major of
Brigade. . .
2d Brigade.—Brigadier R. Blackall ; Captain G. Dalston,
58th Native Infantry, Major of Brigade. _
2d Division, 3d Brigade.—Brigadier G. Moore ;
•Captain T.
Young, 2d Native Infantry, Major of Brigade.
4th Brigade.—Bragadier L. R. Stacy, C.B. ; Captain P.
Lunes, 14th Native Infantry, Major of Brigade.
3d Division, sth Brigade.—Brigadier T. Wright; Captain
Nixon, 39th Foot, Major of. Brigade.
6th Brigade.—Brigadier. S. D. Riley; Captain J. Hen-
nessy, 70th Native Infantry, Major of Brigade.
CORPS.
Horse Artillery.-2d and 3d Troops 2d Brigade ; Ist, 2d,
and 3d Troops 3d Brigade.
Foot Artillery.lst and 2d Companies, Ist Battalion; Ist
and 2d Companies, 3d Battalion; Ist, 2d, 3d, and 4th Com-
panies, 4th Battalion ; sth, 6th, Bth, 9th, and 10th Com-
panies, 6th Battalion ; and Nos. 10, 16, and 17 Light Field
Batteries.
Sappers and Miners.-Ist, 3d, and 4th Companies, and a
company to be formed from all details available at the head
quarters of the corps.
Cavalry, Ist Brigade.--Two squadrons of her Majesty's
9th Lancers; two squadrons sth Regiment of Light Cavalry;
two squadrons 11th Regiment ,of Light Cavalry; and Wing
2d Irregular Cavalry.
2d Brigade.-3d Regiment of Light Cavalry; Bth Regi-
ment of Irregular Cavalry ; and Cavalry Bundlecund Legion.
3d Brigade.—Her Majesty's 16th Lancers; Ist Regiment
of Light:Cavalry ; and 10th 'Regiment of Light Cavalry.
. 4th Brigade —Governor General's Body Guard ; 4th Regi-
ment of Light Cavalry ; 4th Regiment of Irregular Cavalry.
, Infantry, Ist Division, Ist Brigade.—Her Majesty's 3d
Buffs ; 39th Regiment of Native Infantry ; 51st Regiment of
Native Infantry; and Bundlecund Legion.
2d Brigade.—Her Majesty's 50th Regiment; 50th Regi-
ment of Native Infantry ; and 58th Regiment Native In-
fantry.
2d Division, 3d Brigade.—Her. Majesty's 40th Regiment ;
2d Regiment Native Infantry Grenadiers; and 16th Regi-
ment Native Infantry Grenadiers.
4th Brigade.-14th Regiment of Native Infantry ,• 31st
Regiment Native Infantry ; and 43d Regiment Light
Infantry.
3d Division, sth Brigade.—Her Majesty's 39th Regiment ;
35th Regiment of Light Infantry; and 56th Regiment Na-
tive Infantry.
, 6th Brigade.-62d Regiment Native Infantry; 70th Regi-
ment Native Infantry ; and Khelat-i-Ghilzee Regiment.
Captain W. G. Lennox, 43d Light Infantry, charge of the
military chest. •
Lieutenant W. S. Dodgson, 31st Native Infantry, baggage
master.
Brevet Captain W. Lamb, 51st Native Infantry, post-
master. -
Surgeon A. Wood, 6th Battalion Artillery, superintending
surgeon.
S M.D., 3d Battalion Artillery, field
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left Surgeon A.
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composed of the Ist. and 3d troops
rY, 6th company 6th battalion of
the Ist and 2d brigades of Cavalry, and the Ist division of
Infantry.
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Artillery,

SIR H. POTTINGER AND THE
AMEERS OF. SINDE. •
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Guernsey, Feb. 4, 1844.
have only just seen Major William Pottinger's
letter, in which, evidently alluding to my former letter to
you, he says :
" Any pne who can imagine that under any circumstances
Sir Henry Pottinger could proclaim a falsehood, proclaims
himself utterly ignorant of the truth, honour, and integrity
of my brother ; and has, in consequence, imagined that
which must prove destitute of foundation."
Major Pottinger has mistaken the tenor of my letter.
It was my firm reliance on Sir Henry Pottinger's " truth,
honour, and integrity," and on his sense also, which led me to
treat the letter in the Morning Chronicle as a forgery. I
could not believe Sir Henry Pottinger would gratuitously
write of Sir Charles Napier's actions in Sinde as " unprin-
cipled and disgraceful," as leaving a "firm stain on our good
cruelty and misery," and finally express a hope for his eternal
perdition, for doing precisely that. which Sir Henry Pottinger
faith and honour," as marked by " tyranny and spoliation,
himself; not once, or lightly, but many times in his official
letters, advised, recommended; and urged, as the proper thing
to be done, Sir Charles Napier having much stronger grounds
for so doing, than Sir Henry Pottinger had for so advising.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM NAPIER, Major-General.

COL. STODDART AND CAPTAIN

CONOLLY.

In a letter addressed by Captain Grover to the editor of
The Sun this day, that gentleman says the subjoined docu-
ment, with that in the Times, comprises all the official in-
formation received by the Committee :
EXTRACT Or A DISPATCH FROM CONSUL WOOD,

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DATED DAMASCUS; Nov. 8, 1843.
" The arrival of pilgrims from Bokhara having given me
the opportunity .of eliciting from them some information
respecting the uncertain fate of Colonel Stoddart and Cap-
tain Conolly, I have the honour to state that, according to
the verbal statement made to me by a certain Seid Abdo
Sultan Effendy, who asserts to he the son of the Nakib of
Bokhara, and distantly related to the Khan himself, it
would appear that Colonel Stoddart is still in existence,
under the name of Nasr Khan, but that his companion Cap-
tain Conolly, had long ceased to live. It is true, I could not
bring my informant to admit that he owed his untimely
end to the fanaticism or wanton cruelty of his countrymen,
but it was not difficult to perceive, from the anxiety he
evinced to avoid replying in a direct manner to my ques-
tion, that Captain Conolly was evidently put to death in
prison. He further stated, that Colonel Stoddart, under the
title of Nasr Khan, commanded and instructed the artillery
of the Khan, with whom he had great influence, and whose
consideration and esteem he enjoyed. • . . The information I
have been able to collect, respecting the character of my in-
formant is faVourable to, him; and I have scarcely any
reason to doubt the veracity of his statement, which he
could have made more acceptable had his object been to
deceive me, by disavowing altogether the melancholy death
of Captain Conolly."
The Austrian Consul-General.Ghersi, in a dispatch, dated
Trebisonde, 14th Dec., 1843, after stating that eight people,
siell"ilt moins precises, ils
iabitation meme du
just arrived from Bokhara, declare that Colonel Stoddart was
ddois
alive, concludes thus, " Quant au Capt. Conolly les notionsnennet
epsouprartane
te de r
shuiatvioindrieNn-idtruesv,r
diannb
Col.• Stoddart, et croyent qu'il remplit, aupees, de lui, les
fonctions de son Kiaia. '

(From the Times.)

As great and general interest is felt respecting the fate of Colonel
Stoddart and Captain Conolly, and as the, reports which have been
lately received are somewhat contradictory, we are glad to have it
in our power to lay before the public the following summary of the
latest intelligence which has been received from Lord Stuart de
Rothesay, Sir Stratford Canning, and Lieutenant-Colonel Sheil.
The Governor.Geaeral of .orenherg writes to Count Nesse:rode
on the 26th of December last, that he had questioned the leader
of a caravan which had recently arrived from Bokhara in 70
days, and that person said that Lieut.. Colonel Stoddart and Captain
Conolly had been taken toy the palace of the Khan six days after
the departure of the Russian mission in 1842, but that he was
at the same
not aware what had been -done with them, observing

time tbat it was rot usual to put any one to death in the Khan's
palace, and that he hcd not heard at Bokhara that they had been
executed.

A gentleman who was attached to M. de Boutenieff's mission at
Bokhara, however, told Lord Stuart de Rothe •ay that the state-
meut of the leader of the caravan that executions never took
place in the Khan's palace was incorrect, for he had heard of
several during his residence. Lord Stuart de Rothesay adds, that
he had been unable to elicit from the Russian Government any in-
formation which would corroborate the hope of the officers being still
alive, and that the language of all pet sons at St. Peter-burgh tends to
confirm the account sent home originally by Lieut—Colonel Sheil.
The Eastern merchants at St. Petersburgh who have intercourse
with Bokharian traders, although unable or unwilling to confirm
the account of the executions of the officers, do not seem them-
selves to have much doubt of it.

Lieutenant-Colonel Shell, under date of December 1, sends,
home a statement made to him by Rejib key, a native of Herat,

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