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The Calcutta Gazette Etraordinary of the 29th
January,
COMBERMERE, to the Governor-General, announcing
contains the Official Despatch from Lord
the successful operations of the Army under his Lora"
ship's immediate command, against 131irtpero,
the particulars of the storm and fall of that hitherto
supposed impregnable fortress on the 18th ilanuiry
The high reputation of the Commander-in-Chid'
of the gallant Army under his orders, and
has been Ori
ouisly maintained on this occasion, and it is c°Ps°‘
latory to find that the loss of life, on our part at 11'
has been less than could well have been 0(136°.
The capture of DOURJUN SAL, and the annihilation
of the whole Military power of the Bhurtpore St'te'
are amongst the first consequences of the of thi'
famous fortress, and its possession will greatly add
to
re
the security of that part of our extensive
The Despatch-is published at length in another I*l
of our Paper, with the names of the Officers killl4,
and wounded: and also an extract of the Cakio
ing intelligence from Rangoon.
Gazette Extraordinary of the 20th January, CO

-
1 Mr. HuetE's jumble" Dead Wei
gr
ht hal'
d
gain" with the promotion of Military, Naval, an
rine half-pay Officers, on Friday evening, WAS a int°
extraordinary instance of that Hon. Member's coofte
thou of ideas. It was the more remarkable clot be
should have confouuded these two subjects, filch
should
ratio
have no relation to each other, immediately alter h
64e
had devoted so much time to the conside
jects of Finance, as must (we should have sn 01
uel)'
hare been necessary to enable him to draw 01)
the
String of resolutions which he lately endeavoured
e" :
persuade the House to adopt; but we nuist cl
ewu.d
from this, that therepureportvihith has been log
culated is true, that the Member for Montrose en':
ploys a number of clerks to prepare Ins voluminov
e ,avielg
of many of the subjects which he brings
statements, and that he has very little real 0- te
before ti:
plc
House. Be this, however, as it maY, it
15 ('' ,1
certain that Mr. HUME is in ignorance of
th° r' ,
State of the " Dead Weight" question, awl es '''
observe by the reports given of the speeches of (eV,
uporttoerbsearuenasbole
Hon. Members, that they are also in happy. igri°rairl:',.
on this subject, or (what is more likely) thaL °lot,
mtouinchakine
ttilltecirdsapreke
other subjects, intelligible to general readers, oe .
, iiy
endeavour to clear away a little of the inPtel).lt
sstating distinctly the real nature of the 4, Dead ll iGitt
. ems, and its present actual condition. Tbe ligat
m question has nothing whatever to dowith the Preti 3„
half-pay or pensions, but is neither more our IC° 1:01,
anf annual Loan, raised by the sale of a certain aiu()l it
0 Annuity for a determinate number of Ye3rs* t
, otin
originatedf as follows. It was assumed
tine
about 5,000,0001., what might
could not again that tne arnded,
speeches
it theme,
at
by° half-pay and pensions existing in 1822, exceea 0
on this,
100
be corniklere oig,
e average amount of expenditure under those be of
and that as this excess had arisen during a war
unexampled duration, and from circumstances ''' 0
occur, it was just that poteritlY'rt,
wellA as ourselves, should bear part of this heaq clia:00
decrements of life, how and in what
calculation was therefore made upon tbe c,°°l,:de
proporti°-
bites
assumed amount of 5,000,0001., received hY sbi, it
number of annuitants, would decrease, and "6tbii
Ile
would altogether cease ; and it being prove(' 1
ty
cet. ,
calculation, that the amount would 1 wise e,
ei
year in a certain ratio until it would entirely exPire oj
45 years, it was determined that the counry, lls%
of paying this annually decreasing sum, 14in'.i vg of
5,000,0001., should bind itself topay i' s'll'uto'.ho
"
2
, ,000 e 7 4 per minimum, to certain fr''"we'' e
cel. ti
800
should take upon themselves the payment, nut of
actual amount of half-pay and pensions, but of 1 .
1 9(0
fixed sums, being the assumed or calculate" 'uopei
of what the survivors of those who received b ohs
or pensions at the time of the commencement ° .4,
,A teen'
scheme (if not promoted or employed) Wow" to
in each year, which annual sums the Trustees were
annuity ; but no set of PersQlt
raise by the sale of this a s

being found willing to purchase the whole of this im-
mense annuity, which would have required an outlay,
in the first few years, of an enormous capital, the
Government were driven to the necessity of making a
bargain with the Bank of England for the purchase of
part of the said annuity for the term of 44 years, from
April 5, 1823, to the amount of 585,7401. per
annum, in consideration of which the Bank were to
pay the following sums in six years, which, together
with the remaining portion of the annuity of 2,800,0001.
would make up the assumed amount payable in each
of those years, viz.
In the remainder of 1823
In 1824
1825
1826
1827
1829

- £2,178,660
• 2,445,740
- 2,293,240
- 2,165,740
- 2,030,740
- 1,975,870

Total. - £13,089,490
Thus the annuity sold, with the sum paid for it, is
specifically fixed, and therefore it has nothing to do
with half-pay or pensions, although the scheme was
founded on a fictitious supposition of the amount of
those heads of expence. At the end of six years tlie
present bargain with the Bank expires, and the coun-
try will have given an annuity of 585,740/., till the year
1867, for the advance, by instalments, of 13,089,490/.
in those six years.
To all intents and purposes, therefore, this scheme
has been a loan in each year to the amount of the
sum paid by the Bank for the annuity. And we
agree so far with Mr. HUME as to consider that it has
been one of the most unfortunate expedients which
was ever hit upon to raise money. We shall recur to
this subject hereafter, and point out some of the objec-
tions which exist against this scheme, and the evils
which have arisen and will hereafter arise from it, if it
should be persevered in.

Our extracts from the German Papers of this morn,
ing are chiefly of an Ecclesiastical nature :

HOME, MAY 7.
On Ascension-day the Pope, in excellent health, attended the
Papal Masa in the Church of Giovanni in Laterano (where it is
always performed on that day), and afterwards gave his benedic-
tion from the balcony. With respect to politics, our newsmongers
are spreading a report which they pretend is as clear as the day.
They fancy that they have discovered the cause which occasioned
the declaration of the French Bishops respecting the four Articles
of the Galilean Church, and the proceedings against the Abbe de
la Mennaim (who is in great favour at Rome). This case, if we
may believe them, would lead ns to infer a change in the relations
between the Papal See and France. They pretend, in particular,
to know fur certain that the declaration in question has produced
en extraordinary sensation here. They likewise plainly give us to
understand what connection there may be between this and ano-
ther occurrence. It is this : attempts were made in the time of
the late Cardinal Gonsalvi to induce him to prohibit the French
Journals, but without success ; for he generally answered, " Pooh,
the Romano don't read." The present Government, which in the
first two years magnanimously overlooked the scandalous attacks
of some of those Journals, seems at length to have lost its pa-
tience; and in addition to the Constitutionnel, which was Itefore
prohibited, though only in appearance, and as it wits then affirmed
at the instance of the Jesuits, the prohibition has just been ex-
tended to the Journal des Debuts, the Courier Francais, and the
Nobody wonders at the fate of the first three Journals ;
but that the Ministerial Journal, the .Etoile, is prohibited, in-
duces our newstnongeri to connect it with other events. This
measure will be the less blamed when it is considered that our
Government has been the last to adopt it. It is easy to foresee
the probable fate of the English Reading Society, which, with its
new organization, had been permitted to continue only on the
Urgent intervention of M. Kastner,the Hanoverian Charge d'A ffai rot.
Hitherto, however, all the English Journals are allowed there,
even the Morning Chronicle.
Leo. XII. continues vigilantly to watch, not only the conduct
of the civil officers, but also of the clergy, and to keep them in
good order. Of this we had lately a remarkable example.
Monsignore N., Vice-leas of had been accused fin.
some time pest of not leading a very edifying life. All on a sudden
the Pope summoned him to Rome, reprimanded him severely, and
then sent him to a convent at Bologna, where he must do penance.
Of the news of the day, the most important im the report, that
the Order of Malta will be removed to a city in the papal domi-
nions, and that the Bull on the subject, is in the prem.
FROM TIM RHINE, MAY 4.
It is affirmed, that the Government of the Netherlands has re-
turned a negative answer to the Austrian note, calling for the exe-
cution of the treaties respecting the free navigation of the Rhine :
from this answer it should seem that there is little hope of a
friendly arrangement of the points in dispute. This note is re-
ported to deny that the House of Orange, when it was placed by
the Allies in 1814 on the Throne of the Netherlands, consented to
the free navigation of the Rhine, because this would be a condi-
tion ruinous to Holland, and incompatible with the duties of a So-
vereign. It is also said that the note pretends that the French are
"et expelled from Holland by the victories of the Allies, (as all the
world has hitherto believed) but by the efforts of the Dutch
themselves. If the Dutch Ministry would really try to persuade
the world that the glory of overthrowing the despotism of Napo-
leon belongs to the people of the Netherlands, an assertion so
ludicrously absind, so alien to the elevated character of the
King, and the acknowledged probity of the people, must be
ascribed to the Minister' alone.

--•411.0
Accounts from Trieste otaf hat after the fall of Missolonghi
is Ibrahim Pasha proceeded to Napoli di Romania; but this fortress
so Strong, and well provided with provisions, that he will find
It,dif!icult to get possession of it.

- -
Sydney Garestet to the let December have been received at
the North and South American Coffee-house. From the Sydney
Paper Van Diemen's Land is still in an awful state, awl when
that poor Colony will enjoy repose from bush-rangers we are
a loss to conceive. The gaol at LawncAston is so
crowded that there is scarcely room for the prisoners to ley
down at night. The Commission of Enquiry has terminated in
the Sister Colony. Chief Justice Pedder and the Attorney-Gene-
ral came to high words at the last sitting of the Tasmanian Con-
gress. The proceedings are not yet known.