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London, England, 1817-08-16 00:00:00

QI3;;IITERI?.,:G SOI.I:IF,ItS.

Aft ACT ;or MC:te,r, the It ATEN of SUBSISTENCE to be pnifi
to INNKEEPERS and OTHERS oil 'QUAitT.EBING
,SOLPIERS. •

[7th Jgjy, IS

Wheretri by two Acts passed in the present
Session of Parliament fair punishing Mutiny and
Desertion, and for the better payment of the
Army and their Quarters, it is enacted; That
Officers and Soldiers shall be furnished, with Diet
and Small Beer upon paying and allowing for the
same the ieveral-Rates-that are or, shall be esta-:
Wished by. any Act or Acts of Parliament; and
an option is given to innholders, and others upon
Whom officer's and soldiers are quartered and bil-
letteil, to furnish certain articles gratis in lieu of
diet and small beer; and:it is just and expedient
that au adequate allowance shall be made and
.qtahliti.,ll9l- provision u:td other articles fur-
nished 'to Officers and Soldiers May it therefore
please your Majesty that it may be enacted ; and
be it enacted by the King's twist Excellent Ma-
jesty, •fiy and with the adriCe rand consent of the
Lords Spit it oat and Tempp(ral, .and Conti:l6as, itt
this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, That every Non-commis-
sittned Officer and Private Soidiey who shall be fur-
nished with diet and small beer, withinahose parts
of the United Kingdom specified, in the maid recited
Acts, by t he 4nnholders or other persons on whom
such Non-counnisioned Officers or. Private' Sol-
diers shall be quartered and billetted by virtue of
the said Acts, shall pay and allow for the same
the sum of ten-pence per diem until the twenty-
fourth day of July inclusive, and from and alter
;that day the sum of one shilling and two-pence
per, diem ; and that for such allowances of ten-
pen-ce and one shilling and two-pence the lonholder
or other person shall furnish one. meal ; videlicet,
a. hot dinner, if required, in each day to each
Non-commissioned Officer; Trompeti.r, Drumnier,
and Private Soldior quartered and ()Wetted on hien,
to consist of such quantities of tliet Eind small beer
as have been or shall he specified. and fixed in and
by any regulations made or to be made front time
to ?One by his Majesty in that behalf, but not to
exceed one pound and a
.quarter- of meat previous
to being drossed, one ppond of. bread, one pound
of potatoes or other vegetables previous to being
cooked, and two pint's of small beer, and vinegar,
salt, and pepper 5 and that 'Ole accotints of the
,same 'shall be rendergd„, and payment thereOf
made, in like manner ti.,s is directed by the said
Acts.
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And be it flirtbee enacted, That in case any innholders,
OF ether persons on whom it.iy Non-Commissioned Officers or
Private 111eii shall he q tart e rcd within the aforesaid' parts of
the. United citt.ae of the saiii option. i,t,
the said A N cts, furnish such Noemmuissioned Officers or
Y.,ir erg sit b.. the articles t ereitiliAnaChtlif of fter-
orshing diet and surtil beer, at the rate prescribed bey this
.kit, such oitiwhom tiolders or other persons on such Non-
commissioned Officers or Soldiers are quartered, and by whole
'the said articles shall hove been so supplied, shall receive in
considei•atiun thereof One Hal feedily per diem fiir each Non-
connissionZd Officer and' Soldier; which stun of One Half-
penny per Dieni shall be for and paid itt like man-
ner as is directed Witching the rate aforesaid.'
111. And lie it further enacted, That the Sum to be paid to
the innholder or oilier pers.in within the • afoi esaid parts of
the• United Kingdom, on whom any of the horses belonging
to his Majesty's Forces shall be quartered by virtue of the
-said-Acts, for Hay sitd Straw, shall' be Ten-pence per diem
for each bOrse until the i4th day of July inclusive, and from
and alter that day One Shilling per diem.
, IV. Anti be it further enacted, That all Non-commissioned
Officers and Soldiers shall be entitled to receive, their diet
and. stitall beer from the innholders ur other persMisod-whoin
they way he billetted, within the aforesaid parts of the Udit-.,
ed Kingdom, at the rate herein-before prescribed while on,.
the march, as also 'on and for the day of their arrival at ',1111:
place of their final destination, and on 'the two subsequent.
days, unless either of the two subsequent. (lays shall be a
market "day in and for the town or place Mimic such Offiebrs
or Soldiers shall be billetted, or within the distance of two
miles thereof ; in which case it shall he lawful for the inn-
holder or other person as aforesaid to discontinue on and
trout such market day the supply of. diet and-small beer, and
to furnish in lieu thereof the articles in the said 'recited Act
specified, and at the rate hereid-before prescribed.
V. Provided always. That if any Victtialle'r or other person
liable by the said recited Acts to have Soldiers billetted or
quartered oil him or her shall pay any Sum or sums'of money.
to any Non-commissioned Officer or soldier on the march, in ,
lieu of furnishing in kind-the diet and imall beet to which
such Non-commissioned Officer or Soldier is entitled under
the said Aete,severy such Victualler or other person may he,
prOce•iiied against and fined in like"manner as if he or she had
refused to•furoish or allow, according to the directions of the
said_recited Acts, the several things respectively directed to
he furnished to Non-continissio&tl Officers or Soldiers so
quartered or. billetted on him or her as aforesaid.
- VI.- Provided also, and he it fitimer enacted, That if any
-Regiment, Troop, Company, or Detachment, when on' the
march, shall be halted, •either: for a limited or iiidetinitive
tline, at-any intermediate place, the Non-commissioned Of-
ficers and Soldiers belonging thereto shall he entitled to re:-
ceive their diet and small beer .from the persons on. whom •
they shall be Whetted tit such if.terinediate place, for such
time only for which they would lie entitled to • receive the
same after arriving- at the place of their final destination, ac-
cording to this Act.
VII. Provided,nevertheless, That whenever it shall bapr en
that- atti Regiment, Troop, Company, or Detachment, when
on their march, shall lie halted, and it shrill-appear by the
marching orders that it is not intended that such Regiment,
Troop, Compan)k, or Detachment ;(liall halt for any longer
time than one entire day after t be day of their arrival at the
,place of ~to whit the thly after such shall be such,
market day as aforesaid,'it shall not lie lawful for the inn-
holders or other persons on is to New-commissioned Of-
fice-re and Soldiers sled! be hilletted to discontinue on such
market day the, supply of diet anJ.stuall beer to any such Of-
ricers or Soldiers; but-that all sut•h bilfeersand Stildiers shall
Le entitled to receive their dirt and small heel from such. in 4
Inikers and other persons aforesaid ova such market day aS
aforesaid,. at the rates hereid-before kseribed, maw:
tier as they would have been entitled thereto if such day had
nut beeit•it nodket day; any thing herein-before contained to
the contrary hereof notwithstanding.,
• VIII. And he it farther enacted, That all Not;-commissioned
011(cers sod Private Men employed in recruiting, and the Re-
cruits by Him riiiiied,• shall, while on march?-and ,:for two
days after the day. of their arrival at any recruit itigstatioo,
he entitled to the saute' ketielits as,are herein•before providid.
in regard to troops'upod the- march; bet no Recruit rolisteil.
alter the two days subseqacint to the arrival of the party tit
their recruiting statina shalt bit entitled to hat supplied with
dirt and small betir at the rates herein-Inifore prescribed,
mit at. the option of . the person on whom he shall be quar-
tered : Provided ;Ilse nevertheless, that in case arty such
Recruiting Part}', with the Reernits •het them raised, shail
Vellitntj trout their statiOny and after a time shall return to

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the same'place, they and the Itecruils..by,lb'em raised,' so re,
turnintt, slottl nut be again entitled to supply of diet tout
small beer rot' such two days as aforesaid; 'finless the period
bet weeo.t of their removal fronisnch place, and their
Fetm,, thereto, shall have exeeeded.tAi:etty`-eight (tars.
IX. And be it farther enacted, That 'this Art A.- have
continuAuce ttrid be lo force: frinn' the twenty-fAurth day o 2
March One thousand f•irht kindred and seventeen until tho
tweet :fifth day of 'NlArch Otre thonsand eight hunaredand
eighteen-; and that 'an payments which have been made, and
all Acts, matters, And thitv's done in pursuance of Or in cot,"
forznity W;h the provisions the'reof; shall be as good, 'valid,
and effecinahtO all'lntent's and purposes as if this Act .had
passed before'the said twenty-fourth aay of March One thou-
sand eight hundred and seventeen: -
' X. 'Provided- 'a“vaYgi and be it further enacted, That this
Act may be altered and varied by any Act to be glade in tbil
Session of Parliament.'

I It E L A- N D.
[FROtI A DUBLIN PAPER.]
Be it remembered, that at a General Assembly of the Right
Honourable the I,rd Mayor, Sheriff:, Co4nions, and Citt-
• zetisofthe Cityof Delft., held at the City Ass'enthly
William-street, on Friday, the 18th day of Jnly, / i7;:tite
following Address vat unaniutous!y agreed to he lac.;
settled to

His Excellency CHARLES EARL N'i7l-IITNVORTI-T,
LORD LICUTEI•;ANT,. GENERAL AND .GENERAL GO-

VERNOR (IF IRELAND.

" MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,
Tite.l,,rit Mayor, SlitritN Commons, and Citizens the
City of Dublin, cutertaiiiing-a .duz Hens e of the advantages
Ireland has derived from the wisdom', firmnes,.- and modera-
tion, which have peculiarly characterised your Excellency's
Government, approach yOur Excellency, to intreat that you
will condescend to comply with their unanimous request, of
sitting for your Picture, in order that whenever the period.
shall arrive,, which will 'place your Excellency' at a distance
front the Citizens of Thiblin, their regret maybe lessened, by
being posseSsed.of the Portrait of a Viceroy, whose public and
private virtues Will ever live in their grateful 'recollection?'
The Corporation,having waited on his Excellency with the.
foregoing4ddress, he was Pleased to return the following,
Answer

6f, MY LORD AX!) GrNTLEMEN,
"I be to assure you, that 1 am fully sensible of the ho—
nour we, in expressing a wish to be possessed of 114
Portrait.

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" I shall have great pleasure in giving effect to that wish as
soon as it is ix my power, and will have the tumour of pre-
senting it to'you when completed.
" In the mean time, allow me to say, that bawever. much
your partiality may Maine you to prize the Picture, it tall tree
no less vainahle in my estimation, as serving to lice!) alive in
the remembrance-of the Citizens of Bulclin, not only my
pexson, but th tt period also of, my life which has been passed
amongst and which has been unremittingly (and I
trust, not wholly unsuccessfully) directe.d to the promotioa
of their welfare, as Avi;ll as that of all his M.tjestfs subTects
in this pat t of the United Kingdom."
13e it remembered,' that at a Ootreral Assembly of the Right
Hon, the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs,.Commons, and Citizens gif
the City of Dulrlin, bead 'at the (City Asst.:ably House,
William-street, oa Friday, the ISO day of .1 dy, 1817,
following. 'Address was unanimously agreed to be pre.
,
sented to . • .
, THE RIGHT HON. ROBERT PEF.T4.e.e. &c.
" a,--The Ancient and Loyal Corporation of the city of
na)ilin, sensible of the benefits -which not on!y-Ircland, but
the Brills"; Empire has der iced from the successful exertions
and splendid talents of a Gentleitlari, wilo as a States:iota alit'
a-Senator has proved his firm to the British tam-
slit ution, and his friendly attention lo the interests
and anxious to hand do.vn to postericy the Portrait of a Chief
Secretary of State, for whose person and character the c;!i-
ctis of Dubtin must oil' ret.,;iii the highen respect anti affec-
tion, !ice unanimously resolved to solicit you to sit for your.
Pictnte, a•tequet, Sir, which 'vet; the !mid Milyrir. She.ritT.4
Commous, and Citizens of Dublin, now personally make, its
order that a lasting memorial may exist of our genuine regard
for a Personage, to whose future career we most ev.:;i took
with al'ectionate solicitude; and we are confident, Sir, that
you will not less appreciate our sincerity, when you recollect
that a similar request has, not been heretofore made to any
Noblema a or Gentleman, filling your present high official
situation."

The Girporation having waited on Mr. reel with the fore c:
ing address, he was pleased to return the following answer:---
cc Rlt Loco Mn'on.AND GENTLEMT,S,
cc I feel highly gratitied by the compliment which hots been
paie,to me by the Corporation of the City of Dublin.
" I shAll have great satisfactkm in complying with their
retinesq and,in: pre,entihg to theni the Portrait for which thy y
have done 'tile the honour of expressing an unanitimns
wish.

" I am proud. of the assurance, that I have acquired the•
confidence and regard of that Loyal and ancient. Body. 'Utley
have justly ascribed to me a sincere desire to promote the
welfare of Ireland t but if the interests of this Country lave
bee❑ advanced by the nre►asures of the Administration with
which I.Jtal'e. been connected, the merit is'to be ascribed to
Him who ha's presided over it, and whose approaching de
parture, in common with you, Gentlemen,--and with this
Country generally, I contemplate truth the utmost regret."

7 -
iIIETkIODIS'.I Iv .1114FLAND.—An article bavitig
appeared in the Dublin Papers, purporting to ho
froth the. Reverend Adam Avcrell, and expreSsive
of his Surprime, at the insertion of his natne in the.
trite printed Minutes of the Methodist Co.trfer-
enee', you are requested to insert the
Letter, lately received front hint on the subject,
although it is admi!ted that Mr. Atwell did tilt
fully Coincide with ail the resolutions adopted by
the Con(ereneel----- • -

.",Nrolint Salem, ..).ngttst 4,181 t%
" MY D.F.AIt FrifEtill,—t am ex?:Cedingly sorry that any per-
son could be 'guilty. of publishing icy thing in my nume,
without m knowledge. I 'never cx prose(' 'nay dissoisfaeiMomx
at my name being published in the Minutes. 1 beliete
had the approbation of Heaven, and my own coßatienee itt
joining myself to the Nielhodist,Preachers. I cannot recon-!
cile'to tither, my withdrawing' front therm, and, therefore,
abide, among therm I am 'so fully oonvinced that they are
the only. Accredited Preachers of ct hodism in I
?,;stem which 1 believe to be ide,tified ‘‘ it h. 'tare' and undea
filed religion), that I must abide With them;
I remain, with,sincete nifection and regard,
.'.1,•6t traly yore's,
ADAM 'AVERELL.
-"•Yon mar make what use yon please of the above.
" To Mr. Andrew Ilamil;mm,, 13,
Whitetriar-street,-Dmmlllin."

A rintinnem,has been ereelcd to Cie memory of
the late V!Scounte)sTz tinder an open
arch or tll'e south, side of the Chahcel, in Clnist-
'church, liirnts, over the lA!nily It is a
group; the size of nature, represett!ing this ex-
cel:cnt Lad‘firnitructine, her ttree infant suns in
the most essential of all knowledge, that of the
Holy Scriptures. Tile idea of the sculpture was
suggested by the (Tit ; for, ni maternal love
to three children is a received sytnbol of Christian
Charity, so instruction front the Bible' unitesthe
Clidsvan graces of Charity n.nd
grirop Was exhin,ited (hiring the spring' at Somer-
set 'louse, and stood in the centre of the sculp-
ture room, between two statues of fiche anti
Polyhymnia, by the Marquis of Canova. The work
was executed, under the direction of 'Viscon,kit
FITZ by JOHN FLAXMAN, Esq. It. A. and
is _allowed to be one of the best Fruductiozls of
artist. - . .