The Sun.
London, England, 1817-03-11 00:00:00

AIII.ITARY REDUCTIONS.

The 100th Regiment has been ordered to this
Co►tutry from New Bruns►vick, and on its arrival
is expected to be reduced.' *'-

Orders have been given for the Depot 'troops
and Companies of the under-mentioned Itegi,
mews, which have been ordered home'from India,
being immediately discontinued, viz.

Ligbt Dragoons,

19th Foot,

sGth --, 2d Battalion,

7gli --,

80th --,

2460)

This last arrangement ulune will be a saving to
the Connt►y of 8000/.
At least with regard to the Reduction of the
Military Force, Ministers seem must active in
meeting tile wishes of Public.

From three Dutch Mails, which arrived this
morning, we select the following intelligence :

" Batissets, FEB. 24.---The French Minister
of War has agaio written to the Magistrates in
the Department of the North, that the recruiting
for• the Standing Army must, begin again, and
that care Must be taken'to replace all the old mili-
tary, whose conduct gives no ground for com-
plaints. ic The King," says the Minister," is re-'
solved !hat France shall have a good army, cape
hie of making it respected, since a Monarchy which
'is not constantly protected by a strong and re-
spectable force iy akiays exposed to the greatest
dangers." These measures prove that tranquillity
and good order become.more mid more confirmed
and the old solgers, who a year ago were ex-
tremely averse iron) service, now in general desire
to be engaged.

" They write from Cambray, that the Duke
of Wellington is expected in the course of a month
from Paris. Now that a part of the Allied troops
are to leave Vrance, the strictest orders have been
again'given for an exact observance of discipline.
It has been observed, that the Russian troops
have the most easily accommodated themselves to
the climate and manners ofFrance.

4' FRB. coutingent 0f'21,000 British
troops, one-fiftit of which are cavalry, remain
with the ArMy of Occupation ; but' in order to
lessen the expence as much us possible, a very
large proportion of Staff and superior Officers is
recalled.

" Aetonnts say tltat the Brit'3ll Army in France
has showu the greatest disgust at the commotions
which have lately taken place in England. •
" We learn front Sedan, that above 1300 Prus-
sian troops are gone home. The corps which are
to leave France must be all yone by the 10th of
April. The report that the Prussians would eva-
cuate Charleville is wholly unfounded.
'4l COPENWAGP.N, FLD. 1.5. English Papers
have repotted, that a treaty of commerce has
been concludel between Mintdark and the United
States Of America. This' is not the case. Pro-
posals have been indeed made-on the subject, but
uo negociation has been entered upon

" AMSTERDAM, MARCH 3.—The rapers are
of aceoutitb of the terrible effects or the thunder

m lil the night of the I.sth of February,
extended all through Holland, and far into Ger-
many. A great many steeples were struck, and
some entirely burnt down; Great distress is fear-
ed from the continued rise of the waters in our

rivers."

The character of the British Nation, it seems,
stands so low in the estimation of those who ar-
rogate to themselves the title of British Patriots,
that they think it necessary to vindicate it from
" the charge of inhumanity towards a Fallen Man,"
videlicet, towards NAPOLBON BUONAPARTE ! A
notice of a Motion for Palters to thii effect has
been given in the House of Peers by Lord-Hot.-
LAND, the ancient Eulogist of " that Great Prince,"
and recent Calumniator of the House of Bo_ua.-
BON, against whose head he insinuated, that he
oppressed France with Taxes under pretence of
paying the Contributions, and having raised the
money, applied it to other uses. And so, it is to
a high sensitiveness for British honour and hu-
manity that we owe this Motion, which is in itself
a slander by implication on both. 'lt is not the
result of old attachments ; of feverish discontent
at the oblivion into which the Idol of the Faction
has sunk ; of auger, because the Ex-Emperor is
not. permitted to correspond freely with his
friends, and, distant and hopeless though be be,
rivet together the grand chain of Jacobinism, of
which the scattered links arc to be found in every
Country of the Universe,
Net totidvm junctus nee beau disiunctus,

Any effort to revive an interest in 14UONAPARTS
must fail. ,The World retains nothing but the
remembrance of his quackery and his crimes, and
Wisdom (were her whispers heard.by Party Alen)
dictates . that 'the trodden firebrand should be al-
lowed to smoulder'innocnously to extinction in its
own smoke and ashes, and not be fastened to ,a
Fox's Tail, and sent burning thrOugh the pros-
perous fields of now peaceful nations. •

Tfie Westminster Worthies meet at the Crown
and Anchor this evening, to prepare for the Show
in E'nlace.y,ud on Thursday, srrange the speeches,
and mete out the style of the orations and lan-
guage of the Resolutions within the circum-
scribed limits which ti►e law now allows.
The execution of Cashman, the rioter, stands
ordeicd for to-morrow morning. -

The Anti-Veto Agitators, whb are at present
keeping up the tall of pclpular contention in Ire-
land, are generally marked men, whose objects can
no more be misconceived than those of our Spa-
fields Demagogues. Most of them are either well-
known Rebels, or the connexions of Rebels and
Traitors. And is it from 'suck persons that im-
provements of the British Constitution are to
emanate.? . From the sons and brothers of men
banged for Treason in 1798, and who themselves
only narrowly escaped the 8/1111C fate ?. This is,
indeed, a nen' narrowly., when the Work-houses send
forth Legislators, and the Hulks Reformers.
Stich individdals may, indeed, stigmatize all
that is respectable in the Roman Catholic Hotly,
with the . names of ". Seceders," " Corruptios-
ists," " Hirelings," anti " Court Sycophants"—
our duty is to preserve the Constitution from both
parties, but While Ow one is entitled to respect
and consideration, the other rs only liable to dis-
gust and abhorrence. •

The examinations of the persons lately appre-
hended in Glasgow, on a charge of treasonable
practices, were finished on Thursday, and the re-.
suit was expected to have been known yesterday;
,but we understand, that there have since been
three arrestments, to. which some consequence is
attached, and another day will, probably elapse
before it he known who are to be finally com-
\mitted. Of the three persons taken up on Thurs-
day night, one is the manager of a cotton mill in-
the Calton, and another is a. teacher, in Bridge-
tem, of very considerable abilities ; the` third 'is an
operative cotton-spinner.—( Edinburgh Courma,
March 8.)

New York Papers to the Gth nit. arrived yester-
day. Their contents show on hicreasing spirit of
hostility to the introduction 01' British nuinubc-