The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-30 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday a gentleman, who stated himself to be
an offieer in the Royal Artillery, waited on the
sitting magistrates, Messrs. WYATT itlld
in order, as he said, to procure their assistanp in the
correction of a repre.,entation that had appeared in
must of the London Journals, mentioning that a per-
son who had been lately take►► up, and on Friday
last committed to Chelmsford gaol for the crime of
horse-stealing, was a Mr. Legh Doraville Halstead.
Tho report, as to the name, was incorrect ; 'for the
gentleman who bore it, and it was rather an unusual
appellation, was at the present, and for some months.
past, in India, and the attaching the crime to him,
when there was an utter impossibility, both from his
distance, and his principles, of its perpetration, had
given the groatest pain to his relatives, one of whom
he was. He made this statement in the public-
office in order that it might at once go forward to
the world.

Mr. WVATT--We have reason to know that the
real name of the criminal is Dines, and that he has
assumed that of the gentleman you speak of, with
an intention of more successfully docomplishing his
depredations.
Mr. MATTtttAS here bore testimony to the respec-
tability of Mr. Halbtead's family, whom he had
known for a number of years, and expressed a wish
that the wound which had been inflicted by this cri-
minal's false representations on their peace would
be healed by the press, which had been, uncon-
sciously, his instrument.
The reporter assured him, that so far as it Wil%
in his power, the evil should be remedied ; and the
gentleman, ha‘ing said that he felt confident the
London journals would be more anxious to repair
than perpetrate an injury, then left the office.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock

THE LONDON GAZE'IIrE

OF THIS EVENING.

War-Office, Dec. 29, 1828.

•
lit Regiment of Dragoons—Captain William Mostyn
Owen, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Daniel Pep-
loe Webb, who exchanges, receiving the difference. Dated
Dec. 18, 1828.
lit cr enadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign and
Lieutenant Charles Bagot to be Lientehant and Captain,
by purchase, vice Batty, promoted. Dec. 30.
Honourable Augustus Frederick Foley to be Ensign
and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice 'bigot. Dec. 30.
3d Regiment of Foot Guards—Captain Porter Brome
Francois Charles CilFoss, from the 62,1 Regiment, to be
Lieutenant and Captain, vice Fairfield, who exchanges.
Dec. 13.
12th Regiment of Foot—Ensign Richard England to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Foresteen, deceased.
Dec. 18. _ _

13th Foot—Capt. Robert Hare, from the half-pay, to
be Captain, vice Henry Waterman, who exchanges, re-
ceiving the difference. Dec. 18.
22d Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon Robert Joynt Gor-
don Grant to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Tighe, appointed
to the 18th Regiment. Dec. IS.
27th Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon James Ferguson,
M.D. to be•Assistant-Surgton, vice Poole, appointed to
the Staff. Dec.. 18.
.3tth Foot—Capt. lien. Henry intton Fine to be
Major, by purchase, vice Broderick, who retires. Doc. 18.
Lieut. Bridges John Hooke to be C ptain, by purchase,
vice 'Pane. Dec. 18.
Ensign Thomas William Newcomen to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Hooke. Dec. 18.
Jahn Fordyce, Gent. to be-Ensign, by pnrchasu, vice
Newcomvn. Dec. 18.
:37th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Cobbold, from the
half-pay of the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant,
vice James Banbury Hamliton, who exchanges, receiving
the difference. Dec. 18.
56th Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase,
ditto—Staff-Assistant Surgeon Robert M`Math,
,se,vice F 'oo
Keating,t.l(lu f
promoted.ligg,
Dec.
18.
vice Ilenuan, appointed to
ISLD., to Inc Aasistant-Surgeon,
the Royal MilitarY Asylum. Dec. 18.
60th ditto— Dlijor Henry Augustus Frederick

Ellie to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Fitz-Ge-
rald, who retires. Dec. 18.
Captain Charles Leslie to be Major, by purchase, vice
Ellis. Dec. 18.
Lieutenant Crosby Lewis Nesbitt to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Leslie. Dec. 18.
624 Foot—Captain Edward Bridges Fairfield, from the
6th Regiment of Foot Guards, to he Captain, vice Gilliess„
who exchanges. Dec. 18.
66th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Beckham, from the half.
pay of the 61st Regiment, tribe Lieutenant, vice Wardell,
appointed to the 93d Regiment. Mc. 18.
724 Foot--Lieutenant Charles Corley Craven to be
Captain, by purchase, vice De Montmorency who retires.
Dec. IS.

Ensign Cyrus Plaistow Tratipaud to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Craven. Deo. IS.
Thomas Todd, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Trapaud. Dec. 18.
73d Foot--Ensign Hefty Harvey to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice Williamson, deceased. Nov. 24.
Ensign Dennis Daly to be Lieutenant, by purcha.,e, vice
Seymour, promoted. Nov. 25.
Hospital-Assistant Christopher Maxwell Vowell to be
Assistant-surgeon, vice Fraser, deceased. Dee. 18.
93d Foot—Lieutenant William Henry Wardell, from
the 66th Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice Macdonald, ap-
pointed to the 23d Regiment. Dec- IS.
95th Eoot—Lieutenant Wm. Nouns Saunders to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Gibbons, who retires, Dec. 18.
Ensign the Hen. Charles Robert St. John to be Lieut.
by purchase, vice Sannders. Dec. 18.
Thomas Fraser Sandeman, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice St. John. Dec. IS.
07th Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon James Anthony
Topham to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Austin, protnosed.
Dee. IS.
98th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Thomas Pack, from the
half-pay of the 59th Regiment, to be Assistant- Surgeon,
vice Limdery promoted in the 59th Regiment. Dee. 18.
99th Foot—Ensign Henry James Day to he Adjutant,
vice WKenxie, who resigns the Adjntantly only. Dec. 18.
Ceylon Regiment—Lient. John Bnrleigh, from the half-
pay of the late Qd Ceylon Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice
Fentvick, promoted. Dec. 30.

UNATTACHED.
To be Lieutenant-Colonels of Infantry, by purchase.
Major St. John Augustus Clarke, from the 77th Regi-
ment. Dec. 30.
Lieutenant and Captain Robert Batty, from the Grena-
dier Regiment of Foot Guards. Dec. 30.
The under-menticned Lieutenants, actually serving upon
full-pay in Regiments of the Line, whose commissions are
dated in or previous to the year 1811, have accepted pro-
motion upon half-pay, according to the General Order of
he 27th December 1826 :

tniATTACIIRD.
, To be Captains of Infantry, without purchase.
Lieut. Thomas Lisle Fenwick, from the Ceylon Regi-
ment. Dec. 30.
Lieutenant Thomas Biggs, from the 29th Regpnent.
Dec. 30.
Lieutenant William Boran Bernard, from the 45th Re-
giment. Dec. 30.
MEMORANDA.--The promotions of Lieutenant Horton
to a company in the Royal Staff Corps, and of Second
Lieutenant Adams to the First Lieutenancy, in succession,
as stated in the Gasette of the 9th instant, have not taken
place.
The Christian names of Ensign Thomas, of the 69th
Regiment, are Edmund Stephen, and net Edward Stephen,
as formerly stated.
The commission of Lieutenant Bunhurv, in the 94th
Regiment, has been antedated to the 22n October, 1828.
The under-mentioned Officers have been allowed to re-
tire from the Service, by the sale of unattached commis-
sions :
Lieutenant-Colonel James Addams, of the Royal
Dec. 30.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Granville Eliot, of the Royal
Artillery. Dec.. 30. •
Commisitions in the Staffiridehite- Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County
of Stafford.
The Earl :of Chestctleiti to be Captain, vice Worthing.
ton, resigned. Nuv.l29.
lknry Worthington, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Peel.
Nov. 29.

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John Peel, Gent. to be ditto, vice Boss. Nov. 29.
Michael DM, Gent. to be Cornet. Nov. 29.

Whitehall, December 24, 11328.

on.o.citor eprofat..l Joh Iliad►haw, of
the twon of Nottingham, Gone. to be a blamer Extraor-
dinary in the High Court of Cancery.
The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Julius Gahm ian
Shepherd, of Fevershatn, in the county of Kcnt, Gent. to
be a Matter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

Whitehall, Dec, 29, 1828.
The King has been pleased to present the Reverend
Thomas Kidd to the church and pariah of Longeide, in the
presbytery of Deer, and county of Aberdeen, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Wm. Greig, late Minister there.
The King has also been pleased to present the Rev.
Joseph Yair to the church and parish of Eckford, in the
presbytery of Jedburgh, and county of Roxburgh, vacant
by the transportation of the Rev. George Gray to the
church and parish of Maybole, in the presbytery and county
of Ayr.