The Sun.
London, England, 1818-05-01 00:00:00

INDIA.

" Right Bank of the Jumna in Camp, Oct' g74;1116
" We are now on our mai ch—,upposeilf, " tress
first instance, to be-directed against the art ale
of Gwalior, belonging to Seindia. The gre at
of the campaign, however, is the eocire
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nihilation of the Pindarrees, a race of pi""d,,e Ad
scouudids, who have been annoying us 112 r
years. ieoe'
" The'whole..of the army now in the file Nev.
sists of 10 divisions, each of about 10,0"-i 5 tO:
We-are advancing from the three Presideuu-ve eve',
wards the same point with the finest Sri." I
perhaps heard of in India. The Govern or,'Cisir;gf
is with our division, which is about 13,0°
with 60 pieces of cannon. The camp ftiv.ll°00
: the
of this division alone amount to 67,000'
hsye
carriage of the baggage of our regiment, vv" t fig.
40 elephants and 400 camels ; every e1e1),,b34/1 here
two keepers, and every two camels one. 0' u'eret sre
are 37 officers present, among whom th.,4-5 taro
810 servants ; every horse in the regiment ,1-I.)vid,,
attendants, one as a groom, the other I° r: 011
grass—these alone amount to 1400, be' (y the
for the mess, and 900 for the bazaar to
,ne,,:boa;
provisions ;• in all, for our regiment
9,5,00 followers, besides their wives, chil"re-o,' ost
The• Marquis of Hastings travels int ;I:ftrelif
princely style : be has 150 elephants, ani`i,noirell
mels, besides•state elephants splendidiY3c*—,l s (DP
having surerb solid silver powders or e354-94ple
their backs. There areuow 36 Rajahs
the ' war,
pendent Chieftains of various ranks on it
ug,
to pay their respects to the Margnis. 6°o—roor
them indeed are already. in camp. 'The 6°- teg
General, in fact, is now as great a Moir.
the Great Mogul was."

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 1.

RUNG INTELLIGENCE.

11UNEURY v. THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
J3RottonAm, on Wednesday last, obtained
conle t()I. a Mandamus to go to the Governor and
wh;PanY of the Bank of England, to shew cause
i.06:117 should not make a division of all the
• A 8 I/000011g to the Holders of Bank Stock.
nt th
e sitting of the Court this day, Sir ARTHUR
mi stated, that yesterday having been a holi-
Le: all the Public Offices, the Bank had not
tit): able to consider the rule,
.•,d he prayed
of \e; 4',llkh was granted, till Monday, the 25th
41', to shew cause.
t‘it• Ptcor observed, that the application was
htf
knetellY novel to the Bank, who had experienced
tng similar for one hundred and twenty-three
41 the,whole duration of their existence.

11.1 L LATE APPEAL OF MURDER.

Ove'
hp.) ASHFORD V. THORNTON'.
,witilahlwlerstand that a Subscription is most
~efati7_ tliaking for WILLIAM ASHFORD and his
Itiin4ll (who wonld otherwise be involved .
"atte: 10 enable them to defray the heavy costs
)ia,'' btPences of the Appeal of Murder, lately
likteeH
eed the Court of King's Bench against
tetl TfioaNTox. A report had been ci.rctid-
41'''"t a large som of money was subscribed
•-:'°'te ain the Appeal, but we have authority
the report was without foundation. f
true that many persons of the first_
-tim",, "41- respectability, being aware.fi of
's-'ltt'4ll4l„,-; "sHroan's• circumstances, had signified
retit desire to contribute towards his ex-
Every iiitlividual of common feeling and.
.41:11',i''°11, best acquainted with 'lie facts of this
%JAI-i:l°l,lY case, approved of the appeal instituted
hit 'HoßN•rosi under a most salutary as well
/ilt 41. Y ancient li:or of the land ; and although
h. teittt ak/
of that suit has not been successful,
Kehl ,t° 4 deftqwe Which THORNTON
_Weis ad-
Nth '° be at liberty to resort to, by claiming a
titthiit°l trial Bo barbarous- and irrational as to
NI) lite Might for right, and so obsolete that
Shia Its f
(nRIS are scarcely known at this day.
tiq" Callum have any effect on public °PI.-
ItbNie • 4„1111, serif/ugly to be lamented that
4'ise:-"cted, as it was, with so much purity
elittititless on the part of the appellant, could
I,7lste '`inlet's
a further investigation before a Jury.
iPpy 'lsolation is, however, derived to the tin-
t 4ttd~eir Pl'ents and relations of the unfortunate
1,-s4Potin, (ruin the reflection that they
IL" "Ppoitunity the law afforded of seek-
ail(' that they have not neglected to
44411';i1 that duty which the sacred cause of in-
* "tie and innocence required of them.
u
F 41)(),„ e so entirety concur 'in the benevolent
att"ily (.4e Proposed Subscription, that we will
Re Contributions at THE Surf Office,
tat,' allstmit them to the parties- authoriZed to
• .11441 into e
fleet.

"E'r FIRST SPRING MEETLNG, 1814.
'•
Ig'spk, ItSUAY, APRIL 30.
• ti. ex a ~e of 100 gs for four-yr-olds, llst. sve, Ist.9lb.
4.43"Yinliba-...".' aged, 42st Last three miles of B.C.
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▪ l'lscNil4, Bst. 81h. heat Mr. Prince's Sylvanus,
• •-• Wogs. b. ft.-6 to 4 agst Milton.
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cloth,
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.I'%.*,tsi,,tael,dead heat to 4Oonne Parrot-6 to 4 agst Lady Byron.
tilv,4j: each, for two-yr-olds, 7st. each. T.Y.C.
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hr. f. by Orville, out of Golden Leg's dam 3
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tlie Prince of HuSSE HOMBURG spent
3lttinspecting the monuments and other
ta of Westminster Abbey.
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,i4;;ATRE —Affe r the revived drama of The
stwitil a, in which KEAN again exerted him-
41,e6enterelit success, a new mell-drame was
stir 14 tinder the title of The Mountain Chief.
4atlawied (V V ALL Acx) , a mountain outlaw, had
ikught,p",carried off dnado (Miss CUBLTT), the
ti Nit #.,(4 miller, who is betrothed to Sir Hel-
with
111, ttiffia -..NAD), who with her family pursues
117 I 6vers kills him, and a marriage between
eancludes the piece. The scene lies in
414 111 e Piece was supported by some pictu-
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rt.) 'Y many on its conclusion, will probably
Nat , -
411ip eu With success, as many were in its

It:
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, lat hulks appears that there are im-
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4rit fritle, I .
I,_ 'OO ._? ilch has from Halifax, saw
,iiitg„
,iiyards in height, and apparently seven
erence, standing southward with
/,',l t,:r: cireuthf
lit ettt• Captain Qut,a f the Grand
EAU, 0
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k: 4, hat, ha arrtved at Dprry. from New Fork,
l'l,
3_ on the 15(11 of February, in lat. 43,
),lit. 411 through sever I •
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,ct 4.. . I extent., and from three to four bun-
Cqtv rt IAV). - T 1 • -11.. -
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Wks v.__ . . •
WU Clays in getting clear of (bun.

POETRY.

FOURTH EPISTLE TO THE 'EDINBURGH

REVI EWERS.

Malevolus animus abditos dentes habet.

Light Troops dismiss'd, my Phalanx on I lead;
Again ten syllables to eight succeed.
My only doubt, so various is your sin,
With which of all my charges to begin- :
Let then the Order of IMportance guide,
And thus, one only way can I decide.
RELIGION'S interests (reverenc'd be that name),
As first in consequence, first notice claiM;
There I begin, and must indulgence ask,
, If at some length I execute the task.

From better views I trust than man's applause,
I now stand forth to aid Religion's cause ;
Which is, as surely as itself is true,
Attack'd by sap and sneer in your REVIEW..
From one who strikes a fair and open blow,
There is less danger than Irons secret foe ;
So better far the Infidel avow'd,
Than he who veils false deeds in friendly shroud;
Who, whilst he aims to shake, asserts In lief,
Prowling in darkness like the nightly thief.
Were I employ'd to form the minds of youth,
To teach then loyalty and Christian truth,
I'd rather bid.them take PAINE'S Age of Reason,
That atheistic sink of Vice and Treason,
Than the vile book which every. quarter brings
Your Sneers at ChUrch, at Ministers, and Kings.
For PAINE, tho' more Outrageous and impure,
Bears in his own vulgarity a cure;
Whilst you, with weapon highly pulisli'd, hurt,
And e'er itself perceives, the mind pervert.
Well may the progress of the mining Mule
Shew how your doctrines act upon the soul :
The Mole feeds not upon the upper shoot,
But does more mischief darkly at the root;
Whilst groping on along Isis covert way,
The Mole harms what is not his proper prey;
The Mole strives not to aid his feeble sight,
But rather seeks the darkness than the light
So you, retiring from the light you need,
VOLTAIRE much oftener than the Scripture read;
Howe'er remote the suLject of your libel—
Your sneers are always pointed at THE BIBLE;
And tho' you do not openly deny it,
You aim with gibes sarcastic to decry it;
I can one difrrence, and but one, assign,
Moles act from instinct, —, from design.

About the time when WILLIAM, good and great,
On firmest basis fix'd our Church and State,
Then, with the blessings we acquir'd, arose
A dangerous junto of insidiouS foes;
Who, advocates of unbelief and Treason,
Made use of Reason's name to cast down Reason:
Self-call'd Philosophers, whose noble aim
Was to eradicate the Christian name !
Who dar'd to think and teach, with impious pride,
That, man himself, in vain for man, Christ died.
Nor strove alone the Christian to perplex,
But to cast off the needful social checks ;
Themselves unconscious from their fatal creed
What massacres, what horrors, would proceed,
Taught men to scorn what ouce they view'd with awe,
To spurn at Rulers, and to break the Law.
Just was thy lot, Oh! FRANCE; the mischief bred
In thee, dropt its worst poisons on thy head.
What Monsters then sprang up! what victims fell !
What deeds were done, which wade Earth seem a Hell
Till frenzied freedom's furies to restrain,
Her limbs were fetttr'd by a Despot's chain.
He curb'd—then us'd her giant-strength to break
All ancient forms—Kings to unmake and make;
And subjugate the world—but now 'tis past—
The mighty Despot from his Throne is cast:
Still those false doctrines which corrupt the mind,
Lull conscience, faith destroy, and reason blind,
Remain--and hare their advocates to quote
Each dangerous passage, and praise them who wrote.
Such are you —, whom I should by name
Supporter of these fallacies proclaim.
You do not say dire,ctly they are true,
But speak approvingly of those that do.
VoLTAIRE for wit ; ROUSSEAU for eloquence ;
And D'ALEMRERT commend for depth and sense ;
For judgment HuME; and thus to all the rest
Without fit caution, praises are address'd :
Praises for judgment, fancy, wit, research,
Which they employ'd to overthrow tbethurch.
And when you blame so gently discommend,
As marks approval pot!' of means and end ;
Shews all you think, tho' all is not avow'd; •
The Sun would dazzle, if not veil'd by cloud ;
Good pious Dolts you must not shock too much.
Then say, kind Sir, you who so softly touch,
If to debauch your• Wife some rake thought fit,
And therron Cuckolds pour'd a flood of wit;
Would you approve ? could you your rage controul ?
How should you then wit, which endanger's soul,
Receive ; with strong abhorrence of the jest,
With indignation every way express'd.
And did you thus receive ? let that appear
By proofs how ably you can point the sneer ;
Cam on the failings of the Priesthood dwell,
And pleas'd each scandalous aspersion tell;
Can all they think and do misrepresent,
And where faults are not to be found, invent;
Aiming to make the taught despise the teacher,
Anti wound Religion's Doctrines thro' the Preacher.
PARR made you sick by pompous words and rant;
NARES; by his Special Providence and Cant.
Alas! the good Archdeacon little dreamt
His pious thoughts would meet with such contempt
An. Army praying is a finer sight,
He said, than one whose ranks are rang'd for fight.
This !Romania, rous'd your ire,
And set—nu wonder—your bold soul on fire;
Fur you, by powers prophetic, could foresee
How great your honours in the field would be,
When you should view. full pointed at your bead,
The glorious pistol destitude of Je..ad.
And when the Preacher spoke,of rain and storm,
Ai means God's will cooimission'd to perform, •
seemed absurd to Critic so profound.
Who said—a sparrow falls not to the ground,

Without God's fears? THE SAVIOUR—he who said
The very hairs are numbered on your head—
Presumptious Critic! di op your impious eye;
Nor dare a Special Providence deny ;
Do not presume OMNIPOTENCE to scan,
Adore in faith, and know yourself. but Man.
So sure ant I this principle is true,
I trust some good will come from your REVIEW,
Altlio' by reason and mere human sense,
I can't conjecture when, how, why, or whence.

Molventße was not perued with half the zest,
Because he Scripture doctrines too mucb press'd;
Neer push'd his foot beyond its magic round,
As tho' within it by enchantment bound
Did not enough the moral sanctions use,
On carnal appetites and worldly views.
Was overstrict ; in short was barely civil,
To your three dearest friends—WOßLD, FLESH, and DEVIL.
No wonder then you gave him castigation,
Wh'lst you dealt out your smiles and approbation
To men who preach'd up morals with the glow •
Of Eeic•rE•rus and of CICERO !
And would for illustration sooner call
On SENECA,WO MATTHEW, JOHN. or PAUL;
Who do nut time o.n points of doctrine waste,
But talk of fitness, moral truth, and taste.

On LANGWoRTH too you strove to pour your wit,
But groan'd and fel in apoplectic fit.;
Falling, you still retain'd your awful frown,
And with convulsive kick, knock'd LANc WORTH down ;
He rose unhurt ; hreatVd forth a pitying prayer,
Then left you to your dark associate's care.
They, lest..reports injurious might he spread,
That these convulsion fits had hurt yOur head,
Till now the real truth a secret kept,
And wade the world believe you had but slept.

With equal rage, like Vulture, down you pounc'd
Qn RENNELL, whom with cruel claws you trouned,
Because he dar'd•in NEtsoN's deeds•rejOice.
And, as their cause, thank Goo with grateful voice;
Dar'd designate by its appropriate term
ROUSsEAU, VOLTAIRE, and all the foreign firm-;
As they were friends of HUME and Co.
This was like striking at yourself a blow.
For this, with Billivgsgate abuses manta, •
Bully and Swaggerer was the Doctor call'd.
Prove, said the Critic, e're you give the lye—
It has been prov'd, the Doctor might reply;
Or WATSON, BUTLER, PALEY, wrote in
Can one short sermon all these proofs contain ?
Better to speak then with the warmth I feel, •
Since reason sanctions all the warmth of zeal.
But most was rous'd your critic indignation
By hints on CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION—
This RENNELL blaui'd—what had the man deluded?
Conceited blockhead !L—not to think as you did ?
The motive is quite plain—how men will fawn
When grasping at the distant sleeves of lawn !
Base Critic! think you then all men like you,
Who never move but with a fee in view ?

Science itself by you was misemploy'd
To make the Christian dispensation void;
With man's eternal interests to sport;
`Vo render infidelity support;
And prove that evidence, however great,
Can never MIRACLES authenticate.
Nature, you said, is constant in her course,
No proofs can faith against experience force."
What ! can ,ot he who made, suspend his laws ?
Is not his WILL alone sufficient cause ?
Yet here there is just-cause for deviation,
In the great work of sinful man's Salvation.
How could a SAviotJß sent from COD be known
• As troy, except by Miracles alone?
Coofirm'd to us by men who saw; and bore,
To prove their truth, stripes, tortures, scorn—nay more,
Death in his worst of forms—yet they deceive,
And science tells us we must not believe.
Far better 'none than such perverted science
Which sets the Scripture Doctrines at defiance ;
Which cannot Lava depositions view .
Without supposing Scripture tacts'untrue—
Nor see this globe, its motions, forms and wonder's—
Without inventing geologic blunders—
Water and fire are now brought into play;
Monads and Vortices. have had their day.
Each path of error thus in turn is trod, •
Because Alan's pride will not resort to Cop ;.
One-dreamer thisanother that supposes; • • •
Better to take the simple truths of Moses—
We need inkfurther seek for this World's birth:
GOD', in six days, wade th' Heavens loathe Earth." -
Yet, think not man, by ignoranceyeptest, , .
Need tread the Earth a dull, incurious guest;
No—into Nature's secrets let hini pry;
Let him o'er all things cast a searching eye;
Let him aspire from outward marks to know
What hidden hoards enrich the depths below ;
Where coal, in beds, has laid her jetty stores;
Where metals spread, in veins, their various ores;
But whilst he seeks, and treasures Obsetvation,
Let him not tear the veil which hides Creation.
Here Vulcanist and Neptuni,rt exclaim !
And philosophic— cries out shame !
Learn physics from your Bible! mighty' Odd !
Yes—learn to trace Creation to my Con. •
Affecting candour which you never felt,
Oft you thought fit o'er Catholic griefs to melt;
Mourning their hardships in such plaintiVe Strain,
As tho' you wish'd their mummeries back again.
The Inquisition most should you beMoan
As doing deeds congenial with your own ;
You;•who with like remorseless rage attack,
And stretch poor Author's on the Critic rack.
But nu—this charge, I own, does not apply—
Your arrows with more fatal purpose fly ;
The Christian tree in the mid root they strike,
And aim to wither every branch alike.
What else could you, most.candid Critic", mean,
When on the Protestants you pour'd your spleen?
Thattbey should be as persecutors rank'd,
Aiming to prove—but vainly—Con be thank'd.
For with such proof, you knew this inference
And inly made—'twere well were both extinct!
Were some enlighten'd philosophic creed,
To their dark senseless jargon to succeed.
-By which our lives and morals mightte- mended; •
• And all the Missionary follies ended !
The Missionaries! what ? not spare e'en them?
Could you-these mild, yet dauntless men, condemn ?
Yes, yes, to them (who every danger brave
In distant lands their fellow men to save,
To teach the Heathen how to die and lire),
Fanatics, Bigots, are the names you give, - •
Mikan not thus these friends of human kind; ,
Break from the.spells•which fascinate your mind;
Laugh.with VC LTAI RE no more; your judgment-clear;•
Get free frum HU,ME •nopiore with'GIBBON sheer; '
Employ such talents as your Cop-has given • •
To spread the Truth, and point the road to Heaven:
So when your life approaching to its Close,'
You feel how vain is all this world bestows; -
May you with hopeslike theirs, resign your breath,
Resting in Cu utsT, and seeing Life in Death.
* C.

Yesterday morning Prince LEoPoLb 'came to.
town from Claremont, and visited her MAJasiv
and the PRINCESSES at the Queen's Palace, and
the Duchess of YORK at York-house. la the
evening the Prince returned to Claremont.
FREEMASONS.—On Wednesday last was held the
Installation and Nomination of Grand Officers of
the Ancient Freemasons of England, at their Hall,
as follows :

H. R. H. the Duke of SUSSEX, Grand Master.
Right. Hon. Lord Dundas, Deputy Grand Master.
Rig ht Hon. Lord Viscount Torrington, Senior Grand Warden.
R. W. Lewis Haves Petit, Junior, Grand Warden.
T. W. Coke, M.P. Provincial Gd. Master of Norfolk.
John George Lanibton, M.P. ditto, Durham.
--- John Dent, Grand Treasurer.
—7-- Rev. L. D. H. Cockburn, Grand Chaplain.
William Meyrick, Grand Registrar.
William H. White, }Grand Sedretaries.
- Edward ;Harper,
—., Rev. H. Giese, Gd. Sec. for Gprman Correspondence.
-7-7- John Soatie, MN:Grand' i,7*Perintendant of Worksevc.,
Sir George Naylor, Grand Direotoreetereinatiles.
William D. Cummins, Grand Sword Bearer.
-- Sir George Smart, Grand Organist.
James A. Frampton, Senior Grand Deacon.
Junes Al`Cann, jun, Grand Deacon.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(Continued from our First Pagel

ARTILLERY DRIVERS.

Mr. BENNET rose to make his rtomised motion,
and to endeavour to obtain redress for tie Officers
of the Corps of Artillery Drivers, whose case he
had in vain submitted to the consideration of his
Majesty's Ministers. He entered at large into all
his former statements, couteuding, that when
those Officers had gone into the service, it was
with a promise that they should reire, or, it re.
duced, be continued on full pay. Hr complained
of the hardships to which they were subjeeteo by
the arbitrary nature of the arrangements adopted
towards them, and by which men who had sacri-
ficed their time and health, and exptised their
lives for 22 years in the service of their country,
were reduced to half-pay, whilst others, who had ,
served only seven years, enjoyed all -the het efits
of their full pay. He then moved, that an humble
Address be presented to his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent, praying that he would be gra-
ciously pleased to dir ct that the sum of 3559/. be
paid to the Officers of the eight troops of Artil-
lery Myers, and to assure him that
.the House
would snake good the same.
Mr. WARD said, the lion. Gentleman had placed
him and those he represented in. a painful situa-
tion—that of being forced, from a sense of duty,
to deny to a meritorious class of Gentlemeh,what,
if the House chose. to grant it, the Master-Ge-
neral had no personal wish to prevent. As long,
'however, as duty was to be performed, he was
haunt! to .state the official reasons against this
grant. They were many and strong. But, in the
first instance, be was anxious to deliver theCtiO
from all adventitious difficulty, and utterly 'to deny
that any promise,, express or implied, had- 'ever
been 'made bythe NoWe.Lord at, present at. The
head of the Department, or any one acting under
hini, or, as far as he knew, any- of their predi:-
cessors'iihateVer. He had been called -upon t o
deny that the Officers themselves expected it in
their Own. minds. But who could answer for
what passed in another man's. mind without io-
spiratiOn; which he certainly, did' not possess ?-f-
All he would do:was to deny that they had arty
reason for such expectation—for even a semblance
of a hope that any of the Officers in question were
to retire on full pay. That was conflnedto those
of the four, tropps who had been...arbitrarily as fit
were deprived of their commissions, while the
troops themselves remained on service. All the
rest had retired, as of course,.witlitiie trOAis they
bad commanded, and, as of course,on half-pay. his
was in fact the true, the real, and only distinction'
betweeti them, and afforded the only-reason flier
could goVern the case. Whet ,v; as. its history
In the Ittin'y in 'which the whole Dt her Service
was composed, excellent as It now was, there
was this great defect thit its Officers,.. although:
they certainly hail military 'rank,
_could have no.
military command ;lie meant of
guns and gunners.;
By their commission [which he here read] . their'
command was confined to Commissary Officers,
drivers, military farriers, am) an fleet's, and the
Management of the artillery hors's. TheY were,
therefore, ordered. to obey the- youngest Officer
of the regiment who bad the charge at arty
lery in the field. Hence the •Conunissinners of
Military—lnquiry , describe:, their dillies rather -
es those lir-internal regular icin, ,in :resnect to the
state and condition of the borses and_ men, Alan-.
those of the regular service in fighting the guns.:
The-se duties.. they 'had most satisiactorily. per
formed, in
-.the very teeth of the:enemy, and, in .
as.far as itseouired more cool 'determination to
be passive. under danger, too much could not be
said, of their gallantry. But this did riot alter the -
condition, of their •service, by which, -from the..
tertits of their commissions, on 'account a the •
nature of their duties, they were cold- not to ex-
pect -to rise' higher than the rank of. a- Captain-
Commissary.—(Hear, hear !)77.1t, was evident-, -
,merittiriOns as theycertainly _were, that with such
coturtissiOns; great milirary promotion could not
be open to than dud if they, had
.sustained any- -
peculiar injUry'by 'being placed on half-pay,.. be-
yond th'ontantls of" other gallant Officers, it .could
not be -from the loss of such promotion. Mr.
Ward here said, he hoped nothing he bad. ob-
served was calculated to hurt the feelings of any__
one of these meritorious persons ; many of them ,
he believed had - shown considerable talents ;
among them lie was the first to- acknowledge
those of the Officer that had been brought for-
ward (Captain Humphreys.) He 'belieVed, in
fact, that it was the anomalous nature of 'their
service, thus crippled, that alone-prevented their
pursuit of a full military career, But, at least;
such an 'anomaly was found inconvenient, and
the Master-General could not .he blamed if
he endeavoured, as spots as be could, to put.
an end to it. This could ;only, be done,.
either by removing the Officers, While the men_
were kept up, :and introduciOg the Officers of the
regiment in, their stead ;. or by .waiting till the -
troops themselves were reduced at a Peace, and
upon a re-establishment
.of the-corps on a future
war,:making a new constitution. „In the-first
stance, as these Officers.. would have been arbi-
trarily deprived of their commissions•by no fault
of theirs,' arid the service going on, it would have
been unjust not to have given them the compensa-
tion of full" pay; In' the last,as the circumstance
of being on half-pay gives no right to return to
the service, should other regulations forbid., no
one could complain at not being restored.—(Hear,
hear !)—Then -what had the Noble Lord done ?
In regard to eight out of twelve troopi the men .
had at different times been- disbanded, and the
officers had retired on half-pay. In regard to the
four remaining, • as the men were •kept up, and
officers of the
,Horse Artillery introduced, the
Driver Officers, thus forcibly as it were dispos-
sessed, and -faultless themselves, received the com-
pensation due to,thetn, namely, full pay. This
Was the real 'case. Was there any thing in- ar- •
gument #fa alter it ? The Hon. Gentleman had
dwelt mWth upon the merits of CaptaitHumph-
reys, and the tact that the sth and 6th troops,
for which alone lie pleaded, had served till Sep-
tember 1816, though ordered. to be reduced in
April. Suppose they had 'Served till now !
If the men were reduced with them, would
that make any difference ? That Captain Hum-
phreys bad served twenty-three years meritori-
ously he was very willing to allow, and that a

.
younger Officer might 'be among those in the four
senior troops, and had thus retired on fllll pay,
Might be 'true ; but what was there in this eke-
'rent from the chances of the whole army, Where
-an older Officer might go into a younger 'regiment
on promotion, or any other reason, and be over-
taken by a reduction, while a junior, who had re-
itained in the old regiment, continued employed.
The Hon. Gentleman could not surely be ignorant
of this, and wanted them therefore to introduce
the strange contusion of either never being able
to reduce the army by corps, or, upon every
reduction, creating a' revolution itt all the old
regiments.—(Hear, hear !)—Such then was the
'principle, what tees the practice ? %Why, even in
this very Artillery service, and this very
corps of Drivers, the precedents were all
against them. In 1812 the commission of Major
in the Corps was suppressed, and the Officer,
Major James, placed upon half, not fell pay ; yet
the office being declared useless, it was evident he
could never return. At the peace, the Artillery
of the German Legiou, and also the foreign At-
finery, were reduced, and the Officers (many of
whom hell served with distinction iu the field),
received not full, but half-pay, These also a cot,
for ever out of the service. Bet a more exact
case was-to be found in that of the Drivers on
the Irish Establishment, which had been reduced
in 1802, not on full, but on halt pay. This was
precisely in point, for these Officers, no more
than those in question, were eligible (if indeed
either were itteligihle to commissions its the line )
These, at this moment, enjoyed annuities to the
amount of near 9001. a-year. Now, what had
these done, or those of the six troops on do
English Establishnont, that they were not to Ist-
allowed the same benefit as those in whose favour
the Hon._Gentlemsn ccished the department to
break all rules ? Nothing ! And it this question
were carried, the Mastt r-General eould not, and
would not, oppose their arrears. This brought
him to the quevion of finance. The arrears of
the Irish Drivers Officers would be more than
15,000/. those of the English more than-10,0001.
besides an increased permanent expellee of about
6000/. a-year ; but besides these, _there was a
battalion of Irish artillery reduced at the Union,
never to return to the artillery service, whose
arrears would he full 22,0001 ; in all 47,0001.
With neither right nor precedent for them, with
all precedent against them, were the [louse pre-
pared to grant away all this money ? Or when the
Master-General and Board were called upon, from
one end of the country to the other, (arid by nu
one more loudly than by the Hon. Gentleman who
made this motion) could they on eisch a case be
deemed good stewards fur the Public, if they
sanctioned the application ? lie rested it, how-
ever, not on the ground of Finance. God forbid'.
that a question of justice should becothe a ques-
tion of money ; hut in a case Uthrre there was no
justice, Finance must have its weight. It was
really painful to him to say there was no justice
in this demand, but it was forced upon him.—
An opinion was thus publicly called for, and he
was bound to give it,-or relinquish his duty.—
Were the coeutty rich enough, with his good
will, all Officers who had served as long avid as
well as Captain Humphreys should tether with
full pay. As it Was, he was at a less to discover
what there was iu the case of any of these Geode-
Melt (meritorious sie Ire bad allowed them to he,)
to Set them above the claims of tneir Brother Of-
ficers and those of the whole British army. whose
ditties were at least more immelately military,
who had many of them bled for their country, and
who had even paid for their commissious, which
these offitets had not. For these the Commander
inn Chief had laboured in vain to procure site!' a
boon as this; and he would state his Royal High-
ness's opinion, diet if this measure were carried
it would he unjust to others, and create the
greatest discontent. It was said, officers of the
line had not lost their military career ; he had
shown from their commissions, that that of the
Driver officers was at best but most contracted. It
was said that the Irish Battalion had been left
eligible to commissions in the line; he could only
say, as far as the Ordnance were concerned, the
Driver Officers were not ineligible. It being ac-
customed to evolutions, to command and to obey,
and act coolly in the face of an enemy, could
Make Officers eligible, he (for one) should say
they were eminently so, But the discretion was
in the Commander in Chief, not the Master Ge-
neral, and the Line itself was dependent upon
that disctetion. Gentlemen had argued as if there
was a right in the half-pay of the Line to succeed
to vacant commissions—this was fallacious. The
half-pay was a remuneration for past service, but
gave no right to future employment. Regulation
might sweep away a whole class at once. Sup-
pose, for example, the Commander in Chief were
to resolve to call no one from the half-pay beyond
the age of 30, this would exclude a great body of
Officers; but would they, on that account, have
a right to come to tire • House and demand frill
pay ? Upon the whole, he, and those he repre-
sented, were fully convinced there was no colour
Of argument for the motion. Nevertheless, he
was very glad to state one, the only boon which
the Master General felt he could authorise in their
favour, viz. that as they were out of the artillery
service, and deemed so in the Line, they should
be allowed to bold their allowances-, consistently
with any other employment under Government
they might acquire. This wets more than any
Officer of the Army enjoyed, be his services, his
distinctions, or even his wounds, what they might.
lie trusted the House would pet mit this, and it
Was the only agreeable part of the task he had to
perform, as he 'could assure time Officers concern-•
ed, and the Honourable Gentlemen echo supported
the motion, that he never felt his parliamentary
duty so plaid as in being obliged,-for the rea-
sons stated, to give it his opposition--(Hear,
bear !)

Mr. LITTLETON was happy' that the •Hon.
Gentleman had in some degree anticipated what
lie had intended to submit to the House; namely,
whether it would not be thought proper to grant
these Officers some peculiar privileges. He could
t►ot conceive why a military man should be ex-
cluded hiom serving his country in 'any other
planner, in time of peace, without forfeiting his
_ _ _

• Mr. IV, pn
Mr. Br ~sort spoke in favour of tile 'Officers in

question, and hr,;id n letter to one of them from
the late Duke of Richmond, stating his wisl►
for their regular promotion, and that he never
meant they should not rise to a higher 'rank. Thus
he argued, that hope and ixPectatiOn had been
held out to them, and not that their corps shold lie
reduced without the possibility ol their entering
into the line. lie was ready to do justice to th'e
high character of the Nobleman at the head of the
Ordnance ; amt he really believed that in better
times these Officers would not have had occasion
to sue for that which they never would ha%•e asked
ior, it they had not thought themselves fully en.
titled to it.

Mr. CALCRAFT was against the. motion. He
thought it his duty to say, that he conceived they
had nothing to complain of. lie. re-stated the
progressive reduction of the corps, and added,
that his lion. Friend opposite (Mr. Wald) had
adduced a precedent so completely overwhelm-
ing, that no answer could be given to it. It was
his duty to stand up against such a claim, because
he did not think it reasonable ; particularly as it
appeared they.might now hold any other situation
and retain their half-pay, which was an advantage
pectiii.ir to Themselves. The arrangement was
an extremely proper one, and, in fact, the only
one that could have been made, consistently with
the duty that Govern!Urn( owed to the country.
Mr BENNP r, in reply. returned thanks to the
Gentleman opposite for sliewiug that evel
any thing was intended to be done for those per-
sons. He considered th,m, indeed, as the very
•inews of the army; their assivance was of the
utmost imnortance : the Officers served in action
Under the hot=est fires, and many of them were
now most severe sufferets from what they had un-
dergone. -
The motion was then regatived.