The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-03 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Detachments belonging to the 4th, 35th, 170th, and '76th, Re-
giments of Infantry, have received orders to march this morning,
from Westminster, for Portsmouth.

GENERAL ORDER.

Hors,!.-Guards, Dec. 27.

His Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief having submit-
ted to the King, that his Majesty may he pleased to take into his
consideration the situation and claims of a very meritorious class
of officers of the army,--the old Lieutenants,—who are unable to
purchase promotion, and whose prospect of advancement may, in
many instances, be still very remote; and desirous of giving effect
to some arrangement by which these deserving individuals shall
be rewarded or relieved, without entailing such charge on the
public as should render the measure objectionable, his Majesty, has
been graciously pleased to command—That the lieutenants ac-
tually serving on full pay in regiments of the line, whose com-
missions are dated in or previous to the year 1811, shall be pro-
moted, at their option, to the unattached rank of Captain, and
placed on the whole rate of half•pay of that rank—viz.: ss. per
diem ; and that they shall be replaced by lieutenants from the
half-pay list, who are in receipt of 4s. per diem ; that the widows
of the lieutenants so promoted shall be admitted to the pensions of
captains' widows; that the officers so promoted shall be eligible
for employment on full pay as captains, according to the means
which actual vacancies arising from the death, augmentation.
&c. may offer. That in order to extend the advantage to
those who are seniors of their rank in the several regi-
ments, without depriving the►u of their better prospect of
promotion, these, and these only, shall, in the event of com-
panies becoming vacant without purchase within two years
from their acceptance of the promotion to the unattach-
ed rank, be appointed to them, from the half-pay, in prefer-
ence to the next senior lieutenant, who, in consequence of the
former's acceptance of promotion under this arrangement, would
have become the senior serving with the regiment. That in or-
der to offer greater facility to a captain on the old rate of half-pay
to return to full pay, l►e shall be at liberty to do so, by paying a
difference to the captain on full pay, who may be disposed to re-
tire on the lesser rate. The difference in such case to be fixed at
800/. instead of 5111., to make up for the difference between the
old and the new rate of half-pay. That a further facility shall
be afforded to old officers who have been promoted to the unat-
tached rank of captain on the old rate of half-pay, by declaring
them eligible to be removed to the full-pay of vacancies by pur-
chase, where the candidates in regimental succession may have
no claims to such promotion. The young lieutenant shall then
have the option of purchasing the unattached company (on ac-
count of the officer selling the regimental company), provided
such young candidate shall be senior for purchase in his own re-
giment, and shall have completed two years' effective regimental
service as subaltern. That the young officer so promoted shall then
pay the increased difference (800/.) to get on full pay, the cap-
tain with whom he exchanges taking his place on the old rate of
half•pay. The lieutenants of and previous to 1811, actually
serving on full-pay in regiments who may be desirous of availing
themselves of the provisions of this arrangement, will communi-
cate the same through the commanding officers of their respective
regiments, or depots, to the Commander-in-Chief's Military Se-
cretary.—By his Royal Highness the Commander-in• Chief's
command. H. TORRENS, Adjutant-General.

The celebrated scholar Muretus was taken ill upon
the road as be was travelling from Paris to Lyons; and as his
appearance was not much in his favour, he was carried to an
hospital. Two physicians attended him, and his disease not
being a very common one, they thought it right to try something
new, and out of the usual road of practice, upon him. One of
them, not knowing that their patient knew Latin, said in that
language to the other, " We may surely venture to try an experi-
ment upon the body of so mean a man as our patient is."
" Mean, Sir !" replied hluretus in Latin, to their astonishment,
" can you pretend to call any man so, Sir, for whom the Saviour
of the world did not think it beneath him to die?"