Star.
London, England, 1830-04-16 00:00:00

HIS MAJESTY'S HEALTH.

His MAJESTY, we regret to state, has experienced,
during the last few days, an attack of indisposition. The KIN 3
took an airing on Monday for some time. During the night, his MA-
JESTY became indisposed : Sir 11.11Az.roan,who was in &louden..
at the Palace that evening, and who, according to his usual practice,
slept there, left the Palace on Tuesday morning, and came to town,
but thought it advisable to return to Windsor in the evening. &-
H. came to town on Wednesday morning, and again returned to the
Palace, when, finding that the Itzwo's attack of illness had in.
creased, Sir HENRY sent for Sir MATTHEW TIERNEY Sr an early
hour yesterday morning. Sir MATTHEW immediatelyleft town •
on his arrival at the Palace the two medical gentlemen held a con.
sultation on the state of the Krim, and afterwards issued the follow.
ing bulletin, a few minutes before one o'clock

" Windsor Castle, Aptil 15.

" We regret to state that the Kum has bad a bilious attack, sc.
axnpanied by an embarrassment in breathing. His BIAJILSTY, al-
though free from fever, is languid and weak.
(Signed) " HENRY HALFORD.
" MATTHRW JOHN TIERNEY."

No alteration taking place in the state of the Kum, Sir Hume
HALFOID, shortly after the issuing of the Bulletin, left the Castle
in his carriage and four for London. Sir MATTHEW TIERNEY
remained in attendance on His MAJESTY during the whole of yes.
I today afternoon and evening, and it was arranged would sleep at
the Palace. His libussrir remaining much in the same state de.
ring the afternoon, Sir MENET was not sent for, but would, it was
expected, remain in town during last night. The celebration of
His MAJESTY'S birthday, the levee, and the diswing-roon,
are, in consequence of his indisposition, postponed for a fortnight.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, shady after his arrival, was Intro-
duced to the presence of his MAJESTY, and had an audience of
an hour, when it was thought expedient to postpone the Levee and
Drawing-Room for a fortnight. His Once left the Castle about
half-past two o'clock on his return to the metropolis. Count Muir.
STEE arrived at one o'clock yesterday, and had an audience of his
MAJESTY for nearly an hour ; and after partaking of refteshoseats,
led! the Castle at three o'clock for London. Sir W. KNIGHTON
also left Windsor this morning.

The Duke of WELLINGTON left town about four
o'clock yesterday afternoon for Windsor. His Grace would, it was
expected, afterwards proceed to Stratheldsay.
The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE gave a grand
dinner yesterday at their residence, in Bushy-park, to a patty of
the Nobility and ()entry. The band of the Coldstream Guards were
in attendance in the evening.
Yesterday morning the Princess VicrostiA, accom-
panied by her attendants, visited the Panorama, in Leicester-square,
of Sybil and Calcutta.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had an inter-
view yesterday with the Duke of WELLINGTON.
Mr. HERRIES left town yesterday for TunbridgeWells.
The Duchess of WELLINGTON has been confined for
some time, by indisposition, at Stratfieldsay, which increased so
much on Wednesday as to confine her Orate to her bed. A cm.
munication to this effect was sent or by express to the Duke of
WELLINGTON early yesterday morning. The Duke in constr.
quence sent off Dr. > u am, from London, to attend the Duchess.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Fast
India-bouse, when the Directors elected on Wednesday last, via.—
JOIIIII BAILLIE, ESCL:ANIZS RIVETS' CAIIINAC, Esq. JAIIL3
LAN LUSIIINGTON, • JONI! PETTY MOSPRATT, Esq. Wm.
LIAM WIGRAK, Esq. and Gwoloo LTALL, Esq. took the oatt
and their seats. Witazios AITELL, Esq. was chosen Chairman.
and ROBERT CAMPBELL, Esq. Deputy Chairman for the year
ensuing.
DUELLING.—A meeting of nobility and gentry is to
be held at Mc Montresow's, in Nassou.sureet, Dublin, the day
before term sits, to consider the most reasonable mode of preventie.
the breach of courtesy or waste of life in duelling.—/Novis. lii ;isfsr.
It may not perhaps be generally known that slips of
ground by the side of the reeds are not the property of the Lord of
the Manor ; and wherever there is mole than 00 feet in width in any
road, the residue below to the person whose property adjoins it;
and it may be fenced within 30 feet of the crown of the rood. The
power supposed to be vested in Lords of Manors wants locking into.
—Dralterfrs Cheaviss.
Ma. CON Tn.—ln addition to the letter reported ia
our Paper of yesterday, as having been written by the above gen-
tleman, we can state on the best authority. that Mr. Cosirx had
written another letter In October, 1827, to a lady in Cheltenham.
whom he had never men, and of whim he had known nothing, ex.
apt through the medium of the newspapers. The letter was shewn
at the time to a pothealeard man, who pronounced it to be the pro.
duction eta ms This letter was transmitted early last week
to the Irish Uovemment..—insbris ifewaing lierister.
A writer in a morning paper accounts for the sangui-
nary character of our criminal law, by attributing It to the power
possessed by the peat feudal Barons, each of whom he says, mi.:
at one time erect a gallows upon his domain and execute criminals
by his own especial jurisdiction. B'hat time the feudal Lords pa.
eased this power we know not.
Mr. EDWARD DAVIES, whose case of alleged lunacy
recently excited such extraordinary Interest, and who was declarte
by the verdict of a Jury " of sound mind, and capable of the ors.
nagement of himself and his affairs," we can state, on authority, be
has never manifested, since his return home, the soundness of mind
need ; and he has been found utterly incapable of managing
LlnisTifisirs. The state of collapse and mental depression, the usual
consequence of high mental excitation, has succeeded, accompanied
by the same train of delusions respecting conspiracies, drx. As the
crowning of this remarkable case, Alr. Davies himself acknow.
ledges what he before so strenuously denied, viz :--that he was, and
is, insane, and that those who supported that opinion were right--
He is now under the medical care of Sir O. TUTHILL and Doctor
llnsLem.—Chroniefe.

We have advices from Washington stating that Mr.
Bayne, Chairman of the Naval Committee, has reported a Bill to
the Senate re-organizing the Navy. We understand the bill pro•
vides for the appointment of six Admirals.--New York Paper.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—We recommend all

persons—whether Remmers or Aoti-Reformers—to read the De-
claration of the Birmingham Political Council with care and with-
out prejudice. It has been adopted, after due deliberation and
discussion, by the Coventry Political Union, while the Radical Re-
form Association of London have formally resolved to " repudiate'
h. They think it does not go far enough, and that it at.
tacks the principles on which Reform should be sought for. The
Declaration said nothing whatever of these principles: it neither
avowed or disavowed them : it merely stated that the Marquis of
BLANDIPOLD.II Bill embraced all that we are legally and constitu-
tionally entitled to, alai the Political Council does not want or wish
to advance a single step beyond the pale of Constitutional righta.—
We confess that the " repudiation" of the London Reformers
does somewhat surprise us. Men would hate imagined that
they, and all true friends to the cause, would have rejoiced at the
clementines of a manure bein ted to which—as a sort
of neutral ground In political op tending parties might
safely meet, and agree to forget those particulars in which
they could not coincide; and which, in themselves, and of them-
selves, are of little comparative importance, when placed In the be.
lance against just and undeniable rights. Such do we conceive the
Marquis of Blandford's bill to be. We think it admirably adapted
to unite in one common opinion all men, except mere borough-
mongers and plowmen. It might not, it is true, be sufficiently
strong for some persons, bat it might as certainly be too strong fur
others r yet both might agree to sot:dice a little to esch other, and
then this measure would form a point of amalgamation useful to
mankind, and not a tittle beyond the principles to which the one
and the other were attached.—Birmingboni Free Press.

A party of Spite'fields weavers, young men and women.
were proceeding down the river to Greenwich fair, re Wednesday
morning in an open boat, when, in their merriment, one of the fe.
males suddenly stood up and stepping to one side upset the frail
end the whole party were immediately smuggling for life
and help in the water. Their screams of distress soon collected a
number of the boats with which the river was fortunes* covered at
the time ; when, after being well soaked, and net a Rule fright.
mid, they were all talus Wily to the Admiral Daman public.
house, where they bad dry clothes end cordials to cone& them for
the lees of Greenwich fair. The boat was swamped, and has not
yet bees recovered.
An immersion of five persona—feu melee and one fe-
mele—eedi plate la the river What, mar Samantha, Rudand-
Wee, hat Sunday ntambg. Ahem 709 poMa, bon !grog" °t
Is atalthemba arintlid ea tit otearism. kit. Peyne,
the pease aids, Oiu Septlet Mesh at liamentat, pesec S'
impsomiee soma at the maabet4afier whisk be 66 west down
late the moor es sbe =Mom The rpm.
taws sadalleisad themeemaplves Alb paint emami hem the
timmemsat to the easehnisa et the mobs them appeared no
to Mmrtts .
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PRCPUSION OF TUE PUBLIC Ji/PENDITURE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
NO. II:--STATE OF THE COLONIES, AND THE ARMY
MEDICAL BOARD.
SI would be a matter of considerable interest
were a correct and faithful Return to be made of all
Taxes, and Imposts of every description, raised in the
different Colonies of Great Britain ;—viz. the Cape of
Good Hope, Ceylon, Van Diemen's Land, New South
Wales, Malta, the lonian Islands, Gibraltar, Jamaica,
Leeward Islands, Bahamas, Bermuda, &c. with an exact
detail of their appropriation.
It is contended that every Colony is taxed to en amount
sufficient to defray all the expences of its defence ; and
this ought to be the case as long as they wish to be de-
fended. But if the Mother Country overloads the Colony
with Governors, Secretaries, Treasurers, Commanders of
Forces, and Staff Officers of all descriptions, it is utterly
impossible that the moat extensive scale of taxation can
support the expense. This point may very easily be
ascertained ; and a Return of the Number of Inhabitants
with the Number of Troops in each Colony, would soon
show how much the Official Appointments exceed the
necessity of the State, and how disproportioned is the
Staff to the number of Troops.
Let us look, for instance, to Van Diemen's Land,
where there is one regiment of 600 men, and we shall
find a monstrous and a needless expense incurred there ;
unless, indeed, it can be shown that any necessity exists
for the services of an Assistant-Commissary-General,
and a Deputy, with Clerks, Storekeepers, &c. for the
supply of one Regiment ! In the Colonies there was
formerly a Civil Governor with a moderate salary. The
Senior Regimental Officers commanded the Troops, and
a Town Major very adequately discharged all the duties
of the Staff. And so it might be now. With a Con-
tractor to furnish food, the Commissariat Train might
well be dispensed with ; and the Commanding Officers
might, without the slightest inconvenience to themselves,
or detriment to the public service, relieve the country
from the burthen of Military Governors and Commanders
in Chief ; whilst all the other duties, which now seem to
require distinct appointments, might be most efficiently
performed by the Adjutants, Paymasters, and Quarter
Masters of the regiments on each station.
In the West Indies there must be a Commander of the
Forces at Head-Quarters, and an Officer of the Adju-
taut-General's Department, with a subordinate Officer of
the Commissariat ; but at the Dependencies, there can
be no necessity for General Staff Officers—the Regi-
mental Staff being equal to all the duties. Formerly,
even in the West Indies, there was only a Garrison Sur-
geon in each Island; now they swarm with Medical
Staff Officers of all grades—lnspectors, Deputy-In-
spectors, Physicians, Staff-Surgeons, Staff-Apotheca-
ries, Staff-Assistant. Surgeons, Purveyors, Deputy-Pur-
veyors, &c. &c. And all these superfluous establish-
ments are maintained contrary to the recorded opinion
of the DIRECTOR-GENERAL of Army Hospitals, who,
in his evidence before the Commissioners of Military In-
quiry (see the Fifth Report) declares, " that Army Phy-
sicians are, at all times, useless ; that Staff Officers are
rarely necessary, even in war time ; and that no medical
aid is ever required beyond that of the Regimental Medi-
cal Officers, except perhaps a few Hospital Mates to fill
ap vacancies." This latter aid may be required in the
West Indies, even in Peace time ; but it cannot be re-
quired at any other station—much less can there be any
occasion for the higher Staff Officers. Contrary, also,
to the recorded opinion of the Di RECTOR-GRN ERAL,
Medical Staff Officers of the highest rank have been
lately sent to India, where such appointments never ex-
isted heretofore ; just as if these appointments were
made to avert the possibility of the DIRECTOR-GENE-
RAL's carrying on his duties economically ; or for the
more probable purpose of creating business, and justify-
ing the expences of the Army Medical Department in
this country.
It is said, and I hope with truth, that the whole sys-
tem of the Department is speedily to be brought under
the consideration of Parliament. Should an inquiry be
Instituted, I would most earnestly entreat some zealous
advocate of retrenchment to compare the Medical Staff
of all the Colonies in 1830 with that of 1792 ; to coin-
par: the expences of the Army Medical Board at the
same periods ; and particularly to inquire into the num-
ber and pay of the Retired o.fficers of that Board—or,
ebeu to compare the expences of the Department from
the year 1804 to 1814, during a period of most moment-
ous was fare, with the fifteen years in which we have en-
;,)yed profound peace, since 1815. In short, if the pre-
seat Military Staff, of all descriptions, in reference to the
proportion which its Officers bear to the number of troops
an every station, be contrasted even with that employed
in 179'2—both being times of peace—the disparity will
at wive justify the most urgent demand for a reduction
of the establishment, and a consequent reduction of the
public e \penditure.