Star.
London, England, 1805-10-21 00:00:00

tvii,ZETTE.Oll4tr 19.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
in tae L yal Caruarvon Mercantile Vo-
lateet%, figned by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Carnarvon. Dee.] Oftober 14, 1805.
John Hughes Gent. to be Enfign in the Flrft Company, vice Wit.
ham Robyn', Gcot. fignetL
COMMinions in the Ayrthire tft Regiment of Volun.
teer Infantry, figned by the Lord Lieutenant of
the County of Ayr. Dated OftObcr 4, tBcs.
Ettbgn John Johnfton to be I.ientcnant, vice Brown, relignea.
Brown, Gent to be Enfign, sic,. Johnfton, promoted.
PARTNERSHIPS DISaOI.VED.
Jofeph Thrckeray, John Tbackeray, and the Executors of the
bte'lluiras Thacketay, of Manchtfler, 18oe.
James Br-fh. Archibald Brafh, and !••:h-n
Al`Minnies, of Kirk.
ham, Laic:Aire. fpirit-merchaots, March 21, 1805.
john James Wafun, and James Wafon, of Briftol, deal mer•
chattts, May 1, 18:..t.
jo:In Cary ai.d Ihrodore Lawrence, of St. Phdip and Jacob,
Gi Itzeftern.ir..; e. al nterthants, September 12, 1803.
dliant tiring and William Heave Smither,of Brighthelmflon,
gtoce!s and tallow chandlers, °titans 7, tB,-,e.
aid George Whitaker. of Plymouth-Dock, linen
: wookt.n-ttrapers ..keptember 17. 18. S.
!fay, sAt ;I:o4rli, and lienry Hobbs of Chichefter,
f. ones, ni ~Im:n and millers.
I.at.celot Loat and Thomas Fentiman, of Greenwich and New.
Crid9, Lkelnber 15, i 805.
John Richards and John Jackfon, of Briftol, linen drapers, oe-
tuber ta, 18'1-
Caleb Withal' and John Ault, of Upper Thames-ftvect, Otto-
be 19, 1805.

BANKRUPTS.
John Gor.en, of Bury St. F.d:.mads, Suffolk, draper, 'baler and
chapmas to furrender November at, at Eve, Nov t 2, and 30,
st CiVell, at the Anal Inn, Bury Saint Edmunds. Attornies,
- Mein Dkkot,fon and cotton. Bury St. dmunds ;or Mr.
Wilton, Greville ftreet, flatthn (,arJen, London.
Bettjaann Burton. of liounaislitch, London, ilnpfel!er, dealer and
ehapman, Denier 22 29, and November 30, at ten, at Ouildhall.
Attorney, Mr. Adams, Oldiewry.
William Cline, of Iffingtois Green, Mildlefel, corn-dealer, dealer
JO • and chaptu in, Nov. 5, at eleven, Nov. is, and 30, at onefat
Attornies, Mtflrs. Wright and liovia, Chancery-
lane, lAnalott
. Walter lenkhis Briflol, broker, 0 elober 2t, at nine, November 2,
and 3,, at eleven, a: the I‹...tmuler Tavern, in All Saints lane,
L' iftcl Attornies, Mr. Wollin. Briftol; or Metres. BlandforeL
and bweet, KF.x y Bench Walks, Temple, London.
Thoa Scott, late of Betlinall-Green, Middlefex, but now a pri•
levie mrs in Gilt/par-Street Compter, London, broker, dealer and
chapsnan, 0 Etcher 26, November 2, and 30, at ten, at Guildhall.
Att.arney, Mr. Samuel Hz.ll, Caftle-court, Pudge-row.
Martha Robing:an and jolm Ihbetfon, of Drury-lane, Middlefez,
grocer=, dealers, cl,aprr.en. and copartners, 04tober 26, Nov. 2,
and 30. c.t ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Philip Hurd, No. 7,
King's SL.scli Walk, Tenallc, London.
John Whitt and Wi liana both of hiranchefter, calico-
printers, dealt's, chapruen. and partners, Odtober 28,29. and
Nov. 3e, at three, at the Spread Lagle Inn, Mancheitcr. Attor-
Mes. Johrfor and Bailey, Mancliefta.
Frederic:: Griffiths, of Threadneedle. ftrcet, London, apothecary,
dealer anta Chapman, Oetoser 30, at ten, N 07.2, and 30, at
eleven. to Guikihall. Attortiea, Metres. Gregfun and Dizon,
- .Argetcoust,Thregmorton.ftreet.

immr uF EGTPT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Ste-.-More than tour years have elapfed finee
Alexandria furrendered to, what you have been
pfe,tied to call, "the gallant Army of Egypt ;" and
the public has been at length informed, through the
medium of your paper, that prize money was to he
paid to the Officers and Soldiers who compofed that
army. The agents for it, however, have not, I pre-
fume, requcttect that you would mention the propor-
tions to the different ranks in which it is to be Wired ;
and, under the impreffion that the rfiffribution of its
reward to a gallant body of men cannot be indiffe•
tent to a liberal and generous people, an humble in-
illeidual begs to Rate the following faEls:
A private fuldier is to receive thirteen (billings
and fixpence ; a ferjeant, four pounds ; ar. entign,or
lieutenant, eight pounds fourteen (billings ; a cap-
tain, nineteen pounds ; a major, lieutenant-colonel,
or col-nel, one hundred and nineteen pounds ; and a
major-general, four hurdred pounds. What the
Oran of the Commander in Chief may be, I know
not, but fuppofe it will bear the fame proportion to
the other rank., that they do one to the other.
It is, I am confident, urauceifiry to make any
comment on this didribution to any perfon acquaint-
ed with military affairs ; but as many of your rea-
ders may think this prize money has been difpofecl
of in the fame manner with every other money of
the kind, I think it may net he amifs to fay a few
words on the fubjed. The firti (Illation which
&Tires out of the confederation of it is, why was it
net former paid ? Nearly the whole of it arofe
from military Rives, ordnance, or veffels of war,
which were putchafed by Government, and fur which
Government would of courfeat any time pay ; and ,
the few veßels fold to individuals at Alexandria,'
were, I underdand, paid for by them there. The
difficulty of fettling the claims of the Turkith Army,
cannot be urged as any reafon for the delay, as no
arrangement on the fubjed has yet been made with
them; at lead the Menu fay, they cannot yet how,
whether the moneyfiill remaining in their hands will
be iffued as a fecond payment to the Englifh, or fent
to Conflantinople, to be diftributed amongit the for-
mer army—this quellion will probably be determined
in four years more.
It is neat to be explained, why the difproporrion
between the flans allotted to the different ranks is fo
great; and by s hoar, or chat defcription of men this
arrangement was made ? No man will, I prefume,
be hardy enough to lay, that the diderence between
the (bran paid to a General or Field-Officer, and a
Captain or Subaltern, arofe from a jut( appreciation
of their refpeilive merits. ne the Cervices which they
rendered in this Expedition. It is well known that
in Egypt almoil every thing depended on individual
hr every and good condos, 2nd the French attri'auted
11. 1t defe t entirely to the flew:lima of cur region°.
n,l:ettrs and fol;liel s.
's :le prices paid tor ComeniTionc teem alfo to have
blen u..acccnntably verkoked in forming this at.
rangem-nt, thf,ugit air I nourable and
„Olt regulation
on the Cu' :lea was trade by a Board of General Offi.
cets who fat in London, in 1803. •
The new modes :,.:opted, I fondly hope, could not I
have been .acing to the influenFe of any of thole '
Officers whn are beneVed by the meafure, at it would
be a fligma n t merely on them, but alto on the mi-
litary prat-A.4i -
Bat however thetas et figbt may have oecured, for
it odd csfy le an irreff:Lt. the event (hews that the
Legiflature thould interfere, by fame fallotary law
fimilar to the Aft for regulating Naval Prize-money,
to guard the laterals of at large army, and prevent
the poffibility of their being injured, either by deign,
by ignorance,. or by accident.

♦ MILITARY MAN.