Star.
London, England, 1815-08-18 00:00:00

ROYAL. ORDINANCE.

Lou!, by the Grace of God King of France
and Navarre _ _

Having ascertained that the actual force of our ar-
mies greatly exceeded a peace establishment, and
was especially disproportionate to the revenue of the
kingdom, that the most just, and at the same time
the most favourable peinciple for the formation of a
pond army. is to make the discharges in the first
place fall upon Officers. who, being no longer in the
vigour of age, are less fit for active service.
Wishing, at the same time, to mitigate the effect
of these discharges, with respect to those on whom
they may fall, before they have served the time pre-
set-bed by the regulations for obtaining the pension on
`retiring from service.

On the report of our Minister Secretary of State
and itt War. we have ordered, and do order what
follows :

Art. I. The et tiring from service belongs of right anti without
any exception whatever; .I'n Lieutenant-Generals, Major G..
n-rats, superior officers of the Vaff and of corp., &e. who shall
he on the tat of September next in the Mk year of their service,
er in the 55th of their agt ; and also those whom wound• or in.
fitini:tes remit r incapable of active service.
he General and Gat Officers of Garrisons, who shall he at the
same period in the :35th year of their nervier, or 64:h of their
age. Other Gibe:rani the Staff, or of corpt, sole inspecors of
review., Ste. who shall be in the 115tb year of their servact.„ or
50th of their age.
2. 'll.e following mai on their own request or otherwise, be
placed nr, tha retired list, vie.—The Chief inspector." Inspectors,
and Sub-in.pectors of Reviews, Comini.sarles, and Officers of
Health, who shall, on the Ist of September, be in the 45th year
of their service.
General and Staff Olken of Garrisons in the SOth year of
their service. _ _

Officers of the Staff and of Corps other than superior Officers,
Sul) Inspectors of iteviews, Commissar's-li, Officers of Health,
Ike. who shall be in the 20th year of their service.
3. The retired pay, according to the number of years of ser.
vice fixed by the'preceding articles, shall be founded on the
maximum of seniority. '1 h. time of service required *ail be di-
minished by live years for Officers ary Aciminkratorseand
others, who shall have reached the age pointed out for their class
lo Article I.

4. Those who, after having served ten years, shall he declared
incapable awning, shall obtain, whwever he their age, WIC half
of the maximum of retired pay, except ths severity of their
wounds entitle them to a higher pension ha virtue of our ordi-
Itillnee of the 117th of August, 11114.
5. Officers who have herved less than ten years, and whose
wounds render them sink to eerie longer, shall receive at t heir
homes, as a gratilkatten, one year's pay on the peace &entry.
I. Ulcers who have sufered amputation. and are employed
in gate or otherwise, excepting in the Hospital of Invalids
and its collateral Establishments, shall all be, without excep-
tion, entitled to retreat, with the Wiest allowance of their re-
spective tanks.
7. 016111 and Military Administrators shall not be required
to prove two years' service id their present ranks to entitle them
to the retired allowees of that rank.

_
S. Our Minister Secretary of State for the War Department
will carry into effect these arrangements, in the interval Ise,ween
this date and the Ist September, as far as regards the General
and Staff °Seers of the Army and the Garrisons, and nl•e Mili-
,tary Admivisiration. All other heads of branches shall carry
the execution into effect in their several Departments.
. 9. l'he arrangements specified abase shall apply only to Offi-
cers in actual employment on the•lst July, 181.5; and they shall
cease to be available when the army 'hall he re-organiz.•d. •I'he
Officers who shall continue to be employed will be entitled to
their retirement only on the scale of the established regulations,
and according to the couchtions prescribed by them. All new
arrangements of retired allowances converted to full pay, or et her
atrangemetits chargeable op the finds of the army, shall be re-
placed on the turner tooting; nor can any maintenance but the
retired allowance be granted to Officers ceasing to be employed.
These retired allowances cannot, in any instance, exceed the
maximum established for their respective ranks. Penstotis gran-
t: el o o widows and orphan► cannot exceed the limits Axed by our
Ordinance of the lith Augury, 1814.
il►. I run► this date, no demand of employment In our houce-
hold troops snail he admisstble after the person s:1:1111avt• s. r
twenty years, or shall hare attained the age ..1 lit.l•
11. Neither shall any person who lia. ..tiveti &olive ar
or who is above :he age en sixty, be vbgtbts fo► tnt,•!ol lc. it vu
the Garrison Staffs.

I. No pi rum who has once retired can be allowed to mum
In military s.rvice.
t:t. Our Minister at War Is charged with the execution of this
!km.' c.

Giver) at our Castle of ,he Thuilleries, this Ist August, In
the year of Urace LION aul tat uur re,go the 2f it.
(Signed) louts.
'1 he Marshal Gouvtou Sr. CYR,
Secretary of State for the War Dept tont.
PARIS. AUGpSr 14. •
Qn Saturday last the Count d..ia
presented to his Majcbty a numeious deputatifm t
Vendean officers, of the 4. h corps to t.e royal sit my,
who were must paciottqly rtetiveLl.
Since the conanuincaLions were opened with Al.
imp the following iutcrc,ating 4.tvt reached

is respecting the situation of the strong places of that
country :
Landau, though blockaded for some weeks, has
sot hem attacked in form. The gerris on occupies 2
small space of ground around the fortress. Major.
general Gruden comes Inds there. At the moment
when the armistice was co scloied, it wis in contem-
plation to commance the sieve. A traia of artillery,
t is said, was on its ..vay from Wats, bat receive.'
Infers to halt. It is not knowo whether the garrison
made any saliies.
es Schlestadt has a nitmernus garrison, and- has
made several sallies. Those of the 10th and 13th of
July were remarkaole : the enemy's works were de-
stroyed, and the garrison returs-d to the laurels with
some prisoners and baggage ; but all the civ / and
military authorities were eager to hois. the white
colours the moment they had (official intelligence GI
the events at Paris.
'• An Austrian corps wrier the command of Ge-
neral Volkman, who commandel at Kehl, is charged.
with the block oie of New Brisack. immediately atm
the arrival ot the army of the Ils,ine in the envirms
of Su asioirgh, Gener d Rapp sc3t some balrlimis so
New arisack, which were in time to enter the forties
before the appearance of the enemy.
•' On the 20.1: of June the garrison made a
slily. in which it retook two v• 11 iges from the enemy.
From that moment All ..as tr rogoil for some time :
brit the blockading corps wishing to erect some h4t-
teries near the place, the glrrison made a sally on dot
13th of Juiy, and succeAed in tirstruyivw, them. After
that, up to the concluiimi of the armistice, there wile
only some cannonade. without any particular result.
4. P4+ slihiwg has d 'ne the enemy much mischief.
It is well known that the road from Saverne to
Nancy passes through that town. though it may be
turned, by passing neverthel•ss under the cannon of
the fortress. Several Allied sediments chose to take
this route, by marching through this dangerous pis.
sage by night. They were observed from the for.
tress, and so well directed a fire was opened on them.
that the enemy sustained much loss. They then
formed a new route across the Vosges, in order to
avoid Phalsburg and establish their communicatilas
with the fortresses of Lorraine.
46 The forts of Lichtenberg and Petite Pierre have
been blockaded only within a certain distance. and
have never been attacked.
64 Huningen defends itself, and Befort is included
in the convention of Alsace.
Letters from Rouen state, that malevolent persons
in the capital circulate the most absurd and the most
alarming news. At Rcuen, at Lnisviers,, and along
the whnie ruad,ktters arc daily receivedo annousclig
that Paris is in insurrection, that cannon have been
fired in the streets, and that the city is laid waste
with fire and sword. The letter from Rouen is da'ed
the 10th; the manoeuvres which it denounces coinci
with the factions movements which were attempted
to be made at Paris during the last eight or ten days.
• BOURDEAUX, AUGUST 9.
Ctunt Lynch, Mayor of Bourdeatix, whom the
late events, and an honourable proscription, bad cont.
palled to quit our city, has post he«-n restored to !is
functions. to his fimily, to hi,: friends, and to
fellow-cttisetts. He was received with all the hit .ors
due to his rank, and the high estimation in w,ncii tie
illustrious Mayor of Bout& .ux as held by we
English during his residence among those genervas
islanders.