Star.
London, England, 1813-05-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

" TO BRIOADIER-GENItRAL HUTCHINSON, fitt. &C.
" Chelmsford New Barracks, April 16,1811.
" am requested by the Officers of the Bcl Battalion 48th
egiment, to express, in the strongest terms of friendship, their
ncere and heartfelt regret at your removal from the regiment
ad at the same time to assure you, we most cordially rejoice in
le promotion of a man, who has, with the capacity of an able
*.ommanding Officer, blended the character of father and pro-
tcter, invariably promoting the comfort, interest, and happiness
f the Officers, since we had the honour of beir.g placed under
our command. 1 now beg you will accept their most grateful
banks for past kindness; and rest assured, that to hear of the
velfare and happiness of Brigadier-General Htrenfrisorr, who,
o justly, both professionally and privately, merited our highest
'expect and warmest esteem, will always be most pleasing Intel-
!grace to the Officers of the A Battalion 48th Regiment. I have
he honour to be, with the highest respect and esteem,
" Your most obedient humble servant,
" J. W. Rain, Captain 48th Rest."
SOLDIERS' WIVES.
" Horse-Guards, April 10.
the Commander-in-Chief is -

ts mks

Royal Highness , pleased to
direct, that when a regiment embarks for garrison duty on foreign
service, the 'midwives of soldiers shall be permitted to embark,
in the proportion of twelve per company, including the wives of
ton-commissioned officers; and redoes are to be issued for them
as long as the corps remains in a foreign garrison.
64 When a regiment embarks for active field service, the num-
ber of soldiers' wives to be permitted to accompany it must be
limited to sir per company: or their embarkation must be alto-
gether forbidden, according to the nature of the service for which
the •

regiment may be destined.
" To such wives of soldiers as are not permitted to embark
[With their husbands, the rates of allowance, authorised by the
et of the 51st of Geo. 111. chap. 106, and by the Act of the 52d
f Geo. HI. chap. 120, will be granted, to enable them to pro-
!seed to their homes, or to the places at which they intend to re.
side, during the absence of their husbands on service.
" If a regiment should embark from a foreign garrison for field
service, such soldiers' wives as are not permitted to embark with
the regiment, are to be sent by the earliest conveyance to this
Country : on their arrival in Great Britain or Ireland, they will
' ireeelve the rates of allowance specified in the Acts of Parliament
:Shove alluded to.
6' When a Royal Veteran Battalion embarks for foreign garri-
son duty, all soldiers' wives of good charactess, who are desirous
Of accompanying their husbands, are to be permitted to embark.
" By command of his Royal Highness the Commander-ins
Chief, " HARRY CALVERT, Meant-Genera"
=TRACTS PROM THE ACT OF THE .51ST GEO. UI. CR. 106.
I. " Upon any regiment, battalion, corps, or detachment, being
embarked for foreign service, the Commanding Offirer thereof
shall cause a list, or lists, to be made out of all the wives and
ol4ldren of the soldiers belonging to such a regiment, battalion,
Corps, or detachment, to be left at the place of embarkation, who
ore desirous of claiming the allowance authorised by this Act,
for the purpose of enabling them to return to their homes or
places of settlement, either in one list for the regiment, battalion,
corps, or detachment, or separate lists for each company; and
*ball give to every such wife a duplicate of such part of such list
es shall apply to each wife and her family of children respectively,
certifying thereon, under his hand, that the person to whom such
certificate is given, is the wire or reputed wife of a soldier in his
regiment, battalion, corps, or detachment ; and he shall transmit
ouch list or lists, so made out, to the Secretary at War."
, If. " Each wife to whom any such duplicate shall have been
• delivered as aforesaid, shall forthwith take the same to some
• neighbouring Justice or Magistrate, who shall make out a route
for Ilan., and fill up and sign a certificate, specifying the place to
which st.ch woman is going, and her route, that she Islay receive
such allowances as are authorised by the Act, not exceeding
two-pence per mile."
111. " Upon production of such certificate to any Overseer of
the Poor of any place through which such woman shall pass, he
shall, out of any money in his heads app ;cable to the relief of
the poor, pay her an allowance not exceeding the rate per mile
specified in such certificate a, aforesaid, for the number of miles
to the next city, town, or place to which she may be going, not
~ exceeding eightetn miles, and he shall indorse on such certificate
i the money so paid, and take a receipt from the woman, signed
with her band, •or with her mark, specifying the regiment,
battalion, corps, or detachment, to which her husband belongs,
410 as that the description on the receipt may correspond with the
eiticription iu the certificate so produced to him as aforesaid."
' IV. "1 he sum so advanced by such Overseer shall, upon pro-
duction and delivery of such receipt to the Collector of Riche
of the district within which such Overseer acts as such, or any
person officiating for such Collector, be repaid to such Overseer
for the use of the fund for the relief of the poor, by such Coffee-
- for of Excise, or other pt rson, out of any public money in his
hands, and the same shall be allowed in his accounts ; and such
Overseer shall give a receipt for the money so paid by such Col-
her tor or other person ; and such receipt of the Overseer, together
. with the receipt of the woman, shall be taken as cask in the pay-
s. anent of duties of Excise received by such Collector, and all sums
of mom.), so advanced nut of any duties of Excise shall be repaid
t by the agents of the regiments to which the soldiers belong,
, -whose wives and tunnies have been so relieved, or by any other
; person to be appointed for that purpose by the Secretary at War,
• to suck person or persons as shall be authorized by the Commis-
' ;loners of Exciite in England or Scotland respectively to draw for
Or receive the same, for or on account of the said duties."

V. " Every such woman .hall, at the last place of her receiving
any allowance under this Act, antecedent to her arrival at her
I tome or place of settlement, deliver up such certificate to the
Overseer of the Poor advancing such allowance, who shall de-
liver the same to the Collector of Excise, and the same shall be,
i by such Collector of Excise, transmitted to the War Office "
VI. " Wives of soldiers not complying. with the regulations
r hereinbefore prescribed shall be treated as vaerai.t/, and may be
passed as such to their homes, either in England, Ireland, or Scot-
laud, respectively, as the case may be."

EXTRACTS PROM 'rim ACT OF THE 52D GF.0.111. CH. 120.

I. " When any wives, widows, or children of soldien, em-
ployed on fertign service, shall return to Great Britain, the
Officer commanding the regiment, battalion, or corps, to which

the husband, or father, cf any st:ch woman, or child, do or did
belong, shall give her a ceru;icate, stating, that the perhon to
whom such certificate is given is, or was the wife of, and her
child or children is or are the child or children of a soldier in his
vegintent, battalion, corps, or detachment, in like form and man-
nee as the certificates given by Officers commanding corps to the
wires and families of soldiers embarking for foreign service,
'ender direction of the said recited Act; and if any women, the
,svlves or widows of soldiers on foreign service, or their children,
shall land at any place in Great Br.tain, without having such cer-
tificates as are enacted by this Act, it shall be lawtul fur the
General Officer commanding at the nearest place to that where
• they shall so land, and he is hereby required, upon applicatioA
made to him, to give any such woman applying for it such certi-
ficate as aforesaid, which shall entitle her to the allowance fur
berself and her children (if any) granted by this Act; and every
such widow or wife shall, upon any certificate granted under thi#
.Act, receive such allowances for herself and family as are al-
lowvel, granted, and directed by the said recited Act, upon certi-
tcates granted by Officers commanding corps, in respect of wives
find familes of soldiers embarking for foreign service, in like
stunner as if such allowances were specially granted by this Act,
and as if all the rules and regulations for the giving, regulating,
paying, and accounting for, and returning the same, were espe-
Cially and particularly re-enacted iu this Act."
11. " Every widow or wife of any soldier to whom any such
certificate shall have been delivered, as is directed by the said
ruCited Act or this Act, shall forthwith take the same to some
Justice of the Peace, or Magistrate, who shall make out a route,

and fill up and sign a certificate, specifying the place to which
such widow or wife and family is going, specifying the number
of children; and it shall be lawful for such Justice of the Peace,
or Magistrate, in lieu and instead of the rate of allowance di-
rected by the said recited Act, to direct any such allowance as he
shall deem necessary, not exceeding three halfpence per mile for
each such s lonian, and one penny per ru'le for each of her chil-
dren; any thing in the said recited Act authorising a rate caf
allowance to the contrary notwithstanding."

Cclonel STEWART, of the Royals, ani;l Captain G.
WRIcIIT, of the Royal Engineers, go out to Canada,
to join the army in that country, in the fleet which is
now at the Cove of Cork, and hourly expected to sail
pntler convoy of the BELLZROPHON, of 74. guns, Ad-
*lira' Sir Ricer Um" anst 3veral fricates and
Ones of witr!

10411LMMENT4Rr PROCB:2I3INOS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL so.

The LORD CHANCELLOR attended at three o'clock, for the
purpose of bearing a cause. The Agent for one of the parties
stated, that be was not prepared; upon which the LORD CRAM.
cit.t.oa ordered, that he should pay the costs of the day, and
said, that he should in future make the same order against agents
who should not be ready at the time appointed for hearing.
The Duke of MONTROSE presented a Petition from the
Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, against the Catholic Claims I apd
Petitions from the Presbytery and certain Inhabitants of Stirling,
and from the parish of St. Ninian's, in the county of Stirling,
praying that every facility should be afforded to those desirous of
propagating the Gospel in India.
Lord ALBEMARLE presented Petitions from several Socie-
ties of Baptists, in the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, to the
same effect. _ _ . _ _

Lord DIGBY presented a Petition from the county of Dorset,
to the same effect.

The Marquis of STAFFORD presented two Petitions, one
from Weacastle, the other from the town of Stafford, to the
same effect. _ _ _ _ _

Lord LAUDERDALE presented a Petition to the same effect
from the town of Dunbar. _ _ _

Lord DARTMOUTH presented a Petition from Ellesmere,
in Staffordshire, to
-the same effect.
tUI these Petitions were laid on the Table.
The Duke of BEAUFORT presented Petitions from the Pock
Company, Merchants, &c. of Bristol, against the East India Mo-
nopoly; and another from the Shipwrights, Coopers, &c. praying
that British registry should not be entended to India-built ships.
—He also presented a Petition from the same place against the
Catholic Claims.—Laid on the table.

A Person from the India-House presented Papers from the
Court of Directors, pursuant to an order of the House.
Lord LAUDERDALE moved for an account of the Exche-
quer Bills out standing in each quarter during the year ending
the 11th of January, lele, together with an aceount of the
Amount of Exchequer Bills funded during the same period, and
the quantity of stock given fur each hundred pounds.—Ordered.
The consideration of the Report of the CurStee Bill was post-
poned till this day week.
The two Exchequer Bills Bills were read a third time, and
passed; and the English Brass Bill was committed, and reported.
Lord WAI.SINGHAM read the Report of the Appeal Corn.
mittee, stating that it appeared to the Committee that the House
should on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, sit at ten o'clock
for the purpose of hearing causes, and should proceed in hearing
the same till a quarter before four o'clock, without the interven-
tion of any other business. He moved that the Report be taken
into consideration on Monday, fur the purpose of proposing that
the above regulations should be made a standing order of the
House, and that the Lords be sammoned.—Ordered.
Adjourned till to-morrow (this day).