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FROM TUESDAY NIGIirS GAZETTE.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.

Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the
• County of Berwick.
Berwickshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.
John Pringle, jun. Esq. to be Captain. Dated Jan. 9.5,1809.
Commission signed by the Lord .Lieutenant of the
County of Kent.—Ashford Volunteers. ,-
Curteis Norwood, Gent. to be Ensign, vice John Nozwook pro-
moted. Dated February 15, 1809.
Commissions in the Shropshire Regular Militia, signed
by the Lord Lieutenant. •
Joseph Loxdale, jun. Gent. to be Lieu tenant,tated Jan. 25,1809..
Ensigns Richards and Stokes to be ditto. Dated Feb. 14, 1809.
Edward Haslewood and George C?dsvell, Gents. to be Ensigns.
ThOmaa Lacon, Gent. to be ditto, vic* Easty, resigned. Dated
its above.
Commission in the Dorset 'Volunteer Infantry, signed
by the Lord Lifutenant.
William Bower, Esq. to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Lieutenant-
Colonel Pieydell, who has transferred bia Services into the
Local Militia, Dated February 27, 1809.
Commissions in the Ist Regimeht offfireford Local
Militia, signed by-the Lord Lientcoant.
John Matthews, Esq.' to be Lieutenant•Colon'ei Conimandant.—
Dated September 24, 1808.
Thomas Cooke, Esq to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated as above•
Thomas Downes, Esq. to be Major. Dated as above.
Charles Holloway, John Jones, William Ravenhill, John Own-
ing', Isaac Lee, Thomas Baylis, William Milton, Edwin Goode
• Wright, Timothy Ravenhill, and John Griffiths, Esqrs. to be
• Raptains. Dated as above.
"Edmund Philips Stock, William Symonds, Philip Cox, Richard
- Pritchard, Thomas Elliott, Robert Jones, Francis Gritton,
Charles James Da: e, William Barron, Thomas Maul!, and
Joh; Jones, Gents. to be Lieutenants. Dated as above.
William Thomas, William' Webb, John Farmer, John Allen.,
Philip Baylis, Thomas Badham, and James Johnson, Gents. to
be Ensigns. Dated as above.
John Mills, Gent. toile Quarter-Master. Dated as above.
Samuel Cam, Gent, to be Surgeon. Dated as above.

TO THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, AND
PRIVATES OF THE CORPS, LATE THE NEWTON ASSOCI-

ATED VOLUNTEERS.

GENTLEMEN—When I last had the pleasure of
meeting you, I stated to you the correspondence
which had passed bet.veen the Deputy Lieutenants
and myself, as to the recommendation of LordLnin-
KAY to the Command of the Regiment of Local Mi-
litia, proposed to be formed by the consolidation of
your Corps and that of the Loyal Wigan Volunteers.
I also stated to you, that I conceived it a duty in-
curnbent upon me, as well in vindication of your
honour as my own, and for reasons perfectly compa-
tible with the respect due to the personal character
and consecnience of the Gentlemen proposed, to de-
clare my determination to resign the Commission I
hold, in case that appointment were confirmed; al-
though I would by no means hesitate to offer myself
even fbr the command of a Company or some infe-
rior Commission,if it were your pleasure, rather than
forfeit the happiness of serving with a Corps to which
lam so strongly attached. Your Officers, and the
Corps at large, have been pleased in distinct public
Resolutions, conveyed in terms.highly flattering to
myself in other respects, to express their perfect ap-
probation of my conduct upon. that occasion, and
their feelings, more strongly I fear than any merit of
mine can warrant, of the necessity of my remaining
with the Corps. It has • been intitnated to you that
Lord.LINDSAY has dtclined to accept the command,
and I have now before me a letter from the Clerk of
the Sub-division Meetings, by which I learn that
(notwithstanding my remonstrances) Mr. -STANDISH'
las been recommended to, and has accepted the ap-
pointment.' With every personal respect for this
Gentleman, and for his_ rank and consequence in the
county, I do not find that he is either a Vice-tieute-
'nant, or that he possesses the prescribed qualifica-
tion of former services, to entitle him to the Com-
mand of a Regiment of Local Militia as Colonel; and
observing that in all other divisions of the county,
Gentlemen holding the same rank as myself, of
-Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant, have. been conti-
nued in their command, in justice to myself, and in
justice to you (in my mind still a higher duty) I
cannot but again, and thug publicly, remonstrate
(which it is my desire to do with every ,po:,sible defe-
teace) against an appointment, as I conceive, both
irregular and unprecedented.
I wish to entertain only a just esteem, but not less,
citify own private situation; or of that which I hold
by representation in this division, and I cannot but
confess, Gentle Men, that after considering these, and
after having almost raised, certainly supported, this
corps by my own individual exertion and at my own
individual expenc. e, to an amount of two thousand
pourlds, exclusive of Government allowances, I had
irdulgei thz hope of being honoured with this ap-
pointment to which the date of my Commission gave
me of itself, ire my opinion, a regular and just claim.
In a common case no line of conduct but that of re-
siguing the Comrtission I hold could have been re-
sulted to.. But, Gentlemen, in the present eircum-
ttances and situation of the country (which seem to
require all its energy, and when .it s ould.therefore
seem that the exertions orindivi'duals were-efaitled to
4lue consideration), and in compliance with your
I.islres, I have resolved to accept my renewed Corn-
miLsion as Lieutenant Colonel in the Local Militia.

It is not necessary for me, I trust, to express, or to
re.-feat .to yon, the assurances of the affection and
esteem which I entertain for the corps to which I have •
the honpur to aqldrss mr.ell. They will not in your
minds be doubted. Born and educated amongst
von—known to you all firm my earliest illancy-=
still living amongst you, I hope, without any;
of claim to ycur reTeLt.--bound to yon by the
oßme -local interests and local attachments—l am de.
urmined that not even this act shall separate me from
you, nor will I fail to seize every future occasion,
public as well as private, to bind more closely those
ties of mutual friendship and retard, which I trust
‘,.111, remain unbroken to the latest period of my
‘xistclece. I am, Gentlemen, *with great truth

Your most obliged
And faithful humble servant,
T. CLAUGHTON,
Late Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of
the Newton Associated Volunteers.
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