Star.
London, England, 1824-04-26 00:00:00

THE AR 31Y.

Detachments belonging to several Regiments marched on the
29d instant, from the Recruiting Department, in Westmitmer, for
Weedon, Birmingham, Canterbury, Hythe, Portsmouth, Winches-
ter, and the Isle of Wight.
Monday, Majoi-General Sir JOHN Etter, K.C.B. inspected the
Rifle Brigade, under Lieutenant-Colonel BitowN, in the square of
the New Barracks, Limerick. As usual, this highly efficient and
respectable Corps was much approved of, and the departure of thel
principal portion of this excellent Regiment is regretted by rite in
habitants of Limerick. The Rifle Brigade marched fur Itathkeale
to occupy the cantonments of the 10th Regiment, who are to pro-
ceed to juin head-quarters at Fetmoy.
It is expected that in June the Ist Dragoon Guards will be re-
moved from Edinburgh, and that the Ist Royal Dragoons will
march from York to Edinburgh; the 2d Dragoons (Greys) from
Newcastle, &c. to Glasgow; 6th Dragoons from Glasgow to York.
Friday the first division of the 94th Regiment marched from
F.dinburgh Castle for Greenock, where the Reziment is to embark
for Gibraltar.
Orders were received in Limerick on Monday to discontinue re-
cruiting for the 97th and 96th—the proportionate number of men
to he raised in Munster having been completed, 155 having enlisted'
in that garrison alone.

A General Order is now in circulation addresqed to Colonels and
Commanding Officers of Regiments. Upon reference to the 01.1
regulations for the purchase, sale, and exchange of Itegimertal Com-
mission; we find that the forms of applications for the side and
purchase of Commissions, which prescribed a certificate, signed by
the parties, that no sum beyond that limited by his Majesty's regu-
lations, would be demanded or accepted, are cancelled, and that the
following parts are new :

" OffiCe.rs retiring upon the half-pay, and receiving the differ-
ence, forfeit all claim to further rank or employment, to the pen-
sion for their widow,, and to compassionate allowance for their chil-
dren unless they repay the diffcrence upon being allowed to come
in again upon the same rank in which they retired, but they forfeit
their progressive rank during the period of their retirement.' "
The required form to be accompanied with written certificates
signed by the Commanding Officer ; viz.
" Ist. That he has ascertained by reference, through the regimen-
tal agent, to the responsible persons, that in each case there is good
and sufficient security that the purchase-money will be forthcoming
when called for.
" 2d. That of the individuals so returned as purchasers, A, B, C,
are in all respects deserving of promotion, and those whom he would
not hesitate to recommend, whenever the vacancy shall offer, as lit
for the duties of the higher and more responsible commission. •
" When the Regiments and Commanding Officers are abroad, the
Commanding Officer is to state the security to which reference is
made, and the Military Secretary will ascertain through the agents
whether that security be good and sufficient, it being understood
that if the answer be not at once satisfactory, the individual will be
struck out of the list of purchasers.
" The quarterly return so certified, is to be the only communica-
tion made on the subject of promotion by purchase; and when a
resignation is sent in, it will be considered unconditional and irre-
vocable, and no successor is to be pointed out or recommended.
" In all cases, the individual selected for the purchase, or his sure-
ties, will be called upon to lodge the purchase-money with the Agents.
" If the senior who may have been returned as a purchaser, and
whose money shall have been certified to be forthcoming, should
decline the purchase when selected fur it, or his sureties should
decline it fur him, he cr they will be called upon to state the reason
for so declining to the Military Secretary, for the Commander-in-
Chief's information ; and if the explanation should not be con-
sidered satisfactory, his name will be struck out of all future lists
of purchasers.

" The candidates who may be selected from reference to the
quarterly returns for the purchase of promotion out of their own
Corps, will be directed to lodge the purchase-money, without being
acquainted in what regiment they are to obtain the promotion, nor
will any application for the purchase of promotion which points out
the expected vacancy be admitted.
" That they do not Intend to sell out, or retire upon half-pay,
after effecting such exchanges, but that it is their bona fide intention
to join immediately, and do duty with the Corps to which they ex-
change, the leave of absence which may have been granted to either,
or both, being cancelled by such exchange.
" No Officer of Cavalry, who shall apply for permission to retire
on half-pay, will be allowed to receive the difference between full
pay of Cavalry and full pay of Infantry, but such exchange will
be viewed as being, to all intents, an exchange to the half-pay of
his branch (,f the service, receiving the difference between full
pay and half-pay, and subject to the restrictions applicable to such
exchanges.

" In-exchanges to half-pay, either with or without the differ-
ence, or from Cavalry to Infantry, the applicatioa must be gene-
ral and unconditional, and the Officer upon full pay will not be al-
lowed to point out his successor, who will be indiscriminately se-
lected by the Commander-in-Chief, without any previous notice to
the parties.

" Every Officer who, from wounds, ill-health, infirmity, or age,
shall become unfit for service, and who shall be desirous of retiring
upon half-pay, will transmit his application through is Colonel, or
Commanding Officer, accompanied by a certificate from the senior
Medical Officer of the Regiment, expressing the cause of his be-
coming unfit for service, and which certificate must be countersigned
by the Colonel or Commanding Officer."
" • N.B.—The General Officer who makes the half-yearly confi-
dential reports, is hereby directed to state in such reports, his opi-
nion of the correctness of this certificate."

No Brevet, we understand, wiU take place at present.

MILITARY PRO MOTIONS.
WAR-OFFICE, APRIL 23, 1824.
17th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Veterinary-Surgeon Henry
Smith, from half-pay of the Royal Artillery Drivers, to be Ve-
terinary-Surgeon, vice Edmund Price, who exchanges.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Poot Guards—Lieutenant George
Frederick Harrington Hudson to be Lieutenant and Captain, by
purchase, vice Ellison, promoted; Sir Ralph Abercromby An-
struther, Bart. to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Hudson.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—lion. James Hope to be
Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dundas, promoted.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Robert Crisp, from half-pay of '
the 57th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Russell, who ex-
chanlies; Ensign John Mullen to be Adjutant, vice Russell, who
resigns the Adjutantcy only.
7th Ditto—Quartermaster-Serjeant Thomas Simpson to be Quar-
termaster, vice Lambert, deceased.
13th Ditto—Lieutenant William Thomas, from the 89th Foot, to
he Lieutenant, vice Shiel, who exchanges.
20th Ditto—Lieutenant Henry Clinton, from half•pay of the 12th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wigley, appointed to the 73d Foot.
27th Ditto—Ensign John Joseph Grier, from half-pay of the Royal
West India Rangers, to be Ensign, vice Spencer, appointed to
the 73d Foot.
38th Ditto—Lieutenant James Mathews to be Captain, without
purchase, vice Wiltshire, promoted in the 46th Foot.
41st Ditto—Lieutenant George L. Bou:tbee, from the 69th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Sargent, who exchanges.
44th Ditto—Lieutenant issues Paton, from the 67th Foot, to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Nixon, deceased ; Henry
Lewis Layard, Gear.. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Gill

bert, deceased.
46th Ditto—Major Alexander Ogilvie to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase, vice Molle, deceased; Brevet Lieutenant-Co-
lonel 'Thomas Wiltshire, from the 58th Foot, to be Major, vice
Ogilvie ; Ensign George Varlo, from the 59th Foot, to be En-
sign, vice Drew, promoted in the Gith Foot.
48th Ditto—Lieutenant Along° M‘Pherson, from half-pay of the
424 Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Buultbee, whose appointment
has not taken place.
51st Ditto, Rice, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Murray, who retires.
54th Ditto—Ensign Burrowes Kelly to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice llolt, deceased.
59th Ditte---Lieutenant Alexander Douglas, from half-pay of the
93d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wolfe, appointed to the 98th
Foot ; Joseph Peacocke, Gent. to !,e EllNity, without purchase,
vice Varlo, removed to the 46th Foot.
62d Ditto—Lieutenant John Singleton to be Captain' by purchase,
vice Sweetly, who retires; Ensign Edward Perry Brooke to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Singleton ; Francis Keuehn Butt-
verie, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Brooke.
67th Ditto—Ensign John Coulburn Drew; from the 46th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Paton, removed to the 44th Font.
69th Ditto—Lieutenant John James Sargent, from the 4lst Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice tioultbee, Who exchanges.
73d Ditto—Lieutenant George C. Connor to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Pike, who retires.
To he Lieutenants—Lieutenant Edmund Meysey Wigley, from the
20th Fuot, vice Tuomas Reynolds, who retires upon half-pay of
the 12th Foot; Ensign William Villiers Stuart, by poichase,
vice Connor.

To be Ensigns—Ensign Edward Cerjat Spencer, from the 37tb
Foot, without purchase; Charles Chidley Coote, ChM. by pur-
,
cli.tse, vice Stuart.

%Set itto—Captain William Bruce, from the 871 Foot, to be
Captain, vice Richardson, who exchanges.
78th Ditto--Lieutenant Jonathan Eorhes to be Captaip,lfy PUttimile,
vice M4l.eod, who retires ; Ensign Walter Hamilton to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Forbes.
79th Ditto—Captain Robert Rarer:tan, from half- pay of the sth
Fuor, to he P.tyniasti r, vice Allan C..meron, who exchanges.
62d niZ to 3 pt:ii liichardson, coot the 7.5:h Feot, to be
v:ce net-, who
89th Ih: to— Lieutenant At ,1,.1r Sch.!. rroni the 13th Foot, to be
Lieutetim:t, vice Thorn is, who exeiting es ; Lieuteuant Ealwaril
Kenoy to i.e Adjutant, vice N.tykr, who retivis
the Adjutantcy only.
94th Ditto—Ensign Isaac Toopood C ird to he Atiltitant, vice
White, who resigns the Adjutantcy only ; 11. l.n y A ..istant Cem-
ntissary-Genctal Smith Lukin, irn.,l the hali'v.iy, to be
Paymaster.
97th Ditto—Captain J,,hu nowes.l Colllitirgt, from half-par
Kelso Itegini,•nt, to be Captain, vice Robert 'noes, whose .p-
-poitnntelit has rot taken place.
99th Ditto—Lieutenant John Quin Wall, from half-pay of the 2..ith
Fort, to be Lieutenant, vice I !jay Ramos, who exchanges.
2d West India Regiment—To be Ensigns--Ensign Wm. M'Pher.
son, from half pay of the Regiment, vice Hanna, appointed to the
lst Royal Veteran Rotation; Ensign James E.sten Dickenson,
Gust half-pay of the 7.d Garrison Gattalion, without purchase.
Ist Royal Veteran liattation--Lieutenant Thomas Shedders, from
half-pay of the 68;l1 Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice MacGregor, who
returns to his former situation on the Retired last.
To be Ensigns—Ensign Ilenry Augustus Curningham Pilkingtnn,
front half-pay of the York Light Infantry Volunteers, vice Wil-
liam Renick, who returns to his former situation on the Retired
Last; Ensign Joseph I lanna, from the 21 West India Regiment,
vice Graham, appointed to the 99th Foot.
2d Royal Veteratt Battalion—To be Lieutenants—Lieutenant Mat-
thew Agnew, from half-pay of Maclean's Recruiting Corps, vice
',Milne, whose appointment has nlit taken place ; Lieutenant Ed-
ward Wells, from the 2d Vest India Regintent,vice Small, who
returns to his former half-pay.
eNarracti
Brevet Major Robert F.llison, from the Ist or Grenadier Foot
Guards, to be Lieutenant-Colonel of Infantry, by purchase, vice
Major-General D'Arcey, who retires ; Lieutenant George Green
Nicolls, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Captain of a Conk-
pany, by puichase, vice Brevet Major Thos. Clarke, who retires.
HOSPITAL STA FP.
Brevet Inspector of Hospitals Edward 'l'egart, to he Inspector of
Ilospitals; Assistant-Surgeon William Kennedy, from half-pay
of the Royal West India Rangers, to be Assistant-Surgeon to
the Forces.

CA RXIIIONS.
Major-General John Vincent to be Lieutenant-Governor of Dum-
barton Castle, vice Ferrier, deceased.
NIENIORANDA.
The names of the Gentleman appointed Ensign in the 49th Font,
on the 19th February, 1824, are 8411 Nandi Fisher, and not Set/s
Autiall, as stared hi the Gazelie of rue 10th instant.
Commission in the South Hants Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Hants.
William Trodd, Gent. to be Cornet, vice G. E. Eyre, promoted.
Commissions in the 2d Somerset Regiment of Militia, signed by the
Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.
Hunter Onvan, Gent. to be Lieutenant ; James Thackeray, Gent.
to be Hnsigii.

Commissions in the Castlemartin Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the
Lord Lieutenant of the County of Pembroke.
George Bowling, Esq. to be Captain Commandant ; David Robert-
son, Esq. to be Captain ; George Ilowting, jun. Gent. and Wil-
liam Evans Poynter, Gent. to be Lieutenants; Augustus Leach,
Gent. and Thomas Manse!, Gent. to be Cornets.
Commission in the West Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent.
The Honourable John Robert Townshend to be Cornet, vice
Waring, resigned.

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Txtrads from a Journal written on thel'lnasts of Chitt,.
Pon, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 21, and 22.
Py Capt. BASIL HALL, It.N. 12mo. 2 'vels.
Capt. hall is already known to the Public as aft au-
thor by his Voyage to Loo Choc), which was well re-
ceived when it trade its appearance: nor is the pre-
sent work entitled to a less hearty welcome, whether
as it respects the views ant opinions he advances re-
specting the political changes which that portion of the
Western hemisphere is now experiencing, or as it re•
pirds the manners and customs of the natives. To the
salter subjects we shall confine the few extracts for
*filch we can make room in our columns:
" As soon as the dispatches were seat off; I paid a
visit to a Chilian family of my acqoaintance, and im-
mediately on my entering the dray. ing-Toom, the lady
of the house, and one of her diu each presented
me with a rose, apologizing, at the s roe time, fen
having omitted to do so before. This custom of pre-
settling strangers with a flower prevails in all Spanish
cot tries, and is one of an extensive class of minute at-
tentions, which the Spaniards and their descendants
understand better than any other nation. Tire favour
itself is nothing; indeed, it seems essential to the civility
that it should be a mere trifle; the merit lies in the un-
affected and simple expression of good will and kind-
ness which, while it really obliges, is of a nature to im-
pose no obligation
" The Chilian; are fond of making plc-nic parties,
to dine in the country, at any spot which may suit them
during an excursion, and to-day I happened to fall in
with some friends bent on such an expedition, all
crowded into a cateta or covered waggon, on its way
to the hills : as they wanted one more cavallero, I was
well pleased to be permitted to join them. We reached
the destined spot in safety, though sufficiently jolted,
and well nigh deafened by the creaking sound of the
wheels, which, like those in Spain, are kept purposely
without grease, in order, it is said, by this clumsy de-
vice, to prevent smuggling—since no cart or waggon
can pass within half a league of a custom-house officer
without calling his attention to the spot
" I went in the evening to visit a family in the Al-
rnendral, or great suburb of Valparaiso. The ladies
were ranged, as usual, along the wall, in a compact
line, with their shawls drawn over the head and across
the chin, so as nearly to conceal the face. One young
lady played the harp, another the guitar, while some
occasionally joined with their shrill voices, in singing
the patriotic songs of the day. Others were chatting,
or wot king, and the evening was passing away pleasantly
enough, when, without any apparent cause, the whole
party jumped up, cast away their music and work, and
flaw ire the most frantic style out of the house, scream-
ing aloud, Miaoicordia! misericordia! beating their
breasts at the -ante time, and looking terrified beyond
description. I was astonished at all this, but followed
the company into the street, calling out Misericmdia as
loud as any of them. It was a bright moonlight even-
ing, and the street, from end to end, was filled with
people ; some, only half stressed, having just leaped
from their beds—children, snatched front their sleep,
were crying in all direetisats—many carried lights in
their hands—in short, such a scene of will confusion
and alarm was neset seen, and all apparently occasioned
by a spontaneous movement, without any visible motive.
After standing in the street for abort a Minute, the
whole crowd turned round again and ran into their
houses, so that, in the course of a few seconds, the hub-
bub was stilled, and not a mortal was to be seen. I now
begged to know the cause of this amazing commotion,
having a vague idea of its forming some part of a reli-
gious ceremony, when, to my surprise, I learned that it
had been produced by an earthquake, so severe, that
the people had been afraid of the houses tumbling about
their ears, and had ran into the open street to avoid
the danger ; for my part, I was totally unconscious of
any motion, nor did I hear the sound, which they de-
scribed as unusually loud. On mentioning this fact
afterwards in company, I was assured, that for a con•
sidet able period after the arrival of foreigners, they are
in like manner insensible to shocks, which a waive can
at once distinguish. It may be mentioned also, as an.
unusual effect of experience, that the sensation of alarm,
caused by feeling an earthquake, goes on augmenting
instead of diminishing, and that one who at first ridicules
the terrors of the inhabitants, comes eventually to be
even more frightened than they are
" The theatre (at Lima), which was opened during
the festivities upon the accession of the new Viceroy,
was of rather a singular form, being a long oval, the
stage occupying the greater pat t of one side, by which
means the front. boxes were brought close to tt.e. actors.
The audience in the pit was composed exclusively of men,
and that in the galleries of women, a fashion borrowed,
I believe, from Madrid, the intermediate space being
divided into several rows of private boxes. Between ,
Ore acts, the Viceroy retires to the back seat of his box,
which being taken as a signal that he may be considered
as absent, every man in the pit draws forth his steel and
flint, lights his segar, and puffs away furiously, in order
to make the most of his time, for when the curtain rises,
and the Viceroy again comes forward. there can no
longer be any smoking, consistently with Spanish eti-
quette. The sparkling of so many flints at once, which
makes the pit look as if a thousand fire-flies had been
let loose, and the cloud of smoke rung immediately
afterwards and filling the house, are little circumstances
which strike the eye of a stranger as being more de-
cidedly characteristic than incidents really important.
I may add, that the gentlemen in the boxes also anroke
on these occasions ; and I once fairly detected a lady
taking a sly whiff behind her fan. The Viceroy's pre-
sence or absence, however, produces no change in the
gallery aloft, where the goddesses keep up au uaceasino
tire during the whole evening."
(TO be continued.)
EXHIBITION OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.
The Twentieth Annual Exhibition of the Society of
Painters in Water Colours commences to-day. On S.•
turday last we were favoured with a private view :4 t::e
(jailer y, previous to its being thrown open to the Public,
and we were happy to observe that the Exhibition of
the present year exceeded rather than fell short n f the
expectations which had been raised by a recollection of
the preceding ones. As a whole it bears ample tusti-
loony to the zeal and industry of the Artists whose works
ate exhibited, and gives the fairest promise of the supe-
*levity which will be atodued by native talent in.this
delishtful branch of Art.

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