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London, England, 1829-12-01 00:00:00

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The Commissioned Officers of any detachment or portion of our
troops, which may at any time be serving in any part of our domi-
nions, although such detachment or portion of our troops shall con-
sist of men from different regiments, may, by the appointment of
the senior Officer in command of the district, station, garrison,
barrack, island, or colony, provided be be not under the rank of
Field Officer, without any other authority than these our articles
of war, hold detachment Court-martials within our dominions,
consisting of nut less than five Officers (unless it be found Imprac-
ticable to assemble that number, when three may be sufficient ;)
and may inquire into such disputes, or criminal matters, as may
come before them, according to the rules and limitations observed
by Regimental Courts martial ; but no sentence shall be executed
until the superior Officer on the spot, not being a member of the
Court, shall have confirmed the same.
SUPPLEMENTARY ARTICLE, S-72.

In ord r to secure to the deserving soldier, when discharged, a
provision proportioned to the length and nature of his service, and
to enable our Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital to carry into full
effect our rules and regulations for the pensioning of soldiers—We
do hereby order that no soldier shall be discharged, whether fur
unfitness, or for any other cause, unless his services. conduct,
character, and the cause of the discharge, be ascertained before a
Regimental Board, to be held for the purpose of verifying and
recording all these necessary particulars in the discharge, on which
document the decision of our Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital
on the soldier's claim will be made. The Board shall be composed
in all cases, of three Officers, the N ajor, or second in command,
shall be the President, and two Captains shall be members; and all
military persons who may be summoned by the President thereof
are directed to attend and give information to the Board on the
subject of their inquiry. Such Board is not competent to award
any punishment or forfeiture of service. their duty bung restricted
to the faithful and impartial record of the soldier's services and con-
duct at the close of his military career; and they will be governed
in this their duty by a reference to our rules, orders, and regula-
tions, for the pensioning of soldiers, which regulations shall be
produced before the Board, whenever it is assembled. When the
Board it assembled by order of the Commanding Officer or other
superior authority, the members thereof shall severally make the
following declaration in the presence of the soldier whose case is
under inquiry :
" I. AB. do declare, upon my honour, that I will duly and im-
partially inquire into the matters to be brought before this Board,
according to the Rules and Regulations of his Majesty's Service.
and, if any doubt shall arise, according to my conscience, the best
of my understanding, and the custom of the service in like eases."
SUPPLEMENTARY ARTICLE, 4-72.

For the purpose of securing a provision for life to the °Ricers of
our Army who have sustained serious and permanent injury by
wounds received in action with an enemy, according to the Rules
and Regulations fur granting pensions to wounded °Seers—it is our
will and pleasure that when the state of the olicer's wound shall be
such as to require him to be inspected by a Military Medical Board,
convened by our order through our Secretary at War, such Board

SUPPLEMENTARY ARTICLE, 2-105, Wowing Art. 105,

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If any person discharged from our Army for disability, miscon-
duct, or for any other cause, shall subsequently re-enter the Army,
and shall, when questioned by the Magistrates at the time of bis
being attested, conceal the fact, or misrepresent the came of his
former discharge, he shall neither be allowed to reckon his past ser-
vice, nor to receive any pension, if again discharged fur disability.
GEORGE R.

Monthly Returns, dated the 25th of September, were received
this morning from the following Regiments, stationed at Malta.—
The 7th, 10th, 11th, 18th, 28th, 61st, 80th, 88th, 90th, and 115th
(of Foot). and Militia Fencibles.
Similar Returns, to the 25th of October, were received from the
following Regiments, stationed at Gibraltar :—Thei2t11,2.141,42d,
45d, 73d, and 94th (of Foot)
AU the troops were in t►e most healthy condition.
Nwerr-Fsave Ritounner.—ln the month of June last, a detach-
ment from the depot of this gallant Regiment assisted at s. seizure
of tobacco made at Lifford, in Ireland, and we understand the share
of the seizure awarded to the troops amounts to no less than
4216 Ifs. sd. which is to be distributed among the whole oMeers
and men attached to the depot, u follows :—Major, £2l 119. 4d.
Captains, £l3 12s. Id. Ueutenaats, £5 85. 10d. Ensigns, £4
7s. lied. Assistant Surgeon, 45 Bs. led. Serj.-Major, £2 5s Bd.
Serjeants, .51 7s. 31d. Corporals, Ba. 2i. Privates, Ss. sPl.—The
91st (or Argyleshire) Regiment, Lieutenant-Colonel Sutherland
Commandant, bas been in Jamaica since 1821, but it is eapected to
return to England next Spring. Though the corps at ant suffered
considerably from the climate, it has, for this last two years, been
remarkably healthy.
LIM/TRICE, Nov. 28.

Captain Keith's Company 611 d Regiment, at Kilialoe, are re-
'limed by Captain Spencer's Company 60th Rites, from the garri-
son of Limerick.

Captain Short's Company 62d left this rarriatm on Thursday,
in the steamer Kingstown, to relieve the Hon. Captain Upton's
•
Company 60th Rifles, at Mints&
Captain Guard's Company 62d marched hence on Thursday to
TuUs, county Clare, to relieve Captain Brown's Company 60th
Riles.

Captain Brown's and the Lion. Captain Upton'. companies of
the Ram, from Ki!rush and Tuila, and Captain Keith's 62. d, from
Killaloe, have arrived in this garrison.
The other detachments of the Rifles and 62d, in the country, are
not to be replaced until Thursday next.
The division of the 50th Regiment, at Blackburne, was in-
spected last week by General Sir Henry Bouverie, who expressed
himself much pleased at their appearance.
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Colonel French, of the Ordnance Department, is arrived in this
Garrison, on his tour of inspection of the several barracks through
Ireland.

FRENCH ARMY FOR 1830.

The following are the Returns made by the Minister of War to
the King in Council of the Military Expenditures required for
the French Army fur the Year 1830 :

I. Francs.
Staff Officers
Officers of the Garde Royale (French) 459,123
Do. do. (Swiss)..... 695,240
Do. Regular Cavalry ......
Do. Infantry of the Line.. . . 2,840,950
.--

Do. Engineers 24,475
Commissaires de Guerre (Commissariat) ..
Medical Officers.. ............ 27,794
Veterinary Surgeons, Farriers, and Quarter-Masters 68,875
Pay of 5.50,000 men, both Cavalry and Infantry..

T0ta1.... ..... .. ...... 73:254,672

9.
Inspectors, Clerks, Storekeepers, Assistant Storekeepers 670,495
(Personnel') Bread 11,950,275
Field rations, sweat (pied de la pair) 2,391,164

Liquids - - - 1,570,763
Forage.. 13,790,130
Provision Depots 194,145

Total..

Wood
Guard Houses (Corps de Garde) 456,520
Lighting of Barracks in Pads
Contingent &sperms 38,420

Total

Clothing ' 12 580,795
- - -- - -- - - -

Saddlery ... 450,110
. —.—
Total

Chaplains (Aumoniers) Physicians, Surgeons, Apoth -
caries, Purveyors, and Assistants 2,1 i 5,805
Fixed Allowances to Purveyors fur Supplies to the
Sick Military in Hospital

Furniture

120,000

Total.. 7,741,630

Barracks
_ _

Furniture

1 70,8.ie

Total ..... . 3,556,025

• Mem. The French troops are allowed only bread on home ser-
t•ice, at the rate of led. per ration. The meat is deducted from
their pay ; on foreign service they have half a pound of meat tnd
two pounds of bread. The F.ngli.h troops have a pound and a half
of bread and one pound of meat war allowance. and one pound of
bread and three quarters of a pound of meat in tim- of peace.
The French soldier has 5 sob, or so. per day : the English
soldier Is. 24t

dit to himself for the merits of the work in the following terms :
•s If the various objects and the extent of the collection be con-
sidered, it will, I believe, he acknowledged that no country ha.
ever furnished an accumulation of administrative details so varied
and so complete. I think it is well calculated to remove all the
arising from the Ignorance of facts, to suggest useful views.
and to form reasonable opinions on all subjects connected with the
public affairs."
Many of the facts disclosed in these volumes, four of which have
now been presented to the public, will strike the English reader as
somewhat extraordinary. For instance, there were born in Paris
during the year 1826, the last to which the tables apply, 29.970
children, of whom 19,468, somewhat less than two-third', were
born in wedlock ; and the same year, while the total number of
deaths amounted to 25,341, 15,647 of them, or more than three•
fifths, took place in the public 'hospital.. The number of deaths in
hospitals, as compared with those which take plate in private
houses, appears to be constantly increasing. On the average of the
four years, immediately preceding 1826, it is as eight are to fifteen.
And in regard to marriage, ft is a general inference from the whole of
the tables, that every fourth person you meet in Paris is a bastard.
" Suicide seems also to be making alarming progress. In 1824
there were 28; in 1825 and 26, the numbers had risen succesively
to 40 and 49. It is the same with deaths arising front accidental
violence. For the three years in question, they are 679, 712, and 810.

" As to the natural deaths, the year 1825 was remarkable for the
ravages of the small-pox, the number of victims having risen from
250 and 260, the usual number, to 2.193, as if the practice of vac-
cination had been abandoned. But if neglected for a time, the
solicitude of parents had no doubt been awakened by the danger,
as it appears that the number of gratuitous vaccinations, which in
1824 was only 1,620, bad risen during this utifortunata,
11125, to 3,047, and was maintained at 5.013 /luring tis 4 fol-
lowing year, although the evil had then ceased' it is sliwillOo
by the Tables, that the small-pox is chiefly for Imo children
of from one to three years of age. •
" During the years alluded to, the number Illths exceeded
that of deaths by 13,184, from which a correipo ing increase of
population might be inferred ; but the elements of a population
composed like that of Paris are so numerous, so complicated, and
so fluctuating, that it is extremely difficult to establish a datum on
which perfect reliance can be placed. Thus to speak only of one
cause of error, of about 50,000 children born every year in Paris,
from 6,000 to 7,000 are condemned by nature to die within fifteen
months of their birth; and for the most.part it is not in Paris, but
with the nurses in the country that they die, and that their deaths
are verified. On the other band, there arrive every year from the
country and the provincial towns a number of individuals of mature
age and strength. whose births do not appear in the Paris Records,
and who, on an ge, attain to a good old age.
" It is necessary in France, on account of a variety of adminis-
trative operations, to have a fixed and precise measure of the popu-
lation of each town and district, so as to maintain a certain definite
proportion with other towns and districts, and the real uncertainty
as to the fact is supplied by a legal fiction, approaching as nearly as
possible to the truth. For the present the legal population of Paris
is 890.431.
" There are then nearly 900,000 individuals whose daily sub-
sistence is to be insured, who are to be supported in weakness and
solaced in misery, whose conduct is to be watched over, and their
disorders repressed,and who are to be protected and defended against
each other, and their state and condition guaranteed from their
birth to their burial.

" For the cure of souls there are 577 priests, but it is said that the
number ought to amount to 764. The means of education appear
to be ample and extensive. For primary instruction there are 80
charity schools, attended daily by 12,000 children of either sex ;
besides 403 elementary schools, some gratuitous to the number of
112, the rest not gratuitous, but containing collectively 25,582
scholars. For instruction in the second degree, there are seven
colleges and 118 boarding schools for boys, in which there are
7,669 scholars • and 329 boarding schools for girls, in which there
are 10,240 scholars. In the higher branches of education there
are 20 public establishments, the great& part of which are main-
tained at the expense of the State, in which instruction is given by
317 professors, and received by 17,813 student.. Thus instructkn
of various kinds is distributed daily to 73.222 young persons,
amounting to about one-twelfth of the whole population of Paris.
0 On the other hand, to maintain order and security among this
population there are 11 prisons, in which are constantly detained;
for longer or shorter periods, about 3,400 malefactors' or other
offenders against the laws. To this number must be added
proportion sent by Paris to the galleys at Brest, Toulon, and
ltochfort, making an annual contingent of about 200 convicts.
The public hospitals of Paris receive annually from 55,000 to
60,000 tick, and provide for from 18 to 20,000 foundlings, who
receive immediate attention in the hospitals, and ate from thence
sent to the country to nurse. These hospitals also provide for from
20 to 26,000 paupers, whether old and decayed or young and i
assuring them and, clothing, and shelter, for the rest of their
days. '1 hey receive also the insane, to the number of abort 800
per annum, the men being to the women in the proportion of
about 330 to 50.
a We are informed also, by the researches of AI. de Chahrol,
that there was consumsol at Paris, during the year 1826. 81,250
oxen, 13,368 cows, 74,533 calve., 402,717 sheep, and 90,830
swine. making altogether 108,510,000 pounds of meat, and afford-
ing something less than six oz. to each individual per diem.
" The taxes paid by the inhabitants of Paris to the rubric Trea-
sury are as tallow : MAIMS.
Domain, Registration, or Land Tax .. ... 24,406,691
Customs and Salt Tat 1.598,876
Indirect Taxes, nearly equivalent to our Excise 24.406,221
Post Office • • • • • • .. 5.395,417
Lottery .. 6,975,877
Direct Taxes, nearly equivalent to our Assessed
Taxes .. • • • • .. 23,377.137
Produce of tha Tax on Gaming Houses 6,500.000

Total .. • • .. 91,758,219
Equal in sterling money to about 3,670,0004 Fiom this state-
ment it appears that Paris alone pays rather more than one-tenth
of the whole taxes of France; and that its inhabitants pay, one
with another, 003 francs, or about 41. per annum, to the public
ry, which is three and a half times as much as the propor-
tion paid by the rest of the inhabitants of France, whose public
contributions are found, by these tables to amount only to twenty-
eight francs four centimes a head. in addition to these, public
taxes, Paris levies on its own inhabitants a local or municipal tax,
called au octrol, amounting to about tarty y-hve millions franc,, or
1,000,0001. sterling, which, divided among 900,000 inhabitants,
gives 27 francs 70 centimes a head, so that the accessory tax in
Paris is nearly equal to the whole amount of individual contribu-
tions in the departments: _

" A calculation, founded on the statements in these columns,
makes the annual expenditure of the population of Paris amount to
894.034,193 francs, or about £35,760,t00, which gives 1020 francs
98 centimes, or rather more than £4O, a-head, as the annual ex-
penditure of each individual, out of which he pays something more
than 12 pet cent, in public taxes and municipal contributions.
" The fourth of these volumes contain also a great number of
tables regarding the meteorology of the atmosphete of Paris during
the years 1824, 25, and 26, with the state of the watersof the Seine,
and the amount of river navigation during these ye:ra : also a Aare.
ment of the productions of the soil in the neighbourhood
of Paris, a view of Pariaian industry, and a variety of details as to
the extent or the new buildings in the capital, from the year 1821
to the year 1826, explanatory 01 tte causes by which similar works
have been interrupted and diminished since the latter period."