Star.
London, England, 1817-09-22 00:00:00

tilt ARMY.

The following Is an Extract of a Letter addressed
from the Horse Guards, some time since, to the Co-
lonels of the Army, and which, although marked'
" Qt.:Paula'," we can see no impropriety in giving
to the Public; happy to find so high an authority
cilicurring with the general feeling of the country,,
,ind recommend•ot: a line of conduct so agree‘bie
humanity and j,id.; went :
" the Commander in Chief is confident that the Ofleers of
the Army are universally actuated by a spirit id ,jiistice, sad ha-
pressed with thew sentimetra of kindness aid regard towards
them met; wb(che they un so many occasions hive proved them-
Meei to de.ertie ; but his Royal Highness has memo to./pre-
bond, that in many Instances sufficient attention has not been
paid to Ope-,esairshisow Or csinl3. Ike timely laterVrence of
the OliVer :his' personal intercourse and acquaintance with Isis
men %which attentions are sure te be repaid by she soldiere con-
fidence and suachment), and above all his personal ezaraile, are
die only efficacious means of preventing military offences; and
the Commander In Chief has no hesitation in declaring. Jim the
maintenance sr strict discipline wither:sorrily • f froaishariat. and
the support and encouragement of an ardent military spirit m a
corps, without li:etitsuuniess, are the criteria by which his Royal
Higimess will In very much guided o forms g an upsilon of the
talents, abilities and merit of the Officer% to whom the coat:nand
of the different Regiments And Corps of the Army are confided.
(Signed) " U. CALYILIIT."
Ti., cnu. se recommended in this letter is that which
every Officer must be forward to pursue. who has
any with 5,, devote hi, wind to the inaimenance of ail,
ciplitte..l who toss .117 'heart to dispose loin to Ow
trial of other means than mere force and severe
punishment tor the government of his fellow-I)rings.

ROWING MATCH HT IWO MILIS IN 20 DAYS ••••(;THOCLI., at
swim o'ciock uo Friday retinas, completed SO uuil s, and nem.
turdiy be Mid rowed 50 milts. He started itillll yeste►day
:noru•ng at a qurrter past Bre, and at four ocl ck be had gout
39 m les bartog BS auks to complete his task by seven o'clock
tins evening.

NIMITIIIAIII6II.—OfiIIp 111. Wicklow, of Bell-street, Pad-
&won, who offered to venom for twenty days alternately
distance between London and Ipswicn, a space of 70 miles has
received (orlon, and is backed in a Lonsiderible sum to walk for
twenty tour successave days to and -ro u ons;on to thisord, a
distance of Y 7 miles. his la considered a more arduous ta.k
than that of going to Ipswich, on account of the. road.
G. CanitoLig the Contractor, begs Leave to call
the attention of the Public to the Scheme of the pre-
, sent Lottery, which contains Six Ps Ines of 420.0001
It consists of 7,100 Numbers, and will commence
drawing on the 7th of N, V EMBER. Those who are
desirous of obtaining any particular or favourite Num-
bers are respectfully solicited to apply at the Con
tractor's Offices, No. 7, Cornhill. and 26, Oxford
street, ari. early as tweak, lest any disappointment
ahould arise from the Numbers being sold.
• Thu property in Bridgegate and Clyde-street, be-
longing to the Merchants' House of Glasgow, has
been sold co Messrs. Carswells, buildets, for 47500.
The fine steeple is to be retained, and to prevent in-
jury. as far as possible, to its appearance. the height
of the tenement in BriJgegate-street is to be restricted.
The Merchants' Hall was built by volun:ary contri-
bution, in 16.59, and conferred the highest credit on
the public spirit of the mercantile interest at that
time, when the population of that city did not pro-
bably exceed 8000, and when there was no vessel in
the ports •d the Clyde tbat crossed the Atlantic.

Saturday night the,folloaing announcement was
Mae! by Mr. BARTLEY, the Stage Man.iger of the
English Opera House:
' LADIAS AND Gen rtamen—The depressed state of all
Theatrical Property, with dwobviousliecline of public interest
io the once fay unite amusements of the Drama, are increarng
,see is which have bane aseribed•by variodb amijectures to various
causes' Te. Cornment, generally, upon thew wt.utd 1,. this place
be impertinent; but, anitetgst others, a burg- portion of the
Public have advance 1, that the earl hour of cuminencmg the
Periormai:Celi 1' it impossible o strew an anurrement which
isitt rims with tie Lie hour. of Wooer, or the protracted hours
of business; and a tie lets contort. rabic body of the community
have complained, that the late hour. to *loch the reprrsen ations
of the Ntrie are extended, materially der;nlie the ordinary habits
of lite to w ich they are aecustorned. Ali parties, hollcllct. 11411 C
agreed in condemnieg, as vs Is one voice, ti,e I.6th ut i beats kat
pettormancts, in which ti t .pension of -he auditors can rarely
be kept aLve during a per ! of at least live hours; and never
without ,atigue both of boo) ...lit mind .
It. some deer, e, to remedy the evil complained o! by theta
whoa, boleti ot life or 81•04.Atli.U11 wuu.d not yenta the r early
attenuant e at i bi rues, the etworn of taktng Halt-price wat. in-
troduce d. not ii mu.t be obvious to every one, that thtb ',tau
ha. beets found incompetent to ita object Malty pelmet. who
would he
'pay
to witness the early part co a perturnitince, are
indisposed to t e price ul a whole evening's Wart 41111110
lon that;pittioi; sit it only wk cb they can enjoy ; and it may rea-
tenably, he in pposed, that thousands who might with to ranee a
Theatre a a la er hour (a. at the a ual t me oi second priced are
wholly racloded b) the certatoty of boding the hes seats occu-
pied. thus number testi persues, iron. the one or the other cause,
are deterred from tieepreining the aritti.elliellt• of the Sage
" Long experience and mush reflection on dose comma's
ddlicult.,a, hay. to the erupoietor Cl this I itratre a
made o! recoocittus Mem. It is oltvimo, that to accettuuothue
one primps. elan. 01 the patriot s tittalrei, the p. rturtuasiCes
must COllllOllllllCt at an earl, boar; and to gratify another, aro less
ineperrantetasa, they must be continued to a late one: and as the
was *uglier* carmen be seduces w turego lila present habits ot
dionig of i.e old English supper tune; and as a man of business,
t tool cubes persons of early and usiestsc pursuits, cannot be pre-
vailed woo to abridge shear bouts art ie order to cum-
pilawt with their company toe paha:sane, of a midnight Melo
Pratt a; it is become siecessaiy, to the interests (if not the very
ettetrho) at theatres, that some measures should be adopted to
%wet tie•wfakei and tastes of both etas-es, on whom their protpe-
city an hnusediately depends.
" W dithas view, it is proposed as an experiment for the few
remand inks ot thi, season, to try the plan tsar novel 10 I re-
gular I lteetre) of dividing every eveising's esti e naisintent Ude two
distinetparts or perlos mance% Each periormance to coustst of
tai three-act Open ;orOf a short Operaa, with a Ballet, or a
I ideastal linterodunsent.

the tIIIIT P&RIVIMANCS (dm doors to open at half-post
Ilve) so bore sins o'clock ptocisely, and to last till about nine;
the Swain raaroastarica to begin at balf-past nine, and to
cowhide at twelve.

" Mamie), as the entertainment of the heatres have in-
creased in lengths it base sever been proposed on that account ts
hareem the priaisef asheission. Yet. now that it is intended
to lunit their duration, it is respectfully and cneertully proposed
that the following reduction shall take place—the Prices of Ad-
missies; to either Perfortmune w be, i3ozes
Upper Gal. td.'

Buses and plates will be taken for either performance; and
the Grand Sairroa, with its admired decorations, will be appro.
pnated, by a new arrangement, to the use of the company visit-.
Ia the Imes at the second performance, and as a promenade
ler the eampaey to watt for their carriages on keying the boles
'at the conclusion of the early eatertainments.
" We are fully aware that we shall have to encounter many
professiottaljokes upon this occasion; and we Whey* it is pretty
well known that we Nitre had every thing to s:rugitle against then
rival', that, trgenious oppositiou could devise. We do
not qth opposition; because It is quite natural Wilt every
inn shank' thonk btu of himself; sad stagy his own interest in
flifereneeto the imerests of another; but we eta alike Prepared
to singe 'lt the gotid-bunkured raillery of our friends, and the
beetde attempts of our enemies, who may both, perhaps, be in-
clined, in ddferept spirits, to call this " a Bartholomew-Fair
scheme." Let Meat call It what they will I we know that our
sole atm is to mist by your favour, and by devt.ing all means for
your eater: moment, till we tiltimancly receive an honest reward
for our labours."

Tile address called forth considerable ..pplause,
and seamed to mug' with 14111YkarAl apprvbation.