Star.
London, England, 1810-09-11 00:00:00

Friday sennight came into Cork the transport No. 577, wit%
the loss of her mitten-mast.

It gives us pkasure to state, that there is not a single ship of
last Jamaica Beet that has not arrived in safety at her piace at
destination.

The Paris, Duncan, from Goads,loupe to Liverpool, Is put into
Tortola, with damage.
The Mary, of and from America, has been taken, retaken, and
arrived at Gibraltar.

The Point-a-Pare, from Guadaloupe to London, was lost of
Point-a-Petre, the 29th of July.

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The Jamaica and Leeward Island mails of the 6th of June,
arrived at Barbadoes the 26th of July.
The Maria, Banthy, front Liverpool to Dublin, is lost off Ruth-
lin Island.
The African, Myers, sailed front Philadelphia for Gottenbarilt
in April last ; was spoke with in lat. 39. long. 50. on the 96th of
the same month, and ha; not since been heard of.
The Amelia, Craig, from Demerara for London, was totally
lost off Scilly on the lit Instant. Crew saved.
The Lion, Blyth, from London to Gibraltar, was run down 01
the westward of Sicily, by the Favourite, Evans.
ARRIVED

In the Clyde, in distress, the Uniqn, Green, from Liverpool—
At Plymouth, detained, Two-Friends, —.---, from Bilbes—At
Liverpool, Fanny, Jackson, from Oporto; and Chehalis, Helot..
from Charleston—At Hull, Lord Hood, Smith, from Hayti—At
Dutmouth, Sit William Scott, Bull, honk T At Poek
Alexander, Stunt, from Cadiz ; Brothers, from New
'lurk; John and Thomas, Stone, and the Admiral itowleb.%
from Newfoundland.
The Hornet, American sloop of war, which arrived
at Portsmouth on Wednesday, with dispatches foe
Mr. PIN RN cv, left the Chesapeake on the 4th of June.
The Venus frigate, Captain CRAWFORD, having ea
board Mr. MORIER, his Mij _sty's Ambassador to the
United States, had at that time arrived on the Am*.
rican coast, on her way to New York. /*rims se
her arrival at Portsmouth, the Hornet bad put i
Havre, and landed dispatches for.Geit. A
the American Minister a: Paris.
A small sloop bunk in the Humber, near
lon Monday se'unight, when theauteter his
were unfortunately droweed.

CALCUTTA GAZETTE EX7RAORDINAItr.
MONDAY, II7ARCN 19, 1810.
GENERAL ORDERS.
2Y THE RIGHT lIONOURAELE THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL
IN COUNCIL.

&tract of a Letter from the Honourable the Court of Directors,
dated September 15. 1809.
(Cantinaedfrans th: Satin day )
60. The reasons, however, for abolishing the tent
contract, which appears to us of most force, are, that
it provided at a great and constant expence for putting
all the native corps in readiness to move; when, from
the nature of things, many of them must at all times
necessarily remain stationary ; that the expence of
fulfilling the terms of the contract being much greater
in the field than in garrison, the Officers contract-
ing were placed in a situation in which their interests
might eventually be in opposition to their duty ; that
it must interfere with the discipline of corps, by with-
drawing the attention and occupying the time of '
Commanding Officers, in cases not connected with the
discipline of their respective regiments and battalions;
and, finally, that it made the Commanders -of Corps I
Officers of disbursement and expenditure, not, as they
always ought to be, of check or control over the dis-
bursements of others. These reasons had induced
Lord Cornwallis, after establishing the tent contract
in war, to revoke it in time of peace, and, upon the
obvious ground, that it was an arrangement made to
promote, not the advantage of the Officers, but the
efficiency of the service.
61. The Address then again reverts to the claim of
an equalization of Military allowances.at Madras and
Bengal ; a claim which, though it neither be grounded
on any solid principles, nor can ever be admitted as
the basis of any practical regulation, we shall examine
• somewhat more in detail than we have thought ne-1
cessary in considering the other subjects of the Ad- I.
dress, because it is a question of extensive prospect,!
embracing many points besides the one now brought
before us.

62. In the different Presidencies of the Company
in India, distinctions have from the beginning subsisted
in respect to emoluments and advantages (not only ,
in the military but in every other department)
These distinctions have arisen from the comparative
importance of the Presidencies themselves, and of the
public business to be transacted under them.
63. Thus Bengal, the first great territorial posses-
sion to the Company, had its establishments early
settled with same analogy to its income; and that
country, as being the seat of the British interests in
India, came to have a standard of public allowances,
which could not be exactly imitated at the other Pre-
sidencies under their very different circumstances.
64. The style of living also among the Europeans,
as we may presume, gradually adapted itself to the
stale of income.

65. The persons nominated to civil and military
employments have entered the service perfectly aware
of these inequalities, and are therefore not entitled to
expect that they should be afterwards removed.
.66. The Company have hence always resisted the
idea of a general equalization of allowances and emo.
lutnents of the different Presidencies, as not founded
in right or reason, or the nature of the thing.
67. Supposing for a moment, that such a principle
could be admitted and enforced, the consequence, in
the present state of the finances of the company, must
be to reduce the few remaining distinctions of the Ben-
gal Presidency to a level with those of Madras and
Bombay ; as it would be utterly impossible to provide
for the extreme, of raising the emoluments of the infe-
nor presidencies to a level with those of Bengal, ex-
tended as this the must be to all the civil as well. as
military branches of the service, it once the principles
of equalization were adopted.
68. In all the presidencies, however, the scale of
allowances has been more than sufficient for comfort-
able subsistence ; and in the case of all the privates
Rad non-commissioned Officers of the Army, the rates
have been at all times very generally the same at all
the presidencies.
69. From a concurrence of circumstances it has
also happened, that an approximation to an equaliza-
tion of allowances has in fact taken place, in so far as
to reduce the advantage of the Bengal military ser-
vice generally almost to an equality with those of the
other presidencies, and if the comparative slowness of
promotion at that presidency be taken into the esti-
mate, it might not be incorrect to say that the mill.
tart' service in Bengal has not been for many years
past upon a superior footing, upon the whole, than at I
either of the other presi&ncies. If the Madras Offi-
cerspossess a reasonable plea to have all their allow-
ances put on a level with those of Bengal, the Bengal
Officers hive a plea at least as specious to an equali- I
zation of rank in proportion to length of service. The
infantry have the same plea of complaint against the
quicker promotion of the cavalry, and the artillery
against both. In short, there can be no end to the
operation of this principle of equalization, if it be al- I
lowed to surpersede all establised usages, and all con-
siderations of expediency.
10. The regimental allowances, however, both tol
officers and men are very nearly the same at all the pre-
sidencies; and wherever mere comfortable subsistence
is concerned, it has been the object of the public re-;
gulations at all times.; to approximate as nearly to
an equality of allowances as the local circumstances
(f each presidency have admitted.
71. But the staff, and other.iestra allowances, rest
upon a different.foundation ; they are gratuitous ad-
vantages conferred on individuals at the pleasure and
discretioo of the Government, and are calculated not
with reference to what other men receive who may
perhaps perform similar services in other places, but
in reference to the means of the governing power, and
the view which it may take at the muds and seer-
, vices of the receiver.

72. Upon the same principles, if the necessities of
the State require that a diminution should take place
in the expenditure of any, or of all the settlements in
India, it is not to be expected that such reduction
shall fall first or only uvan those who receive the
higher salaries, whether civil or military, at one or at
another presidency ; but the Government has an un-
doubted right, legal and moral, to decide, consistently
with the principles of justice, what part of the service
will best admit of that reduction which the necessities
of the State demand.
73., But it is .unneceleary to press this principle,
however incontestible ; as, in point of fact, reductions
bare hum ordered, aka are in a traisk et' eseoutioa, at

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111 the presideaciel, and affecting all the *metes of
the Company's service, civil and military ; reductions'
which are absolutely necessary to the existence of the
Company, and consequently to the maintenance and
provision of all their servants, as well in India as in
Europe, as well in the retired and pensioned establish-
ments, as in the more early and active stages of service.
74. Another subject of complaint made by the
Officers of the Madras army, is, that the Commander
in Chief, whom, in imitation of himself, they style
" the representative of the army," had been excluded
from a seat in Council.

75. The propriety of granting a seat in Council to
Lieutenant-General Macdowall, or to any other Com-
mander in-Chief, is a question so entirely unconnected
with the interests of the Officers themselves, and the
Consitution of the Army under the Company and the
British Government, that it is not easy to consider its
introduction into their Address in any other light than
as an espousal on the part of the Officers, of Lieute-
nant-General Macdowall's unreasonable complaints on
this subject, in return for the countenance which he
has so improperly shewn to the equally unreasonable
complaints of the Officers.
76. It is not more necessary that the Commander-
, in-Chief should have a scat in Council at Fort St.
George, than that the Commander in Chief in Eng-
land should be a Member of the Cabinet ; and al-
though advantages may result from his personal assis-
tance in Council, still the benefits of his advice and
co-operation may be obtained, and the military at,
rancy,tments of GovernMent may be conducted in an
efficient manner, even if he should not have a seat at
the Board. This part of the Memorial, however, does
not call for :my detailed examination ; yet it may be
proper to observe, that although the Officers com-
plain that their interests may suffer by the Commander
in Chief not having a seat in Council ; in fact most
of the measures of which the Memorial itself com-
plains as grievances were suggested by the Comman-
d2r in Chief, Sir John Craduck, and adopted whilst
he was in Courreil.
77. On the striking impropriety and mischievous
ambiguity of the phrase « Representative of the
Army," we have commented upon in another part
of this letter. We shall now, theretbre, only observe
that the adopting by the Officers of this reprehensible
phrase, furnishes another instance of the evil conse•
quences of the countenance before referred to.
The last subject of complaint adduced in the Ad-
dress, is, the formation of a General Fund for the
Off-reckonings of the army, which is stated to have
been formedifor the purpose of equalizing the advan-
tages derivable from that fund to the Colonels of the
three Presidencies ; by which the Colonels on the
Madras establishment have suffered a diminution of
income, whilst those of the Bengal establishment have
received an addition to their emoluments.

78. In reverting to our orders transmitted to In-
dia on the subject of the Off-reckonings of the Army,
we do not find that any such principle of equaliza-
tion was alluded to, or in our contemplation.
79. The only object of the formation of a General
Fund for the Off-reckonings of the Indian Army,
which was then stated, was, to provide a fund for the
retired List of General Officers, whose pensions, like
all• other military persons, were made equal ; whe-
ther those officers belonged to the establishment of
Bengal, Madras or Bombay.
The Off-reckoning Fund is, indeed, in its nature
and effects, a pension fund, and has therefore very
naturally been regulated upon the same principles of
equality as arc all pension establishments.
Bengal, the Establishment,on an average of three years,
£952 each share
Madras Ditto 1'294 Ditto
Bombay Ditto - 1458 Ditto
In point of fact, however, the Madras Officers
suffer scarcely any diminution of advantages by that
arrangement of their off-reckonings, having been
nearly an average of the off-reckonings of Bengal and
Bombay.

coellinatione, and wiloosemthe have actively exerted
themselves in promoting them. Such Officers as may
have acceded to the project, are not probably aware
of the true nature and tendency of the combination
which they have contributed to form, and are deceived
by the plausible pretext of a constitutional appeal to
the authority of Government.—(le be continued)

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I,ONDOA MARKETS.
RETURN of WHEAT in Mark-lane, including only from the
57th of August to the Ist of Sept. Total 12,456 quarters.
Average 98s. 50.-Os. Et& lower than last return.
A RETURN OF FLOUR,
From the 25th of August to the 31st of August.
Total 6,836 sacks-Average 995. sid.
Os. lid. lower than last return.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, Sept. S.
Avenge Price of Corn in England and Wales from the returns
ending the 2.t of September, 1810.
Wheat, Rye. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease.
s. d. I s. d. I s. d. I s. d. I
s. d. I s. d.
115 7 61 1 50 10 33 0 56 1 57 2
The average Price of Sugar, computed from the returns made
in the week ending the .sth day of September is 493.1 per cwt
INSPECTOR'S RE I'ULLN AT UXBRIDGE, Sept. 6.
Wheat per load 231. Os. to .791. Os.
Barley, per quarter SS% -d. to 401/1. -d.
Oats ins..--d. to 40s. -d.
Beans 565. --d. to 633. -d.
Peas " 60s. -d. to 635. -1
PRICES OF HAY AND STRAW.
ST. James's. WUITECIIA rr L.
Hay 61. Os. to 101. 103. Hay 61. Os. to 101. Os
Straw 31. 6s. to 31. 12s. Clover 81. Bs. to 101. 12,
Straw El. 3ss. to 31. Es
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW IN smiTHFIELy.
Meadow Hay 51. las. to 101. Os. Clover 61. IN to 101. 0
New "ditto 71. Os. to 91. 9s. New do. 51. Os to 91. 9,

21. 101. to SI. Vs.

PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH MARKET.
SAGS. FOCKCTII.
Rent 41. 15s. to 61. Os. Kent 41. 15s. to 71. Os.
Susses SI. 10s. to 51. Os. Susses SI. 15s. to 51. Os.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, Sept. 10.
To sink the Offal per stone-of bib.
Seef 4s. SI to 6s. Oct. Veal res. 411. to 6s. Sd
Mutton se. 4d. to 6s. 4d. Pork 6s. id. to 71 01.

Lamb Ss. 4d. to 6s. 8,1.
HEAD !1/ CAl"ltt Till DAY.
Beasts, about 2110—S,Irep and lambs, 19,700.
Calves, 210—Pigs, 200.
NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKET.
Per stone of 81b. by the carcase.
Beet 4s. Od. co 55. ed. Veal 4s• id. to 6s. 41
Mutton 42. Bd. to Ss. 81. Pork is. Od. to 4s. 84