Star.
London, England, 1817-04-05 00:00:00

SOLDIERS' LE ITERS.

It having been found that the provisions of the Act
of Parliament for allowing Soldiers to send and re-
ceive Letters at a low rate of postage, are not yet per-
fectly understood, his Royal Highness the Comman-
drr-in•Chief has therefore been pleased to direct that
the following Instructions shall be communicated to
the Army.
LITTLII3 ream sompouta.--Upost all single letters see
from soldiers, the name of the soldier, his tank, (whether ter
jean, corporal, strummer, trumpeter, lifer, or private, and the
Regiment, Corp, or Detachnient to which be belongs, are to be
supeneribed) ell so* singly letters are to be indurse44Y the
Officer in the actual consmand of the Regiment, Corps, oakum&
mem, his name, rank, and the Regiment, Corps, or Detachment,
commanded by him, ire to be written in his own hand-writing.
It is to be understood, that this indulgence is limited to single
letters only. One penny must be paid at the time the letter is
put into the Pust•uffice, er such letter will be liable to the fag
rate of postage.
The Act of Parliament alluded to, directs, That if any Meer
hiring the command of a Regiment, Corps, or Detachment, shall
wilfully write his name on any letter which is not from a soldier,
and upon private concerns only, such Officer shall forfeit and pay
the sum of AS; that a similar penalty shall attach to any person
who shall obtain the signatures of the Officer commanding, to
letters net en the private cameras of soldiers; and further, That
Wiley Nicer, not having at the time the sommand of the Regi-
ment, Corp, or Detachment, shall write his name open a sol-
dier's letter, he shall forfeit the sum of £5.

LITTIIII TO Seibtaat.—ht all CMS of Sink linen ad-
dressed tessoldiers, the rank, whether Serjeant, Corporal, Trumpe-
ter, Drummer, Fifer, or Private, and the Regiment, Corps, or
Detachment, to which they belong, must be spedfied. Oar penny
is to be paid by the writer or ether person, on putting the letter
into a Post-elim, the letter will otherwise be liable to the full
rate of poems. The letter autism be delivered to any person ea-
cept the soldier to whom such letter Is directed, or to sew one
appointed to receive the same by an antknrity in writing under
the head of so Odeer having the command of the Regiment,
Corps, or Detaduwent,to which such soldier belongs.

N The Corinnendw In Chief is dedrous that Soldiers shall have
else fill benefit intended by the Legislatere, but in order to guard
apinst any abuse of privilege, his Royal Highness feels it neces-
sary to repeat what war declared in the General Orders of the
2slll of February, 1514, and le& of Jose, 1814, that the Wel-

gems of conveyance of letters to noswessunissiuned caters and
eoldien, free of 'goatee. le applicable exclusively to Letters in-
tended for the persosii to Who& they are addressed. and that es
usplaistion which may bicifered foe an abuse of this privilege,
which is attached exclusively to the said Do n-oonsmissiessed Akers

and soldiers, will be deemed satisfactori, or will is the least de-
gree exculpate any Ofiltur who may directly or indirectly aid, or
connive at such deviation from the true intention and spirit in
which this boon has betin granted to soldien, and that say Non-
emundssioned Officer of soldier who shall prevent to his Dicer
a letter to be rendered free of postage, which Is not his own, will
be guilty of a fraud, for which it is his Royal Highness's express
command that every offender shall be tried, and no alleviation of
whatever punishment may be awarded must be expected.

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By Con;osood of by Royal Mentos the Coniosador la Chief,
(81good) MARRY CALIIIIIT, AdjUtUlt4•o4//111.
Herse-Guarda, tali Much, 1917.

Letters from Copenhagen' of the 11th of March,
say that Mr. FOILSXIR, the Minister Plenipotentiary
from England to that Court, has been recalled.
Lord Fouts is so far recovered as to be able to at-
tend the Spring Meeting at Newmarket.
DRIADNIIL EXPLOSION ON A STIAP4•PACICET.YeN-
terday morning as the Steam-Packet from Norwich
to Yarmouth was pusbin4 from its moorings, the
steam•boiler burst, and eight people were killed;
seven almost every limb broken.
The Police Committee are pursuing their labours
with unremitting activity, in receiving general evi-
dence on the grievances to which the publicans are
subjected by the present system of licensing.
Never was trade so dell at Hamborgh, as it is at
present.