Star.
London, England, 1818-12-15 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sta,--h has been said, I know not with what foundation, th;.:

one of the measutes of economy to be adopted in the inteede..
Reduction of the Army, would be the giving Brevet Field-Oti-
cers Regimental Rank, for .the purpose of placing them on ita't
pay, in order to bring from half-pay effective Regimental Cap-
tains to fill their vacancies. By this means a permanent p,cu-
niary advantage would be granted to the Brevet Field-Officers,
without increasing, in any way, the burthens of the country : on
the contrary, with some little saving ; and, under such circum-
stances, it is but just that such who have obtained this rank,
either from length or merit of their service, should have the
option of what, to them will be a great benefit, and to the public
no loss. A Brevet Field-Officer's pay as Captain in a regiment
is 12s. 6d. per diem ; a Captain's 10s. 6d.; a Regimental Major's
half-pay is 9i. Gd. ; a Captains Ti.;therefore, if the Brevet Field-
Offizer is tilde a Regimental M.ajor and reduced, the 2s. 6d.
which he receives in addition to the 7s. of the Captain who
succeeds hint, is covered all to sixpence by the Captain only
receiving Ms. Gi. on full pay Instead cf 12s. 6d. which the
Brevet Field-Officer received ; and, surely, this sixpence is
more than corngeneatcd by the probable duration of the lives
of the two Annuitants, the Brevet Field Officeri being gene-
rally men advanced in life, and at an average 10 years older
than the Regimental Captains. By such an arrangement, also,
Regiments would be relieved from the bstrthen of so many Bre-
vet Field Officers, which, although highly necessary in time of
war, when the troops were collected in bodies, will be very seri-
ously felt at present, particularly in our reduced garrisons abroad;
since these Officers, instead of being divided amongst two br
three battalions, are now for the most part collected in one, as
they are generally the Senior Captains of the Regiment to which
they belong, and consequently in most Regiments there are
three, in some a half of the Captains (as in the 25th, 27th, 62d),
and in the 44th there are seven, and in the 90th air. The duty,
therefore, to the Regimental Captains in garrison will be very
severe, which will naturally be accompanied with all those little
jealousies, which the confusion sometimes of Army and Regi-
mental Hank is so apt to create. It may indeed be said, that
those Brevet Majors who have been reduced would be claimants
for the same indulgence, but it should be recollected they are not
in the same situation as to the value of their Commissions,,
the difference between full and half-pay of Captains being
X 678 15s. lid. and they have either exchanged from one regi-
ment en another for their- own convenience, or they are not of
sufficient standing to have reached the first battalion, and there-
fore cannot pretend to the same advantages, not having the
necessary equivalent to the country, that of bringing In effective
Regimental Captains in their places, by which alone increase of
expense may be avoided. I see no other objection except what
might arise from the Engineers, Artillery, and Marines' not being
included ; yet when all their peculiar advantages with regard to
promotion are taken into consideration, which alone precludes
them participating in this, they can have no right nor pretence
of complaint.
I have taken the liberty of sending you this letter, as the me-
dium of communication to those who are the best and proper
judges of such a measure; a measure by which, for the reasons
abocamentioned, it appears, a reward to the Brevet Field Offi-
cers would be combined with gain to the Public and benefit to
the Service; and above all, with the selection of young and ac-
tire Officers, on the Peace Establishment, for the formation of
any increase to the Army, in the event of a war.—l have the
honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, Art OFFICER.

Saturday, about fifty head of Game were received
by the Freemen of Tamworth, who voted for Lord
CHARLES TOWNSHEND—being the third or fourth
package—the Freemen receiving them in the order
of their votes. In the afternoon, after being paraded
in triumph on a pole, the Hares were hung out from
the voters' windows, decorated in the colours of the
party; as a punning correspondent says, " keeping
the Game alive." _

A Commercial Exchange has been just established
at Calais, by Royal Ordinance. A part of the Hotel
de Ville has been allotted for the purpose.
A sheep, belonging to Mr. Bismon, of Tugby, was
stolen and killed in the night of Tuesday, the Ist inst.
and the carcase and skin were immediately conveyed
by one of the party to Leicester, where a butcher,
with whom a contract for the sale had been previously
entered into, lives. The thief; who, it seems, was not
well acquainted with the butcher's residence, dis-
turbed the inhabitants of a house two doors off, where,
to his mortification, dwelt a constable, who, sut:,,eet-
ing from the ambiguity of the man's erpressions, :tad
the unseasonableness of the hour (for it was then early
in the morning of Wednesday), that all was nct right,
obtained possession of the meat, &c. took the fellow
into custody, and shortly after lodged him in Leices-
ter jail. Two other men, his accomplices, were ap-
prehended the same day, at Blaiston.—Such is the
1 speedy end of the career of those who devote them-
selves to theft !

SPORTING INTULICF.II

BETTING AT TATTEILSALUS, DECE.
DI :BY STAKES, AT EPSOM, Is
T:.!zen-11 to 1 apt Duke of Rutland's Pkt!ea,
Tak,•n-11 to I apt Lord Roes 's It:opium,.
Talam—t 5 to 1 apt Mr. L Chorhot.s Pkmlp,
Taker—im to 1 apt I)tike of Graftaa's
Taker—to to 1 apt Lord G. Careudish's Locna
High odds agait'a any whet.
OAK..
Taken-10 to 1 apt Duke of Grattan's irat'..r.
Taken-10e to 1 apt Gen. Grosvenor 'b Bine gt 4
TateUllit to 1 apt Lord 0. H. Car:mils!, • La
Taken-14 to 1 apt Sir John Sileitt:f., Sitter to I
Taken —l5 to 1 apt ‘tr. Wilson's *Um.
Titker.—.Jo to I apt Mr. Watet, Do(lonit, wbEJt
become the fxruurite fir thi.ie Sty kea

sr. LE( .%
Taken-91 to I agst Laird of :11-rkhnage.
Taken—lo to I agst Mr. W.,tt's Mandanr.
Taken—lli to I agat Brother to Ma;istrate.
The Bettiag Hoorn was very nun rro3siy atteadv
bets were made.

HUNTING.
John Maherl7, Eiq.'s Fox Hounds meet Thank
stone; Saturday, at I'latt's Bottom.
H. Jolliffe, Uul.'s Fox Hounds meet to-morrae,
Saturday, at Platt': Green.
The Sanderstead Harriers meet every dry at Eintel.
The East Essex Fox Hounds meat Thursday, J.
Hart, Little Waltham; Friday, at Busted Han.
The Hatfirld Hounds meet Thurulay, tt E.imontfr
Saturday, at Bricket Wood.
Lord Sondes's 'Lund' meet Th-Jrs,Ly, at ILtknoa
day, at Marston W.od.
The Duke of Grafton's Hounds meet to-morrow
Mile Ash ; Friday, at Stratford Hill.
The Oakley Huuads meet Thursday, at Keysr,
at Hall Weston.

The Quorn Hounds meet to-morrow, at Stanfa:ti I
day, at Kettleby ; Saturday, at liallyw,ll lLi
Sir Edward Smythe's Fox-hounds will mrct ca
Beaten Wood.

Mr. Mytton's Fox-hounds will meet on Wedmt
Heath, and on Friday at flanks Gcr.r.
Mr. Moynell's Fox-hounds will meet cn Tl,and
ridge, and on Saturday at Black Slough.
The Chester Harriers will meet on Weinadsy
bridge, and on Friday at Caughs.ll-Wlge.
Sir Bellingham Graham's Ilc4.nds will meet on Ft
bap, and on Saturday at Oldbur:.
Mr. Fox's Hounds meet on Satardry at WZ:t011
The Badsworth Hounds meet on Thursday at
and oi Saturday at Cowici
The Hampshire Hunt meet to-morrow at it•
on Thursday at Abbutsdon Down, atd cn
Chequers, Ropley.
The Hambledon Hounds meet on Wedtetdr

Down, and of Friday at Guide, Down.
The Andover Harriers meet ou Friday at Stockbridge
Course.

A hare was started by Mr. Quantock's Harrier:, on
last, near Dillington, and ran into llminster, leaped dawn
garden wall of Mr. Jesse, and afterwards down Mr. &L..:7
ten feet in height.
" The pack full °petting rariout ; the shrill hors
" Resounding from the hills; the selghlpg needs
" Wild for the duce; and the loud hasten' shouts,"
produced in the town the liveliest ettnaions. The doss d:.!
over the wall, and puss Was instantly seen on an oz-ht
closely followed ; she sprung of nearly twelve feet, Ira
through the dwelling-house passage, cruised the Market-'t' . .

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passed through the fowl, and, after a fine run, was idlitd
high style by her well bred pursuers.

EITILA ORDINARY Fox C It:ker.—The annals of fox htonini:
think, seldom present any thing equal to the follow* et....
a !lace which took. place a few weeks ago. A nemtitt

highly respectable field of sportsmen turned ont at theTwe—,:.
Mot.r, on Thursday, the kith ult. where they soon started cf
and, after a run of two hours, they pursued him into the •

of *hitcburch. In the Greets lima fie was me. by Went

sons, wbo drove him back over the Town. Pool hisadow,f:
whence he took refuge in the garden. of John Knight, Ea
Here the hounds nitt with a check, and thesfortsnuri,

being able to get into the garden, were obliged to
White Lion yard, through the town. into Lndingt.on.
. .

Nord was, however, IMOD driven from his hidil.g glace
kuntsmai, and he took into the garden of Mu E. Lareoni,
and, finding the back door of the bouic open, entered the :be.
rap up stairs, and got into a cupboard, whi:her he WO prrsysl
by the do,;;; and taken,' The consternation of Alias latogf.ard,
who is an elderly maiden Lady, may be more easZy cc-::abed
than described, in having a fox and a whole pack ads
her house, and about fifty red casts assailing the house a
headed by the gallant Lord Hill. Here, however, we are moo
pelted to say, :he Noble General's skill did not so client:4y
serve him as in his peniasular campaigns, fot he could not pos-
sibly force the citadel in front, but was obliged to move by s
circuitous route in the rear, here a free egress having been left
for Miss Langford's unexpected visitors, the fox sad hounds,
his Lordship and comrades had an easy entrance. But if impos-
dble to describe the feelings of Miss Langford, what can be
said for those of her antiquated maid, poor Reny Nurnerly,
who happened to be coming down the stairs, in a red right-cap,
at the time the fox and dogs were ascending, and baying,
at the same time, a certain useful utensil, let it, with its
contents, fall upon poor Reyoard ! She was, however,
compensated for her fright by a handsome present ham J.
hlyton, Esq. of Hainan, is whom the hounds behnged. Among
the sportsmen, Sir John Hill, Bart. was ccnspicuous. Tit
Father of Heroes," although between 7u and no years of 2V,
vides with as much spirit as any of the young ones, and is gent-
'rally in at the death. The worthy Baronet was attended by three
of his suns, and the brush was taken by a son of the late highly
respected Cul. Hill, and grandson of Sir John. Load Louisbo-
roues, and several Gentlemen of distinction, were also prest.m.

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