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London, England, 1819-09-21 00:00:00

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Yesterday four companies df the Royal Artillery
left Woolwich for Weedon, Northamptonshire.
Monday se'nnight P. L. Bnooag, Esq. give a din-
ner to the Mere Troop ofthe Prince Regents Cheshire
Yeomanry Cavalry ; and on Wednesday a dinner
was given to the Knutsford Troop, by WILBRAHAM
EGERTON, Esq. M.P. for that County, at his seat at
Tatton.

The 16th Regiment of Foot sailed from the Cove
of Cotk for Ceylon, on the 10th inst.
The detachments of the 12th Foot, stationed at
Nenagh and Commeron Fort, have been ordered to
be relieved by detachments from the 44th Regiment,
now stationed at Templemore.
Alajor TRELAWNY'S company of Royal Artillery,
quartered in Limerick and Clonmel, are ordered to
England.
The following is a detail of the arrangements
.which have taken place in the Irish Staff :
Commander of the Forces, Sir George Beckwith, G.C.11. Lein-
ster District, head-quarters, Dublin, Lieutenant-General Sir
Edward Paget Major-General Buller ; Connaught, at Athlone,
Major-General O'Loughlin; Munster, at Cork, Major-General
D. Gordon.
Adjutant General, Major-General Lord Aylmer. K.C.B. De-
puty Adjutant General, Colonel Thornton, ; Principal As-
sistant Adjutant General, Colonel O'Brien; Deputy Assistant
Adjutant General, Major T. Baylis—head-quarters, Dublin.
Ip Districts—AthlonE, Lieutenant-ColoneliVeddrldge t Cab,
Liespenana-Ctelonel Turner; Dublin, Major Grove; Armagh,
Lieutenant-Colonel D'Arey.
Quarter-Master-General, Major-General Airey ; Deputy-
Quarter-Muter-General, Colonel Brown ; Assistant-Quarter-
Colonels Owen and French.—Head-quarters,
acts—Lieut.-CoL Sir C. Broke, K.C.B. Cork;
el Sir J. Dickson, K. C. B. Armagh, Lamle`
rant-Colonel Riddel,
A duel took place the 24th May last, betweeirCap-
tain Hussey and Lieutenant OSBORN, both of the
38th Regiment, on Table Mountain, Cape of Good
Hope, when Captain HussEy received his adversary's
ball in the left shoulder, which came out between
the fourth and fifth ribs, and instantly expired. The
seconds then placed him erect against a tree, and
dropping an anonymous note in one of the Officers
rooms, the body was found as described.

Dublin. In

BUENOS A YRES, APRIL 20.

At a General Meeting of the British Merchants,
held this day, the following. Report of the Com-
mittee appointed on the 16th instant, to inspect sun-
dry documents laid before them by R. P. SfAPLES,
Esq. was brought up and read :
" The Committee appointed to Report to a Ge-
neral Meeting of British Merchants resident in Bue-
nos-Ayres, called for this day, Tuesday, the 20th inst.
upon the communication made on the 16th by Ito-
bert Ponsonby Staples, Esq. of an extract from his
Dispatches from the Foreign Office, and of other mat-
ters, having taken into consideration the informations
verbally communicated, and having been favoured by
him with an opportunity of inspecting copies of the
documents referred to, find, that in consequence of an
application addressed by Mr. Staples to the Right Hon.
the Secretary of State for the Foreign Department,
go. the subject of the relation in which he was to con-
Me i h lf, under the sanction of his Government,
nn4 ibetnrettr the Aotborities in this country
and the Entishreildents Wire it is expressly declared,
under the signation, of the hire,
of State,
that from the period of Mr. Staples departure from
England, in 1819, he was specially acouainted that
the Spanish Government, having refused to grant a
consular curator to his patent, he could not consi-
der himself as resident in Buenos Ayres in any di-
plomatic or consular character whatever on the part
of the British Government, and that his residence has
always been considered by his Majesty's Government
as only countenanced by the local Authorities and
British Merchants for purposes of mutual accommo-
dation and communication, without any reference to
a representative character, which, in the present state
of this country, cannot exist : and that with respect to
any channel of communication between the local Go-
vernment of Buenos Ayres and the British residenters
there on objects of commercial interest, it is expressed
by Lord Castlereagh, that the same must rest
with the parties, his Lordship not deeming it in his
power officially to point out any such mode or chan-
nel, and leaving it entirely to the British residents to
adopt such means as their interests may point out to
them, in combination with this Government, to pro-
mote harmony and good understanding between both
parties.
" From a copy of a letter addressed to his Excel-
lency the Supreme Director, under date of 25th Sep-
tember last, by Commodore Bowles, (for the com-
munication of which we are likewise obliged to Mr.
Staples)it appears that Commodore Bowles considers,
and has expressly stated himself to this Government,
to be his Britannic Majesty's representative in this
I country, and to be acting under instructions which
renders it his duty to protest against the smallest at-
tack on the property or the persons of the British
merchants in this city; and that, under this view of
his power and public character here, he did formally
and solemnly protest against the enforcement of the
measure meditated by this Government about that
period for levying a forced contribution on the British
merchants."

We are sorry to announce the sudden death of Mr.
Dowxs, the well-known Major of the St. James%
Volunteers. This Gentleman, on his way from Edin-
burgh to London, was attacked with an apoplectic
fit ; he only uttered the words, " It is all over !" and
died immediately.
The following intelligence is from a Charleston
Paper, dated August 11 :—‘‘ It becomes our painful
duty to state, that the yellow fever has made its ap-
pearance in this City. In doing this, we conceive
that we are performing a duty to humanity and to
the Public in general, to whom we pledged ourselves
to report the first case that occurred. We have been
guarded in not exciting unnecessary alarm, and have
therefore made this statement on the authority of the
Board of Health of this City, as well as with the ap.
probation of the respectable Medical Gentlemen who
attended a stranger that died this morning, and who
are also in attendance osi two others that are now
affected. We think properlurther to state, that ciao
above cases of fever anise from peculiar cause., by
ao means general. and should not innediately.excite
/such sedous Alarm as to induce persons to leave the
City whose busioess may enquire their attention. The
general health of the Cirf it rod."