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London, England, 1811-03-13 00:00:00

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iIAPAL INTELLIGINCL

rAtMOIITH, MARCH 10.
Arrived the Alphea cutter fro., row and
Windsor caste Packet, with a mail from Surinam.
'''PLifiviQUTH, MARCH it.
A verritOve impress both for seamen and land-
.tnen, harsaits".place in this town and neighbourhood
for several slights past; but so many are the exemp-
tions claimed by those belonging to the Naval DepAt
and Dockyard here, as well as the Local Militia, that
but few useful hands have been latterly picked up.—
lreland airsl the Northern ports, however, continue to
supply 1400 d number, who are brought round here
imiuipress;tensters. Arrived the PAz schooner, from .
Pori:tool& 'Sailed the PCANTAGLNIEr, 74. guns, Inc
the Waist offraoce ; and the Roswr.us frigate, with
SOO French, prisoners, a great proportion of them oft:
cers, for Leith.—Wind S. E.. fair for Lisbon, and
other convoys.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH ts.
Sailed the BONNE CITOYENNE sloop of war for St. He- •
len's, with the East-India and Cape ships under con-
voy.—Put back to Spitheacl the GOSHAWKE sloop of
war, and the ships under ber convoy for the Downs.
=The West-India convoy are waiting the arrival of ,
the ships from the Downs.—Wind E. N. E. .
DEAL, MARCH ti.
Atriliedthe Ac rive cutter with a prize from off the
Scaw.. The outward-bound remain.—Wind calm. ,
Maica.lS.-1.-Sailed his Majesty's ships Pitmv and
ICawomtoo, with the whole of the outward-bound; for
Portsmoutb.Came down horn the River, the War-
ley and Streatbam East-Indiamen, for China.—Ar-
rived the Twszo and RAVEN sloops of war from a
cruize:—Wind
SHEERNESS, MARCH R.
Sailed the GI; A DA LOUPE to the Northward, KITE out
of Dock, and NONPAREIL into Dock.
MARCH 10.—Sailed the FREYA and Santouatto to.
the Westward.
MARCH 11. —Arrived • the ECHO from the West.
ward ; and the SWIFTSURE came into harbour.
• MA RCII 12.--Arrived the CHANTICLEER from Yar-
mouth ; PROSPERO from a cruize ; NEMESIS from the
Westwards aod REDBREAST from Chatham.—Sailed
the SWIFTSURS for Chatham, BOLD out of Dock,
and Mao r= into Dock.

THE► A EMT.

A reduction of cue Major, four Captains, four
Lieutenants, and four Ensigns, is ordered to take
place on the 25th instant, in several non effective 23
battalions.
The Ist battalion of the 60th regiment of foot, sta-
tioned in Jersey, is ordered to embark for the Cape of

Good Hope.
Government means to diminish the number of days
for calling out the Local Militia from three weeks to
a fortnight. That is, those men, who have been out'
in, the former year, will only be out a fortnight.
The Royal Lanarkshire regiment of Militia have
marched from Port Seaton Barracks to Dunbar.
The Durham Militia have arrived at Musselburght
and are quartered on the town, and the East York-
shire at Dalkeith, where they have replaced the Gal-

loway Militia.
Tuesday se'nnight 300 french prisoners were lan-
ded at Leith, from the GoRGON, 44•, and marched off
in three divisions for the depot at Greenlaw.
Large bodits of French prisoners are now on their
march from Norman Cross on their way to the coast.
A detachment of from 2 to 300, escorted by parties.oF
the Blues, and of the King's Own Stafford Militias
passed through Reading, on their route to Portsmouth.-
Most of these unfortunate people have been prisoners in
England from six to seven years. and upwards; and
seemed to be much elated at the prospect of soon re,

viiitinwtheir native land.
The regulations introduced by the present Com-
mander in Chief, for limiting military promotions to
specific periods of service, will, doubtless, is a few
years, produce very beneficial results in the army.—
Of no less importance was the intended plan, which
his Royal Highness, the late Commander in Chief,
is said to have contemplated, namely, to discriminate
and duly appreciate the nature and varieties of every
Officer's individual services, respectively—a just and
wise measure, and of the greatest public utility, the
completion of which has been reserved as another im-
provement to be introduced by his industrious sti:-
MEM By this scheme, the real merits and preen-
sinus of every officer in the army will be impartially
set forth, and recorded. Thus would be distinguish-
ed the officer who has toiled all his life in actual war-
fare, seeking those honour: in the" cannon's mouth,"
which injustice, or the malignity of his stars had.
cruelly denied to his services ; or he who has braved-
the fury of the elements, and the distant and pestilen-
tial climates of the Torrid Zone, unfriended, and un-
rewar&d. Thus would be detected the many preto.
types of Major SrunoaoN, who, to the injury and
disgrace ()four regular army, still continue to infest
it, and even to work themselves into power and com-
mand !—Parade sabers, who in all their lives never
experienced the want of a luxurious meal, or a fea-
therbed; *hose services have rarely extended beyond
their native soil ; nor their marches farther than the
distance from one comfortable inn, or barrack, to an-
other I It is greatly to be wished that the Commaw
der in Chief, who has done so much, and has ever
evinced so lively an interest for the rights of the armys
and of the deserving soldier, would place the claims
of officers who have unhappily served and ruined
their future health in the Torrid Zone, on a just foot.
ing comparatively with those whose services have been
confined to temperate, and leas sickly climes, by al-
lowing to them the same right of claim for length of
servitude, (if there were any claim of reward for the
officer), uhich is granted to the pensioners of Chelsea
hospital, the rates of whose.pensions depend on
length of service, namely, that twelvemcinths service,
between the tropics, should be held equivalent to
service of 18 months in any other part of the world.

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CORN-EXCH AND; MARIC.LANZ, MARCH 13.—T0-day
the market has not many further arrivals Of Wheat,
but tolerable remaining supplies, and sales scarcely
support last prices—Barley has an ived in great abun-
dance, and again as. and Ss. per quarter lower, and
Almost unsaleable—Malt at less—Peas and Beans of
tch descriptionhardly at the last currency—Oats have
likewise arrived in abundance, and sales thereof also
named lower—flour without variation.