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London, England, 1821-12-26 00:00:00

2',IE ARMY.

MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
WAR-OTPICR, DEC. 24, 1821.
4th Reginient of Light Dragoons=-Lietttenant-Colonel James
Ihy, from half-pay 16th Light Diagoons, to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, without isurchase • Captain Titania' Jarmy, front
half-pay Cavalry Staff Corps, to be Captain., without patella*.
To be lieutenants, without purchase;—' ()tracts Tholnas
son and Arthur Sfllivan • Lieutenants Robert Robison, Rim
half-pay 22d Light Dragoons; John William Murrar, front
half-pay 11241 Light Dragetons; *Mimi% Thomas Loftus, froth
half-pay 24th Light Dragoons; Edgar Gibson, from half-pay
Cavalry Staff Corps; William Henry Bingham Lindsey, from
the 17th Light Dragoons; Robert Rao Gillespie, from half.
pay 20th Light Dragoons; George F. Clarke, from the 17th
Light. Dragoons.
To be Cornets, witimet purehiselohn Somerset Smith, Gent-.
vice Harrison; Edmund Knot, Gent. vice Sullivan.
To be Adjutant and Cornet—Cornet James Lyon, from half-
pay fist Light Dragoons, vice Daly, who taigas the Adjisl•
tantey only.
To be Assistant-Surgeon—Assistant-Surgeon Francis George
Walbran, from half.pay lit Royal Vettian Battalion.
16th Regiment of Light Dragoons—John SoeYd Ramsbott)nno
Gent. to be Cornet, bipitrettati; vice Montgonsery, promoted:

Tte appointment of Lieutenant the Honoerable Robert Rings
from half-pay 60th Font, to he Lieutenant in the 69th Foot, as
stated in the Gazette of 221 instant, has not taken place.
Deputy Assistaot•Cummisary-General Wetherman, lately 6
charge of the Commissariat Department at the Rahantaa, Laing
failed to pay over to his superior the whole of the balance of the
public money which ought, according to his accompts, to have
becn paid over, has been dismissed from his Majesty's service.
Deputy Commissary-General ♦aux, having executed the du-
ties of his office in the Peninsula, in a mode which has subjected
the Public to great loss, and himself to amide-able surcharges,
has been dismissed from his Majesty% services

PISTURBANCES IN IRELAND.

KILKENNY, DECEMEEE go.

The posting of illegal notices is now very general
throughout a considerable portion of the County,.
These are principally directed against the levying of
tythes, and the re-letting of surrendered farms. 3e4
veral instances of this lawless interference have been

communicated to us, on unquestionable authority.
On the night of Wednesday last, the houses of three
farmers, resident on the estate of the Earl of Ott-
MOND!, in the neighbourhood of Killamery, were
visited by an armed banditti, who, after having very
severely beaten these unfortunate people, gave them
positive orders to abandon some farms which they
had lately taken " over other men's heads," as the
miscreants expressed it. One of the individuals thus
maltreated has been badly wounded.—Aloderator.
ATIILONE (ROSCOMMON), DECEMBER 21.

A party of the Roscommon police have been lands•
bly employed this week, in visiting several houses in
this town, that were in the habit of vending gun•
powder, and have lodged all that they obtained in
the search, for the better security of it, in his Ma•

jesty's magazine.
Monday last Patrick Shannon and Thomas Loses►
charged with being concerned in the murder of
Bridget Feely, near Boyle, were committed to Ross
common jail.
Sunday last a notice of a highly inflammatory and
illegal nature was posted up on the Queen's Arms,fn
this town, calling upon the inhabitants to form themn►
selves into a body, and break open the lock of the
Canal. Our worthy Chief Magistrate being informed
of the circumstance, instantly ordered a posse of con.
stables to the spot, and issued a Proclamation, offer-
ing a reward of filly pounds for the apprehension of
the author or poster of the notice.

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Come, bring, with a noise,
)fy merle merle boys,
The Chrisinas-log to the firing;
While my good dame, she,
Bids ye all be free,
And drink to your heart's desiring!
Yids the lad year's broad
Light the iseta Had, and
For good success in his spending,
On your psaltries play,
That sweet luck may .

Come while the log is a tending !
Drink now the strong beere,
Cut the white loafe here,

The while the meat is a-shredding.
For the rare udneeide
And the plums, siknd by,
To All the paste that!, a kneading!

CEREMONIES• FOR CHRIST~iAf.

ORM HIRRICK'S HLSPERLDIIS).

A SEASONABLE HINT.-. 4. very talkative Gentle-
man
dining with the great Prince of CONDE, having'
related several marvellous stories of the late King
of
PRUSSIA, his Highness requested him to contintw
the recital of his life; but the Gentlemair:perceiving '
that the servants had began to clear the table of the
good things during his long-winded narrative, broke
off abruptly, exclaiming, "but the King died suddenly!'`
The late Dr. BARRETT is said to have resisted until
nearly the last day medical advice, upon the sole
ground of its expensiveness. Some humane person
remonstrated with him, and his answer was, he could
not afford the doctor's fee. This matter, said the
friend, presents itself to me in a light in which it does
not, probably, strike you. I take it that you are worth
thirteen guineas a day. lam quite sure medical ad-
vice will save you—and if it only prolongs your life
one day, costing you but a guinea, you will be ac-
tually a gainer, by so trifling a loss, of twelve guineas!
" Do you se: me now ?" replied the old miser—" I did
not take that view of the case. I agree with you—
send for the physician."
About fifteen years ago, a male child, wrapped in
fine white linen, was laid down at the door of Dr.
—, in Sunderland ; the Doctor, actuated by the
purest feelings of humanity, had the little foundling
taken care of, and has ever since cherished him as
his own. Within the last fortnight Dr.— received
a letter from an Officer in India, who, after declaring
himself the father of the boy, announces the fact of
his having settled 05,000 upon him, and executed a
deed of gift of L:500 in favour of the Doctor, for
the great care which, he understood, he had taken
of his son.
• About a fortnight since, a dashing fellow, pro-
fessing to be a man of fortune, took up his lodgings
at an Inn in Bideford, where he soon won the affec-
tions of one of the landlord's daughters. On Thurs-
day se'nnight they were married, and a few hours
after the ceremony had taken place, whilst the happy
couple were feasting with their friends, a relation of
the gentleman made his appearance, and not being
acquainted with the occasion that brought the party
together, without hesitation exclaimed, loud enough
to be heard by all the room—" Well, brother, you
are a lucky fellow! the business about Sal is all
settled to our satisfaction, and you may return borne.*
The bride fainted—the bridegroom swore—the com-
pany stood aghast; at length it came out that the
newly-married man had a wife and two children at
home, and that his visit to the above town was in
consequence of a woman swearing a child to him,
In the midst of the confusion which this discovery
occasioned, the bridegroom and his brother made a
sudden retreat, and have not since been heard of.
A few nights ago, the Duke of York Inn, in York,
was Woken into, and robbed of several pairs of boots :
the thieves, scorning to take anything away dirty,
stopped to clean them before they went off.
Friday as a poor woman, of Ide, near Exeter, was
passing a mill-pond in that neighbourhood, she was,
by the violence of the wind, forced in and drowned.
REMARKABLE TENURE FOR LANDS.—At Brough-
ton, near Brig, in Lincolnshire, some lands are held
by the following tenure. Every year, on Palm Sunday,
a person from Broughton, comesinto the Church porch
. at Caistor, having a green silk purse containing 2s.
and a silver penny tied at the end of a cart whip,
which he cracks three times in the porch, and conti-
nues there till the second lesson begins, when he goes
into the Church and cracks it three times over the Cler-
gyman's head, and then kneeling !Afore him during the
reading of the second lesson, he, at the conclusion of it,
presents him with the purse and its contents,and having
done this, he retires into the body of the Church, and
continues there during the remainder of the service.
Cum: OF HYDROPHOBIA.--The Gazette de Smite
(Gazette of Health), a Medical Journal, published in
Paris, contains the following article :• • M. Marc-
chetti Surgeon of the Hospital at Moscow, being in
the Ukraine, in 181,, was requested to give his as-
sistance to 15 persons who had received the bite of a
mad dog. A Deputation of aged men waited upon
him, and entreated he would administer help to the
unfortunate persons, through a peasant, who during
several years had acquired great reputation for curing
Hydrophobia. M. Marochetti consented upon certain
conditions.—The country Doctor then administered to
14 of the persons confided to him, in a peculiar way.
The 15th, a ) oung girl of 16, was treated in the ordi-
nary manner, for the purpose of proving-the effect of
both modes of treatment. To each of the 14 he give
daily one pound and a half of the decoction of the buds
of yellow broom-flowers, and he examined twice a
day under the tongue, the place where, according to
his statement, • little swellings are formed, containing
the virus of madness. These swellings rose the third
or ninth day, and w seen by M. Marochetti. Ve:y
soon alter they appeared they were touched with a
sharp red-hot needle, after which the patient gargled
the part with the decoction of broom. The result of
this treatment was. that the 14 patients were cured in
six weeks, whilst the young girl, treated differently,
died on the seventh day, in convulsions of madness.
Three years after, M. Marochetti paid a visit to the
14 persons, and they were all doing well. The same
Physician, being at Podolia, jo 1818, had a new op-
portunity of confirming this interesting discovery.—
the happy result of this mode of treatment was the
same with reference to 26 persons, who had been all
bitteu by a mad dog."