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London, England, 1820-08-09 00:00:00

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MILITARY PROINIOTIONS. • .
Commission in the South Hants Yeomanry Cavalry; signed by
the Vice I:ieutenant of the County of Southampton.
George Pitt Rose, Esq. to be Captain. •
commission in the North Western Rrl'lntent of OtfordsMre 1
Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the 1
County of Chiford.
Cornet the Hon. Francis George Spencer to be Lieutenant. i

Commissions in the Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by
the Lord Lieutenint of the County of Leicester.
Cornet Robert Otway Cave to be Captain, vice Hickinbothans,l
superseded ; Cornet Hon. It. W. P. Ceram to he Captain of
an Augmentation Troop ; Lieutenant Christopher Williamson
to be Captain, vice Woodcock, deceased; Bichatd Gough,'
Gent. to be Lieutenant of an Augmentation Troop ; J. A. Ar-
nold, Gent. to be lieutenant, vice Williamson promoted; John
Sherard Coleman, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Cave, promoted;
J. R. Brown Cave, Gent. to be Cornet of an Augmentation
Troop ; Richard Buckley Ilumfrey, Gent. to be Cornet, vice
Curzon, promoted ; Richard Cheelyn, Gent. to be ditto, vice
Green, resizned.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Stirling.
428th ac Stirlingshire, Ste. Regiment of Briti,h Militia—Captain
Duziean Stewart, late of the 44d Regiment, to be Captain,
vice Dobie, resigned ; Lieutenant John Graham, late of the
70th Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Bill resigned.
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Stirlingshire Gentlemen Yeomanry and Volunteer Cavalry—
Major William Murray to be Lieutenant-Colonel; Captain
Peter Speirs to he Major, vice Murray, proptoted ; Lieute-
nant Michael Stewart Nicholson to he Cay/faiu, vice laird,
resigned ; Archibald Edmonstone, Esq...to be ditto; Sir Sa-
muel Stirling, Bart. to be ditto; Cornet Henry Fletcher
Campbell to be ditto, vice Speirs, promoted; Campbell Rid-
dell, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Nicholson, promoted ; John
James Davidson, and James Smith, Gents. to be ditto; James
Smith, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Wilson, deceased ; John
Corbet, Gent. to be ditto; John Dunlop, Gent. to be ditto;
Michael Bruce, Gent. to be ditto, 'flee Campbell, promoted.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Glamorgan
Richard Morgan, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant ; Rev. William
Michell, Clerk, to be ditto ; Rev. John Montgomery Traberne,
Clerk, to be ditto; Anthony Hill, Esq. to be ditto.
Commissions in the Corps of Swansea and Fairwood Gentlemen
and Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Vice-Lieutenant of the
County of Glamorgan.
Herbert Edward Evans, Esq. to be Captain ; Charles Collins,
Gent. to be Lieutenant.
Commissions signed by the Vice Lieutenant of the North Riding
of the County of York.
James Wilson, Esq. to be Depnty Lieutenant.
Commission in the Ist Regiment of Royal Tower Hamlets Mi-
litia, signed by the Deputy Lieutenants of the Tower Ham-
lets, in theabsence of the Lord Lieutenant.
Thomas Collard, Esq. to be Captain, vice William Armstrong
Hodson, resigned.

The Christian names of Comet Burke, who exchanged from
the 2d Dragoons to half-pay of the 11th Light Dragoons, on the
22d of Marsh last, are Thomas Travers.
The appointment of Captain Grant, from the 78th Foot, to a
Company in the 9th Royal Veteran Battalion, as stated in the
Gazette of the 15th ult. has not taken place.
Lieutenant-Colonel John Boscawen Savage, of the Royal
Marines, has been reinstated in his rank in the Army.

The Contractors for building the new Barracks,
near Mornington-place, adjoining the Regent's Park,
are now actively proceeding with the work. The
ground for erecting a handsome Crescent, near the
same spot, is also laid out.
A number of workmen are now actively employed
in taking down the houses in Suffolk-street and Cock-
spur-street, in order to prepare the ground for the
building the new street, which is to lead from Pall-
Mall to the front of St. Martin's Church.

The improvements in the Orange Grove, at Bath,
are now nearly completed. The obelisk has been
repaired-, and surrounded by a handsome palisade;
and the whole area gravelled, at the expense of the
Corporation. The old wall on the east side has been
pulled down, and replaced by an elegant iron railing.
The temporary erections ow the north side of the
West entrance to Westminster Abbey,- intended to
he let out for spectators to view the procession at the
Coronation of his MAJESTY into that venerable pile,
are taken down, by order of the Dean and Chapter.
The Dean and Chapter of Westminster are woe-
fully disappointed in their expectations of emolu-
ment from Westminster Abbey, on the ensuing Coro-
nation. Their claim to the profits arising from the
letting of seats, and other accommodation to strangers
in that place, is disallowed nearly in Coto, and it is
ascertained that they have a right to nothing more
than the chancel, including a passage to the chapel,
necessary to the performance of their religious func-
tions.—Colonel STEVENSON, on the part of the Board
of Works, has taken possession of the Abbey, of
which he now holds the keys. The portion now al-
lowed to the Dean and Chapter does not exceed one-
tenth of the whole. They expected originally to de-
rive a profit of £20,000.
Monday, the first stone of a. Free National School,
under the patronage of his Royal Highness the Duke
of SUSSEX, and of which the Duke of Bo:irons is
President, was laid by Sir Tsicsuis BELL, attended
by several Governors, on a large open space of ground,
in Perry-street, near Brewer-street, Pancras. It is to
contain, when erected, 400 boys ; and when com-
pleted, a similar one, of the like extent. is to be built
on the opposite side of the street, for the instruction
of the same number of girls. It appeared to the
Committee, out of 1012 families, comprising 3889
children, between the ages of six and fourteen, there
were only 1131 receiving daily, and only 672 receiv-
ing Sunday School instruction, leaving 1565 wholly
tvithout instruction; besides 312 above the age of
fourteen, who cannot read. A great number of La-
dies and Gentlemen were present, and a liberal sub-
scription was made. There was scarcely a person on
the ground that did not subscribe sixpence. On the
stone was engraved, "Bloomsbury and South Pancras
School,lB2o. Several-coins were placed under it.
Last week, as S. Knipe, seaman belonging to the
SPARTAN, at Plymouth, was stn iking the top-gallant-
mast, he accidentally fell, into the launch on die star-
board side of the ship, and expired immediately.
A stray spaniel killed a hare, a few days ago, on
Mr. BISHOP S manor, of Weston, in Dorset:hire,
which, on being opened, was found to contain the
extraordinary number of six young ones, all alive!
Lord FOLEY had his pocket picked during the late
Races at Brighton, of his pocket-book, tontaining
Bank notes to the amount of £250.
The following calculation will skew the expense'
of printing in Paris:—
" 500,000 copies of the Charter, at a halfpenny
each, will produce 25,0001. (E 4041 136.44).7
They will cost as follows:-
250 reams of paper at 11 francs, 2,750 f. (Cll3'
Ils. Bd.)—the composition, 24 1. (El Os. od4-1.5
reams of paper for covets, at 7 f 105 f. (Cl.
6;l4—stitching it, 2 fr. 50 c. per thousand, 4'250 1.
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(C 5 4s. 2d.)—allowance to the bade for selling
, them, 575 f. Total, 5,25;.1. which leaves a net pro-,
fit 0119,715 f. (Eb. 22 15s, OJ.) .1

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