The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-09 00:00:00

NEW MILITARY SYSTEM.

Yesterday the non commissioned officers belonging voile
ten regiments of lefsetry, now in England, to the number et
about 60, being considered perfect in the new military ever
cises, were inspected on their drilling ground in Hyde Park,
by his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, attended by
Sit Henry Torrens, as Adjutant General. They have Men
drilled with the greatest care in the new system, font boars
every day, fort to last eleven week, 8r jealitj Moss. of tke
Coldstream Guards. Not only was the length of their paces
adjusted in the usual way, by measuring the ground over elicit
they Ind stepped, but the metro/tome, much used of late to re-
guinte the time, in musical periormances, was introduced sad
set up on the ground, to verify their accuracy in the four sorts
of military time. For this purpose a serjeant was occasionally
stationed near the instrument to give the squad signals of tit
velocity of its beats. with his cane. On the inspection yeller
day, they were put through the whole of the new mancetivres is
excellent style. by Serjeaut Moss; and we understand that kis
Royal Highness the Commander in Chief expressed himself
highly setisfled with their proficiency. His Royal ilithness
was en the ground from shout one till half past two o'clock,
and looks is good health.
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Ms Royal Diglin..es the Commander in Chief, accompanied
by Sir Henry Torrene, Adjutant tleneral, dc., inspected
in Ifyde Park yesterday morning, the several detachments of
non-commissioned ()dicers of the Line, wnieb have been undo
instruction, fir some time, in the improved system.
They performed the Manual and Platoon Exercise, and the
various movements end formations contained in the Ist sad 24
Parts of the Improved System.
Els Royal Highness, expressed his approbation of the profi-
ciency acquired by the non-commissioned oaken.
Friday the remainder of the 69th Regiment merited free
Hull on their route to Edinburgh, having been relieved try der
companies of the 17th, which arrived on that and the preceding
day. Two companies of the 17th, which comp lets the Regi-
meat, no expected at Hull ou Sawn* afternoon.
laexame.—The 67th Resburnt went ordered to march
from Fermoy, on the 9d of December, to relieve the 84th
regiesesd.
The 61•11, on being so relieved, are to march to Debits.
where the diTerent detachments will arrive ou the Bth, Inks
12th, and 13th inst. •
The 77th are then to proceed to Fermoy, preparatory to their
embarkation for ,tamales.
CASTLZBAR, December.—The With Regiment, under theeo*'
mend of Colonel Permian, which has been for nearly 14
months In this town and cn.unty, has received orders to be is
reedines to march hence fur Naas and the other military gar-
ters in the County Kildare.
1 The 73d Regiment, from Edinburgh, will mooed theSA ia
1 their several stations in this county.

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The following requisition, numerously and respettsbif
signed, was yesterday presented by a deputation to the
lion. the Lord Mayor, who receives! them politely. and sp.
pointed a meeting of the Court of Common Council. to
heir! on 'l'tursday next, to take into co sideration the sub.
ject of that requisition :

‘• Guildhall, Dec. 1.
" TO THR RIGHT HON. TH e LORD MAYOR.
iVe,tlir undersigtpd nn inhers of the etoonion Council,
for the purpose of granting rermission to erect a statue or
monutnent in the centre of th- Amphitheatre in Oboe'
lields,:to the memory of the late Spanish General 114°
Rafael del Meat)."
General Mina has taken a furnished house in Dim
fmd Street, Stoneltoitse, and intends to remain here sows
weeks, or until the arrival of his lidy from Lisbon.—(Ply•
mouth Paper.)
Arrived at the 11r:114e-street hotel ands Cefice-hn".•
Dublin, several Members of the sparlish chrtre, with tha
Rev. Doctor Villanov., brattier to Canon Vellahoro,
is daily expected. These Gentlemen were lan, cd at
Cove of Cork, per the Erin, from Gibraltar.—(l' I''
I.lloraing Pose.)
We are ',sore,' that there are now al•ove 7,01. t pew"
confined in the prisons at Lisbon, for political °genre,
It should be knoa n that all I-tiers from this contort-.
Addressed to P..rtuguese subjects are opened k; the Li,b4n
post-office.—(ll'est B, itoa.l

. s'INENTAL •ren TRANSATLANTIC
POLICY,
BY SIR HARCOURT LEES.
mist Tae A4TIDOTS,[OI7BLIN PAPER
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Thursday, Black Rock,
• Continental and Transatiaotic policy,
now living, I have the least occasion to
,ervatioo ; and certainly not to the
—.dote. for it must at this day be evident
amongst the entire squadron of enlightened
•'-d statesmen, in or out of the Cabinet, there
individual in this bewildered class of
is, that appeared to have formed his
lions on any basis, even coanechnl with
ration. George Canning (who tinder
11.1 be invaluable to a divided Cab'.
d---1 with them all ; his Red
In Kings, and his painting brushes,
_ the assistance of Jamaica Kam
paneb. the Liverpool boobies--whilst the Break
water at Plymouth, and the full biota bosoms of those
forests of merchantmen, that were TILT to fill the
docks originally intended fur ships of war (and out of
which docks, had that true Statesman, Lord Chatham, or
myself been Minister, 30 sail of the line should have pre.
vioasly sailed. or Lord Melville lost his hew') •thoogli at
the espence of England's character, actually trembled and
expanded at the bare perspective of warlike achievements
that sweat to be performed by this Boa Bellianis of hum.
hug and eloquence, of the Continental Sovereigns should
oaly dare to issiouate a wish to assist Spain in the recovery
of her Colonies. How often have I informed the King's
Alisistets fur two years past, that the Holy Allies were not
se be depended on—bow often have I told them, that,
Russia was at the bottom of a foul conspiracy—how (re-
silently declared, that a double confederation had been
Mewl against the religion and the vital interests of
&Old— that Wellington was a dupe, and Pont) di
Bate en impostor at Verona—that the French would
'evade Spain and conquer her because headed by the Priests
....tbat the eventnal ohjec's were y division and plunder
Odle South American provinces, and the ascendancy of
Bessie in the East of Europe, as a stepping stone to
nherior conquest, whilst Hanover was to be the prey of
Prussia ? Have I not called upon the King's advisers, and
written the strongest letters to his Majesty's cunffilectial
Secretary, imploring him to communicate to my most
venerated Sovereign, what must inevitably be the alarming
results of a system, not more unprecedented for its contra-
dictory and temporizing policy, than disgraceful and
dangerous to the British Empire. That Empire will now
judge, whether my viers were correct, unsupported as
was, esrept by any own mental resources, and a trattrral
pesetratiun that has never yet, in a single instance, been
proved deceptive ; or whether his Majesty's Ministers
have been misinformed by their secret Official Agents,
supported at an expellee to the nation of fifty thousand
pounds a year, two thirds of whom ought to be for
their treachery in coneealingwhati have so long discovered
and proclaimed. not only without receiving a Cabinet tip
(as they say in the kingdom of Cuhnemara) but actually
having expended thousands of my own fortune in defence
of the Sovereign and his Empire. The late speech of Mr.
.Parm di Borgo to the King of Spain. and the acknowledge
Gent by the Ministerial Jo irnals within the week •• Mat

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tisoCeng rents, are to be held" (which astonishes the Courier,
tbongb I prononsiced this was determined on three months
*go), 1 believe confirms every thing that I stated. and alone
' stated. on this most important of all subjects. If that great
and upright Minister, Lord Liverpool, will only now act,
late ae. it is, as I have publicly and privately utilised bins,
, England will rise from her present humiliated state, and
tie lons will be the mistress, as she ever 'Ought to be. of
Ilse entire eni . Had the Preach brio prevented from
invading Spain, by the summary process I recommended,
twelve months bar lc. as to Mr. di Borgia, which would
hen hens effectual, Great Britain would not now be
placed iCI she alarming and extraordinary situation, 'of
tuber going to war ("Aids the wretched Courier says
.. she must do") to support the imprescriptible right ef
solieettego rebel, end. to expel Mar Itnlirre—(lo oppose,
, which principle Eneland is now paying 30,001.1,0001. a year
f the iatereet other debt) or of permitting the occupation 1
of Ferdinand's transatlaotic p ions, by the natural and 1
*linable enemies of England. This is the tree state of
the case, and if Canning was to ride one of his two Red
Lions in a . drati piqued" saddle until his intellect cleared,
along gals of the King of Bohemia on a Tiger, and
charley Wynne on an Ass, a sagacious kind of an animal
with Wag ears on which any of the Oreavilles, particularly
Lend Nugent most always feel quite at home ; be cannot.
as a supposed Statesman, give any other interruption to the
Ileeth American tyvaraosra War, unless the Ministerial
director of the CountEn is as great a liar, as I am quite
whin he is a fool.

HARCOURT LIM

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Drat, December 8.--Wind W.—Came down from the
Leer and remain, the Charlotte, Beattie ; Marlborough. Mid-
&ma ; Lord Cranstosin, Urquhart; and Waterloo, Livingston
forkesiea; and Eger's, Leery, for Bt. Kitts.—The
Luhisgton, vailrd for the River this morning to repair Qa•
iMirs.--Arrived ■nd sailed for the River the Medusa,
Natehiason, from Richebucto, and Triton, Marshall, for Nov.

Poirrswourn. December B.—Wind W.H.W.—Arrived the
Omorp, Corlett, from Qeebee; and the fuilowing outward
bond ',vela from the Downs, sis. Vinelia. Gilmore; Auger
les Caesar, aeiby ; Cambridge. Meson; Thomson, Iloobs ;
laniYi Hodgson; Clyde, Driver ; and the London. Turner,
the Imam with loss of two anchors and cables; Active, Moon,
a% loss of a cable, and the Beddlogton, Him.

_ .
hammy, December 7.—Wind N.W.--Ar►ive! the Doke
of York Packet from St. Thomas's ; sailed the Ist November.
--Ms Stammer Packet, from Lisboa, is about $ leagues from
the Port.

The Andrew Savage, —, from Belfast to Liverpool, was
drives on shore on the Isle of Whiteborn, 3d inst., craw saved.
Ind sotto expected to be saved.

lion 'Harms CHANCEL—The consolidation of the
Irish Hoards . with those of Ent land, has naturally pea
doted some alteration in their officers. We accord-
lee') sotice the appointment of Mr. Wardley from En-
Rind; a geotleman of long experience and practical edm-
reties in the Excise, which is so forcibly urged by the
tmetnissioners of Revenue Enquiry, as essential to the
Pee+ol filling the office of Secretary+ to that department.
At tbe tame tim•we bare the satisfaction to learn, that
V" interests of the Irish Officers whose retirement is thus
cwsed by g I measures, will meet with the fullest
e'so!yeesation in:the way of retired allowances. This cir-
cumstance state, as the late Secretary to the Irish
Board (tlr. Hardman) was :so generally known, esteemed,
,Issi et all times so attentive to the Merchants and
1 tatters of this City. We feel the more gratified at thus an-
"baring the intended liberality oftlovernment to this gen.
raeloebote income is not to be reduced by his retirement.
Woodward, from the English Excise (also a practical
: wee/ +screeds as chief clerk to Mr. Stoyte (a very old
od htitl.fil servant of the public), who will also retire
with his fall salary.
11r. Wallet, Second Secretary, retires, after a service of
lbeys ears, with be enoyen of his sala, and tha
estimatio 60
ny which his t
longj servicemt and gentlemryanlike de-
t
?Minna so eminently deserve. This situation, it is sip-
Pled, will not be tilled op. Other arrangements are in
PPreltees+, of a similar character.—(Dubin. Mundy
)

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slake ane single oh+t
of the Aatid
tedium, that amongo
naeophers stiled at
Clot one single i
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theoretical calculatio
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Lions, his Bohenaiar
Intoxicated, with