The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-03-28 00:00:00

ARNINI S -
11. R. 11. riti. PRINCE REG.ENT, drc.

Stits,—Amidst the more weighty affairs that press I
upon your Royal Highness, suffer me to point out
Vie very lamentable situation of the Officers in the
Veteran Battalions, improperly called aitiori;"
for as no Royal favour ever reaches them, it is a
prostitution of the term. Yet I will venture to say,
without fear of contradiction, that no description
of men are more deserving of Royal favour, nor
have any Officers bled more profusely in. the service
of their Sovereign, to maintain his just rights, and
that of a loyal people, all trer the world. It is
universally believed, that the present Commander in
Chief, had fully intended to give the Veteran& their
NATURAI. a te&," bat by what fatality his Royal
Highness's just intentions have been delayed, is not
perfectly known. Not certainly, on any pretence of
inconvenience to the service, as that distinguished
corps, the Royal Marines, have line rank in all the
garrisons. Not certainly on the score of expence,
for promotion in the army, by brevet, does not entail
a sixpence additional expellee to the nation, except-
ing in the solitary instance of a Captain having the
brevet rank of a Field Officer, when he receives two
shillings per diem; but even this little advantage, as
well as the rank, is withheld from a Captain
of Veaesassa, although he may have served
forty years : yet this advantage is kiven to Gar-
rison Battalions, who do not serve oat of the
United Kingdom. The Veteran Battalions are
dispersed all over the King's dominions; they do
their full share of duty wherever they are stationed,
and we very frequently on duty ; commanded by
Officers " whose fathers =ere not born when they en-
tered the service." They are included in every thing
like expence, kept in Barracks on the same allowance
as the line, although woe* out, and almost married
to a man, with large families; but when promotion,
or any favour shown is the army is in question, the
Veteran Officer is excluded ; and for all the priva-
tions and heart-rending disappointments the Ve-
teran meets with, he has the pitiful advantage, if it
as be termed an advantage, that he is to be reduced
on full pay "at the conclusion of the war ;" a period
that no Veteran Officer, serving at present, can look
forward to. In the mean time he is doomed to serve
as long as be is able to crawl ; and marked as inde.
liable as Cue was of old by the Finger of the
" Deity." For, to be a Veteran Officer,' however
faithfully he may base served, is actually a reproach,
although the far greater part of those Officers have
been brought to Veteran Battalions from sufferings
in the field or pestilential climates. They, therefore,
look up with confidenie to your Royal Highness to
ameliorate the fate of a description of men, who
might have hoped for more liberal treatment. Men
in all the civil branches of the Ordnance, and even
their Veteran Officers—receive their just rank, and
in every department connected with Government-are
allowed to enjoy ease in the decline of lills;abur
the hardy and the almost worn-out Veteran ()deer
of the Line is doomed to drag on a. miserable existence,
on a scanty pittance, by having the feather of his
rank, which had supported him during all his perils,
cut from his brow when tottering on the.brink of the
grave.

Ft k T JUSTITIA.

Mrs. SIDDONB is coining to town to renew het en-
gagement at Covent-Garden Theatre. She took final
leave of the York audience on Saturday last.
INCLEDOY has been exerting his " native Intents"
to some tune in the principal towns of Cornwall. Be
is soon to resume his post at Covent Garden.
The deficiency iuMr.Chiunery's accounts is 75,0001.
and his property taken under the extent for the Crown
is 35,0001. Besides this deficiency, Mr., Chinnery is
said to owe a debt of nearly 30,0001. to the estate of
the late Mr.Goldsmid.

Wiliam ,lemwott, who was ordered for execution
this day at Execution Dock, is respited for a week.
We hare received an account of an elopement from
the neighbourhood of Newport, one of the guilty
parties in which deserted a pregnant wife and an aged
mother, and the other a husband and two small
children. We forbear to mention their names, from
tenderness to the feelings of their relations and
friends.---(Cambrian.)
Mr. BULLOCK'S Museum, considerably enlarged
with a new Exhibition of Natural History, called
the Pantherion, opens in the Egyptian Hall, in Picca-
dilly, on Monday, when the admirers of the wonders
of nature will receive the highest pleasire in the
examination of those splendid collections of rarieties.
A melancholy circumstance occurred last week in
the neighbourhood of Dartmoor. An 011ieer of the
Shropshire Militia, now stationed at Dartmoor, hav-
ing taken one of the privates with him on a shooting
excursion, was returning home, when the soldier
complaining of illness, requested permission to rest
himself on a bank. The Officer, apprehending no
danger, returned home, expecting the soldier would
speedily have followed him ; but two days having
elapsed without his return, auriosity was excited,
sod .after some search the poor fellow was found
sleadtu a pit under a hedge about a mile from the
prison.

&SINCE Or COVIME.-MCUrS. HAWKINS and
DLwr, No. 79, Great Titchtield-street, Mary-le-
bone, hare lately discovered a method of extractinli
the Essence of Coffee purely, free from the grow; an 4
indigestible particles, which are, otherwise, insepa-
rable from it in a state of dilution ; from the facility
with which Coffee is made by the simple application
of a few spoonfuls of this liquid extract, we have no
doubt it will prove a valuable acquisition to the salu-
tary effects, which that truly useful article of our
colonial produce is generally known to posser.
On the evening of yesterday se'miikhl., *e Mr.
Dorm's*, of Old Bolton-street, was paatieg through
St. Giles's, between eight and nine o'clock, i'rObber
made a successful snatch at bis wittclll with which he
saa off and made his es e,