The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-31 00:00:00

THE iTATESAIAN.

hete very- imperfectly deseribed. Many other
gunis (sash as they are) wear is the bask-
rinsed, the esqjerity of /*Mak taking advaatase
of Mr. Mitre panic, are seen with gage ie their
Iheeds, and cords prepared to deprive biro of the
we of his arise.

SUBJECT' FOR MILITARY INTBSTIOIII7OII.

During the Weleheree appedition, the deices.-
eke in the supply of Medicines to the Army led
to an investigation into that important branch ef
the public service, when the abuses discovered in
itrrodooed the Fifth Report of the Commissioners
r Miktary Inquiry, which was printed lot the
fi
House of Commons, and cannot be too strongly
recommended to public notice at the present mo-
went.
Mr. Gamier, the late A potheeary-Geseral, held
his place—a place of great emolument, during the
three last wars, iv PATRIC,' ! and *On a very Mali
laboratory, called the Army Laboratory, op a dirty
stable-yard in Little Ryder-street, St. James's, be-
came the proprietor of immense estates in Hamp-
shire. Several attempts were made to buy the
patent, but were made in vain ; it was too valuable.
Ur. Gamier is lately dead, and as the patent is
extinct, if the welfare of the army is an oblect,
there need be no further delay inn ting the ex-
°sliest measures suggested by mmissionen
is their Fifth Report above stated.
That Report, a work of infinite labour, is a volume
of evidence of the most shameful omissions and ex-
traordisary neglect. It recommends, br the pre-
vention Of each abuses as are therein disclosed, that
a supply, such as that of medicines to theti any army,
should no longer be entrusted, by patent,
individual whatever: the Commissioners strongly
recommended to the House that the patent should
be bought of Mr. Gamier, io order that the Army
might k *applied as the East India Compass,
mat as the Nary are supplied, from the Ape-
atria' Compass!, a great Trading Company, where
they would obtain the best medicines, in the largest
Testifies, at the easiest rate, and at the shortest no-
tice—advantages not to be expected from any indi-
vidual ; to which Company such medicines as should
not be consumed on an ex pedition might be returned,
without any material detriment either to the ser-
vices, to the public, or to the Compeny itself, as the
Company would immediately distribute medicines
so returned in other branches of its extensive home
or breign trade, for speedy consumption, and not
leave them to moulder in depots, as was done in
warehouses depeadent upon what was called the
Ar'usy Laboratory, where they were frequently
left for long periods to spoil, until demanded for
the comparatively slow use of military and regi-
mental hospitals.
The profits of Mr. (tarsier's situation could not
be ascertained, as the patent by which be held his
place precluded inquiry : during some years of the
last war they exceeded 47,0001. per annum. The
public attention is invited to these circumstances,
and to the Fifth Report before named, as an active
canvas, or rather en arrangement is making info-
rmer of certain individuate, notwithstanding tbe
-loser's mid recommendatios in tbst Kee to
n
--it and the country.

THE WEATHER
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(rams TIE DUIIIIIIIIS rountsa.)
lakesthan. Ilsetkaw which we last week mentioned as having
pima., was followed en Friday night by • most
Istesee (rust. sail yesterday morning we had a pretty
espies fall of snow. At one time every thing seemed
to portend whet is called • feeding storm ; hot today
the ski has cleared sp. and die eye is again cheered
with die sight of the eerier hurrying alon
tog with hi
1 broom over his aleisslders, as if impatieet retai*
kis favourite amusement. Within the circle of this town
sad seighbourhood, the groom! is only covered to the
depth offive or sis inches ; bat in other places the snow
is described as being mash deeper ; and among the
Uleeken mosntaies—the Uranapians of Oalloway—
, the snow fell, and the wind hlew so fast on theme rning
of yesterday, that It was feared many
sheep
wrealddis.
M
smothered under the extensive and deepening
I Last night the differest mail coaches arrived nisch sliest
1 the usual time, but all the guards agreed is describing
the cold. particularly shoat Vorickstanebrae, sod among
the Sanqnhar hills, as being mire severe than almost
any thing they hail ever esperieneed. The mercury in 1
the thermometer on the morning and evening of Sunaay,
stood at 11 degrees. bring it degrees below the freezing
, point. This marks an intensity of cold greater than
' any thing experieneed here this is
i It gives us great ?lesson to state, that such has been
' the liberality of our %ovum's. that already 300.
have bhave
Ipeen of ven eebserlbed for the relief of the poor and destitute
this place. A wrist respectable Committee ees
I appointed as the Stewards of the Vied. sums of whom
Ihave already eonimesced their 'sheers. by visiting the
bumble dwellings of the more secessitous. The_ prin-
ciple upon which they mean ti proceed Is,to provide. as
far as possible.employment for the poor; aad where
this is set practice e, they will famish the parties with
cools and meal. and has gasrd against the of
dram-drinking, to which many of the poor are so roue.
whenever they possess die mesas.
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CariricWClSN, Dan. al.—A report states that
•two pewees have been arrested hew at the instance
the Ministers of Sweden and Norway, who int-
lagliated false political news in Norway, and are said
ts We seat to the Norway Narionei Gazette the
Wilde which has made so much noiw, in which the
Plerwegiae allay was so riruleatly attacked.
Extract of a letter from fit. John's, New Brans-
is-
wick, dated the 10th of November: '• The
lsailedlicatioes on Grand Masan, for which
WOOL were voted in Parliameat at the last Bes-
AM, are to be immediately eoesmeaced on the
el She island celled the Swallow's Ten, being
Mat approved of for that purpose, and es-
. depot, in the vicinity of whieh there is
$ lug end BA anchorage OS ships, swore
, ime di well ms, eso 'he outward!'
i The 11,1116 holgOnaw, Captain Kei which,
it will he meallested, was detained at nitaaa ea
the lath ef Weber, mid the Master crielmed is
the omen poi, ia rd
of 18 bard dol-
lars harlot ham bend on 'wrd of her, was re-
leesedes de tat instant by a Ito yal Order, obtained
at the Wawa of his Majesty's Ambareedwat Ma-
drid. •

CAMBIUMS umvsastrr INTELLicsNeR:
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The ijolosan prior far liso resist year is to
the Maw. &Ward White, IL A. at Corpse aided
for hie Bony es " The limes of tbe time oboe Cie
Gams into the world."
The Rev. Jenson Dodos, LA. of Clare Hall. has
has collated to fifeNein Of &IRO's, Leiceaterabie%
Vassal! by dee des& of dee Rae. lir. Aliases ; pelielh
ti. Lord Bishop of Ligroin.
The Rev. W. r. Manual!. B. A. of Trinity College,
vicar of Sandhurst. in deo Musty of Oloncester, is re-
sealed. by the Loud Bishop of Bristol, to the adjoining
vicarage of Asbelwortb. to the same county.