The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-27 00:00:00

TR.4DE.

lu the Sitting of the Sth instant, the ('ortes gave
tlavir approLation to the following Commercial Rego-
Is it111:4
" I. That the importation of raw cottons of foreign
growth be prohibited, with the exception of those
cumin rated in the following article :
" 2. For the present, and till the enitivation and
commerce of cottons is re-established in one Provinces
of Europe and beyond Seas, the importation of raw
cottons shall he allowed from Pernambuco and Asia
Minor. paying 15 per cent. in Spanish vessels, and 20
in foreign ones; and those also from foreign posses-
sions in the East Indies, on payment of 9 per cent. in
Spanish vessels, and 12 in foreign ones.
" 3. In the Phillippine Islands the importation of
raw cottons (ruin foreign countries shall be prohibited,
or allowed to the snimonnt and in the manner that may
be deemed advisable by the local authorities, in order
to reconcile time encouragement of the cultivation with
the manufacturers from cotton in those Spanish islands.
" That the prohibition of the importation front
foreign countries of tanned and prepared hides and
skins be without any exception whatever.
" 3. That in the ultra-marine pros inces, the local
authorities shall permit the importation, under the
corresponding duties, of common iron and the necessary
implements fur agriculture, as lung as they cannot be
provided from national manufactures.
" I. That a 4 an indemnity for the injury done to
the national fisheries, foreign dry cod-fish, without any
distinction of classes, in the new general tariff, shall
he liable to a duty of -1 and 6 I per cent. according as
it arrives in national or foreign vessels.
" 7. The exportation of cattle of all kinds, as well
as of all other national productions, shall be free, and
shall pay no other than the duty of internal adminis-
tration, with the exception of Merino sheep.
s. Time entry and circulation of forei.en money
shall be regulate.' by the Cates ; and in order to pre-
vent the grievous injuries Spain experiences f the
duties imposed oh the circulation of the ultra-umaritie
provinces to those of the Peninsula of Spanish coin,
the circulation is declared free between all proci::ces of
the Spanish monarch, including precious metals, Whe-
ther in bars or ingots, subject only to the usual certifi-
cates in their circulation by sea and between the line
of custom-houses, when in silver the tunonnt exceeds
10100 reals rcllun, and 2000 when in gold."

M Mirth PROS:3TIONS.

WAR OFFICR, N0v.94. 19e0.

Third flettimealtilsirsgoiMUwirtts, Cleat. J. Carrot,
from the Imlf-pay of the xhid Licht Dragoons, to be Lieut.
vice Lawford Hume, who exchanges, receiving the dif-
ference.

lUth lieftiotetit of Light Dragoons, Lieut. Wm. Cart-
wright fo be Captain, rice Sir 11. Floyd, promoted In the
I Ith Light Dragoons. Cornet John Karl of Wiltshire to be
Lieutenant, by purillase, rice Cartoricht. T. Wood. (tent.
to be Cornet, by purchase. rice Lo►d Wiltshire, promoted.
I Ith ditto, Capt. hie If. Flo).Al. Wirt., from the Wits Light
Dragoons, to be Major, by purchase, vice Childers, pro-
moted. _ .

lith ditto, Brevet Lical-Colosel N. Wilson to be Lieut.-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Werge, who retires. Rrevet
Major J. Sale to be Major, by purchase, vice Wilsoo.
Lieut. W. li. Rubinson to be Captain. by purchase, vice
Side. Comet N. Raven to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
lice Robinson.

7th Itegheent of Foot, tient. tlterles Ricketts, from the
half-p” of the Coldstream Font (lairds, to be Lieutenant,
vice T. F. 1: Estrange, who exchanges.
Sid ditto, lirevet Lieutetteat.Colonel C. Grant, from half-
pa) of the I Ith Fool, to be Alajor, tier J. Phiilot, whose
appointniesa has rot taken place.
13th ditto, Ensign Al. iiicklea, from half-pay of the 34th
Font, to be Essitm, lice B. liatterstbwaite, who exchanges.

69th ditto, I;;uituue. gent. to be'Eusign, without pur-
chase. rice Douglas. who resig►,s.
63411 ditto. J. i)onnithorase, gent. to be E►isio, without
pu►rhasc. sire \Whist's), killed in action.
frith Regiment of Foot, Ensign J. Eliot to be Lieutenant,
without purchase. vice Beynhaa►, deceased.
Ride Itrigatle, they to be second Lieutenant,
without purchase, lice Otter, promoted.
Ulh Bo's' Veteren Battalion, Lieut. 8. Ireland, from
bail-pad• of the 87th Foot, to be Lieutenant, ;ice R.
Mewed, who retunm to his former situation on the Retired
List.

hlinonsvot.w.—The rummisvion of Capt. Stevenson. of
the &Mt Foot, has been antedated to 10th September, 1811.
that befog the date it ought to bear, bat he is not allowed
any bsekr).
Commission in the Barrer Yeomanry. Cavalry-, signed by
• . . • .

dm Lord Lleutanant 01 1110 County of Surrey.
Rir T. 'ration, Hart.. to be Lieuteuaut-Coluurl Com-
mandant.

On Saturday evening an Inquest was taken before
the Coroner for 3liddlesex, at a public-house in the
parish of St. Mary-le-bone, on the circumstances at-
tending the death of a gentleman of Montague-square,
who had died by his own hand early on Thursday
morning ; when it being very satisfactorily established
by the testimony of one of his servants, and one of
the medie.ll gentlemen who had attended him, that
he had been fur souse days preceding the melancholy
event mach deranged in mind, caused probably (as
appeared from a statement given by an intimate friend
of the deceased, who n•as also examined,) by his great
anxiety on account of the fate of a beloved sister,
whom he had b. en visiting in a distant part of the
country ; the inquest unanimously returned a verdict
of—Died by his own hand in a state of derange-
ment.
Honnattv ANDATTZIEPTKII 311:1IlltIt IN LITHE PARK.
----Thursday night Mr. Forbes, passing through Hyde
Park, on his arrival at the bridge, at the end of the
Serpentine River, met ta•o men, one of whom, with
out uttering a word, kneeled biro down with a bind.
geon. They then both attacked him, and con•
tinned belting ::nd kicking Lino in the most brutal
manner till he became insensible : they rifled his
pockets of his watch, his pocket-book, containing 71.
in notes and 15s. in silver, and took the ring off his
tinge:. They afterwards flung hint over the bridge
into the ri . Ile wore a large great coat, which
spread up:. :he surface of the water, and, he believes,
prevented Vitt f.om sinking: by some means he got
to the hank. Ile afterwards proceeded as far as Titch-
! Itorne-street. St. James's, where he dropped from
weakness, a:: l was taken to the watch-house in Vine-
w street, where e% ery :is,Litance was rendered him. lie
!Iva% able to t-o ho•ne next morning, bat has been con-
, tim.ll to his LA es, r since.