reigners as shall be willing to enlist III. And be it further enacted, That it themselves in his Majesty's Service; and shall be lawful for any such Persons, Subalso to enable his Majesty to grant Com- jects of any Foreign States as shall be missions or Letters of Service to Foreign willing to serve his Majesty, to enlist as Officers THEREIN; and it is proper that Soldiers, and to accept Commissions or all persons who shall or may have ad- Letters of Service, to serve as Officers or vised his Majesty to enlist such Soldiers, Engineers, from his Majesty, his Heirs and and to grant such Commissions or Letters Successors, or from any Persons duly auof Service aforesaid, should be indemni- thorised by his Majesty to grant such 'fied; and it is necessary that Quarters Commissions or Letters of Service (which ⚫ should be provided for such Regiments, Commissions and Letters of Service it shall Battalions, or Corps, during their Conti- be lawful for his Majesty, or for any Per ⚫ nuance in any part of the United King- sons duly authorised in that behalf as afore'dom :' Be it therefore enacted by said, to grant:) Provided always, that no the King's most Excellent Majesty, by such Officer, when he shall be reduced, and with the Advice and Consent of the shall be entitled to receive Half-Pay : Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com- Provided nevertheless, that when any such mons, in this present Parliament assem- Officer shall be rendered incapable of Mibled, and by the Authority of the same, litary Service by Wounds or Infirmities, That all such Foreign Soldiers as have contracted while he shall be discharging been already enlisted into his Majesty's his Military Duty during the Period of his service, and formed into Regiments, Bat- continuing to serve as such Officer under talions, or Corps, as aforesaid, shall be the Provisions of this Act, then and in such deemed and taken to have been and to be case it shall be lawful for his Majesty to legally and effectually enlisted and form- make such Provision for such Officer as he ed; and all such Commissions, or Letters shall think proper and necessary, so that of Service as have been already granted such Provision shall in no Case exceed the by his Majesty to any Foreign Officers in Half-Pay of the Rank in the BRITISH such Regiments, Battalions, or Corps, shall Service, similar to that which such Officer be deemed and taken to have been and to shall have held at the Time of his becombe legally and effectually granted, and ing so incapable as aforesaid: Provided shall remain and continue in force in like also, that no such Person as aforesaid shall manner in all respects as if such Soldiers be liable to any Pain, Penalty, or For had been enlisted and formed, and such feiture whatever, for having accepted any Commissions or Letters of Service had such Commission, or enlisted as a Soldier been granted, after the passing and under IN ANY SUCH REGIMENTS, BATthe Provisions of this Act; and all and TALIONS, OR CORPS, AS AFOREevery Persons or Person who shall or may SAID, by reason of his having professed have advised his Majesty to enlist such the Popish Religion, and not having deSoldiers, and to grant such Commissions or clared the same at the Time of his acceptLetters of Service as aforesaid, shall be, ing such Commission or enlisting. and they and be are or is hereby fully and effectually indemnified; any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding.

IV. And be it further enacted, That all Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Drum. mers, and Private Soldiers respectively II. And be it further enacted, That it serving under the Provisions of this Act, shall and may be lawful for his Majesty, shall, whilst in his Majesty's Service as his Heirs and Successors, from Time to aforesaid, be subject and able to such Time, to augment such Regiments, Batta- Articles of War as his Majesty hath esta lions, or Corps, so already formed as afore-blished or may think fit to establish for the said, and to form any other Regiments, better Government of the said Forces, and Battalions, or Corps, and to that End to for bringing Offenders against the same to enlist as Soldiers to serve in any such Re-Justice, and for constituting Courts Margiments, Battalions, or Corps, any Foreigners who shall voluntarily enter themselves as Soldiers to serve THEREIN Provided always, that there shall not be, within any Part of the United Kingdom, more in the whole than ten thousand men serving in such Regiments, Battalions, or Corps, at any one Time.

tial with Power to try, hear, and determine any Crimes or Offences by such Articles of War, and inflict Penalties, by Sentence or Judgment of the same, and may be billeted and quartered, and be received and provided for in Quarters: Provided always, that no Officer, Non-commissioned Officer, Drummer, or Soldier, shall, by

if they were admitted, would find their way into all the regiments in the service and might possess many of the great commands on the Staff. What, however, will be said now? Mr. Perceval's interpreta-"THE KING, which was drunk with en

sons of note being present.--In the account of what passed at the dinner, the Morning Chronicle hath these words:"The Noble chairman gave the Health of tion of the act of 1804 allows the King to "thusiastic and rapturous applauses. And put Roman Catholics into all the Military "then the Noble Marquis gave "the Commands, provided only that those Ro- ""Health of the PRINCE REGENT," man Catholics be FOREIGNERS! This" which was drunk with partial applause makes the indignity upon our own Catholics ten thousand times greater than it was before. It is well known, that the voluntary services of many of our own Roman Catholic noblemen and gentlemen have been absolutely refused; and yet, do we see these foreign Catholics admitted, as we are now told they legally are, not only into any of our native corps, but to the command of large portions of our army in our own country? If what has been done in this way be lawful, if Mr. Perceval's interpretation of the Act of 1804 be allowed to be good, German Catholics may command all the regiments and garrisons and districts in Ireland, while an Irish Catholic can have no such command!—That is quite enough. Not another word need be said upon this part of the subject. The reader will now judge for himself what law there is for the employing of these foreigners in English regiments and the staff; and, in my next, I shall discuss the point of expediency.

"and LOUD AND REITERATED "HISSES."--This is a " NEW ERA” indeed! At the meeting where these hisses are said to have been heard, there used, formerly, to be, at the mention of the Prince's name, such shouts of applause that a stranger to the cause might have well supposed the company mad. Indeed it was disgusting to read, in this same Morning Chronicle, the plaistered-on praises, which, at these festivals, used to be bestowed on the Prince. It was quite loathsome to hear such more than parasitical applause.There is, however, now a change. The "new era" has done this for us at any rate. It has relieved us from the beholding of some of the most base and nauseous adulation that ever was witnessed in the world.--But the HISSES! Not only the absence of applause, but actual, audible hisses at the health of the Prince being drunk!--This could not pass unnoticed by Mr. Sheridan, he being present, and having, it seems, resolved to stick by the Prince. Lord Lansdown had observed, in his opening speech to the Meeting, that it was desirable to avoid all political topics, the meeting being institut

"THE NEW ERA."- -No. III Amongst the signs of the Prince's "new "Era," no one, numerous as they are and have been, is more worthy of attentioned for purposes purely charitable. But, than that which was so visible at the festival of St. Patrick, on the 17th instant. The poetry in the Morning Chronicle, for some weeks past, has been quite sufficient to make a man's ears tingle; to make him feel, that real talent is not to be offended with impunity; but, even this poetry, cutting as it is, falls, in point of severity, far short of what has been published, in the same paper of the 18th instant, relative to what passed at the festival of St. Patrick.

the hisses at the name of the Prince forbade Mr. Sheridan to remain silent; and, it is stated, that when his heaith was drunk, he rose and made a speech of which the following is an account.“ Mr. She"RIDAN at length arose, and in a low tone "of voice returned his thanks for the ho"nourable notice by which so large a

meeting of his countrymen thought proper to distinguish him. (Applauses.) "He had ever been proud of Ireland, and

It is well known, that this festival is hoped that his country might never have held on the 17th of March, by a number "cause to be ashamed of him. (Apof Noblemen and Gentlemen, belonging "plauses.) Ireland never forgot those to Ireland either by birth or estate; and "who did all they could do, however little that, upon these occasions, a collection, in "that might be, in behalf of her best inmoney, is made for the relief of persons of "terests. All allusion to politics had been that country, who may be found in dis-"industriously deprecated by their Noble tress in this country. Upon the present occasion, the MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE was, it seems, in the chair, the Earl of Moira, Mr. Sheridan and many other per

Chairman-He was aware that charity "was the immediate object of their meet"ing; but standing as he did before an "assembly of his countrymen, he could

I find all his motions well framed and well timed; all his speeches eloquent, and not only eloquent, but full of information, full of fact, of argument, and discovering a deep insight into all the sub

"not affect to disguise his conviction that "at the present crisis Ireland involved in itself every consideration dear to the "best interests of the empire. (Hear, "hear!) It was, therefore, that he was "most anxious that nothing should trans-jects, however complicated, upon which "pire in that meeting calculated to injure "those great objects, or to visit with undeserved censure the conduct of per"sons whose love to Ireland was as cordial and zealous as it ever had been. "He confessed frankly that knowing as be did the unaltered and unalterable "sentiments of an Illustrious Personage "towards Ireland, he could not conceal "from the meeting that he had felt consi"derably shocked at the sulky coldness and "surly discontent with which they had on that evening drank the health of the "Prince Regent. (Here we were sorry "to observe that Mr. S. was interrupted "by no very equivocal symptoms of disappro"bation)—when silence was somewhat re"stored, Mr. Sheridan said, that he knew "the Prince Regent well-(hisses)-he "knew his principles--(hisses)--they would "at least, he hoped, give him credit for "believing that he knew them, when he "said he did. (applause.)-He repeated, "that he knew well the principles of the "Prince Regent, and that so well satisfied "was he that they were all that Ireland "could wish, that he (Mr. Sheridan) hoped, that as he had lived up to them, "so he might die in the principles of the "Prince Regent.-(hisses and applauses.) "He should be sorry personally to have "merited their disapprobation (general

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applause, with cries of "Change the subject "" and speak out.")-He could only assure "them, that the Prince Regent remained unchangeably true to those principles. "(Here the clamours became so loud and gene"ral that we could collect nothing more. )Oh! poor Sheridan! Hissed by his own countrymen; hooted down by these very persons who formerly heard him with such raptures! Here he ends, then; or, if not, what is he reserved for? What is to be his fate? What are we to see him do before he dies? Perhaps there is not, in the history of man, so complete an instance of sinking as we have here before us. There was a time, when Mr. Sheridan was not only looked upon, but was, second to no man in England in point of talent. If I look through the proceedings in parliament from 1785 to 1796, I find him the most active, the most powerful, the most efficient, opposer of PITT and his band;

he touched. In short, I see, in every
page, the orator, the scholar, the philoso-
pher, the statesman, and, to crown all, the
friend of freedom. And, what, in the
same man, do I see now? An underling
of the Jenkinsons and the Percevals!
When I look back to the manner in which
he used to treat Lord Hawkesbury and Sir
John Scott; when I read those famous an-
swers of his to these and such like per-
sons; and, at the same time, reflect on
his present situation_relatively to these
persons, feelings that I dare not trust my-
self to describe press so upon me,
that I am glad to think of any thing else,
nothing being so humiliating to man.
That he rose unwilling to speak at the St.
Patrick festival I can readily believe; that
he felt the necessity of doing it; that, in,
short, he dared not omit to do it, I verily,
believe. But this only makes the matter.
worse. And, then, to attempt to persuade
the Meeting of what it was impossible for
them to believe! Poor Sheridan! Though
he has certainly been, in my opinion, for
many years past, an enemy to the liberties
of England; though he has, in my view
of things, done infinite mischief; though
he has, on many occasions, since 1796,
been the principal cause of saving Pitt
and his tribe from heavy blows; still I
cannot help feeling sorrow at seeing a
man of such talents fallen into such a state.

PAPER AGAINST GOLD.--No, I —I said, when Lord Stanhope's Bill came into the House, that, in less than a year, Bank Notes would be made a LEGAL TENDER, and this is now going to be done, as the reader will see, and as the world will see, from the debate, which I have inserted be low, or, which, I shall, at any rate, endeavour to insert.--Let others amuse them. selves with the disputes about who shall be in the ministry; about this appointment and that appointment; about the successes of the war in the Peninsula. These things I leave to them; but, when I hear of measures relative to Bank Notes, I begin to look about me.The present measure appears to have ridden into parliament upon the back of a petition, presented by Castlereagh, from certain persons in the North of Ireland, praying that the benefit

of Lord Stanhope's Bill might be extend-" the Learned Counsel understood, would · ed to Ireland; that is to say, praying that "be proved to have been made. It would they might be protected against the de-"be for the defendant, Mr. George Blunmand of payment in gold on the part of" dell Hill, who made the levy, under the their landlords; or, in other words, pray-" orders of Mr. Shepherd, to account for ing that they might be protected in a re- "this conduct. Mr. Samuel Barker, fusal to pay part of what they owed to the " Attorney for the plaintiff, proved the said landlords. A very natural prayer," tender of the rent due having been made and one, it seems, which is to be granted" to Mr. Shepherd, on the 20th of July. with all convenient speed.--But, as I" Mr. Shepherd objected to receive it, unam now entering a-new upon this subject," less it was paid in the current coin of the and shall have to continue it from week to "realm. He said Mr. Bray had been imweek, I will here go back a little, in order" pudent to him; that he was determined to put upon record what has taken place to punish him: and distrain upon his since the passing of Lord Stanhope's Bill" goods against four o'clock that afternoon, in July last.-LORD KING brought ac- "unless the rent was paid to him in the tions against his tenants, or at least, an ac- "current coin of the country. He did tion against one tenant, for recovery of his "not mention his mother. A distress was rent in gold, and he, at the same time," put in on the Monday, being the 22d of gave a notice to the officer of the court not to July, and the goods were replevied. receive bank notes in payment into court. It" Mr. Shepherd, at the same time said, seems, however, that the officer did receive" that, when the next quarter became due, the bank notes, and that proceedings were "he would sue on the covenant in the stayed thereon. This, if decided to be law, "lease, unless the rent was paid in the would have saved all further trouble; for "current coin.—Creecy, hostler to the it would, in fact, be making the notes a plaintiff, proved, that the defendant legal tender at once; for, what is a legal "came in to the plaintiff's house, to make tender but this: that there is no law to com- "the levy, on the 22d of July. The witpel you to pay in any thing else. That is "ness saw the amount tendered to the dewhat is meant by a legal tender; and, 'fendantin Bank of England notes, before therefore, if there were no means by the distress was made, but which the dewhich Lord King could force his tenant to "fendant refused to accept, saying he pay him in any thing but bank notes, bank" would have nothing but gold, or hard notes are a legal tender.In the mean-" cash. The individual notes then tenwhile, however the question came before "dered to the defendant, the witness had the Chief Judge in another shape. A land-" kept in his possession ever since, and lord had demanded gold in payment of "now produced. MR. PARK, for the rent; the tenant offered him bank notes; "defendant, was stopped by the Court the landlord refused them; the tenant stood" from apologising for so ungracious a de-' out; the landlord seized by distress; and "fence; and Mr. Garrow chose to suffer a the tenant brought an action of replevin." verdict for the defendant, instead of The following is the report of the trial," being non-suited, that the defence might as published in the news-papers. It" be recorded. LORD ELLENBOROUGH took place, in the Court of King's Bench," said, HE WAS EXTREMELY SORRY on the 15th of February last, before Lord" IN THIS CASE TO TELL THE JURY Ellenborough :-BRAY versus HILL." THAT BANK-NOTES WERE NOT

MR. GARROW said, that the plaintiff "YET A LEGAL TENDER, and that "occupied property to a considerable" the defendant WAS COMPETENT IN "amount, belonging to a Mrs. Shepherd," POINT OF LAW TO MAKE GOOD "mother of Mr. Shepherd, an Attorney "THIS DEFENCE. The jury hesitated; " of the Court, situated in Holborn. Mr." but his Lordship told them that neither "Shepherd acted as agent for his mother" he nor they could HELP THE LAW: "in regard to this property, and was in" and although their PRIVATE WISHES "the habit of receiving the rent of it, on" might be alike in this case, they must "her account. On the 20th of July last, "leave the law to those who were compe"the rent then due, amounting to 54l. 12s. "tent to relieve them. THE MOTIVE "was tendered to Mr. Shepherd; but he" OF THIS DEFENCE WAS MOST AP"refused to receive it, unless it was paid "PARENT; but it would be dangerous " in the current coin of the country, that" for the administration of justice to suffer " is to say, in guineas. A proper tender," their inclinations to warp their duty.