Star. — London, England, 1802-06-17 00:00:00

: 1 LONDON. THURSDAY, j!..!NI: a 7. `, - cfler(.44y motnir.;, , 11 PKINCLS :rs :nrived in t .k; a i 1 ! s To X—Y. we can only (ay in tkc wcrls rtem•ln Fact, "Tanta :1012 con-Tonere lites." • PRICZ OF STOCKS Th:S DAY AT CNr. O'CLOCK: 2 per Cent. Co;A:s for Jul f 7 S x ! Reduced 73-1-4 per 24—New 5 pet Cent. te,3i— Oenniurn,•far, d.f. par. PRICE OF STOCKS Yi.STERDAY • Bank Stock 1831 18; !nal 5 per Celt. 9A too 3 'we. Cent, i; Excl:t.q.l:llls p6a- ts. dif. 4 per-cot. Ann. 87i 8/4 88 Eri!ill 'fielects 171.76. 5 pt rC. Ann. 1791, tc•'s-a o•.,:nte-n LO , l Ar 4. 20 11. t Ellsiiiii Tickets 171. 7s. lny. 3 per Cum . . ror "pg. 741 74 Alin. is t-tet India Bond.— he.ir MAJF.sTirs and the :own from Windfor.—At one o'clock the KING came from the Qjicer,'sl . I ionic to S. James's, where his MAJESTY - field a Levee, which vas attended by his Serene High ri.:fs the Prince of ORANGE, (accompanied by Ge neral LAURIE and Mr. FANE) the Hellian and Da nn Envoys, the Archhilliop of Cas-rtt B U the SOLICITOR GENERAL, and the Dukes—Ponland, Roxburgh, Montrofe, Beaufort, Llama. and Hamilton. _ _ Alai 4 :di - cc—Buck ingharn and Cornwalliq. Lirls--Calloway, Wilwn, }Hex, Coventry. Craven, Cha thins, Mansfie:d, Batburit, Camden, Warwick,Rofilyn, Har rington, and Courtown. iiiicouuts—Broome, Sidney, Chetwynd, flood, and Bel grave. Lorda—Whitworth, R. Seymour, Grey, Peter, Hunting feld, Leitrim, Milfingtown, Moungord, G.'illynne, Bray brooke, Alvatiley, Harewood, Gwydir, Hobart, Stopford, Milford, and Newark. Sirs—J. Poßeuel, W. Pulteney, R. Buxton, W. Boodle, F. Ainlitr tax, C. Kent. W. Bellingham, R.. Glyn, R. Milbank, C, Corbet, F. Sykes, R. Wilton, J. Honeywool, C. Morgan, Volker, W. Ruth, J. B. Burz,f:,, J. Callender, J. Craig. and F.. 11.trtop. Bithops—'t. David's, Rochelter, and S.. A raph. Rev. Sir C. Rich, and MelTrs. Caroler, fen. and jun. Generals--Gainsfield, Delancey, St. Jol.n, Bert:,, Forbes, Witte. Lenox. Harcourt, and Crofvenor. AcLoirals—Young, lbgtty, and Sir C. Colpoys. Captains—Bennet, Pierrcpoint, and Brown. tolaw..l Wood. Mclfrs....B. Craven, Stapleton, lira: Grofvenor, Brown, D . Scott, Itlara.tog, I-1 Major, Wright, Gilman, Methuen, Stnu ton, K. Powell, Garthfhore,Nlitlilleton, Stuart, D. Teor..l.Vil rtorce. A. Smith, Lefevre, Alexander, Marfb, Fuller, Laf cetles, Villiers, Rohm Muir, Waring, The Prefentations to his MAJESTY were-- The Right Hun. Lord LovrruEll, on coming to his title. The Rev. Dr. linnet r.R. who kified his Nl:jetty's hand, on being appointed ol :h. Lifhoprie of Rocheiter. Th.: Richt Ito , Jr. liossEt. Li% late Bilbop of Rocheftcr, on be:nit tranfLted to the litloprie of St. Afaph, alto :Oiled his IM , j hto.d. 7 he Rev. Mr So sit v, by the Chancellor of thc Exchequer, on bra:: appaia:La one of die Prebendary Canors ot Canter bury. The Rev. Dr. V:NCLtiT, oppointal Dean of Weßntinfter. Lord Hu fC.IIN 50N, on bis arrival from Egypt, who hided his M-j Ity's ha:id on beirg created a Peer. Lord Cs. z LIN r s, by the Earl of Ltitrim. Mt. Fitatauuna, Marlins for Aberdeen, by Mr. D. Scott. The Hon. 11. LASCELLt 3, by Lord I larewood. Sir Jsmes Ca.tio, on his return from the Eaft Indies, by Mr. I )undss. Ci , pt Lte x NET, of the Navy, by Lord Gwydir. r. juDDIUL. by Mr. Blackborne. Lieut. CoL Wl I LIAMJI, of the Police Office, Whitechapet who received the honour of Knighthood. Addrefres of congratulation on the Peace were prefented to his MAJESTY from the following places : _ _ From 11.1R1d11011e, by Sir F.. KNATCHMTLI, Sir W. CZARS, General DRLANCES, and Mr. S From the City of Oxford. horn Wrktrainitcr, by Mr. LUBBOCK and Mr. How s os- WOr TU. - From Canterbury, by the Hon. G. WATSON, Si!' 3. HONER , . WOOD, and J. SIMMONS, Efq. TOM the County of Lcicetter, by the Duke of RUTLAND. Mr. Secretary YOR KR laid before his MAJESTY minutes of Courts Martial, and other official Pa pers. Vifcount BELOR AVE and Earl MANSFIELD had andiente!‘, and at five o'clock his Majelly returned to the Queen's Houfe. After the Levee a Council iyas held, at which the RECORDER made his report to his MAJESTY of the convieti under lenience of death in Ne.cgate. It has not been unufu.tl of late years -o grant Peet ages and ether honours at the dole of the Sell fmn Parliamcnt. In the inftance of the ettining Prorogation, we learn there will be fix new pro motions to the Peerage,and as many or more new Baron ..tics. The following are the names of four of th fix Peers : _ _ _ Sir limt4Y MILDMAYetO be Lord EQUALTER, ar. cecina ti le: _ _ Lod ARDEN, to be an Englini Peer, We believe by the fame title : Mr. Du.res, to be Vifcount MELVILLE : E41:1 OI UXBRIDGE, to be Marquis of ANGLE SEA. _ _ ; he Duke of NORTHUMZERLAND has juft been appointed Lord Lieutenant of the county of Nor. thurnt criand, the Lieutenancy of which has been for ft veral years in commilTion; and his Grace was on Tticiday ;worn into office at Northumberland Timire, in pretence of the Lotto CHANCELLDR, Mike of Poi r LAND, and feveral other Privy Coun feliors.—The etiquette of taking the oaths in his MAJESIy's prefence was difpenfed with, in coafe quence of his Grace's indifpofition. The Welch Jticigefhip, on the Anglerea Great Seffion , , vacan, by the refignation of Sir THCMAS SUTTON, Solicitor General, is given to HUGH LE T CESTFR, Efq. a King's Countel. The FIRST Cams tn. had fent orders to Milan to repair without delay the refidence of the Archduke CHARLES in that City. This has given rife to va rious ct njAures at Vienna. Married on Tuefday the Bth inflant, at Geanies, in itrifAirre, Sir GEORGI STEWART MACIILNZIE• of C•rtill, Baronet, to Mifs MARY M . 1.F.0n, fifth daughter of DONALD *Lanz), Efq. of Geanies. We are infcrmed, that on Sunday late, the Gentlemen his Majefty's Ship CLYDE prefentctl a handforne Sword to Captain ALEXANDER RO BERT KERB, of his Majefly's !hip DILIGENCE, as a mark of their ahem and gratitude for his con digt, which has uniformly been that of the Officer NAME OF THE CARNJ2IC. Having been favoured with a Copy of the In aruaiors of the depofed NAnoa of the Carnatie to his agents in London, we haften to lay it be fare ou: 7,-,:,lders. It is proper that every fubjeft 6f the Bri.:111 empire fhould hear, in the language of the NABOB himlilf, tke particulars of the cruel manner in which he fags he has been treated. It is an afftaing detail, and we hope will induce thcfe who feel for the charafter and the welfare lot' this country, and who at the fame time may poifefs the power, to purfuemeafures for having the befattfs properly invettigated. If the NABOB'S narrative is in any refpcet unfounded, it is pro. per the mifreprefentations lhould be made mani ; fel} to all the world—if founded in truth, the juf tice of the country fhonld overtake the offenders. FROM HIS HIGNNETS THE NA:TAB WALAJAH °MEER UL iiIND TAJOOL OMRAH OMEER 111. MULK MOIN UD DOWLAH MAHOMAD ALLY HUSSEIN CAWN BA HADOR DUFFER JUNG, &C. &C. &C. TO JAMES STUART HALL AND SAMUEL JOHNSON, Estes. When I look around me and perceive the many dangers which lodic me, I am overwhelmed with difficulties ; every objet occafiuns new alarm ; and my little experience in bufinefs, my unac quaintance with the world, and my great want of friends, in a trial in ferions, leaves me little able to overcome the difficulties which prefent them (elves. Though a firanger in perfon, yet I would perfuade mytelf, that in relation and charader ' I am not wholly unknown ; nor will you forget the anxious folicitude, with which my ever honoured and lamented father recommended his only off fpring to you, at your departure from thefe re. coons ; a pious folicitude ! which feemed to anti cipates the awful and melancholy moment, which has fince enticed. Apprifed, as I am, of the efteem in which you were held by his late Highnefs the Nabob, of your unalterable concern for his true interells, and of your friendthip for his family, I naturally turn to you in this embarrafl'ment of my affairs ; and moll earneilly intreat the benefit of your advice and endeavours, to extricate me from furrounding perils. I have not trufted to a Granger's aid, to make known thefe circumflances, which it is my firft with to be communicated to you. I will detail them to you with my own hand—l will trace the unhappy events which have happened, and the evils avhich they have introduced in their train. I will explain to you the fentiments to which they have given rife—the refults to which they have al ready led, and the confequences which they may eventually occasion. There will not only dire& your fervices (of which I confider myfell fecure) to proper °biters, but will be the means (for I am confident in the jutlice of my claims) of obtain. ing the recirefs which lam ft:eking. A true and faithful account of my fituation, to whom it may be required to be made known, will be all-fuffi cient to the luccefs of my application. In order that you may have a ccmpleat know. ledge of all that has happened, it will be neceffary to begin with cireumflaitees, apparently remote, though certainly not unimportant; nor unconneet ed with the prefent flotation of affairs. I (hall, theoctore, It accpsaint you, that early in the 1 month of June 'aft, his Highnefs the Nabob of the Carnatic was feized with very d.tngerous fymp toms, which continued, with little variation, for the (pace of feveral days ; and were fufficient to alarm his family and friends, for his Higlinefs's fafety and life. It pleated the ALMIGHTY to al low his liiglinels, an interval of a few days, of quiet and tranquility, to arrange and fettle the particulars of his linufe, and to provide for the 1 fuccelfion to his dominions; and to facile and un- I troubled a moment of freedom from bodily pain I and infirmity did his I lighnefs enjoy, that his fa mily anti i'ervants hid a moff reafonable hope that he might be able to overcome ;lee violence of the attacks. After a few days, however, the difeafe returned with an encreale of violence, and dilap- I pointed all the expeCtations and prayers which had I been kindly conceived and fervently offered up for his Highoefs's recovery. Tears will not allow me to defto ibe with exatftnefs the fccne that followed. 1 You will in a word learn, that his Highnels lay on I the extreme bed of ficknefs, awaiting the fummons from an eventful . life, \vial a dignifi ed patience and i ! refignation : affording a hiking leffon, never to :be forgotten I of the vanity of fublunary great nefs :.led in this painful and agonizing (late he continued,truil the 15th of the fucceeding month; when his tpirit and foul forfook him, in their way to a higher glory, and more perfed happinefs. On the sth of July, about ten days previous to the melancholy event which I have loft mentioned, a large body of troops, confilling of European and native infantry and cavalry, to the number of 800 men, with a proportionate number of artil lery, fupplied with requisite ttores and field equi page of every denomination, were tent by Go vernment, (under the command of Colonel M'Neil, one of the Company's Officers,) to take poffeffion of the garden and palace of Chepauk, under the pretence of defending them againft any infitlt or violence which the deceafe of his Highnefs the ' Nabob might poffibly produce ; a meafure which had been advifed and adopted. without any com munication either with his Highnefs or his Mi. Milers, until the very moment of its execution, when Major Grant, the Town Major of Fort St. George, was fent to the Fick chamber of his High- 1 nth, to acquaint him with the intlant approach of the troops, and to explain to him the reafons which had determined that extraordinary At of Government. It will not be neceffary for me to attempt a re lation of the various emotions, under the coati& and agony of contending pallions, which this tudden and unfeafonable communication imfortu :lately excited. You will be able to form fome coniature at them. if von advert to the fituatiow Whether from this, or Tome other eaufe, t are. too deeply aad dearly interefted to dare to form an opinion, his Highnefs's diforder augmented daily in violence, and ended in the unfortunate stay which I have before been obliged to Rate. The troops, notwithilanding the reprefentations and laft entreaties of his Highnefs, furrounded his Highnefs's apartments, and the inmoft recelfes of his Palace, at the time of his demife; and although but one mind manifefted itfelf amongft his High nefs's relations, and the Minifters of his affairs— although the molt uninterrupted order and regu larity every where appeared, and a fiiirit of loyalty, I am proud to fay, it univerfally !hewed itfelf to his Highnefs's Succeffor, yet the military force Rill kept its pofition, under the fame initrations ; and feemingly, with a view to dietate the order and terms of the fucceffion. Under thefe unhappy circumfiances, did an old and honourable Ally draw his extreme breath ! In this degrading fituation did his inoffending Succeffor begin the cares of his Government and Dominion. Decent attentions had fcarcely been paid to the inanimate form of his Highnefs, to prepare it furl its throud, when Mr. Webbe, ( the Secretary of Government), and Colonel Clofe, (the Prefident of Myfore), were fent to the Palace ; under the ;nitrations, as they reprefented, of the Right Hon. the Governor. His Highnefs departed this life at about a quarter pall ten; and at a quarter pail one o'clock, of the fame day, I was advifed of the ap proach of the Commiflioners of Government.—l am thus circumftantial in my detail, as I cannot out conceive, that it will tend to (hew the features of the policy, which was intended to be adopted in the beginning, and which has eventually fermi nated in the utter fubverficut of every thing like right and juftice. Though fecure, from the pofition of the force about the Palace, of every accefs to it ; and of the knowledge of every all, which might pars within it; yet, at the facred hour of furrow, and into the chamber of hallowed affiiaion, did Oleic cold Corn miflioners obtrude themfelv,:s ; not with the ten der offices of fi ienalliip or condolence, but with offers of indignity and infult. It would not be believed, unlefs folemnlyafTerted, and I do Arnie you on thelionour and faith of a Prince unufed to any fubterfuge or compromife, that at this melancholy junCtu: e, I was drawn by peremp tory meffages from the fide of the great dcctafed, to anfwer to the countl rls interrogatories of Coro miffioners, ;nitrated e- examine me. I hope I (hall not Puffer in the eyes and cowemplation of -good men, in yielding to imp itunitics fo unwor thy of myfelf and them ; mhi:ll nothing lefs than the peace and tranquil; y f my family, and the fear of pollutions, (which I cannot bring myfelf to think oi) could potlibly have 1:d to. But they are pall, and I'll endeavour to be calm. Attended by feveral of my principal Officers, I went to the apartments where the Cornrniffioners were waiting ; when I was immediately accoilcd by one of them, with an enquiry, as to the difpo. lion which his Highnefs had made of Ms affairs? I anfwered with calmnefs, but not without a fen fibility, natural to my favenred fnuation from the bounty of my Royal Predeceffor, that fuch difpofition was clear, fhnrt, and unequivocal ; and was' contained in a written paper, which had been executed in quadruplicate, the feveral parts of which had been fent many days, previous to his Highnefs's demife, to their feveral dellina tions. One of them had been forwarded to his Majelly the King of Great Britain ; one to the Cow t of DireCtors; one to the Governor General ; and the remaining part was firft delivered to his I Highnefs's Chief Minister, and had by him, fince the deceafe of his Hightiels, been delivered into my poffetlion, where it then remained. The Commiffioners reque!led to fee the paper, to which Iliad immediately alluded; when one of my officers, Ilru,:k with the impropriety of the re quef at ftuh a fealon, could not reftrain himfelf from oblerving, that the prefent moment was de-' voted, as well by feeling as citflom, to the inJul genre of grief; and he trulied that they would not again advert to the paper. or to eh-cum:lances, to wlrch it had relation, but would fuller the in. terval, allowed to Humane and Religious con federations, not to be molefled wi.h Worldly Cares or Retleaions. That after three days, his High nefs would be happy to produce the Will, and confult with them on the objeCtstonnaled with it, to far as they related to the Company. But the Commit:inners would nor hear this confiderate fuggellion, but infitted, with a firtnnefs to which I was unufed, on the immediate protjultion of the paper. Fearing that fome poffible doubts might have been entertained, as to the reality of the papev if it had not been produced at the time when de manded, I gave it to their hands, with as little relatance as the occafion would permit ; they examined it in my pretence, and in the pretence of my officers, with a particular and fcrupulous care; obferving, when it was returned to me, " That his Higlinefs had appointed me to the entire do minion and government of the Carnatic ; and (with very fmall exceptions) to the poffeflion of all his property ; but that in contemplation of my youth, had placed me under the guardianthip of two of the Noblemen or Cawns about his High nefs's perfon, who were to fill the office of regents. until 1 fhould arrive at my nineteenth year." I inftantly obferved to them, , 4 That I had been long fenfible of this difpofition of his Highnefs's affairs; that I was well aware, and greatly thankful for the kind and tender precaution of his Highnefs, in committing my inexperience into fuch able and worthy hands ; that I well knew and highly re fpetled them, and was ready, in all things, to abide by their counfel and advice : and concluded with remarking, that, s' fince his Highnefs had fo difpofed of me, and had fo configned the bufinefs of the Government, it were nnneceffary that I fhould be confulted further, at a moment fo inaufpicious.— ' The Regents, I was lure, had not lets inclination to meet and forward the delires of the Company, than what I now felt, and fhould ever continue to feels being the firft and earlieft impreftion I had ing to depart, when the ComnsiMuncrs dcf e ,e, , that I would yet remain ; having fomethine portant :o communicate to mc, and which cite; begged to deliver, is private, or at lean in the fence only of the Regents and myfelf. On lint ry. ; ,. Officers and Servants were ialtrutted to v. isisdree . , when the Conimitriow:rs pot-es...ld it the tnaraxe in which I fhall now Inccinaly and cleatlt tc; err On the immediate theiartute of my p r i re e fcrvants; the 02icers of G::vernmeut ere letter, reprefo red by the m to have h,,: ft by the Marquis of Weliefiey, and intended f late Highnefs the Nabob ; which ficet,''.:.! rt e .. royal grandfather, and my much revered fafle :: ', of an improper and unjunifiable correfpoefi ere with the Sultan of the Nlyfore ; and concludo: with demanding an immediate furrender of al! 11 country of the Carnatic, for an aliceiged bread, , 7 Treaty. After the reading of this ccriefeerdteee they remarked that the territory of his Mehl L :, had been forfeited to the Company, by the . Art which had been Rated in the letter ; and tl.at confequence, he had no manner of right to d:fete, of it by will ; yet to fhew that the Company Litt every difpolition to fervc and proted the for, whom. his Highnefs had fo favoured, they were fully in clined to make a very liberal provilion for him, oa condition of his previous furrender of all tile domt. nions which had been nominally willed to him.— The Regents, being prefent, were as much moved as enyfelf at the extraordinary cemnomication which had been jug made to us. And although, we were fully convinced that no unautharifed cor refpondence had ever taken place between his late Highnefs or his predecelfor, with the Sultan of Myfore, yet we were fo much agitated and affiided at the ferious manner in which the charge was preferred, as twit to be able to afford a cool and difpaflionate anfwer. After hating our internal imprefilons, that neither of the relPeded perfonages do whom allufion had been made, could have been engaged in a elandeftine communication with any foreign power in enmity with the Britifh interefts ; and our great mortification at the propolal which had been offered, as founded on that fuppofed fea—we begged for a few days confederation of the terms which had been ingetelled, which was conceded to us, after fome dintiffion. Every inquiry was made in the interval, to al certain the correfpondence, which had at any time taken place of the nature already mentioned, when no vettige could be traced, which could throw the (lighten ftigma on the venerable names which had • been implicated in In unfortunate a charge. The only correfpondence which had ever occur red between the parties in queftion, and which could have given rife to the fufpicion entertained by the Company, happened at the ;finance of the Earl Cornwallis, after the termination of the war fo loccefsfully conduaed by his Lordfhip againft the late Sultan ; and related to a family con nedi,m, which, from well known circumftancy, never tuck place. This correfpondence naturally produced mutual communications of courtefy on fevcral domellic events, which concerned either of the pai ties perfonally, as occanons happened ; but nothing that could affea any intcrefts connected with national or public confiderations. The Regents, at the conference on the neat evening, being confirmed in their firft imprefilons of the rectitude of his late Highnels's conditd, in the particular referred to, Rated in perfpicuous terms, the Reps which they had purfued to invef tigate the truth of the accufation which had been alledged to have been contained in the letter of the Marquis of Vv'ellefley ; and that they had found, on a full inveftigation, that there was not the 'Mallet} foundation for the charge which had been urged ; but, on the contrary, that the only correfpondence which had occurred between his Highnefs and the late Sultan, had been carried on with the knowledge and confent of the Executive Local Government, and had been forwarded offi cially by them ; and in proof of this affertion, re. (tired the Commillioners to their own immediate Records. The Regents then expreffed their concern, that the matter of this accufation had not been made known and enquired into in the life time of his late Highnefs, when it might have been fairly and candidly explained and anfwered. This circum fiance alone led them to hope that the Company did not ferioufly believe that correfpondence of fuels a defcription had in reality happened; though they might have felt themfelves anti/utile(' in re quelling an explanation concerning it : and under this conviaion, they could not but conclude that the terms propofed to them at their lag conference would be given up, as they were applicable to a fituation of things which did not exill. The Regents next profeffed themfelves molt ready f receive any proporals which might lave to promote a good underftanding in refired to the exilling engagements, or might render them more convenient to either of the fubfcribing ivories; though they were not fenfible how they could be improved : at the fame time they were app rehen i five that a new arrangement might give f fie to th • caflions which had been long let ref by the fuki . filling Treaty. The Comrniffioners Rill flood on their firft ground, and inn fled, in peremptory language,..on the propofal which they had before made. ee itig there was no polfibility of diverting them en .; tirely (loin this object, the Regents confide:ed. an expedient, which, in their expedation , have induced the Commiftioners to have toregone i niau. their primula', at leaft in the extent in which ft bed been moved. Being well aware, from an i. knowledge of his late Highnefs's affairs, that toe preceding Governors of Fort Saint G eor g e had. looked for poffeflion of the Tinerelly and tome °, the adjacent countries as more convenient t o the , r affairs ; and fenfible that the p ment, from the nature of the propofal mot i le !, : 1 limilar views, though in a more extendet. fhal • mit:lnce' they determined, under the peculiar emu e in which they Rood, to meet their deirres, as Maui: as they could, continent with their own „on' -and the interells which !hey had been go•o e. charge. With this intention, they propofid liver into the bands of the Company, fur ln prefent G wilt!