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

0...g01e and ralttancl to the North ; on die condition that the Prince of the Carnatic should be allowed, in his Periodical hilts, the :,nititint rent of filch cliftrifts, agreeable to the fchetittle No. a, annexed to the treaty of tyoz, in; t yearle {Urn equal to the full amount of the ' fiihridy claimable by the Company, by virtue cf filch treaty. T „ the propofal cf the Regents, the Officers of GP , t•lntitetit gave a aunt reply—" that it would not in any utast do"--sind that nothing short oldie demand which had been made, could be accepted ,-.lltlPilred. In confequence of this difpofition on the p:trt of the Commiffioners, the Regents re. •11,:d a further time to refieft,and were indulged to tie nett day. I shall not trouble you with the particulars of the pert or the fucceeding meeting on the day follnu ing ; fur you will find them circundlantially related, in the Journal of the Regents, which I Live dircel , sd to be forwarded with this. You will readily anticipate, that although the Regents have been slitpded to have rendered up more of the countries, (which really was the cafe), on a like condition with thole already tendered by them, they could not unworthily bring themfelves to make an unqualified and unconditional flirrender of thole rights, which it was their duty to protea and guard. The meetings, therefore, to which I have laft requelled your attention, palled without Seeing that the Regents were inflexible in their duty, and conceiving from my want of knowledge in psi! lie concerns, that I might poflibly be Ten. cored an inftrument, as I cannot but confider, to rtv own undoing ; the Commiffioners at the lall conference, and towards the concluflon of it, fent a note to Lord Clive, who thereupon appeared at the Palace ; but inficad of going to the apartment where negociations had hitherto been carried on, his Lortithip went to the tent of Colonel Nl‘Neil, in charge of the troops about the gardens, and immediately requeßed my attendance on him. 1 chearfully complied with his Lordfhip's 'Nue!! and went to the tent. His Lordfhip then accofted me with fecmintr, kinslnefs, and begged " I would well confider the Company's proterred terms, which, if then neglated, would evade my accep tance for ever; that they were now offered for the lad ttme ; that a liberal allowance (Imola be made out of the colledions i (hut which his Lordfhip did not particularife) if l..would linen favourably to bi t proporrls ; but that if I did not incline to them, that I (hould be reduced from the gran deur which awaited me, into an humble and pri vate Ration."—l obferved to his Lordfhip " that I was not acquainted with matters of fo high con cern : that I was indeed an utter ftranger to burl net's ; that my toyal predeceffor had wifely com mitted etc to the care and attention of others, and had recommended my conformity to their ad vice ; that in reined to my father's will, and to the perfons to whom my affairs were trolled, I cow.' net think of anfwering for myfelf the im portant propolitions made to me ;—but, from re g ird to hi: Lordfhip's charaaer, and to the in terens which he reprefented, I was inclined, not only to give my ready attention to what his Lord fhip ct.wimunicated, but would advife the Re gents, (if it were compatible with their honour and my own fafety) to overlook any formal. difti culty which might Rand in the way of their acqui. crevice ; for this piirpofe, I would beg leave to ac quaint them with what had palled, and would ap prim an early dry when his Lordfhip should have my anfwe r."—H is Lord.fhi p obferved that lie would wait on me again the next day, at the fame place, and took his leave. _ Tr: confolting with the Regents and the Cawns,' and Omrahs of Empire, before whom the whole of what had paired at the preceding conferences was laid, I was fully advifed of the dangers to which my affairs and family might be expofed, by the acceptance of terms to dttreputable, and fo vague ; an advice, which I had no reafon to lid petl of prejudice, or infidelity, and by which, after the moll mature confederation, I was determined to govern my conduit.—Accordingly when the Governor came the next evening, I acquainted hint ingenuoully, ‘. that I could not accede to the offer u,;:elt he had yetlerday the got:Kinds to make me ; that I had every perfonal good with for the profpctity of the company, and for the real and fob:LIMA interefts of the Liritith Nation, which I ht.l h:en taught to admire from myearliefl years, by. that I could not facrifice my own and my fa mil'', tights, for any fuppofed benefit to the com pany, or any provinonal good which I %VAN given to rxi ea. Betides the mode of furrender ctiaated, and the ground on which it profeffett to be found ed, was ftich, that I could nvt adopt it, without rtndering a credit to fuggeßions, highly difho nourable thofe whom, by duty and religion, I v. a; bound to honour and revere. I had already an inclination to attend to the company's rtluit'ainni, in fo far as they could be attended to; and was much induced by my own fentiments, to extend the propofal which had been made. on my '):Lit, emit to a greater latitude, on the principle of the fo"ting on which it had been nmste. My mo:ivcs therefore for the non acceptance of his offer, could admit of no doubt. That 1 had the highefl perfonal confideration for his lordlhip, and would hope that the frank and es :talwcr which I had now given him, Would sot occalion offence." While I was delivering what I had to lay, a nior.L.:r of troopers rode round the tent, with rwordsz and an unufual guard of Sepoys p,.;led at the doer; who traverfed condant ly :end fro ; and a cartaln degree of confulion I•eniz.l to reign around. I endeavoured, never lo to preferve a coolnefs and confillency of iequilite for the occafion ; and have to tl I A% EN that my reafon and fortitude was twt t.• lhaken by a circumfiance calculated to them ; and v.shich from after praißices, I am " y to add, that I cannot but imagine wits eon. with that view. Atter I had concluded what I had to anfwer, • I.ordiii;p replied, That I was extremely • ••• • • • • 6 .• ••• • • $ 1 • very lan time that he Mould addrefs me ott the fabjea"---and with a few words of form. he de parted the tent. I have taken thine pains to acquaint you with the foregoing eirctimtlances, as %cell by myfelf, as by the more detailed account of the Regents, as they tend to thew the trite grounds of the dices greement which exiki between me and the go vernment ;—and which have been made the pre tence of difpoireiling me of a throne to which, by palatial right, as well as by the will of my royal predeceffor, I was lawfully and indifputably in titled. From the detail, in which yon are in polTeffion, you will readily perceive the policy on which the Madras Government have acted ; that they had an ambitions defign front the begining, of poffet Ping themfelves of the whole domimons of the Carnatic; a defign which the circumfiances of the times feemed peculiarly to favour. Apprehenfive, however, of the opinions of the European and Afiatie world, they determined on arriving at their ends by means the leaft alarming and iufpi cious. They, therefore, fi rft betook themfelves to him whom they well knew, if he could be brought to content, could give not only elFeit and legality to their unbounded views; but they fonn .experienced, from the wife precautions of his pre deceiror, that he was not left a ready inarument to their purpofes, (though not indifpofed in fend ment to accept any reafimable terms,) and judg. ingflom the latter eircumlfanees (which hewed a pliancy ofeharader ) that he might yet be made what the Government defired to fee him, they endeavour. ed by promites, allurements and threats, to mould him to their wifhes. But teeing in the event, that all their firatagems failed, while their ambition re mained unabated, they retort to other expedients, that feemed to promile, if not a more honourable, at leall a more fuccelsful iffue. Their ambition Rill exhibited its original mixed charaaer • it pot felled not any of that daring, open, and dazzling quality, which leads the world to overlook the means in the fplendour of the event ; but a lofty and towering mind, with a diminutive and half allured fpirit, which alftes but can never perfed a great or admirable atchievement. • Ditappointed in their firit expedation, the Go vernment fought to accomplish their objet by the instrumentality of the next immediate Prince to the Mufnud of the Carnatic ; and unmindful of the order and fucceflion, and of the difpolition of his' late Highnefs, did not fcruple to open negotiations with him for filling the Imperial Seat. But I (hall not trouble you at any length on the many (Ater fuges ufed on this occasion ; or of the meafures adopted, through an ebliqur: medium, of obtain ing their originally intended end. On the ta d of July, (about eight days after the demife of his late Highnefs,) the Comeniffioners of Government, whom I have had to often occafion to mention, fent for Huitain ne Dowlak, (fon of the Amcer, and nephew of hie late Highnefs,) to the tent of Colonel M'Neil, and entered into a conference with him for fume hours. They re peated their vifits every day, at fometimes bring ing with them large fupplies of money, until the instant, when the Ameer's fon was removed with great ceremony, and under a Rrong ercort of the Company's cavalry, to a houfe provided for him by the Government; at which place, a treaty was deviled and executed, alienating, as I am told, the whole territories and countries of the Carnatic, to the polfef fi on of the Company._ . . During the time, even when thefe tranflitlions were paffing, feveral reprefentations were made to me, through Colonel M•Neil, ci the favourable difpofition of Government to me, and of the ad vantages which would be 101 l by my refilling to meet their willies ; that he was well affured that the Ameer's fun would readily accept any terms which the Government fhouhl gracionily grant to him but ai I delivered my fentiments pub licly to the Officers of Government, and at open conferences, I declined to hear any private pro petals ; and fo informed the Colonel, obferving at the time, that I implicitly believed whatever he told me ropeeting the Ameer's ion ; for I well knew that iv would receive what the Company would be pleated to give him, in lieu of the terri tories of the Carnattc ; for he would be receiving every thing, when he had nothing in reality to re turn. I need not acquaint you, (for it is a common confequence of the policy I have been dere' ibing), that every means were tiled to fpread ditfentions in the family, and provoke counter claims, in order to give the Government a colour for interference ; and notwithdanding the variety of contending in tends. which this firatagem put in motion, I am happy to fay, that a fettle of jullice filially prevail ed, and that there was but one opinion as to the fuccedion, which ought to be confulted, and but one fentin.ent of the conduit of Government as to the meafitres adopted by them. Aud thinking that the united fenfe of the Family and of the Mabornedan lawyers might have had a weight and influence, I inclofed two written in fitments to the Government, declarative of their felitiments, on the ail which Government were about to 1... / ea on. Copies of which, papers are in clofed for further information. And bearing Ihortly after, that Government intended to place the Ameer's fon on the Isfulbud at all events and at all confequenees, I residefled the Regents, in a public letter (a copy of which accompanies), to addrefs the Right Honourable the Governor in Council on the fubjeit of my af fairs, recapitulating what had paired at the con ferences with me and them. profefling our joint wilhes to form fuch an alliance with the Company, as might infilre our mutual intereßs, and begging that they would open a negotiation with us in writing, and in a direit way, which they had al. ways previoufly declined; and we would endea vour to fatisfy their capitations as far as our means would allow. But to the addrefs of the Regents the Government did not return an an fwer. Being informed on the nth. that a public no tificttion had been made through the different . rite s .1 A . e dreffect the o , overdw, with the advice of the Re gents, on the fuggefied naeafnre, and propofed to accept the terms which had beer, at fird offered. A meafure which my mind revolted at; but which teemed to be demanded by the trying exigencies of the moment; and I felt confident within myfelf, that if my offer had been accepted, that the liberality of the liritifh nation would have never held me bound by conditions which had been fo compulforily impofcd on me ; or would have ameliorated a Iltnation which had been produced by means which! neither honour nor judice could bear to contemplate. My addicts was wholly and totally difregarded. I cannot repeat the fcene which followed—that intuited every noble feeling, and outraged every right. I have endeavoured, under the mortifying events which have happened, that the variety of , fenfations which have poffeffed me, to acquaint you of the unhappy fituation in which I find my felf expofed, and I am afraid that I have ill fucceeded. I need not endeavour to impiefs you with thc horrors of the fituation to which I feel myfelf re duced. Yon have hut to piEture to yourfelves the height of human grandeur and the fad and nrifel - able reverfe of it ! The highell and lowell condi tion of which humanity is capable ! but even the meanell lubjeel of the very word Government, polfelfes a bleffing, which my fortune and fate forbid ! He owns the gratifying fenfatioa of know ing himillf fafe amidil the fociety of his fellows ; while I, alas! have no friendly nor kindlyfociality ; none of thole relations and tics which are made to fecure the comforts and happinefs of life—an unit, as it were, in die (urn of the people of the Carnatic, I am delivered into the hands of an enemy, who has but one at to execute—to finifh his career. If I fail of your alive fervices, your zealous and firenuous lupport, there is but one fhort Ilep to inevitable dettrudion; let me intreat and im plore, that you take the :immediate time to leek the removal of the ills which are about to over whelm me. From the dillance which intervenes, from my ignorance of the fit and proper means of remedy, and from my fenfibility of the injuries with which I am feverely galled, I know not what courfe to try. In your judgment, experience, and cooler determination, I confide and Tel NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCR. YARMOUTH, JUNE t 6. Arrived his Majeay's ShiP of War rat s, and thi s morning failed on a cruife after Smugglers, the IRIS frigate, BITTERN !loop, and ADDER gun vcf fel.—Wind Weft.—Arrived from the Baltic the KERRISON, CRICKINAY, with timber.--Remains in the roads the Cruifer brig. PORTSMOUTH, JUNE i 6. This day arrived the Mary and Ann, Coolt, from Sunderland ; the Adive, WILLIAMS, from Poole, anal the Elizabeth, FRENCH, from South hampton.—Sailed the Peace, KIRK, for Hull ; and the Jane, B►vrs, fur London. FROM LLOYD'S MST. Dent., JUNE 16.—Arrived, and failed for the River, the Themis, Douglas, from Grenada.—Sailed, the Hibbert, Queen, Martha and Thomas, Richard and Peggy, Tartar, and Nor folk (traufports), with troops for America; and feveral other outward bound valets. Wind S. S. W. G ses.o, June s6.—Paired by the Jeffie, Weft, from Bourdeaux ; Pallas, Dedlay, from Naples; James, Butler, from Jamaica; Margaret, —, from Trieße ; Adventure, ; and Alert, Hill, from Dantzick; Rambler, Harrifon, from Stockholm; Mary, Todd, from Smyrna ; St. joleph, —• and John, Appleton, from Charlefton; Nelly, Read; Expedition, Gray; and Adeona, Street, from Peteriburgh Sailed, the Mary, Crawley, for Madeira; Hope, Cretfhell, for Nlugadore ; Comfort, —, for Quebec; John and James, Liadigreen, for South Carolina ; Bee;Bully, fur Naples; and the Good Hope, —, fur Rotterdam. The accounts which we have received from Egypt are unfavourable; confution and diforder inci cafe there from Jay to day. Several parts are in full infurredion. The Beys demand the renewal and the confirmation. They are flipported in their pretenfions by the Mamelukes, and the rebels already form numerous bodies. The I GR AND VIP sum has received the ftrittell orders to negled no thing to fuppiefs this infurretlion. The Englith, who have ail' Soon troops in Egypt, have con tented thendelves with declaring that they would not give any fupport to the revolted Beys. We underftand, by a letter from Bombay, that the King of Soot.on has agreed to furniflitheEng lifh, exclufively, with the pepper grown in that Bland, which is now become a great mart. This Hand is only 30 mile:Jong, and 12 broad, and yet contains, according to computation, 60,000 inhabitants. Yefterday a Court of Directors was held at the Eaa India Honk, when Mr. WM. ADDERLEY was fworn in as Kilter of the extra (hip Demmer, de (tined to Bengal.—Mr. THOS. JONES, Matter of the extra (hip 7 ottenbam, took leave previous to his de patture for Bengal direct.—The Rev. SAMUEL Hoot. a was appointed Chaplain to the Company's Alms Houfes at Poplar, vacant by, the refignation of the Rev. JOHN WHEEL ER. The following extract, from a bill now before Parliament, is very interelling to the Comman ders of Ships from the Weft Indies, while in the Weil India Jocks, at Blackwall," And be it farther enacted, that the matter or Commander of every (hip or veffel, which (hall or may unload in any of the Paid docks, bafons, or buts; or in cafe of his death, difability, or incapacity, the next chief, or fenior officer, then actually ferving, or employed on board fuch (hip or veffel, Shall, dur ing all the time employed in unloading or dif charging fuch Ship or veffel, actually remain on boara, and fitperintend, aid, and afflit, in fuch un loading or difcharging ; and, that every Mailer or Commander, or in cafe of his death, difability, or incapacity, the next chief, or fenior officer then ac.. tually ferving, or employed on board of fuch Ship or veffel, who (hall negle& or refufe to=tLi s nd aid, and aft, in the unloading and ' *ng . sroßnivd IN7ELLIGEA'CE. BEVERLEY RACES, FRIDAY, JUNE The 501. for all ages—Four mile heats. Lord NI idoleton's gr. c by Benoingborough,3 years old Mr. Droorn's c. Trowfers, 4 yrs old •Mr. c. Argam, by Huby, ditto, bolted MANCHESTER RACES, FRIDAY, JUNE Fifty Pounds with a Sithfcription Purfe of 301. added for all ages.. —Four mile heats. Mr. Ackers's b. c. lien berayncs, by 5 yra old Mr. Clifton's br. g. Grinder, 5 yrs old - Mr. W. Hutchinfon's b. c. Earby, 4 yrs old I I - 11 I I - 3 s 1 dr The Under-Sheriff who was fined 51. by Lord F.i,t.F.nioaouna for Ed refing fiknce in Court, complains that the decifion is very liven, as ir E drd not open his mouth. The Woburn Sheep-fhearing commenced on Monday. The Dute.of BF DFORD, floor motives which may tarsi) , be conceived, was not relent, anJ, in confequence, the whole was under the di reftion of Lord SOMERVILLE. Many of the firft agricultuiitis in the kingdom were prefent, but the company was by no means fo numerous as lalt year. The hale of flock was very brilk, and all the lots were fold at high prices. Eighty (even guineas were given for a (core of ewes. The de cilion on the prize.cattle was to take place yefter day. . About three o'clock the company retired to the Abbey to dinner; as foon as they had taken their feats, a gloom was calf on the countenances of all prefent, for the chair where the late much lamented Duke ufed to lit was by defign left va cant, and a plate fet before it, turned up. Lord SOMERVILLE prefided as Chairman on the right of this chair. About five o'clock the company left the Abbey for the Park Farm, when molt of the Leicellerfitire rams (hewn in the morning were lett at good prices. Ten Herefordthire cows, and two bulls were hold at a high rate. Mr. SALMAN t the refident Surveyor, has invented a very capital thrashing mill, which is fo portable, that it can be all taken in a waggon, and completely fixed up in barn in the courfe of a few hours. Tuefday morning, at ten o'clock, the company left the Abbey, and proceeded to the Park Farm Yard, and infpeeted the fheep.fhearers. Five three (hear cups were fliewn in the exhibi tion room, and ten two-(hears. Two hundred and forty hreeding South Down Ewes and Theaves were then exhibited in pens in the park, and fold by auelion by the bailiff; they were fold in lots of ten and twenty each; and fuch an opinion had th e company of the bred, that home of them aftually fetched 41. cos. per head. The principal bidders were gentlemen of rank; fume of them fold only at 11. 18s. a head, but, upon the whole, they fetched very high prices. Mr. Pickford, the great waggon-mafter of Market greet, exhibited a Sow Pig, not two years old, which weighed about 70 lone, which bad been principally fed ui.on peafe. He likewife exhibited a Boar for the prize, not nine months old. The late Duke had extended the objeels of this truly noble fete, not only to pradical agriculture, but likewife to the liberal and ufeful arts; and we were pleafed on the, prefent occafion again to fee a number of intelligent and ingenious men, from all parts of the United Kingdom, mingling with the agriculturifts and breeders, and exhibiting their refpeelive arts and inventions. At three o'clock the principal part of the corn. party adjourned to the Abbey to dinner, where a molt elegant dinner was provided for about 200, in the ancient hall. The Chair, formerly filled by the late Duke, was again left vacant—Lord So- MERVILLE fat on the right of it, and Mr. COKE, of Norfolk, on the left, as managers. An adjoining room was likewife filled with company.—After dinner Lord SOMERVILLE gave— The King. ro the Memory of the fate Duke of &thfurd. After which Mr. Yews+ G, Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, addreffed the company by calling their attention to a letter be had that day received from the Duke of BEDFORD, in London, which his Grace direded him to read to the company. The letter Rated, that it was his Grace's inten tion to carry into effea the deligns of his late brother to the fullelt extent, and to continue this meeting; and as he knew it was his brother's in tention to dilconlotte offering premiums for the encouragement of the breeds of South Downs and Leicetterthire !heel), as he was perliraded his objeft had been anfwereti by the extention of thefe breeds, particularly in the South Downs, which bad made confiderable progrefs in the county, he Hmid, therefore, difconunue offering any premiums on this head, but thould offer premiums for all dittind breeds of fheep, for the purpofe of trying experi ments; he, therefore, propofed to purchale twenty of every breed of theep throughout the country, and to pay all travelling expences of any breeder from any part of the country, who chore to fend them, to be delivered at Woburn between the 13th of September, and the isth of I:Mober, and the effects of the different experiments to be made known at the (beep (hearing 1803. It was limed to be his• Grace's intention to continue the premi ums to Shearers, being convinced of neat and dote clipping being a confiderable Ewing, and of national utility. I'he letter was received with very great appla ore, and his Grace's health was immediately drank, which was followed by— Suceefs to hulbandry. The Farming Societies in all p,rt• of the world. The Plough. The Fleece. The Landed and Commercial Intereis of the United King dom, and lung may they he infeparable. Earl Egremont. Sir Harry.leatherftone. Lonirrefton. To the Memory of the late Duke of Bedford— wit; repeated, after IA hizh the company returned to bufinefs. The meeting was much more numeroufly at tended than yetterday, and among the perfnns of (-Latina:on, wenoticed LordCuningham, Sir Hugh Inglis, Sir Joreph Banks, Sir rohn Rohriehe