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i LAST INDIA PAPERS, • I !MIMED TO THE 143121111 VT COMMONS, PURSU•NT TO THEIR ORDERS UP THE 25T11 •NO 28TH JUNE, 1805, INC TO f•ST INDIA JIFF• 1116 -- (Contended from the STAR of Saturday Wt.) It is further to be obferved, that the opinion of Vizier Ali's fpurious birth not only 'weeded his in formation, and all inquiries un the fubjea, but has ever invuriably exifted from the moment of his firth ' production, by the late Nabob; Zehfeen's account, ther elate, was not the fouree of it, but an explanution of the grounds of it, and goes 'only to fubßantiate the opinion which has always prevailed, although the eircumßances which gave rife to it may not have been generally known, or, in the lapfe of 17 years, niay have been forgotten, If Zehfeen had been affuated by refentment againft Vizier Ali, his evidence would have been direted againft him alone, and in favour of fume of his bre thren. It operates againß all. This appears to me a fufficient anfwer to the fill objection, provided the . fecond, which mires from contraßing the account Rated to have been delivered by Zehfeen to the Rep dent and Minifter (and Rated in my minute of the 24th November), with that which he has detailed fence my arrival at Luenuw, can elf° be obviated. In the former he is faid to affert, that Rehmur, the , ember of Vizier Ali, both in the eafe of his birk awd that of the former fon, Mahomed Amgen, war ant from the Zenana to be delivered in his hours, and the inference which it fuggelted was this, that the Nabob certainly knew of her pregnaney, might hip po& himfelf the father of the child, and configured the mother, during her delivery, to the care of Zeb. fun ; and under Inch circumfiances, neither the low sate of the mother, nor the place of her delivery, as it then appeared, could have been admitted as a bar to the validity of his title, as a fon of Afoph ud Dow. lab. The account which be has fume given is, that nil MIN of hertilf to his houfe, and the Nabob did mat even know of her previous pregnancy. This is the coatradittion to which the obje&ion applies. - •To appreciate the weight of it, I defired the Refi dent to call upon the Minifter, in the pretence of Zehfeen, to Rate his recollection of the account de livered by him, and communicated unofficially by the Refideat to myfelf, and I annex his report and ex planation. The Minifler's recollection did not enable him to fpeak pofitively, or accurately on the fubjed ; he however per folly remembers, that Zehfeea had men tioned that Vizier Ali's mother was a feriant, receiv. lag only four rupees per month, a circumttance omitted by the Refident in his report. When the converfation took place with Zehfeen on the fubjed of Vizier Ali's birth, the fufpicions which theßefulent and Minifter then entertained ofZehfeen's Attachment to the Minifier, as well as other rearms, peclatied any minute examination of him ; and the efidenr, who wrote the account fubßantially on the following day, will not venture to alien, that he did not mifunderftand Zebfeen, who pofitively maintains Or ooitianefs of his information then given, and imputes any apparent inconflUency to the mikon ception of the Refident. He himfelf is inclined to believe it t and his mifcanception arofe from the cau tion obferved in queflioning Zehfeen, in the defsre of itirnfelf, and the Minifler, to avoid appearing minute o their inquiries, and that a particular examination might have led to the fame detail which has face way given. In this conclufion I concur. The Refident had always previoufly obferved, that the mother of Vi zier Ali was one of the females in the Harem, and ' this impreffion would eafily lead to a mikonception on his part, of the account g ' iven by Zehfeen. That circumstance Zehfeen's information which the Mi • sifter recollects, is incompatible with fuels a fuppofi •tion, and renders it highly probable, that he mifun derftood Zehfeen ; for, as he julity obferses, if the eireurntlance had not efeaped his recollection, he could never have underftood that Rama, the mo. ther of Vizier Ali, was received into the Zenana in the fame manner with the other women whofe chil dren the Nabob purchafed. The fill information of - Zchfeen was general, and by connecting with it the . circumftenee recollected by the Minifter, and forgot. ten by the Refident, it admits of an eafy reconcilia tion with his fubfequent detail. The Rated objeCtions, therefore, to the inforMation of Zebfeen, are, in my opinion done away. In favour of Zelifeen's evidence, the following obfervations occur— The candour of his declaration, in affirming, Moll pofitively, that the deceafed Nabob was aftually the father of two children. The fad was unfuppofed, and the atfertian uncalled for ; and as Zehfeen could not be ignorant of the object of heft enquiries, he would naturally, upon a ruppofition of falfehood on his part, have concealed a circumßance operating . fo Rrongly againft the inference deducible from his In formation on other points; and his candour adds much to the weight of his general teftimony. The confiliency of his account refpeaing the other children of the Nabob is greatly in his favour. He delivered the detail verbally, without any premedi tated or previous intimation that it would be requited of him, and repeatedit upon (everal re-examinations, at different intervals, with no other than immaterial variations, as to the periods of the birth of the chil dren, and the intreduaion of their mothers into the Zenana, points on which be never profeffed to be ac curate. If the acectints were falfe, that falfehood mull have been detected on re-examination, for no common memory could have recapitulated a detail of this nature, without contradictions fufficient to im peach the veracity of the informant. The account gives no preference to any child over Vizier Ali ; if trite, it equally operates to the prejudice of all. The name of Saudet Ali, or of arty of the fonsof Shujah ud Daulalt, was never once mentioned to Zehfeen, or by him. His fituation, tinder the late Nabob, was of the matt confidential nature, and his trulls very exten fire. Ihe expreMon of Almas to me, in defcribing it was, that lie had had every thing under his charge, not only the Harem, but all the Nabob's property, and that he poreffed the 1;0101 confidence of his late nailer. The circurntlances relating to the children are, as he himfelf Orel red, very g:nerally known ; hut he alone, of all men, is cwr.petent to the detail ; and if his veracity be allowed, his evidence is certain ly the bell that can be procured. Hoffein Rcza (*puke highly in favour of his chiraner. The credibility dine to it Withers is bell ellimated by his character, by the mode in which he gives his evidence, and by croft examination ; by all thefe tells, that of Zehfeen has every appearance of truth and vcuracy. His charaBer hat never been im peached, and his attachment to his religion ap proaches to bigotry. With the Koran in his hands, he avouched the truth of the information delivered by him, as Rated in the chapters No. t and 2, which were tranflated and read to him; and generally, the truth of all that he had laid upon the fubjed of the late Nabob's childten, in all the inquiries made of him by myfelf and the Refident, he appeared to pof fefs the cleareft revillation and accuracy; and his behaviour impreffed me with the Melt conviction of the truth of his evidence. The evidence of Zehfeen goes to one material point, the birth of Vizier Ali, and all the children. The opinions of the others, viz. the Minifier, BURR Mitre, Meer Abul Affirri, Mahomed johank khaun, Abdul Satecf, Biffumbee Pundit, and Mahobut Khaun, to the popular fade of the birth of Vizier Ali, and to the juflite of Saadut Ali's claim to the Mofnud. The firft objection to the evidence of Zehfeen All Khann applies alto to the declarations of the Minifter and Burra Mires. The integrity of the Miniftet's charaaer, wherever it is known, will exempt him horn the molt diftant fufpicion of being influenced by any improper motive, or capable of delivering an opinion contrary to his own conviaion. This infor mation, as far as it gives the popular fenfe on this point, as well as in molt other particulars, is confirm ed by the teftimony of every perfon who has delivered any. He was not privy to the examination of any of the others, nor was there any cemmtutieations be tween any of the parties refpeCtively. Of the BUM Mirsa I know no more than that his family and charaeler are refpeaable. The remaining were appealed to as perfons %mem. veiled with any party, tufintere Red in any dicifion, and refpeaable from their charafiers sad &nation. I con , rider them what they profefs to be, the organs of the public opinions. Their fentiments were commenica. ted tc the Perfian tranflator, and as examination of his reports, will thew the esetion which was alerted in obtaining them, and the little fufpicion the patties entertained of the objed of the enquiries. Mahobut Khatto can never be fitfpeded of having any partia lity to a family which fubverted his paternal rights. Theft, with the others whom I have mentioned in the courfe of thefe remarks, were the only perfons whole opinions on the &Nee hairebeen committed to Writing. I could name many others who had expref fld their fenfe of the injudice done to the late fun of Shujah ud Dowlah,by the elevation of Vizier Ali, at a period before the profofion of the Nabpb had at tached partizans, or his views excited diffull. I now proceed to Rate the obfervations and eon elution* deducible from the premifes. In the firft place, I (hail notice the information el, Zehfeen Ali Khaun, that the Nabob was actually the: father of two children. The popular opinion of the fpurions origin of the late Nabob's children, arils from there circumftanem —the general knowledge that he pnrchafed pregnant women and children, the idea that his Harem was accelfible to other perfons, and above all, the fuppofed impotency of the Nabob, which is molt decidedly coistradided by the information - of Zehfeen. This information proves the danger of admitting popular belief in cafes of this nature, againft paternal acknowledgments and declarations. If Boorhan Ali had lived, he might have been included in the gene ral imputation. It is, however, to be obferved, that his birth was celebrated by particular marks of dif tiniflion ; and that very great rejoicings were made, both on the firth day after his birth, and on the oc eafion of his being weaned, ale the age of two years and four months. The firfk child of the Nabob was born during his abfence at Baraiteh, and as he died before his return to Lucknow, no rejoicings whatever were made, which was the cafe, with refpea to many of the other children : the fiat rejoicings for Vizier atli, were on the occafion of his beginning to read,' when he had attained the age of four years and four :months; the feeond upon his circumcifion ; and the third at his marriage. Theft rejoicings are exclufive of the ceremony performed at the anniverfary of the birth of all the children, when an additional knot .was tied on a tiring, as a memorial of their ages.— The affliaion of the Nabob, at the death of Bourhan Ali, was as remarkable as the rejoicings at his birth, and his affalion for this child. The certainty that the Nabob did beget children (for I willingly admit the evidence of Zehfeen, on this point, in all its weight), fuggefted the influence 'ef a prifibility that he might be the father of Vizier Alit fuch a poftibility may exill $ but the pot - nice wridence of Zehfeen, as to the circumftances of Vi ' flier Ali's birth,leaves the pollibility without a fhadnw at/ prefumption, and eflablifhes the real parentage in a Fraufh. To this, and to no other conclufion, his evidence tends, and it is the bell, if not the only pa fitive evidence, which the cafe admits. lo reverting to the circamftances which influenced our acknowledgement of Vizier Ali, the following were then affumed and admitted : Firft, That Vizier Ali was born in the Harem. This is denied by the information of Zelifeen, in whole houfe he was born, in a room of public accefs, and in circumllances which exclude all prefumption that the Nabob fulpeaed himfelf to ba the father of the child. Secondly, The acknowledgments of the Nabob, that Vizier Ali was his fon. . . . -- The proof of falfehood, of inch an acknowledg ment, in one intlance, would, in a great meafure, deftroy the weight of it in all others ; but if, as on the authority of Zehfeen, I admit the Nabob, in no lefs than (lateen inflames, acknowledged and edu cated children, who certainly were never begotten by him, it cannot, in reafon, be entitled to the fnal. left weight—and all the fubfequent aels and declara tions of the Nabob, in correfpondence with that ac knowledgment, are entitled to as little weight as the acknowledgment itfelf. Sheof Ali Khaun was never I even produced in public, or heard of before his fif teenth year, a circumfiance which Ilrongly confirms the evidence of Zchfeen in this particular inliance. Thirdly, the authority of the Mahommedan law, confirming the validity of fuch acknowledgment, is done away, by the knowledge of the teal parentage of the boy—as Mofhbpt Khaunjultly ()hie: ves, it is not meant by the expreftron krmwn," as quoted from the .Hedayn, that evidente is required to ella blifh the fast, but the genet ai belief and notoriety of BIRTH. Yellenlay, at her Mule in Pall Mall, Lady Holland, of a dasititer. DIED. On the a6th January, at Autun, M. de Fonranges, Archbithop of nutUn, and formerly Archbilhop of Toulon, aged 63 yeah. . • • To be PLREMPTORMY !OLD b . Aucnio:4, By Mr. JOSHUA PLASKI 14 I At the Qijoen's Brad 'no, in Groat Grltniby, in the county of Lltt• taco, on Friday the 7to day of March neat. bet cacti the hams Of two and ex In the afternoon. fubjed m fuch conditions of . ' Salo as will then and there be produced for the term of 99 yrs, with the Refervatiao of fatal Annual Ground Rents. UPWARDS of 5,000 fquare Yards of Ground, nu Ad the lidk-Ilde of the Dock, is Gant Granby eluded; nett the public gems and wharfs there, one of the molt dcflroble Nano in harbor, for boiling warehooki, and mat in( yards he hood pads, wee* !Rd merchandise, under the proMfbrao of a reps, A ct tiPaellitanlit. Which the Right Hon. the Lords Com, nallitnars of Ith MaJefirs Treefury haws been pleaded so extend to tits ran of Grinsthy, and ekes crier won wortk the attention of inereatelli guidaece handing to carry on, er to embark in email* MOS& SO apemen et to,otib fkinirt Yards 44 = 404 triaoliPirio,?iibs upon a kIeTIPMe draPil *ding to, immaitaka‘rs woe meranee channel of the Dock, Adak will found fogy aloft Nutted for recut Ttniber, Coal; &h. Merdiants.Andalce of isroo fleet Yards Ground, adnntageoarritimied for the purpled of making se halal dirtihreglmeatisAliats, &e. Fir Rip itheislutera,Mlß meg Block Makers. Sehmake‘ &Ain Itaron. 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MARTIN Eitn, . mtmbir of the Royal College of Sergaem, Is Leak& Na sp. Arundel ftreet, S trend. near Temple Bor. , 'l o l'HoO. '1 A t LOA, Efq. No. 9, New bridge-limo, Londoci. SIR —I confider it but an aft of plaice due to the merit, of your LEAKE's PATENT PILLS, to comanort rate to you the following Cure, which has recently bees performed by them:—An acquaintance of mine, who by the breaking' met of an old Venereal Complaint (attended by a Complication of Dif orders gang therefrom), was reduced attune to a &elem, Pat though he bad the belt me..1; , al advice which could be obtained, and tried a variety of patent medicines, nothing could be prefmie. which fanned to Cult his cafe, or do him any fen Ice; he reinalowl in a molt reduced and pitiable Miami= for two years,.miable ties follow his profcflion, and fearcely able to walk or even to Bauttes his legs ; in (nit, nmone who knew him ever fuppofed it poillde for him to recover. He was sdvifed at IA to try your Liam ae Puts—he did Co, Aridly adhering to the diredihms given with therm—he bad not taken more than two Goats, before he found ass alteration for the batter: this encouraged him to proceed, and by taking a few boxes more he found his appetite and email% grade ally return, and is now as healthy and as Rout as any -men I know. You are welcome, Sir, to refer any perfon to me for a confirmation of the above account if it Mould be doubted. I am, Sir, your obedient bumble fervent, Library, Folkftone, July 40, r 805. THO. PURDT. Prepared and fold by the role Proprietor Tao,. TAYLOR, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon dun, at his !mule, No. 9, New Bridge erect; Where, after a conflant rredence of more than 4o years, in a pradtiee particularly direCted to the cure of Venereal complaints and thole incidental to tile parts of generation in both fetes, with that inviolable fecrecy which men of his profefion Mould always °Hem, he flatters blmfclf the advice and afflitance be gratultoufly adminiffers to perfons taking this medicine, will be eßecmed, by I a difcerning public, as au advantage feldom to be obtained, mad void of ambiguity. Mfo fold, by his appointment, for the etinvenienee of thole log at • dittanee. at the Perfumer's No 35, St. Alhan's•Rreet, Pall Mall ; the Toylhop, 103, Oxford Rreet ; Mr. Dilborough, Rivet-bill Mr. Baxter's, Smith bridge, Edinburgh; Mr. M'Do , ald's,Glafgow ; Mr. CallwelEs, Dublin ; Mr. Billinges,Liverpaspl; Mr. Atkinfon's, Manchetier ; and by one perfun in every coal derevg 'own in Orat Britain nd Ireland, In boxes of only as. 9d. each, haled up with full andsiblln diredtions, whereby pisfuna of either fez may cure themfeixes with cafe, fpeed, fecrecy, and fitly. N. B. Every box fold in,Great Britain it foaled up with a Ramp, on which by favour of the Comnitßopers, is primed at the Stamp tfice—T. "Eaylor, No 9, New Brit..ge Itreet—s.to imitate which is felony, and all others ars counterfeit. IMPIDOt4 I hinted and pablithed by LEVEL KP.NT, (or Cau terbarytee, Lambeth), at the STAR 01110E,Nq. I Cartra Ertel. Malta all* at the Seas Dories, Tcatple-ear. X Drain dy. ' ' ".: . • ' -5' - 'rite win be pereorendly*Kle t Et i lnea. al fbil mop fig_tbe fade Mil be mead to e a roortug of abobili lam" and in or twit& and in a • Plocs Op% mile Os Eattelele dor OINK is lerkwater eaeok In do ire. Ma aDelabln op *oll.llsle ; Jo ora wake spider onionmoralielosib Iblip~bift at lame, to police as nlos pilMkoo tbe triburrignemik,A, front the Ferry aunt, at al Ihmos of For it iistroitlib pito ettbs . grouod. awl otber rirneolart,lPl4 in fidr• Jl e tt iiii tratelporintoodoot. or Mr. Otto Squire. Olaf ft eirs nor soy at Groat Ortotibi aforefabir, oou r, &inns It ttliflatiC, and Nervous Affec- tions, are dreauenr rentireid by she ufe seat P. Det BARCLAY's ANTIS; 1.101.18 P 144.8 Tito folkirioils Wok of their Awry, from 'nor 80r t : „...... /V ib sdr ; * 81*, * On receipt of taht';i:tpr—Zrksdutirs= it. This point I afcertained from the lam officeis of the Nizamat •Adowlut, when in Calcutta and in Lucnow, the parentage of Vizier Ali is generally aligned to a Frauth. I could quote various ',thence' to prove it. Whilft rumour pronounced Viiier Ali fpuriout, without identifying his parentage ; whilit the ac knowledgment of the Nabob, and a feries of corre fponding ads were impeached by report only; whillt the fandion of the Begum was liable to a fufpicioit only originating in Pelf iatereft, and what' we were !taught to infer that our doubts of Vizier Ali's right were not the prevailing Antiments of the inhabitants of Lucnow, it would have been contrary .to every principle of juflice to have pronounced him fpurious and his claim to the Mufnud ill founded. We have evidence now before us, that the Na- I bob has acknowledged and educated children as his own, who were not begotten by him ; we have in formation which &Mop the weight of the law of acknowledgtnent in favour of Vizier Ali ; we have evidence as to the birth of Vizier Ali, which leaves not a doubt that it is fpurious ; and inforthation, converting my fufpicions into proof, that the acqui efcence of the Begum was dictated by the hopes of preferving her controol and her averfion to the Eons of Shujah nd Dowlah. We have the dectaratiobs of the younger Begunsahat the fucceffion was fet tled without inveftigation or confideratiun ; the de• Bided declaration, that Vizier Ali and all his bre thren are fpurious ; and that the juiliee of the title to the Mufnud, vefts in the Eons of Shujah ad Dow lab $ mid we have evidence that the elevation of Vi zier Ali was confialered by all perfons of refpedabi -14, as a violation of juflice. To this may be added the indignation of Mires Jungly, at the forced connection between Reza Ali and his daughter ; the exprcffion of Huffein Reza lUsaun, that the fuccellion had been haftily decided $ the conduit and declarations of Alums, conformable to the public fentitnents $ nor (hall I omit the decla rations of the &gum herfelf, upon the authority of Zelifeen and Immamuddeen, that Vizier Ali and all the lons of the Nabob were fpurious. Alma*, fince my arrival at Lucnow, in the prefence of the Mini fter, has fpoken of the Nabob in terms of marked obloquy and difrefped. I lay lets arch upon the condud of Mirza Jungly, in withdrawing his daugh ter fmce the Nabob's death, as it may be imputed to the infamous attempts Paid to be made by Vizier Ali to get poffeflion of his brother's wife. It is seated with equal confidence and notoriety at Lucnow, that he actually attempted the life of Reza Ali, in more ways than one. The refult of the whole, in my opinion, is this, that Vizier Ali, and all the reputed lons of the de ceafed Nabob, are undoubtedly fpurious. The imp reffions which I received on th is fubjell fince myinquiries commenced, are very different from dusk which I entertained in Calcutta. The parentage of Vizier Ali, as many of the perfons to whom I have appealed obferve, is not confidered as any matter of delicacy in Lucnow. A fuppofition that he is the fon of Afoph ud Dowlah would have been treated with ridicule, excepting by the partifans of the Nabob, or thole who benefit by his follies and extravagance; and I could add many anecdotes to prove, that Vizier Ali has often, previous to the death of Afoph ud Dowlah, been reproached as the fon of a Frauds, and that the Nabob frequently alluded to his bale origin. His elevation to the Mut nud was a matter of furprize to perfons of all ranks, and was even fpoken of with contempt by the native troops at Cawnpore. In Calcutta, the aftertainment of his parentage teemed to reit upon a point equally beyond the reach of inveftigation ex proof, and involve inquiries fubverfive of all decorum, and terminating in doubt and uncertainty. I have no fufpkion that an inquiry might be concluded without violating decency, or that would terminate in demonft ration. Feeling, in all its force, the impref fion of the popular belief of the fpurious birth of Vizier Ali, and aware of all the confequences to our political reputation and juftice, which might refult from the acknowledgment of him as the fucceffor of Afoph ud Dowlah, f fill was not authorized to make them the grounds of rejecting it, in oppofition to the acknowledgment and declarations of his prefumed father, whilft I felt equal repugnance to fix tiblcquy on the reputation of the deceafed Nabob, by an in quiry dilated by general rumours only. It is now no longer dubious, that the repugnance to the admit . - 'fion of Vizier Ali'e fuccetlion, after an interval of reflation, was general—that the acknowledgment of it by the Company excited furprize and difap pointment—that it was efteemed both difgraceful and onjuft—and that nothing but the fupport of the Begum and the Company would have fuppreffed the expreftion of that repugnance. That may now veal in a lefs degree, but the difgrace attached to our decifion Rill remains. I conclude with repeating, that the prevailing opinion of the fpurious birth of Vizier Ali was not a partial rumour, originating in enmity or intereft, at his acceffion—that it has ever invariably and univer fally prevailed, in oppofitinn to the acknowledgments of him as his fon, by the Nabob Afoph ud Dowlah, which never obtained credit with a (Ingle hilman being ; and that the truth of it is now ettablifkeelby the clear, pofitive, and circumftantial evidence of ' Zehfeen Ali Khaun, which carries with it the fulltft convidion of its truth, as well from his character as from his fituation, which enabled him, and him only, to have a perfonal knowledge of the circumßances which he has detailed. In his lioufe, Vizier Ali was born, and he paid the purchafe money for him to his mother. That evidence to clear was to be obtained, was not indeed within the probability of expedtation. I now proceed to another head of inquiry, the cone dud of Vizier Ali, fince his acceffion to the Mufnud. The letters from the Refident at Lucnow, both previous and fubfequent to my &porn', e from Cal. cotta, will point nut what has been fince fully proved, the early dcteomination of the Nabob to ellablith his own power, by the fubvei lion of the influence of the I Company, in the province of Oude. The extent to which the meafures in fupport of this determination were carried, are left known in Cal cutta, although notorious at Lucnow ; for a particular account, f refer to the accompanying copy of an mi -1 official letter from Mr. Oufely, to the Perfian tranf- I ato r.—( To is moriarswl.)