Star. — London, England, 1817-09-20 00:00:00

INDIL FROM THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRA ORDINARY. FORT WILLIAM, MARCH 15, 1817. In directing the publication of 'the Official Dis patches regarding the late military operations against Hatrass, the Gevernor.General in Council deems it proper to-state for general information, the circum stances which led to the employment of a military ince against that place. By the Treaty of Peace concluded with Dowlut Row Scindiah on the 90th of December, 1809,cer tain territories in the Doi*, and on the right blink of the river Jumna, whit% had been conquered -by the British arms, were ceded to the Honourable the( East, India Company, ift full sovereignty. The Pori if Hatrass, and certain fads in its vicinity included within those territories, were at that period in the pos session of Thakoor Dyaram. The relations which subsisted between that Talookdar and the Govern-. tent of Dowlut Row Scindiah, differed in no respect from those of the other landholders in the territories ceded to the British Government, and no conditions or stipulations were made either with Dyaram him self or with the former Gtivernment of the country, which could operate to relax the ties of allegiance due from Dyarain -to the British Government, or to smiths him to claim any exemption from the general laws enacted for the Government of the territories in question. Actuated, however, by considerations connected, with the former habits and pitjodices of Dynan, Government forbore to ezi-rcise its undoubted right of insisting on the immediate demolition of the Fort of Hatrass, and in the reduction of 'the large military establishment maintained by him. It was naturally expected that Dyaram, finding himself fully protected by the British power against , the danger of foreign iovaiiun, and secured by the administration of just laws from any violation of his • private rights, would cease to feel any adequate ma. tive for retaining a military force, and would of him self gradually disband his armed retainers and allow his fort to go to decay. Similar considerations induced Government to sanction anadjustment of the revenue of Dyaram's estate on the most liberal and favourable terms, and to postpone the introduction into his estate of the sys,, tem of preventive policembich was adopted genetally in other parts of the eciuntry.: It was hoped that these acts of special indulgence, combined with the forbear ance and consideration uniformly manifested to him by the public officers, would by degrees conciliate his attachment to Government, and secure his prompt obedience to the local authorities. The jest and reasonable expectations which Go. uranium had entertained on this subject hare been entirely disappointed. • • Dyaram has pursued a coarse of proceeding syste matically directed to the aggrandisement of his per sonal power and iOfluence, by evading and contuma ciously resisting the orders of the constituted.authorl. ties, as well as by warning and exercising . powers entirely inconsistent with his relative situation, u a subject t:f the British Government. The commission of heinous crimessperpetrated by tlinservants of Dyaram, or by persons residing on his estate) has been purposely withheld from-Ibn know. ledge of the Magistrate. Robbers, murderers, a n d other notorious criminals, have been •tereened and protected by him from the pursuilanf justice. He has exercised au illegal authority in confining in the Fort of Hatrass, and in arbitrarily punishing, individuals, at his own dis ci: Kim. He has contemptuously resis. ted and rendeied nugatory the orders and processes of the C. tarts of Justice. The oilicersOf Government have been denied access to tbe Fort and Gunge of • Haixass, and many subjects of the British Govern ment have been thus deputed of the rotection to which they were entitled; crimes have been impu-- • niched, and civil injuries unredressed; Ilse repeated warnings and admonitions addressed to Dyarans by the local Officers and by Governineot itself have failed to produce any perinanent effect and some recent instances of gross inistondudi and . insolent contumacy.** the part of Dyarain compelled the Government to adopt the rescind°s of introducing regular police establishments within his estate, of in sisting on the disbaudnietit Of the large military force.. entertained by hirn,Amdbo the dem o of the,for• dfications of Hatrass. ' - I '. " • ' • • On the 27th of 'Deeenetskrlast, instructions were accordingly issued to hhilieliakespear, the Sur*itti tendon of lkilice in the western provinces, to carry • the mvehnions above alluded to into effect ; and with a view of discouraging and of eventually overcom ing sal teustance to the apasures question. ar. • sangeosuts wen at the same time adopted for assern- Us* an adequate military force in the immediate tisity of Hades,. Th a hnoe prelim does rsot appear to have been ;apprised of the destination of the troops until the even log of the 10th February, when he Immediately cost. menced reparations for the defence of the Fort and • Gunge ter Hatrass. •.'• -On the filth of February, Mr. Shakespear. under • the Instructions which he had received from Govern ment. directed Dyarain to send an authorised agent • for the purpose of learning theintentiOoti of Govern. ' lent. • The Fort of Hatrass was crested by the troops '-of Government on the morning of the 14th, at which •"lime two agents on do part of the Dyaram attended Mr. Sbakespear. . To those persons Mr. Sbakespear fully rsplain ed the causes which had led 'to ,the assemblage of the troops; and delivered to them a writteo memorandum to the same effect as the verbal conssnopication. In this communication Dyaram seas informed that Government had deemed it indispensably necessary .to introduce regular Police establishments through ' out his estate. To insist on the effectual demolition of the delerizes of the Feet and Gunge of Hatrass, and on the elisbaucstent: of the large indite:7lou ea t/stained by him.:-' 11% The hopekssnesidfarif tfltempt on his pariiii:P'*"' a l i t the eneution df thtlib fat.asures was also piscolsid , i, out to him, and hir'svaemfkitmed that by such mesas-1 tan he would place binidelf in the situation of a re-, b e ; in Government, and would expose himself and his adherents to the penalties of the law, including the loss of his estate, and the forfeiture of all claim to pardon. • was at the same time informed that if he immediately submitted to the measures prescribed by - • .LONDON . . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1817. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS D'A'Y AT TWELVE (VCLOCK Reduced shut— Comb, 1101i—Do. for Oct. OM 4 per Cat. shut—Navy, 10A 4—laths Sends 70 71 pre. Beck Loos Amos. abut—pEntheqm 1110 b, 114 s to 30s. pr. The Pavia Papaa,,Of 'Tuesday and Wedneiday, which have been WOW time over due, arrived this atorniog. . , On Motiday.M. LAllli t the Minister of the Inte rior, bad an audience of the Kraft, after leaving whom, k imesettitiely proce;dod to dot Deb of Arf Gomm& 14. BILLLART. the President of the Elec. torsi College of the Seine, and: the krefects of the. Departraeatt of the Allier, the Gard,. and the Indre, had also oa the same day special audiences of his Manstv. It is scarcely t 6 be doubted, from the relative sites tion of the parties, that these inttrvitows hate had a particular reference to the subject of the. approach ing Elections. The visit of M. Lame to * Duke of Asommessz, with all the appearanee which it has of a Message from the Km to his Royal Highness, is of rather significant import, and will doubtless prove a source of much uneasy specula-' tion to the Ysiptr: of the Ultra Royalist faction.—. Among the number of kitchens which have • fp ,prared on the subject of the Elections, there is one in the MoNiierr, of an apparentti'Oscial nature, alike distinguished for the injunction which it'adopu for its motto, as for the earnestness with which it enforces it. et 41frs mix Elections" Such is its motto, and such the theme which it inculcates. es Electors, (it concludes, you know your duties—your owns interest as well as ,the general interest calls upon you to fulfil . them." " Ales, Alleys, aix Elections." Can any thing more favourable be said of a Ministry, than that it thus plates its trust on the event of every indi vidual exercising his right of suffrage—exerts itself thus strenuously to urge the people to think and act for thenuelves—throws itself, -in short, so honestly and unequivocalty on the judgment of the nation at large t The Ex-Minister of War, die Duke of nevraz, after being allowed some days to meditate su his dismission, has at length, it appears, been fatoured with a private attdience of his MAIUTY. The trials for high treason. in the Prevotal Coot of Lyons, have ended in the conviction of sixteen of the individuals accused, who have been condemned to various degrees of punishment, and in the acquittal of the remaining six. Of the termination of the trial for the assassination of M. Fualdes, no account has yet reached Paris.— Some private letters of the Bth instant, from Rhodes, are said to mention, that a • personage of - distinction bad come forward, whose evidence had thrown great "gilt on the . motives of the crksse, And the conduct of the assassins. In the department which has been the scene of this atrocious auks*, -two other assassina tions are described to have first taken place, of a nature nearly as shocking and mysterious. The foreign intelligence in these papers is of little interest. The &torsos of RIMIA is stated to have let, Petersjoargh on kis grpnd jolter iato the Southern Provinces of hii Empire oo the 45th August, and is expected to be at Moscow on. the SOth of September. The Grand Duke Micstam. hid set out two days be fore the Emperor on a journey into the interior, and after visiting the Crimea, is to return by Odessa to Moscow.—French Fonds with dir. 22d of March, 1617, 66 fr. . We anntx a curious Petition from the Communes' ' in the neighbourhood of some of the privileged. fo-' rests in,France, .which will give an idea of what the state of the peasantry before the Revolution was, and tti of what,it would probably aeon become aguish • gte old 'draft& things were re-established. The At ion was presented to the House of Peers in Januarrl st : " The undersigned Inhabitants and Proprietors of the Com. MUMS of Beau•repaire, Vernetul, Fleuriae, ViUars•Saint beers, bilk, Ponspoint, Posit St. Afazence, hacked by the pa. ternalguesiness of the King toward* all his subjects, and per suaded that every nosiest founded a Judea Is fsvourably re ceived by the House of Peers, address it with confidence. ft net to an abuse without resultsjint to *calamity which thiamin to deprive them, with their property, of the means of existence, that they mil your atteution.. , " Situ lied en the borders, and In the Interior of the forests *1 Maze, and of Chantilly, these Communes see their fields, sad even their gardens, a prey to the ravages of a prodigies num ' her of wild boars. All signs are ineffectual to drive them off Discouragement spreads every where. kis remembered with dread, that thirty_ years ago the country had become a desert irom the same cause. lo 1759 the st.habit ants themselves were per mitted to destroy these dangerous animals, and a Se* weeks Sulked to clear ail the territory of thesis. Within eight years they have appeared again, and especially within three years they multiply in an alarming manner. This very year, in which the dearth of grain renders it so precious, the communes have had still mere to suffer from this devastation. rbey have already destroyed all the rye which has been sown. The Prince's (of Conde, we bearer) hunts, for which these Wrests are reserved. are of no sort of utility. '1 hose alone who 'have an Interest to struggle against this scourge can destroy it. Already, at different times, petitions have been addressed to the local authorities.— Some have bad no elfect, others have been followed by very la iodide= wiesuree, • Io thlrootokostOo the petitioning Communes kepi*, the leseregaiaihrelle chamber of Peers to obtain, by dietiehe.ans, the psrmlieltio for di j einsebres to • repulse this dangereVs Invelion. They Ailethe is. bails to tboiCkunkrs to Mkt - Measures oeconsiii Wien:its thee, ii witl-as all Preidstein t tb l eiirdola• Wily of property guirantaid fiy'the Chatter, and still more by the Opal justice of the King. • "We have'lle honour to be." are.- - (One hundred and frierateres,attested by the Mayors. of the petitioaing,Conannines, Mow.) • Letters from Bombay, of the 18th March, Mention that the pirates have again become formidable in the Red Sea.mad Golf of Persia; and one 'account states, that four vessels have been cut off . by them. It is said they have captured cargoes to the "value of eighteen lace of mimes. From the Beezal Ifiriarts, of Much 15%—U The extraordinary rainy weather which has prevailed here. seems to have been common through:Mt Bengal, and has extended its uncomfortable gloominess to.the upper provinces. We hope this - unseasonable Visita tion may not be . productive of an .unhealthy hot season." • The Police of.Calsotta re et present eed 7 epfeid In examining into the cnaduct of the crew of a river vessel,in which e Very valuable cargo of indigo and other goods bad been mat down tor a ship lying. below. The crew,. we uhderstand, reported the total loss of the ; but the discovery that certain parts of the cargo had found their way to town, bas led to this enquiry. .Letters from Halifax of the 24th August, received in Town yesterday, state,' that Dr. TIARES arrived there in the Princess Elisabeth Packet. Dr. T. is a Gentleman that holds the appointment of Astrono. men, attached to the commission foy running the bourdary line between the Uaited States and the British possessions, acting under the sth article of the Ghent Treaty. through negligence in some quarter, the astrono- Mica' apparatus . intended to be used in the survey, was left at Falmouth when Dr. T. sailed, and orders have now come home to send it nut. In the m•...n time the Commissioners cannot proceed. and Dr. T. has gone ..tro . New York. there to pass the ensuing winter ; they will not be able to meet again uwAl die 7 ,The Halifax merchants complain of the scarcity of money; the crops are represented as abundant. Se veral vessels had arrived there in distress for' provi sions and wrier; three vessels were loaded with emigrants, for whom the local authorities and met% chants felt much difficulty in providing. NWT ORLEANS, Atm. 2 —A report is in eircula• lion that a severe action was fought lately off the ' West end or Cuba, between. the Mexican schooner Hotspur and the Spanish brig Casidore. The latter carries 18 guns, with a complement of 160 men ; the former S pi...a, and 60 men. Unequal as the contest must have been, yet we understand the Hotspur Would hare carried the Casidore, bad not other Spa nish vessels hove in sight. The Casidore was so crippled, that she could, not give duce, and half the crew of the Hotspur were killed or wounded. Advice; of some interest have been received from Portugal. Orders having been given by the Regency for the embarkation of 8000 men for Riot/anewo, the utmost dissatisfaction manifested itself among the. troops marked put for the voyage. One regiment fled wholly into the interior, in parties ansounting,to from 50 to 100 men, carrying with them their 1111114 clothing, and accoutrements; another is said - to have. declared to their Officers on parade, that they would not be transported without having committed• any offence, and threatened to repel force by lonic. The influence of Marshal Bumarola wairealled in to appeme.the disorder, and be at length,* in rev e ling .obedience to the will. of,•the Go* . • menu pith isc it it said, upon a solemn proallieetsi by 1023,2se z lf o that such as desired it s ho 4 l # l,b e at: y to return to Portugal in • thr e e y ears # an d. the n were allowed to take with diem their wives and • drat. Nothing definitive has taken place with respect to the conspiraton ; an d t h ere i s a ru mour that their designs were less against th e Kii g than against a foreign Marshal who exercises great authority. The probability of his Majesty's retwi again begins to be tt naattsuat discubion. •NAVAL INTZIZIGENCI. a PLYMOUTH, SEPTEMBER ia. Arrived WI this port the Orion, PAO% fr. She spoke on the Yd instant, in lat. 41.48. 11.17. W. the Tamerlane, bound to the Good Hope. Also, arrived his Majesty's tlii i from a cruise. PORTSMOUTH, SEPTEMBER it Arrived the Nassau, Gamaraast, from , and the Brilliant, DUNCAN, from London for nah.—Sailed the Crown and Iltracromb e for the River; the Integrity for Calai s ; hi. ships Btoio4l, ft* the Brazils, and Cato; craiae; Nicholas, Rumens, for Hambun t h ham, Tynei- thlil Briton, Harleston, Lid cent, anethei Warrior,- for London.—The Paacts, that ?arrived on the 17th instant, le! Cape the Theodosia, FLINN, for Lt.iltlnn ; for the Isle of France ;• Briliiant, Selina, M Rapid, from London ; John and Regalia tr Agnes, loaded, and ready to sad for Lond , Spike, QUINTIN, had arrived and sailed Mr and the Governor Raines, from Batavia,' -and sailed again for liAtaviA.—Wind S.W. DEAL, SEPTEMBER le . ponce R' the Eli sow ltrrt fr r o ad and m Barcelona. for c t a h m e e lt , , lo gree wn , kiln t Albion. S f i o e r rr c a al L cu eo tt n a e ; Pr t A he m P eri ire ca n ; ees' Nes i t o o r r. Commerce, for Gibraltar; Matild a , for Lisi tuna, for St. Martin'*; and the Admirat for Bengal —Wind West. SHEERNESS, SEPTEMBER is. Arrived last night the Billy. BUOWN, from burgh for London, very leaky. havin g t. ren on the middle in the Swin ; also arriv e d w i anchor and cable, the Henry, Orrsran, in ' CUSTOM-HOINE, SEPTEMBER /9, Snas [NT ti 111 INWARDS- be Flying Hsb, Ironer, Calder, worn Orend; Ne L pgw, Airy, 1.- Lkminica, Holder, (ran Dotnid.ca Ju-tilia, Drotteck; Piggy, Scotland, from Lope:Amgen; Taylor, front tutu. • On•rvimins.—The Lorenzo, ar ' .or Ou o-h New Brothers. Wright; and Spring. Snowden. fur Rotterdam tunas, Bakker, for Rouen; Eliza, Wives, fa. Ostend and Caroline, Clark. for Sr. Chrwinpher 's Prorianug, he ( for BilleJa; Duckenfield, Sant, for Jamaica; Jam Coates, for Eit4ttfilf;' limo, Hutchinson, jun for Jacobus Vats Mistiltetherg, •fansen, fur Flushing Mclly, Farrier, Calais; anal Piggott, Sao:sar i and Tobago. BOLZ : IIE.ifD 110.111-NEW SYSTEM. The expeditious conveyance of intelligence object of the first itriportance to a commerciAl try. The Post• Masters General have made exertions .to accomplish this desirable end, by blishingmail coaches on every practicable line. Bet one of the gre..test improvements in - 'carriage has been effected by the late arrant for the conveyance ot the snail from London Mead. According to the old mode, the arrival of the deb Mails in Dublin on the days they were be stated, on the average of the year, as follows: • •• Sear. 6 o'clock, A. M. 59 Mails arrived. • • Schee 10 o'clock, A. M. 151 do. • .• Bofors s o'clock, P.M. 11 i do: • *ton .to'clock, P.M. 950 do. • is accessary to remark, that the likticliarrOwl by 13ritials alter five o'i was not delivered until neat morning, According to the,arrivals computed from tisallyreceived during last mouth, the averai si undtr s Before 6 o'Ctoei, A. M. 204 Mails arrived. Bowe o'Cloek, A. M. Se 4 do. do. • Befort 4 o'clock, P. M 924 do. do. Before 5 ol.Asek, P. M. a 3 do. do. By comparing the misstatements, it will bow far the mew system exceeds the ell, and not state to men cantile men the great bem•fit ti ai result to the country by this arrangement. 11, mercial union of the two countries is strenb and ceaentei by the rapidity of correspondence. Loud n is the great matt for the purchase and of every commodity, the fluctuation of prices learned, by the Merchants of Dublin, in a shorter time than formerly, and, as it were, ' rive an increased degree of knowledge that the uncertainty of markets. We, therefore„ this improvement in the mode of conveyance matter of the.. very ant importance to the which now, .when .the period of national . has arrived, ought to devote her energies to trh. tension of mauufacturcs and commerce.—DaMwJ Mr. CANNING left Gloucester Lodge on Tuesday, to visit the Duke of PORTLAND. The Right fif Gentleman intends to remain in the country soot 'three weeks. Mr. WATSON TAYLOR i S intended new residence is Cavendish.square (late Mr. Hors's), is undergoie; great improvement and' alteiations, which are esti. mated at npwartis of £lO,OOO. The Marquis and Marchioness of ANCLEsET rived at Uxbridge House yesterday, from Beaudess:ei Staffordshire , Saturday, about one o'clock, at the Royal tisi Coach Hotel, Cork, a person who slept there for ele eight nights preceding was discovered dead in bed, after having discharged the contents of a pistol throe* his head. It appears that the deceased caliett self BaowNa, but since turns out to have been a 'Mr. Swum. Baavon, .who a short time ago absconded from the Hereford Bank, and . for whose apprehension page reward was offered. He had dined at the Bower Tavern, and did not.return till after eleven His effects were examined, when there appeeeJ a considerable sum of money, comprising Bar k of Etir land notes and gold, making a total et about 41,10 Irish. No documents were found but one note se. dressed to a Lady, of which the following is a cepS: " Mr. B. wildfire the pleasure of waiting on Miss W. at t' l! ' past twelve a lf auras- able--daturday moraine—Directed " W../..Hart4trafp - ,Thereivilitilso found a label on a new coat, dirri'.ei S. Beavoll',Mitt.' which is a corroboration that he the periorfOretitioned in the following notice, schieb was. receiVid on the day he shot himself : e , 'aloe RRIVA RD.— A 111C0 ND CD,•••Wberen !`afTtUri flear!?, for ten yearapast a Ckrk in the Hereford City and Cout.te i‘atd l , . did, under pretence of visiting Southampton for the bet , . bt of h health, abscond on the lath of August last, with a cub,kt , (4*. sum; thiproperty of Ida Employers.— Whoever will a, r e!"1! or Efts inimmation of the mad Samuel Navas, rhall the add Finn the above Reward of Outs ilundred Pound!. no deceased was about the age of 2E. s % 7 C2. t is. it, from t rl. 48. N the Cap e y's tltip IA ER 19. 0 . orn Ulna don for tri, " 111 mr,,Se ; his 7 Chlt.itt 11. ' 1; surgh ; • is Earl It,l —The W ant, leis 4 dim; th e Ina, MAT, 4114 tr4fisl ITI Lond, n. 111 Ird f(lf wed, hid • 1 S. fi r . 11 t. 1 he Eliza, D him the R bion. fur S rice Itegem, 111 LlStlon; Cuckb te. rx, from Pe. [v. try ni vrd wi,rt in fIER 19. I .'nnitli;ul4C from Rover - is, Bruktrart, 'sett; and • • New York; T r Kotula's,: )rend ' 'anus, De Gm ; Ja. , e and M in for Mover ) tithing ; cpa tont., for). ' • S YSTEM. telligence is , immerni.4l C. ore made e end, by • .able line of: I is in expedit . I to arrange , London to H rrival of the y were due, • • , as follows: its arrived. do. da do. . , ive o'clock F. d from those e average • is arrived. . Jr. do. do. it will be ted id, and we nerd benefit t' at man tent. Tl e cow it. strengthened •esporeleace. Ai urchose and sale or prices is the din, in a Mid It were, they de e that diminishes! 'eref ore, comide conveyance As to the 1 oustry, onal tranquilly rrgies to the tk• Govermente it wit; notlntended to stake any alters. ciao in the liberal tertas on which be then held: his Zemindaree, nor to resume his Inseer,incie to inquire linto his past misconduct; that lid woulne permitted to retain posession of his private property, and to occupy the houses and buildings in the interior of the Forts that he would receive from Government a rea sonable compensation for the military stores, cannon, and other arms in his possession, and that Govern ment would be disposed to permit him to retain such a number of armed men, as might on consideration he deemed sufficient for his personal convenience and for other legitimate purposes; and, finally, that if his future conduct should be consistent with the esta blished laws, and if he should manifest due obedience eo the locol.Officers, he, wfiald be treated with that courtesy and consideration which Government is al ways disposed to shew to persons in his situation. ' The replies to this and se6sequent communications contained general assurances, that Dyaram would not resist the authority of Government ; and oa the even ing of the 13th, Dyaram sent by the hands of his Vakeels, the keys of the Fort: with an intimation that he was prepared to surrender it. _ln compliance with his own request, and at the suggestion of his Vakeels, a small party of Sepoys was at ten o'clock at night sent to • take possession of the gate of the Fort, and the Vakeels engaged that the British tro ps should be put in possession of the whole of the works on the ensuing morning. Instead: however, of fulfilling this engagement, the {Arty of &pis which had been sent to take pos ' session of the gate, was detained 'on the outside of the Fort the whole of the night, a battalion of bya ram's troops with guns, was drawn up on each side of the way to the gate, and hostile preparations were in the mean time actively carried on in the Fott. The party of Sepoys was in consequence recalled on the morning of the l4th, and Dyaram was in fsrmed, theft it be did not surrender the Fort within 48 hours, or by twelve o'clock en the 16th, no farther communisation would be received from him, and that he would be responsible for the consequences of his rebellion. During this interval, every practicable attempt was made to induce Dyaram to comply with the or ders of Government, but without success ; and the whale temper of the communications from Dyaram clearly :hewed, that he was merely endeavouring to gain time for a mere effectual defence. Under.thew circumetarreei,ta-aket vnts bred at the fort about ten o'clock on die If leis% in order to mark the expiration of the period Ai*, apecifird. The estate of Dyaram was placed under alcacheuent. end martial 14w was proclaimed. THE EVENING STAR.