Star. — London, England, 1810-01-22 00:00:00

- . " TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. THE Proprietors of East India Stock favourable to the interests of Mr. TWINING, are requested to meet at the King's Head, in the Poultry, on ursday next, the 25th last. at oneV.:lock, to consider of the expediency oTinviting hint again to come forward as a Candidate for the next vacancy is the Direction. Monday, January 22. EAST INDIES. casion, to high sense lity displayed the British ing the that country. ; ding Officer of coercive • tion and _ exhausted. _ they were compelled to embrace the alternative of employing force, in order io prevent the most fatal evils to the cause of their country. The Governor in Council requests that the Hon. Mr. COLE and Lieutenant Colonel Davis will be pleased to accept the expression of his highest appro bation and thanks, for the moderation, firmness, and ability, which they manifested on this unprecedented and distressing occasion. A. FALCONAR, Chief Sec. to Government. : _ BY GOVERNMENT. Fort St. George, August 18, 1889. GENERAL ORDERS—The Governor in Council hos received intelligence that the troops at Chittledroog, consisting of the first battalion of the 6th and 15th Regiments of Native .Infantry seized, in the lat- I ter end of July, the public treasure at that station, deserted the post entrusted to their care, and, in obe dience to orders which they received from a Commit tee who have usurped the public authority at Serin gapatam, marched on the 6th instant to join the dis- Affected troops in that garrison, plundering -tbe lages on their route. The British Resident, and the Officer commanding in Mysore, prohibited in the most positive terms the advance of the troops from Chittledroog, and de manded from their European officers a compliance' with the resolution of the Governor in Council of the 26th ult. by either declaring that they would obey the orders of Government according to the tenor of their commissions, or withdrawing for the present from the exercise of authority. The officers having refused to comply with his re erisition, and having persisted in advancing towards Seringapatam, it became unavoidably necessary to prevent by force their entrance into that garrison. In the contest which ensued a detachment from fie British force, under the command of Lieutenant 001011d1 GIBBS aided by a body of Mysore horse, and one battalion ;)1 . the 3d Regiment of Native Infantry, entirely defeated and dispersed the corps from Chit tledroog. puling this affair a sally was made by the garrison of Seringapatam on Lieutenant-Colonel GlBlis camp, but was instantly driven back by the picquet and Sth regiment of cavalry, under the command of Captain BEAN, of his Majesty's 25th dragoons, in charge of that regiment. Nearly the whole of the rebel force was destroyed, While one casualty only was sustained by the British troops. Lieutenant JEFIERIES, of his Majesty's 25th regiment of light dragoons, having zealously offered his services to carry a flag of truce, which Lieutenant- Colonel Ginns, anxious to prevent the effusion of blood, was desirous of dispatching to the rebel troops, Nem slightly wounded in the execution of that duty' s by a volley fired under the express command of an European officer. While the Governor in Council participates in the feelings of sorrow that must have been experienced by the British forces, in acting against the rebel troops, and deeply laments the unfortunate but impe rious necessity which existed for that proceeding, he considers it to be due to the conduct of the British forces to express high admiration and applause of the zeal, firmness, and patriotism which they displayed on that most distre4sing occasion. Their conduct affords a further proof of the sive sloe influence in their minds of the principles of vir tue, honour, and loyalty, over every other consider ation, and eminently entitles them to public approba tion. Lieutenant-Colonel Gums, Lieutenant-Colonel ADAM, Major CAnnON, Captain BEAN ) and Lieut. JEFFERIES 4 availed themselves of the opportunities of fered them on this occasion of serving their country. The Governor in Council is also happy to distin guish the zeal and loyalty displayed by the sth regi ment of Native Cavalry, the Ist battalion 3d regiment cf Native Infantry, and o the Mysore troops, who all manifested an eager desire to perform their duty. The Mysore horse on one occasion put the column of the Chittledroog troops to flight, and took two guns and both the colours from one of the battalions ; a memo rable proof of the weakness of men acting in the worst ct causes. That a body of British officers should deliberately tlisobey the orders of their Government, seize the üblic treasure under their protection—abandon the lost entrusted to their charge—march to join a party f men in open opposition to authority—plunder the eominions of a British Ally, and finally bear aims gainst their country, must excite grief and astonish n ent ; but the conduct of these Officers in urging the innocent men under their command, who had the most powerful claims on their humanity, and care, ilito the guilt and danger of rebellion, constitutes an atgravation of their offence that cannot be contem plated without feelings of the deepest indignation and sorrow. _ _ The Governor in Council is very far from wishing to aggravate the misconduct of those deluded and unhappy men ; but he earnestly hopes, that the ex ample of their climes and their fate will still impress on the minds of the officers who have joined in their plans a sense of the danger of their situation, and the propriety of endeavouring, by their early-obedience and future zeal, to efface the deep stain which has been cast on the honour of the Madras army. In announcing to the native troops the distressing event described in this order, the Governor in Coun cil must express his concern, that any part of the na tive army should be so far deluded by misrepresenta tion, and so lost to a sense of the obligation of fide lity, honour, and religion, as to act against the Go vernment which has so long supported them. The General Order of the 3d inst. and the con duct that has been observed towards the native troops at the Presidency, the Mount Vellore, Trichinopoly, Bellary Gooty, and Bangalore, must convince the whole native army of the anxiety of Government to promote their welfare, and save them from the dan gers into which they were likely to be plunged. The Governor in Council still places the greatest confi dence in the fidelity and zeal of the native troops, and is convinced that they will not willingly sully tie high reputation which they have so long enjoyed, by joining in the execution of plans that must end in their disgrace and ruin. , The Governor in Council trusts the unhappy fate of the Chittledroog battalions, who allowed them selves to be engaged in opposition to their Govern anent, will have the effect of prevailing on any other part of the native army from suffering themselves, under any circumstances, to be placed in a situation adverse to their duty and allegiance. -The 001'01110r in Council avails himself of this QC SUPPLEMENT TO THE./NDIA GAZETTE. MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1809. GENERAL ORDERS, BY THE VICE-PRESIDENT IN COUNCIL. _ to S ul a; date 4 enlaiti . 0 1 ‘. iln -•duc calling upon there by ; i c H h con ulj u ra u ‘Y s bie t ' ifi ll a i t t eg h le e ia me Go nce as; e a rn a re n : d ; 20th February, 1809, approv ' by the Governor of Fort St. the late Commander in Chief, was also circulated to the army, in the expectation that the sentiments of the Supreme Government would have repressed the spirit of faction and insubordina tion which prevailed. These letters appear to have produced no effect ; the tnemorial to the Supreme Government made further pro ; and an address to Major BOLES, an o ffi cer un der of suspen sion, written in language of determined sedition, was circulated in the army, and forced upon the notice of the Govefnor in Council, by a Company's Officer, holding a confidential situation on his Staff—the Go vernor in Council was still induced to pursue a system of forbearance, by the sentiments of affection and re spect which he was dispdsed to entertain towards the - Company's Officers; and by a conviction that the., principles of zeal, discipline, and national attachm ent, ' by which he supposed they were actuated, would lead them to relinquish the reprehensible measures in which, they were engaged, on being made fully acquainted with their impropriety and danger. The Commander' in Chief accordingly, tinder the sanction of the Go. i vernment, issued a second circular letter, dated 10th' April * 1809, again calling upon the officers of the. Company's army to adhere to their duty, correct i ing the erroneous opinions which they had received, , regarding the powers of Government, and describ ing the unjnsti fi able nature and dangerous conse kquences of their proceedings. The Governor in Coun cil learned with deep regret that these measures of moderation, these repeated and urgent appeals to the discipline, duty, national attachment, and professional I honour of the Company's officers, were entirely nu gatory ; that the Memorials continued to be circulat ed, and that sentiments of sedition were openly de . clared in many parts of the army ; the further for bearance of the Government would have encouraged the progress of those evils ; a course of explanation ' and exhortation had been pursued in vain, and it be came imperiously necessary to etreck, by a salutary example of punishment, a spirit of insubordination that threatened the most dangerous consequences to the prosperity of the Empire. The General Or ders of the Ist of May last were accordingly past. — The Governor in Council is concerned to state, that this example, which was confined • to the persons who were principally instrumental . in promotmg se ' dition, and of whose delinquency the most ample proofs existed, and which was intended to obviate the necessity of more extensive punishments, failed to pro duce the beneficial effects anticipated from its adop tion, and that principles of insubordination and sedi tion continued to prevail among the Company's Offi. , ccrs, if possible with aggravated violence ; the Corn. pany's Officers of the Hydrabad Subsidiary Force, whose good conduct in refusing to affix their Signa tures to the seditious Addresses, had received the ap probation of the Government, intimated to the rest of the Army, in an Address, dated in May last, scarcely less reprehensible than the papers that had incurred the animadversion of the Government, their partici pation in the disaffection which prevailed so exten sively in the Company's Army. The Officers at Hydrabad followed up this act, by threatening in an address, dated the 15th June, trans mitted direct to the Governor in Council, to separate themselves from the authority of the Government, established over them by their country, unless a sub mission should be yielded to their menaces, by abro gating the General Orders of the Ist of May, and the Company's Officers at Masulipatam imprisoned their Commanding Officer, and made preparations to de sert the post entrusted to their charge, and to join the ' i nvolving, _ Hydrabad subsidiary force, thereby on ac - , MADRAS GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDI- 1 NARY, AUGUST rt. count of views personal to themselves, the men under their command, in the guilt of rebellion, and furnish Fort St. George, Augu%t le, 1 RO9. / GENERAL ORDERS, BY THE HONOURAbLE :I HE ing to the native troops a dangerous example of re.l GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL. 1 sistance to authority. The Governor in Council, still The course of proceedings followed for some time ! anxious to impress on the minds of the Company's past by the Officers of the Honourable Company's : Officers a sense of the impropriety of their conduct, Army at this Presidency, has obliged the Govern-' published to the army the dispatch from the Supreme ment ta adopt the most decided measures for the pre-; Government, dated the 21st of May last, which con servation of the important interests committed to its ; tained an entire approval of the measures cf the Go charge. These . proceedings may be stated to have ! vernment of Fort St. George, and stated the most commenced with the transmission to the Government I forcible and conclusive arguments against the system by the late Commander in Chief of a Memorial, ad- : of faction and illegal combination, which had been dressed to the Honourable the Court of Directors, : introduced into the Coast army. This solemn decision dated January, 1809, and signed by a large propor- of the Supreme Authority in India, has also proved to tion of the Company's Officers. Although that paper , be ineffectual ; the Officers at Hydrabad, although exhibits claims of an ungrounded nature, and con- they knew the sentiments of the Supreme Govern tains observations equally improper and unjust on the ment, refused, in a body, in a letter to their Com order? of the Honourable the Court of Directors and mending Officer, dated the Bth of July, obedience to the Government, the Governor in Council was in- the orders of Government, for the march of a battalion duced to permit it to pass without the serious notice from Hydrabad, adding, as a threat, that its services which it appeared to demand, by a confidence in the might soon be useful to their cause ; and have since discipline of the army, and a persuasion that the ob- ' forwarded to the Government, in a paper, dated the jectionable passages in the memorial were inadver- ' 21st of July, the conditions on which they are willing tendy and unintentionally introduced. to return to their duty, and which they require the The subsequent conduct of the Commander in Government to accept, in order to avert the impend- Chief forced the Government to vindicate its autho- ing awful evils ; evils that can result only from their rity, by a signal example of punishment. It was own criminal determination to place themselves in the well known to the Company's Officers, that the whole situation of enemies to their country. The conditions , of this proceeding was referred to the Supreme Go- on which those, Officers presume to state that they will vernment, and the Authorities in Europe ; that it , yield obedience to the National Authorities, afford would receive from their wisdom a decision confor- further proofs of the nature of their designs, for they mable to the soundest principles of reason and justice; demand the public revocation of the General Orders and that its discussion could not belong to the cogni- of the Ist of May; the restoration to their rank and zance of the army, who are precluded from becoming appointments of all Officers removed by this Govern a deliberative body. ' . tient, however obnoxious and criminal the conduct Notwithstanding these considerations, the Cover- ' of those Officers may have been ; the dismission from nor in Council, anxious to remove every cause of • office of the Officers of the General Staff who may be misunderstanding relative. to a measure of so impor- supposed to have advised the Government the trial Cant a nature, published an Order, dated the 31st Ja- by a General Court Martial of the Officer command nuary, explaining to the Army the grounds on which ing Masulipatam, who was arrested by his own diso it was adopted. The Governor in Council had a bedient Officers; and, finally, an amnesty for the right to expect, on the roost obvious grounds of dis- conduct of the Company's Army. The Garrison of cipline, and respect for the laws, that the question Masulipatam have placed themselves in a state of would have been permitted to rest here, and receive rebellion, the troops of Seringapatam and Hydrabad its final reward from the only powers competent to have followed their example, and it has been ascertain decide on it ; and it was with feelings of equal per- ed that the military authority entrusted to Command prise and concern he learned that a Memorial to ing Officers has been usurped by self-constituted Corn the Supreme Government, of the most intergperate mittees ; and that an organized system of combina dt.scription, was circulated in the. Company's Army. tion, for the purpose of subverting the authority of The Governor in Council, desirous to avoid are cur ! . the Government,sbeen established throughout the rence to measures of severity, and persuaded that it . greatest part of the Army of this Establishment, was sufficient to apprise the Company's Officers of The Governor in Council perceives, in the fore the improper nature of their-proceedings, to induce going course ofitroceedings on the part of the Euro them to desist from their prosecution,anthoeised the ran Officers or be company'; holly, which has BY GOVERNMENT. Fort St. George, August 9,1809. The Governor in Council having taken into eon sideration the whole of the transactions that have oc curred to the garrison of Masulipatam, and. being sa tisfied that the pamberne by the men in those trans actions is to be entirely imputed to the misrepresen tations and seduction of their European Officers, is pleased to proclaim a full pardon to the European ' Non-commissioned officers and privates, and to the Native Commissioned Officers and Non-commission- 1 ed Officers of the garrison of Masulipatam, who were concerned in those improper proceedings. The Go vernor in Council entertains a confident persuasion, that this act of lenity will produce a proper effect in the minds of these men, and induce them to manifest in future that fidelity to the Government, which con stitutes 4.13 e first duty and highest praise of every soldier. The Governor in Council prohibits the march of any body of troops from the garrison of Masulipa tam, without Ate orders of Major General PATER, commanding the Northern' Division ; and directs, that any troops who may have marched from Masu lipatam without due authority, shall return forthwith to that station, on pain of being considered to be in a state of rebellion to the Government. A. FALCONAIt, Chief Secretary. . Fort William, August 22,1809. The Honourable the Vice-President in Council, has been furnished with copies of the letters addressed to his Excellency the Commander in Chief, by the Ofii cers of the several corps quartered at Muttra, Kur naul, and Agra, and to the General Officer com manding at Chemar, by the Officers of the different corps quartered in the province of Benares, expressive of their loyalty and attachment to their King and Country, of their allegiance to the Government esta blished by the Constitution in this country, and on their entire disapprobation of the spirit of sedition and revolt, by which a part of the army of the Presidency at Fort St. George is at present actuated ; the Vice- President in Council has received these declarations of the sentiments of the Offitoers of the army of Ben gal, on this interesting occasion, with peculiar gratifi cation, and he considers it an act of justice to declare, in the most public manner, the confidence which the Government has uniformly reposed in the unshaken zeal and loyalty of the Officers of this army, and its firm persuasion that no circumstance can ever induce them to swerve from their public duty. The Vice-President in Council has received private but authentic information, that the same honourable sentiments are entertained by the Officers of all the other military stations under the Presidency of Fort William. ( Signed) c. DOWDESWELL, Acting Chief Secretary to Government. • aquae resisted metistim of forbearance a%d p i g. meat, a determined spirit of revolt that inna, unless speedily repressed, produce the most fatal co ßse• quences to the constitution and authority of the G o . vernment and the interests of the Nation. No means compatible with the honour and authority of t h e Government have been omitted to resits the e x .,. pang's Officers to a sense of their duty as soldiers, s li d of their allegiance as British subjects. The forbear. aace displayed by the Government under circum. stances of aggravated indignity demonstrate the satin. faction with which it would have regarded any di 1., sition on the part of the Company's Officers to mar:. fest the usual, obedience required from all oldie:a No disposition, however, of that nature has appared, .on the contrary, those Officers, by a systematic co,: r . of aggression and insubordination, have forced Government to adopt measures of the most decidd nature for the support of its authority. The Governor in Council would be guilty of ; most criminal desertion of his duty and the cans: his country, if he were capable of contil min, t h e cv :, of sedition and mutiny by a submission to tle ir n ic r a i t .. ces of a body of men, placed by the Liv: under government. Such a course of proceeding wou ;1 prostrate the authority of the State belie a disa ffect. ed and seditious faction—it would effectually citate this and every succeeding Government fi(44 executing the functions of administration, and would be fatal to the prosperity tf the Empire in In&t, L C affording an example of successful opposral to Authority, and by weakening the power and Llig,-, i t, of the Government, which, in this country, ale p c . culiarly essential to i existence. Influenced by ti.e.:e considerations, the Gemernor in Council h as 02; dered it to be his sacred duty to resist every appe ar . ance of concession to the threats of insishoi and faction, and to employ the power and means at the disposal of the Government for the restoration et its discipline and the maintenance of its honour and authority. In this state of affairs, it is a source of the most grl. tifying reflection that the zeal, loyalty, and discipli ne of his Majesty's troops, and of many of the most re. spectable Officers of the Company's Army, combined with the fidelity generally manifested by the native troops, will enable the Government to accomplish the important object of re-establishing public order. The good conduct of his Majesty's troops during the dissentions that have occurred, their zealous adhe. rence to duty, the preference which they have mini. fested, to. the principles of honour, virtue, and pa. tribtism, over the personal views and disorderly pas. sions which prevailed around them, reflect the greate s t credit on their character, and demonstrate that they are animated by the same ardent love of their country which has distinguished their brother soldiers is Europe. His Majesty's troops under this Govern. ment will possess the gratifying reflection of having deserved the approbation and gratitude of their tem. try, ód of having eminently contributed to the pre, servation of an important branch of the Empire. The Governor in Council entertains a hope that the Company's Officers, who have threatened the Government of their country with the most serious evils, who have demanded as the condition of being faithful to their dut; , the execution of measures de• grading to the character, and fatal to the interests of the State, will pause before they attempt to proceed further in the cow se of sedition and guilt which try have pursued. It has been the earnest wish and anti ors desire of the Governor in Council, to avoid mea• sures of extremity, to re-establish order by the course of the law, and to give tip to military trial the at. thors of the present seditious proceedings. In prose. cution of measures so consonant to justice, so neces• eery for restoration of discipline, and so conformable ;o the ordinary course of Military Government, the 'Governor in Council is , persuaded that he shall finds Ilk concurrence of all persons in the civil and military services who have not banished from their minds ever]] sentiment of national feeling ; and he exhorts the of, ficers of the Company's Service, by submitting to that course of measures, to avert the evils which they are precipitating upon themselves. Such a result, gratifying at any period, would, at the present ma went of national difficulty, be peculiarly acceptable to the views and feelings of the Governor in Council; and advereng to the zeal and patriotism by which the Officers of the Company's Army have been dis, tinguished, he still encourages a hope, that by magi. fisting obedience to the Government, they will ob' viate the adoption of measures of extremity, arrest the certain consequences of their past conduct, and ,promote the restoration of general confidence, order, land discipline.—By order of the Noble the Governor in Council, (Signed) A. FALCONAB. MADRAS, AUGUST . sl. Yesterday a Session of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery in the Supreme Court, commenced before the Hon. Sir THOMAS STRANGE, Knight, Chief Justice, at the Court-house, at Fort St. George, who addressed a charge to the Jury, of which the follow• ing is an extract : Gentlemen—The certainty that acts of rebellion have within the territories dependent upon this Pre• sidency, been recently'committed by numbers of the Company's Officers engaged in an extensive combi. ,nation, eventually to throw off all obedience to this Government, and seek redress of alledged grievances by arms, forbids my parting with you on the presen occasion, without drawing your attention to a state of things at dice so extraordinary, so perilous, acid a° highly criminal. If there be in the mind of any one of you, Gentlemen, the least doubt, as to the fact, upon him I shall expeci to make no impression till he be better informed on the subject. If the fact, however, be, that the description of persons to whom I allude, have with comparatively tew exceptions been prevailed upon to enter into an illegal combination, and that individuals of them , availing themselves of its support, are by their acts, leaving to this Government no alternative, but either to compromise the public authority, or to endeavour to maintain it by the sword, then the time is, in so, opinion, arrived, when it becomes every man in his sphere to consider the part which it may be proper for him, in a contest in which it is not seemly to be no' tral, and' to exhort others upon whom he may have influence, to adopt that, which upon a conviction et its being right, he means himself to pursue. That the moment for doing this in the most public as well as unreserved manner,- has existed ever sinc e the day upon which Government took measures f cr . requiring from every Company's O ffi cer a test of hi troops, and deeply laments the nnfortuna rious necessity which existed flit. that pro considers it to be due to the conduct of forces to express high admiration and apF zeal, firmness, and patriotism which tht on that most distretsing occasion. Their conduct affords a further proof rior influence in their minds of the princi the, honour, and loyalty, over every ot} ation, and eminently entities them to pub tion. Lieutenant-Colonel GIBBS, Lieuter ADAM, Major CARBON, Captain BEAN ) JEFFERIES 4 availed themselves of the oppc fered them on this occasion of serving The Governor in Council is also hap' guish the zeal and loyalty displayed by t mcnt of Native Cavalry, the Ist battalion cf Native Infantry, and.the Mysore troy manifested an eager desire to perform thei Mysore horse on one occasion put the cc Chittledroog troops to flight, and took is both the colours from one of the battalion ruble proof of the weakness of men acting t causes. That a body of British officers should eisobey the orders of their Governmer •1 üblic treasure under their protection*: lost entrusted to their charge—march to (1 men in open opposition to authority— c °minions of a British Ally, and final] gainst their country, must excite grief a n ent ; but the conduct of these Officers i innocent men under their command, w n - .ost powerful claims on their humanit into the guilt and danger of rebellion, cc a egravation of their offence that cannot plated without feelings of the deepest In& Sorrow. • The Governor in Council is very far f to aggravate the misconduct of those unhappy men ; but he earnestly hopes, ample of their climes and their fate will cal the minds of the officers who have jo plans a sense oldie danger of their siruat propriety of endeavouring, by their ear and futare zeal, to efface the deep stai been cast on the honour of the Madras a In announcing to the native troops th event described in this order, the Goven cil must express his concern, that any pa five army should be so far deluded by m tion, and so lost to a sense of the oblig lity, honour, and religion, as to act aga vernment which has so long supported t The General Order of the 3d inst. ; duct that has been observed towards the at the Presidency, the Mount Vellore, 'J Bellary Gooty, and Bangalore, must whole native army of the anxiety of Gc promote their welfare, and save them Ti into which they were likely to be p gets in Council still places the Bence in the fidelity and zeal of the TI and is convinced that they will not w the high reputation which they have so by joining in the execution of plans tha their disgrace and ruin. , The Governor in Council trusts the • of the Chittledroog battalions, who a selves to be engaged in opposition to anent, will have the effect of prevailing part of the native army from suffenn under any circumstances, to be placea adverse to their duty and allegiance. • The Governor 41 Council avails hims • .. to ezpresi. in the most public • s • der in Chief to i ice of the zeal, moderation, -h, 1809, laved by the Government of ' • of theiTipOoduc ish Resident and Commanding I • ost powafla transactions that have recently - ace , to abstain troln intry. The'British Resident and the S A:letter from the Right Mcer in Mysoredid not permit the ad. • ion in Council, dated the 2C : t yre measure until every means of expostula- ing of the steps ,adopted cl forbearance had been exhausted. and until George, with respect to t roll rbic 3b