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The Dividend Warranta, with I.ii,ts of the i.anie, in numerical orJer, must be left for examination two days previous to application :or payment. Coleman-street, December I, 1821. nritioft reoo. 7'IIEATIZE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Evening. FRIDAY, December it. w!ll be performed TOP StEGE OF nFil (MADE. The Sernskier, Mr. haplo: Cohenherg. Mr. Wallah: Ismael. Mt. O. Smith; Yuccpb. Mr. Cattle: Leopold. Mr. !tarter, Peter. Mr. Fitt- Atitchn, Mr. Redford. Llaa, Miss Cteyhenc; Katherine. flit teraJdou; (Mita, Mils Povey. After which. HArrn TOP ciirnut. The Madrid Chsmeteis by Nevin'. Ar,lier, Wallach, Tam. and Harley: MeAinmes W. West and Wglett. TS4IIIIIIITOIV, As You Ins It, and Hared the Lihsber. THEATRE. ROYAL. COVENT-GARDEN. This livadol. FRIDAY, Dee. - 1,::er11 . 1 De performed • new Trierly. cu«► RAVENNA iO;:IiALIAN I.OY►_ Kates& de Marmite. Mr. Egerton; Count Fearlo. Mr. Yount; .eiut Damlentla, Mr. Vate-o; IlArt_ieelo, Mr. Cuogror ; Sorting, s!r. Hartley. Princess Camt la, M!u Lacy; Ll:uta, Miss ►. H. Kelly; Yeatrwe. Mn. Davenport. '"-- After whirls. .T 1 .4 )11107.6% . LAEF ...... ----- The Grand Mike of SuaMa.. Mr. Bartley: Printed. Miniboom. Yr. Jamie: ',anvils Ar VaMern. Mr. J. (*mint de Linsbers. Mr. "01,17111/1; Mr. Keeley. The Prineein Louisa. Mir Love; Mar Nlnc.lde, d. Ruestaidt. Mu M. Tree ; Commend de Wages. Weis ilallande. STOCkb YESTERDAY. Log Ann. 211 13.1 E 23 South Sea Stuck South Sea 0141 Annuities Smith Sea Stir Annuities Ex.llills,2J. 1.00111. 14 16 psi Ditto, 54h11. Ditto, Small Ditto, lid. 1.000/. St a pus Ditto. 1401. 66 it 55 pm Ditto, Small Lottery Tickets 221.1115. STOCKS YESTERDAY. I Mexican Hoed% d 4 ll Ditto Acct. Cfl Neapolitan Ilan is Ditto Bonds (1824 Ditto Step Ditto Acct. Peruvian Bonds 73 Ditto Acct. Portugucse Plods 901 1 ex (fir Ditto Acct. Sill 1 ex dir Prussian Bonds Ditto Acct. Iltitto Bonds (1331) Ditto Acct. Russian Bon4slif t 1 I ilroMCons. Ditto Acct. 151 1 1 Mt° Acct. 131 14 4 1 0 If Ditto 410 Bonds Ditto 179 ar.tl ode 231 1 Ditto Si Bonds 131 Ditto Coos. (1323) TO CORRESPON I►k;N rs. , . .... We have receiyid a gnat many Lerner. on the subset of punish. ing the crime of Forgtry with Death. The caw: of Mr. FAUN l'•• I. RO Y ha , drawn tile public attention to thi, queiiiion with peculiar force. We intend, at the first moment of leisure, to revert to it. The iirrigill Plltilt commenced publishing yeand.lll /aiming at five o'clock. LONDON, FRIDAY. DICIIIIIII 3, lOW. The Paris Papers of Tuesday reached our Office last Their most interesting centonts relate to the per snering activity of Cilastas X. uliu, in the course of a siay, visits the public works in every part of his capital, arid yet contrives to spciid some hours in the chase at Vincennes. On Monday his MA3 VSTy passed through the Faubourg St. Antoinr , , for the first time since his accession. IL: was welcomed with the acclamations of alt the inhabi ts:its; white ilr.gr, were shown at every window, and cries of fire k Roi! were echoed from every mouth. [From the 3katcur of Tuesday Romx, Nov. 13. PRIVATE CORRESPONDEXCE. There haw just been published in this capital a Pontifical Decree of the highest importance to the administration of justice, the cwt.he of legal frroeccdingq and the charges upon them. By this Atom Pln es roin to s Holiness first of all recalls all that his predeces sors, 0111Caally Pius VII., after the rereshablisment of his autho rity, had undertaken on the same subject, for the sole purpose of tendering the benefits of justice more acceptable to the people, by simplifying tht farms and diminishing the es iienses. .• Persuaded," says his Holiness, .‘ that hi so weighty a matter we could not take too many precautions, nor avail ourselves of too much information, we begun by forming a Conmiittee of Roman lawyers, the most respectable for their learning, their wisdom, and their attachment to the Holy Sm. We have charged them to lay before us a plan adapted to our object, protesting before.luoul that no personal sacrifice would be thought ton great by us to cause the esecution of it, whatever additional expense it n.ight muse our tree miry, haring nothing so much at heart as to procure to our sub j-rts the greatest good-will, at the least oxamire to them." Prom the labours of this Committee, and the approbation given to its Report by the Consultative Committee of Cardinals, a new Code has resulted. ecintaited and published tinder three heads : Reformation of the a: stem of public administration; reforms. t of the civil procedure; reformation of the Tarifrof taxes in jig dtial p.m-et-dings. By this new plan the too great number of deiegations is reduced; special judges have been substituted to some trinuntls of r..e end instance. The cumber of 3lagistratrs has been reduced in some places, some insignificant tribunals sup pressed, and, what Rome has long wanted, a tribunal of commerce has been erected. it better composition of the Councils is provided for, by proportioning in theni the member of persons belonging to sh;diferent t irders of the State. The Nobility, says the Motu Proprio, preserves in them the tiestioation winch it should enjoy in all civilised states ; this class of proprietors acquires, besides its rights of suffrage in common ditsberation, mare ample and unrestricted attributes for the 'rue of its own affairs. Bat what has chiefly elicited our vigilance, continuos his Holiness, is to maintain in all its lustre anti trigour Episcopal Jurisdiction, re-estalitahed in the exercise of all its p.-,mgativea, as it enjoyed already in the time of our predecessor frneftiet XI V. of blessed memory. Lastly, the costs are redeeed to a certain and moderate standard. EmleAastical causes are to be pleaded as hitherto, in Latin, and soeular causes in the vulgar tongue; in order (says the decree) t 3 - seprrn, that. o'd'eosive absurdity, contrary to the good adminis tration of justice, in which every thing should he regular nod uni. f.trftl to him at ores. in the sante sitting; and rot two deerent 141 ;eager. when affairs of the subjects of the same Govmnment are treated of." This Afore Proprto, which will i'nfl'ate an err in our illeiCl3l legislation, is given at the Vatican, Oct.., with this cLuoieL.- The Anniversary o f our Coronation." Vroto the Biotic, dated Wedpfaday.:l 3bariab. Nor. 25. Stace the 16th the King, who still resides at the Lsenrial.has suf fered from fits of the gout. The bulietit, of to-day states his almost entire restoration to health. The Peninsula, and the whole of Enrop.:, witnessed with horror the tennis which took plat: , in the Castle :o Corm:nu, it the n h of July. UM. Th: reb ds. whn .44,1 them, Ives t'ons:itii- Vocalists. destroyed in cold blood the lives of their fellow-citizens, whore only rune was that or Ii tent ; to their King. So horrible a crime demanded the vengeoace of the I.iwe ; the guilty have at ltngih been prniched. Nine of the principal .1.414„% - sins have been condemned to be hang. One of them, a sin:on...lt-1 - by trade, sunF the Tragala at the fax of the gallows. FIIENCH UNDS.—PAit:s, Nov. 30.—F.se Cents . Ten d at 1:•"1. ilk., closed et soi r. 80e. ; hank 1970 f. ; Nea politan Ilentes. ; h Rents, ; Hovel spanieh Loan, Eeeitonge on Lioolan—Oi.e mouth, •.:a.; three months, 24E. first.—C'oars tlathratilisr, ;Suring Wednesday and yesterday the rumours were carrent in the City that des; etches had been received at the In d ia House, overland from Calcrtta ; and though no one caufd give any accurate account of th-ir cent-nit, the' gimeral impression was, that they rero uticevourah:e, and in e :mitilimmee of this impresnien a weat meny rate; of India stock have trben place during these two flays , rt a depreciation of tilinut twelve per cent. At the India I tqlsa it was strenuously declared that no such despatches had Leen received. New, whetbtv the llonourabfe Coln psit y have received official despatches or not, we have good reasan to believe that intelligence has arrived in town from India, within the last two or three days. What the pre cise nature of the Dews may be we know not, lett we are firmly of opinion that nothitig satisfactsry can be looked fur from that quarter. The Burmese expedition was ►ent at the very beginning of the rainy season, which will not only put a stop to, or at least greatly retard, all military operations, but leave the troops exposed to the malignant influence of the weather, during the month of September, and thereby necessarily subject them to the dangerous diseases of the climate—ague, dysentery, and the jungle fever. lire should therefore not be surprised to hear, that by the beginning of October not one-fourth of the troops sent on that expedition will be effective. If to this reasonable apprehension we add the facts that the Gover nor-General and the Commander-in-Chief are at variance, (for it will require a tolerable portion of the virtue of faith to make any man believe that Sir EDWA!D PAGET would give up the office of Commander-in-Chief in India for the sake of returning home to become Governor of the Military College), and that it is well understood in the Indian circles that Lord Am Heave has quarrelled with his Council, and more particularly with that member of it to whom he was especially referred for advice in the conduct of his Go vernment, it must be obvious that the affairs of our Oriental Empire are not in the most flourishing condition. Nor is it at all likely that the Mahrattas and Pintlarries, when they see us fully employed in the east, will remain peaceable spectators in the west and north. At this moment we cannot help thinking that the factious cavillers of the India House would feel their property much safer, were the distinguished Nobleman, whom they have treated with such ingratitude and neglect, once more at the head of their affairs ; and that if instead of attempting to cast obloquy on the name of a man who has done more for them than any Governor-General (not even excepting the Marquis %Vs huts LEY) ever did before, had they honoured him in his retirement, and bestowed upon him, in the shape of an acknowledgement, one-half of the sum they have expended in printing the voluminous documents to impeach his acknowledged integrity, they would have acted more wisely as well as more justly. As it is, we may say with Coritdanus's friends— " Vs have made fine week of it." The Princess Sophia visited his Majesty yesterday. The Duke of Gloucester visited his Royal Duchess yester day, who passed a g. xl night on Wednesday, mid was much better yesterday. Iler Royal Highness also received visits from the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Sophia, and the Princess Feorlore. Yesterday the Duke of IVellington bad an audience of the King. Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council assembled at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which was attended by the same Cabinet Ministers who attended the Cabinet Council on Wednesday, with the addition of Lord Besley and Mr. Iluskisson. The Cabinet continued iu deliberation till half-past five o'clock. Though a rise in the Consols was confidently anticipated yesterday, it being closing day in that market, no such im provement occurred. Consols for account remained pretty steadily during the whole of the day at 9511 ; Mexican Stock rather improved, having of rued at 66i, and closed at 604 buyers. There has been rather a depreciation in Canada shares, but very little was done in them. It was stat:d in an snide in the Timeg newspaper, about a fortnight or three weeks ago, that Mr. Freshfield, the so licitor of the Bank of Englan d, had not:tied to the parties whose stock had been withdrawn by forged powers of at torney, fabricated by Mr. Fauntleroy, that the Directors bad resolved to replace the autos in every instance, without attempting to tak-b advantage of any legal difficulty ' which might be urged against the claimants. 'The Tinter, ou giving this information (which, as we she. show pre sently, was wholly incorrect), warmly eulogists' the gene rosity of the Bank. Unfortunately, like all the ran of the statements in that jourm 1, connected with this case, this announcement of the 'Pi...a, o &gni:cable to the de frauded stockholders, was put forth only to deceive. We understand that in reply to an application for the restitu tion of some property in the public funds, said out by Mr. Faittitleroy, under a forged power of attorney, Mr. tresh field, on the part of the Bank, has directed the applicant to set tip his claim on the bankrupt's estate, as a creditor to the extent of his loss ; nor is any expectation held out to him that the Bank will make good any deficiency in the dividend. ..... Despatches, dated the of B;ptemher, were received yesterday, at the India Board, from Persia. We have received Madras Gazettes, to the Ilth of July. Their contents bring no fresh intelligence as to the state of the Burmese tvar. Some letters from Chittagong had re ported that the enemy had evacuated Ramo, in order, as it was said, to avoid Sir Archibald Campbell, who was pro ceeding up the Irrawaddy, but in subsequent letters, the retreat of the Burmese was not confirmed, and it was stated that the force at Chittagong was to march on Itamoo, as soon as the Madras troops joined. The Lisbon Gtmette of the 16th ult. remarks, on the dan ger of employing slaves as seamen in the Brazilian navy. The want of sailors had, it toms, been such, that the Minister was driven to the necessity of issuing an edict, requiring such persons as had slaves tit for the sea service, to sell them to the government for that purpose. BRIGHTON, Dtc. I. Mrs. Coutts gave a dinner and evenin; pasty on Friday, to the Duke of St. Alban's ' the Ladies Bntuelerk, the Earl of Burford, the Dowager Marchioness of Lansdowne and her daughter, the Misses Gifford and Mellish, Lord and Lady Say-and-S::!e, the lion. Mr. and Miss Twisleton, Sir M. and Lady Tierney, Sir IL and Lady Wilmott, &c. &c. There was also a musical party in the evening. The Marchiontss of fiertibrd is at Hastings, Lord Vis,munt Dudley is at 5, Cannan-place. Lord Eirilliy, we regret to state, continues much indis pose 14re are happy to find that the health of the fluke of Bedford is improved ; we observA his Grace ou Sunday last taking exercise ou horselniek on the cliffs. The Marine Betel, and d,rso houses, Nos. 2,3, and 4, in Alanchester-street, were sold on Friday last at the Auc tion Man, Laudon, lay Messrs. IVinstanley and Sons, for 11,50 a MESSRS. MARSH, STUACEr, AND CO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sir,—lt appears from your pap* of this day, that the creditors of Mcssri. Stmery, and Graham hare derived some dkn. tit from your communications. _ _ KW the information of sour correspondent, " A Grateful Creditor," I will. through your medium, put him in pos session of a new fact, which I think will be worthy of his attention. a refer;nee to the books of the house in Berner,- strca, it will be found, that over and above the immense sums alreptly admitted to have been abstracted from its fonds by Mr. Nlatsh. there will appear a further advance of .1,300!. made to this very person, or, what will come to the same thing, on the credit of this person, tea needy r,dation. This sum was procured for th e alleged purpose ot discharg ing a it ht ettional on behalf of the Crown by the Post master-General. _ _ The cretulors are aware that there is now in the house a writ of extent, i:autil fur the recovery of a &Au of 4,000/. claimul ii like manner Ly the roatioastcr-Cenral. They will prooo'oly wish to ascertain whether the pre sent claim arises cut of the misapplication of the advance of the 4,StntL or out of a fresh claim originating iu the same transaction. Aud haring sati►fied themselvru on this point, I will rti:ture to hint to (11:111, that it may be important to in quire whether the adranca in question was made to Mr. Marsh, in the sl.ape of r..sney on his own draft, or by a e.t.a.'s upon the !untie of Nessrs. Martin and Stone; or whether it was taken by him from Berner's-street, in the shape of Prelavirr Bills; and if in the latter, whether at that srcific time the bows! had one single Exchequer !till in its poax.xiion, which liaJ been parc4a:ed on its ow i account ? W. THE BRITISH PRESS. THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS'S SUMMARY OF HIS ADMINISTRATION IN INDIA. This important document, transmitted by the Noble Marquis from Gibraltar, in May, 1823, bas been printed in conformity with the order of the General Court at the India House, on the !nil of June last. It is much too long to give entire. The following extracts will put our readers in possession of its most material parts:— I entered upon the management of affairs at Calcutta in October 1211 My first view of them was by no means pleasing. The treatories of the three Presidencies were in so unfurnished a condi tion, that the insufficiency of funds in them to meet any unusual charges (and many such menaced us) excited considerable uneasi ness. At that period, the low credit of the bonds which had at die*. terent times been issued as the securities for monies borrowed. made eventual recourse to a loan seriously discouraging in contemplation. As twelve per cent. discount on the above securities was the regu larly computable rate in the market, when no immediate exigency pressed upon its, the grievous terms to which we must have sub scribe/ for a new supply of that nature in an hour of alarm, could not be disguised to any foresight. Under this embarrassment, an attempt had been made by the preceding Government to provide, In a partial degree, for the anticipated difficulties, by curtailing the annual disbursement. so us to leave a surplus of receipt. What are called the Charges Military, the provision for all warlike objects offensive or defensive, had appeared the only head of expenditure in which a saving of efficacious magnitude could br made. The par ing-knife was thence applied with rather an undiscriminating hand to many article", of the military establishment, which had till that time been deemed indispensable towards a tranquil tenure of the country. As it was trintter of simple arithmetical measurement, the contemplated surplus was produced; but it was ',omitted with cir ' cumstances which Lad not been taken into the reckoning. Let it not be supposed that I sin insinuating a censure on an expedient m which Government was pressingly urged by financial difficulties. The limit within width a reduction of disbursement in the military branch would not entail mischief, was Indians not to be computed without trial. As it was, experience showed that hazard had been incurred in a degree quite unapprehended. The saving had prin cipally arisen from a great diminution of our armed force. The operation of such a measure was not confined to the question of sufficiency for eventual defence. Nothing would mislead the judgment more than a parallel supposed between the em- I ployment of the Indio) army and that of our military at home. The native troops are, in fact, the police of India, the Buzkun. dauzes, or armed attendants of the p olice of India, the Ituikuti dauzes, or arnied attendants of the itlagisontes. being totally in adequate, it nut supported by the regulars. Hence, the comnlica firm of duties resting upon the soldiery Is so great, as that it is rare for even half of a battalion to be found at its head-quarters. ()amp, inn of dependent stations, detachments with !treasure which is in constant transit, escort of stores periodically despatched from Cal cutta to the several provinces, charge of convicts working on the roads, custody of prisoners transmitted from different parts for trial before the Court, of Circuit, and guards over jails, form a mass of demand which our fullest military complement ran btirely answer. A great number of those among whom such duties lied been divided could not be dismissed, without causing the service to be oppressive to the remainder. Hot there was a further conse. quence which rendered the barthen intolerable to the native soldier. This incompetence of strength involved nearly an extinction of those leaves which it hail been the custom to grant annually. for a proportion of the men in each regiment to visit their villages. The privation of hope to see his connections occasionally was in. superably irksome to the Bengal Sepoy, usually of high caste. In consequence, very many in each corps solicited discharge from the service. Unless when in the field, this indulgence had been uni formly conceded on application, as the individual received no bounty on entrance. Of course, there was an awkwardness iu re fusing what had, from practice, assumed a colour of right, when contest was only secretly anticipated by Gtnernment, from particu lars which it .shed nut to divulge. So many of those who thus petitioned to quit the service were veterans approaching the period of claim to the invalid pension (the great object of the native sol dier), that the sacrifice which those men desired to make, exhibited unequivocally the deep discontent of the army. I therefore fouLd Government convinced, that perseverance in the experiment was too dangerous; and the re-adoption of those military provisions which had been stricken off would have taken place, even had not another consideration pressed its being done with eh:utmost speed. The disgust of our native tromps was so loudly expressed in all quarters, that the crusts of it were univeraully canvassed ; and as such an extraordinory lessening of our mil;tary means wan ascribed to uncontrollable necessity, tha same inferences of our debility were drawn by all the surrounding States. As might have bre expected, a tone and procedure altogether novel had been assumed towards the British Government. l'here were 'made over to me, when the reins were placed In pry hands, no less than six Lustily discussions with Native Powers, each capable of entailing resort to arms. It was thence obvious, that a beneficial alteration in our pecuniary condition was not to be effected by parting with the sinews of 0111 strength. but by striving to cultivate and render more productive those sources of revenue which we possessed. In the above-mentioned number of angry controversies, no advertence is made to the rindarriea. Communication could not be held with those excentbk 'Mika's: yet the atrocity of their character, though it forbad the degrades of Uegoctatlng ikh thous,•oenki nos dis, nonage their inherent force, so as to ;mesa my reip.rding even at that juncture, as the most serious of the difficulties with which I had to deal. Could the moral call for suppressing one of the most dreatiful emerge% that ever afflicted hu.nsnity be put aside, still the task of dispersing an association, whose existence was ineconcileable to our ultimate security, as well as to our more im mediate interests, seemed to me not capable of being long post poned. At the sante time. I saw the intimacy of connexion be tween the Pindarries and the Mahe:teas so distinctly, as to be cer tain that an attempt to destroy the former must infallibly engage us in war with the whole body of the latter. While the extreme effort was delayed, which our entanglements in other quarters made unavoidable, it was desirable to impose seine cheek on the plain derers. The year before my arrival they had ravaged part of our territories, they had carries! off' an immense booty with intro.:icy, and they were professedly meditating another invasion, every so litary man well comprehending that defensive frontier stations, though heavily extfensive to the State, were ebsolutely nugatory against a mounted enemy without hag age, following at will through a vast expanse of country any lute which the information of the moment might recommend- There was a chance that inti mations from livelier might cause the Pindarries to suspend their inroad. It was inappreciable to us to stop, if possible, the pro jected devastation, while we were to be occupied elsewhere: on which account, I proposed a remonstrance to that Court, on the score of the Vint:artier being permit:Al to arrange within the Maharajah's dottfmlons the preparztions for assailing the Honour able Company's provinces. The present unre,ermil so k now l e j g . ment of our supremacy thmughout India, wit: scarcely leave ci „.- dible the then existence of a relative position, which could occasion my being met in Council by a representation, that a remonstrance of the: above nature might Iw offensive to Scholia, and that nothing ought to be ventured which could give him umbrage. Such, however,. was at that period, on either side, the estimate of British power." - - - - - - Having narrated his military successes, achieved without putting the East lndia Company to the expense of a single shilling; the Noble Marquis thus sums up the results of his Indian Government : " Whatsoever sulk:ration the atrairs of the lion. Company may hare experienced, such efforts of mine as contributed towards it were no more than simply my duty. The tenor of my engagement Implied, in my construction, my plighted honour, to use my un remitting exertions for the advantage of those who plated their reli ance upon me ' • and the critical nature of any unforeseen objects towards which three exertions could become demanded, be the risk of my decision what it might, :savor calm within our mutual un demanding. I have, tlterefmt., no merit to claim, beerind the consciousness of having indefatigably videavmsred to fulfil that to which • I felt myssif pledFeaL At the same time, 1 may be per mitted to avtivorny exultecon, at haying been able to conciliate, with the strictest diacbsrge of my trust, the bettered condition of an ituniame population : a eircutaatanco in which I regard the cha racter and inter* of ou: country to have gained mink I believe it an honest bosth. to have been even such an humble instrument PY I was in the eliettlestion of that end. Still, the vanity of eon. teibuting towordess proud a purpose, milzht seduce me tipsy less attention titan WM due to my inure immediate obligation. Thence, I will beg leave to Ten:nit:date the points of beaetit for the lion. Company which I consider as established, that if I hare been any where deficient, the particular neglect may at mute be seized. " Ist. The overweening insolence and hostility of Nepaul, a power dangerous from its position along an extensive and open frontier of ours , has been an completely chastened, as to make that people sensible they can only rmain their independence as a State through the moderation of the Bridal' Government. ..271. The Pindarry emaciation, a dreadful scourge to every neighbouring community, and pcculisrly alfi , ethe to the lion. Company's subjects, has been annihilated ; end the fruitless annual expense of protective tneartires against thou depredators, together with frequent henry loss oi revenue, is henceforth precluded. " 3d. A confedentry. aiming at no he. than the total extirpation of the British from ineis, has bceo so thoroughly subverted, that not a germ is left for its " 4th. Throughout the term of an cdininintration, during which such unprecedented demands for services on the :lon were to be toes, the Hon. Court has received. on an average, annual supplies from India (beyond the amount of sopplks from Coglar.d to Indio, nearly trebling the rate of supplies furnished to it on the average of twenty year preceding. For the years of my ad m i n i. atration which demanded most extriontimry effort in latlia„ the supplies nearly quintupled the fom er example. ' Wt. The yearly Indian revenue of the Hon. Company from oermarent sources, ninplayall at the clove of the last offiesal year an incresse of fire millions one hundred and seventy-five thousand pound= sterling, by actual receipt. I , or reason* ansignal. that in crease is expected to amount, in the present year 18.28-23, to six millions. 'I here is no probability that it should hereafter sink below that rate, but there is every just ground to reckon upon its prJgresnive augnientation. 6.11. The clear Indian surplus to be henceforth exhibited is estimated by me at four millions sterling yearly. It will probobli Ise more ample. " 7th. The lion. Court has been, with a material saving, de livered from an embarrassing provision of the conditions of lormor hetes ; while the justice of the operation wan so distinctly reeng. nixed, that the credit of the lino. Company's Indian securities has risen to a pitch which no speralcion could ever have presumed. •• Bth. In the year 1813-14, the independent powers of India were no num4rnun arid strong as to conceive themselves equal to rxpel the ; at pros:::; 6.7 Native State in tat oast rrgicm is in either seknow:edgetl or euential subjugation to our Govan merit. " Lastly. These advantages are not counterbalanced by any bunhens contracted in the acquiring them ; because there is, at this invent, an accumulation of cash in the treasuries beyond what I an out with, more than sufficient to wipe off the additional debt in. rutted during my adminisuation, were it wise so to employ the money. fhe credit sought foe this flourishing condition of the finnecce might be fallacious. The exposition is delusive and unworthy, if the plenitude of the coffers be owing to the produce of novel and grinding taxes, or to Government's having kept hack from the c. entry those issues of money, which every community is entitled to expect shall be applied by its rules in furtherance of public convenience. As to the first, it suffices to say that not a single new impost took place during my administration, while several teasing demands were abuliehtxl, as well in the old provinces as in the ac quired territories. Regarding the second, I have reason to hope that I cannot be charged with having neglected those facilitations to commercial intercourse, and those encouragements to agricul tural activity, which I knew would be consonant to the just and libet el spirit of the Honourable Company. Readiness of comma. nieation is. in every cottetry, the chief spur to industry. Roads, of which ineny approach to completion. are in progress, under the superintendelice of the Quarter-Slaster-General's Department; and as I do not recollect any of the branches to be of much less event than two hundred miles, with numerous bridges over terrains here tofore often impassable for long terms through the casual swelling of the waters, the degree of accommodation to be thus afforded to the inhabitants would be thought important in any part of the world. It is peculiarly so in Central India, where the prevalence of clayey soil makes the tracks which the natives denominate roads frequently impracticable, for even their light carriages, during the rainy season. The treneportation of goods has been further pro moted by attention to canals; though in the latter, an utility has been consulted, far beyond the despatch of articles to a distant market. The canal of Ali 3funllitm, after being devoid of water, and its banks every where prostrated fur above thecescore years, has been perfectly restored. The city of Delhi, although situated on the banks of the Jumna, was destitute of wholesome eater. The river, in thoseaherations common to all the greater streams in• their course through the wide plain of Northern India, had come into contact with such vast bees of natron, that its water became powerfully impregnated with the salt, and consequently nauseous. To remedy the distress. All eniliun conceived the grand design of forming a canal, which should receive a large portion of the stream of the Jumna where it issues pure from the mountains into the plain, and .Mould convey it to the Mogul capital. This was achieved. The extensive tract through which it passed had been chiefly unfilled, because in most parts the wells Runk in it fur. nished only water so saturated with natron, as to be unfit to drink and adverse to vegetation. The facility of irrigating the land with the water of the canal soon collected settlers and produced cultiva. fion, so that a large expanse, till then desert, displayed the most luxuriant fertility. The gratitude of the inhabitants bestowed on the canal the expreesive title of • Sea of Plenty.' The feelings of the people of Delhi. on the restoration of this canal, may be judged, front the fact that, on the day fi xed for removing the last inter. cepting mound, and suffering the water to proceed to the city. the whole of them went forth to hail the boon, A by throning garlands and sweetmeats into the advancing current. long branch from this most useful work had formerly, under the name of Feroze Shah's Canal, been pushed into the province of Uurreeana. Its supply was lost in the tiendetion of the magnificent source whence it hail been kit, and its course remained but partially traceable. At the time of my Ih:torture felon India, this canal was nearly re. established; every mile of its progress being attended with revived teeming cultivation, in a reglon which had been abandoned. A third canal, which runs Inneitodir,ally through the ISoab, and had been constructed in ancient times to accommodate a country where streams were scarce, was also in proems of restoration wheal sailed. Calcutta was, rutturally,not overlooked by ine. The causes of the in salubrity of the city had been carefully invettigated and ascertained. Contagious distempers were unavoidably generated, by the d ecline,' closeueee with which the houses of the nat ives were huddled togalter in the heart of the city, and the numerous small pools of stagnant water concealed among those hovels. Large aunts having been advanced to the f'ouintittee of Improve. meet. a well-considered plan was adopted for correcting both the tan. healthiness and the inconveniences. The main remedy lay in piercing Culeuea through the centre, in its longest diameter, with a street sixty feet wide. The ventilation of the city, as well as the com fort of the inhabitants, was further promoted, by making several squares, with a tank or spacious reservoir& water in the middle of each, to be surrounded by planted walks for the recreation of the better classes. These improvements, however, still, as to orna ment and convenience, fall short in comparison with the quay, mike the Strand, destined to extend upon the river bank along the city between two and three mile.. :',lnch of it is already finished, to a height of about forty feet above low-water-mark, with many pots, Of broad flights of stairs, for the accommodation of the natives In the bathing prescribed by their religion, as well as far the landing of goods. Being sixty feet clear at the top, this quay will afford great facilitation for the carriage of articles from the 'shipping to ell parts of the city. There is another work, which, though not actually begun, i. fitting to be noticed here. Dangerous shoals between the mouth of the Ilveghly and Calcutta prevent all ships of considerable size from coming up to the city ; and met. thaw yessels, of but woutoote bulk, are ax;posell to w 4; risk in the attempt: At thesowefivrie. the 'einem squalls, and the More to which the llooghly is liable, render the despatch of cargoes bock and fieward by the river strops tardy and hazardous. As a remedy for this difficulty, it has been proposed to form front Cal cutta to the new anchorage,. where the great ships ordinarily moor, a canal competent toile navigated by tham sloops. A survey hay. lag been amide by my direction, the plan appeared severely and speedily feasible ; pertly by cuts, partly by swelling ourselves of favourable reaches in different small rivers. The length would be about ninety miles. As the tells would furnish a large interest for the money expended, I left upon reowel my opinion, that the undertaking should be earnesdy recommended to the tien.Court of Dirceteri. Conviction may be felt from this statement, that the fostering attention which the lion. Compeny would desire should be paid to the immense population over which it presides, has not been sacriliceed to selfish interests. Ido not particularize the dis. semination of instruction among the natives, because any impulse which 1 could lend to its promotion was nothing, in measurement by the standard of those most meritorious and consecutive codes. your. of other., whence visible and increasing Impression has been widely made in the country. The point is meneoned wily lest I should leave myself open to the impression of not having adverted to a duty of such deep concern." - - - - The Noble Marquis conclude; his summary in the foi ling terms: — As tomyself, I can reedily imagine that may not have ade quately improved openirgs which fortune presented ; that I may not have achieved all the salivary purposes which the devoted gallantry of the troops at my disposal would have enabled me to secure ; that I may lint have attained ends profitable for the pourable Conittany, with as little hazard or • xpendinive as would have attended their acquirement in hands more skilfuL [tut it is not a claim of ability that I am maintaining t my . engagement was to defend and promote, to the best of my capacity, the conctyna with which I was intrusted. I have sought tosbow, that in &crisis of onparelled complication, extent, and difficulty, the exertion in which the fulfilment of my obligation consisted was not forborne. The issue will bear out my pretension ; for the settlement of such a violently disturbed Inn's will never be referred to chance, but will be attributed to effifes which, howsoever they might be deft. dent in judiciousness, must have been aexittway pondered, con. sistent, and indefatigable. (Signal) HASTINGS. .Aboard his Majesty's Ship , Glasgow, Bth April 18M."- IRELAND. Four thousand billets have been just ordered by. Govern ment. it is said that three regiments of foot are on their way to this country from England ; and it is also reported that Mr. Peel has written over for copies:of all proclama tions bearing on the st.ite of the country, which have been issued in Ireland for several.years back. From all this Is is inferred, that great alarm respecting the state of Ireland prevails at the other side of the water, that the local Gpvcrn ment here is not wholly free floes aneritensions, an 4 that, in censequence, some very " strong measures" (the old remedy for Irish tliseontenis) will be homeiliately re sorted to. We trust, however, for the sake of the character of the Government, as well as for the peaee and security of the country, that no rash, uncalled-for step is contem plated. We are new arrived at the ectnniencennent of December, the scasen at which disturbance was :th% aye most tierce, whets it existed at all, and we have rarely seen the interior present a calmer appearance. sot even the per nie;ous industry of the Orange Press can scrape together half a dozen offences worthy of being diriateel with the name of " outrage." With regard to the Catholic Association, notwithstanding the aleted dread of some atnumzst us, there is no ground on which any rensonable man could entertain a momentary fear. Its procteihms are a pen—its objects avowed. As it grows in wealth, in numbers, and importance, it Lemines cautious, eircem sr.!, and ten:is:rat ; and it is our honest and film con viction, that so far from exciting disturbance, the Associa tion tetels strongly to repress and prevent it. Under such eiretunsfances, the present moment would be most inausp:- cions tear any tampering with the pnhhie tranquillity, and we sincerely hope no experiment will be needlessly resorted to by the political quacks in either country.—Dsblia Fret, emu's Journal. We hear that a Catholic Association has been fcrtnrd at Pontefract, on similar princirles to theme e‘ta'alislted in Lancashire, the aim of which is, the attainment of an un restricted participation in all the rights of British subjects, by all who bear the name of Englishmen. in whatsoever creed they may conscientiously believe. The Secretary of the Pontefract Assojation is Mr. John 11,binson, of that town. A similar association will shortly be formed iu York. lieu l'arket. A. Mechanic Imitation hubcap established at Catfish-. INTERMENT OF MR. FMIXTLLIIOI The remains of this unhappy individual, whoe e excited so much interest, were, early yegerdßy i r , orten ts „ consigned to the crave. Every thing had b t en rrcri,,,7, arranged, with great prudence, with a vi ew to his internn't being as private as porsible. A considerable crowd h a d been in waiting during the day, to witness the expect e d,. moval of the body front the prison to the opposite how,/ the undertakers, Messrs. Cale and Barnard, o f t h e 0 ,, Bailey, it being known that his co ffi n was prepe r i ag there and that it was from thence he was to be buried. A n e , portunity, however, was taken to convey the betty ae ,r e i the way during a heavy shower of rain, which bad obli ged the multitude for a short time to retire, and its remov a l was, by this means, unnoticed. Owing to thesejudicact precautions, every thing was conducted with the an te privacy, and not more than about two dorm p taa ,,, ' and a few children were on the ground during solemnity. The family vault in Ilunhill-6eMs, in whi4 t h e body of Mr. Fauntlerow was deposited, coma % the remains of his father, his elder brother, and tap infant children of another branch of the family. The Ih n . Mr. Springett, whose religious consolations to him whil e * prison had brightened hie hopes of futurity, by paar y k i his views of eternal truth, and strengthening his reliantea, the Divine mercy, was present with him, as be bad kindly promised to be, to the last ; he had attended him on tk e scaffbld, and he officiated at the grave. The whole wa over by nine o'clock. That Mr. Fauntlcroy suffered justly no one will derv, however earnestly they might wish that his sentenct hid been commuted to a punishment which might have spatrd his life. Let that man who may have deetntd hits sp. deserving of mercy, examine what would he his own co n . ditinu it the present hour were to call him into judgment. The sincerity with which he endeavoured to peupiti tte the Throne of Grace by his repentance, may he collected from a short prayer which he composed on Sunday mom ing, previous to entering the ( lapel to hear the cons donned Sermon. It was first writttn with a pencil, and is the evening was copied in ink with his own handled given to a much-esteemed friend then present with him, in whose postession it remains. 'flue following i s exact transcript; the words in italics were sada. lined:— " Almighty and most merciful God, grant me a potties of thy holy spirit to enable me, repentant +dotter, wind strength in all my distresses, and through faith in the blsod of our blessed Saviour, to look with delight to that blow. place where SW MU' is no more. H. FAVNTLEIOT. Nov. 2i, " Used by me upon " entering the Chapel this awful day." We understand from good authority that the mode and demeanour of the young and intereatingfranale, 11:1 whom Mr. Fauntleroy lives' at Lambeth, have n &ad the greatest credit upon her. Towards the close of ha week, after the doom of Mr. Fauntleroy was decided, de was in the moat distressed state of mind conceivable. Os Friday, after her last interview with him, she was (heal fully convulsed with hysterical fits, and seemed to he almost incapable of receiving any sort of c msolation. Oa the following day, however, the kind and soothing atten tions of the Rev. Mr. Walsworth, the clergyman of Sant' Lambeth, who benevolently bestowed upon her afflictions nearly all his time and care. succeeded in restoring her a some degree of calmness and empesure. The Reverent Gentleman and Mrs. Walsworth spent the whole after. noon of that day in prayer end exhortation with AIR Forbes, and when they left her she was comparatively tranquil and relieved by the assurance that Mr. W. mall communicate between her and Mr. F. in Newgate mato the state of her feelings. Agreeably to Mr. Faunderoy's request, while he was taking the sacrament with his sister in New. gate, Mts. Forbes, at her own house, joined with thee is prayer. During the succeeding el dye she was node the spiritual advice of the Rev. Mr. Walsworth, preparing to receive the sacrament herself. the Tuesday morning ale rose very early, and soon after six was devoutly at rare, in which she continued fervently employed till the bowel execution.. Wises *he kiensinoton chick strack,dasA her own' witch was at the moment lying beforeldia notify the fatal moment, and sir.• seemed firnily pre*. fur the shock, she started convulsively ; but a mire' afterwards she requested the Rev. Mr. Walsworth d repeat the prayer he had composed for the future happiness of the departed father of her children. She remainal intently engaged in devotion for another hour, at the end of which her, infants were introduced into the rear, and she seemed resigned to her condition, and caprearl the happiness she felt in having discharged her religious duties, and that she was able, without repining, to bow to the will of Providence. On the next morning, ()Feeney. day), she was particularly anxicus to obtain a sight of the corpse, and she wrote to Mr. Mayhew, re queating that her wish, in that respect, might be gni. heal. A friend who had promised to aecomnany her for that purpose, was with her when her guardian , Mr. Balk arrived at her house. Ile brought her the farewell kw of Mr. Famitleroy, the very last art of his life. It was written at three o'clock on the Morning of his execution. and was couched in the most aTectionate turns. Ile in voked the blessings of Ileaven upon her fur her faithful adherence to him in his calamitici, and painted oat a her one of Pr. Watts's Hymns, which he earnestly ro quested her, for his sake, to teach their children. He subscribed himself in death, as in liCe, her most attached and affectionate friend. l'his letter also inclosed his Mat which he sent her as his dying bequest. It was delivered to Mrs. Harris, the turnkey's wife, only in trust for Mrs. Forbes, to whom it was conveyed by Mr. Build. An at tempt was made, we regret to state, to intercept the Obit* the ground that it beloneed to the Slierifilr but we believe that neither of those worthy gentlemen 'knew of time tae thus made of their names. The ring is a plain gold one. rendered remarkable by an indentation, supposed to hayr resulted from the violent pressure of Mr. Fauntlerey hands during some moment of extreme agitation. AI rp the wish of Mrs. Forbes to see the corp e, Mr. Budd informed her it was impossible, as the coffin br'e'd almost immediately soldered down. %hi the terininatiott of this interview, the unhappy woman was upwards or two hours in hysterics. hut site has since recovered her firmness, and she now bears her misfortunes with nreellt tion and tranquillity. A provision i • made fey her forte subsisteres. SJell after Mr. Faanderoy's apptelunsioa , she thanked Heaven, that if she was left d e stitute, file education she had received would enable ter to mdesilt herself and her children. from whom she deelarsl her tlr termisation ' under no circums t ances , to be pietist Stt daily prepared Mr. Fauntleroy's food while he rar is prison, and it was remarked that he s..arcAy tasted any but that which came from her. The last dinner letole was from a pigeon pie which she sent hies on Moab) morning. The Rev. Mr. IVoilsn crib knew M: s. Forbes as I rem be; of his congregation at Saudi Lambeth. .Ir. had a pew for their use, and she was always regular at', attentive in Ler d.votion. Forbes, it is known , wa sh "' her real name ; she ass.; int:ll it, at .Mr. Fanntlero . request, u rho first we .et to reside at a.arnb e..b • own name is Maria Fox. Mr. Fauntlerov, etp to the last mornert cf his manifested no felteriag or alarm : Le died with signed fortitude of a plums and sinerre Christian. tr . following letter, he wrote to a frit not late on . .U,11:!-t evening, to thank him for his attentions to Mrs. Fort.' shows the composure and firmness of his mind : — , Nenrite. Noeauhtr 21.11. 7. My Sir—l cannot help r riting a for nets :o ywi. rl7 , :j ape grateful6.r rur kind attcntins , s ta d , r 1 " I ' el : o suffering and afflict frieLd. I ant sore y.ni will robrirtie t r ( tthatamat'iation and comfort whit at this ttire she set , t., ...... ..... •••••- anal trlltch, by hrr c9rte.uct towards r 1.1,0 led „, nu Ceding and sincere fricas. 31. v cverT b:c,ting attc:.d • (sr the last with of your ever sincere and nhl.ged I ::Nit FAI-NTV.:StIV Early on Thursday week, the holy of a your: r l 7; was found in a small reservoir of watt r, at the 1 . .. 71 '" I/las-ow, by vaine o: the workmen. 11 ,1 ' sr was Eiizalialt Thottivin, and site had Irisn rnarriol j longer ago than the previous limulay. What led to so is t ' vt consequence is not known. No %it) . I.ence had been towards her; and from what can learnt, she rro -3 4 .; drowned herself under the iniim.mcc of a teturri l Y rancrncnt of mind.