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I have the honour to be, Gentlemen; Your most obedient, very humble servant, (Signed) H. P. S. MILDMAY. Cavendish -square. I line 29, 18 07. I beg leave to ouserve farther, that the eKpenees attending the inquest, amounting to .2401. were paid by me, and are included in the 1,3001. awarded by the Jury for the first year. (Signed) IL P. S. 'AULD:MAY. .• A true copy, • J. DRINKW ATER, GILES TEMPLEINIAN, HENRY PETERS, CHARLES BUSAN B. C. STsvaNsoN, MAILS. - Aitit iv Dublin, i WAterford. Dus—i Gottenburgh, t Lisbon, i Waterford. I'RICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK, Consols - - - 63 y I Oinnium . . 7 cfr: THE SUN. , SOLIM QUf3 DICrILL VALIUM AUDCAT? LONDON, SAFURDAY, JULY 4, 1807. WE this morning received Paris aad Dutch Pa pers, the former to the 26th, and the latter to the 28th ult. They are completely silent with respe6l to ' the Pie ory stated to have hien gained by the French 'over the Russians on the 141/i. 'We are inclined to draw the Mist favourable inferences from this ex traordinary silence. if the French had gained so decishe a Vittury as was stated in the Hague. Courant Of the 26th, it is most singular that no further accounts had been received in Holland on the 27th, and that the Papers. or the 26th and 27th tihould not lave fepeated or commented upon the extraordinary intelligence which' was received 'on the tieth. We, however, by .no.means 'mean to insinuate, that the silence of the Dutch Papers sob sequent tckthe34sh, is a proof that this account con tained in the 1444 Caurant was wholly unfounded ; but it does, .we thiniv,iirord afalrgrotind of presump tion, that, the result of the.battlis of the-141h was rot so Gera:treble to the /trenches - was at first represented. VA: are unwilling to indulge ',hopes that may prove too sanguine; or to -excite ex- . veaations which may not be reali2e4:lL6nt the . silence of these Papers - appears to us fsirlytto. rant the Observations which we have made. /t is also worthy df remark, that the first account of the Viaory of. the French appea,red. in the. liamburgh Paper of the 20th, and that although BOURIEN*II receiVed Dispatches froth the Army on the g2d and gad, no further details were,Pub lished as late as this 24th. NO manna ,what-. ever have been received by GovernMent upon the kubjea, which is the more strange, as the Admiralty have ordered no less 'than eight, light Vessels to cruise in the Baltic for the express it'urpoie of col leaing and transmitting honie the earliest account& of the events of the War. 1.1 i The Dwelt Papers contain ari absurd. account df the total failure of an attempt by the British Forces to retake Buenos Ayres on the 12th of February. They alio state', that Ltetgas had taken Monte Video by storm, on the igth of the same month; • . and cut the Britiih Garrison to-pieces. it is only tecesSary to state, ,that the Dionick, in which Ge heral BEnr.spoid came honie, did not ledve.Monte Video till tlio-23d of March. ~, • Ws hare tlii4 clay laid before °Ur Atiltleis toe. Memorial of Sit H. MILDI4AY, explainingthe Whole transattion respeaing the lease of his house and lands at Moulsham. It contains a phsla ,diStitta narrative of the whole transaCtion, and pilivet ber yowl all pi:risibility of doubt, that the charges which have been made with so much vehemence against Sir Fl. Mu. DM AY are totally destitute Of foUnclation. The enntraCt which lie entered into with damn =cut fur the teat.; of the thirty acres of land, and . for which a Jury awarded the sued that he:viat to receive, was a totally distinct transaetion Priam the lease of his house and pleasure-grounds. The Jury; An their verdi&, described with thii utmost pre• cition the lands to which the verditl referred, arid nothing tan be more clear than that it had waterer. ence whatever to the house and pleasure-grounds. - Now that we are upon the subjeCt of public Ingtii rf%, we cannot help again expresSing our wish that the Committee would turn ha attention to thb in Vest gation of the accounts rospefting the Foreign Corps, to which we alluded a few days . ago. It is true. these transaaions are of some years standing, but still if the statements which we have seen be . cone& it is a stibjea whith demands the most serious investiga tion. Some ,of the statements to which we refer are contained in a pamphletpublished bya Mr. Pooot, a. Gentleman, who, from his situation, had ample opportunity of obtaining the fullest inforirati 9il re lative to the -expenditure of the money granted f . or foreign Corps. We do not take upon euriclves to vouch for the truth of the nctisaticii_lilCh thAt Gentleman has preferred, but undoubtedly they are et a nature to t:eserve the most serious inquiry. FitZl 411 VD. rD J 4 GIL PAPLIW. Nets, %Tula U.—Two Xe*Spapers, priote, in Bourdeaux, contain two different accounts with re gard, to Monte Vidtto. One says, that Brigadier rim, on the ath of March, retook that plac from. the English. The Spanish Army consisted of 02,000 men, and was commanded by LINTERS.- . The English Carrion was totally destroyed on that occasion. This news was received in . Bourdeaux by a letter from Cadiz, The other, and more recent account, is of the following tenor : • • " The only piece.olintclligence which I em able to communicate to you from this place, • is; that the second Expedition having appeared before I3uenos Ayres, landed, and commenced the siege And born 'bardment of that place. The inhabitants, joined by 6000 Negroes, to whom they had promised their liberty, attacked the English, and put them to the rout, so that scarcely any of them cotild re-eMbark. This happened the lath of February, and on the lgth the gallant LINIERS having obtained ntellis gence of the success of the Spanish, Attacked Monte Video with 1200 men, took it by assault, and de stroyed the whole English Garrison, with the ex ception of a few persons, who .owed their safety merely to the intercession of a few Monks of the Convent of St. Francis. This news was received in Cadiz by a letter. from Monte. Video of the gth of Mareh.—(Roiterdam. Gazette, of June 27.) PARIS, JUNE 25.—'-Nothing has been made known here relative to the events of the war, but letters have been received from Elbing, of the 11th June, which state, that the Emperor having caused his army to manoeuvre for some days, bad led it against the Russians : on the ath he had passed the Pas serge, on the gth he bad driven the enemy beyond Guttstadt, and on the loth the French army was before, Heilsburgh. Five per Cents. Consols, with the Dividend of March 22d,76. Francs 85 Celits.—(Rotterdam Cou rant, June 37.) IiNNA., JUNB 5.---The last accounts from the frontiers of Turkey state, that the Grand Seignior has made a present to General SEBASTIANI of the estate of Taspia, which formerly belonged to. Prince Yr.sttottcrt. Just B....The.latest intelligence from Servia, of the 20th May; announces the arrival of a consider: able Onrps of Ottoman Troops in the environs of Widdin. CZERNI GEORGE continued his retreat, and the juu&ion of his troops with the Russians is now impossible. The new Firman of the Grand Seignior against the Servians has been pnbllshtil in _ the Turkish Marty. ANrwcaP, Stare .16,....5ince the taking of Dant iic, the Illustrious man of. war has received the name of that city►. The Anversois, launched on the 7th, is equipping ; the Commerce de Lions is ready to put to sea ; the C'rsar and Drigiesdirt will be launched d the 20th and 21 it fait. The works in the baiin of flushing at* huished ; orders are given &rale repairing of the jetties which form the Outer Fart. The Scheldt, froM 'Antwerp to the sea, is lined with formidable batteries; Which etteaually protea bbth its sides.. • iacu BiTsr, JUNE 9.—The day before yesterdajr . 600 PruSsian prisoners of wararriied herefrom — Sileica; 'escorted by 400 Saxons; and that day there was net the least appearances iif danger, when, at nine aide& at night, General Letntarrp.. received an Estafette; bringing intelligence that strange troOpii had beim Jean at a fey miles distance from that place. The generale was immediately beaten, and the troOpi took to arms . ; orders were given to shtit the shops, pi i li g hts In the windoyi, and, in general, preparationi were made to repel! an attack. Aid-de-Camps and patroles were sent to all quarters, ',and the Saxon Garrisen \vat the whole night under arms. In the morning further reports. Were reeeitid of a Prussian Corps being assembled an the frontiers of, Bohemia, joined by seine prisoners of war, by whOm the plan *as fornied to suoprise and. plunder the ttiwn. But this plan being disconcerted by the vigi lance of General LEGEAND, the PrUSsians retreated. Yesterday morning Hutt IVLuesTv, the Dokei cf tAlutnntnoz and SUSSEX, Princesses ELit4setn, MARY, and AttietuA, attended by Lady J. THyrats, Mrii. Di GROSVENOR, rGenral FIt2ROY; and Colo nel '.1.1.0.tt, went in their carriages to Hounslow Heath, t 6 see the iath Reginient of Light Dragoons reviewed by the Prince of WALus. • ibt MAJHSTY; PrIOCCSSCS AUCUSTA and Sof , took their usual ride in Windsor Park. The Parao o rMvh which tai appeared it;,Otie of The Morning - Papers, stating that the Motion.lphich,Mt, WHi#3l4om3 has given runlet: of rna)iing next Mon, day, it intended to be postpoad till Wednetidai, for an Inquiry into the State Of the Naticiti,ls with ont foundation. We understand that Mr—WHIT BREAD'S Motioli . will certain!) , be branght foryvatd oti Monday, when an attendance:is expefted in the House of Commons equal to that on the first day of the Sestion`. The PRINCE ?) f WAtas ~yesterday reviewed the loth Regiment of Dragoons on Ashford Common, and afterwards entertained the QvnEN anti the ?tux cassas , at the Zush, at Staines. N AV Ala V 5 PLYMOUTH ) . JULY 2.—S:filed the Nile Cutter.,-of • I'6 guns, with Dispatches for the Squadron cruizing off Rochefort ; also the Cassandra Cutter, ,with , se r veral.Viduallers under Convoy,' laden with supplies for the 4anaeSquadron ; and the Rose Sloop of War • on a Cruize. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 3.—Arriv,ed this day Le Spartiate, of 74 guns, C4t. LAFOREY, from off Rochefort iiand the Indioant Gun-brig, from a mixt% Sailed the Halcyon Sloop, Captain PEAR . CE, on a cruize. This morning the 56th Regiment of Foot embark ed at Point Beach, for Jersey. DU EL.—Yesterday morning, in consequence of a slight altercation, Lieut. - - of the Navy, and Lieut. -, of the Marines, met, with their se conds, neai Gosport; on the first fire, the Naval Lieut. was wounde4 in the thigh, 'and immediately fell. He was from • thence conveyed to the Royal Hospital at Haslar, but his life is not considered in danger. DEAL, JULY 3.—The Zebra Bomb arrived last night from a Cruize; and the Quail, Pickle, IPhit. ing, and Rook Sclitioners, from,the Wetward, and remain with the Ships as per last. The IPacksaantheit, LUNDSTROM, was_last night removed to Dover Harbour. The American 13iig Mary, S.lllcE, was sent into , the Downs last night by' the Seagull Sloop, on, a voyage from Dunkirk to Lisbon, in ballast. The Hamburg!) Ship Cuxhaven was last night sent in, but liberated this morning, and - proceeded. A splendid entertainment was yeiterday given on board . .His Majesty's Ship Princess of Orange, by Capt. tioarom, to Admiral ROWLEY .and family and a numerous assemblage a" fas.hionables. 003cXTE., JULY 20-,The number or Transports winch sailed yestet'ay morning from the Dawns was exaffly one hundred and three, exclusive of three Gun-brigs, their convoy. in. consequence of light baffling winds, about thirty Sail brought up last night off the North Foreland ; but the wind blow ing from the west this mOrning soon carried them out of sight, and they are all now, with a • fine rattling breeze, considerably advanced on their voy age. A number of light Transports are daily coming into the Downs ; and another embarkation of troops is still spoken of as likely to take place ' • but neither troops nor transports are yet arrived here for that purpose ; nor have any orders to that effect been received at Canterbury. The regular force now there consists of the 2d heavy Dragoons of the king's German Legiun, one troop of English Horse Artillery, two companies of Foot Artillery, three brigades : of Drivers, and two troops of the Wag;. gon. Train. BRITISH REVIEW.' . • Some Account of the public Life, and a Seleilion from the titiw , b p&d writinss, of the Foci of l‘lscartney. 13y lotus ir;,:;,, to W, Esq. Author of . ‘• Travels in China," and • '4 Southern Attica," and of " a Voyagt.- to Cochinchim.' The former works of this Gentleman have a f fOrded us an opportunity of presenting some very , interesting extraets to our Readers, and it is with v e ry great pleasdre that we see, from tilQ same hand, a Life of the late Earl' of MACARTNEY, a Nobleman whose private and public conduit through lire .entitles his . name to the esteem and veneration of mankind. - But the present work is. not only valuable' on account of its biographic record of so excellent a charaeler, but •becaule it elucidates a stibje t a which has given scope to touch illiberal prejudice rod scandalous - misrepreentation. The friends of Marquis WV.L . LESCO E:1) particular, will he highly gratified by this work, as it establishes, Without any allusion to the trausaiaions of Ms Go vernment, the , soundness of the principles upon which he aCtekil and it Mil aiford• no little consola tion to the Noble thrquis himself, in the midst of an unmerited persecution, to see that the' charges krought against him are not half so horrible as those Which were exhibited against ,Lord MACAUTNEY, the brightest example of integrity, self-denial, and disintereste.duesS that ,der held a Governm e nt in India, or any where else. These charges, indeed; appear to have been (OD absard and monstrous even for party perposes; though sent home under the saneliun of the.,fle . argil . GovertunO.ik. We mean to give these charge S -at full length; as Soon is we have opportunity, as a great curiosity in fh . eniselves, and is a specirnen of the infamons calumniei 'engendered by " profligate Englialtmeo," at those nurseries Ot: corruptidh, the Courts of the cliPende'nt Princes of 'l'43, We would earnestly a d v i se t h ose M em b ers of Parliament ,who are inclined to interfe?la in the Carnatic question to peruo that part of the publi. , cation belOre us, which relates to this a subje, where, we venture to. assert, they will find more real information, ,as to .the views, the, pretensions, stud the general conduct of' the ANTAfton of AttcoT and his family than what haS been fOrnished by all the voluminons. Papers called for, 6y the House of Commons. \Ve submit to our Readers the follow id g retleelions, which' haie suggested themselves to Mm. BARiOy/ on this subjed " That a conaici-rable i)ortien of thinking men i n the British Nation should stiMr themselves to be so long and so repeatedly'abthied; with regard to the complaiuts of the dependent Mahbmedari Princes of India,. can only be e:qilained by the little trouble that is taken to inform. themselves accurately on the, sut,jeet : but the enormous arms of money 'which tbese-intllguing men are always re,:tdy to lavish. on the,;l2 who may either be suffieiently ignorant; or sinliciently corrupt, to undeitake their ,eause, . will teadil y account tor the Z0M10414 advocates who now and t;:en :stand forth as.their avowed ch ampions: hut the real faCtis i t4at there is riot perhaps a single ndlvilual atriv!:- , ere 't 'neck Princes which 'the - . - 1, W v:o- fated his with those whe,mised him_ to power; and so base are their chargters and condsta in general, that every honest man, who may have • had occasion -to witness them upoh - the spot, and whose integrity : has been proof against their insidious - practices . of corruption, -muSt acknowledge ) that there is not perhaps, upon the face of the earth, ,a set of Freatures so,depraved, so licentious,. so ut principled, .nnd in every respea so worthless, as those dependent upstarts, in whose cause the powers ,of rhetoric have so frequently been exhausted thts British House of commons, to rouse and to abuse the generous feelings of the Nation. HOW few, on such occasions, have ever 'believed; that an English Governor could be innocent, when an Indian Na bob was his accuser; yet how very easy is 'it fora man, with whom truth is not considered as a moral obligation, and intrigues and treachery the whole study of his life, to ,produce a series of unfounded calumnies; how difficult, at such a distance, to ,disprove them before the, poison has worked its effect But the time is probably not very distant, when the Public, in this respect,, will be undeceived; for as a great moralist has observed, it seldom thinks long on any subjea without at last attaining to think right. It is however really surprising that, after a • lapse of more than half a century, the people of England should still continue to be deluded by every new declaimer, who, bent upon thrusting himself into notice, and fed by the bounty of a Nabob, he. pudently ventures to step forward to mislead the, public mind, and• to arraign the conlea of those who have really deserved well of their country by a conscientious discharge of their duty. Whoever will give himself the trouble of examining the re cords of Bengal and Madras, must unaveidably be convinced, that so long as The system is continued of setting up Nizams and Viziers, 'Nabobs and Rajahs, without any real claims or pretensions, as the osten sible Governess of countries, provinces, and elk s trills ; but, in faa, mere tools of the Company ;'no Governor-General of Bengal, no President of Ma tires, provided he be an honest man, can pus . sibly escape their intrigues, th e ir h a t re d, and their calumny ; but if he will allow them to break their' engagements with the Company, to corrupt its servants, to 'purchase indulgendes by, bribes,' to oppress the inhabitants by extortion, and cruelty and murder, and to plunder and encroach upon every 'Petty Power that borders ,on their respeative countries, he will be extolled by them as the wisest . and best Governor that ever ruled in India. No thing' has, most assuredly, had so strong a ten dency to injure the British tiatne among the real and substantial Powers of Hindostan, as the impo litic measure of setting up these puppets et . ' a - thceity; and nothing probably would have more iu fhaence in consolidating the peace 'and the prospe rity pf India, than the abolishing of these double Governments, and taking the management of such countries as avowedly befong to the British Empire entirely into our hands. As a matter o 1 expediencrthe - Company scent pretty well convinc ed that the measure must be adopted, and, that those nurseries of oppression, intrigtie, and' cor ruption must be destroyed : of unhappy, yet 'unoffending natives, would then know, to whord they were to lookup for proteaion, Which, under the present system of things, is, at least, with them s matter of doubt and di'tress ; by discontineing the creation of dependent Nizams, Nabobs ) rajahs,,' and Khans, the Company wcuM yet get rid of so 'many stumbling blocks to their prosperity, and stepping-stones to their enemies. And her ter far would it be for them even to dc.ub e ti e already large emoluments of their servants, from the highest to the lowest, rather • than,'out cif 'consideration to their interestB, keep op those phantoms ..power with affluence aed wealth; however sufficient to corrupt-their coi ald feed 'their aVarice. Those who conceive hat a Govern;. meet in lodise while embatrassed b, the i r.gues Of dependent Nabobs and Rajahs, is a t jnviab e situate tion,'• are little acquainted with.the diffic hies and dangers with which it is surrounded. To a strictly honest rlan, bent en doing hii duty, a mote heart rending situation can scarcely be imagined ; he must either lend the aid otitis authority to the Most horrtl oppressions, cruelties, and murders, or, if he resiste, incur tbechargeofoppression himself; thus he treacls on thorns at every step, and after years of toll and anxiety. .for the public welthre, he will retire from the scene with the mortification of tindlog that ad his 'endeavours have been exhausted in vain to era dicate that system of corruption which is nurtured in every petty 'Court of Hiodostan ; that he hag only drawn' upon himself the malignity of these who float within its vortex; and, what is worst of all, lie may almost lay his account of meeting at home with the frigid Indifference of his employers." Yesterday a ballot was taken :at the East India House, the result of which was in favotir of the re_ turn. of RICHARD JOHNSON., Esq. to the Company's civil service in Bevil. Yesterday a Court .of Directors was bold at th,: East India House, when the under-mentioned Of ficers were sworn into the command of their re spe6tive Ships, viz. Captain Jam; ECKFORD, of the Diana, for Madras and Bengal ; and .Captain NAY CHRISTOPHER, of 11w Sir William Pultenty, for Bombay.—The Court adjourned at six o'clock tilt Tuesday nett. 'The Marquis of Flu NTLRY is to be allowed to tare with him to Egypt his own regiment, the 42J. The Foot Guards will be among the first part of the British troops embarked for Stralsund. . Tats TIINATRE.-L-Mr. YOUNG, who hasheen par ticularly distinguished on Prov'tncial Beards for his performance of: The Stranger, last nig!it assumed that charatier at the Haymarket Theatro. His tea twos are peculiarly well suited to convey r the de jeaed behaviour of the visage," and the getterid style .of his acting very well corresponds with ae qualltiticofthe eharader, and the situation in wh'cli it is - supposed to be involved. Mr. YOUNG sup ported: the charaeler with suet) judgment, and Snell a strong expression of that mixture of misanthropy and tenderness which it • demands, as to add to the reputation which'he has acquired since his appear. atlce in. the Metropolis, and to justify Qur tormer obServation, that he deserves a permanent footing on the Landon Stage.. Mrs, trrCitrtELD has been Often seen in the part of M r s. and Silo WR4 not less eife4tive last night than ran Conner occisions. The Play,altogether went off belt,a:id was at tended by a very numerous audience.