The Sun. — London, England, 1823-09-06 00:00:00

! .I . ' t,‘"l 71. . ._ ;., r . -b ir .,...." . ..- . •• \ ' , " -,7 - .4.• , „ 41_ ~.. .), ......, ...,-,:j".,< 'I -''' •• I ' .''. _ ~;w ~- Eft; lit no -f 7 -2 • 17Th NITAIBER 9684. CONTRACTS FOR BRITISH DUCK CLOTH, AND FROCKS AND TROWSERS 111,1Dg OF BRITISH DUCK CLOTH. __ _______ Navy-Office, September I t 1823: THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COM MISSIONERS of HIS AL4JESTY'S NAVY : do hereby give 'Notice, that on WEDNESDAY, the 17th Instant, 'at . One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with retch Pertoxi as may be willing to Contract for supplying BRITISH DUCK CLOTH, and FROCKS and MOW ',MRS made of BRITISH DUCK CLOTH, to be deli vered into His Majesty's Yard at Deptford. A Sample of the Cloth,' and Patterns of the Frocks and Verawsers, with a Form of the Tender may be seen at this tylice. No Tender will be received 'after One o'Clock; on the Day of Trebly, nor any noticed, unless the Party, or an .Agent for Every Tender must be accompanied by a Letter ad. dressed to- the Navy Board, and signed by two reSponsibte Person, engaging to become bound with the Person ten dering, in the Sum of £l,OOO for the due perlormanee of the Contract. •R. BLAGDEN, Surgeon to the Queen's Lyinß•in Hospital, and Mr. STONE, Surgeon to the Brownlow-street Lying.in Hospital, will begin their LECTURES on MIDWIFERY and the DISEASES of WO .MEN and CHILDREN, on MONDAY, October oth. The Lecturei are read every Day from a Quarter past Ten to a Quarter past Eleven, for the convenience of Students at tending the Hospitals. For particulars, apply to Mr. Blagden, 22, Sackeille-street ; orto Mr. Stone, at the Lecture Room, 26, Argyll-street. AN APPEAL TO TIJE COMMON SENSE OF THE PUBLIC. IT is not Often that such an appeal can be made in favour of a LOTTERY ; but the PRESENT 'SCHEME and the PRESENT PRICES afford such rational chances of success, that every person of common sense, who investigates the subject, will feel it his duty to take advantage of the opportunity. and put himself in the way of getting Se venty Thousand Pounds, where the PRIZES in the Scheme are more numerous than the Blanks ! ! ! and the Tickets may be bought at any of the Offices for One-third less than the usual price ; for a Mole Ticket is reduced more than al ; even a Sixteenth is selling for 10s. less ; and all other Shares are as cheap in proportion. The Drawing will begin on Thurs day, 25th of this Month. • PO COUNTRY AGENTS who are in the habit of getting their Newspapers from London by the early Morning Coaches : —T he MORNING CHRONICLE is regularly Published to the Newsmen at the early hour of Five o'Clock every Morning, except during the Sitting of Parliament.—Office of the Morning Chronicle, No. 4, Norfolk , street, Strand. el This Journal could be obtained in every town within 120 miles of London on the day of its publication, if sent off by the Morning Coaches. THE MORNING CHRONICLE. AN 'ALTERATION having taken in the A.DVEitrisING DEPARTMENT of this Journal, the following will be the FUTURE SCALE for ADVER. TISEMENTS inserted in the Morning Chronicle News. paper t Eight Lines (in Nonpareil type) Seven Shillings. All above Eight Lines Sixpence each Line. Paragraphs, One Shilling each Line. Servants Wanting Places, Five Shillings each. • Births, Marriages, or Deaths, Half.a-Guinca each. Office of the Morning Chronicle, No. 4, Norfolk-street, London. LONDON REPOSITORY for the CABINET MAKERS' SOCIETY, for every Description of CABINET FURNI. TUBE, YEA'rHER BEI) and 'MATTRESS MANUT . 'FACTORY, 'IN°. 71, Corner of LEADENIIALL STREET, London, opposite Aldgate Pump.- 7 Read. Money Only. " Society of Cabinet-Makers respectfully T 'inform the Public that they still continue the above Eitablishment, for the Benefit of Industrious Mechanics who have large Familes, by offering them 111anufactpred Articles in the Cabinet Line, of the best Workmanship, and Cheaper than any House can do in London by twenty-five per cent., there being no other profit required on the Goods but the bare house expellees ; at the same time will he sufficiently satisfied with having constant Employment for themselves and families. This Society tv.is , Established in June,• 1821, consisting of 20 Mechanics, adding the number of their Wives and Fami, hes, amounted to 66; in .tune, 1819, five more were added to the Society; in June, 1820, 10; and in June 1811, 8. The , total Number now receiving Support through the Means of this Establishment is 191. The Society and . their Families beg leave to return their sincere thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have hitherto honoured them with their Orders and Recommenda tions, and Shall always feel happy in their 'endeavours to give fYture satisfaction ; at the same time solicit a Continpanee of their Benevolence, whereby they may be enabled to increase the Number of the Society. The following Articles arc inserted as a Specimen of the very how Prices, all warranted.-Ready Money only. Full size Mahogany, four-post Bedstead, lath bottom 31 15s. -Full size tent Bedstead 11. tis.-Bordered hair . Mattress to fit 11. lg.-Mahogany Drawer, solid ends 31.35.-Feather Bed 31. IN.-Mtn, free from dust and smell, full size 31. 10s.- Six japanned Chairs of any description in oil 11. 65.-Best do. Wash.hand-stand 1118.-Ditto, Dressing Table 165.-Hearth Rugs 145.-3 ft. 6 inches Chest of Drawers 41. U.-Three-foot niBhugany Pembroke Table 11. 188.-Three-foot ditto on pil. lays and claws 31. 138.-Mahogany Dressing Table 11.-Ditto Bidett, best 11. 45.-Ditto Bedsteps 11. 85.-I)itto ditto 11. 12s. ,-Ditto ditto 21. 2s -Ditto Box Glass, - 2 drawers, best British Place lils.-Ditto ditto is. 65.-Ditto ditto 11. lits.-Ditto Swing Glass,. large size, commode 35.-Ditto ditto &1.-Ditto ditto fig.-Ditto ditto 125.-Sea Bed and Pillow ss. 6d.-Ditto ditto 65.-Ditto ditto 75.-Tray Stand 75.-Long Mahogany Tray. 145.-Japanned Book Shelf 75.-Tea Caddy 10s.-Porta ble D es k 215.-Desk covers in number 145.-Music Chairs any pattern Bs. 6d.-Eight Mahogany Chairs, covered with horse hair, brass nailed 61. 65.-8 ditto ditto 61. 155.-8 ditto ditto 71.75.-8 Trafalgar ditto 91. 95.-slahogany Sofa to match 71. 10s.-Ditto Couch 71. 10s.-Ditto ditto 81.108.-Ditto, with Bedstead 71: 108.- Set of Mahogany Card and Sofa Tables, on turned legs, banded .in rose-wood 81. 15s. Set of Mahogany Tables, two Card and Sofa, on pillars and claws 121. 125.- Ditto, the best that can be made-to order or pattern 181. 10s. -Handsome 7 foot 6 pedestal , Sideboard, with carved back 171 Ditto 7 foot 161.-Ditto 6 foot six 151.-Set of Dining Tables, of the last pattern, 4 foot by 10 foot 61 11.- I)itto, 4 foot 2 by 11 foot 6,151.-Ditto, 4 toot 6 by 12 foot 6, 161. ltis.-If Spanish, an advance of '3l. 10s.-Straw Palliasse 'll. la.-Tent Bedstead and furniture 31.15.--Bamboo Bed. stead and French elyptic top, with drapery and fringe, 81. 104. -Five-foot mahogany four-post Bedstead and furniture, with French draperies, lined all through, complete, 151.. 10s.- Five4bot ditto, ditto 16s. 10s.-Ditto ditto, with cornice, of a sttperier make, 181. 10s.-Ditto ditto, with gold cornice, de pe y 201.-Drawing - room Curtains , of the best Mo. rg drar in ut e and Ch intz, fitted for window, 61. 6d.-Ditto ditto 71. 7s. -i)itto, of a superior and elegant style of work, 101. 10s.- llra g.room rose-wood-Drawing.room Trafalgar Chairs tto, inlaid with buhl. Covers, and Sofa i 181.' 'ft-Ditto U. ls.-Drawpg-room Sofa 61 . 65.-Ditto, 7s. - Di tto t iL 88. _finrse.hair Cushions, each ss. 6t1.-Covered ditto 41. W. TH URNELL, Agent. COUN TRY DEALERS SUPPLIED. (foods packed free of expense, exc ept the materials, and sent to all part s of Great Britain, and to the East and West In okiest.-Captains fitted out, and merchants supplied with Ca lfaiet 00 eds for Exportation. Apartmen t s -Furnished at a few hours' notice, and Houses two or, four /AYE ,„ • • (e,„ THE EWHURST PARK:ESTATE, HANTS. TO BE SOLD.BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, By Mr. WILLOCK, ALARGE . and VALUA BLE -FREEHOLD ESTATE, comprising the whole Tarish of Ewhurst, situate between Basingstoke and Kingsclere 51 miles from London, in the Coun of Hants, with the Capital' i ansion, called EWIIURST PARK HOUSE, and all requisite Of fices for the complete accommodation of a Family of the first respetability. Lawns' Pleasure Grounds, lce.house, Green house, Walled Kitchen Garden, a Park embellished with beautifUl sheets of water, stately Timber Trees, Ornamental Buildings, Woods, abounding with some of the finest Oaks in the kingdom, and sundry Farths and Lands ; and the Lion Inn, at the Park Gate; the whole containing Twelve Hundred Acres, and Six Hundred Acres of Le a sehold Land, chiefly held for Three Young Lives, altogether estimated worth up wards of TWO•TOUSA I H ND POUNDS PER ANNUM ; together with the ' Manor of Ewhurst, and the Pepetual Ad vowson of the Rectory of Ewhurst. The Turnpike Road from Reading, through Aldermaston, passes through the Estate • the House, approached by a Road through the Park and Woods of more than a mile in extent, is"plentifully supplied with the finest water; and the elevated Terrace on the fsoutfuside of the Garden affords the most de lightful prospects into seven or eight Counties. Immediate possession may he had. Plans of the Premises may , be seen, and all further Particu lars may be had, of Mr. Willock, No. 25, Golden-square. Will clear about the Mid•lle of September, FOR MADRAS 'AND BENGAL, fTH E fine fast-sailing Ship CLYDE, 1 .. .A I, lying in the City Canal, But - then 500 IN \ Tons, 'THOMAS DRIVER, Commander. ,-.•......"- Has excellent AccomModations for Patten gers, and will carry a Surgeon. For Freight or Passage, apply to Messrs. R. SCOTT, FAIRLIE, and Co., to the Commander. at the Jerusalem Culler• hone, or to - ISBISTER and HORSLEY, iI, Leaden• hall-street. This Day were published, OBSERVATIONS on the APPLICATION of the WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY for a RENEWAL of their CHARTER, 'with an Analysis of the Evidence given before the Committee of the House of Com mons on FOreign Trade, to which their Petition was referred ; and a Copy of the Report•of the sahl Committee. By JOSEPH MARRYAT, Esq. M.P. Printed for J. M. Richardson, Cornhill ; and Riageways, • ' f3ty,' 3 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1823. INDIA, THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. From his MAJESTY'S pOSSeSSiOnS in Asia rising daily into higher importance, both political and commercial, and from the increasing attention they have attracted throughout the whole of the British Dominions, it Is our intention to dedicate our columns to every thing connected with their, happiness and Welfare. The unexpect ed banishment of Mr. BuctuNattAm from In dia, by Mr.. JOHN ADAM, the temporary Go vernor-General, has already excited much interest in every one connected with British India, and cannot fail to give rise to discussions of the most serious nature. For the present we shall forbear entering further on this subject, in order that Mr. BucKiNGitAst may have the opportunity of stating fairly his own case, by our insertion of his letter. At the same time we shall , with equal readiness, insert any communication from' the friends of Mr. JOHN ADAM, who appears to US to have commenced his Government with a very bold and hazardous measure. What effect these discussions will have on the public mind of India we will not anticipate ; but if nothing should occur to disturb .the happiness of that portion of the British Empire but that which may arise from the freedom of the Press, we shall entertain no apprehensions in that respect. We haveour fears, however, that, from other causes, the...seeds of dissatisfaction have been sown, which will re quire all the vigilance and circumspection of the High Authorities, at home and abroad, to guard against. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN INDIA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE • • • • Sin—.ln your Journal of Saturday, I read an extract of a Report of proceedings in the Supreme Court, at Calcutta, on the SOth of March, professedly copied from the Bombay Courier, of the 19th of April :—and as my name is introduced in that Report, coupled, with an opinion of the Learned Judge then on the Bench, calculated to produce an unfavourable impression as to the nature of the publication. which 1 superintended in India, under the title. of The Calcutta Journal, 1 have to re. 'Twat you will do me the justice of inserting in your extremely circulated Paper the few observations that I think it neces sary, for the present at least, to make on the matters touched on in the Report alluded to. I shall go no further into the history of the India Press, than • to state that in the d a y s o f W arren H ast i ngs , w h en our indiah • Empire was considered to be surrounded with greater dangers than any that have subsequently threatened it, the Press was free, and the Newspapers of Calcutta, at that time commented on all the acts - of the Government, both at home and abroad, with the same freedom that is seen in your own pages, and those of your contemporaries, on the acts of his Alajesty's Ministers in England. Yet,, t h ough the Press was then unre strained by any other check than that ef being subject to the Courts of Law and a Jury, there is no proof on record of its having produced a single evil of a public nature, nor was it thought necessary to curb its freedom (or licenciousness, us its enemies would say) by any legislative enactments, either in England or Indio. ' It was not until the (iovernor-Generalship of the Alarquess Wellesley that a censorship was put on the Indian Press, by which ill Editors were commanded to submit their proof sheets to the Chief Secretary to Government, who was empowered to exercise his discretion,' and strike out whatever lie thought proper ; the Editor being at the same time informed, that it he dared to publish any thing after it should have been marked for suppression by. the Censor's pen, he would incur the Governor- General's, severe displeasure, and be instantly banished from the country, without a trial. As long as the Indian GoVernnient NUM this power of' ba nishing any individual for any fault a Writ they may deem sufficient cause, they can of course use the threat Of this severe punishment to Intimidate an Englishman from the exer. cise of any right he may think he possesses'—the right of pro.. perty as well as the right of opinion —and if lie dares to persist in making any use of his faculties which may be displeasing to the Governor ibr the time being, lie may be banished for so doing, hoviever legal or lust his pretensions may be. • This state of slavery ?for it is no misapplication of the term to apply it to a state in which a man's person, property, and even thoughts, are made suNect to the arbitrary will of an. other, to dispose of as he may see tit, without the intervention of any protecting power) is the happy lot'of Englishmen ONLY. Native Indians, of whatever caste or religion, and foreigners of every denomination, are exempt front this arbitrary power. They can reside in any part of India without a license from the East India Company; and not being liable, therefore, to pu nishment for not having such license, they can only be tried and sentenced for any fault they may commit, according to law. An Englishman, however, is less free than the native In dian or the foreigner, being merely tolerated or permitted to reside in the country by the especial favour of' the East India Company; their Governor thus alimonies the power of with. drawing that favour whenever he . pleases ; wed the unhappy En lishman, being first stripped, by the Governor's mandate, of the license by . virtue of which he resides in India, is then banished for a misdemeanour, for not having in his possession the license of which the Governor himself has wantonly and capriciously deprived him 1 The threat of this puni s h. trent: being the only mode in which they could enforce the obedience of that illegal order which put the Press of India under a Censorship, this power was soon discovered to be not binding on Any but Englishmen. Accordingly, it soon hap pened also, that Gentlemen who enjoyed the exempting mi. vilege of ndict,' birth, resisted subjection to the Censorship, and either refused to submit their proof sheets to the Chief Secretary for revisal, or printed as much of the suppressed pa raphs afterwards as they thought proper. It was by a writer of this class, an Indo-Briton, that a well-known publication, entitled The Gazeteer, was published; and what no Ear/ish Editor could have printed, without risking immediate ba nishment from the country, was printed by the Indo-B t itisli Editor with confidence, from his being exempt from this ar bitrary power, and being subject only to the Court s Of L aw and a Jury. At this period,the Marquess of Hastings had the p enetrat i on to perceive that it was unwise and absurd to leav e t h e Press free in the hand s of that c l ass who, from birth, h a bi t, feeling, and even education, were likely to be hostile to The Govern ment; and at the same time not to permit an equal degree o f freedom to anoth er c l ass , w ho, from the sam e Causes, were likely to be friendly to Government. With this view of the case, Lord Hastings removed the Censorship from .the Indian Press, avowedly for the purpose of putting native-born and English Editors exactly on the same footing of responsibility to the laws, for any abuse which they miglit make of this re- stored liberty. The praises bestowed on the Marq uess of H ast i ngs for this supposed emancip a tio n o f th e Press rom all its shackles, save only the wholesome restraints of the law, and the complacent manner in which his Lordship received and acknowled ged alt these eulogies from every quarter, must he fresh in the recol. lection of your Readers. I will content myself, therefore, with referring particularly to one or two paragraphs of the reply given by L or d !lasting% to an Address from the Britlah In habitants of Madras, with so much of the latter as advert, ed to the emancipation of the Indian Press from its previous slavery. At the close of their Address, Il k British Inh a bi tants of Ma dras introd uce d t h e f o ll ow i ng redi r paragraph " While conte m pl a ti n g this important subject (injunction of the native population), it must have occurred that to the at.. tainment of truth; freedom of inquiry was essentially neces sary ; that public opinion was the strongest support of j ust Government; and that liberty of discussion served b ut to strengthen the hands of the Executive. Such freedom of dia_ cussion was the gift of a liberal and enlightened mind ; an in. valuable and unequivocal expression of those sentiments evinced by the whole tenor of your Lordship's Administration." - At the close of Lord Haitings' reply to this Address, which was not spoken in a corner, but delivered amidst a large as. semblage of the principal Functionaries of the Civil and Mili tary Government of India, in the Hall of the Governm ent House at C a l cutta , and th en received with the most unequi. vocal marks of delight and approbation, were the following pro fessions respecting this important subject of the Press : " One topic remains. My removal of restrictions from the Press has been mentioned in laudatory language. I might easily hare adopted that procedure without any length of cau tious consideration, from. say het&it of - regarding the freedom of publication as a natural right of my fellow-suldects, to he narrowed only by special and urgent • cause assigned. The seeing no direct necessity for those invidious shackles, might have sufficed to make me break them. I know myself, how ever, to have been guided in the step by a positive and well_ weighed policy. Hour motives of action are worthy, it must be wise to render them intelligible through an empire, our hold on which is opinion. Further—it is salutary for Supreme Authority, even when its intentions are most . pare, to look to the controul of public scrutiny. While conscious of rectitude, that authority can lose nothing of its strength by its exposure to general comment. On the contrary, it acquires incalculable addition of force. That Government which has nothing to disguise, wields the most powerful instrument that can apper tain to sovereign rule. It carries with it the united reliance and effort of the whole mass of the governed. And let the triumph of our beloved country, in its awful contest with ty rant-ridden France, speak the value of a spirit to be found only in men accustomed to indulge and express their honest senti ments." If these words mean anything, they clearly admit--Ist. That the•" natural right" of Englishmen to freedom of publication, belonged to them as fully and as certainly in India as in Eng land. 2tlly. That there was nothing contrary to safe and good policy in allowin g th e f re e s t e x erc i se o f t h e rig h t: 4thly. That there were the strongest reasons for it s b e i ng peculiarly suited to an empire, which we held only by opinion. othly. That ju u thing but unworthy motives could justify its being.put under restraint. tithly. That it was doing an essential service to Su preme Authority to exercise public scrutiny intuits acts, as by means of such scrutiny •an upright Government must be strengthened and supported. 7thly. That the most effectual way to secure the rehanCe of the mass of the governed, is to chew that the Governors have nothbig to disguise or co weal, and therefore permit all their acts to be freely canvassed.— lithly. That nothing could bemore valuable or virtuous than that spirit • which. impels men freely to indulge and freely to express their honest sentiments, particularly on questions in which tyranny of Government is concerned. After such open and public professions as these, the British Public will scarcely think it credible that the Noble Marquess should have threatened an Englishman with banishment and ruin for • exercising that " natural right," which he so highly esteemed ; for accepting the challenge of public scrutiny, which he had so magnanimously ofltred and for indulging in that proud spirit to be found only in men who express their honest sentiments; yet such are the aberrations of the human heart and human understanding, that the distinguished indivi dual, who was literally overwhelmed with praise from all quer tent of the globe, fot this oriental display of liberality towards the Indian Tress, before the echo of these praises had ceased to he heard, should have so far forgotten all his fornier profes sions, as to threaten banishment without trial, and without even a diseussion of the case, for any publication through the Press, of any thing that niight •he displeasing to the Government of which he was at the head ! The .warmest friends and admirers of the Noble Lord may well lament this irretrievable blemish on the consistency of his political character : and no one laments it more deeply . or more sincerely than mys e lf ; b u t th e t im e is arrived when Jus tice requires this to be mentioned if but to be deplored. It may still, however, be urged on his Lordship's behalf, that though he threatened, he never so deeply stained T's political • reputation as to put his threat into execution ; and T am will. lag to yield him all the credit which can be due to this area. sure of forbearance. It was reserved fbr his temporary suc cessor, Mr. John Adam, who had no public name or politi ca l reputation to lose, to v en t ure on this long-contehiplated and often-threatened act. 11e had been formerly the Censor of the Press when Chief Secretary to the Indian Government; and though always treated by It with the greatest considera tion and respect, was known to entertain feelings of the m os t deep-rooted hostility towards that freedom of discussion and nubile scrutiny which Lord Ilastingi so highly extolled: The Noble Marquess quitted India on the Ist of .January, 1823, up to which period, there had been nothing ever published in The Calcutta Journal, during neatly five ' years that 1 superintended it as Proprietor and Editor, which had been thought sufficient to warrant my banishment from the - country ; or that had been condemned a s libell ous or even im proper by verdict of a Court of Law. Up to that pe r i o d, therefore, I am justified in saying that my writings were.inno cent in h legal point of view, and I may add also acceptable in a moral or popular sense, as my labours were patronised and supported by nine-tenths of the Civil and Military Officers of the Indian Government, and most of the higher : functionaries at all the Presidencies of India, the immediate Members of Council and Public Secretaries . perhaps alone ex ce p te d . I t i s well known th a t i n I n di a t h ere is no class but the higher oue that can either understand or afford to pay for English news papers. There are no lower Orders—no rabble (as it is the fashion to call the uneducated at home) —no persons suffering under the pressure df distress,. whose wants are such as to ren der their passions easily inflamed. The only readers of Eng lish Journals in India are men of fortune —men Of education— Men of correct principles and conduct-'-and by far 'the great majority of .the se are c i v il an d m ili tary servants of the East India Company itself, and necessarily attached by interest and habit to the support or the Government they serve. When I add, that at the termination of my labours in India, after an experience of five year s , in which conducted my Journal as a Daily Paper, I was in the receptor alxm t 16,000 rupees a-month, or nearly twenty thousand pounds sterling per annum, from their unsought and vo l untary payments, unaided by the in fluence of any power but that which my writings themselves commanded by appeals to their reason and good sense, it must be granted, I think, that my Paper could not have contained any thing that was offensive to the community at large or dan. gerous to the safety of the Indian Government. That my writings were disagreeable to the Public Seeretaries and Members of Council I am aware, because the whole re sponsibility of the Indian Government resting eventually on them, they were offended at the exposure of any abuses even ' in the inferior departments, as reflecting on their want of vigi. lance to discover, or want of wisdom to correct them. But though it might wound their pride to be reminded of their pub lic duties through the Press, the great mass of the civil and military servants of the Government (to say nothing of the mil lions of native Indians who are unfortunately made of little or no account in the consideration of Indian affairs) were satis fied that in making my Paper the chann e l f or . b r i nging to light deeds that their authors would gladly have con cealed in darkness, I was rendering the most essential service to the Government itself, to the whole body of its Functionaries, to the mass of the Indian popu lation at large, to my country, to humanity, and even to the East India Company at home, whose profits, as well as security, must mainly depend on the activity and integrity of their servants abroad. It was for thi s a l one that I received their firm and unshaken support, t o an extent never before given to any Indian publication s i nce t h e country has been blessed with a press of any description; and, at the peri o d o f my leaving it, such was the general desire to contribute to my labours, even after 1 quitted the country, that on an announce ment made of my intention to publish an Indian Journal in England, nearly 400 names were sent me from the English in habitants of Calcutta alone, as supporters of such a work, with in as many days, and before the announcement was circulated in the interior of the country. ' These facts, of which I am prepared to offer proof to any man who may question their accuracy, ought I think to be re ceived . as evidence of the general respectability and well-earned eplorsseisaroittYsoliaetyP,ap its er p th ri a c t e c a i i r o c n u e la r te es d tr w ic h t o in ll g y an it i to on tta l t h :laas, high as er being four times as expensive as any daily paperin chi land,, and taxed besides with a postage that• amounted to 40001. per annum. It is therefore diflicult to conceive that my Paper would have received such continued support, from such a body of men,. Whose family connexions, college education, and early possession of splendid majsrio s and extensive powers, are all calculated to give them an Aristocratical bias; and it is quite impossible to suppose that this support would have been continued for a day if my paper had ever contained any thing which was calculated to endanger the Safety of the Government of which they formed a part, or to pm the lives and property, of Englishmen in jeopardy., unless they can be supposed to be so senseless as to assist in sharpening the weapon which is to be PRICE StvEtrftil/4xtii. used to their own deitruction.. The trade is, , that therelerio country on earth where. a free press is .lean. likery. to do lutritre or more likely Ludo good than in India. It existedineheem ea alarming times of Warren Hastinge, and no one there thought of attributing w its influence any thing dangerous nre prejudi cial to the interests of the State. It existed nettle early part of Lord Wellesley's trying and arduous Adrninistintion, and twit then was productive of no public evil. It existed, doting eke last five years of the Marquess of.llastinge - Goverrinient e and. when its enemies are raked to point out& single Metance Of public injury being inflicted by the pre et (hiring the *thole or that period, they are unable to do so. ':= • ' . The particular instance* which the Goyerninent of India' selected from the whole mass-of matter Published in my Papee for nearly five years (amounting WO large queen) pagan every day), have been the following:— , let. For stating that 3lr. Elliott, the Governor ofi.Madrail, was to continue three years longer in hip office,. txutch:tq the regret of the inhabitants of that part of . India,. and complaining of the Censor of the Preei there *oppressing an interesting Letter from the late Princess Charlotte to her late pereeciattel and injured mother the Queen, both of these eirtaitostanci being undeniably true. 2d. For stating that the Government °Madras has Unjustly prevented the circulation or the Calcutta Journal through their territories, by imposing an extra postage on them through every part of their districts, although the Supreme Government,, at Calcutta had guaranteed their free circulation through ale their territories, in consideration of my paying them. three thousand rupees per month, or nearly four thousand sterling per annum . which facts were undeniably true. ad. }'or stating, that a Chaplain at a large military station in the interior, had left his post and his duties, without leav:i from the civil or military authority there, much to.the tlie• satisfaction of the British community, as the sick, the dying, and the dead, required his presence for the lastrites .of religiosi, as well as those in health for the performance of their stated duties,. and for suggesting at the same time the expediency of making such Chaplains so far subject to the local, authority as to be unable to quit their stations without leave ; the lea itself of such unwarranted absence being perfectly true. 4thly. In stating that " transportation without trial, .. for y' offences committed throu g h the press, is a punishm ent w h o ll unknown to the law of England ;" for contending 44 that no rule or regulation, duly registered as such, exists in the Statute book for restraining the press in India;" and for adding, that: " the more the monstrous doctrine of transmission ((for this is the gentle name by whi c h trans p ortat i on w i t h out tr i a l i s k no w n in India) is examinedthe more it must excite the abhorrence of all just mind s ." T ice facts and opinions given in this case being equally true with the former. These are the points which the Indian Government were' able to select out of a daily publication of five years standing., as deserving their reprobation; and on all of them I was enabled to offer such justification' as induced th em to w i t h draw' their threat of ban ishment; and in one instance also to wane their . demand of an ap o l ogy , w hi c h t h ey at first peremptorily insisted' on, but which I as firmly refused to make, as I had said no.. thing of which I had reason to repent. Other cases were se lected for legal and publieprosecutton, but in these I came- off as triumphantly as on all the cases they had chosen for pritette remonstrance, never having been once convicted by a Jury of any crime. It is fair to suppose that a Government bent ore the punishment of an individual would select the strongest Cases against him that they could find. Such es I hive enu- - merated, anti I have given them with accuracy and fi delity,- will cause many Englishiren to smile at the weakness of. any Government deeming them sources of danger to the State,'` They ate, however; the strongest and the sued dangerous which' the Government, with all its scrutiny, could discover; and the nature of my writings may be judged of accordingly. Th e truth is, I had done nothi ng which they themselves thought worthy of punishment up to the period of Lord Hastings re.' signing the Government of India, and so unwilling wev: they to let their correspondence with mf en this subject go be. fore the world, that when I solicited permission to publish it in 'lndia, that the community at large might see what had been the extent of my otiencea, and what were the recorded opinions' of the Government thereon, I was denied even an answer to this , just and reasonable request. It remains only - for me to speak of the conduct of the India Govemmerl, after Lord Hastings' resignation, up to which period I might be h e ld as i nnocent in ids estimation, or at least as not deserving banishment for any thing I h a d writ ten or done. Mr. . Adam succeeded to the temporark tiovernor-Generalship, until Lord Amherst's arrival, on the 12th of January, 1823, Some of his first acts were to displace officers whom Lord Hastings had appointed to situations of trust and emolument, and to put into their stead dependants and expectanta of his own, who were not publicly known to. have any better pretensions to these favours than their subser viency and devotion to his will and pleasure. Among other gross mis-applications of his patronage, was that of bestowing on the Reverend James Bryce, a Doctor of Divinity, a mem ber of the. General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, the only' Minister of his persuasion in Bengal, and the head of the' Presbyterian religion in • India—a man who had no higher' claim to distinction than his political - agency . in stirring me the community to strife with one another, and endeavouring to bring into disesteem the most strenuous advocates of a free press in India, the ill-suited and extraordinary place ' ora " (Act kto the Conirnittee of Stationery" --a post that required' tithe Reverend Doctor to examine, inspect, anti report upon the', quantities, qualities, and prices of all the several articles of stationery supplied by contract for the use of the public service in Bengal, for which he was to receive a salary of 600 i. a-yetue though it was impossible that he could understand or find time to discharge its duties adequately, being at the same moment Editor of an Oriental Magazine—Secrentry to a Committee for collecting Subscriptions for a Statue and Picture of the late ' Governor-General---a constant writer in The John Bull News. piper • of India,—sand the whole duties of the Presbyteriah' Church in Bengal being of themselves so pressing that the Rev. Dr. had not long before given up the unpaid situation of a 'Secretary to the - Bible Society, on the plea of not having health or time to perform its duties ! It was a duty to the cause of' rellOon, to the public of Indin, to the East India Company's Service at large, and even to the 'Court of Directors and proprietors of India Stock in England, to point out pn the spot,. the incongrui t y, not to . say injustice,. of giving to a Presbyterian Divine, a place so ill suited to his spiritual functions, and one which he' was likely to be so in.' competent to fill, with justice to. himself or his entployente or , with honour to the sacred cause in which he was engaged. ..1 ventured to perform this duty, in a manner, however, that Was Nohow acrimony or viol ence o f any kind, and was more ree., markable for a spirit of gentle irony, than for any feeling of hostility either to the Reverend Doctor or his Patrons. Theo appointment was in itself, however, so glaring, improper, and inanity,soit e d ve es re e ti r t d • e a ll t r i vrninte) rel. unpopular ipnasretii ta,uttilirloarnltygt the l a l el l i oi? publication s l t i h e c t a ti n o r n congregation t of t e m ln y d l remarks no corn tr e - . ' 2. . omit found a universal sympathy, and redered justly ridicu— lous an appointment which the Governor-General no doubt wished to be attended with profit and honour to the objeet of Ins peculiar regard, if not with gratitude and praise , Sit himtelf. • It was for this act o f d uty, as a man i a patriot, and a Chris...' • tian, that I was selected as a victim for punishment s—the tern— parer), Governor. General having long determined to distinguish his expected regency or interregnum by this display of his power ; and despairing, no doubt, of any monger Cake if he ► should omit th e p resent opportunity, as no other might ' occur before Lord Amherst's arrival, when his " brief authority would be at an end. It should be added, that at the periodof this publication, I was engaged in two suits in the Supreme Court, in one as a plaintiff, seeking damages for injury sus , . tanned; in another, ova defendant against the Government e n t y on fu ot rti the ier itself. If, in the comments I had made, there were any thing objectionable, the Courts of Law were stilt open for re. dress, and no disposition could be wanting in the *Bench to in flict the utmost measure of punishment which the law-would admit. line, knowing that I had committed nothing that the ves t ioaiwsyu Court desirablehd ethdceeonucoasnutnersyceinwataltieriidehhmalev:ol.ldtkinveaopwnpeilnlaiglerattilisitoeorittrhoarntetr laws, as the Most summary way a getting rid of an individual' to remove me at once from the country and " who was bold enough to comment on the acts of his supark as , and disinterested enough" to .value the conscientious disolituv of his duty above all'other considerations of fortune, fiivour; ' or reward. • • I was at this time tesiding in India, under the authority of.a license from the East India Company, regularly and honour ably obtained. The lawfulness and even utility ofmy pursuit* had been acknowledged by the India tlovernment ita 1t [h a d actual property embarked in my concern to the • artmunt of 20,0001. in positive outlay of capital, and a productive value of' 40,0001. in ray establishment at business, in which nearly one hundred members of the Indian community were lately blade IMPROVED ANTI-CORROSION PAINT. TC. WA'I'TS, OH and Colourman, 209, • UPPER THAMES-STREET, respectfully informs the Nobility, Gentry, and Public, that he manufactures this particularly CHEAP .and DURABLE PAINT, which. is admitted, by those who have used it; to be the best covering for all exposed Works, as neither dainP, rust, or marine acid can affect it. It is applicable AT ALL'SEASONS, and will never blister or peel off, as other paints. 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Sin—The following paragraph having appear ed in your Paper of the 27th ult., in a letter signed J. W. BRANDON, the Lessees of 'Covent- Garden Theatre cannot suffer the imputation upon their character therein contained to pass unnoticed, and therefore request that you will insert the correspondence which has passed upon the subject. The paragraph alluded to is as follows : " I will give . you the very words of Mr. COWST'S reply— ' These men (meaning Mr. KEMBLE,' Captain FOUBEA, and Mr. IVILLE TT) will do or say any thing to answer their pur pose. Have they not sworn in their affidavit, in answer to my application to the Cour of Chancery, that I recommended a dismissal of your brother, and the appointment of a Mr. DU NN in his place? Which is as great a falsehood as ever was ut , tered.' " Copy of a Letter to Faasicrs CONST,. Esq., dated Langley, Uxbridge, Aug. 27, 1823 : Sift—We beg to refer you to a letter in the 3lorning Papers of this day, signed JAMES BRANDON, and request to know from yourself whether the expressions he quotes, as from you, are correctly stated therein. An early answer will oblige, as of course such a statement requires notice. (Signed) J. S. WILLETT. JOHN FOR BES. Copy of a Letter to WIG Haanisow, Esq., dated Covent Garden Theatre, Sept. 1; 1823. DE.an Silt—You will, no doubt, have seen a statement, signed James Brandon, in the public Papers, , quoting some expressions of Mr. Const, which I consider by no means to correspond with the opinion he expressed at your house, as to his (Mr. Brandon's) conduct in Covent Garden Theatre. As he has thought proper to allow such a publication to pass In silence, and has returned no answer to a letter which was writ ten to him upon it, it becomes necessary, on the part of the Lessees of this Theatre, to have the subject fully explained. You will therefore, I hope, pardon my requesting. on behalf of myself and co-lessees, that you will favour me with your re. collections of the observations made by Mr. Coast upon the subject of the Mr. Brandons, with relation to Covent Garden 'M eatre. • (Signed) JOHN FORBES. Copy of a Letter to Captain FonaEs, dated 45, Lincoln's Inn fields, 2d Sept. 1823. MY DEAR. Srn.-In answer to your letter of yesterday, re. ferring to some expressions stated by Mr. Brandon in his let ter to have been used by Mr. Coast, and requesting me to state my recollection of what passed upon upon the subject of Messrs. Brandon when Mr. Const met you and Mr. Willett at My house, I can have no difficulty in saying that I read those expressions with great surprise, and did certainly expect that they would in some way either publicly, or privately to you, be disavowed, for I have the most perfect recollection of what passed at my Chambers in the general discussion which we then had upon the affairs of Covent-Garden, and I have no hesitation in stating, and am ready, if any future proceedings should render it necessary, to verify the statement upon oath in any Court, that Mr. Const stated in strong terms his de cided conviction that the dismissal of the Mr. Brandons, al luding both to the Treasurer and Box-keeper, was essential to the future welfare of the Theatre; and that it was one of the first objects to accomplish in any anaugement which might arise out of the discussions with Mr. Harris, which were then going on. (Signed) W. HARRISON. Copy of a Letter to F. Cow!IT, EN. dated Covent-Oartlen Theatre, 2d Sept. 1k23. Sin=—A letter, of which a copy is enclosed, was addressed to you from Langley, on the 27th of August,, to which we have received no reply. As it therefore became necessary to investi gate further, we beg to send you a copy of a letter written to .51r. Harrison upon the subject, and his reply, trusting that you will see the, necessity of answering it,forthwith. (Signed) J. S. WILLETT. JOHN FORMES. No reply to this letter has been received from M r. Const. • . ' ____ ,:i is .....: 701, '7,..1' t 7,;# 1 0. te _ ' • ,:, \ k:4 . i,if. , i ', .._ 4 ,.._, , ~... ~,,, -,„ .. ,„ - .., • .J 47:10 1 0,ft , ', 1 1174- 3. - - I' ' `• - -.,. 4. 1 W. • 4 4 . •`7 . . 0-1,, •0" ''''' . -,. . ~-:*--• ---,, t,, •,•'. -• i ...._____ 1` ~..t,:20 - ~- . i ,,. ~ ~ citvia---