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THE LONDON, JOURNALS. . DAILY Extracts front the Morning Papers ,May 26, 1825. [BRITISH PRESS.] What has been the condition of Ireland for years past, and what is to be the fate of it here after—are subjects which demand the most seri ous attention of his Majesty's Government at this moment, and more especially of those leading members of it who oppose themselves so inflexi bly to the Catholic Claims. The attention of the people of France is anxiously directed towards all our proceedings on this subject, and they are manifestly looking forward with malignant anti cipation to the result. That they should hail with delight every symptom of inveterate dis union in this country is a thing of course : it is equally to be expected that they should be on the watch to stimulate every revolutionary feel ing that we may excite, by our infatuated ex clusion of the Catholics from those civil rights which they supplicate to share as British sub jects. We have the utmost confidence in the good sense of the Catholic Leaders, but we fear they have to deal with a body that when ex asperated will become too headstrong to he led ; and that when the hostile feelings of the multitude are once effectively let loose, their wisdom will be unheeded, and their controul will go for no thing. We hope every thing from the loyalty of our brethren in the Sister Kingdom, but we cannot shut our eyes to the reality of the danger. As far, certainly, as Ireland makes part of the collective strength of the British Empire, her sinews are cut asunder. That the' honour and the interests of both parts of the United King dom are bound up together, is true, in fact and in reasoning, and it is a truth too of the very last importance ; but it is a truth which the Irish will neither recognise nor act upon, should any critical period arrive,—and in this eventful state of the world there is no saying what may happen —when it may be fatal to England that she should carry her co-operation to the wrong side. We have no wish to aggravate the danger of such a crisis, but no wise man will underrate it.— Without looking forward, however, to such a juncture, there is more than enough in the as perity of six millions of people to embarrass the operations of Government, and to put her safety more in jeopardy than any prudent Statesman ould care to place it. The unequivocal sense of the House of Commons is for concession : we would entreat the Catholics for a while to be content with this. Other auspices, it is true, rre not with them ; but prejudice is be coming every day more tractable ; as the steady progress which their cause has made is alone sufficient to guarantee it 3 ultimate success. In the mean time we deprecate the revival of As sociations, and of any thing like an organized system of authority, which may make it neces sary to arm Government with extraordinary powers for putting down conspiracy and sedition., We lament to perceive the Irish newspapers throwing out threats of this turbulent kind, but we consider this as the ebullition of angry feel ing, and we draw no inferences from it unfavour able to the Catholics as a body. Their conduct leas all along spoken a different language ; and their champions do them real injury when they thus bring- upon them the reproach of being a faction. Let them defend their cause upon rea son and principle ; let them rest it upon the broad basis of constitutional right, and, while they pursue this course, we are with them to the full extent of their claims. If, .however, they seek to carry on a•war of retaliation—if they mean to sit down before our Church Establish ment and to assail it by regular approaches—hut we turn from such a subject ; we wilt not treat such menaces as serious, or suffer the intemperate Language of the Irish press to lead us to such flighty and proposterous conclusions. [THE TIMES.] Foreign nations, keeping an eye on the inter nal politics of this empire, have directed no small share of their watchfulness to the fate of the Catholic question. Mere party quarrels between Ministers and Opposition our neighbours neither understand nor attend to; but this great measure of emancipation, embracing such a volume of real interests, enforced by the soundest maxims of Yuman policy, frustrated chiefly by historical re membrances, and associations, and carrying in its rejection the prospect at least of such awful con sequences, has been meditated throughout Europe with no less anxiety than if all the relations of England with the rest of the world were to hang upon its establishment or overthrow. And it. is true that the policy of other powerful States to wards Great Britain, and with that policy their mutual relations, must be affected by the issue of such a struggle ; because her domestic strength, and consequent means of self-protection, de pend quite obviously on the alternative of hav ing between six and seven millions of her sub jects for enemies or friends. But foreigners, however capable of seeing the outline of this grand though simple question, are apt to take partial views of the circumstances connected with it. The French journals naturally enough con sider it under a French aspect. The Constitu tionnetchalges the loss of the bill to the u►aneeu vres of M. Frassinous and the Jesuits, whi) are accused of governing the Court of Charles X.— The Jesuits are reproached with having alarmed and disgusted the English House of Lords by their threats,-their power, their intrigues, preten sions, "their meddling in the affairs of Ireland, and their prodigious affluence there as well as in the French. dominions.. is reasonable to sus , pect, that if foreign Priests were satisfied of the tendency of emancipation to spread the authority of the Romish Church, whatever influence they could exercise would be actively employed for that conscientious aud'rpious purpose. But we more than doubt - the prevalence of any such Per suasion among the ecclesiastics of the Continent. They are . too- deep, to entertain -.it. They - are aware thaCthe necessary result of the measures', • one of -which figs just - been rejected, other--.that.for' paying the priesthood—:silintiy dropped, would have been to create a new inte rest in the hearts both of the lay and clerical Catholics—viz., that of attachment to the Con stitution, from which one drew dignity and the other bread. To all intents of treacherous and injurious policy, as we have often brought it under the' notice of our readers, an instrument would have been taken away from Rome, not furnished to her by this measure, which Dr. Milner foresaw " would be fatal to" the power that employed him. But if the foreign Jesuits cannot be proved guilty of the desi g ns imputed to them for promoting the measure of emancipa tion, how much more preposterous is it to imagine that the Governments of the countries in which they flourish would countenance a change so di rectly productive of union and prosperity to Great Britain ! The Holy Alliance, and that member of it which has been more especially and perma nently hostile _to this country, would give whole provinces to ensure the perpetual rejection of the Catholic Claims by Parliament. Why, foreigners would lose their last hold upon Eng land if all sources of internal distraction among our people were dried up. No inroad upon the balance Of power by conquest on her part would be half so terrible to foreign States as a pek . ect fusion of her inhabitants. No power that ever existed-upon earth has been at any period so in vincible as this new chain of affection, !binding her subjects to a common parent, would render the British empire. No; whatever a band of Jesuits without the pale of the Romish Church may have effected for the defeat of the Catholic Bill, we ascribe nothing to the. attempt of any other hypocrites. As for the wealth and growth of Catholic Priests under any, designation at home, we hold the fear to be ridiculous. [MOILNING POST.] We received last night, by express, the Etoile of Tuesday, the only Paper which was published in Paris on account of the Whitsuntide festivals. It informs us that the King set off on that day for Coinpeigne, where he is to remain till he makes his entry into Rheims. The Pope's Legate had brought a splendid . sword to' the Duke of Angouleme as a remembrance of . the unholy and iniquitous expedition to Spain—ano ther proof that Popery is ' connected with every thing which is base and unjust. He was also'com missioned to present to the Duchess of Angouleme the silver hammer with which the Pope opened the holy gate which had been shut for•O years, (another superstition of the Romish Church), and the medals which had been deposited there according to custom. Letters from Odessa, dated the 3d of May, bring intelligence, from Constantinople to the 28th of April,accord-, Mg to which Prince Abdul Hamill, the heir. to the Ottoman Throne, had .died with the . small pox. Though he was only . fou . rteen years of age. the Sultan is said to have feared him, and the life:, of the son was thought to have'been - sacrificed to:' the apprehensions of the faler. 'His . only-bro ther, Muschid, was altacked' the same` dis order, and the Janissaries, who looked Up to the' . two Princes to keep the Grand Seignior itF.awe, are -said to have been ".confounded by his :Loss." The news received. by the Porte from Thessaly, and Albania, was, we are rejoiced -to.find, of an unfavourable description. Redschhl Paella,. on whose skill and strength mu-oh reliance: hadrbeen placed, had not been able to, advance..oae -single step. _ . [3IOIINING _IIEIiA LIT.] The French Liberal Journals have taken up the strange fancy that the Catholic . Emancipation Bill was rejected in consequetic'e or:The . progres4 which Jesuitism is making on the Contioent. The source of this mistake is twofold; first,-thedis. - position of most people to dive 'exaggerated con sequence to their own Concerns- - -and next, the disposition, equally natural anticorntoott, to throw_ odium upon an adverse party. - There cannot be a better proof of the futility of .'supposition' than its not being insisted on by fhe - OppOnents of the Bill in debate. Most extraordirtarrindeed. it would be if the progress -:of - Wat may be called anti-Liberalism abroad, were treated as' a subject of alarm by the very party and persons who have patronized the influence of anti- Liberal Ministers iii France, Ottl prayed . for the success of the French armies in Spain.: These gentry of the Liberal Press of: Paris may _rest as sured that whatever were the. real causes of the rejection of the Bill, those 'causes were purely de.3estic ; and that most probably the result would have been the same, if instead of M. de Villele, the Duke Decazes, or the Abbe de la Mennais, who may be set down as mutual anti podes, were Prime Minister of France. They also assume that an extraordinary effect was pro duced by Mr. O'Connell's - seeming to identify himself with the Jesuitical , Ultramontane party abroad. The fact is, that Mr. O'Connell's eulogy 'of the liberality of Charles X. and his charge of bigotry against the Spanish Cortes, were SO obviously spoken in utter ignorance of the politics, parties, and transactions of Europe— uttered perhaps, too, in the penury of exhausted rhetoric, and the necessity of saying something— that they passed over without notice. • [monxiNG Ciutorinr.E.] The Bishop of Chester has, it seems, taken great offence at the statement, that he changed his opinions, which were once favourable to the Roman Catholics, the moment that he became tutor to the NepheW of Lord Liverpool. In a letter, in the Courier of yesterday, from one evi dently as well acquainted with all the passagesl of the life of the Right Reverend FatherinGrod,' as he can be himself, we have an authorised contradiction of this statement Allow me," says this very intimate friend of Doctor Blom field, to assure you that there never was a more direct and complete mis-statement of fact. The Bishop avowed,. in his speech, that he had once, in early life, entertained sentiments favourable to the Roman Catholics ; but that, when he had read and reflected upon the subject, he was compelled to alter his opi nions.. Ile expressly stated, however, that this change was not of recent date. 'Ps present no tions of the question were formed and avowed at a time wheb' they were OrpOied . to every view Of private interest which" he could entertain, bei4 hoStite to the opinions and wishes of the Earl of Bristol—the friend of his family, as well as to those of. Earl Spencer, the Nobleman by whom his extraordinary merits had first been noticed and rewarded. And this fact (which gave pain to his Lordship) was very feelingly alluded to in the commencement of his speech. Mr. O'Con nell's assertion is, therefore, not only unfounded, but is diametrically opposite to the truth. The Bishop's sentiments on this subject, far from being of an interested nature, were formed in opposition to the bias of private feeling, as well as to the prospects of professional advancement. I shall just add, that Lord Hervey, the nephew of Lord Liverpool, to whom Mr. O'Connell al ludes as the instrument of the Bishop's c sudden' and' miraculous' conversion, entertains himself different views of this question. It is well known that this amiable and promising young Nobleman might have been, at this moment, the Representative of the University of Cam ' bridge, had he not defeated his own hopes of at taining that object, by the candid avowal of opi nions differing from those of his tutor." Who, after this, will say that interest had any thing to do with the conversion of this learned Prelate? In fact, as the world now goes, it may well be considered a miraculous conversion, having been, as his apo logist observes, " opposition to the bias of private feeling, as well as to the prospects of pro fessiomal advancement."—The only difficulty we have in regard to the claim of extraordinary dis interestedness, set up for Dr. Bloomfield by his zealous apologist, is, that the same disregard of interest would seem to . be exceedingly common among his brethren. An analysis of the votes on the Emancipation Question, will shew that there was a considerable majority of the higher Peers, as Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, in favour of the measure ;. that the weight of property was also in its favour, and that the Bishops, and a ma jority of the Viscounts and Barons, turned the scale. Now, as notwithstanding this weight of property in favour of emancipation, the Clergy:were, with very • few exceptions, against it, what are we to infer, but that they, in many cases, ,sacriticed their interest to their conscience ? Vhe . Bishop of Chester's disinterestedness , may, therefore, be great, but fortunately it is not extraordinary. So the Right Reverend Prelate did not change his opinion the-moment that he became tutor to the nephew of 'Lord Liverpool. lie changed it, however, before he became Bishop of Chester ; and, without calling in question the sacrifice of his interest to his,conscienCe, we trust" we may be permitted to observe, that at the period he made it, he must have had- something like a pre sentiment, that without - a`change he would never be Bishop. of Chester, or of any other place. There is some mysterious union between hostility lo the Catholics and a Pishdpric, — which, though Dr. Blomfield might. not be able to account for satisfactorily, could hardly fail' td force itself on the notice of so acute an obsprVer. The change led to Chester, though change might not'be caus ed by Chester. The distinction is of more im portance than it may seev to [sEw,:rtmEs,]. The Chronicle persi s ts J. calling -the Earl o Liverpool a" very.crafty" inan e and, in ascribin , to him" intrigue" in the trinsactions. If ever there was a Statesman -whose political -con duct,, through a quarter Oa century, stood above all such imputationi, it is, Coici Liverpool. . And what " exquisite reason” , has -the Chronicle for supposittg, that on the preie(OcCasion, his Lord ship has belied: the-whole •touor:of a long public life ?: Why, that " ' it canliattlly lie doubted, be cause (forsooth ,Mr. o',,Connell brought for ward:the charge in a very confident tnunner !" Thus, then, arddilern - mais, - . 11,01 - s7ou must either believe Lord Livellio - Ol t 4 be a: false insidious trickster, or you must believe Mr. O'Connell, in moment aiiii:Aappointment, to -.have entertained . ..lw r. ' .suspicion. Can any" man of common-- sense- hesitate a single moment which, skiellf tins dilemma lie must embrace ? nin -oar own part, we ditrer from _ _ _ _ LOrd'Liverpoo!, and wedifier froril nen but we Wat,',itot _be. unjust ..to The Noble Earl has conscientiously form ed his opinions on the ,Catholic Question dif feient, from those' of seireraPof hiS colleagues in -the Cabinet, and those opinions he has avowed, whenever avowal was necessary, without reserve. That 'he should confine his thoughts to his own breast, when there was Mr' need .to disclose them, is mot at r all extraordinary ; neither is it extraor dinary, that his silenCe should _have been inter "preted by each partyacc,ording to.its.own wishes. On the other hand what do w e see in Mr. O'Con nell ? A wan 4f sanguine ternperkiruenta. man apt to be run away with by the feelings of the mo- ment. - To-day lie is all adiniration.at that" fine animal," Cobbett.4 to-morrow lie falls down and . worships " the doll," as Cobbett 'calls Sir Francis RUrdett. At one period, Mr. °Non- : nell vituperatei the whole English nation ; at another time he finds them to be every thing that is.generons and. liberal. This Gentleman, Who, whatever else he,may be, is certainly not a calli dus rertim 'wsliatator, under the impulse of spleen and . v . e f iEakion, pronounces an opinion .on the conduct of a , Volitical adversary. We ask, without meaning the slightest disparagement to Mr. O'Connell's moral qualities, is his judgment, on such a question, at such a moment, worth a single pitkch of snuff?. vader, unless lie has an overwhelming force, and at the same time the spirit of a Barbarian, never makes war in this manner ; and therefore we may ascribe the ferocious conduct of the Pa cha to revenge and disappointment. It com pletely unsets the report that he had nume rous partizans in the country ; and as the Greeks appear to have weathered this storm, there is no difficulty which they are not capable of struggling with successfully. The Egyptian expedition had been considered as the ordeal of their strength ; and if they could pass through it triumphantly, it _was said both by their friends and foes, that no other trial could injure them. It is now placed almost beyond a doubt that this attempt to re place them under their former yoke has utterly failed ; and if Ibrahim Pacha does not pay with his life the forfeit of his temerity, he must think himself fortunate. As to the danger with which the Greeks were menaced on the side of Albania, it seems to be very slow in its. approach, or to have wholly died away; and the latter inference is the more likely of the two, seeing the fickle and mercenary character of the Albanians, as well as the pecuniary necessities . - of the Porte. It is therefore highly probable that the at tempt of the Turks to raise an army in that quarter, will prove as fruitless this year as it did in every former instance; and, in this case, the veriest driveller must see that it exceeds the means of the Porte.to re-esta blish its sovereignty over the Greeks. It re mains now to he seen what effect foreign inter ference may have ; and from the appintment of Lord Strangford to the Russian Mission, it would seem as if some scheme of this kind were in con templation. It would fail, however, should it be seriously entertained, from the very complexity of its object, and the difficulty of reconciling the conflicting interests of the different Powers. SINGULAR TENURES OF LAND. In the 19th of Henry 111. Water Gately held the manor of Westcourt, in Beddington, in Surrey, yielding yearly to the King one cross-bow. Auno 3tio. Edward I. Osborn de Lonchamp, Knight, held his lands of Ovenhelle, in Kent, for personally guarding the King forty days, into Wales, at his own expence, with one horse, of ss. value ; one sack, worth 6d. ; and one broch (a pot, jug, or bason), for that sack. The like service the same year of Lawrence de Broke, who for his hamlet at Renham, in Middlesex, found the King one soldier, a horse. worth ss. with a sack•sd. and a brock worth 2d. at his own ex-pence, wherever his army shall he within the four seas. This was settled, says our author, at the Stone Cross, in the Strand, London, where the Judges itinerant' used in old times to sit. 1 3mo Edw. I. Henry de Averinges tenure of land of the manor of Morton in Essex was to find a man, and a horse worth ten shillings, a leather sack, and four horse-shoes. In the year folio% ing, three persons beltl_tlArty years of rand in Carlton, in Norfolk, by , the ser.. vice of bringing the King, whenever he shall be in England;c2-4pasties.of fresh herrings-at their' first coming in. Another held his Manor in Norfolk of. that. King, by annually .supplying. him at•his..xch.e. quer with two vessels (calle&-miteswine, made of pearmains. " Here," says the author, "It is worth observing, that in King Edward the First's time, Tearmain • cider was called wine." This, therefore, seems to account for the men tion of vineyards in old times in Kent,. Sussex, and other parts of England,,which has often puz zled many,peopleto clear up. • Another person, in. the-2.15t.0f the said King, held thirty acres of land (valued at I.os, yearly in the Exchequer, or 4d. per acre),. in Cam bridgeshire, for furnishing a truss of hay for the King's Cloaca, whenever he shall come into that country. Another (in the 3-4th of the same King) held a manor In Kent, for providing a man to. lead three greyhounds when the King should go to Gascony, so long as a pair of, shoes of. 4d. should last. And so.late as in the first year of. Edward 11. Steelman made a fine to the King for his lands by serjeantry, to find one to serve as a soldier for forty days.in England, with a coat of mail ; also to find straw for the King's bed, and hay for his horse. _ _ Sundry. other extraordinary tenures held of the Crown, as for example ; to pay for two white capons annually—for bearing the King's standard whenever he happens to be in the county of Sussex—to carry a rod or battoon before the King on certain occasions—by serving the office of Chamberlain of the Exchequer (a very good place at present)—one by being marechal of the laundress of the King's army whilst in England, another supplies a servant for the King's larder— another for his wardrobe—others to supply ser vants for this or that forest—another a hawk—, onelor presenting the King with a pair of scarlet. hose annually—others for supplying soldiers with, armour for certain days, for this or that castle— one (for the manor of Elston in Nottingham ' shire) pays the yearly rent of one pound weight Of •cummin-seed, two pair of gloves, and a steel needle—another to. repair the iron-work of the King's plows. Amongst others, Ela, Countessof W arw i c k, in the 13th of Edward I, held the manor of Hokenerton, in Oxfordshire, in the barony of D'Oyls, by the serjeanty of carving at the King's table on his birth,day,and she to have the knife the King then used at table. - [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] The AlOrea has been heretofore the - grave a the 'furls, as often.as they carried their arms into that province ; and we learn from . The Oriental Spectator, which,.as most of our Readers knoti, is wholly devoted to- the interests of The Porte, that the expedition of Ibrahim Pacha, so far from forming an exception to this rule, is likely to con &in it. This Journal states under the head Syra, April B,.that tlfe'Turkish Leader'had abandoned the siege of .Navaren,though to make it appear as if it was the effect of choice, and not of neces sity, it adds, - that he. had advanced eight leagues into the interior of-the country, burning and 'de- DIED. On the 24th inst. 'Suddenly, 'Horace Hone, Es q., of Dover straying - every thing in his way. uppoSing the" street, Piccadilly, inst. , and enamel painter ,to- Majesty, latter part of the account to be true, of which we have strong doubts,. it would prove that he de- OR the . l6t h hl 4 n r st i , Chtirch4treet Ed monton, Mr. Richard Taylor, spairetrof making any permanent impression Ott mo&ton ti n e 2 t B t h , of i ti c i a l r ua o r f y h i age. last, at Macao, James Thomas' the country, either by intrigue . or force. Au in. Robarts, Esq. aged 71. . BIRTH. On the sth inst., at Florence, the lady of J. P. Catty, Esq., of the Royal Engineers, of kson, • MARRIED. , On the 25th inst., at All-Hallows, Bread-street, Francis Henry Echalaz, Esq, to Caroline Sarah,• second daughter of Charles Hibbert, Esq., of Grove-house, 'Tottenham. On the 21st inst., at Temple Balsall, Mr. M. J. Turner, of Clonmell; tb Miss'Mary Gilbert; of Warwick. ,On Wednesday, the 25th inst., at St..lohn7s,:Hickncy, Isaac Sewell, of Salters'-hall, Loudon, Esq., to Mary Hall Alers, the eldest daughter of William Alers Harkey, Esq., of Hackney. GENERAL BOWSER. This distinguished Officer first served as an Ensign at the siege and reduction of Tanjore, in the year 1773, then garrisoned by Dutch and na , tive troops ; and for three years after he was at the siege and capture of many forts in the north ern circars. In 1778 he was Acting Adjutant to a battalion of Sepoys at the celebrated siege of Pondicherry ; and the following year he served in the campaign in the Guntoor circar. In 1780 he was a Lieutenant in a European grenadier company, in the army of Sir Hector Munro.— He marched from Conjeveram with the rest of the grenadiers of the army, and joined Colonel Baillie, under whom, in the memorable engage. ment with Hyder Ally's army, in which Colonel Baillie was defeated, Lieutenant Bowser receiv ed no less than eight severe wounds ; and being taken prisoner was confined in Seringapatarn for three years and eight months, , three years and four months of which he was ,loaded with irons. In. 1784 he obtained his liberty,• and received the temporary command of a bat talion of Sepoys, to collect the revenue of an un healthy district. This service, his wounds, and long and cruel imprisonment, impaired his con stitution, so that a return to England became necessary. Here he remained three years, and returned to India in 1789, In 1792 he serv ed as Captain of a European grenadier company,' under Sir W. Meadows; was at the reduction' of the Coimbetore country, and the storming of the hill fort of Dindegall, of which important place he was left in command. Without solici tation, and in consequence of the valuable intel• ligence he communicated to Lord Cornwallis, that Nobleman appointed Colonel Bowser to the permanent command of a sepoy battalion, and soon after to the command of Kytar. In 1798 he .served under General Braithwaite, at the second siege of Pondicherry, after which he re turned to his station at Kytar. We next find Colonel Bowser employed with his corps against the refractory Rajah of Ramnad, who was taken. prisoner with such dispatch that the Lieutenant- Colonel obtained the thanks of Lord Hobart in Council. In the year 1796 he embarked with his corps in open boats to assist in the reduction of Ceylon. Here he planned and executed the reduction of the island and fort of Calpenteen, by landing the right wing of his battalion from open boats, although the fort mounted 22 guns.. Ile re-embarked his corps in the same boats, and. proceeded to Colombo, at the siege of which he served. As soon as his service at Ceylon was at an end, lie was selected by General, now Lord Harris, to reduce the French force at Hydra bad, under General Perron. This being successfully performed, he obtained the command of a brig ade under the Duke of Wellington, then the Hon. Col. A. Wellesley. Seringapatam being taken, Col. 8.. was selected to command a force of the Com pany?s army, and that' of the Nizam, to take possession 'of that pail of the country which had been ceded to' his Highness. The Killedar of the almost impregnable fortress of Gooty, Tippoo's principal garrison against the Nizam and- the Mahrattas, having refused to surrender the place upon any terms, General Bowser storm ed thelortified village, and having made a prac tical breach in the lower fort, whose walls were of solid and exquisite masonry, from 30 to 40 feet high, and from 20 to 25 feet thick, and mounting 57 guns, he forced the garrison, to sur render at discretion. After returning to Hydra bad he was placed at the head of a granadier battalion of Sepoys, a regiment of cavalry, three battalions of Sepoys, with guils,'Stc, a body of Mahratta and Nizam horse, "and joined Colonel Wellesley against Dhoondiah Waugh. After a variety of other important services, finding his health again impaired, he returned to England in 1803. General Bowser received the thanks of all under whom he served, and had the honour and the happiness to enjoy the full confidence of he Indian Government. In 1820 he went out again to India, and was placed in the command of the Mysore division of the Hon. Company's army, but was lately called to the Command.in. Chief of the Madras army on the death of Sir Alexander Campbell, who had previously corn- mantled it. The following is a copy of the gene ral orders he issued on that event taking place :-- GENERAL ORDERS. HEAD-QUARTERS-CHOULTRY PLAIN, BANGALORE, DEC. 15, 1821. GENERAL ORDERS BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BOWSER, COMMANDING TILE AILMY-IN-CHIEF. Bangalore, Dec. 15, 1825. Lieutenant-General Bowser succeeds to the command of the Madras army with no common feelings of pride and satisfaction; its long established character and increasing tame he has wit. nessed through every rank. The high principles of military pride and devotion to the service, which have long characterise this army, and which were supported and imprdssed by the late lamented and distinguished Commander-in-Chief, his Excel. lency General Sir A. Campbell, Bart. and K.C. 8., with such energy, as justly to mark the value and ability of that gallant soldier, who was so devotedly attached to his profession, and' 5G true a friend to the Madras army : an army in which he had 'served with such enviable reputation, that the Lieutenant-Ge neral cannot but express his hope that these principles wily be strictly attended to, and . he pledges his assurance that he, wilt not fail in his best endeavours to unite with Sir Alexander Campbell's professional pride and zeal, his never-ceasing anxiety for the honour and'interest • of the Madras Army, which will' long deplore the irreparableloss of such a man and such 'au officer. Lieutenant-General Bowser desires that all orders issued by his late Excellency General Sir Alexander Campbell, Bart.. K.C.8., may be strictly obeyed, and he feels every confidence in the zealous support and unceasing attention of the officers of the army, to maintain its character, for discipline, 'effiCiency, and obedience. -• The late brilliant successes of the army, under the command .of Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Campbell, K.C.13:, in de featidg the Burmese army, in successive attacks on its position at Rangoon, affords Lieutenant. General Bowser a pleasing 01. portunity to congratulate his brother officers and soldiers, On ti -e gallant conduct displayed by their comrades employed on that service. • J. 11. S. CONWAY, Adjutant-General of the Army. Besides the eight severe wounds Which Lieut.- General Bowser received at the battle of Conje veram, he was once wounded at the siege el Pondicherry, in 1778, and again at the capture of the fortress of Gooty. Ships at 'Market. iii Newcastle 16* Sunderland Price. 28s 6d•to 378 34s 3d to 38s Cd COAL MARKET. MAY 25. 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