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C.3l' Nc7. , • - ‘ ; O6' 4.-p7r,o-,:_ Tlg . - ','..v):l2‘ - _, - t4 , ,e',. '-_,,--• , • ,5"..,, , ,, ,- ...e . 4.,....„ ..,-- . 4 . .. . • .. , 06 l' 7 1 1 7 ' * i i..:\ k , IN 6 NUMBER 10,128• SATURN AN EVEN`IG, FEBRUARY 26. 1825. PRICE STIVENPENCE. FAST' INDIA HOUSE, Feb. 25, 1823. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the • UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give • That a GENERAL. COURT of the said Company will be beld, by adjournment, at their House m Leadenhafi_;h•eet, on MONDAY N EXT, the 98th 'inst., at Eleven (Mimic t fore noon,. for the purpose of continuing the consideration " of tihe Hyderabad Papers now• before the Proprietors, as far Us they respect the conduct of the Most. Noble the Marquis *I Hastings, late Governor-General of India." JOSEPH DART, Secretary. NORFOLK, SUFFOLK,ANDEsSEX, RAIL ROAD .-- - • COMPANY. 1 1PHE HAR EH LDE RS of this COlll - r are respectfully informed, that the ENGINEER n9w proceeding through the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and ""'"et, with a view to the Selection of the most favourable Lines St ROad to he adopted ; and that competent Persons are likewise !engaged in collecting the most accurate accounts of the Traffic, Vonnage, &c. thareon, As soon as these Details are ascer tained, a Report thereof will be printed, and distributed to the l'espective Proprietors. By Order of the Directors, 8, Old Jewry, Feb. 25, 1825. WM. SIM, Secretary. 1113 ARLIAMENT having determined to pass nu mire Lottery Acts, and the remaining Tickets be ing disposed of .by the C'tanct.llor of the Exchequer, this tiode of adventure, and which is the only way that a Person tan gain Without trouble a large Fortune, by risking a small will soon cease for ever. J• and J. SIVEWRIGHT, the Contractors, having sub mitred the Scheme at full length, now beg to solicit public attentiok to its leading p"ints FOUR PRIZES of £20.000 4c. &c. amounting to £200,000, Nloney.—No Blanks ! as every Number is sure of Xi at least. ALL IN ONE DAY, 12th of APRIL. ' Tiekets and Shares for the above £200,000 are now on Sale tit the Contractor's Offices, 37, Cornhill ; It, Holborn ; send 1 0 ,*i Haymarket, London ; and by all their Agents throughout 4n t eoUntry. L and J. SIVeWRIGHT Sold in Shares in the very -Last rttery, 12,478, a Prize of £30,000. ZkCELLENT COP YHOLD DWELLING-HOUSE, • BETH NA L-GREEN. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION. $ Y Mr. DENT, at the AUCTION MART opposite the Bank of England, on Friday, the 11th day of March, at 12 o'clock, by order of the Trustees of the late Mi. Dockwray. TIIE Premises consist of an excellent Roomy Dwelling-House, situate No. 20, on the East side and " r e/Y best part of Bethnal Green, containing two rooms on each of their stories, with Kitchen, Wash-house, and other Offices behind, opening into a large Garden, at the bottom of which is a Stable, having a back entrance from Gretton-place ; the whole good repair, having had a large sum expended by the pre— &era Tenant, who has a Lease thereof, 8 years of which are , Ilexpired at the very low Rent of 281. per Annum. The pro- Pwty is Copyhold of inheritance held under the Manor of St epney,subject to a quit Bent of One Shilling per Annum, and a flute of Ten Shillings on death or alienation. Particulars be viewed by leave of the Tenant, of whom printed rarticula rs may be had. Also at the Blind Beggar, near the Premises ; at the Place of Sale ; of Mr. Wright, Solicitor, Stock ton ; or Messrs. Perkins and Frampton, solicitor, Grays Inn ; Andof Air. Dent, Land Surveyor, Camden Town. Gid°llloUS 'TWELFTH OF APRIL.— New Lottery.—Lmst Contract. All in One Day. Four Prizes.of Twenty Thousand Pounds. Thirty other Capitals. No Blanks. Tickets and Shares fur the above Grand Lottery are on Sale at EYTON'S Lucky Office, 9, Cornhill. Ilritish and Foreign Securities, Fire, Bridge, Gas, Canal, andliline Shares, bought and sold by Commission. 1 .4 ON DON No. : 1 1 I G I AZ . I N 3 E 6d and REVIE New . 1 - v - i 2n c the Profession r of the B ar —C onversa tion s o"f p .l c a e pol B e . on from Abraham Twaddler on the last Number or Blvaackwo'od— ileflections in the Pillory.—Review SAyings and Doings. 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HOW' U RI.:1) Sin, • I BEG leave to inform you, that ever since the ~, year 1790, 1 hail been afflicted with , the Lues Venereal, ; 14 '01, CiOnt its obstinately resisting; every coarse wt medicine I ', r "cribed by th e most eminent of the faculty here, and tiri 'jrguin4: severalsevcrr courses of salivation, and twice dim . t a arged.from the Hospital with little relict, te. , u1 , 1 appear to b euf the most inveterate nature. In tl.c spring of last year my Courtier had got to such a bead, as nearly to put a period t 4 my existence—l had a large ulcer on the crown of my head, "a 611 each arm, and toy legs were broke out in a frightful Wanner ; ntv right was dreadfully painful, anti had been in a it. " l "' ')f hlet:.ration for the last seven years ; my left had also ~ '"" large nodes on it, was very much discoloured, and gave 4 1C nets excruciating pain, particularly when warm in bed, its gristly to deprive me of rest ; ita this lamentable state, 1 ' W at l'icommended by Mr. J. Thompson, (who received so 4 ,2 . ,e 4 a cure by th e m here), to take your Leake't - Patent Pills, f ortnight I began to (loon th e' fifth o. May ; in the course of a I began to receive beneht--in little more than a 41 unth the ulcers on my head and arms were soundly heal.;d— tu"n attar, the sores on my legs healed also ; (saving, how ii'vr c . k , lisiderable.lioeolotiration in the skin, and pain it. the 1 wieof th e left, which, by the blessing of Citici.„uflA a little itnlver perseverance in your invaluable Medicine, suassiied ; l t ,''' nodes di s p ers i ng the skin regaiaing . its natural hue, and 41 # nocturnal pains gradually going titf.—l thus becanie, ,by P' 'r libittal advice and nirdicine, perfectly free from all my o ttuer coMplaints—have rteovered my former spirits and ,punt and ant become, jolly and fat, in which state havimg -)n titttUttl many m o nths, to the astonishment of ail who knew t 4: 7 -r, I nth at a l o s s i n w h a t t erms t o ex pr e ss my gratitude, hut 4 yon, for the good of other suffering mortals, to inaitt .."' masse as public as possible, as I shall on every . oecio a '"n ; to sO doing you will greatly oblige, Sit, your grateful, obedient, Ye i y huustil e servant • ALEX. MURKER Swan's Close Hivh-street, Edinburgh. A'itriesseo tothe above Cure:— ,10, ,ht '^m n t totrepson, No. 3, New Poultry Nlarlset, Edinburgh, John 14 1 intosli, old Assembly Close, -Edinburgh. 1 ' 1 (T - rived and sold by the sole Proprietor,• I'HONIAS T.Vi- L UR, M boa . ember of the Royal College of Sit•..ceons, at his col ' t . No. 9, New Midge-street, London; where, after a istant residence of wore than 40 years, in a practice parti cularlyi directed to the cure of Venereal Complaints turd those derstAl to the Parts. f Generation, with I hat inviolable secrecy__c which , men of his profession should always observe in r a h eases, he eaters himself the advice and as.istance he 'e tuitowsly administers to persons taking this Medicine, will smed, by a discerning Public, as an alvartage seldom attainable,.s and void of all ambigitity. l ir. ' . l '" sad, by his appointment; tor the convenience of those 1 , 0 ,2" g _at a distance, at the Toystiop, No. this. 0 stord-truel t ~...-ut.i3l3boTongli's, Ni. 7, Fish-street-hill; Mr. Baxter, .„, l ' b ri t Oge, Edinburgh ; Mi. Callwel 'o, Ito Min ; aad of 14,Person in every considerable town in Great, Britain and witt _n t _ 4l , in boxes of only 'N. %Leach, stamped, and staled up " 'lll and plain ditac'tions, whereby persona; of either ~, ,f. , t0 , 1 5Y Cut! 11)9:n/elves with rase, speed, secrecy, and I N D I ,k. The Hyderabad Question, now under discussion in Leadenhall-street, is one of great interest to the good govern ment of India ; and the investigation of it, both at home and abroad, has disclosed a scene or malversation, which, we trust, has of late years but rarely occurred : but the future frequency of which depends entirely upon the justice of the measures now to be adopted. An Act was passed in the year 1797, prohibiting British sub jects from being concerned in Loans to the Native Princes in India, great mischief' having been known to spring from the practice therein prohibited : but to meet any extraordinary exi gencies, the Go VERNOR-GENERA L had the power of relaxing the provisions of the law. In the year 1814, Mr. HENRY RUSSELL is the resident at the Court of .the Nizain, and he seconds an application to the GOVZ*NOR-GENnRAL, from the house of WILLIAM PAL3IE it and Co., that they may have the countenance of Government in the establishment of a mer cantile firm at Hyderabad ; the concerns in which they propose chiefly to engage being " Banking and Agency Transactions, " and supplying Timber from the Forests on the Banks of the " Godavery, for the purpose of Ship-building, these Forum " abounding in Timber of a superior size and quality." It appears that a Sir WILLIAM RuenoLD, who had gone out to India with Lord HesTietos, had married a near relation and ward of his Lordship's; and to Sir WlLLiam RUMBOLD, thus connected, the house of PALMER and Co. had made fre quent applications to become a partner. To this Lord HAST INGS at first objected, but, ultimately, Sir WILLIAM Rum- BO rep became, with his Lordship's acquiescence, a partner in the firm of W. PALMER and Co. Lord HASTINGS informs Sir WILLIAM RUMBOLD by 'letter, that his Lordship had so written to the Resident at Hyderabad (Mr. HENRY - RUSSELL) as to ensure Sir Wittiest his attention and good offices. Lord HASTINGS adds : " The partners speculate that you (Sir William) being one of the firm, will interest me in the welfare of the house, to a degree which may be materially beneficial to them ; it is a fair and honest calculation. The amount of advantage which the countenance of Government may bestow, must be uncertain, as 1 apprehend it will flow principally from the opinion the natives would entertain of the respect likely to be paid by their own Government to an establishment known to stand well in the favour of the Supreme Authority here ; perhaps a more distinct benefit may attend the firm, from the consequent discourage ment of competition with you, by any other British partnership, to which a similarly professed sanction would not be granted. Dated .January 4, 1815." It is proper to state, that Sir William, with Lord Hasting's knowledge, entered the firm with the sum of three lacs of ru pees, borrowed money, his wife's fortune having been settled upon herself. The house then, Sir Wm. Rumbold now being a member of the firm, continues trading for a year and a half, when they, for certain specious reasons, alleged to the Governor-General, in a letter dated June, 1816 , apply to his Lordship for a relaxa tion of the very salutary law prohibiting all pecuniary transac. tions between British subjects and the native Powers ; stating their idea of the law, as, that " it was enacted with a view to " prevent European subjects from acquiring privately too much " influence at native Courts, and from taking advantage of the " necessities of native Governments, to extort exorbitant inte r` rest from them, but that their transactions" (good sooth) " coud not lead to either of those objects; their transactions " had always been open and public." And here comes the part that presses most heavily upon Lord Hastings. H is Lordship replies to the above letter, by granting the indulgence proposed —by relaxing that important law, the basis of our connexions with the native Powers, which could admit of no suspension or relaxation,, except upon some extreme emergency, as ne quid detriment i Respublica capiat—by suspending it in favour of his ward-in-law (as we say son-in-law) Sir Win. Rumbold, and the house of which he had been made a partner ; after having - previously assured that house, and - the favoured part ner, in the teems of die letter already cited, " that a more die= " tinet benefit would attend the firm, from the consequent dis " couregement of competition by any other British partnership, " to which a similar sanction would not be granted." We now come to the use which is made of this highly im proper, partial, and illegal concession. The man who violates his duties by granting a permission to do wrong has totally surrendered the power of controulling the extent of the wrong. It is impossible to enter into the whole of the pecuniary' ac counts of Palmer and Co. ; but the description olone of them, by Lord Hastings himself, we suppose will not be object ea to : "'rue conduct of the house of William Palmer and Co., with respect to the bonus, is considered by the Governor-Gene ral in Council to he in the highest degree reprehensible ; and the concealment, both by the house and the minister, of the real conditions of the loan, while they were seeking the sanction of the British Government to the arrangement, and proftssing to put it in possession of the details of the transaction, admits of no excuse or palliation, and justifies the inference of a culpa ble collusion between those parties." The Governor-General in Council concludes (and this con clusion or - inference deserves attention)—" that the affair of " the bonus was not made known io the late Resident; but loan ; and he may have Cnsidered the reduCtion of interest, even to 18 per cent., as a onsiderable benefit. * * I trust it will not be forgotten that le has rendered eminent services at the Nizam's Court. * * Captain Charles • Russell's connec tion with Palmer and Co. was doubtless of less consequence than his brother's the Resient's ; but it lasted longer, and did not cease till his return to lurope. It tended to maintain the ties between the Residencyand that concern, and must have had its share in keeping u)their influence. I suppose him to have been persuaded, thatwhile his fortune was rapidly in creasing, no harm was done by the connection." (Extract from the Court n' Directors' Letter to Bengal, Jan. 41, 1824.) " Highly unfavourable is were our impressions - respecting the pecuniary transaction of the house of Messrs. William Palmer and Co. with tht Government of his Highness the Nizam, when our dispatcfc of Niiv. 23, 18'21. was written, we have had the' additional mortification of finding, from our late advices, that we had formed a very inadequate conception both of the nature and the extent of those transactions. * • Considering the deceptive affidavit, voluntarily, tendered by Mr. William Palmer and Sir William Itumbold, and the delusive character of other statements furnished by the • house, we are afraid that little. reliance can be placed on the account current, which may be prepared by them in coms pliance with your requisition. * • 1 ' It appears from the documentS before us, that whet Messrs. Palmer and Co. were lending money to the Nizam, at 24 per cent. interest, they bad money in their hands from natives (supposed, however, by the Resident to have been floating balances demandable at plea sure) at 12 and even 9 ; that th nominal loan of 60 lacs was, in reality, a contract for only 52 lacs, there having been a bonus of 158 per cent., or 0 lacs of rupees, allowed to the house, - thus raising the rate of interest on the 52 ides to 20i per cent. ; that the sum ' however, actually advanced, was not 52 lacs, but 38 lacs, according to one statement, anti only 22 lacs according to another; and that, according to the Minister's own show.. ing, ' a real loan of 11 lacs would have done as much in the way of reduction as a nominal one of 69,' the difference be twe..n the sum advanced and the 51 lacs being old debt trans ferred to a new account ; that to this management the.house contrived to get the sanction of Government to a debt, the existence of which was not known when that sanction WO given ; that they are in the habit of shifting sums from one account to another, as suits their purpose; that instead of the 60-lac loan being now more than half paid, off, as it ought to have been, and all the other money accounts between the ' Nizam and the house bron e elit to a close, the total debt due by his Highness to the houseind, in August, 1822, amounted to the enormous sum of 93 lacs ; and that, in ,December, 1822, it had accumulated to about 96 ; that in addition to the exorbi tant rates of interest charged by the house on their pecuniary advances to the Government, or, as Rajah Chandoo Loll ex. . pressed it, the overwhelming amount of their interest upon in terest, interest :Tan interest. Mr. Wm. Palmer and his family received an' annual allowance froin the Nizam's Government of 64.000 rupees, under the futile pretence of Mr. Wm. Palmer being an old servant of the 'Nizam ; and that a new bazaar had, by the permission of the Minister, been erected on the ' grounds of Sir Wiliam Rumbold, which commonly went by hip name, and that lighter duties were paid at this than at the old bazaar, until, in consequence of a representation from the shopkeepers of the Residency Baz iar, that they should be ruined by this preference, •an equalization of the duties was, with some difficulty, effected at the instance of Mr. Metcalfe. We cannot : look at these transactions, in so far as regards the house of Palmer and Co., without feelings of disgust and indignation. With reference to the interests of our ally, they excite shame and sorrow ; and, in so far as they have been countenanced, or nett controulled and checked by our Govern ment or the late Resident, they are matters not only of the deepest concern and regret, but of our most decided censure and condemnation." But, to say no 'pored the pecuniary extortions of this house, itssiasumptions offAmwer exceed all credibility. Sir William numbed(' was attended by a grtaxcis—" It is not," says Sir Charles Metcalfe, " on what Chundoo Loll says, or on what " see done, that my conviction _of his belief of-the influence of " Messrs. Palmer and Co. is founded ; they derive from his " support, power and authority which no other merchants pos." sess, and which no merchants ought to possess. They send " their badged Chuprassees about the country with as much effect as if they were Government officers. I have known " one of their servants of this description employed in levying " on a whole village the amount of a debt not originally dne to " them, which the right owner had no hope of obtaining, and " therefore had transferred to them, or bad engaged them w " realize on terms agreed on between them," &c. p. 244, &c. " Complaints have reached me of exactions of the same nature " as in the instance above described, which happened to fall " under my own observation.". . The exercise of these privileges appeared so striking and monstrous, that now the utmost confidence prevailed, that even some official persons in the British Residency at the Nizam's Court, if not the whole, had an understanding, or were in part nership (proh pudor !) with the house of Palmer and Co. Nor were the rumours confined to India : they reached England ; and the first duty imposed upon the Directors was to express heir surprise at the violation of the law already cited—to re- his Lordship in Council cannot acquit Mr. Russell of ;yr!! prebend ;he Governor-General for its suspension—and to insist blameable neglect of duty, in net satisfying himself that the upon its immediate restoration; as will be seen by the follow ' amount of the loan was properly appropriated, ur at least in ing important extract from a dispatch, dated May 20, MO— ' not reporting the misapplication to Government, as soon as th a t is, nearly tour years after the suspension had taken place, ehe became apprised of it, as with ordinary vigilance he must and when the consequent evils had had their full range:— " have been." " We have to observe, in the first place, that the power The following information respecting the proceedings of the which you have thus thought fit .to exercise, could not have house is extracted from reports made to the Government at been granted by the Legislature in contemplation of ouch an Calcutta, by Mr. Metcalfe, the s uccessor t o Mr. Russell at use as you have made of it. It. was obviously intended for the the Court of the Nizan ; and from a dispatch of the Court ur p ose o f mee ti ng extraor di nary ex i genc i es, not o f genera ll y of Directors : licensing illegal tratlic ; and we have great doubts whether " When Mr. William Palmer first commenced his money such a licence as you have given (a general licence, without a transactions, it was, as I understood, ostensibly in concert with special case of necessity, and without limit) would he held to a native of India, named Bunketty Des, and an English Gen- he legal, and would be found effectual fOr the protection of tleman, named Russell. Messrs. Palmer and Co. against any prosecution under the act. " 'Phis Mr. Russell was in the Resident's family, but though But, waving this discussion, we desire to be informed whether of the same name was not related to th e R es id e nt. H e was, or th e Re s ident has availed hi mse lf o f t h e power reserve d to hi m , had been, in the Madras Engineers, had been employed under by acquainting himself constantly and thoroughly with the the Nizam's government in building the residency and other nature of the pecuniary transactions of that house with the pubUe works, and had amassed considerable wealth from those Nizam's Government ; and, in the next place, whether he has employments. reported to you respecting them. After the experience we have " l'he business of that partnership was conducted in a house h a d, b o th in Oude and in the Carnatic, of the dreadful abuses occupied by that Mr. Russell, which was situate in the grounds which resulted from the pecuniary dealings of British subjects within the residency gateway, and close adjoining t o th e ma i n w i t h native princes, and the jealousy manifested by the Legis edifice of the residency. lature of all such transactions, anti we rem by no means ap " From the situation of the building in which th e concerns prove o f the indulgence which you have extended to Messrs, of that partnership were conducted, it is evident it must have Palmer and Co. ; and we positively direct that the instrument enjoyed the Resident's support and patronage. It is also un- by which that indulgence was co nve y e d ma y h e i mme di a t e ly, deretood, and there i s , I fear, no d ou bt of th e f act , t h at eir. upon t h e receipt-of this dispatch, revoked and cancelled. This; Russell, the Resident, was further connected with it, and de- or d er i s peremptory, and the execution of it must not be de rived profit from its transactions. Whether he shared profit layed, for the purpose of a refe rence to us, eir on any ground and risk with the others as a partner, or received an extraordi- whatever." nary interest for money deposited in their hands, lam not able In these terms the Court of Directors think proper to address positively to state. It is possible that his connexion with them the Governor-General on account of the privileges granted to may not have gone beyond having his money with them at an t h e h ouse o r Palmer. Whether they had as vet any suspicion ordinary rate of interest, and some r of his most intimate friends of the participation of certain members of the Residency in the seem to entertain this persuasion"; but from all that I have pecuniary transactions of the house, we know not; but. ru heard on the subject, the impression on my mieel amounts to a mours to this effect haying long afloatbeen cotin t of inl t n h t e liad— iffi o c t u ' course of conviction that he must have derived extraordinary profit from cautiously promulg ated at first, on ac their transactions, and that hie connexion with them was such as proof—a regular or d er had been transmitted to Mr. [lived', the give them a hold on him ever afterwards. There is, neverthe- Resident at Ilyderabad, dated Sept. 4, 1819, to obtain from les', a possibility that I may be mistaken in this conclusion, Messrs. Palmer figured statements of the whole of their pecu which it is the more nectnisary to notice, as Mr. Russell is not n ia r y transact i ons w i t h th e Nizain'e Government, exhibiting the present to offer any explanation. • * • Captain Charles Rus- following particulate ; sell, the List assistant to the Resident, was also concerned wit h "1. 'rite sums paid by them in adv ance to the Nizam's Go. Palmer and Co. I cannot accurate ly state the precise footing vernment. of his connexion with them ; but I have understood that he re- "2. The interest thereon charged and received. ceived 24 or 23 per cent. for money deposited in their hands. "3. The tunk has received and reali ze d b y them. • 11 I" The proof of what I have advanced respecting Mr. Re- "4. The payments ninth, by them at A urungabad. sident Russell and Captain Charles Russell must rest with 1 ` 5. The discount and premium admitted under the fifth Palmer and Co. and their books • though of course I should not artic l e of the a g reement. advance it without a st rong b e lief of its truth. The partnership t. e. The premium on the bills admitted under ditto." of Mr. Engineer Russell and Mr. Surgeon Currie is avowed, Sir Wm. Rumbold, however, a partner in the house, being and does not need any further testimony. That of Mr. First all this while at the seat of Government, requests of the Secre coe h p o n e, O Assistant Sotheby cannot, I believe, be denied. •* • Having tary to Government a copy of the directions( thus sent to Mr. and obtaining t n ai o n t i w ng i th wt p a r t i e e e t , y that n i t s l discharged the disagreeable duty imposed on me, I trust the Russell following observations will be received with indulgence :—I eh: men, of their t m he e i r r ca u n c: suppose Mr. Henry Russell has been induced to connect him- counts with their constituents, as such a measure would he self with Messrs. Palmer and Co. solely by the temPfation of highly injurious to their atfairs, anti destroy the confidence realizing a fortune more rapidly than by ordinary means, with- which the public repose d in them ; hut that they had concealed out anY.intenti, i intention supporting that house in any improper no part of t heir transactions with the Niz am's Minister from tran s a ctions. wth respect to the latter arrangements, which Mr. Russell, when he had thrmerly celled upon them, and had Mr. Russell's recommendation an d su ppo r t, 1 conce i ve th a t th e y were at all times testy to afford him similar intb r _ him to be totally free front any pecuniary interest in those trims- oration. Th e ()t h ee me mbers of the firm at flyderabad allege act i o ns ; and though I think it probable, that without the pre. the same excuse. To this it is rePlied by the Governor-General it is still very been called on to furnish vious connection, those arrangements might have obtained his in Council, that the house had not possible 'that he may have in- copies of their accounts with theie c onstituents, but merely a dined to think t hen '. adv antageous fur the Nizam s Govern- copy of their account with the Nizam's Government, reepect recommendations merit. There it no proof that he had any knowledge of the tee' a particuler arrangement of a Public nature, sanctioned by bonus, the most objectietiable part of the pretended , ixtY•lae - - lier•ident, end submittal by him to the notiee ef Govern- ment ; and Sir Win. Rumbold is ordered to attend-the Council next day, where his explanations are well received, and Mr. Russell is informed that the accounts are not now required ! —But it is most important to remark, that while the Resident is ordered to enforce these accounts, he himself is, as will ap pear in the following letter, suggesting to the chief partner in the house the same means of eluding the order which Sir Wm. Rumbold had been practising at the seat of Government, and which had been there exposed as flitile LETTER. FROM MR. li. RUSSELL TO MR. W. PALMER. "My dear Palmer,-1 have sent the letters to the Residency to have the remainder of them copied ; and, directly that is done, will send them off. I return you the letter to Sir Wil liam, agreeing in every thing you have said in it. The open ness with which you have come forward to exhibit the whole detail of your transactions in the Aurungabad concern, ought to operate powerfully in favour of the house ; but no mercan tile establishment ought, in common justice, to be exposed to a scrutiny of this inquisitorial character. Sir William, I should hope, would be able to prevail on Lord Hastings, if this captious cavilling spirit continues' to be displayed, to say, that whenever any substantial objection is urged, he will call on the house to explain it, but that he cannot consent to call on thein for an indiscriminate exposure of their concerns, merely under the expectation that some ground of - objection may be discovered in them. Such a practice is subversive of the very basis on which society is founded.—Yours, very truly, " October 30. (Signed) " H. RUSSELL." Still, however, rumours circulate; and . there is a corres ponding anxiety on the part of the Governor-General respect ing the use that has been made of the unfortunate suspension of thedaw, and the probability that members of the Residency had become partners of the house of Palmer and Co. These apprehensions and fears are expressed in the following letter of Lord Hastings to Sir Wm. Rombold :••••• " My dear Sir AVilliam,—lt is difficult for me to make you ' comprehend the unpleasant discussions which have been, within this fortnight past, recorded with regard to the pecuniary en gagements between the house of W. Palmer and Co. and the Nizam. The whole has originated in these underhand sug gestions of Mr. which a false delicacy towards him prevented my exposing. They made impressions on others, who, acting on the erroneous persuasion, staked themselves in a manner which makes them flounder obstinately now, in order to preserve Consistency. Much advantage is given to them by an apparent (I am sure not a real) want of frankness on the part of your house. I tipprised you long ago, that it was ex pedient for the firm to define, upon oath, whether or not any British public functionary 'had at any time had pecuniary tran sactions with the house, which could influence him in counte nancing your dealings with the Nizam's Government. The eritation of so simple a declaration is awkward even in the eyes of me, who have so strong a belief in the honour of your pro ceedings. Though Mr. Stuart declared he had never thrown on Mr. Russell the imputation of a secret understanding with you, peculiar circumstances convince me that such a suspicion was communicated to persons at home ; and was received with ready faith. It depends on the house whether I also must not admit doubts." Barrackpore, June 10, 1821. (Signed) "Il ASTINGS." It must be here observed, that Mr. Russell quitted the Resi dency of Hyderabad the latter end of the year 1820, and was succeeded by Mr. (now Sir Charles) Metcalfe. This Gentle man, soon after his appointment, makes the tour of his district, leaving Mr. flans Sotheby, who had filled the same station in the former Residency, to set in quality of First Asc4istant, dur ing his absence; and before Mr. Sotheby, Palmer and Rumbold appear, to make affidavits, the object of which was to deceive the Governor, under an evasive form of words, into the belief, that none of the Residency had ever been partners in their house:— The following is their affidavit : AFFIDAVIT BY WILLIAH PALMER, ESQ. ANI) SIR WILLIAM UUMROLD. " We. the undersigned, William Palmer and William Rum bold, do hereby make oath and declare; that the partners of our house at Hyderabad, called by 'the name of ,% illiam Palmer and Co. are as follow Palmer, Esq., and Sir Wil liam Rumbold, Bart., Hastings Palmer, Esq., George Lamb, Esq., and Bunketty Dos, and that no other persons of any des cription have, directly or indirectly, any partnership with us, or any interest.in any concerns beyond such as the public has in every other house of agency. We further declare, that no public funoionary, at the head of any public office or depart ment, ever had any avowed or direct partnership, directly or indirectly, with us, or any interest in our concerns which could influence him in countenancing the dealings with the Nizam's Government, or give him any means of deriving any personal advantage from them. " We think it proper to add, that several indiviluals, natives and Europeans, who supported us with their capital at the com mencement of our establishment, did, in consequence of such accommodation to us, derive benefits from our house. These were, however, such as we gave them from private friendship, or a sense of private and pecuniary obligations to them ; but we repeat that, although we have made this declaration for the purpose of being perfectly explicit, no person or resident at the head of any public office or department of GoVern ment, or any one to whom we looked for public support or influence, have had any such benefit; and that no persons of any description but the above-named partners of our house, have been associated with us in any way since the time we first entered into treaty for the loan we negotiated for . the Nizam's "Government. Brass and Copper Alanufac- tures - Cotton 31anufactures - - Twist and Yarn - Glass and Earthenware of all sorts - Hardwares and Cutlery - Iron and Steel, wrought and unwrought - Linen Alanufactures - Silk Manufactures Sugar, British Refined - Woollen Goods - All other articles . " WM. PALMER, " WM. RUM BOLD." " Sworn before me, this 23th day of June, 1321, (Signed) Ifloes SOTHEBY, " First Assistant to the Resident, (Mr. Metcalfe being absent.)" No notice is taken by Mr. Sotheby of this affidavit to Mr. Metcalfe on his return ; but before the Governor-General quits India, he promotes Sotheby to be agent at Moorshedabad. Still, however, ali this denial and swearing fail of removing the suspi cions and rumours which had been for somany years afloat; and shortly after Lord Hastings's depa:turefor England, the Govern ment Secretary writes to Sotheby, " that circumstances having " led the Government to doubt the accuracy of the affidavit " of Palmer and Rumbold, sworn before him (Sotheby), the " Governor-General had directed the Resident at Hyderabad " to call on the several members of the firm of Palmer and Co. " to declare whether any persons, now or heretofore officially " attached to the Residency, were at any time directly or indi " reedy partners of that firm, or participated in any manner in " the profits of the same, &c., the tenour of Pahner's reply " having strengthened the suspicions previously excited by the " terms of the affidavit sworn, the Government had instituted " an inquiry, the result of which afforded strong ground of " presumption, that besides Mr. Currie, late Residency, whose ` 1 partnership was admitted,' the late Resident, Mr. Henry " Russell, his brother, Captain Charles Russell, the late First " Assistant, Mr. Russell, formerly in the Engineers, and your " self (Mr. Sotheby), have been more or less connected with " Messrs. Palmer and Co., or with one or more of that firm." A series of questions were then put to the aforesaid Sotheby ; and he, to use his own expression, " being possessed by a be " lief almost amounting to certainty, that the Governor-Ge " neral is in" possession of certain facts," make a disclosure to the following effect That himself had a share in the house before Sir Wm. Rnmhold came in ; that he concluded " his connexion remained secret ; that he retired in February, " 1820 (in fact he makes way for the affidavits) ; that he is " ignorant whether Mr. Henry Russell or his brother were at " any time connected with the house of Palmer and Co, and " had never been induced to make observations leading to the " belief that they had, nor was he acquainted with any trans " action whatever which they might have had with it. With " respect to Mr. Engineer Russell and Dr.. Currie (two other " members of the Resident's family), a connexion between " them and the house certainly had existed." Here, then, for the the first moment, we set our foot upon the resting-place of truth. The dishonest secret has (in part) come out, by the constrained acknowledgment of Sotheby; and this person being now sucked dry, or at least as dry as he will suffer himself to be sucked, is with great propriety thrown aside. The following is the Government minute : " Strong as the presumptive evidence, arising out of facts and circumstances distinct from Mr. Sotheby's statement, has already appeared to the Governor-Generel in Council, that the late President and his brother were at one time or other connect ed in partnership with the house of W. Palmer and Co. ' or de rived extraordinary benefi t s from t hat concern, the denial of Mr. Sotheby of all knowledge or belief of such connection on their pact, deprives him of the benefit of wh n a a t in n e lg y_ ht t h h a a vA been ehad co on n ig . followedts h k e le ae s t ol i i 4 rni Y ee w a se x am pleP 6'i s i aiantrion of rt of sh ed tnisisuPeritohfle.eirn:citesioiinpntilic his defence, hveaciWt thatti hthe r7a h ti t re ju ot lti th ce e tcraannsaMetrio.n S s o o t f h t e h b e y house was changed in the veer 1819, and that this was one of the principal reasons that in. Idueed biro torctire froth the partnership ? It may be asked, what were t h e et h e r principal zonsins for his tardy retiretnear I Signed ) Total . Principal Article*. Years ended 10th October, 1822. I 1823. 67,532 1,901,426 103,891 293,496 161.08 f BiMlOl,, f, 4,10 . 1,034,60 200,23; 577,9 a 751,fltii M1,82+ 961.4131 1824. 172,021 897,819 1,788,993 9,791,8301 RVINO, npurts and on the 16th of February, 1020, when he accepted, metes over, a gratuity (to what amount is unknown) fano:4(4Kr It is not an overstrained supposition to ascribe that prette4- log, on the part of the•honse to a desire to separatekeelf in 'aP pearance from any member of the Residency, at a period .suspicion was alleged to be (gloat as to the fact e , f tire itetitttat himselfbeing connected with them ; anti to enable theta, in cow templation of the projected loan, which was formally proposed. a few months after Mr. Sotheby's retirernertt, to, make astir:. 3f necessary, to the effect which has since been witnessed. *• • In what manner can Mr. .Sotheby reconcile to himself the actef' permitting Net equivocal a document, to say the least of k Cat. Palmer and • Rumbold's • effidavit),• to be sworn bafGre.•lo:l-,.. when - he could not but be aware that theeffect it was ealtulat,4 to produce on the mind of the Governor-General in GAO 4.. would have been destroyed,l)ad the Government bece aPptistd of the facts which Mr. Sotheby has himself acknoeiedgekt with regard to his own connexion with the house ? * is bnpe , :- sible for the Governor-General in Council, with advertent: , to all the facts of the case, to acquit Mr. Sotheby of a erlutirtil collusion with the subscribing parties to the affidavit. for the purpose of deceiVing the Government. * * * With advertence . to the inquiries still in progress at Hyderabad regard ing the sn,9- posed connexion of the late Resident .and his brother with the firm of Wm. Palmer and Co., the Governor-General deems it premature to pronounce any judgment as to the degree in which Mr. Henry Russell and Captain Charles - Rui4o - May have been implicated in the illegal transaction here allu4e:4 te. But it has been .established by the declaration of Mr. Sotlie;tky, that three members of the late Resident's family—naniely, Mr. Sotheby himself, Mr. Russell, formerly of the Madras Engi- . veers, and Dr. Currie—were all engaged, openly or secretly, in partnership with the house of Palmer and Co.* * The baneful effect of such a combination, or secret understanding, between the late Residency and the house of William Palmer and Co., has already been felt in its full force at Hyderabad, where there is too much reason to fear that a systematic league of that kind had subsisted for a period and to a degree which the Governer- General in Council hopes and believes are quite without example. * * * The Governor-General resolves, that Ale. Sotheby be removed from his office of agent at Moorshedabad, as unworthy of longer holding a confidential situation under the Government." \Ve have now therefore laid, but imperfectly, this dark affair befcre the public. The charges made, or suspicions thrown out, against the Resident himself, in official papers, by tre Directors, and even by Lord Hastings, make it clear that he is but a suspicious defender of others. It was a singular and even a fearful expression of Mr. H. Russell's, in his spelech on Friday last in the India House, that " he had only to hold up " his finger, if he had wished the Nizam"—to do what ? " - To declare war against the English," against Mr. Rus sell's .country—against the Company of which he was a ser vant. And whence sprang this awful influence ? The Nizarn was in the fetters of the House. How piteous to see a Sovereign Prince, not overwhelmed by princely force, but strangled in the meshes of pettifnggers and money-scriveners ! We hope this reproach will be wiped off. With respect to. Lent Hastings, whose pension has been the.subject of debate, ** boldly say he has acted with an indiscretion that renders bun unworthy of it. The whole of this disgraceful mischief has origihatecl in his suspension of a fundamental law of Indian Government from an evident principle of favouritism, the power of suspension only resting with him in the case of an y sudden public emergen c y. As to the unlucky praise whicia was lavished on his Lordship by a worthy Director, as the pa cificator of India, we shall just present an extract from the panegyric, and point to its absurdity:—" The beneficial effects " of that highly-gifted Noblemanle achikeinents and states " man-like . policy are becoming every day more obvious (this was written but in thiliJanuary of last year !) " India is " in profound peace, and likely to continue so, from the removal "of incentives to war !"—(Mr. Pattison's Dissent.)—'rta Burmese war, Mr. Pattison ! what say you now to the eternal peace of India ? The Court of Proprietors may decide as they please upon this important affair, but it will now be un derstood by Europe, and the British public.—( Times.) COMM ERCE. EXPORTS. An ACCOUNT of the VALUE, as calculated at the Offkitkl Rates, of all 13RIT/311 and Mimi PRODUCE anti MANU FACTTJUES Exported from Great Britain, in each of the three years ended 10th October, 1824 ; distingailhing the leading branches of the Manufactures, &c. exported. Branches of Manufactures. An ACCOUNT of the VALUE, as calculated at the Official Rates, of all FOREIGN' and COLOWIAL MERCHANDIZE Exported from Great Britain in each of the three years ended 10th October, 1824; distinguishing the principal Articles exported. 81,219 '2,510,422 86,762 251,477 78,286 50,494 498,71 g 1;111,596 87,374 447,tiSt ! 83ti. 351 1 sti2o;oo3 238,01.5 174,470 1,381,782 2,127,726 14:k962,3591 ILLIAII ] ieneral of ustom-hous , 1825. Barilla, Alkali, and Ashes Coffee and Cocoa - Copper, unwrought - Corn,Grain, Meal, and Flow Dyewoods, viz.: rustic and Logwoods Hides, raw and tanned Indio - Piece Oookis of India - Spelter - Spices, including Pepper Spirits - Sugar, raw Tobacco - Wines - Wool, Cotton - All other articles Total - - Inspector -C9 Inspector-Otneral's Office, C London, 14th February. 832,9(161 634,2841 23,938,268 24,610,688, 2,418,8131 2,626,6321 271,422 276,994 592,7115 5118,700 1,412,218' 1,409,61'6 2,504,009 2,667,916 212,855 183,752 1,262,769 1,285,024 6,593,177 5,977,424 5,948,115 5,942,581 45,787,389 46,26 I ,511 Years ended lOth October. 1822. 1823, 1824. CANADA ASIIES.—Copy of a letter addressed to the 5 . 1 a5 1 '.r of Liverpool, dated Somerset-place, Fe b.7 82 Fe ' -'' l or s;h7infortn.l - Sir--I have the honour to acquaint you, f, interested 1:1 tion of the merchants and others of Live the trade with Canada, that Lord LiverPoo ha d - u nder cousideratiu:i cellor of the Exchequer having again e - e d to propose - .to the subject of Canada Ashes, have d t from our own colonies . Parliament to take off the duty on ashes n those imported five) rP°°4 l and the Chan_ or possetaions, And to lower the filg wance foreign ports, and to repeal the anb, e honour to be, &c. gether. of drawback alto "I ' have ‘W. A MUSSON." ( Liverpool Ad:grater.) THE THAMES TUNTNEL.—Active preparations are making for the commencement of this great and impote nt . public work. The preliminary operations will be begun und er the inspection of the Directors, on Wednesday side 2d of march. The opening of the grOtind °Tithe Surrei win -b e dlese• very h )renziii hitrontbeikereisiri eweiturrnttiv*arrezhilictbaji me the.... :I_ 3111141 W PPnag 582,577 I 3,138,347 284,3118 €80,986 1,490,314 3,174,834 159,813 1,121,940 6,890,200 6,334,492 j50,758,e0s 85,M,` 2,413.341 211.201 141,40 S 8it..53S 144,336 433,847 1:933;73J 399;l f. 3 . _ eij,Si;l I *42,8 - ai: .233- , 141 230,5;i1 784,821 2,200,02 S ,10,978,314 Exports.