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"mode of proceeding; that might seem toocar nnecessarily hard upon Mr,Kenriek. Mr. PEEL did 'not mean to impute the slightest inwro priety of feeling to The motives which bad attuated the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. If, however, it should appear that Mr. Kenrick could not enter upon his defence without calling certain witnesses whose evidence seemed to be - considered ma terial, other Matters must necessarily stalcl over till next session. The SPEAltEA'anderstood the motion for postponing the further consideration. of the charge against Mr. Kenrick to - be postponed till to-morrow. The only question was, whether it was lawful or notia the Chair to communicate t® the individual accused, the substance of the charge against him? In charges like this, where the charge against the party had been insisted on as matter• of right, it had been usual to grant a.copy of such a charge to the party accused. The usual course had certainly been to communicate to him a copy of the charge against him. Upon the.question being put from the Omit., it was agreed that such copy should he communicated to Mr. Kenrick. The oilier Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the /louse Adjourned at HALF-YAST Two O'CLOCK. PEERAGE. HOUSE-OF LORDS, DIV:THAT, JUNI 27. TIE GAR])NER PEZRAGE. Mr. TINDAL, on behalf of the opporient in this '-ease, said, that the only question far their Lordships' .decision was, whether his client, Henry Fenton Gardner, was heir . to *the late Lord Viscount Gardner; and that depended on 'whether he was born within That period,- whereby, by. the 'laws of nature, he 'could be his legitimate son. He was born in wedlock; and it was agreed that both the parents were capa ble of procreating and begetting children, or, in the language of the Civilians, Wiles in niatrsinoninm. They_ lived together previous, subsequent, and at the time of his birth. .This, formed a prima Attie Case of legitimacy, and he con -tended that it remained - with the other side to prove him illegitimate. 'Phis 'was not a lee:Alen of probability or 'improbability, but of ,postiibility or impossibility r .- , According 'to the law n such Cases, the ground on which . their Lordships ought to decide were, whether or. riot , 'there - was a possibility of access during wedlock. In a case of, legitimacy,"tried in the King's Bench in the reign of Heniy Th© plea pat in against the Claimant was, that his mother. was with child before the marriage, and went to live with an. I other man subsequently, and that While 'living with that man the child was born. The judA,e- s on that occasion - said that the child was legitimate, unless the other party could prove the impossibility of the matter. The Learned Counsel here quoted many instances of legitimacy having been established on the grounds of possibility, where the probabilities of the contrary were very - strong; and observed that the physicians examined agreed, that as far - as. their own experience went there was no instance of the period of gestation being 311 days ; and because it did not come within theirexpe.rience, thereon eluded it was impossible, 'without being able to assign any_ rea son for it; butif he could he able to 'Show - their Lordships that there' had been many instances of gestation having been pro tracted even beyond that period, he trusted it would outweigh the other evidence, particularly as no reason had been'assigned of its irnpossibilty. Dr. Granville, Dr. Conquest, and Dr. Merryman, were via ,mined. Their evidence went principally to show, that a gesta tion of 311 days was not impossible, from many instances of gestation. of even a longer period that came within their own - experience.—Further consideration Was adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. - Lunw i7° die Junii, I • . 3111. SPEAKER reported the Royal Assent—to Buckingham House Bill ; Excise Licences Bill; • Quarantine Laws Bill; Colonial_ Intercourse Bill; Mauritius Trade Bill ; Distillery Bill ; Canada Company Bill ' • Ass im ilation of th e C u r rency . Bill; Lunatic Trustees Bill ; Liverpool Docks Bill ; Wain - fleet Drainage Bill ; A Abingdon Improvement Bill ; Glasgow and Parkhead, Glasgow and Redburn Bridge, and Kilpa trick Roads Bills ; Inge's, Knapp's, Tate's, Birch's, Cater's, Fowler's, Sclater's ' and 'Markham's Estates Bills; Moore's Divorce Bill;, and Mathieu's Naturalization Bill. -MESSAGE .from the Loans. That •they have agreed to.. Courts of justice Offices Bill ; Plate Duties Transfer Bill; Glass Duties Bill;.. Offices Pensions Bill West Indies Clergy Bill ; 'Universities Police Bill ; - Edinburgh_ Bonds Bill; Bank of lr"land Tokens Bill; Paisley Waterworks Bill; and Northall-(•Aliddlesex) Inclosure without amendment; and to Townland Boundaries (Ireland) Bill'; Court of King'i Bench Bill Court of Common Pleas Bill ; Judges . Salaries Bill and': Lowland Churches (S co tl a nd ) Bill, With . amentlments;- and. to Amendments to Bishop of • London's Estate EstATES-BOles (Hoghtcrtes), Romilly's, St.'Thon)aS'S Has pital, Leitch'A, and - Archbishop of Canterbury's —Bills read a third time, and passed. Banks' (Sal;);)—Bill read a se_ cone time, and committed. Mar9uis of Waterford's, and •-. 1-4 M. 4 Clinton's—Bills read a first time. riati•roitb ClTY —Petition o f W..HoneriVood sate; Esq. 're to Right of Election—to lie on the table. Itt e ;"et —Sullivan's . - Bills read a second ti t .„ 'cll tlts—St. Mary-le-bone t im e , an d comm i t- Ts binEMNITY—SL Dunstan's ted. eu : c„ .orrtEs TBADE 14)113 CONSOLIDATION w } Bills read ashird tim e , and passed. LANDS ExcitArrat -uulttrAt. INDEX COMMITTEE—Report (24th June Lead, Motion f or Add ress, " That there be issued to John. “ ic hulan, Esq. £9,600. to enable him to defray the expence of for ming an Ind ex to 20 vo l umes of the Journals, corn- Tlireiicing with the fi rs t P ar li ament o f t h e United Kingdom of of his at with and I re l an d, an d exten di ng to t h e Accession present Majesty ; an d also, £5BO to Mr. Benjamin li _Spiller, for in corporating the Indexes of the subsequ e nt V o , mes, to the end of the last Session."—Committee this day. I NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY. Mr. Denman—To move for the attendance of II ~ .nry Peters, Esq. Mr. H. Drummond, Edward Arnold, John Franks, and Esther Franks, as witnesses, in Franks' case, against Mr. Kenrick. 2. Mr. Martin (of Galway) —Bill to alter and amend so much of Act 4 Geo. 4, c. 54, as relates to unlawfully killing, 3 maiming, or wounding . Mr. S any Cattle. pring Rice —To refer to a Committee of the whole • House, a Resolution for an Address respecting additional Committee Rooms, Offices, and a Library. ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Sulliran's Divorce Bill—Committee, Counsel, and Wit nesses. 2 . Report Private Business—Adjourned Debate. 3. Journal Index—Committee on Address for remuneration. 4. Combination of Workmen Bill—Report. Petition against Mr. Kenrick (Canfor's case)—Committee thereupon. 6 . Charge agaiiist Mr. Kenrick (Franks' casc)—To be consi dered. 7. Spring Guns Bill—Thi r d reading. IoU. Gardens Protection Bill.... Further consideration of Report. a . Horses Sl aug h tering Bill—Third reading. Pilots and Fl oat i ng L ights Bill—Report. 11. Indictments Removal Bill—Further consideration of Report. ;2,.. Rolls Court Decrees Bill—Report. 14. Serjeants at Law Bill—Third reading. I?Law of Merchants Bill—Third reading. ~. Marquis a Waterford's Estate Bill—Second reading. "•.Lord.Clinton's Estate Bill—Second reading. PRIVATE BILLS. Second Readings for This Day. Bristow's, and 'Vernon's Estates. Tilt LATE FlRR.—Yestery Aleetinq was .... 11 .eld at the :Middlesex Hospital, for , the purpose of raising as .übscription for the relief of the unfortunate sufferers by the _ s ; t . fire in Wells -street, on Tuesday last. Lord ROBERT Ai r \ Liotirt took the Chair, and near him sat Lord Manners, La Wil liams, Esq. M.P., Honourable B. Bouverie, W. tyni.des Esq., tien,er, Air. Rawlinson, the East India Proprietor, Mr. Bevan, the the Magistrate, &c. &c. Several gen tft!.!snoaddressed the Meeting, commenting upon the lamentable b:ct f the fire, and the ruin that a number of families would w c ar P d itl a n ged into, unless the humane and charitable came for_ t h,_ en their behalf. It was also stated that 215 men were th e r r l cut of employ, the greater number of them havin g lost h stl bworking-tools • 69 families, in which were 166 children, only 2eien.deprived of their habitations, and out of that ntimbcr Was I, z ere insured ; the aggregate loss of these poor persons IN 1 ' 1 , 4 4 ;j 1 ., an Thighat of the workmen, in tools, clothes', &c.„ facturier'°l. was exclusive of the owners of houses, inanu sub - 412c,C., whose lo•ises were great and almost ruinous.-- was c o liel' t on Was immediately entered into, and nearly 5001. c ile— eru " h C l lls . -- --A journeyman named CRAWLEY, in ,3nittitilTnent of ill- RUFF, Wine-office -court, Fleet -street, ° L ' e c e l h oc . t — o e n ssunnidcide in . a. most determined manner about twelve If " ueepi aV night. The unhappy man appears to have . 1 % *T en .3' enarnoured of a young woman, who did not return i,xiliten,-U°n, and this determined him to put an end to lug etwe eCti l w es hi th c h he did, by stabbing himself with a long knife and 6th ribs. - We-request the publit attention to a most in teresting and very able letter in this day's Paper, signed VINDEX, on the subject of the policy of .the British Government in India, and the un warrantable delay that has taken place in the distribution of the "•Deccan Prize Money.--- Both subjects are subjects of the deepest in terests, and involve in their consideration af fairs of the highest mornent, and we are con vinced must, one day or other, require the closest atientiou:of our politicians. Such, however, is the 'state of ap4l3 , of the public mind, in every thing retianfing India, that the reproach used by our COrresPondent, that -" our English Politi cianS haVe only lately discovered we haVe large possessions - in the East Indies," seems but too just , and-appropriate. The Brazilian Mail, which arrived this morn ing, brings no intelligence, except the celebration of the anniversary of the day on which his IMPE. RIAL MAJESTY took the oath to the Constitution, and also that of the birth of the Princesq D'MA. RIADA GLORIA, now SiX years of age. We have, however, just received private information that Lord COCHRANE has just arrived at Portsmouth in a. Brazilian frigate. " Po ars:nov.l.lo rrived the Peran ga Brazilian frigate from Maranham, with Admiral Lord COCHRANE on board. She has all her masts sprung, and will co me i nto harbour to repair.'. The French Papers were received last night. They contain nothing worth extracting. It ap pears that the English, Russian, and Swedish Ambassadors, specially appointed to compliment CIIARLEs X. on his Coronation, had taken leave of the KrNa and Royal Family in. private - audiences. • The news they give` from Greece .remains .of the same contradictorY na ture to ever, and therefore, .in the absence of something positive on the point, we have deemed it prudent to be silent. That the Greeks have lately - sustained some severe reverses appears, however, certain. The illonitenr says;.".a Jour nai slates to-day- than there have been disturb anco at. Madrid, but adds, that letters from that city up - to the 18th June, say that two :Members of the uld- Ministry, viz., those of War and Jtis-' tide, have been removed." They I.so refer to sonie.gitation among the RoyalisteVoluniteers, but are silent with regard to any disturbance. In the discussion last night, in the House of Corm Ons, on the Combination Laws, Mr. Hos- KtssoN rose.to order, because an 4on. Member was proceeding to animadvert upon the present British system of Navigation and Commerce. Mr. PEEL . also joined in the call. We are by no means surprised at the sensibility . thus displayed by Mr.liusaissoN on this subject, and therefore fully approve of his endeavours to stop observations that will soon produce their effect upon the pub lic, and so deprive him of the popularity he so ardently desires. He is aware of the flimsy sys tem he has introduced, and all along-relied on the glitter of a grand sum total of customs, exports, and imports at the years end, to prevent that impertinenl curiosity that would lead us to in quire into the character of the vessels in which those imports or exports were ma d e , and ask the question how ,far the navigation interests of the Kingdom had been promoted by the liberal policy of the lion. Gentlemen. lie feels convinced it will never hear the test of ob servation, and that the best interests of the coun try have been totally sacrificed in his ardent pur suit of Freedom of Commerce. t - r .9..4,... 0. Ni '.' (' 0 7' ,:. "_C) .1.) , -; ' 7 l • A e'fi-) k s P- : :,..7.1?- L'-;;:P ' k 3Z. '„' . 7,4,,kCi, wo - ' , L.' " • -1 1' - - •-••"5 .-- ----;:ct- . ,:, -, , , ,,, 1pa. o' . 4,, , , :0r'5 4 1•:,/,` m'c ' v- -••'• , • , i ~ .....,,t t Th ilc. C, 1' 'r f,,' ' .....; ,ii.. ; , 4 _ ,1 _ ve , ._ : .....:- , I. ()I . - sm ,. r• r*,;". , , ''...`ilPf" . AI .4.:' rt. 4 4 ail . VO . , THE KING. . • W r ivpson... 'Jt n 27.—His MAsr'sinr arrived at the Royal Lodge this..afternoon at two o'clock, in his travelling carriag' . .!, from Carlton Palace, accompanied by Sir Samuel Hulse._ Shortly after his ,Malesty's arrival Mr. Wyattville left :Win chester 'Power to meet his Majesty - at the Royal Lodge.—Her Royal Highness the. Princess Augusta, -accompanied by the Duke and Duchess. of Cambridge, are - expected at Frpgmpre Lodge on the 7th of next month, where they will remain for a • The .Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta, ac companied.bv Prince George of Cambridge, who wcire the uni• form of the eoldstream Guards, went to the Review:yesterday morning at Nrormwood Scrubs, in one.of the Kin , h os carriageS, drawn .1)y six fi ne b a y h orses, an d attended by four of the King's outriders. Their Rnyal Highnesses' Ladies in Wait jug, Miss. Wyriyird misA, Ahiefehit, .accompanied b, Colonel' Platt, followed in the Princesx Augusta's carriage and four. , - ..Their 'Royal Highnesses returned from the Review about half:past fOur a'clo(l‘. The Duke .of Canibridge„ attended by his Equeriet, Sir W.- DaVison . ., Colonel Keite. and als o b y Si r J ames - Reynett, at tended the Review'yesterday. • On. Sunday ,the Duke and Duchess , of Cambrigge enter tained the. Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Au gusta, and a select party at dinner, ^: .T e. Du kc and. Dtichess otGam bridge, -and Prince Leopohl, honoured the entertainment given 13. Y. Sir T. Fatrquhar,--at his re*idence St.'.lathew's-stteet, orr,eunday escning With their presynce„ . • •. ' * ~)i'esterdaY evening. the Duke and Dtithess" of 'Cattibriagfe; attended by Sir Win, 'Davison, hondured the fay bait; at Abnack's, with their pmsence. • . • Prince Leopold honoured the Count and Coimtess tieVen with his company -at• dinner, on Sunday, at their residence in Dover-street. WELCH SLATE, COPPER, AND LEAD MINING COMPANY. . . rrillt • DTRECTORS of this COMPANY beg. to ,infaaa, the.Shareholders s that the DEPUTA TION having . now returned to London aft e r i ns p ect i ng t h e Quarried, &c. offer to the Company in . North W a les a Rep or t froM theM, will in the course of a few days be made to the-Pro p.rietors, aud which it is,hoped will give general satisfaction. By Order of a Director, PHILIP BORTON, Secretary. ORICE OF STOCKS YESTE, ILO( Stock 3 - per Cent. Red. ... 91 90iii 3 per Cent. Cons.' 3i per Cent. Ditto R - Cd. 4 per New - Bank lithigAnn..... 22 .1-16 I India Stock Ditto Bon& ...... 56 60 pr. South Sea Stock ItDAY AT FOUR O'CLOCK. 011 - Annuities New Ditto • .Ex. Bills 1000/. I ... .36 40 Dikto 500/. 1:1d Ditto Small ... lia. .... .. ,36 40, Ditto . ComMercial 'Bank for .Act. - India for Acct. • (ions. for Opening ...913x,; ptficEs or FOREIGN FUN Austrian Bds, 5 per ct.... 98E BrOzilian Bds B2.f 1825... 034 dis. Bfientis . Ayres Bds 934 Gtiilisn. Lids, ti per ct. Bds.:li per ct.... Do. der. 1024 88 - 7i 8 Danish. 5 per cent. ' Jib. Scrip theek -MU - Do. Scrip,-1825... 1O 11 dis. 11 . exiatt Bda- 773i DO. Scrip 1025 ...' 1g 21 dis. NOOpolitan, 5 per cent.. .'.. 35 , AT FOUR YESTERDAY. Neapolitan Scrip Peruvian Bonds Do. Scrip 751 Portuguese ponds AN/ Piussian, 5 per et. Ditto New 'IO2A Russian, New; 5 per ct. - 96 Spanish 1821 5 per ct, 21H 111231., lll4 17 French It entes ; 5 per et. 102 50 Exchange ... —c. 3 per cent..•• 761 BE Exchange ... 25f. 10c. RIGASoOf SHARES TEkTERD tY, AT FOUR O'CLOCK Per: hare.. A nglo-M oilcan Mining Company 110 113 : New United-Mexican Mining Company ....... ..—.••• .37.39 ColOmbirin Mining Company Brazilian Mining Company Pasc4TelAikrian Mining Company WelOt frOn and Coal Mining Company Cr, . _ . Cobalt atia'Copper Mining COmpany - . 4i44 ; 1 , Real der4lonte Mining Company - ... 9OO PotO4l 3 LitPll2 and- Peruvian 31ining Association -13 Alliance Fire and Life Assur a nce Co m p any Protector -Fire Assurance Company . 1 44. Guardian Ass u i a n ce C om p a ny .Provincial Bank of Ireland British Iron Company - Hibernian Joint Stock Banking Company Equitable Loan Batik Company - . - I Metropolitan Fish Comp a ny Bolivar 7 Alining Company . 25 British Rock an d Patent Salt Company Groat * Westminster Dairy company 11 1(411 WATER AT Lf)NITQN RR F: TO-MORROW, 3forning, 7 minutes after 1. 1 Evening, 311 minute% after 1 • - 1 T mlllJ‘4ll'S • •S(P.LEbI QUIS DICERS' FALSUM AUDEAT • LONDON. TUESTMY - EVENING, JUNE 2A, is2s MP:RC:ANTI LE SHIPPING. Po 't T S :11 . 017 TIT, .41.; NE Tr.—Wind. IV.S.W.—Arrivcd 11ajestv7s ship Seatiower, from a cruize ;. Martin Luther, Bass, from Madeira. . Pa..sed by:the Mariner, rendirrick, fram the coast . - of- Africa. , Put back"the Superb; George, for Philadel phia,. and Ceasar, for India. , . • • CowEs,-..111N4: W.S.W.- , -An - ived. the Dutch ship Pedang, Rodjers, front Batavia, in'l29• days ; Lee, from4Tharleston, in:3R days. and Cleopatra;' &die, froth Bahia, in GO days,• • - • DEAF, Je . NE 27.—Wind IV.—_,Passed through for. the River the George the Third, Poiiplcwell, Wellesley, Ferry. man, -and-Cambridge,. Mason, Jamaica; Sons-.of Commerce, from St, Domingo ; Prince. of Waterloo - ,:- Nary,- from• Sierra Leone - ; •. Ant . , Waton; from St. Jago tie Cuba :An.r ,Ware, froM itico; and Brazillian•PackeL; Scariettifrom dittb. Came down .from the River and remain the-. "Georgitaut, •Watt,: fair 'Granada„ . AlarY. - liardy, for Quebec; Henry Wellesley,Wade, for Sierra. Leone-.;. Diana, Leghorn ; .and .Cole, for-India. - • -- - • ,• - , • • . V.r.motr•Tly, - JFNE 211.—Wintl W.—Arrived the 'King. fisher packet, f ro m the Brazils, Sailed from Ria.l4;th and Pernambuco 11th May - ; Sphynx packet, from the Medi. terranean . , sailed from Corfu,l3th ' . Malta 21st, anel•Gibral, tar ith lest. ; 211aty,. D av id,. f rom :he South Seas. LtvEttroo L. tt . r.2 1 1.--It'intlN.W.—Arrived the George, FlugheS, from Illaranharn ; sailed•fith ult. Fottr BrotlieeS, Cor nish, from Newfoundland ; and Joseph etts, froln,Pars. --- - The American hrig Albert, Dixon, from Virginia to London was abandoned the Bth inst. in lat. 32. 38.—long. being in a veil leaky state. . . The 1 Thlk . l Conipany' s nawartl-bound ship Windsor ar.' rived at the Cape the 15th 'March. The Windsor and Van sittart 'sailed from Table Bay., for Bombay, on the 24th March. _ The New York Papers. hring dates from Ja maica to the 7th May : there is au article without a date, stating • that time Chilian squadron► had sailed for chiloe, for, the puipose of intercepting Spanish ve3sek lying there. Yesterday, at one o'cl(*k, NIAJECTY left Carlton Palace in l - iistraV;elling-carriage, preced ed by two outriders, bat without any military escort, for the Royal Lodge at ‘Vindsor. A letter from Cadiz of the 7th instant was re ceiyed yesterday, which- mentions, that the French squadron \vas cruising off that port, for the purpose of preventing the entry of Spanish vessels from Havannah, there being reason to fear that. fever prevailed at the latter place. The consequenc e was, that many of the merchantmen being unable to take refuge in Cadiz, were taken by the Colombian privateers. The _French ships could not afford them protection without com - • nutting a breach of neutrality. Lieutenant-General Sir TIEOMAS BRADFORD, K.C. 13., has, we- noderstand, accepted of the Counnand at Bombay, and will take his depar ture for that Presidency, accompanied by Lady BilAnroan, in January next. Lieut.-General GouttcAun,formerly Aide-de- Camp to N:APOLLON, is about to deliver a work, entitled, " Napoleon and the. Grand Army in Russia, or a critical .Exathination of the Work • publish e d by General Sroun." CANONIZATION (IF THE NINV.TEENTII CEN trultY.,—The Roman Calernlar-lhas recently been auzmented by the ;,dilition of a new saint ; a fa t h e r Of t h e s o cie ty of Jesuits having been canonized by Pope LEO XII. The following miracle gave rise to the celestial exaltation :--The reverend father went one Friday to the house Of a Roman Prince, whom he found at table ready to eat six larks Which stoad betbre him. Being shocked at witnessing such a violation of the laws of the church, the holy man rebuked the Prince severely ; and the latter paying no heed to his cithOrtatitin; he'stretched out his hand over the birds and they revived; A picture, representing the miraculons event, has been plaCett at the gate of St. Peter's church at Rome. In this Picture the father is represented standing, and his hand stretched` out. - Ills eyes are, lifted Alp to Heaven,. which he seems to iii7 . 6ke,'hrld the lirifice appears thunderstruck. Of the six:bitibtiVO have 'already returned to life, two others flap their wini(,) and the two lak are piously awaiting the moment of their resurrection. • r. SPlllNG,tli t e )e ßo i sx;)B. lila 'Book-keeper civilperof as Drt , t v r e y i ... l lane Theatre, has er as imparti a l i n t h e letting.of seats, that he has ways secured himself a goOd annual benefit. But he seems not to depend on the merits of his own proper conduct this year, as he has the jealous Wife, one of the -best modern CoMedies, a Mu. sical Melange, in which the best vocal and comic Performers participate, Henri Quatrc, and a Ballet. With such attractions, he may. seasonably expect - to-morrow to quaff a Bumper. It has been truly said, " great and small!' are. comparative terms. A mall used to deal in Twenty Thonsands, like Rim", thinks but little of One Thousands ; and this maY account for his making Four Grand Capitals of 'Twenty-one Thousand Pounds each, in the present Lottery, being determined that his Friends shall not have less than Twenty Thousantls, ysual, besides a cool. Thousand to give away 'to some humble favourite. In addition to all the Capitals and PrizeseXCeedin g 7' w° liundredllll°Vl7en, dgPraotuisndtso, flfistsgives Si x ty-f our Pi pes of the Fotir Prizes of 1,000 Guineas ; all to be de cided on Saint Swithin's Day, 15th next Month. THE DECCAN PRIZE-MONEY. LETTER L Tt is only as it' were yestefday, that the atten. ticn of our English politicians began to be direCted to the af fairs:of India. Th he worthy persons, who like the good man ,in the Upholsterer, used to sit up whole nights thinking of the British Constitution, seem recently to have found out that We haVe great posSessions in the East Indies. Yet while there is at present no need to 'prove to them, that we have a territory in that part of the Globe, vast in military strength and commer cial greatness, and which having been gained by our arms, is still to be preserved by our policY,---their credulity will be tasked to the utmost, when they are told of our. recent acquisi tions in that country, and are required to measure upon the Map an extensive area, coroprizing more than forty-two square geographical degrees, and stretching to the sandy desarts of the Indies, the Ocean, tbe Jlamuchul,' and the unexplored forests and mountains on the East, upon which,' as if it Were a chess board, we have alternately pulled down and given away king doms,: disposing of this dynasty and extinguishing this, and t knitting the Whole. into a powerful confederation; directly sub ject tO our authority, or our influence ! Nor has this - been the Mere ganie 'of that mischievous ambi tion, which has so frequently desolated the.world for its amuse :ment. It is - the - proud distinction of our "Indian conquests, that they have uniformly ameliorated the condition of the conquered. The face of vietorY in that country has seldom been harsh or Austere. Aft for those, ,Wito,misled by the gorgeous declama tions' of _P.I! n YE, De the pathetic fictions of. SignIDAN - , sigh Over the tia 1 narratives,of British oppression, and melancholy stories of deposed Rajahs and ruined Rannies, and feel dig.. posce. to pick out moral flaws and defects. in our title-deeds, calling on its to chew cause, why we invade and plunder the once hapry and smiling, nations of Hindostan ; a little:inquiry into lAiiae history will chew them that their .lr'irtuotts sympathies are wholly wasted - and misdirected. The farther that research, aided by record and tradition, can penetrate into the backward ages of Indio, the more wretched will the lot of its inhabitants be - found. No golden age ever existed there ; but an age of iron, or of some. new metal still more obdurate. - Nomen et a nullo posuit natura metallo. Beneath their own or the Mussulman dynasties, the whole cowl try was an -unvaried scene of desolation,—incessant unsparing depredation. In the languages of the Deccan and the SOuth of India, which have sustained perhaps the heaviest share of the general calamity, —_.a Chain of evils which in other languages . would require a corresponding series of wordi, is expresed by one. The word :Tulsa describes at once the hostile invasion, the massacre, the captivity,. the flight. No stronger proof can he found of the former sufferings of India, than in the • melancholy em- Plinsis of this single word. It is a high distinction, says Colonel li'lr.xs," that the rentta ever departs at the ap. proach of ,a British Army, when unaccompanied by' Indian Altirs. Upon all occasions that Army has distinguished itself, not Only by the military. .virtues of unshrinking courage, Wand shaken perseverance, but by the gentler attributes of forhear ance and mildness in victory. Upon no occasion, were these great qualities more conspicuouSly put forth, than in the catif- f paignS. of 1817 and 1818, which ended in the dispersion of tho Pindarees, the destruction of the - dangerous strength of the Native Powers, by whoni that host of robbers had been cite , risked in the heart of India-the subjugation of Thilkar, and -the annelation of his fertile possessions tetri tories7.--the deposition of the perfidious Rajah of Nagpoor---. and the,capture of his capital, with that 'of .t 11.;; Peishwah, the_, Chef of the AI ahratta Empire-and the transfer of their re :speetive territories to the British Government; Such were the fruits of the conquest, - efrected by the Army of the Deccan, under Sit Tit b3r.o Iltsr.op. Those who are inclined to think that great victories are not the worse for being accompanied .with great: gains, will be pleased to find, that in TEit IqTO Rim% nt:vLyt;t, the East India Company obtained an income of t 5i 1 lacks•of rupees from the Peishwah alone. But our richest :gains, must be valued by a moral computation ;--by the useful purposes_ to which our victories have been apnlied.;---by the dignified abatinenee of our co nqu e s t f rom all harsh or insolent exercise of its rights. Thus a new bulwark has been added to our atithority-- , --a new tie.to"the gratitude and dependence of our Indian subjects. Mere booty never was, and, lam persuaded, never will be, an incentive to the militaty valour of Great . Britain. his in fluenced by higher feelings, and aspires -to better recompenses. Vet,if immense booty in the course of an arduous and toil. some service . he .found 'and actually realized, can there be a question in point of common . equity, ef common sense, amongst whent.it is to be distributed ? The distribution of booty recog nized, according to the fixed and understood law of nations, amongst those by - whom it has "been acquired, has been the estublished.polieT of all States, great or:emelt.. By our own -pplicy, it vests immediately and primarily in . the Crown ; a salutary fiction, by which, in this as in other instances, the Crown becomes the channel of beneficence. Now, it is per fectly notorious, that considerable booty, far beyond the ut. Most estimate which the reader of European history, with his attention confined td European" warfare, could be 'induced to hazard, but by no means of incredible amount to those whom study or experience has made acquainted with Intlia;—it is quite notorious, I repeat,' that dering the war, terminating in the great results which have been mentioned ; a 'considerable booty was taken. The merest :tyro in Indian affairs must_ know that the Capitals of the Native Princes are repositories of immense treasnre;—the fruits of former conquests;' or hereditary possessions, aug. mented by. the gradual accumulations of different possessors. Par the Sovereigns of -India are not accustomed- to measure their wealth by the purpoies to which it might be subservient, but by itself. It is the play-thing of these spoiled anti over. grown children, and their minds, kept in an Artificial and. protracted inf a ncy, _ a re necessar il y delighted with their Play:. things. Hence it' is, that h ea p s of • • barbarie gold an d pearl,"' which more enlightened Statesmen would employ multiplying , the:common stock of industry and enjoyment, are eherished in- those Asiatic Governments, as if a mere dead and unemployed wealth was their strongest security. Three , of, these rich Principalities were, in a few months, overthrown by the Deccan ;Army. Not a man in that Army,. not an Enropean, not a Sepoy, but knew that gold and, jewels of almost incalentable value were preserved there. The event eon. firmed. their eipeetations. Immense property was found at the taking of those places. The Army, therefore, naturally enough, inferred that what was thus earned by their common toil and peril, would at no distant period,.be meted out to them ;—and although such con siderations did not turn them aside from their course, nor over:. power the higher sensations which animated their bosoms, they might reasonably have looked forward to a just recom. pense in the fair distribution of prize, according to the re gular usage of the Service. Could they have imagined that those who reaped the fUll fruits of their exertions in increased• revenue, and additional securities -to their authority, would be the first to interpose captious objections, or vexatious de lays, in order to retard the dispensation of rewards, which no man endued with honourable or British feelings can grudge them ? It is certain, however, that for more than seven years, the Deccan Prize-Money has remained, and to this day remains, unadministered. To say the least of it, the delay alone has a most extraordinary aspect. Property so acquired belongs to the class of fixed rights. The habitual bounty of the Crown, and the whole series of precedents, entitle me so to cons id er it. Upon this prop erty a thousand calculations are naturally framed : a thousand visions of future ease and comfort in dulged. The European Officer may laudably make it the means of his honourable retirement to his own country. The Native Soldier may cherish -upon such an expectancy, the- in nocent desire of enjoying his humble earnings with his family, beneath the shade of his _banyan -tree ;—for men are not estranged by toil and danger front the love of repose, and from • History of the Southern Provinces of Hindostan. Prinsep's Narrative. images 'if horse and franquillitY-. A delay 'of' eight years (a pOrtion of . time .exceeding that *Web ordinary • chances assign .to human ' life itself) .is - '.a long and vex atious . delay..t-e-and for this perjod, the Army -of the Peccen have not only felt : the bitterness of disappointment, or what is equally severe, the torture of protracted hope ; -but are at this 'hour ignorant of tire probable period of the distribution, and kept in a state of nncertaihty as to the re covery and disposithin of the immense.. treasures, *high were captured by their, exertions. No man,ehdwever remote India omits affairs may be from his own, interests or feelings, but must feel, in the general cause Of the liritish Army; a p a inf u l sense' of such prol onge d and itiinecesse.ty injtistice". ' . The case of the Deccan Army stands alone. Nothing in the whole history of prize-distributions keeps it in countenance.— Other hooties_haye been promptly administered. But a dispo sition to dispute their claims manifested itself at a very early period, and placed them i n th e aw k war d s i tuat i on of litigants with ie East India Company, 'or their Government in India, who are in fact their employers. A surreof money, amounting to 200,0001., was paid in their behalf into the treasuries` of the CoMpany, besides the amount of other captured:property.; the exact proceeds of which the Agent. of the Army could not ascertain, but whi c h were recogn i zed as prize. The sic non .obis is the rightful complaint of the Deccan Army. -For whilst they were pushing along the tide of cenqnest, intent upon 110 other object, but that of securing its results to,the British Go vernment, by removing or destroying every thing that - was' ad verse to their authority, the Civil Seryants. of the Conipany were quietly helping themselves to their spoile,—the genuine fruits of their victories. Ater the fall of PooNap, a large treasure be longing to the Pehthwalt, entirely obtained by military opera tions, fell into the hands of the Company'e Servants, and; in Spite of every protest, was applied to the general purposes of the Indian Government. A aunt : comptited at 34 lacks of rupees, destined for the payment of the Peishwah's troops, and forming a partetherefore, of the military -chest of the enemy, was seized - , in contravention of -the e rights of the captors, and Made over to the Government... In.,oneiastance, at Nessucx, immediately after the capture of the city,- treasure' and other booty, to the amount of a million and: •a half stetling,* was seized by the Civil AgentS of the Company, and the ent , re loss of the' property risqued, ne etrevent the Prize Ageras trout taking possession of it. • Tile, public property found in Pooxan underwent the same summary anode of aransfer, „nor has any return been yet Made of hs value to those who were authorized to act in behalf - of the Army! By the capture of NAGPOOR, the whole of the,emblic treasure found there be came immediately vested in the Crown:'- -Yet these enlightened jurists, in proud contempt of all fttdicial precedent, principle, or analogy, equally unmindtbi of the 'vv:se'rn RIGHTS OF THE KING, and the equitable title of. the Captors, restored the whole of the treasure so. captured; firit• to the Rajah, and afterwards to their nominee-hie - SucceNka! The jewels, money, and other booty - taken- in that city, were estimated at more than two crorcs of rupees !' • Pursuing the same singular plan olpolicy, the Supreme Go vennent permitted the spoils taken WI the , decisive day of MA. lIMPoon, and which were estimated at 25 hies of pagodas, to i remain with the Mysore Horse, sqlo i •ingttad of following up the enemy, had laid by to seize his Tretisury, although in every respect a joint capture, in which all th e troops equa ll y co-operated. I say, nothi ng of the 'sixteen Ye a r s ' arrear o f sti .end due to the Peishwah,- a sum , front which the Company were absolved by his overthrow, an event which at once extin guished both the debt and the ereditOe. In other instance., tewelsaind plate were actually taken from the troops into whose hands they had fallen by the chances of War , and replaced by credits for sums, whi c h were ar bit rar il y deemed equivalent ; a policy which has almost the complexion of something worse, for to take any thing front the possession of another 'at your own valuation df the thing so' taken; is by no means a fair:or regular contract. It seems to be among the acts defined •by Ancient Pistol—." The wise it call—couvey." It may be fen sily supposed, that these transactions became the subjects of remonstrance on the part 'of those whom the Army had ;p_ pointed to watch over their rights. Aceordingly, the Priie Agents remonstrated, and in many instances the Civil Ser vants made reports favourable to their claims. But. it hap pened by a singular fatality that everyfavoniable report was over ruled, and those which went to their prejudice, confirmed. And they, by the mere stroke of tin official pen, rights hitherto held sacred, rights confirmed by invariable usage, and deduced from justice, have been, if not virtually annihilated, forced into a long and uncertain abeyance; the Army thrown into an adverse relation to the British Government in•lndia, who, upon these occasions, ought to have been their natural pations and protectors ;—and at least five million's. sterling (such is the lowest amount computed) withheld from - that Army, or made a matter of long and protracted - dispute with a corporation, from whom it cannot be recovered, . but by a tedious and operose procedure. . ' , •• • ' In the mean.while, this"strong indisposition to distribute the ipwards of the Amty.watcoupled with the completest recogni tions in every dispatch and public cbcoment of the value and efficiency of their services. - Yet to this very hour, they have only obtained what their hig;) - reputation stood but little in need of, the verbose. and - voluminous panegyrics of those, whts were interposing studied delays, !Mid ;starting- vexatious objec tions to their rightful-and legitiMaie compensations. • All this was in a spirit decidedly adverse to the solieitude evinced by FORMER Administrations to distribute the Prize. Money acquired by their Armies: It excited considerable as tonishment ;—buttlie problem received soniething like ,a solu tion, when claims to the booty thus seized and withheld 'wera, set up by the Marquis of IlasTIN•Gs, and by the East India Company,' to share in the distribution of the captured proper.. ty. The question was brought before the'Lords of the Trea.- sury, and after a full hearing, whi c h lasted nearly two was at length decided by the entire reeogniuon . of the claims of the actual to tors---the Army of the Deccan.— By their minute, dated the • sth •of February, 1823," the Lords of •the Treasury declare. their - .Opinion, " that the " most just and equitable principle of - distribution will be. to " adhere to that of actual capture ; ' that with a particular ex ception, the booty taken at Poonah, Mihidpoor, and Nagpoor, should belong.to the divisions of•the Dec Cati Army engaged in the respective operations in Which the same was captured • that no part of the booty Mould be granted to the E as t India 9Ccin pony ; and that a grant of the whole should be made to 'Trustees for the purpose of ascertaining and collecting the - bc,pty, anti for preparmg a schekie for the distribution thereof, cotifortnably . ta,the principles above stated," but subject to . the final appro bation and sanction of His Majesty: This equitable adjudication was in exact unison withfthe justice of the case ;—the right of actual captilre, and .the ex-. elusion of the East India Company from a participation in ! funds, with which their Supreme Government had intermeddled.• It gave great satisfaction to the claimants, anti diffused the hope amongst that gallant body,- - that their services were. :shortly to be remunerated. Accordingly on the 22d March 1823, His Majesty issued His warrant, • appointing the Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. ARBUTHNOT Trustees for ascer-. taining, collecting, and receiving the booty; and to sue, ti'ith tife permission of the Treasury, for the booty or its proceedsfronz East India Company or their Servants; or other persons; —with a proviso, ; that if differences should arise between the Trustees. .and the East India Company, with regard to any part of the prize -property in their possession ; or which had in any manner been appropriated, and might . have been contlidered'nut to be prize by the East India Company,—that if .disputes should arise upon these points, they should be referred to the Commis sioners of .the Treasury for the King's Royal pleasure, of for their final settlement according "to law and justice." t .” • Every one who felt an interest for the Deccan Army augured Well from this adjustment. It met all the 'exigencies of the ease, and seemed to have been dictated in some • measure by strong anxiety to relieve the. claim from the difficulties, with which the interference of the Company had embarrassed it. This indeed constituted the chief-duty of the 'Trustees ; —and the powers with which they were invested were evidently fram ed for this important purpose. It required indeed a minute and anxious investigation ; but fortunately for the Ainiy, they had upon the spot the authorized Agent, to whom they had confided , their interests, whO was inconstant comtnunica, • tion with the Prize Agent in India, and who was moreover fully acquainted with the facts necessary to be established for the satisfaction of the Trustees. The Counsel and the Law • Agent, who in the' course of that long and arduous litiliation, had becoMe familiar with all the intricacies of the case, 'if a case of pure and simple justice can be intricate, were' also at hand, to communicate fully with the Trustees, who can not be supposed endued with any inward lights to guide their decision; and who would therefore cheerfully consent to receive every aid that was proffered them; Some delay indeed might be inevitable, but when it was considered, that the final adjustment of the claims could not be far distant, and that every elucida tion of it would be furnished by those persons to whom the Army had confided their cause,—no doubt could be entertained ! of a speedy and satisfactory issue. Added to this, there was a magic in the name of" %Wellington" calculated to dispel every gloomy foreboding as to the result of a procedore, in which the interests of soldiers were involved. The duties cast upon • the gallant Duke and his less eminent Associate, were arduous, but simple. Their consciences and understandings could not possibly.be diverted from the "stern" justice of the case, nor Mis led by any foreign or extrinsic consideration. Such were the hopes of the Army of the Deccan! Jar WHAT MEANS THOSE HOPES HAVE BEEN FRUSTRATED,---713Y.WHAT DISASTROUS INFLUENCES THEIR EXPECTATIONS OF A PROMPT AND EFFECTUAL DETERMINATION . nAvz BEEN BLIGHTED,--.—Shall be unfolded in another letter. VINDEX. • Papers in the Financial Department, p. 150, &c. printed by order of the 3d March, 1824 ;-Captain ROBERTSON'S Letters ;-and the other Official Correspondence on this subject.