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prisoners captured by the Alleviate. This is another service whisk
we have the satisfactiou of rendahig to Sperm
Extract of a letter fives Brest, thud Sith March s—
,• Within sometime, certain journals of the capital seem to un-
dertake to misconstrue all facts, when they talk of our maritime
operations. One of them despatches an expedition to the Baran- •
nab, which from thence is to proceed to .tincrica, whilst several
men of war are fitting out at Bayonne, and others are about to be
laid upon the stocks. Another causes two men of war to be I
launched at the marine arsenal of Bourdcaux. Nothing can be'
I more ridiculous than these assertion., nor ices grounded than the
conjectures which they suggest. The Royal Navy has neither arse_ I
nal nor dock-yards for ship-building ut Bounteous."
The port of Bayonne, obstructed by a bar over which large ves-
sels cannot pass, only equips schooners: with which, however, we •
ue to undertake the conquest of America.
As to the armaments which arc about sailing for the Ilavannah,
from thence to proceed to the American continent, they only exist
in the imagination of the journalists or of their correspondents.
Our port is new the only one of the kingdom in which there are '
any armaments fitting out, sod their destination is no secret. It
has no mini object but to re-establish our various stations, which
had been weakened ur sup,,reurd during the war with Spain, by
furnishing convoys to the French merchantmen, on their return to

At all events, one must have a very erroneous idea of the navy,
to believe that with a few frigate., despatched one after the other,
and small schooners, any operation of importance may be under-
taken. Whilst the newspapers published on the banks of the Seine
make a great fuss of the armaments fitting out at Bayonne, and of
the men of war building at Bordeaux, we look to the moment when '
the navy budget will allow to restore to the royal navy a portion of
its former splendor, add to our arsenal the activity which has ex-
isted at other periods.
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THE !MACK DEMON.

The Barites' PRESS commenced publishing yesterday morning
at Five o'clock.

LONDON, THURSDAY, Aram 1, 1824.

No subject has created a deeper or more general interest
of late than the recent discussions relative to the government
and conduct of the Marquis of Hastings, during his langth-
ened and brilliant administration in India. From some
cause yet unexplained, Lord Hastings, on his return to this
country, was coldly received by those whose dominion in
' the East he had for near ten years upheld with a firm
and a masterly hand ; his splendid services in Hindostan,
which added so much to the extent and resources of our;
empire in Asia, contrary to all former precedent, have re-
mained unrewarded and unacknowledged. Suspicion and
calumny have been thrown around him in dark whispers,
and he has been mixed up with a transaction of a trading
company at Hyderabad with the Nizam, alleged to have
been fraudulent to a large amount—an task which, on
investigation fairly made, will probably appear to possess
no criminality waatever, and with which every action
tic the Marquis of Hastings, in private and in public,
during his whole life, is in direct and utter opposition.
The fact is, unfortunately for Lord Hastings, he is not in
favour with either of the two great political parties in this
country, though the personal protection of the King, to
whom he wcs early and lung attached, procured his ap-
ipointment in 1814 to the government of India, and has
I now got him that of Malta, shorn of the accompaniment
of High Ccmimissioner of the lonian Isles. A sad falling
off this from the 1./dental supremacy he wielded over eighty
millions in Asia, his power uncontested from ('ape Co-
morin to the Himalaya mountains, and more absolute than
I ever Aurengzebe or Acbar wielded -hroughout Hindustan.
I The transition is indeed a striking one, from such a situa-
tion to the petty rule of an island in the Mediterranean,
about twenty miles in extent, and plyssess;ng not more than
70,000 inhabitants.

" How fallen ! how chang'd
F him, who. in the happy realms .4 light,
('loth'd with tranacei g salent htnt a did uutahine
Myriads, though bright."
The filet is, the polities M. Lord Hastings never accorded I
with those of the high 'l'ory party now in power. Among I
them, therefore, he found little protection when returned
from India, and the Opposition party never can forgive
him for that interference which, in 151:3. Mena from
the Cabinet, just when they stood on the threshold, and
prevented, by his advice to his Majesty (then Prince Re-
gent), those changes in the household which the Witig
party required to be made More they eitter.d into office.
Thus Lord Hastings stands a neutral between both, and
in the hour of trial has wanted, in eonst:quence, those
powerful friends on either side who would have otherwise
stood firm around Lim. Cnder these circumstances the
Noble Marquis has alga Mod to the country at large, and
made his own defence. The pamphlet which contains it is
his own production, and written in the first person. The
advertisement stwa, that the manuscript was loft in the
hands of Ids Lordship's friends, and that they have.
deemed it right to give it to the public, and in
doing so we think they have consulted the interests
and character of Lord Hastings. The Noble Mar-
' gins states, that he commenced his arduous career at
!Calcutta, in October ISI3, with an embarrassed exche-
quer. This the Company had attempted to remedy, by
'economical retrenchments, principally in the military force.
I At the moment of the ;overnor-Oeneral's arrival, he had
Ito encounter " sac hostile discussions with Native Powers,
'each capable of entailing a resort to arms." The Pindar-

ties, then so numerous and formidable, &Mel a separate
hostile association, and" the most serionsof the difficulties
with which the ludian Government had to deal." Any
attempt theri made to 4estroy that powerful banditti would
have drawn the Indian Government into a war with the
hla
in
hr
which Lord
attas,aeonke
Hastings
tforwhich we were not then prepared,
but
tenni!. The British power gitlithlstltilacriwtiasY wilausitimo(iitsntpsaliliac:
tively so weak, that the Council at Calcutta reject v( the
proposition made by the Governor-General of a retie:ti-
me:nee to the Court of Gwalior atminst the permission
given to the Pindarries, to arrange their wareate within the
dotoiniotut of the Mahe Rajah. The Council feared it
might carry offence to Seintliali, and through that powerful
Chieftain draw on a war with the Mahratta confederacy.
of the six disputes with Native Powers, existing when
Lord I Castings assumed the reins of government, four were
amicably arranged; a fifth was decided by a short but de-
cisive warfare, and that with Nepaul then alone remained
to be decided by an appeal to arms. To maintain this
war, the Indian exchequer possessed no resources ; but the
Nawab of etude, Saadat Ali, on a change of the system
which hail long been pursued towards him, and which
Lord Hastings declared to be " no less repugnant to policy
than equity,' offered through his Cotntnissioners unliound-
ed confidence, and any advance of money which might
be wanted for the enterprise against Nepaul. During
this important discussion Saadat Ali died ; but his succes-
sor fulfilled all his intentions, and made the liberal offer of
a crone of rupees, as a tribute, on his twee-se/on, which, with
leight lace, was accepted, but only as a loan. This sum
was appropriated by the Goverment to other purposes be-
side the Nepaul war ; but the Vizier consented to advance
another crore ; and thus, as Lord Hastings states, " The
Honourable Company was accommodated with above two,
millions and a half sterling on his simple reel ipt." The
result of the war with Nepaul, a country difficult to act
in, unknown to British officers at that period, and which,
from the warlike tharecter of its people, and its natural
defences, had resisted all previous attempts of the Mute:te-
n= Princes of India, was yet most successful, though
the Gerka Commissioners had resisted every reasonable
proposal for accommodation, and in the confidence of their
strength declared, " that there never could be peace be-
tween the two States till we had yielded to them cur pro-
vinces north of- the Ganges." That formidable power,
however, was wholly subdued. The Nepaul State was
reduced to one half of its original extent, remaining with
both its flanks exposed ; and as the most valuable portion
of the territory conquered bordered on the dominions of
the Nawab Vizier, it was ceded to him in perpetuity for the
" second crore" advanced by him. After all the charges of
the war were paid, there remained a clear residue to the Coin-'
pany of 600,0001. besides (as Lord Hastings expresses it)
"precluding future annoyance from an insolent neigh-
bour." The subsequent operations against the ferocious
Pindarries, and Atom Khan, who laid the Rajpoot terri-
tory and all Central India waste, and the war with the
Peishwa, Wijee Ilan, the head of the Mahratta power, were
equally decisive and successful. The tnovements against
the Pindarries were so ably and secretly conducted, that
the march of a single battalion was scarcely known before
the troops were in motion, and the entire campaign was
concluded in little more than three months. lit the war
with the Mahratta power, Lord }listings states that the
Company did not incur the expense "of a single shilling."
" The supplies to England," which, for twenty years pre-
ceding his administration, had not exceeded ese,ooBl.,
amounted, during his eight years of office, to 1,3e3,0001.
and upwards: this, too, during a period of active and
unusual exertion. Thus, during his administration, the'
Pindarries were exterminated, and Central India rescued
from their desolating inroads—the Nepaul war was brought
to a successful issue—the cont., deracy tioxl;tated against
the British power in India by Dye Rain, and those con-
nected with him, was destroyed, and the strong fort of
Hatkass captured ; the supplies sent to England were
nearly trebled, while the revenue of the India Company,
at the close of the last year of office of Lord Hastings, ex-
hibited an increase of more than five millions sterling, by
actual receipt; and, in 1822-23, was six millions. In
1813 and 1814, the Independent Powers of India were so
numerous and strong as to conceive themselves equal to
expel the British Hiudostan. At preseut, and
when Lord Hastings those shores, every native
state in that vast region is in either acknowledged or
essential subjugation to the British Government. Every
suspicious Chief is hemmed in by our power, or by our
Allies, the confederation of the Feudatory States, ex-
tending in an uubroken chain quite to the Indus. The
services of Lord Hastings, in this short summary, are fully
apparent. If we owe our power in India to Lord ('live,
Lord Hastings at once extended and preserved it. lie
should have met a different treatment on his return
home. The annuity proposed to be voted him, formed
bat a moderate compensation for services so distinguished.
Ile had added largely to the/sower and the revenues of the,
country, and a few thousands annually should not have
been withheld from him. Money alone could not reward
him for what be had done, but the vote would have funned
a tribute of grateful acknowledgement from the Company ;
and so far it would have been equally just and gratifying
to Lord Hastings, to whose high and hitherto unitspeached
character, we trust full justice will yet be done.

A petition from two most respectable Irish gentlemen,
Mr. Devereux, of Wexford (one of the Catholic delegates
from Ireland in 1791), and Mr. M'Culloch, against Mr.
Plunkett's Burial Bill, was presented last night by Mr.
Hutchinson, the Member for Cork. We are glad to see
that opposition already has been roused against this insult-
ing Bill. The Catholics of Ireland have not as yet had
time to prepare them; or petitions from them would have
been presented against it also. Mr. Plunkett, we find, has
left town; he may find his Bill sent to the " tomb of all
the Capulets" on his return ; at least such, we trust, will
be its fate, unless it is completely new-cast in the COM-
mittee, and every shred of the odious intolerance that
now disfigures it destroyed. We have the greatest re-
spect for any opinion given by Mr. Hutchinson ; any
thing that falls from him is equally sincere and dis-
interested. We agree with him most entirely in his high
opinion of Lord IVelksley. The empire at large (as Mr.
Hutchinson eloquently but truly said) is indeed " much
indebted to Lord Wellesley for what he has done to tran-
quillize Ireland: he was sure (Mr. Hutchinson. added),
if all the good whiCh the Viceroy was so anxieus to ac-
complish did not follow from the measures he adopted, it
was because he hail not the means of carrying into effect
tilos! measures which would be alike beneficial to Ireland
anti the Empire at large." We cannot believe that this
most obnoxious Bill has met the approval of the Viceroy.
Its intolerance smacks of other hands ; there is nothing
of his enlarged or enlightened toleration about it. No,
this statute was hatched by an ecclesiastical and lay
council, couiposed of the ta:•ek and di:ink/TA/et/ Arch-
bishop of Dublin, of the hiiie.,ent Lord Manners, of Mr.
Joy, the Orange Sulieitor-General of Ireland, aid the
No:hit:eel of the Castle, the orator of the Grenville party,
land the bringer-in of this Bill. Well may the Catatiaes
exclaim with Blair, on this OCC4S;OII—
Dull grave ! thou spoinit the dance efxouthful blond,
" Strilist out the dimple from the dwelt ot mirth,
" And every smirking feature from the fnae,
" Branding cur laugater with the saute of madness."
Mr. Plunkett, we see from Mr. I Intehinson's speech, has
left town fin. Ireland ; and en his arrival there he will
find his abominable Bill steered to the last letter in
versa' execration. Good God ! is it not enough that the
people of Ireland should be blasted by proscription while
alive, but a tuertnary enactment of this description mien
cent them off from evin the last refuge of the grave?
Will it hot content the meek Archbishop of Dublin (he
who loves religion so much, and power and money so very
little), that while living the Catholics arc cut off from
theall pursuits of honourable ambition, but the fell
proscription must close even the church-yards against
them, and give to their enemies a monopoly of the very
tombs ? For where is the Catholic will suffer the cold re-.
mains of those he loved to lie at the church-yard gates,
waiting the contumelious fiat of the proud and micharita-
ble pat son? AVhere is the Catholic clergyman would ()W-
I elate on such an occasion, where he may be driven with
the cotlin from the gates ? The church-yard; hitherto
have been open to the people of Ireland : Dr. Siege; wain

Deji of Cork, intulteil a Ca,tholic clergyman at the grave;
aurt be rEpeated, tie/Quips his agents, the stone uncharitable
insult in Dublin ; but Cr be nor his familiars, as yet,
dared to close the gates. This Mil renders the clergy of
the Established Church absolute over the dead ; it says that
no interment shall take place without tlie;r writtea eouseut,
and only at such hours as they inay arpoint. There is
nothitr; mandatory upon them ; they may refuse their
!consent on the most itefolualt-d pret. sts. or name mid-
-1 night, if they as tlu• hoar of interment. The
jesttit.cal speech of .Ir. Plunk( tt, on in, reducing this 11:11,
has convinced no inn ; it was lil.e ail his orator,
unprincipled, an .Z :4o numb for the toleration of
the Grenville party, dose trafickers in politics ; we never
yet knew anything good proceAl from flue:. The moment
we hear of one of Mir party origimning any tatasurc of
affected liberality, we exclaim at one to the Catholics,
" the rigor cat,
I [nix tie ilimanni. careen."

The Duchess of Kent, the Duch: ss of Gloucester, and
the Princess Sophia, paid a visit to the Princess Augusta
yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon, soon after four o'ehatk, a ('ahinet
Council was held at the residence of the Earl of Liverpool,
Whitehall, which was attended by all the Cabinet Minis-
ters, with the exception of the laud Chancellor and Vis-
count Sidniouth. The Cahile.t broke ttp at six o'clock.
The Earl of Liverpool was a little better yesterday.
The Earl 01' Clancarty visited the Marchioness of Lon-
donderry VeAterd4y.
Yesterd-ay a ballot wa.s tak,n at the East India Howe,
for the determination of the ndlowin;t owstion, viz.:—
" That appiicatiou he made to radiamcnt, in the present
Session, lor tli^ rep al of the !nth 'Parse of th' Act of
I;eorke 111., e4l). by which the ('curt of Directors is
prohibited frori s,:imliog to f nal, in the c.tpae;ty of a
wribT, any Ira wbo shall not have resided during four
Terms at the 11.tileyhury College." At six o'clock the
glasses were closed and th livered to the sciutineers, who
reported the numbers to b
Ice the (WI'S, lOU -
Ag;.inbt the qucstion

Ma;::rity against the qn:stiin - 11.1
Ma. Lt. K 11 II IT E.—About a month ago we announced
with regret the death of this very iespectable gentleman.
From a very Immitle station in life he raised bums If to a
very eminent one in public life. Ile amassed an imincnse
fortune ; it is supposed upwards of a million cud a half;
and the manner in which he bopioatlied it proved the sin-
cerity of his attachment to the political principles which
he maintain:Al in Parliament. To his fourth sou, Motility
for the county Dublin, we understand he has left 13,0001.
per annum ; and a like slim to his at cond son, who suc-
ceeds him in the repr...w.ntation of the comity of lain-Mi.
Both Members tai r their Rats on the Opposition side of
the [lotus... The eldest stm of Mr. White, we believe,
inherits only t,OOOl. per an unto ; and the reason of this
unequal apportionment of his property is, that his two
younger sons accords with him iu political principles, and
the eldest had the very different ones of lord
(ion, whit a member of whose family he had formed a
matrimonial alliance. _ _

Dovr:11, MA at n 30.—Arrived, late last evening, the
Monarch steam-vessel, from Calais, bringing Baron Longs-
tlorf, the Ilesiian Minirt:r, Air. Di-elievan, a Russian
Messenger, Lord Grey, and li,atstan, Bmapartc's Mame.
luke. Pegler, the Messenger, alvo arrived in an open boat
with des.patelies.
We mule sand Sir George Quentin has not been I.:-
moved from the command of the Inth from any reason
connected. with the Lite it:tern:Ll Ile has been
in treaty with (!ole.ivi Wyndham li r thi.; eN,eliange more
than a year. It is slid that the I oth are not going to
India; they will remain in Dublin till m.xt July.—lrish
Ti ones.

AFFAIR or IloNern.—A meeting took place at the
" Irish Chalk Farm" (Sandymonot), on Saturday morn-
ing last, between two gi.titkinen, accompanied by their
friends, when, after an exchange of shots, one of the par-
tics received his aaversary's ball in the kg, when they re-
tired, one to riirtak:. of eoffee—and the other a less agree-
able thjeenr—the assistance of a surzeon.--/rish Times.
Fes u:a At or L.tnv Se unia.Y.--On Tuesday last the
remains of Ilarinah, the holy or Mr. Alderman &holey
(formerly Lord Mtvor of London), were remo...ed from
her late residence, Battersea Riv, for interment in the fa.
mily vault at Ilatters:•a Church. Tlu procerzion consist-
el of a hearse and six horses, which was followed by five
mourning coaches and four, containing the relat;ons and
friends of the deceased. The cavalcade was joined by a
number of gentlemen's carriages, among whom were ob-
served those of Aldermon Magnay, Garratt, Brown, &c.
A new melo-drama is to be liree:iht forward on Monday
next, at the Surrey theatre, founded on the tragedy of
Alasco.

The winter season at the Coburg Theatre closed on
Tuesday evening. on which occasion Mr. Lewis delivered
an address of thanks to the audience.

C.IPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The following are extracts from the most recent letters
from Graham's Town, Cape of Good Hope. It seems that
ever since the expedition of Major Sommet, the Calftes
have lien very troublesome:—
Gs/Awes Tow's. Thre. 16, Int.
_ . . . . _

I hare just time today to incluse a little more information as to
f)44l4ing events, but I nut sure my friends will forgive me for my
lung silence, when they consider all things; the critical situation
in which we arc placed, the continued murders and robberies of
the savages, and the entire loss of our fourth crops, are not subjects
to make one's mind sulliciently tranquil to sit down as usual.
To enable yea, however. to feel as we do, you should whams
the almost daily acts of tyranny and oppression, joined to the moat
scandalous misrepresentations, to which we are subject---acts that,
but for the speedy arrival of the l:ontinisaiunenr, would drive its
to open rebellion. tall
111ajor Somerset is returned, having done the business well, lie
has surprised .:111ocotrai's ketrai, taken '2,000 cattle, and killed 16
Caffrey; he has threatened all the Chiefs, that if they do not re-
turn the stolen cat tie- he will do the saute to them. The great ease
whit rhich this has be.:n dune will ',take every one ask, wily it has
not been done before ?

.•
Tlitrc
has hcssi a lean off,red to several lately by Riven; no-
thing but personsl security is rctittired. the highest amount is not
more thin. six latu:rtsl I:oilars. I have ()::1y beard of too or three
who have acccisted of it. This is evidently an attempt to please.
now the Commissioner,. coming up.
%Vlaatever changes the Cs.runii.ssioiters may mak • as to the ad.
ministration of the laws of the Colony, they can make none re to
Cie country, utul we arc more tlrtn ever determined to leave it. I
do assure you ne hut,: weighed well a continuance here—ninother

year will rosluee us to fa: beyond the situation of the miserable
bums. You c.in have no Wet of the dreadfully wretched %Cent
amougst th t respectable settlers here, and we tresoble for cur peo•
spirt even fur this ;mit yoir. We look to the Coramitutioners feu.
relief, and wilt that, perhaps, we had better evert beg our way out
of this Can try than remain.
Our ilisa:),•iiiiiitaietit this veer has been certainly much grater
than ever. tVe Mewed but tittle Cape whert, fur we had no faith
in it, and tot it turned out ; but we road: sire of rye and solid
straw, and, b yond iny own i.ristaupthm, I flattered myself te have
*2401. or 'AUL worth—lasts-ad of s hich, we areobliged to live on
rice soe,itib. mil it is sui.v, very tleile.
tA.I4CriS au intense anxiity to know bow our third crop
turned ot.t yon will sluice hare grieved. to hear that it failed,
and now a fan that our fourth has shared a similar fate. ace..,
uious (iv... arc we not c.ttstled to relief, or to be conveyed tram
hence ?

he n.il hcrc is not 50 treacherous as you imagine ; it is the t la-
ments, the tr:oit or rtgul.ui v in mobaure, and a certain patiforaw►
hri-uthiug saltpetre air .hid, ruins to. and which mill ever prevent
this colony being a regolar corn country.
Drerminti

I have ;fist heard that two CafTres were close w P.— -...L_•11 kraal
three night; ego; they T.Tie in alarm all night. These savapa
are jest as restive as ever. Rely upon it eothing hut civilisation
will do, and more '.‘lissionariesrhinilil be allowed to go in. ff'3
had my will: I would do ntrny with ie.l the Ilattentot crtablish-
nients (excepting as regards those for the education of children and
kir the reeeption of the sick and aged), and mend the 5140tonartem
into Caffrelard.

The routirissianen were expected at I'itenhage this week. I
have meet' a copy or a let 1.. x winch t:- has wriuco to the
iLissinnur-i, mud thzir reply. Ile revues very much to the purpose,
and denies I tr. Philips's. ass/mini that our failure 111% been irwiden-
cal us all ticvr experiments, in a new sod ; he prays to be lent to
Van Iheruan'e Land.

The ellbWer is very g0pti.....-titlt it roust altogether depend on the
result of thtiriroluictes. whether they will feel thamseises justified
in recotionetatisg tl his Majesty's tiurtirralueat wail the assists
ance he nos. solicits.

Isom thie it writ be Peen that the Commissioners have no power
to act, and we may perrAt before the reply of liwrounnant cast
react

la spite of what we antiri,pateti, Daniel Clore ((Mn. IL's bro-
ther) is appointed to be Sacrebsey: a clerk in.the India warehouse
to he our l v agent. IVe had hoped. front whstrhe Cossuisaktuora
said, tititt)rettlers wee., to till these situations.

I hope it wiU nu be twit to.the Cai.onhoilonosa and to people at
hot,g, that Irbil: our moalander is fighting in I:eiftseland, an ad.
vertiwment :eppeirs troll; hint a+ l'onanisvioner of Stamps, IWO
ott. for
.fir,isrqr raper. Ai Ajur illoiasworth. of the Cape
Corps, is appoioted A4l e 04.0 t:I) ionntaitistaly litaartival ; you
are aware he is a senior 2.lajor Scauriet.