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WARWICK AS.SILAS.

At the Assites for this county, which ended on
Monday evening. yob. &orris. for having feloni-
ously uttered in payment a forged five guinea note,
pu-porting to be a promissory note of Messrs. ftuf-
ford and Biggs, of tirourbridge, knowing it to be
forged—Samuel Sr.!-tin (otherwise Ashmore), for
stealing a mare—.john Kier.. for being at large while
under sentence of transportation—Char/es Hill. for
assaulting .ind cutting the throat el R. Kesterton.
with intent to murder him—R. Grim, for stealing
to the value of sixteen guineas and upwards—lo-
"oh Taylor, for stealing a wether sheep, were se-
verally condemned.
William Wilson, for breaking into the Birmingham
Work-house, and sealing diet efrorn to the amouot
of 801.—Condemned.
The trial of WISHI excited much attention, in
consequence of the curious and ingenious instrument
produced in Court, that perfora.ed the *hotter of
the iVor!:holi e, when broke into and robbed some
time ago. e:ach ins•rument was found next mora-
I: jog in. Wil-en's possession, and from the testimony
given in court by campetent judges, was the identi-
cal tool thr.t made such hole.
The Learned Junce, in giving his charge to the
Jury, declared himself perfealy satisfied, that if a
thousand instruments were made, unless this iden-
tical :ocl, or the part of the shutter also produced.
was in the hands of the maker of such instrument,
it was altogether impossible for any one to be made
so nicely corresk as the one produced, so as to make
the same sized hole to less than an hair's breadth.
The Counsel, for the Prisoner, finding by the evi-
dence given in Court, their Client likely to be con-
•illed, endeavoured to avail themselves for his ad-
vantage, of a point of law ; contending, that the
office from wh ch the property was stolen, was not
part of the dwelling-house of G. Hincisliffe, as
stated in the indittment, which opinion was opposed
by the Counsel for the Prosecution, on the ground,
that G. Hinchliffe paid the taxes for such premises :
that he had at all times tree access to this room, to
transaCt his own private business in, if he thought
proper.
The Junos then declared, he should consult
some authorities on the subjeift, and if they did not
prove the point satisfaCtorily to his own mind, be
should take the opinion of the Twelve Judges.
But the sentence of death pronounced upon the
Prisoner subsequent to his trial, is a convincing
proof he wa. fully satisfied as to the burglary being
correetly stated in the indißment.
Joressk Rosu're, for having in his possession
forged Rank of England Notes, was sentenced to
fourteen years transpertati,n.
rinpeurnle
Thursday se'nnight, a Sweepstakes rode by the
owners, for the horses that had been regularly hunt-
ed with the Skidby hounds, wag tun over the two-
mile Cowie at Beverley, Yorkshire, six Subscribers,
but only three started t Mr. H. Seuonswee's brown
horse, by Unwind ; Mr. R.. Bann's brown mare. by
Spar-roes,- and Mr. Dewitt. FULD'S bay horse, by
Yeas' Railer. Mr. SCH ogswAit's horse won easy ;
Mr Bent. came in second.
Yesterday s'ennight, as a man on horseback was
leading another through the streets of Newcastle,
the led horse. prancing a little at the sound of a
passing drum, was silently but furiously seized on,
at the head of the Middle-street, by a bull-dog,
which kept its hold for a few minutes, th-ough se-
verely beaten with sticks by some persons who wit-
nessed the transaition, and though kicked and tram-
pled upon by the much-injured horse. The man
on horseback was all this time in the most im-
minent danger. from which he was not relieved till
the strength of the dog was completely exhausted.
The following curious circumstance happened on
Monday the 17th ult. The Allendale fox-hoende
pursued a fox for some time on Steward Banks and
the grounds adjacent, till at last poor Renard was
under the necessity of taking shelter in the Crags ;
and the sportsmen, with great opened
the hole and secured their prey ; which, upon exa-
mination, was found to be a large bitch-fox.—She
was taken to liisoripfield, where, to the great sur-
prise of the keeper, on the Pharsday following, she
hrought forth six fine young cubs. which are at this
time with the mother, and are all likely to live.

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IN6lw 4PP4IRS:
Car : a Letter from th, ;lost .luttouutbir Henry Dundee
;now Lord Vi.count Ide1,111e) to the ..'ha;rtnen, Deploy
Cluirman, mei Court nf Ihrertnts of the 1..,.l !nem Com.
pony ; on the Indian 14.5 t ,--4•terl tenth o: !utte, 1801.
rCooti•irsil from our Paper of Thursda) last ]
As I consider this last head to he of the utmost
importance to the whole success of the preresition
in question, and, as so many mis.ippreliensions have
appeared, and so many misrepresentations hare been
held out respeeling it, I have thought it my dot, to
state my ideas upon it at greater length flee, I at
first intended ; and. upon the whsle, I trust I etay
with confidence rest :steered is the convißion. that
one million sterline will be attaineble from the ger-
loos revenues of India, to co.operete with the other
commercial resources of the Company, in producing
the lier.eficial results stated to proceed from those
resources of Revenue and Commerce. ie.:He—LIT e
combined together ; and it only remains to n t. is,
that if, after every exertion, and contrarr to ev-'v
rational probability, there should he 1:4 deficiency,
the inconvenience arising from it to the gametal ,ites
j.,et in view, will be obviated by your metering your
Government abroad, for the short period that may
be necessary, to ply as much of the interest of the
Debt in India. by bills on the Court of I breaors, as
may he required to secure the o'sjeA of a melees
surpins in India, applicable to the rsitt-potei of in-
vestment. The noly consequence of eoing so
timed be, to a very srnall amount, to dime,: 4 the
progressive accruing balance of year rail. at
home ; but your.peospea of abundant influence in
,that respen, seeds to be so unequivocal. as to ad-
mit of no discouragement in the prosecution of A
every expedient calculated to ensure tte success of
ti.is very salutary measure.
" The second requisite is. that the investments
from Indies and China shall amount, at prime cost.
to four millions annually, in equal proporenns."
This does not require any minute explanation, be.
yond what appears on the face of the accounts in
the Appendix. The difficulty of finding : effi-
cient sum for the prime cost of such an inveerneet,
will chiefly occur in the first year of the opera:: ;n,
when it is requisite, by Exports, by Bilis from In-
die, and by Bullion, to find a aid to your Leeds '
concerns to the amount of five millions sterling.
The difficulty does cot consist in any ieactequace of s
reviurces at home to make those exertions, het in
the c..ans of sending so large a sum, and partite. /
larly i •he means of finding bullion to so gnat an
amount .1• 2,000,0001. to which amount it init.st, be
found, if the full five millions requisite fee the ere
-year cannot be got through the merdiem of the
ether resources to which I have referred. The im-
palement of the objeek is so great. no exertion
mile Mbemnitted that ea, surmount the alifficul-
.
Vs end there is scarcely any erpence that eight not
41 M be incurred, rather than endanger a tailure
administering the requisite aid to your necessities in
Lea. It would be improper in me. for obvious rea-
sone to detail what may have occurred to nit on the
subjea. Iyis unneessary, for I know you f 1,1
moat able advice on the ruble& from some of yuue
own number. You will of course feel it to be nor
dirty to represent the importance of it in the most •
forcible manner to His Majesty's Ministers, who.
upon an examination of the particulars I bare mated.
and folly weighing the verrbriMant afearillvalll
produce nn the commerce and revenues of the king.
done cannot fail to be impressed with a full 401111 C. 1.
tien of its being their duty to contribute every aid 1
in their power to set this operation in motion on its
firs outset. which is in truth the period when the
chief difficulty wall meet%
I new proceed to observe on the suggestion con- •
tained in the two next requisites. I have before
stated, and I trust I Mall have little difficulty in
obtaining your concurrence in the two propositions
to which I refer. Ist. That it is your duty lied
your interest now to make use of the power you
possess, under the Ait of Parliament, 37 Geo. HI.
cap 31, of augmenting your Capital St:ck by two
millions sterling. And ediy, that the money so
• raised should be invariably applied to the extinesiee
Si your debt in India.
The wisdom of this policy is indisputable. both
on commercial and political principles; I need not
observe to you, who have been sharers with me in
the condsn of those transainions which have takes
place for some years past, that the principle of our
Indian Administration has been, so to combine the
operations of finance and commerce, as that they
may be mutu.slly subservient to each other. by the
revenues of India administering to the Wa..:11 of
Leadenhall-street ; and. on tee other land, eto
Treasury of Leadenhalestriet administering to ehe
necessities of India, when the surplus of tee ref,-
cues of India has become either pertiar y or t .tail•
inadequate to the demands created by t:. • -normals
expenses of a 3 extensive and corvp' :sited ordr.i,./iej
to the desire of remitting II large And valtial'- ha-
vestment from India to Europe. I hare had oe.".i•
lion, more than once, to observe, that although I
could, without appreltensiun, acqatiesee in the et-
tension of the Company's credit in India :o an
amount unknown before, for the purposes of Wir
and investment, still that operation must have its
bounds, and the debt Inuit not be permitted to be.
come so unwieldy. as ant to be reducible to its
proper scale, within a moderate period after the re-
turn of peace. It is impossible. pethopes with per-
fed c -curacy, to decide the precise posse at which
the borrowing for the combined purposes of war
and commerce ought to cease t but I believe I do
not take a very unsafecriterion, when I contend that
the use of the Company's credit abroad for the
purpose of cenutiesce coght to cease, when indi-
viduals find it for their advantage net to lend at A
moderate interest, and the public caenot of course
be accommodated but at a very extramittnt rate of
interest. I considered see state of the empany's
credit in India to have arrived at that point. when
I elw the debt growing to a rate of interest at le
or 12 per cent. an place of 6or ; and in additiee
to that, the creditor stipulating for himself A con-
tinuance of that loan for a defined tenet's of rime,
and at a high rate of interest, not less than Ii) per
cent.
When, therefore, I saw the amouet of debt Let
year rise to above ten millions, hearieg interest.
and likely still further to iiicrease. unless put a stop
to, I th aught it my duty to state to you the pro-
'riery id restoring to India, from your Treasury at
home, a part of that balance vr:iich had loune its
way intro your Treasury-in hugland. ira conergueece

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of Le unprecedenteel ec' of your credit in tr.dia.—
It ci.utd tint he dente a'-tuoily, and this led me to
state last year to the House of Commons, that I was
ready to meet the Itteloin Debt, even at the large
a -roans of fourteen en lb ms.
From what I have above stated, it will not be un-
derstood that I mean to pledge niycclf to an opi-
won, that in any e ise it is proper for the East India
Company to burthen their is:vented in India, by the
wawa& of debt 1,4 the purpose of investment.
That commerce is the only m riper medium by which
the excrescent revenues of ludia can be conveyed to
Britain, admits of no doubt, but it is by no means so
clear, that creating a commercial capital, by bor-
rowing at high interest in India, is an expedient
measure. It is, however, unnecessary to follow that
disquisition further at present, because the estimate
you have produerd this year, is a proof of your ac-
quiescence in the plan of providing the prime cost
for your investment. without creating, at present,
any further burdens on the revenues of India.
From what I have already stated, there can be
no doubt of my hearty approbation to that measure,
so far as it goes ; but when it is of such infinite
importance to all ynnr future commercial pros fees,
to recover, as speedily as possible, the great commer-
cial resource you have derived horn the surplus re-
v..nnes of India, from the time ot the acquisition t f
the °essence, it surely cannot admit ot a doubt. that
baying so obvious and easy a resource in your hands
as that in question, you Might, without delay, to use
it for th tit purpose.
1 could expatiate much at lat7e on this propesi-
tion, with alt its bearings on the commercial prospe-
rity of the Bait India Company ; but when I con-
sider to whom this leiter is addressed, it would be
vinieeesaary waste ott your time to enlarge farther
on twin topic.
The advantages of adoptine the suggestion I
have • then the liberty of stornit.iag to von, are not
leas -conspicuolas in a political, than they are in a
column chill view. Your debts int England arc al-
ready re-Wald below theis level, with a great ha-.
lanes et tuts in your ttv.sitr. :licit to what
a !itch of security your tei ritotits in India would
• be if your it, vilifies woe distil-et-timbered
Within a Atilt period, • I the luirtl,eus which lay
upon clams. 11, bef.ire this is dune, yon were to be
enraged in new struggles for the maintenance of
that pre-mimeo:e which you have progressively at-
tamed, you would he obliged to engage in them
with your whole surplus revenues absorbed in the
payment of an extravagant rate of interest, acel you
could not trust to the measure rf a further ex'ension
of year credit, already stretched to an uaprecedrnted
amount; whereas, by extinguishing your ledian
debt, you would in a few years have the command
of a clear surplus of 2,000,0001., applicable to the
purposes ether of commerce or defence, as might
be expediera at the moment ; and you would at the
same titre be in possession of your credit entire,
which experience has proved may, without danger ,
of being overstretched, be carried to the amount of
Ii nsiltions stnante. In sich circumstances you
• would be in a situation to bid defiance to theass..ilt
of every enemy ; fur you would be enabled, on the
resources of India alone, to maintain a war beyond
any term of years that the must gloomy imagination
may choose to figure to itself.
With such a statement before yon, I am positive,
from my long knowledge of you, I would do r.O
mulch itijostice. it I was to entertain any such diffi-
dence, as to think it necessary to dwell lunger on
the elucidetion of the propositions which I have thus
brieda er.deavoured to enforce.
'lke last of the data 1 have stated above, and
which follows at a result of the others is, " That
the extineeion of the debt shall he -carried on at CSC
rate of ore million annually, till the poet of it,
wonted the Dezennial letan, shall become Pealing:4
which is esoreled to take place on or about the year
11107-11.• The sam then plyahle, is stated at
3,500,0001. when the debts at interest atarcad will
be reduced to 4,500,000 k" -
RussiAN 4s-rerE P;iPER.
Lentil's from Naples, of the 21st el dantsary,
mention that the English troops had te-embarked at
Castlernare on that day, and that the linssiana were
upon the point of evacnating the kingdom of the
Two Sicilies ; the necessary measures having been
taken in the port of Baia for that purpose..
Upon this occasion, the Russian Minister, M.
'ralischtoehew transmitted the following Note to the
. Minister of His Sicilian Maj-sty
" The I.lnetets g ltd Plenipotentiary of 11•4 Majesty the Em-
peror ad the Rios.", nastemi to imer.n the Marquis de Co.
rill". that the bOasimil troops cat= into Naples, mers.ly with
ih• view or landrog, a .4 malemg a doe/vino in fasnur of Ohl
.r.ostiten army emplaned in the North of Italy; and this being
• .lonigar an ohject, since Austria has agreed so on armistice
vt.th France, aild which. proSahly, will lazed too pose! between
Both those powers, Out Hussian troops will eracua• the igni-
tors of His Sicilian Majesty. 'the Entli.h troops also,
witch were intaudad to co-opcsate with them, will return again
as Malta.
e "The (raiment representations which the Undersigned has
mails to the Minty of flu Sicilian Alapoty, in ceder to hi-
store this country u, itt neutrality, wit. operate, as s certaiis
proof, that the Declaration which he now M. the honour to
transmit, will be receisid with smisfaftion. Toe Ltiidersig.sed
avails himself of this oppratimity to renew kin former aim's.
21(12221, that his illustrious so, en- ign woutil two!' et all times, re-
spected the neatrality of these kingdoms, if the Inman Go-
vernment had not exhibited a contrary example.
" out as His ling mist Majesty new restores the kingdom of
Naples to its neutrality, it is his sincere wish, that the Cabinet
of tie Tbullsoriee may imitate his eau by which the
country will escape those agelauoos, the termination of which
we soap now hen. to see. It ?Wier was the itilenlhoil id 1f.2
Majesty to 'yen the theatre of war in ills kingdom of
Naples; and it is will) great regret that lie was compelled to
tab she ur,asures alluded to.
" The seutonents of sincere fries:l,l4M, I peva of which she
inartor has eitileatoured Si, evince. to His Sicilian Majesty
upon every rice's...in, will not permit him to dmibt of tic e
rest which, His Majesty the F.roneml wilt at all times take
Oho personal happmes. of He Sicilian Majest), and in the well-
being of Ineouldr`en.
" When the our ranses of the landitig of tiro Rossiaa awl
F Eno 'mops in the kingdom of Naples .1..11 be komen, mid
the hicapia:my of His Sicilian Majesty to re.i,f Item shall les
mama into consideration, the Proclamation of the Freuch flo-
weasinsinit. dated Schenteruno, sth Primaire, w,.l be read wit',
*id inishifillot. This Consul document, which might be Liken
ui at. emanation of pure beuesulence, hat ama:einly a {seer
- lora f.lr- date; and was certainly nes, Simon at Schon-
Orem The proclamation of aroma, Masten) or the 15th ..f
, /smutty. which is sot so violate, in fact, evin;ris in an equal
siegire, that ohs Treoch Government is determined to avail
shamasivirs.of the t.napoiaiy usiiessecauditha toinwined tromis
Is, !Italy, for the purpoor of extending their t. niuwy to the
gown limits"! fits psnifilhils; which, in 2,21,g2ti 11,2e2 Lrod •n
5h.,...„t a riotisti peace winch the Treileit Government has
wsrMtedsyVjr-.
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