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The Grn,tl Lodge having met, pursuant to adjournment,
on Friday, then 18th inst. Colonel Pratt, Grand Master,
county Cavan, In the chair, the following Address' ryas'
unanimously agreed to:-
4. .Idress of the Grand Orange bodge of Ireland to the various
LoFier's thereof, and to every individual Mauler of this Loyal
le-sitorsonc
Dear ttrithren,--Tew if any periods since the first formation of
o Loyal loyal Institution have been so replete with transactions of so
vi c weurnt and importance as those to which the Grand Lodge
urn ibesit to refer in this their Report to their brethren
thearglieur the kingdom. During the period in which we have
beeposenhers of the Grand Lodge, we trust it will appear that we
bays wa•cti.al user the true interests of the Society with parental
efiest•ain and unprecedented reel.
.Theprereta
,year hem been a distinguished one in the annals of
etur century, Reproducing such effects upon. the Orange Society as
to render the present appeal absolutely necessary.
Sineethat period we have the satisfaction to add, that the Insti-
tution was never in a more flourishing condition, or more respects-
biliot or nnestices added to its ranks; notoithstand'ng which, the
Parliament of the United Kingdom have considered it necessary
that all poll:rail societies 3::..,u161 be dissolved; of course our Society
is icielited.
It therefore becomes our duty, in consequence of that confidence
you have repealed in us, to infotni sou, that any Lodges meeting
after this day commit a breach of the law, and ate liable to ill the
costesuent penalties. Vie therefore exhort you, that in the present
I:0dr of our affairs, you will not suffer that fidelity and devotion to
the support of the Government and the maintenance of the laws,
which eYrt characterised our Society, to be tarnished, but that you
ael yield a willing obedience to what is now the Law of the land,
thereby proyirg to your enemies and to the world at large, how
tatijord aid malignant have those charges been which represent our
Society to be established for the purpose of opposing any descrip-
tips. or class of our fellow-countrymen, but that our principle and
practice 14, to sappett and protect every body and denomination of
loyal subjects.
We regret, indeed, that Government should deem it expedient to
include our Society, or that the calumnies of our enemies should be
so fee credited' 5.% even to suppose that there was a necessity for so
deing 4 but we are confident that the inquiry which will speedily
mkt place into the nature and objects of our Arsociation. as well as
tats the state of Ireland generally, will exonerate as from even the
lamilskauee of guilt, and prove to the Government and the British
prahhe how malignant and groundless have been the ehurges of our
emernies.
. Though from this day the Grand Lodge ceastal to exist as a body,
'. yet we can truly pledge ourselves to our brethren, and to the empire
allarge, that as indivitinals we cherish the same principles a: heart,
bird, ohouhl domestic treason or foreign invasion ever again render
•our services necessary, we will be found at our Nets, regardless of
every earthly consideration but that which behoves us as loyal sub.
Jetty of the Crown of Great Britain..
For the support of those principles we have laboured since the
liest.osorement of our Institution ; for them we base suffered both
friaries and insults ; but still we are pledged to them : that pledge
is inviolable, and we shall feel pleasuie in inculcating them to our
neighbours and friends, and instilling them into tire infant breasts
of our children, so that they may grow with their growth, and
strengthen with their strength, and be handed down enure and un-
impaired from generation to generation.

'Nell AtSOCIATION.

INDIA.
LATE 3111.-TINAIFITARRACKPORE.
OENCRAL ORDER-
Fort William, Bengal, Nov. 4, 1824.
It is with ninth regret the Right Honourable the Governor-
(jenital, in Council. tech himself called on to announce to the
i army the consequences of the most disgraceful mutiny of
thlr'th regiment of Native Infantry, at llarrackpore, on the Ist
laistaan in which the corps wits. joined by a number of Sepoys,
*gaol to about two companies, of the ti2cl, and perhaps twenty men
of the 26th Native Regiment.
• Trim: corps had been under orders of march for some time, and
had experienced some difaeulty in procuring carriage; this, how-
'sr, was immediately removed, on its being brought to the notice
f f Government, by an advance of emit to each corps, to aid the
::boys in procuring the tietessary carriage cattle for their baggage.
its the etent however proved, the difficulty timed but to cover a
hubterritge. A bad spirit possessed the troops, aid when all diffi-
culties acre removed, and it was no longer possiitle to practise
e,sasion, tiler refused on the parade to march, with the exception of
*bout 130 men, and the non-commissioned and commissioned
native off itOTS.
On the receipt of a report to this effect by the t:ononander-in-
Chief. his Excellency iounediately adopted the necessary measures
to bring those misguided men to a sense of their duty. He in-
stantly proceeded to lisrrackpore, and on the following morning,
having made a disposition of the troops at the station, and those
which had arrived fluting the night, the Adjutant-General and the
Quarter-Master-General of the Army, with his Excellency's Per-
sian Interpreter, and the Officer commanding the 47th Native
Legiment, were deputed to make a last effort to induce the mud-
steers, drawn up, loaded, and in regular parade ordein to lay down
their arms, but without effect.
Nothing then remained but to inflict the punishment so justly
merited. The Commander-in-Chief gave the pre-coneerted signal
for an attack I', a part of the force • the mutineers instantly broke
and betook themselves to flight, under the fire of the troops who at-
tacked them ; and such en et:think was niatie on the spot as the
necessity of the case and the infamy of the regiment merited—the
moat gudty of those who were made prisor.ers having been subse-
quently executed by the sentence of a Court Martial.
That a t•ansactiqn so unnmural in, and disgraceful to this army,
could have been planned and carved into execution without the
knowledge, rot to say the participation of the native commissioned
and non-commissiored officers of the corps, is not kr a moment to
Le credited, composed as the native regiments arn in Bengal. Con-
nected by relationship. and livings's the native officers and &pops
do, almost under the same roof, it is not to be believed for a mo-
ment that the grossest neglect of the duty which the former owed to
the State has not been shown by the parties in question. The
Governor-General in Council consemzendy considers the 17th Re-
giment Native Infantry, including its native commissioned and
tion.commissioneo officers, to be disgraced—directs that No. 47 be
struck out of the Army List, the native commissioned and non-
commissioned officets to be instantly discharged the service as to-
silty unworthy the confidence of Government, or the name of sol-
d)ers ; and that a new regiment, to be numbered 69, to which the
I:urvatin officers of the late 47th will be appointed, be immediately
Titised in its stead for general service, agreeably with the detail as
laid down in General Orders of the 11th July, 1323. No. 63.
To the native commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the
Bengal army, the Governoi-Gaueral, in Council, now more puts-'
noisily addresses himself. He is perfectly waked that no instance
of insubordination can take place in a corps without such coming
to their early knowledge. Ile hereby demands from them a rigid
execution of their duty, and observes, that even on the rur.our of
any discontent in a corps, it is thole particular duty to communicate
it instantly to their European officers, and to exert their utmost en-
deavours to put down in the first instance any appearance of com-
bination. His Lordship, in Council. further desires it to be dis-
tinctly understood, that, in failure of that line of conduct which is
'expected from the native commissioned and non-commisslimed
pincers of the Benspal army, they will be held personally and col-
lectively responsible for any misbehaviour of the men, who are
more immediately under their eye and command in the lines than
they can be under those of the European officers; and that the
moat prompt dismissal from the service will be the inevitable
consequence of any want of exertion and zeal, or any abandon-
ment of duty. In short, he warns them to profit by the example
of the )17th. who have drawn down on themselves a punishment they
must justly merited.
1 be Governor-General in Council, in order to make known the
sentiments of Government to the Native army as fully sad =-
needy as possible, is pleased to direct that this Order shall be
translated into the Hiodoostannee language, and printed in the
2'4'o:me characters, for the purpose of transmission to corps respec-
tively, through the Adjutant-General of the army, under the orders
of the Commander-io-Chief, who will be pleased to issue such
subsidiary Orders as his Excellency may consider necessary,
drauohting the privates of the late 47th., whose fidelity remained
unsh.dcen, into such regiments as may appear most expedient.

THE SEPOYS.
The unit battalion of Sepoys ever raised in Bengal was that
catiled the Lal Pultan, or Red Battalion, which distinguished itself
hi the battle of Plessey and on other great occasions ; but in 1764
It mutinied on the pretext of some promises that were made to it
hiving been broken. It was easily reduced to obedience ; but Sir
Rector Munro, who then commended tl:e army, thourht a severe
crimple necessary, and twenty-eight of the most guilty were
trod by • Drum-head Court 51ar.iel, and sentenced to death.
.11.'fight of these were directed to be immediately blown away from
the ions of the force then at Cheprsh. As they were on the point
of-esteeming the sentence, three grenadiers. who happened to be
amongst them, stepped forth and chinned the privilege of being
blown from the right hand guns. " They had alwrys fought an
the right," they said, " and they hoped they would be permitted
to die at that post of honour." Their request was granted, and
they were the first executed. These was not a dry eye among
istropaens or Asiatics, at the death of these fine fellows; but no
disturbance whatever ensued. The battalion next raised was
Wend Mattbetes's Battalion. In 1759, it *hewed equal gallantry
',A the English soldiers, in storming the strong fortress of Me..
auliparam, defended by a French garrison. This battalion was
one of three which mutinied In 1782, under ea apprehension of
being embarked for foreign service. The mutiny was suppressed,
the battalion broken, and drafted into other regiments, and two
Native olhoers sad °near two Sepoys were sentenced to death, by
ben* blown away from the mouth of a cannon. The sentence was
wise) into execution in tie presence of those troops which had
Matilde& and of one other regiment only ; and it was effected
waken the Smallest opposition. or even a murmur. The same
lberyilien had also muted in 170, but was soon recalled at that
tint!: Wits duty.' The last instance that we shall mention is, the
too celebrated ins at Vellore. After the native garrison of that
forams glad pieced diernselvis in a state of open mutiny, the
Madras native cavalry and the 19th regiment of English dragoons
were sent against them; and the pus of the fortress were blown
ionise, and the native do ary acted with quite as much rleciiiion
mid bravery, fib attacking their misguided countrymen, as did the
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