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been enntrAfted by the necessary operation of thi-
same cause; but, I am happy to pet ceive, that you
have petseyrreil in the indefatigahle exert 01 of
your general z-al, industry, and spirit of study.
4‘ The Students who have maintained arguments

at the Public Disputations. on the present occasion.
have not passed through a course of study equal,
in point of duration, with that which enabled the
Students of former years to attain the honceits at•
tacked to similar Public Exercises. Notwithstand-
ing this disadvantage, the Gentlemen who have held
disputations on the present occasion, have success-
fully rivaled their most distinguished predecessor,
in correet laignf,e, fluent expression, and accurate
pronunciation.
" The Degrees of Honour conferrer' this day, on
Messrs. Thomas Chisholme Scott, Montague Hem y
Tor-riled), Joseph littledele. and James Marjoii-
banks, are the public and just rewards of merit,
which has not been surpassed by any Student of this
College; and I entertain a confident hope, that Olt.
public services of these Gentlemen will prove valu-
able to the interests of the Company, and of our
country in India
.• The Students distinguished by Prises and Ho-
rmel y Rewards, are also entitled to commends-
*: dun; and the ptinciples of public justice demand
my applause of the etteinments of the gre mu pr e-
portion of those who now proceed to the public
service.
" It is setisfeiefory to be enable .1 to declare, that
the general residua and progtees of the Student',
continue to merit the erloolletine of this Govern-
ment, and to teA -irt umstcler.ole honour to the cha-
railer of the Institution, and on th- knowledge, te-
lents, skill, and diligence of the Professors, in the
discharge of their respeet ye duties.
" At the lest disputation, I expressed my desire
that a more general attention should be paid to the
study of the Vernacu'er Language of Bengal. I
oftarrve, with pleasure, that a Degree of Honour
Las been merited and conferred on this day, for
high proficiency in that language, and, that the
studs, of that us-fill attainment is now prosecuted by
many of the Students with diligence and success.
" In the Mehritte Language, a progress has
been made, which iticrits approbation and encou-
rteement. The Declamation pronounced, for the
first time, ie that leuguege, is highly creditable to
the Geialeman who p onounced it, and the Learned
Professor, under whose care t:;e Students in that de-
partment have nianifested meritorious industry and
application, attended by great success, within a li-
gnites! period of time.
" The Compilation and Publication of useful
Works in the Oriente' Languages have proceeded
wah unabated spirit., and with eminent public ad-
vante4e. by affording additional flcilities throughout
India, in the genital attainment of the several lan
Stages requisite for the condud of the service.
" Amoegst teaftil Roil- of this description, a
Grammar of the elehrette Lenteuege has been com-
piled and printed, and a Vecebalary of the same lan-
gitar,e is now in the Press.
‘. Since the 1 ,st Meeting, therefore, the promo-
tion of Oriental Knowleege, in the British Service in
Ind a, has proceeded well ieerea,ed success, by the
progress of the studies and labours of the Geetle-
men of this College.
.‘ The attention of the Officers and Students of
the Coll-ee. appe it s als,. to have 1y...i n succrsstullr
direded to those important rihjeds of ,iisc,pline, re-
gularity, and good order, which fotmed an essential
part of my recent admonitions from this place. My
most solemn and sacred duty demands, that I should
enforce those admonitions nn every seasonable occa.
pion. and by every attainable sauftion of reward, en-
couragement, and authority, I cannot, therefore,
omit this puitlic opportunity of expressing my par-
ticular satistaftion in the condud of those Stud.nts,
who have manifested their qualification for the due
discharge of the highest stations in this service, hy
an attentive
observance,
not merely of the letter, but
of the true spirit of the Statutes, which prescribe a
strut attention to the maxims of regulaiity, econo-
my, and good order.
" 'pie most eminent and brilliant success in the
highest objets of study, will prove an inelequete
crielificetit n for tie service of the Company, and of
our century in India, it' the just application of those
happy attainments be not secured, by a solid found-
ation of virtuous principles, and contra concluet.
The whole system of the education which you have
teceivrd at home, furnishes abundant explanetron of
the principles and ohjeds of the Statutes of this Col-
lege. which ordain a sine attention to the order and
regulerity of your psivate economy, and to those ha-
bits of l'fe. calculated to proted you from future
emberressment and distress, in the exercise of your
public duties: and the weal principle of this service,
combined with the pi eservation of your most urgent
iteerests, and of your most sacred honour in this
country, req lire me to inculcate and to enjoin the
indispensible necessity of your stria conformity to
these essential Articles of the Statutes.
" Lu closing the proceedings of this day, I have
the satisfaelion to signify to you, that 4 considerable
p: ogtess has been made in the Arrangements respi-
te:• to promote and to facilitate, in this College, the
cod: of the La.. and Repletion' emitted by the
°overt nr-Cent ral in Council. fur the Government
of ile British ten ;Lori: s, subject to the Presidency of
Bmgel.
" With the able assistence of the principal public
Ofr.cers of this Government, the commencement of
a regular sestem of study in that important blench,
may be expected donne; the course of the present
yeer.
" To this system of study. it is my intention to
add Rewards and Honours, calculated to distin-
geish •he neere s if those Students. who :hall appear
at the Es oeenetiotts to have roubles eminent know
ledge of the Laws Niel iteettlicions which they are
destined to administer, in their several stations, to
the people of thee* i steesive i rovinces.
" In the trig 1/1 f tun chitin of this College, it
Was my este toil to have provided sushi ieet omens
tit vaticinator: tot the S;t.de.as in the principles ir
y $1.141 lisriN.tiedence, •I 1 I ..f the Law .4 aaiions,
iseni.....e.eg that co..' se of study with tLe princip:e.
of t..e freodennanteden and liindoo'Law, awe with
those of tee reti•e ar el %arum y Code 01 LAY:a. inter-
duc..l by iliategeteet and worthy Stetesinan, the.
1N..• quit Cetioraliie, :4 the edministretins. or tut se
Piote.eires,eneiserpriared and extended by succe, ding
Goveremesitte with tee 441 elk we taliitirb, iii.i.wieils-.
.0.4 ..im..s at it eieeirees ik: lew. whose mane east

cervi es towards his country and mankind. in the for-
s a ion a.;cl subsequent improvement of that Codesate
t oe traced in the increasing prosperity and happi-
e s of every Province of the Empire to which it has
been extencLd.
" voidable circumstances have prevented the
Institution of a regular course of Le'furec, on the
genet al pi inciples :it Jurisprudence, and of the Law
of Nations. It is my duty, however, ear nettly to
r commend the st,idy of the most approved Element-
ary Works in this branch, to all the Students of the
College. The knowledge of these general principles
will prove of the utmost advantage in every depart-
ment of this service. To those destined for the Ju•
dicial Department, the necessity of such a course of
study is obvious and incoutrovertibl. But, in every
department of the service, the knowledge of the
leading maxims of general law, will tend to secure
a due observance, not only of the Regulations of the
Gover ment, hat of the principles of universal Jus-
tice and Equity towards every class of our name-.
rout and various subjeds, and of all the native in-
habitants of India.

"The study of the Mohummedan and Hindoo
Codes of Law, will be facilitated by the works ex-
tant on those subjeas ; to which the attentimt of the
Students should be carefully diredA. In the course
of the present year, I trust, that a considerable pro-
sir,s may be made with the aid of the learning and
'he principal Judicial Officers of this Go.
ve•nmeht, in esiabbshing a regular course of study
the Mohumrnedati and HinJoo Codes of Law,

" But the ..curate study of the regulation and
laws of this Government. under the guidance of the
respe&able and learned Professor in that Department,
will afford ample topp •rtunity of advantages and dis-
tinaion to those Students, who shall pursue such a
course with ditigence And attention.
" In pursuing that course, the general ohjeas of
this system of laws and regulations, will be manifest,
in the due d:oributiou of the legislative, executive,
and judical audio:Ales of the state, in the establish-
ment of an impartial administration of justice, ac-
cording to existing laws, and in the provision of
gradual means for the improvement of those laws.
" It is not my intention, at this time, to investigate
the principles which constitute the basis of this Code,
or to trace their conne4tion with the general maxims
of Jurisprudence, with the spirit of the British Con-
stitution, or with the do trines of the Mohammed sn
and Hindoo Codes and customs, manners and ha-
bits of our Native Subjeas. Nor will I attempt on
this occasion to de-cribe the condition of these pro-
vinces with respeCt to the administration of Justice,
and to their internal Civil Constitution, either under
the Native Government, or under the British Power,
previously to the introdußion of the existing Code
of Laws and Regulations.
" It is sufficient for me to dire& your attention to
the indispensible necessity of acquiring a correef
knowl• dge of the existing Laws and Regulations,
for the purpose of enab ing you to discharge your
duty t• the Company, to your Country, and to the
Peojle of these populous provinces.
" In every station in which you can he plae?d
during the course of your public service, the due
execution of these La, s an 1 Regulations must, in
a certain degree, depend up.m your condo& You
must be either the instruments fur the administration
of the Laws, or the dir. R ohjsfis of their salutary
controul and restraint. In eve: v instance, you will
be subject to their general authority, and it will be
your duty to contorm to their spit it, to aid their
operation, and to suggest every praCticable im.
prnvement in their provisioas and regulations.—
Under such solemn obliga inns, I entertain a firm
expectation, that, in the prosecution of the objen of
study now recommended to your attention, you will
display the same zeal, industry, and success, which
have marked the progress of the great body of the
Students of this College, in every department to
which their studies have been direled.
"Nor can this Governmentdire& your attention to
any objesli more wortny to inspire honourable emu-
lation, to excite the highest efforts of industry And
genius, or to reward the most transcendent success
of just and laudable ambition.
"The due administration of just laws within these
flourishing and populous provinces, is not only the
foundation of the h ppiness of millions of people,
but the main pillar of the vast fabric of the British
Empi:e in Asia ; The main spring of our Empire is
sit mitea brie ; and it is supplied and guarded by the
Laws and Regulations of this Government. From
the prosperity of these provinces are derived all the
sources of our Revenue, and Commerce, and Public
Credit ; and the origin and stability of that pros-
perity are to be found in the Code of Laws which
you are now direeted to study, arid bete:after deS-
' tined to administer, to expound, and to amend.
" Subjet to the common imperfeaion of every
human institution, this Syrtem of Laws is approved
by practical experience (the surest test of human
legislation), and contains an alive principle of con-
tinstal revision, which affords the best security for
progressive amendment. It is not the effusion of
vain theory, issuing from speculative principles, and
' direeted to visionary objeifts of impra&icable per-
fection ; but the solid work of plain, deliberate,
practical benevolence, the legitimate offspring of
gennine wisdom, and pure virtue. Ihe excellence
of the general spirit of these Laws is attested by the
noblest proof of just, wise, and honest Government;
by the restoration of happiness, tranquillity, and
security, to an oppressed and suffering people ; and
by the revival of agriculture, commerce, manufac-
tures, and general opulence, in a declining and impo-
veeished country.
" Contemplating these benevolent views, and ani-
mated by the prospect oldie great and exalted duty
to which you are called, I trust, that you will de-
rive Ii um this institution, the most effesflual means
of preserving and secu: ing to the inhabitant, ul
:hese prospe:ous regions, that primary obj •Ct of all
good Governments, the greate.4 blessing attainable
.
tsy any people—an impartial aoomustratioo of just
Law.*

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Ilia Etceliency then returned to his apartments,
attended by his suite.
In the E►ening of 0-. e 9th of February, a grand
dinner was given to the Officers And Students of the
Cobble, by his ticeilency, At the Gnvernment-
illiMGC ; It wiiich w oe prisent the Honouiable
Chid Jn►tice. the Judges of the Supreme Cou
the MarnSer. o' the Snprem•• Council, and all the
principal Civil su! biditary (Maus at the Presi-
deem!.

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THE BRITISH PRESS.

LONOON,
WE')NLSOAY, SEPT*J4BEI

Our tact Weymouth letter stated, that the
Roy AL Ea..iixY would leave that place upon the
7th of next mouth. It was, however, understood
yesterday, that the departure of the Roy xi. FA.
WILY would take place about a week sooner, but
the particillar day was not known. It is supposed,
that they will go to Kew, as the alterations aoid re-
pairs now making at Windsor C title, and the
QucEN's Lodge, will not lx.completed by that time.

Mr. COUR VOISEUII, one of Ills M A Irs rv 's Mes-
sergels, arrived at two o'clock yesterday, at Lori
Mut c x sys's Office, with dispatches from the Courts
of St. Petersburg!) anal Vienna. The Earl of
WEST voneL•ma attended at the Office to learn the
contents. In the afternoon, Lord M (masa vz left
town for Weymouth, to attend His MAJFSTY with
the dispatches.

The Chancellorship of the University of Dublin,
one of the places held by His Royal Highness the
late Duke of GLOUCESTER, his been offered, we
believe, to the Earl of MOM A• It is an office, in
fumllions entirely unconnected with politics or
party, and which his Lordship may consistently
fill, without abandoning his principles or friends.—
It must b.r also peculiarly grateful to a man of his
Lordship's literary taste anJ attainments, tr preside
over one of the most learned and respeftable public
Seminaries in Europe. As an Orator and a General,
his Lordship stands high in public estimation. As
an accomplished Scholar, he will,pertnys, find, in the
groves of Academus, laurels not less durable thin
those which he has won in the Senate and in the field.
The interests of literature mast also be advanced,
and the genius of learning will rejoice under the
auspices of a chief, so distinguished for liberality of
sentiment and who will carry into the solitary
study, and the retired walks of learned society, all
the refinement of polished life, without one of its
bletru-hes.

The squadron of His MAJLST Y'S ships, the
Tremendous, 74 guns, Capt. Osnoana Lnrcssier,
6+ guns, Capt. W. FOTHLIGILL ; and the Phmton,
Capt. COCKBURN; under the command of Capt.
081011Nt. that had been cruising off the Isle of
France, arrived at Bombay in February last, touch-
ed at Behcoolen on their return, in hopes of meet-
ing with, or obtaining some intelligence of, Admiral
Liao
During Captain °sumac's cruise, he had not
been able to obtain the least infjrmation respeeting
Admiral boom squadron; as it appeared, that
General DeC4BN had exaeled the parole of every
American Captain, previous to his being permitted
to leave Pnrt North-West, not to give any informa-
tion, or even hint, to the English cruisers.

The following is a hst of ships and vessels tak^n
and destroyed by the squadron under the command
of Capt. OSBORMI, of His 111.saasies ship Tremen-
doer, during their cruise off the Isle of France.

Ls Zephyr schooner, 70 tons, laden with slave., taken by
His Majesty's .hip Terpsichore.
Lc Vietur ship, 300 tons, laden with the produce of Mada-
gascar, burned under the guns of Caunonier Point, by the
boats of His Majesty's ships Tremendous and Phaeton
L'AiStif brig, 100 tone, laden with plank, Jec bunted un-
der the guns of a ►attery, on Point Diabte, by the boats of the
Phaeton.
Le Denies brig, taken after a long chaor, by the hosts of
His Majesty's shop Tremendous.

Le Blonde ditto, ditto.
Elisabeth, Dutch Isuliantan (British built, about two or
three )can old), of 400 tot., with sugar, spice, wrack,
Isc. taken by the Phaeton and Terpsichore.
Le (Amerce, 300 too, laden with articles of trail, from
Madagascar, taken by the Phaeton.
Le Deux Amis brig, of l`to tons, laden with the same kind
of cogs, t,ken on the same day, by tlie• Trementions.
Penman, American ship, 400 ton., ladcit with sugar and
spice, detained on suspiemit of the rev' being Dutch pro-
perty, his been since eondeinned as lawful prise, In the Vice-
Admiralty Court, at C•,lumbn.
Governor Bie, Danish ship, laden with piece rods, eearcd
nut from Serampwre, bound to T•angnekar, o. Porto, in India,
but detected riug into the Mauritius ; she is now tialer
It Culumb

The sq•iadrun, consisting of tf.e Tremendous,
Lary-
Ndter, PhJeton, and Terpienerr, share, by male
agreement, in all cAptares made during their cruise.

The Carter.: packet, Captain Parr css-ix, is at-
tired at Falmouth, with a Lee•.vard Island Mail, in
thirty•two day, from •t'ortola. She carried nut the
Yd Juue Mail, And Arrived at Ilatbadoos on the 24th
July. Ills MAissrv's ships Northumberland, Rear-
Admiral C.ocsinania. Randier and Lily; the LT:l4w
tchoaner, and Donsi,iel cutter ; a lugger privateer,
and a three.inasted schnnner, were lying in Car Ole
Say. The 14104 arrived• the following lay, int.)

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which the Admiral shifted his fhg, when the
Northumbe. land, Ram;lie', and 1.4, soled. 01
the 22,1, a fleet of mer:hartt-sh:ps arr:ved frcet
Ireland, under convoy of His M .Icsr v's sf. 4
Wolfe. The Northam', .r/, ind came into the illy
on the 2.ii. Tae i'aAet left .rhadoes os
the 231 July, aft:,:- I...iviaz 1) iminica on the
27rh, with the /frpe..eeora ; under Gua3aion~,
they were chased by a three-masted French pri.,
vateer ; the Ifhpowarr, having drawn het f-oz
under the land, comm:ncad a I;!avy fi•e on horn
when she sheered off, and escaped by mesas of her
sweeps; arrived at Antigua on the $ I.t, where the
Grenada brought in a French privateer row-Meat,
Aft,r delivering the Mails at all the Leeward h.
lands, left Tortola on the 12:11 of August. The
passengers were, Mr. MARTIN, Culie•tor of the
Customs at Antigua; Mr. Cua a AN, a Londol
Merchant ; and Mr. Mszzr!i. A. of Venice.

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It will be seen in our Dover letter, that part of
the Army intended for the Expedition, will embark
at that port. Several Regiments will embark at
Portsmouth. The whole of the Hanoverian troops
in this colntry will, most probably, be engAgod in
the expedition. The artillery, and six battalions of
the German Legion, now encamped at B rs' ha:;
rneived orders to bold themselves in readiness.

The Hamburgh Mails dire on Wednesday se'n-
night, Sunday and Wednesday last, arrived last
night. Having received them at a very late hour,
we were able to make only the following extra.t:
Sr. PATERSSURG3, AUG '2l.
Preparations for war are making here with a
promptitude and energy without example in the an-
nals of Ra:sia. The Emperor, it is said, will join
the army next week.

FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, AUG. 21,
The exchange of couriers between Berlin and Pe.
tersburgh, is more aftive than ever. The last courier
was hearer of a letter written by the Emperor to llis
i'russian hlajetty.

VIENNA, AUG. 28.
The Archduke Charles's li,•giment of infantry
set off for Italy the day before yesterday.

'I he Russian Ambassador has notified, that, in or-
der to back the mediation which our C' urt has pro-
posed for the maintenance of peace, Its Majesty had
given orders for two armies to march without delay.
It is to-day reported, that the Austrian troops
have entered the Grisons : this intelligence is not to
be depended upon.

lIVALIK, SEPT. S.

General Duroc arrived here the Jay berOre yes-
terday. A Courier from the Marquis Lnechesini ar-
rived a few hours before, announcing the General's
approach. The General repaired the same evening
to Charlottenburg ; but: did not see his Majesty. He
only had his first audience this day.
SAMSEIG, AUGUST 29.
It is asserted, that a great Court has demanded of
His Highness, the Elector of Bavaria, a passage
through his duminions for 30,1.00 men ; and that
this demand has been refused, on the ground of His
Highness having resolved to maintain the strictest
neuti ality.

FRASCIIOIIIT, AVG. St•

The Imperial Envoy, Count Von Stadion, is ar.
rived b.re from Ratisbon.
They speak here of the march of French troops
through several other of the German territories, to-
wards the Rhii e.

SANIIIII74, AUG. 30.
Great numbers of French troops are assembling
on the Rhine, and the garrisons of the fortresses in
that vicinity will be reinforced. A French army
will soon be colleaed on the Rhine. The General
of Division, St. Sua.inne, is arrived at Strasburg.

Mr. SPARROW, one of Hit MA.116'0141 Messen-
gers, as rived 7esterday, with dispatches from the
1.0110 LIEUTI,NANT Of 11[1.11,03.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Yowl transact-
ed business yesterdsy, At his Office, at the Horse
Guards, until half-past sic o'clock. A great num-
ber of Military Officers. several of them lately arriv-
ed from India, attended.
Parliament, it is said, will meet for the dispatch
of business, on the 10th or lYth of November.
The BetiA packet, commanded by Capt. Foots,
lately arrived with diliatches from India, sailed
agsit., yesterday, from Gravesend, with dispatcht4
and freighted by the Hon. East India Company. 1.4
whose service she is employed, for Bombay. She is
alloveed to be one of the fastest sailing vessels in the

nary.
The following paragraph is copied from The lia•
nA Corner of yesterday :--
We have it in our power to Kate, from unquettinn,,be
authwity, that theta are no cartridges, nor am annUn.t,
prepared at Woo.wieli Warren, fm the rumoured Exped.,,..,
our have the Artillery or E.:stneert re4eived any tulle s tt
prepare few foreign service."
Soon after nine o'clock, on Monday morning.
waggons were brought to the back part of the Sant
to carry SMITS' casks of dollars, which were real;
to be sent eft to Portsmouth, for the purpose of be
ing conveyed to the Continue. Each waggon hell
about fourteen casks, and when they left the Bank
they were e4corted by a party of Horse-Guards, %;11
were- instruded to sec the m ,ney safely lodged
board of ship. The sum altngether was estimate
at halt a million. It is part of the inbeisly intends
for ow Continental Allies.