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London, England, 1806-09-19 00:00:00

DOCTOR DAFFY SWINTON.

This Gentleman was tin Wednesday brought
from Newgate, to which he had been some -
since committed. by order of the Commission
Bankruptcy, and again interrogated touching
schedule, which it was probably expeEled
cipline of his confinement would now induce
revise and amend.
Mr. Swinton, however, treated the Commissioners
very cavalierly; refused to amend the schedule.
which he had already given in ; told the Commis-
sioners that all they could do was to commit '
again to Newgate ; they might do so just as of,
and as long as they chose ; it was no punishment I
him ; he could live there just as happy and cr
In-table as any where clse. He was according!,
manded to Newgate.

The vessel stated in our ship-news on W.
day, to have been seen off Falmouth, without
proves to be a new sloop of war, in tow
fiarlevais armed ship, bound to Piymouth.
In consequence of a dispute having arisen s
Limn. F. of the Royal Marines, and Lieut.
the Cardigtnsaire Militia, on Friday evening, it w,
agreed that a meeting should take place nest...morn-
lug in a field betweeu Chatham and Gravesend. /
half past eleven o'clock the parties me:, attended '
their :monis. As the seconds were unable gob,
about a reconciliation, they took their stationer
after firing a brace of pistols each, fortunately
out effef, the seconds interfered, and the
was accommodated.
The Nottingham Diligence carriage was ,
turned on its way to Lincoln, yesterday se'nnights
by which one of the outside passengers had his thigh
broken.
A few days previous to our little army of 1500
men making their appearance, two caravans of ham
mense value arrived at Buenos Ayres, and the Go-
vernor had ordered a grand file to the troops who
guarded tI•T treasure, and to the soldiers of the town.
This file however, was not enjoyed by those fur
whom it was intended ; for on the day on which it
was to be celebrated, and at the moment of its com-
mencement, Sir Home POPHAM and our troops
made their appearance.
At the meeting of the Justices at Swansea, last
week, to groat ale licenses, Mr. COLLINS attended,
and preferred a complaint against JINILIM hector,
a publican at Oystermouth, who refused to receive
into his house Captain Locke, of the sloop Deisik,
when shockingly bruised by a fall from the mast of
his vessel. the Magistrates very properly repre-
sented to JENKIN the inhumanity of his condud ;
but, on account of his family, consented to renew hie
license.
Last Tuesday, as some men were digging a cellar
under a closet, that adjoined the parlour of the
Cross-keys public-house, at Hurst Green, Lewes,
they discovered a humors skeleton, which, from the
rottenness of the bones, must save been buried
many years. The situation in which it was found,
led many to moped that a murder had been com-
ns'tted in the house, at some remote period, and
gave rise to a variety of corjettures.
On Friday se'ennight, a vet y serious disturbance
took place at Berwi:k, between a certain set of the
towns-lads and the soldiers of the id battalion of
the eth Regiment, who are quartered at the bar-
racks. Tee affray rote to such a heights that many
individuals, on both sides, were severely hurt ; and
nest morning the Magistrates deemed it expedient
to summon the inh shttants to attend at tile town.
hall, when upwards of forty ind sidnals were sworn
is as Special Constables, to assist in the preservation
of the peace. The same evening, they petrel's! the
streets, and effeftually prevented the renewal of fur-
'ther tire. Severkl of the offenders were comnittred
to g sal. but have since been liberated, en th-rr re-
cr gnisances to stand trial at the ensuing sessions of
the peace. Mr. NIA voa. in his address to the inha-
bitants who met at the Town•Fiall, said, that " the
soldiers were not to blame; they had quie• r borne
the insolence and illAreatent of a parcel rf mis-
creants, who were ... he habit of ar oying
the passengers at toe corners of the streets and the
duty of the special constables wettld he •it prevent
he arenthlage of there fellows, who well deserved
the severest punishmeat."

The Governor-General in Council, however,
it to be his ditty to tecommetid the principle
reduaion to the farther consideration of your
tonourable Court. The office of Secretary to the
eesidency was created, and the salary fixed, at the
amount of 1,500 rupees per month, with a view to
lish such a regular gredation of allowances in
political department, as might induce a due pro-
ion of the civil servants of the Honourable Com-
to diret their attention to that department,
duties of which no person can be properly
del, who shall not have applied with regularity,
for a considerable period of time, to the bus:-
of the department. Without some intermedi-
oettion between the Resident and Assistant, of
the emoluments shall be fixed at an amount
. to diet which might be received by a civil
(ant, of similar rank. in the other departments
to service, the Honourable Company cannot
I to secure, in this branch, a regular succession
vii servants, properly qualified to discharge the
of the several political Residencies.
All the Residents at Foreign Courts have
enjoined to regulate their disbursements, on
tnt of presents and secret intelligence, on prin-
of sttiel economy, and on no account to per-
the charge for presents to exceed the value of
presents which may be made to the Company.
have been further required to incur no ex-
ices of a contingent nature, without the previous
taion of the Governor-General inCouncil,except in
- of unavoidable necessity ; and when such cases
occur, to report without delay to Government
amount of the charge, and the grounds on which
may have been n.ade.
2t. Under these orders it is to be expelled, that
.ne expenses of all the foreign Residencies will be
considerably diminished. The accounts of each
Resideucy will in future be submitted for revision
to the Governor-General in Council once in every
nvernh, with a report from the Civil Auditor at Fort
Wimp ; and every charge of a contingent nature
eill be brought under the special observation of
Government.
27. 'lle Residencies at Travancore and at Berodee
_ tinder the immediate authority of the Right 110-
nonrable the Governor in Council of Fort St.
George, and of the Honourable the Governor in
Council of Bombay. Neither the duties of these
tesidencies, nor of that now subsisting at Goa, can
deemed of equal roagnitade or importance to the
general teatimes of the foreign Residents with the
principal native powers. With the view of effeetieg;
if praeliceble, a reduaien of the charge of those
Residencies, the expediency of inducting the di►-
charge of the ditties of the office of Residents to
the officer commanding the subsidiary forceein 'Fra-
'encore and in Guierat. with a separate allowance
- at Goa, has been suggested for the cousideretion
A the Governments of Fort St. George and of
Bombay.
28. The Governments of Fort St. George and
Bombay have likewise been requested to transmit
Fort William a detailed statement of the expence
- each Residency in the last year, to enable the
Governor-General in Council so propose such reduc-
tion in the established and contingent charges of the
lesidencieg, as he shall consider to be compatiede
i;h the public service.
29. The private Secretaey to his Excellency the
Most Noble the Governor-General has beefs direele,!
to state, for the consideration and Indies of Govern-
ment, such reduelions as may, witheto inconveni-
ence, be made in the establishments under his im-
mediate charge; and similar orders have been issued
to all the Civil Officers of Government in charge of
public Offices at the Presidency, and to the Super-
intendent of Chendetaugore, and the Commissioner
at Chinsuee.
30. lu the department of the Secretaries to the
Government, a considerable reduaion of expense
will be made, by the proposed abolition of the office
of Secretary in the Department of the Ceded and
Conquered Provinces, and by the annexation of the
duties of that office to the offices of the Secretaries in
the Public, and in the Revenue and Judicial De-
partmeetc. 'this arrangement will be carried into
immediate of t. It has been unavoidably delayed
by the state of the provinces, and the urgency of
business is the Secretary's office during the war.
31. Redoetiens have been made in the expense of
the intebliihmeets of the College of Fort William,
according to the orders of your Honourable Court.
Those redualions wbl be stated to your Honourable
Court, in a separate dispatch,
32. The charge in/tiered on account of the bo-
tanical garden, at Fort William, has been reduced
to the monthly sum of three thousand rupees, includ-
hoe the vilely of the Supetintendrat, and the este-
bfishment maintained for botanical purposes at
Prince of Wales' leiend, has been reduced at the re-
commendation of DoOor Roxburgh. The Lieute-
nant Governor has been &reefed to dispose of all the
plantations on the island, the psoperty of Govern-
ment, by public sale.
33. In addition to the orders addressed to the
Courts of Sudder Dewanny and Nizamut
Adawlut (as stated in a preceding paragraph
of this letter), dire ping those courts to propose
the necessary porminent establishment for the
administration of justice, and for the duties of the
police in the ceded and conquered provinces,
the coasts have been required to commence
all immediate revision of all the judicial and police
establishments in the lower provinces, including
Benares ; the melt of their inquiries will be sub-
mitted to your lionethable Court by a future op-
portunity ; but, it is apprehended, that no mate-
rial saving can be expo fed in this branch of the
public expenditure, which was very lately revised
and settled on the most economical principles which
could be adopted, without injury to the public ser-
vice.
I. This observation is equally applicable to the
establishment: maintained for the collection of the
revenues in the lower provinces. A report has
been received from the Board of Revenue, that no
reduaion of those establishments can be effetted
without meterial public inconvenience.
35. The establishments in the department of the
General Post-Office were lately revised, and fixed at
the lowest scale cenipatible with the regular and
expeditious conveyance of the public mails. A
statement ha-, been rekuired from the Pcstmaster-
General, of the amount of the reduftion of expence
arising from the late arrangetneats les the ntr.
Office.

36. The present est.iblishmenti, under the S.:-
preme C.Jurt of Judicature, at Fort \\*idiom, and
under His Majesty's Justices of the Peace tur the
town of Calcutta, will admit of no reductign.
37. Orders have been issued to the Ooard 'of
Trade at Fort-William, to propose, for the Consi-
deration and orders of Government, such perma-
nent or temporary reduCtions in the several establish-
ments in the commercial department, as shall, in
their judgment, be practicable; adverting to the
probable contingency, that the inveatnicas to be
provided in Bengal, in the present year, will not
exceed the sum of eigh• t lacks of Sicca rupees, and
that it will not 1* interiur in value to silty lacks 9f

rupees.
38. The Commercial Residency at Cc uckpore
has been reduced, and the public investment: which
may, in future, be required from that Aurung,
are
to be provided sander the agency of the Commercial
Resident at Benares.
39 A reduction of expense, to t!".^ e':tent of
six-
teen hondred rupees per menam, w.ll Ari,e fr.,m the
operation of an arrangement, now io progress, for
the future discharge of the duties aincsrd E the
offices Reporter General of External CAnmorz:•,
Superintendant of the Cloth lnvestm-nr, and Ex•
aminer and Appraiser of Goods at the Co•toin
House. The details of this artanzement will bit
submitted to your Honourable Ccuit trom the Com-
mercial D:partment.
40. The Board of Trade has been direeted to re-
vise fall the Establishments under their authority,
in the Departments of Salt, Opium, and Customs,
and to report, for the consideration and orders of
Government, whether there establishments will
admit of any reduetion, and to what extent.
41. Orders have also been tented to the Marine
Board to undertake a, revision of all the establish-
ments in the Marine Departruents, and to report
such retrenchment as may, in their judgment, be
prafticable ; stating at the same time their opinion,
whether the services of the sun-vessels et present
employed under the immediate orders of this Go,
vernment may not now be dispensed with, in ilia
present commanding stare of the strength of His
Majesty's squadron in the Indian Seas ; and under
the very able and judicious distribution of the naval
force which has been made by Sir E. Pellew, for
the prote.Rion of our trade and possessions in India.
42. The same considerations have induced the
Governor-General in Councli to propose to Sir Ed-
ward Pellew the transfer of the flowlap frigate and
the lifienington cruiser to the service of His Ma.
jesty. From defals in the Honourable Company's,
Marine Establishment at Donate:l, which are iire-
mediable under its present constitution, it may be
doubted whether ships of this size can be ever ex-
petted to render services adequate to the very heavy
expense attendant on the maintenance of them.
The ship employed as a cruiser at Prince of Wales'
Island has also been direlled to be discharged.
43. When the arrangem-nts now in progress at
this Presidency for the rejtietion of the politic charge
is every department of the service,, shall have been
completed, the Governor-General in Council will
submit to your Honourable Court a detailed state-
ment of the annual sum in which the public expen-
diture may be diminished by their operation. the
aggregate amount of the reduaion of charges will
certainly prove considerable:
44. The Right Honourable the Governor in
Council of Fort St. George, and the Honourable
the Governor in Council of Bombay, have been di-
rated by the Governor-General in Council (as al-
ready notified in the dispatch from His Excellency
in Council to the Secret Committee of your Ho-
nourable Court, dated the 23d March last, and
transmitter: by the Benxi!) to c?mmehce an im-
mediate revision cf all the public establishiumts at
those Presidencies, with a View to the redu.ion of
every charge which may not be absolutely and in-
dispensibly necessary.
44. The charge incurred for the collation of the
land revenue under the Presidency of Fort St.
George, appearing to bear a much higher propor-
tion to the aggregate amount of the revenue, than
the charge of the collations in Bengal beats to the
amount of the land revenue in these provinces, the
attention of die Government of Fort St. George has
been particulaily directed to the examination of the
Causes to which this difference is to be ascribed ; and
it has been suggested to the Right Honourable the
Goverpot in Council, that this branch of the public
expenditure may probably admit of considerable re-
daticn. We have the honour to be,
Honourable Sirs,
Your most faithful humble servants,
(Signed) WaLLastay.
G. H• Ba at.ow.
tart William, 4th Jaw, 1805. G. UDM Y.

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INDIA. 24. T
deems it
ETTEACTE PROSE }AMU RESPECTING RIVISION Of this la
eon iteroll4 IN INDIA, PRESENTED TO rile Honour,
noun or counties, IN 7URSUANC4 or °limns Resider
sue THAT PURPOSE. amount
estailisl
(Concluded from our ta?er of yesterday.) the pole
11. The Board of Revenue has also been diretled portion
to regulate the establishments to be maintained for pany to
the colleflion of the revenues of the ceded and con- for the
quered provinces on the same principle.
le. Your Honourable Court is apprized, that, and for
the course of the late war with the Marhattah c - gess of
derates, Dowlut Rao Scindia and the Rajah of Be- am situ
rar. several corps of cavalry and of infantry desert. which
ed from the service of the enemy, and entered the equal t
service of the Company. The service; rendered to servant
the British Government by those irregular corns, of the
here been extremely useful, but the expence of their „pea
maintenance has occasioned 4 considerable pressure of civil
on the public finances, from. which it is desirable duties
they should be relieved at the earliest period of time
which may be praflicable. An arrangement Mr 25'
been e
this purpose has accordingly been suggested to the
accom
liononrable the Commander io Chief, and
the potrernnr-General in Council entertains a confi- 61)1"
mit th
dent expedation that the Honourable Company will
the pr
*eon be entirely relieved from the expence. The
details of_the proposed arrangement, which will also .11ICY
provide fur the future maintenance of the European Pe"ce
sanfth
o:tilei s, formerly in the pay of the confederates, who
reiinsmithed the Marhattah service under the-pro- cases
flametions of the Governor-General in Council of cases '
the tfoth of August and 16th of September, 1801, the at
will hcreaiter he stated to the Secret Committee of it m!
26
your Honourable Court, from the political departs '
the el
went.
13. The operation of these measures will reduce ennsil
the expense of all the establishments in the ceded Resit
and in the conquered provinces, to the lowest scale todi
compatible with the public service ; and it may be mthsi
conndently expeded, when they shall be carried Rill
into complete execution, and when a settlement shall wt.°
be formed of our newly acquired territories (tor Goal
which the rdera have already been issued), that 27
they will yield a large surplus revenue to the Corn- are t
. par y, alter provisions shall have been made for Gem
every charge upon the collections for the necessary
Increase of our regular military establishments, and Cow
Resi
for the pecuniary obligations contracted by the Bri-
tish Govecnntent under the treaty of Suje Aojen- be d
gum including the expense of a snitable gent
won for His Majesty Shell Allum, and for the royal prat
household at Delhi. if pi
14. The attention of the Governor General in Res"
Cornea has likewise been directed to the accom- chat
rentplash of every practicable iednelion in every the
other department of the service. van
a
ii. The necessary arrangements haire been made a;
for withdrawing the settlement of Ralarthangan of
_I
ander the orders of your Honourable Court, corn- Dm
municated in a late letter to the Right Honourable
the Governor in Council of Fort St. George. Bo]
16. The establishment of Fort Marlborough has toe]
been placed under the immediate controul -of the
Board of Trade at Fort William ; the commission "°
granted to Mr. Ewer has been annulled ; and Mr. tit°
Thomas Parr, a civil servant of the Company. undst Re
this Presidency, of approved integrity and talents,
has heed appointed to the office of Resident at F art
• hlerlberough, arid to the general charge of the af- °l'
faits of the Company on the island of &mere. Nto
tinder this arrangenunt, the charge of that settle- m'
merit will b- reduced to the lowest scale compatible en
with the maintenance of any establishment for cum-
to
at'
Martial pueposes at Fort Marlborough.
17. On the 4th of April last, the Lieutenant Go. i P°
vcsnor taf Prince of Wake Istend was required to tal
make every pradiceble redcaps.' in the charge of at
that settlement, and en no account to incur any ex-
tracndinary expeate, except in case of unavoidable "
necissi!y, without the express sanflion of the Go= w
vernor General in Council. 'I he tnture charge of I
the settlement of Prince of %Vales' Island must c f
course be regulated with reterence to the arrange- I °'
meat under the consideration of your Hnnouretle
Court, adverted to in a lettei from your becretat y,
dated tne 3d December, 1804.
IS. A considerable redation of the public ex- b
penditure will be efiefled by the operaron of the b
orders recenely passed by the Governor-Central in
Council, on, a revision of the charges incurred in the t
maintenance of the several Rest. encies established A
fee political purposes at the Courts of the native
pewees of India, ansi at the Poi 'suguese settlement I
at GOA.
in 'nee Resident at Jyr.egur hos been reduced,
and the shales or that offiee liege been annexed to I
the skeet i n t t Resident at Delhi.
/0. The Residency at (.loa has also been reduced,
and the duties of that of& e will in fteure be pet-
formed by the officer-commending the British troops
at GOA, to whom a personal allowance of two
thousand rapers per ',lenient has been granted, in
addition to lite military pay and allowances, in con-
sideration *1 the additional trouble and responsibi-
lity imposed on him by this arrangement. The
Resident at Goa received a monthly salary if three
thousand rupees.
tl. The personal allowances received by all the
remaining Residents at foreign Courts, under the
immediate anthenity of this Gov'ernment, with the
exception of the Resident at Lucknovr, were esta-
blished at their present standard nearly thirty years
ago, and will admit of no redu,ion. The Resi-
dents, however, at the Courts of Poona, Ile-
derailed, blaugpore, Mysore, Delhi, and at the
Court of Don Ent Rao Scindis, have been required on
)
no account to permit their charge for table-allaw-
i
- fusee, camp-equipage, and attendants, to exceed
the monthly sure of rupees five thousand re • bun-
. dred and ninety-three, the average amount of the
charge on this account made by the Residents at
Poona and at Hyderabad for severe: years imme-
diately preceding the veer 1798.
The salaty of the Resident at Luck/low
having beets fixed, in the year 1787, at seven the u-
sand rupees per tartistas, including the expellee ~f
table, camp-eqtripege, and attendants, this arrange-
-1 ;Dent required no alteration.
2J. In cenformity with the late orders- of pit
Hononrable•Ceurt, the salaries of the tefieers
ing the sitoa-i on of Secretaries to the Foreign Resl-
s dencies have twin reduced to the sum of seven
hundred end fifty tures per 14.tsetv, and the.r
future tits:emit:en is to be that of First Assistant
to
the Resident.
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