The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-08 00:00:00

FILES IRWIN, Esq.

On Tuesday the 13111 nit. died at Clifton in the 70th year
of his age, Eyles Irwin Esq. formerly of the East India Com-
pany's civil establishment at Madras, and for many
rars one of its distinguished ornaments. Tbis Gen-
tleman, approved in every station, and in the foltilment
of every duty confided to him, was selected by the late Earl
Vlacartney, at a crisis of popular exigency, as a Nlember of
the Con ;;;; ittee instituted by hi, Lordship for the manage-
ment of the territory and revenues of the Carnatic, and was
afterwards intrusted with the care and administration of the
important provinces of Tiunivelly, and Madurith, and the
arduous task of negoeiating with, and conciliating thePoligar
chiefs. 'lbis refractory tribe nurtured in arms, and, by the
oppressive exactions of the Nabob's managers, habituated
to the use of them, had been accustomed to yield only to
military coercion, until Mr. Irwin, by a just and lenient sys-
tem of conduct, which sought its object only in the plain and
simple path of integrity and candour. so completely won
their confidence, that (to use the words of the Committee in
their official report to Lord Marartneyl " no force was re-
I (mired in the district to overawe the Poligars ; and their con.
fitletice in the company's justice was such, that a single
message drew the most powerful of them from their woods
to pay their tribute, or give any proof of obedience that was
demanded; they protected the property of the Government
and of the husbandman, paid the stipulated tribute with the
greater' will of their fixed balances, and in less than two
years the Company had received nearly half the into of the
Sabots's collection in eighteen." To Heuer who ate act-laint-
.

e.I with the made and roily prejudices of this race of men,
the following fo•ts will be equal to it volume in proof of the
esteem and respect with Vikick Mr. Irwin had inspired them.
'the piincipal Poligar Chief, having informed himself of the
hoar fixed on for Its departure front the district, met him on
the road, and pot several bags of money into his palankeen,
int eating him. now that he was no longer in Lidice to accept
of them as a mark of his esteem. Disappointed of his par-
' pose by Mr. It win's positive refusal, and yielding to the im-
mediate impulse of giltittide, the Poligar after taking an
affectionate farewell, placed his own shoulder tinder time bam-
boo of the palatikeen. and for a short distance assisted in
carrying it. Soon after the restoration of the country to the
Nabob, Mr. Irwin ret aimed to Europe for a second time, and
a narrative of his first voyage up the Red Sea to Suez, and of
his journey trier the Deserts, was published by hint in Ii S 7,
in a series of letters, containing a g I eat deal of interesting in-
forination r...veting the countries through whir It he hail
travelled,given in an elegant and perspicuous style. In 1795,
he published "An Enquiry into the Supposed Expedition of
Ittionapartc to the East," in which he showed the litter im-
possibility of accomplishing that event, which► at the time
so genually apprehended.

On Tuesday last a large Spanish brig, captured off
the Azores by an Insurgent South American privateer,
was brought into the harbourof liingle—she was Ixnond
. fin. Buenos Ayres with a cargo of brandy. The prize-
master who brought her in is s Mr. O'Connor, who, it
appears, is a native of Dingle. The validity of her cap-
ture will, no doubt, become a diseussiuniu the Admiral-
ty Courts.—(Enni.s. Chronicle.)

A Correspondent states, that by attending to the
following hints, forged, shillings may be discovered at a
glance :—On the head side of the lbrgery, in the motto,
the 111. and the 1). G. are closer than on the genuine ;
at the end of the motto, on the forgery, two points
thus : arc wanting. On the reverse side, the centre of
the arms is big-heron the forgery than on the genuine ;
and at the joining of the garter, at the bottom, the
three imitatios holes arc raised instead of sunk on the
forgery.