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MONDAY, AUGUST so, 181.9.

fact niers/or the purpose of taAing into their serious eoluidee.
Olio's the present distse•ssed state II the labouring orders of the
people with a view to Me devising ry. 3101 measures as would
give instant activity to the surplus lal•orer in the severtil ma-
nufacturing. districts, I am of opt,' on that many expedi-
ents might be resorted to, to effect this; and ratably,
the mintuftctitrers themselves might bring about a co-
operation through the kingdom, for ►he purpose. of
raising the price of labour, and tasking its moderate
exercise sufficient to procure the 'ordinary means of
existence, without the degradamin of parochial aid to
eke out the scanty provision.
" Could the poor but see the rich inreresting them-
selves, to restore to them wart the pressure of the times
has gradually taken away; to what privatams, during
these glom to serve them, would thy slot submit, with
iritient resignation?
" I lore my (mutiny. and greatly value its inhabitants.
I cannot,therefore,contemplate the proposrd•emigrauon
to the Cape of 'Good Hope as at all calculated to relieve
our present distresses. Who, havieg the feelings of an
Enalishman, does not look with affection un the land
of his nativity ?
" let us then cherish that attachment, by a timely
attention to the difficulties end digresses with which
oar suffering brethren arc struuteling. And this will,
-I'll answer for it, call them back to their duty and alle-
giance, and a
themselves the cunn trys • best se fegua rd. 'lite Clown
and waste lands in the United Itiiiisdoin might, in toy
huutble•opinum, be parcelled out, outlier the direction
and smierintetulance of• Boards of Agriculture, composed
of geotlemen who would most cheerfully guse their
services, amongst the unemployed. labourers and their
families, to be held a testis of years free from ma and

taxes.
• Thus would 'profitable activity be given to the la-
bour to mousers& of families, and. the districts where
they are now hardly existing on paimerion, be relieved
front a weight of expense which prodnees general dis-
tress and dais:inky. Tois measure would give au in-
creased value to the labour that remains; and it would
be sought for at a price that w old sustain life in
coot lon.
• Should this plan he resort& to (and it has the
sanction of a noble Earl, who is also the Lord Lieuie-
nant of a northern district), no man whose opinion is
worthergarding, would dare to say, that it is a cotters-
. dun prompted by .fear ; because the ;precautions taken
by Government and all the constituted anthorities
through the nation, are of that inrinidaitle kind that can-
not hut convince the most tirsperioy, that in the event
.4)t• a general cunflict nothing but destruction awaits
thefts. l'he present poor-rates of tile country antuuut
ammally to 10,000.0001. or 14,0tfli,0001.; tf what ,1
would most respectfully reconsurensi were ha:comp on
a broad scale by Gine 11111 l tint. s fourth (glints pan of
this amount might be fairly called for and easily fur-
' nishod, u the means by which usiestry into effect the
proposed measure, because the operation of it would take
the poor out of the several districts where they areihe
most hurdeusonte ; and, as a necessary cousequesice,
would give a proponionately additional valise tie every
man's property so relieved.
• 'ln ascertain die degree of distress prevailing
through this country, (and which arsine people effect to
dinr), aeu 1111 l Lissom ofeespectahle independent, and
humane men, might to be appointed, coneet le to obtain
the number of lautilies nut of employ went who are wil-
-1 ling to vork, their gestural character-, mita! occupations,
wed how hog leor state (/'things Los ended trytongsl A(
" Should this imperfect sketch noble katrl, be found
to contain any thine worthy thy notice and attention, I
shall indeed greatly rejoice; and 1 do trust, that the
motive by which I ass actuated will be admitted as a
sufficient apology for the freedom I have exercised ; and
ihat thou wilt believe me to be, with all.due raise:nee
and respect.
" Thy obliged, and sincere friend,
" ibuo.lo. " DAVID 1104. T."

SU.PPI.P)IEN'T TN Til 1? LnNDO.V C.-IZETTE,
OF TUE-DAY, THE Mu OF AUGl7'l'.

TRIDAT. AUOUSC 1819.

India-Board, Aug. '27.

Dispatches have been received at the East India
House from the Governor in Council at Bombay,
respectively, dated the (kit, 20th, and Slat of
March, and 24th April, 1519, of which dispatches,
and of their inclosures, the followin; :u•.: extracts
and Copies:—

Extract from a Dispatch ft am the GOVerilat io COanCil
at Itaalialy 10 the neetet Commit tr t, March It, 1819.

We have the honour to acquaint your Honour-
able Committee, that the military operations, under
Major-General William Grant Keir, inSawunt-
warree, have been marked with mum a degree of
promptitude, cfiergy, and vigour, on the part of
the Major.Genertd, apd the Officers and then em
ploycd under his command, as to merit the highest
commendation; and we have much 3mi:4-Action in

'NICE a

transmitting, for the information of your Honou.
able Committee, the copy of a dispatch from the
Major-General to the Adjutant-General of the
Army, reporting the details of the capture, by a►-
sault, of the outworks of Rairee, on the 13th of last
month, the effect of -which was attended by the sur-
render of that fortress on the tidlowing morning.,
the greater part of the garrison having evacuated it
during the night.
The short, but brilliant, operations of the force
employed under Sir William Grant }cir, occupied
only a period of seventeen days from the time our
taps passed the frontier, until the conclusion of
the treaty.

[Here follow the General Ordrr of the Government of
Bombay, complimenting the (Miceli/ whit troops on the
orea‘ionj
Copy of a Report from Major-General Sir William
Grant licir to the Adjutant-lienetal, dated Camp
Ktiree, IJtb Fein liar', IKE).

Sot,--I had the honour yesterday evening to fur-
ward a brieif report of the success of the attack on
the enemy's lines before ltatree, and have new the
pleasure to acquai.,t you that the fen was this
morning taken possession of by r. detachment from
my camp.

The difficulties experienced in the disembarkation
of the ordnance and stores retarded our operations
in a considerable degree, but on the night of the
Nth instant we succeeded in erecting our batteries,
and opened on the tort at day-break the next mein-
ing with four battering guns and as toasty eight-
inch mortars, which were swrved with such vigour
and precision as to dismantle the whole of the guns
in the outer works in the course of an hour, when
our fire was directed against the general defence of
the place: about three o'clock a breach was effected
in a curtain of the advanced outworks, and a party
of 350 grenadiers farmed for the assault under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Clifford, of his
Majesty's 89th Tegiment. The troops moved to the
attack about four o'clock, and passed the breach
without difficulty, driving the enemy in consider-
able numbers towards the second lines, which were
immediately carried, and a lodgment effected within
half-musket shot of the upper fort, to which the
enemy were pursued, and many bayonetted at the
lower gate, which was for a short time in our pos-
session. The spirit and rapidity of the attack,
added to the advantageous position which wasgait ed
by the advance of our troops, struck the enemy with
such terror, that nearly the whole of the garrisoa
•e,a:uated the fort during the night.
This morning Satnbajce Sawunt proposed to
'tender, and was permitted to march out with about
fitly adherents, the -small remnant of a garrison,
which is said to "have consisted of near twelve hun-
dred men at the commencement of the siege.
I.beg leave to inclose a more detailed report cf
the attack, 'transmitted by Lieut.-Colonel Clifford
whose conduct on the occasion is deserving of the
highest applause.
.1 have likewise the pleasure to forward a copy c.f
the Field Orders, conveying my sentiments on the
behaviour of the troops, together with a list of
killed and wounded.

I shall march toward Warree in order to arce:e-
rate the treaty with that 6ovecoment, which %ill I
trust be speedily brought to a faroorahleconciusion.
I have the honour to lie, &c.
W. G. Kurt, Major-General.
[if-re fo'dows the 1F.e1.1 (Wet by I.ljor-Griicril Srr
not K. it, K.M. T., complimenting the Of-
fiC el A, trOniox, &C.l

It is in the sontemplatiun of the Magistracy of
Essex to erect a new county gaol or penitentiary,
for the classification of offenders. The spot propo-
sed for the site of the building is on the estate of
Lady Mildmay, at Springfield, opposite the Govern-
ment Depot. The expence of ..voepleting the work
estimated at fifty thousand pounds.
By advises from the Mauritius, dated Mw 11,
we hear that a Dutch ship (4'Bo gams, h den with
spices, has been lost cm the Island of Diego G..rcia.
A Commissary-General, ail Admiral, and 100 men,
had arrived at the Mauritius, and 200 men remain-
ed on the Island.

During the recent Archiepiscopal ei.ita•ion
the county of Kent, his (inlce the Archhishop of
Canterbury confirmed, in the course of his tour,
nearly t &Ave thou 4und individuals,

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lISIT OF lib IlOral, HICHNERS THE DUKE
OF ZI.S.SE_Y TO 11011FOLA.
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His Royal Highness the Hoke of Sussex arrived at
Quiddentrans Hall, on Friday, and remained with Ike Earl
uf Alistmerle till Sundry noun, when his Royal Highoess,
accompanied by Colonel Stevenson, his Secretary, de-
parted in Isis travelling carriage, and Arrived In Norwich
is four o'clock, The road from Mile-end to the gate.,
mod the streets through which it was eapeeteil his Royal
Highness would pass, were more thronged than could
lease been ezireeted, as the services at the different
churches were toot all concluded.
His Royal Highness honoured W. Foster, Esq. wills his
company dosing his stay in Norwich, to whose house, the
Tleyor, Steward, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, in carriages,
preceded by the regalia, immediately repaired to pay their
respects. His Royal Highness receised them in the
drawing-room, where they were severalty introduced by
Mr. Foster. The Manor and Steward approaching his
Royal Highness, the latter addle...sett him as follows :
!"May it please your Raja! iliglosers,
"The Mayor. Aldermen, and Sheriff; of this ancient Corp°.
ration, beg leave to address to your Royal highness their inost
coedial congratulations on your Royal Ilighnevs's arrival within
She walls of Norwich. We are. indeed, unfeignedly rejoiced at
swung your Royal Highness here, the son of our beloved and
r:verod Monarch, and the first and only one who has ever ho-
noured this city with his presence. And the Mayor and Corpo-
ration take upon themselves most confidently to assure your
Royal Highness, that during your stay here, you will not fail
to meet from all ranks of society amongst us, from the lowest
as well as the highest, all those tributes of respectful attention
and grateful greetings to which your Royal Highness's birth,
rank, talents, virtues, and patriouans, so eminently entitle you.
Your Royal Highness needs not to be told, that this city has now
tor centuries been in the full possession and enjoyment of a great
number of invaluable liberties and franchises, granted and secu-
rest to it by a variety of Royal Charters. But your Royal High •
min must he greatly gratified it, being informed, that the sante
spirit of genuine Loyalty that heneroture procured to this city the
favour and patronage of its Sovereigns and Princes of this.emins
try, still continues with undiminished vigour to animate the
breasts of every Norwich Citizen. And your Royal Highness
may be further assured, that in all times. and upon every emer-
gency that may require it, the Citizens of Norwich will ever be
found ready with their lives and fortunes to support, maintain.
glad *defend every legitimate right, prerogative, and dignity of
every branch of the illustrious House of Byunswick. The May-
or and Corporation, from the consciousness they feel of the
truth of this assertion, arc emboldened upon this occasion, hum-
bly to solicit the high honour of enrolling )our Royal Highness's
risme amongst the number of these Citizens; and I have now
the honour of infonning your Royal Highness that in further•
once of this, timrpose, the se hole ihody Corporate have already, at
im assembly especially convened, unanimously voted to you the
Freedom of this City, of which I have now the honour to pray
your Royal Highness s must gracious acceptance."
The trek.• replied inn, Is la the follow tesi; words:
"Mr. Mayor and Cientleturn.
" I have great satisfActien in being the first of my family who
has visited tins respectable City. Tne sentiments, however, of
my Brothers towards it are certainly in petit:et unison with my
own, and the principles by which they as well as myself are
Actuated. are such as doubtless tend to secure the best interests
of the country, and to cement that friendship and allegiance be-
tween Prince and People so mem* to their mutual happiness.
It hiss always been the wish of our family to reign in the hearts
Of their subjects, which is a better secunty for the happiness of
the People and the stability of the Throne than ;Any thing that
could be produced by the efforts of depotism, if I may be allow-
ed the expression. I accept the offer made me of the Freedom
sil your City, and if you feel flattered by my acceptance of the
honour, I certainly feel doubly gratified by the motives which
have induced you to confer it on use, and by the handsome man-
slot it, which it has been conveyed."
'flue Nintor risen adthe.e.l the Royal Duke:

•' Your Royal Highness having condescended to dp tht Cor-
poration the honour of consenting to accept the Freedom of this
City, when will your Royal Iliglinesb be pleased that the Corpo-
ration ►hall attend you at the Guildhall, in order that you may
be sworn."

His Highness sail that he would have the honour of at.
tending the COrpolalion at the Hall on Tuesday morning,
tit eleven o'clock. The Mayor then ietpiesied the honour
of rittertaining his Royal Highness with a dinner, before
he left town ; when the Duke said an indispensable en-
gagement obliged him to leave the city on Tuesday morn-
ing, and therefore he most decline the kind invitation.—
the Mayor suggesting the poseibility of his returning
by Norwich, the Hoyai Duke expressed himself obliged;
but that was nut piouable. However, he continued, al-
iglu this is the first time of my visiting Nioi wick, it
nosy nut be the last.
The Rua before Mr. f'oster's house and Quern-street
were thronged trUill the lime his Royal Highness aleived
until halt w the tithing. As the to; ination were retiring
his lioyal Highness thirst up the a isiduw, and remained
some time bowing, and was Vial rnly greeted clapping
of Wilds Wilt wavwq ut bats. His Huval Highness also
gratified the curiosity ut the inhabitable by tepratediy
spew mg himself Jutting the evening.