The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-18 00:00:00

MARQUIS WELLESLEY.

THE following Extracts froth Sir GEORGE'DAL-
LAS'S Vindication of the Justice and Policy of the
late Wars carried on in Hindostan and the Decan,
will serve in a great•degree to refute, the Attacks of
Mr. PAULL on the Marquis WELLESLrY and to
shes,v; if he was sincere in these AttackS, and not
aauated by personal: pique, on • account of the re-
fusal of favours which he had improperly request-
ed, particularly, after those .which 'he had received
from ,the Marquis, that the views of Mr. PAULL are
the result of a narrow mind, wholly incapable, of
comprehending the scope of those measures which
he has. so a&iyely and. so -rancorously endeavoured to
'icpreciate in the eyes of mankind.

" The period of our decline in India seemed not
to be remote, unless a counterpoise should be-pro-
vided by a correspondirig increase of strength-on our
part, sufficient to free us from the danger rapidly ap-
proaching in the augmented power and resources
of those States . which appeared "the most likely
hereafter to contend with us for empire in that-
quarter. The treaty of Worgautn, the recapture of
Bidanore, and the surrender of its garrison under
General Matthew,. tbe destruetion of Colonel Bail-
lie's brave detachment, and the occasional retreat of
our,rnain.armies on both coasts before Hyder and

Tippoo, have since sufficiently shewn the rising mi-
litary strength of the native States of India, and. the
consequent decline of the military dominion .of the
Company. But an terior..to these events the danger was
too evident not to be perceived ; and the necessity,
with a view to the preservation of our power, of
assuming, at. a just and favourable moment, a wider
grasp of aEtion, shad become apparent to all who
watched attentively the seeds and progress of this
danger. In the growing improvements of the na-
tive-armies, our expulsion .was .be seen ; and a
change bad already been effected in our general re-
lations with the country powers, and in the military
and political strength of the leading States, which
silently menaced our existence. ~.Tl7iss „change was
only to be met by departing from the line of policy
laid down in earlier times,.and under different cir-
cumstances.. An enlargement of &minion, an ex
tension of revenue, a redueiion of French- influence, •
a more formidable military establishment in all .re-
speals, judicious Aliances, with some of the leading
States, a less dangerons construdion and combina-
tidn-Of their force,. and a preponderating weight in
the principal durbars of the East, founded in the sa-
lutary fear of our power, no less than in a just con-
fidence in our friendshil3—these were the only
Counterpoises that could be applied successfully. to
'the preservation of an empire which national in-
jury, and not lust of power, threw in our way—and
with tthese.bulwarka SubseqUent circumstances amp-
ly.furnished us; without the imputation of injustice
on our part.
" Predatory irruptions, foreign and internal op-
p'r.essionS and exaaions, perfidy, domestic murders,,
public massacres, famine,.depopulation, and wide-
spreading misery—this is their system—these have
been the Volcanoes Which too long have encircled_
our possessions, and overflowed the plains of ,India.
To extinguish them is no more than justice to our-
selves ; to close their career, the sublimest humani-
ty to the sutfering-millidris whd have long been ex-
po'sed tocirravges. This has been the polio your
s..cittitrTeitandeki-,-this••has been the course to
which our glory pointed ; and - this has. been the
successful end to which the, exertions of Lord Wel-
lesley have tended. .

"In the tranquillity of the native States tbrough•-
fain the Decan and Hindostati,he traces not merely a
more solid security for the preservation of our own
power, but in the advantages of peace to them he dis-
cerns fresh sources of prosperity,to ours ' .-lVes• the con-
ditinu of society meliorated ; our political relations
improved ; the industry of India' reanimated strife
disarmed ; jealousy restrained ; new channels of
commerce opened ; the interchange of produce en-
larged ; the Merchants of India journeying in secu-
rity from, one State to another ; our home manufac-
tures reaching countties where before they never -
entered ; an improved revenue to' the Company and ,
the State ; The vast peninsula of India reposing after
the convulsion of centuries ; its 'rest secured by ju-
dicious alliances, and, well poised power ; the war-
like tribes which cover it. restrained in their preda-
tory habits, and gradually incited by the sweets of
peace to turn their attention to the happier pursuits
of commerce and•biagriculture, instead of moiSten-
lit, as heretofore, their plains with the 'blood of
each other ; and lastly, the national character and
honour exalted by the sublime result of so gener-
ous and elevated a line of policy: These-happy ends
be traces as a consequence from the principle of
establishing, through a system of well distributed
power, a Surable peace among the different States'
of India, and more immediatelY of those compo.sing
the Mahratta Confederacy. In this Way he sees,
;:s4t individual benefit is general good ; -that the
misery-ofone State is not the happineSi another ;
but that the prosperity of each increases the felicity
of all This is the system of Lord Wellesley. It
embraces peace, and repudiates war ; it denies that
partial misery is public good; it disowns the prin-
ciple, that the blood of one nation is a desirable of-
fering to the prosperity of another ; it- reje6ts the.
do&rine that, to foment_ their intestine' divisions,
and arm.theM against each other, is a wise or,a dig-
nified line of =dui% either worally or politically
considered ; :but .it admits, as it 'seeks to establish,
that to resist their encroachments, to crush their ex-
actions, to heal their differences, to stifle their wars,
• to curb the enlargement'of their empire, to balance
more justly their power, to uphold the authority of
their Peishwah, or grief. Magistrate, arid; through.
its, stability,'to ameliorate equally the condition of
the Sovereign and the. Subjea, are objeas,of an en-
larged and rational policy ; and that the surest way
of increasing the prosperity of British India, of
strengthening the atikaions of its inhabitants, and
of ensuring to us the general good-will of the great
masses. composing the Subjects of these different
States, is through the medium ••of a lasting peace
guaranteed to them, by a commanding' Power, to
make them participate in the tranquillity, security,
*ld happiness which the Company's Possessions en-
- joy. hest are-the views .of Lord Wellesley, and
this is-the planto the completion of which his at-