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I,ON DON,
TUESDAY EVENEVG, JUNE 14, 1825.

We have received the French Papers of Satur-
day,.and made the extracts which will be found
in another part of .our Paper. As the Coronation,
with all its attendant fates and grand entrZ.s, is
now over, the good people of Paris must return
to the usual routine of life. The splendours
of the past week, nevertheless, will furnish
food for conversation to enliven their soirees
and compensate, in some degree for the loss
of the excitement public fetes create. Amongst
these. papers will be found an official ac-
count of what a Morning Paper calls the
speech-making that took place between CHARLES
the Tenth and the Diplomatic Corps. We
must testify our astonishment that the Members of
Protestant, reek, and Mahomedan Churches
would permit the Pope's Nuncio to utter senti-
ments opp(Nsed to the fundamental principles of
their own religion in their names. It certainly
is a most edifying example of religious tole-

ration.

In another column will also be found the Ra-
tification of a Second Greek Loan in England,
and some official account of the late progress of
the Greek arms. The accounts from Zante
would appear to want confirmation.

'rhe German Papers bring letters from Naples,
complaining of the variability of the temperature
of the atmosphere. There were two shocks of
an earthquake on the ISt of this month at Modica,
in the province of Syracuse, in Sicily : no damage
was done by them. The following is the only
article worth extracting :
NAPLES, MAY 13.—We have received from Odessa, by an
official channel, notice that the Government of his Majesty the
Emperor of Russia, in order to abolish the abuses teat have
subsisted in. that port, has adopted several regulatior.s, one of
which proscribes that the bill of lading► shall contain an accu-
rate specification not only of the number of the bales, packages,
&c., but also of the weight of such article ; and in case of
fraud the penalty is to be the payment of triple the duty if the
fraud amounts to above 5 per cent., and the confiscation of the
goods if it exceeds 10 per cent. It is also ordered by the Im-
perial Governnent, that every captain of a merchantman shall
be bound to produce at the Custom-house true bills of lading,
and if one is wanting be is to pay a fine of two silver rubles.

Having, in our Paper of yesterday, replied to
the malignant charges which had been exhihited•
against the Law and Prize Agents of the Army
of the Deccan, we proceed to lay before the
public a few more remarks on the article we
complained of. Iu doing this, after the conduct
that the friends of the Trustees have pursued to-
wards the Prize and Law Agents of the Captors,
the Trustees cannot expect much courtesy at our
hands ; but nevertheless we shall endeavour, as
much as in us lays, to set the public right in
several points insinuated, or asserted as facts, in
The English Gentleman, with as. much modera-
Gun as.is consistent with our notions of what is
due to individuals who have bPPII untruly and
most wickedly slandered. In the first place,

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then, in order to give a semblance. of truth to tha
charge of a desire to go to law, a copy of a letter
from the Trustees to Sir 'l'. Iluir.op is given.
This letter sap—
" We hope there will be no occasion to proceed in any man-
ner towards the Court of Directors of the East India Company,
other than that ;Melt will be most conciliating and amicable,
in order to-recover from the East India Company every de-
scription of ritii'perty belonging to the Crown as booty, in con-
sequence of the operations of his Majesty's and the East India
Company's troops in the late war in the Deccan."

Now, the natural inference to be deduced from
this paragraph is, that Sir T. ilist.or had, in his
letter to the Trustees, to which the above is the
reply, urged the necessity of taking legal steps
against the East Indi:s Company, in order to re-
cover the booty granted to the Army of the
Deccan by the Crown. What, however, is the
fact, viz. that nothing in the letter tended to any
such proposition ; but we give a copy of the
letter and the public n ill thence judge for
themselves.

" 'With reference to that part of my letter above-mentioned,
which averted to papers recently received by Major Wood from
Major-General Sir Lionel Smith on the subject of booty cap-
tured in the territories of the late Peishwah in 1817 and 1818,
I have now the pleasure to subjoin copies thereof.. I have not
failed, before transmitting them to your hands, to peruse them
with attention, and now venture, after the fullest consideration
on the suggestion set forth in the printed Supplementary State-
ment annexed, to express the conviction I feel that the interests
of the Army under your protection will be essentially benefited.
should your Grace and Mr. Arbuthnot deem it proper to give
the requisite legal authority by Power of Attorney to the Major
General, to prosecute, if necessary, the Rights of the Crown "to
all the treasure and property belonging to the State of Poonch."
Is there any thing in this that would warrant
such an idea, or even if there was, the express
'words of Sir THoNt.ks Ills Lop denying that he
ever intended any such thing, and explaining
what he did mean, is entitled to some weight,•
and should have been attended to. Sir TuomA4,

in a letter to the Trustees, dated 22d January

1825, says—

" As the letter which I had the honour to receive from your'
Grace and Mr. Arbuthnot, of the 6th of November, alluded to
hostile proceedings, I think it necessary to state, that nothing
was further from my intention or that of the Legal Advisers
of the Army in submitting to you the document of the 25th
of October last, than to suggest hostile proceedings against
the East India Company. On the contrary, the suggestion of
giving authority to Sir Lionel Smith arose out of the nature of
the suit which had been instituted by the East India Company
at Bombay, as establishing a general principle most important'
to the interests of the Army, and the expediency of giving
authority to some officer in India to act in aid of the Company
in that suit, to which (as an unauthorised person had been al-
lowed at Bombay to assist the Law Officers of the Company ill
their proceedings) no objection could be anticipated upon their
part, and to take up the suit not as against the Company, but
for the Crown, against the native Atneerchund Badehund, in
case a disposition should be shewn by the Law Officers of the
Company in India to abandon it, when it was discovered that
success in it would not benefit the Company."
We have mentioned this circumstance, because

the author of the article in The English Genlle
man intended that statement to work by infer-
ence, and thus to save himself from being at'
cused of making direct charges, for which there
was no foundation. Independently of this, there
is another fact, viz. that the Agents have alwayo
deprecated law proceedings, and with good rea'
son too, foe besides the fact, that they would
not conduct any suit the Trustees might deem it
proper to institute, us they employ their owo

Solicitor, they could have no relish for legal pro-
ceedings when they are at this moment under
large advances on the credit of the prize fund/
advances necessarily made to oppose the claims
of the Company and Grand Army before the
Privy Council, and in order to carry on the htl3l-
- of the Prize Agency. It is not to be fo;'"
gotten that Sir T. IlistoP was more intereOeti
than even the Trustees could be to prevent liti-
gation, because the amount of the costs he woad
have to pay would be in exact proportion to his
share of the Prize-money.

The next point is, the assertion " that an order
is already half way to India divesting the Ind s'
Company of the retention of the prize mon"Y'
and investing it for distribution, with all the ac"
cumulating interest, to the order of the trustees2'
We shall not quarrel with the language of tlii§
paragraph, because, as far as we can collect its
meaning, we have a full answer for it, althongh
otherwise we might easily say we cannot under""
stand it, for it is very difficult to shew how 3
person would be divested of his retention. Tl`c
fact meant to be alleged, however, is, we belietfel
that an order is half way to India, commaudio6
the Deccan prize money to be placed to the order'
of the trustees for distribution. If this is fact,
all we can say is, we rejoice that after all the
delays and vexations the Army has endured iu tlll5
matter the day of distribution is near at hand
But we must he allowed to doubt the Witt'
of this assertion, for we have heard that the
trustees with singular, but unaccountable de-
licacy, expressed their desire to the East fill
Company that they should retain possession °
the money.
We have before us their Letter of April, 155'
refusing to apply to the East India Companf

the sums K hich had been paid into their rffe*4

sury expressly as prize, till the event of the dis-
pute between Ihe,Grand Army and the Army of
the Deccan was known. Why they refused to
apply for this money is unaccountable; they
were furnished with the dates when it
was received, and with a copy of the order of
the Governor-General, directing its payment.
With reference to the value of this booty the
English Gant:man has put it at 700,0001., and re-
jects with apparent disdain the idea that it should
amount to five millions. We do not pretend to
dispute the accuracy of the statement. We
will be content with merely saying, that judging
by the returns which are even now before us, the
value must greatly exceed the 700,0001., although
perhaps it may fall short of five millions. But
this dispute, as to the value of the booty, is only
another proof of the absolute necessity of per-
mitting the Law Agents of the Army of
the Deccan to inspect all the papers now
the possession of the Trustees relative to
this Prize. The Army believe it to be much
more, three millions at least, and were not likely
at any time, still less after the vexatious delays
to which they have beets subjected, to be satis-
Cli'd with the mere assertion of time Trustees, that
their claims are reduced to less than a third of
what they had good ground to believe them to be.
In confirmation thereof, we beg leave humbly to
submit to the notice of the Trustees the follow-
ing short statement, obtained by chance on turn-
ing over the pages of the CiaiMs of the Army of
the Deccan, part first, Poonah. It is an extract
of a letter from Captain BRIGGS to Sir 'Thomas
litseor. Ile says—
" I have been employed, with the aid of my brother and Mr.
Barris, in packing it (the treasure) properly in bags, and num-
bering them
.for the last three days and have this day finished :
it it all gold and jewel:, and nearly fill: a tumbrill. The whole
is estimated at half a million sterling."
So much for the value of the booty. The jewels
sPokett of in the article in question were taken
and are claimed, and form a large part of the
prize. On the subject of the buildings, it is pro-
Per to say, that the claim for them has been
abandoned. It was never set up as against the
Crown, but only as against the East India Com-
PanY) who had pulled down and sold the mate-
rials of some, and adopted others as offices,
wherein the public business is now carried on.—
It Was considered that as the Company, on the
'determination of their chartered rights, would
clairn compensation in respect of these buildings
from the public, the Captors were entitled to the
value of them.
or We come now to the most extraordinary part
of this
•case' a Part which renders the conduct
r tle Trustees
intelligible, and assigns a reason
I°
hat which heretofore appeared to be the re-
of of whim and carice orperhaps of offended
pride. We p , p
mean the attempt to nominate
CHARLES ARBUTHNOT and Mr. ARCIIIBALD
(ItkPaeLL,
Agents,tae joint Prize with Majors
~
00 ,E) and CADELL. It is necessary here to in-
form our readers, that the reward assigned by Act
Parliament to the Prize Agents for their la-
bour and trouble in business connected with
e4PtilfeS is five per cent. upon the proceeds
and estimating the value of the booty in
.
this case, even at the sum of 700,0001.,
the share of Mr. C. ARBUTHNOT, the son of the
Trustee of that name, would amount to 8,7501.,
atilt, estimating the value of the booty at its
ore probable amount, near five millions, some
idea may be entertained of the strong amitiety
ARBUTHNOT must feel to place his son within
the reach of so lucrative a post. Major
Woon
uost
properly
resisted a nomination which inter-
te-
red so unceremoniously with the rights vested i
hirn and his friend Major CADELL, as the
e3,lze Agents of the Army—rights, be it observ-
. indefeasible even by the Crown itself', and
which, therefore, it never could be supposed it
;41:the intention of the KING to grant away.—
Foie Part of the warrant under which this ap-
,. Qtrnent is pretended to be justified is as
ollows
end fur the better and more speedily and effectually reco-
the said booty, or the proceeds or value thereof, we do
tin
one
authorise and empower our said Trustees to appoint any
or on .Prr3on or persons under them, to act in their names
.7o: °chair in relatiori thereto, or to carry on any :rest or
014: )"' eed"ig, under the authority, and by Me direction of
0ce4:141. CononZtsioners of our Treasury, as need may be, or
such rell4re, azd us, award and allow to each and every of.
rnonelerlen Or Persons so to be .:2pointed, such sum or sums of
jun
reYnilahall.
appear to them,, out said Trustees, a fair and
. remuneration for their ai,d each of their services, in and
4°°Ut
the PterniSes "
Is i
t
Woulthere any timing in tiie.se words that
pre: go to justify time act the Trustees
,sod to attempt under time authority of
al We do not dispute the right to appoint
agents t
otit
of assist the trustees, who shall be paid
we he general proceeds of the captures, but
• the
etLraY! time construction contended for by
Pri • zide is a monstrous violation of every
',opt, 0, .
or
these
,0:our 4,aquirsy. As to the youth of
w agents; it is nothing to the pur-