The Sun.
London, England, 1807-05-16 00:00:00

DONCASTER, MAY 15.

Wednesday being appointed for the norntriation
of Candidates to .represent this County in Parliament,
a very numerous and regle(t.able. Melding of the
Freeholders toOk place in. the Castle-Yard.
FOU'I'AYNE WILSON, Esq. the High Sheriff, ha,
ing opened the Meeting in .a neat, appropriate Ad-
dress, Sir R. 1.)14/.;CY HILbYARD Said,,he had again
the honour to propose Mr. WILBSR,FORCE j he 'vas
seconded by BACON FRANK, Esq.
Mr, LASCRLLiS waSpropoied liy J. B. S. MER RI1:,
F.;ci. and seconded by Mr. FIARDY, the Recorder of
Lectis.

" Lord Mittog was pmposedtiy Mr. FAwkEI, and
seconded by Sir FKANCIS LYNDLEY WOOD.
A show of hands took place for each Candidate;
when the High Sheriff declared; that there appeared
a considerable majority in favour 'of Mr: WiLIY4II-
-and. Me. LAscELLEs. A 801 l was, however,
demanded by LOrd Mp..-rotl,, which comthencos on
Thtirsday nest. Notwithstanding the extreme wi t-
neis of the day, the attendance of the- Freeaolderi
was as numerous as was ever renietnbeied on any
sitnilar,occasion.

PORTSMOUTH, inr 15.--Arrived the 11 ardij Gin-
vessel, Lie'itt Pl3llDitlAti, froni a Ci-ttize 3 the Fury •,
Bomb, Capt. Grnsou, 'with a Convoy frOai-lhe
Downs.

Sailed the jint.Schooper, tieut..l3lat; ; the Zetr4
Bomb on a Crtrize ; arid the ....pztrtan;
for London from Gibraltar.

The Newersis Frigate, wlth the Newfoundland Con-
voy, are, together with the Cork Fleet; detained froUi
sailing-by contrary winds.

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;YARMOUTH-, MAY 14.—Arrived the Bohouts, Bo-
GliE'N, from Barcelona ,to Flensburgh, with bran:ly
and nuts; sent in by the Oberon Sloop of War;
The Vixen Gun-brig sailed this morning with a
Convoy for Tonningen ; the Censor Gun-brig for
Hull, to take the Hull Ships to the Baltic; 'and the
Wanderer Sloop of War on a Cruize off the Texel.
Fleet in the Roads, under Admiral Ru isEL :

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Dictator, Roebuck; Orion, -Namur, .Agameinnon, Ruby,
Goliath, and Vanguard Men of War; Solebay, Qiietic, As-
trea, and L'Aimable Frigates; Finn and Archer Gun.brigs.

WILLIAM SAURIN, Esq. baS been appointed hia
Majesty's Attorney-General for Ireland, in the room
'of Mi. PLUNKETT.. Mr. SAURIN'S high charaCiet at
the Bar, and his' services as Conaithatider of the Law-
yers' Corps, from its formation, to the year 1.800, de-
manded this "tribute Of approbation and Confidence
frOm the Government of Ireland.

The ElectiOn far the county of Durham i. likely
to be_ conducted in a manner which is highly credit-
able to the parties. Sir'T. LIDDEI.L. has set a noble
example,. by declaring. a wish that the Electors
should not stand pledged to him tintil the Nornina=
don be made.

The Rev. Mr. NAiEs, whose literary and critical
,talents are well known, has resigned the situation
which he held in.the British Museum.

Yesterday .we received, from New South Wales,
the Sidney Gazettes to theA of November inclu;,
sive. The scarcity of grain was at that period so
great, that wheat had been selling for several days
at 41. per bushel, and: the price ot the 21b. loaf had
risen to 4s. tid. Two. (parts of green barley just
gathered sold for ss. At, the market on the Ist of
November not a grain of either Wheat or maize
made its appearance. Fowls sold at from Rs. to los.
per couple, and eggs at 3s. per dozen. At the mar-
ket on the sth, no wheat' was to be had and very
little maize. Potatoes were eagerly bought at from
4d. to sd. per pound; and the supply of vegetables
in general very scanty. To add to the distress of
the colony, several fields of young corn has been
wholly destroyed by the grub. Considerable reliet
was, however, expe&ed from the approaching har- ,
vest;
,Three men convicted of robbery, whose:
names-were, JOHN MURPHY, DENNIS KANEEN and
WILLIAM MASON, were executed on the 28th of
October. MURPHY, whose real name was Ca Aw-
Li-,r, was a native of London. 505E141 MORSTOLI,
Who was convide4, with them, was reprieved on
condition of .hi,s becoming a transport for life. The
Atlantic, Capt. SWAIN, arrived from the Fishery, on
the 7th of November, with 750 barrels of oil.

The trial of Andrews, for Swindling and Felony,
is put off to next Sessions.
The report of the dispatches from Admiral Loots,
which were on board the crafty Schooner, having
fallen into the hands of the enemy, we are happy to
say is unfgunded.. They were destroyed before the
Vessel was captured. • •
On. Thursday afternoon, between two and three
o'clock,, as one of the Clerks belonging to an emi-
nent Banking-house was returning home, he was
attackCd in Lombard-street by ,three desperadoes,
who cut his poCket-book out of his.pocket, contain-
ing, it is sail:, Bank cf Engituld notes; to the amount
of nearly ten thOnsand pounds, with which they gat
clear off. _

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• Miss Oth:NSO:;'3 Wild Irish Ohl,' bids. fair to ri-
val the Winter in London,' in.the number of i.s
editions.

MUTINY AT VEZLORE.

(Cove/tided from Yestody )

We come now to the History of
.the Regulations
which served -as the pretext to, and were followed
by, the Mutiny and Massacre at Vellore. N GeL
IlvraL,3S It wilt be seen to the facis to form the
leadifig parts of this Narration, mho oath prikeeded,
from tins country to India, lias p.tid a higher and
more particular regard.to the antient customs and
prejudices of the Native Tr6ops, or was penetrated
with a stronger repugnahce. to any. a4t which should
directly or indirectly violate them.
To the beginning of the year 1806 there existed
no body 'of Standing Orders for a battalion of Native
Stpoys, sip nrcesstry for the uniformity of discipline,
throughout the whole of that great part of our forces,
and without which they are brought with so much
Js facility to act together : In "many of,the Na
time Corps there was no body of Standing Orders at
atl fbr many others, Were censurable for
glaring deficiencies. A recentt-inspeCtion of those
. corpS•had brought. all theSe errors to. light, and deter-
niined GoVernMent to dire& a body of Such Orders
to be -drawn .up by die Deputy Adjutant-General
(Major PitucE), to be toll )\vel by every.regiment
• hi the
,seryice : in this compliation tint Officer kept
in-his eye the :forMer most approved Regulations of
this kind (h)," which had been adopted by particu-
lar corps..
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As general instruction to him in the execution
of, this great object, the Commander. in Chief had
direcied him to note, with red ink, ail matter in the
least different from loaner praktites'and Usages(t)."
'He seems to have understood this of 'the usages di-
reCied in the majority of the existing book's of Stand-
' irig Orders/for the different corps.
When this work i.c:as completed, it was submitted
by 'Major PIERCE te'the General, who assembled, to
assist him in the examination' of it, the Adjtitant-
eral Lient.-Colorfel AGNEW his Deputy, Ma-
jor PIEnCt, to wham the first dtawin up of the
whole had been confided; and the Quarter Master
General. Lieiit.-Col. Ottß. This examination had
lwi.ted many, daYs :every Regidition Was discuSsed
paragraph by paragraph.. At.the meeting when the
Order to pikohibit- the. Sepoys appearing under arms
With the marks of Cast came under discussion, the
Adjtitant-General andlis Deputy only were present.
At that time, on the last reading thereof, General
CaAnoocx objeaed to it, as " an impolitic interter-
, ence with the customs itndprelft.:ices of the Hin-
doos ;" and " stated his dislike to touch in any
shape on the customs of Cest(c)." And, after the
adoption of it,. in his
,letter to the Rightlion. the.,
G ,vtr:),,r in Council, on the 9th of July (the very
day preceding the fatal scenes at Veliox), admitting
of the 'absurdities of this branchot their superstition, .
he yet says,that " they are prejudices dear' to the
Hindoos 4s'their existence."
'This, if there is no more hereafter_ to be urged,
would be sufficient to-strew the utter aversion of Gen.
CRADDOCK to Oirti'iDg viOlence to the prejudices of
superStitton, and what has been ot het wise called the
rights of erroneous'conscience but that this :princi-
pie of the Government, which in,theahstraa is very
lust, should. lA applicable against the Order, it must
have been pro'ved that this.temporary direlialon of
the rnaks of Cast was hOstile to its laws, as construed
by the Hindoos themselves : but when he:urged
the objection, with this strength and those marks of
,perstrasion in its force, to the Adjutant and.D:puty-
.Adjutant Genera], men high
,in, ability, and of long
experience in every thing relating to the manage-
ment of the NatiVe Troops, and long ,in the com-
mand of them, " they appealed to the observations
he might have made in the Variouslaattalions he had
inwei.ted, none of Whom on duty retained the marks
of Cast." They urged, that to abstain from them
'' was the invariable prae_iice of the service ;" and
certainly not to be considered " as novel, or an inno-
vation, but what custom, if not remote regulation,
had long e:ilabliThed; although not' always rigidly ad-
hered to(d) " As we have admitted that it was
soisietitnes Waived, we shall state the cause of dis-
penSation. The Hindu°, obliged to hasten from the
performanCe of his'religiouS ceremonies to-his mili-
tary duty, with the Marks of 'Cast,. was ordinarily.not
turned out of the ranks. And in the account we
follow of representations made by these expe-
rienced Officers to Genial CRADDOCK on this' head,
we do not find the following, which we are confi-
dent must 'have been at that conference advanced :
" that the Order exits in express words in many
orderly books(e) ;"-i- and in the corps in WhoSe books
it is omitted, " it 'is- obeyed in all; at least without' a
known exception." This Major PIERCE, who copied
the Words of those books into the new Regulation's,
certainly did not-forget to urge in this conference on
the Order with the General.
These representations were' of a force to compel
the Com:nander in Chief to withdraw his objections
to.the Order, with whatever partiality' he had at first
suiVeyed then) relatively. " stranger in the coun-:
try at the time," he thus writes to Major PIERCE. :
‘`.Could I oppose to the experience' of the principal
SOff Officers 'Of the Honourable Company's Army,
My single sentiment, and -direct the overthrow of
establiilied custom (f) ?" And from another
docuMent, equally authentic, we extra6t,the motive

of his ullimate acquiescence in this : " The
Corn nander in Chief, as a stranger, and with an

Opinion only formed frorn books, could not oppose
such arginnents ;- and, arxiou to leave 'undis-
turbed the usual course of a Sepoy Battalion, and
instead of introducing, to resist innovation', he suf-
fered the insertion of Order.. Otherwise, to'get
rid of ,what opinion only had hastily represented as
an innovation, but what was the established custom
of the. British' and Mahratta Native Troops, as we
have before proved, he must have establiShed 'the
infrodvOion oftheMarks of Cast among them while
on regimental duty—a real innovation. How they
must. have subverted rrtiary subordination has beerti
strewn before.
It vVas, in faa, the introduction of the new fur-
ban;' nut the occasional prohibition o 1 the Marks of
Cast, which was seized as'an occasion to excite the
Troops at Vellore to revolt. In that fortress it has
been thought proper to confine the Sons of Tippoo
Saib ever since his defeat and death. Theliberaiity
with which They are .provided for by the British
GOvernment,- has given them means. to work upon
the Officers qf the Native Troops, to xvhose.custody
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-they are impart cbenrnitted ;''for by this tbeY.
been able to ColleCt;' and by other means iutriadecei
500 men ',into the Pettala df Vellore, whowere itt
their-regular pay (g).‘ But this, must have beep only
'the secenl application they would ihal:e of their
fund+. The• first would certainly have been, the
bribing of the Officers of our SepoyS to 'excite them
to jour their party ; for, though sedition, was infused
into-the ranks-, under the false'preienee of a deter-
mination 'of Government to force Christianity epon
the Native Troops, yet the very ;authentic Memoir
we frequently follow informs us, that " more decided
means had been adopted to - secure the Minds of
the Native Commissioned Officers ; and no other
offers itself but bribery:: At a time also when their
intrigues seemed ,ikely to succeed, they were pro-
bably aided ,by contributions for th'ese ends by many
of the zealous partisans of their family. • .
The dependents and officers of a, deposed Prince
who still finds means to keep up something of the
semblance of a princely household, are the greatest
intriguers in the world ; and as their means are or-
divarily the weakest,_ so are their plans of the lowest
kind. But having nothing else to employ them-
selves Upon, their diligence is most unwearied. The
dependents and chief'officers of Twoo's family
undertook to persuade the' Battalions quartered at,
Vellore, that it .‘,vas determined to force Christianity
upon rhe army ; and that the gradual assimilatione
of their dress toJhat of the European troops was
an adequate proof of it. We have shewn that the
artifice was-not too gross to be attended with coin-
plete success, on those on Whom it was attempted.
,And thus some corps, recently resident at Vonore,
or raised in its neighboorhpocl, I;though
in distant stations, had their nine! thus ,tiepared by ,
the agents of TirPoe's family there ; bet eh others
were free from it. except those quartered at I Iyder-
abad, where the same p,,vti,et.ies and inii,enee vvey .j
much prevailed.
No eyidente was procured of die eiisteece of an
organized cOnspiraCy•to rejeA the adoption of the
turban. Some Sepoys who feel reken out ie to mu-
tinotis acts or declarto :et, were
brought before '‘l7 Court ilurtird of Aatil:e Clficers,
who condeimed them to eorylial pittO on
evidence of Natives of the iit;;iosi class deehrni'g
that the -turban was free froth any ohjee t iee."(h)
A Court of Inqufry established 'IV Gee. Cil>Dock,
in his way to the Meso:e, in their priv,ee I lion,
came
.to the saute decision,
But by all those Movements, an:l Courts of In-
quiry, theconspirators came to be, cOnVinced; that
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it the British GoYernment slittrld ()bee arrive at. a
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conviaion that there was any repugnance the
troops;to the adoption of the turban, it would he
given up, a,td the
.ance, conspiraey defeated by' the.
covery of the griev asit ttoukl be folloWed by
the removal of it ; and there was no fallacies' so vile..
As those the Native Officers had recourse to,. to. per-.
--stair& Governmeot that not the lease-objeEtion exist-
ed among those tropps.to this very turban. Sunlit'
CASSIM, the chief conspirator, a few. days previous
to the insurrection,, - being questioned by his Com-
manding Officers if any disatiOaCtion existed, offer-,
" presence,of theothcrNative Officers,"
to place the Koran on his head (the most solemn at-
testation of their relleioe), and to swear that there
was none, and that the who!e 'comps' were forward
td-wear time turbao ;.". that therconours afloat seem-
edtotally unauthorised; and Government duly ac-
quitted of all charge of precipiteirey in totally dis 7
creditine them. •
Otte undoubted instance, it:not two, may be given
of, the uncommon subtlety of the means used by
them to destroy' the effeet of all information Govern_
meat might receive front the better-affeaed Natives.
Some alarming discoveries had been made that
faithful .Sepoy" MUSifil'llA: BEG; hint the ,COnSpiril-
tori 'represented to the Commanding Officer at
-Vellore, as insane. SECUNDEE:THAN, an old Subi-
dar of cavalry, gave information that disaffeCtion had
crept into those troops; and particulariZed .certain
Regiments, all quartered near the foctis of seduftioti.
He was " a Man of the most respeCtable appearance-
-and pretensions." ' What he'said about' the cavalry"
has been by no means confirrpod ; but there were
alarming points in his intelligence (now) known
to be true, and corresponding with the confes-
sion of the chief conspirator' at Vellore. At the.
time he was giving this information, a letter.
was received from Colonel 'l\ioNtitesSog, ac-
cusing him as a man of the most dangerous
charaeler and known disloyalty. 'We are, in-.
dined to attribute the accounts of the insanity of
the one, and the disloyalty of the other,'which in-
fluenced the brilief of our Officers, to the same ine
ventors, who displayed great ability in strangling the
discovery of a plot in the birth.

Notwit4standing this almoSt impenetrable veil
cast by the conspirators over their transactions, the
rumours which, had gone abroad made a serious Ml-
pression on soave very refieiAing men. About the
'alter end of June the Commander in Chief received

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a very impressive-representation from an experienced
and. able Officer, that the turban had occasioned

great,discoptent,in the army; and a repeat of the
Order_ was earnestly recommended in it..
The strong impressions against every thing which
might,be a violation of the religions customs of the
Hindoos, and that of their Casts, with which Ge-
neral CRADDOCK entered into the examination of
the new re:,'pulatjons, we have seen : and' by what
authorities his Ossent.to an article, Ultiarately un-
fortunate, was procured. On this representation .
they instantly returned upnn him, and he deter-
mined not t..) enforce it, unless by the ,express au-
thority of the-Governor and CoMmon Council. To
them, therefore, he 'remitted entirely the. ultimate
decision; but in a 'manner evidently conveying a
strong 'wish that the Order might be repealed,
founded on no small degree of belief of its necessity.
He states himself to have strong "reason to believe,
that the opposition to the receiving of the turban is
almost universal ; that the few punishiments which
had.been inflicted had repressed the expression 'of
that of some individuals ; but that if frequent re-
currence were to be had to suth severities they
might produce the worst consequences : that if a
mutiny on such a change-were to arise among the
British troops, they were accessible tai reason, and
an Officer's -duty was :plain ;. bat when the.prejn-
dices of India, and the force of Cast, were added to
this diffictdty, .he must pause; and solicit the.advice
of his superiors ; in this case, of the-Governor and