The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-28 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

Mit. Enrron---Every person who has the wel-
fare of Ireland at heart, must rejoice at the
spirit of enterprize now displaying itself in the
several Joint Stock Companies, formed and form-
ing ; but we may at the same time be permitted to
regret, that a larger portion of this spirit should
not be directed to what may be termed her 'na-
tural resource, the improved cultivation of her
fertile soil.

It appears to me that this desirable result
might be advantageously attained by the forma-
tion of Joint Stock Farming Companies, into the
detail of which it is not my intention to enter,
my object being to draw- to this subject the con-
sideration of others, better qualified to judge of
its practicability and probable success. I shall
merely say that, in my view, farms so cultivated
should be of considerable extent ; that the capi-
tal to be raised for the purpose, should he in
shares so small as to admit many of those em-
ployed on the farms to have a personal interest in
their general prosperity. It might even be de-
sirable that each share should be the average
amount of a labourer's annual wages, thereby en-
abling approved labourers to subscribe their la-
hours as a share, in addition totany others they
might possess, and the farm or farms might be
conducted by a Committee, or Manager, elected
by the Shareholders, each having votes in pro-
portion to his share.
I do not contemplate the necessity for congre-
gating in any peculiar manner the persons em-
ployed in such Joint Stock Farms, nor conse-
quently the objections which might be urged on
that account ; neither can it be necessary to en-
large upon what is so generally known and
acknowledged, namely, the great capability of
the land in Ireland—the large proportion of it
which, notwithstanding, remains without culture,
and time very imperfect system generally pursued
in those lands which are cultivated. In propor-
tion as these are truths should be the hope of re-
compense to the promoters of an improved and
extended system of Agriculture, for which the
lands of absent proprietors seem to offer great
facilities.

I shall not, Mr. Editor, trespass further on
your time. If these hints shall be found intelli-
gible, and worthy of insertion in your widely-
circulating Paper, my immediate object will
have been attained.

I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant,
January 22, WM It.

( From the Bengal Ilurkaru of Aug. 11.)
GOIIATTIi, JULY 21.—We are all quiet, and likely to be
so from the best information we are in possession of. We re-
turned from Kulhabar on the 10th, with the flotilla, 46th Itegi.
ment, and Rungpore Light. Infantry, and united the forces in
Assam at this place; since which, circumstances have induced
Col. Richards to detach Major Cowper with the Champaran
Light Infantry, its guns, and the gun boats, !a Mungle Dhye
for the protection of the Derungh. The enemy in Assam have
not received any reinforcement, and they are still about Jharhat
and Rung:pore. The troops in Assam are more healthy than
they were last month.

THE BOMBAY GOVERNMENT AND MR. FAIR.
In explanation of the circumstances that have led to my com-
pulsory removal from this country, and which, in the absence
of authentic information on the subject, are so liable to be both
misunderstood and misrepresented, I have thought it expedient
to strike off a few copies of the correspondence that has passed
between the several officers of Government and thyself on the
occasion, for distribution amongst my private friends, which I
raw submit to the:: perusal without observation-oreamment.
Bombay, Gth September, 1824. C. J. FAIR.
•
GENERAL DEPARTMENT.
TO 7.11 E EDITOR OF THE BOMBAY OAZETTE.
SlR—The Honourable the Governor in Council having been
informed by the Hon. the Judges of the Supreme Court that
the publication contained in your Newspaper of Wednesday,
the 28th ult. which professes to be a report of what had passed
in Court, is in fact a gross misrepresentation of the proceed-
ings, I am directed to recal your attention to the letter from this
department of the 27th:March last, and to express the surprize
of the Governor in Council at the little regard which .you'ap-
peat to have paid to the warning which it conveyed.
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The Governor in Council does not think it necessary to
adopt any further measures on this occasion ; but he directs me
to apprize you, that in the event of his again receiving informa-
don of any publication in your paper tending to lower the dig-.
nity of the Supreme Court, either by misrepresenting its pro-
ceeding, or by reflecting on its conduct, he will consider you to
have forfeited all claim to the protection of the Goveunment,
and will be obliged to direct the immediate recal of your license
to renitt;ii in India. 1 have the honour to, be", Sir, your most
obedient servant,
J. FARISH, Sec. to Gov.
Bombay Castle; Aug. 9, 1824.

TO JAMES FAitISII, ESQ. SECRETARY TO OOVERN3IENT
Siit-I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 9th
instant, acquainting me, as Editor of the Bombay Gazette,
that the Honourable the Governor in Council, having been in-
formed by the Honourable the Judges of the Supreme Court,
that the publication contained in my Newspaper of Wednesday
the 28th tilt., which professes to be a report of what had pass-
edin Court, is in fact a gross misrepresentation of the pro-
ceedings, you are directed to recal my attention to the letter
from the General Department of the 27th March last, and to
express the surprise of the Governor in Council, at the little
regard which I appear to have paid to the warning which it
conveyed. In the second paragraph I am informed that the
Governor in Council does not think it necessary to adopt any
further measures on this occasion, but that he directs you to
apprize me that, in the event of his again receiving information
of any publication in my paper tending to lower the dignity of
the Supreme Court, either by misrepresenting its proceedings,
or by reflecting on its conduct, he will consider me to have for-
feited all claim to the protection of the Government, and will
be obliged to direct the immediate recall of my license to remain
in India.
It is necessarily a matter of deep concern to me, to find that
a complaint of so serious a nature as that contained in your
letter, now before me, should have been made to Government
against the paper under my management, by any,person what-
ever, and more particularly by the Hon. the Judges of the Su-
preme Court : for I am at a loss to put any other interpreta-
tion on the words in which the present accusation has been
conveyed (gross misrepresentation) than that of a wilful per-
version of truth for some improper purpose; and my regret on
this occasion is materially increased by the belief that the lion.
the Governor in Council must have adopted the impression of
my having been guilty of the offence, with which I have been
charged, before he could have instructed you to cvavey to me
the reproof and admonition contained in your letter now under
reply. I feel it therefore my duty not only distinctly to dis-
- claim all intentional misrepresentation in the Gazette of the 28th
ultimo, but also respectfully to express my belief that the pro-
ceedings of the Supreme Court, noticed in that paper, are as
faithfully reported as they could possibly be by any one, ex-
cept a skilful short-hand writer, and that they are, in all essen-
tial points, substantially correct.
As the report in question has reference to proceedings on two
separate matters discussed on different days, and the com-
plaint, as it at present stands, does not specify in which par-
ticular instance I am alleged to have offended, I am entirely
at a loss how to meet the accusation preferred against me, ex-
cept by the general declaration that I have deemed it incum-
bent on me to make iu the preceding paragraph of this address ;
and the further assurance of its having been my constant enr
deavour, since I first attempted to report such matters of inte-
rest as arose in the King's Court of. Judicature, to obtain the
most correct information in my power on all occasions ' • but I
have no doubt I shall be able to produce the most satisfactory
testimony, from several Gentlemen, who were in Court, on
each occasion, in corroboration of the statements in both cases,
if the Honourable the Governor in Council should think fur-
ther explanation necessary, and will do me the favour to
make me acquainted with the points on which it will be de-

Tuesday, July 15, 1824.—True Copy.
Fair.
G. D.—To C. J. Fair, Esq. Editor of the Bombay Gazette.
SlR—The Governor in Council has observed with surprise
the publication in pie last Number of the Gazette of a Report
calculated to lower the character of the Honourable the Su-
preme Court. In addition to the disrespectful insinuations ap-
parent on a mere perusal of that article; he is informed by the
Court, that it contains many misrepresentations of the proceed-
ings, by the omission of some passages, and the insertion of
others, tending altogether to give a very false impressions of the
spirit in which those proceedings were conducted.
2. If this article was prepared subsequently to the receipt by
you of my letter-of the 9th instant, the publication of it must
be considered as an open defiance of the Government, and will
leave the Governor in Council no choice hut immediately to en.
force the penalty announced in that letter, by cancelling your
licence to remain in India. ConSidering,however, the period at
which the letter in question was dispatched, the Governor in
Council is disposed to believe that you may.have receieved it so
late as to render your proceeding with the publication an act of
inadvertency rather than of contumacy. But even in the most
indulgent view, the Governor in Council cannot consider your
conduct in the publication of the report in question as other-
wisz than highly censurable, after the repeated warnings• which
you, have before received; and although he is not disposed to
proceed at once to the full extent'which the case might justify,
tie can only exercise this forbearance on condition of an imme-
diate and publil acknowledgment of-the mis-statements men—
tioned in the beginning of this letter, and ample apology for

having given them pu\hlieity. . .
3. The acknowledgment and apology must be full and ex.
elicit, and must be transmitted to the Secretary's Office within
three days, to the end that if adopted it may appear in the.next
Gazette. I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant, J FARISH,
Bombay Castle, 13th Aug. 1324. Sec. to Government.
Bombay Gazette Office, Aug. 16, 1824.
JAMES FARM'', ESQ. SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.
Sin—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt .of your
letter of the 14th instant, and, trusting that the letter I have
already transmitted to you under the date the 12th inst.,• I will
have satisfied the Honourable the Governor in Council drimost
of the points adverted to in your communication of the' 12th
instant, in which I find I have had the misfortune to incur the
displeasure and censure of the Honourable the Governor
_in
Council, I have only to add that the same observationi which
I have -submitted on the first publication of the proceedings
in the Supreme Court, which appear in the Gazette of 'the
28th ult., are equally and strictly 'applicable to the Report of
the proceedings published in the Gazette of Wednesday last,

11th instant.
Under these circumstances I should have refrained from
any further intrusion on the time and attention of Go-
vernment, but for the call made upon The in your present let-
ter for "an immediate and Publie acknowledgment of the
'nuts mis-statement,' therein noticed (viz. the prkeeditigs of
the Supreme Court contained in illy last' paper), and an ample
apology for having given them publicity."
In reply to this call, I beg leave kith the utmost 'respect to
state, that I am prepared to substantiate, by the evidence of a
number of respectable and credible persons, who were present
on that occasion, that my report of the proceedings of the, 11th
August was as fair and correct as it could possibly • be;
.Where
every word spoken was not taken down, and that far froth that
report giving an unfavourable (which I infer to be the meaning
you attach to false, in your last letter) impressiOn of thespirn
in which the proceedings were conducted, the statement was
decidedly favourable to the,general character of the.Cotirt; and
should I fail to establish these points in evidence to the' satis-
faction of the Honourable Board, there is no apology; however
humble, which I am not prepared to make and publish in the
paper under my charge.
As, however; the Honourable the Governor in Council-may
not deem it. necessary or expedient to enter on such an inquiry
at the present time, 1 trust that he will be satisfied with the ex-
pression of my sincere regret at having published any; thing
that has given rise to complaint from the Supreme Courts, and
cause for the displeasure of the Honourable the Governor in
Council, of my determination, as already in part intimated in
my former letter, to avoid the pOssibility of a recurrence of
the like in future, by abstaining altogether from publishing
any account of the proceedings in the Supreme Court of this
Presidency. •
I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
Bombay Gazette-office, Aug. 16, 1824. C. J. FAIR.
C.J. Fair, Esq. Editor of the Bombay Gaxette.
Sin—l am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of 12th of August, in reply to mine of the 9th,, conveying• the
decision of the Honourable to;
Governor in Council,.re-
garding the publication contained in the Gazette of the
28th ult.
2d. The Governor in Council directs me to inform you, that
he considers the statement of the Court as conclusive on
the subject of its own proceedings, and cannot 'admit: the
production of any testimony on a point which he regards as
fully established. • .
3d. Thata
dmitting you to have been free from the intention
of misrepresenting the Court, you cannot be excused, after the
warning you had received, for having presented, even -through
want of care, a distorted view of its proceedings. •
4th. The Governor in Council does not consider measures
taken to prevent erroneous statements, as at all inconsistent. with
the publication of full and fair reports of the proceedings of the
Supreme Court. But he is of opinion that the suspension of
• those.reports proposed in your last paragraph is necessary at the
present moment, anal, should continue until the question , now
before the Government is set at rest. •
• 1 have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
• • J. FAKISH, Sec. to Gov-

Bombay Castle, Aug. 16, 1824. „ -
proceedings in
D.—TO C. J. FAIR, ESQ. EDITOR OF TIIF. BOMBAY
ledgment of thyr mtios
calling upon GAZETTE. - -
SIR—I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt-of your
net:ceebaotef
letter, dated the 16th instant, in reply to mine of the 13th,
t'll.atl
regards the fact of
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Court, and an ample apology for having published them.
2. You will have been informed by my letter of 'the 16th in-
If
stant that the Governor in Council considers the declaration of
the Supreme Court as final on the subject of its own proceedings,
calleda nd ca ni n
questionallow no
; th e statementGoversnuoprpomr tee!
Council
.Lhlished and he thinks i,t • d'
the mis-statement as 11 o,- , , In is-
pensible that it shoul e Puauell corrected. The &maim,.
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that unless a full and satisfactory apology for the pUb
be made $
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Ilication, the Government in Council will be under the necessity
of directing you to quit India without delay.
3. Although the general nature of the mis-statements corn.
plained of has already been communicated to you, yet to leave
ho ground for pleading ignorance of the particular passages
misrepresented, the Governor in Council has. directed the fol-
lciwing to be communicated.
It never was asserted, as is reported in the Gazette, that
" there was no doubt that it was tho daily practice for the At-
torney-General at the direction of the Court to file informations
for these kind of offences."
' The statement of Mr. Shaw's case, which was brought for-
-ward in illustration of the opinion given from the Bench, that
a contempt, such as the Court ought to notice, might be com-
mitted within the precincts, although out of its immediate view,
is represented in die Gazette as if it-were solely introduced for
the purpose of censuring Mr. Shaw, and the whole of _the.rea-,
• zoning founded on it is omitted.
The repeated declarations of the Court that there was no in-
tention to treat Mr. Shaw with harshness are omitted, and the
etiole of the latter part of the proceedings, in which he was
shewn particular indulgence, is suppressed. The result of
these omissions, together with other passages imperfectly re-
ported, is to produce a false impression as to the temper and
feelings of the Court, and this effect is still more directly at-
tempted by an allusion to the personal demeanour of the Judge
--on the Bench : such an allusion, which in all circumstances
.would have been disrespectful, and which was entirely •unne-
eessary in reporting the case before the Court, could only have
been introduced for the purpose of lowering the character of the
Cccat, and is considered by the Governor in Council to be
peculiarly reprehensible.
4. The precise mis-statements which have attracted notice
having now been. pointed out, the Governor in Council hopes
that you will be ready to make every reparation in your power
for them, and will relieve Government from the disagreeable
raecessityof proceeding further against you.
1 have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant,
J. FARISH, Secretary to Government.
BombatCastle, 19th Aug., 1324.
G. D.—TO C. J. FAIR, ESQ. EDITOR OF THR BOMBAY
GAZETTE.
SIB—No reply having, up to the present moment, reached
me to the letter I was directed to address you on the 19th inst.,
I have now to express to you the expectation of the Honour-
able the Governor in Council, that the apology therein required
will he handed up in sufficient time to-allow of its being sub-
mitted for the consideration -of Government, and if approved,
returned, to be published in the-Gazette of Wednesday 25th
instant.

I have.the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
J. FARISH, Secretary to Government.
Bombay Castle, 3 p. m. Aug. 21, 1824.
(CoxY.)—JAME&FAIISH, ESQ. SECRETARY TO GOVERN-