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PLYMOUTH). JULY 2.—S:filed the Nile Cutter.,-of
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I'6 guns, with Dispatches for the Squadron cruizing
off Rochefort ; also the Cassandra Cutter, ,with,ser
veral.Viduallers under Convoy,' laden with supplies
for the 4anaeSquadron ; and the Rose Sloop of War •
on a Cruize.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 3.—Arriv,ed this day Le
Spartiate, of 74 guns, C4t. LAFOREY, from off
Rochefort iiand the Indioant Gun-brig, from a

mixt%
Sailed the Halcyon Sloop, Captain PEAR.CE, on a

cruize.

This morning the 56th Regiment of Foot embark-
ed at Point Beach, for Jersey.

DU EL.—Yesterday morning, in consequence of a
slight altercation, Lieut. -- of the Navy, and
Lieut. -, of the Marines, met, with their se-
conds, neai Gosport; on the first fire, the Naval
Lieut. was wounde4 in the thigh, 'and immediately
fell. He was from • thence conveyed to the Royal
Hospital at Haslar, but his life is not considered in
danger.

DEAL, JULY 3.—The Zebra Bomb arrived last
night from a Cruize; and the Quail, Pickle, IPhit.
ing, and Rook Sclitioners, from,the Wetward, and
remain with the Ships as per last.
The IPacksaantheit, LUNDSTROM, was_last night
removed to Dover Harbour.

The American 13iig Mary, S.lllcE, was sent into
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the Downs last night by' the Seagull Sloop, on, a
voyage from Dunkirk to Lisbon, in ballast.
The Hamburg!) Ship Cuxhaven was last night
sent in, but liberated this morning, and -proceeded.
A splendid entertainment was yeiterday given on
board ..His Majesty's Ship Princess of Orange, by
Capt. tioarom, to Admiral ROWLEY
.and family
and a numerous assemblage a" fas.hionables.

003cXTE., JULY 20-,The number or Transports
winch sailed yestet'ay morning from the Dawns
was exaffly one hundred and three, exclusive of
three Gun-brigs, their convoy. in. consequence of
light baffling winds, about thirty Sail brought up last
night off the North Foreland ; but the wind blow-
ing from the west this mOrning soon carried them
out of sight, and they are all now, with a • fine
rattling breeze, considerably advanced on their voy-
age. A number of light Transports are daily coming
into the Downs ; and another embarkation of troops
is still spoken of as likely to take place ' • but neither
troops nor transports are yet arrived here for that
purpose ; nor have any orders to that effect been
received at Canterbury. The regular force now
there consists of the 2d heavy Dragoons of the
king's German Legiun, one troop of English Horse
Artillery, two companies of Foot Artillery, three
brigades :of Drivers, and two troops of the Wag;.
gon. Train.

BRITISH REVIEW.'

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Some Account of the public Life, and a Seleilion from the
titiw,bp&d writinss, of the Foci of l‘lscartney. 13y lotus
ir;,:;,,toW, Esq. Author of. ‘• Travels in China," and
• '4 Southern Attica," and of " a Voyagt.- to Cochinchim.'
The former works of this Gentleman have a f
fOrded us an opportunity of presenting some very ,
interesting extraets to our Readers, and it is with
very great pleasdre that we see, from tilQ same
hand, a Life of the late Earl' of MACARTNEY, a
Nobleman whose private and public conduit
through lire .entitles his . name to the esteem and
veneration of mankind. - But the present work is.
not only valuable' on account of its biographic record
of so excellent a charaeler, but •becaule it elucidates
a stibjeta which has given scope to touch illiberal
prejudice rod scandalous -misrepreentation. The
friends of Marquis WV.L.LESCO E:1) particular, will
he highly gratified by this work, as it establishes,
Without any allusion to the trausaiaions of Ms Go-
vernment, the, soundness of the principles upon
which he aCtekil and it Mil aiford• no little consola-
tion to the Noble thrquis himself, in the midst of
an unmerited persecution, to see that the' charges
krought against him are not half so horrible as those
Which were exhibited against
,Lord MACAUTNEY,
the brightest example of integrity, self-denial, and
disintereste.duesS that ,der held a Government in
India, or any where else. These charges, indeed;
appear to have been (OD absard and monstrous even
for party perposes; though sent home under the
saneliun of the.,fle. argil.GovertunO.ik. We mean to
give these charge S-at full length; as Soon is we have
opportunity, as a great curiosity in fh.eniselves, and
is a specirnen of the infamons calumniei 'engendered
by " profligate Englialtmeo," at those nurseries Ot:
corruptidh, the Courts of the cliPende'nt Princes of
'l'43, We would earnestly advise those Members
of Parliament ,who are inclined to interfe?la in the
Carnatic question to peruo that part of the publi.
, cation belOre us, which relates to this a subje,
where, we venture to. assert, they will find more
real information, ,as to .the views, the, pretensions,
stud the general conduct of' the ANTAfton of AttcoT
and his family than what haS been fOrnished by all
the voluminons. Papers called for, 6y the House of
Commons. \Ve submit to our Readers the follow-
id g retleelions, which' haie suggested themselves to
Mm. BARiOy/ on this subjed
" That a conaici-rable i)ortien of thinking men in
the British Nation should stiMr themselves to be so
long and so repeatedly'abthied; with regard to the
complaiuts of the dependent Mahbmedari Princes of
India,. can only be e:qilained by the little trouble
that is taken to inform. themselves accurately on the,
sut,jeet : but the enormous arms of money 'which
tbese-intllguing men are always re,:tdy to lavish. on
the,;l2 who may either be suffieiently ignorant; or
sinliciently corrupt, to undeitake their ,eause, . will
teadily account tor the Z0M10414 advocates who now
and t;:en :stand forth as.their avowed ch ampions:
hut the real faCtisit4at there is riot perhaps a single
ndlvilual atriv!:- ,ere 't 'neck Princes which 'the
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fated his with those whe,mised him_ to
power; and so base are their chargters and condsta
in general, that every honest man, who may have •
had occasion -to witness them upoh- the spot, and
whose integrity:has been proof against their insidious
-practices
.of corruption, -muSt acknowledge) that
there is not perhaps, upon the face of the earth, ,a
set of Freatures so,depraved, so licentious,. so ut-
principled, .nnd in every respea so worthless, as
those dependent upstarts, in whose cause the powers
,of rhetoric have so frequently been exhausted thts
British House of commons, to rouse and to abuse
the generous feelings of the Nation. HOW few, on
such occasions, have ever 'believed; that an English
Governor could be innocent, when an Indian Na-
bob was his accuser; yet how very easy is 'it fora
man, with whom truth is not considered as a moral
obligation, and intrigues and treachery the whole
study of his life, to ,produce a series of unfounded
calumnies; how difficult, at such a distance, to
,disprove them before the, poison has worked its
effect But the time is probably not very distant,
when the Public, in this respect,, will be undeceived;
for as a great moralist has observed, it seldom thinks
long on any subjea without at last attaining to think
right. It is however really surprising that, after a •
lapse of more than half a century, the people of
England should still continue to be deluded by every
new declaimer, who, bent upon thrusting himself
into notice, and fed by the bounty of a Nabob, he.
pudently ventures to step forward to mislead the,
public mind, and• to arraign the conlea of those
who have really deserved well of their country by
a conscientious discharge of their duty. Whoever
will give himself the trouble of examining the re-
cords of Bengal and Madras, must unaveidably be
convinced, that so long as The system is continued of
setting up Nizams and Viziers, 'Nabobs and Rajahs,
without any real claims or pretensions, as the osten-
sible Governess of countries, provinces, and elks
trills ; but, in faa, mere tools of the Company ;'no
Governor-General of Bengal, no President of Ma-
tires, provided he be an honest man, can pus .
sibly escape their intrigues, their hatred, and their
calumny ; but if he will allow them to break their'
engagements with the Company, to corrupt its
servants, to 'purchase indulgendes by, bribes,' to
oppress the inhabitants by extortion, and cruelty
and murder, and to plunder and encroach upon
every 'Petty Power that borders
,on their respeative
countries, he will be extolled by them as the wisest
.and best Governor that ever ruled in India. No-
thing' has, most assuredly, had so strong a ten-
dency to injure the British tiatne among the real
and substantial Powers of Hindostan, as the impo-
litic measure of setting up these puppets et.' a -
thceity; and nothing probably would have more
iu-
fhaence in consolidating the peace 'and the prospe-
rity pf India, than the abolishing of these double
Governments, and taking the management of
such countries as avowedly befong to the British
Empire entirely into our hands. As a matter o 1
expediencrthe-Company scent pretty well convinc-
ed that the measure must be adopted, and, that
those nurseries of oppression, intrigtie, and' cor-
ruption must be destroyed : of unhappy,
yet 'unoffending natives, would then know, to whord
they were to lookup for proteaion, Which, under
the present system of things, is, at least, with them s
matter of doubt and di'tress ; by discontineing the
creation of dependent Nizams, Nabobs) rajahs,,'
and Khans, the Company wcuM yet get rid of
so 'many stumbling blocks to their prosperity,
and stepping-stones to their enemies. And her-
ter far would it be for them even to dc.ub e ti e
already large emoluments of their servants, from
the highest to the lowest, rather • than,'out cif
'consideration to their interestB, keep op those
phantoms ..power with affluence aed wealth;
however sufficient to corrupt-their coi ald feed
'their aVarice. Those who conceive hat a Govern;.
meet in lodise while embatrassed b, the i r.gues Of
dependent Nabobs and Rajahs, is a t jnviab e situate
tion,'• are little acquainted with.the diffic hies and
dangers with which it is surrounded. To a strictly
honest rlan, bent en doing hii duty, a mote heart-
rending situation can scarcely be imagined ; he must
either lend the aid otitis authority to the Most horrtl
oppressions, cruelties, and murders, or, if he resiste,
incur tbechargeofoppression himself; thus he treacls
on thorns at every step, and after years of toll and
anxiety.
.for the public welthre, he will retire from
the scene with the mortification of tindlog that ad
his 'endeavours have been exhausted in vain to era-
dicate that system of corruption which is nurtured
in every petty 'Court of Hiodostan ; that he hag only
drawn' upon himself the malignity of these who float
within its vortex; and, what is worst of all, lie may
almost lay his account of meeting at home with the
frigid Indifference of his employers."

Yesterday a ballot was taken :at the East India
House, the result of which was in favotir of the re_
turn. of RICHARD JOHNSON., Esq. to the Company's
civil service in Bevil.
Yesterday a Court .of Directors was bold at th,:
East India House, when the under-mentioned Of-
ficers were sworn into the command of their re-
spe6tive Ships, viz. Captain Jam; ECKFORD, of the
Diana, for Madras and Bengal ; and .CaptainNAY
CHRISTOPHER, of 11w Sir William Pultenty, for
Bombay.—The Court adjourned at six o'clock tilt
Tuesday nett.

'The Marquis of Flu NTLRY is to be allowed to tare
with him to Egypt his own regiment, the 42J.
The Foot Guards will be among the first part of
the British troops embarked for Stralsund.

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Tats
TIINATRE.-L-Mr. YOUNG, who hasheen par-
ticularly distinguished on Prov'tncial Beards for his
performance of: The Stranger, last nig!it assumed
that charatier at the Haymarket Theatro. His tea-
twos are peculiarly well suited to convey r the de-
jeaed behaviour of the visage," and the getterid
style .of his acting very well corresponds with ae
qualltiticofthe eharader, and the situation in wh'cli
it is- supposed to be involved. Mr. YOUNG sup-
ported: the charaeler with suet) judgment, and Snell
a strong expression of that mixture of misanthropy
and tenderness which it •demands, as to add to the
reputation which'he has acquired since his appear.
atlce in. the Metropolis, and to justify Qur tormer
obServation, that he deserves a permanent footing
on the Landon Stage.. Mrs, trrCitrtELD has been
Often seen in the part of Mrs. and Silo WR4
not less eife4tive last night than ran Conner occisions.
The Play,altogether went off belt,a:id was at-
tended by a very numerous audience.

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