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London, England, 1841-07-16 00:00:00

ELECTORS !-REGISTER ! REGISTER !

The 20th of July is the last day for sending in county
claims ; and for 10/. voters paying poor-rates and assessed
taxes in boroughs.
County electors who are not already registered for the same
property, or who have changed their places of abode since last
July, must, on or before the 20th of July instant, send to the
overseers of the parish in which their property is situated their
claims to vote, which must contain a description of their places
of residence, the nature of qualification, and its situation, or the
tenant's name ; and they must send with each claim a shilling.
Borough electors who live in 101. houses will lose their votes
unless they pay, on or before the 20th of July instant, all poor-
rates and window taxes due prior to the 6th of April last,
whether demanded by the collector or not. Scot and lot
voters will be disfranchised unless they pay, on or before the
30th of July instant, all the poor-rates which have been
of them up to that day.

DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT WESTERN.—
BRISTOL, JULY 14, Three P. M.—(From our Correspon-
dent. ) The Great Western, Captain Hoskin, sailed from
Kingroad at three o'clock this afternoon. She carries about
ninety passengers, 50,0001. in specie, and a very full cargo of
goods. The London Morning papers of this day were received
by express; and forwarded in the Great Western. W. R.P.
James, Esq., a • gentleman attached to the American Lega-
tion, was a passenger in the Great Western, bearing im-
portant despatches from the American Consul for the United
States Government.
No. 39, ALBENIARLE•STREET, PICCADILLY,
OPPOSITE THE YORK HOTEL, AND No. 76, KING WILLIAM-
STREET, ClTY.—Major.General Sir Howard Elphinstone begs
leave to say that the Spectacles he has now had some time in use,
have fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S. and B. Solo
mons as to their excellence, and having found so much comfort and
advantage from their use, far preferable to every other kind of
Glasses which he has been in the constant habit of making use of
for a great number of years.-13, Norfolk-street, Par k-lane, the 6th
of November, 1840.—General Browne Clayton feels desirous to ex.
press the comfort and advantage he has derivcd at his advanced age
of 70 years, and after two years' trial, from the use of Messrs. S. and
B. Solomons' newly-invented Spectacles; their valuable invention
fully merits the patronage they hare received of the Royal Family
and so many individuals of high distinction, as well as of the nume.
rous scientific and eminent medical practitioners.—London, Feb.
25th, 1841. Address, Addington Hall, Lancashire.—The Messrs.
S. and B. Solomons' Invisible Operative Voice Conductor Sound
Magnifiers, for deaf persons, is not the least perceptible, nor more
uncomfortable than having a piece of wool in its place; they give
immediate relief to old-standing extreme cases of deafness. No
connexion with persons of the same name.

A NEW SIIOAL DISCOVERED.
The following is posted at Lloyd's:—
" Barque Castries, from St. Lucia to London, sailed
from thence 29th May, 1841.
" On Sunday, 20th June, passed a shoal about half cable's
length to the northward of the ship ; it appeared about the size
of the quarter-deck, with sea•w'eed almost a wash with the
water's edge ; the sea did not break. It is to be regretted that the
weather would not permit the ship to be brought to to exa-
mine this startling danger. There is a shoal mentioned by
Purdy, in his memoir of the Atlantic Ocean,' having been
seen by a Spanish ship in 1769, in lat. 40. 26., and lon. 36. 5.,
which deviates from my calculation 19 miles S. and 42 miles
E., and which places this dangerous rock in lat. 40. 45. N.,
and lon. 36. 47. W."

VESSELS SPOKEN watt.—Margaret, from Leith to Quebec,
July 5, lat. 46. lon. 53 ; Russia, New Orleans to Liverpool,
Lltit lei
rtit,loto.llat. sCtoolu
mbia (s.), arrived at
Liverpool, 13th ult. off
Havannah ; Sweden, New Orleans to Liverpool. 16th ult. off
Tortugas ; Propontis, New Orleans to Hull, 4th ult. lat 45,
lon. 41 ; Charles Joseph, Liverpool to Providence, United
Vermont,l' lon.
nN. 1e I.lv, Orleansby the
States, 4th ult. lat. 47, lon. 31, by the Florida, arrived at
Newport. llostelina, Newfoundland to Barbadoes, out 16
days, lat. 26, lon. 37, by the Planet, arrived in the Downs.
Medora, Bremen to New Orleans, 4th ult. lat 24, lon. 36;
Ann, Manilla to Brest, 19th ult. lat 35, lon. 37 ; llarmony,
London to Quebec, 30th ult. lat, 47, lon. 20, by the Ann
Wyse, arrived in the Clyde ; Calica, Boston to Denmark,
15th ult. lat 41, lon. 59, by the Janet, arrived at New York.

THE ROMANCE OF SWINDLING !---It is a
little singular that, in this age of utility, the very antithesis of
that attribute, namely, Romance, should have flung itself over
therces and events never before thought susceptibie of it. One
of the most popular romances of our day is the history of a
celebrated highwayman, and now we have one of at least equal
literary pretensions on the subject of a notorious swindler of
our own day—" James Hatfield"—who acquired an " European
reputation" by carrying otf, and afterwards marrying, the
celebrated Beauty of Buttermere. This remarkable feature of
Hatfield's career is here male the leading theme of . a very
amusing and exciting work, full of
.action, incident, and cha-
racter, and to which a feature of singular novelty and attrac-
tion has been added, by introducing among the dramatis
persona the three celebrated poets, Wordsworth, Southey, and
Coleridge, who have rendered the localities of this novel the
most classical ones of England.
Several French agents have been sent to Eng-
land, in order to obtain information as to the system and
management of the railroads in this country.

lence us for &en
Sir J. L. LUSIIINGTON rose to correct the Hon.
Member. The-words" speedy," never fell from his lips.
Mr. 'fuomi.sost—Most cheerfully do I retract the
word, but must repeat, that the forfeiture of the power
to discuss the political affairs of India was held in ter-
rorem over us, to put an end, as it seemed, to our discus-
sion altogether. Well, Sir, if it must be so, I for one am
disposed to make an honest use of the power while it
remains, and when this Court is closed against inquiry—
when the fallen and the helpless may no longer make
their grievances known here, I will still hope that else-
where an asylum for . justice will be found where the
friends of humanity may meet, and find a more willing
amlience.—(Hear, hear.) And, is it come to this, that
this once popular and powerful Court is a nonentity ?
that the members of it. must be the mute and grateful
recipients of half-yearly dividends, or speak only to
praise ?—must this body be tamed down into a soulless
thing of speechless acquiescence—must quietly float like
a lump of dead matter in the wake of directorial
opinion ? or, venturing to speak out its thoughts,
be threatened with a gag-law ?.—(Hear.) Be
it so. On the day that such a law shall pass the death-
warrant of this Conipany will be drawn out, and soon
after that law comes into operation the sentence will be
signed, sealed, and delivered. Be assured, Sir, of one
thing, in the hour that you proscribe discussion you an-
nihilate yourselves.—(Hear, hear.) I must here bestow
a word of remark upon the speech of the Hon. Propri-
etor who closed the debate of yesterday, f a_ter occupy-
ing us for more than two hours. His object seemed to
be truly a most generous one—to take under his espe-
cial patronage all the Indian authorities, from Mr. El-
phinstone's downwards. He bestowed on each and all
the benefit of his rich and prodigal encomiums. Surely,
Sir, Lord Auckland, yourself, and all the other great
men who were made to adorn the long and brilliant ca-
talogue of Mr. Fielden, will feel that there is cause to
be profoundly, unspeakably, and everlastingly grateful
to the Hon. Member for the unqualified praise and com-
mendation, the adulation, and almost adoration of the
gentleman, who sometimes appeared to be run out of
breath in his search after terms of eulogy.—(Hear,
hear.) He said he wanted thereby to secure
a good night's rest ; and, indeed, if must have been ne-
cessary after hii energetic and most laborious exertion to
do justice to the intellect, the virtue, the patriotism, and
the pure disinterestedness of the Company at home, and
their servants abroad. But, Sir, did this gentleman un-
dertake to reply to my Learned Friend who opened. this.
debate ? Oh, no. He had other work to do. He had
to build up the reputation of the Noble and Right. Hon.
and powerful opponents of the Raja, and to justify the
ruin of that Prince, not out of the contents of these papers
so much as by raking into the history of the Raja from
the year 1818. The Raja's prosecutors were mirrors of
perfection, but as for the poor Raja, why, the Hon.
Gentleman told us of the errors of his youth, of the
sins of his riper years, and of all the tenderness of his
Mahratta constitution. The firmness of the Raja was
called obstinacy—the jealousy he had shown in defence
of his honour, and his repeated protestations of ir.no-
cence, all this was a mere hypocritical denial of guilt,
similar to the professions of a man at the gallows. His
talent was cunning, his pretended loyalty covert treason;
and, to sum up all, and justify every act committed
against him, we were told he was ambitious. Yes—
" Brutus says he was ambitious ;
And Brutus is an honourable man :
So are they all—all honourable men."
But the Hon. Gentleman secured a good night's rest, and
I suppose I must be atisfied. It has turned out as I
anticipated. The question has been made to turn upon
the personal character of the European actors in this
drama. The Raja must be guilty, for Mr. Elphinstone
is wise and prudent,:Lord Auckland is firm and saga-
cious—Sir James Carnac kind and generous, and the
Directors upright and honourable. Granted that they
are all this, the less had they to fear from inquiry—the
more ought they to hava sought the light of day—the
more ready to give the Raja all he ever asked--a fair,
an open, and an impartial trial.—(Cheers.) Let me
now congratulate the Learned Mover upon the com-
plexion and course of this debate. Up to this moment
his luminous, temperate, and able speech; remains unan-
swered. Not a tittle of all that he has said has been
disturbed—not an argument controverted—not a fact
disproved—not an assertion contradicted. The Ho-
nourable the Deputy-Chairman's speech consisted
principally of a number of authorities drawn from
these books, against the Raja. Why, Sir, we knew
that he had been pronounced guilty by these eminent men.
What we wanted to know was, upon what evidence they
had so pronounced him guilty, for all that we have here
deserves no better names than those which it has re-
ceived from gentleman I shall presently quote. But what
was the conclusion of the speech ?No evasion—no con-
sideration. Oh, Sir, I could not help thinking, while
the Director stood before us, and while he was arguing
so strongly and so ably, too, against the expediency of re-
consideration, that he might have borrowed from his
own history (he will understand me) a splendid argu-
ment in favour of the course for which we are pleading,
I thought upon the career—the honourable and bravo
career of the Deputy-Chairman ; and it seemed to me
that his gallant actions in the well-fought field, which
have won for him distinguishing honours from his Bove-
vereign, and his present exalted and influential station,
might be quoted as furnishing striking, memorable, and
irrefragable proofs of the wisdom and justice, too, of re-
consideration, revision, and reversal. The Hon. Disco.
tor may never again stand in need of the benefit of
such a process, or I would venture to remind him of the
couplet of the 'poet—
" That mercy I to others show
Such mercy show to me."
—(Cheers.) Much stress has been laid upon the pre-
tended unaniMity of the authorities at home and abroad
in the condemnation of the Raja. I must endeavour to
dispel this delusion. There has been anything but uu
'Amity on this subject. There is anything but agreement
in this Court at this moment. Let us go back to the commis-
sion which sat at Sattara. The evidence taken before
that CommiSsion was sent to Calcutta ; and Ivas there
unanimity in the Council of the Supreme Government ?
No Sir. The first minute of dissent I shall quote is
that of Mr. Shakespear, a man who all his life
was accustomed to judicial investigation, and
who possessed, in an eminent degree, an acute
and cautious mind. And respecting minutes of
dissent, let me say that they are in my eyes west im.

" But independently of his Highness's sufferings, we
respectfully submit there are other grounds upon which
the character of the British nation demands in..
quiry, with the view of ascertaining the principle of mo-
rality or justice by which it has elevated the present
ruler of Sattara to a throne. The character of .Appa
Sahib has been long known to your Honourable Court ;
it has been commented upon by your Governor-General,
particularly exposed by Major Sutherland in his sketches,
and equally described by eneral Lodwick, previously- to
those misunderstandings ;and lastly, be (Appa Sahib),
acknowledged himself a conspirator, (against British
power), to the same Colonel Ovans, who, as Sir James Carnac's informant, expressed a high opinion of this con-
fessed delinquent ; and notwithstanding General Lod-
wick's letters just referred to (which must stand amongst
the Sattara papers), Colonel Ovans declares that, after a
diligent search of these records, he finds nothing against
App.t Sahib's character ;---ineonsistencies only equalled
by the fact, that the secret agencies which ruled the
destinies of these two brothers, who were held equally
culpable in their alleged conspiracies against British
power, had the effect of consigning the one from the
throne of his ancestors to a prison, and of elevating the
other from disreputable obscurity to a throne."
We have better evidence still, however, in the shape
of a letter from General Lodwick, to the Bombay Go-
vernment, in April, 1835.
The following is au extract :
" I have to observe, that Appa Sahib has long been
separated from his wife, who is a most respectable per-
son. This lady does not even reside under her husband's
roof, but in the palace of his Highness the Raja. kl:P.1!
Sahib has taken in her place a common prostitute, well
known to Poonah, upon whom he lavished immense slims
his
own
of money. The Raja, on the late marriage of
daughter, endeavoured to rwrsuade Appa Sahib to send
this woman to Poonah, and advanced 3;oootohireuppeoeinstt,otshae-
tisfy her cupidity ; but when it came
attempt failer the whole sum of mn o-
d,andhisHighness ienr4,.properly cancelled
the
to my knowledge,
" since this tronsaetki it has Domeof receiving bribes to a
that Appa Saphib was suspecttbe
lguhttneissn, wa•thi:hizilie,
heavy amount, as Judge of
; • December lest,. who replied that he
Yaw intery.ew in .
presides. This I made known teo hAisdal7i.
but without success. .
as-
certain the proof,
decidedly without certain proof, ou.t
had heard of the suspicion, .and hadendeanvoiusrHedigthonesswas unwilling to act dem
authority
succeed,
cia4l:__
derangement,d d: um '
of a son to
the presumptuous claim to equal
" With respect
to the
the Raja; as spt forth in
torif Jul e°ggi rt4clactt to his
hi
igigs2tbel4rotl4tel optional,vr 'a Vi tn b
las whop}
in mentionsdel u ii
eoerdit,ythlevritehishniso bar
_of
ladoption.
1-. t--id,r,. ' ' Ictin attribute it to nothing short of
i an, „ .4 . sil4.graphs oPAppa Sahib's
fourth 4tit 1)
as his relative. situation to the
Baja has been.
fully explained to him, and the gratitude
lie owes to his brother for invariable kindness ilpo been
frequently pointed Aut,
It In will:hiding, I wiliest to be allowed to make his

" I am desired to state, with reference to the altered
state of European society, and to the freedom of access
to this country now granted, that the policy may be ques-
tionable of discouraging respectable individuals like Dr.
Milne, from undertaking the defence of natives of rank,
who would probably be driven by such discouragement
to resort to the aid of adventurers, careless alike of the
reputation of the accused, and of their own government."
This is the Supreme Government. Now for the Bom-
bay authorities :
" I have some doubts (says the Governor) of the expe-
diency of making this communication to Dr. Milne, since
it will lead to his calling for the intercepted correspond-
ence, of which it would be highly undesirable he should,
at the present time be aware."
A few days after the following minute is entered
"Dr. Milne may be informed that, under the iiistrue-
tions of the Governor General, and as a pensioner of the
Honourable Company, he is to refrain from holding any
communication, direct or indirect, with the Raja of Sat-
taro or with his agents."
At this stage of the business letme be permitted to no-
tice the manner in which the Commission appointed to
investigate the charge against the Raja of tampering
with the Sepoys, set about their duty, and the manner
in which they constituted: themselves a Court of In-
quiry, and let me ask in this Commission whether such
rules and maxims were observed as seemed to be required
by the usages of the country
and the laws which regu-
late intercourse between independent States,_
rle
fol-
lowed go
again to General Lodwick's letter, page.23.—(l
lowed the extract.) The Members of this Court we ill re-
collect the reference made by Mt• Lewis,during the : Brahmin,
that he
de-
bate on the 23d, to the avowal of the
was the author of the 13
st the Raja, and that he
declared that, when ^elas6lttiArg "'about for the means of
wreaking his vengeance on the Raja for not attending to
a claim of 201., heaven threw the Soobadars in -ay.
Now, I wish i
inquire whether one of these Soobadars
t;
did not corless that he perjured himself in
.o.rder to as-
sist in the plot, and whether, notwithstanding/ he was
not rewarded with wank and emolument ?—(Mr. Tlitnap-
from Robert
son here quoted Sir Grant'sd
the of April, 1837, an
nute of - 97th proceeded.)
The next questions I have to propose have a slight re-
ference in one particular to a matter referred to yester-
day; but I shall make it for the purpose of exhibiting
one view several acts of a similar character. Ist, t!
,et),
Did not the Bombay Government in their failuretocaorn;
vict the Raja by the Commission, offer liberal vecuni
inducements to any persons who could snail,' eyidenet
to establish his guilt ? 2dly. Did not tho sortie Govern-
ment try to ensnare his Highness throuß;l:i the instru-
mentality of the Resident ? 'bid not the same
Government purchase the princit2.4l evidence in the Goa
case for 400 Let us see. Minute of Sir R. Grant, 30th
March, Ml', p. 76. General Lodwick's Letter, p. 19:•
Sir R. G.'s Minute, p. 163,
par. 209, 210. (Mr. Thom-
son cited General Lodwiek 's Letter, page 19, and Sir
Robert Grant's Minute of 30th March, 1837. He then
resumed.) Here I must revive the recollection of the
Court to the facts proved yesterday; that. 'at the request
a Col. Ovans, the Bombay Government placed the Raja's
Minister in confinement, without indictment and without
trial, for a period of three years, in order to wring from
his aged mother some statement prejudicial to the Raja„-
that she might thereby procure the release of her sou,
Here I refer to the unprinted letter of Colonel Ovana:
to the Bombay Government under date of June
the 24th, 1837, and also to Colonel Lodwiek. Did
not the GA-eautient at Bombay remove Colonel Lod-
the unwilling and repentant instrument in CO/ks
demning the Raja, upon the plea of his having lost his
influence over the Prinoel that the Raja was acting tc,,.
tally independent of treaty and of all control ? **.oid
not the Government, in the same :otter, expresrl. their
desire to appoint one who should gain back the affections
of the Prince ? And did they not then app ;int Colonel
Ovans the very man who had declared the .14,{aja guilty ?
Mr. Thompson trloteti Sir Robert Grants letter at full
length, and then the explanation of General Lodwick as
fellows
honorary d
" When the season of exestmr,;lng
Robert
roundr,esasneds
between the Governor and the -Win,
the latter sent his usual present to Grant, in
complimeo with the advice had given him, on its being
flaked , lest his omitting
%. do so should be added to the
catalogue of his der crimes—the -opportunity of at
once insulting him and degrading me was eagerly seized
upon and the letter and present, which it would have