The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-06 00:00:00

7: FRENCH PAPERS.

Prom the Moniteur of Friday.)
'The 'Official Part contains two Royal Ordi-
nances.
l.: the number of General Officers of
the 'Land Forces to 150 Lieutenant-Generals
and 300 Major-Generals. The 42d article states
what General Officers are admitted to half-pay.
2. Relates to the organization of the Itoyal
School, created try im-Ordibance of the 20th of
Atrgust, 1824 ; the purpose el which is to bring
up young men (24 in number) to a knoWledge of
the management, cultivation, Scc. of forests. This
school is to.be called L'Ecole Royale Purctil.re,
and to be established at Nanfy..
MADRID, SEPT. 25.—There is great activity
here to effect the evacuation, A considerable
part of the baggage of the Generals and Officers
.attached to the staff is already gone ; and on the
30th instant 'Madrid will be evacuated by all the
troops, except a Swiss regiment and one of
French infantry, which latter will depart on the
arrival of 'a 'second Swiss regiMent, which, with
the other that remains will form partof our garri-
son to a certain time which has been agreed upon
with the Cabinet of the 'Tuileries, but which we
do not yet know.
The fears which it was attempted to inspire
respecting the 'payment of the interest of the
ItoyalLoan, due in January, are entirely dispel-
led, and the 'same courier that brings you this
•letter is the bearer of the funds necessary to pay
the half year's interest to the Ist of January.
Our Government gives its whole attention to pro-
vide for the interest of this loan, which it consi-
ders as leading 'to further financial operations.
( Prom the
PAnts;Dec. 3.—Some Journals still speak of
the departure of the twoinfants of Spain, and of
it Congress at St. Petersburgh ; and they add,
that the Infant Don Francisco do Paulo *ill not
come to Paris, but will pass through the south of
France on his way to. Naples. We think that
we are informed of news as soon as the Journals
which have such constant correspondence.. All
of them now announce the evacuation of Spain by
our troops which they denied, and which we said
would begin the Ist of December. We can
assure these Journals that the Infant Don Fran-
cisco de Paulo does not come to Paris, and will
not-go to Naples, and that there will 'be no Con-
gress at St. Petersburg.
LATTAXIA, AUG. I.—The Ansaries have attacked a cara-
van of camels on the way from hattakia to Aleppo.
BERLIN, Nov. 24.-4 letter from Konigsberg of the Mt,
°gives an account of the opening of the first Session of the
States of the Province, with the soleninities prescribed for the
occasion. The Deputies are 175 in number.
(From the Constitutionncl.)
PARIS, Dtc. L.... Crimes have multiplied within the last two
years in. a frightful manner, demanding, the
.attention of mo-
ralists and statesmen. It is not, however, by the gross ignorance
•in the lower classes, nor by vain appearances- of authority
among the upper classes, that men are to be improved. Devotee:
.indeed fill every dice. One enters the congregation to be a
Director-Omer/1, another to supplant a Custom-house officer,
or even Police spy. Hypocrisy descends from the upper to the
lower classes, and we can say of our times, Men must now '
tor ur..6 • in. 4.4 ,*.o. atai 4 n,.1...ti0u. Thou rnSITTIqr).
deeeiite nobody, and the people are not con vioced of rho
truth of a religion which teaches poverty, by seeing rg) many
persons practise it to become rich. Nothing is a greater woo:
of want of sincerity, than the affectation of speaking of religion
cm every occasion. It is telked of 'in the ,netvspapers, at the
police-oflices, and even at the opera ; anti this alliance between
ctered and profane shews the falsity of all these appearances of
sanctity. yid. lllontlosier has observed, thei impiety is always
the fr).tit of intolerance and persecution ; that irreligious books
.refe never in fashiOn, but when every sort of worldly passion
wilt indulged in the name of heaven.

• ( From the Cwirier Francais.)
M ADltin, Nov. 22.—(E.A..iiw0l of a privolg.triter.)—Alarm.
irg news was yesterday received of 1113 Majesty's health. The
;Fut. had mounted up into the shoulder; his Majesty was
slifi'cr;ng mitelt, and tha physicians wL‘re afraid the put would
affect the stounzeh. Infatto Don Vrarieiseo,returned im.
inediately to tit:;, Et:mai:Ll. To-day the,new:,, is not so alarming,
gout iLavin;; fixed itself in the elbow, and his Majesty
IKing more :tranquil.
• l'angclt FUN D 3.—PA it Isi DFIC. 11.—Five per Cents•
orlri4A at 101. 15. ; closed at iill..3s.—littalc Stock, 1985.
.N,ltpolitan Ron tea, Ditto, 181.—Royal Spanish
66...._.Exchange on London, one month, 24. Jin ; three
-ditto, 24, Il0.—( L'o:lrs duthent brie. )

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

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(RECEIVED LAST NIGHT.)

Semeera, OcT. B.—The Captains of the European trans.
Ipeafs
.are Ku tired of the campaign, that they have presented a
p titian to Ibrahim Paha. begging they may be unloaded at
Madmen, and discharged: on this condition they will give
no their freight. There is every appearance that Ibrahim
Puelia will not accede to this proposal, the consequence of
Isiah would be the breaking up of his army, and that he will
Icing continua to drag •in his train these imprudent Captains,
whe,se cupidity merits punishment. •
Letters from Alexandria of the 10th'of this month, say that
15,000 of Mahomet Ali`s troops are going to embark to rein-
force the army of Nelson against the Greeks.
Sierv. 23.--,A person in the employ of the Creek
Government who comes from Napoli di Rumania says, that
two English frigates, a corvette, and two brigs, which .lately
errived at Malta from London, east. =heron the 10th in the
'Gulf of Argos.
Great preparations are making for the expedition to the.lsle
of Crete, but the return of the Turkish fleets to Constantino le
'and Alexandria is waited for.
Tieeo. SupT. D.—lt is said that the English Government,
.which directs the Senate, has succeeded in getting a Decree
passed, by which no French or Austrian Consul or Vice-Con.
sul shall he recognized, who is not a native. This Decree will
'be exevuted at Naxos first, and the other islands will follow.
P. is said, that in the Isle of Pares 4 or 500 have taken arms.
and made themselves masters of two villages, where they hold.
out against the rest of the inhabitants. Preparations are mak..
to go to the essiatance of the Greeks in Paros. •
• Fa K yowl', Nov. 27.—Lord Strawgford, since his arrival
at Vienna, has had &Nerd conferences with Prince Metter.
nich, and with M. M. Tatiseheff, on the affairs of Turkey.
An- express was to he dispatched on the 16th, with important
dispatehes for the,Emperor Alexander.
The Austrian funds have just fallen in an extraordinary man.
ner. The.Metalliques *re at 94. The merchants are much
• alarmed at this in time of peace.
The Senate of this city is at present discussing the plan which
had been presented to it, relative to the establishment ofa bank.
• The capital is fixed at present at five millions of florins, to be
rai,eel. by shares of live hundred florins each. The fund is to
• be increased in thesequelao ten millions.
-Profeseor Consist is strictly guarded at Berlin. As he is
• ituliapesed, the inquiry had been suspended tin some days. • ,

THE FRENCII MONSTF.II.—b.wer, not having
appealed to the Cowl. of Cassation, was executed.
at Versailles on Tuesday at noon. The multi
tilde to Witness the execution of this monster was
inunpage. In his last moments he betrayed great
'liar, and it was necessary almost to carry him to
.the scaffold.

INDIA.

FROM THE BU)iDAY TIESiI
TI TIMES.
HYDERABAD PAPE S.

We entered upon the study of this enormous
mass of documents, with an'earnest desire to ascertain the facts
of the case, and with a determinatibn to.do juitice to all par=
ties, whatever might be eur previous impressions, and what.
ever might be the consequence. A laborious investigation has-
confirmed some of our opinions; .others it has very much mo-
dified. It has given us confidence, however ; we feel the
ground on which we stand ; and we challenge the attention of
our readers in the assuranceof being able to put them in pos.•
session of the real merits of that very extraordinary transac-
tion, of which these papers contain the history. Most of them.
hive heard something of it, and they will be sure to hear more.
The next discussion at the India House will probably he a
stormy one; and it is scarcely within.the limits of possibility
that the subject should drop without an appeal to Parliament
—such an appeal as it must hear and answer, . from either the
friends or foes of the Marquis of Hastings.
On the retirement of that Nobleman from the Government
of India, the pension of 5,0001. per annum, usually bestowed on
his predecessors, was withheld ; nay, the proposition for grant-
ing it was directly negatived by the Court of directors. This
was a pretty strong censure upon his conduct as Governor-Gene-
ral ; as strong as could well have .been passed without em-
ploying language which must have been followed by the exhi-
bition of Articles of Impeachment. If the Marquis deserved
this, he deserved impeachment. The allowed importance of
his services, in many particulars, bad created a fund of merit,
and a strength of claim upon his employers, which could only
be neutralized and overbalanced by possinve criminality. Ac.
cordingly, rumours of impeachment immediately followed the
rejection of the customary grant. The consistency or the man-
liness of this proceeding, with the usual course of Directorial
policy, was not adverted to.
The Directors, and the East India Company itself, have as
much at stake in the discussion of this question as the Marquis
the regular grant be unmerit.of Hastings. If their refusal of
ed and unjust; if they have repaid services which, on the whole
were faithful as in portions they were splendid, by consigning
him, in age, to scorn and comparative penury ; and by send-
ing his name through the world, and down to posterity with a
foul taint upon it ; then do they at least deserve the immediate
.forfeiture of that Charter whose powers and privileges they
have so grossly abused.
To take the charge out of the form of inuendo, suspicion, and
official mystilicSition, and state it in words plain and &vs ; it
is, that the late Governor-General of India connived at extor-
tion so gross as to threaten ruin to the Government and Coun-
try of the Nizam, in which it was practised ; bring disgrace
upon the British name; and injure the interests of the lion.
Company.
The mode of this connivance is alleged or intimated to be the.
exercise of a dispensing power of doubtful legality ; the sup-
pression (for a time at last) of important documents ; delay m
the execution of orders, or departure from their tenour ; and
generally, the support, " through right or wrong," of the
parties guilty of this nefarious and destructive extortion.
The motive of such woceedure, supposing it fully made out,
could not but be corrupt. Whether by direct participation, or
by the enriching of near connections, matters little. Where
suspicion was pointed, will soon appeur by the uarrative on
winch we are about to enter.
We are much mistaken if that narrative do not suggest con-
siderations of much more importance than the pentium or the
character of the Marquisof Haetin
; and much more deeply
interesting to the British public. leeet is high time that attention
should be roused to the consideration of the millions of India—
its living millions we mean, and the. way in which they are
treated by the thousands of Europe. And if humanity be so
dead in us, that we care little about plunder and oppression,
because they are distant—be it rememitered, that the plunderers
and oppressors may gain thereby power to bring the evil home
to us, and punish •our culpable iediirerence 'hy the arbitrary
principles they may import, the legiale tive influence they may
purchase, anti the rinding monopoliea they may uphold.
The Nizam of Hgyderabad reigns over a fine, but-unimproved
anti thinly peopled country, of about 350 miles in length, and
and 300 in breadth. His territory would neither have been so
long, nor so broad, or rather he would have had no territory at
all, had not his predecessor, by a timely submission in the year
1300, saved it from becoming one of the Company's provinces.
Ile enjoys, in consequence, the blessings of British alliance
and protection, and the paternal regents of the Honourable
Company. tie is freed from all the cares of Government; his.
faintly cares were lightened also, for his two sons, being refrac-
tory youths, we shut them up to teach them better behaviour.
Nis private treasure is said to be immense, surpassing that of
any Sovereign in Europe; and he lute nothing to do but skulk
about his palece, and think that if there were no longer a Coin-
puny, he would no longer be a cypher. Ascending in the scale
of political importance, we come neat to the Prime 51inister,
Munoor-001-Moolk, it man somewhat deverous at intrigue,
but to win" q vary roventn, iv 11.1.11 red. on lb^
expre2o condition of his doing nothing ' an arrangement which
we have many a time wished might be transferred to some
countries nearer home. The business of the Government is
committed to the deputy Minister, Rajah Chundno Loll, avow.
edly cite creature of English influence, and who seems, by corn-
periag tlib difforent accounts of him, to be a very clever, active,
fawning, deceitful, enprincieled fellow. Over him is the Bri-
tish Resident, the real roaster of the country, who advises the
Minister on political nutters. No doubt a country must be in
a vete, felicitous condition whose Sovereign is governed by his
Minister, who is governed by hie Deputy, who is governed by
the British Envoy, who is governed by the Supreme Council of
Berig4l, which is governed by the Board of Director's, which is
cheated by the Board of Cuntroul, which is appointed by the
Minister of Great Britain for the lime being. The poor
ilyderabadians, at the lower end of this golden chain of
responsibility, are in a state which, in this 'country, would
ensure the committal of most of them to the tread-mill, by
the nearest unpaid Alagistrate, under the Vagrant Leases
Their poverty and misery is described as deplorable in: the
extreme.

In such n country, not poescsstng,even " the shadow ofjos.
tice or police," commercial transactions must needs be attended
with enormous risk, to which those who have money never
exposed it without the chance of enormous profits. •, Accord-
ingly we hear of twelve per cent. per annum as the common in.
tercet paid by bankers on deposits ; of twenty-four per cent.
per annum, as charged on advances ; anti of 'tinny per cent. as
paid by the Government. All which would be very monstrous
were lending it a safe trade ; but which is not so bad as it at
first appears when the lender is not much more likely to see his
money again (in shape of the payment of principal) than if he
deposited it on the pavement of Cheapside, and.eame to look
for it next day. Now if tiny body of persons could unite the
efficient security with the high rate of interest and profits, pro.
ducted by the general insecurity, the would make a very good
thing of it. An attempt to effect this union was made in 1814
by .Messrs. W. Palmer and Co., bankers and merchants in tthe
city of Hyderabad, the seat of the Nizaru Government, who,
through the British resident, Mr. Henry ilossell (son of Sir
Henry lluSsell), applied for and obtained the sanction and
countenance of the Governor-General in Council to their este-
This.wae all fair; the protection' from injustice
which that eianction -allbrded them did no harm to others; it
operated as IS public good evens for commercial enterprise was
promoted,: something like credit found its way into the Country,
the rate of interest fell, and the house declared (and we have no
doubt truly) in about two years that they had " established a
Armen of confidence and regularity in the money markets
which a short time ago could scarcely have been believed prac-
ticable."
• .Lord Haetingn arrived in India in October, 1813,• and with
him Sir Wm. numbold, whieliad married his Lordship's Ward;
the Lady's name dt,e, not appear, but the natives generally
believed that she was wilt near relative of his LOrdahip.
declares himself very much interested in her welfare.
'Palmer
andiCo, very soon invited Sir 'Wm. Itumbold to become a part-
lls raid ence
ner in their house, to which, after u prolonged ne •ociation, he
acceded, in April, 1816. He had no ce OW, and
at Hyderabad, was not required. Ile did, in fact, remain at
Calcutta, and held there a magisterial office. The el„,l„is
at first die, neded hint from the connection, but eewr waids
withdrew his objection, and it short time before the deed of
partnership was signed, wrote to him as follows .
" The partners speculate, that you being one of the firm
" interest me in the welfare of the house, to a degree which
" may be materially beneficial to them. It is a fair and honeet
,
" caltadation. The amount of advantage evi;cli the eottote
.nance of Government may bestow,. Must be uncertain, as I
" apprehend it would tiow principally from the opinwn the tea...
.'‘‘ lives would entertain of the respect likely to be paid by their
" own Government, to an establishment known to stand well
" in the favour ot the supreme authority, here. Erhapc a
cc more riirtiaacl bcacfit may attend time fi-one the muse-
ee quoit discouragement to compeatiaa yon,
British lartnership, to which a similarly propssed sanction
" wollift. 'lot tic • 1 'd It is on the groutid a the service to
gum t • by any other
" the lN lean, at the request of .our Resident, that I have con-
" tented to let the good wishes of Government, for the prospe-
" rity of this firm, be signified. No new establishment could
" hove such a pleiL"—p. 734.
There is nothing let
oCctionabie in this letter (a private letter,)
except the tinparentpreMitte of a monopoly of protection which
we have printed in Italics. That is partly eeplained by what
follows, although we do not altogether comprehend why the
Meant might not be served by the Resident's recommending,
and the Governments sanetirmlng„ any other commercial este
bliehment, or any number of such establishments. The com-
pletion of this partnership, Pieced Palmer and Co. in what they
deemed a very -hopellil position, and
Lord Hastings in what
every man of -honour must feel to have been a very delicate and

dangerous one. How they both nett, we shall shew next week.
On the public utility of a system f Government which puts
men into such situations, there carve but one opinion.

(FROM THE IAME.2
MARQUIS OF lAST NGS.
We are requested to insert the Allowing affidavit, which was
prepared by the noble deponent, to sustain his applicationoto
the Court of King's Bench for an information against this
Paper, but which was rejected bythe lawyers, not being saffi-
cientttechnical, nor sworn befori an accredited authority :
co Personally appeared before the, Francis Baron de Reden,
Envoy Extraordinary ind Plenipotentiary from his Majesty
the King of Hanover, at Rome, on this. 19th day of March,
1824, Francis Marquis of Hastings, who, being duly sworn on
the Holy. Evangelists, deposeth as follows :
" He is not, aware.. an Both not believe that he has in any
instances received, irterelPted,.or withheld from the Hon. the
East India Company a single shilling which he was not entitl4,
ed to appropriate to himself by his covenant with the Court of
Directors, on behalf if the said Company, and by the specifi-
cation of the salary vhich he was to draw under that covenant,
a persuasion whin hi 'asserts ,with .the more confidence, be-
cause that he abstained from availing himself of certain allow-
ances which were uneerstood on the spot to be his right, bat
which he conceived to rest on custom alone, without any pre-
eiscauthorization. The said Francis Marquis of Hastings fur=
ther swears, that he never did impose, sanction, or knowingly
overlook any unequitaile exaction upon a Native Prince. That
never during his admilistration did he connive, through par-
deity, at the illicit gaits of any individual or set of individuals.
And that his coolest rejection at the present moment enables
him to aver, upon his oath, that he did truly and invariably
consult the welfare of every Sovereign in alliance with the Hon.
East India Company, at long as such Sovereign had not wan-
tonly and deliberately,bioken the existing treaty consonantly
with his the said Franch Marquis of Hastings's conception of
what was, incumbent in him, in maintenance of the British
character.

" HASTINGS."

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE GREEKS.

(Prom the Austrian Observer of Nov. 22.)
The Constitutionnel of. the 10th Nov. endeavours to vent its
ill humour at the late negociations between the Government of
the lonian Islands and the Greek Authorities upon the Austrian
Observer, which, with an insolence that only its ignorance can
explain, it accuses of falsehtod. lt affirms, that the Greeks did
not wait for the arrival of a British squadron to revoke their
hostile manifesto against neutral ships : that their resolution
appeared ten days before the Proclamation of Corfu of Sept. 6,
and this was a complete refutation of the fables of the Austrian
Observer.

The following short statement will shew how these fables are
to be judged of:—
On the first declaration of the British Government respecting
the Greek Manifesto of the 27th May, against neutral ships
having on board troops, arms, ammunition, or provisions for
Turkish or Greek (doubtless an error of the press for Egyptian)
account, a Decree was issued at Napoli di Romania on the
lath (27th) August, as was clearly and positively stated in the
Austrian Observer; which decree made some essential modifica,
tions in the Manifesto, but did not revoke it. In tills Decree it
was said that the Greek Government was now convinced that the
neutral ships conveyed no troops for the' enemy ;—a convic.
lion 'the contrary of which was announced in their Journals
daily, and in the bitterest terms !—and therefore only neutral
ships freighted with arms, horses. military stores, provisions,
&c. should be treated according to the usual rules of the law
of nations.
Not much was gained by this half revocation, because the
words, according to the usual rules of the law of nations ad-
mitted of various interpretations ; and especially, because the
authors.of this Decree revoked only in appearance their pre-
ceding Decree, according to which neutral ships having
troops on board were ,to be immediately. sunk, for they al.
leged aasa pretext that they had been misinformed, and conse.
ouently still tacitly reserved the right of treating neutral ships
that really had troops on board according to the terms of the
first Decree.
The Decree of the 27th August, which the Constitutionne/
triumphantly exhibits to its readers, was, however, only the
fiat act of the revocation. Of the second act, the Austrian
Observer of the Ilth October gave positive and authentic in-
formation. The French Journalist has either not understood
slits ertiele. or not chosen to understand it. because it dis-
pleased
August was shewn him as proofs that the
thelidielicerneeAoTtnhicra4lrle appeared before Napoli di Bomania,
to
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br euatdaync oumn
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,iteddi
(111euntjatill ti
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tional
revocation of the illanifmto of the 27th May could be consider-
ed as satisfactory ; and in a few hours alter this categorical de-
claration a second Decree appeared, dated the 3d ( lath) of Sep-
tember, which, for the better information of the Constitationnel,
and to put an end tool' further doubts and cavils, we annex in
the'original Greek, filial No. 52 of the Friend of the Law of the
12th (24th) September this year.
Were the Decree is given in Greek.)
(TRANSLATION.)
"TOE PROVISIONAL. GOVERNMENT Or GRIMM
" The President of the Executive (Power) promulgates :--
" The Greek. Government revokes and annuls to-day the
notice which it published on the 27th May this year relative
to the commercial ships of Neutral Powers.
" The present shall be printed also in a French translation
and delivered to all Vice Consuls and agents in the Archi-
pelago.
" Signed in the absence of the President
",
P. BOTAJSI. Vice President.
" P. G. 11.110DIOS, Provirional Secretary General.
" Napoli, 3d (15th) Sept. 1112.1."
We cannot omit on this occasion a circumstance which has
led to long disputes betiveen the English and French Jour-
nalists. The English Courier, which has however justified
the conduct of its Government by irrefragable arguments,
would not admit that the Lord High. Commissioner of Gottu.
had taken an Immediate part in the negotiations which led to
the unconditional revocation made on the 15th September; yet
the tact is beyond all doubt. We have not said, and we do
not now say, that the I cirti High Commissioner negotiated im-
mediately and in person with the authorities in Napoli di Ro-,
mania. The business was on the contrary managed by Ad-
miral Neale or under • his direction. But that 'Sir F. Adam
embarked on the 11th of September for Corfu on board the Sibylle
frigate, then went together with the Admiral's ship and an-
other frigate before Napoli di Romania, or at least in its vi;.
cinity, and did not return to Corfu till after the formal revoca-
tion of the Decree of 27th May—this is a fact which nobody
can dispute with us. •