The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-23 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY—gun

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.
Win. Taylor, aged 29, was put to the bar, on
au indictment, charging him with feloniously
stealing, on the, loth of August, in the dwelling-
house of his master, Mr. Samuel Spariow, of
Ifolborn, pearls, to upwards of WU in value.
The facts of this case were :—The prisoner
was occasionally employed by the prosecutor,
and when the family went out of town he slept ill
the house. On the day in question the property
was missed, and an Officer having been sent for,
he searched the how() and shop of the prisoner,
where he found a portion of the property stolen.
On taking the prisoner into custody, he confessed
to having hid some portion of it under the tiles
of the prosecutor's house, where it was found.
The prisoner made no defence, and the Jury
found him—Guilty, Death.
The prosecutor strongly recommended him l.cs
mercy, oh account of the good character the pri-
soner hud formerly maintained for honesty.

NEW COURT.—(Before the ItgconmEn.)
James Askew, a very genteel man, currying on business in
Oxford-street as a haberdasher and fancy milliner, was put to
the bar, charged with robbing Mademoiselle Elizabeth Vir-
ginia Perrot of an immense quantity of articles, -.which the pro-
secutrix enumerated, as stated in the indictment, viz.:—Five
rings, one bearing. the miniature likeness of the Emperor of
Russia with diamonds, worth from 2 to 300 francs; two others,
about 100 francs ; and two plain gold rings part of a comb
set with brilliants, from 201. to `251:; a diamond erois, lOU
francs ; opera glass, 25 francs; silver spoons and forks, value
31.; 39 pair of stockings, 21. ; 29 shifts, 41.; a tlachmere shawl,
bought in Paris for 1200 francs, worth now about 151.; a
French veil and lace handkerchief, Si.; a black silk dress, 201.
19 towels, 10s. ; 7 promissory notes of the Royal Rank in, Paris
for 1,000 francs each, and sof 500 francs. The money Is the
property of M. Bertrand.
The full particulars have already appeared in our Paper of
the 17th inst.

Th.: trial excites the utmost interest, and when our Paper
went to press, the case on the part of the prosecution wits not
concluded.

ME LE SHIPPING.

PORTSMOUTH. SEPT. 21.---Wind N.E...—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Blonde, Lord Byron, from the Downs; for tits
Sandwich islands ; Sophia, Barclay, from ditto, tbr Madras ;
Dido, Herdsman, from Stockholm ; Middlesex, Hopper, frons
Riga; 31auly, Bennett, from London, for Berbice; llclena,
Chesterkoff, from Cronstadt. Sailed the Felieitas, Campbell,
for Madras.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 21.--Wind N.Sir.--Passed by •ther
Liberty, of Hull, front Bahia, for Hamburg!).
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 21.—Wind N.—Arrived the Corn.
mem, Makin, frotn London. Sailed the Weasley Dale,
Morris, for Malaga.
DEAL, SEPT. 22.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived and sailed for
the River, the Schalfield, Evans. from Oporto ; .lames,
APKirtly, front Jamaica; also, and remain, the Amelia,
Wilson, from the South Seas. ame down from the River and
sailed, the William, Frazer, for Jamaica ; Fortitude.ineremed,
—.., for St. Kitts; Sarah, for Africa ; Cathe-
rine, Parker, for 'Trieste; Milford, Taylor, for Mogadore
and the Egginton transport, Miller, for Malta.
BUISTOL, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Lavinia, MOMS, fiVITS
Jamaica ; and the Eliza, Ititton, from Petersburgh. ••
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 21.—The Pallas, Britton, bound ta
Savannah, has put back leaky.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when the following ships were thus timed—viz. the
Charles Grant, Bombay ; Lowther Castle' Warren Hastings,
and Buckinghamshire, tbr China direct, to be afloat on the 17th
of February, 1023, sail to Gravesend the 4th of March, stay
there 30 days, and be in the Downs on the Uth of April. The
Scaleby Castle, fur Bengal and China, to be afloat on the 20th
of December, 11124, sail to Gravesend te 4th ofJanuary, .1825,
stay there 30 days, and be in the Downs the oth of February.

t,
LEINTIURGII, SEPT. 20.—For some days work-
men have been employed in the Parliament-square, in making
preparations for taking down the equestrian statue of King
Charles the Second. Monday afternoon the statue was raised
from the pedestal, on which it has rested for two centuries, by
means of a powerful crane and pulleys. After considerable
delay, from the rope not running freely, a ring which had been
fastened to the ground gave way, and the statue fell upon the
top of an inclined plane, constructed to facilitate its being
gradually lowered, but suittained no apparent injury, straw
cushions buying been previously placed under it. The statue
was afterwards drawn down, and now lies at the side oldie
e!itirch. The feet of the horse, the only supporters, had given in-
dication oftheir not being able longer to support the greetweight
which rested on them ; and it is, we believe, chiefly on this ac-
count that the statue has been removed. A Gentleman had his
pocket picked of 13/. while indulging his curiosity In watching
the preparations for suspending the " merry" Monarch.
NEW RAILWAY.--We have seen with much
pleasure resolutions, numerously subscribed, by Noblemen
and Gentlemen of dila county, for an application to Parlia-
ment for leave to make an iron railway tom Edinburgh us
I)alkeith and Fisherrow Harbour, with collateral branches.._.
This measure, which is of great public importance, we arc glad
to be informed, is likely to have the approbation of a
majority of the land praprietors, 0.1 whose grounds the firnt
of railway are propcised. Grain, coal, stone, &c. will, we
understand, be conveyed to the city on the railway, without
the use of horses, it being proposed to propel carriages on it
with the iteam.engine, by the methods for doing this most ap-
proved of on the railways at Newcastle. Subscription papers, for
raising the estimated cost of this work (36,0001. Sterling, are in
the Banks of Sir Wm. Forbes and Company, Royal Bank, and
Bank of' Scotland, by joint stock company shares of 501. ; but
limiting the subscriptions not to exceed forty shares to any in-
dividual as more that one individual have &ll:red to subscribe
the wholei sum. We do not know any secure investment for
money so likely to be of great advantage as shares in this rail.,
way.—(Edinburgh Courant, Sept. 20.)
According to the French Papers, the breed of
the Thihet Goat is rapidly increasing every year in France.
particularly in the District of the Pyrenees, Mont u'3r, and
Vagesin. The cross with the native breed produces, in the
third generation, a most. valuable animal, resembling in all
respects, as nearly as may be, the beauty of the 'Asiatic parent
stock.

Ciunu AND SPRlNG.—Ni.wcastk-upon-Tyniee
has been visited during the past week by the two Champions of
England, as they are styled us the language of pugilism. They
gave specimens ofsparring. at the theatre on Friday and Sa-
turday, and succeeded in taking in the fiats as well as Vie
knowing ones. The notoriety of these individuals excited to-
wards -them considerable interest. Their place of abode, the
Turf Hotel, was made the excuse for a stand still. Whenever
they walked out they were followed by crowd:, and they
boasted,
we understand, that they had not met any where With so much
respect as at Newcastle. This is the sort of respect pail to a
dancing bear.—[,.e 211escury, sept. 21.)
THREE NUMMI BUD NT TO DEATH.--On Tues.
day evening the tith instant, a witlow of the name of WRae,
residing at ilreashdachdln, in the parish of Kilmorach, and her
three children, two girls and a boy, from twelve to nineteen
years of age, retired to rest at their usual hour. The woman
awoke about midnight, and finding the house in flames, she hur.
areit-tseinhsll).orer.l—a6rthyS ti rg en it Whitmore,
brother and sister ; she then leaped out at the window, and ran
rigidly awoke her eldest daughter, a"pnatrifteiditielsolanrerti.litrialet eyerhtteaoigtoheettflioi
eaulttnihreele:r
for assistance, but there being none mar, before her return the
roof fell in, anti her three unfortunate children, her sole sup-
port, were burnt to death in the ruins. Five or six bead of
mall-square, attentleticoyiensptreersdsaeydlattlhleatbtlo.atitn.
r,i4,:i
i.
41i cattle,ein.l_7oa n(codr:tglvt
originated
Isr,
kn iictnac Journal.
Cg3aoritdien rolice, to inform the Magistrates, that
about elevun o'clock a Mil was brought to him
afterwpriotitlr. tal hisd
fienwghetsah:ce.oce:adnrslB,PliottteliiilY:foosrein 11;:mle,rean thatwians paabslse-2
log througlt Elm.street, a personcrpuusshheeddbheitiwneoeffn
dray and
and the sorb stone.
ttil)tee pave
wheelm eonft
a, abnrde
whei sehsedad
He had a wife and Six children. As Mr. Whit-
more momentarily expected the man's death 9 he
requested that some person alight he sent to take
his deposition.

INDIA.

HYDERABAD PAPERS.

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EVIATICAL TATTER FROM BENGALI JULY 26t 1752 U.
1. In our Address of the Ist instant, we sub-
mitted copies of two dispatches from the. Resident at Hydera-
bad, under date the 12th and 14th ult.; in the latter of which
Sir Charles Meteelfe reported that the Sixty-mix Lac Loan had
peeved, on an examination of accounts, to be a purely fictitious
iransactien.
2. We have now the honour to submit a copy of our instruc-
tions (I)in reply to thoee dispatches, andi.at the same time, to
forward, as numbers in the packet, copies of such further Re-
pines (2) on tlyderabed affairs, as have reached us since
the date of our last address, together with copies of our in-
structions in reply. We are Induced to take these frequent
eppertubitiee of transmitting the series of our correspondence
on this troublesome question, as well from a consideration that
it will be satisfactorytte your Honourable Court to receive the
earliest and fullest information on a subject, on which we
conceive the national character has been seriously compromised
by the parties concerned in the usurious dealings that have now
been brought to light, as from a strong feeling. that the in.
tesests and weltare of the State of Hyderabad, and the people
of chat suffering and oppressed country, are deeply involved in
the determination Which your Honourable Court may, with a 1
perfect knowledge of all the circumstances of the cute, see
right to adopt with regard to the extent of our interference in
the internal administration of the dominions of his Highness
the. Nizam.
J. Although we have not yet obtained the proof afforded by
ocular inspection of the accounts, of the fact asserted by the
Resident, In his dispatch above alluded .to of the 14th June,
thst the sixty-lac loan was a fictitious transaction, intended to
obtain the unction and guarantee of the British. Government
to the previously existing debt due to Messrs. ‘Villiam Palmer
and Co., we can ,have no hesitation in expressing our convie-
non, founded on the matter before us, and our just confidence
in the accuracy of the Resident, that such Is the case. There
cue be no doubt, that the grossest deeepthin in all that regards
the arairs and transactions, of the house of William Palmer
and Co. • has been invariably and systematically practised on
ebie Government, and that the Minister, Chundoo Loll, whe-
ther in all respects a willing actor in these scenes of fraud, or
moreptobahly submitting through an artfully invited drew.'
of their power and influence to be a passive tool in their
hande, has not only connived at, but actively assisted in die
• .deception. That your Government itself should have been
deceived with respect to this loan, supported as were the
first contrivers of it, whoever they may be, by all concern-
ed irk carrying it through, can scarcely be matter of surprize,
when it fa recollected that so well wes the scheme timing-
cd, and so completely had the Minister succeeded in blinding
the lute Resident himself on the spot, that within a month
after the negotiation of thin pretended loan, Mr. Russell re-
ported that the money raised had been judiciously applied,
and that a reduction of useless establishments had been area,
ed, to the extent of twenty-two or twenty-three hies per ane
num (3). Nay, to such a pitch was the, deception carried,
with regard to the public purposes for which the loan was pro.
feesedly raised, that in 1821, when callod by theeirenent Resi-
dent to render an account of the appropriation of' the moe
tey, Chundoo boll gave in account of the details of the ex-
penditure, exceeding by seven Lacs the whole amount of the
loan (4). It is known to your Honourable Court that in .1022
Chendoe Loll admitted that the loan amounted to sixty hest
only, and from th'o were to be deducted eight lace, as it bonus
to the house taa. From the accounts then rendered by the
MiniAter, it further appeared that about twenty-nine ]des
the old debts of the haute had been consolidated in the new
lean. •

4. In the statement delivered by the Minister,to Mr. Russ
sell in May 1020 (6), of the purposes of which the former was
de:Atreus, with the sanction of the British Government, to
mite a loan of sixty lace, it was mentioned that one object of
the, loan was to pay off old•debta to the Sotteara and others,
many of which, it was observed, stood at a high rate of inte-
rest; but no special mention was made of the debt to William
Palmer and'Co. In the Minister's, letter to the house on shut
• occaaion; he cursorily alludes to it in the following words :-1
** To clear off my debts to Saucers and that to you, which I
was obliged to Incur on account of the expenees of be war."
This was followed up by a statement from Messrs. William'
Palmer and Co., in which they stated their willingness to ad.
vance the money for the purposes enumerated in the Minister's
letter, including the payment of their own debt • to which,
however, they make no Veda' allusion, althoudt, in a pre-
ceding part of the same correspondence, they hail stated their
rate of interest to be much lower than that of any other per_
son (7). Lied such been the case, it i3.130t obvious why the
Minister should go through the form of btirrowing money front
one and • the same party at one rate of interest, for the purpose
of p„ mfg off it debt at a higher rate, since another and touch
simpler process would naturally have suggested Itself, had
there not been a concealed motive for the mode actually
Adopted. But some idea may he farmed of the higher and un-
known rate a," Interest, when the interest on the new loan, with
which those old debts wore to be paid off, amounted to eighteen
per cent., with a bonus equal to the rate of fifteen and one-third
per cent. more, or in all thirty-three and one-third per cent. (8)
If, in addition to this usurious interest, it is considered that the
hOlllO, by the fraudulent trannaction of 'the loan, secured the
sanction of the British Government toga debt, which, from its
amount, anti the daily- increasing deterioration of the revenues,
would in all probability have been irrecoverable through any
other means, it must be Allowed, that to men unrestrained
.by
principles that ordinarily regulate• the proceedings of Math
.11.1erchaets, this temptation to fraud was too stronp to be re-
mated : to go the length of recovering the
.payment of twentyslaca by the' artifice above adverted to, it
would be giving Messrs. *William Painter and Co.. credit for a
degree of moderation and disinterestedness, totally unwarranted
by the general character of their transactions with his High-
mess's Government, to suppose that they would be satisfied
with a half of the loan, if by any more dexterous management
theyscould hope to secure the whole. Until, however, the ac-
counts shall have been laid fictive us, strong as is the presump-
tion we have now stated to your Honourable Court, we have
vstruined from pronouncing a conclusive opinion adverse to the
house end the Minister, and we trust that. in the present stage
of the proceedings, the tenor and scope of the instructions to
the Resident, dated the 22d inst. will be approved by your Iles
Pourable Court.
4. When your Honourable Court shall review the origin and
progrets of [Messrs. William Palmer and Co.'s establishment
- at Hyderabad, with the lights which the various able and per.-
apicuous reports from the lie.sident now before you affbrd, the
character and motives of their proceedings will not fail to be
abundantly manifest.
0: It will be observed, that although Messrs. 'Wm. Palmer
surd Co. do not appear as a regularly established house of
agenc, or under the special designation of a commercial boot,
Until 1814, the fact is undeniable, that the principal partners
'ere concerned in money-dealings at Hyderabad for several
Years anterior to that period.; and according to this Resident's
statement (9), actually carried on their transactions within the
' 'readapt of the British Residency. Whether the lute Resident
ithd other members of his fancily were or were not concerned in
'the transactions of those days, including pecuniary dealings
With the Government of the Nizam itself, the identification of
tha house with the liesidency,• from the above-mentioned cit.-
. &tenstance, was unavoidable, and the ostensible partners no
'doubt *Veiled' themselves of the iiu 'to the utmost. The
• influence thus accruing to Mr. William Palmer and his ori-
'ginsl associates, would render it an easy matter to them, with
ottwithout capital, to engage largely in pecuniary speculations,
' 'Sorrowing money from die native Soucars at a very inferior
-tate of interest to that which they themselves charged to the
Government. By these means, and by the large personal al.
I:mimes to the partners and all their dependants granted by
the Minister, the arrears of which appear to have been aceu•
Mulating with interest at the rate of 25 per cent., besides va-
rious other emoluments and advantages repOrted in. the' Rod-
tient'e'dispotehee, f%lr. William Palmer and hie associates ap-
spear to have acquired a complete command of the money-
_market .of Hyderabad, and thence obtained large, end' doubt-
Tess profitable tosignrilents 011 the, territories of the 'Nino).
7. Whether the late Resident was or was not secretly con-
V'e„tad with William Paltrier and others at . that time, it is
evment, from the circumstances above alluded to or their bu-
' aiheas being transacted in a building within the Residency'
pounds, that they enjoyed his countenance and protection ;
and with the political influence thus acquired over a Minister of
...thecheracter of (Thunders Loll, they could choke feel no desire
• to seek the sanction of the-British Goverimient as a guarantee
to their pecuniary dealings. On the • contrary, they must have
• been anxious to conceal front Ooverninent the real character
)4W extent of their transactions, which Oily can heitti doubt
~amiPully connoted of advances to the Minister and others of.
to *-t3f tne Niaant's Government; •
barite time after the establishment of this house of busi-
z.,swuttappteararice of the iptismutqprinexion supposed to ex.
et
n and the Residency, was some,tneasure concealed
,; its'refunVel front within' tbo-Besidency premises. Prudential
,motives may, air ham dictated the' expediency oh sinking , in ob-
acitrity tire original:gm xpediency o. sin I,
vs,Fith William ~,i,Attear.transactione of the parties concerned.
4r.r,,Z.nyriydr.uorriattg the first yearf of his career as
mjE"..„%,-,,l4el„tLsa., :end,- and for this purpor it be.
of :ff 61 proposejix
nulctiatnrnotitl.esetablioliment et house
•41tich wets oceordingly 'done: . 1106"""nment*
as ilonourable
Court is apprized, took place in lug serur
ion
for that purpose was transmitted to •GoverimeiennituitharPoPtigit
Resident. On that occasion, no mention Was made of this

house hating previously carried on business at Hyderabad,
though the ostensible partneri were one and the same before and
after; but the' plan Wu announced by-Mr. Russell as the re-
suit of a desire on the part of-Messrs. Wm. Palmer and Co.,
to form a mercantile establishment at that capital, and was
spoken of in terms of commendation; as an experiment that
he had no doubt would prove of general convenience and
benefit. Biessrs. William Palmer and Co., on their part,
merely alluded to their having opened a correspondence with
several mercantile houses in different parts of India, and ascer-
tained by experiment eie practicability of carrying on commer-
cial concerns with advantage: and dexterously insinuated, that
the establishment of their house would be a public benefit to
the country, and advantageous to the interests of the Honour-
able Company: a gratuitous assumption in the firit instance,
which they afterwards take care to treat as a principle admitted
-by both Governments.
• 9. The house being thus nominally established with the sane.
tion of the British Government in 1014, for purposes professed,
ly of a mercantile nature, as especially set forth in their memo-
rial, Messrs. William Palmer and Co. were enabled to enlarge
the sphere of their speculations. Nothing was ever afterwards
heard of the success of the great timber trade, which was to be
productive of such general benefit to the country, anti there can
be no doubt that they became more and more deeply and ex,
elusively engaged in pecuniary transactions with the Minister
of the Nizam. The character of those dealings, indeed, must
have become too notorious to be longer' concealed ; and nccord-
ingly, in 1010, having in the mean time admitted another part.
tier, Sir Wm. Rumbold,' into the house, they solicited from Go-
vernment a special license (10), grounding their application on
their acknoweldged' dealings with his highness's Government.
These- they afflicted to consider as not in their conception com-
big within the meaning of the legislative enactment, relative to
British Subjects making loans to Native Princes ; but stated,
that their object was to guard against injury to their affairs,
from the doubts expressed by others, whether the general sanc-
tion hitherto accorded to them was sufficient to protect them
in such dealings. Your Honourable Court is apprised of the
considerations under which this license was granted: e conces-
shm which subsequent occurrences have taught us deeply to
regret.
10. This licence once obtainial, they were no longer under
any restraint, but gave free sco;ie to their usurious transac.
tines. They were subject, it is true, to the controul of the Re-
sident, which, however, appears to have been seldom or never
eXereised ; but on this head they had little to apprehend, as,
, with the aid of the Minister, now entirely at their command,
they must have felt secure, that they could at any time succeed
in satisfying the Resident of the propriety of whatever pecu.
niary engagements they chose to enter into with Chundoo Loll.
The proof of this is apparent, in the two transactions of the
Aurungabad contract and the sixty lac loan, which they per-
suaded Mr. Plisse' would prove highly beneficial to the Ni-
zum's thivernment, as well as the British intereits, but which,
if prop.srly investigated on the spot by an officer zealous in
the discharge of his public duty, and the result of his in-
quiries reported to t/overnment, would probably have up.
peered to the latter in a much more questionable point of
view than it could possibly regard them, recommended as they
actually were by the person best qualified to pronounce upon
their merits.

11. From 1810 until 1020, the eflidni of Messrs. William
Palmer and Co.. appeared to have prospered according' to their
wish. They had Completely monopolized the money-market,
they lied acquired an ascend,tney over the Minister that ren..
tiered him the creature of their will, lavishieg the resources of
the State in salaries, pensions, and gratuities on themselves
' and ratlines, and providing for every one whom, from 'what-
ever 'cause, they chose to patronize. Of tit: degree in which
thiS'power was abused, the dispatches of Sir Charles Metcalfe.,
which accompany 'this address, will exhibit the most glaring
and disgraceful instances. Amongst'others, it is mentioned in
his letter of the 13th tilt.- (11), that a former Moonshe of Mr.
William Palmer' had an allowance front the Nizarnie Govern-
merit of seven hundred rupees per mensem, and his brother
seven bundredind 'fifty-five ; and that when those individuals
went 0-'Macca, -they received a stun of ninety-one thousand,
as advance of salary to bear their expences by the way.
12. In the commencement of their career, it was obviously
their object to acquire as much influence as po4sible, by engag„
ing•the principal or subordinate members of the British Real-
deticy in their interest,' whether by actually sharing the profits
of the concern as partners, or by allowing them what in their
• affidavit they denominate "benefits, such as they were induced to
give from private friendship, or a Sense of private
.and pecuniar7
obligation. In 1815; they Vol acquired a ~,fieat accession of poli-
tical influence in their nominal partner, Sir William numbold
—an acquisition which they well knew how to turn to the best
account. Bringing no capital to the house, taking no share in
the conduct of the details of their business fin four years after
lie was invited to join the firm, it was enough for their purpose
that. Sir William was known to be under the.special protection
and patronage of the late Governor... General, and be ieved by
the Natives in general Lobe nearly connected with his Lordship
by marriage (12). The impression this would produce on the
mind of the Minister, anti generally at a Native Court like
that of Hyderabad, was well known to them ; and it would ap-
pear by Sir Charles sletettlfe's dispatch already referred to, that
their calculations had not been disappointed.
13,' From what other motive can it be imagined than to
answer a 'purpose of the chareCter above described, did Messrs.
William Palmer and Co. invite Sir William Itumbold to be.
conic a partner in their concern ? It is known he was involved
in debt. when he joined the house; and by his own Statement,
lie remained at Hyderabiul Lilt a few months in IBM and did
not return to that capital for four years afterwards, during all
which titne he was holding the situation of .a MagiArate of'
Calcutta.-

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14. The Iniuse had also, about. the -same Unite, taken into
partnership a' member ofthe late Residency, Mt. Sotheby, who
It is known by his.own statement' could not have, brought them
:mg accession of capital, as his pecuniary embarrassments were
titre:lose aSsigned by himself' for his entering the house (13);
and as to any benefit to be derived from his assisting in the
conduct of its concerns, it is distinctly avowed,- both by him-
self and the other partners of the firm. Neithi.4 of those new
partners, therefore, brought either an accession of -commercial
strength and credit to the house, or contributed to its success
by any peculiar qualifications in conducting the details of its
business. To what, then, but to the impression that would be
produced, that in Sir Wm. Rumbold and Mr. Sotheby, the
house possessed the means of
.exercising a powerful political'
influence, -whether With the Sttpreme Government of Calcutta,
or at the Residency, can be ascribed the selection made by
Messrs. Win. Palmer and CO., of those two gentlemen to be
partners in their concern ?

Id. But flourishing as the concerns of Messrs, W. Palmer and
Co. were at this period, they were aware that since the Autangaz
bad contract in 1810.19, reporta had reached the Supreme Go.
vernment or a supposed secret connection and participation of
profits on the part of the Residency with the house, and had at.
traded considerable notice, so as to become (natter of discussion,
and a dili'erence of opinion at the Council table. At the period
last alluded to, it may be inferred that the house found_ itself
involved in pecuniary transactions with the Government and
Officera of his Highness the Niz un, to an inconvenient, if not
' dangerous- extent. Many of the 'debts due them were of a
character which they knew could not be approved by the Bri.
tish Government, should the necessity arise for their soliciting
its aid to recover them. It is true; that while Mr. Russell, dur-
ing whoSo Residency all those debts had been incurred without
question on his part, should remain at Hyderabad, the firm,
jud from the experience of the past, could have little to ap.
prebend, as to any discontinuance of that general confidence.
and support, which had uniformly enabled them to exercise a
sway over the Alinister, that precluded all necessity or any di.
feet interference on the part orate British Government to enforce
the realization of their demands. 'Hence that bold and seemingly
explicit diSclaimer, in 1819 of ' all understanding on their part,
that the British Government was in any, way pledged to exact
the fulfilment by the 'Vivian of his engagement in the Aurun-
gabad concern, and that apparently satisfactory' declaration as
reported by Mr. Russell in his letter or. the 3d of Julv,l 819,
that ‘4 their only security was , the good faith
.of the alinister,
and the degree of Influence which the Resident might consider
himself called on to exert on their behalf, but so as never
to make their affairs a matter of discussion between the two
Governments." At that time, as it has since.appeared, they
wore exercising an influence over the Minister, if not the late
Resident himself, that rendered them entirely. independent of
any ostensible interposition on the part of the British Govern-
ment. But it was necessary for them to look to the future.
ToWards the close of 1819, or the commencement of 1820, they
must have seen the prabability of Mr. Russell's return to
England, which actually took place in the course of the last.
mentioned year. With their accustomed resource in expedi.
cots, where their own interests were concerned, It was not
long before they devised a scheme, by which they Might ob.
min the direct sanction of the British Government to their
large and unsanctioned balances. That -scheme, it has been
Seen, succeeded to their =nest wish. Besides securing the
sanction 'of Government to their old delus,•and the lulvantage
of the bonus, they were thus enabled to raise a large stun from
individuals, under pretence of subscriptton to the New Loan,
and to embark with ti great minian !of ready cash in new
adventures. _
. . • _ . • -

Pi. The first step to insure success to this bold stroke, was
to disengage themselveS from all 'connection with the Mem-
bers of the Residency, whose concern in their house, it was
evident, would no longer be an object of .mitch, importance,
provided they succeeded in, their meditated design. At all
events, the success of,elan was not to be Eklied by r -
tuinintrany such partners, Since the rutitours afloat might, lead
to a scrutiny of their aillairs, a thing by no means to be desired.
Whatever other reasons have been assigned by Mr. Sotheby
fur quitting the house at This critfcal period, there can
be little doubt that the motive un their part was the one

above *imposed: Iri• purstiatice of that object, tin offer was
accordingly.made to Mi. Sotheby, either to relinquish the Com.
piny's service, and become an avowed partner of the houie, or
to retire from the partnersl.ip, a douccur being tendered. to
make op for the loss. 'The latter alternative was accepted, and
Messrs. William Palmer and Co. were now prepared, if, ne-
cessary, to take an affidavit, that no public functionary was
connected with their house. This final separation of partner-
ship between the Residency and the houte took place in Feb.
1020. After the lapse of a few months, the Minister was
brought forward,. and his propositions officially submitted
through the Resident, backed with his recommendation (14).
The remarks contained in the Resident's letter of the 14th
ultimo (15), on the correspondence between the Minister and
the house on that occasion, abundantly prove that the whole
affair was got tip for the purpose. It would be uncharitable
to suppose, that the late Resident wilfully shut his eyes •to
what was passing before him ; but we are compelled to state,
that it is difficult to account in any other way for his being made
the channel of bringing forward such a proposition, without
making those previous inquiries of the Minister, which must
infallibly have led him to a discoiery of the truth. Had he
asked, as it was natural he should, have done, what were the
terms of the loan, the nature and 'amount of the debts to the.
Soucars and to the house, and at what rate of interest, and had
he been truly informed as to all those points, could be, con-
sistently with his public duty, have ventured to recommend
such a loan to his Government ? •
17. In August, 1820, as is known to your Honourable Court,
the sixty lac loan was sanctioned by. a majority of the Admini-
stration of that period, on the professed grounds of its expe-
diency, and on the recommendation of the Resident, as being
the best arrangement, as to terms, that in his opinion the Mi-
nister could by possibility effect.
18. In the month of necember 1820,
Mr. Russell departed
from Hyderabad, and was succeeded by Sir Charles Metcalfe.
19. It would lead us to trespass too much on the time of
your Honourable Court, if we attempted to oiler a sketch of
the various acts of deceit, misrepresentation, and concealment
of the truth, which have since been brought to light, and to''
which the House have been driven, in consequence of our call
for the production of their accounts, and the names of the pub-
lie functionaries, supposed to have been concerned with them
in the pecuniary dealings with the Nizam's Government.—
They are, however, so fully and ably reported and comment-
ed on by the Resident, in his various dispatches beforeour
Honourable Coal% that nothing that we could state could_y add
force to his exposition of their conduct. It will be sufficient
to notice their own declaration, as conclusive with regard
to the general character of their dealings, namely, that the
production of their detailed accounts would be a measure
of most injurious consequence to them (16) ; that the re.
striction of their intercourse with the Minister (but through
the Resident) would be regarded as a complete crushing of their
concern ; and that it would be ignominious to give up the names
of certain individuals who had been connected with the House.

On this latter point, the Resident has very justly observed (17)
what sort is that commercial establishment in which it would be
ignominious to name the partners ; and what title has that firm
to patronage, whose conduct, during its whole existence, from
its first application for support, has been a tissue of imposition,
concealment, deceit, falsehood, and treachery towards the
British Government? In all this, says Sir Charles Metcalfe,.
it sees no ignominy.
20. With the facts, too, that had come to light by the pro-
tluction of the accounts of the Sixty-lac Loan, as delivered by
the Minister in 1821 and 11122, it is impossible not to be struck
with the effrontery of the house, when, in complaining of the
call for the production of their accounts, they represent their
situation as unprecedented, and proceed to describe their
usurious transactions with the Minister as undertaken to
their own disadvantage. Duting a great pressure in the mo-
ney market, they observe (18), .4 We entered into engagements
with the Minister with the Resident's concurrence. When
the war was over we again came forward, contrary to our inte-
rest, to aid in the object of reform, by the advance of ,a large
loan, the magnitude of which rendered necessary the sanction of
the British Government to remove hazard." It Is now manifest
that the hazard, for the removal of which the sanction of the
British (iOvernnient was necessary, was that of losing their
old and unsanctioned debts in' the impending bankruptcy of
the State, or under a nett Resident, less easily satisfied with
their modes or proceeding, and not their new and nominal ad-
vances, so disinterestedly contributed in aid, as they gave out,
of the great measure of reform. In a still later letter from
one of the partners to the Resident, dated 11th June (19),
this complaint of the severity of the measures of the Go.
vernment is renewed in terms still more explicit, and with
still more unblushing effrontery, in the face of all the expo.
sures that bad taken place. Sir William Itumbold, on the
eve of his departure for England, could not abandon his part-
ners to their fate without one more attempt to move the Go-
.eernment in their favour. The measures which the British Go-
vernment had thought proper to adopt towards them, had
already exposed them, lie observes, to serious dangers, and any
further evidence of its displeasure would be utter ruin. He
adds the expression of his hope,
that the damdangers and distress
to which they had already been exposed, would be considered a
sufficient atonement for any thing which the Governor-General
might have disapproved of in their proceedings, and would en-
noe.
themen e r
innl i
what
11(e:tot
en-
title them to his future protection, entreating that the Gover-
ninlancilnweriltlbseay lmy them
yefor
tfiLonfil
future
,c
curry
owni li di-
recttheir
trttllSSetlollS Hyderabed, so as to secure the 'support of the
Government through the
the requisition to name the public functionaries who may have
British Resident. In the same letter,
public delinquents to juatite, is treacttreldnuostabeir
been connected with their house,
obliging agents to betray what they niay wa
so rudr se,
ontfitlisdgee
nvi se•enee.
yot
know" in co
the private affairs of iadividuals, and rendering it impossible
that men (meaning the members of the firm) should,enjoy the
vie2wl.toMbrerichgaviemnnoleti(citedatetllyiebachfooreve
your
tstiaotvsoouthrsebdieeta
confidence of the public, who' are known to be liable to such
compulsion.
extraordinary privilegesiannadry(%ft.tueroenosfiderthetoCilLwrtith:hae
of a commercial firm, subsi
rs.
be
of Government,
by' the very nature of theirandi ialise
theirs
shn tolh:e." by constitution Williamth
e t tr..
ferance
carr
license,y g
st transactions
be uch urvilii dt
Go-
vernment is• entitled to know. Their ideas would appear to
be,' that the credit of their house (on however precarious a
footing subsisting), is not to be exposed to hazard, by any
inquiry into the acts of the partners, avowed a secret, even
thought such gets should be an offence against the statutes;
and that any attempt of the Government to discover whether
one or more public functionaries, to the disgrace of the ser.
vice to which they belong, may have been concerned with
them In what an Act 'of Parliament declares to be, usury and
extortion, is a just subject of grievance on their part, as inju-
rious to the credit of the iirm, and entitling them, as amends
for such injury inflicted upon them, to the future favour and
suppert of the Government, in the continuance of those very
transactions, the character of which it would be needless its this
place to repeat.
22. With regard to whatever measures we have already
sanctioned, for dissolving all connection between the house of
William Paltrier and Co., or may hereafter see fit to adopt for
the more effectual attainment of •that indispensable object,
we trust your flimourable Court will concur with us in opinion,
that the finn in question cannot be regarded in the light of
one of thole bodies of British Merchants, to which they are
so desirous to assimilate themselves : men whose word has never
been called in question, whose accounts, if required to vindicate
their fair fame, are ready
.to be produced at a moment's
warning, and who would scorn to be connected in parser.
ship with any individual whom they felt it to be an igno-
miny to name. We conceive that, Adverting to all that has
already been discovered of their dealings at Hyderabad, they
can be viewed only as art association of unprincipled Adven-
turers, linked with a corrupt and profligate Minister, and
preying on the necessities of the Government, which that Mi.
nister's criminal pmfulion and lavish expenditure of the reve-
nues, in support of his own despotic power, have reduced to
the brink of ruin. To save the country of our ally from that
impending danger r to recruit the impoverished resources of
the State; to rescue the
people from. the 'grasp of the extor-
tioner and oppressor, and to restore to' them the blessings of
security and good government, must ever be the primary objects
of our attention ; objects, we are satisfied, utterly incompatible
with the continued existence of a house of agency, exercising
the unbounded political influence hitherto poseessed by Messrs. i
William Palmer and Co, sinclSby them directed to the sole and
unjus•their
tifiable purpose of filling the coffers of own concern.
23. Your Honourable Court will not fail to have remarked,
that from the first moment when Sir Charles Metcalfe was
brought in collision with the bouse, in his endeavours to effect
the reform prescribed by his instructions, every means were
employed to counteract his meritorious exertions. When
Messrs, William Palmer and Co.' found thathe was neither to
be blinded nor seduced, they resolved on the desperate attempt
of engaging the Minister in 'a plot to bring charges against
in ihe confident expectation, it is presumed, of effecting
his fetitoyal front office, and thus reineining musters of the
field. Such a victory 'was worthahe hazard of the trial ;* but
fortunately the blow aimed at this highly distinguished public
°filar recoiled on the head of those Who directed it, And the
Resident persevering in his inquiries into the real nature oldie
dealings between the 'Minister and the 'house, a scene of ini.
l
qtiity was-disphiyed, which has covered with disgrace all who
were, concerned in it.
lae2•Ott.trlbrusie need
not
faoslsl ou wr e 117 u these r honourable
inquiries until nothing has
Court,.that it will
been left utteXamined. Wetrust, indeed, that little more re-
mains to be done, than to wind up the concern, by ti final close
of all Connection 'between the Government of his Highness and
this unprincipled association of money-lenders, who, under the

name and profeCtion of the British Government, have so long
plundered theleountry.of our unfOrtunate ally.
25. In soliciting the attention of your Honourable Court to
our instructions to the Resident, under date the 22d inst., we
beg leavoo Observe, that we have principally been induced to
issue them at this .moment, from a consideration that much
time might still elapse, before Sir Charles Metcalfe should
be able to submit the accounts; with all the explanations he
would endeavour to obtain on the subject of them ; and that,
even in the present stage of the inquiry, it was expedient to
intimate to Rajah Chundoo Loll, the unfavourable impres-
sion produced on our mind with regard to the general cha-
racter of his administration, such as had already been suffi-
ciently established by what had' come under our review. We
are persuaded, that a representation in the terms of that which
Sir Charles Metcalfe is now directed to convey to Chundoo
Loll, will produce a powerful and salutary-effect upon the
Minister; and we trust that our views, as regard the policy
to be maintained in future with respect to Chundoo Loll, as
well as on the subject of our continued interposition in the
affairs of the Government, until the evils resulting from past
mal-administration be removed, will be found to be in ac-
cordance with the sentiments of your Honourable Court.
We in a particular manner beg to attract the attention of
your Honourable Court to the details of the Resident's in-
teresting Report of his late tour, contained in his dispatch
of the 12th ultimo, with advertence to the benefit of the pre-
sent system of supervision by British officers ' • a measure
Which, we feel assured, will be acknowledged by Chundoo
Loll himself, when released from the thraldom of those to
whom that supervision was a death-blow, to be productive
of the most solid advantages to the State, and materially con-
ducive to the happiness anti well-being of the country.
26. We will now briefly advert to the subjects of the several
other dispatches submitted with this Address, in continuation
of the Nexus of correspondence already transmitted to your Ho-
nourable Court.

27. The dispatches of the 15th and 20th June (20) relate to
allowances hitherto paid by the house of William Palmer and
Co. to themselves, and their dependents and others, all of
which, we have expressed our opinion, should be discontinued,
with exception to such as may have been granted to soldiers,
or others, disabled in the service, or otherwise entitled to a
pensionary provision fiir real public services. It is unneces-
sary to trespass on the thue of your Honourable Court with
any remarks on the highly improper nature' of many of those
allowances, as they will be fully apparent on a reference to the
documents themselves. . .

23. In our reply to the former of the dispatches last referred
to (21), your Honourable Court will observe that we have ad-
verted to the subject of the Sikh troops employed by Rajah
Chundoo Loll,:as reported by the Resident in his letter of the
14th ult., and have instructed the .Resident to urge upon the
Minister the necessity for their immediate disbandment.
29. In a second dispatch, dated the 20th June (22), the Re-
sident reports that he has made another advance of ten lace to
the house in liquidation of their debts, which, on the grounds
therein stated, we have approved (23).
30. The two dispatches of the 21st June (24) relate to the
Resident's correspondenCe with Sir William liv.mbold on the
subjects of the affidavit, and the supposed connection of the
metnhers of the late Residency with the house. To these let-
ters we have already adverted in a preceding pan of this ad-
dress.

31. With regard to thelatter of the two points in Sir William
Rumboldt's letters, we have expressed our concurrence in the
remarks of the Resident on Sir William Rumboldt's state.
meet, observing that the evasion practised by him, in talking
of the house as having commenced ,in 1014, when he was
well aware of the principal partners of the existing firm hay.
ing been previously engaged in business, had not escaped our
notice (25). Olt the subject of Sir William Rutriboldt'a other
letter, we have remarked that the reference to his private cor.
respondence with the late Governor-General, was occasioned
by his own allusion to it in his letter to the Resident of the
9th March. Whatever might be the contents of that cor-
respondence between Lord Hastings and Sir William Rum-
bold, they could not, we remarked, alter in any respect the
deceptive character of the affitin,vit,or our opinion of the conduct
of the parties, to the proceeding of which it formed a promi-
nent part.
32. In his dispatch of the 26th June (26), Sir Charles Met-
calfe has stated the circumstances connected with a report pro-
pagated by 'Messrs. William Palmer and Co., that he had been
consulted on the subject of the affidavit (27). We have ex.
pressed our entire satisfaction with the explanation given by
the Resident, and approbation of the motives which induced
him to make it.
33. The four dispatches of the 27th, and one of the 28th of
June (20, relate to points referred to in our instructions of the
6th June, and do not call fbr any particular observations. We
trust your Ilonourable Court will approve of the arrangements
we have sanctioned, with respect to the appointments held by
Lieut. Holroyd, and Sir. Jefferys, as stated in our reply to the
above letters (29). In one of those letters
.your Honourable
Court will observe, that Mr. LaMb has resigned the situation
which he held under the Nizain's Government, of Medical
Storekeeper, by which a salary, to the extent of 1,500 rupees,
per mensem, has been saved to the Government of his High-
ness. The duties of that office have devolved on Mr. Jefferys„
who is to perform them without any additional salary, in consi-
deration of his being already in the receipt of a liberal allow.
once from his Highness, as surgeon to the Durbar. On Mr.
Jeffery's' retirement from office, we contemplate a reduction of
the allowance hitherto assigned to his Highness's medical
attendant : and, in like manner, we propose that the salary now
drawn by Lieut. Holroyd, as the officer in charge of the Police
of the Itesidency Bazar, shall be reduced In amount, on that
officer's retiring from the situation. _

34. Mr. Sotliebyhaviniinade an application to us, under
date the 7th inst., to be furnished with copies of those parts of
the Resident's dispatches in which his conduct as First Aisist-
ant is mentioned with approbation, and which be considered to
be essential to the formation of a Memorial to your Honourable
Court, .we have complied with his request. The extracts from
the Resident's dispatches, relating to Mr. Sotheby's conduct,
consist of paragraph 29 of Residents letter of 21st November,
1821, and paragraphs 12 and 13 of that of 20th June, 1822.
We have, &c. (Signed) .1. ADAM.
JOHN RON DA LI..
Fort-William, July 26, 1823. J. H. HARRINGTON.
(To be continued.)

-.NOW-
(I ) Inclosure, No. 1. (2) Inclosures, No. 14, 20.
(3) Secret Consultations, 30th September, 1020.-See page 64.
(4) From Resident at Hyderabad, 17th March, 1821.-Poli-
tical Consultations, 13th September, 1E122.
(5) From Resident at Hyderabad, Ist August, 1822.-Poli-
tical Consultation, 13th September, 1822.
(6) Front Resident at Hyderabad, 19th May, 1820.-Politi-
cal Consultation, 15th July, WM
(7) From Resident at Hyderabad, 19th May, 1820.-Politi-
cal Consultations, 15th July, 1820.
(8) From Resident at Hyderabad, Ist August, 1822.-Poli-
tical Consultations, 13th September, 1822.
(9) From Resident at Hyderabad, Bth March, 1823.
(10) From Resident at Hyderabad, 27th June, 1816.
(11) Enclosure No. 2.
(12 From Resident at Hyderabad, 30th September, 1822.
(13 From Mr. Sotheby, dated 18th April, 1823.
(14 From Resident at Hyderabad, 19th May, 1820.-Poll.
tical onsultations,.lsth July., 1820.
(15) Enclosure No. 1, in Letter to the Court of July 1, 1823.
a 6) Front Resident at Hyderabad, 23d February-J1123.
(17) From Resident at Hyderabad, 15th Slay, 1823.
(18) From Resident at,Hyderabad, 23d February. 1823-
(19) From Resident at Hyderabad, 21st June. 1023. • Endo-
!,ure, No. 9.
(20) Enclosures Nos. 2 and 4.. (25) Enclosure No. 10,
(21) Enclosures Nos. 3 and 5. (26) Enclosure No. 11.
22 Enclosure No. 6. (27)
Enclosures Nos. 13 to 17.
Enclosure No. 12.
23 Enclosure No. 7.
(28)
24 Enclosures Nos. 8 and 9. (29) Enclosure No. 18. 1

REMEDY FOR WARTS..---This excrescence,
which so commonly makes its appearance on the hands, face;
and other parts of the body, is by the ignorant and superstitious
generally submitted to the action of a charm, held to be infallible
by gipseys and mountebanks, who on being palmed -with silver
or gold, generally contrive to satisfy the credulous minds of
their applicants by cabalistic exhortation. Let those who arc
so affected, instead of attending to such characters, take one
ounce of white arsenic, and two ounces of soda, mix in four
ounces of water, and put it into an oil flask, which Is to be
corked, taking care that a small hole is drilled through the centre
of the cork, then place it in a saucepan Containing about two
quarts of water, over the fire, which should be kept boiling
gently, for about four hours, when the ingredients contained in
the flask will be formed into the consistence of paste; apply a
small portion of it on the wart with a hair pencil night and
morning, and in a few days it will •be effectually removed.__
(Medical Adviser.)

•
SINdULAIL CASE OF Dnovermto.—lresterday
morning, as a man empioyed in Deptford Dock-yard, was
walking by the Creek at Deptford, he observed a lady's mantle,
a pair of patters, and a Leghorn bonnet, lying on the earth
near the water. On examining the bonnet a note was found,
stating that they were the apparel of a female who had preci.
Owed herself into the Vatter, and that the body would be
found ifDrags were instantly procured,
and, after searching for some time, the body of a respectably
dressed .feniale was taken out•of the water, quite dead. It was
conveyed to a neighbouring public-house for the Coroner's
Inquest,