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position, tionsiciliate thems-elves ; nor would ah
unsuccessful trade prevent them, but many would
seek to 'indemnify themselves on shore for their
loses by the voyage. The histances of such settle-
ments will be numeroua,•and it will be impossible
clot- any police to follow up the cases of -individuals,
'and continually lo exercise a rigorous system of ex -
closion. This has not •bitht rto been ' done, though
attended with comparatively little difficulty : atul
the attempt would soon,. under the • new order of
hings, be abandoned-. as hopeless. .Co;onization
'must in such case follow. Large communities of
Europeans wilt struggle for popular rights : new
feelings with resped to the mother country, new in-
terests and attachments will then spring upa and in
a region so remote, so rich and populous, and so
accustomed to yield to the ascendancy of the Eti-
ropeau charaEter, the tendency2nnd process of these
things cannot be difficult to conceive.
With • the ptospea of all these consequences,
comthercial and,politieal, before the Court, it.is ims
possible that they, as fait hftil;guardians of the inter-
ests committed to their care; or as men truly solici-
tous for the welfare of 'their country, which they
profess themselves to be, can advise their cons'itu-
ents to seek a reneWal of their charter, on conditions
-which would despoil it of all its solid: advantages,
deprive the Company of their most valuable
privi-
leges, and incapacitate them from -pet-aiming • for
themselves and the natioo, the part hitherto assign-
ed to them on the Indian syStem. Such a further
enlargement of the Indian trade, in favour of indi-
viduals, as may be compatible with , the preservation
oithese essential objeos, the' Court ,will; in. the
present circuMstances, certainly be disposed to re-
commend. They willlae ready to enter into a serious
inquiry concerning the concessions ' which may be
made, without trenching upon the principles esta-
blished by the Ad of 1793 ; and trust that the jus-
tice and wisdom of his Majesty's Ministers w ill not
require the Company to' make essential.
,sacrifices
forthe sake of giving to the public what would,
after all, be more an ideal thin a real benefit, and
be; in other respects, produ6tive of incalculable dis-
advantages.
The other important proposition 'which is next to,
be considered, is the transfer of the Indian army to
the King. The reasons' assigned for this. proposi-
tion are, that an end may be put to the jealousies
and divisions, which have too much preVailed, be-
tween the officers of his Majesty's army; and those
employed by the Company, and that the responsibi-
lity in th'e country, of providing for the military de-
fence of India may be ascertained and strengthened.
The Indiau army is the main instrument'by which
the Comptny have acquired and 'retained the terri-
toriaLpossessions they have added to the British
Empire..• The people of those countries, submitted
more easily to an authority exercised by means of a
body formed from among themselves. We fought
battles and governed provinces as the native powers
did ; and our new subjects, undisgusted with the
-sight of a foreign conquering army, supposed the
Government to continue substantially the same, and
the principal change to be in the individuals who
exercised it.

The constitution and charatSter which this Indian
army has acquired, have been the subject of just, ad-
miration. These have been Owing essentially to the
happy mixture.of hr %very and generosity.; oltiyinnesi
and kindness, exercised towards the Sepoys ter their
European ,officers. The super for lights and energy
of the European charaEter have direcled the powers
and conciliated the prejudices of the native troops;
but it was because the officers knew the peOple and
their prejudices well. These officers had been train-
ed up among them from an early age; the nature,
the cs3ges, and the language of the natives, were be-
come familiar to them ; and the natives, retnarfi-
ably the creatures of habit, in return, from being ac-
custouted, become attached to them. Without such
knowledge., however, on the part of th 6 officers,
they utiglit every day have revolted the minds of so
peculiara race, and have alienated them from our
service And government.
•

f To he continued, j

From the LONDON G4ZETTE, Mara, 31,

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

T. Oldkniaw, jun. and C. Bassett, Nottingham, mercers.
March tB, 18 t 2.
C. Brady, King's Lynn, Norfolk, and j. Barron, Wells next
the Sea, Norfolk, dancing-masters. March zr, 1812.
j. Perkins and 1. Perkins, Balsovcr-street, Oxford-road,
news-vewkrs. March 2,7, 1812.
W. Heath, W. Heath, and li. Junes, Well.court and Queen-
street, Cheapside, London, and Golelsmith-place, Hack-
ney-road, Middlesex, stationers. Dec. 31. 18 to.
F. Richardson, 11. Neal, and A. Tozer, Upper Thames-
street, warehousemen. March 19, 'Bl2. '
S. Cawood and R. Perry, Ship Tavern Wharf, Broad-street,
Ratcliffe, Middlesex,- coal-merchants. March 26, 181,z.
J. White and • 1. Macpherson, Middle-row, Holborn, and
High-Holborn, linen-drapers. March 25, tBl2.
R Cooke and W. Spratley, Carey-street, Middlesex, work-
ing-silversmiths. March 2,5, IEI2.
R. Meek and. 1. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Downini,
mill-
wrights. March 23, 1.:2.
Sawiders and T. Saunders, Shadwell lligh-street, Mid.
diesex, flaberdashers. March 25, 1812.
C. Royle and M. Ashton, Manchester, calenderers. March
26, 1812.
T. Hodgson and W. Acomb, Leeds, tobaccp-roanufadurers.,
'March 23, IEI2.
I. 13riggs and T. Ellis, Golcar, Huddersfield, Yorkshire,
wool-staislers. March 19, in a.

30.—Sir JAMES HALL,
Bart. has been eleded President of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh, in room of hii Grace the late Duke
of BuccLcoGn. _ _

On Saturday night or Sunday'porning, the *le-
dO nian Mercury Office was forcibly entered, and
every desk broken open ; after which the thieves
effected their escape, entirtly disappointed of plunder.
—lt is evident, they 'must. have gone most delibe-
rately'to work„ as they conld not have done what
they did without candles, which,' if any one had
been in the way to look after the premises, mtht
have been the means of dete6tilig them, as there are
no'sbutters.On a great proportion of the windows.
The desks and papers were all Minutely examined,'
also a few bad shillings, which the thieves did not
thit►k it worth their w bile to carry off. •
The Ruse, RYBURN, from Liverpool to Westport,
was lost on the sth ult. in Lochendold ;, part of the
„cargo saved.
The Croydon, BLYTH, from London, to Rio Ja-
neiro, ran on shore near Pareba, on the gth ot De-
cember ; great part of the cargo saved•.
A few nights since, the house. of „Mr. Finche, on
the Edgware-road, was broke open, and robbed.

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