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HAMBURGH, MARCH 12.

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" The undersigned inspettor of printing and
bookselling,- hastens to intorm the public, that M.
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rector-general of printing and book,eiling, lias au-
thorised the following journals to be dispatched and
received, without any special permiision on his pact,
throughout the whole of the 32d Military Division,
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of them Gerfnan pfriodical publications, on medi-
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to procure these journals, recourse may be had to
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Military Division, who will point out the forms to
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It is to be hoped that the editors and authors of
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abstain !rum every dissertation or refiedion of a po-
litical nature. The right of publishing articles on
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merits alone. Every scientific journal, tht.reture,
which shall permit their insertion, will become liable
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" Hambutgh, March 6."

(Signed) " JOHANNOT,
" Inspector of Printing, &c.

IPESTMINSTEI? SESSIONS, ArtuL 3.

This day was occupied in trying traverses and
petty misdemeanours of the most trifling nature.
William Condell was brought up, under a corn-
mitment of R. BAKER, Esq. one of the Po:ice Ma-
gistrates, being charged as a rogue and vagabond.
Serjeant Dalton, of the sth Royal Veteran Batta-
lion, stated that he was passing near King-street,
Soho, on Friday morning last, about half past one
o'clock, when inqui►ing his way to Grafton-street
of the watchman, four men obtruded themselves to
shew him the way, and under that pretext hustled
him ; one of tl'em made a snatch at his watch, but
the Serjeant prevented the villain from robbing him,
and called the watch. They then ran off, a pursuit
aSok place, and the Serjeant had caught hold of the
fellow who snatched his watch, when the prisc►rn
came behind him, obstructing him, and the three
escaped. The prisoner swas then secured, taken to
the watch-house, and searched, and on his person
was found an iron crow used for house-breaking, a
tinder-box and matches, a flint and steel, and a
knife.

The Court under these circumstances, o!derrd
him to be remanded on his conviaiun, and s,-ri-
teneed to be imprisoned in the House of corre6tion
for six months.

He was then tried for attempting to pick the
pocket of the Serjeant, and the same evidence b-ii•g
adduced, he was found guilty, and ordered to he hn.
prisoned twelve months, to commence after the ex.'
piration of his former term.

CAMBRIDGE, •APUIL 3.—Tiv: following are the
subjects for the Members' Prizes for the pr:seur
year :

SENIOR BACHELORS —De Philosophic Platon.ca
Disquisitio et Judiciura.

MIDDLE. BACWELORS:-!Utrum prxcepta a Rhe-
toribui tradita verse Elocrentiz proftvsse an Docu:ssAs
dicentium esi ?

The Rev. H. Porter, B. D. Vicar of Enfield, in
Middlesex, and late Fellow and Tutor of Trinity
College, has been presented to the Reetory of
Springfield, Essex.—The Rev. D. M. Peacc.cii;
M. A. late Fellow of Trinity College, has been ern
powered by dispensation to hold the Reelory of
Staynton-le-Street, in the county of Durham, wi h
the Vicarage of Sedbergh, in Yorkshire vto the
former of which he has recently been prestnted
the Lord Chancellor.

PAPERS RESPECTING the NAG'OCIATION
FOR A RENEW 4L OF
THE EAST-INDIA COMPANY'S EXCLUSIVE
PRIVILEGES.

No. yin!. • ,
SECRET COURT OF DIRECTORS.

LETTER PR.-•M.T.1413 CHAIRMAN AND DEPUTY CHAIR-

MAN T' THE, RIGHT H(iN. R. DUNDAS, NOTICLD

IN THE PRErEDING MINUTE.
[Continued from Yestordayl
East India House, lan. 13, 1539.
An Indian military education, from an early age,
is essential to the formation of a good Sepoy officer,
and gradual rise in the service by sentority is no
less indispensable. In this way, the Indian army
has been constituted and rendered eminently effi-
cient ; and all measures, tending to change or
weaken the constituent parts of this fabric, ate to
be deprecated. When, excepting a few regiments
of European artillery and infantry, the whole
mili-
tary force of British India was composed of Sepoy
corps, the officers of that army,-of course, possess-
ed entire the emoluments and advantages which
the service afforded. The introduction of European
troops from his Majesty's arrny into India altered
:this state of things. • Young officers, of no Indian
experience, who had obtained their commissions by
purchase, took rank of men of long and tried ser-
vice : the King's officers were thought to come in,
also, for too large a share of employments and ad-,
•vantages.' , To redress the coMpliiuts which the'
Company's officers made of supersessions and par-,
tialities, and to give them a better share of the be-
nefits of the service, was the leading .ohjeet of Lord
Cornwallis's Military Plan-of 1794, and with him a
principal motive for proposing to transfer the Indian
arnry to the:King, no other praCticable means hay-
ing then occurred to him. Bat the object was, in
substance-, attained by the Military Regulations of
1796, passed in concert with his Majesty's Govern-
ment, without that transfer, of which his Lordship
did trot revive the idea on his last return to India,
those regulations having given increased rank, and
retiring pay to the. officers of the Company's army.
The causes of complaint, bowel er, did not entirely
cease. To aveid the collision of authorities,. the
Coarpariy had adopted the usage of appointing the
Commander-in-Chief of the King's troops also their
Cotninander-in,Chief: and one consequence of this.
has been, that the Company's officers, resident from

early youth in India,_ possessing little influence in
'England, unknown to officers of high rank in his
Majesty's service, have thought themselves treated
with less favour and distinction, than younger offi-
cers of that service recently arrived, but better pa-
tronised. You know, Sir, that there have been in-
stances of this sort,, which the Court, with the
aandion of your Board, have interposed to rePress:
but as long as the British force in' India is made up
of two armies, so differently constituted, with so
large a portion of King's-- officers, the whole com-
manded by Generals of his Majesty's service, there
will, probably, be real or apprehended ground for
.the like complaints. They do not arise because one
army has the honour to belong to his Majesty and
'the other serves the Company, but because the coo-
stiturion of the two armies ate radically different,
nd must continue so, whether the armies are un-
der one head or two. The -Indian army canna be
maintained without officers attached to "it from an
early age, and rising by seniority. Frequent changes
of King's regiments serving in India, and the conse-
qunt frequent arrival of young men, promoted in
them by porch use, cannot -, be avoided: the former
class will t-e.comparatively unknown to the King's
commanders; the latter will have among' them the
connections of those commanders, or of men of in-
fluehce in England. , It is not difficult to see, there-
fbre,, to .which side the exercise of military pa-
tronage will lean ; and to prevent causes of com-
plaint, .and to keep the- balance even, most be an
important obje3 in the Government of India. It
does pot seem the Way to effeat this, to put the
Indian army wholly in tire power of the Com-
mander-in-Chief. It is of the partiality of that s,a,_
Lion of which the Company's Officers have some-

times 'complained ; and the Court .see no reason
whatever to suppose, that their jealousy and disa-
tlof.inttion would be-I,..moved, by putting them en-
tirely under its contrail ; and, indeed, by placing
t wo,armitis, of such different races; and so differently
constitu-led, under the same master, it would seem dif-
ficult to avoid attaching the idea of permanent in fed-
uritY to that which was-Indian. Nor is it a thing to
be, taken for granted, that the Sepoys, 'so much, as
alreadt observed, under the inflUence of habit, would
elitist to be transferred from that service to which they
lyave beet; always accustomed,-ta one 61 which they
have lit, le experience, and that experience not al-
ways of .a conciliatory kind. To.place the officer 4
of the Indian army wholly under that authority of
which they lulve hitherto complained; does not cep_
ttinly appear to be the way to render :them easy.
o itheci-tntrary, lead to serious discontent ;
and tlit'u,i) the Court would be •far from counte-
nancing that spirit among their officers, or yielding
to any irregular • tosertion of it, yet it must be.said,
un the other hand, that those officers are a body of
ttien who have. deserved too well of the Company
tit& their country, to have real causes of discontent ;
and thi4 it would be impolitic to.adopt any system
likely to generate such causes, either among tlis:m or
the n?yn,they command.

With regard to the other reason assigned for the
propos-td change, the Court begleave to observe, in
the firm place, that they do not-'perceive the. neces-
mtrycouneaion: between the inconvenience which

is alleged, and the remedy suggested for it ; since, if
it were true that the question of responsibility in
England, respe6ting the appointment of Commander
in Chief, lay under an obscurity and.uncertainty'de-
trimental to the public service, it does not appear to
tohow that the Indian army ought to be transferred to
thr King:to remedy this deieM. But, in the humble
apprehension of the Couri, no obscurity hangs over
that question. The appointinent'of Commanders
in Chief of the King's forces there rests with his

Majesty, and the otbcer chosen by him will, by vir-
tue -of his Commission,•.generAly command the
.Company's army on service. The appointment Of
Commander in Chief for the Company's army is
phiced, bylaw in the first instance, in the, Court of
Di;'eaors, but with a power vested in his Majesty
to ;annul such appointments. This necessarily

pain .o an agreement between his ,Maiesty's Go-
Vernment and the Court of Dire4ors, in.respea to
those appointments; and the Court are not aware,
that they have, on any occasion;, used the share of
power left to +herb by this arrangement,' for the
exercise of which they feel that they arc responsible,
to the prejudice of the public service. They must,
at the same time; humbly express- their ottnion, that
the, law, as it now stands, is wisely conceived,.since
it does not halve the responsib:lity, but double
making both his Majesty's Government and, the
Court of DireaorS fully answerable for the appoint-
ment of the Company's CommandetS, in Chief ; and
if it should still be said, that,' point, of Baca,' the
seleenon of a Commander in Chief for his Majes-
ty's forces may be' rendered' difficult, by reluelance,
on the part of the Court, to /accept of the, same
officer for the' command, of the Company's In my, it
msy be justly .replied, that they make a sacrifice to
the public Interest, in agreeing that' the Commander
in Chief of his Majesty's shall also be the Coin-
pany's; and when he is riot only to command their
army, bet expeas to be made a Member of their
civil and political Government, it cannot be deemed
unreasonable, that they'should possess ,'he right of
satisfy ing themselves as to his competency for filling,
those high offices : neither is it, as they think, to
,be shewn from theoretical reasoning, or by an v.-.
peal to facts, that the service Will suffer, or has suf-
-lered, by their assertion of thiS right.
But the strongest ObjeCtions of the Court to the
proposed transfer arise from political consideratiOus.
They conceive the continuance of the Indian army
in the hands of. the Company to be essential 'to the
administration of the civil, financial, and• political
affairs of British India, according to the present sys-
tem. The Company's Government has hi, herto
been resPeaed,•both by its own subjeas and foreign
powers, because it possessed a great military force.
Organizing this force, 'enlarging or reducing it at
pleasure, appointing its officers, rewarding merit,
punishing the unworthy,. providing for the cotn-
tort4ble retirement of the veteran soldier and
Officer, and, in short, exercising all the (tine,
lions of a governing power Over a very numerous
body of men hign military spirit,' it has poSsessed
all the respeaability and• the benefit of their attach-
Meta and fidelity. taaeking upon the Members of
the civil Government and the body of civil servants
as belonging to the same neaster with• themselves,
and as the first order in the State, they have paid a
willing obedience to their ,:uthority, and-have there-
by upheld their internal administration and Oen.
'consequence abroad. The introduCtion of certain
King's regiments has been understood, as it was
tended, to be merely in support of the public TtereSt
:under the existing system ; but if the. Company
were to be divested of the whole of their military
force and power ; if they were to be no longer mas-
ters of a single regiment, no longer capable of en-
tertaining any soldiers, nor, of giving ono subaltern's
Comntissiou,; if the immense body. of men, who
have so long looked upon them, were to be trans-
ferred hem them, the people must consider their.
power as fallen and drawing rapidly to a close:---
Continuing still to Governments a general con-
trout over the employment of the army, and to their
civil servants the internal administration of their
affairs, would give the people no assurance to the con-
trary. Those servants in the discharge of their dif-
ferent functions ofijudges, magistrates, colledors,
could not expeEt the same respeat' and suppOtt,
either from public opinion or the attachment of the
native troops, as when all 16oked to the-sante head
for protection, patronage, and reward. Indeed, to
make so wide,a separation of the military front t he civil
power ; to take away the organization, the interior
tegulation, and with these, the patronage of the
army, from the local Government; to pike all those
powers in the hands of the Commander-in-Chief,
subjecl only, in the exercise of them, to an autho-
rity at the distance of half the globe, would throw
the means and-the temptation of a dangerous ascen-
dancy into the scale of the military department,
which, constituted by his Majesty, might' easily be
led to slight the, Civil servants of a'meaner master,
and their chance of distant redress. Among' the
natives of India it has been usual to consider' the
Military pawer, and those possessing it, as pre-emi-
nent ; and they see, in some examples of the pre-
sent day., that potver, under the idea of assisting the
civil and political administration, actually connoting
it, The Company's Gbvernment, in short, lower-
ed and over-shado-Wed in this way, would not, in
the opinion of the Court, continue to• possess the au-
thority necessary for the. proper administration of
the atnirs of that great empire ; and it might then
be conceived, that a further change .only could sup-
ply what was defeetive.
But this'is not the only way in which the mea-
sure in question appears to the Court to be 'pregnant
with danger. it proposes to 'place in the entire (list-
posal of the Crown, a regular army, amounting to
one hundred and folly thousand men, commanded
by above three thousand European othceis, having
a, great variety of places of honour and emolument -;
and all the vast patronage attaching to such an army,
(saving the nomination of cadets) would, mediate!),
or immediately, be under, the influence controul
of some of the,Members of his Majesty's ;Govern-
ment. This would be a signal departure from the
spirit and letter of the Acts of 1784 and 1793 ; a
professed principle 'of which' was, that-the Indian
patronage, civil and military, should be kept entirely
out of the hands of the servants .of the Crown. It
is not for the Court to enlarge upon a proposition

is t

. . _ .
so momentous ; but they beg leave, with the utmoit
,deference, testate, that they would deem it a dere-.
li6tion of their duty, to which no consideration

could induce them to spbtnit, to recommend any
measure of this description to their constituents.--
Knowing however, Sir, yoUr concern for the promo-
tion of the public interest, a concern which we have
frequently witnessed; the Court still flatter them-

selves, that the consideration of the renewal of the

Company's Charter, a measure which they believe
to be for the interest of the nation as well as of the

Company, will go on without your insisting on this
proposition, or any further on the other which has
been been above discussed, than may. be really
compatible with the preservation of the Indian sys-
tem. We have the honour to be, 3.:c.
(Szned) EDWARD PARRY,
CHARLES GRANT.
The Right Hon. Robert Dundas, &c. .

To be continued.]