The Sun.
London, England, 1802-06-18 00:00:00

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consequence, he had no manner of right to dispose
of it by will ; yet to shew. Ehat the Company had
every-disposition to. serve and proteft the son, whom
his Highness had so favoured,
,they were folly in-
clined- to mace .a very liberal provision for him, on
condrition.of his previous surrender of all the domi-
nions which: had been nominally willed, to him.—
The Regents being present, .were as much moved as
myself, at the extraordinary communication which
had been just made to us, And although we' were
fully convinced, that no unauthorized correspondence
had ever taken place.between his late Highness or
his .Predecessor, with the Sultan of the Mysore, yet
we were so much agitated and affliaed at the serious
manner in which the charge was preferred, as not
to be able to afford a cool and dispassionate answer.
After stating our internal impressions, that neither
of the- respetie3 Personages to whom allusion-: had
been made, could have been engaged, in a clandes-
tine communication with any Foreign Power in en-
mity' with the British Interests; and our great mor-
tification at the proposal which had been offered, as
founded on that supposed fat—we begged for a
'few days consideration of the terms which had been
suggested, which was conceded to us, after some
discussion. -

' Every inquiry was made in the interval,, to as-
certain the correspondence, which had at anytime
taken place of the nature already mentioned, when.
no vestige could be traced, which Could throw the
slightest stigma on the venerable names which had
been implicated in so unfortunate a charge.
The only correspondence which had ever occur-
ed between the parties in .question, and which
could have given rise.to the suspicion entertained
.by the Company, happened at the instance of the
Earl Cornwallis; after the termination of the war
so successfully concluded by his Lordship against
the late Sultan ; arch related to a family -connection,
.which, fsom;well known circumstances, never took
place. 'This correspondence naturally produced
mutual communications of courtesy on : several do-
niestic events, which- concerned either of the par-
ties personally, as occasions happened ; but nothing
that could affea any _interests conaeded with na-
tional or public' considerations..
The Regents, at the conference on the next
evening, being confirmed in .their first'impressions
of the rectitude of his late Highness's conduit, in
the -particular referred , to, stated in perspicuous
terms, the steps which they had pursued to inves-
tigate the truth of the accusation which had been
alledged to. have been contained in • the letter of
the Marquis of Wellesley ; and, that they had
found, on a full investigation, that there was not
the smallest foundation for the charge which had
been urged ; but, on the contrary, that the only
correspondence which. had occurred between his
Highness ancrthe late Sultan, had been carried on
with the knbwledge and consent of the Executive
Local Government, and had been forwarded offi-
cially by them ; and in proof of this assertion, re-
ferred the Commissioners to their own immediate
Records. .

-The Regents then expressed their concern, that 1
the matter 'of thii accusation had not been made
known and enquired into in •the life-time of his late.
Highness, when it might have been -fairly and can-
didly
explained and answered. This circumstance
alone led them to hope ...that the Company did not
seriously believe that a correspondence of such a
description had in reality .happened ; though'
.they
might have felt themselves authorised in requesting
an explanation concerning it : and under this con-
viftion, they could not but conclude that the terms.
proposed to them at their last conference would be
given up, as they were applicable to a situation of
things which dig not exist. •
. The Regents next professed themselves most
ready to receive any proposals which might serve
to promote a good understanding in resped to the
existing engagements, or might render them more
sonvenient to either of the subscribing parties ;
though they were not sensible how they could be
improved : at the same time they were apprehen-
sive that a new arrangement might give rise to dis-
cussions which had been long set at rest by the sub-
sisting Treaty.
The Commissioners still. stood on their first
grotind, and insisted,. in peremptory language, on
the proposal.which they hag before made. Seeing
there was no possibility ,of diverting theM entirely
from this object, the Regents considered of an ex-
pedient, which, .in- their expeaation, ; might have
induced the - Commissioners. to have foregone their
proposal, at least in the extent in which it had been
moved. Being well aware,. from an intimate
knowledge of his late Highness's affairs, that the
preceding Governors of Fort Saint George had
looked for possession of the Tinevelly and some of
•the--adjacent countries as more convenient to-their
alfairs -;• and sensible that the present Government,
from the- nature of the . proposal made, had simi_
lar views, though in a more extended shape, they
-determined, under .the peculiar. circumstances in
which they stood, to meet their desires,. as much
-as they could, consistent .with their own honour
and the interests which they had been- given in
charge. With this intention,, they proposed to
deliver, into the_ .hands of the Company, for their
entire management and cthstroul, the whole of the
Tinevelly .and Madura-Provinces to the Southward,'
and Ongole and Palnand to the North ; on the con-
dition-that the Prince of the Carnatic should be al-
lowed, in his•PeriodicalKists, the 'amount •rent of
• such distrkls, agreeable. to the schedule-No. 2, an-
. vexed .to the ;treaty of 1792, being a-yearly sum
equal to the full. amount of thesubsidy claimable
by the Company, by.virtue of such treaty.,
To the proposal of the Regents, the Officers of
Government gave a short reely—". That it would
not in any way do "—and that nothing short of the
demand which had been 'macle,.-could be accepted or
considered. In consecinence of this disposition on
the part of the Commissioners,. the Regents request.
ed a; further time to refieCt, and were indulged to
the next day. - _