The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

_COURT--FASHIOIVA73I.E.

On Saturday the Duke of Bordeaux and suite arrived at the
Bedford Hotel, Brighton, on a visit to the Earl of Shrewsbury,
who had a numerous party at dinner in the evening to meet th 2
Prince.

The illness which prevailed at Claremont a week or two since
having subsided, preparations are making for the reception of
the Queen and the Prince, who are expected to take their de-
parture from Windsor Castle in the course of Tuesday. It is
expected that her Majesty and the Prince will prolong their
visit until Monday, the lath inst.
Circulars of invitation have been issued by the Duke of Wel-
' ling ton for his Grace's political dinner on the 31st inst. Up-
wards of sixty Peers have been invited.
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The Marquis of Bute is passing the winter at Dumfries
House, Ayrshire, the Noble Marquis having arrived there from
Mount Stewart.

The Earl of Liverpool, who was expected to arrive atWincl-
sor Castle on Saturday last, upon a visit to her Majesty, is con-
fined to his town residence by a severe cold.
Ihe Earl of Yarborough is entertaining a numerous party
at Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, and there was an entertainment
at that seat on Saturday night. Lord and Lady Worsley and
the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Pelham are staying with the
Noble Earl.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leave Broadlands,
Hants, about the 20th inst., for town, and then go to Brocket
Hall, Herts, to pass a few days with Viscount Melbourne,
prior to the meeting of Parliament.
The Bishop of Carlisle, Viscount and Viscountess Holmes-
dale, have during the last week joined the circle at Alnwick
Castle.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A public dinner was given at Paisley on Thursday last to
Mr. Fillans, the sculptor, on his leaving that town for the
metropolis. . _

The Essex Agricultural Protectidn Society held its second
meeting on Saturday at Colchester. Five hundred pounds
were raised towards the fund.

We have pleasure in stating that Lord Grey no longer needs
the attendance of his medical advisers, and is new able to leave
his room and join the large family circle now assembled at
Howick Hall.

It has, during the last week, been freely circulated at the
Reform Club that the Hon. Member for Kilmarnock intends
to accept the Chiltern Hundreds on the meeting of Parliament.
Morgan John O'Connell, M.P., the nephew of O'Connell, a
young, good-looking, and well-educated gentleman, is about to
be united to one of the Miss Powers, of Tipperary. The
young lady has a fortune of 20,(,001. in the funds. She is the
daughter-in-law of the Right Hon. R. L. Shell, M.P.
The Conservatives of Buckingham intend to have their an-
nual dinner on the 23d instant, at the Town-hall, Buckingham.
The Duke of Buckingham has engaged to preside on the occa-
sion. _ .

Thomas N. Redington, Esq., of the Landlord and Tenant
Commission, has forgiven the tenants on his estate in Galway
the last half-year's rent, and promised an abatement of 15 per
cent. besides on all future payments.

THE OCCUPATION OF SINDE.
We find the following in the Chronicle of this
morning

" Our Indian Correspondent, O. P. Q.,' has sent
us the following extract from a letter, written by Sir
Henry Pottinger, to a friend in Bombay. inde-
pendent of Sir Henry's high character for talents and
uprightness, no officer of the empire is better quali-
fied, from experience and long residence, to give a
conclusive judgment on the affairs of Sinde."
The following is Sir Henry's letter :
" Your letter brought our happy and merry days
in Sinde vividly to my mind, and I lamented, on
reading it, if possible more deeply than I had done,
over the fallen estate' of my old friends the Ameers,
of whose case I have all along said, and ever ahall
say, under all circumstances, and in all society and
places where I may hear it alluded to, is the most
unprincipled and disgraceful that has ever stamped the
annals of our empire in India. No explanation or rea-
soning can, in my opinion, remove the foul stain it has
left on our good faith and honour, and as I know more
than any other man living of previous events and
measures connected with that devoted country, I feel
that I have a full right to exercise my judgment
and express my sentiments on the subject. I was in
hopes that some influential voice would have been
raised in England against the tyranny and spoliation
that had taken place, but the intelligence by the last
mail—that of July—holds forth no such prospect,
and all that I can now hope is, that the author of all
this cruelty and misery may meet with his deserts
hereafter. I shall only add, that I shall esteem it a
favour, if you will lot my opinions be known wher-
ever you hear the affair mentioned, and that you
cannot use too strong language in expressing my
disgust and sorrow on the occasion,"
We are inclined to regard this letter as a forgery.
It is extremely unlikely that Sir 11. Pottinger would
thus boast of knowing more about Sinde than any
other Person)iving, or that he, a representative of her
Majesty, would apply such an outrageous epithet to
Lord Ellenborough, or Sir Charles Napier, or Major
Outratn. The opinions expressed, too, are at utter
variance with Sir 11. Pottinger's sentiments, expressed
in his communication to Lord Auckland in 1839.
By that time no doubt remained in his mind
that the Ameers had acted treacherously towards
the Indian Government, and had been intriguing
with States hostile to England. On March 14, 1839,
he thus writes :—" i found he (uns of the Ameers)
was ignorant of most of the intrigues dig had been
carried on by the Ameers with Persia and the Can-
debar chiefs fluting the last year; and when I laid the
proofs of them before him, and deduced from them
that our recent arrangements were, in real truth,
forced on us by the Ameers, he admitted
the fact, and said he had not one word to
urge against them." In another interview with
these chiefs, he said distinctly that " they must hence-
forward consider Sinde to be a portion of Ilindostan,
in which our position made us paramount, anti en- 1
titled us to act as we considered best and fittest for the
general good of the whole empire." But in addition
to these strong proofs that the letter is a fabrica-
tion, we may state that before the Resident in Sinde
left, several parts of the territory had been taken
possession of by the Indian Government, and for the
very reasons, too, which, induced Lord Ellenborough
to occupy the whole—namely the hostile and
treacherous conduct of the Ameers. In writing to
one of them he says, " It is to be perfectly under-
' stood that his Lordship will not overlook the conduct
of the authorities at that place (Kurachee), in know-
ingly and wantonly offering an insult to the British
Government, and consequently that place will not be
restored." On the 7th of March, too, he thus writes,
" After their long coarse of deceit and treachery I
am loath to pledge my sword for their sincerity."
And in a letter of the 11th of the same month he
uses these remarkable words It seems to me that
it would be better at once to take possession of Snide
(or such parts of it as we require) by force, than to
leave it nominally with the Ameers and yet deal with
it as if it were our own. The one line is explicit and
dignified, and *cannot be niisunderatood, the other I
conceive to be unbecoming our power."
After Sir Henry Potti ogees departure, which shortly
took place, and especially during thAefy
passage
of the
an,
Indian army and their stay
in
the
Ameers scarcely observed one article of the treaty,
and for proof of
referbeen to what
written by Dr. Kennedy and Lieut. Postans.

ANTI- STATE-C lIU RC II ASSOC I ATION. —A. meeting
of thisiassoeiation, of which the Rev. Dr. Cox is the presPident,
was held on Thursday evening last, at the King's Ilead, oul-
try, to receive subscriptions and to forward the general in-
terests of the Society. There was a large accession to the
number of members, and great interest seems to have been ex-
cited by the efforts made in various parts of the country. So
soon as the conference assembles, branch associations will be
formed in every provincial town throughout the country.