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London, England, 1810-09-07 00:00:00

GALLii.‘7' EXPLOIT.

fr' Attaas FEn. 17.—8 y the arrival of the Venus,
ve:4•Petting, we team that a must gallant and i6e-
ful actic.ii has been fought Lieutenant
k-10itk, • •M, •
"L,, his .:ijesky, s sloop Diana, of I 2.twelve-
, ,
•t)
1)a " the t.t th of September, p=rceiving .a Dwelt
„
brig
.16 gas and 47 men in the bay
lying under. the protection of a tort,
,e
z(,l(''Yed' her out, tacked, and bought her
,to close
at ; and notwiihstan ;ing the.stiperiority of force,
41. the of five gait-boats, which had been
'elled:for the pnrpoie, he sui:ceeded in capturing
1.11,
the most_ gallant And superior style.
e Diana had outy two 'men) wounded. Tho
"f the &phi, e was the . First Lieutenant and
a killed, and the Commander and one
111,'I V. Minded.

1 Snssex Road is all bustle, in consequence ,of
ladyN• ~iarrie<i lrwin, cloned on Tuesday with a
. ,
4ter, Siroude, miles
ClOcilester. tairAtigniite was the daughter
14 ',Alum); who married a Gentle-
Yt.ars°t.i.r;une, of the name of about three
`lgo, she being eighteen at that tune. No idea
turned of the cause.. of her absence t't6in a
411 e. l L
fnarld and two young children-, eXcepting that
lit4t lad listened to the seductive rheto:tc olher
ti ho is not even kno.xn to the, laisband. jnc
11;iqr were traced-to an inn at Dorking, which they
la,about foui land-billydescribing the
t.):;l4re in,circulatioti, \villa: invite her to retuuti
undera promise of forgiveness.

.0 • SMITHFIELD MARK.,FT, Seer. 7. '
dsy's Market had an ineonderable supply
rit4:l"-ient kind 3 of Cattle ; Lamb is cheaper, than
last repo-v.; Beef,Mutton, Port.; and Veal,
‘4l'"rt I:ut
.priet..s.; and the trade kir the most part
lAe: '°'hewhat.flat.—The sales in the Hay Market
Inth.trg ; Hay and Clover sold at last prices ;
litl'ers are‘%. has fallan ac cuen in price.—The follong prices and
rate.sta!ementwi

beef . To Sink tne offal perstone of Elba'
t4.IS; Bd. to ss. 4d. Mutton 4s. Bth so ss. 4d. Veal
~1164. ")-7s: od. York ss. od. to 7b. cd. Lamb 4s: cd; to
630.

Sheep and Lambs 3,609. Calves 'lto. Pigs

SMITHFIELD HAY-MAREET.
z 4. 51' 0(1. to VA os. ud. Siraw zI. ics. cd. to 31.
t.:lover 61. los. oti. to tot. eos. oU.

theottN_E
XCHANGE, SEPT. 7.-:—There are sevenl
1:11,11:r arrivals of Wheat to-day, with contiderable
to.;nd, sales are very hea y, and rather give way
in Barley and Malt little variation; While
tit,scrl r fla,tilv at last prices Giey, and Beans of each
YJkils fiu-duate but Intl, ; the' quantities of
1.4 r se are somewhat considerable, and ihis article,
tlocull'l and interior qualiti s; is cheater; sales
tiV
ur at the last reduction..
• • i4eAt.
kilt Ow 4)
7is a bils a rocs Tick Beans -44 s a sos -
Ye 1 •
h - - 10,4 4 I 10$ t )41, 2OS 2.p a 28::
- - 36. a 4ab Pviatid ditto - 3cs a 34:..
3iis a 41- i °woe ditto 3bs a
-e pea -72 s a aos Rape Seed • - 5,i a 551 i
-se - 463 4 523 I inc i:Jur bis a yot
. '3/4 4) - - 4b) a Seconds - tioa a Isis
sos a soN

Cia,CL7 7'24 GAZETTE EkTRAD.RD,WI?)r.

MONDAY; MARCH 19,_ 1810.

GENERAL t.ltllt P.S.

BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE GCIVERNOR-pENE-

LIAL IN COUNCIL.

Fint St. Geor,e, March 3, tSio,

Tbe following Extracts of Lettcrs from the-Hon.
the Court of Directors. Co -the Hon. Governor. in
Council, dated the. isth aod 29th of September,
1809, are published. _

EXTRACT ,OF. A LETTER FROM THE HON. THE COURT

OF 'DIRECTORS, DATED- 1.5T11 SEPT. 1800.
ParO. 2. Vie have received your letters of the
2.oth and 31st January, 3d and 28th of February,'
1809, together with their several inclosurea,'ind
view with the deepest concern s'
the transadti3Ons thus
brought under our. consideration. •
3. We-have at all iimes entertained A just sense
of the merits and , services of the Officers of our
army, -and hare taken every proper oppOrtunity to
evince thatsense and our consequent regard and at-
tachment to their int( rests.

4. Of this habitual and deep-rooted sentiment we
had repeatedly given the Most nnequivOcal proofs,
and particularly in our 'late instructions touor Go-
vernments abroad, in support of the fair preten-'
sions of our Officers to posts of honour -add com-
mands ; thuS endeavouring to reneer the periods of
their 'services in India both honourable and advan-
. tageous ; whilst the ample provision made t.,r, their '
retirement in Europe, at an imarense and -indefinite
expellee,. affords an instance of the regard and libe-
rality of their employers, not to be paralleled in any
other . service. In atd of this last-mentioned ob-
jet% we hale very recently (in answer to. some of
.the last dispatches to Madras and Bengal) made
.liberal donations to the funds established at those
Presidencies tor the maintenance and support of dis-
tressed Offic.Jrs, their w ives.• and fainilivs. •
5. Whilst, however,, we are thus attentive, on
the one hand, from sentiments not of justice and ii-
berality only, but of attachment and esteetu,-to the
interests and j,,st pretensions of our Officers, we •
must not, on the other hand, lOse sight of the ne-
cessity and paramount (inty imposed upon of
suportiug the aut-tiority of the Government under
which those Otficernerve.

b. The support of the supreme authority of our
sevetai Governments in India -is essektai to the
preservation of those Governments, to the main-,
tenain.e of civil older, to the protection of society,
and even to ti.e well-hciing and existence'of the
ar9.y itself.
7. We are at, all times desirous to pay due regard
to the representations of our °dicers, and eittenie-
ly unwilling to impute censuraule or u ik,voith) rho-
Ives to any of their actions ; out it is impossible for,
us to c nsider ,their conduct, in the traosae.ions
now brOtignt before us, ottterise than as highly
improper and
8. It appears from the papers now brought under
our Lonsideration, that about the mouth of June;
1807, your Quatter-M.ister-General,• Leutenant-•
Munro, in obvdience to' the orders of our -then
Comm.in,:er in Chief at Ecirt St. George, Sir Joon
tvt adoek (, hid) orders were commnoicated tl;e
Q.Liartvr-M...sterhGeneral by a letter of the 7til of
febeuary, mirk d private anl 6ontidential,) suu-.
milted to his consideration and appreval, a paper,
purpoiting 144 he a plan for the provision of
aild'the cartiage of the tents and st.lcs of native
cdrps; which articles had previous!) bean
plied by a contrw.t with the Comaiatiding Otfiet
of those corps respuoti.ely.
• 9. This Paper was soon afterwards laid before
the Governor in Council by Sir John Cradock, who
stated in the minute Which accompanied it, that "it
would bc. superfluous in the.extretne to urge at any
length the validity of the argutnents set firth in the
(.4.uarter-MirSter-Getierdl's Report, as he might say

they CuVerdi, the result of their joint r6tiections
upon the subject; and ere the issue of that expe-
rience whio aruse from their tespective siinations.".
h Was approved by. Mr. Petrie, then President,
'. hu ,observed in his minute, on considering that
Paper—;hat the result of matey of. the statements
which he hid delivered in 1803, when•he-oppased
the opinions of: General Stuart, who biought for-
ward the naeaiiute .of the Tent Contract, nadbeen

by the experience of past years completely verified,
as well as the aph;rehensiOns he ex,,,es,ed that both
the public and individuals would sutler by thatar-
tangement. •
10. The plan, so approved. " Was,- together. with
thelieport,. w tacit stated the ground of , it, trans-
mitted to the Government • of ',Bengal.; and being
-rel,lll%,ed with 'their complete approbation Attd sauL-;
turn, was adopted by the G. vett:mem ,of Fort St.
G. urge, and via, in consee,uLl,ce published to the
army, 'and carried -into effect 1113 y, I 8.08.
IJ. On toe 26th of September,' 1808, a -cflarge
wi!stransmiticd to the Head-Quarters of the army
against. Lteut.-Cc_ionel Munro, 'signed by the Orli-
.ers the'n in command of ttve rrsiniews Nattve
Cavalry, and 23 b:ittalions .of Native Infantry, for,
conduct unbecoming the character of an Officer
and a Gentlom,al, in having, in his proposed plan
for the . abolition ut the Tent Contract, lately held

by Officers commanding Native corps, made:use of
false and infamous in,inuations therety tending to
injure their cnkracters'as'Ofticers, and oilierwisc; in-
jurious to their reputations as Gentle.iien ;"• and
upon this charge, Lieutenant-Colonel Munro
20111 Jantriry,. 1809, ordered into arrest, by..
Lieutenant-General Mactiowall. '
12. The cnarge thus preferred against ihe Quar-
ter-Master-Gen.:rat appars to have been 'found on
certain expressions in has report, whichliad received,
the sanction and approbation of all the authorities

In India competent to decide upon it. Adulating
fur a moment that these expressions had been ex-
ceptionable, deference to ittuse- authorities ought to
have imposed torbearance—Oificeis who thought
themselves aggrieved by them, were at liberty to.
,Clopt a line of conduct which might have afforded
them an opportunity of-vindicating then own Audi-.
vidual characters, without departing from then
respect for those authorities which they Were bound
to obey. •
13. If any Officer thought himself alluded to or
aggrieved by any thing that Colonel Munro had said,.
might era.iiy lave repelled the supposed imputa-

tion by .16manjing that, if. fie WerP.suspette, lie
sholnd be bro'i.ht upon it.—Governtnenc
wotiki then eith-1-- r aye granted
;21 Cvurt Nintiat, or
vrttld I,avc ticcally and public-1v fic‘lared that pa'
Imptitation rt-s[el Opon.uch . ..„

- ,
14. Each individnal_Offict-r w,,uld-.loi-N bad ad
undoubiedright to have demanded suchaciearanee
Or 'trial tor hint-.e.11;' but an Offi,.:e.: in comtniind of
one prOcuiar corps cannot, 'the nature ut thlng.sx
Undertake to answer for the condus.t of an Oificel
command of another corps,
,far removed, pc.rnaps,l,
from hip possible- obserlmrwas mm:h le fur.a whole
body of such Oftieels'so Clicutnstan,

15. The character of:each•indiv id i.,l must .be dis-
-kind and p..trticulat and. comb nation,
.therefore,-
of many Off-kers to repel. insinuations (supposing
such to "have I:teeti advanced), agiiiiist-tintialned
viduals of their body or class, respecting whose coun
duct the :personal knoWledge or' the Menibers
ge-
neially of that body could not etiabo'c them to spt:4lk,
'does not heeinto be founded- 'in any principle of
equity ; • nor -would it • be justified' by alleging that
general insinuations against •the whole body, ,but
pointing' to no Officer by name,: could ;not' be met
in any other matiner'i• tor the obvious course to '-be-
folio% ed in that case would •still be; that every
Officer who. conceived hiS charaater -to 'be
brought into question shouts .desire. to haVe -Ins own.
conduct separatOy investigated. • -

16. But we (are the; more astonished at their
prOCeeding, wheti we consider •the expressions
which have, been assigned as the .ground of the
charge. Detached ;IS.. they have been :from their
context, they still appear to us to be couched in the.
usual stile of offi'cial discussion,` and to be as far from
conveying any..imputation against individual 'charac-
ters, 'a's the' minutes of Sir John Cradock' and Mr
Petrie, by whiCh the plate waysupported. But when
they are considered as they actually stand in the pa-
per prepared by Colonel Munro, forming a part of
the.chain of reasoning, founded upon 'general prin-
ciples, it appears to us that no;inference can fairly
be drAwn- fro d, them unfavourable to the character
atilt Madtas'armyi
.17. While, therefore, we condemn the conduct
of the Officers who
.preferred this charge, we ap-
prove of the terms in which you lave stated your
opinion of the grounds of it in. your General.Oiders
of the 6tti of 'February. It .was a•proper attention
to their feeling,, anti still more to the feelings of
!host Officers who had_ no share in that irregular
ant unjustifiable proceeding, to declare in a public
clo,.:64nent that nu injurious. imputations upon. their
previous Conduct were :conceived by the Governor
in Co.incil to have been intended in the report . bf.
Colonel -,• . .

18. Wo c, nut
,dismiss this part.
without observh,g, that the circu;nstances of the
,case oelore us I.lvolve a ques.ii,ti of the gratest•irn•
portanc,:—tia• claim of individuals‘Who way think
thsniseives agrived.i.l the oputkilS or reflections
of an Otte-t of he Govertimelit, comtnumeated,hy
bin to 0. ecin:ne,.. to thoordtrs of his superiors, and
iu the dischiug.,: of li.s oftiCial duty, to in Aug such
Officers to trial tor hose contniunicat jolts. .

If persons nolding-•respnnsiblesanations were
IU.A: o • ex, oaed. to the .vexation .and 'ignominy of
pub if,al,wirenever they. way, in the.diseharge
their onii IA duties, have delkered opinions adverse.
to, the sentiments or even the itW rest of any part of.
tueservice, it will be impossible for such persons to'
do then duty. to the :pubirc. in-any insiance•which
may, interfere with. these seutimehts or interestsl
to give, upon. any que-tion; a • fair and. honest opt-
tP!'ll, if that opinion may, by ihference or constraill-
ed 'aiplical ion, be construed into a criminal itisintni-•
tiou•4,tgainst•the.charricter and condutt of individuals.•
If
_snch d . claim „could. ne maintained—it the prac-
tice.which h inculcates Were. to • prevailit would
, •
pusan gird .at once to all.. official confidence, and
lear e the Government without- t;,e means of obtain-.
ing information respetting existivg errors, defects, or
abuses, of of forming plans for the correttion (Wilily -
arrangements winch have a. tendency to produce .
them. We thought it .necessary to state these.
ininciples generally and • broadly, because we are
deeply impressed with a &mse-of their null) and
.inportance. Wth respr.tt he . particular case of
Ml•arro, it may ..beobserved,that the
communication,.,as nut, only official, bui . minden-
insertionin the records of Government was
no aft of his, 'but the, a!A of the Counnandet.
Chief,‘ Bywhat means the paper became publie,
Nve:have.l-10 authtti:tic urf.?cmation ; no reason what,
'ever has appeared for ,supposing that priblicity
was owing. to the Quarter Master General. Were
we, a“piainted„ with the channel through which it
became public, and was afterwairls cncuhaed through
the different: stations of the army, at the puisible
hazard (though we trust not withthe-direct view)
of creating df.content, 'iro,t4iti thitik it necessary
to mark such a breach of confidence with our high
disapprobation,
. 2tt. It appears, further, how the 30th paragraph
of your letter of.- the 29th Janoady, 1809, that • the•
" Qttice,-s who had preferred the charges•against
the' :Quarter Genaal of the aitify, had, in •
conse.quence of thedeclared sentiments of the Judge
Advocate General rcgardtng. their illegality, request-
ed that the Commander in Cui f would suspend the
prosecution of them." Weare induced, from this
statement, to lnduige hope that the 0a ers- who
had giyerriti those cilaq;rs agattist the Quarter Mas-.
ter General, had. beconi4 sensible of the M.:propriety
of, having cf,ried them; and this consideration,
if. it should,,turn out to be 'well • founded, may re-
lieve us float the' disagriecable necessity of taking
• further notice of their 'misconduct in this resped. •

21. Haviug considered. the proceeding of the
aneers who preferred. the charges against Lieut.-
C'ol. Munro, we COl.llO now to notice the conduct
of Lieutenant-General Macdnwail, our late Corn-
'-tnaticler in Chief at Fort St. George; in relation to
this affair.
22. We enter upon this task with extreme con-
cern, not only because we feel reluctance in pass-
ing any animaditersion upon an Officer, who has,
atter long services in India, filled so high a' situa-
tion; but :4cause it has been urged by some of his
friends, that we ought to wait lOr any justification
be might. wish to over of his own .conduct. To
this laic suggestion, although his proceedings at Fot t
St..(;eorge do not indicate any mention' of .appealing
to us., we shoUld have been willing, and even

anxious to attend, if,: we did not. consider
.tht.liis
case. was fully before us, by his, own :public tocu-
merits upon' record, .and if we_d:d not deem it es-
sensiq to tlieoeace and' i4uthoft uf our G6vurn-
meat, that .no time should .be lost in deciaring onr
sentiments. upon pointv•-•wineb—have-been brought
into question by thr public acts of the, Officer; *to
ti ose public.atis aloneand.chietly in'resi ect to the
bearingS they nave upot bur present and future lute-
rests,,our .attentiou..will • -- -

. 23. It appears that Lieutenant-Generl Atac-i
dowall,. notwithstanding he bad beta officiaily
torined by the Jiidge Aclirocate-Geherdf;'
t oleo legal adviseri - that- those chargrtrwere-in -their
nature idegal, raid, on the 20th January, i 89.9, put
Li;:mtenant-Colonel Munro under ar:esr, with the
intent that lie should. be brought to trial upon.theni.
24

The obvions reasons- on . which We nave
grounded o6r censure •npon. the Officers for •b,:ing-
MO. forward those charges, might well be expected
to have occurred to the mind of Lietitenant-Genefal
Maedowall, ,and to have determined. his conduct
with respect to them.. But, in • addition to those
reason=, the report which had been toaoe upon theta
by the Judge Advocate-General 'on; the. 7:h of No-
tember, 1808, proved' so unanswerably their im-
propriety. and illegality, andfurnished such strong
grounds for considering them a; an unwarrantable
attempt to controul the Councils of.anvernment,
through • the medium of bringing one of its official
advisers' to trial, that' it became the dear Limy of
Lieutenant-General. Macdowail to have returned
hose charges to the Officers. who had signed theft),
with marks ofhis high disPledsure.
25. The Officers who govo in the Charge against
Lieutenant-Colonel -Munro naving in their ft•bse-.
quent Memorial desired . that the •Commandet iv
Chi, f would rsipone the prosecution of them, you
have, in the 30th .'paragraph of your l-etter of the
29th of .January, 1809, retna• f,eit; roar it lurt~i,h_
d additional ;round in' aid of all the o her .objee-
tions to Lieutenant-General MAowall's refraining
trom bringing Cofonel `Munro to unit fr,..in them:—
In thiS observation,. we entirely concur. It would
indeed have•been a high aggravation. of. the impro-
priety of Lieutenant-General Macdowall's conduct,
in putting Lieutenant-Colonel Munro under arrest,
on•charges which. the 'Judge Alvocate General had
.&clared to be inadmissible, if he persevered in
subjecting the Quarter M •st,r General Rya' trial,
atter the authors of those. elia:g;'s' 'had themselves
acquiesced in the opinion ot: thf4 Judge Advocate
General, and reque,tect that the..pakeedings might
be suspended: •
26. But -we observe that tie'inenant7General
%Macdowall, in his lettei dine .tlB t J attua ry , 1809,
covering that. Memorial of the Officers, took occaa
sion,,clistinetly to remark, that it...:was not before
him when he put Lieutenant. Colonel Munro in at-
, 'rest on the 20th of that mon+.

27. As, however, a •paper of that .description,
which was to.be 'circulated fur signature, was likely
to become known whilst
_in prepara:ion, it would
have heen. more satisfactory, to us to have been in-
formed, that no inlinall'on- Whaiever concetning it
had reached Lieutenant-Gener.,l; Macdo,.vall. when
he put Lieutenant-Colonel.lViouro under arrest. .
28. Wising- liitS viv-
Ceed to observo,-that Macdo
instead of censuring and suppressing thoce charges,
as we think' it was the duty of tbe Commander in
Chief to have done, adopted them and pursued their
object, by subjecting Lie*natit7Cotonek Mauro. to
'the ignominy of an arrest,' w ith a view to his being
brought to trial upon them. 'it tweame then, in
our
.opinion; the bount'en (buy or our Governor in..
Council at Fort. St. George to interpose the dired
authority of Government tut- the protection Of Lieut.
Col. Munro, by requiring ,the Commander iu Chief
to release that Officer from the wrest in which he
had. placed him.

29, To haVe permitted Lieutenant-Colonel Munro
to be brought to trial, fcr sentiments and bta temen ts
delivered by him in his official ca; acity, in obedience
to the orders of our former Con,ma.ider IL) Cbiet at
Madras, Sir John Cradock„ by whom - th,,y 9.• ere
adopted as . his own, as they were also approved,
sanctioned, -and, enforced by the local and supreme
Governments, would have been; not.merely to with-
hold protettion • frotn a meritorious Officer, in. the
discharge of his indisputable duties, but to have
brought. into question,'and in fact subieeted to trial,
the character and acts of the former Commander in
Chief, Sir John Cradocki and even those of the q
vernmeuts themselves.

30. We consider the General Ord.e.r.left by Lieut;
General AbedOwill for.put.;lication; on hs (pitting
Madras,• as a high ,aggravation of his previous mis-
conduct, of having put Lreut.-Colonel IVlunro
der an arrest, upon charges in so many ways objec-
tionable, which his constituted law kldvi ser had told
him were illegal, and which the accusers thetuselt es
had desired to withdraw.

ETo' be continucq.]

On Wednisday a Court of Directors was held at
the• East India House, when Messrs. R. and I'.
WESTROPP, Merchants, were appointed she Com:-
.pany's Agents at Limerick, in the room of Mr.
DENNIS LYONS. • • •

A dreadfUl accident happened to. fhe-New Lincoln
coach on Wednesday last : whilst stopping in the
town of Biggleswade, the horses were alittned by
'the passing oi•a load of Sheep-skins piled to some
height on the back Of an asg. , The smell pf the
skins stem .d,to offend 'them, for they all four held
up their beads, breathed hard, and furiously. set" off
with the driver, in consequence of.the sudden jerk,
dropped the reins, and in endeavouring fo recover'
them, fell between the horses 'and
.the coach, the
wheels of which- passed over him,' and killed him
instantly. In a minute's time the coach came in
contad with a post, and was overturned. There
Were five outside and two inside passengers; one of
the former number was severely cut and btuised
about the thigh by one of the wheels ; the other
passengers were little hurt. The unfortunate coach-
man's name was Newberry; he has left a wile arid
five- children at Baldock to lament his loss. We
have heard with concern that Miss Phipps, a young
lady of Peterborough, who, in a donate' state of
health; was travelling in the coact) at the time of the
accident, died in;twelve btiurs after, in consequence
of the fright.

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