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the "bust serious disap;:robation pf the- condutcfof
Lient:lGeneral It is in tht transmis,-,
sion of a memorial of the most exceptionahle n.,ture
Boni certain offers of our army, and on the,Bl /Ong
approbation he has conveyed• of
_that Menioriia iu
hi, letter to you of :he 23ils Jan. ! s.og.
44. It aprears,. that about
.May or, June,. 108,
Lieut.-General Macdowall, at the'desire of. Sir,G.
Barlow (privately ommunicate4l AO him), wrote to
!he Otficei's -connmanding the principm sistions of
the anus', to require them, to. repress an add,csi to
the Snpreine Government in lkogal, which was at
that time in cireulatiob among the 011-icers'ol the
Madras, Army, for the, purpose of obtaining an
equallzation of allowance with the 011icets serv-
ing in Bengal. . .
45. But on the 23a of January, 1809, Lieutenant
General Macdo wall tor wardvd to the Governor in
Council an Address to the Court ofDiredois, trom
a considerable number of. Officers of the Madras
Army,- in which, among other things; they, say,—
". We pe.tition, wht one voice, that the Madras
army be placed permanently on the sante allow-
ances with that of Bengal ; . and, in urging this re-
quest, we presume, we only ask what jthlice de-
mands, our services entitle us, to, and what we shall
ever consider as our just right." _

ward, is, that the orderi of the Court of Dire6tors
for removing his, Majesty's Officers from the com-
mand of stations where their regiments are not quar-
tered, • and for appointing military men to the ply
offices of the army, have not been carried into ef-
fect by the Madras Goverpment.
55. novv fur our orders on
_these sub:ras laVe
been yet carried into effect, we are unable precisely
to ascertain; but we know they have been exe-
cuted to a certain extent ; and as 'we have no
doubt of' the disposition of oar Governor in Coun-
cil at Fort St. George, to executethcsennd all other
orders in the most ptinaual ma,iner, and with
'the greatest practicable expeditiOn ; we do not
doubt that, ere this, time, considerable progress
has been made in arrangements, which evidently
will not admit-of instantaneous adoption, without
danger to the public interests .and. to the regularity
of public business. ,
56. It is possible, indeed, that cases may occur;
in which both the Officers in the King's, and Corn-.
pany's servite may be properly seletted for the corn-
matt& of stations where their respeaive regiMents,
are not quartered ; and if such should occur; it will
be, your, duty to,see that this is done without par-
tiality' to either; stating your reasons at large for any
deviation from the general rule. ' •
57. The Address then goes on -to complain of
the abolition of the, tent con,traa, an arrangement
founded upon arguments. which we believe to be in-
enntroVertible, although- some of the fads niion.
which the arguments for its abolition were ground-
, d, are brought
.forward in the Address as reasons
for its continuation.

46. This Address was transmittgd through Lient.-
'General Macdowall to the Gore invent of Fort St.
George, with a letter from himself,- in which he
strongly recommends and supports this address of
the Others ; notwithstanding that he h,rd, but, a
few months before., sent diiections to the Oi-lierrs.,
commanding the principal stations ofwthe army to ii
suppress an address, then in circulation, for the +/cry
same purpose, namely, that of obtaining an enuli-
ratiNti of allowances at Isrladraa and fietigal. And
here we pause, to remark on the very exttaorditrary
and censurable conduct of Lientenant.:General Mae-
duwall, in recom :ending and supporting a memori-
al, more reprehensible in its nature and language
than- that .which, at a short preceding period, he had
interposed his authority to suppress. We can the
less wonder that, it thus encouraged and supported,
the Officers find fault with and complain of every '
:4a of the Government which in any way affects
their personal interests, however necessary it may
be to the well-being and safety of the, State. •
47. Although the Address of toe Officers is not
yet before us in an authenticated form, we think,
it proper to. take the present oppMtunity to make
some observations upon the topics contained in ,it.
48. The general prelimina.y te;lesentation 'made ,
by the Officers of the, nature and disadvantages of
the Company's service, we conceive to. be trignly
objettiunable and incorrect. The complaint, that
they are banished to a .distance from their couwry
and friends, for a considerable portion of their
lives, is complaint applicable to his Majesty's,
and to most other
,military service ; well known to
be essential. to theirs when they first enter ii, and
therefore not a becoming to, is of complaint in mi-
litary men. Besides which,' we nave to observe,
that no one enters into our military service in In-
dia' but on his own application, and with the toll
knoWledge that he can advance 'in it, only in a
course of years; but when the Officers add, " We
are doomed to toil. through many a painful:year,' on
an allowance scarcely adequate to our suosiirtence,
until after a period, of twenty-two years services in
India, we have the melancholy alternative- .'t re-.
turning home, to live in dependence and .compara-
tive poverty on the pensions of our tanks, or com-
bating ~eith age and infirmities, in a clime avuweuly
hostile to our constitutions;"—when they make this
representation of their situation and prospects, they
surely forget „that the .military alio ances of the
Company aiVi.tglier than those of any other limi-
tary SeiVICENg: the work:, although, the necessaries
of lite are coMparati•ve,y cheap in India; that they
attain the -highest lank without purchase or ex-
pence ;. and- that the provision fur te.iiing Officers
is-such as •no other service has atforticd, and such as
the finances of. the Company are even strained to '
supi':ort. -

58. The Address states, that during war, the al-
low;inces for the tent contracts were unequal ,to the'
expences, a fa& which we conceive is decisi%e
against its propriety, .although the only inference
drawn from it in the address, is, that the contract
should be continued during peace.
59. This argument 'night have some force,
,if the.
tent contract were to be considered only with se-
ference to the advantages of the Officers who. held
it ; although we are of opinion, that even in this
limited view of thesubjea, the continuation of the
contract had been sufficiently extended in point of
time
,to allow those Officers an opportunity of reim-
bursing themselves during pace for the extraordi-
nary expences which they might. haveincurred dur-
ing the war.' Some, perhaps many, of the "011ietitS
who, held the contract during war, must have been
removed since the peace' by death, promotion, or
riwiternent, from- the commands to which it was
lathed; without. having. had the opportunity of
reimbursing themselves ; and this • furnishes ano-
ther strong arzument against the tent contrael,
when viewed only with reference to the interest,
of indi.iduais.; .

60. The reasons, however, for abolishing the tent
contrad, which appear to us of more force, are,
that it provided at a great and constant expense for
putting ad the native corps in readiness to move ;
when from the nature of things, many of them must
at ail Oates necessarily \remaiu stationary ; that the
expence of falling the terms of the contraa being
ouch greater in the field than in the garrison, the
Officers contracting were placed in a situation in
which their interest might eventually he in opposi-
tion to their duty ; that it niust interfere with
the di.cipline of carps, by .withdrawing the at-
tention and occupying ihe time of CorninAnding Of=
ficers, in cases not connected with the discipline of
their respedive regiments and bay aborts; and finally,
pat it
.made the Commanders of corps Officers of
clisbur-ement and expenditure, not, .as they always
ought to be, of check or emu-A over the'clisburse-
'Bents of others. These reasons had induced Lord
Cornwallis, after establishing the tent contra.-.t in
war, to revoke it in time of peace,- and upon the ob=
vious ground that it was an arrangement made to pro-
mote, not the advantages of the Officers, but the ef-,
ficeocy of the service..

6.1. The Address then again reverts to the i:lairn
of an' equaliiation of military allowances at Madras
and Bengal ; a claim, which, though it neither be,
grounded on any solid prindples, ,nor can ever be
admitted as the basis of any praraic.3l regulation; we
shall examine somewhat more in detail than we hay
thought necessary in considering the ether subjects
of the Address, because it isa question 'di extensive
pro Sped, embracing many points besides• The tine
now brought bet Ore us.
' 62. In the different presidencies' of the'Company
in Iridia, distinctions have from' the beginning sub-
.sisted in respect to emoluments and advantages (not
only in the military but in every other deparktnent):
These distinCtions- have arisen from the compir-
rative importance of the Presideniies themselves, and
of the public business to be transaaled under them.
63/. Thus Bengal, the first great territorial pos-.
session to the Compapy, had its establishments early
settled with some analogy to its income ; and that
country, as being the seat Of the British interests in
India, came to have a standard of public allovv-
ancea, which could not he exactly imitated at the
other P►esideucies under their very different circum-
stances:

49.
,After these preliminary observations, the
Address proceeds to' complain of the abolition of
the bazar allowance; an arrangement which is nut
confined to Madras, but extended to•the other Pre-
sidencit:s, which is in stria conformity to the articles
of war, which prohibit the levy.ot duties by
Officers on. all articles of consumption). and is
evidently founded on the most incoatioveriible
principles of sound policy:
50. It is not politic to give 'Officers an interest
in the amount of.. imposts levied in military
markets,because it has an evident tendency;to make
the soldiers discontented with their Officers, by
feeling themselves taxed for the benefit of those
who command therm--in evidence of which a, very
recent instance-might be quoted.
51. •It is further to be ob;erved, that, in India,
the amount of the colledions in military bazars,
has alwal s depended principally on the extension of
the sale.of spirituous liquors to the troops. To,give-
an Officer, therefore, au interest in the amount •of
duties delivablt from such a source, is to set his
interest.direttly•iat varialice with his duty,,and to
hold out to him a reward for encouraging that •in-
toxication which ills his first duty to discountenance
and suppress. , •
. . .

64. The style of living also among the Europeans,
as we may presume, gtadcaily adapted itself to ale
scale of income. •

65. The persons nominated to civil and- milita►y
employments have entered the service. perfectly
aware of these inequalitiei, and—ale therefore not
entitltd to expel that they should be afterwards re-
moved. •

biz. it is not meant by these observations to
state,, that these inconveniences have actuithy taken
place under. the administration of the Company's
present Officers ; but it is a sufficient reason for the
abolition of a general arrangement, that it has a
tendency to produce consequences highly injurious
to the service. This observation is applicable to
every part of the succeeding argument.
53. The next complaint stated in the Address is,
the abolition of the allowance of full batta to Offi-
cers commanding stations; but the allowance has
been rather transferred and extended than abOlislied,
and that upon principles of the most obvious pro-
priety. For, on the recommendation of Sir John
Craddock, the full batta was trauiferred from the
Officers commanding stations, to Officers com-
manding corps ; iron Officers in a fixed sod quiet
situation, to Officers employed in the more active
duties of their profession.,
54. The next subject of complaint brought for-

66. The Company have hence- atways resisted the
idea of a gener4 equalization- of allowances and
emoluments of the different presidencies, as not
foundtd in right or the nature of things. •
67. Supposing tor a moment,
,that such a prin-
ciple could be admitted and enforced, the conse"-
quence„, in the present state of the finances of the.
Company, must be to reduce the few remaining dis-
tinctions of the Bengal presidency to a level with
those of Madras and Bombay ; as it would be ut-
tjrly impossible toTrovide for the extreme, of rais-
ing the emoluments of the inferior Presidencies to a.
level with those (if "Bengal, extended as this rise
must be to all the civil as well :is military branches
of the set vice, if once the principles Of equalization
wgre. ado;ited.',

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38., In all the presidencies, howeser, the so'e „,
allowances has- been more than tit for
Portable subsistence ; and in the case of ail the
Yates and noti7comtnisiioned Officers 'of the airt.t)lo';
the_rateS have beim at all times very. getierahl
sameiat all the'presidencies'.. • has
Gy
.From a concurrence of circumstances it.
MS() happened, that an approximatien to an eq." N
too
.zation of alloa atices has in lad taken place, in s°,
as to
.reduce the advantage of the Bengal Miht of
Serviee generally almost to an eqwility with thoser
the other presidencies, and if the comparative O to
Mess of proincrion at that presidency be taken Tot.
.)the estititate,. it might not be incorrect to say ti#
the military service in Bengal has not been for otaPiel,..
years past upon a superior footing, upon 111,e vich()the
than 'at either of the other presidencies. 1' "80
MaJras Officers possess a reasonable plea to have-
thehjallowitices put on a heel with those of Befit's
the Bengal Officers have a plea at least as spec:
town equalization of
,rank in prorrtion to lengt'jo.
service. The, infantry have the same plea of
plaint against the quicker promotion in the ccivoirbe'
and the artillery against both. Inshorte there all ,
no code() the operation of thiS principle of eqoahii
tion, it it be allowed to supersede all established OsaP
and all considerations of
,expediency. •
70. The regimental allowances, however, bothro
'Officers and men are very nearly the same at, all t),
presidencies, and wherever mere comfortaele
tense is concerned, it.has been the Deject ot the P`lfif
lic regulations at all times, to appr ,Xitnale as 03"
to an equality of allowances as the local
stances of each presidency admitted.
71. But the staff, and other extra allowancei, rest
•
upon a different fon Aation ; they are gr onods as a
vantages Conferred on individealS at the pieasureant
discretion of he Governmenteaad are calculated not
with reference to what other melt receive, who
perhaps perform suttees in Other p1ac0,"1541,e
in reference to the means of the governing po%veli
and the view which it may taloeuf the merits o'l
services ot the receiver.
72. Upon the same principlea,if the neeeSS.,e;.„9
of
the State require that a doninuti:,n should take fcd
tn. the expendof expenditure of any, or all time settletueot,
in India, it is not to be expected that such reducli°'e
shall fall ',first or only upon those who receive t 3t
higher salaries, whether civil or military, at..otte or„ti
another presideneye but the Goversuneet Itast,
undoubted right, legal and moral, to dccele
..eritly with the principles of justke, what part °f tio
sersice will best alma of that iedUCliCni wutcb
necessities of the State demand.
•,!ep
73. But it is unnecessaryt to press this prirtelr.
LlCe:however incontestable; as, in point of fact,
•tions have been ordered, and are in a train of el'hd
cut ion, at all the. presidencies, and atTeditig 2° fit,
branches of the Company's set vice, civil and °lto
tary ; reductions which are absolutely necessarY, to
tee existence of the Company, and consequeo'jYr.
the maintenance and prizAision of all their .5..1-.o' :I
as well in Indiaas in Europe, as well in the retireiv
and pensioued establishments, as in the more ear'
and active stages of service. ".
tIO
74'. Another subject of complaint made by jer
Officers of the Alach as army is, that the Coatitiat'
in Chief, whom, in imitation of himself, they s),
"Tope Reprpsentative of the Army: had beeo ;‘
eluded trom a seat in council. to
75. The property of gra:aim:4'a seat iti ,
Lieutenant-General MacJo',„voll, or to any other C°l",..
wander in Cirel, is a 'question so eutirelyeinf°,l,
netted with the interests of the Officer's thernseiv',;,'
and the constitution: of the ArMy. ueder the c°llv
Many and the British Govertithent, that it is not ea''„
to consider its introduction into their Addreisireatllie
other light than as an espousal,' on the part ot I
Officers, of Lieutenant-General- Macdowail's onreko‘ r
sonable 'cornplaints on this. subject, in retort; '1
the countenance which he- has so improperly sb
"
to the qually unreasonableecornplaints ot the e
ficers.

[To be continued.]

We understand that the ground near Palatel"h'
a.
laid open by the improvement of Westininsier, "is
t ween the Nev Square and (he Sessions
to be let upon long building leases, and a coniPettr
isr
tion at biddings•is invited by public advertibemel“
without specitying any fixed price.

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CR AVESEND, SEPT. G.
Saiieti—the,Purspit, Miller, tor jainaiea

• , 11//t/ ii. S..
tforci'
On Saturday last, at his house at -Cheshunt, in Her- -ag
shire, the Lady of John Syntpsun iessopp, Esq. Barri,tcr
Law, ot a
On Thur0
sday Mast,'the Lady of the Rev. William GroCO'
of St. Margaret's, Westminster, of a Son..' stt.
•• Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, at her house, No. 109 r-
lisbury Mace, New-road, Madame Catalitni, of a 1)•i'
ter.. 1°
• .
Lately, at 'Sheffield- Honse, Queen's COLinti, Ireland's, 0,
Wellt of Nlajur Cdssan, the Lady of Stephen Shettield C° 4
Esq..liarri,teat. Law, of a Vak,ght'er. . __....".

/114Rir/P..0
In lune last, in_the Island of St. Croix, Nest Inrii4s' -
LlIl
P. Kingston, Esq. Weighniasier in that illan% to the -
nish Baroness Margaret de Bit tton. . E
1scl•
I.arely, at the Catli;:dral, -Waterford, William Barono .-- s
of Faliagla, in that 'County, to lane, eldest chatg titer (); ,
Simon
ThNewport. 'err
On ursday last, Mr. Richard Biggs, of Park-stt'irs.
Bristol, to, Miss ItabecettNeale, youngest daughter
ot.'
Neale, of il.e sartw place.
to Ntiy,
55
Yesterdiy, J. r. 'l'ompson, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn,
Chitty, only surviving daughter of the lite Itnqish Chi'
Esq. of Chadwel I, in Essex.
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,

DIED.
On the Bth of July, at Madeira, Barbara, second daughte'
of Sir Henry Hay Macdougall, Bart. of Nlakersioun Fop
On IVed'ilestiey morning,. at lifighton, Henry ilughs,
HarleY-streei, aged 62. t
On Thursday mortiihg, at Lullingstone Castle, .-e-
-n
the 78th year of Ws age, Sir John Dixon t)) ke, Bart. .00K•
The saint day, at Newport, Isle of Wight, Tempier ft,
aged 22 years, second son of Thanas Cook,. Esq. Netrja,
His death, was occasioned by lying on the grass, alle'
tiguing himselt i shooting on the rst of-Septeinbe

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