The Sun.
London, England, 1819-01-04 00:00:00

pFeserved for The lineal heir 'di 'the Prince., ivlto
deserted•and betrayed us.
" To communicate this itnprirtant Revolution,
it only remains, by a firm' and 'tetnperate mainte-
nance of the system which your Lordship has or-
ganized, to impress the natives Or flinse provinces
to which the protection 'of the British Govern-
ment has been 'extended, with a just sense of the
benefits of civil authority and social order, to wean
rhea) by degrees from the prolesSiOn of arms, and
recal thefts to habits of peace anti industry. The
work may he less brilliant, but is not less a'rdi-
ous or delicate, than that which ha's been already
accomplished. And we may he allowed to express
our earnest hope, that its completion may yet he
reserved for the saute beneficent hand which first
gave it impulse.

,6 hive the honour to tie, my Lord,
Your Lordship's faithful and devoted
Servants."

(Here follow the Signataes.)

RUPLY OF THE NIAROLUIS OF HASTINGS.
" GRNTLFMEN,—The compliment with which
you honour we is truly gratifying. Were 1 to
consider you merely as men of worth and talent,
desirous of marking your triendShip towards me
by a flattering civility, the distinction conferred
`npon toe by the favour from persons of such stain!),
would demand the warmest-return from my heart.
I entreat you to believe that youth) meet that re-
turn ; but with much, very much, superadded to
it. In the satisfaction I ant enjoying, there is
something far beyond indisidual vanity. The sen-
timents Ititiclt you have been, pleated this day to
express are not tittered to mite alone: They are
vouchers tendered to our countrymeii at borne.-
3m not alluding to the 'nide 1 must natorally
feel in having such a testimony borne respecting
me to our Dative land ; the sensation which you
have awakened in the is of a higher qualty. A
wider scope is inseparable front your treatment
of the subject than what applies to me personally.
You ar e pronouncing whei her they who may be
said to have represented the British character on
the occasion did faithfully and becomingly fulfil
that exalted trust ; and your proximity, your sta-
tions, your excited vigilance, eminently qualify
you for returning a verdict, while your manhood
would make you spurn at giving throngli courtesy
an opinion which your judgment belied. Many of
you have had to contmplate your most important
private interests as staked in the transaction :o
which you refer ; hot all of you have felt that the
national honour, in which you %Vele severally
sharers, was invo!ved in the purpose and tenor of
the measnres I bad the lot to guide. Under such
an impression you have stood forward to attest that
the dignity of British justice has not been sullied.
It is a declaration superiorly grateful ; fur my
portion in the aggregate of Bri:ish fame is more
touching to toe than a separate and selfish repu-
tation. Your generous partiality towards me lots
not betrayed you into an indiscreet averment on
that point. When we tveot forth to punish wrong
we were aware how much, it behoved its to watch
over ourselves, that streng:h and success might
nor seduce
.us into any act of oppression. I yen.
lure to believe, that violence or wanton exaction
cannot, with the faintest'colour/of truth, be im-
puted to Our procedures. This, however, Shall
not rest no general assertion. You shall be Mi-
nutely satisfied.—Thongli from the distinct fea-
ture of occurrences you have with a gallant con-
fidence maintained our equity, it will be pleasing
to each of you to learn details which will enable
you respectively to say, I was not. carried away
by the kind warmth of my feelings; here, are cir-
cumstances which to my deliberate reflection ir-
refragal)ly confirm the conclusions I threw from a
less particular statement of the case.' The field
of our operations was so vast that you often did
not in Calcutta learn events which took place, in
remoter parts, till after yon had been apprised of
others considerably posterior, which occurred in
nearer quarters ; so that you did not see how one
transaction rose out of another. You will tin-
der stand them be:ter when they are preset red to
you in a regular chain. In laying them before
you I cannot make any inconsiderate disclosure.
I ant acting in the sprit of our Honourable Em-
ployers, who would challenge investigation, and
encourage exposition. Either for them or for its
there is not a passage to be slurred over or
glossed.
[Here follows the lung Extract which tre gave on
Saturday ]