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in; on the dignity of Government, or in any
" way interfering with the ocher departments of
" the State."

• •
36. When such a body as an army is invited to
assert' a clitiirt of rights and privileges,' care should
be taken by those who do not propose to sow the
seeds of revolt and public trouble, to define those
rights and privileges. NO, affetled ambiguity, at
least, should attend such declarations ;
.and when a
complint of the exclusion of the Commander in
Chief from Cbueeil immediately ;follows such decla7,
rations, and statids in front of the grievances which
the Memorial" seta forth, it was not intended to
class the admission' of the Commandi.,, in Chief to,
Council, amongst thoSe rights and privileges of the
army, which they would be aljea slaves if they
did rot
_assert, that claim should haVe been. ex-
plicitly disavowed, and onght not .to have been
stv:nigly Countenanced by e fern') of language scarce-.
ly ambiguous:
37. We deem it proper to declare explicitly,Ahat
the admission of a Comtnander in. Chief of the
Coast Army to a seat at the Council Board of that
Presidency, is not amongst the rig/as and privileges ,
of the Coast Army.; and that any. representation
upon that subje&, in the narne of the Army at large,
would be an undue interference with objeCts not
within their Competence; and would be a culpable
departure' from the Military charatler, and from
the proper duties of their station.
• as. it has been attempted to perplex this (Ines-
_tioti by misrepresenting the office and ditty of the
Commander in Chief in his office of CounSellor when
he has .a seat at the Board; aud, above'.all, by in-
troducing some. inclistiu6l and confused notions of a
representative character which-is ascribed to him ass-a
Member of Government. The confusion of ideas
on this subject is still increased, by their pointing
naturally at some false analogy between the rights of
representation in, the. political constitution, of the
British Legislature, and .the• right of the army of
Fort St. George to be represented in the Government
of that Presidency. To this right is added the clvirn
that the CO-inlander in Chief for the time be-
, itig
.81)0, by virtue of his office, be that repre.
sentative. •

39. it is obvious that,a stepmore, in this process
of confUsed analogy, would set up a claim for ,the
army to the eleCtion of its OWil Representativoin the
GovernMent of Fort,St. George.

40.- This tissue of error must either. be the work
of extri-yne ignorance, or must have been construa-
ed for :the purpose of deception .and tendered by
designing men to the_ presumed igooranee'of others;
but as it has been a ft nitful.source of delbSiori,.and
as " Representative in' Couticir has been made a
sort of watch-word in.these dissensions, it appears
important to rettity the take opinions, which may
Piave been imbibed upon' the points, and to sub-
stitute plain truth arid-reason in the room of ail the
perplexed and indh.tind fallacies in which it has been
the study of an artful fattiOn to entongle the sense
and feelings of their unwary and less-mil:mired bre-
thren. - • •

41. A Commander in Chief, who is a Member in
Council, has preciseiy the same character. and duties
as his Colleagues. is not the relAesentative of
the-army in any Sense of the word, and still less'in
the sense which may perhaps haVe been intended,
of 'his being charged in Council with the separate
interets of army, as ji.,tita from those of the
public, and the, general service of Government.—
The Commander in Cnief, as a Member cf Coun-
cil, is Ott delegate, not of the troops, wh►ch, ia
anotherchara6ter, he commands in the held, but of
the East India Company, and of the British nation.
He is charged also with the interests of the Civil, as
he is of the Military Servants of the Company,
and-with the general prosperity of the whole popu-
lation, European and Native, of the provinces sub-
•jed -to the .Presidency AO which he•behugs.. But
the army has no exclusive, nor even preferable claim
upon the Counsels of the Commander in Chief as a
Member of Government, nor' is it necessary for its
interests that it should. To drop therefore the false
term of Representative, and all the errors which it
is calculated to produce, and 'to speak in the true
languageof the Civil and Military• Constitution of
.these Provinces, the Presiderit in Council, who con,.
mutes the sole Military as well as 9ivil Government
of the Country, is charged, on one hand, with the
duty of regulating the army for the public good,
and, on the other, with that of providing duly fur,
the interests of the army itself.
42: That Government will Consult the etperience
of the Conimander in Chief in both these branches
of his Military Councils, if he is a Member of their
Board: ''They will consult him- out of Council,- if
he is not their colleague; and if any Commander in
Chief should have rendered himself unworthy' of
their confidente, it is not to be apprehended that
fidelity, experience, and judgment will be Wanting.
in the superior ranks of the army' to supply the
blank.
43. We abstain from delivering any opinion, upon
the general question whether it is expedient or not
that the Commander in Chier'of the Army or the
Coast should he a Member of Government. 'lt is,
enough . for the present purpole,to declare that this
is purely a question of public expediency,' and in no
respect connected vieth any claim
.of right or privi-
lege in the array.
[To be concluded To-moryow.]

The Postmasters General in Ireland have deter
.mined. that a second Mail Coach shall be dispatched
horn Dublin on the sth of April next, for Cot k, to
proceed by the Cashel road, and to start from the
former at the usual hour. This coach, on its daily
return from Cork, is intended to depart from thence
at twelve o'clock at noon, and to arrive in Dublin
at-five o'clock- the following evening, so as to ad-
mit of the letters being 'delivered. there on its -ar—
rival ; and also, that the letters for the other parts of
the kingdom, and for England, may be forwarded
without delay.

.A foot race of a mile for MO guineas took place
yesterday morning, near Slough, between Mr.
'.Athol; a- known Pedestrian, and Captain Aiken.
The lattenperformed his task in 5. minutes and tce
seconds, and beat his adversary about 100 yards.-7--
Gaptain Aiken did a mile in io seconds under 5
minutes in June last. ,