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

JNDIA.

We had not room to insert more than a long
"extract from the Marquis of flas'rulGs's Answer
`to the Address from the inhabitants of Calcutta,
on Saturday, but we now give the Address to his
Lordship, and the beginning and conclusion of
the Answer. it is a most satisfactory document,
and u full justification of that war which has
been attended %yid) so glorious a result.

" To his Excellency the Most Noble Francis, Marquis of
Hastings, K. G. Governor-Genera! of India, Rm.
" MY Loen,--,-We, the British inhabitants of
Calcutta, beg leave to approach your Lordship
with our cordial congratulations on your happy
and trinmpliant return to the seat of your Govern.
inent, after a period of arduons exertion and
rapid achievement, which will long be mentors-
We in the history of this Empire.
The repeated and unprovoked aggressions of
iio of freebooters, whom the weakness or pro-
fligacy of the neighbonring Governments had sof-
tered to grow up into a military power—aggres-
sioos mat ked with every circumstance of savage
atrocity, and which no independent State could
brook without the utter cumin valise of its cha-
rieter—had imposed on your Lordship the iro—'
per..tive duty 01 punishiog the agt;ressors, and at
securing the peaceful inhabitants of these pro-
vinces from future outrage, by the entire subver-
siou of that system of anarchy am! spoil, which
bad so long been the disgrace mod the scourge of
one of the fairest portions- of Ilintloostan. We
Should ill appreciate the difficulties of the task
which had thus devolved on your Lordship, were
we to measure them by the military tesources of
the totems' with whom you had to contend. Your
mo,t formidable antagonist was in the evil pas-
sions mid inveterate habits of a numerous popula-
tion, among whom the appetite for plunder was
identified with the iostioct of self-pres'ervatio'n,
who derived a principle of union front their com-
mon vices, and whom the necessities or a preda-
tory life had trained to endure hardship and to
elude danger. The physical and moral obstacles
which such a state of society opposed, to the great
revolution contetnplated by your Lordship, were
of no ordinary character. And the more those
obstacles are considered, the more we ate struck
with the energy by which they have been met,
and the more we see reason to admire the pre-
cision and facility with which the most extensive
combinations of power were brought to bear on
a common object, and the sagacity that seemed
to have provided against every haziad, however
remote or improbable.
"It was the fortune of your Lordship, at the
outset of the campaign, to be deserted by two of
your Allies, who at a former period had been in•
(fatted for their thrones to the magnanimity of
the British Government, and whose real ioterests
were inseparab!e as our own from the objeetsof
voor Lordship's policy. The flagrant treachery
of the Peishwa and the Rajah of Berar turned to
their own discomfiture and ruin. From that ins
staot the war assumed a new character. Events,
which to .the short-sighted and the timid had
seemed pregnant only with peril and disaster,
served in tact eminently to accelerate the ultimate
ttiomph of the cause of peace and order, by en-
abliog your Lordship to give a wider scope to
your arrangements, and to place on a firm and
durable basis that system of foreign relations,
avhich was best calculated to Lowe the future
peace and welfare of India,
"The previous events of your Lordship's ad-
ministration had already contributed to strengthen
that moral predominance, to which, above every
other cause, we have reason to ascribe the pre-
sent greatness of our Eastern Empire—that pre-
dominauce which civilization obtains over bar-
barism, science over ignorance and justice
over rapine. The history of the campaigns
in Nepali' had proved to the people of Ilin.
doostan, that the natural difficulties of a coun-
try, however formidable, will not ultimately avail
as a protection against the effOrts of British skill
and perseverance; and the easy reduction of Ha-
trass bad taught them what the art of war is ca-
pable of effecting in the conduct of sieges, when
applied with energy and judgment. The illus-
trious scenes of Poona') and Nagpore now brought
before Hoot, the most appalling examples of the
insignificance of numerical superiority, wheu op-
posed to discipline and valour ; and were alone
wanting to confirm the empire of opinion, and to
prepare the way for that series-ot successes, which
have since poured on in a continued stream, and
of which the extent, celerity, and splendor, have
been almost without a parallel.
" We congratulate your Lordship on the happy
prospects which these events have opened to In-
dia in general, and more especially to those in-
teresting regions, lately the habitation of the ont-
law and the robber, which the labours of a few
short months have reclaimed to civil society, and
brought under the mild authority of the 13ritish
Goveremeot, or restored to the paternal sway of
their ancient Princes.
" Throughout the most trying circumstances,
it has been your Lordship'i peculiar praise to have
resisted every temptation of ambition and every
suggestion of policy, that was otherwise than
consonant with the strictest principles of public
faith. You justly considered, that no aggran-
dizemeut of power or territory, could he cheaply
purchased by a sacrifice of character. The temper,
forbearance, and self-denial evinced in your treat-
ment•of those States, which had regarded the ex-
tension of British influence and the establiahment
of a pacific systein in the central parts of flindoos-
tan with jealousy and aversion, although restrain-
ed by prudential motives frOm any act Of hostile.
resistance, were eminently calculated to conciliate
the cOnfidence of the irresolute and feeble. and
to uphold the dignity of the British name in the
estimation of all classes of the people. Noe'has your moderation been less conspicuous in the ex-
ercise of the rights of conquest. Extensive terri-
tories, forfeited by the perifiliy of their Rulers,
have been generously, relinquished in favour of
older and more legitimate claitnants; the ancient.
family of Satarala has been restored to its former
L 01101114; and the throne of Nagpore has been 1

" You will not forget the direct and heavy de-
alcation front Scindhih's strength in the extinc-
ion of the Pindarries. Where is that host, the
half of which was to wear us nut in fruitless pur-
suit, while the other half was to get behind us
and lay waste our provinces ? Gone, vanished,
multitudes of them slain in a number of desultory
actions, still more of them massacred by the pea-
santry, (as atter abandoning their horses and arms
to escape from us through the jungles) they en-
deat owed to make their way through the corm.
try its small parties as travellers. There then re•
main only States which have spontaneously and
earnestly prayed to be received as feudatories un-
der the British banner. It is not conquest that
has extended our rule ; we have beaten down no.
thing but the lawless violence which had for so
many years made those regions a scene of un-
paralleled wretchedness. It is not the awe of our
power which has made all the Rajpoot States so-
licit to be united with us. A distiller perception,
that the misery which they had so long suffered
could not be prevented brit by their identifying
themselves with us, was the sole motive for the
anxiety with which they sought the connexion.
In the terms of it there is nothing to affect [nine
or wound convenience, so that the confederatioo
carries within it no natural seeds of dissolution.
With their internal Government we profess to
have no right of interference. Alutual support in
the field is of course plighted : _but, the price of
our superior contribution to that contingency
is an engagement that the feudal States
shall not diSturb the general tranTsillity by
attacking each other. Their differences or
claims are to he sobmitted to the arbitration
of the British Government, and this. provi-
sion, which extinguishes the necessity for
their resorting to the sword on petty points of
honour, heretofore enforced by the prejudices of
the country, is hailed by them with a just con-

ct'ptioh of les Thus enlarged sway i's
nothing ,but the influence arising from the reliance
of the several State.s on your moderation, your
good faith, and yon honest desire to prothote
their welfare. Should it-be said that to counter-
balance this obvious political gain, we :mist take
into account the disadvantages of extended po-
sitions and the chai•ges attendant on increased es-
tablishments, I answer, that when the multipli-
cation of points of defence is urged, the diminish-
ed means of annoying us are
,also to he contem-
plated. I have strewn to you that scarcely any
continue to exist. Our new 'situation has not
brought us into any contact with any thing that
can have the wish, or had it the wish, could have
the power, of giving us trouble'. All within the
Indus is attached to you. The Indus would
he a barrier against contact, were thete any
State on the other side of it adverse to
you in its interests. Should any such here-
after appear, it is nut your influencing the
Goveiumeuts in the vicinity Of the Indus
that would be the cause of quarrel ; and I
Ciliinot Conceive any stronger disstuoive to enter-
prises against us from beyond the river, than the
knowledge that all within it are linked with is in
the bowls of cordial union. In th;F, ‘iew, I de-
ceive myself egregiously if any augmented mili-
tary charges will not he light indeed in compari-
son with the large additional resources secured to
meet such eventual demands. This is our benefit
in the arrangement ; what is that of the liajpout
States ? Deliverance from an oppressi‘m, more
systematic, mote unremitting, mote brutal
than perhaps ever butote trampled on huma-
nity. Security and comfort established, where
nothing but terror and misery before existed;
nor is this within a narrower sialicre• h ms
:A proud phrase to me, but it is A true one,
that we have bestowed blessings upon millions.—
Not h can be mote delightful than the
teports I receive of the keen sensibility mani-
fested by the inhabitants to this change its their
circumstances. The smallest detachment of
our troops cannot -pass through that country
wit hunt meeting everywhere eager and exulting
gratultitions, the tune of which proves them to
crone from gh.eing hearts. Alnltitmles of peo;de
have, even in this short interval, come tram the
hills and ristnesses, in which they had sought
refuge for years, and have re-occapied their an-
cieot deserted villages. The ploughshare is again
in every quarter turning up a soil which had for
very many seasons never been stifled, except by
the hOofs of predatory cavalry.
" Here then is a ni,play of general advantage
and an exhilarating promise of public quiet. Every
nue of the facts on which 1 hate founded the re-
presentation, is capah,e of hell's- disproved by
each of you with little trouble of inquiry, if I
have advanced them incorrectly. I have strangely
hazarded my character if they are liable to refit-
tation. If they are not, what we have done is
befitting the policy, the equity, the benignity, of
our country.

" You justly appreciate the admirable energy
of the Officers comn►anding the divisions to which
the more active part of the service tell ; and the
zeal of the thole of the troops,with the-splendid
gallantry of those who were on any occasion
engaged, merits all the pi aise which you have
offered.

le I concur ardently with you in the sentiment
you express of our obligation to aim at rendering
what we have done still more betifi;i4l to the in-
hahitaws of India. The main olista..2les to our
infusing improvemeot arc removed ; and we may
certainly disseminate useful instruction, without
in the slightest degree risking dissatisfaction,
by meddling with the religious opinions of the
natives. luformation on ptact;eal points is what
is wanting ;he people ; for, from the long course
of anarchy in those parts, all relations of the

community are confused. This Goveinment will
not lose sight of the object. ISie may surely
succeed in Inc,' kati ng principles of mild and equi-
table rule, distinct notions of social otservanc. 8,
And a just settle of moral duties, leading, per-
haps, in God's good time, to a purer conception
of the more sublime claims on the !Inman mind.
At least, let us do what is in our power. Let us
put the seed in the ground, and Providence will
determine on its growth. Should it be the will of
the Almighty that the tree should rise and flourish,
and that the inhabitants of those extensive regions
should enjoy security and comfort under its shade,
we shun have done much for many of our fellow-
eatures ; but we shall have done well also for
that in which our liveliest interest is fixed. The
cherished memory of our forecasting beneficence
will remain to future times in India the noblest
monument of the British name."

SHOCKING ACCIDaNT.-Friday Mrs. Yeoman,
who resides in Bell-alley, Goswell-street, left her
home to go to a neighbour's house on some busi-
ness, and imprudently left two children, one
eighteen months and the other three years old,
in an apartment in which_ there was a fire, with.
out any person to take care of them. On her
return home she went into the room, and found
the eldest child enveloped in flames in the middle
of the place, and before the fire could be extin•
gnished, every bit of his apparel was burnt utf
his back. The child died soon afterwards. An

Inquesr WAS held on the body of the deceased on
Saturday, before Mr. SHELTON', Coroner ; the
July censured the conduct of Mrs. Y. in leaving
her children• unprotected, and returned a verdict
Accidentally burnt to death."

Sbictne.—Yesterday afrermion,abottt half past
three o'clock, a poor man of the name of Wil-
cox, 63 .years of age, lodging by himself in a
bark-room at the house of -- Davis, a chim-
ney-sweeper, in Drury-court, near the New
Church, Strand;was found hanging in his room.
At one o'clock Mrs. Davis (he befog :a poor man
out of employ) took him some victuals., about
half-past (farce his brother called to see him, but
receiving no answer to the many calla be made,
and findiog'the door locked,• and the key in the
inside, hf. suspected that something vi rung Was
the matter,_ he forced open the door, On which
the hotly fell lifeless on the floor, it being sus-
pended behind it by a -rope, one end of which was
thrown Over the door, a knot being on the end
outside-to prevent it slipping. Surgeon Stanton,
of the Strand, who was sent for, attended, h't' all
human aid was unavailing, be being quite deed.

From the LON66:N. dA,ETTE ;f Jan 2.

• [This Gazette cotiti-s evince Rugeiws per.
inission to Admiral Sir T. Fietniantle to accept
Anil wear the insignia of the Sicilian Order of St.
Ferdinand and ut
BANKRUPTS.
F. Tully., 13fF6tol, baker, Jan. it, 19, and Feb, ts, at (mei
at the Rummer Tavern, Bristol. Attsanies, Messrs. Poole
and Greenfield, Groy's Inn-square.
F. G. Longman, Norwich, maltster, Jan. 25, 27, and Feb,
13, at lour, at the Norfolk Hotel, No: wich. Attorney.
Mr. F. Abbott,
,Roll's-yKI, Chancery-lane.
W. Beddls, Knighton, Radnorshire, woolstapler, Jan. 15
16, at ten, and Feb. 13, at eleven, at the Angel Inn Lud-
low. Attorneys, Messrs. Jenkins, James, and
New Inn.
J. Perry. sen. Stockport, muslin-maintfacturer, Jan. 18, 20$
arid Feb. 13. at ten, at the Warren Bulkeley Arias Inns
Stockport. Al iornies, Messrs. Wright and Cole, Temple.
It. Chambers, Market-Itasen, Lincolnshire, currier, Jan.
, 7, and Feb. 13, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn,
Louth. Attorney, Mr. Eyre, Gray's Inn-square.
1). Wheeler, Croyi!ott, inahster, jai). 9, 16, and Feb. 13, at
ten, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Grimaldi and Stables,s
Copthall-court,
Jesse Oulet, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, jeweller, .Jan.
9, at one, 16, at twelve, and Feb. 13, at one, at Guddhall.
AttorneY, M r. Poole, :Adam's-court. Old Broad street.
Jn- T. eiikins, Whitonirch, Glamorgatishire, denier-merchant,
at three, 19, and Feb. 13, at eleven, at the Castle
Inn, Merthyr AttornieS, Messrs. Jenkins, James,
and Abbott, New Inn.
S. Cater :11111,1. Ilotue, Watling-Street; warehousemen, Jan. 9,
16, and Feb. 13, at twelve,tit Guildhall. Attornies,
Messrs. Ciiapman, Stevens, and Wood, Little St. Thomas
Apostle, Queen-street.
W. Thoinas, Clirapiitle, tailor, Jan. 9, 16, and Feb. 13, at
ten, at Guildhall. Attornies, Alessi s. Amory and Coles,
Lotlibtiry.
I'. StllllilCri Preston, corn. merchant, Jan. 13, I,;ririti Feb. ;3$
at tWelee, at the Ittd Lion Inn, Preston. AttUrpey, Mr.
Maddock; Scryraitt's

DIVIDEND)..
Jan. 30, 'l'.- C. Illanheritiageit, 13i,bopsgate-street-Witbiti,
Inert:lima—Jan. 30, G. 'l'. and If. War rem. Little Gro,renor-
street, Grosvetior-stinare, arid Ket, (udders—Jain. -25, W.,
Smith, licerterris, Devonshire, lime-burner—Jan. 26, IV,
!Picks, Frampton-111Mo Severn, Glourestershi re, shop-
keeper—hell. I; .1. WOod, Moss-side, near Alancheiter, mer-
chant —Jail. 4, T. Cl,n-he, West. Perroard, Sumer, setshire,
lit rse•ilealer-l-:..faii, 21, S. A. 11"beeler, Bit mingitotii, Iner-
o,„.„. j„,„ 28, W. 80, Brampton, Cumberland, brandy-
j,,-,bant-,...1:iD. 23, 11. Bayfielrl, Mark-late, wine-broker--;
Jar.. 2S. J. Bell, PocklioLairri, Yorkshire, inert:limit—Jan.
19, B. Fletchei, Deptford, lown-draper----Dec. i:2, T. 'll.
lialse and T. D. :%ler:ton, Maiden Line, Cheapside, hut-.
tun-manufacturers—.lan. .•.23, T. Hornsby, (;orninli, Stout-
broker—Jan. SM, R. Lee, (4 read Win elteter-st reet, li :Myr-
writer—Jan. 23, W. took, Cliapi-sitret,Si•vv•r,,td, grrocer—
Feb.. 13, 'l'. Flower, Castle-streel; Holliorn, jeiveller--.lath,
113, T. I)ansou, Li verp,ol, merchant—Jan. 17, .1. At ?Milt', a
and 3. Cam, Sheffield, edce-tool-nianufactirters—Jan. 30, E.,
tilling, Aldersgate-streer, calriort-inalter—Jan. 5, T. IVil-,
14,, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's hilr field 6, ironmont,,er--..:
j,,,,. •?:.,„ 2. (..t ant, Hatt,,)-garden, inercliant---Jan. 30, .1. F.
awl W. Sueel, Buckles-slurry, stationers7-Jan. 5, f-l. it. Plawi
Iliclres-court, Lune-Street, inereliatir—.lan. 23, J. Junoi and
'l', Hai-groves, Fore-street, hat-inamtfactuter4--:-Jati, 27i 1L
Borturi, Bur:on-upon-Trent, butcuer.
CERTIFICA'VES—JAN. 23.
J. Bragg, Birmingham, the-soaker—J. Spreat, Exeter, coal'. rilerehaut—Vl,'. Steidienson, Preston, Lancashire, linen-dra-:
per—.l. Bentley, Cortiliill, watch-maker—C. Sivroc, tSrihnot.,
street, Bruuswick-squ'are, mari-er---4. A. Butler, Blaelslleath,
waster-in:trim:T-4. Bowman, Crooked-lane, Wine,tuerLhant
----.1, Lailgtord, Ludgate-street, chemist—W. Ilulttuni, Long-
lane, Bermondsey, carpenter.

PARTNEItSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Wedgwood alio (i. litirslem, Staffordshire,
manufacturers of earthenware—J. Flint, P. .fregelit,
.1. Hint, Birmingham; paper-mereliants—lt. Allanstm and G.
Lomax, Ainsworth, Lancashire, manutacturers—A. and 11.
Harilin;,;', Wigan, Lancashire—J. and W. Ronne, Mar)port
street, lit istol, dealt rs ut earthenware—J. Stephenson and
.1. Itowland, Holintirth, Yorkshire, merchants—R. and W,
ITigner, Little Tower-hill, wine-merchants—J. Pistol., Rola.
Wilkes, and CI It. Pei ci val, Size-lane, brokers—S. Nototi anti
It. Westlirnok, Upper T:Eltnes-street, bottle-merchants—J. ,
Gladstone, 'l'. Headiain, and .I.Lon way, Liverpool, insurance-
brokers-1, and D. Aloginie, Martio's-lane, Cannon-street,
spiee-dealers---J. Dand arid R. Downey, Whittle, Nor' hum-
het land, fanners—W. Ward, J. H. Thomson, and H. B.Ward,„
LonJoil----G. Lewis and 'l'. Dixon, flume, Lancashire,
joinets —C. and J. Laugher, Birmiiioam, factors—L. A. de.
la Clutumette, A. A. AI i6alle, J. Maufiert, and L. J. de tat
Chautuetie, Warnf,rd-court, 'llnogtruil ton-street, stock ex-
change-brokers—J. Read and W. Carpenter, Bowling-alley
vtrliitecioss-sttcet, cioll.-worhers--A. Gotland and
E.
W'allier, South 1\ In;ton-street, r. Smith and
W. Batten, Newburs., Berkshire, coach-masters—J. Nwhoi,,i
B. Nichols, and S. Bentley, Red Lion-passage, Fleet-street,
printers.

BIRTHS.
On New Year's Day, at his house, Tavistock-square, the wife
of Julia Brahaw, Esq. of a sort.
Oa the id inst. in Heorietta-street, Mrs../olio Grenside, of
a daughtet.