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MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1810.

GENERAL ORD' RS.

BY Ttir. fuGHT !lc:omm] HABLE THR GOVERNOR-GENE-

fiAL'iN COUNCIL,.

(Co4tipued from:Yesterday.)

101 • •
3 This prklec; Ir. ft wit h Lieut.-Gen. macdowai 1
publicatiOu after hisdeparture,•coriveys a sev, re
reprimand, to Lieutenant-Colonel Munro, fir hiving
io you, Govcl-01neiti oh the occasion of his
arrest .a rne,i4ctre necessarily imposed upon him by
the' col:duct or, Macdowall him-
self ; had sanction'ed'and acted upon
yoni- Govf-ihineut:. A rep'rirnand, theretote, to
Lieuteriatit•Crrunei Munro for having 'Made it, be-
calm:, by necessary inference,' a reprimand on the
Govi.,t,r) men t

32. Titer supreme -Civil and Military power.
which in all Governments inti‘t reside somewhere,
is. in the Presidency of Fort St. George, vested by
the Ati Of Parliament in the Governor in Council of
that .Presidency, SubjeZA to the -control of the sure-
rior :a-A.l6l6'les in India and Europe, as described by
taat aft ; and other
_authorities and powers are to be
lieitt and exercised -in subordination to that supreme
authority
33. To contend that any authority can exist sepa-
rate, independent,
,and in contradiction to that su-
preme authority, can only be considered to be an
attempt to pervert the usual practice of conducting
public .busine4s, in certain specified and habitual
channels, into a means of checking, resisting, and
controulincr the Guyerniuent itself.
34. Any°Nlii nary Officer addreOng himself dire6l-
Iy to the Government, and -otherwise than thrtiugh
the usual and ordinary channels of communication,
certainly does it at his peril and it is incumbent
upon him in -his own jostitication, to skew either
that the usual- elivnels of application were ob-
struCted or retuned to him, or to state other and satis-
factory-causes tor the irregulartty of his Address..s...
It then -becomes thet duty of the Government to
decide how far the. peculiar circi-inistatices of The
authorise and justify the irregulkiky of applica-
tion. . .

35. If the Government shall, formally, by its de-
claration, or virwaily by its aas, sanction such ap-
plication.; and appeal, by acting on the Information
conveyed iu it, aid witnout censuring the mode in
which it wa; receive.t; it then becoruk:s the duty of
the Comm4nding Officer, or Cotuniander in Chief,
through whose channel the application or appeal
was originally offered, to submit his opinion to that
of the Government.

36. It is not competent to a Commanding Officer
or Commander in C'hiet, afier such notification of
the sentiments of Government, to reprimand, bring
to trial, or otherwise molest those who have ap-
pealed to the Government, for having made that
appeal in a mode which, in the opinion of the Go-
vernment, has been justified by the. circumstances
of me case.

37._ If Lieutenant-General Macdowall thought
that e;overnieent had exceeded its powers, in ae-
cepttug the appeal 'of Lieutenant-Colorkl Munro,
and requiring his release from arrest, it was com-
petent to him to hive stated his opinion in an appeal
to us, or the Supreme Govemnent in India ; but a
publication in General Or.,iers, that is, a publicatiun
addressed to the armyagainst,the Orders of Govern-.
menta publication which not
.only pronounced a
severe censure upon Lieutenam=Colonel Munro, bu,
declared an intention of bringing him to a Court-
Martial, for the conduct which the Government held
to be justifiable, and whiCh was, therefore,' .as be-
fore stated, a dired censure and attack upon the con-
duct and power of the Government—must be consi-
dered as a measure unjustifiable in itself, and of the
most dangerous tendency.
38. This measure rendered- it in your opinion
your, cluly, to assert and maintain your own legiti-
mate authority thus. publicly called in question ; and
we approve of the orders which yon issued upon this
occasion, direding..the removal of Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Macdowall from the coininand of the troops
at Fort St.. George, and for expunging the orders
which he had issued from all this public records- of
'your Presidency.
39. 'We now proceed to take notice of other
parts f Lieutena,.t-General'Macdowall's corresponr
dence. We consider the insinuation conveyed in
Lieutenan -General Macdowali's letter, of gist Jan-
uary; 1809,-to the Qual.ter-Msster-General, that
" by his not putting the Quarter-Master-General
under arrest, a door would be left open to the
possible introduction Of undue: influence and arbi-
trary power," to be highly unwarranted aod highly
40.
_The observations which Lieutenant-General
Macdowall, thought fit to record, against his non-
appointmrnt by. us to a seat in our -Council of
Fort St. George, are conveyed .in terms which ap-
pear to us disrespedful and offensive.
4J. The non-appointnerit of Lieutenant-General
"Macdowall to a seat in our Council, of Fort St.
George was not determined by considerations per-
sonal to him. It was the consequence of a principle
adopted by us at that. time upon general Nie;ss, for
the`gbvernment of the subordinate Presidencies. But
whatever motives ought to have been supposed to
have influenced us in declining to give a seat in
Council to the -Cornininder in • Chief of Fort St.
.
George, we cannot-admit such an exercise of our
discretion to have formed a justifiable subject of ani-
madversion on- the part of Lieutenant-General
Macdowall, who, having accepted the otlide of Com-
mander in Chief, was bound to maintain to the ut-
most of his power, the authority of the Government,
as.s.%;ell- as the discipline and subordination of the

troops. •
- 24. The appolntment of a Commander in Chief'
to a seat. in Council at any of our Presidencies is an
arrangement at all times purely discretionary with
us, and cannot be claitried as a matter of right by
any Officer succeeding by casual promotion; or by
specific appointment, to the command of the troops
at such Presidency.
43. We now proceed to another in-Stance in which
we feel' ourselves under the, necessity of expressing

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