The Sun.
London, England, 1816-10-26 00:00:00

EAST INDIES.

Extract of a Letter from a young Merchant in an
American Firm at Calcutta, 23d April, 1816.

" The accounts from hence in the earlier period
Of the Ilrar of Nepaul have, I depend, much
bewildered all the sage Directors of your great
Company : indeed, it was very natural ; and their
patience and candour, on what was passing here,
highly creditable to them ; if I guess right of the
dextrous, impudent, and persevering misrepre.
sentations they +vete too likely to receive in some
manner from this gurater. A neW Governor-
General of this mighty Dependency must always
affect or affright the private interests of many and
the vanity of more, particularly if he will not
submit himself to be the moving puppet of a pretty
broad Confederacy, willing to take the care of all
patronage and appointment for the good of the
Company, in which a Governor, newly appointed,
and unknowing of all the parties, may even par-
donably, as to persons; be indifferent, but not
excusably, in his high charge and station, as to
claine and compatence to be useful in their po-
sition.

" Our Senior tells the be thinks be can observe,
Liat the proscription he fancied he had noticed of
ome of the old and meritorious servants of the
Company, not distinguished for their obsequious-
ness to something of a "Junta" round the Indian
Proconsular Throne, has been a good deal broken
through, with equal justice to the parties, and be-
nefit to the HindostanneeGovernment and tire great
Company. A pretty general satisfaction has en-
sued from this :—though a LAze Majeste against
some former arbiters and distributors of merit,
service, and advancement. Some secret venom-
has probably been excited and shot out for this.
One great man, we think, went home from some
cause which I will not here presume to detail or
conjecture, in a very hostile ill humour of dis-
content with the Supreme Directory here; and it
is thought that your Directors have been both
manly and liberal id standing firm and unbiassed
by the variety of insidious or false impressions
which, we here depeA, must have been attempted
to be made on their fears and anxiety for the great
charge of property and empire in their care. Our
Consul (who acts as such) says, the life of a Go-
vernor-General in this country is not a 'gay one:'
he sees him at dawn on horseback—by sunrise at
home, and at the desk and writing-table—dressed
and a slain breakfast over before eight. The desk
again, and audiences till ten—the Quarter-Mas-
ter-General daily, on the affairs of the Army—
the correspondence of all the departments to
read, and minute the replies, occupy till noon—
and then, the secretaries to determine with, on
all the answers of consult and discussion, till the
hour to change and refresh for dinner—and this
short meal dispatched, again the desk and pen,
relieved only by an hour's walk end a cup of cof-
fee, to refresh for the evening labour with papers,
till fatigue and drowsiness drive to bed, Such
seems to be the daily routine of existence here,
with the only variety of six or seven hours in
Council, on the regular days, which we suppose
no very enlivening relaxation.
" Nothing new obtains here in ceremony or pa.
rade : some of it is restored, which the British.
Who knoni this country best feel almost univer-
sally to be necessary and becoming observance
of station and respect, and that any relinquish-
ment would be improper and impolitic.
" On the Up-country journey, which a rela-
tive of our's attended in his station, be reports
that both the British Residents and the Native
Chiefs and Governors at Moorzbedebad and Be.
nares, and at Lucknow also, made formal repre-
sentations on the deficiency of the requisite at-
tendance, which they observed and regretted.
At Lucknow, the Nawaub Vizier addressed the
British Resident, as he states, in words to this

effect :

" I observe with surprise the very small train
and attendance on your Governor-General.—We,
at this place, know that you English do not affect
numbers and show, hut up the Country this will
not be understood, and the want of a proper
display will prejudice the weight and consequence
of your Government. Ile therefore begged to be
allowed to attach a sucoarty• (afield accompani-
ment) to the escort of the Governor•Gcneral
all the splendour of this addition was limited to
decorated elephants' of the custom of the coon.
try, which the Nawaub supplied ; and none of
this cost one shilling, as he says he knows well,
to your rich Company ; though they attended
and marched with your Governor nearly 800 miles
' through that difficult country.
" All tl►is, I buspect, will have little or no in-
terest ►%hen it reaches you in London, and I
depend it will find you ell in good humour,
because you will have found your important in-
terests of territory and influence have been served
anti presel•vetl must emulously, and that the train