Star.
London, England, 1802-06-17 00:00:00

NAME OF THE CARNJ2IC.

Having been favoured with a Copy of the In-
aruaiors of the depofed NAnoa of the Carnatie
to his agents in London, we haften to lay it be-
fare ou: 7,-,:,lders. It is proper that every fubjeft
6f the Bri.:111 empire fhould hear, in the language
of the NABOB himlilf, tke particulars of the cruel
manner in which he fags he has been treated. It
is an afftaing detail, and we hope will induce
thcfe who feel for the charafter and the welfare
lot' this country, and who at the fame time may
poifefs the power, to purfuemeafures for having
the befattfs properly invettigated. If the NABOB'S
narrative is in any refpcet unfounded, it is pro.
per the mifreprefentations lhould be made mani-
; fel} to all the world—if founded in truth, the juf-
tice of the country fhonld overtake the offenders.

FROM HIS HIGNNETS THE NA:TAB WALAJAH °MEER
UL iiIND TAJOOL OMRAH OMEER 111. MULK MOIN
UD DOWLAH MAHOMAD ALLY HUSSEIN CAWN BA-
HADOR DUFFER JUNG, &C. &C. &C. TO JAMES
STUART HALL AND SAMUEL JOHNSON, Estes.
When I look around me and perceive the many
dangers which lodic me, I am overwhelmed with
difficulties ; every objet occafiuns new alarm ;
and my little experience in bufinefs, my unac-
quaintance with the world, and my great want of
friends, in a trial in ferions, leaves me little able
to overcome the difficulties which prefent them-
(elves. Though a firanger in perfon, yet I would
perfuade mytelf, that in relation and charader' I
am not wholly unknown ; nor will you forget the
anxious folicitude, with which my ever honoured
and lamented father recommended his only off-
fpring to you, at your departure from thefe re.
coons ; a pious folicitude ! which feemed to anti-
cipates the awful and melancholy moment, which
has fince enticed.
Apprifed, as I am, of the efteem in which you
were held by his late Highnefs the Nabob, of your
unalterable concern for his true interells, and of
your friendthip for his family, I naturally turn to
you in this embarrafl'ment of my affairs ; and moll
earneilly intreat the benefit of your advice and
endeavours, to extricate me from furrounding
perils.
I have not trufted to a Granger's aid, to make
known thefe circumflances, which it is my firft
with to be communicated to you. I will detail
them to you with my own hand—l will trace the
unhappy events which have happened, and the
evils avhich they have introduced in their train. I
will explain to you the fentiments to which they
have given rife—the refults to which they have al-
ready led, and the confequences which they may
eventually occasion. There will not only dire&
your fervices (of which I confider myfell fecure)
to proper °biters, but will be the means (for I am
confident in the jutlice of my claims) of obtain.
ing the recirefs which lam ft:eking. A true and
faithful account of my fituation, to whom it may
be required to be made known, will be all-fuffi-
cient to the luccefs of my application.
In order that you may have a ccmpleat know.
ledge of all that has happened, it will be neceffary
to begin with cireumflaitees, apparently remote,
though certainly not unimportant; nor unconneet-
ed with the prefent flotation of affairs. I (hall,
theoctore, It accpsaint you, that early in the 1
month of June 'aft, his Highnefs the Nabob of the
Carnatic was feized with very d.tngerous fymp-
toms, which continued, with little variation, for
the (pace of feveral days ; and were fufficient to
alarm his family and friends, for his Higlinefs's
fafety and life. It pleated the ALMIGHTY to al-
low his liiglinels, an interval of a few days, of
quiet and tranquility, to arrange and fettle the
particulars of his linufe, and to provide for the
1 fuccelfion to his dominions; and to facile and un-
I troubled a moment of freedom from bodily pain
I and infirmity did his I lighnefs enjoy, that his fa-
mily anti i'ervants hid a moff reafonable hope that
he might be able to overcome ;lee violence of the
attacks. After a few days, however, the difeafe
returned with an encreale of violence, and dilap-
I pointed all the expeCtations and prayers which had
I been kindly conceived and fervently offered up for
his Highoefs's recovery. Tears will not allow me
to defto ibe with exatftnefs the fccne that followed.
1 You will in a word learn, that his Highnels lay on
I the extreme bed of ficknefs, awaiting the fummons
from an eventful.life, \vial a dignified patience and
i
! refignation : affording a hiking leffon, never to
:be forgotten I of the vanity of fublunary great-
nefs :.led in this painful and agonizing (late he
continued,truil the 15th of the fucceeding month;
when his tpirit and foul forfook him, in their way
to a higher glory, and more perfed happinefs.
On the sth of July, about ten days previous to
the melancholy event which I have loft mentioned,
a large body of troops, confilling of European
and native infantry and cavalry, to the number of
800 men, with a proportionate number of artil-
lery, fupplied with requisite ttores and field equi-
page of every denomination, were tent by Go-
vernment, (under the command of Colonel M'Neil,
one of the Company's Officers,) to take poffeffion
of the garden and palace of Chepauk, under the
pretence of defending them againft any infitlt or
violence which the deceafe of his Highnefs the
' Nabob might poffibly produce ; a meafure which
had been advifed and adopted. without any com-
munication either with his Highnefs or his Mi.
Milers, until the very moment of its execution,
when Major Grant, the Town Major of Fort St.
George, was fent to the Fick chamber of his High-
1 nth, to acquaint him with the intlant approach
of the troops, and to explain to him the reafons
which had determined that extraordinary At of
Government.
It will not be neceffary for me to attempt a re-
lation of the various emotions, under the coati&
and agony of contending pallions, which this
tudden and unfeafonable communication imfortu-
:lately excited. You will be able to form fome
coniature at them. if von advert to the fituatiow

Whether from this, or Tome other eaufe, t are. too
deeply aad dearly interefted to dare to form an
opinion, his Highnefs's diforder augmented daily
in violence, and ended in the unfortunate stay
which I have before been obliged to Rate.
The troops, notwithilanding the reprefentations
and laft entreaties of his Highnefs, furrounded his
Highnefs's apartments, and the inmoft recelfes of
his Palace, at the time of his demife; and although
but one mind manifefted itfelf amongft his High-
nefs's relations, and the Minifters of his affairs—
although the molt uninterrupted order and regu-
larity every where appeared, and a fiiirit of loyalty,
I am proud to fay, it univerfally !hewed itfelf to
his Highnefs's Succeffor, yet the military force
Rill kept its pofition, under the fame initrations ;
and feemingly, with a view to dietate the order
and terms of the fucceffion.
Under thefe unhappy circumfiances, did an old
and honourable Ally draw his extreme breath !
In this degrading fituation did his inoffending
Succeffor begin the cares of his Government and
Dominion.
Decent attentions had fcarcely been paid to the
inanimate form of his Highnefs, to prepare it furl
its throud, when Mr. Webbe, ( the Secretary of
Government), and Colonel Clofe, (the Prefident
of Myfore), were fent to the Palace ; under the
;nitrations, as they reprefented, of the Right Hon.
the Governor. His Highnefs departed this life at
about a quarter pall ten; and at a quarter pail one
o'clock, of the fame day, I was advifed of the ap-
proach of the Commiflioners of Government.—l
am thus circumftantial in my detail, as I cannot
out conceive, that it will tend to (hew the features
of the policy, which was intended to be adopted
in the beginning, and which has eventually fermi
nated in the utter fubverficut of every thing like
right and juftice.
Though fecure, from the pofition of the force
about the Palace, of every accefs to it ; and of the
knowledge of every all, which might pars within
it; yet, at the facred hour of furrow, and into the
chamber of hallowed affiiaion, did Oleic cold Corn-
miflioners obtrude themfelv,:s ; not with the ten-
der offices of fi ienalliip or condolence, but with
offers of indignity and infult.
It would not be believed, unlefs folemnlyafTerted,
and I do Arnie you on thelionour and faith of a Prince
unufed to any fubterfuge or compromife, that at
this melancholy junCtu: e, I was drawn by peremp-
tory meffages from the fide of the great dcctafed,
to anfwer to the countl rls interrogatories of Coro-
miffioners, ;nitrated e- examine me. I hope I
(hall not Puffer in the eyes and cowemplation of
-good men, in yielding to imp itunitics fo unwor-
thy of myfelf and them ; mhi:ll nothing lefs than
the peace and tranquil; y f my family, and the
fear of pollutions, (which I cannot bring myfelf to
think oi) could potlibly have 1:d to. But they are
pall, and I'll endeavour to be calm.
Attended by feveral of my principal Officers, I
went to the apartments where the Cornrniffioners
were waiting ; when I was immediately accoilcd
by one of them, with an enquiry, as to the difpo.
lion which his Highnefs had made of Ms affairs?
I anfwered with calmnefs, but not without a fen-
fibility, natural to my favenred fnuation from
the bounty of my Royal Predeceffor, that fuch
difpofition was clear, fhnrt, and unequivocal ;
and was' contained in a written paper, which
had been executed in quadruplicate, the feveral
parts of which had been fent many days, previous
to his Highnefs's demife, to their feveral dellina-
tions. One of them had been forwarded to his
Majelly the King of Great Britain ; one to the
Cow t of DireCtors; one to the Governor General ;
and the remaining part was firft delivered to his I
Highnefs's Chief Minister, and had by him, fince
the deceafe of his Hightiels, been delivered into
my poffetlion, where it then remained.
The Commiffioners reque!led to fee the paper,
to which Iliad immediately alluded; when one of
my officers, Ilru,:k with the impropriety of the re-
quef at ftuh a fealon, could not reftrain himfelf
from oblerving, that the prefent moment was de-'
voted, as well by feeling as citflom, to the inJul-
genre of grief; and he trulied that they would
not again advert to the paper. or to eh-cum:lances,
to wlrch it had relation, but would fuller the in.
terval, allowed to Humane and Religious con-
federations, not to be molefled wi.h Worldly Cares
or Retleaions. That after three days, his High-
nefs would be happy to produce the Will, and
confult with them on the objeCtstonnaled with
it, to far as they related to the Company. But
the Commit:inners would nor hear this confiderate
fuggellion, but infitted, with a firtnnefs to which
I was unufed, on the immediate protjultion of the

paper.
Fearing that fome poffible doubts might have
been entertained, as to the reality of the papev if
it had not been produced at the time when de-
manded, I gave it to their hands, with as little
relatance as the occafion would permit ; they
examined it in my pretence, and in the pretence of
my officers, with a particular and fcrupulous care;
obferving, when it was returned to me, " That
his Higlinefs had appointed me to the entire do-
minion and government of the Carnatic ; and
(with very fmall exceptions) to the poffeflion of
all his property ; but that in contemplation of my
youth, had placed me under the guardianthip of
two of the Noblemen or Cawns about his High-
nefs's perfon, who were to fill the office of regents.
until 1 fhould arrive at my nineteenth year." I
inftantly obferved to them, ,4 That I had been long
fenfible of this difpofition of his Highnefs's affairs;
that I was well aware, and greatly thankful for
the kind and tender precaution of his Highnefs,
in committing my inexperience into fuch able and
worthy hands ; that I well knew and highly re-
fpetled them, and was ready, in all things, to
abide by their counfel and advice : and concluded
with remarking, that, s' fince his Highnefs had fo
difpofed of me, and had fo configned the bufinefs of
the Government, it were nnneceffary that I fhould be
confulted further, at a moment fo inaufpicious.—
' The Regents, I was lure, had not lets inclination to
meet and forward the delires of the Company,
than what I now felt, and fhould ever continue to
feels being the firft and earlieft impreftion I had

ing to depart, when the ComnsiMuncrs dcfe,e, ,
that I would yet remain ; having fomethine
portant :o communicate to mc, and which cite;
begged to deliver, is private, or at lean in the
fence only of the Regents and myfelf. On lint ry.;,.
Officers and Servants were ialtrutted to v. isisdree.,
when the Conimitriow:rs pot-es...ld it the tnaraxe
in which I fhall now Inccinaly and cleatlt tc; err
On the immediate theiartute of my priree
fcrvants; the 02icers of G::vernmeut ere
letter, reprefo red by the m to have h,,: ft
by the Marquis of Weliefiey, and intended f
late Highnefs the Nabob ; which ficet,''.:.! rte..
royal grandfather, and my much revered fafle::',
of an improper and unjunifiable correfpoefiere
with the Sultan of the Nlyfore ; and concludo:
with demanding an immediate furrender of al! 11
country of the Carnatic, for an aliceiged bread, , 7
Treaty. After the reading of this ccriefeerdteee
they remarked that the territory of his Mehl L:,
had been forfeited to the Company, by the. Art
which had been Rated in the letter ; and tl.at
confequence, he had no manner of right to d:fete,
of it by will ; yet to fhew that the Company Litt
every difpolition to fervc and proted the for, whom.
his Highnefs had fo favoured, they were fully in-
clined to make a very liberal provilion for him, oa
condition of his previous furrender of all tile domt.
nions which had been nominally willed to him.—
The Regents, being prefent, were as much moved
as enyfelf at the extraordinary cemnomication
which had been jug made to us. And although,
we were fully convinced that no unautharifed cor-
refpondence had ever taken place between his late
Highnefs or his predecelfor, with the Sultan of
Myfore, yet we were fo much agitated and affiided
at the ferious manner in which the charge was
preferred, as twit to be able to afford a cool and
difpaflionate anfwer. After hating our internal
imprefilons, that neither of the relPeded perfonages
do whom allufion had been made, could have been
engaged in a elandeftine communication with any
foreign power in enmity with the Britifh interefts ;
and our great mortification at the propolal which
had been offered, as founded on that fuppofed
fea—we begged for a few days confederation of
the terms which had been ingetelled, which was
conceded to us, after fome dintiffion.
Every inquiry was made in the interval, to al-
certain the correfpondence, which had at any time
taken place of the nature already mentioned, when
no vettige could be traced, which could throw the
(lighten ftigma on the venerable names which had
• been implicated in In unfortunate a charge.
The only correfpondence which had ever occur-
red between the parties in queftion, and which
could have given rife to the fufpicion entertained
by the Company, happened at the ;finance of the
Earl Cornwallis, after the termination of the war
fo loccefsfully conduaed by his Lordfhip againft
the late Sultan ; and related to a family con-
nedi,m, which, from well known circumftancy,
never tuck place. This correfpondence naturally
produced mutual communications of courtefy on
fevcral domellic events, which concerned either of
the pai ties perfonally, as occanons happened ; but
nothing that could affea any intcrefts connected
with national or public confiderations.
The Regents, at the conference on the neat
evening, being confirmed in their firft imprefilons
of the rectitude of his late Highnels's conditd, in
the particular referred to, Rated in perfpicuous
terms, the Reps which they had purfued to invef-
tigate the truth of the accufation which had been
alledged to have been contained in the letter of
the Marquis of Vv'ellefley ; and that they had
found, on a full inveftigation, that there was not
the 'Mallet} foundation for the charge which had
been urged ; but, on the contrary, that the only
correfpondence which had occurred between his
Highnefs and the late Sultan, had been carried on
with the knowledge and confent of the Executive
Local Government, and had been forwarded offi-
cially by them ; and in proof of this affertion, re.
(tired the Commillioners to their own immediate
Records.
The Regents then expreffed their concern, that
the matter of this accufation had not been made
known and enquired into in the life time of his late
Highnefs, when it might have been fairly and
candidly explained and anfwered. This circum-
fiance alone led them to hope that the Company
did not ferioufly believe that correfpondence of
fuels a defcription had in reality happened; though
they might have felt themfelves anti/utile(' in re-
quelling an explanation concerning it : and under
this conviaion, they could not but conclude that
the terms propofed to them at their lag conference
would be given up, as they were applicable to a
fituation of things which did not exill.
The Regents next profeffed themfelves molt
ready f receive any proporals which might lave
to promote a good underftanding in refired to the
exilling engagements, or might render them more
convenient to either of the fubfcribing
ivories;
though they were not fenfible how they could be
improved : at the fame time they were appreheni
five that a new arrangement might give f fie to th •
caflions which had been long let ref by the fuki.
filling Treaty.
The Comrniffioners Rill flood on their firft
ground, and inn fled, in peremptory language,..on
the propofal which they had before made. ee-
itig there was no polfibility of diverting them en.;
tirely (loin this object, the Regents confide:ed.
an expedient, which, in their expedation,
have induced the Commiftioners to have toregone
iniau.
their primula', at leaft in the extent in which ft bed
been moved. Being well aware, from an i.
knowledge of his late Highnefs's affairs, that toe
preceding Governors of Fort Saint George had.
looked for poffeflion of the Tinerelly and tome °,
the adjacent countries as more convenient to the,
r
affairs ; and fenfible that the p
ment, from the nature of the propofal motile!, :1
limilar views, though in a more extendet. fhal
• mit:lnce'
they determined, under the peculiar emu e
in which they Rood, to meet their deirres, as Maui:
as they could, continent with their own „on'
-and the interells which !hey had been go•oe.
charge. With this intention, they propofid
liver into the bands of the Company, fur ln
prefent G wilt!

0...g01e and ralttancl to the North ; on
die condition that the Prince of the Carnatic
should be allowed, in his Periodical hilts, the
:,nititint rent of filch cliftrifts, agreeable to the
fchetittle No. a, annexed to the treaty of tyoz,
in; t yearle {Urn equal to the full amount of the '
fiihridy claimable by the Company, by virtue cf
filch treaty.
T„ the propofal cf the Regents, the Officers of
GP,t•lntitetit gave a aunt reply—" that it would
not in any utast do"--sind that nothing short oldie
demand which had been made, could be accepted
,-.lltlPilred. In confequence of this difpofition
on the p:trt of the Commiffioners, the Regents re.
•11,:d a further time to refieft,and were indulged
to tie nett day.
I shall not trouble you with the particulars of
the pert or the fucceeding meeting on the day
follnu ing ; fur you will find them circundlantially
related, in the Journal of the Regents, which I
Live dircel,sd to be forwarded with this. You will
readily anticipate, that although the Regents have
been slitpded to have rendered up more of the
countries, (which really was the cafe), on a like
condition with thole already tendered by them,
they could not unworthily bring themfelves to
make an unqualified and unconditional flirrender
of thole rights, which it was their duty to protea
and guard. The meetings, therefore, to which I
have laft requelled your attention, palled without
Seeing that the Regents were inflexible in their
duty, and conceiving from my want of knowledge
in psi! lie concerns, that I might poflibly be Ten.
cored an inftrument, as I cannot but confider, to
rtv own undoing ; the Commiffioners at the lall
conference, and towards the concluflon of it, fent
a note to Lord Clive, who thereupon appeared at
the Palace ; but inficad of going to the apartment
where negociations had hitherto been carried on,
his Lortithip went to the tent of Colonel Nl‘Neil,
in charge of the troops about the gardens, and
immediately requeßed my attendance on him.
1 chearfully complied with his Lordfhip's 'Nue!!
and went to the tent. His Lordfhip then accofted
me with fecmintr, kinslnefs, and begged " I would
well confider the Company's proterred terms,
which, if then neglated, would evade my accep-
tance for ever; that they were now offered for the
lad ttme ; that a liberal allowance (Imola be made
out of the colledionsi (hut which his Lordfhip did
not particularife) if l..would linen favourably to
bit proporrls ; but that if I did not incline to
them, that I (hould be reduced from the gran-
deur which awaited me, into an humble and pri-
vate Ration."—l obferved to his Lordfhip " that
I was not acquainted with matters of fo high con-
cern : that I was indeed an utter ftranger to burl-
net's ; that my toyal predeceffor had wifely com-
mitted etc to the care and attention of others,
and had recommended my conformity to their ad-
vice ; that in reined to my father's will, and to
the perfons to whom my affairs were trolled, I
cow.' net think of anfwering for myfelf the im-
portant propolitions made to me ;—but, from re-
g ird to hi: Lordfhip's charaaer, and to the in-
terens which he reprefented, I was inclined, not
only to give my ready attention to what his Lord-
fhip ct.wimunicated, but would advife the Re-
gents, (if it were compatible with their honour
and my own fafety) to overlook any formal. difti-
culty which might Rand in the way of their acqui.
crevice ; for this piirpofe, I would beg leave to ac-
quaint them with what had palled, and would ap-
prim an early dry when his Lordfhip should have
my anfwe r."—H is Lord.fhi p obferved that lie would
wait on me again the next day, at the fame place,
and took his leave. _

Tr: confolting with the Regents and the Cawns,'
and Omrahs of Empire, before whom the whole
of what had paired at the preceding conferences
was laid, I was fully advifed of the dangers to
which my affairs and family might be expofed, by
the acceptance of terms to dttreputable, and fo
vague ; an advice, which I had no reafon to lid-
petl of prejudice, or infidelity, and by which, after
the moll mature confederation, I was determined
to govern my conduit.—Accordingly when the
Governor came the next evening, I acquainted
hint ingenuoully, ‘. that I could not accede to the
offer u,;:elt he had yetlerday the got:Kinds to make
me ; that I had every perfonal good with for
the profpctity of the company, and for the real and
fob:LIMA interefts of the Liritith Nation, which I
ht.l h:en taught to admire from myearliefl years,
by. that I could not facrifice my own and my fa-
mil'', tights, for any fuppofed benefit to the com-
pany, or any provinonal good which I %VAN given
to rxi ea. Betides the mode of furrender ctiaated,
and the ground on which it profeffett to be found-
ed, was ftich, that I could nvt adopt it, without
rtndering a credit to fuggeßions, highly difho-
nourable thofe whom, by duty and religion, I
v. a; bound to honour and revere. I had already
an inclination to attend to the company's
rtluit'ainni, in fo far as they could be attended to;
and was much induced by my own fentiments, to
extend the propofal which had been made. on my
'):Lit, emit to a greater latitude, on the principle
of the fo"ting on which it had been nmste. My
mo:ivcs therefore for the non acceptance of his
offer, could admit of no doubt. That
1 had the highefl perfonal confideration for his
lordlhip, and would hope that the frank and es-
:talwcr which I had now given him, Would
sot occalion offence."

While I was delivering what I had to lay, a
nior.L.:r of troopers rode round the tent, with
rwordsz and an unufual guard of Sepoys
p,.;led at the doer; who traverfed condant-
ly :end fro ; and a cartaln degree of confulion
I•eniz.l to reign around. I endeavoured, never-
lo to preferve a coolnefs and confillency of
iequilite for the occafion ; and have to
tl I A% EN that my reafon and fortitude was
twt t.• lhaken by a circumfiance calculated to
them ; and v.shich from after praißices, I am
" y to add, that I cannot but imagine wits eon.
with that view.

Atter I had concluded what I had to anfwer,
•
I.ordiii;p replied, That I was extremely
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very lan time that he Mould addrefs me ott the
fabjea"---and with a few words of form. he de-
parted the tent.

I have taken thine pains to acquaint you with
the foregoing eirctimtlances, as %cell by myfelf, as
by the more detailed account of the Regents, as
they tend to thew the trite grounds of the dices-
greement which exiki between me and the go-
vernment ;—and which have been made the pre-
tence of difpoireiling me of a throne to which, by
palatial right, as well as by the will of my royal
predeceffor, I was lawfully and indifputably in-
titled.

From the detail, in which yon are in polTeffion,
you will readily perceive the policy on which the
Madras Government have acted ; that they had
an ambitions defign front the begining, of poffet
Ping themfelves of the whole domimons of the
Carnatic; a defign which the circumfiances of the
times feemed peculiarly to favour. Apprehenfive,
however, of the opinions of the European and
Afiatie world, they determined on arriving at
their ends by means the leaft alarming and iufpi-
cious. They, therefore, firft betook themfelves
to him whom they well knew, if he could be
brought to content, could give not only elFeit and
legality to their unbounded views; but they fonn
.experienced, from the wife precautions of his pre-
deceiror, that he was not left a ready inarument
to their purpofes, (though not indifpofed in fend-
ment to accept any reafimable terms,) and judg.
ingflom the latter eircumlfanees (which hewed a
pliancy ofeharader ) that he might yet be made what
the Government defired to fee him, they endeavour.
ed by promites, allurements and threats, to mould
him to their wifhes. But teeing in the event, that all
their firatagems failed, while their ambition re-
mained unabated, they retort to other expedients,
that feemed to promile, if not a more honourable,
at leall a more fuccelsful iffue. Their ambition
Rill exhibited its original mixed charaaer • it pot-
felled not any of that daring, open, and dazzling
quality, which leads the world to overlook the
means in the fplendour of the event ; but a lofty
and towering mind, with a diminutive and half
allured fpirit, which alftes but can never perfed a
great or admirable atchievement. •
Ditappointed in their firit expedation, the Go-
vernment fought to accomplish their objet by the
instrumentality of the next immediate Prince to the
Mufnud of the Carnatic ; and unmindful of the
order and fucceflion, and of the difpolition of his'
late Highnefs, did not fcruple to open negotiations
with him for filling the Imperial Seat. But I (hall
not trouble you at any length on the many (Ater-
fuges ufed on this occasion ; or of the meafures
adopted, through an ebliqur: medium, of obtain-
ing their originally intended end.
On the tad of July, (about eight days after the
demife of his late Highnefs,) the Comeniffioners of
Government, whom I have had to often occafion
to mention, fent for Huitain ne Dowlak, (fon of
the Amcer, and nephew of hie late Highnefs,) to
the tent of Colonel M'Neil, and entered into a
conference with him for fume hours. They re-
peated their vifits every day, at fometimes bring-
ing with them large fupplies of money, until the
instant, when the Ameer's fon was removed
with great ceremony, and under a Rrong ercort
of the Company's cavalry, to a houfe provided
for him by the Government; at which place, a
treaty was deviled and executed, alienating, as I
am told, the whole territories and countries of the
Carnatic, to the polfeffion of the Company._

. .
During the time, even when thefe tranflitlions
were paffing, feveral reprefentations were made to
me, through Colonel M•Neil, ci the favourable
difpofition of Government to me, and of the ad-
vantages which would be 101 l by my refilling to
meet their willies ; that he was well affured that
the Ameer's fun would readily accept any terms
which the Government fhouhl gracionily grant to
him but ai I delivered my fentiments pub-
licly to the Officers of Government, and at open
conferences, I declined to hear any private pro-
petals ; and fo informed the Colonel, obferving at
the time, that I implicitly believed whatever he
told me ropeeting the Ameer's ion ; for I well
knew that iv would receive what the Company
would be pleated to give him, in lieu of the terri-
tories of the Carnattc ; for he would be receiving
every thing, when he had nothing in reality to re-
turn.

I need not acquaint you, (for it is a common
confequence of the policy I have been dere' ibing),
that every means were tiled to fpread ditfentions in
the family, and provoke counter claims, in order to
give the Government a colour for interference ;
and notwithdanding the variety of contending in-
tends. which this firatagem put in motion, I am
happy to fay, that a fettle of jullice filially
prevail-
ed, and that there was but one opinion as to the
fuccedion, which ought to be confulted, and but
one fentin.ent of the conduit of Government as
to the meafitres adopted by them.
Aud thinking that the united fenfe of the Family
and of the Mabornedan lawyers might have had a
weight and influence, I inclofed two written in-
fitments to the Government, declarative of their
felitiments, on the ail which Government were
about to 1.../ea on. Copies of which, papers are in-
clofed for further information.
And bearing Ihortly after, that Government
intended to place the Ameer's fon on the Isfulbud
at all events and at all confequenees, I residefled
the Regents, in a public letter (a copy of which
accompanies), to addrefs the Right Honourable
the Governor in Council on the fubjeit of my af-
fairs, recapitulating what had paired at the con
ferences with me and them. profefling our joint
wilhes to form fuch an alliance with the Company,
as might infilre our mutual intereßs, and begging
that they would open a negotiation with us in
writing, and in a direit way, which they had al.
ways previoufly declined; and we would endea-
vour to fatisfy their capitations as far as our
means would allow. But to the addrefs of the
Regents the Government did not return an an-
fwer.

Being informed on the nth. that a public no-
tificttion had been made through the different
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dreffect the o,overdw, with the advice of the Re-
gents, on the fuggefied naeafnre, and propofed to
accept the terms which had beer, at fird offered.
A meafure which my mind revolted at; but
which teemed to be demanded by the trying
exigencies of the moment; and I felt confident
within myfelf, that if my offer had been accepted,
that the liberality of the liritifh nation would
have never held me bound by conditions which
had been fo compulforily impofcd on me ; or
would have ameliorated a Iltnation which had
been produced by means which! neither honour
nor judice could bear to contemplate. My addicts
was wholly and totally difregarded.
I cannot repeat the fcene which followed—that
intuited every noble feeling, and outraged every
right. I have endeavoured, under the mortifying
events which have happened, that the variety of,
fenfations which have poffeffed me, to acquaint
you of the unhappy fituation in which I find my
felf expofed, and I am afraid that I have ill fucceeded.

I need not endeavour to impiefs you with thc
horrors of the fituation to which I feel myfelf re-
duced. Yon have hut to piEture to yourfelves the
height of human grandeur and the fad and nrifel -
able reverfe of it ! The highell and lowell condi-
tion of which humanity is capable ! but even the
meanell lubjeel of the very word Government,
polfelfes a bleffing, which my fortune and fate
forbid ! He owns the gratifying fenfatioa of know-
ing himillf fafe amidil the fociety of his fellows ;
while I, alas! have no friendly nor kindlyfociality ;
none of thole relations and tics which are made to
fecure the comforts and happinefs of life—an
unit, as it were, in die (urn of the people of the
Carnatic, I am delivered into the hands of an
enemy, who has but one at to execute—to finifh
his career.

If I fail of your alive fervices, your zealous
and firenuous lupport, there is but one fhort Ilep
to inevitable dettrudion; let me intreat and im-
plore, that you take the :immediate time to leek
the removal of the ills which are about to over-
whelm me. From the dillance which intervenes,
from my ignorance of the fit and proper means of
remedy, and from my fenfibility of the injuries
with which I am feverely galled, I know not what
courfe to try. In your judgment, experience, and
cooler determination, I confide and Tel

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCR.

YARMOUTH, JUNE t 6.

Arrived his Majeay's ShiP of War rat s, and this
morning failed on a cruife after Smugglers, the
IRIS frigate, BITTERN !loop, and ADDER gun vcf-
fel.—Wind Weft.—Arrived from the Baltic the
KERRISON, CRICKINAY, with timber.--Remains in
the roads the Cruifer brig.