Star.
London, England, 1807-10-13 00:00:00

MARQutg WELLESLEt.

No. X.
Alma. (the eunuch), whofe ehildien were Miff.
dered by Mr. Hafting., agreeably to the famous
fpeeeft of the late E. Burke, which agonized the
feelings of his fair auditors, was the only perfon
°Retort* injured by the ceffion of that portion of
country adjacent to the Marhattah frontiers, on the
part of the Nabob, to the Britifh Government. The
allegiance of this man to his own Sovereign had ever
been doubtful, and from his poireffing numerous forts
in the Marhattah tottntry, with the true Aliatic fpirit
of intrigue, there can exit' but little doubt, if the
real fentiments of the Nabob were known, that he
was rather rejoiced than hurt at the redudinn of the
power of this chieftain, an object frequently attempted
in vain by hi. predeceffors.
It certainly is extremely difficult to account for
the motives of action of any Mimic ; for, if Alma.
seally confidered himfelf injured, it might naturally
be fuppofed he would not embrace the earlieft op.
portunity of benefiting thole by whom fuch injury
was committed : yet this pofitively was the cafe, for
fubfequent to the ceffion, on folely hearing that the
Company were dittreffed for money, he inftantly fent
for the firft time, near one hundred thoufand pounds
[keeling to theTreafury of the Refident, which ex-'
ample was loon followed by the other principal
money holders at Lamm.

The bond of the 'kWh Government was (agree-
able to the general method of Afiatics) delivered
by Almas to his bankers, who -at the expiration of
lix months, were fomewhat furprifed on being in
formed that the interell was payable without any
farther trouble or favouritifm, than figning a receipt
and producing a power of attorney ; the latter they
did not at that time comprehend, and therefore fent
the receipt with the name of Almas, to the general
Tteafury at Calcutta, for payment. Alum:top the
fignature was an aaual forgery, yet on the corcum-
fiance being rzprefented to Marquis WELLI niv, he
inlleatly orclred the money to be paid, direeting the
Sub-treafurer, at the fame time, to explain to the
Bankers, the preper mode of triturating bufinefs of
this nature.

Even the perfecutors of the much injured fobjeet
of theft letters will, I believe, admit his unwearied
attention to the fuhjett of finance; and that he has
accomplifhed the grand defideratum of eitablifhing
in the minds of the natives generally, the moll im-
plicit confidence in the (lability of the Britith Indian
Fur,ds, the refult whereof is, that the proportion of
the public debt in Bengal latl year in the hands of
the natives, exceeded fifteen millions &ding ;
whereas, on the arrival of Marquis WILLISLEY in
India, it did not amount to two millions, although
the rate of interelt had been gradually reduced from
to 8 per Cent.
When that portion of the ceded provinces called
the Dooab, was under the Nabob's Government,
(caret a night ever gaffed without one or more mur.
ders being committed, to the great terror of the in-
habitants ; indeed, thortly after the introduClion of
the Bengal Judicial Regulations, no lets than flo per•
ions were confined in one jail on different charges for
murder : the vigilance and Rriitnefs of the Police
Coon compelled many thoufands of loch lawlefs va-
grants to emigrate to the Marhattah country, which
induced numerous (peculators from the Benares &f-
-oie, acquainted with the advantages of living under
the Company's proteSion, to purchafe or rent lands,
in Ibis recently acquired province.
One commercial regulation introduced by the pre.
fent Secretary to the Treafury, Mr. WaLcasisr, at
that time Lieutenant Governor of the ceded pro•
vinces, of encouraging the growth of cotton, by
making the duty two thirds lets than the produce of
the Marhattah difiriCfs, and the abolition of all
tranfit duties, has been attended with the happieft
effeets ; the export of cotton by lea from Calcutta
to China having aftually exceeded la(t year twelve
thoufand tons, whereas, a few years previous to the
acquifition of thefe provinces, a confiderahle import
I of cotton annually took place from Surat to Bengal
for the manufattures of this part of the Company's
&minions.

In refpth to the Nabub of Furruckabad, the wri-
ter (a military mall) was atually prefent when the
&ft monthly stipend was fent by the Collator, on
the receipt whereof the Nabob could not help ex•
prcffing his allonifhment, at the amount exceeding
above teven hundred pounds Iterling monthly, what
he had ever !Aare receiVed when the country was
managed by his own Minitiers. PLAIN PACTS.

By letters from Jerky we learn, that a galliot un•
der neutral colours arrived there on Wednetclay latt,
which left St. Makes the day before, accompanied by
fix French privateers, declined on a cruize ; and that
fourteen of the fame defcription were nearly ready
for tea at that pot t. It is therefore to be hoped our
cruizers in the Channel will be on the alert, and
introduce them to a Btitifh port.

Monday, a tranfport from Copenhagen, laden
with naval (totes, arrived in Leith Roads. She is
one of a convoy of between thirty and furty fail, un•
der convoy of the ACASTA frigate, all laden with
Danith naval flora.

The Fancy gun brig, Lieutenant St ticsara,arrived
at Leith on 'l'uefday, from Gotteoburgh left it fit
days before. Just as he came away,'.one hundred car-
riages had arrived, with the flute and baggage of
Louis XVI 11. who was to embark next day for Eng-
land in a Swedifh frigate, with all the French Princes,
&c. The Swedifh packet with the mail, which had
been tent via Denmark, in order to bring along with
it the Danith, had not been allowed to flop, but or.
dared infiantly to depart or they would fire at her.
A war between thefe nations is inevitable. They
cannot get veirels fufficient to bring away the fibres
at Copenhagen. Lieutenant S. toys, that the Crown
Prince will not hear of the treaty. Admiral Gast.
arta bad applied for forty Swedifh pilots to take
down the men of war. Ruflia is much diffatibfied
with the treaty. This velld has juft been fourteen
days from Leith.
The Two Sifters, from Iceland, and another
veffel from the Castle place, aden with fiat, oil, thee p's
wool, goat-fkins, feathers, &e. both detained by the
Psacoce !loop of war, have arrived at Leith, and
are put under quarantine in the Roads, on account
of their having feathers and goat•fkins on board.

The Addington and Lady Forbes, from the Welt
Indies, have arrived at Leith. _