Star.
London, England, 1804-09-28 00:00:00

FRFIsICH JOURNALS.

We have received the 111 ortitturt to the t 9th inflant
The Moniteur of the ; 7th is filled with a tedious and
confufed detail of the engagement between Lino's'.
lquadion and our China fleet, under the dircEtion of
Sir N. DANCE, in which, as ufual, it endeavours to
conceal the difgrace of his defeat, and to involve the
account of this event in a variety of matter wholly
uncomic/led with it, in order, if poffible,, to divert
the public indignation from a circnistaance which
refleßs filch difgrace on the naval attempts of their
government. After (peaking of the engagement,
the fuccefs of which, he feys, was frulltated by a
nuncio/re of the enemy, which rendered his politic-in
extremely dangerous, Luots obferves, the fupetio-
thy of his (the Britills) force was manifell, and there
was no rcurn to deliberate upon the meafures to be
taken, in °tiler to avoid the fatal confequences of an
unequal come ft. The General took advantage of the
fmnke with which lie was furrnunded, Reeved to the
E.N.L. got at a diflance from the enemy, who con-
tinued to purthe him uutil three o'clock, continuing
to fire broadfides at the divificn, which was Rill
within cannon flint. But as this ctuize did not pro•
mile anyfardvr great advantage, the General refolved
to nuke fail for Batavia, where he anchored about
the end of February, without having full aired any
material loft. He aftet watt!' detached the Belle'
Pottle and Atalante frigates upon a cruize, and keep-
ing with him the Semillante and the Ectresu, he
failed for the Ille cf France, where he 411;1 id fafe at
the end of March.
The Moult fur alto contains a great nionher of letters
found on board the Englifh prize, the Admiral Aplin.
Tick letters were wti:ten in July and Auguß, 1803.
We fubjoin Inure of the molt interefling ; but we need
hardly remind our Readers that the French Govern.
meat has for Come time been famed for the maau•
fadture of correfpondence, and that the:elide the pre-
Cent muff be taken ell* arrow faro.

FOUND OM NOALD TNt INCLIfII FRIZZ THE

•DMIIAL •PLIN hAiT-INDIAMAI4.
NO. I.

LEI LEI OF LCRO GRENVILLE TO MARQUIS WEL-
LESLEY.

■T •lAII Mgt. tttttt .

July I 1, 'Sol

Two dap ago I rattle... 4 your lett r of the 16th Eato nary, and
I OW reply to it, though I am not entirely crrtatis when I (hall
have to opportuotty of tranfmittisw to you my anfeta-r. In rcgard
to your In India, this quelllon born long ago doch!cd ; and
fo great Is the 41(1.stiee which feparates us, tb;t beton this can
neatly Tau, etc umc Gatti Ce your diltattla c wr I h:v; ar
nerd. I ant not ccrtaio whether tbc 'vitt s tb, wllla our

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wilt Mini(ets have at laft declared. may not have itidoc"t
them to beg you to continue your flay in India lonic time leigLr
No me was better able than they to appreciate the certainty i i
this event, Co that we ought to fuppofe, they have taken all thofe
megures which the montmt required ; but every thing, however ,
(hews that thc, nem taken at an unawares, as if that event hal
been little expeded. It it e.onfequently not improbable, that when
they found war unavoidable, that is to fay, on the day when they
declared k, they may have difpnehed orders to you to return in
India. But as lam entirely iguoront uo this fobjeeM cannot rea-
fon on it I Omuta this not be the c.fe, I hope :sedan will prevent
me from having the pleafure of fixing you nett year, hippo:Mg at
that period that you have QUI • mud ry to peep.
i When I make ufe of this expreirson, do oat imagine hit my
1 diffatisfaCtion with the conduit of the Government has made any
change refpeciting the means and refources oftkis country ; I have
never been among the number of barkers tafspoirt) on this Gibitd-t•
It is not fo much opinion (If I do not deceive myfelf). era perfect
knowledge equivalent to a certainty. which Induces me to to that
the country poileffes not oply abundant and ample imam of de.
i
face, but means Coll cieut to make our enemy repeat of his b^r•
I
tile conduet, and to force him to fear, and amfequeotly to [tip"
Us, But hitherto there has been fa smelt indecifion, timittp. awl
ilownsfs in all the meafures taken to obtain tot/mattes. *Wall ott

courage at this moment exhibits fo math the imprefaon of fear.
that I cannot have the fatisfadion of being warranted in doing jut-
tiee alder that point of view to the Waits which have been sail-
ed into &dim, and to the difpoftdoos which have been made.
My plio of political condo& as yow mat have fun, &vistas
toors and more from that ad Ogrozoment. M reiaed to tb• Vl'

mon I ciPruiredell the Pam, have the 6tishietlon to dod that
jushec s dons to me In alt ansoteies. Net oat? taw futecquent
enact proved that tile (mall carps with idiom I Wed in concert
or this ger afion,Weit computed of the nay peeress who then knew
how to appreciate this imagist and its coadignences ; bet it ban
been generally
‘acknowledged,that we deb* /bniaw what wesild
take place. AU calumules of Goveinsent hive
fallen, with double force, on tacit own heads. In every thing I
have fines doer, and in every thing I have abllairsed from doings
you will, I hope, perceive thole fentitnents, and thofe principles.
from which no clinic:o, howcwr unfavourable It may be to tbs
perfonal ionduet of any individual, &all never make me deviate.

No. 11.

WELLESLLY To MARQUIS WELLISLLY, HIS

BROTHLR:

347 Dent 1%.9.:41NG701., London, July ac!, like.
I have jutt learned from Lady WELLEsi.sv, that
an overland difuatch will be fent off on the 28th, and
I hope this letter will reach you in time to enable
you to make prepara.i•tns for quitting India in
January next. I than now communicate to you as
well as potfible, every thing that has Taken place, in
,regard to India, fence my arrival, arid thee you
'will be enabled to judge what degree cffupport you
Lave to cape& from the prcknt Minillers, and v be-
ther ths. Board of Controul has n ,t been afttrally
transfermi from the Council to the Court of Di-
it earn s: f avrivedin London in June, and immediately
waited ciao, d Carriti [AGM, V ho received me with
the gre.ueA politiliefs. He Ipr.ke of you in the
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oft favourable terms. He approved of all your !nee-
lures, but at the fame time, it is peafealy evident
that he.hannor a btain what the Court of Direaors
has refulied nct to grant. He fp )ke a great deal of
the Colleee, and appeared to be fully convinced of
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the importance as well as the nectffity of the in-
flitutios. He believed he fbJuld be able, he
laid, to- make the Direaors confent to its con-
tinuance 'according to your p:an, with fame mo•
difications; which you would not think of much con.
ftquence. He told me that the Direaors had writ.l
ten to him on this and other fubjeas, feveral very
intervals% letters, and that nothing could be more
ditagretable than the (LILO job in u l ich he was placed.
I told Lord CASTLkII.6•OI,I, that on this necation the
Court of Direaors had decidedly broken their word,
for one of the principal condi:i ars on which you was
tn remain uitl a year in India, w as, that they
not at all interfere in your nominations ; that they
bad difplaced a man who had paired through all the
inferior ranks in the fervice of the Comai.ny.
I then told him that your health was very good,
and that there was no facrifice you was nut ready
to make for the public fervice, but that I th-tight
it impofrible you could remain in India beyond Ja-
nuary next, unlefs you were flrongly folicited on
that fubjea by his Majefly's brawlers, and by the
Court of Direaors : that in reg and to his m.jer-
te& Minitters, I thought they were of opinion, that
your arty in India was a thing very clearable tinder
many points of view ; and that in regard to the
Court of Direaors, they ought to kuuw whether they
withed for It or not.

reee ;yeti from the Praident a civil but a very
cool reception. He fpoke to me of ameliorations
in commerce, but did not fay a word of my pet-fon:a,
Cervices. He teemed difpofed to find Come fa;;lt in
every thing that we did at Poonah, and we ftparated
after a converfation of tea minutes, with his telling
me that he had fo much Wind-5, that he had not
had time to read the difpatchcs (though they had
been five days at the India Ijoufe), but that lie
hoped to have frequent opportunities of talking with
me on the affairs of India. I have not ken him
fence, (though I rentained a fortnight at London to
have an opportunity) and the Court had n,,t es en
the civility `s', alit me to one of the dinners whi:h are
given every Vi:cdneiday. I Lave lince been obliged
to mum to Choler lii.ufe on account of my health,
which is (till vary bad.

Another mvtive which indoces me to with fhr
your return,is the fituation of the dilteuent parties in
England. I fuPpofe you have received a letter on
this futhjed from Lord GRENVILLE ; but I Will tell
you every truing I know, and what I had in part
from an intimate friend of Pt rr.

It appears that ADDINGTON pt npnfed fume weeks
ifin to PITT t.. join the Minillry, nn certain conditions.
Pt rr, cn this overture of /loot isc:row, began a negn
ciatien with him ; explained the cnnditions on which
he wi(hed to form part of the Minittry ; declared that
he would not ia fill on the introduninn of any per fon
to whom the King might have Corm; nhjestinn ; but
'that he would intitl on the whole affair being kept
fccret until it was totally atranged ; and that at the
fame time he would referve to himfell the power
of withdrawing from the neglciltion, fhonld it he
conceived that his fervices could not be useful to the
public good.
On there conditions he gave the outlines of his
plan to ADDINGTON, mentioned feveral perfon,
whom he will:led to propofe, am.mg whom was Lord
Gxesvieet ; OW, however, continuing to declare
that he would not introduce any perf.,n in oppnfition
to the King, but that he would referee to himfelf
the power of reciting. ADDINGTON propored this
plan to his colleagues, who rejected it, and the nego-
choler' WAS broken off.

He made no reply to the 6r4 point. To regard to
the fecund he was very explicit, for he told me that
the Court of Direaors had been fo incenfed on ae-
counfnf the opinions whirl' you had mattifened in
fome of your difpatches, (which proves that they
have not the lean idea of the trie interests of India,
and that in this refpea they are ef.s.flityriefoo/s), that he
was perfuaded they would rather with to fee you re
fign, though it was itop.,flible for thou not to ac-
knowledge that your day in India might be very
*fetid to the public intere:t.
In.another eouverfation 1 had with Lord CAST LE-
I, AMIK' he fpokra great deal .1 the Mahratta neg.).
ciatienfi, and I fucceeded in convincing him of the
jufliefs of your meafiret sR Poonalt,and of the great
advantages that mall refolt urn them, if we
fht.uld veablifk .our it.fluone in that Court. He
again :flied me if you had come to a fixed de-
termination, in re?std in the period of your re-
turOti England ? I repeated what I had laid to him
on akothsr ociallon, to which he made nn reply. He
fpok..g to me of the nomination of Bait tow, and ark-
ed nae.,if I thought you would approve of it ? I told
hint that yon had the Sett orinhm of Balmily: ;
but that you thought no fcrvant of the Com•
pant ought to faceted to the general govern-
ment. I told him all that t!'t nt'or rlaTiiaatial was
acids, as Ralcow had hecn r etiostily ciellined to
fucceed you pn,ciGrmaliy, and that it w.is better to
wait-for your Town hcf,re any pectin was prefented
fcr this ricsr mmiration. It my opinion O'ere is a
certain fecret intrigue in rq AI d to !L.:nt Initiation cf
Batt tow, and it is a$ full ws: When the Minillers
propofe.l Lord Wm. Brattv.K 1:::r Madras, the
Court of Direaors made the morl formal
ti ns to 'hat noininati ;L tt thLy were at lenF..ll
obliged to yirt.l, cr.nlnl:tlg thcmielves with the Lies
that one of their own for .11.:S would be appciuted
Governor Gene. al. -

At prefent, all ADDINGTON'S friends declare that
PITT rattled to join the Miniary, becaufe he willed
they would allow him to introduce GRENVILLE. &C.
Put, as you mull have leen, has tirce oppnfed AD-
DINGTON in the fir uI of Commons, and they are
no longer on (peaking terms. Lord GRENVILLE,
(who is the organ of CANNING) told me that PITT
has loch a contempt for A onsacron, that he would
not at prefent ail with him on any conditions what.
ever. At the fame time, PITT darlynppnfes in the Houle
of Commons the Defence Bill, as a Counfellor would
do, and by *he means which ire employs, he has ren-
dered it fi for anfwering the plopolcd end, which it
never others% ife wt uld have dr.r.c. On one necafion
he divided the Made, and, to the all, I:dim:eta
of every Iv dy, the Divifion was cut y Members..
--I never thelefs think, as many othcis do, that it is
impt.frilde things fhould Ir ng remain on their relent
footi...g, and I believe, that Pitt' will return to
Ike in the total,: of a year. This makes me is ills that
you fhould be on the (pm, to form part of the new
Minith y, which would tin n be excellent if Pi t r c. c! ,t
at the head. What du you think, pray You
be able to obtain every thing yon w ifh in regau d to
Indir, and, if you thought proper, to return again
RS Governor General.
August he7:111 this letter at London, but
having met Lord CA STLF RS AOH, !retold me llat tile
difpatchel writ'," no, he tent off h:fore ten day..
Nee has been with Aneisc tofpcak to him of
me, and he has promi.ed to me, that he nil! confolt
Lord CASILSKIAGII on the means of forcing the .Di•
re:tor, to ren aid me fr,r my :r.fIiCCS in India. I
IIoWCS sr CXi);:t ho:11-,.; from them. I am, &c.
(Si;4ned)

~RY wtcLisLty.

The E. ii in.liarnan mentioned in our lafl French
papers as h.tvinte Ken carried inter the Irk uf France,
is in theft called T lA. We have no doubt,
therefore, that it is the ALTHEA.

1 raw Annsronr,.; at a dinner given by I.otd Cat
TLERF nc. H. He (vol.:: to me of yo u in the moll pom-
pous and moll afre.ftiorsate t tlns. Ile fisnlre to me
:lloof the nomis.atio..l cr Dalls.w, a' a meafure that
o•i:Iht to be vet j: ; o r. The rcfult of try
"usiv:rfatirns with I.r.:d C':l, •111• G have e. 11-
-irg-r•ol me that Nl:airier> fr.:l ih:a impott once pf your
contiossanct in Inolia, an..! that they are very d.:hrous
yen (Mould remain there, hot t!..tt they ate nr fur-
fiz:ontly flreng to rryatu'l that ps i.st with the Court
vl Dircflors, W:10 arc c ciocimined to (urea
yOlitn rcwrn. I thin': thry rni;,ht make n:w and
fice.Wol attcmpta to induct the Court of Diralosrs
the ps,l srgatn.n ,st !r.iir flay, but aftlr
I ovinz, teen then, recently vas? .'e tha ciii,4p.nstnt
e,cy entered into, not 1.• is :to ics •Illy Of your no
r.nationo, it wssts'..l nest:., he nor
taLe any ns.p oohs, i to te.tisso to 1.:

Vall.'rday morn:ritr, Mr. SAIII.II arrived in town
with f.piinfed to be of importance, from
Mi. Jack:,.•44l, our !.I,:itter at Berlin. Ile took Up.
ping on Monday lid, at Flofinaii and landed at tix
o'clo.-k on We2rirlalay at I Tarwich. Shr nisi After
his .ctival in town, a C.itrinta Council was held, and
a mei4.ll,4er was imrni-s:iately dui-patched to lit MA.
JESTY, at We)month.
On the t Ith thi, moniii, SS barrels of toillinn
were einiveyed from Copenhagen to Elfinenr, in 29
a•3ii;g-ns, and di'..v.aed to the Brititis Confol there,
viin fent them on hard an Englilh armed fnip, fir
the Ula;ej EAR India Company, &c. This hive,.
in to th- f flerlif;!, had
rent from the it. tire rf ...Como:Tow and

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reit; re; tgl:;ta•,. :1 e hthlt to 1).:11
and tirlds'ic!l. .li•p franc,: th:, ren.3l:, .Lly
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