Star.
London, England, 1802-02-03 00:00:00

NABOB OF ARCOT.

%Ire are glad to hear, for the fake of national honour, that the
sininption, or more properly the durpation, of the Nabob's
Territories, by the lialt India Company and its agents, will
become the fubjeuct of Parliamentary dile...Mon. We under-
Rand that this great gaeftlon will be taken up by a Gentle-
man whore talents are fully equal to the dignity of thc mat-
ter ;—one who has already reined fo Inteh renibwn for his
Eloquent exertions to viatilicatt the charader of the &kith Na-
tion from the rnal-acroiratiralon of Its Pattern Satraps. The
following will teud to llluftrate this interefting traufadion,
and we hope we (hall be enaleltd to ley before our Readers
many documents Rill farther to inform t'aeir judgment:

To the. CHAIRMAN of the COURT of DIRECTORS, &c.

Sir—Frons a pretty cztenfive knowledge of the
affairs of India; I am perfuaded I Ihould not find
it a difficult talk .to convince you that the Com-
pany's general mode of colleaiug their revenues,
and even of adminiticring juffice, has for thefe laft
few years been fully, as, bad • (if not much 'worfe),
than that of any country power whatever, and that
oceans of blood have been thed in the South, the
North, and the Weft, in compelling your Ryots to
pay their affeffments, and that in rpite of all your
boafted conquefts, treaties, afrumptions, fequef.
trations, &c. your prefent Governor General has
entailed a bonded debt on you of near eighteen
millions flerling, and which his Lordfhip will find
he has contraEted with much more facility, than
he will &vire means of difcharging : Why then,
in addition to fuch extraordinary mifmanagement,
do you commit fo great an ad of injuftice as to
affume the entire territories of.a fovereign and inde-
pendent .Prince ; and is this meafure to be paired
over as a mere common event, and neither to be
canvaffed• by you, or difcuffed by the United Par-
liament of this country? What, .Sir, by a tingle
ftroke of your Governor General's pen, to fee a
territory allayed of five hundred miles of fea-
waft, and a population of perhaps eighteen mil-
lions—an event not occafioned by a fuccefsful war,
but becaufe a Prince, your ally, had paid the debt
of nature, and becaufe it was not agreeable to you
that she family Ihould remain fovereigns any longer!
But furely, Sir, when you. relied an inftant on the
cruel .confequences of this meafure, your huma-
nity. will be awakened to a fence of juffice ; and
when I idiom you.that,. notwithaandin.g the nu.
merous branches of Old WALAGAU'E family are
from a Rate of, opulence reduced to the utzhoft
poverty by on indifcriminate feizure of all, their
jaghires—that in the midiof fo much diftrefs the
ladies of his haram have, from the fide of their
jewels, fcraped together a few thoufand ponnds,
which turn has been, remitted to this country with
the defperate hope of compelling you by law to
rettore the family to their rights—fhould their be fo
peculiarly unfortunate as tolmeet neither j u Rite from
you, nor protedion from the Legiflature of this
country, to prove notwithftanding to the world that
this meafure had long been planned, I infert the
following extract from a letter of the late Mason,
addreffed to Lord CLIVE, and which is written in
a ftrain of the moft imprellive and feeling energy ;
I Mall then leave it to abler perfons to vindicate
the rights of this family, but I purpofe at a future
period to enter more fully into the policy of this
meafure, as far as it regards your general interefis
in India ; and I Vag it will not be a difficult talk
to convince any refiating mind, an we have now
fo completely loft the confidence of our powerful
neighbours, and have committed fuch unwarrant-
able acts in our own dominions, that in a very few
years indeed the Britith Empire will lofe that coun-
try by their milkondua, winch they originally
achieVed by their valour. I am, Sir, &c.
(Signed) ASIATICLIE.
=ARO rEOil A LETTER ADDRESSED IV HIS NIGNINESS 011-
/MT UR °MIRAN BANADDER, LATE NAROII Or TUE CAR-
VATIC, TO TER RIGHT ZONOURAILZ LORD CLIVE, TRANS-
INTRD /UM tug PEESIAN LW ?Ni NAIIOIOI OWN NAND
WEITINO.

It is then the moll important duty of my life, a
duty which I owe to my friends, and to the world,
to my honour and charaaer as a man and as a fo
verelgn, to detail to Your Lordfhip the opprefficin
andinjury, and the infults and difgrace which I
have fuffered by the fervants of the Company, and
to demonftrate to your Lortlfhip, and to the world,
that if I fail in my engagements, and that my
country be at umed in confequence, the fault is not
mine, and that my difgrace and ruin will be occa-
fioned folely by the conduit of the fervants of the
Company. Nor will I fuffer without complaining.
I will approach the throne of that wife, juft and
merciful Prince, who governs his vaft Empires
with the mild hand of a tender parent, and from
him, my father and my proteaor, I will alk jut.-
tice, and your Lordlhip knows that I shall not alk
in vain. I will appeal to the Britifh Nation, whofe
candour and generofity I am well acquainted with,
who acknowledge no power beyond the Jaws by
which they are governed, and who are ever ready
to efpoufe the caufe of the oppreffed ; they will
Wien to my grievances with the ear of attention
and the feelings of benevolence ; nor will they re-
main inaaive in my behalf.—Every confederation
which is dear to me in life piompts and urges me
to make there unequivocal avowals to your Lord-
fisip. Hitherto I have confined myfelf to entreaties
and fupplications, and which by many may be re-
garded as too humiliating, and below the rank I
hold in life ; but to my own breaft I Rend acquit-
ted : my motives were the molt pure and honour-
able, and I was encouraged to hope that they
would have had due weight with your Lordfhip,
and procured a redrefsoithofe grievances of which
I complained; and I repeat that it would have af
forded to me the higheß gratification to receive at
your Lordthip's hands that fatisfaCtion which I felt
myfelf compelled to folicit, and to which my fuffer-
ings are jullly entitled. But, in Read of redrefs,your
Lordlhip has not taken any notice of my complaints,
and my wrongs are permitted to accumulate.
When there truths (hall meet the confederation
of the impartial, will it not be faid, that finding
me punaual in, my kilts and the fulfilment of my
engagements, as delineated by the Treaty, there
did not appear any profpe& of acquiring the poi--
fawn of my country, and that therefore the fer-
vent: of the Company were allowed to deftroy my
authority, to intuit and difgrace me, to imprifon
and fcourge my people, to prevent Soucurs and
Merchant, from having any tranfadions with the

Circar, to pot a ft.)p revemtcs, art prozur:
improper tLitimony against me.
„td, A Hulbandman had a rich anti exienfive
garden, tair.as the face of nature, planted with tail
and majellic trees, whore fruit hung in vail elnfttr,
like arml'ets clamber, tinged by the ruhy's brighteft
hue : a river, delicious as the Itrearns of Samer-
kanct, flowed through it, margined by the mull de.
lightful verdure, adorned by bowers that diffufed
odoriferous Tweets, which, like the mufk of Koten,
perfumed the air. The Hufbandman had a large
family and numerous dependants, and from the
produce of the garden they enjoyed the gaieties of
profution, beneath the wide fpreading vine of con-
tentment. A Stranger from a far distant country
appeared amongft them : the door of hofpitality
was opened to him, and he was welcomed with the
embrace of fincerity. The Hufbandman addreffed
the ftranger, and his language was devoid of guile ;
you !hall refide with us, and we will be brothers.
Our intereft (hall be one, and we will reciprocally
air& each other ; a portion of this garden (hall be
your's, and from the remainder, which PROVI•
DENCI has bleed with abundance, you !ball have
a (hare of the choiceft fruits in common with us.
The Stranger tuned the inftrument of joy, and Tung
in praife of generofity and friendfhip, of candour
and fincerity ; but alas ! the words of the aranger
flowed not from the heart : in the neighbouring
towns he loon formed connexions which rendered
him powerful, and he followed the guidance of
ambition. He complained to the Hufbandrnan that
the compatl which had been formed between them
had been departed from ; that the fervants of the
Hulbandman had committed outrages and violence
againft his people and poffeffions, and that in order
to create fecurity againft future depredations, the
feparate authorities (hould be united in one, and
that he fhould hold the reins. The Hufbandman
heard with forrow the fuggeftions of the Stranger,
and the thorn of afffitlion pierced him to the foul ;
he placed in his view the occurrences of former
times, and preffed on his confideration the unfoli-
cited kindnefs which he had received when accident
introduced them to the knowledge of each other.
The Stranger heard the Hufbandman with indiffe-
rence, and treated him with contempt. The dwelling
of the Hufbandman was no longer the mat:lion of
fecurity ; the people of the Stranger deftroyed his
bowers; the trees of the garden were deprived of
their fruit, ere they had been touched by the hand
of maturity. Scarcity and want (talked through
the once enchanting fpot, and the vine of content-
vied withered and decayed. The Stranger viewed
the dreary change with exultation and triumph,
and charged the Hufbandman with miliondud and
abufe of power. The tongue of malevolence dwelt
on the theme ; and the world, in recounting the
misfortunes of the Hufbandman, fpoke of his mif-
conduit and his abufe of power, and exclaimed—
he is juftly punifhed. The Huibandman's anguifh
burft forth, and he laid—the chilling blahs of ca-
lumny have deftroyed the fair blofroms of my fame,
and the voice of friendihip is heard no more with-
in my habitation. The fun of my glory, by its
lengthened Bade, (hews how nearly it has ap-
proached the region where darknefs commences,and
where all is horror. My generofity has proved in-
jurious to my profperity—my fincerity has procur-
ed reproaches, and the friend of my bofom turns
againft me with a hoftile hand. Crushed are all
my hopes, and the profpeel of happinefs vanilbes
from my fight—the rote has fallen, and the (talk,
with all its thorns, alone remains in my hand.—
What can I write more ?----My Lord, I complain
—I complain !---I complain !

Mr. Astorr attended yellerday in the Houle of
Commons, where he received many congratula-
tkm upon his fafe return.

General TR IGGE and Admiral DUCKWORTH
were on the 3oth November inverted with the order
of the Bath at Antigua with great pomp, in the
pretence. of Lord LaviNcrom.

The immenfe Park of Artillery collefled during
the war at Canterbury, is now removing from
thence to its original Elation at Woolwich.

The 66th, or Beikthire Regiment of Foot, has
been I 8 years on foreign fervice.
The firß divifion of the 3d Weft York Militia
marched from Edinburgh Caine on Saturday
morning, and the fecond divilion next morning
for Doncafter. The other div ;lions were to funny*
on Monday and yellerday. They are replaced by
the Lochabcr fencibles from Stirling.

General ',ACROSS e, before the publication of the
iniportant Manned() which we yefterday laid be-
fore the public, had received the following Official
Letter from the Minifter of the Marine :

" Paris, A 2 Vendemiaire, An to.

" I cannot, General, fend Difpatches diredt to Martinico,
before the Signature of the Definitive Treaty, and the epoch of
the reftitutien of that Mind; but you will profit of the facility
of communication afforded by the fliort diftance, in order to
announce to that Colony the difpolitions of this Government,
not to soh nip any thing refpo.rting the prefent condition of the
Slaved, nor other Colonial Regulations. You arc authorifcd
to give this poitive afforance. You wiU at the fame time make
known the refolutlon which has been taken to forget, and caufe
to be forgotten, every thing which may formerly have been
done in oppefition to the interefts or the orders of etc mother
country, that we may now enjoy the bleffings of a happy re-
union of family under the Confuter authority, Which receives
and pretedts all its Members with as much vigour as benefi-
cence. I falute you, " DECRIII."

Cetera' LACROSSE has fent a Cop 7 of this let-
ter to Madame LA Pao ERIE, at Martinico, mother
to Madame BONAPARTE, with the following lion'
himfelf :

"Rofeau, (Dominica,) oa. lc.

" I batten, Madam, to inclofe a copy of the official letter of
the Minifter of the Marine and Colonies. You will thcrciu
fee the rdolution of the French Government, which, :tier rc-
itoring tranquillity to all the inhabitants of Europe. willies to
emend it to the unhappy inhabitants of the Coloniei. I fulfil
perfonally a duty dear to my heart in alluring you, tii.it the
difpofit ions thus announced by the French Covet omens to main-
tain in the Colonies, the Ram of perfons fuck as it Was in times
of the greateft profperity, is not a political pretence intended to
be fubordinate to circumftances, it is really and truly a fyftern
adopted as folio' and rtafonable, the maintenance of which I
guarantee to you.—Therefore conquer all the dares of your
friends, your compatriots. The ddiniums of the revolution
arc at an cad for ever : the re-union of an is confunum.ted
the importance of the Colonies is felt by the Mother Country,
sad we (hall now have no objedt but to Wore the happinefs of
the inhabitants, who ought always to have enjoyed it."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KINGS'S BENCH, DUBLIN, JAN sy.

This day came on before Lord KILWAIDIIII a
canfe wherein Mary Harvey, widow, was plaintiff,
and Charles Lionel Fitzgerald, Efq. defendant.
Mr. BETH r L opened the pleadings, and
Mr. Bata: NGTOW Rated the cafe. He raid he
was allamed that a gentleman of Mr. Fitzgerald's
chareer and property fhould contend the demand
of a poor widow, whole hufband gave the plain.
tiff boots and fhrtes to the amount of- sl. zd. as flat.
ed by Mr. Bethel, and concluded by laying, that
the Supreme Court of King's Bench Ihmild not
have been troubled, but for the Defendant, who
thought proper to remove the proceedings by cer-
tiorari into this Hon. Court.

The firft witnefs was Keane, the foreman of Mrs.
Harvey,'who proi ed the (ale and delivery of the
good. fourteen years ago. On his crofs-examina-
tson, he (aid, the reafon why it was not applied for
fooner, was the defendant continually being out of
the way, or the kingdom. ,
Defence was conduatd by Mr. A. BOYD, who
fpolta to the evidence, and relied upon the impro-
bability of the debt being due, in as much as it
was not applied for fuch a length of time.
His Lordfhip charged the with great pre-
cifion and impartiality, who found a verdict for the
plaintiff, with coils.

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