Star.
London, England, 1823-07-29 00:00:00

COWES, JULY 28.

Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, Bart. is arrived at Cowes, in
his yacht Vrow Rebecca Maria, to attend the Regatta.
The worthy Baronet looks remarkably well, and
seems to have benetitted in his health by his voyage
from the River and the salnbrity of the sea-breeze.

Monday last, a Writ of Inquiry ad pod datanum,
was executed at the Green Dragon, before GEORGE
HOLLIS. Esq. the Under-Sheriff of the County, and a
highly respectable Jury, the Foreman of which was
Captain GKAUASI E. HANIOND, C.B.
The object of the inquiry was to ascertain whether
any damage or injury was likely to occur, by erecting
or carrying out a quay or wharf in the Cowes Har-
bour, at the back of the Fountain and Dolphin Inns,
with a view to facilitate the more convenient landing
of persons and goods at all seasons of the year—an
accommodation most devoutly wished for, but which,
in the present state of the place, cannot in tempestu-
ous weather be enjoyed. Several intelligent and ex-
perienced mariners were called in support of the in-
tended project, and their evidence was so decisive,
as to disarm every opponent, and allay the appre-
hensions of those who, in the absence of due consi-
deration, had entertained an opinion that a quay on
the spot in question would be detrimental to the na-
vigation of the river, as well as to the adjacent pro-
perty of private individuals.
The Jury (which consisted of 23 persons), without
a single dissenting voice, almost instantaneously pro-
nounced a verdict in favour of the proposed measure,
and accompanied it with a declaration that, in their
judgment, so far from its being likely to prove an
injury, it would be a most desirable and advantage-
ous improvement.
We cannot forego this opportunity of recording
our sentiments of gratitude to GEORGE WARD, Esq.
of Northwood Park, who, Regardless of trouble and
expense, and actuated purely by a desire to promote
the prosper ity of the town, and the comfort and con-
venience of the Public, has thought fit to institute
this novel and important inquiry, opon the result of
which, as far as it has gone, we heartily congratulate
him; and tiust that his wishes and expectations may
in the end be completely realized.

By the Trinidad Courant of 19th February last,
we learn that his Excellency Sir RALPH Woonroati,
the Governor of that Island, arrived there on the pre-
ceding day, and had been most enthusiastically re-
ceived: Lieutenant-Colonel Youso, who had admi-
nistered the Government during Sir RALPH'S absence,
bad also received very flattering marks of approba-
tion of his conduct from all classes of inhabitants,
having received addresses horn the Members of the
Board of Council, from the Board of Cabildo, from
the White inhabitants, and from the Coloured Inha-
bitants of the blind ; and having received from the
Board of Cabildo a piece of plate, and a request to
sit fur his Pot tt rat, to be placed in the Cabildo Hall;
and also a piece .4.plate from the White Inhabitants, as
testimonials of their approbation of his administration.
Prince WILLIAM of Sousts left London on Sunday'
week, attended by Sit HUSSEY VIVIAN, one of the
KING'S &per rie,, on a tour. His Serene Highness
proceeded to Southampton ; after viewing that place
a short time, the Prince proceeded to the seat of Sir
GEORGE CUCKFIELD, where his Serene Highness was
most splendidly entertained. Wednesday morning,
the Prince ciossed the Southampton Water to the Isle
of 'Wight, and took a hasty view of that delightful
country. Thursday, the Prince left by Ryde for'
Portsmouth, where his Serene Highness was received
with the honours suitable to his rank. The Prince
was received on board the QUEEN CHARLOTTE with
a Royal salute. His Serene Highness was conducted
over the Dock-yards and the different works going on
in them, with which the Prince appeared much de-
lighted. His Serene Highness was attended by the
principal Officers of the Dock-yard, and every mark
of attention was paid to him. His Serene Highness
'was also conducted through the fort and garrison,
where he was received with military honours. His
Serene lighness arrived across the country at Oxford
on Friday morning, where the Prince was received by
some of the Heads of the University and other Dig-
nitaries, who conducted him through some of the
principal Colleges and other Establishments of the
University. His Serene Highness afterwards pro-
ceeded to Blenheim, where he expressed himself
highly gratified. His Serene Highness left that place
for the King'; Lodge, in Windsor Park, in time for
the honour of dining with his MAJESTY, to meet the
Duke ot CUMBERLAND. Saturday his Serene High-
ness dined with the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE,
at Bushey, in company with his Royal Highness the
Duke el CUMBERLAND.
So determined were a set of thieves yesterday to
commit plunder, after the execution in Horsemonger-
lane, that the pockets of men and women were li-
terally tern and cut from their dresses.

DINNER TO THE MARQUIS OF HASTI,NGS.

A splendid entertainment was given yesterday, at
Willis's Rooms,to the Marquis of Hsartxos,•by a
certain number of Gentlemen connected with East
Indian affairs.

At eight o'clock a numerous company sat down to
la most sumptuous dinner. Lord WILLIAM Barri:vox
took the Chair. The Marquis. of HASTINGS was
placed at.his right hand; the Duke of Soria', with
the following distinguished characters, were present:
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, Lord Holland, Lord W.
Russell, Lord Bexley, Earl of Breadalbane, Lord Howden, the
Right Honourable W. W. Wynn, the Earl of Gosfurd, Sir
John Doylr, &c.

After the usual routine of toasts was gone through,
the Noble CHAIRMAN proposed " the health of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex."
The Duke of Susses rose, and said that he deeply
felt the compliment paid him; and that he received
pleasure on that occasion, not only in meeting the
friends by whom he was surrounded, but in taking
advantage of it, as the first public opportunity he had
had of welcoming• the Noble Marquis on his return
to this country—(Applause).
The next toast was " the health of Prince Leopold
of Saxe-Coburg."
Prince Lammas returned thanks briefly, and ex-
pressed the satisfaction he felt of that opportunity
being allowed him to express his respect and esteem
for the Marquis of Hastings.
The Noble CHAIRMAN rose, and said that in rising
to propose the health of the Noble Marquis, who ap-
peared that day as their guest, he would propose a
toast which would be hailed with enthusiasm. The
whole policy of the Noble Marquis's Government in
India was founded • on literal and extended views,
and in furtherance of that system laid down by the
NlarquisWellesley—a system which, carried into exe-
cution, had proved the security of the British posses-
sioos in India. It was reserved for the Noble Mar-
quis to carry that system to its full accomplishment,
and to settle that on a permanent security which the
foresight of the Marquis Wellesley had laid down.
In reviewing the conduct of the Marquis of Hastings,
he should not do- justice alone to his merits as a Ge-
neral, but he would venture on the same expression
of approbation to his conduct after victory. The
honours gained by him in the field were only equalled
by his triumphs in the Cabinet. In whatever sense
the conduct of the Noble Marquis was to be consi-
dered, he was equally entitled to the respect and ad-
miration of the country. He was also specially en-
titled to the marked respect of those immediately
connected with India; for in a period of five years of
his administration, he did not add one shilling to the
debt of India, while the Revenue of the country was',
increased five millions annually in the same time.
Having thus briefly adverted to the public conduct
of the Noble Marquis, he would not trespass longer
on their time, but would propose, with sentiments of
gratitude and esteem, " The health of the Noble guest,
the Marquis of Hastings," The toast was received
with the greatest enthusiasm.
As soon as the applause which followed this toast
bad subsided,
The Marquis of HASTINGS rose to return thanks.
" To refrain from avowing," said the Noble Lord,
" that I feel most deeply the encomium which has just
been passed upon me by my Noble Friend, and the
concurrence which it seems to have met with by
your approbation and applause, would be an affecta-
tion as ill judged as it would be unfounded. I receive,
with the warmest thankfulness and pride, the senti-
ments which you have indulged towards me; for,
without arrogating to myself any of that credit which
you are disposed to confer upon me so lavishly, I am
aware that this testimony of your approbation sheds
peculiar lustre upon me. Partial as that approbation
may be, I feel that I derive from it an honest eleva-
tion. I gladly subscribe to that portion of the appro-
bation which my Noble Friend was pleased to confer
upon me, in Shaving followed the footsteps of the
Marquis Wellesley. It is most true that the Marquis
Wellesley chalked out that line of policy which I
deemed it most expedient to follow. The extension
of those views was rendered necessary by peculiar
and novel circumstances. Upon that extended scale
of operations my Noble Friend has stated a just opi-
nion. Much has, indeed, been done; hot so much,
however, through any exertions of mine, as through
a favourable concurrence of circumstances, aided by
the zeal and almost unprecedented exertions of
those Gentlemen whose advice and co-operation
I had the good fortune to enjoy—(Great applause).—
My Noble Friend has divided his praise into two heads;
the mode in which a war, which he has, I think justly,
termed a necessary war, was carried on, and the at-
tention which was paid to the pecuniary concerns of
the Company. This, however, was the clear engages
merit under which I accepted office, and the conduet
which I pursued was nothing but the fulfilment of a
sacred obligation. If I could have forgotten that
obligation, 'should have ill repaid the liberality which
I experienced from the Company—(Applause). In-
debted as I was to their munificence, I fulfilled
nothing more than a sacred duty in devoting the ut-
most attention to their pecuniary concerns. As to
the other parts of my public conduct, ou which my
Noble Friend has been pleased to confer the testimony
of his approbation, I feel
•that I have done nothing
more than any other man, animated by a British
soul, would have done under similar circumstances.
Which of our countrymen could have looked at the de-
graded state of the native population of India—a state
which has justly been described by my Noble Friend,
as growing from ignorance and superstition—and nut
have endeavoured to rescue them from it by the
strongest exertion of all the energies which he was
capable of applying to the task? Which of our coun-
trymen would have witnessed the miserable condition
under which a great portion of the native population
laboured, and not have made every effort in his power
to ameliorate it.? No Englishman could have wit-
nessed such a state of thhigs without feeling that it
would have been a brand upon-his manhood if he had
not stepped forward to relieve them. There is not one
of our contrynien ,who could have discovered the per-
fidious plot which would have led to the extirpation of
the British name from India, and not have anticipated
the danger, and baffled it in the sans" manner as I did.
Here then I must disclaim all praise, as I,have only
done that which every other Englishman Would have
done in my place. Accident placed me at the head
of a mass of civil and military functionaries, whose
ability, gallantry, and zeal in support of British is-

terests have obtained for me a lustre to which I have
no personal claims. I felt that I was seated upon an
eminence on which I was called upon to excite those
impulses which would otherwise have spontaneously
'arisen in the bieast of every man around me. Gen-
tlemen, I shall not trespass upon your patience further
than to assure you that amidst the various bearings
in which the recollection of my conduct in India
affords gratification to my mind, there are none from
which Uderive higher satisfaction than the kind ap-
probation which I have this day received from my
fellow-labourers in the public cause. I have no words
to express to you the full measure of my gratitude.
Imagine for me, Gentlemen, what ought to be the
acknowledgments of a warm heart." The Noble
Marquis sat down amidst enthusiastic applause.
The Duke of Sussex said, he rose for the purpose
of proposing the health of the Noble Lord a ho so ably
and so praiseworthily filled the Chair upon that oc-
casion—(Applause). Were their Noble Chairman
absent, he (the Duke.of Sussex) would have given
way to the desire which he felt to describe him (Lord
W. Bentinck) as he deserved to be described ; but his
Noble Friend would at least give him credit for plain
dealing. He (the Duke of Sussex) never paid a com-
pliment where he did not conceive it to be fully de-
served—(Loud applause). He had long known, and
respected the private character of their Noble Chair-
man. He had traced him to other countries, and in
all cases he had found him to support the character
of an honest man,—of a Gentleman ;—and to sum all
in one word,—the character of a true hearted English-
man--(Cheers). His Royal Highnessconcluded, by
proposing the "health of Lord W. Bentinckr" which
was drank with three times three.

Lord W. BENTINCIC returned thanks. This was the
first opportunity which he had had since his return
from India, of coming in contact with any body of
Gentlemen who had served in that country; he was
therefore most desirous to express upon this occasion
his sincere and conscientious conviction, that there
did not exist upon the face of the globe any set of
public servants more fully imbued with a high sense
of honour,' distinguished attainments, great public
spirit, and true patriotism, than the servants of the
Honourable the East India Company—(Loud
ap-
plause). And with such an opportunity before him,
it would have been a gross dereliction of duty on bis
part to neglect thus publicly paying this tribute of
his high and profound respect; where it was so Tully
due—(Applause).
The Noble CHAIRMAN next proposed " The health
of Sir T. Hislop and the Army which had been under
the command of the Marquis of Hastings." It was,
of course, in the recollection of those around him,
that Sir T. Hislop fought and gained the battle of
Mahedpoore, by which victory the Mahratta Con-
federacy was broken up. The health was drank
with three times three.

The Noble CHAIRMAN then said, that the senti-
ment conveyed in the last toast would be incomplete
were he to omit the health of Sir John Malcolm, who
was second in command to Sir T. Hislop. In pro-
posing the health of that gallant Officer, he should
abstain from any eulogium beyond that conveyed in
the words of Mr. Canning, when, in his eloquent
speech in die House of Commons, he moved a
vote of thanks to Sir T. Hislop for his services in
India. That Right Honourable Gentleman went
on to say—di and also to Sir John Malcolm, who
was second in command upon that occasion, but
.who is second to none in. valour and renown. The
name of that gallant Officer will be remembered in
India as long as the English language is spoken, or
the British flag hoisted in that •ast territory"—
(Ctieers).—These were the words of the Right Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Canning), and he had only to add,
that in those sentiments he (Lord W. Bentinck) fully
concurred.—The toast was drank with loud applause.
Sir J. Maccoiss, in returning thanks, assured the
Meeting that his gallant friend (Sir T. Hislop), who
was unavoidably absent, would, could he have done
so, have been the first to join in giving a joyful wel-
come home to the Noble Marquis, whose happy re-
turn to this country they were then met to celebrate.
The gallant Officer proceeded to pass a high and well
merited eulogium upon the bravery and devotedness
of the Officers and men who had served in India, ob-
serving at the same time, that the able and judicious
arrangements made by the Noble Marquis ; the wise
and encouraging manner in which he fostered merit
and encouraged talent wherever he found them ; the
parental anxiety with which he watched over the in-
terests, and looked into the details of the army, gave
rise to a feeling of gratitude, while it stimulated them
to a still greater exertion, where greater exertion
was possible.
The next toast was—" The healths of the Foreign
Ministers who have honoured us with their presence."
The Noble CHAIRMAN then gave—" The health
of the President of the Board of ControuL"

. The Right Hon. Mr. W. WYNN returned thanks,
and eulogised the conduct of the Marquis of Hastings
in India.

The next toast was, 4f The health of the Chairman I,
'and Dirictors of the East India Company."
Mr. &writ, in the absence of the Chairman and
Deputy. Chairman, returned thanks.
The Duke of Sun= said, that having obtained
leave from the Chair, he was about to propose a toast
which he felt convinced would meet with universal

approbation. They had already congritulated the
Noble Marquis upon his safe arrival, and why should
they not also express, as they felt, equal satisfaction
at the safe return of the Noble Marchioness? (Cheers)
" The more we loie or esteem an individual," said
his Royal Highness, "the more anxious we feel about
every object which is dear to him' and which touches
his heart. I therefore propose gThe Heald' of the
Marchioness of Hastings,' with three times three—
(This toast was drank with loud applause.)
The Marquis of Hesusios.—" I thought but a few
moments since that nothing could touch me morel
nearly than the high and Battering compliment which
I had received at your hands. But I feel that your
present kindness goes more directly to my heart, and
I therefore acknowledge that kindness with much
more fervour. Your good wishes, es they have been
just expressed, demand the kindest return on my part;
I beg you, therefore, to accept my warmest—my
most sincere thanks" (Loud applause.)
The following toasts were then given with appro-
priate observations Lurd Amherst, and the pre.
sent Governrneat of India"—" Sir Edward Paget,
and the Indian Army."
Sir Joini MALCOLM gave w die-health of the Duke,