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1,.........,--,_A—.:)'.....4.—....1—....-4._ 44. The general prelinimary representation .
CALCUTTA GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. by the Officers of the nature' and disadvantages of
• MONDAY, MARCH it, 11110. Company's service, we conceive to be highly ohjee
• tionable and incorrect. The complaint, that they are
GENERAL ORDERS. banished to a distance from their country and friends,
. BY THB maser IiON(NitABGE TEE (10VERNOR-GENERAL for a considerable portion of their lives, is a com-
. - • IN COCNCIL. plaint applicable to his Majesty's, and to most other
Extract of a Letter, from the Honourable the Court of Directors, militat -
y service; well known to be essential to theirs
dated SPptembrr 15, 1809. when they first enter it, and therefore not a becoming
(Cooakoredfro;:o the Srut of yesterday.) topic of complaint in a military man. Besides which,
N. It is not competent to a Commanding officer, we have to observe that no one enters into our mill-
er Commander in Chief, after such notification of the tary set vice in India but on his own application, and
r.e.eiments of Gavernintiit, to reprimand, bring to
with the full knowledge that he can advance in it
vial or otherwise molest those who have appealed to only in a course of years ; but when the Officers add,
1::‘ Government, for having made that appeal in a " We are doomed to toil through many a painful
0
el, de which, in the opinion of the Government, has year, on an allowance scarcely adequate to our sub-
-1_,:.., n justified by the circumstances of the case. sistence, until, after a period of twenty-two years ser-
`;7. If Lieutenant-General Macdowall thought vices in India, we have the melancholy alternative of
tl.at Government had exceeded its powers, in accept- returning home, to live in dependence and compara-
ing the appeal of Lieutenant-Colonel Munro, and re- i tive poverty, can the pensions of our ranks ; or, corn-
quiring his release from arrest, it was competent to i bating with ate and infirmities, in a clime avowedly
him to have stated his opinion in an appeal to us, or hostile to cur constitutions ;"—when they make this
to the Supreme Government in India.; but a publi- , representation of their situation and prospects, they
cation in general Orders, that is, a publication ad- surely forgot that the military allowances of the Corn-
dressed to the army against the orders of Govern- patty are higher than those a any other military ser-
ment—a publication which not only pronounced a vice in the world, although the necessaries of file are
severe censure upon Lieutenant-Colonel Munro, but comparatively cheap in India; that they attain the
declared an intention of bringing him to a Court mar- highest rank without purchase or expence ; and that
tial. for the conduct which the Government held to be the provision for retiring Officers is such as no other
justifiable, and which was therefore, as before stated, service has afforded, and such as the finances of the
a direct censure and attack upon the conduct and Company are even strained to support.
power of the Government—must be considered as a 49. After these preliminary observations, the Ad-,
measure unjustifiable in itselc, and of the most data- dress proceeds to complain of the abolition of the
gerous tendency. bazar allowance ; an arrangetmnt, which is not con.
38. This measure rendered it in your opinion your fined to Madras, but extend.,..l to the other Preside:l-
cies, which is in stria coal ,rnlit) to the articles of
duty to assert and maintain your own legitimate au-
thority, thus publicly called in question ; and we ap- war, which prohibit the levy of diitios by military
Officers on all articles of colstimptlon, and is eel-
prove of the orders which you issued upon this occa-
sion. directing the removal of Lieutenant General dently founded on the moAni,:uatrovenible principles
Mat:lowan from the command of the troops at Vert of sound policy.
St. George, and for expunging the orders which hei SO. It is not politic to give officers an interest in
had issued from all the public records of your Presi- the amount of imposts levied in military markets, he-
dency. , cause it has an evident tendency to make the soldiers
59. We now proceed to take notice of other parts discontented with their officers, by feeling themselves
of Lieutenant General Macdowall's correspondence. taxed, for the benefit of those who command them—
We consider the insinuation conveyed in Lieutenant- in evidence of whichr a very recent instance might be
General Macdowall's letter, of 21st January, 1609, . quoted.
to the Quarter Master General, that "by his not put- i 51. It h further to be observed, thdt, in India,
tine the Quarter Master General under arrest, a door the amount of the collections in military bazars has
would be left open' to the possible introduction of let- ; always depended principally on the extension of the
due influence and arbitrary, power," to be highly un- ' sale of spirituous liquors to the troops. To give an
warranted and highly blameable. 1
_ !officer, therefore, an interest in the amount of duties

40. The observations which Lieutenant General
Mazdowall thought fit to record, against his non-ap.
pointment by us to a seat in our Council of Fort St.
George, are conveyed in terms which appear to us
disrespectful and offensive.
41. The non-appointment of Lieutenant General
Macdowall to a seat in our Council of Fort St. George
was not determined by considerations personal to
him.. It was the consequence of a principle adopted
by us at that time upon general views, for the Go-
vernment of the subordinate Presidencies. But, what-
ever motives might have been supposed to have in-
fluenced us in declining to give a seat in Council' to
the Commander in Chief of Fort St. George, we can.
not admit such an exercise of our discretion to have
formed a justifiable subject of animadversion on the
part of Lieutenant-General Macdowall, who, having
accepted the office of COmmander in Chief, was
bound to maintain, to the utmost of his power, the
authority of the Government, as well as the discipline
and subordination of the troops.
42. The appointment of. a Commander in Chief
to a seat in Council at any of our Presidencies, is an
arrangement at all times purely discretionary with
/is and cannot be claimed as a matter of right by any
officer succeeding by casual promotion or by special
appointment, to the command of the troops at such
Presidency.
43. We now proceed to another instance in which
we feel ourselves order the necessity of expressing
the most serious disapprobation of the conduct of
Lieutenant General Macdowall. I the ra nsmi s. '
sable nature,
on the strong
temorial, in his

June, 1808,
lesire of Sir
:d to him)
inmcipA sta-
repress an ad-
igal, which
Officers of
obtaining an
-leers serving

Lieutenant-

Governor in
[rectors, from
Madra.s Ar-

say : " We

:as Army be
inces with that

Ire presume,

. services en-
lonsider as our

wrong!) Lieu-
Government of Fort
in which he
_ Address of
had, hut a few
Officers corn-
army to sup-
for the very
ig an equaliza-
Bengal. And
• extraordinary
general Mac-
ig a Memo-
and language
period, he Ind
We can the

and supported,
complain of every
affects their
may be to the
,Officers is not
we think it
make some

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.. a

derivable from such a source, is to set his interest
directly at variance with his duty, and to hold out
to him a reward for encourzging that intoxication,
which it is his first duty to discountenance and sup-
press.
152. It is not meant by these observations to state,
that these inconveniences have actually taken place
under the administration of the Company's present
office's ; but it is a sufficient reason for the abolition
•; of a general arrangement, that it has a tendency to
I produce consequences highly injurious to the service.
This observation is applicable to every part of the
' succeeding argument.
53. The next complaint stated in the Address is,
the abolition of the allowance of full Latta to offi-
cers commanding stations ; but the allowance has
been rather transferred and extended than abolished,
and that upon principles of the most obvious pro-
priety. For, on the recommendation of Sir John Cra.
dock, the full batta was transferred from officers com.
manding stations, to officers commanding corps ;
from officers in a fixed and quiet station, to officers
employed in the more active duties of their profes-
sion.
54. The next subject of complaint brought forward
is, that the orders of the Court of Directors for remo.
lying his M..l.!sty's officers from the command of sta-
'dons where their regiments are not quartered, and for
appointing military men to the pay offices of the army,
have not been carried into effect by the Madras Go-
vernment.
55. How far our orders on these subjects have been
yet carried into effect, we are unable precisely to as-
certain ; but we know they have been executed to a
certain extent ; and as we have no doubt of the dis-
position of our Governor in Council at fort St.
George, to execute these and all other orders in the
most punctual manner, and with the greatest practi-
cable expedition ; we do not doubt that, ere this time,
considerable progress has been made in arrangements
which evidently will not admit of instantaneous adop.
tion, without danger to the public interests and to the
regularity of public business.
56. It is possible, indeed, that cases may occur, in
which both the officers in the King's and Company's
service may be properly selectld for the command of
stations where their respective regiments are not quar-
tered, and if such should occur, it will be your duty
to see that this is done without partiality to either, sta.
ting your reasons at large for any deviation from the
general etxle.

57. The Address then goes on to complain of the
abolition 6f the Tent Contract, an arrangement
founded upon arguments which we believe to be in.
controvertible, although some of the facts upon which
the arguments for its abolition were grounded are
brought forward in the Address as reasons for its con- DIXON'S CELEBRATED ANTII3ILIOUS PILLS.
tintiation. THESE PILLS have long obtained a just cele.
•
.58. The Address states, that during war, the allow. i 4 bray in the private practice of the Prrprietor, Mr. Dixon,
.Apothecary, and from their great success in many obs:inate Ili-
ances for the Tent Contracts were unequal to the I boos Disorders, our numerous patients of distinction aid others,
expences ; a fact which we conceive is decisive against rge Warren, Sir Gm-
I particularly the Duke of Bedford, Sir Geo
its propriety, although the only inference drawn from I gory Page Turner, the Dowager Lady Say and tide, theViscoun-
it in the Address is, that the contract should be con- tess Bulkeley, &c. &c. he was persuaded to offer them to the
tinned during peace. public, under the approbation and spnctiou of their name.
" Deal Castle, Haverfordwest, South Wales, Feb. 24, 1803
59. This argument might have some force, if the ‘. Captain Lloyd presents his compliments to Mr Dixon: al.
Tent Contract were to be considered only with refer-
though not personally acquainted with him, would take it as a
ence to the advantages of the officers who held it • favour, if he would send him four or live boxy 61 his Pills as stmts
although we are of opinion, that even in this limited ca: hnee, I' .is
now)l ypregn can.= th,
urnsd. Iv.Ll4dt,i
nlwvletoll basforaltuheaygsrtumstettrlll.eiceNleeldi-
view of the subject, the continuation of the Contract have been to Mrs. Lloyd, as well as to Colonel Bishop and all his
had been sufficiently extended in point of time to al- I family, Captain Lloyd feels It his duty to recommend the Piils
low those officers an opportunity of reimbursing them- wherever
he
goes
; he really thinks if Mr. Dixon
would arpuint
selves during peace for the extraordinary expenses . some persons es venders in this county, it would,be a benefit to
: the community." •
' which they might have incurred during the war.— The Pills are found to be an incomparable remedy for restoring
Some, perhaps many, of the officers who held the con• the tone of the stomach, for curing indigestion, for preventing
tract during war, must have been removed since the crudities, and their consequent disagreeable eructations and Baru.
lencies. They prevent habitual and temporary costiveness, sick
peace by death, promotion, or retirement, from the head-aches, and heart-burn, which is occasioned by pregnancy,
commands to which it was attached, without having and a debilitated stomach, whether arising from the acrimony of
had the opportunity of reimbursing themselves; and ) the redundant bile, intemperate diet, or drinking to excess.
this furnishes another strong argument against the Sold wholesale and retail, at Mr. Butlees, No. 4, Chesisside,
Tent Contract, when viewed only with reference LO corner of Paternoster-row ; Baxter and Co and Smitb, Edin-
burgh and Glasgow; Kirland and Hayden, Plymouth; New-
the interest of individuals.—(To be continued.)- berry and Sos, Dublin ; Peck and 'Furrier' Hull ; and most
• country medicine venders, in bottles at Ss. 9d. and 6s. acb.

arrangement at aii times purely custrettom
/is, and cannot be claimed as a matter of righ
officer succeeding by casual promotion or I)]
appointment, to the command of the troops
Presidency.
4S. We now proceed to another instance i
we feel ourselves under the necessity of ex
the most serious disapprobation of the cor
Lieutenant General Macdowall. It is in the ti
sion of a Memorial of the most exceptionable
from certain officers of our army, and on th
approbation he has conveyed of that Memori
letter to you of the 28th of January, 1809.
44. It appears, that, about May or Jun
Lieutenant General Macdowall, at the desir
George Barlow (privately communicated t
wrote to the Officers commanding the princi
lions of the Army, to require then' to reprcs
dress to the Supreme Government in Bengal
was at that time in circulation among the Of
the Madras Army, for the purpose of obtai!
equalization of allowance with the Officers
in Bengal.
45. But on the 23d of January, 1809, Liei
Council
Macdowall forwarded to Ole Gov
Council an Address to the Court of Director
considerable number of Officers of the Mac
- my, in which, among other 6ings, they say
petition, with one voice, that the Madras A
placed permanently on the same allowances v
of Bengal ; and, in urging this request, we p
we only ask wlo justice demands, our sere
title us to, and what we shall ever conside
just right."
48. This Address was transmitted throng
tenant General Macdowall to the Governmen
St. George, with a letter from himself, in As
strongly recommends and supports this Ad
the Officers ; notwithstanding that he had, b
'months before, sent directions to the Office
mending the principal stations of the army
press an address, then Hrsulation, for
same purpose, namely, of obtaining an e
tint) of allowances at Madras: and Benga
here we pause, to remark on the very extra,
and censurable conduct of Lieutenant-Goner
dowel', in recommending and supporting a
tial; more reprehensible in its nature and I
than that which, at a short preceding period,
interposed his authority to suppress. We
less wonder that, if thus encouraged and su
tire Officers find fault with, and complain
act of the Government shich in any way afft
personal interests, however necessary it may
well being and safety of the State.
47. Although the Address of the ,Officei
Yet hefoye us in an authenticated form, we
OrnPer,to take the present opportunity to ma
• 'flirtations upon tha topics contained in it.