Star.
London, England, 1828-09-16 00:00:00

EAST INDIES.

MARL AMHERST'S INDIAN
.GOVERNMENT.•
Pow men have bad a more difficult card to 'play in
the administration of Indian affairs than Lord Amherst,
sad few, we will venture to say, bare ultimately ac.
gaitted.theniselvet with abetter grace. The immediate
successor of an 'eminent and excellent Nobleman, whose
career in.lndia tad been unemally splendid, Lord Am.
her st, hitherto onlyknown as an -unsuccessful Ambassa-
d to.the Chinese Cant, hid to encounter thverils sf
an. invidious and• disadvantageoes comparison. The*
measures of Mr.. Adam, in regard to the press, whatever.;
May have been their justice or 'esrdiency, had certainly
raked up a great deal of hostility to the Government:
amst 'the European inhabitants and any of its,
own ieriants; and Lord-Aenbeest% Gaieties and adop,'
tion of Mr. Adorn% Bri'of prceeding,ef course secured
to him-in the very.outset'ef his career, a' huge measure
of unptipularity. Then saute Op Burmese war :end its
cotteMitltant troablies, exhaustion of the treasury, tour-
inuring: in the army, and fatal exposures in a swampy.
cOuntty,.wh"re, like the island of Walcher!n,
Nature sickened,
. And earn gale was death."
All .this time a portion of the radical present home kept
up aq incessant fire upon ail Lord A-inherit': incasing",
and through the doubtful medium of pirate letters,
penned by the disaffected, bestowed on them a cons_
plesion which the result has shown they did not merit.
No former Governor-General' suffered during hi. ad-
ministration the obloquy which it' has been Lord Am-
herst% late to encounter ; dig all pursued " the even
tenor of their way," unmolested by factious scribblers,
and undisturbed by distorted 'representations .of their
recordings.
In spite, however, of these manifold disadvantagesi
Lord Amherst has carried himself through triumph.,
antly. The glorious termination of the Burmese war
effectually silenced and refuted all injurious comments
oe titet head : •the capture of Bhuripore was likewise
as existence that the, policy of his Lordship did not
west viper. whilst the latitude of discussion at present
linden, some time past.) allowed at Calcutta in the dif-
ferent newspapers, and the terms of regard in which,
Earl Anshan is always spoken of, afford strong testi.
=my of the liberal and conciliatory spirit which babas
infused into all his later peblic acts. In private lite be
seem was otherwise than amiable; and in the respect
modbfectioa .which he has there raised up for himself,
M. Coinarm, it would seem, fully and deservedly par.
ticipates.—Botabey Courier.
•GOVSIRMNISNT taAZITTI IXTRAORDINARY:
CALCUTTA, Mascot 15, 15211. •
Fort William, March 15,11311.
Pnocuswevion—Wbereas the Right Hon. Rut Amherst., floc.
ie.ish. has, by a letter, bearing date the 'loth instant, tormally
resigned the (Wee of Goer/nee-General of the Presidency
Port Williams, in Benpl; and whereas the Has. William Butter.
worth Baybcpr.Esi2. tortmwted to the °Mee of Governor-Go.
noel of the es ency aforesaid, under the provisions 'contained
in the Act of the 53d year of the Reign of his late Most Gracious
Majesty King George 111.
It is hereby proclaimed, that the said ,Hon. WilWt Butter.
Innis Kaylry,pl. did. pn the day of the date hereof, take charge
of the mid 01 of Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort
*ibis's, in Bengal.
H. SHAM/SPEAR. Oft. Chief Sec. to Govt.
The Governor-General has been pleased to make the following
Samporaty appointments.
Mr. Andrew &WIWI° be Private Secretary to the Governer.,
General.
' Captain Sir Robert Colqubenn, Bart. 44th Regiment Native
Infantry, to be Military Secretary and Aid-do-Camp to the Go-
urroor. General.
Burgeon William Russell. M.D. to be Surgeon to the Governor.
General.
A inzs-Di-Cmir TO TNT • Govgasos-Goisam.-Major J. N.
Jackson, 45th Regiment . Native Infantry ; Lieut. Wig. Brown.
low, 46th Native Infantry ; Lieu. LB. Gillespie, his Majesty's
4th Dragoons; Liam Hon. H. B. Dalsoll, &DPI Miner,:
Lena. P. Grote, Bengal Artillery.
' tams Aut'os-Camr.—Captaist B. Caldwd4 floperiatandaat
of
Mysore Princes.
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