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casion, to
high sense
lity displayed
the British
ing the
that country.
; ding Officer
of coercive •

tion and _ exhausted. _
they were compelled to embrace the alternative of
employing force, in order io prevent the most fatal
evils to the cause of their country.
The Governor in Council requests that the Hon.
Mr. COLE and Lieutenant Colonel Davis will be
pleased to accept the expression of his highest appro-
bation and thanks, for the moderation, firmness, and
ability, which they manifested on this unprecedented
and distressing occasion.
A. FALCONAR, Chief Sec. to Government.

: _

BY GOVERNMENT.
Fort St. George, August 18, 1889.
GENERAL ORDERS—The Governor in Council hos
received intelligence that the troops at Chittledroog,
consisting of the first battalion of the 6th and 15th
Regiments of Native
.Infantry seized, in the lat- I
ter end of July, the public treasure at that station,
deserted the post entrusted to their care, and, in obe-
dience to orders which they received from a Commit-
tee who have usurped the public authority at Serin-
gapatam, marched on the 6th instant to join the dis-
Affected troops in that garrison, plundering -tbe
lages on their route.
The British Resident, and the Officer commanding
in Mysore, prohibited in the most positive terms the
advance of the troops from Chittledroog, and de-
manded from their European officers a compliance'
with the resolution of the Governor in Council of the
26th ult. by either declaring that they would obey the
orders of Government according to the tenor of their
commissions, or withdrawing for the present from
the exercise of authority.
The officers having refused to comply with his re-
erisition, and having persisted in advancing towards
Seringapatam, it became unavoidably necessary to
prevent by force their entrance into that garrison.
In the contest which ensued a detachment from
fie British force, under the command of Lieutenant-
001011d1 GIBBS aided by a body of Mysore horse, and
one battalion ;)1. the 3d Regiment of Native Infantry,
entirely defeated and dispersed the corps from Chit-
tledroog.
puling this affair a sally was made by the garrison
of Seringapatam on Lieutenant-Colonel GlBlis camp,
but was instantly driven back by the picquet and Sth
regiment of cavalry, under the command of Captain
BEAN, of his Majesty's 25th dragoons, in charge of
that regiment.
Nearly the whole of the rebel force was destroyed,
While one casualty only was sustained by the British
troops. Lieutenant JEFIERIES, of his Majesty's 25th
regiment of light dragoons, having zealously offered
his services to carry a flag of truce, which Lieutenant-
Colonel Ginns, anxious to prevent the effusion of
blood, was desirous of dispatching to the rebel troops,
Nem slightly wounded in the execution of that duty's
by a volley fired under the express command of an
European officer.
While the Governor in Council participates in the
feelings of sorrow that must have been experienced
by the British forces, in acting against the rebel
troops, and deeply laments the unfortunate but impe-
rious necessity which existed for that proceeding, he
considers it to be due to the conduct of the British

forces to express high admiration and applause of the
zeal, firmness, and patriotism which they displayed
on that most distre4sing occasion.
Their conduct affords a further proof of the sive-
sloe influence in their minds of the principles of vir-
tue, honour, and loyalty, over every other consider-
ation, and eminently entitles them to public approba-
tion. Lieutenant-Colonel Gums, Lieutenant-Colonel
ADAM, Major CAnnON, Captain BEAN) and Lieut.
JEFFERIES4 availed themselves of the opportunities of-
fered them on this occasion of serving their country.
The Governor in Council is also happy to distin-
guish the zeal and loyalty displayed by the sth regi-
ment of Native Cavalry, the Ist battalion 3d regiment
cf Native Infantry, andothe Mysore troops, who all
manifested an eager desire to perform their duty. The
Mysore horse on one occasion put the column of the
Chittledroog troops to flight, and took two guns and
both the colours from one of the battalions ; a memo-
rable proof of the weakness of men acting in the worst
ct causes.

That a body of British officers should deliberately
tlisobey the orders of their Government, seize the
üblic treasure under their protection—abandon the
lost entrusted to their charge—march to join a party
f men in open opposition to authority—plunder the
eominions of a British Ally, and finally bear aims
gainst their country, must excite grief and astonish-
n ent ; but the conduct of these Officers in urging the
innocent men under their command, who had the
most powerful claims on their humanity, and care,
ilito the guilt and danger of rebellion, constitutes an
atgravation of their offence that cannot be contem-
plated without feelings of the deepest indignation and
sorrow. _ _

The Governor in Council is very far from wishing
to aggravate the misconduct of those deluded and
unhappy men ; but he earnestly hopes, that the ex-
ample of their climes and their fate will still impress
on the minds of the officers who have joined in their
plans a sense of the danger of their situation, and the
propriety of endeavouring, by their early-obedience
and future zeal, to efface the deep stain which has
been cast on the honour of the Madras army.
In announcing to the native troops the distressing
event described in this order, the Governor in Coun-
cil must express his concern, that any part of the na-
tive army should be so far deluded by misrepresenta-
tion, and so lost to a sense of the obligation of fide-
lity, honour, and religion, as to act against the Go-
vernment which has so long supported them.
The General Order of the 3d inst. and the con-
duct that has been observed towards the native troops
at the Presidency, the Mount Vellore, Trichinopoly,
Bellary Gooty, and Bangalore, must convince the
whole native army of the anxiety of Government to
promote their welfare, and save them from the dan-
gers into which they were likely to be plunged. The
Governor in Council still places the greatest confi-
dence in the fidelity and zeal of the native troops,
and is convinced that they will not willingly sully
tie high reputation which they have so long enjoyed,
by joining in the execution of plans that must end in
their disgrace and ruin.
, The Governor in Council trusts the unhappy fate
of the Chittledroog battalions, who allowed them-
selves to be engaged in opposition to their Govern-
anent, will have the effect of prevailing on any other
part of the native army from suffering themselves,
under any circumstances, to be placed in a situation
adverse to their duty and allegiance.
-The 001'01110r in Council avails himself of this QC-

SUPPLEMENT TO THE./NDIA GAZETTE.
MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1809.
GENERAL ORDERS, BY THE VICE-PRESIDENT IN
COUNCIL.

_to Sula; date 4
enlaiti . 01‘. iln-
-•duc calling upon there by
;
ic
Hhconuljurau‘Ysbiet'ifillaitteghleeiameGonceas;earnaren:d;
20th February, 1809, approv-
' by the Governor of Fort St.
the late Commander in Chief,
was also circulated to the army, in the expectation
that the sentiments of the Supreme Government would
have repressed the spirit of faction and insubordina-
tion which prevailed. These letters appear to have
produced no effect ; the tnemorial to the Supreme
Government made further pro ; and an address
to Major BOLES, an officer under of suspen-
sion, written in language of determined sedition, was
circulated in the army, and forced upon the notice of
the Govefnor in Council, by a Company's Officer,
holding a confidential situation on his Staff—the Go-
vernor in Council was still induced to pursue a system
of forbearance, by the sentiments of affection and re-
spect which he was dispdsed to entertain towards the -
Company's Officers; and by a conviction that the.,
principles of zeal, discipline, and national attachment,
' by which he supposed they were actuated, would lead
them to relinquish the reprehensible measures in which,
they were engaged, on being made fully acquainted
with their impropriety and danger. The Commander'
in Chief accordingly, tinder the sanction of the Go.
i vernment, issued a second circular letter, dated 10th'
April* 1809, again calling upon the officers of the.
Company's army to adhere to their duty, correct-
i ing the erroneous opinions which they had received,
, regarding the powers of Government, and describ-
ing the unjnstifiable nature and dangerous conse-
kquences of their proceedings. The Governor in Coun-
cil learned with deep regret that these measures of
moderation, these repeated and urgent appeals to the
discipline, duty, national attachment, and professional
I
honour of the Company's officers, were entirely nu-
gatory ; that the Memorials continued to be circulat-
ed, and that sentiments of sedition were openly de-
. clared in many parts of the army ; the further for-
bearance of the Government would have encouraged
the progress of those evils ; a course of explanation
' and exhortation had been pursued in vain, and it be-
came imperiously necessary to etreck, by a salutary
example of punishment, a spirit of insubordination
that threatened the most dangerous consequences
to the prosperity of the Empire. The General Or-
ders of the Ist of May last were accordingly past.—
The Governor in Council is concerned to state, that
this example, which was confined • to the persons
who were principally instrumental. in promotmg se-
' dition, and of whose delinquency the most ample
proofs existed, and which was intended to obviate the
necessity of more extensive punishments, failed to pro-
duce the beneficial effects anticipated from its adop-
tion, and that principles of insubordination and sedi-
tion continued to prevail among the Company's Offi.
, ccrs, if possible with aggravated violence ; the Corn.
pany's Officers of the Hydrabad Subsidiary Force,
whose good conduct in refusing to affix their Signa-
tures to the seditious Addresses, had received the ap-
probation of the Government, intimated to the rest of
the Army, in an Address, dated in May last, scarcely
less reprehensible than the papers that had incurred
the animadversion of the Government, their partici-
pation in the disaffection which prevailed so exten-
sively in the Company's Army.
The Officers at Hydrabad followed up this act, by
threatening in an address, dated the 15th June, trans-
mitted direct to the Governor in Council, to separate
themselves from the authority of the Government,
established over them by their country, unless a sub-
mission should be yielded to their menaces, by abro-
gating the General Orders of the Ist of May, and the
Company's Officers at Masulipatam imprisoned their
Commanding Officer, and made preparations to de-
sert the post entrusted to their charge, and to join the
' involving, _ Hydrabad subsidiary force, thereby on ac-,
MADRAS GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDI- 1
NARY, AUGUST rt. count of views personal to themselves, the men under
their command, in the guilt of rebellion, and furnish
Fort St. George, Augu%t le, 1 RO9. /
GENERAL ORDERS, BY THE HONOURAbLE :I HE ing to the native troops a dangerous example of re.l
GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL. 1 sistance to authority. The Governor in Council, still
The course of proceedings followed for some time ! anxious to impress on the minds of the Company's
past by the Officers of the Honourable Company's : Officers a sense of the impropriety of their conduct,
Army at this Presidency, has obliged the Govern-' published to the army the dispatch from the Supreme
ment ta adopt the most decided measures for the pre-; Government, dated the 21st of May last, which con-
servation of the important interests committed to its ; tained an entire approval of the measures cf the Go-
charge. These . proceedings may be stated to have ! vernment of Fort St. George, and stated the most
commenced with the transmission to the Government I forcible and conclusive arguments against the system
by the late Commander in Chief of a Memorial, ad- : of faction and illegal combination, which had been
dressed to the Honourable the Court of Directors, : introduced into the Coast army. This solemn decision
dated January, 1809, and signed by a large propor- of the Supreme Authority in India, has also proved to
tion of the Company's Officers. Although that paper , be ineffectual ; the Officers at Hydrabad, although
exhibits claims of an ungrounded nature, and con- they knew the sentiments of the Supreme Govern-
tains observations equally improper and unjust on the ment, refused, in a body, in a letter to their Com-
order? of the Honourable the Court of Directors and mending Officer, dated the Bth of July, obedience to
the Government, the Governor in Council was in- the orders of Government, for the march of a battalion
duced to permit it to pass without the serious notice from Hydrabad, adding, as a threat, that its services
which it appeared to demand, by a confidence in the might soon be useful to their cause ; and have since
discipline of the army, and a persuasion that the ob- ' forwarded to the Government, in a paper, dated the
jectionable passages in the memorial were inadver- ' 21st of July, the conditions on which they are willing
tendy and unintentionally introduced. to return to their duty, and which they require the
The subsequent conduct of the Commander in Government to accept, in order to avert the impend-
Chief forced the Government to vindicate its autho- ing awful evils ; evils that can result only from their
rity, by a signal example of punishment. It was own criminal determination to place themselves in the
well known to the Company's Officers, that the whole situation of enemies to their country. The conditions ,
of this proceeding was referred to the Supreme Go- on which those, Officers presume to state that they will
vernment, and the Authorities in Europe ; that it , yield obedience to the National Authorities, afford
would receive from their wisdom a decision confor- further proofs of the nature of their designs, for they
mable to the soundest principles of reason and justice; demand the public revocation of the General Orders
and that its discussion could not belong to the cogni- of the Ist of May; the restoration to their rank and
zance of the army, who are precluded from becoming appointments of all Officers removed by this Govern-
a deliberative body. ' . tient, however obnoxious and criminal the conduct
Notwithstanding these considerations, the Cover- ' of those Officers may have been ; the dismission from
nor in Council, anxious to remove every cause of • office of the Officers of the General Staff who may be
misunderstanding relative. to a measure of so impor- supposed to have advised the Government the trial
Cant a nature, published an Order, dated the 31st Ja- by a General Court Martial of the Officer command-
nuary, explaining to the Army the grounds on which ing Masulipatam, who was arrested by his own diso-
it was adopted. The Governor in Council had a bedient Officers; and, finally, an amnesty for the
right to expect, on the roost obvious grounds of dis- conduct of the Company's Army. The Garrison of
cipline, and respect for the laws, that the question Masulipatam have placed themselves in a state of
would have been permitted to rest here, and receive rebellion, the troops of Seringapatam and Hydrabad
its final reward from the only powers competent to have followed their example, and it has been ascertain-
decide on it ; and it was with feelings of equal per- ed that the military authority entrusted to Command-
prise and concern he learned that a Memorial to ing Officers has been usurped by self-constituted Corn-
the Supreme Government, of the most intergperate mittees ; and that an organized system of combina-
dt.scription, was circulated in the. Company's Army. tion, for the purpose of subverting the authority of
The Governor in Council, desirous to avoid are cur!. the Government,sbeen established throughout the
rence to measures of severity, and persuaded that it . greatest part of the Army of this Establishment,
was sufficient to apprise the Company's Officers of The Governor in Council perceives, in the fore-
the improper nature of their-proceedings, to induce going course ofitroceedings on the part of the Euro-
them to desist from their prosecution,anthoeised the ran Officers or be company'; holly, which has

BY GOVERNMENT.
Fort St. George, August 9,1809.
The Governor in Council having taken into eon-
sideration the whole of the transactions that have oc-
curred to the garrison of Masulipatam, and. being sa-
tisfied that the pamberne by the men in those trans-
actions is to be entirely imputed to the misrepresen-
tations and seduction of their European Officers, is
pleased to proclaim a full pardon to the European '
Non-commissioned officers and privates, and to the
Native Commissioned Officers and Non-commission- 1
ed Officers of the garrison of Masulipatam, who were
concerned in those improper proceedings. The Go-
vernor
in Council entertains a confident persuasion,
that this act of lenity will produce a proper effect in
the minds of these men, and induce them to manifest
in future that fidelity to the Government, which con-
stitutes 4.13 e first duty and highest praise of every
soldier.
The Governor in Council prohibits the march of
any body of troops from the garrison of Masulipa-
tam, without Ate orders of Major General PATER,
commanding the Northern' Division ; and directs,
that any troops who may have marched from Masu-
lipatam without due authority, shall return forthwith
to that station, on pain of being considered to be in a
state of rebellion to the Government.
A. FALCONAIt, Chief Secretary.

. Fort William, August 22,1809.
The Honourable the Vice-President in Council, has
been furnished with copies of the letters addressed to
his Excellency the Commander in Chief, by the Ofii-
cers of the several corps quartered at Muttra, Kur-
naul, and Agra, and to the General Officer com-
manding at Chemar, by the Officers of the different
corps quartered in the province of Benares, expressive
of their loyalty and attachment to their King and
Country, of their allegiance to the Government esta-
blished by the Constitution in this country, and on
their entire disapprobation of the spirit of sedition and
revolt, by which a part of the army of the Presidency
at Fort St. George is at present actuated ; the Vice-
President in Council has received these declarations
of the sentiments of the Offitoers of the army of Ben-
gal, on this interesting occasion, with peculiar gratifi-
cation, and he considers it an act of justice to declare,
in the most public manner, the confidence which the
Government has uniformly reposed in the unshaken
zeal and loyalty of the Officers of this army, and its
firm persuasion that no circumstance can ever
induce them to swerve from their public duty.
The Vice-President in Council has received private
but authentic information, that the same honourable
sentiments are entertained by the Officers of all the
other military stations under the Presidency of Fort
William. ( Signed) c. DOWDESWELL,
Acting Chief Secretary to Government.

•
aquae resisted metistim of forbearance a%d pig.
meat, a determined spirit of revolt that inna, unless
speedily repressed, produce the most fatal coßse•
quences to the constitution and authority of the Go.
vernment and the interests of the Nation. No means
compatible with the honour and authority of the
Government have been omitted to resits the ex.,.
pang's Officers to a sense of their duty as soldiers, slid
of their allegiance as British subjects. The forbear.
aace displayed by the Government under circum.
stances of aggravated indignity demonstrate the satin.
faction with which it would have regarded any di 1.,
sition on the part of the Company's Officers to mar:.
fest the usual, obedience required from all oldie:a
No disposition, however, of that nature has appared,
.on the contrary, those Officers, by a systematic co,:r.
of aggression and insubordination, have forced
Government to adopt measures of the most decidd
nature for the support of its authority.
The Governor in Council would be guilty of ;
most criminal desertion of his duty and the cans:
his country, if he were capable of contil min, the cv:,
of sedition and mutiny by a submission to tleirnicrait..
ces of a body of men, placed by the Liv: under
government. Such a course of proceeding wou;1
prostrate the authority of the State belie a disaffect.
ed and seditious faction—it would effectually
citate this and every succeeding Government fi(44
executing the functions of administration, and would
be fatal to the prosperity tf the Empire in In&t, LC
affording an example of successful opposral to
Authority, and by weakening the power and Llig,-,it,
of the Government, which, in this country, ale pc.
culiarly essential to i existence. Influenced by ti.e.:e
considerations, the Gemernor in Council has 02;
dered it to be his sacred duty to resist every appear.
ance of concession to the threats of insishoi
and faction, and to employ the power and means at
the disposal of the Government for the restoration et
its discipline and the maintenance of its honour and
authority.
In this state of affairs, it is a source of the most grl.
tifying reflection that the zeal, loyalty, and discipline
of his Majesty's troops, and of many of the most re.
spectable Officers of the Company's Army, combined
with the fidelity generally manifested by the native
troops, will enable the Government to accomplish
the important object of re-establishing public order.
The good conduct of his Majesty's troops during the
dissentions that have occurred, their zealous adhe.
rence to duty, the preference which they have mini.
fested, to. the principles of honour, virtue, and pa.
tribtism, over the personal views and disorderly pas.
sions which prevailed around them, reflect the greatest
credit on their character, and demonstrate that they
are animated by the same ardent love of their country
which has distinguished their brother soldiers is
Europe. His Majesty's troops under this Govern.
ment will possess the gratifying reflection of having
deserved the approbation and gratitude of their tem.
try, ód of having eminently contributed to the pre,
servation of an important branch of the Empire.
The Governor in Council entertains a hope that
the Company's Officers, who have threatened the
Government of their country with the most serious
evils, who have demanded as the condition of being
faithful to their dut; , the execution of measures de•
grading to the character, and fatal to the interests of
the State, will pause before they attempt to proceed
further in the cow se of sedition and guilt which try
have pursued. It has been the earnest wish and anti
ors desire of the Governor in Council, to avoid mea•
sures of extremity, to re-establish order by the course
of the law, and to give tip to military trial the at.
thors of the present seditious proceedings. In prose.
cution of measures so consonant to justice, so neces•
eery for restoration of discipline, and so conformable
;o the ordinary course of Military Government, the
'Governor in Council is, persuaded that he shall finds
Ilk concurrence of all persons in the civil and military
services who have not banished from their minds ever]]
sentiment of national feeling ; and he exhorts the of,
ficers of the Company's Service, by submitting to
that course of measures, to avert the evils which they
are precipitating upon themselves. Such a result,
gratifying at any period, would, at the present ma
went of national difficulty, be peculiarly acceptable
to the views and feelings of the Governor in Council;
and advereng to the zeal and patriotism by which
the Officers of the Company's Army have been dis,
tinguished, he still encourages a hope, that by magi.
fisting obedience to the Government, they will ob'
viate the adoption of measures of extremity, arrest
the certain consequences of their past conduct, and
,promote the restoration of general confidence, order,
land discipline.—By order of the Noble the Governor
in Council, (Signed) A. FALCONAB.

MADRAS, AUGUST .sl.
Yesterday a Session of Oyer and Terminer and
Gaol Delivery in the Supreme Court, commenced
before the Hon. Sir THOMAS STRANGE, Knight, Chief
Justice, at the Court-house, at Fort St. George, who
addressed a charge to the Jury, of which the follow•
ing is an extract :
Gentlemen—The certainty that acts of rebellion
have within the territories dependent upon this Pre•
sidency, been recently'committed by numbers of the
Company's Officers engaged in an extensive combi.
,nation, eventually to throw off all obedience to this
Government, and seek redress of alledged grievances
by arms, forbids my parting with you on the presen
occasion, without drawing your attention to a state
of things at dice so extraordinary, so perilous, acid a°
highly criminal. If there be in the mind of any one
of you, Gentlemen, the least doubt, as to the fact,
upon him I shall expeci to make no impression till
he be better informed on the subject.
If the fact, however, be, that the description of
persons to whom I allude, have with comparatively
tew exceptions been prevailed upon to enter into an
illegal combination, and that individuals of them,
availing themselves of its support, are by their acts,
leaving to this Government no alternative, but either
to compromise the public authority, or to endeavour
to maintain it by the sword, then the time is, in so,
opinion, arrived, when it becomes every man in his
sphere to consider the part which it may be proper for
him, in a contest in which it is not seemly to be no'
tral, and' to exhort others upon whom he may have
influence, to adopt that, which upon a conviction et
its being right, he means himself to pursue.
That the moment for doing this in the most public
as well as unreserved manner,- has existed ever since
the day upon which Government took measures fcr.
requiring from every Company's Officer a test of hi

troops, and deeply laments the nnfortuna
rious necessity which existed flit. that pro
considers it to be due to the conduct of
forces to express high admiration and apF
zeal, firmness, and patriotism which tht
on that most distretsing occasion.
Their conduct affords a further proof
rior influence in their minds of the princi
the, honour, and loyalty, over every ot}
ation, and eminently entities them to pub
tion. Lieutenant-Colonel GIBBS, Lieuter
ADAM, Major CARBON, Captain BEAN)
JEFFERIES4 availed themselves of the oppc
fered them on this occasion of serving
The Governor in Council is also hap'
guish the zeal and loyalty displayed by t
mcnt of Native Cavalry, the Ist battalion
cf Native Infantry, and.the Mysore troy
manifested an eager desire to perform thei
Mysore horse on one occasion put the cc
Chittledroog troops to flight, and took is
both the colours from one of the battalion
ruble proof of the weakness of men acting
t causes.
That a body of British officers should
eisobey the orders of their Governmer
•1 üblic treasure under their protection*:
lost entrusted to their charge—march to
(1 men in open opposition to authority—
c °minions of a British Ally, and final]
gainst their country, must excite grief a
n ent ; but the conduct of these Officers i
innocent men under their command, w
n-.ost powerful claims on their humanit
into the guilt and danger of rebellion, cc
a egravation of their offence that cannot
plated without feelings of the deepest In&
Sorrow.
• The Governor in Council is very far f
to aggravate the misconduct of those
unhappy men ; but he earnestly hopes,
ample of their climes and their fate will
cal the minds of the officers who have jo
plans a sense oldie danger of their siruat
propriety of endeavouring, by their ear
and futare zeal, to efface the deep stai
been cast on the honour of the Madras a
In announcing to the native troops th
event described in this order, the Goven
cil must express his concern, that any pa
five army should be so far deluded by m
tion, and so lost to a sense of the oblig
lity, honour, and religion, as to act aga
vernment which has so long supported t
The General Order of the 3d inst. ;
duct that has been observed towards the
at the Presidency, the Mount Vellore, 'J
Bellary Gooty, and Bangalore, must
whole native army of the anxiety of Gc
promote their welfare, and save them Ti
into which they were likely to be p
gets
in Council still places the
Bence in the fidelity and zeal of the TI
and is convinced that they will not w
the high reputation which they have so
by joining in the execution of plans tha
their disgrace and ruin.
, The Governor in Council trusts the
• of the Chittledroog battalions, who a
selves to be engaged in opposition to
anent, will have the effect of prevailing
part of the native army from suffenn
under any circumstances, to be placea
adverse to their duty and allegiance.
• The Governor 41 Council avails hims
• ..

to ezpresi. in the most public • s • der in Chief to i
ice of the zeal, moderation, -h, 1809,
laved by the Government of ' • of theiTipOoduc
ish Resident and Commanding I • ost powafla
transactions that have recently-ace , to abstain troln
intry. The'British Resident and the S A:letter from the Right
Mcer in Mysoredid not permit the ad. • ion in Council, dated the 2C
:tyre measure until every means of expostula- ing of the steps ,adopted
cl forbearance had been exhausted. and until George, with respect to t

u believed that / can have little doubt
it 16--
gn Bv that act on the part of Government
uier.
publicity was given to the state of
most
existed between it and that portion of the
• as it
pto which lam alluding. In the developement
prudence seem, upon that day
which the dictates of
0 have rendered indispensible, the natives were ex-
ssly included. The Native Officers of corps were
casenea by Authority to receive an
to su explach naof their
the measure tion of
adopted, with respect
European Officers as had declined affording the test
shat had been required. The policy of reserve from
an apprehension of alarm, ceased with that act; and
it became from that moment the proportionate duty of
every
friend to his country, by rallying round Go.
lc front, to countervail as much as possible the evil
pnlidency of a disclosure that had taken place, and
mad be no loitger restrained.
If iocllviduals, the combination alluded to being
effected, ire pushing their plans for the co ntroul ofGovernment to the este& described, it is for this
tearer, exorcising its legal discernment, to give to the
the satisfaction of knowing that, if they
or:b:eked in a conflict with their fellow-subjects,
tlo• are about to contend. at least, on the side of duty,
oreservation of whatevei ought to be dear to
in opposition to betrayens of their trust, ern-
. :•.,:v;in the subversion of the State the arms com-
ms., dto them for its preservation. Dreadful indeed
s. d:e alternative to which Government has been
drivea, more especially considering the numbers en-
N
sa,ed i•lthis design, for whom many a consideration.
Cicacl. But dreadful as it is " they who take
arms against a lawful established Government, create
the necessity of all acts requilite to be done on the
ciao of that Government, in order to repel and subdue
11,cal, and which in the nature of things become un-
for their suppression."
on the other hand those, who on Shah an occasion
:Ja make up their mind.. to be instrumental in corn-
:ionising the public Authority, are evidently blind
consequences, or actuated by views quite distinct
the public good. Compromised it could not
without consequences following infinitely more to
dreaded than any evil to be apprehended from the
,:cadv apposition to armed demands, if Government
possess the means of making it.
Thanks to the loyalty of his Majesty's corps, of
these of the Hononrable Company, who are adlie-
ig to their duty, And to the discriminating sense
of the Native Officers,the apprehension of any great
itimate danger to the State seems to be subsiding.
—The desperate experiment of forcing Government,
of substituting in effect an aristocracy (the worst of
ail Governments), in place of the one under which
. is our happiness to live, will, there is now reason
to hope, be defeated without the difficulty them-tight
have been expected. In the mean time, Gentle-
it becomes us at such a moment, to recog-
Lire, in the acts of the ruling power, the discharge of
erreme and painful duty. It should be remembered,
that the British Establishments in India represent the
antliority of the State at home, in whichtheir con,
(Incas are severally responsible. It is some time
S.lnct, they could no longer, with propriety, be con-
siderel in the limited view of mere chartered Govern-
vents. They have stood now for several years on
the foundation of a celebrated Act of Parliament de-
fining their powers and relative, with reference to
which latter they may be regarded as national Go-
vernments, as much as any other within the Empire.,
to which the Ring directly apoints. Against such
an authority it is, that many of the Company's Officers
may be considered as at this moment in arms ; many
more in a state of desertion from their duty, having
incapacitated themselves from performing
.it by de-
,. •
caning to abide by the tenor of their Commusions--
In such a state of things, Gentlemen, is it for the
Government to surrender ? Digress might compel
it: it must be extreme, however, indeed, to justify a
thought of the kind. If it have the means of pro-
tecting the public authority, it is its duty to assert
them for that purpose to the utmost.
Gestkmea, the sentiments which upon this occa-
sion I wish to convey, occur in a paper I have lately
had occasion to see, so stated, that while I adorn my
charge by their insertion, I think I cannot snore effec-
tually serve the cause to which therrelvte, than by
offering them to you as I find them expressed.
" I should sincerely hope (says the writer of it)
that there is no Officer, however deluded by his pas--
sirtni, who to procure redress for his grievances, will
deliberately justify an act of resistance against the
legal and established authority of Government. Were
they ten times as numerous as they are repeesented to
ite, it will not, I trust, be asserted that redress, hould
be insisted upon, though the Government itself be be-
trayed in the attempt. But the Officers seem to
insider themselves irrevocably engaged by certain
;;edges and promises, from whence they think !
they cannot recede with honour to themselves. A
tae from one Officer to another is assuredly a
uteri h, nbligation, and one that should not be lightly
°',..nnkned. But the officers should,seriousiv reflect
them are sacred pledges and promises which are
areecedent and superior to those that they have given
y's3PPort their present desperate undertaking. In
._
g a pledge to promote a hostile combination
against the Government, the officers should recollect
d►at they violate all their solemn obligations as sol-
diers and subjects. No promise to perform an illegal
.41 can be legal ; no engagement ought to be consi-
''''ll • •which •os as oinding, is itself a violation of all prior
and superior engagements. The duty of a soldier to
superior,' and of a subject to his Government, is
pra:arount to his duty to ti brother officer."
This beautiful exposition of sentiments the most
"rect, alines fr'rle an accomplished Officer, in the
same seraice, the character of which upon the coast.
the appli“tion.of them so severely, but so justly nr-
T4igns ; and I an happy in..being empowered to give
It them the 'Jse:lest oossible circulation.
Gentlemen, there is.'s been averred to you, in jns-
tiAc.ition of the's;le.srge th:t I am delivering,nothing
Sin what I have, a,:foui) the best authority, reason to
knew to be the fact. The consequence, I should
think, woiild in the wind of every good subject, in-
itantar.enesly follow. Rebellion is to be discounte-
nanced and put down. Every attempt to intimidate
&mermen into the retraction of Acts that have
ixen (ieliberritely adopted, and may, if exceptionable,
he rectified, at home, should be reprobated as tend-
to the subversion of its general aothority, upon
maintainance of which the peace and preservation
4 st)6'-'l3, depen4s. In thus exhorting you, Gentle-
'le.:, I arn not nndertaking the defence of Ineasur=si

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lea tali asaigo. *ot only it is unpnsslble that I flea
have had any participation in those which have h -ftm
so persaveringlr.resented by the great body of th.
Company' OfficeTs upon this Establishment, and
highly improbable, at least that I should have been
consulted upon them : but, from this seat of truth
and justice, I take this opportunity of declaring, that
of the occasion and grounds of them I know as
much, and no more, than the least informed among
yourselves. But, although it is not fur me to defend
measures, there are principles which it is my province
to inculcate; nor, regardless of all private interests
and particular prejudices, can you, Gentlemen, pos-
sibly, at this moment, tender a more important ser-
vice to your country, than by adopting and enforcing
them to co-operate in bringingback the deluded to their
duty, and reaming to this distracted portion of the
Empire something like union and security.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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We mentioned on Saturday the arrival of the
Country ship William, from Bombay. By this vessel
Major BIRD arrived from the Cape of Good Hope,
charged with dispatches from Lord CALEDON, Admi-
ral BERTIE, and Mr. PRINGLE, but the ship William,
in which he came, being closely chacedin the chops
of the Channel on Monday last, by a French priva-

teer, he threw these dispatches overboard.

The Major however brought with him most impor-
tant official intelligence, as published in General Or-
ders by the Government of Madras, from which it
appears that the disputes between the civil and mili-
tary departments had produced bloodshed.
On Saturday afternoon the substance of the intelli-
gence was circulated in this, following Bulletin :
yMajor But D landed at Plymouth on the 19th inst. from on
board the country ship Wit.mtsa, having sailed from the Cape
of Good Hope the 19th-November, and from St. Helena on the
Ist December. Two days previous to his departure from St
Helena, the country ship Gastots took her departure from that.
island for England, charged with dispatches from the Governor-
General, dated Madras, the 17th September, announcing the
restoration of discipline and obedience in the Coast Army, by the
submissiol of the Committees of lasurgeots established at Serin-

maws' and Hydi abed.
" The Committees at Seringapatam and Hydrabad bad for
some time disagreed as to the line of conduct to be pursued by
the army, when the defeat of a large body of the insurgents under
Captain MAeaIN row determined them in their submission.
•' hi scxtNTosa, with two battalions of native troops, inter-
cepted an escort with treasure belonging to the Company, to a
considerable amount, between Chittledroog and Seringapatam,
and was carrying it to the latter place, when he was overtaken
by the 25th King's regiment, a body of Mysore horse, and some
other native troops; a severe action ensued, in which the mud.
neers were defeated and dispersed, and MACKINTOSH was
wounded and made prisoner.
" Lord MINTO arrived at Madras on the Ilth September.
" Major BIRD was charged with dispatches from the Cape and
from Bombay, but threw them overboard in the Chops of the
Channel, on being chased by a French privateer.
" lite troops on the Bombay Establishment manifested, during
the late alarming commotions, the utmost loyalty and attachment
to the Government, and had delivered up to punishment some
emissaries sent from Seringapatam to engage them in revolt."
Lord MINTO'S dispatches on this important subject
have not yet arrived. His Lordship reached Madras
on the 11th September. On the 17th the Ganges
country ship sailed with his dispatches on board, and
on the 29th of November passed St. Helena ; her ar-
rival is therefore hourly expected. In the mean time
we have given in the preceding columns a variety of
public documents, and to these we must refer our
Readers.
We need hardly add that many distressing rumours
were circulated in the course of yesterday, in which
the names of individual officers were freely mentioned
as ringleaders in the revolt. It would be cruel to
enter into details of this kind. Indeed we do not
think that the public have yet been put in possession
of sufficient information to enable them to form a
correct opinion on a subject which demands and will,
-we hope, receive an ample public investigation.
After this Paper was put to Press, we learnt that
the Ganges from Madras hnd arrived at Falmouth.
The Packets are not expected before to-morrow.

By the Dispatch packet we have received accounts
from Malta to the 10th ult. and from Gibraltar to
the 7th instant. The troops in both garrisons were
healthy. The. Dispatch left at Malta his Majesty's
ships TERRIBLE, BVI.WARK, SPARTAN, and IMOGEN.
The Mary and Montrose packets had sailed for Mes-
sina. The Princess Augusta had arrived at Gibraltar, ,
and proceeded for Malta.
Intelligence has also been received from the South
of Spain to the beginning of the present month, and
from the North to the 6th instant. They talk of: the
improving state of the Spanish armies, but they con-
tain no military events. •
We mentioned in our last, that intelligence had
been received by express from Cork, stating that a
bill had been proposed in the American Legislature,
for imposing an embargo on all American vessels.—
This intelligence is confirmed by the master of a ves-
sel which reached Liverpool on Friday from Boston ;
%-ho adds that the proposal was rejected, after a warm
and tumultuary debate. If we may credit letters
from, places much nearer the scat of the American
Government, the debate on this or some other sub-
ject was so extremely intemperate, that it led to a
duel, in which General SMITS!, the brother of the
Secretary, was shot dea.l at the first discir4rg

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