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CtILCUTI'di GAZETTE EXTRAORDIN4II2r.

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1810.

GENERAL ORDERS.
BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL

IN COUNCIL.
• Fart St. George, March 9, 1819.
The fallowing Extraets of Letters from the Honourable the
Court of Directors to the Honourable Governor in Council,
dated the 15th and 29th-of September, are published.
Extract of a Letter from the Honourable the Court of Directors,
dated September 15, 1809.
Para. 2. We have received your letters of the 20th
and Slst January, 3d and 28th February, 1809, toge-
ther with their several inclosures, and we view with
the deepest concern the transactions thus brought un-
der our consideration.
3. We have at all times entertained a just sense of
the merits and services of the Officers of our Army,
and have taken every proper opportunity to evince
that sense, and our consequent regard and attach-
ment to their interests.

4. Of this habitual and deep-rooted sentiment, we
had repeatedly given the most unequivocal proofs,
and particularly in our late instructions to our Go-
vernments abroad, in support of the fair pretensions
of our Officers to posts of honour and command ;
thus endeavouring to render the periods of their ser-
vices in India both honourable and advantageous ;
whilst the ample prevision made for their retirement
in Europe, at an immense and indefinite expence,
affords an instance of the regard and liberality of their
employers, not t.i be paralleled in any other service.
In aid of this last-mentioned object, we have very re-
cently, in answer to some of the last dispatches from
Madras and Bengal, made liberal donations to the
funds established at those Presidencies for the main-
tenance and support of distressed officers, their wives,
and families.

or trial for himself ; but an officer in eommatd of ate
particular corps cannot, in the nature of things, ws.
dertake to answer for the conduct of an Officer 'in
command of another corps, far removed, perhaps,
from his possible observation, much less for a whole
body of such officers so circumstanced.

15. The character of each individual must be dis-
tinct and particular ; and a combination, therefore,
of many Officers to repel insinuations (supposing
such to have been advanced) against unnamed indi-
viduals of their body or class, respecting whose con-
duct the personal knowledge of the Members gene-
rally of that body could not enable them to speak,
does not seem to be founded in any principle of
equity; nor would it be justified by alledging that
general insinuations against the whole body, but point-
ing to no officer by name, could not be met in any
other manner ; for the obvious course to be followed
in that case would still be, that every individual Offi-
cer who conceived his character to be brought into
question should desire to have his own conduct sepa-
rately investigated.

16. But we are the more astonished at their pm-
ceeding, when we consider the expressions which
have been assigned as the ground of the charge.—
Detached as they have been from their context, they
still appear to us to be couched in the usual style of
official discussion, and to be as far from conveying
any imputation against individual characters, as the
minutes of Sir John Cradock and Mr. Petrie, by
which the plan was supported. But when they are
considered as they actually stand in the paper pre-
pared by Colonel Munro, forming a part of the chain
of reasoning founded upon general principles, it ap-
pears to us that no inference can fairly be drawn from
them unfavourable to the character of the Madras
army.
17. While, therefore, we condemn the conduct of
the officers who preferred this charge, we approve of

5. Whilst, however, we are thus attentive on the I the terms in which you have states your opinion of
one hand, from sentiments not of justice and libera- t the grounds of it in your General Orders of the
lity only, but of attachment and esteem to the inte. i 6th of February. It was a proper attention to their
feelings, and still more to the feelings of those Offi-
rests and just pretensions of our Officers ; we must i
not, on the• other hand, lose sight of the necessity 1 cers who had no share iii that irregular and unjusti-
and paramount duty imposed upon us, of supporting ' fiable proceeding, to declare in a public document
the authority of the Government under which those that no injurious imputations upon their previous
Offieers serve. • conduct were conceived by the Governor in Council to
6. The support of the Supreme Authority of our i have been intended in the report of Colonel Munro.
several Governments in India is essential to the pre- . 18. We cannot dismiss this part of the subject with-
servation of those Governments, to the maintenance out observing that the circumstances of the case be-
of civil order, to the protection of society, and even I fore us involve a question of the greatest importance
to the well being and existence of the army itself. I—the1—the claim of individuals who may think themselves
7. We are at all times desirous to pay due regard, aggrieved by the opinions or reflections of an Officer
to the representations of our officers, and extremely •of the Government, communicated by him in Of
her
to impute censurable or unworthy motives dience to the orders of his superiors, and in discharge
to any of their actions ; but it is impossible for us to : of his official duty, to bring such Officers to trial for
consider their conduct, in the transactions brought! those communications.
now before ns, otherwise than as highly improper and I 19. If persons holding responsible situations were
unmilitary. plable to be exposed to the vexation and ignominy of
8. It appears from the papers now brought under public trial, whenever they may, in the,discharge of
our consideration, that about the month of June, ; their official duties, have delivered opinions adverse to
1807, your Quartcr Master General, Lieutenant. ! the sentiments or even the interest of any part of the
Colonel Munro, in obedience to the orders of our service, it will be impossible for such persons to do
then Commander in Chief, at Fort Saint George, ' their duty to the public in any instance which may
Sir John Craddock, (which orders were. communi. interfere with these sentiments or interests ;or to give
sated -to the Quarter Master General by a letter of , upon any question a fair and honest opinion, it that
the 7th of February, marked n private and confiden. opinion may, by inference or constrained application,
tial," submitted to his consideration and approval b.! construed into a criminal insinuation against the
n paper, purperting to be a plan for the provision of : character and conduct of individuals. If such a claim
tents, and the carriage of the tents and stores of na- could be maintained—if the practice which it inctil-
tive corps, which articles had previously been suppli- , sates were to prevail—it would put an end at once to
ed by a contract with the Commanding Officers of all official confidence, and leave the Government
those corps respectively. without the means of obtaining information respecting
9. This Paper was soon afterwards laid before the existing errors, defects, or abuses, or of forming plans
Governor in Council by Sir John Craddock, who sta.' for the correction of any arrangements which have
ted in the Minute which accompanied it, fa that it a tendency to produce them. We thought it neces.
would be superfluous in the extreme to urge at any ' sary to state these principles generally and broadly,
length the validity of the arguments set forth in the' because we are deeply impressed with a sense of their
Quarter Master General's Report, as he might say i until and importance. With respect to the particu-
ey conveyed the result of their joint reflections upon , lar case of Lieutenant-Colonel Munro, it may be ob.
;et, and were the issue of that experience : served, that the communication was not only official'.
\rose from their respective situations." It was : but confidential—its insertion in the records of Go-'
by Mr. Petrie, then President, who observ. vernment, was no act of his, but the act of the Corn-
minute, on considering that paper, that the mander in Chief. By wha t means the paperbecame pub-
, many of the statements which he had deliver- lic, we have no authentic information; no reason what-
-803, when he opposed the opinions of General I ever has appeared for supposing that. its publicity was
lo brought forward the measure of the tent : owing to the Quarter-Master-General. Were we ac-
had been by the experience of past years ' quainted with the channel through which it became'
ly verified, as well as the apprehensions he public, and was afterwards circulated through the
that both the public and individuals would '.
different stations of the army, at the possible hazard
that arrangement. i (though we trust not with the direct view) of crea-
The plan, so approved, was, together with the ting discontent, we should think it necessary to mark
which stated the ground of it, transmitted tol such a breach of confidence with our high approba.
7ernment of Bengal ; and, being returned with.; tim-
Iplete approbation and sanction, was adopt- ! 20. It appears, further, from the 30th paragraph
Government of Fort St. George, and was of your letter of the 29th January, 1809, that the
fence published to the army, and carried " Officers who had preferred the charges against the
,ct in May 1808. i Quarter-Master-General of the army, had, in conse.
On the 20th of September, 1808, a charge. quence of the declared sentiments of the Judge Advo-
Ismitted to the Head-quarters of the Army . sate-General regarding their illegality, requested that
Lieutenant Colonel Munro, signed by the of. the Commander-in-Chief would suspend the prosecu.
then in command of five regiments. of Native don of them." We are induced from this statement,
and twenty-three battalions of Native In; to indulge a hope that the Officers who had given in
(Or 41 conduct unbecoming the character of those charges against the Quarter-Master-General,
and a gentleman, in having, in his propos.. had become sensible of the impropriety of having
for the abolition of the Tent Contract lately . preferred them ; and this consideration, if it should
' officers commanding Native Corps, made turreflut to be well-founded, may relieve us from the
Ise and infamous insinuations, the/0)y tend- • disagreeable necessity of taking further notice of their
ijure their characters as officers, and other- misconduct in this respect.
curious to their reputations as gentlemen ;" ! 21. Having considered the proceeding of the Offi-
, this charge Lieutenant Colonel Munro was, cers who preferred the charges against Lieutenant-
20th January, 1809, ordered into arrest by Colonel Munro ; we come now to notice the conduct
cant General /stacdowall. of Lieutenant-General Macdowall, our late Com-
The charge thus preferred against the Quarter mander-in-Chief at Fort St. George, in relation to
General appears to have been founded on cer- this affair.
:pressions,in his report which had received the 22. We enter upon this task with extreme concern,
and approbationof all theauthorities in India not only because we feel reluctance in passing any
;t to decide upon it. Admitting for a moment animadversion upon an officer who has, after long
- expressions had been exceptionable, defer- services in India, filled so high a squation ; but be-
those authorities ought to have iniposed for. cause it has been urged by some of his friends, that
Ice—Officers who thought themselves aggrieved we ought to wait for any justification he might wish
were at liberty to adopt a litre of conduct to oiler of his own conduct. To this last suggestion,
ight have afforded them an opportunity of although his proceedings at Fort St. George du not
ing their own individual characters, without indicatelany mention of appealing to us, we should
ig from their respect for those autlioritieswhich have been willing and even anxious to attend, if we
were bound to obey. did not consider that his case was fully before us, by
' any Officer thought himself alluded to or his own public documents upon record, and if we did
aggrieved by any thing that-Colonel Munro had said, not deem it essential to the peace and authority of our
_ easily have repelled the supposed imputa. Government, that no time should be lost in declaring
ly demanding that, if he were suspected, he our sentiments upon points which have been brought
be brought to trial upon it; Government would into question by the public acts -of this officer ; to
either have granted a Court-Martial, or would those public acts alone, and chiefly in respect to the
: officially and publicly declared that no imputa- bearings they have upon our present and future in-
rested upon such Officer. terests, our attention will be directed.
..___ Each individual Olhiser would have had an 28. It appears that Lieinenant General Macdowall,
let4mithte4l right to hags demanded such a clearance, _notwithstanding he had been officially informed by
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