Star.
London, England, 1810-01-09 00:00:00

I.NDIN INTELLIOERdt.

Da fa: arrival of the PRINCESS CHARLOTTI frigate,)
from st. Helena, With the LORD KEITH, MONARCH,
and EARL SFENCEit East-Indiamen, Government and
,},e Directors of the East-India Company have been
put into possession of the latest intelligence from Ma-
dras. We learn that the reports which had created so
much alarm, were greatly exaggerated. Lord MINT°
bad sailed from the seat of Government with his Se-
cretary, Mr. EDNIONSTONE, in the GENERAL STUART
IndialllaO, for Madras, where the Governor, Sir G.
11. BARLOW, with his suite, still remained, having
-toy, as a measure of precaution, retired from his
thual residence in the city, to the Government House
io the Fortress ; this is the only circumstance of mo-
ment that has yet been allowed to transpire on this
arc delicate business ; but we trust that *e shall very
„al have to state, that harmony has been completely
aaestablishcl. The appearance of Lord MINTo at
!art St. Gorr., it was conceived, would produce the
tat consequendes tovvaed effecting this desirable end.
The brig ARUM had been sent with dispatches
from the Governor of Ceylon, to Lord CAL/SDON, at
the Cape, giving an account of the disturbances at
Madras. After deliveringishose dispatches, the same
vessel proceeded to St. Helena, with duplicates of the
sere dispatches for the Governor of that place.
It is now said that no extraordinary additional
force will be sent to India. The number of troops I,
ready to be sent there does not exceed 5000 men : of
2000 consist of the ordinary recruits for the re-
eiments serving in India ; in addition to wl-om one
regiment, already under orders, will be taken on
from the Capes The Court ofEarectors are stated to
bare attentively investigated the Memorial-from the
smart() the Governor General, and hays advised upon
the subject with some experienced General-Officers.
The following additional particulars respecting the
capture of Isle Bourbon have been communicated by
spassenger on board one of the Indhunen just arrived :
On the 21st September St. Patti, in the island of
tourbon, was taken by the squadron from the Isle of
France, %leder Commodore Rowatar, consisting of the
RALIONABLI4 64, BOADICEA, SINUS and NEREIDE fri-
gates, and OTrait sloop of wain, assisted by a party. of
the 56th Regiment,-and some Sepoys, under Lieute-
nant-Colonel Kean's°, of the 56th. In the roils's
were taken the Caroline frigate of 48 guns, the Streat-
ham and Europe Indiame.n her prizes ; a privateer,
formerly the Grappler gull-latig, and several other
small vessels; the whole (except the Europe, sent to
borabay) were sent to the Cape under convoy of the
On ER sloop of war. The NEREIDE sailed for the Cape '
the Captain of the Caroline, and about 180 French
prisane-s, and arrived there on tie 18th 0 .tabor, after
a pas.sage of 17 jays. No Officers were killed on the
capture of St. Nara. Comr
aboutodore
e ROWLRY and the
md
eir
cruizing ground off the Isle of France
64 The Streatham's cato had not been touched by
the enemy, but that of the Europe bad nearly all been
landed. The storehouses in Which it bad been depo-
sited, were afterwards. burnt, a circumstance which
. accounts for the Streatham coming home a full ship,
and for the Europe's return to Bombay, where she is
to reload."
The Isles of ourbdn airy France are about 400
miles to the east of Madagascar. Bourbon has ao
port, but it has three convenient roads or,stations for
shipping, which are safe in favonrible weather. The
Isle of France has two excellent harbours, in the im-
provement of which no expence has bean spared : the
One to the.north-west is called Pert Bourbon ; the
hther, to the south-east, Port Louis, where is the
principal town and scat of Government. It has been
ss.pposed, that in consequence of this fortunate enter-
f:!te. against St. Paul's, in Bourbon, the Isle of
France, which ie distant *owe 35 leagues, must sur.
:ender a: discretion. It is proper, however, to state
the means of defence possessed by the inhabibratsa
should they be disposed to resist our small armament.
—Port Louis, which is now exclusively employed as
2'e:rig-Az on account of the difficulty of egress from
l':at Bourbon, is on the north side, acid its entrance is
far:ash a channel formed by shoals, which project
a'otaa. two-thirds of a league into the sea. When a
ship arrives opposite to this channel, the south-east
winds prevailing here, prevent her from entering the
pert under sail, and she must either be towed in by
beats, or warped in with cables. In addition to`this
neural means of defence, the French have constructed
' two forts, and as many batteries, which are mounted
with heavy cannon, and entirely prevent the approach
t the harbour, should any ship trs the experiment of
faltering it under sail. The port of Bourbon is also
fortified, and an army would find it extremely difficult
to pass the mountains tithe different situations on the
island. There are several places between the north-
east extremity to Port Louis, where crews might be
landed from boats, but these ate defended by bat-
teries, and the interior is a continued thicket. With
the exception of a small plain on the north-eastern
limner, the rest of the island is of a steep mountainous
t:iaracLer, where the vales, forming the beds of tor-
rents, are obstructed by huge fragments of rock.

PORTSMOUTH, lAN. 7.
Arrived this morning at the Motherbank, his Ma-
jesty's ship PatscEss CHARLOTTE, with the Monarch,
Earl Spencer, and Lord Keith East-Indiamea under
convoy ; his Majesty's ship MILFORD from Basque
Roads, and the RATLER sloop of war from Newfound-
land. Sailed the Adventure, Brunswick, and three
other running ships, for the West-Indies ; and the
COQURTTE on a cruize.—Wind S. S. E.
JAN. 81—Arrived his Majesty's-ship STATELY with
a convoy from the Downs, among them are the Traf-
ficker for Gibraltar, the Cato, Major, and Triton, I
transports. A fleet of transports are expected' from
Lisbon, two having already arrived, the Mary, HEN-
DERSON, at the Amy, BuaNErr. Dropt dcown to
• .6t. Helen's, his Majesty's ships IMPETUSUI and Ty-
*IAN. Nothing sailed-to-day.—Wind S.
DEAL, JANUARY 7.
Remain in the Downs the outward-bound that put
back on Saturday, and the Wexford, Ocean, and
Winchelsea East-Incliamen.—Wind S. S. E.
JAN. B.—Came down from the River his Majesty's
skip ULYSSES, and remains with the outward bound.
YARMOUTH, JANUARY 7. •
Sailed the Eliza armed ship, British Fair and Susan
cutters. Arrived from a cruize off the coast of Hol-.1
land, the Tat:ratios and DRAKE sloops of war. The
Acorn gun-brig is bound to Heligoland with trans-
ports, and the CENSOR with the Saldanha to the Nore.
In the Roads—Prineess Carolina, Defence, Roebuck, Saldanha,
Tartarus, Bold, Starling, Acute, Censor, Musquitto.
Refitting—Chanticleer, Ernest, Havuc, Hearty, Onyx, Flamer,
Snipe, Patriot, Emms and Cheerful.
JANUARY 8.--Sailed this morning for Heligoland,
the ACUTE, with transports Patty and Zealous, with
stores.—Ships Of war remain as per last.
FROM LLOYD'S LIM
GRACESENS,'JA N. 7.--Arrived the Auroik, Swart, from Mid-
elleburgh ; and the Vollintine, Samford, iropt Quebec.—Sailed the
gleaner, Harrison, for Martinique ; Ceres, Cock, for Sierra
j Leone ; liawkesbury, Radley, for Jamaica; Indefatigable, Brand,
I for Demerara; and the Sidney, Beals, for Malta.
JAKvARt S.—No arrivals to-day.--Sailed, the Astrea, Askell,
for Surinam ; Rose, Houston, for Dublin ; George, Bacon, and
Swift, Hawkins, for Oporto ; Dart, Malcolm, for adeira ; and
the Beatrix, Robertson, for Lisboa.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING. •
In addition to the particulars stated yesterday, we
are enabled to give the following :
The Ocean, Union, General Stuart, and Tottenham, had ar-
rived at Bengal; horn Madras, and were loading for England.
The General Stuart afterwards sailed with Lord MiNTo, and his
Secretary, Mr. EnstostsToNt, for Madras.
The Lotd Durcan, Baring, and Carnatic, from Madras, had
also arrived at Bengal.
The Providence, Boyne, Warren Hastings, Fort William, Eli-
zabeth, and PerSCVer3llCei (country ships), were loading at Ben-
gal, for England.
The hotneward-bound fleet from Bengal was to be dispatched
in the beginning of September, and would consist of a great num-
ber Of ships.
No account whatever has been brought home of •the seven
missing ships.
Ihe Nottingham and Perseverance from Madras, arrived at
Penang on the 18th August, bound to China. The Lord Castle-
reagh had arrived at Penang from Bencoolen, and sailed again
18th August, for Bengal.
A very fine new frigate was launched on the 12th Aligner.
The following is a correct List of Passengers arrived
by the under-mentioned Ships, viz.
Psi EARL. Seer:mt.—Lieutenants Dudingstone and Lang-
stone, of his Majesty's 17th regiment, from Bengal; Cecil Smith, I
Esq. from St. Helena ; Row. Stephenson, Esq. and S. W. Rawle,
Esq. Merchant, from Penang; Miss Charlotte Sandford, Miss
Isabella M‘Gregor, Miss Eliza Burelem, Miss Mary A. Binger,
Master George Sandford, Master R. G. M'Gregor' Master J.
Burslem, Master J. B. Bone, Master Andrew Fell, and Muter
Matthew Power ; H. 8. Meer, R. Bentren, and W. H. V. Pohl- ,
man, Danish Officers, Prisoners of War.
PLR LORD Krurn.—Ensign Wrn. Standley, of the 9th Regl-I
meat of Native Infantry ; Mr. Edward Case, Lieutenant J. H.
Burgh, and Mr. F. Deviant., Midshipman of the Royal Navy;
Miss Jana Ferguson. Miss Jane Adams, Min Charlotte Adams,
mut Mager James S:unpson.
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Captain BERESFORD is appointed to the POICTICHS ; 1
Captain T. Gam?Es, to the Musstu, vice JAMES, de-
ceased ; Captain A. GoßooN, to the RATTLER. Cap-
tains KITTOE, RAITT, 8.-JAN:Es, BELL, and SHERIFF,
are promoted to Post Captains.
The num, Odossum, and Charybdis, which sailed
Lily from Portsmouth, are gone to the West bales

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FALMOUTH, JAN. d.
Attired the Humber aimed ship (Toni the • Cllftlet kr.sit gib** low THI Ctia;
DOA* VIC et. TM BIBIBAL %kilt, To Ent 0110160
Miry packet, Captain POCOCK, with a ititil, from the
Leeward Islands, SS days from Tortola, (the hail d tbi Hill°64ble Sir Baa Low• gegi:-1441.1C•13- Cla"1" •
will not be in town until to-morrow) the Prince .of nor Is
_s-ftio4t- Frit Se. Cleo*: t
Wales packet, Captain lIRKNISS, with a mail from 44. The(Cn"thddeitc .complkinft" Ft
rids/is thetreltaPalasil.sc)ot Liester-
Lisbon, in silt days. nant Colonel Munro. . •
TORBAY, JANUARY 5. 45. When an army steps so far aide from the path
Sailed this morning, bound to the Avestward, the of its proper an 3 legitimate duties, as to become-
GIaRALTAR, TONNANT PH(EBE, Antruusa, ARGO, become-
the insrtument of Purl, to mizin .political views, and
s to undertake the reniotal of 'Governors or Ministers,
40 guns, and Human, with a convoy. Arrived the we should have expected that any grievance ,they
hired brig LORD COCHRANE, from a cruize.—Wind should adduce; in support of a proteeding so foreign
S. E. fine weather. to their own character, should consist at least in some
act of grievance and intolerable oppression. The
PLYMOUTH, AND PLYMOUTH-DOCK, JAN. 6. measure which is. the subject of this complaint is, ott
Arrived the SURVEILLANTE frigate, 38 guns, Capt. the contrary, an aet of ghee and jerstice. It is not
Sir G. R. Conan, from a cruize between Basque the unjust arrest of any of for purposes of op-
Roads and Quiberon Bay ; left the squadron under Peession and vengeance, but it is the relief of an offi-
Admiral Srorermo, on Saturday morning last, and cer, amongst the most respected in the army, froth
the most tyrannical and detestable abuse of power by
the same evening, off Belleisles fell in with the DE- which an innocent add highly meritorious individual
FIANCE, 74, Capt. HOTHAM, the boats of which ship was ever oppressed.
had cut out, that afternoon, froth a strong-defended 46. We shall ever consider the prosecution of Co-
position, and close under the ftirtifieations of the Pa-
lonel Munro, and the part which Lieutenant Gene-
lais, (Belleisle) a very large British West-Indiaman, ral Macdowall bore in that transaction, as acts of
extreme injustice so far as they relate to the indivi.
which had been taken by a French pirivateer ; she vidual who wasthe subject of them: But these mea-
ls estimated worth upwards of £BO,OOO, and may be tures were not less culpable in °thee points of view.
hourly expected in here, as she was to sail on Sun- Both the advice which Lieutenant Colonel Munro
day last, in company with a Portuguese Brazilman, gave to abolish the tent contract, which we consider
taken by the CHRISTIAN VII. convoyed by the Mt-
as the real ebject of the proceeding ; and the Memo.
teal conveying that advice, a few lines in which were
NERVA frigate, Capt. Hewetes. Arrived also the made, without any imaginable foundation, the osten-
amen brig of war,fromi crui Le in the Channel ; the sible gfound of the charges preferred against him,
PINEBE frigate, 36 guns, from the" Eastward, and has had been not merely approved, but applauded by
come up Hameraze to be repaired. Sailed the Mie-
every authority to which they could officially be sub-
FoRD, 7-I guns, for Portsmouth ; INTELLIGENT gun- mitred ; by Sir J. Cradock, Commander in Chief of
the army Of which the accusers of Colonel Monro are
brig, on a cruise ; the NONPAREIL schooner for Fal- officers ; by the Governor and Council of Fort St.
mouth ; and Peoeue sloop on a cruize. The PHEA- George, tvhb hold the supreme military authority un-
saNT sloop went from Hamoaze to the Sound. der which those officers served ; by the Commander
JAR. 7.—The Ciesen, Isferrueux, ST. GEORGE, •in Chief M India, to whom, as officers, they owed
and Ammer, are ordered round here from Ports-
implicit reverence and respect ; and, lastly, by the
mouth, and may be expected to-morrow or Tuesday. Governor General in Council, the Supreme _and
highest British authority-in the East. To charge
Arrived the Ceocus, 18 guns, from Falmouth ; the
either the measure which had been adopted under
MINER frigate, Capt. HAWKINS, from Quiberon
these authorities, or the reasons upon which it Was
Bay, with the West-Ind.arnan cut out of Belleisle by
the boasts of the DEFIANCE, and the Brazilman taken recommended, and which had been sanctioned and
by the CHRISTIAN Vllth•—The DREADNOUGHT, 98 approved by the same authorities, as e base and in-
guns, Rear-Admiral SOTHEBY, is ordered to get famous crimes," was a studied insult offered by those
ready for sailing, to relieve Admiral Seopeonn, in Officers, and by Lieutenant General Macdowall, who
the &mote, (either in Basque Roads or Quibemn APported and co-operated with them, to every au-
Bay) who is coming home to attend the funeral ob-
thority which it was their duty to respect. This pro-
sequies of his revered parent, the Countess of Coen-
I ceeding aimed also distinctly at withdrawing the ma-
-Lee of Wed- nagement and direction of all military arrangement
TOWN, whose death appeared in the S
nesday last. regarding the regulation and economy of the army
from the legal authority of Government, in order to
place it in the shape of Courts Martial, under the di-
rection of the officers of the army themselves. Lieu-
tenant Coloeel Munro was the nominal culprit,
and the articles were to bear the absurd, and
for that reason, we must believe, the collusive and
pretended acrasation against him of calumny and
gar clef ; but the tent content's? rather iis-abolition,
was in effect to be the subject, for no other substan-
tial subject existed, of the trial.
47. We should, indeed, have been surprised, as
well as concerned, if any considerable part of the
'coast army had been prevailed upon to stain the pure
and honourable character of their profession, by lend-
ing their countenance in any shape, or in any stage,
to a proceeding stamped as this prosecution was with
{ injustice and oppression, and founded in such motives
as all the circumstances conspire to indicate.
48. But it is said, Colonel Munro was only to be
tried, and if innocent would have been acquitted—
yet the Memorialists themselves alledge that he was
already condemned —" having incurred. the suspi-
cion of having acted in a manner that was most ge-
nerally considered to have been criminal." e Hav-
ing incurred the ruspicion," are mere words of form
The meaning of the passage is a positive assertion
that Lieutenant Colonel Munro had acted in a man-
ner that was most generally considered to have been
criminal—we assume this to be the meaning of the
passage, because there was no question concerning the
facts.
49. It is difficult to imagine that such a charge as
that which was preferred against Lieutenant-Colonel
Munro, should have rested only on vague reports,
and that the officers who signed should not have used
'.alt the means in their power to obtain the perusal of
a paper on which they meant to found an accusation
'of libel. We must, therefore, presume, that the,
Memorial on the Tent Contract was in the hands ofl
those who charged its author with defamation. From !
that Memorial, therefore, never denied nor disavowed I
'by Lieutenant-Colonel Munro, and capable of cer-
tain and easy proof, is to be collected—e the manner
in which he had acted," and if that manner of acting
was already most generally accounted criminal, sen-
tence was already passed so far as faith tan be given
to the Memorial intended to be presented to this Go-
ternment. We trust, however, more in the honour of
the armythan in the party feelings of theMemorialists,
and we hope they were too sanguine in their expecta-
tions of so unjust a sentence. But although the ac- ,
quittal of Lieutenant-Colonel Munro must be supposed
possible, it was not fit that such an officer should be
brought to the bar as a criminal for his honest sere.
vices. It was not fit that the mode of providing car-.
riage for the camp equipage of the army, approved
and adopted as it had been by all the legal authorities
in India, should be appealed from those authorities
to a board of officers. It was not fit that this first
step should pass without opposition, in the process of
usurping the regulation of the army from Govern-
ment to the officers of the army. It was not becom-
ing that the Supreme Government, the Commander
in Chief of India, the Government of Fort SeGeorge,l
and the late Commander in Chief of that Presidency,
Sir J. Cradock, should hold up their hands as culprits
before a tribunal of officers sitting on judgment upon
the deliberate measures of their Governments.
50. The whole proceeding was monstrous, and we
repeat, in the strongest terms, our warmest approba-
tion of your just, legal, and indispensable interposition
on that occasion, to vindicate the honour of your Go-
vernment, and to shield one of your best and ablest
`servants from an arbitrary and oppressive abuse of
power. If you had omitted to do so, you would have
failed in the most sacred duties of your high station,

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to bd only the es* etiitiivritit
St lini idthittatif that the
Ititttlitl ii addressed in the
1 and vie deem his'authbrity exclusive
of the public, Administration.
',legal ptrrier ii illegal ; and
commit of the Governor in G.
judgment, and beyond all donbt, .
such abuses. This does not suppose ...
indiscrithinate interference. We assert
Government of Fort St. George, •
power to comb, in extraordinary
of their own authority, and agains
.merits combined With the oppression
men, by a gross abuse of the power confided, to the
Commander in Chief, in the direction of Military pro.
secutions. ,
52. If this opinion were ivrong, thei44iitigher
authorities, vat() have power to pronotince.it erroneous
and to provide another remedy ; which in 'that case
would be necessary for the evil supposed: •
53. -In the Meanwhile your opinion ryas binding ;
and, when confirmed by ours, is still Mae so on the
army of Fort St. George, who are 'not the judges
either in the first or last resort on that subject.
54. This is not a quesion in which the Officers of
the Army could be justified to interfere: It concerns
the extent of your legal powers under the Conttitution.
of your Government ; Upon which they cannot sit in
judgment. If the Commander in Chief, Lieutenant=
General Hay Macdowall, differed With yuu, as tie af-
fects to do, on that point, he might have properly stated
it to the Court of Directors and to hisltlajesty's 30-
vernment, for their decision; hut, when he' appealed
. that question to the Arms", which is subject to your
authority in India, as he did bt his General Order of
the 28th January, carried that Contiorersy to a tri-
bunal, ths incompetency of which he well knew ; and
before which, the agitation of such a question, as it
could tend to no useful Conclusion, so it could hardly
fail to kindle animositf.and excite discord, tending
assuredly to sortie Mode or other of public disorder,
And perhaps eventually • to 'nliditary insubordination,
sad mutiny itself ; in the progress of which, calamity
1 and distress were sure to'fali first and heaviest oit his
own friends and associates.
55. We pass naturally' from the General Order just
mentioned, to the dismissal of the Officers who pub-
lished it to the Army ; and our Sentiments on that
subject must materially depend on the ()pinion we en-
tettant of the character and tendency of the order itself.
56. In deliberating-on the subject, we have not
thought ourselves bound by the frirm under which the
substaace and real purview of this paper has, for ob-
tous reasons, been disguised.
57. It purperts to be a reprimand to Lieutenant-
Colonel Munro ; but substantially it conveys in every
line a ' reprimand to the Government of Fort St.
George ; and that repriMand is addressed to the
Army subject to hi authority. The subject matter
of the censure, passed ostensibly on Colonel Munro,
renders it inseparable from a censure on the Govern-
ment.. The offence charged upon that Officeniti hit
appeal to the Ptiesident in Council, from aft arrest ;mg,
posed upon him by the Commander in Chief, and the
General Order itself informs the Army; that the ap-
peal Which is the inbject-of his repriffistd,watfollowed
not by the reproof, but by the protection of GM:Ta-
mer% ' '
58. Lieutenant-Colonel Munro had exhausted all
the means. he -Possessed of claiming relief from the
Commander in Chief hiMSelf. This it was his duty
to do in the first histance. But when justice was de-
nied in'that quarter, and when the hand of persecu-
tion pressed close upon him, we are decidedly of opi-
nion, that be had a right to claim the protection of
the Supreme Military Authority, which is vested by
law in the Governor in Council of Fort St. George.
59. If that Government possessed a legalgower to
intervene in a case of abuse, it could not be criminal
in the party suffering under it to claim their protec-
tion ; and the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Munro
could not justly be made the subject of a reprimand.
60. That the Government of Fort St. George is not
restrained by law from this particular exercise of the
Supreme Military powers which it possesses; was ac-
knowledged by Lieutenant-General Macdowall him-
self, since he obeyed their order for the release of
Lieutenant-Colonel Munro. If that order had not
only been undue encroachment on his own autho-
rity as Commander in chief, but had been beyond the
legal and competent powers of those who issued it,
he would have been bound to obey it, as he distinctly
professed himself to be.
61. The Government of FOn St. George did not
exceed therefore their legal powers; and the only
question that could be made was, whether they exer-
Vised that properly in the particular instance ? On
.that point, undoubtedly, the Government of Fort St.
George is subject to the responsibility which is inse:.
Parable from the exercise of all delegated authority.
But to what tribunal were they amenable ? Where
was it proper ? Where was it for the public interest,
that Lieutenant-General Macdowall should carry his
appeal ? To the Army of Fort St. George, or to the
Sang and Court of Directors ?
'62. That he should convey this question to the Ar-
ely in the shape of a reprimand to Lientenant-Colo-
AlelNunro, appears to be in contradiction to his own
sentiments on the subject, as we have just stated them ;
'for, if the Government of Fort St. George had a le-
gal power to release Lieutenant-Colonel Munro, it
could not be criminal—it could not, in any degree,
be culpable ; it could not incur the penalty of a re-
primand—but it was his clear right and privilege to
Claim the legal and competent protection of Govern-
ment from the oppression of the Commander in Chief.
6S. If the- Government, on the contrary, did not
possess those powers, Lieutenant-General Macdowali
owes them no obedience.
84. If the legality of those powers be disputed, not -
withstanding the testimony borne to it by Lieutenant
General MacdOwall's submission, it is again to be
asked to what tribunal that disputed question ought
to have been submitted, to the Army or the Supreinz
Authorities in England ?
65. It is also to be inquired, whether, in a CODiro-
very/ between the Commander in Chief *Ft ,the Go_
vernment, concerning the limits of . disks ye
authorities, it was fit that Lieu —: MAC •
dowall should arrogate the declaim
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warrant to hold Courts
Commander in Chief
,txclosive in that branch
3. But the Attie of st
I the sUpreine military
Council eittends, in our
oilbt, to the preiention of
suppose an habitual and'
We assert only foi the
orge, a right and a legal
'try cases, to the support
Kamst seditioui encroach-
opptession of innocent