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

open and ardent oPposition to thaboverament lohlth
he serves, is no trivial evept, andOoludtonnap=
of things from which sue,ecalmmaimengnow.
to this question, have appeapEdto us to
..e. •
78. We considerthiweircuinstanees• therefore) kit
furnishing a new modfratiots of- themilitary prim.
ple first asserted.- and we are of opinion; that in such
extraordinary and momentous ies, it is .fit
and necessary to require, that whose duty
'it is togive compel to the orders of the Commander
in Chief, shoqld, contrary to the general principle of
blind obedience which ought to prevail in ordinary
txtnes, carefully consider these orders,, and deliberate
.seriously upon their nature and purview, before he
publishes them. The circulation, in heated noil.bc-
tious times, of a seditious address '
to `the army, Ikas
no analogy to the principle of military obedience to
a military order in the common dispateirof business,
and cannot be governed by the same fules.
79. We are after much and serious reflection,
de-
cidedly of opinion, that this restriction of the military
principle, the general importance of which we never-
theless feel most sensibly, cannot impair the obliga.
tions of military subordination and obedience; in may
manner qe. degree, prejudicial to the natural and legi-
timate Objects of military command ; and that in
times of trouble,. it may afford a most salutary and
necessary reflection to the Government and people,
against the possible perversion"of military supremacy ,
to the purposes' of sedition or faction.
80. In a natural and' wholesonte stated things the
obedience of subordinate, Officeri is 'to be implicit ;
admitting of no deliberation and subject to no respon-
sibility, except foi plain and manifest crimes. In
such distempered seasons of open contention' with
Governments as are now in question, addresses from
j Commanders in Chief to their armies, having refer-
ence I ence to such.debates, area fit subject of deliberation
I to those whose office it may be to transmit them, and
a responsibility belonging exclusively to such ocelo-
t sions, must attach even to their official and ministe-
lrial acts.
81. In conformity with these sentiments, we have
, no dqubt of the responsibility of the late Adjutant
and Deputy Adjutant-General of your army, on the
occasion of publishing the General Order of the 28th
January • and we are of opinion, that if the author of
I that Order is himself guilty of sedition, as we esteem
him to be, these confidential officers of the staff, who
consented to be the instruments of hiscrime, are under
I all the circumstances implicated in the guilt and sub-
, ject to the penalties of the offence.
I 82. If there were doubt, however, upon this ques-
tion, which, as weighing general and fundamental
principles against particular modifications of them,
j must always be a delicate one, we cannot quit the
I subject without repeating, that it is not a fit mater'
for the interference of the army itself. In what par-1
I ticttlars seditions may consist ; under what circum-'
• stances the official instrumentality of an efficerin the
crime of a superior shall subject him to personal res-
ponsibility, are questions to be discussed in colder
I blood, and by a different description of counsellors,
than are always to be found in numerous bodies at a I
I period of beat and irritation. They are worthy of
the informed and impartial deliberation of lals Ma-
jesty's confidential Servants and Advisers, and of the
Supreme Rulers of the army of India, the honourable
the Court of Directors.
83. To snatch a question of that nature and im-,
portance from the decision of those authorities, at the
very moment of its formal reference to their judg-
ment, and to cast it as
.a source of discordant violence
into the midst of an army already warmly agitated,
is the part of incendiaries and not of friends, either
to the army or the state. It is a great Crime, and
being that of which the officers who have lately ex-
perienced the marks of your displeasure have appear-
ed to you on a careful investigation of the facts to
have been guilty, we have no hesisation, although
we deeply lament the occasion of this necessary seve-
rity, in approving and commending the vigilant
energy with which you have in a season of great dif-
ficulty and danger asserted the legal authority ob
your Government, prevented the factious contagion
from spreading through the honourable and hitherto
untainted ranks of the Coast Army, and provided for
the security and integrity of the British Empire in
India.

81. You will perceive that much of what has been
said on the Memorial, is applicable to the address to
Major Boles.
83. This is also a measure connected with. a mili-
tary combination. It assumes the cognizance of a
question which belongs to fitter and higher tribunals.
It pronounces, in the name of an army, open cen-
sure of the Government, which the army is bound to
obey.
86. In these respects it stands on the same footing
and partakes in all the criminality of the paper we
have already considered. But there is in the address to
Major Boles, a character of transcendent guilt and
danger, which is peculiar to itself,. We allude to
the scheme, of which it professes to lay the foun-
dation, of a combination of private power to contest
with the power of Government ; organized resources
of resistance, mutual support against the hand of
justice; and indemnity against the legal consequence
of crimes.

87. We do not know how it is possible to approach
much nearer that extreme crisis, which he so emphati-
eally menaced in the Memorial, without reaching it.
We trust, however, confidently, that those who have
been improvidently betrayed into those desperate
courses, will have been awakened to a sense of their
perilous situation ; and that by arresting the progress
of the foremost, you will have saved their inconside-
rate followers from the ruin and dishonour to which
their leaders were conducting them.
88. With regard to those who have taken a leading
part in these criminal transactions, we feel that every
principle of tried and established policy, applicable
to such conjunctures, and every obligation of your
sacred trust, forbad the extension towards them of a
false and mischievous lenity.
89. We concur also entirely in the sentiment ex-'
pressed in your General Orders of the Ist ultimo; that
it is not sufficient for officers holding commands to
avoid a participation in such proceedings, but that it
is their positive and indispensable duty to adopt the
moat decided measures for their suppression, and to
report them to the superior authorities. The pur-
poses of tumult and sedition may as effectually be
promoted by their negative concurrence- as by their
!agile participa4en.

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lacer who, aPprlzeditaiirogress of disoiderly 'pro-
ettecrtngs among those who are placed. under his im-
mediate eeetroul, abstains from any attempt to sap-
leas them, either by the exertion of his own authority,
-cif by an appeal to the superior power, gives-to those
proceedings one mode of encouragement, and cannot
stand absolved of blame, nor found a claim to
munity, much less to 'a continuance of that implicit
confidence, which is attached to stations of authority,
on the basis of so culpable and mischievous a neu-
trality.
91. From the whole of the preceding discussion,
you will naturally infer that we consider the offences
charged against those officers whom you have judged
ir necessary to suspend or to deprive of their appoint-.
ments and commands, fully justifying the respective
degrees of punishment which you have allotted to
' them.
92. The local means and advantages which you
L7:7Bas well as the great delicacy of the enquiry,
:ecessarily placed the application of these prin-
ciples to individeals, and the investigation of particu-
lar cases, under your exclusive cognizance; and we
have only to express that entire confidence which is
due to your station and characters, in the justice and
impartiality set less than in the violence and activity
of your proceedings, in a scrutiny so peculiarly cir-
cumstanced.

91 We observed with satisfaction that the general
tenor of the replies to the Circular Letter addressed
byMajoe.General Gowdie to the Officers commanding
at the siveral stations of the army, confirms the opi-
nion which we have expressed of the loyalty of the
major part of the Officers of your establishment.
94. In assuring you, therefore, of the firm support
of this Government, in maintaining a contest which
inv'tilves all that is most dear to our Sovereign and
country, if, contrary to our ardent desire and san-
guine hope, any future call should yet be made ill
the power and energy of your Government which
may require our aid ; we will conclude, however, with
expressing our fondest wish and expectation, that the
late afflicting agitations should subside in a calm and
reasonable reliance on the wisdom and justide of the
high atiurities to which the transactions of ell,
troubled period have been advocated, and in those de-
monstrations of respect and obedieuce, which are due
not more to your station, than to the faithful and ho-
nourable discharge of all your public but difficult du-
ties, which, in our opinion, has eminently distinguished
the present Government of Fort St. George.
95. Such a result will be most acceptable to ns,
most accordant with our views of d^ public interest,
and most congenial with those sentiments of affection
and respect towards the Army of the Coast which we
cordially profess, and remain assured that we shall
never have reason to renounce. We have the honour
to be, honoured Sir, your most obedient humble ser-
vants, MINT°,

Ikon William, May 27, 1809. J. LUMSDE?J.
Anneditos Copy, H. COLEBROOK!.
A Fm.coNAlt, Chief Sec. to Uovernmeut.

LONDON MARKET'S.
RETURN of WHEAT in Mark-lane, including only from the
SiSth of December to the 30th of Dec. Total 7,010 quarters

Mange 995. 3ld. higher than last rearun.
A RETURN OF FLOUR,
From the 23d of December to the 29th of December.
Total 14,856 sacks—Average 945. bid.
04 Id, higher than last return.
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, January 6.
Mirage Price of Corn in England and Wales from the returns
ending the 80th of December, 180'.
Wheat. Rye. Barley. Beans. Pease.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
I I
102 4 53 11 I 50 8 57 0 sti 11
The average Price of Sugar, computed from the returns made
in the week ending the 3d day 01 J.Lnuary. is 50s. 9id. per cwt.
INSPEGIOR'S Re:TURN 4f UXBRIDGL, Jau. 4.
Wheat per load 11,21. Os. to SOL Os.
Barley,per quartet 345. --d. to 48s. —d.
Oats 24a. —4l. to 40s. —d.
Beans 455. —(l.. to 645. —d.
Peas 545. -d. to 5Ss. —d
PRICES OF HAY AND STRAW.

ST. JAMES'S. WMITECUA
Hay 41. 104. to G 3. 10s. Hay 41. les. to 61. Os
Straw 21. 2s. to 21. 17s Cloves• 61. 104. to 71. is
Straw 21. 4i. to tn. 10$
PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW IN SMITHFIELD.
Meadow Hay 31. Os. to 61. Os. Clover 61. Os to 71. lOs
New ditto 01. 00s. to 01. ow. Rowin. 21. 101 to 41. Us

Straw 11. 105. to 21. ss.
PRICE OF HOPS IN THE BOROUGH MARKET.
SAG,. • POCK! rs.
Kent 41. 10s. to 61. Os. Kent 41. 15s. to 71. Os.
Susses Si. 10s. to 41. los. Susses 41. Os. to 51. Os
SMITHFIELD MARKET, January 11.
To sink the Offal per stone of 81b.
Beef 4s. 4d. to 6s. 4d. Veal 4s. &t. to 6s. 8d
Matto* ss. 41 to 6s. 6d. Pork 6s. Od. to 7s. 441

MEAD Or CATTLE 11113 DAT.
Beasts, about 2300-Sheep and Lambs, 17,500.
Calves, '230-Pigs. 350.
NEWGAfE AND LEADENHALL MARKET.
Perstone of elb.by the carcase.
Beef 3s. ed. to 58. Od. Veal 4s. 4d. to ds. 4a
Mutton 4i. ea. to 58. 4d. Pork es. Od. to 7s. 4d
Lamb Skins, Os. Od. to Os. Od.-Sheep Skins, Ss. ed. to 6s. Od.
PRICE OF LEATHER IN I.E.A.DENHALL MARKET.
Butts 21d. 234 d. Calf Skins 345. 'Ms
Ditto 23d. 24d. Ditto ' 348.395
Merchants' Backs 190. 200. Ditto 86s. 326
Dressing Hides 16d. 19d. Small Seals 3s. Od. is. 3d
Fine Coach Hides led. 200. I.arge ditto tuos. 130 s.
Crop Hides for curt. 1944. 1 ed. Tanned Horse Hides 19d tofd
Ditto 175 d. 193 d. Goat Skins Ms. Ous
RAW HIDES.
Best Heifers and Steers (per I
Ordinary 2.5. 6d. to Os. ed.
stone) 38. Od. to 33. 2d. Market Calf 141. Od. each.
Middlings 2s. 4d. to 2s. 311. English Horse 14s. to les. ed
COAL MARKET', January It.
Ships at Market Ships sold Price
714 Neu/castle Coals 3c.3t 575. Od. to 675. 6d.
1 Sunderland 1 563. 6d. to 003. Od.
2 St. David's Cool o J,. 0.1.
1 Scotch Cad - 1 4.94. 04. to 00s. •
, 1 Cinders 1 418. Id.
COUNTRY MARKETS.
▪ PRIVCS Or GRAIN AT THE FOLLOWING MARKETS.

Bssumostose.--Wheat 80s0d to 118 s Cd per Quartet.
Barley. 39s Cd to 50s Od I Bipns 522 Od to 67s Od
Oats 27s ed to 364 Od Prase 00s Od to 00s cd
Bread 2s 4d. per gallon.
lirxt.st.—Wheat Ses Od to 1241 Od per Qr.
Barley 33s Od to 541 6d I Beans 54s od to 66s Od
Oats 28s Od to 38s od Pease 60s Od to 63* Od
Bread. 2s. 6d. per gallon
MAIMS riazAD.—Whnt 86s Od to 118 s Od per. Qr.
38a Od to 49s od I Beans 45s Od to 6AOd
90s ed to 44s Od Pease 55s Od to 583 Od
Bread 2s. 6d. per gallon.
Navrauar.,--V7beat 94s od to 122 s Od per. Qr.
Barley 94s od to 50s Od 1 Pease 34s Od to 58s Od
Oats 25s Od to 38s Ad Beaus 50$ od to 65s Od
8read...... ..... ...2s 44 par gallon.
READING.-Wheat oos Od to 125* Od per Quarter.
Barley iles 6d to 5.5 s 6dilleans 470 Od to 644 Od
Oats Ills Od to Sts eld Pease 52s 6d to 554 6d
Bread 2s. Td. per pant.