The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-22 00:00:00

views quite distinct from the public good. Com..
pronised it could not be, without
following infinitely more to be dreaded that's 'Easy
evil to be apprehended from a steady opposition
to anneal demands, if Government possess the
means of malting it.
66 Thanks to the loyalty of his Majosty's
of those of the Honourable Company, who are
adhering to their duty, and to the discriminating
se.nsc of the Native Officers, the apprehension of
any great ultimate danger to the State seems to be
robsiding. The desperate experiment of forcing
Govern:Bent, of substituting in effect an aristocra-
cy (the worst of all Governments), in place of the'
WIC miler which. it is our happiness to live, will,
there is now reason to hope, he def. ated without
the difficulty that might have been expected. In
the mean time, Gentlemen, it b..•romos us at such
a moment to retognize, in the. acts of the
peer, the discharge of extreme and painful duty.
It should be remembered, th it the 11:itish Este.
blishments in India represent the authority of the
state at home, in which their conductors are seve-
rally reeponsible. It is some time since, they
could no longer, slim propriety, be considered in
tho limited view of mere chartered Goxernments.
They have stood now for several years on the
laudation of a celebrated Act of Parliament de.
ION! their powers and relation, with reference to
which latter they may be regarded as national Go.
vermacists, us much as any other within the Etn-
Vire, to ahi els the King directly appoints. Against
such .', authority it is, that many of the Con
's thlicers may be considered as at this mu.
loot it, arms; many more in a sleet of desertion
from their duty, having inrapacitated themselves
Nei performing it by declining to abide by the
tenor of their Commissions. In such a state of
things, Gentlemen, is it for the Government to.
surrender? Distress might compel it, it must be
extreme, however, indeed, to justify a thought
of the kind. if it hare the means of protecting
the public authority, it is its duty to assert them
for that purpose to the utmost.
16 Gentlemen, the sentiments which upon this
occasion L wish to convey, occur in a paper I have
Isfely had occasion to see, so stated, that while I
a.!01., my charge by their insertion, I think I c4ll-
- more effectually serve the gauss to which they
than by °flexing then to you 'Li I find them
expressed. _

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" I should Pineerelx hope (says the Writer of it) that
11 there is III) biter, hi/Never deluded by his passions, who,
" 13 procure redress for his grievances, will delitteratelyius-
" lily au tact of resistauce itgailat the legal and established
aullimity of Government. Were they tt•ii times as name-
" ono .as ttwy arc represetited 1./ be, it N iii oat, I trust, be
,` a what that redress should be insisted upon, tintagh the
" Gorr/norm itself be * traced in the attempt. hat the
6' tracers t., co. sike tlviuselses irrevoc.tbly eligaorl
" hi (calla plede, s nod promises, from whence they think
IP uley caun•A recede nal' honour to themselves. A promise
" from tone 031ver to nit:alter is assuredly a solemn oblige-
" thin, nisi one that should not be lightly abandoned But
I- the otlicen s 'fond lieriaikly reflect that there ate ut-
" rred pledges and pr 00000 ises which are antecedent cal
6' surriJr to thine that they have given to support their
pres.-at desper.tte undertaking. lu gisin4 a pledge to
" pr Amite a howilecinstuin.itio., against the Govenstocos lb.
6* titAr,•rs .11.aild recollt N that they violate all their sultana
0h114.1t inns witioldleve sod rilifeets. No prom* so parlors
" tut tits 4.1 art Gut he legal r DO eo,,angrnient ought to be COO-
" saltiest .a binding, is limn is itself a violation of all prior
' and superior engligemeuts. The duty of a soldier to his
" superior, aud ttra subject to his Government, is paramount
" to his duly La a brother officer."

" This beautiful czpo.ition of sentiment' tho
most carcet, comes from an Accomplished Officer
in the same service, the character of which spots
the coast, the application of them so severely, but
to justly arraigns ; and I am happy in being em-
Towered to give to them the greatest possible cir-
tulatiJn.

ig Gentlemen, there has been averred to you,
iu justification of the charge that I am delivering,
nothing but what I (rave, upon the best authority,
Teaina to know to het the fact. " The consequeriee,
shouid think, would, in thb mind of every good
!abject, instantancoasly follow. Rebellion is to
tc discountenanced and pet down. Every it.
tempt to iutimidateGovernnient into the retraction
of acts that have been deliberately 'adopted, and
may, if careptionable, be rectified, at home,
Pliuuld be reprobated as tending to the subver.
sion of its general authority, upon the maintain.
ince of which the peace and preservation of so.
eicty depends. in thus exhorting you, Gentlemen,
I am nut undertaking the defence of Meares,
non tali atrxilio. Nut only it is impossible that I
should have had any participation in those which
I'M been Si perteveringly resented by the great
body of the Company's Officers epos this lista.
tiishment, and highly improbable, at least, that
I should have been consulted upon theta; but,
from this scat of truth and justice, I take this op.
portunity of decla.!,ig, that of the occasion mid
grounds of them I know a • MOO) and no more,
than the least infotmed among yourschreik Bat,
though it is nut for me to delta() measures, there
are principles which it is sty province to Inca).
Bate; nor, regardless of all 11TITilte Interests and
particular prejudices, can you, Gentlemen, pos.
sibly, at this moment, tender a awn important
!create to your country, than by adopting and ea.
forcing them to co-operate in bringing back the
deluded to their duty, and restoring to this die.
!meted portion of the Empire euteetbiag like
anion and security."

On the first appearance of disaffectlOn in the •
Coast Army, special 'massagers were dispatched
by thelndian Government tip all the Native Courts,
in order to explain the circumstances which gave
rise to it, dissipate any apprehensions which might
be entertained of its effects, and wetch the dispo.
sitions of the Native rowers in convegel".l
thereof.
An attempt had been, mail' by the disaffected
(deers at 11a,ulipataais tatenti*lnckot.acr" the,
country to Bombay, with,* view to iodine th
Bombay army to co-operate,with theta. The wee.
tenger wan, however, intercepted, and the let-
ters forwarded to the Bengal Presidency.
The inhabitants of Sheffield have lately held a
meeting and come to some 'resolutions, having for'
their object the destruction of all doge found at
large after a public notice given by tho Mayor, in
conqcquence of sunlit recent instances of hydro-
phobia having occurred la thalteighhtturbiNd of
that will:,