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MOST NOBLE the MARQUIS WELLESLEY; the political wifdom and forefight which ditinguished his conduct in negotiating and concluding a treaty with the Subah of the Deccan, whereby a body of 14,000 men, commanded by 124 French officers, were completely disbanded, and the officers made prifoners, thereby removing the caufe of great political apprehenfion, and leaving the army of his Highnefs at full liberty to act in conjunction with his British allies in the fubfequent conquest of Myfore; the zeal and alacrity fhewn by his Lordship in proceeding to the coaft of Coromandel, to forward the equipment of the army, which afterwards ef feted that glorious achievement, which not only terminated in the detruction of a moft implacable enemy, but by which the Company alfo acquired a very large addition of territorial revenue; the great ability, energy, firmnefs and decifion difplayed by him during the whole of the negotiation with the late Tippoo Sultaun, and the able manner in which the fubfidiary treaty with the Rajah of Myfore was concluded:

Refolved unanimously, That, in reward for fuch eminent fervices, his Lordship be requested to accept an annuity of 5000l. to iffue out of the territorial revenues in India, for the term of 20 years, provided the Company's exclufive trade fhall fo long continue, and the territorial revenue fhall fo long remain in poffeffion of the Company; to commence from the 1ft of September 1798, being the day on which the before-mentioned treaty with the Subah of the Deccan was concluded; and that the fame be paid to his Lordship, his executors, adminiftrators or affigns, for the term aforefaid.

On Wednesday, February 18th, 1801, a Court of Directors was held at the Eaft India House, when CHARLES WILKINS, Efq. was appointed Librarian to the Company's Oriental Repository.

On Wednesday the 4th of March a Court of Directors was held at the India Houfe, when RANDLE JACKSON, Efq. was unanimously appointed Advocate General for Madras, in the room of Mr. SULLIVAN, promoted to the station of Puifne Judge.

On Thursday, March 12, a Court of Directors was held at the EaftIndia Houfe, when the Reverend Henry Peter Stacy was appointed a Chaplain at the Prefidency of Bengal.

Tuesday, March 17, a General Court of Proprietors of Eaft India Stock was held at the East India Houfe, pursuant to notice. The minutes of the laft General Courts having been read, the Chairman acquainted the Court, that the Court of Directors having confidered, with the utmost regret, a letter they had received from the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, intimating his intention of relinquishing the fituation as Prefident of the Board of Commiffioners for the affairs of India, and the Court feeling the ftrongeft inclination to give fome teftimony of the high fenfe they entertain of the effential benefit the Company have derived from the unremitted exertions of that right honourable gentleman's abilities in that ftation for upwards of fixteen years, in addition to the important fervices he rendered to the Company. previous to that period; they have unanimously refolved, that he be requefted to accept, during the exiftence of the Company's prefent limitation of their exclufive trade, of an annuity of 2000l. to be paid to him, his executors, or affigns. The + L

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faid refolution of the Court of Di. rectors was then read in conformity to the 19th fection of the 6th chapter of the Company's by-laws. The Court was very numerously attended, and various converfations enfued, highly complimental to the ability and integrity of the right honourable gentleman; when the Court, on the motion of Sir W. PULTENEY, feconded by Mr. HENCHMAN, unanimously confirmed the refolution of the Court of Directors for granting an annuity of 2000l. to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas.

The queftion being difpofed of, Mr. HENCHMAN gave notice of a motion he meant to bring forward on Thursday fortnight, to indulge Mr. Dundas, during his life, with the houfe in Downing Street, appropriated by the Court of Directors for his particular accommodation while Prefident of the Board of Control; the fame afterwards to revert to the Company.

Mr. ALLARDYCE faid, he fhould have the pleasure of feconding the fame.

Mr. HENCHMAN faid, he fhould take an opportunity of moving the thanks of the Court on Wednesday next to Mr. RANDLE JACKSON, for the eminent fervices he had rendered to the Company, both in and out of that Court.

Mr. HENCHMAN alfo fignified an intention of bringing before the Court, at an early day, the fubject of the lofs of the Kent, and the ge. neral trade of India. The Court then adjourned.

On Wednesday the 25th March, Mr. JONES brought forward a motion at the Quarterly General Court of Proprietors of India Stock, for beftowing a prefent of 5000l. on Sir SIDNEY SMITH, for his gallant fervices at Acre. The motion was oppofed by Major METCALF. ——

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After fome converfation, the fubject of the motion was agreed to be left to the Court of Directors.

Death of General MARTINE. Our laft letters from Calcutta mention the death of General MARTINE, a gentleman well known, and much diftinguished in India, for his ingenious turn of mind, his eccentricities, and his wealth. He died at Lucknow in December laft, where he had refided many years in the fervice of the Nabob of Oude. His fortune appears to be much lefs than what his friends fuppofed, having left only thirty-three lacks of rupees (396,000l. fterling!) which, exclufive of a few fmall legacies, he has bequeathed to different charitable inftitutions in Hindustan.

We have the fatisfaction to ftate, on the authority of private letters received by the late conveyance from Madras, that the fugar plantations, in almost every district in India, but particularly in the province of Dindigul, under the fuperintendance of Mr. CAMPBELL, promife a very confiderable fupply for importation in the enfuing feafon.

Several fpecies of fpice plants have lately been introduced into Madras from the Molucca Iflands, and great hopes are entertained of their being brought to a state of perfection.

Agreeably to the orders iffued at Fort St. George, an increase of one regiment of native cavalry, to be called the 7th, and two regiments of native infantry, to be called the 18th and 19th, has been mare in the army of that prefidency. The promotions which take effect on this occafion, are made with as ftrict an attention to feniority in the line, as the operation of regimental rife will permit.

By the late miffion from Bombay

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to Schiraz, the commercial relations
between the Company and Perfia
have been extended and ftrengthen-
ed; and the King, in manifeftation
of the clofe and friendly connexion
thus promoted, has enjoined all his
fubjects, and particularly Imauna
Seyd Sultaun, who had been fufpect-
ed of favouring the intereft of France,
under fevere penalties, to abftain
from all intercourse, commercial or
political, with the enemies of Eng-
land. The prefent annual confump-
tion of Indian commodities in Per-
fia, is eftimated at about 2,300,000
rupees; and the exports, exclufive
of copper, about 960,000. British
fubjects of all defcriptions, as like-
wife the Company's dependants in
India, are prohibited from trading
with Perfia in woollens, metals, and
a variety of other articles hitherto
conftituting the ordinary inveft.

ments for that country.

The Company lately prefented a
time-piece, richly ornamented, to
the King of Siam, in acknowledge-
ment for his humanity to the crew
of an European fhip wrecked on his
Cat near Tenaflaruna. Machinery
bithis kind was previously unknown
in Siam, time being generally mea
fured by water-glaffes; and in pub-
ic places a man was appointed to
trike the hours, as they occurred,
on a large brazen vafe.

We are happy to find, by letters from Cotiote, dated 22d May 1800, that the operation of road-cutting through that diftrict advances with rapid progrefs; and it was expected, that, by the 25th of that month, the communication between all the principal points would be completed by capital military roads; the only Che left unfinished, on the 22d, beng the cross-road from the poft of Toldycallum to that of Canote. Refpectable military pofts were eftated at Montana and Canote, furaded by excellent defences, con

ftructed by the orders, we underftand, of the Hor. Col. Wellesley, and under the immediate directions of Capt. Moncrief.

A circumftance of an extraordi-
nary nature has lately taken place
in the South of our newly-acquired
poffeffion in India. A party of Ka-
narefe recruits, principally compof-
ed of men formerly in Tippoo's fer-
vice, deferted in one night from
Mangalore, to the number of 300,
with a difaffected Havildar at their
head; made their way to the hill
fort of Jemaulabad, (a place which
had coft much time and trouble and
fome lives to our people to get pof-
feffion of,) furprised the garrifon,
murdered the commanding officer
(Lieut. Allan, of the Company's
fervice), and took poffeffion of the
place, which, in fpite of an army
fent against them under the com-
mand of Lieut. Col. Cumine, of the
75th regiment, who had with him
they kept from the 17th of April
two mortars and a train of artillery,
to the 19th of June, when it was
retaken, but not till after the gar-
rifon, all but four men, had made
their efcape.

portance to the commercial inter-
Some papers of the greateft im-
courfe in the Indian Seas, were
lately discovered on board a prow
driven by ftrefs of weather on the
coaft of Sumatra. The Governor

General of Bengal fent them home
in his late difpatches, together with
a letter from Mr. Campbell, refi-
dent at Croce, containing a narra-
tive of the circumftances which led
this it appears, that, in April laft, a
to the poffeffion of thefe papers. By
large boat running too near the
fhore, upfet among the breakers, in
confequence of which one of the
hands was drowned, and the reft
with difficulty got
prow which had been in company
with difficulty got on fhore; a large
with them, on feeing the accident,

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tacked about and stood to fea; this
circumftance was deemed extraordi-
nary, as veffels of this defcription
in thofe feas generally touch at
Croee. In a fhort time the wind
veering about, the veffel was obli-
ged to return and caft anchor in the
offing, when a boat was immediately
fent on board, and returned with
information that the poffeffed a va-
luable cargo
of opium, iron, and
piece goods; that the Captain was
a Chinese; and that they were
bound to Bally. This account
not appearing fatisfactory, it was
thought proper to detain her; and,
on examining the hold, a vaft quan-
tity of papers, letters, &c. from
Pooloo, Poogong, and the islands off
Batavia, with a pafs from the Dutch
Governor-General, together with
the national flag, &c. &c. were dif
covered. The Captain, on finding
himfelf detected, offered the officer
who was fent on board to feize, half
the cargo to let him purfue his
age. The papers are now tranflat-
ing for the information of the Court
of Directors.

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The accident which befel the

Hon. Company's fhip Afia, Capt. Wardlow, in November laft, remains wholly unaccounted for, as no perfon was in the hold when the flames were firft difcovered; the had but little of her cargo in, which confifted principally of cotton for the China market. The fmoke was firft feen early on the morning of the 1ft of November, fucceeded fuddenly by the flames, which burft forth with irrefiftible fury through the fore hatchway. All the boats which could be fpared from the shore and fhips in the harbour of Bombay were immediately fent to her affiftance, and at nine o'clock the flames were fubdued; the fhip has, however, fuftained much damage, her upper timbers being much burnt.

We have the pleasure to state, on the authority of a letter from Bon. bay, lately received, that the furviving feamen belonging to his Majefty's late frigate the Refiftance, which was blown up in the Streights of Banca, had all arrived at Malac ca. It appears they were ranfomed by the Macaffar Rajah, in confequence of a representation made to the Suitaun of Lingan by the Commanding Officer at Malacca. Thefe unfortunate men, five in number, had been fome months in captivity with the Malay pirates.

A pretty long refidence at the Cape of Good Hope enables a gentleman juft returned from thence to give the following account of that place:

"There is, perhaps, no country more capable of the higheft ftate of improvement than the Cape of Good Hope, and certainly none which has heretofore been more neglected. Since the arrival of Sir George Yonge, it feems daily im proving, owing to the encourage. ment given, and attention paid to agriculture and commerce, from which very fanguine expectations) may be cherished of its proving a valuable acquifition to the British. Empire. The botanical garden is revived, experiments fuccefsfully tried, and no meafures neglected of promoting the profperity of the colony. Among the firft judicious and laudable fteps taken by the Go vernor, was the appointment of Col. Cockburne and Capt. Tucker to be deputy barrack-maiters-general, as, from an entire neglect for five years, the barracks and other buildings were rendered extremely dangerous and unfit for the accommodation of There feems no doubt, troops. however, that (from the activity and zeal already evinced by the

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new conftructed barrack depart-
ment,) thofe comforts of which our
foldiers have been deftitute, will
fpeedily be afforded them.
Sir
George Yonge's choice merits ge-
neral approbation, as none could be
more active and zealous in the exe-
cution of thefe duties than thofe
gentlemen. It affords pleasure to
ftate alfo, that Sir George feems, on
every occafion, to confult the com-
fort and happiness of both men and
officers, and he is confequently
esteemed by all ranks. The natives
alfo feem to refpect and admire both
the Governor and his fuite. Gene-
ral Dundas's zealous activity moft
indifputably prevented a war with
the Caffrees, and reftored tranquil-
lity to the interior of Africa.
"The idea generally entertained,
that the Cape is a pleafant quarter,
is highly erroneous: it has few
recommendations befides its cli-
mate, which, though not unwhole-
fome, is extremely difagreeable.
Many marriages take place between
the English officers and Dutch la-
dies. In their youth the women
at the Cape are very pretty, but
owing to the heat of the climate
their beauty begins to fade at the
age of thirty."

EMBASSY TO TESHOO LAMA.

Captain Thompson, who has lately returned to Bengal from his enbaffy to the Tefhoo Lama, the

religious Sovereign of Tibet,
was only permitted to be in his
At that
prefence half an hour.
time the votaries of Tefhoo Lama
flocked in numbers to pay their
adorations to him. Those who
went efteemed it a happiness if he but
appeared at the window and they were
able to make their proftrations be-
fore he retired. On the 4th of No-
vember, Captain Thompson faw a
prodigious large party of Calmucs
come for the purpofe of devotion,

and to make their offerings to the
Lama. They collected together at
the entrance of the fquare, in front
of the palace, each with his cap off,
his hands being placed together, ele-
vated, and held even with his face.
They remained upwards of half an
hour in this attitude, their eyes
fixed upon the apartment of the La-
ma, and anxiety very visibly depict-
ed in their countenances. At length
he appeared to them, and they be-
gan altogether by lifting up their
hands, ftill clofed, above their heads,
then bringing them even with their
faces, and lowering them to their
breafts; they then dropped on one
knee, and ftruck their heads againft
the ground. They afterwards ad-
vanced to deliver their prefents,
confifting of talents of gold and
filver, with the products of their
country, to the proper officer, who
having received them, they retired
apparently with much fatisfaction.
Offerings made in this manner are
by no means unfrequent, and in re-
ality conftitute one of the most co-
pious fources from which the Lamas
of Tibet derive their wealth. The
Lama prefented Captain Thempfon
with a beautiful green veft, lined
with lambs fkins, curioufly manu-
factured. [For an account of the
Lama's Journey to China, fee the
MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS, p. 58.]

Defcriptive Sketch of the Storming of Seringapatam, as exhibited in the Great Picture at the Lyceum in the Strand, London.

About mid-way up the breach is a fally of Tippoo's guards, who are repulfed by the grenadiers of the 74th regiment.-Lieut. Prendergast appears mortally ftruck by a mufketfhot, and Lieut. Shaw lies among the flain.

At the foot of the breach, the fore. ground is occupied by a party

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