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 faid 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. —— - 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 to Schiraz, the commercial relations ments for that country. The Company lately prefented a 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- portance to the commercial inter- General of Bengal fent them home + L2 tacked 148 tacked about and stood to fea; this voy 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 new new conftructed barrack depart- EMBASSY TO TESHOO LAMA. Captain Thompson, who has lately returned to Bengal from his enbaffy to the Tefhoo Lama, the religious Sovereign of Tibet, and to make their offerings to the 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 |