protection which he sought, and restored to the musnud of his ancestors: and we have beheld the powerful forces with which your excellency was called upon to contend, in support of the measures, humbled and subdued, after a series of triumphs, nnexampled in the annals of his tory. The confidence which we had been accustomed to repose in the conduct of your excellency's measures, had averted much of the anxiety which might have been entertained at the prospect of engaging in hostilities with the combined armies of the Mahratta empire: but. unlimited as was our confidence in the wisdom, foresight, and energy of your excellency's counsels, the auspicious conclusion of that war has surpassed the hopes that have been indulged in the most sanguine mind: and when it can scarcely have been known in Europe, that the British armies had been compelled to engage in hostile operations, victory and peace have followed a series of events, of which the brilliancy can alone be equalled by the rapidity of their succession. While we adinire the wisdom and vigour of your xcellency's counsels, in foreseeing the threatening danger, and in seizing the critical moment of action; while we admire, with sentiments which must endear their names to every Briton, those distinguished generals who led forth our armies to victory in Hindustan and Deccan, and discipline, preseverance, and valour of the officers and troops, who have, under your excellency's auspices, performed deeds, which, in heroism and glory cannot be surpassed; we beg to assure your excellency, that we are not less impressed with sen timents of admiration at the signal example of forbearance and mo deration, which your excellency has manifested to the world, in stopping the career of victory, at the moment when the power of our adversaries was threatened with annihilation, and in restoring peace to the empire of India, on foundations which promise, under the favor of Divine Providence, the long and undisturbed enjoyment of that invaluable blessing. In this last great measure of your excellency's government, we recognize, with sentiments of national pride and satisfaction, a bright example of the operation of the principles of virtue and justice, which have so eminently characterized your excellency's administration. Splendid as the success of the British arms has been, your excellency's fame will gather an encreased lustre from the inviolable attachment to public faith, and the disposition to cultivate and extend the arts of peace, which have formed so proud and elevated a feature in your excellency's character; and whine the conquests which have been atchieved under your excellency's guidance have been great and important beyond former example, the glory of those deeds will shine more conspicuously pre-eminent, from your excellency's humanity and munificence, in softening the fallen fortunes of the vanquished enemies of our nation. In conveying to your excellency our acknowledgements of the unexampled talents, energy and success, with which the foreign relations of the British power in India have under your excellency's administration been upheld, invigorated and enlarged; for the greatness, to which the fame of our power has been raised abroad; for the *b 4 uprightness Γι uprightness and wisdom, with which public credit has been maintained, our institutions improved, and justice administered at home; we join our voice, in unison with every British subject who has witnessed and participated the inestimable benefits of your excellency's government. (Signed.) Basil Cochrane, W. Dowdeswell, A. Campbell, Js. Rees, G. Buchan, Edward V. Greenway, Thomas Parrs, J. Brunton, for W. Cullen, Terric Hamilton, J. M. D. Ogilvie, Henry B: Grant, capt. royal artillery, R. Clarke, J. Oliver, colonel, Allan Grant, Fran. Gowdie, colonel, G. G. Keble, R. M. Dickens, colonel, commg. 34th regt. R. A. Maitland, Walter Grant, Richard Yeldham, J. Binny, J. Brunton, Benj. Roebuck, Henry Monckton, Cecil Smith, Wm. Harington, J. Grant, J. A. Hurdis, Wm. Douglas Brodie, Edward Wood, C. M. Lushington, Hy. Wm. Radcliffe, Thomas Chase, John Chinnery, Wm. Chaplin, Charles Ellis, capt. Sir John Sinclair, bart. E. Collins, major general, J. Goldingham, Geo. Maidman, P. Bese, capt. commg. cadet company, John Hodgson, S. D. Totton, Hay Macdowall, J. Campbell, J. Munro, Rev. Mr. Leslie, Wm. Hart, G. Teswell, C. James, P. A. Agnew, J. Macleane, J. Vans Agnew, Edward Dent, J. J. Miller, Geo. Hay, J. Hoseasan, Henry Hall, C. H. Sheed, J. Leith, J. W. Miller, George Johnston, S. H. Delamain, 19th N. I. Patrick Brown, Wm. Abbott, Richard C. Sherwood, Adrian de Fries, Thomas Trent, George Lys, Robert Dennision, Colin Mackenzie, John Tod, of Calcutta, Thomas Fraser, lieut. engineers, Thomas Paterson, lt. col. 22d light dragoons, John T. Paterson, A. Anstruther, C. H. Higginson, Arthur Gore, lieut. col. 33d foot, J. Fitzpatrick, capt. commg. bat. pioneers, R. C. Rose, Thomas Fraser, Edward Jones, Richard Seardon, George Arbuthnot, Geo. Garrow, Wm. Ord, Røb. Orme, P. Bruce, C. Rand, capt. 16th regt. Thomas Blyth, St. John Fandourt, lieut. col. 34th, James Johnston, John C. Francke, lieut. art. John Lindsay, It. 12th batt. James Colemous, Wm. Serjeant, paymaster 34th regt. Robert Sherson, Robert Sherson for George Stratten, Jeffery Prendergast, G. E. Askin, Herbert Compton, Wm. Berkeley, D. M. Gibson, lieut. H. Y. Kent, Wm. Kinsey, James Balfour, H. Temple, John Hunter, E. Trapaud, S. H. S. Conway, Alex. Boswell, A. M'Kenzie J. Tulloh Ed. Coxe, Zechariah, Polack, Thomas Hickey, Fownes Disney, Wm. Faurre, J. W. Malcolm, Walter Balfour, Wm. Horsman, J. Long, lieut. col. J. Long, for colonel Torrens, J. Turner, lieutenant, G. Ellis, K. Dalrymple, Thomas Marriott, major 1st regiment N. I. R. Charleton, capt. art. Alexander Orr, F. Acheson, H. Hope, G. Reynolds, K. Griffiths, E. H. Fallofield, Jas. Anderson, P. G. F. W. Ellis, J. K. Lane, E. Roebuck, R. H. Keer, chaplain, J. D. Haviland, capt. eng. John Underwood, J. B. Seward, capt. J. Hodgson, C. Armstrong, capt. W. Macpherson, 12th foot, Thomas Evans, Jas. Hepburn, J. Hepburn for D. Court, Thos. de Mello, Alexander Kennedy, C. W. Munro, lieut. G. Bradley, Henry Dickens, John Goldie, Edward Edward Woodford, J. George Ravenshaw, G. Gowan, Geo. Thomson, H. G. Wright, Cha. Watters, J. Sutherland, Peter Whunnell, Thos Hogarth, W. Ravenshaw, lieut. N. Falconar, Charles Langton, artillery, W. D. Baillie, W. Cooke, Maxwell Thomson. Geo. Chinnery, Mark Roworth, M. Davies. J. B. Hurdes for Wm. Macleod, W. Dowdeswell for Geo. Wescott, esq. George Haliburton, Gilbert Falconer, Arthur Anderson, George King, John de Fries, Alex. Cockburn, Ed. Watts, Ed. Watts for Gilbert Rickets, David Smith, George Hodow, Webb Stone, Edward Wood for Augustus Floyer, major John Hodgson for David Cockburn, William Jones, William Rose, J. Burdon. 3d.-Letter from the governor general, to the right honourable, lord William Cavendish, Bentinck. The right honourable lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Sc. &c. My Lord, I acknowledge with sentiments of the most cordial satisfaction and gratitude, the honor of your lordship's letter, received by major general Dowdeswell, together with the address of the British inhabitants of the settlement of Madras. To that able and animated address, I have publicly delivered my answer, which I have requested major general Dowdeswell to transmit to your lordship, for the purpose of being communicated to the chairman of the meeting, at which, this distinguished mark of public regard was conferred upon me. In receiving from your lordship the generous and liberal expressions of your concurrence in the sentiments of that meeting, I am highly sensible of the encreased honor, conveyed to me by the addition of a testimony, equally disinterested and respectable: the public sentiments, which accompany this testimony of your lordship' favorable opinion, considerably enhance its importance and value in my estimation. Your lordship has been pleased to derive your approbation of my conduct, from the genuine principles of British justice, public faith, humanity, and benevolence. Approbation, proceeding from such a source must be esteeemed among the most honorable rewards, which public service can receive. The spirit of your lordship's sentiments, the integrity, zeal, judgment, and firmness, which you have already manifested in contributing to maintain the prosperity and glory of our country in India, afford a confident expectation, that the course of your lordship's administration will promote the public principles which you have applauded, and that your conduct and example will add stability, energy, and vigour to the system of policy, which you have approved. It will be the pride and happiness of my life to facilitate the progress of your lordship's public spirit and virtue, and to be associatad with your lordship in the completion of every public measure, calculated to extend the fame and power of our country in India, upon the solid foundations of general tranquillity and order. I have the honor to be, With great respect,. Your lordship's faithful servt. Fort William, July 6, 1804. 4th.-Answer 4th.-Answer to the address from the Settlement of Madras. Gentlemen, Madras, during the contest with the hostile power of Mysore. Under these circumstances, it is highly satisfactory to me to receive this distinguished mark of the continued confidence and esteem of a settlement which has abundantly supplied the means and instruments of the success of my administration, in every exigency of difficulty or danger; and I accept, with particular pleasure, the cordial as The British inhabitants of the settlement of Madras are entitled to the most public demonstration of my sincere gratitude and respect. The zealous, and honorable support, which I received from Fort St. George at the commencement of my administration, constituted an efficient cause of the success of our counsels and arms, in augment-surance of your participation in the ing the glory and power of our country, by the seasonable restoration of our alliances in the Deccan, by the splendid and auspicious conquest of Mysore, and by the happy settlement of that valuable kingdom. The recollection of those memorable transactions is indelibly fixed in my mind: at this distance of time, I reflect with increasing pleasure, upon the splendid series of events which terminated in the prosperous settlement of Mysore, and established the main foundations of our glorious success in the late contest with the Marhatta power. Our recent triumphs therefore have revived and confirmed my grateful remembrance of the useful assistance which I received during the critical period of my residence upon the coast of Coromandel, from the loyalty, public spirit, active zeal, and eminent ability, which characterize the civil and military service, and the British inhabitants of Madras. The success of our military operations in the Deccan, during the war with the Marhatta confederates, was essentially promoted by the continuance of the same happy spirit of concord and union which animated the conduct of the government and of the settlement of exalted sentiments of national glory, inspired by the illustrious achievements of our generals, officers, and troops, during the war, and by the principles of British justice, humanity, and honor, which have regulated the conditions of the peace. The welfare of each of the presidencies is equally the anxious object of my solicitude and duty. Under the advantages of restored peace, I shall continue to apply my diligent attention to the important purpose of extending throughout this empire, every practicable improvement in the internal administration of public affairs. In the progress of this salutary work, I contemplate the rising prosperity of the great settlement of Madras with peculiar interest and satisfac tion. During the course of my administration, extensive, valuable, and populous provinces have been added to the government of the Fort St. George; its importance in the general scale of the empire has been considerably encreased; its military, financial, and commercial resources augmented and improved; and its external security firmly es tablished, under a system of foreign relations, calculated to protect peaceful industry, to cherish the growth of private property, and of internal internal wealth; and to strengthen and consolidate the powers of the government, by the general happiness and welfare of the people. The laudable sentiments which you have expressed in this address, combined with my confidence in the respectable and honourable hands which administer the internal affairs of Fort St. George, afford a firm expectation, that, while justice, public faith, superior strength, and unrivalled military fame, shall secure the British empire in India against the assaults of our enemies, the provinces subject to the presidency of Fort St. George will partake of the general prosperity in a proportion adequate to their extent and importance, to their numerous population, to their valuable intrinsic resources, and to their advantageous local position. (Signed) WELLESLEY. Documents connected with the Address from the Settlement of Bombay. Ist. Letter from the honourable Jonathan Duncan, esq. to the Governor-general. To His Excellency the Most Noble Richard, Marquis Wellesley, K. P. Governor-general, &c. MY LORD, Fort William. I have the honour to advise your excellency, that several of the principal British inhabitants of this settlement, having on the 13th of last month applied to the sheriff to convene a general meeting to consider of an address to your excellency, on the subject of the late happy termination of hostilities in India, Mr. Nash, the sheriff, appointed this meeting to take place on Thursday, the 22d of March, at the hall of the office of police, where, having opened the business of the day, and, Mr. Henshaw having been requested to take the chair, a committee was, after a very eloquent and impressive speech from Mr. Thriepland, appointed to prepare an address; consisting of the following gentlemen. Robert Henshaw, esq. Robert Anderson, esq. Major-general John Bellasis, Major-general Richard Jones, Helenus Scott, esq. Lieut. col. Watson, 75th regi ment. James Augustus Grant, esq. These gentlemen having drawn up the form of an address, it was. in due course approved of, and signed by the civil servants, the military and marine officers, the fessions of law and physic, the clergy, the gentlemen of the promerchants, and other classes of our inhabitants; in which state the committee waited upon me with it, on the 6th instant, requesting that I would forward it to your excellency, in such manner as I should think proper; and colonel Woodington having offered his services, and desired to be honoured with the charge of this cordial and sin cere expression of the sentiments of the settlement, on an occasion no less important to the interests of the united kingdom, than honourable and glorious to your excéliency's administration; I have with pleasure availed myself of this channel of forwarding the present communication, with the address, that it may be offered to your excellency by an officer, who, having had opportunities to distinguish himself in the course of the gene ral |