settlement, the confidence expressed by all classes of the inhabitants in the British government, and the unusual success with which every branch of the public service has been conducted, are satisfactory proofs of the advantageous selection made by the governor general from the civil service of the honourable Company, for the introduction of the British system of government into these provinces. In the exercise of the extensive powers intrusted to me, my ac knowledgements are particularly due to the gentlemen joined with me in the temporary commission for the administration of the provisional government. I have derived the most effectual assistance from the aid of their talents, experience, and honourable support; and I am happy in the public opportunity afforded me by your address, of expressing the high sense which I entertain of their valuable public services. I shall never cease to retain a lively interest in the welfare of these important possessions, and I now reflect with peculiar satisfaction that the foundation is established for their future affluence and prosperity. These sentiments are rendered still more gratifying by the honorable testimony which your address has afforded me, that in the estimation of so large and respectable a part of the civil service of the Hon. the East India Company, my appointment to the temporary charge of the ceded provinces in Oude has been advantageous to the exertion of your respective services, and has facilitated the progress of the public busines in your several departments. I have the honour to be, with the greatest respect and esteem, (Signed) HENRY WELLESLEY. Arabia. The intelligence received by the arrival of the Antelope from the Red Sea, represents that part of Arabia lying on its borders to be still in a state of the most unexampled confusion, and in a situa tion much worse than even rumour had before described it to be. It would appear, that the Waha bees are prosecuting a very suc cessful career, that Juddah and Meccah were completely blockaded by land, and all communication with Medina effectually cut off. The latter city, it was expected, would be under the necessity of capitulating immediately on the surrender to the Wahabees of the sea-port of Yumboo, to the northward of Juddah, an event which actually took place when these accounts came away. The sheriffe of Mecca and pacha of the grand signior, had, we understand, come purposely from Mecca to Juddah, and at considerable risk. The object of their journey was to solicit the aid of one of his Britannic majesty's ships which they learnt was lying there, and generally to apply for the fostering protection of the English, as friends of the grand signior. Extract of a letter from William Kent, esq. commander of his Majesty's armed ship Buffalo, to Vice-Admiral Rainier, dated Buffalo, Prince of Wales's Island, 4th November, 1803. "On the 22d of last April, I left Port Jackson, in New South Wales, in his majesty's armed ship under my command, for Calcutta: in my route I stopped at Amboyna and Coopang, in the island of Timor, to fill water and refresh the people. We sailed from Amboyna on the 29th of August, at which time there were no Dutch naval force in the Sound: Sound: about six weeks before our arrival, a commodore, with three frigates, sailed from thence to Ternate, and in endeavouring to pass round the west end of the island, the commodore's ship was hove on shore by the swell, in a calm, and totally lost her guns and part of her stores were saved: the other two frigates, I understood, were to go from Ternate to Batavia. Amboyna was garrisoned by part of a regiment, in which, except the officers, were very few Europeans. Timor we left September 12th; its fortification is still in a state of ruin. We were at Anger Roads in September 23d, at which time they knew nothing of the war. Several ships from Canton, bound to Calcutta*, having applied to me to take them under our protection, I have given them instructions, and mean to sail to-morrow." General Lake. To his Excellency General Gerard Lake, Commander in Chief, &c. &c. &c. Sir,-We, the officers of the British Indian army, who have had the honor of serving under your excellency's personal command during the present campaign, impressed with sentiments of high respect towards your excellency, and admiration of those exalted talents by which we have been led to a series of brilliant victories, confirming the superiority of the British arms in this remote quarter of the globe, and yielding to us a soldier's best reward, the approbation of government, beg leave to request your excellency's acceptance of a service of plate of the value of 4,000l. in testimony of our attachment and esteem. Zealously devoted to our king, our country, and the government under which we have the honour to serve, it only remains for us to express our sincere and ardent hope, that we may long enjoy the advantage of being placed under your excellency's guidance and command; and wherever the interests of the state may require our services, inspired by your animating example, and cherished by your applause, we may continue to follow you to victory and renown. We have the honour to subscribe ourselves, (on behalf of the army) Your excellency's very faithful, Obedient, and devoted Servants. (Signed) Frederick St. John, major-gen. manding 1st brigade of cavalry. H. Swinton, captain, 6th nat. cav. J. W. Playdell, lieut. 14th nat. reg. Camp, British head-quarters at Nehmeda, Dec. 21, 1803. To which his excellency was pleased to make the following reply: To the Committee of Officers appointed to prepare an Addres, Ec. to his Excellency the Commander in Chief. Gentlemen, I receive with sentiments of the most lively gratitude, the valuable testimony of the esteem and attachment of the army, with which they have honoured me.— This mark of regard is peculiarly flattering from the officers of an army, whose meritorious services throughout this campaign, must ever entitle them to the highest respect and honour. In the hour of severe trial, next to that Providence who protects us, I have trusted to the invincible firmness, steady support, and unexampled gallantry of my army; and the distinguished success which has in every instance crowned our exertions, has fully justified my entire confidence and firm reliance. I shall with pride and pleasure reflect upon those situations, in which we have together maintained the honour of our king, and the glory of our country. The possession of this valuable testimony of your attachment, will serve to awaken those sentiments of esteem, gratitude, and affection, which are already too deeply imprinted on my mind ever to be forgotten. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, With perfect esteem, Your obliged, humble servant, G. LAKE. Head-quarters of the British army, camp, Nehmeda, 21 Dec. 1803. chardson, was fitted out as an armed ship at Malacca, carrying twentyfour twelve and nine-pound carriage-guns, and manned with European artillery and infantry, also native troops as marines, in addition to her crew, consisting of one hundred persons. She sailed from Malacca on the 29th of August, in company with the honourable company's cruizer, Mornington, honourable company's ship, Balambangan, Commerce, armed ship, and four transports, proceeding under the orders of R. T. Farquhar, esq. commissioner, &c. &c. towards Balambangan and the Eastern Island. Names of persons saved.-Capt. D. Ross, artillery, lieut. Gill, native infantry, Hall, European, do. assistant-surgeon Stone, all belonging to the detachment, and about one hundred and twenty, including Europeans, natives, and followers. Died on the raft.-Mr. Hunter, conductor of ordnance. Lost.-Eight or nine Europeans, and one hundred and seventy native troops, gun-lascars, &c. Missing-Two seacunnies, havildar, serang and sixty lascars, &c. Saved from wreck-W. Richardson, commander, J. Coverdale, first officer, C. Richardson, second ditto, gunner, carpenter, five scacunnies, and twenty-six lascars, seapoys, and servants. On Monday, about two P. M. was launched from the yard of Mr. Andrew Waddle, masterbuilder to the honourable Company, Wreck of the ships Anstruther and about 150 tons burthen, named at Kidderpore, a fine gun vessel, of Thornhill. These vessels were wrecked in the streights of Balabec, on the 23d of September. The Anstruther, captain W. Ri "The Grapler," to be commanded by lieutenant Robert Scott, of the honourable Company's marine, and late first lieutenant of the Bombay frigate. the body of brigadier-general David Wedderburn, commander in chief of the honorable company's forces under the presidency of Bombay. The following letter from one of the first generals of the age, is a most honorable testimony of his very superior military abilities. St. James's, July 22, 1761. This day at noon arrived here major Wedderburn, dispatched by prince Ferdinand on Thursday last, the 16th instant, with the following letter from his most serene highness to his majesty. "I have the honour to congratulate your majesty upon a very signal advantage which your majesty's arms have this day gained. It is impossible for me to set down every particular of this glorious day; the bearer of this, an officer of distinguished merit, and who has greatly contributed to the happy success of this day, will give your majesty an exact account of it. I have the honour to recommend him to your majesty's royal favour. Upon the field of Kirch Denckern, not far from Hiltrup, the 16th of July, 1761, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon." FERDINAND, Lunenburg. As a proof of his royal master's entire approbation of his services in Germany, he received a purse of a thousand pounds, and was made major commandant of a battalion, when little more than of age. He was made lieutenantcolonel in 1762-colonel and brigadier-general in India, in March, 1770. Candid, just, and sincere, his conduct through life, in his public and private capacity, reflects the highest honour on his memory. The very essential advantages which the Company have reaped from the exertion of his talents, since he has had the chief command of their troops, are incontestible proofs of his abilities in his public capacity. In his private character, words would poorly describe the excellence of his heart. Replete with virtues, which did honour to humanity, he lived, loved, revered, and respected by his friends and acquaintance, and he fell, most universally regretted and lamented by all degrees of people. He was killed under the walls of Baroche, November the 14th, 1772, ætatis thirty-two years and eight months. With the deepest sorrow for his death, the sincerest veneration regard, and attachment, to his memory, the above is inscribed, by his aid-de-camp and secretary, ALEX. MACLELLAN, Dacca and its environs. A letter from Christopher Keating, Esq. senior judge of the provincial court of appeal, and from the British inhabitants of the province of Behar. the southward of the Centurion, tish inhabitants of the city of sounded at the time, and had only 10 fathoms water, two rocks being then in sight, one on each side of the ship, which appeared to have much less water upon them; after passing by those rocks, the water deepened gradually to 17 fathoms, and then no bottom could be found at 35 fathoms. A letter from Christopher Keating, Esq. senior judge, &c. &c. I have the honor to be, with the greatest respect, My Lord, The Tremendous was about Your excellency's most obedient, b To Peter Speke, Esq. chairman of the meeting to the British inhabitants at Calcutta. Sir, 1. The British inhabitants of the city and environs of Dacca, most warmly concurring in the sentiments expressed by their fellow subjects at the presidency, on the joyful occasion of the restoration of peace to the continent of India, are anxious that this union of senknown to his excellency the govertiment on their part should be made nor-general. 2. Equally impressed with gratitude and respect for that exalted character, whose administration in India will form an epoch of glory and triumph in the annals of the British empire; it is their wish publicly to testify the lively sense of exultation with which they behold this happy issue of a war, not less distinguished by the justice of the cause which gave rise to it, than by the wisdom and vigour which directed its operations, the unexampled series of brilliant victotories attending its progress, and the important national advantages secured to Great Britain by its glorious termination, 3. It |