British army in India to brilliant victories. We beg you, my lord, to accept our warmest wishes for your welfare, and trust that that Providence, which has preserved you to the army, as an unexampled leader, may extend its protection to you, in the enjoyment of a long and happy life. We are, my Lord, &c. (Signed) S. Dubois, lieut. colonel 21st, John Vaughan, lieut. 21st.Wm Baker, lieut. 21st Charles Peach lieut. 21st.-J. Cane, lieut. 21st,-Wm. Menzies, lieut. 21st,-H. Wrottesley lient. 21st-Charles Dobbs, lieut.21st,J. Fiddes, lieut. 21st,-J. Odell, lieut. 21st,-J. M Whirter, assistant surgeon. Moradabad, Feb. 7, 1807. To which his lordship was pleased to make the following reply To Lieut. Colonel Dubois, and officers stationed at Moradabad. Gentlemen,-I have received, with sentiments of the most sincere satisfaction, the address with which you have been pleased to honor me, on the occasion of my departure from India. During our several campaigns, the Bengal army has afforded the most distinguished examples of valour, discipline, and fortitude; and every individual composing that army, must reflect on its victories and successes, with feelings of honorable pride and just exultation. I shall ever remain grateful for the important services, which in the course of the war, were rendered by the officers of the 21st regiment of native infantry; and shall never cease to feel a warm interest in their welfare, nor to entertain the most sincere wishes for their fame and prosperity. With sentiments of regard, &c. (Signed) LAKE. Head Quarters, Sangur roads, Feb. 23, 1807. Address from the British Inhabitants of the City of Delhi, to His Excellency the Right Honourable Lord Lake, Commander in Chief of the British Forces in India. My Lord,-We, the British inhabitants of the city of Delhi, impressed with the sincerest feelings of respect and attachment to your excellency, beg leave to approach you, on the occasion of your intended return to Europe, to request your acceptance of our warmest wishes for your future prosperity and happiness. common with the rest of our countrymen, we feel those sentiments of admiration, which the splendid and successful exertions inspire. If any thing can give of your excellency must ever is the interesting peculiarity of our additional glow to those feelings, it surrounding present situation, where every In object serves to impress them upon our hearts. ments of your excellency, none, Among the many brilliant achieveperhaps, has a higher claim to admiration, than the glorious and decisive victory at Delhi; by which the power of the Marhattas, and you completely annihilated the influence of the French in the Dooab; delivered the venerable Shah Aulum from a state of thraldom and oppression; and bestowed upon the natives of these provinces those blessings of protection, of which they had so long been security, and regular government, deprived. It is in view of the field where that ever memorable battle was gained, that we now addres you. But, it is not in the field alone, that your claim to the grateful applause of your admiring country, is to be found; no sooner had you gained this important victory, than, pausing conquest, you hastened to the palace of the unfortunate monarch, from who we now who had long been the victim thus glancing at those merits, the of oppression ; to sooth his wound- recollection of which must be ined mind; to relieve his distress, teresting to the feelings of every to restore him to a situation of Briton. That, after having estadignity and honor. It is under the blished such powerful claims to the walls of the palace where that gratitude and admiration of your monarch resided, and where his country, your lordship may long son and successor enjoys the liberal enjoy the honours which have been support of the British government, conferred on you by our sovereign, that address you. and every blessing which this life Whether, therefore, we contem- can afford, is our ardent and heart. plate your heroic achievements felt wish. in the field, or whether we advert We have the honour to be, &c. to the milder, gentler glory, with (Signed) which those achievements were Archibald Seton, followed up, and behold you J. R. Lumley, comdg. at Delhi, Robert Latter, devoting the pauses between your And. Lyall, victories, to, the amiable and Will. D. Playfair, interesting office, of administering John B. Kerr, consolation to royalty in dfsiress, Wm. Mackie, C. W. Burton, lieut. 8th regt. we feel equal cause to venerate P.Robertson, assist Surg.8th regt. and admire; and we are persuaded G B. Martin, lieut. 8th regt. that, in thus adverting to the P. Turnbull, captain, talents, the virtues, and the suc J. Scott, lieut 8th regt. cessful energy of your excellency, J. Reid, Surg. to the residency, J. S. Brownrigg, we express the feelings of all, C. T. Metcalfe, re-echo the general voice, and Philip Cose Gilman, It. 8th regt. anticipate the language of poste James Skinner, captain, rity. Upon the present occasion, Geo. Mercer, Ar. Dingwall Fordyce, Eng. it were, perhaps, unseasonable to Robt. Skirmer, lieut. dwell upon the beneficial effects of D. C. Fergusson, lieut. the manner in which your excel- Thos. Dunn. lency employed the extensive poli- Delhi, 27th January, 1807. tical powers delegated to you by Reply of the right honourable the that great and enlightened states- Commander in Chief, to the man, Marquis Wellesley, under foregoing address :---To the Briwhose auspices, after leading your tish Inhabitants of the city of troops to conquest and to glory, Delhi. you introduced, as far as was then Gentlemen,--I feel highly grapracticable, the mild and relieving tified by the feelings of regard and system of the British government; attachment, and by the wishes for and, by substituting security, my prosperity and happiness, protection, and justice, for anar- which you have been pleased to chy, rapacity, and oppression, express, in the address with which justly endeared yourself, and your you have honoured me. The situmeasures, to the native inhabitants ation in which you are placed, has of these provinces, of every rank been the theatre of some of the and description ; yet witnessing, as principal events that have occurred we daily do, the happy fruits of in the course of our campaigns ; that conduct, we cannot deny our- and that these have been thought selves the pleasing gratification of deserving deserving of so large a portion of your welfare and prosperity, and applause and approbation as you with sentiments of the most sincere have bestowed on them, affords a esteem and gratitude, I have the consideration from which I derive honour to remain, the most cordial satisfaction. The Gentlemen, &c. battle of Delhi was highly honour (Signed) Lake. able to our arms, and the source of Head Quarters, many advantages to our country, Ca'cutta, Feb. 17, 1807. as well as to those provinces over The loss recently sustained at which it extended our dominion. Batavia, by the attack of the BriThe delivery of the unfortunate tish squadron, upon the harbour Shah Aulum from oppression, and and shipping, tell chiefly on indithe restoration of that monarch viduals, one of whom lost property to comfort and to dignity, will to the amount of 300,000 dollars. remain perpetual monuments of The Batavians have advice of the the liberality, humanity, and jus- nomination by king Louis of a tice of the British government. new governor, and officers, civil My services found their highest and military, to that settlement, reward in the success of these whose arrival is hourly expected. measures which the Marquis Wel The ship, Lady Barlow, captain lesley confided to my execution ; Allan Maca-gill, sailed from this and it must ever constitute to my port for Port Jackson, New South mind a proud reflection, that my Wales, in Maich, 1804, and remainname will remain associated with ed several months on the coasts of many important events, in the New Holland and New Zealand. administration of that distinguished From Port Jackson she proceeded to statesman. When I consider, that England; thence to the Cape of that some of the British inhabitants Good Hope, and arrived here early of Delhi have, themselves, ren in this month. In all these changes dered to their country the most im- of climes and seasons, the health portant services, and that their of the crew, consisting of upwards situation enables them to appre of fifty natives of India, was, by ciate more fully than others, the the attention of the captain and extent and value of my exertions, officers, so well preserved, that I feel peculiarly gratiíied by the only two casualties occurred during praise with which they have ho- this protracted voyage of three years. noured me, and by the interest in The ship, Bersey, and brig, my future happiness, which they Jane, of this port, captured, some expressed with such warmth and time ago, on the West Coast, animation. were retaken by their crews, and With the most ardent wishes for carried safe into an English port. 1 WADRAS,—Occurrences for March, 1807. Lodging the Colours of the Madras them, that they are placed in a Fencible Regiment. temporary state of retirement; We bave the pleasure to lay (their services being at present unbefore our readers the ceremonies necessary) yet we receive with observed in lodging the colours of confidence, the conviction that, tbat zealous and distinguished should future circumstauces again corps, “the Jadras Fencille regio call them forth, the sane zeal and nent ;" and though we regret with energy energy will mark their conduct, mand, she cherished a confidence, that she was entrusting them to the care of those who would do justice to so sacred a charge; her ladyship's expectations have been most amply fulfilled, as in the public prints, she has had repeated opportunities of perusing, (and with no small degree of satisfaction) such flattering testimonies of the discipline, regularity, and appearance of the Madras fencibles. Her ladyship feels considerable regret, that circumstances have rendered the farther services of this corps unnecessary; but she entertains a full conviction, that, in the hour 'of emergency, the same laudable spirit of patriotism which actuated gentlemen to sacrifice many private comforts, and subject themselves to various inconveniences, in the public cause, would again urge them to come forward; and, in the necessity of such an event, lady William Bentinck begs leave to assure colonel Taswell, and the officers of the regiment, that she will feel a pride in being the instrument of restoring their colours to the Madras fencibles. Colonel Taswell's reply. Madam, Flattered by your ladyship's marked approbation of this regiment, so impressively delivered by his excellency the commander in chief, I beg to return my most respectful acknowledgement, and my concern in its having thus fallen to my lot to return you these revered bands of our association; in fulfilling this unpleasant part of my present duty, it is some relief to my feelings to observe, that their consequence has been preserved as perfect, as at the period of their having been entrusted to our charge, and that this respecta ble ble corps has been ever awake to command. For this, they have my the distinguished favor, and honor- most sincere thanks, and my warmable notice of your lordship. est wishes that they may hereafter The officers of the regiment be- experience the full tribute due to ing then ordered to the centre, in their exemplary characters, in face of the colours, colonel Tas- their future military walk; placing well addressed them as follows:- the most implicit faith in this, I “ Assembled here as companions now quit them with a satisfaction, in the last act of our present mili- wbich compensates in some meatary duties, to pay our unfeigned sure for their loss at an event and respects to the departing banners moment, that cannot be ever efunder which we have served, I faced from the memory of their trust there is not one amongst us, zealous associate, and most fithwho will not be sensible in some ful friend.” degree to their loss. The honor- The two centre companies of the able attention that is now paid to fencible regiment then wheeled them, must be flattering to us, back and formed a street, through under the persuasion that had they which the grenadiers of H. M. been displayed in the face of a foe, 94th regiment passed with the cowe slrould have done them that lours towards the arsenal, the band credit, to which they have the playing the appropriate tune of claim, and that our invariable re- "Farewell to Lochaber"-and the gards to pledges so sacred bave in- regiment firing three vollies. Cosured the contidence thus placed in lours having passed the street us, as likewise, that on no other formed by the centre companies, occasion should we have surren- they wheeled into line and took dered them with satisfaction to close order; when the regiment ourselves; especially, if we look marched to “ the British grenaback to the impressive moment of diers,” round the right honorable their possession, and hold in our the governor in their retreat from minds the high character of the the fort; passing the line of H. personage who conferred upon us M. 94th regiment. that honor. It must be gratifying to us to view their present resigna-' tion, as an honorable trust; to be Dangers and small Islands. restored to the first regiment of In the N. E. Archipelago of Madras fencibles, should they be Madagascar, which are not laid ever required in their country's ser- down in any charts, lately pubvice; and that in the mean time, lished. they are to be lodged in the public 1o-At 15 or 18 miles in the N. repository of military honors, the N. E. of Pemira Island, there are grand arsenal of our government. two small islands very near each I cannot take my leave of so valu- other, on which H. M. sloop the able a body, without marking my Spitfire was lost in the year 1801, regard and affection to them, which the 21st of August, the longitude is the consequence of that steady E. observed by captain Campbell and constant readiness they have so was, on the southern-most island, generally shewn, in the execution 54o. 9, 28". Latitude south 4o. 55. of their duties while under my 20-At four miles in the N. W. by 1 |