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of our enemy will incline the Ava government to accede more readily to a closer union with ours. There is not at this day a potentate in the east, who has not been taught to expect a French standard on the banks of the Ganges.

privileged to ask, or to be asked, why such acts were committed.

Many other reasons might, if necessary, be assigned to manifest the propriety of maintaining an authorized intercourse with Ava, and that it will be good policy on our part to make every becoming advance, for so desirable an object cannot be doubted-the jealous pride of the court, and the diligent rivalry of France, are the chief obstacles we have to surmount. By not offending that pride, and by convincing that court that we har. bour no sinister views of conquest, and by vigilantly counteracting the machinations of the French, we may in a very few years bring the ample naval resources of Ava in aid of our commerce and our wars,-preserve an uninterrupted amity with its government, and acquire such a preponderance in its councils, as will most effectually secure us against the intrigues of any foreign nation.

The measure here suggested is one of pecuniary advantage, as well as political prudence. Three several armaments have within a few years been assembled on the Ava frontiers, because the provincial officers quarreled, and the governments did not understand each other; delinquent refugees fled from one side of the river Naaf to the other. Menaces were used to produce their surrender, and an armed force was, on more than one occasion, sent to apprehend them, in violation of the rights of the invaded state. These events caused animosity, bloodshed, and a heavy expense, which might have been avoided, had there been an accredited person at Ava or Rangoon,

* The river Naaf is the boundary that separates Arracan from the south-east¡ province of Bengal.

The

The Right Honourable the Board of Commissioners for the

Affairs of India.

THB RIGHT HON. ROBERT DUNDAS, PRESIDENT. Earl Camden, K.G.

Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval. Rt. Hon. Lord Hawkesbury, Secretaries Rt. Hon. Lord Lovaine. Rt. Hon. Lord Castlereagh,

of Rt. Hon. Lord Teignmouth, Rt. Hon. Geo. Canning, State. Rt. Hon. Thomas Wallace. Duke of Portland, K. G.

George Johnstone, Esq. Secretary, George Peter Holford, Esq. M. P. Assistant Secretary and Chief Clerk, John Meheux, Esq. Clerks, J. Wright, Richard B. Gibson, T. Bell, Benjamin S. Jones, James Cumming, Robert Gardner, H. S. Alves, William Cadell, Robert Lane, Benjamin Henry Jones, John Crokatt, Hugh Starke, David Starke, and William Lenox, Esqrs.

Accomptant, T. N. Wittwer, Esq.

Assistant, T. Bell, Esq.
Judicial examiner and reporter, Charles Poole, Esq.

Solicitor, William Groom, Esq.
Private Secretary to the president, Benjamin S. Jones, Esq.
Messengers, William Salmond, James Hardy, John Hagen, and

George Parsons.
Housekeeper, Mrs. Amhurst.

Chamber-keeper, John Howden.
THB HONOURABLE THE COURT OF DIRECTORS, FOR THE YEAR 1807.

Edward Parry, Esq. 25, Gower-street.
Charles Grant, Esq. M. P. 40, Russell-square.
John Manship, Esq. 77, Lamb's-conduit-street.
John Roberts, Esq. 2, John Street, Bedford-row.
Sir Francis Baring, bart. 31, Hill-street,
, Sir William Bensley, bart. 53, Berners-street.
Jacob Bosanquet, Esq. Broxbournebury, Herts.
Sir Hugh Inglis, bart. 28, Soho-square.
John Travers, Esq. 25, Bedford-place, Russell-square.
The bon. Wm. Fullarton Elphinstone, 2, Upper-Harley-street
Robert Thornton, Esq. M. P. 6, Grafton-street, Bond-street.
Sir Theophilus Metcalfe, bart. 49, Portland-place.
Joseph Cotton, Esq. Laytonstone, Essex.
George Smith, Esq. M. P. George-street, Mansion-house.
George Woodford Thelluson, Esq. M. P. Serjeant's-lap
Sweny Toone, Esq. 44, Mortimer-street.
John Inglis, Esq. 27, Mark-lane.
William Thornton, Esq. M. P. 36, Winchester-street.
Thomas Reid, Esq. 7, Broad-street-buildings.
John Bebb, Esq. 8, Gloucester-place.
George Millett, Esq. Laytonstone, Essex.
James Pattison, Esq. Hill-sireet.
Campbell Marjoribanks, Esg 3, Berners-street,
John Jackson, Esq. M. P. 9, New Bond-street.
The Chairman and Deputy Chairman are of all Committees,

The

The following Gentlemen went out by rotation, in April, 1807, viz.

Simon Frazer, Esq. Thomas Parry, Esq.
John Huddleston, Esq. Richard Chicbely Plowden, Esq.
Charles Mills, Esq.

Abraham Robarts, Esq.

Commissioners for liquidating the Debts of the Nabobs of the Carpatic;

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John Atkins, Esq.
Henry Bonham, Esq. M. P.
Abel Chapman, Esq.
Joseph Cotton, Esq. Chairman.
Sir William Curtis, Bart. M. P.
Joseph Huddart, Esq.
Richard Lewin, jun. Esq.
Edward Parry, Esq.
John Roberts, Esq.
William Thornton, Esq. M. P.
William Wells, Esq.
Sir Robert Wigram, Bart. M. P.
John Woolmore, Esq. Deputy Chairman,

John Farran, Sec.
Office.--Lime-Street Square,

East East-India Houses of Agency, in London:

Amos, James, and Co. 17, Devonshire Square.
Beglie and Hunter, 17, New Broad Street.
Boehm, Edmund, and Joha Taylor, 17, Bishopsgate Church-yard.
Bruce, De Ponthieu, Bazett, and Cc. 7, Tokenhouse Yard.
Burnie, William, 1, Warnford Court, Throgmorton Street.
Lambert, Gillett, and Edwards, 36, Great St. Helen's.
Lee, Richard, William, and E. 35, Old Broad Street.
Lubbock and Co. 2, Mildred's Court, Poultry.
Lushington and Mavor, 33, Mark Lane.
Palmer, Wilson, and Co. Frederick's Place, Old Jewry.
Paxtons, Cockerell, Trail, and Co. Devonshire Square.
Prinsep and Saunders, 147, Leadenhall Street.
Raikes, William and Thomas, and Co. 9, Bishopsgate Church-yard.
Scott, David, and Co. 9, Broad-Street Buildings.
Swinton, Richard, 6, Saint Mary Axe, Agent for Shipping Goods,

Presents, Passengers, Baggage, &c.
Walker, John, 2, Warwick Place, Bedford Row, or Jerusalem Coffee-

House.
Wedderburns and Co. 35, Leadenhall Street.
Wigram and Co. 3, Crosby Square.
Williams, James, 4, Old City Chambers.

EDINBURGH.

Inglis, Borthwick, Gilchrist, and Co, Agents and Bankers, Hunter's

Square.

POETRY.

From the DEWAUN of HAPEZ

Translated by John Knott, Esq.

When the young rose, in crimson gay,

Expands her beauties to the day,
And foliage fresh her leafless boughs o'erspread;

In homage to her sov'reign pow'r,

Bright regent of each subject flow'r ! Low at her feet the violet bends its head.

While the soft lyre and cymbals sound,

Pour cheerful melody around;
Quaff thy enlivening draught of morning wine :

And, as the melting notes inspire,

Thy soul with amorous desire;
Kiss thy fair handmaid, kiss her neck divine !

Now that thy garden richly blooms,

And blossom'd shrubs exbale perfumes, Perform those hallow'd rites Zerdusht requires :

Now that the tulip, whose red veins

Are flush'd with deeper, warner stains,
Glows, in each leaf, with more thau Nimrod's fires ;

Bid the dear youth of matchless grace,

With silver brightness in his face,
Whose fragrant breath brings bealing to the heart,

Thy cup, with mantling juice, fill high ;

And, in thy gay society,
No dreadful tales of elder times impart.

How the

young world now glads our eyes, It seems the boasted paradise ; Roses and lilies strew our flow'ry way!

But soon shall fade its glowing vest,

While, with eternal freshness blest, The charms of Eden ne'er shall know decay.

When

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