the part of the troops under their orders. Captain J. M. Coombs is also noticed as having been concerned in these reprehensible proceedings.

Then follows the expression of the displeasure of the Governor in Council, in terms perfectly unequivocal, as they declare the suspension from the service of

Lieut. Colonel the Hon. A. Sentleger;
Major J. de Morgan ;

Captain J. Marshall; and

Captain J. Grant;

The removal from military charge and command of Lieutenant Colonels Robert Bell and Chalmers, and the removal from their staff situations of Lieutenant Colonel J. Cuppage, Adjutant General, and Captain J. M. Coombs, Assistant Quarter Master General, in Mysore.

After a short explanation of the powers of the Governor, Sir G. Bariow expresses his satisfaction in publishing his conviction. that the majority of the army had resisted all participation in the proceedings described in the order, and his approbation of the conduct of the troops in his Majesty's ser

vice.

The concluding paragraph contains a

passage equally pernicious as any part of the order, and which first gave rise to the proceedings that have followed. The passage is as follows:

"The information before the Govern"ment, does not enable the Governor in "Council to distinguish, by the expression "of his approbation, all the troops of the "Company's service that have manifested "the same disposition (as those of his Majesty's service); but he deems it to be

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proper to notice, on this occasion, the satisfactory and exemplary conduct of the "part of the army composing the Hydrabad subsidiary force."

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Such is the order of the 1st of May; which, whatever be its intrinsic merits, has produced consequences that must ever be regretted by all who feel an interest in the welfare of Britain, but particularly by those who wish well to the establishment of the East India Company.

The terms of the order are so positive, and the punishment which it announces, is so severe and exemplary, that any disinterested person, upon the first perusal of the order, will take it for granted, that the facts alleged against each individual, were fully

proved, or at least that they were susceptible of proof. However, it was known to all, that no public inquiry whatever had taken place; that none of the parties had any opportunity of defending themselves against the informations that had been procured through the vilest channels; and to many it was known, that the allegations were not only without proof, but that they were scandalously unfounded and false.

On recovering from the shock which the publication of the order produced, people began to consider the circumstances of the case, which were universally known to the following extent:

On the 11th April, Captain Barlow, Aid-de-Camp to Sir G. Barlow, came to the Military Board office, with a summons for three young men, two of whom were employed in the office, and the third had been in the private employ of Captain Marshall, as Secretary to the Military Fund. These being seized by Captain Barlow, were taken to the Council Chamber, and examined, on oath, by Mr. Anstruther, the Company's Advocate, in presence of Sir G. Barlow, Mr. A. Falconar, Lieutenant Colonel Leith, and Captain Barlow. The

result of the examination of these persons was, that a paper addressed to the Governor General had been copied in the office of the Secretary of the Military Board, and two or three were taken from two drafts in the hand-writing of Lieutenant Colonel Martin and Captain J. Marshall, according to the belief of the deponents respectively. Various. interrogations were made respecting the persons who visited Captain Marshall in the office, and the manner in which he conversed with them, whether in a public or retired part of the office, &c. (for Captain Marshall continued to do duty in the Military Board office until the 10th of March, although he had been officially removed from it by order, dated the 7th of February.) However, no information was obtained that could in any way corroborate, or add, to that which has been noticed. Yet, upon such information, have Lieutenant Colonel Martin and Captain Marshall been publicly vilified and stigmatized, in the public newspapers of Madras, Bengal, and Bombay. Neither of them has been allowed any opportunity of pleading against the accusation; Lieutenant Colonel Martin having sailed for England on the 1st of March, and Captain Marshall having

been seized at Vizagapatam, sent on board the Asia Indiaman, for the purpose of being transported to Bengal, and, ultimately, to Europe. However, the hardships to which it was intended that Captain Marshall should be exposed, were increased by the wreck of the Asia in the river Hughley; on which occasion he lost the greatest part of the property which he had been able to collect at the time he was seized at Vizagapatam.

At the time that Captain Marshall's writers were seized, Lieutenant Colonel Barclay was employed in a service of the same description, which was executed in the following manner: Lieutenant Colonel Barclay proceeded in his curricle to the office of Mr. James Balfour on the beach, at a time of the day when Mr. Balfour was not there, and calling for a native writer, with whose name he had been previously furnished, he seized him, and carried him, in terror and astonishment as he was, in his curricle, to the Fort. On his arrival there, he delivered the terrified writer at the Council Chamber, which had, before this, acquired the more common title of the Star Chamber.

The examination of this poor fellow was conducted in the same manner as that