knows the reason why your feapoys brought me here. As foun as I poke to the munhee, Capt. Harper came out, and faid, I muft fend you to Calcutta! I answered, For what reason? He faid angrily, that Mr Verelit had fent a letter, and you must go immedianely. I reprefented the diftrefs my affairs would fuffer, if I had not three or four months time allowed to fettle them, and intreated fome delay. He faid, I fhall give you three days. I reprefented, that I should be rained, if I had not more time allowed me. I was put under confinement in my own houfe, and ftrictly guarded by the feapoys, and kept from the 27th of Manch to the 1st of May. On the 2d of May I was fent to Illababad, and arrived the 10th: I was kept till the goth in the open air. I applied by Capt. Gravely to be released, but without fuccefs. The 2d of June, (ftill under confinement). I was fent to Patna, where I arrived the 28th. 1 was ten days at Patna under nonfinement. I applied to Shitabroy to be released, but without fuccefs. On the 15th of July I arrived at Muxadabad. I was brought before the Nabob: I pleaded, that as a merchant I apprehended I might go where I pleafed, paying the duties. The Nabob faid, there was now a new regulation, and that could not be; and then demanded an obligation that I would not go up to the high country to trade, under pain of confifcation of my goods. I refused to grant the obligation, and was confined in a stable, without meat and drink, for twenty-four hours. I was then imprisoned in a dark dirty place, worse than a ftable, till the 22d of Auguft. I made application to Mahamud Reza Cawn to be released. He said, he could do nothing without orders from Mr Verelft. The Subadar (or commander of the feapoys) told me fome days after, that the Nabob had been to wait on Mr Sykes, to know whether he had any orders from the Committee; and upon his return I was ordered to be releafed. The

Subadar demanded 60 rupees, which I not being able to pay him, was detained three days longer by his authority; when, upon payment of the money, I was releafed; but directions were given me not to go to the upper country, and accordingly I went to Calcutta. During my confinement, money was frequently extorted from me by the feapoys. It cost me 2000 rupees during this confinement: the greatest part of which was forced from me by the Leapoys.

Ordered, That Mr Verelft do attend this Committee to-morrow morning.

Adjourned till to morrow.

Martis, 12 die Maii, 1772.

Mr Verelt interrogated.

2. What do you know with refpect to the imprisonment of the Armenians, the cause of it, and by whofe authority they were confined?- A. Ifhould be very ready to give any account in my power to the Committee, of thefe tranfactions; but as the petitioner Cojamaul, and Rafael, another Armenian, have commenced fuits against me both in chancery and in the court of common pleas, to which I have a defence, and, I doubt not, a full fatisfaction; and as thofe fuits are now depending, I am advised by my counsel not to anfwer before this Committee, to matters which are the subject of those suits. I therefore with to decline antwering the queftion.

Mr Bolts interrogated.

2. What time did you refign the Company's fervice? 4. I believe in November 1766,

Q. When was it firft notified to you by the Governor and Council, that you should return to England?. A. A few months after I refigned the fervice, but while I was a magiftrate of the Mayor's court.

Gregore Cojamaul.

2. Whether, when you had got your purvannah, when you went to Sujah Dowla's country, you did any bufi A a 2

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nefs for Mr Bolts?

-A. I did no new business for Mr Bolts after the date of that purvannah.

2. What bufinefs did you? A. I gathered in fome money for him, and fold his remaining goods.

2. Do you know of Mr Verelft's application in writing to the Nabob Mahamud Reza Cawn, at the requeft of Coja Melcomb, for him to proceed to Patna, in order to receive his effects in Sujah Dowla's country, after your arrival in Calcutta?——A. I know of no application. Mr Bolts.

2. Was you forced out of the country?A. I was, by a party of twenty-eight armed foldiers, by an order of Mr Verelft and the rest of the Council. I had refufed to go. Capt. Cox came to me early in the morning of the 23d of September 1768, kept his guard at a distance, fhewed me the order he had from the Governor and Council, and told me, he must take me away, if I did not cenfent to go voluntarily. I told him, that I did not conceive thofe gentlemen had any right to fend me away; that I had long been perfecuted, and that they had long threatened it, but I never thought they would have dared to execute their threats. I fent to my friends, and in about ten minutes there were twenty or thirty gentlemen affembled. I petitioned the Captain for a little time to throw my books and my wife's cloaths into a couple of chefts, and he was kind enough to grant me two hours. He then faid, he could ftay no longer with fafety. I went into my wife's bed-chamber to fee if he had fent her things away, when the Captain and one of his feapoys came into the bed-chamber,

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and took me out by the fhoulders. They marched me through the streets to a boat that was prepared for me, in which they conducted me on board a floop prepared for the purpose. My wife followed me afterwards. In that floop we were conducted down the river, and kept feven days and nights under confinement in the floop, with the feapoys at the cabin-door. When the fhip Valentine was under way, we were taken out of that floop to fea, and forcibly put on board the Valentine, and brought to England.

2. When the first fentence of banish. ment was pronounced against you, had you ́any intimation of your crime, or was you called before the Governor and Council that pronounced it, to make any defence? A. I had no intimation whatever, nor was ever called before them.

2. Do you remember when you received the first sentence, from the Secretary to the Governor and Selec Committee?A. I think it was about April 1767.

2. Did you know for what reafons you was thus fent home?——— A. I never knew more than what was written in the paper delivered me as my fentence, after I was banished.

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January, 25.
POLAND.

Warfaw, Jan. 6. The Pruffian Eagles which had been fixed up too near the city of Thorn, have been removed to the distance of half a mile from where they were before placed: On this occafion the commiffaries of the King of Pruffia gave notice to the chief magiftrate, that as other poffeffions held by that city had fallen under the dominion of his Majefty, it was expected that they should fend deputies to Marienwerder, this month to pay homage to the King for them. In answer to this, the chief magiftrate of Thorn has written a letter to the Chamber of Domains and of war at Marienwerder excufing himself from fending deputies for the purpofe requefted, having already taken the oaths of allegiance to their lawful fovereign.

DENMARK.

Copenhagen, Jan. Lieutenant Leith has been condemned to be hot, but we are in hopes he will obtain a pardon. The High Tribunal has declared the Sieur Thura, Author of the writing intituled "The Prognofticator," guilty of the crime of high treafon, and in confequence have condemned him to fuffer the fame punishment as the Counts Strunfee and Brandt.

GE R MAN Y. Hamburgh, Jan. 15. They write from Petersburgh, that by order of the Emprefs, the Senate has published a general pardon for all deferters from her troops both by fea and land, that

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From the Danube, Jan. 4. Every thing presents the melancholy ideas of an unavoidable war. According to advices from Vienna, couriers have never been fo frequent between that court and thofe of Peterburgh and Berlin. The minifters of their Imperial Majefties are almoft continually in council, and leave it only to begin fresh conferences with thofe of Ruilia and Pruffia. Thefe advices add, that the Prince de Rohan, Ambaffador from France, demanded a fecond audience of the Emprefs Queen, which proved as long as the firit, in which, as 'tis thought, that minifter has made fome important propofals; for his Serene Highnefs, foon after his return to his hotel, difpatched a courier to his court. Be that as it may, we flatter ourfelves that the partition of Poland will not only be approved in the approaching dyet of that kingdom, but moreover, that the fhare of the Houfe of Auftria will be augmented, by way of indemnification for the great expence he has been at in forming a line with her troops; and other pretenfions the may form on the republic.

tfed by the members, they deferred the further confideration of that affair to Monday the 8th of February.

This day Mr Dempfter reported to the houfe the refolution of the committee came to, laft Friday, upon the bill for encouraging the subjects of foreign ftates to lend money upon eftates in his Majefty's colonies in the Weft Indies, and a bill was ordered in for that purpofe.

They write from Holland, that the States have forbid the exportation of any farts of corn, or pulfe, from all parts of the United Provinces, till the roth of April next, under very fevere penalties.

Advices are lately received from the Eaft Indies, that the French fquadron in that quarter confifts of eleven fail of the line, (fix of them lately arrived from Europe) five frigates, and three floops, the latter of which are employed as Cruizers and advice-boats.

They write from Madrid, that the court of Admiralty there have made a demand on the maritime provinces of 12,0qa registered feamen, in order to man the fquadrons fitting out in the Spanish ports.

A proclamation was published at Copenhagen the 6th inft. forbidding the meeting of numbers of the lower clafs of people together, great diforders having lately accrued therefrom. The of ficers of justice are alfo ordered to appear with their enfigns in public, that they may be the more refpected when they are exercising their functions.

They write from St. Augustine, that Settlers are continually emigrating from Weft Florida to occupy lands in that province, where the climate and foil are efteemed greatly fuperior to thofe near the Gulph of Mexico.

They write from Senegal, that the fon of a powerful prince on the River Gambia,was intended to be fent the next fummer to England for his education.

A plan has been laid before the miniftry, to obtain an act this feffions, for all criminals, condemned in Great

Britain for tranfportation, to be sent to the British fettlements on the Coaft of Africa, and there to work and ferve as foldiers during the time of their fentence, which will be a great faving to government.

Advice is received from Dublin,that the poor people are so much distressed in that city by the high price of provifions, that they have affembled in a large body and broke open feveral warehoufes where provifions, were lodged to be fent abroad, and have carried them off; that the military power was called out to difperfe them, but they rather affifted in carrying off the plunder.

Letters from Cork fay, that the weather has lately been fo ftormy, that a great deal of damage had been done to the shipping on that coaft; that three veffels belonging to that port have been entirely loft; and that two Dutch veffels have fhared the fame fate, and most of their crews perished.

They write from Philadelphia, that that city has increafed upwards of 5000 new buildings within the laft three years..

Mr Moore's new invented windlass was proved on board the Mermaid,, Captain Martin French, lying off King's-ftairs, Rotherhithe, laft Saturday. There were prefent Mr Perry, Ship-builder, of Blackwall; Mr James Young, Capt. Hooper, Capt. Young, Mr. Gaythome, Mr. Mowbray, Mr. Wilfon, and 'everal other gentlemen,. as well Captains of flips as others, who all expreffed their entire fatisfaction. The anchor, exclufive of the ftock and cable, was feventeen hundred weight,. which was raifed ten feet in three quarters of a minute by four men. little practice will render them far more expert, as two men only with this windlafs during this experiment weighed the anchor, and fix men attempted to weigh it by the common method without effect.

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