Q. Do you recollect any thing with regard to the complaints of tenants of the Mogul being protected by the Englifh in Calcutta?—————4. I know of no caufe for fuch complaints.

Q. Whether any fuch complaint was tranfmitted to the factory, either directly from the Nabob, or Mr Watts?

-A. No. I was deputed by the gentlemen of Calcutta to go to Madrafs. I carried a letter directed to the Governor and Council at Madrafs, and was commiffioned to give them a further account, by word of mouth, of the affairs of the factory?

Q. Do you know of any meffenger of the Nabob's coming to Calcutta, upon the fubject of protection given to the Nabab's tenants?—A. I know of a meffenger coming to Calcutta. The letter was addreffed to the Prefident, and wrote in Perfian. To the best of my remembrance, a part of that letter was what I mentioned before, relating to Kiffindafs.-I don't recollect whether I faw the letter or not.

Q. What was the circumstance of the treatment of the meffenger?A. I believe Mr Drake, upon the meffenger's delivering the letter, ordered

him to leave the town.

Q. Was any answer fent by him when he was ordered to leave the town?——A. I believe an answer was sent afterwards; and the purport of it was, that Kiffindafs was only allowed to land, and no protection was given to him.

Q. How long did the meffenger ftay before he was fent back?A. I believe a few hours after he delivered the :letter.

Q. Was he a man of rank, or of low degree? A. He was a hircarrah; by name, as I believe, Narrazing.

Q. Whether the anfwer that was fent was communicated to the council, before it was fent; or whether it was fent as Mr Drake's private letter?

A. It was communicated:the purport of both letter and anfwer were communicated. I believe the answer

was fent after the meffenger went a

wav.

Q. Who was the answer fent by?——A. I do not remember.

Q. How long was it after the receipt of the letter that the anfwer was fent? -A. I can't fay. I believe it might be that day, or the following day.

Q. Do you recollect any of the contents of the letter?A. I can't recollect the whole contents of it.

QWas it the ufual cuftom when a mefienger brought a letter from the Nabob, to be ordered to leave the town, and no anfwer fent with him? A. No.

Q. What was the reafon of treating the meffenger fo?I really cannot affign any reafon; for the receipt of the letter was not public, nor was the treatment of the meffenger.

Q. What were the measures the facetory took to pacify the Nabob, after they were informed of his hoftile intentions?---A. Mr. Drake was repeatedly defired to write to the Nabob to know the caufe of his refentment; which I believe he did;-I had no doubt but he did.

Q. Did he receive any answer?-A. I believe not.-Among other methods, Coja Waffeed (a merchant of confiderable rank and fubftance, and likewife a tenant of feveral confiderable farms) was requested, by letter, to apply to the Nabob, to know the reafon of his refentment, and was defired to act as a mediator upon the occafion :we alfo defired to be informed, if poffible, by means of Coja Waffeed, whether money was the object in view; and, in general, requested him to intereft himfelf as well as he could to appeafe the Nabob.

What was the anfwer from Coja Waffeed?A. That it was not in his power to be of ufe upon the occafion, and that the payment of a fum of money was not the object. The reafon of our applying to. Coja Waffeed was, that we fuppofed him to be a man of fome weight, and in favour with the

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Nabob, from the circumftance of his having entertained him at his houfe when he was Chuta Nabob.

Q. Was the answer to the letter brought by the hircarrah approved of by the Committee?- -A. There was no confultation taken upon it.

Q. Whether you know, or have reafon to believe, that any fum of money or prefent was given to Mr Drake, or any other perfon, by Kiffindafs?A. I do not know any thing of it; nor have I reason to believe that any were given to Mr. Drake or any other perfon.

Q. Are fure that Kiffindafs was you not received, in Calcutta before the death of Ally Verdi Cawn?-A, I am not fure.

Q. Do you remember the purport of Mr Watt's letrer relating to recommending Kiffindafs?- -A. The letter was to fuffer him to land, and refresh himself, on his way to Muxadabad from Dacca.

Q. Were the contents, to permit him to refresh himself in his journey? or was it not, to permit him to refide in the town for two months?A. I cannot recollect.

Q. Whether you do not recollect, that there was a particular recommen

dation of Kiffindafs's family, as being particularly ferviceable to the English?

-A.I cannot recollect the particular purport of the letter: in general, it was a warm recommendation of Kiffindafs, as the fon of Rajah Buliub, a man of power and intereft at the Durbar, and who might be of service to the affairs of the India company at the Durbar.

( Q. Whether that family had ever any intereft at the Durbar after Surajah Dowla came to be Nabob?----A. I can't recollect. [Withdrew.]

Mr Sullivan prefented, pursuant to order, the ftate of the Bengal revenues and charges, fhewing the grofs and nett receipts of land-revenues, and the civil and military charges, from May 1765 to April 1770,

Account of the revenues arifing to the Eaft India company from the northern ficcars, according to the last advices.

State of the revenues and duties collected by the Eaft-India company in Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa, with civil and military charges from May 1765 to April 1770.

Adjourned till to-morrow
(To be continued.)

Le Depofitaire, Comedie. En cinq Ats. Par Monfieur de Voltair. 8vo. This comedy, as the author informs us, has an event which really happened, for its foundation. A monfieur Gourville entrufted half of his wealth with the famous, mademoifelle Ninon I'Enclos, fo very well known for her good fenfe and gallantry; and the other half he placed in the hands of a man who paffed for an abfolute devotee. The latter appropriated the mopey to his own ufe; and the former, whose character was not fo fcrupu

amiable before his eyes, our author could not fail to draw a moft lively and entertaining picture. We defire however that our readers will not fuppofe this comedy to be merely fentimental. Several of the characters in it are of the most familiar kind, and are thrown into fuch ridiculous fituations as cannot fail to excite laughter; while most of the fcenes in which the heroine is concerned may juftly claim a more ferious degree of approbation. The plot is fo very intricate, that we fhall not venture to give a sketch of it, but with every reader that proportion of entertainment which we have received from a repeated perufal of the whole.

The Origin and Progrefs of Defpotifm in the Oriental, and other Empires of Africa, Europe, and America. 8vo. 55. Evans.

This is a work of study and research. The author informs us, that he intended it as an Introduction to the celebrated Spirit of Laws. For this purpofe he has commenced with his researches at the infancy of Society, and inveitigated all the effects which the revolutions of fo early a period could naturally produce on its religion and government. He difcuffes the principles of the firft civil and political inftitutions, which (he fays) led men to chufe a theocratic form of Government. He then traces the progrefs of theocracy as degenerating into idolatry, and pro

ducing defpotifm. The feveral fources of the varieties and contrarieties obfervable in the different defpotic Governments he examines minutely and accurately; and then pursues the progrefs of Defpotifm through its various declinations, whether into republicks or into monarchies. Here he has dropt his fubject; because it was at this crifis. Montefquieu took it up. Throughout the whole he has manifefted that accutenefs of research and that freedom of thinking which connect philofophy with antiquity.

An Elay on the Antiquity of the Irish Language. 8vo. IS. Becket.

This patriotic Effay is prefaced by a differtation in which the author attempts to prove Ireland to be the Thule of the Ancients. On this propofition he proceeds; and in a collation of the Irifh with the Punic language, affects to difcover a very ftriking refemblance. To this he has fubjoined corrections of the mistakes of Mr Luyd in reading the ancient Manufcript Lives of the Patriarchs; and of Mr Baretti, in his collation of the Irish with the Bifcayan language.

Three Difcourfes: Two against Luxury and Diffipation; One on Univerfal Benevolence. By Percival Stockdale. 4to. 2s. Flexney.

In thefe difcourfes Morality appears divefted of her gloomy drefs. They breathe a fpirit of chafte thinking and warm benevolence.

town of Jaffa had submitted, but thefe accounts feem premature, as that town continues to defend itself victoriously; and it is even reported, that Ali Bey and Chick Dahir have been obliged to raife the fiege, which, however, feems to want confirmation. It feems that the Porte has given orders to the rest of the Dulcignote fquadron, part of which was destroyed by the Ruffians in the Gulph of Patras, to purfue their deftination, and to go to the affiftance of the licensed town; but it is not known whether thefe orders have been executed.

RUSSIA.

Peterburgh, Feb. 23. By order of the Empress an establishment has lately been formed here in favour of the children of merchants who have died in low circumftances. Twenty fuch orphans are to be immediately admitted, who are to be cloathed, nourished, and inftructed in the principles of Commerce; after which they are to be placed out in fnch manner as to enable them to pursue the business of their deceafed parents.

The Empress has likewife given orders for erecting a Mount of Piety on the fame footing with that at Vienna.

GERMANY. Vienna, March 5. According to let ters of good authority from Buchareft, the conferences there are expected very foon to break up fruitlessly, as the principal points which fhould ferve as a bafis to the treaty of peace.

FRA NCE. Paris, March 12. The King has given 120,000 livres to the province of Languedoc, towards making good the loffes which the inhabitants have Jately fuftained by inundations and other calamities.

ITALY.

Italy, Feb. 26. The Republic of Genoa, in concert with the courts of France and Spain, has conftructed a

new road, by which the armies of France or Spain. may enter Italy in cafe a war fhould be kindled in this country. In fix days time an army will be able to enter Lombardy, from Antibes, through the dominions of the Republic of Genoa. In fuch cafe,magazines are to be formed in all the towns of Liguria, while the French will fend their heavy artillery by fea from Toulon and Marfeilles. However, before any thing of this fort takes place, they wait at Paris the iffue of the negociation of the Prince de Rohan, Ambaffador from France at the Court of Vienna.

Rome, Feb. 24. On Friday morning laft at two o'clock an earthquake was felt here, as well as at Albani, Rocca di Papa, Rocca Priori, and other neighbouring places. It was followed in about two hours, by another flight one; but at eight o'clock, there was fo violent a fhock, that all the inhabitants quitted their houses. We do not,however, yet hear of much damage being done.

HOLLA N D. 1:1 Hague, March 2. We have learnt here, that an English fhip, employed in the Greenland fishery, has failed fo far as to the 84th deg. N. confequently was not more than fix degrees from the Pole, where are united all the meridians of the earth. The fea at this latitude was found calm, free from ice, and might be navigated with the greateft fafety. We are affured that in confequence of this effay, which is most certainly fact, fome English gentlemen (among whom is Mr Bankes, already known by his voyages) are determined to fail this year towards the Pole,from whence they intend to attempt to fail weftward, towards America, and particularly to try to gain the coafts of California. If another nation, equally anxious for the glory of difcoveries, fhould attempt to terminate the voyage of Baron de Beny ofki by the way of Kamtfchatka, two paffages may be discovered instead of one, and there may probably

probably be found two routs to the Indies by the North, as there are already two by the South, one by the Cape of Good Hope, and the other by the way of Cape Horn.

Hague, March 18. According to letters from Berlin, his Pruffian Majefty has given over the thoughts of his journey to Weftphalia; and propofes, after the reviews of Magdebourg and Berlin, to make a tour into New Pruflia.

ENGLAND.

LONDON, March 27.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, March 23.

War-Office, March 22. 2d Troop of horse guards, Lieut. William John Arabin, of the 10th regiment of dragoons, is appointed to be Brigadier and Lieutenant, vice John Barlow, who exchanges.

Royal regiment of horse-guards Thomas Deakin, Gent. to be Quarter Master, vice-Evans; by purchase. ift Regiment of dragoon guards, Cornet Philip Anftruther to be Lieute nant, vice John Fashion; by purchase Edward Payne, Gent. to be Cornet, vice John Fashion; by purchafe.. 3d Regiment of Dragoon guards, Thomas Tidderman, Gent. to be Cornet, vice John Belfches; by purchase. 7th Regiment of Dragoons, Captain William Price to be Captain, vice Thomas Bayley Heath Sewell; by purchafe.Lieutenant Benjamin Lambart to be Captain Lieutenant, vice William Price; by purchase.- -Cornet William Tuffnell to be Lieutenant, vice Benjamin Lambart; by purchafe Cornet John Vavafour to be Lieutenant, vice John Burton; by purchase. 10th Regiment of Dragoons, Briga dier and Lieutenant John Barlow, of the 2d troop of horfe guards, to be lieutenant, vice William John Arabin, who exchanges.

16th Regiment of Dragoons, Lieu tenant John Leche to be Captain, vice Richard Gardiner; by purchase.. Cornet Jennings to be Lieutenant, vice John Leche; by purchafe. Francis Geary, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Geo. Jennings; by purchase

Coldftream Regiment of foot guards, Captain Charles Cooper to be Captain of a Company, vice Glynne Wynne;" by purchase. Enfign John Byde to bet lieutenant, vice Charles Cooper; by purchase. Charles Trelawny, Gent. to be Enfign, vice John Byde; by purchafe.

3d Rsgiment of foot-guards,Serjeant Major Thomas Burge to be Adjutant, vice Thomas Byron, who refigns.

14th Regiment of foot, Enfign Henry Hallwood ro be lieutenant, vice Ed-: ward Gower deceafed. Haviland, Gent. to be Enfign, vice Henry Hall-. wood.

22d Regimeot of foot, Enfign Archibald Rutherford to be Lieutenant,vice Alexander Murray; by purchase. William Clerk, Gent. to be Enfign,. vice Archibald Rutherford; by pur chafe.

23d Regiment of foot, James Dyer, Gent. to be fecond Lieutenant, vice William Wood, preferred; by purchase.

31ft Regiment of foot, Enfign Charles Mafon to be Lieutenant, vice Edward O'Conner; by purchase. 1

35th Regiment of foot, Lieutenant Charles Stewart, of the 7th regiment of foot, to be Captain, vice Robert Sherwood, preferred; by purchefe

6oth Regiment of foot, ift battas lion, Robert Palmer, Gent. to be Enfign, vice David Alexander Grant, preferred, by purchase...zd. Battalion enfign Peter Graham to be Lieutenant, vice Charles Duncan, by purchase.---John Bayard, Gent. to be indign, vice Peter Graham; by purchafe.

61ft Regiment of foot, Enfign Chris ftopher Nottal to be Lieutenants, vice Robert Milbourae; by purchase.

Lloyd,