Extract of a Letter from Lord Macartney to the Court of Directors, dated Fort St. George, 14th May, 1782. "Whatever can be done for the public service, attainable by ability, resolution, and address, will be accomplished by Mr. Sullivan, whose mind is awake to every object within his reach, or within his view. We have thought it necessary, in our circumstances, to devolve upon him a considerable share of administration to the southward; as far as we could venture to do so, under the particular controul and restraint under which we have placed ourselves." Extract of a Letter from Lord Macartney, and his Council, to the Curt of Direc tors, dated Fort St. George, 5th September, 1782. "Copies of the most important of the letters and papers to which Mr. Sullivan alludes, go a No. in the packet. They will evince the magnitude of the object which has so much engaged his solicitude, and his active zeal and ability, in the management of that branch of the administration which has fallen to his share. We lament, for your sakes, that that share has been circumscribed; and that, not possessing them our. selves, we could not invest him with the powers he requested: because we are persuaded he would have employed them to the advancement of your essential interests.” Such is the sum of the matters contained in the original Narrative, and its accompanying documents. The copy now reprinted, and from which the above summary has been taken, is followed by some further observations on the subject of the transactions relative to the ship Elizabeth; and we cannot, without injustice to Mr. Sullivan, conclude this article without adducing the following passages: "If the judgment of a public body can afford any ground for inferring the opinions and sentiments of those who pronounced that judgment, every equitable and honest mind must infer from that of the Court of Directors, that, although the act itself upon which they pronounced was judged to be contrary to the letter of the law in favour of the monopoly of the Company, and therefore it became necessary, for precedent and example, that they should mark their disapprobation of similar transactions; yet that they considered themselves bound, in justice to Mr. Sullivan, so to ex. press that disapprobation, as to confine it to such part of the transaction as related to the infringement of their monopoly; and thus, by fair inference, to justify him from imputation in any other part. And the more espe cially, as the Company had thought proper to direct their solicitor to commence suits at law, or in equity, against one of their servants (who held an high office in India at the period of those transactions in the Indian seas), on account of his conduct respecting the French ship." "In 1790, not two years subsequent to the date of the Resolution of the 5th November, 1788, and when the transaction to which that Resolution refers must have been fresh in the recollection of the Court of Direc tors, Mr. Sullivan had the gratification of receiving the most satisfactory proof that he had not suffered in their favourable opinion; a majority of them having, separately, assured him of their support, if he should suc. ceed in an application to the Minister, with a view to obtaining the Government of Madras." Ambassador, English, the impossibility Ambassadors, the present English, at fo- Americans, absurd declaration respecting Anti-Jacobin, defence of the, against the 339. Articles, reflections on the sense of the, Arts, paradoxy frequently observable in Attraction, capillary, striking effects of, APP. VOL. XXV. Avarice, curious instance of the height B Bampton Lectures, account of their plan Bank of France, atrocious robberies on Banker, his business considered, 461.) Batavia, account of the bay of, 125: Beauty, female, qualities requisite for, 362. Bengal, amount of its population, 71; its Blasphemy, horrible picture of its preva Blasts, downright, instructions to guard Brazils, the transfer of the Portuguese Bull, Bishop, his opinion of original sin, C Cæsar and Cato, parallel between, 13. the Dutch inhabitants at Batavia, 125. Calvinists, their violent opposition to Campo de Villarica, account of that fer- Cathedral at Funchal, account of the, 25. eve of a battle, 14. Castlereagh, Lord, anecdote of, proving 'Caung-Shung, account of this extraordi- Chancellor of the Exchequer, proofs of his conduct with that of Lewis Christianity, reflections on the conver- its rapid approach to ex- tinction in France, 169. not to be attacked by irony and ridicule, 435. schisms excited in the bosom of Climate in England, general remarks on - its real change to be attributed -—, erroneous opinion of its fre- hitherto so little known, 129; histori- articles of commerce sup- plied by, 138; the King favourable to Colon, its use not easily ascertained, 421. themselves independent, and necessity projects of France towards new ones, 471. Confederacy, the late Continental, its Confidence, private, atrocity of betray- Congruity of merit, inquiry into the doc- Connoisseurs, pointed observations on, 263. Convulsions, their general prevalence in Country gentlemen, characteristics of the, Cotton-yarn, arguments on the impor- Cranmer, his conduct at the Reforma- Credulity, the victim to, described, 390. 484. Critics, general observations relating to censure of the unprincipled con- Curates' Act, remarks on the tenor of the, Currents at sea, always travel in right Custom, Eden, the nature of man in the garden its increased expence reason physical, of children, disserta- 438. Election, review of the doctrine of, 238. state of its revenue, &c. in Mr. -, necessity of being an armed n- Enthusiasm, religious, necessity of dis- Equality, perfect, its foolish recom- mendation for the restoration of the Evaporation, ingerious remarks on, 382. F Faery Queen, Spenser's, general remarks Fatalism, the fashionable religion of the Ferney, account of an excursion to, 270. exist near the shore of Amsterdam Fitz-James, the Duke of, sale of his 299. Flitch of bacon, origin of its distribution 142. Forgiveness of injurics strongly enforced Fox, Mr. observations on the political Fouché, account of this devil in human France, her advantageous treaty with the varieties of characters produced " L12 French French Government, nature of its present form, 407. Frenchman, atrocious anecdote of a, 32. tion, 199; censured for a pamphlet Galgacus, his address to his soldiers com- 203. Garrow, Mr. his extraordinary assertion Gleig, Dr. avows himself to be author of God, necessity of resignation to the will Goths, asserted to be of the same nation Grattan, Mr. strictures on the political Guilt, its future punishment regulated by 150. Guimaraens, account of that ancient city, Holland, influence of the Revolution on House of Commons, extent of its legal Human capacity, its limits defined, 451. I Jacobinism, its prevalence still main- Javanese, inquiry into the benevolence 128. Jefferys, Mr. general remarks on the Innocence, no protection from the viru- Insanity alleged as a palliative for literary Inscription, specimen of a modern in the Intoxication, fatal effects of, propensity Intrigue, certainty of its final detection Invasion, the possibility of its taking Investigation, the delicate, observations Irish, superstitious credulity of the pea- Iron mine, account of the only one in Judgment, the last, conditions on which 151. Jugurtha, his device in attacking the Julian, the Emperor, inconsistent opi K Knowledge, and its three grand divisions, Labour, |