Hicky's Bengal gazette, or The original Calcutta general advertiser (14.1781)

HICK T\s

B ENGAL GAZETTE;'

OR "THE ORIGINAL

Calcutta General Advertifer.

A Weekly Political end Commercial Paper, Open to all Parties^ but influenced by None,

66 From Saturday April 21 ft. to Saturday April 8 h 1781. No. XIV

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' application of Money."—He has accord-

NOW IN THE PRESS
AND

SPEEDILY WILL BE PUBLISHED
BY J. A. H I C K Y
AT HIS PRINTING OFFICE.

THE New Bye-Law properly difcufTed,
defined and dilTccted, Paragraph by
Paragraph, fully Explained by the cleared:
comir.ents taken from the higheft Legal and
conftttutional Authorities, adapted to the
peaneft Capacity. Which will prove a very
neceffiiry Pocket Manual, not only for this,
but fucceeding Generations, to , {hew how
careful! oui Wife AnceftorS have been to
protect us, ear Lives, Liberties, and Proper-
ties.____________ _

~To the P U B L I C.

THE great demand for the Original Ben-
gal Gazette has induced Mr. Hicky to
Publifh th-m inVolumns, which are now to be
had bou nd or unbound at his Printing Office
in the Radda Baaaar.

. Com Uvirthi cf C ICERG's c -Hrau 4 Oration,
, before the Roman Senate again/} VERRES,
( en; of the Reman Governors in Sicily in
J Afia Minor.

I y&'M.&'$M N opinion I«s long prevailed,
' )SC not only here at borne butlikewife,
t & A y& in foreign Countries both
)C( {£» dangerous to you, and pernicious
&*09OK3§( t0 thc Sf*te viz. That in Profit-
cuiior.s men of wealth are always fafe how-
ever clearly convicted. 1 here is now to be
brought upon his trial before you (to the con-
ftrfion, I hope of the propagators of this Slan-
derous imputation,) one whofe life and actions
condemn him in the opinion of all impartial
pcrfons ; but who according to his civn reckoning,
and declared dtpendance upon his Riches, is alrea-
dy acquitted, I mean Caius Verres.---One

whole conduit has been fuch that in palling ajuft
fentencc upon him you will have an opportuni-
ty of re-eftablijbing the creditedfuch trials, of re-
covering what ever may be left of the favour of
the Roman People ; and of fatisfymg fore-
ign States and Kingdoms in alliance
with us, or tributary to us, I demand Juftice
of you. Fathers upon the robber of the

1 public treasury, the oppressor of AsiA

Minor, and Pamphylia, the invader of
the rights and Priviledgc-s of Romans, the
Scaurgt and curfe of Sicily; If that feu-
trnce is palled upon him which his Crimes
deferve, your authority Fathers will be ve-
nerable and facred in the Eyes of the Pub-
lic, but if his great riches fbould bi-
afs you in his favcur, I fhall iti11 gain
one point viz. To make it apparent to all
the [Fori! that what was wanting in this
cafe was nit a Criminal nor a Prosecu-
tor ; But Justice and adequate Punish-
ment.

■' He makes no fcruple pub/idly to de-
': c/.tre. That in his opinion they alone have
*• rtaht to ft<ir lemg called to account, who
*' h rjc only emafied what isfwfficitnt for them-
" [elves. That for his part he has prudently
" taken care to [[cure what will be fufficient
" for himfeif and many others. Bfides, That
*' .he fasws there is nstking fi faer$d} i< i it

irfgly ("aid that the only time he ever was affraid
was when he found the Profecution com-
menced againft him by Ms ; left he fliould
not have time enough to difpqfe of a fuf-
ficient number of Presents in proper hands.
What does his QuESToRSHIP (the firft Chief-
fhip he held in'Afia) what does it exhibit
but one continued Scene of op.preSve Vil-
lainy, a Province robb'd and reduced to

Famine.---—The Employments he held

in Asia Minor, and Pamphylia, what
did it produce but.thc Ruin of thofe un-
happy Gountri s.-in his lafi high Em-
ployment he acted over again the Scene
of his former Queffccrfijip, bunging by bis
bad practices, thofe whofe substitute he
was into difgrace, and then deferring them.
The mifchiefs done by} him in that unhap-
py Country (Sicily) during his Iniquitous
AdminiflreiUon are fuch, that many Years
under the wife/1 and be/} of Pra?.tors will
not be fufficient to reftore things to the
condition in which they formeriy were, no
Inhabitants of thc remote parts of that ru-
ined Country has. been able to ketpfsffiffion
of any thing but has . either tfcaped thc ra-
pacioufnefs or been neglcSted by the fatiety
of this uifeling universal plunderer. Thofe
who wifhed to "be in alliance with the
Roman common wealth, have been wanton-
ly treated as Enemies, andthefe his attro-
cious Crimes have been committed in fo
Public a manner, that there is no one who
has heard of his Name either in Rome or
Asia, but could reckon up his actions.

Oh Libert^ — Oh Sound once delightful
to every Roman Ear! —'A Sacred p'riviledge
of Roman Citizen-fhip!—--Once Sacred—
now trampled upon!— what, then, is it come

the E. of Shelburne Mr. T. Pitt, M.r,
Dunning.. Ard caius Verbes as a fe n(

Type of Sir Thomas PILLAGE__

The native hontft powers, of Sympathy con-
firm the horrid Picture.—-

To the Printer of the Bengal Gazette.
S I R.

Hl£ wifeft meafures that have ever been
^ purfued by any Government, were fure'-i
ly thofe of the Britifh Parliament, when
under the reign of a wife Prince, and the
Adminiftrationi of a Patiiotic Minifter, thc
Majority of it's Members were elected by
the. free .fuffrajjes of the People, how did!
the Nation flourifb under fuch Rulers, how
were it's Enemies crufhed? and how did'
they fink under the- Wifdom of its Coun-
fels, and the Magnanimity of it'^ Fleets and
Armies? But Alas! Alas! inftead of that
glorious fpirit of Freedom which then fued
our Souls, how are we fallen off? how are
we funk?—j——Yet we have fome confla-
tion in finding that notwithstanding the con-
ftitution ij now fo very Rotten, we have a
few Members in the Houfe cnofen like that
glorious Majelty, by the frsr and uncor-
rtinted voices of the Cities and Counties,

be attended to, and fuch are the Mm who
will open the Eyes of the Nation, awake
it from that lethargy into v.hu h it is now
moft miferably fallen, and expofe the Ab-
furdity, folly, and iniquity of that plan of
DefpOtifm, fo eagerly puifued ;uid fit adily
fiipported by that corrupt part of the con-
Sitution, the head of Placemen 2nd Penfi-
oners, Members of paltry, venal BorGughj
Men who have purchafed their Ek£t.0riS
to betray thtii Country, thefe are the wiet-
ches who now form the Majority, and v\ ho
now Govern the Empire, and thefe aic the
. bafe Slaves who will overthrow thc hioft
to tins? Shall zr> inferior Magiftrate (a Go- j beautiful Structure ever raifed -bv the Arc
vernorj who holds his Power of the Roman of Man planned bv thc utmoft Stretches

People--in a Roman Colony act in this

licentious Manner.--Shall neither thc

Ma,cfly of the Roman Com mo it-wealth, or

the fear of the justice of his Country-

reftrain or puniih the Impious Avarice and li-
centious Tyranny of a Mpnftef who in Confi-
dence of HIsRlCHES, thus acquired, Strikes at
thc Root of Law, and Liberty, and fets

Mankind at defiance?.....- I conclude with

expreiling my hopes that your TPifdtm and
Juflice Conscript, Senators will not bv
full enng the Atrocious and unexampled Infolence
of Caius Verres to efcape due punifhmenr,
leave room to apprehend the danger of a total
[ubverflon of Authority, and introduction ofGrn
eral ANARCHY AND CONFUSION in the EM-
pire.

After Reading and duly pondering the afore
recited Speech of the immortal CICERO
(which is both genuine, and as nearly transla-
ted as the Idioms, of Different Languages will

• In ^>

admit) let us only fhift the Scene in imrnagina-
tion and by the powers of Fancy Conceive
Sicily (as deferibed by Cicero, to be the Car-

The People of Rome the India propri-
etors, or the English Nation atlarrie.--

The Conscript Senators—the English

of human wifdwra, the works of Agts, but
Imperfect, as all human inventions muft he
and therefore flill cs>pabje of Improvement,
and was its original, animating principles
to remain entire, might in the end rif to
be even the Admiration of lupci ior 1
ligencies.

_ . CATO.

A PUNT AT A DISTANCE TO THE
Proprietors *f India Steci.
OS'F fericufly is to.be apprehended,
that the Great Moguls, inattention
tiic immediate and pofitive orders of thc
Divan, will be productive of very fatal

confequences to this Tottering Empire.-.

Upon his acctffion to the Mufnced, anu*
for ages before, the Hookam of that great
Body was the grand fpling by which every
Department here was actuated, and thc
Difmiffion of his immediate predeceflbr for
a deviation from their will, tho' caufed by
great neceffity, fnouid have been a caution
te him, that'in thc Dour of "their reflection
thev will not forget the Cctueropt with which
be has treated their cruris. As he throws off
his fubordination to them, it mult be ex-
pected that Officers of Abilities who are

Parliament.---• placed in independent Commands will iP

CicEKo i« &s Peifou of Ed, Do«r!-:'s. '-I^v fu<! it % holdt}u;mf:l,.«