Hicky's Bengal gazette, or The original Calcutta general advertiser (16.1781)

II I C K T's

BENGAL GAZETTE;

OR THE O R I G I N A L

Calcutta General Advertifer.

A JVeejdy Political and Commercial Paper, Open to all Parties^ but infuenctd by None,

68 From Saturday May 5th to Saturday May the 12 th .1.78.1. No. XVI

3fc*('ClfiC)3(;C3iOK*y^W&£#MW&* I am much obliged to you for the concern you" Cowardice, made Secretary of State to our
t3!3c£3L£jie£2cj£ ^^L%yL-it^S.A^^. are *b good as "to exprefs upon the occafion.wite King.
NOW IN THE PRESS | ^our Lord-fhip will I flatter myfelf excufcj

AjvjJ) me, if Condons << si am of my never-failing du-\

ty, attacbm nt, and afedion to bis Majejff, 1
am under the neceffity of iiiipuieing this mark
of the Kings difplcafure to His Ministers,
on account of a Vote I gave as a Free Man,,
and upon a Public que/Hon.
I have the honour to be, my Lord

Your Lordfliips moft obedient, •
And melt humble Servant. i
Pembroke.
Here follows the fubftance of the Earl Pembroke's

SPEEDILY WILL BE PUBLISHED
RY J. A. HICK Y'
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IN CALCUTU.

THE New Bye-Law propcily difcuffed,
defined and dilfectcd, Paragraph by
Paragraph, fully Explained by the cleareft
comments taken from the highed Legal and
couftitutional Authorities, adapted to the
meancft Capacity. Which will prove a very
neceff.ny Pocic-t Manual, not only for this,
but fucceeding Generations, to (hew how
carefull oui Wile Anceftors have been to
protecl us, our Lives, Liberties, and Properties.

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Pubiifh them inVolumns, which are now to be
had bound or unbound at his Printing Office
In the Radda Baazar.

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Subfcription, to be Publifncd the fird
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Wit and Humour.
Price four Rupees., Subfcriptions taken in at
the Original Printing Office.

Particulars of the Infamous difmijjion of an Eir
gltjk Nobleman far giving his vote in Parlia-

An exaft and Critical Portrait of Lor»
NoR'i h, the blundering Quixote Prime Min-
ijier of England deliver ed in Parliament by the
Honble. Mr. Thomas Pitt an the bthManh

1780.-recommendedto'the ferious ptrufil

if the Great Mogul and ether High Officers
rnlrtijied by the Generous-Confidence of their
Country with the Welfare—■ Lives and Proper-
ties of Millions.-

riTViK Noble Lord North has faid that he is
_3_ not responsible to the Nation for the Ca-

fpeech againjl the Partial appointment of the j laimtits which have befallen it, but if the no-
Sc '.rcvio over the Heads of old Englifh Officers., j Me Lord expects to obtain credit to this afier-

' tion, I think it incumbent upon the nobler

U the Infamy of Adminiftration and Dijbmmr
of the King and Nation.

" He made a grneial charge againft Admi-
" strati*'nof havingdVcv* Officers naval and
'•' military, of the fit ft reputation and abilities,
'•* from the feiviceof t ;eir Country, and ftated
« frv era! inftanccs in proof of his nffertion.
" He adverted to what he called the moft fhame-
" ful and fcandalous abufeof the powers vefted
" in executive government, ih'Vh'eir pn3fe-flion.il
" arrangements and promotion- ; their giving
" regiments to Officers in Subaltern fftuatrons
:>nd even to perfons who were totally unacqua-*
" inted with the army or military habits of
" life by which vetcans of long fervice, of
" tried and approved ability and merit, were
" deprived of their light of fucceffion and pro-
motion; and that not only to the injury of imli-

m-ni, agreeable to the Di lates of his confidence,
thro' the machinations oft be Scottifi) 'Junto that
fiurround the Throne and dij"grace M-ijefty.

Copies ofiLetters between Lord Hillfbjreugh, and
the Earl of Pembroke.

My Lord, 5/. James Feb. 14 17So.

JSOJOKJGO&C Am much concerned that it falls
y& }S( to my lot to obey the Kings

y& I & commands, by acquainting your
X Lordfhip, that his Majefiy has

&^9K)&)& 1,0 farther occafion for your fer-
I vice in the Offices of Lord-Lieutenant and
f'.Cuftas-Rotulornm of the country of Wilts;
1 and your Lnrd-fhip will, I hope, believe me
when I affure you I fhould be glad of a more
agreeable opportunity'of expreffing the refpeel,
with which I have the honour to be,
My Lord, vour Lord-fhips,
Moll obedient humble fervant.

Hi llseo rough.
LTo the Earl of Pembroke &c. &c.
I A N S W E R.

Privy Garden, Monday Night.
My Lord, February 14 1780.

" I Had the Honour to receive your Lord-
.fliips Lettee to day, in which your Lord-fhip
fignifics his Majefty's Commands to you, to
Jet me know "he has no farther occafion for mv
fervice in the Offices of Lord Lieute nant, and
Cuilos RoiulorMOJ of the country of Wilts,—

Lord to inform us who is refiponfible- I

would wifh the noble Lord to attend

to the cafe truly ftated. - Did not the

noble Lord propofe fupport, and recommend
the meafuri s aliuded to, to this Houfe ? Did
not he tell them, do fitch a thing, and finch will
be ihSiienfcqtienet i did not he come the next
year and deiirc credit to liis new prediflions,
vvhich provca in the event ar, fialfie and ill
founded;, as ti:e preceeding ? Did nut he again
tell Parliament that he had been mifi'frmed
and deceived? is this Language for a Minifter?
and after piomifmg a thtufand and a t})onfiaf.(lt
times over; after fpenciing millions upon ?r:iiii-
ens, facrificing thoulands and thoul'ands of lives,
tell this Houie that the whole was Vifmiatyy
and impracticable; thai the O.lor.ics mult have
viduals, but to the Army in general by which | their own trims; that the mult not be taxed ;
the only ufc an Army could be of at apy time 1 that the claim of making laws for them muft
particularly in a time of War the protection of be abandoned; and yet, does not his Lord-fhip

the kingdom and in well executed and judici-
ous attacks upon our enemies was defeated.
But the Army wus now as alrrioft every other
department was, employed merely as an erginc
of Government, and made fubfervient to the
views of a Cabal to ani'wtr faftious purpofes,
and to grstify the pretenfions of thofe win had
rendered themfeives acceptable to the Kings
Minifters. He entertained a very high refpeel
foVtfte perfon and abilities of the noble J^ord,
who was picfumcd to direiSt the military affairs
of this Country ; but without founding his o-
pinion on the fads fo ably ftated by the noble
duke of Richmond who made the motion in or-
der to (hew that the noble Lord' real p >wers
were inadequate to his o'lenfible fituation, he
was convinced that the ftrangc rncafures ailudcd
to did not originate with tile noble Lord him-
fclf, but were ciicTtateci by a cabal of Miniftsrs,
which was led and directed in military affairs
by a noble Lord (luppofed to mean Lord
George Germain) in the Cabinet, a Member
of the other Houfft who could not be fuppofed
to know much of the feelings or the merits of
an Officer, as he had been publicly di/mified
from the fervice himfelf for Military mifcoili
lucl. He was very pointed and feverc upon
Adminiftration in general, and affirmed, that
if the .prefeht Adminiftration were permitted

after fpending fifty millions of Money and pledging
the nation for the expendi-ture of as-much viot't
pcrfift in the fame ruinous mifebiv ous and
dcftiuclive War? How often has his Lo:dfhij>
told us, that France would not enter into, or
tike any part in theAmeric*n cotitL-ft ? and yet
has he not involved us in a war with tdr.it am-
bitious neighbour, and inveterate Enemy ? w. s
not his Lord-fliip equolly fimgmu'vaA JtojiHht
that Spain would decline to enter into 111c
views of France? and is not the Lcl that wc
ave nov/ engaged in, a moft perilous and cxpen-
five war with the united force o! the Hotifc of
Bourbon? —This is the Man whom this Houfs
have fupported for a fcries of Years back; fueH
a man cannot have the genuine fuppoi t and Sp-
probatrcfti of this Houfe; he has I affirm been
(iijiportetl by nothing but by Bribes thro' the
undue and uncsnjlituiiwal influence of the
Crown. I b-lievc there is not a perfon who
hears me, and fairly weighs the political and
minifterial merits of the noble Loid who can
think that this Houfe could have ever content-
ed to keep him in his prcfent fituation, if thetr
rcal fentimcnts had not been I'mothered, and
their fears and hopes kept alive by the inciift-
ablc influence of 'he Crown.

But independent of that part of the noble
Lords'conducl, which moreirnmcdiately comes

to remain much longer at the head of public within the ccgniz.mce and notice of tin Houjex
affairs, the Ruin of the Nation was inevitable, [has any part of his adminiftration foreign or
P. S. Let it be remembered by all true En- I demrftirk, given the picture of a G reat and
glifhmcn, that Lord Pembroke frrved with his ! able Minister, whether referable tc a pc-

Regiment of Cavahv in Germany the whole of
the laft War with ditlinguifhcd Bravery and
Rtputa'tion, and hchasnaw the mortification to

rfbd of ft c- or war — Eve n in his own proper
department as r. fmancer how has he acquitted
himfelf, what plans in time ofi peace did he

fee Mind en Sackville who was bioie tor 'ftiuk for paying cir* the national Debt, or rc