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fortitude, and talents, overwhelmed with confusion its Gallic invaders. Having poured the healing balm of mercy and oblivion into the bleeding wounds of rebellion, and freed the land from the pestiferous foe, which had polluted its soil, he undertook, and, in conjunction with the great Minister of Britain, helped to accomplish the noble and Herculean task of uniting the component parts of the British Empire, by a bond of indissoluble connection; and to his steady resolution and wisdom the suc cess of the great measure of the Union is materially to be attributed. From this elevated station of Vice-regal power, which he had filled with such signal benefit to the nation at large, and to Ireland in particular, those principles of rectitude and honour, which had invariably furnished the rule of his public and private life, compelled him to descend; but it might be said of him, as of an eminent character deceased-" If he were great in his high office, he was greater still in the resignation of it."

"When a change in the conduct of the French Government presented a prospect of effectual negociation, Marquis Cornwallis was selected by his Monarch as the most honourable subject in whose hands he could confide the interest of his Crown.The progress and result of that negociation are familiar to us all. Opinions are divided upon the merits of the peace, but there is no division of opinion upon the merits of the negociation; and, whatever may be thought of the terms, all parties admit, that the peace itself has been the means, and the only means, of uniting the sentiments and feelings of all classes of our countrymen in favour of the war in which we are engaged.

"Greatly advanced in years, rich in honours, rich in the favour of his King, and the affections of his fellow-subjects, altho' enjoying a necessary and dignified repose, suitable to his rank and age, and with little prospect of lengthening his space of life to the completion of another lustre, at the call of his Royal Master, with all the alacrity of youth, he embarked again for these distant and unhealthy regions, exclaiming, "If I but render service to my -country, it is unimportant to me, whether I die in Europe or Asia." With the issue of this sublimely great and prophetic resolution, we are but too well acquainted. 1 have the authority of one who was honoured, to the last, with his personal and unreserved confidence, for declaring (and his authority is confirmed by the letter which was read from the Chair,) that the ruling passion of his heart was the "love of his country." To this he early sacrificed all other considerations most dear to his soul, and to this he finally sacrificed his life.

When Wolfe, in the arms of victory, and in the agonies of death, hearing that the enemy had fled, cried with expiring joy, "I die contented;" by these words he immortalized his name. Borne down by languor and debility, on the brink of the grave, the venerable Cornwallis addressed himself to the same confidential friend, whose authority I have quoted, and exclaimed, "I have no apprehensions of death, but I have an anxiety to live a few months, if it please God, till I can see peace restored in India, and I will willingly resign my life into the hands of Him who gave it." Surely this proof of an unabated spirit of patriotism, expressed in the pious language of a Christian, and while the lamp of life was burning with feeble and declining power, will immortalize his memorable name"Clarum et venerabile Nomen."-A name dear to every British heart, and venerated in every indian breast.

"Such was the man, to whose revered and exalted memory we are called upon to vote a statue, and over his illustrious remains to join with our fellow-countrymen in erecting a Mausoleum. Such was the man; but I feel unequal to the office of pourtraying the character of this Christian Hero. Could I but catch a spark from that illuminating eloquence, which has shone with intellectual splendour within these walls and which will, I hope, be again displayed, on an occasion so worthy of its power, I would kindle a flame of gratitude in every bosom, of which time should never extinguish the fire, nor could comparison diminish the glow. If, however, I have been so fortunate as to address myself to those who entertain congenial sentiments, the feelings springing from such a source, will have given me the advantage of prepossession in favour of the objects I shall have the honour of proposing. Willing to flatter myself that I have been so fortunate, the imperfections of an address, from one unaccustomed to public speaking, will be amply supplied by liberal indulgence; and I trust, that the unanimity which prevailed at our last meeting, will, on this interesting and affecting occasion, stamp additional value on the resolutions we may form."

Mr Money concluded, by moving the following

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of the unanimous feelings of its inhabitants, on the death of that great and excellent person.

2. That a subscription be opened towards defraying the expence of the Mausoleum, which it is intended to erect over the remains of Marquis Cornwallis at Ghazepore.

3. That a subscription be opened to defray the expence of a Statue of the Marquis Cornwallis, to be placed in such conspicuous and convenient part of the fort, as shall be chosen by a Committee (to be afterwards named) with the consent and approbation of the Governor.

4. That the Honourable the Governor be requested to permit subscription books for the above purpose, to be opened at the Presidency, by the Sub-treasurer, and at the subordinate stations, by such Civil or Military Officer as he shall think fit.

5. That the following Gentlemen be a committee to carry the preceding resolu tions into execution, and that they be au thorized to apply the produce of the subscription for the purposes before mentioned. The Honourable the Governor, Sir James Mackintosh, General Belas, Mr Waldron, Colonel Whitelock, Mr Forbes, Dr Scott, and Mr Threipland. Of whom any three may form a quorum.

6. That the Chairman do communicate the Resolutions to the Honourable the Governor.

Mr Threipland rose, and, in an eloquent and pathetic address, expressed his cordial concurrence in the propositions which had been made and seconded.

The Chairman then read the several motions, which were separately put, and unanimously agreed to.

GENERAL ORDERS BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

Fort William, May 6. 1806.

On the occasion of withdrawing the army from the duties of the field, and of placing it in cantonments, in consequence of the late honourable and advantageous peace, which the valour and exertions of that army have primarily produced, the Governor General in Council fulfils a satisfactory ob ligation of his public duty, in renewing the expression of gratitude and approbation, which, in the course of the late contest with Jeswunt Rao Holkar, a series of splendid atchievements has successively demand

ed.

The Governor General in Council accordingly requests, that the Right Hon. Lord Lake will accept the most cordial thanks of this government, for the eminent services which his Lordship has rendered

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To the successful exertions of these combined qualities must, under Providence, be primarily ascribed the augmented power and reputation of the British arms, and the consolidation and security of our Empire in India, which have been produced by the issues of the late contest.

The Governor General in Council also records the expression of his public gratitude to the officers and men of his Majes ty's and the Hon. Company's army, who, under the direction of their illustrious Commander, and animated by his example, have participated in the dangers, the hardships, and the glory of the late arduous and successful campaigns, for their exemplary discipline, their fortitude and firmness under the severest trials of fatigue and difficulty, and their activity and persevering courage in the hour of battle.

To the latest period of recorded history, the glory and renown of the gallant officers and men of his Majesty's army, and of the army of Bengal, and their illustrious Commander, will be inseparably connected" with the memory of those signal victories and atchievements, by which the rights and dignity of the British Government have been vindicated, the peace of India has been restored, and the power and prospe rity of this empire have been consolidated and secured.

THOS. HILL, Officiating Sec. Mil. Dep.

WEST INDIES. DREADFUL STORM AT DOMINICA. On Tuesday the 7th September, about seven o'clock in the evening, the sky became totally overcast, and tremendous flashes of lightning, accompanied by a heavy wind, presaged an approaching storm. The wind continued increasing until ten o'clock, when came on a most dreadful fall of rain, the ef fect of which, accompanied by a pitch-like darkness, illuminated by a sheet of livid fire, and the roaring of the wind, was awful enough to impress a dread upon the heart of the most intrepid. Soon after, to complete our misfortune, the river Roseau, increased by the heavy rains, overflowed its banks, inundated the town in every direc

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tion, and then the destruction became general; every house which obstructed its passage was thrown down, or carried away by the stream, and a great proportion of their unfortunate inhabitants perished. A bout ten o'clock every vessel in the harbour was driven from its moorings, except a small Swedish schooner, which was cast ashore under the fort a little after midnight; and those who were driven out generally met with the same fate, amounting in the whole to sixteen sail of different descrip

tions.

No pen can paint the horrors of that dreadful night; the tremendous noise occasioned by the wind and rain; the roaring of the waters, together with the shock of an earthquake, which was sensibly felt about midnight; the shrieks of the poor sufferers, crying for assistance; the terror of those, who, in their houses, heard them, and dared not open a door or window to give succour, and who expected momentarily to share the same fate-formed a scene which can hardly be conceived, and still more difficult to be described. Fortunately for the inhabitants of the town, and indeed for the whole colony, the force of the wind and rain abated about three o'clock in the morning, and near the same time the water began to fall, if it had continued another hour, there is not a doubt but the town would have been entirely destroyed.

The spectacle which presented itself on the return of day-light, was horrid beyond every power of description: Heaps of mud and sand (in some places five or six feet deep) through all parts of the town-the form of a street hardly to be discerned two large streams or rather torrents, running through the midst of the town-ruins of houses blown down, and others brought down by the flood, obstructing every pas sage-the bodies of several of the unfortunate victims of this event drawn out from the ruins, and lying in the streets, while numbers almost distracted, were searching for some relation or friend, who had perished in the storm-the lamentations of those who had lost some of their nearest and dearest connections, joined to the despair of those who had lost their little all, formed altogether a scene fit to draw tears from the eyes of the most unfeeling.

From the most authentic accounts which have been gathered during the confusion occasioned by this fatal occurrence, there has been ascertained to have perished in the town of Roseau and its vicinity, eight white persons of different ages and sexes, 57 free persons of colour, and 66 slaves, forming a total of 131, besides numbers of others yet missing, and several wounded.

At Morne Bruce, the whole of the bar

racks except one, the hospital stores, stables, &c. the two field officer's quarters and five others, were totally destroyed, and the remainder, with the mess-house, were greatly damaged. Three soldiers and one woman of the 46th regiment, and a black servant of Major Payne's, were killed, and three officers and 22 soldiers, and one wo man of the same regiment, wounded. About twenty men of the 3d West India regiment, were likewise terribly cut and bruised, and one black man and a woman killed. From the violence of the hurricane it was impossible to attempt to save any thing. The officers of the 46th regiment have not only lost their personal baggage, but most of their mess articles, live stock, and a considerable quantity of wine; a very fine horse of considerable price, was blown over a precipice close to the house, and killed; as was the stable belonging to Lieut. Colonel Campbell, of the 46th regi

ment.

The planters suffered equally with the inhabitants of the town; every plantation on the windward coast of the island, from the river Tabarie to Morne Paix Brouche, are almost entirely destroyed; only three mills standing in the whole extent, and these considerably damaged; no other building left on either sugar or coffee estate, and the numerous inhabitants of that quarter have only for shelter four houses, situated at some distance from the sea, to which most of the white inhabitants have retired. On the different estates on that coast, as accounts have reached town, there have perished about thirty negroes, and 180 dangerously wounded.

Round the coast, from the river Tabarie, by way of La Soye, the estate which bears the name of that river is perhaps the only one that has not received any considerable damage in this general disaster.

All the plantations to leeward of the island have experienced the effects of the hurricane; every house from the river Mahaut down to Prince Rupert's, either laid flat or greatly damaged; the town of Portsmouth entirely destroyed; the great est part of the barracks on Morne Čabrie carried away; and, in general, the whole island presents a scene of devastation and

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cape this calamity, as thus we have a resource open against the horrors of a famine, which, without we should receive speedy supplies, would have been inevitable, the resources of the island being entirely destroyed in provisions of its own production, and the greatest part of those in town destroyed or damaged.

FRANCE.

ASSEMBLY OF THE JEWS.

By virtue of an Imperial decree of Napoleon, issued in April last, an assembly of ninety-six deputies of the people professing the religion of the Jews in France, was convoked in the antient chapel of St John, adjoining the Hotel de Ville in Paris, on Saturday the 26th of July last. The object of the decree states simply, to be to consider the state of that people, but it is generally supposed to arise from the proneness of that nation to usury, some notorious instances of which in public transactions have given high offence to the Gallic Emperor. The members elected Abraham Furtado, a wealthy banker of Bourdeaux, their President. The only business the first day, was recording the commissions of the deputies, and settling the order of their future proceedings.

It is remarkable enough, that the opening of the Hebrew Synod took place precisely on their Sabbath. The Jewish law forbids every kind of employ. ment on that day, and, notwithstanding, the Members of the Assembly took a part, without repugnance, in every thing which the circumstances demanded of them. Distinguished by their wealth, their intelligence, and their probity, they wished to give their breth ren an example, which, doubtless, will not be lost. This single trait will enable us to judge how much they are disposed to enter into those views which have occasioned their convocation.

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here this day for the purpose of communicating his intentions. Called from the farthest parts of this vast empire, none of you can be ignorant of the purYou are aware that the conduct of mapose for which you are assembled here. ny of those who profess your religion has given rise to complaints which have reached the foot of the throne. These complaints are not without foundation. The Emperor, notwithstanding, contented himself with arresting the progress of the evil, and wished to have your opinion on the means of radically curing it. You will, no doubt, prove yourselves deserving of this paternal consideration, and you will feel the value of the important mission which is confided to you. Far from regarding the Government under which you live, as a power of which you should be suspicious, your study will be to enlighten it, to co-operate with it in the good which it is preparing; and by thus manifesting that you have profited by the experience of all the French, you will prove, that you have no wish to separate yourselves from other classes of society.

"The laws which have been imposed upon persons of your religion have been different all over the world; they have been too often dictated by the exigency of the moment. But, as there is no example in the Christian Annals of any Assembly like this, so, in like manner, you, for the first time, are to be impartially judged, and your fate decided by a Christian Prince. It is his Majesty's wish that you should become French; it is your duty to accept this title, and to consider that you, in fact, renounce it whenever you shew yourselves unworthy of it.

"You shall hear the questions read which are to be proposed to you. It will be your duty to declare the whole truth upon each of them. We now declare to you, and we shall never cease to repeat it to you, that when a Sovereign, as firm as he is just, who knows every thing, who can punish as well as reward, interrogates his subjects, they would render themselves as culpable as they would shew themselves blind to their real interests if they should hesi tate about answering freely and frankly.

"It is his Majesty's wish, Gentlemen, that you should enjoy perfect freedom

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of deliberation.-Your President will communicate your answers to us as soon as they are prepared. As to ourselves, we have no more ardent wishes than to be able to inform the Emperor, that among his subjects of the Jewish religion, there are none whose loyalty is not unquestionable, and who are not disposed to conform to those laws and morals which it is the duty of all Frenchmen to practise and follow."

The following questions, proposed by his Majesty, were then read by the Secretary of the meeting :

1. Is the Jew permitted to marry more than one wife?

2. Is divorce permitted by the Jewish religion?

3. Can a Jewess intermarry with a Christian, or a Christian female with a Jew; or does the law prescribe that Jews alone should intermarry?

4. Are the French in the eyes of the Jews brothers or aliens?

5. What in all cases are the connections which their law permits them to maintain with the French, who are not of their religion?

6. Do the Jews who were born in France, and have been treated as French Citizens by the laws, consider France as their native country? Are they bound to defend it? Are they under an obligation to obey the laws, and to follow all the regulations of the Civil Code?

7. Who are they who are called Rabbins?

8. What civil jurisdictions do the Rabbins exercise among the Jews?What power of punishment do they possess?

9. Are the mode of chusing the Rabbins, and the system of punishment, regulated by the Jewish laws, or are they only rendered by custom?

10, Were the Jews forbidden by their laws to take usury of their brethren? Are they permitted or forbidden to do this of strangers?

11. Are those things proclaimed which are forbidden to the Jews by their laws? The Jewish Assembly answered three of the questions proposed, as follow:

1. Is it lawful for the Jews to marry more than one wife?

2. Is divorce allowed by the Jewish religion? Is it lawful, although no sentence respecting it be pronounced by

the Tribunals, and in pursuance of the French Code?

3. May a Jewess marry a Christian, and a Christian Female with a Jew; or does the law require that the Jews solely marry among each other?

The answer contains principally, that the Jewish laws, in the strictest sense, permits polygamy, divorce, and mixed marriages, but that these are limited by practice and usage. To the question which relates to the duties of French

citizens, the Assembly voluntarily, and without premeditation, answered in the fullest manner.

The ninety-six Jew Deputies are They dress in black, and deliberate with very constant in their sittings at Paris. heads uncovered. A guard of honour of fifty men attends at the door, and turns out with presented arms on the arrival and departure of the deputies.Such as have no equipages of their own, are conveyed thither and back in the Emperor's carriage.

The purpose for which Bonaparte has assembled the Jewish Deputies at Paris, is undoubtedly connected with that boundless and complicated scheme for the acquisition of universal empire, which he is gradually carrying into execution. It is rumoured that he purposes to rebuild lish the Jewish Hierarchy and Governthe Temple at Jerusalem, and re-estabment in all their ancient splendour in the Holy Land, to which he will invite that people from all the nations of the earth among whom they are scattered. When he can either reverse or anticiaccomplish these great things; meanpate the decrees of Providence, he may while he can only go the length of his chain; for a chain invisible and

Almighty, as that which guides the comet in its course, holds this terrible

man-this comet of the human race, who shakes war, pestilence, and famine from his fiery train-in irresistible controul and impassable limitation.

Mr Jacobson, Agent of Finances to the Court of Brunswick, has written a letter to Bonaparte, in consequence of the convention of the French Jews, wherein he intreats his Imperial Majesty to commiserate the sufferings and slavery of their brethren in other countries, and to extend his favour and protection to them. At the end a plan is proposed by him, (probably preparatory

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