In war what science, or in peace what art, Owes to the sword less homage than THE That powerful engine of the mighty mind, Shield of the poor! and bulwark of the state! And prove to liberty her bitterest foe: Freedom's first cradle!--and perhaps her To starve with CAMOENS, or with SPENSER Were better than to write one servile line, For vice and virtue, with the PEN and Have power to torture, or have power to Thus the pure stream for man, impartial, springs, For rich, and poor; for subjects, and for kings; But if dark nightshade mingles as it flows, Yet, as the spots that in the sun appear, Your's be the task to føster, and protect care, For LIBEL'S WANT engendered by despair! And half the LICENCE which the good deplore, Distress relieved, would plague mankind no more! DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. WEDNESDAY, June the 10th, the house was opened at twelve o'clock, and the peers' benches were very soon afterwards graced with a fine display of female beauty and elegance. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge came into the house, accompanied by the Duke, her consort, and attended by a lady of her household: the Grand Duke Michael, of Russia; the foreign minisiers, and many other persons of distinction, were also present; a great crowd of strangers were likewise below the bar. About eight minutes after two, salvoes of artillery announced the arrival of the Prince Regent, and soon afterwards his Royal Highness, having put on his robes, entered the house with the usual state and procession, the sword of state being carried before him by the Earl of Liverpool. His Royal Highness having taken his seat upon the Throne, surrounded by his Ministers, the Great Officers of his Household, and other attendants, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, was ordered by his Royal Highness to proceed to the House of Commons to command their attendance. Shortly afterwards the Speaker in his dress robes, accompanied by a great number of Members, came to the Bar. The Speaker delivered at the Bar the following Speech: May it please your Royal Highness, "We, his Majesty's faithful Commons, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, attend your Royal Highness with our last Bill of Supply. In obedience, Sir, to your Royal Highness's recommendation, we have not failed to apply our anxions and continued attention to the state of the Public Income and Expendi ture, and heavy, as unquestionably the weight and pressure still remain upon our Finances, we have the satisfaction to observe that the Revenue, in its most important branches, is gradually and progressively improving. "Among the various duties, Sir, in which we have been engaged, there is none, perhaps, that could have devolved upon us, more interesting in itself, or more in unison, we are persuaded, with the sincere and unfeigned sentiments of all classes of his Majesty's subjects, than the duty of adopting the necessary measures for the fulfil ment of those engagements, which your Royal Highness was graciously pleased to communicate to us, as having been concluded with the Courts of Spain and Portugal on the subject of the Slave Trade. "Nor, Sir, have we been less attentive to another subject, of great public impor tance earnestly recommended by your Royal Highness to our early and particular consideration-the deficiency which has so long existed in the number of places of Public Worship belonging to the Established Church. To the remedy of this deficiency, we have most readily afforded large and liberal assistance, well con vinced that the first and dearest interests of this country, its truest happiness, its soundest prosperity, its surest independence, its proudest and most substantial national glory, are all involved and blended intimately and inseparably in the religious and moral habits of its people. The bill, Sir, which it is my duty humbly to present to your Royal Highness, is intituled - An Act for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ;'-t0 which, with all humility, we pray his Ma jesty's Royal Assent." The above bill was received by Mr. Cowper, the deputy clerk of the Parliament, and the Royal Assent was immediately given to it, and also to the Alien Bill. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent then delivered from the Throne the following Speech: "My Lords and Gentlemen, "It is with deep regret that I am again under the necessity of announcing to you, that no alteration has occurred in the state of his Majesty's lamented indisposition. "I continue to receive from foreign powers the strongest assurances of their friendly disposition towards this country, and of their desire to maintain the general tranquillity. "I am fully sensible of the attention which you have paid to the many important objects which have been brought before you. "I derive peculiar satisfaction from the measure which you have adopted in pursuance of my recommendation, for augmenting the number of places of public worship belonging to the established church; and 1 confidently trust, that this measure will be productive of the most beneficial effects on the religion and moral habits of the people. "Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "I thank you for the supplies which you have granted to me for the service of the present year; and I highly approve of the steps you have taken with a view to the reduction of the unfunded debt. "I am happy to be able to inform you, that the revenue is in a course of continued improvement. "My Lords and Gentlemen, "On the closing this Session I think it proper to inform you that it is my intention forthwith to dissolve the present, and give directions for calling a new Parliament. In making this communication, I cannot refrain from adverting to the important change which has occurred in the situation of this country and of Europe, since I first met you in this place. "At that period, the dominion of the Common enemy had been so widely extended over the Continent, that resistance to his power was by many deemed to be hopeless; and in the extremities of Europe alone was such resistance effectually maintained. "By the unexampled exertions which you enabled me to make, in aid of the coun tries nobly contending for Independence, and by the spirit which was kindled in so many nations, the Continent was at length delivered from the most galling and oppres sive tyranny under which it had ever laboured; and I had the happiness, by the blessing of Divine Providence, to terminate, in conjunction with his Majesty's allies, the most eventful and sanguinary contest in which Europe had for centuries been engaged, with unparalleled success and glory. "The prosecution of such a contest for so many years, and more particularly the efforts which marked the close of it, have been followed within our own country, as well as throughout the rest of Europe, by considerable internal difficulties and distress. But deeply as I felt for the immediate pressure upon his Majesty's people, I nevertheless looked forward without dismay, having always the fullest confidence in the solidity of the resources of the British empire, and in the relief which might be expected from a continuance of peace, and from the patience, public spirit, and energy of the nation. "These expectations have not been disappointed. "The improvement in the internal cir cumstances of the country is happily manifest, and promises to be steadily progressive; and I feel a perfect assurance that the continued loyalty and exertions of all classes of his Majesty's subjects will confirm these growing indications of national prosperity, by promoting obedience to the Laws and attachment to the Constitution, from which all our blessings have been derived." Then the Lord Chancellor, having received directions from his Royal Higness the Prince Regent, said- My Lords and Gentlemen, "It is the will and pleasure of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, that this Parliament be now dissolved; and this Parliament is dissolved accordingly." The Prince Regent descended from the Throne, and quitted the House with the same State as on his entrance. The Speaker and the Commons withdrew from the Bar, and the Lords retired from the House. INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. QUEEN'S PALACE, MONDAY, JUne 1, 1818. THIS evening, at five o'clock, the so Temnity of the marriage of Field Marshal his Royal Highness Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, youngest son of Europ. Mag, Vol. LXXIII. June 1818. his Majesty, with her Serene Highness Augusta-Wilhelmina-Louisa, Princess of Hesse, youngest daughter of his Serena Highness Frederick Landgrave of Hesse, &c. and niece of his Royal and Serene 3 Y Highness the Elector of Hesse (which marriage had been previously soelmnized, in due form, at Hesse Cassel, on the 7th day of May last), was performed at the Queen's Palace, by his, Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of her Majesty the Queen, His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Clarence, and Gloucester, his Serene Highness Frederick Landgrave of Hesse (the father of her Royal Highness the bride), his Serene Highness the Prince of Hesse Hombourg, her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth (of Hesse Hombourg), her Royal Highness the Princess AugustaSophia, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, her Royal Hignes the Princess Sophia of Gloucester: the Ministers of State, and the Officers of the Household of her Majesty the Queen, assisting at the cere mony. At the conclusion of the marriage service, the registry of the marriage was attested with the usual formalities. The Ministers of State, and other persons of distinction present, then paid their compliments on the occasion, after which her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the Bride and Bridegroom, with the rest of the Royal Family, retired to her Majesty's private apartments. Immediately after the conclusion of the marriage, the Park and Tower guns were fired, and the evening concluded with other public demonstrations of joy in the metropolis. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1818. This Gazette contains orders for the court going into mourning on the 11th instant, (June) for the late Princess of Saxe Hilbourghausen, niece to her Majesty; and the court goes out of mourning, on the 21st. Notice is given, that four days of the above period of mourning, will be for the late Prince of Conde. On the 5th ult. the French, Spanish, Dutch, Prussian, Danish, and Bavarian Ministers, had private audiences of the Prince Regent, to deliver answers from their respective Sovereigns, to the communication from his Royal Highness upon the marriage of the Princess Elizabeth. Baron de Geruing, Minister Plenipotentiary from Hesse Hombourg, had the same day, an audience of leave. It also contains the appointment of Robert Chester, Esq. master of the ceremonies; and the honor of knighthood upon that gentleman, and upon Dr. Charles Brown, of Margaret Farm, Norfolk, and T. Berners Plistow, of Watling Hall, Esq. His Royal Highness has approved of Mr. Franeis Parodi, as Consul at Gibraltar, for the grand Ruke of Tuscany. SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE OF SATURDAY, JUNE 6th, INDIA-BOARD, JUNE 8. Despatches have been received at the East India-House, from the several Governments in India, of which despatches and inclosures the following are copies and extracts:Copy of a Report from Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Hislop, Bart. to the Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief, dated Camp on the Soopra (opposite Mahidpore), 23d December, 1817. MY LORD, In my despatch to your Lordship of the 13th inst. from Oogein, I had the honour to report the junction on the preceding day of the third division, with that under my personal command, and the then uncertain state of our negociations with the Government of Mulhar Rao Holkar. In my subsequent address to your Lordship, of the 18th inst., from Paun Behar, I described the further progress of these arrangements; and, I now beg to refer you for all the details connected with the origin, progress, and ultimate failure of the overtures in question, to the correspondence of Brigadier-General Sir John Malcolm, your Lordship's political agent, at my headquarters, which he has regularly maintained, since their commencement with Mr. Secre tary Adam, as also to his final report thereon, stating the termination of every prospect of amicable adjustment. Thus situated, there appeared no alternative left to me, for the vindication of the honour of the British Government, and of your Lordship, thau that which I determined upon, and which was instantly followed up by the attack of Holkar's army in the position it occupied, and of which event I had the satisfaction of appris ing your Lordship, on the evening of the 21st, instant, by a few lines from the field of battle. On the 20th instant, I moved to within seven miles of the army of Mulhar Rao Holkar, in the hope that this advance might alarm the counsellors of that Prince into more pacific measures, but in this expectation I was disappoirated, as my piquets were attacked in the course of the day, by a considerable body of horse, I moved in consequence on the following morning towards the enemy, and had advanced but a short distance, when my lice of march was attacked by their horse. On approaching the main body of their army, I found it advantageously posted on the left bank of the Soopra, nearly opposite to Mahidpore, their left Bank protected by the bed of the river, and the right by a very deep ravine, while their line, which could be approached only by one ford, practicable for guns, was protected by several ruined villages. After reconnoitring their positior, and finding, that to turn either flank would require a long detour, and perceiving at the same time, that the bed of the river, afforded considerable cover for the troops during their formation; I determined to attack them in front, and ordered the advance of the columns to the ford, some light troops immediately passed, and were followed by the Horse Artillery, which opened on their guns; another battery of the Foot Artillery, played from the right bank of the river in a situation which enfiladed some cannon the enemy had placed upon the left, and which had opened a heavy and well directed fire upon the ford, The troops, as they crossed, were successively formed in the bed of the river, and took up the position assigned to them, the Cavalry and Mysoor Horse on the left, when the enemy's principal body of borse were stationed, and the 2d Brigade of Infantry, and the Light Brigade, in front of the Ford. The 1st Brigade of Infantry, after being formed, ascended the bank, and in co-operation with the Light Troops, moved rapidly to the storm of the enemy's on the left of his position: the advance of these corps being the preconcerted signal for the general attack of the whole ne. This operation was performed with an ardour of gallantry, that could not be suppressed. The fire of the enemy was most destructive, but the troops pressed forward in the most undaunted manner, and although the enemy served their guns till they were bayoneted, their whole line were forced at every point, while a charge of the cavalry at the same moment completed the rout. My attention was at this period drawn to their camp, at some distance on our right, and the opening of some guns near it lead me to suppose that we had still a second position to attack; the troops which had separated in the several assaults upon the enemy's line were accordingly re-formed. The camp, however, was found deserted; and the guns, which appeared to have been posted to cover the retreat across the river, were soon taken. The field being now abandoned, the cavalry, supported by two corps of light infantry, wete ordered in pursuit on the right bank of the river, and the Mysoor horse on the left. The baggage, during the action, was once of twice attacked by the enemy's horse, but the steadiness of the rear-guard, and the activity of a party of Mysoreans, who covered it, completely succeeded in saving the whole. The results of this action, which lasted from noon till about three o'clock, P. M. have been the capture of the whole of the enemy's artillery, amounting to seventy pieces of ordnance (several besides those already reported, having been thrown into the river), and the complete de eat and dispersion of his army, with a loss of not Less than three thousand men. No distinct accounts have since been received of the fugitives, but the general direction of their flight was towards Rampoorah. From the account I have now given your Lordship of the events of the day, it is unnecessary to dwell upon the conduct of the troops; the European part of the forces supported the reputation of British valour; and the native troops vied in their efforts to maintain the superiority of the Indian army. I cannot particularize corps, nor make distinctions, when merit and gallantry were so general; every man did his duty; and the whole are entitled to my warmest thanks and highest applause.-The conduct of the Mysore horse during the action, and in the pursuit also, merited my thanks, and was in every way such as to raise the character of this useful body of auxiliaries. I have deeply to lament my inability to place your Lordship in possession of the above details, without having, at the same time, the painful ta-k to perform of reporting the heavy loss with which our success has been attended. The return of killed and wounded, which accompanies this despatch, will prove to your Lordship a source of the sincerest regret, at the same time that the achievements of the brave men who have fallen must ever furnish a theme of exultation to the grateful Country and Government in whose service their lives have been so gloriously terminated, I trust, in the course of to-morrow, that the whole of our wounded will be accomnodated in the town of Mahidpore, where they will continue to receive all the attention which is to be expected from the professional abilities and indefatigable zeal of Mr. Superintending Surgeon Annesley and his assistants. Although the conduct of every officer of the army merits the highest commendation, I gladly seize this opportunity of bringing to your bordship's notice those who were prominent from their rank and situations, and from the superior duties they had to perform. Your Lordship is too well aware of the high professional character and abilities of Brigadier General Sir John Malcolm, to render it necessary for me to dwell upon them, I shall, therefore, merely express my admiration of the style of distinguished conduct and gallantry with which the assault on the left of the enemy's position, was headed by the Brigadier-General, and my warmest thanks for the great and essential aid I have derived from his counsels, as well previous to, as during the action of the 21st just. To Lieutenant-Colore! Robert Scot, who commanded the 1st, and Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew M'Dowal, commanding the 2d brigade of infantry, to Major Bowen, commanding the light brigade, as also to Major Knowles who commanded it after the former officer was wounded, I beg to express my sincerest thanks and acknowledgments for the gallantry and conduct they severally displayed in leading their men to the assault, under the tremendous fire to which they were exposed; nor can I sufficiently mark the sense I entertain of the zeal and intrepi dity of Lieutenant-Colonel James Russel, and Major Lushington, in the brilliant charge which was made by the two brigades of cavalry under their respective orders. The dispositions and arrangements of the several brigades of horse and foot artillery, and the destructive effect which was thereby produced on the enemy's line, afford sufficient proof that the command of that corps could not have been placed in better bands than in those of Major Noble, C. R. The services of Lieutenant-Colonel Conway, Adjutant-General of the Army, throughout the day, were in the highest degree conspicuous, and amply fulfilled every expectation which I had formed of the great advantages I should derive from his professional knowledge, experience, and exertions on the day of action. To Lieutenant-Colonel Blacker, Quarter Master General of the army, I feel it also particularly incumbent upon me to express my best thanks for the great aid I have received from him, not only through his personal exertions on the field of battle, but for the judicious reconnoissances made by him during our march, and before we engaged, by which I obtained the clearest information respecting the ford at which I subsequently crossed the Soopra, and the nature of the ground occupied by the enemy, by which I was enabled to make my dispositions for attacking them. To Lieutenant-Colonel Morison, Com missary-General, I am also in a similar manner to acknowledge the high sense I entertain of his merits, in conducting the important department of which he is, with so much advantage to the public service, placed at the head, as also of his assistance to me during the action. I feel myself likewise called upon to offer my sincerest thanks to Tajor Van Agnew, who by your Lordship's permission, continues, for the present, under Sir John Malcolm, to act in the political department, and who remained with me throughout the day, rendering me the greatest assistance. Lieutenant-Colonel M'Gregor Murray and Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable L. Stanhope, Deputy-Adjutant and Deputy Quarter-Master-General to his Majsty's troops, I had previously requested to become attached to my person, in the event, at any time, of our coming to action, as the very limited Dumber of the King's troops, immediately with me, required no performance on such an occasion of their oficial functions, Į have therefore in a particular manner to thank them for their cheerful acquiescence to my request, as well as for the services they rendered me in the course of the day, Lieutenant-Colonel Murray accompanied, with my permission, the flank companies of his Majesty's Royal Scots, when the guns of the enemy were stormed, 1 beg leave also to return my best thanks to Captain James Grant, who commanded the Mysore horse, and to Captain Hare, commanding the regular infantry of his Highness the Nizain, for their gallant exertions on this occasion. I desire also to offer my sincere acknow, ledgments to the whole of the Officers of the General and Divisional Staff, who were engaged on this day, for their meritorious conduct in their several situations. Justice also calls upon me to express my highest approbation and acknowledgments for the energy and promptitude of every Officer composing my personal Staff, in conveying my orders throughout the day; and Į beg to mention to your Lordship the sense I am impressed with of the abilities and zeal of my Military Secretary Captain Hugh Scott, the notification of whose appointment to the rank and situation of Major and Deputy-Adjutant-General to the Madras army, I have reason to believe is now on its way to my camp, from Fort St. George, and from whom, ever since my arrrival in India, I have continued invariably to experience the most essential services. I beg also to recommend to your Lordship's favourable notice Captain Wood, of the Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot, my first Aide-de-Camp and Private Secre tary, as an officer whose services, on every occasion, are entitled to my fullest acknowledgments. The papers transmitted with this despatch are returns of killed and wounded, and of captured ordnance, a copy of the General Order, which I yesterday published to the army, a memorandum she wing the formation of the army in briagdes during the action, and a sketch of the field. But few prisoners were taken, and those badly wounded; but a great number of standards, together with Holkar's state palauquin, eight elephants, between two and three hundred camels, &c. (the latter taken in the pursuit principally, by the irregular horse), remain in our posses sion. I beg leave to congratulate your Lordship on the important issue of the battle, and to he allowed to remain with the highest respect, &c. &c. T. HISLOP, Lieut.-General. Names of Officers Killed and Wounded. KILLED. His Majesty's Royal Scots, Lieutenant Donald M'Leod; Madras European Regi ment, Lieutenant Charles Colman; 1st Batt. 3d Reg. or P. L. I., Lieutenant Glen. |