1822.]: 
you back to dependence-and:slavery, and 
promote your debasement and oppression. 
To these the efforts of your enemies still 
tend. >Possibly they wilkotell you “that 
Congress ‘has sought ‘to.dissemnvate im= 
piows and irreligious: maxims; but: know 
that they have merely sought to free re- 
ligion from the abuses under whielr it la- 
houtedy: without touching its. ésseutial 
poitsy® The vod of these instigators is 
interest; and their religion is reduced to 
the! idolatroas worship of their own pre- 
jidices, = Jndge the Congress by their 
works, compare these .with your own 
wisties and wants, and then conclude for 
yourselves.) He who seeks to disunile 
you, is yourenemy, and you should repel 
hinmas ia disturber of the publie peace. 
Congress: has been actuated by no other 
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than ‘the ‘anxious: wish ‘of rendering’ you 
happy. ‘To do this, it adopted those very 
principles which you. yourselves long ago 
promulgated, and which have uniformly 
constituted the happiness of other nations, 
Possibly it may not have accomplished alt 
that couldybe wished; but, it. can assure 
you, it has done allthat was in its’ power. 
Your welfare waSiits only object, and«this 
satisfaction ‘is the ouly recompense: it 
expects. ; J 
The Portuguese legitimates seem 
anxious to make a‘stand:' in Brazil; 
but continued insurrections in ‘the 
large cities demonstrate that the Bra- 
zilians will set up a free government, 
like the other .divisions of South 
America, 
DEATHS IN and near LONDON, 
With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 
“(CHRONOLOGYOF THE. MONTH. 
/PAY. the 27th—A> niet took -place 
among. some drunken workmen in 
Peter-street, Westminster, im which up- 
wares of 200\persons commenced a yene- 
ral attack upon tle houses in that neigh- 
beurhood.. Tie. Westminster police were 
calledsout, the ‘Riot Act read, and thirty- 
four ofthe rioters were secured, 
— 29th. The Society for the Encon- 
ragement, of Artsy Maunfactures, and 
Commerce, heldits anntial mecting for the 
Sielapbnticninf rewards, for the first time, 
ip, Drery, Lane ‘Yieatre. The Duke of 
Sussex presided,a great number of prizes 
were distributed to. meritorious persons ; 
and tha spectacle, altogether, was interest- 
ing and imposing. 
o> 29. A general court of the East 
India, Company proprietors was held this 
day, for Jaying before them the unanimous 
resolution of ‘thanks, voted by the Conrt 
of Directors to the Marquis of Hastings, 
Goveraor-General of Bengal, &c. which 
was agreed to in the following terms, and 
which we are justified in adding, expresses 
also the voice of tie whole nation: 
_ Atageveral Court of Proprietors, held on Wed- 
: nesday the 29th of May, 1822:— 
‘Resolved ‘unanimously—‘‘ That this Court most 
cordially concur with the Coust of Directors, in thejr 
estimation of the unremitting zeal, and eminent 
ability, ‘witty which the most noble the Marquis 
Hastings has; during va period of pearly nine years, 
administered the government of Pritish India with 
such high credit ta himself, and ddvautage to the 
interests of the’ East India Compiny. 
o* Dhat this Gourt, referring to the sentiments exe 
p ‘essed by themselves, and the Court of Directors, 
in December, 1816, dn retuining thanks to Lord 
Hastings; for his skiiful ands successful operations 
ip the War acainst Eis. Nenauless fo their resolue, 
On of the Sd of February, 1319, recognizing the 
ioe a“ ‘enerky of ose measures, which ex- 
Ungrlished a great predatory. power that hadjesta > 
blished itself in the heart of Hindovstan, whose 
existence, experience liad shown to be alike iicom- 
patiple with the security of the Company’s posses 
si §,and the general Hang wil ity of India;. apr 
lauding, at the same time, the foresight, prom pti- 
fude, and vigour, with which hisdordship, by a comé 
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bination of military with political talents, had anti- 
cipated and encountered the proceedings of an hos- 
tile confederacy among the Mahratta States, de- 
feated their armies, reduced them to submissjon, 
and materially Jessened their means of future ag- 
gression; réferring also to the resolution: of | the 
Court of Directors, of the 10th March, 1619, ir which 
they appeal, at the close of two glorious and suc- 
cessful wars, to the Records of the East India Com- 
pany, forthe great services which his lordship’siune 
wearied assiduity and comprehensive knowledge of 
the Company’s affairs had enzbled hm to render to 
its most important interests: this Court’ cannot 
bei wit the highest satisfaction, witness their exe- 
cu'ive authorily again coming forward at the termi- 
nation of a caréer so uSe‘ul and brilliant, to express 
and promulgate theirsense of hislordship’s exalted 
merit, and their deep regret, that domestic circum- 
stances should withdraw him from the government 
of their Asiatie territories. HE 4 
“That this Court strongly paricipate in that 
regret, andrequest the Court of Directors to convey 
to the Marquis of Hastings, governor-general and 
commancer-in-chief, these expressions of their uns 
feigned admination, gratitude, and applause.’? in 
— 30. A maguificent fete, given at the 
Opera House, tor the relief of the dis- 
tressed Trish peasantry, which was at- 
tended by all the rank and fashion of the 
meiropolis, and by the king and branches 
of the royal family. neha oo 
— 31. Mr. Scarlett moved the second 
reading of the Poor Removal Bul, in the 
House of Commons; but, ona division, it 
was negatived by a majority of sixteen. 
Jie 4. Sir James Mackintosh brought 
forward lis motion in the Flonsé of Com. 
mons on the barbarous state of the Cri- 
minal Laws ; and, after a powerful speech, 
moved “ that the House’ shonld, early in 
the next session, take into considera. 
‘icn the means of giving greater eiliciency 
to the Crimiaal Law, by abating the pre- 
sent undue rigour of punishment, by im- 
proving the state of the police, and by es- 
tablishing a new system of transportation 
and tnprisonment.” ‘The proposition was 
nevatived by a majority of sixteen, 
— ‘4. The anniversary of the Horticul. 
tural Society was this’ day celebrated at 
the Freemason’s Tavern. The dessert 
presented a rich display of fine-grown 
fruits, 
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