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lord Cornwallis's arrival, and to de- 

 liver over the government to him. 



Lord Cornwallis reached Madras 

 on the 18th of July, 1805 ; his lord- 

 ship arrived at Diamond harbour 

 on the "iSth, and at Calcutta at eight 

 o'clock on the morning of the 2pth 

 of the same month ; when he was 

 received with all the honours due to 

 his lordship's high rank. The cere- 

 monial of his reception was arranged 

 agreeably to his own wishes, after 

 full communication with the couQ- 

 . dential officers of lord ^Veilesley's 

 staff, who had been sent down the 

 river to attend lord Cornwallis to 

 Calcutta. 



Lord Wellesley remained at that 

 city till the 22nd of August, when 

 he embarked on board the frigate, 

 ■which, (under the orders of the 

 admiralty, in consequence of the 

 marquis Wellesley having particu- 

 larly requested, as early as 1S02, for 

 cue of his majesty's ships,) had been 

 prepared for his accommodation. 

 On the 29th of July, ten days after 

 lord Cornwallis's arrival in India 

 ■was publicly known, an address was 

 TOted to lord Wellesley, by the in- 

 habitants of Calcutta : our informa- 

 tion, however, from India, enables 

 us to assert, that lord Wellesley did 

 not wish to receive that address, 

 until he knew whether it would be 

 agreeable to lord (Cornwallis that he 

 should do so. Lord Cornwallis ex- 

 pressed a wish, that the address 

 should be publicly received at the 

 government house, and his lord- 

 ship held a levee on the occasion, 

 immediately after the address had 

 been presented to lord Wellesley. 

 These facts are notorious, and are 

 atated in this place, only in order to 

 refute the falsa representations, 

 ^Vrhich, for evident purposes, wcro 



circulated in England, on this sub- 

 ject, in the course of the year 1805. 

 Justice and impartiality compel us 

 also to state, without meaning to 

 cast reflections on others, that pre- 

 viously to lord Wellesley's departure 

 from Bengal, tranquillity had been 

 completely restored to the com- 

 pany's possessions in every quarter 

 of India. Peace with the rajah of 

 Bhurlpore having been concluded 

 on that chieftain's submission to the 

 British power, on the l7th of April, 

 1805, when lord Lake; immediately 

 pursued Holkar, who had fled from 

 Bhurtpore, and who never, from the 

 month of May 1805, ventured to 

 approach within lOU miles of any 

 of the British detachments. Holkar 

 was left without territory or re- 

 sources of any description, Scindia's 

 power was reduced to the lowest 

 state, and AumeCrKhan, who was a 

 common robber, never made any at- 

 tempt against the company's pos- 

 sessions, after his expulsion from the 

 Doab, by general Smith, and his ig- 

 nominous flight, followed for 40 

 days by the British cavalry. 



Previously to lord Wellesley's de- 

 parture, (as the papers on the table 

 of the house of commons prove,) 

 orders were also issued by his lord- 

 ship, for the distribution ol thx^ 

 army at its permanent stations, in 

 different parts of the conn try ; for the 

 reduction of all extra expenccs, and 

 for every arrangement necessary to 

 the final and entire consolidation of 

 our alliances, in every quarter of 

 India ; not an enemy had appeared 

 in the Deckan for many months ; and 

 the company's paper, which, on lord 

 Wellesley's arrival, bore a discount 

 of 1 5 per cent, was nearly at par ! 



During the coarse of the adminis- 

 tration of the marquis Wellesley, 



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