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tifh boroughs of Axr, Irwin, Rott hfay, Camp- 
bleton, and Lov erary, m fhe enfuicg parlia- 
ment of Great Britain. Three of thele bo- 
roughs were fituated near the eftates of the Earl 
of Bute, in the weft of Scotland; who’ could 
hence have hiétle difficulty to recommend afon- 
in-law of (uch diftinguifhed merit to the choice 
of the electors. The conduct of Sir George Ma- 
cartney in parliament was fatisfactery es to 
his conftituents and to his fovereign. But, the 
fervices of his talents and early experience 
were foon wanted by the Government in a 
diftant employment of vice-regal authority. 
In December 1775 he was appointed captain- 
general aud- governor in chief of Grenada, 
the Grenadine iflands, and Tobago. Atthe 
time when. Sir G. ee ee was appolnted 
to this employment,-the rifing conteft with 
the American colonifts, the jealoufies and 
aunbitious views of France and Spain, tlic fi- 
tuation of thofe iflands fo immediately on the 
very fcene where fo many great tranfactious 
were about to take place, prefented diiicul- 
ties more numerous and more arduous than 
almoft any former governor could have bad _ 
to encounter. Yet, for more than three 
years, he adminiftered this government in a 
manner equally ufeful to the interefts of his 
fovereign, and acceptable to the people of 
the iflands. In 1779 Grenada was invaded 
by a French armament much more powerful 
than any force that the governor had read 
for its defence. Buthe formed a fkilful plan 
of operation againft the invaders; he was 
well feconded by the troops, and by the in- 
habitants; he made a refiftance of which the 
judgment and gallantry aftonithed the brave 
officers againft whom he had to contend: nor. 
was Grenada furrenderéd to the French till 
the defenders were reduced to a fituation in 
which nothing could have juftified the waite 
of lives in a further continuance of hoftilities. 
The inhabitants, at a time when, having 
paffed under the power of the conquerors 
they could be in no necefiity to difguife any 
fentiments of diflike, if fuch they aad en- 
tertainéd againft their Iste governor, ho- 
noured him with an addrefs in which they 
acknowledged, in the language of the warm- 
ratilude, the Sidant aan juftice with 
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which he had prefided over them, the vizi- 
Jance and ability with which he had conftant- 
ly endeavoured to provide for their fecurity 
and welfare, the {kill with which he had re- 
ulated the defence of the ifle, and the cool- 
nefs and intrepidity with whieh he met, in 
perfon, the dangers of the feveral attacks. 
He returned to Europe a prifoner ; but was 
toon releafed. He had been railed, in 1776; 
to the dignity. of Lord Macartney of the 
kingdom of Ireland, Baron of Liffanoure in 
the “county of Antrim. As the lofs of Gre- 
nada, however unfortunate to his country, 
had not arifen from mifcondué in him, but 
was rather fignalized by the mof illuftrious 
difplay of all his great qualities, he met 
with no ungracious reception from his fovee 
Account of the late Karl of Macartney. 
jetts and allies of the 
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reign and his country. In the month of Sep- 
tember 1780, he was chofen to reprefent the 
borough of Beeralitoue in the Britith parlia- 
ment. In the December immediately af 
lewing, he was appointed governor and‘ re 
dent of Fort St George at Madras, in ie 
Eaft Indies, and he went ‘without delay to 
difcharge the functions of his appointment. 
Lord Macartney arrived in India at a period 
when there was pecniiar difficulty in the ad- 
miniftration ef the government ‘of that dif 
trict of country, over which he was fent te 
prefide. The company’s inferior fervants 
had Jearned to ulurp a power of flighting the 
commands of their matters: and ‘Lippoo 
Saib, then in the vigour of his ftrength as 
fovereign of Myfore, was harafiing the fub- 
company with a dan- 
gerous war. While General Stuart was pre- 
paring to fend the governor from the feat of 
his authority to tg eta in a “dungeon, 
Lord Macartney, anticipating his purpofe, 
ordered lis friend and fecretary, Mr. Staun- 
ton, to put the general under arreft. With 
a {mall party of fepoys, and with fingular 
intrepidity and diferetion, Mr. Staunton exe- 
cuted that bold order. From this time, the 
Governor’s authority prevailed without oppo- 
fition. Commifiioners, of whom Mr. Stauns 
ton was one, were fent to treat for peace 
with the fovereign of Myfore. A peace 
fealonably ule! ful to the company’s affairs, 
and not betraying its honour, was, filoe 
Lord Macartney’ s aufpices, happily nego- 
tiated. None of its benefits were more grate- 
ful to his country or to his own heart, than 
that it reftored to liberty a number of officers 
who had, inthe courfe of the war in Banga~ 
lore, been made prifoners by the armies of 
Hyder Alli and Tippoo Saib, and who had 
been long detained in a captivity of which 
the circumftances were peculiarly wretched. 
In the space of four years, he had fo fully 
evinced his fervices to be, in the higheft de- 
gree, ufeful to the company’s affairs, that, 
in February 1785, he was appointed e the 
high and Se imperial office of governcr- 
general of Bengal. ‘This appointment how- 
ever he chofe to decline. In January 1786, 
he arrived iv England, and the accounts of 
his fervices were fo fatisfattory to the Eaft 
india Company, and to all who had in this 
country any imtereft in Eat India affairs or 
any controul over them, that he was again 
requeffed ro return to adminifter the chief 
authority in India. 
clined to accept of this office. Of the ad- 
ditions to his fortune from the emoluments 
and advantages of his official fituation at 
Madras, he gave an account upon oath, by 
which it appeared that even Cicero returned 
not from Cilicia with purer hands. He had 
acquired nothing but what fairly arofe out of 
hisfalary and from allowances authorized by 
the Court of Direétors. 
comimand, 
praife. 
He however again de-- 
An example of fuch. 
abftinence in a place of great truft and high 
was not detrauded of its due’ 
