counts, fir William Mufgrave, bart. William Mollefon, efq. the other comptroller of the army accounts, or the comptrollers of the army ac counts for the time being, John Thomas Batt, and John Martin Leake, efqrs. to be commiffioners for auditing the public accounts. The rev. John M‘Farlane, to be his majesty's almoner in Scotland. 30. Joah Bates, efq. to be a commiffioner of the customs. Auguft 3. Lord vifcount Dalrymple, to be envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary to the court of Berlin. 13. Earl Cowper, and his iffue, allowed by the king to take the title and arms of a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, conferred on him by the prefent emperor of Germany, the 31st of January, 1778. 29. Charles Bowen, efq. to be gentleman ufher extraordinary to the prince of Wales. September 24. William Fauquier, efq. to be fecretary and regifler of the order of the Bath. 27. Rev. and hon. Edward Venables Vernon, to be canon of the cathedral of Oxford. -Rev. George Prettyman, D. D. to the rectory of Sudburn, cum capella de Orford, in Suffolk. October 1. George Cherry, efq. to be a commiffioner of the victualling office. 11. Hon. Edward James Eliot, to be remembrancer of the court of exchequer. - - Robert Blair, M. D. to be profeffor of aftronomy at Edinburgh. 15. Edward Tucker, jun, efq. to be fecretary and provolt marhal general of the iflands of Bermuda. 29. Jofeph I wart, efq. to be fecretary of legation at the court of Berlin. Novem (H 3) November 15. Hugh Elliot, efq. to be envoy extraordinary to the court of Denmark, with the additional character of minifter plenipotentiary. 23. Right hon. Thomas Orde, to be privy counfellor. 25. William Gill, efq. alderman of Walbrook Ward, to be treasurer of Christ's Hospital. December 3. Auguftus Pechell, efq. to be receiver-general of the poít-office. 9. Right hon. William Eden, to be one of the committee for the confideration of all matters relative to trade and foreign plantations, and envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary at the court of France for negociating commercial Dorfetfhire-Hon. Lionel Damer, of Warmwell. Derbyshire-Herbert Greenfmith, of Priory. Effex-George Bowles, of Wanflead. Gloucestershire-John Niblett, of Gloucester. Hertfordshire-Wm. Phillimore, of Aldenham. Herefordshire - Sir Hungerford Hofkins, bart. Kent-Edward Knatchbull, of Provender. Leicestershire-Wm. Vann, of Bel grave. Lincolnshire-Charles Chaplin, of Bride's. Berkshire-Edward Thornhill, of Somerfetfhire-Richard Crofs, of Kingston. Broomfield. Bedfordshire-Wm. Gibbard, of Stafordflire-Thomas Stevenfon, Sharnbrooke, Bucks Tho. Saunders, of Brill. Cumberland-Edward Knubley, of Wigton. Chefhire-Hon. Wilbraham Tolle. mache, of Woodhay. Cambridge and Huntingdonshire— John Crichloe Turner, of Great Stukely. Cornwall-Wefton Helyar, of Newton, efq. Devonshire Jn. Hen. Southcote, of Buckland. of Stafford. Suffolk-Thomas Gooch, of Ben acre. Hants. Sir Jn. Whalley Gardiner, bart. Surrey-James Payne, of Chertfey. Suflex-Wm. Nelthorp, of Sedg- PUBLIC PAPERS. Letter from the Honourable Warren Haftings, Governor-General of Bengal to the Honourable the Court of Directors of the Eaft-India Company, dated Lucknow, April 30. With a Poffeript, dated May 13, 1784. Lucknow, April 30, 1784. Honourable Sirs, HAVE judged it incumbent bob vizier fhould require it, which I knew from undoubted authority he would, with his anfwer to the notification formally made to him, I upon me to make trial of every of the gift of December practicable chance of conveying to you the earliest intelligence of my arrival at the place from which this letter is dated, and of the first effects produced by the accommodation, which took place, by the refolution of the governor-general and coun cil, paffed on the 31ft of December laft, and already notified to you by the fucceffive difpatches of your fhips. I fhall begin the thread of my report from that date. I foon after found that the ftate of this country was fo difordered in its revenue and adminiftration, and the credit and influence of the nabob himself fo much fhaken by the effects of the late ufurpation of his authority, and the contefts which attended it, as to require the acceffion of an extraneous aid, to reftore the powers and conftitution of his government; and I was ftrongly and repeatedly urged to repair hither in perfon for that purpose. Thefe infances, though declared to be conformable to the wishes of the nabob vizier, his family and minifters, having been privately conveyed to me, I reprefented them as fuch to the board on the 20th of January, and offered my fervices to go to Lucknow, whenever the na My reafons for thus anticipating the occafion were many; the diftracted state of affairs, which every fufpenfion of a day would aggravate; the feafon of the collections requiring the application of early exertions for their fecurity, and my own infirm ftate of health, which was not equal to fuftain fo long a journey, if protracted to the commencement of the hot winds. My offer was accepted by a conditional declaration on the part of Mr. Wheeler, and I made inftant preparations for the journey. On the 14th of February the na bob's invitation arrived: I repeated the propofal; the fame authority decided its acceptance, and on the 17th I took my leave of the board, and departed from Calcutta with a fevere indifpofition, which had feized me fome time preceding, then, hanging on me; happily the change of air effected my fpeedy cure, and on the 27th ult. I arrived at this place in a state of health fo con firmed, as to promise an unremitted attention to the very important ob jects of my commiffion. On my way, I had the alarming perfpective of a foil fo completely exhausted of its natural moisture, by by the failure of one entire feafon of the periodical rains, that except the fields of grain, which have been kept in vegetation by the uncommon labour of the hufbandmen, and were fill clothed with a luxuriant produce, or retained the ftubble of the recent harvest, the plains exhibited an appearance of barrennefs, fo dreary, that even the roots of its former herbage no longer exifted, and the deep ravines, and beds of ivers which I paffed, threw up clouds of duft from their channels. These are not circumstances of trivial obfervation, nor are they confined to the lands of thefe provinces; every region of Hindostan has felt the fame angry vifitation, and another year of equal drought, which is not to be expected in the courfe of natural events, would put it out of the reach of human wisdom to prevent, or retrieve the dreadful calamity which must attend it. Yet fuch is my reliance on the gratitude and unbounded confidence of the nabob and his ministers, that I dare promise, even at this imma ture period, under every circumftance, but the dreadful one which I have fuppofed, and which I have ftated as improbable, a fuccessful progrefs and termination of the meafure which I have begun, equal to any expectations which may have been formed of it, however fanguine, if I am not counteracted, and my operations impeded by orders which I may not refift, and am allowed to remain to the time deftined for their perfection. Nor fhall it be a common obftruction which fhall restrain me; for I poffefs fuch inherent advantages as I truft will prove fuperior to every fpecies of oppofition, but the last extremity of it. Indeed if fuch fprings as give the common movements to popular opinion, could influence my proceedings, I have already experienced them in two inftances, one of which I believe to have had the fpecial fervice I am engaged in for its object, and the other, the general ruin of my authority. I allude, first, to a report fabricated at Fort St. George, of the arrival of a fhip of war at Bombay, with the authentic intelligence of my difmiffion with difgrace from my office, which I received at the inftant that I was fetting my foot on the fhore at Nuddeah, for the commencement of my journey; and fecondly, to a paper tranfmitted to me by a refpected authority from Calcutta, containing ftrictures on my former deputation, faid to be a part of a report of the felect committee of the houfe of commons, which unhappily apply to every purpose of this, and which declare (with horror I repeat it) a right invefted in the commander in chief of the army, to oppofe the power delegated by the government itself to its first executive member, and to affert that right by an appeal to the army for its ultimate decifion upon it. The words of the report (if it be fuch) to which I allude, are thefe: "By these inftructions" (that is the inftructions fent by the court of directors to Bengal in the year 1774 and 1778) "it appears, that the governor-general was politively reftrained from the exercife of any military power whatfoever beyond the garrifon and fortrefs of Fort William; fo that the delegation and exercife of all military power be yond the limits fo defcribed, was a direct and pofitive difobedience of the orders of the court of direc tors." "Difobedience of orders on a point, fo delicate and important as that of wrefting the military com mand |