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Such was the situation of things, when the impaired state of Mr. Sulli. van's health obliged him, with the permission of Government, to take his passage for Europe on board of a French ship in March, 1776; and in the month of August following he landed at L'Orient.

Upon his arrival at that place, through the attentions paid by the captain and supercargo of the ship to his imperfect health, he became the guest of the owners of the ship, Messrs. Admyrauld; and having, in his intercourse with them, found that a secure channel was open, through them, for drawing his property from India, he agreed to give them orders upon his agents in India.

It is in evidence upon the Records of the Company, that Mr. Sullivan's negotiation with the Fr.nch house of Admyrauld, relative to the ship Eliza. beth, in which he ultimately became interested, was concluded in September, 1776; that it was undertaken solely with a view to the remittance of property from India; and that the mode of remitting through foreigners had originated in a necessity, which the exigency of the Company's affairs had imposed upon all their servants.

It is in evidence, that the ship Elizabeth, which the house of Admyrauld sent to India in consequence of the negotiation of September, 1776, sailed from France in March, 1777; that is to say, at a period of profound peace, and fifteen months before the war broke out between England and France; that she was destined for, the most limited voyage, namely, to the Coast of Coromandel only; and, that express orders were given for her being dispatched, at the latest, in the spring of 1778.

It is further in evidence, that, by an unforeseen delay in the provision of the goods for the returning cargo (by which the remittances were to have been made), the period for the dispatch of the ship was protracted; that in August, 1778, hostilities having unexpectedly commenced in India, within one month of the time when the rupture between England and France took place in Europe, the Governor of Pondicherry did, by an act of coercive authority, under date the 18th August, 1778, impress this ship, the Elizabeth, into the service of the French Government; in which service she was held by two succeeding acts of similar coercion, dated the 3d September, and 29th December, 1778; which acts, placing her under the immediate controul of the commander of the Pourvoyante frigate, unhappily occasioned her to be assisting to that frigate in the capture of the Osterley Indiaman."

It is also in evidence, that Mr. Sullivan continued in Europe from August 1776, until February 1781, that is to say, nearly two years subsequent to the unfortunate capture of the Osterley; and, that when he was informed, by a letter of the 5th of June, 1780, that the house of Admyrauld had made a claim, in favour of the ship Elizabeth, to a share in the prizes, he did, instantly upon the receipt of the said letter, utterly disclaim and renounce all participation therein, and withdrew himself altogether from every concern with Messrs. Admyrauld*.

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* Notarial Attestation of Mons. Admyrauld, dated 18th October, 1788. "Aujourd'hui est comparu devant les Conseillers du Roi, Notaires au Châtelet de Paris sous signés, S. François Gabriel Admyrauld, negociant

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In 1781 Mr. Sullivan returned to India, having been appointed unanimously, by the Court of Directors, to represent the Company at the Court of the Soubahdar of the Deccan. The state of public affairs upon his arrival occasioned his services to be required in another direction; and the most honourable testimonies are borne by the Governor and Council of Madras to those services, from which we shall extract the following:

de la Rochelle, etant de présent à Paris, logé Rue St. Joseph, St. Eustache, No. 14. Lequel, désirant de rendre hommage à la vérité, et satisfaire au désir que lui a témoigné M. Jean Sulivan, a, par ces présentes, déclaré et certifié, Que M. Jean Sulivan, originellement intéressé (avec lui le com parant et feu M. Pierre Gabriel Admy rauld son père) dans l'armement du navire l'Elizabeth, Capitaine Crozet, destiné pour le commerce de l'Inde, n'a nullement profité de la prise du navire Anglois l'Osterley, faite par la Frégate du Roy, La Pourvoyante, et par le navire l'Elizabeth. Qu'aussitôt que M. Sulivan fut instruit de cette prise, et du droit que les interéssés de l'Elizabeth y avoient, il fit témoigner au S. Comparant et a son père, armateurs de l'Elizabeth, par une lettre du vingt Juillet, mil sept cent quatre-vingt,

"Que quelque considérable que peut être sa part dans cette prise, comme elle etoit faite sur sa nation, il ne pouvoit se résoudre à en profiter; que plutôt que s'enrichir du malheur de ses compatriotes il céderoit sa part aux autres interéssés; qu'il dêsiroit en même temp n'etre plus regardé comme ayant intérêt au navire; et nous prioit de se décharger de l'interêt, ne demandant pour cela que le remboursement de ses fonds, avec l'intérêt de ceux, sur le pied de cinq pour cent l'an, seulement.

"Que cette proposition ayant été acceptée, effectuée, purement et simplement, sans autre avantage pour M. Jean Sulivan, il est dès lors de venu étranger au dit navire l'Elizabeth; n'y a plus de droits, et réellement n'a eu aucune part, directement ni indirectement, dans les partitions faites entre les interessés du produit de ce navire, ni de ceux résultans de la prise du navire l'Osterley.

"En témoignage de quoi, le dit comparant a fait la présente déclaration.

"D'un acte fait et passé à Paris dans l'etude de M. Margantin, l'un des dits Notaires, le seize Octobre mil sept cent quatre-vingt huit,

"Et signé, FARMIN.

ADMYRAULD.
MARGANTIN."

"We, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary at the Court of Versailles, do certify to all whom it may concern, that Mr. Margantin, and Mr. Farmin, who have signed and delivered the above Certificate, are Conseillers du Roi, Notaires at the Châtelet de Paris; and that to acts so signed, delivered by them, full and undoubted faith is given, in and out of court. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our

hand and seal.

"Done at our Hotel, in Paris, the seventeenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.

"DORSET."

Extract of a Letter from Lord Macartney to the Court of Directors, dated Fort St. George, 14th May, 1782.

"Whatever can be done for the public service, attainable by ability, resolution, and address, will be accomplished by Mr. Sullivan, whose mind is awake to every object within his reach, or within his view. We have thought it necessary, in our circumstances, to devolve upon him a considerable share of administration to the southward; as far as we could venture to do so, under the particular controul and restraint under which we have placed ourselves,"

Extra of a Letter from Lord Macartney, and bis Council, to the Curt of Direc tors, dated Fort St. George, 5th September, 1782.

"Copies of the most important of the letters and papers to which Mr. Sullivan alludes, go a No. in the packet. They will evince the magnitude of the object which has so much engaged his solicitude, and his active zeal and ability, in the management of that branch of the admini. stration which has fallen to his share. We lament, for your sakes, that that share has been circumscribed; and that, not possessing them ourselves, we could not invest him with the powers he requested: because we are persuaded he would have employed them to the advancement of your essential interests,”

Such is the sum of the matters contained in the original Narrative, and its accompanying documents. The copy now reprinted, and from which the above summary has been taken, is followed by some further observations on the subject of the transactions relative to the ship Elizabeth; and we cannot, without injustice to Mr. Sullivan, conclude this article without adducing the following passages:

"If the judgment of a public body can afford any ground for inferring the opinions and sentiments of those who pronounced that judgment, every equitable and honest mind must infer from that of the Court of Directors, that, although the act itself upon which they pronounced was judged to be contrary to the letter of the law in favour of the monopoly of the Com pany, and therefore it became necessary, for precedent and example, that they should mark their disapprobation of similar transactions; yet that they considered themselves bound, in justice ro Mr. Sullivan, so to express that disapprobation, as to confine it to such part of the transaction as related to the infringement of their monopoly; and thus, by fair inference, to justify him from imputation in any other part. And the more espe cially, as the Company had thought proper to direct their solicitor to commence suits at law, or in equity, against one of their servants (who held an high office in India at the period of those transactions in the Indian seas), on account of his conduct respecting the French ship.'

"In 1790, not two years subsequent to the date of the Resolution of the 5th November, 1788, and when the transaction to which that Reso lution refers must have been fresh in the recollection of the Court of Directors, Mr. Sullivan had the gratification of receiving the most satisfactory proof that he had not suffered in their favourable opinion; a majority of them having, separately, assured him of their support, if he should suc. ceed in an application to the Minister, with a view to obtaining the Government of Madras.”

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of his becoming a traitor to his coun-
try, 379.
Ambassadors, the present English, at fo-
reign courts, remarks on, 378.
America, reasons assigned for her exten-
sive intercourse with, and attachment
to, England, 466.

Americans, absurd declaration respecting
their happy condition, 117.
Anecdote, atrocious, of a French officer,
32.

Anti-Jacobin, defence of the, against the
charge of personal abuse, 313.
Arabian Nights, remarks on the nature
of the plan, and execution of the, 5.
Armstrong, Dr. his complaints respecting
the mutability of the English climate,

$39.

Articles, reflections on the sense of the,
233.

Arts, paradoxy frequently observable in
productions of the, 204.
Atonement, the doctrine of, declared by
the Jewish prophecies, no less than that
of the divinity of Christ, 415.
Atrocity of the Dutch, horrible instance
of, 159.

Attraction, capillary, striking effects of,

385.

APP. VOL. XXV.

Avarice, curious instance of the height
to which it may be carried, 160.

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Bampton Lectures, account of their plan
and principles, 232.

Bank of France, atrocious robberies on
the, 462; causes of the shock or bank-
ruptcy of it, 463.

Banker, his business considered, 461.
Barracks, their erection of great utility
to the country, 94.

Batavia, account of the bay of, 125:
fatal effects of the climate, 126.
Beattie, Dr. comparison between him and
Dr. Priestley, 41; his animadversion
on Hume's Dialogues, 44.

Beauty, female, qualities requisite for,

362.

Bengal, amount of its population, 71; its
importance to England, 71.

Blasphemy, horrible picture of its preva
lence in Holland since the Revolution,
155.

Blasts, downright, instructions to guard
against their fatal consequences, 305.
Blunders, not confined to Ireland, 58.
Booksellers, Scotch, their partiality in
the Pictonian prosecution, 286.
Brazilians, probability of their attempt
ing to gain independence, 33,
Brazils, the transfer of the Portuguese
Government to the, considered, 34.
Breakfast, singular bill of fare of one at
Paris, 365.

Bull, Bishop, his opinion of original sin,

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eve of a battle, 14.

Castlereagh, Lord, anecdote of, proving
his humanity, 66.

Caung-Shung, account of this extraordi-
nary King of Cochin-China, 133; his
naval and military forces, 135.
Celts, ingenious observations respecting
their origin, 259.

Chancellor of the Exchequer, proofs of
his political derangement, 206.
Characters, popular, strictures on, 413.
'Charles I. his death attributed to the fa-
naticism of the army, 227.

his conduct with that of Lewis
XVI. contrasted, 396; his domestic
character, 396.

Christianity, reflections on the conver-
sion of savages to, 30.

its rapid approach to ex-

tinction in France, 169.

not to be attacked by irony

and ridicule, 435.
Church, Gallican, remarks on the schism
prevailing in the, 163.

schisms excited in the bosom of

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the variation of the, 338.

-, its real change to be attributed
to the change of the style, 340.

erroneous opinion of its fre-
quent change refuted, 343.
Cochin-China, reflections on the igno-
rance of the English respecting, 24.
-, account of that country,
hitherto so little known, 129; histori-
cal sketch of its political state, 181;
treaty between its King and Lewis XVI.
of France, 131; advantages thence re-
sulting to the latter, 136.

articles of commerce sup-

plied by, 138; the King favourable to
the English, 138.
Colon, its use not easily ascertained, 421.
Colonies, probability of the old declaring
themselves independent, and necessity
of establishing new ones, 469; rules
for their establishment, 471.
——, projects of France towards
new ones, 471.

Commerce, definition of the term of,

461.

Confederacy, the late Continental, its
failure owing to the precipitancy of
Austria, 404.

Confidence, private, atrocity of betray-
ing, 370.

Congruity of merit, inquiry into the doc-
trine of, 349.

Connoisseurs, pointed observations on,

263.

Controversy, Pictonian, summary of the,

183.

Convulsions, their general prevalence in
France, and their fatality, 479.
Countries, Catholic, source of the wretch-
edness and dirt in, 273.

Country gentlemen, characteristics of the,

376.

Cotton-yarn, arguments on the impor

tance of its importation from India, 78.
Craniology, principles of this modern
science, 204; political advantages to
be derived from it, 209.
Cranmer, his conduct at the Reforma-
tion, 235.

Credulity, the victim to, described, $90.
Criticism, genuine, characteristics of,

434.

Critics, general observations relating to
them, and their comments on our old
writers, 10.

censure of the unprincipled con-
duct of modern, 84.
Cromwell, eulogy on, 227.

Curates' Act, remarks on the tenor of the,

110.

Currents at sea, always travel in right
lines, 305.

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