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and fear; it is to be fuppofed, that Torrigiano's cafe was not better in the eyes of the holy office for his having been rekdent in England, and employed by king Henry VIII. Whether they confidered him as tinctured with the herely of that royal apoftate does not appear; I am inclined to believe he more refembled Henry in temper than in opinion; at leaft, if we are to credit his affault on Michael Angelo, and try him on that action; fince the days of Diomed few mortals ever launch ed a more impious blow."

During Mr. Cumberland's refidence in Spain, an instance occurred in his own houthold of the oppreffion exercised, by the inquifition against an innocent man, who had been taken up and confined in ftead of another perfon. In the regular courfe of proceeding, he fhould have laid in prifon ten or twelve years, if nature could have fubfifted for that time, before he would be admitted to fee his judge. As a compliment to our author be was allowed a speedy examination, and being found not to be the perfon fought after, was difmiffed. On this tranfaction our author makes the following obfervation.

"To fuch uneven bands is the scale of juftice delegated in fome ftates; with fuch tenants are the towers of Segovia and Cadiz peopled; and who that reflects on this, and has the fentiments and feelings of a man, but muft regret, nay execrate, that narrow, impious and impolitic principle of intolerancy and perfecution, which drives our catholic fubjects in thoals to seek subsistence in a hoftile fervice? Let the English reader excufe this fhort digreffion, whilft he can fay within himfelf, My houfe is my cattle, I fhall know my charge, and face my acculers; I can not be left to languish in a prifon, and when I am called to trial, I fhall not be made to criminate myself; nor can I if I would.' Of fuch a conftitution we may justly glory; our fathers have bled to eitablit it, and if, in the course of this unequal war, we follow our fons to the grave, who die in its defence, we have Dot bought our privilege to dear, however painful may have been the purshafe."

Anecdotes of the Author.

Mr. CUMBERLAND is the fon of Dr. Cumberland, late bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, by Joanna, youngest daughter of the celebrated Dr. Bentley (a lady on whom the well known paftoral of Phebe, by Dr. Byrom, printed in the Spectator, Twas written) and grandion to the learned bishop of Peterborough. He received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge,

where his maternal grandfather had prefided. In 1751 he had taken the degree of Bachelor of Arts there, and wrote fome verfes on the Prince of Wales's death. Relinquishing an academic life, he obtained a place at the board of trade, but was not known as an author until the year 1761, when he published the Banishment of Cicero, a tragedy, which had been refused by Mr. Garrick. An interval of four years from this time elapfed before the appearance of his first acted play, the Summer's Tale, and four more between that and the Brothers, both performed at Covent-garden theatre, and the latter with applaufe. In 1771, a reconciliation be tween him and Mr. Garrick having taken place, he produced, at Drury Lane, his beft dramatic piece, the Weft Indian, and fince that period has exhibited a fucceffion of dramas, fome with confiderable and others with flight approbation. It is not only as a writer that Mr. Cumberland bas figured. About two years lince he was fem to negociate with the Crown of Spain, though without a public character, and it is reported that his embaffy would have been fuccefsful but for the capture of the Eaft and West India flects, which infpired the Spaniards with more confidence than they had before poffeffed. During his refidence in that kingdom he collected materials for the volumes now under confideration. If fame may be relied on, Mr. Cumberland had no obligations either to the juftice or generofity of his employers, having been neglected by them in a manner hardly confitent with the honour of the nation. Since his return to England he has again turned his attention to the stage, in which line he has heretofore been so fuccef-ful, and in which he has the powers to become a formidable rival to the ableft of our prefent dramatifts.

The Hiftory of the Empire of Indoftan, with the Rije and Progress of the Carnatic War.

(Continued from p. 261)

THESE revolutions in the Carnatic Thappened at a time when Nizam

al-muluck, having no longer any thing to apprehend from the politics of the court of Delhi, where he had obtained for his fon Ghazi-o'din Khan the poft of captain general of the Mogul armies, was preparing to vifit the Carnatic. He left GolKondah in the beginning of the year 1743, and arrived at Arcot in the month of March following. His army is faid to have confifted of eighty thousand horfe and two hundred thoufand foot. Their numbers and the reputation of their lea

der,

der, deterred all the princes of the countries through which they paffed from making any reliftance; and they entered the province of Arcot with as little oppofition. When arrived at the city, Nizamal-muluck was ftruck with amazement at the anarchy which prevailed in every part of the government. Every governor of a fort, and every commander of a diftrict, had affumed the title of nabob, and had given to the officers of his retinue the fame names that diftinguished the perfons who held the moft confiderable employ ments in the court of the Soubah. One day, after having received the homage of feveral of thefe little lords, Nizam-almuluck faid, that he had that day feen no less than eighteen nabobs in the Carnatic; whereas he had always imagined that there was but one in all the fouthern provinces. He afterwards turned to his guards, and ordered them to fcourge the first person who, for the future, fhould in his prefence affume the title of nabob.

The young fon of Subder Ally, accompanied by feveral of his principal of ficers, paid his vifit of homage to the Soubah, who refused him the permiffion of returning to Vandevah, and ordered fome of his own officers to take charge of his perfon, directing them to treat him with lenity and respect. He then appointed Coja Abdulla Khan, the general of his army, nabob of Arcot, and of all its dependencies, and fent a fummons to Moorary-row, the governor of Tritchanopoly, to furrender the city. Finding that the Morattoe perfifted in refusing to obey his orders, he marched with his whole army and fet down before it: prefents and promifes fupplied the place of hoftilities in reducing it. In the month of August Moorary-row evacuated Tritchanopoly, and foon after quitted the Carnatic with all his Morattoes.

Nizam al-muluck having thus fettled the affairs of the province without unfheathing the fword, returned to GolKondah. Coja Abdulla continued to command the army until it arrived there; leaving one of his dependents to adminifter the government of Arcot during his abfence. It was not before the month of March in the next year that he prepared to return, and after having been diftinguished with particular honours on the day that he took leave of the Soubah, was the next morning found dead in his bed. His body bore marks of poison; but as the hand from which it came could never be discovered, it was imputed to the perfon who received the most advan

e from it, by fucceeding him in the

government of the Carnatic. This was An'war-adean, who was immediately nominated to that employment, and arrived at Arcot in the month of April.

The introduction of this stranger into the Carnatic was the fource of many of the events which it is the intention of this narrative to commemorate; and there are so many and fuch injurious mifreprefentations of his origin, and of that part of his life which preceded his acceffion to the nabobship, that it is neceffary to invalidate them by an impartial defcription of his hiftory.

Anawar, the father of An'war-adean, diftinguished himself by his great erudition, and by the application of it to ex• planations of the original text of the Khoran: he made the pilgrimage of Mecca, without which proof of piety it is difficult, among Mahomedans, to acquire the reputation of a truly devout man. At his return from this voyage he was appointed by Aurenzgebe, to be one of thofe religious officers who are appointed to offer up daily prayers for the health and profperity of the fovereign. In confequence of this appointment, he received a penfion, and was ennobled by being ranked as a commander of two hundred and fifty horse, with the right of taking the title of Khan, which fignifies lord, or rather chieftain. This title would appear in. compatible with the character of a religious man, if every title of nobility in Indoftan did not confift in a military commiffion; by which it is fuppofed, although rarely infifted on, that the person who receives the commiffion fhall maintain a certain number of horse for the emperor's fervice. With thefe honours and advantages Anawar retired to Gopee-mahoo, and there finished his days.

His fon An'war-adean went to court with recommendations from his father, which procured him the fame rank of horfe as had been given to his father: he was afterwards railed to the command of five hundred horfe, and was appointed governor of the diftrict of Coora-Gehanabad. Il fuccefs, or perhaps ill conduct, preventing him from being able to pay the ufual revenues of his government to the throne, he quitted it privately and went to Amedabad. Here Gazi-o'din Khan, the Soubah of the fouthern pro. vinces, gave him a polt of confiderable truft and profit in the city of Surat, whilst his friends at Delhi took care to prevent farther enquiries concerning him, by reporting him dead. After the death of Gazi o'din Khan, father of Nizam-almuluck, An'war-adean went to pay his court to Nizam-al-muluck, who had fuc

ceeded

There is no country in which the titles of descent are less inftrumental to the fortunes of men than they are in Indoftan; none but those of the royal blood are confidered as hereditary nobility; to all others, the exclusion is so absolute, that a new act from the fovereign is neceflary to ennoble even the fon of the grand vizir of the empire. The field of fortune is open to every man who has courage enough to make use of his fword, or to whom nature has given fuperior talents of mind. Hence it happens, that half the grandees of Indoftan have arrived to the higheft employments in the empire from conditions not lefs humble than that of An'war-adean Khan, against whofe ac ceffion to the nabobship of the Carnatic, the people had taken an averfion from caufes independent of his perfonal character.

During the thirty years which preceded the vifitation of Nizam-al-muluck, the Carnatic had been governed by the fame family, in a fucceffion of three nabobs, who, availing themselves of the general confufion of the empire, had acquired a greater flability in their office than is the ufual lot of governors in Indoftan. The nabobs of this family, confidering the fovereignty as a kind of inheritance, had not conducted themselves in their adminiftration with that spirit of ravage, which is the ufual confequence of uncertain and tranfitory poffeffion. The revenues of the Carnatic depend upon the harvests of grain, and thefe on the quantities of water, which are referved to fupply the defect of rain during the dry fealon of the year for this purpose vait refervoirs have been formed, of which not only the conftruction, but even the repairs in cafes of inundation require an expence much beyond the faculties of the farmer or renter of the land. If therefore the avarice of the prince withhelds his hand from the Hib. Mag. June, 1782.

It is not therefore to be wondered at that the province which had felt the good effects of a mild and generous adminiftration, from the reigns of the family of Sadatulla Khan, fhould behold with regret the introduction of any ftranger whomfoever to govern the Carnatic. The young fon of Subder Ally was the only person whom the province wished to fee their ruler.

In deference to this affection, and from the danger of fhocking it at once too violently, Nizam-al-muluck gave out that he intended to confer the nabobfhip of Arcot on this youth, as foon as he should arrive at the age of manhood. At the fame time he gave An'war-adean Khan all the powers neceffary for governing the Carnatic during this interval, and committed the young prince to his care, with the authority of a guardian. From the palpable impropriety of repofing fo delicate a trust in the very perfon to whom the greateft advantages would accrue from an unfaithful discharge of it, Nizam al-muluck may be fufpected of having diffembled throughout this tranfaction. The general joy with which the youth was received, on his arrival in the province, eclipfed all the homage that was paid to the fovereign power of his guardian; and it is fuppofed that the provisional nabob did not behold without jealousy thefe demonftrations of the public attachment to the fon of Subder Ally.

An'war-adean however did not discover any symptoms of difcontent in his treatment of the young prince: on the contrary he maintained him in a fplendor adequate to his birth, and affigned the palace in the fort of Arcot for his refidence. Here the young Seid Mahomed paffed fome time without any other inquietude, than that which he received from the importunities of a band of Pitan foldiers, who had been in the fervice of his father, and who pretended that a long arrear of pay was die to them.

The Pitans, whofe country is in the most northern part of the empire, are the braveft of the Mahomedan foldiery levied in Indoftan. From a confcioufnefs of this fuperiority, together with a reliance on the national connection which exifts amongst them, however difperfed into the Rr

fervice

fervices of different princes, they have acquired an infolence and audacity of manners, which diftinguishes them, as much as the hardness of their phyfiognomy, from every other race of men in the empire: they treat even the lords they ferve with very little of that respect which characterifes all the other dependents of a fovereign in Indoftan. From the known ferocity of their temper, it is thought dangerous to inflict punishment on them, even when they deferve it, as a strong fpirit of revenge has familiarized them with affaffination, which they feldom fail to employ whenever the fmallness of their numbers difables them from taking vengeance by more open attacks. The Pitans, who had ferved Subder Ally Khan, continued to prefent themselves every day before his fon, demanding their arrears with clamour and infolence.

In the month of June a wedding of one of the relations of Subder Ally was celebrated in the fort of Arcot. The young prince, as being the head of the family, was invited to prefide at the ceremony. The customary invitations were likewife given to all the other relations, many of whom were lords of government in the Carnatic; among thefe was Mortiz Ally. The young Seid Mahomed Khan was taught to conceal the emotions he naturally felt at feeing the murderer of his father named in the lift of his friends as a gueft invited with his approbation. Such are the manners of a court in Indoftan. It was thought that Mortiz Ally would not venture his perfon out of the forts of Velore, during the first days of a new administration; but, in contradiction to this notion, he came to Arcot, and prefented himself before the young prince, as one of the guests at the wedding; and was treated with diftinction and refpect by the regent nabob An'war-adean Khan, who was likewife invited to the wedding.

feized on the Pitans, and turned them out of the palace by force. The Pitans fuffered themselves to be removed with much lefs refiftance than it was expected they would have made against a treatment fo repugnant to the ideas which thefe haughty foldiers entertain of their own importance. The fame day they advanced again into the presence of Seid Mahomed Khan, and apologized for their disrespectful behaviour: their fub. miffions fuppreffed all fufpicions of their conduct during the remaining part of the day.

In the evening Seid Mahomed Khan, with Mortiz Ally and most of the other guefts, were affembled, and as foon as the young prince was informed that An'war-adean was approaching, he arofe from his feat, and paffed into the veftibule of the hall, intending to pay his guardian the compliment of receiving him at the bottom of the steps which led into the palace. He was attended by all the other guefts, and many of his own officers and guards. The thirteen Pitans, who had made their submission in the morning, appeared the foremost of the fpectators in the court below, and dif tinguished themselves by the affectation of great reverence in their manner of faluting Seid Mahomed Khan, as soon as he appeared in the veftibule. After these compliments, their captain, with the appearance of a man fenfible that he had of fended his lord, and intended to fling himself at his feet, afcended the fteps, and was permitted to approach within the reach of his perfon; when the affaffin drew a dagger, and at the firft blow stabbed him to the heart.

A thousand fwords and poignards were drawn in an inftant; the murderer was cut to pieces on the very fpot; and ten of his accomplices fuffered the fame fate from the fury of the multitude below. During this fcene of bloodthed, An’waradean Khan arrived, and endeavoured to calm the general trepidation, by giving fuch orders as were necessary for the difcovery of the confpirators; for the mul titude had already perfuaded themselves that the Pitans had been employed by fome fuperior power.

(To be continued.)

The following were handed about at the last
Pantheon Mafquerade in London.
A Hand Bill.

moft capital Remedies.

URUM Palpabile, or Tangible

ARU. Though this is only a refinement of the ore, yet it may justly be

called

fal Medicine. There are few political diforders in which it is not happily adminiftered, as it generally performs a cure. The Rabies Patriotica (or Patriotic Fury) has often yielded to this remedy; and ́ there have been inftances where patients have been fo far gone in this distemper, that they have bellowed, foamed at the mouth, tamped on the ground, and clinched their fifts, and by a proper dofe of Aurum Palpabile, have not only had their paroxyfms abated, but have been rendered as meek as lambs. Their mouths have been effectually stopped, their rage quieted, and their ftamping fo far abated, that they have had no ufe of their feet, but inftinctively to follow the adminiftrator out or in, to the right or to the left. As this medicine bath very often shut the molt vociferous mouth, fo it hath opened fome that were quite dumb before. It hath made lawyers plead, divines preach, and members of parliament fpeak. Nay, it hath had fuch an effect on the limbs, that foldiers arms, feamen's feet, and treasurers fingers have been put in motion by the wonderful operation of this fovereign drug.-Nay, there is fearce any thing but it can do in the hands of an ab'e difpenfer of it.

Sal Satyricum, or Satirical Salt, very ufeful for feafoning fpeeches in parliament, and affords a poignancy in reply. By means of this Salt, many arguments that could not be answered, have been turned into ridicule, and some speakers have been brow-beaten, who could not have been confuted.

Oleum Sycophantinum, or Oil of Flattery. This is a most powerful medi cine, it cures all contractions in the back, neck, and finews of the hams, if properly applied. It has made many perfons extremely fupple, who were before very fiff; and has occafioned more people to bow than all the dancing mafters in the kingdom. It is ufually administered in at the cars, and generally has effect, unless, it is poured too faft, and in an injudici

ous manner.

Notice handed about by an Irish Teague.

Divorces contrived and executed at the fhorteft notice, by Phelim Mac Brawn, of the kingdom of Ireland, who fays it himself, that he has the prettieft hand at a crim. con. of any man in England, except thofe who live in the province of Connaught: and he affures the fweet creatures, that may be inclined to run away from their husbands, that he has the most convenient, snug retreat, where they may fly from all purfuit without stirring a step. His terms are very reasonable, as he is a gentleman of the blood-royal of Ireland, and can therefore live without making an appearance.

Delivered by a whimsical character, reprefenting a Turner, crowned with a weather-cock, his right fide, "true blue," and labelled "Whig;" his left fide black, labelled "Tory." On his back a large label," Vicar of Bray."

The world and all things are turning about;

The outs are turn'd in, and the ins are turn'd out.

St. Stephen's turn'd honeft-a wonderful thing

And London, turn'd civil, addresses the King.

thorns of remorse, and pangs of recol

lection.

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nature.