right shoulder, and, though still in life, very faint hopes of his recovery are entertained. When questioned as to the names of the other gentlemen who had accompanied him, he declined giving any satisfaction on the subject, and said he knew nothing of them. He was attended in the course of the day by Mr. Heaviside, Mr. Thomson, and Mr. Home, surgeons. His lordship was alive at a late hour last night. A Mr. Nihell or Nield, we understand was second to captain Best; and the honourable Mr. Devereux was second to lord Camelford. 12. On Saturday evening this unfortunate nobleman breathed his last. The whole of his deport ment since the unhappy duel has greatly interested the public in his favour, as it has displayed the most generous magnanimity. His character, too, is now better understood than it was before. It appears that with all his chivalrous notions, and with that irrascible temper which brought him into so many broils, he was warm in his affections, and liberal in his benevolence. We have heard of many acts of splendid munificence, which, even to the most rigid censurers of his folly, must endear his name. He sent for his solicitor, Mr. Wilson, of Lincoln's-inn-fields, and made his will on the night after the accident; and he maintained the most perfect composure under his sufferings to the last. We are authorised to say, that lord Camelford has left behind him a paper in his own hand-writing, fully acquitting his antagonist from any blame on the late unfor tunate transaction. Yesterday, about four o'clock in the afternoon, the body was opened by several professional gentle men, in order to be able to give satisfactory information to the coroner's jury, who are summoned to sit this day at the Horseand Groom publichouse, and his body will be afterwards conveyed toCamelford-house. 13. An inquest was taken yesterday morning, at the White Horse, Kensington, before George Hodgson, esq. his majesty's coroner for the county of Middlesex, on view of the body of the honourable Thomas Pitt, lord Camelford. The jury after having attended the coroner's charge, proceeded to Mr. Ottey's, Little Holland-house, where the deceased lay. Upon examining the body, there appeared immediately below the right shoulder a wound, which was evidently the cause of his lordship's death. The jury returned to hear the evidence. James Sheers, gardener to lord Holland, stated, that previous to the transaction he was about to relate, he had no personal knowledge of the deceased. On Wednesday morning last he was at work at lord Holland's, digging in the shrubbery, when he heard the report of two pistols. He told the man at work with him (one John Murray) that he thought it was a duel. He ran down to, the pales adjoining the field, and saw the smoke in the second field, about ten yards distance from the hedge, and nearly three hundred yards from him. He observed the deceased (lord Camelford) lying on the ground, and a person, his second, supporting him. The witness ran down, and there were two other genlemen coming from lord Camelford. He went to the gap, and saw the deceased lyinghe was then only fifteen yards from him; the same gentleman was still supporting him, and begging of the witness to come to his assistance. The witness witness called through the hedge to the rest of the men, his fellowlabourers, and desired them to stop the gentlemen. They went in pursuit of them, but did not stop them. The deceased begged very hard of the witness to assist him: accordingly he took hold of the cape of his coat, and the gentleman who had been supporting him ran for a surgeon, and left him with the deceased. Soon after surgeon Thomson came, the deceased asked the witness why he called out to stop the gentlemen? to which he replied, that he wished to stop them, as he did not know what had been the matter. Lord Camelford observed, that he did not wish to have them stopped-that he was the aggressor-that he forgave the gentleman who had shot him, and he hoped God would forgive him too. In five or six minutes John Irons and several other persons came to his assistance. The witness asked the deceased whether he knew his friend, or any of the opposition party, and the answer was, "that he knew nothing, for he was a dead man." The remainder of lord Holland's gardeners, with Mr. Robinson, the head gardener, and Mr. Thomson's son came up a chair was sent for, and the deceased was put in it, and carried to Mr. Ottey's. The witness got the deceased up stairs, and helped to put him to bed; his neckcloth was taken off, and his shirt pulled over, when he appeared to have received a wound in his right shoulder. The witness went to town to call in Mr. Holmes, the surgeon, of Sackville-street, Piccadilly. He saw no pistols, or any arms at all. George Robinson, chief gardener at Holland-house, said, he had no knowledge of the deceased, or any of the parties. He saw the gentleman walking in the field where lord Camelford fell, on Wednesday morning last, about a quarter before eight o'clock; they were at the top of the field; there were four gentlemen between three and four hundred yards distance from him. Several persons were with the witness. At first they saw them walking in the field; then they heard the report of one pistol, and afterwards of another, at the interval of two or three seconds. They saw the smoke, and perceived one gentleman fall. Two of the gentlemen ran up to him. The witness met those two gentlemen coming up the field. They spoke to him, and desired him for God's sake to go and assist the wounded gentleman. He went to the ground, and found lord Camelford on the ground, and Sheers lifting him up. He assisted in taking him to Mr. Ottey's. He could distinguish, from the situation in which they stood, that the deceased fired first. They stood at the distance of thirty paces, which on being measured, proved to be exactly twenty-nine yards. It was easy to ascertain the distance, because he saw where lord Camelford fell, and twenty-nine yards off could plainly observe the mark of his antagonist's heels in the dew. the deceased did not say any thing about the affair in the hearing of the witness. He knew nothing of the gentlemen present, never having seen them before. Mr. Nicholson, surgeon of Sackville-street, stated, that on Wednesday morning last, he was called on to attend the deceased who had received a small wound on the right side of his chest, near the shoulder, which appeared to have been made by the bail of a gun or pistol. pistol. The deceased complained of considerable pain in his chest, and violent shooting pains from his chest to bis back, particularly when he spoke. He also complained of a pain in his lower extremities, from which the witness supposed the ball had passed through the lungs, and lodged in the spine. The deceased never recovered the use of his lower extremities, but languished till Saturday evening last, about eight o'clock, when he expired. The witness opened his body, and discovered that the ball had fractured the fifth rib, and had passed through the right lobe of the lungs, and lodged in the passage of the spinal marrow through the sixth vertebra of the back bone. In the chest there were more than six quarts of extravasated blood, which had compressed the lungs so as to prevent them from performing their functions. No further evidence was offered to the jury. Mr. Hodgson, the coroner, said, his duty called upon him to make but very few observations. It was evident the deceased had been kill ed by a shot fired at him by some person, of whose identity the jury had no direct or admissible proof. The laws of this country admitted of no excuse for one man killing another in a private duel; but supposing the person who had slain the deceased to be able, before a superior tribunal, to offer circumstances and facts in palliation of his offence, they could not have any weight on this inquest. He had, strictly speaking, been guilty of murder, and to that effect must necessarily be the verdict of the jury. In the present case there was no doubt of the deceased having been feloniously killed; but there was no evidence who was the principal, or who were the seconds. In point of fact, all were equally guilty; for in the crime of murder, accessories, before the facts, were considered as principals. He did not see how it was possible to refer the death of lord Camelford to accident, for there was positive proof that he had fallen by the hand of some person; therefore the jury had no alternative but that of saying he had been killed by some person or persons unknown. There was hardly a doubt but the expres sions and avowal of the deceased, so honourably made in favour of his opponent, would, if the latter were arraigned in a superior court, induce his acquittal; but that was a consideration which ought not to operate on the minds of those whom he was addressing. Had the parties been in a room, and upon a sudden quarrel, the deceased, having given the first provocation, had been killed, it might have been justifiable homicide; but, on the contrary, it appeared they had deliberately gone out to commit an unjustifiable act. Had it been proved who the person was who fired the shot at the deceased, the jury would have been bound to have returned an identical charge of murder against him, and those who were present aiding and abetting him; but as the case stood, they would only pronounce the verdict to which he had alluded. The jury declared themselves perfectly satisfied. Mr. Wilson, the secretary of the lord chancellor, and solicitor for the noble relatives of the deceased, declared on their part, that he was as well satisfied as the jury with the impartiality of the investigation, and the very candid and honourable manner in which the coroner had had pointed out their duty to them on the occasion. The jury unanimously returned a verdict of wilful murder, or felonious homicide, by some person or persons, to the jurors unknown. Several gentlemen, friends to the deceased, attended this inquest, which was held at a very early hour of the morning. Admiralty-Office, March 17. A letter from commodore Hood, commander in the Leeward Islands, to William Marsden, esq. dated at Martinique, the 27th January, 1804. Sir, I send you herewith copies of two letters from captain Nourse, of his majesty's sloop Cyane, giving an account of the capture of a privateer of eight guns, and 84 men, and recapture of a valuable Gui neaman. I have the honour to be, &c. SAM. HOOD. His majesty's sloop Cyane, Jan. 20. I beg leave to inform you of my having re-captured the ship Westmoreland, from the coast of Guinea, taken by the General Ernouf privateer, who was in sight at the time, but escaped. JOSEPH NOURSE. To commodore Hood, &c. Ilis majesty's sloop Cyane, Jan. 20. I beg leave to acquaint you of Lis majesty's sloop under my command having, in the latitude of Barbadoes, fallen in with, and after a chase of five hours, captured La Bellone French privateer, of eight guns, and 84 men, last from Surinam, out seven days, and had taken nothing. Her guns thrown overboard during the chase. I am, &c. JOSEPH NOURSE. To commodore Hood, &c. Letter from lord Keith, K. B. to Be pleased to acquaint their lordships that captain Heywood, of his Majesty's sloop the Harpy, yesterday captured and sent into the Downs the Penriche French gunboat of two guns, and two small transports, part of a convoy proceeding under her protection from Calais to Boulogne. KEITH. EAST INDPA HOUSE, MARCH 29. This morning the following dispatches were received by the secret committee of the court of directors of the East India company, from the governor in council at Bombay. Extract of a letter from the governor in council at Bombay, to the secret committee of the court of directors, dated BomBay Castle, Oct. 8, 1803. Our president has received from the honourable major-general Wellesley a dispatch of the 25th ultimo, as per copy enclosed. From the report contained in it, your honourable committee will observe, that the general attacked the combined, forces, of Dowlut Row Scindia, and the Berar Rajah, on the 23d of September, in the vicinity of the Adjunty Pass, with the division of the army under his own immediate cominand, and that the very obstinate action that ensued termi. nated in the complete defeat of the confederates, with the loss to them of ninety pieces of cannon, which the honourable general Wellesley has has captured. We have not received an official report of the casualties during the engagement, but the general states our loss of officers and men to have been great. As far as private information has enabled us, we have endeavoured to supply this deficiency in the enclosed list of killed and wounded on that occasion: it is considered to be incomplete, in not containing the names of all the of ficers who suffered, but in other respects it is supposed to be correct. From the most recent private accounts from the honourable major-general Wellesley, it appears, that Scindia and Berar Rajah had descended the Adjunty Ghaut, and that the British forces were immediately to proceed in pursuit of them beyond the Nizam's frontier. from the river Kistna. On the 18th, and on the 20th, was enabled to move forward towards the enemy, who had been joined in the course of the last seven or eight days, by the infantry under colonel Pohlman, by that belonging to Begum Sumroo, and by another brigade of infantry, the name of whose commander I have not as certained. The enemy's army was collected about Bakerdun, and between that place and Jaffierabad. I was near colonel Stevenson's corps on the 21st, and had a conference with that officer, in which we concerted a plan to attack the enemy's army, with the division under our command, on the 24th in the morning, and we marched on the 22d. colonel Stevenson by the western route, and I by the eastern route, round the hills between Beednaporer and Julnah. On the 23d I arrived at Nau laiah, and there received a report that Scindia and the Rajah of Berar had moved off in the morning with the cavalry, and that the infantry were about to follow, but were still in camp, at the distance of about six miles from the ground on which I intended to encamp.It was obvious that the attack was no longer to be delayed, and having provided for the security of my baggage and stores at Naulaiah, I marched on to attack the enemy. I found the whole combined army of Scindia and the Rajah of Berar encamped on the bank of the Kistna river, nearly on the ground which I had been informed that they occupied. Their right, which consisted entirely of cavalry, was about Bakerdun, and extended to their corps of infantry, which were encamped in the neighbourhood of Assye: although I first came in front of their right, I determined to attack their left, as the defeat of their corps of infan |