Letter from Mr. Rodwell to Peter Moore, Esq. Chairman of Mr. Sheridan's Committee. SIR; Leicester Square, Nov. 16, 1806. In answer to your letter just received, I am, in the first place, to inform you, that, instead of being one of the principal persons of Mr. Sheridan's Committee, (see p. 196.) I do not, and have not attended it at all; nor have I had the slightest intercourse with Mr. Sheridan on this business, except once, at the Crown and Anchor, on the 18th Sept. and last Sunday, in a public room, at the Piazza Coffee-house. Mr. S. never made, through me, any proposal of any sort, to any person concerned in the Election. I avow, that my wish was, as an independent individual, Elector of Westminster, to have polled for Mr. Sheridan and Mr. Paull; and had I had any intercourse whatever with Mr. Sheridan, I should have taken the liberty, in a fair and manly way, to express to him the opinion I have before professed; but I was prevented from attempting any communication with him, by the advice of a gentleman, who is really one of the principal persons of his committee; I mean Mr. Burgess, Mr. Sheridan's solicitor, and who assured me, that Mr. S. would not listen to such proposition. I afterwards voted singly for Mr. S. The letter I wrote to Mr. Paull, was not on the day of Mr. Sheridan's declared union with sir S. Hood, but on the evening of the Sunday preceding the day of nomination. I have since explained 2 F plained to Mr. Cobbett his mistake on the subject; and he has promised to correct it in his next number. I now conclude, with observing, that I do not feel myself called upon to make the least apology for the part I have taken, previous to the correspondence and communication with Mr. Paull, justifying my writing to him in the manner I did; and as an elector of independent mind and spirit, I had a right to act for, and to judge whom I would prefer to be the colleague of Mr. Sheridan. I have the honour to be, Sir, &c. T. RODWELL. SONG. Tune-Hearts of Oak. 1. Ye Freemen of Westminster, firmly unite Hearts of Oak are his Men; Steady, boys, steady; 'The hero shall conquer again and again. 2. He recently triumph'd, defending our Laws; Heart of Oak, &e. 5 Accurst 3. Accurst be the scoundrels who sought to defame, Down, down with the wretches who dare to revile The comrade of Nelson-a hero of Nile! Let SHERIDAN only, the Patriot who stood The fast friend of our Fleets, be the colleague of HOOD. MR. PAULL AND THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY. Letter from Mr. Paull to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. SIR;--A great deal has been said by my opponents in and out of Parliament of my ingratitude to lord Wellesley, and this censure has been pronounced on me, in consequence of a letter written by me to his lordship, in the year 1802. Extracts from this letter of the most partial nature, have been given to the public; in justice to myself, therefore, and that the nation may be acquainted with the real nature of the transaction, I send you the letter, with the answer to it, and shall shortly state the circumstances under which it was written, leaving you and your readers to form your own conclusions from it. They were printed by order of the House of Commons, and have been in the hands of all the members.-When I quitted Lucknow in 1801, where I had resided 12 years, the Nabob of Oude was in possession of the whole of his territories. On my return to India, in 1802, having, previously to my leaving England, obtained permission from the Court of Directors to repair again to Lucknow, I found the Nabob's country in the possession of the Company. With the usurpations and means which had been practised to obtain this possession, I was wholly unacquainted, as was I with the other acts of aggression and oppression committed by lord W. in that country. From personal pique the Nabob of Oude wished me not to return; this will sufficiently shew, that my connection with that Prince was as imaginary as that now imputed to me with the emperor Napoleon and his 500,000 mercenaries. I demanded of lord Wellesley to be sent thither, and as an act of justice this was granted me. Finding that great obstructions were put in the way of my commercial pursuits, in the ceded territories, I, a few days afterwards, addressed this celebrated letter to lord W.; and, fresh with the recollection of what had been recently done by him, I, who am not totally devoid of feelings of sensibility, made use of the expression in the latter part of my letter, which has been urged against me as an inconsis tency with my future conduct. I leave the world to judge how far it is inconsistent, and to say whether an act of justice in my commercial engagements should prevent my after wards wards becoming the accuser of a person whom I regarded as one of the greatest delinquents which perhaps ever existed in this or any other country, -I am, sir, &c. Nov. 16, 1806. JAMES PAULL. Copy of a Letter from the Persian Secretary to the Governor General, dated 17th Sept. 1802, to the Vizier, relative to Mr. Paull. I have had the honour to receive your Excellency's letter (recapitulate his Excellency's letter on the subject of Mr. Paull.)-Agreeably to your Excellency's desire, I have communicated the contents of that letter to his Excellency the most noble the Governor General, who has directed me to state to your Excellency in reply, that previously to the receipt of your Excellency's letter, his lordship had been induced by the information which he received of the regularity and propriety of Mr. Paull's conduct during his former residence at Lucknow, to grant him permission to return to that station, for the purpose of prosecuting his mercantile concerns; his Excellency was further induced to grant that permission by the consideration that those concerns are calculated to benefit your Excellency's country, by encouraging industry and by promoting the interests of commerce within your Excellency's dominions. Under these circumstances his lordship confidently trusts that your Excellency will be disposed to permit Mr. Paull to remain at Lucknow, unless any acts |