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I maws of the Eaft India Company, however it might have been fanaioned by the Board of Controul or the Secret Committee. He cnnfidered that that Honfe was the tribunal to which the nations that were u ppreiTed in India ought to look, and that the Honfe &told confider themfelves in a peculiar manner the guardians of India. He thought the interefts now brought Wore the Houle were ton great to be cont• prowled, out of refpea to the feelings of any indi. v iduals,and he therefore felt anxious for the enquiry. Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY declared himfelf generally favourable to every enquiry upon the fib jea ; but he walled to know diffinaly to what points the Honourable Baronet meant to dire° his enquiries. lathe fir ft place he withed to know, whether he meant to blame his Lnrdthip for fending tro"ps againft th e Polyp: s. He thought, however, that after five years, an d w h en rhnfe trai Catalans had been approved of by the Secret Comn,i'tee, the Direaors, the Board of Controul, the Minitters of the laft Cabinet, and that Houfe, it was rather extraordinary in the Honourable Baronet to bring forward the enquiry now. Mr. R. THORNTON felt confiderable pain at the very uncandid manner (as he conceived) in which the Court of Direann had been attacked. When the enquiry was lift propofed, he conceived that he was going hand in hand with the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Sheridan) who brought it forward, but foon he found out, that he himfeliwas alfo to be fubjeaed to his charge. The Right Honourable Gentleman afterwards, for fume vague and i n d e fini te reafons, declined going on with the charge. As for him, he wati too much occupied with his duty in Leadenhall.fireet, to with to make hirafelf the often fible perfon, in bringing forward criminationa in that Houle, againft perfnns offending in India. There were many other realims which made the India Di reams not precifely the perfons fitteß to bring for ward thole accufations. He denied, however, aloft pofitively, that they ever lent their countenance to this trantation. _ _ Mr. TIERNEY agreed, that the papers moved for fhould be primed, as he thought that the Houfe of Commons fhould be held out to India as the dernier refire. He regretted, however, exceedingly, that this bufinefs had been now agitated, and could not con ceive any poflible good which could f i ning out of the propofed enquiry. The Hon. Baronet, before he brought forward a propofition for an inveßigation of this fubjeft, now of fo long Banding, fhould have well confidered the mifchievous confequence likely so enfue from it in India, after the large transfers of property whi( h had been made under the new order of things. Confident he was, that no poffible good could be derived from loch an enquiry, though very poffibly, and moR probably, much mitchief. Before the Houfe, however, fhould accede to the Honourable Baronet's motion, he nulled the Honourable Baronet would give tome diflina anfwer as to his objeft, and what courfe he meant to purfue. He by no means agreed in the definition given by an Honourable Direaor oppofite to him, of the powers of the Se cret Committee. They were elefted by the Court of Direents, and fuppoled to (peak their fenti runts ; and they were competent to frame dd . - patches to the fel vants of the Company in India ; although he would allow the Board of Controul might annul filch difpatches, and fend others of a quite different nature. But Rill he could not admit that the Secret Committee was quite fuch a nullity in the fytlem as had been this night aliened. For his own pail, he withed in no inßance to shrink from the refponfibility attached to his fituation, nor was it his intention to throw any impediment in the way of the Hnn.Baronet towards obtaining any papers within his con•roul, which, upon perufal, he lhould find it would be prudent to grant. He therefore wifhed, that in moving for any additional papers not already before the Houfe, the Hon. Baronet would fpecify the particular dates, and not move generally and in dilcriminately for all papers ratting to particular Lord FOLKESTONE thought it unfair to prefs the Hon. Baronet to a fpecification of the prccife ground of proceeding he timid adopt, until the Papers he moved for were before the Houfe ; and in his opinion the Hon. Baronet would be well jai tied in declining to fpecify his obje& until the evi dence for which be moved should firft be laid on the table. Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON obferved, that dur ing the laft Seffion of Pa►liament, in which there had been more India Papers moved for than in any fix Seffions preceding, be had uniforthly taken oedafion, when the Mover-omitted 3o ilite • !sts object, to call for explanation on that hea4; becaufe he thought the explanation due in eandlur to the Houfe, before it Ihould be expeded to grant fuch motions. He imputed no improper motives to the Honourable Baronet, but hoped he would have no- objeflion to explain h s precife objet. Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE thought it ex rremely unreafonable to call upon the Honourable Baronet for fuch an explanation before he Ihould have ken the papers. The Noble Marquis, whofe conduit was in queftion, might fay he had ailed by direilioas of the India Company. It might on the other hand be alledged, that he ailed from his own will. How then could the truth appear until the docu ments were on the table? But the truth was, he himfelf &winch a difinclination to enquiry on this fubje*sf, as gave him little ground to exped it would be ferioufly entertained by the Houfe. He well remembered, in the cafe of Sir Thomas Rumbold, with what avidity it , was received by the Houfe in the firft Seiflon it was' introduced; but in the next two Selfions the zeal of the Houle was flackened, and it became quite the dinner bell wherever the fobjed was introduced. He feared that, under the prefent fyftem of government in India, the enquiry would not be entertained. For fixtecn long years he had witneffed, Sellion after Seffion, the foiemn farce of eleding a Committee of India Judicature, who never till this hour had a fingle cafe of India delinquency referred to them. But when he conndered that the Britifh Government in India had dethroned more Princes than Bonaparte had done in Europe, he would afk, was it continent with any femblance of jullice that no enquiry Ihould take place ? Sir THOMAS TIJRTON replied, at fome length, to the arguments which had been employed agatrat his motion. Atter a few words from Sir ARTHUR WEL• LESLEY mid Mr. SHERIDAN, the queltion wits Let icd.— Adjourned at eleven o'clock., THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27. PRICE. OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Confols, fur money. 64—for ace. 63+—Osmium Exchequer Bills, par. to ss.diE PRICE OF S roelEs YESTERDAY. Bonk Stock 227 India Stock 1841 3 per Cent. R. An. 621 63 6a India Bond. 3s aas prem. 3 per C. Conf An. Imp. 3 per 4 per Cent.Sti Excheq Bails, par ta.diL t per Ccnt. Navy 9 . j 196 Enka licketa t 91. 16a. Long Ann. 171 is-. 6 Court& for April 6333 f In a preceding column our Readers will find fomc intereffing information refpeaing the battle of Pultulk on the 26th of December. It is copied from a journal entitled The Erlangen Gazette. A paper held in high efteem and repute in Germany, and there confidered as the only one that is not under French influence. It is printed and publilbed no one knows how, and is fought for with great avidity. The Editor, who ever he is, is known throughout Germany by the name of the Flying Gazetteer ; and whatever intelli gence he communicates, is confidered as authentic. All the vigilance of the Gallo•German Police has not been able to detea him, or fupprefs his publication. The accounts which he gives, on the authority of private letters, of the particulars of the feries of iaaguinary adlions on the 26th of December, and the ipreceding days, do not entirely coincide with either the French Bulletins, or the Ruffian Official Reports. There is, however, an obvious impartiality in them, which entitles them to confiderable credit. We have no doubt that the contefts between there two mighty bolts were attended with all the viciffitudes, flueua tions, and great lofs that is Rated. We have more than once mentioned that the corn. wand of the Ruffian army in Poland has been taken from Marfhal KAMSWSKI, and conferred upon Gene ral BINNIGSEN ; but we could not affign the caufe. It now appears that the former, before and fince his return to St. Peterfburgh, has given fuch decided proofs of temporary derangement, that it has been thought too dangerous an experiment to allow him to reaffume the command. His courage and (kill are unquellionable, and were his mental powers as confirmed and vigorous as his conflitution, no man in all Ruffia would be better qualified to contend with BONAPAILTB. Of the battle of Mohringen on the 25th ult. no further particulars worthy of notice have tranfpired. Accounts are, however, alerted to have been received from Hamburgh through a very particular channel, of one day later date than any Papers which have reached this country, in which it is Rated, that on the 2gth of January a general aEtion took place between the Grand French Army on the Villula and the Allied Forces of Rullia and Praia, in which the former were completely routed. It is added, that, in confequence of this fuccefs, obtained over the enemy, the Außrians had attacked and defeated them on the fide of Silefia. We thould be happy to confirm this intelligence, but as we know not the authority on which it reßs we can fay nothing of its authenticity. The latter part appears to us fo highly improbable as to throw a ftrong degree of doubt on the whole ftatement. The Kix c has been pleated to grant Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the High Court of Admi ralty of England, appointing the Duke of Aeolus, his MA:jelly's Vice Admiral over the Weftern Coatis and 'hands of Scotland, excepting the (hire of Bute and the Winds of Orkney and Zetland. The Court Martial on Sir HOME POPHAM is defer red from Monday to Thurfday next. His MAJESTY, we underhand, means to confer the honour of Knighthood on Captain BRISBAN E t who fo gallantly conducted himfelf at the taking of Coragoa. Four of the Lieutenants who were engaged in the heroic enterprise are to be promoted to the rank of Commanders, and one Mid(hipman is to be appointed Lieutenant. Honorary medals. are to he given to each of the Captains, in order to commemorate their flute in the noble atchievement. On Saturday 14fi died in Bath, the Marchionefs of ELY, relidt of the Marquis of ELY, and mother of the prefent Marquis and the Bithop of Kit.t.m.os. CITY Business.—A Court of Common Council watheld yetlerday at Guildhill, at which were pre. fent the Lord Mayor, feveral Aldermen, the Recor der, Sheriffs, and a great number of Commoners. The City Seal was affixed to the Commiffion of Sewers, Etc. A petition to the Houfe of Commons was agreed to, and ordered to be prefented by the Sheriffs, for leave to bring in a Bill for further Aid, in order to complete the Improvements carrying on in the Port of London. The thanks of the Court were unanimoufly voted to the Rev. PHILIP DODD, A. M. Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, for his Sermon preached at St. Paul's Cathedral, on the late Fail Day, and he was requelled to !mint the fame. The Motion to confider the propriety of abolifhing the place' of Common Hant, was referred to the Committee of City Lands. Mr. Deputy BIRCH gave notice, that at the next Court he would call the attention of the Members to the following important Refolution, in confequence of the notice given by Lord Howicx, in the Houfe of Commons. relative to two new claufes in the Ma ny Bill, viz : i That this Court do take into their moll ferious confideratinn, the alarming meafures propofed by Lord Howtcx.. in confequence of the abfence of the Secretary of State for the War Department) to ena ble Papins to fill certain commiffions in the army of the United Kingdom, and to have the free exercife of the Roman Catholic Religion therein, under the Galion and fecurity of law." AMERICA. We have received New York and other Ameriorn Papers to the alth ult. The following arc the prin cipal articles they contain : CONSPIRACY OF COLONEL BURR. NEW ORLEANS, DECEMBIR 9.—A Meeting was yeflerday called of the Merchants and other inhabi tants of this place in order to prepare for a vigorous refinance againn the attempts of Burr and hip alio ciates, when it was refolred that all the feamen fheuld be taken from the merchant vat's in the harbour, and fent on hoard the gun boats to man them. General Wilkinfon addreired the inhabitants. and pledged himfelf to repel the enemy, or die in the defence of New Orleans. He Rated that Burr had communicated to him in confidence all his defigns, in the hope that he, General Wilkinfon, would join him ; and he affured the Meeting, that Burr and his confederates intended to fall upon New Orleans by furprize, and after feizing upon all the public and ptivate treafures, they intended to make themfelves mailers of Mexico. New YOR ic , JAN. i 3.—La night, the brig Thetis, Macnorw.to, arrived from New Orleans; fhe failed the 9th of December, by permilEon, with Mr. Donald fon on board, with difpatches to Government, from General Wilkinfnn ; an embargo having been laid the day before on all veffels. The alarm and bufile at that place is more Wily imagined than defcribed; Burr was to be at Natchez on the zoth December with zOOO men, and atoco Kentuckians were to follow immediately ; his objea the fubjngation of Mexico , and the feparation of the Wellern from the Ealtern States. General Wilkinfon was making every pre- paration to defend the city; every feaman in port would be put in tequifition. Jaw. t 7 Auflin, of the fchooner Amelia and Ann, from Barracoa, which place he left on the 16th December, contradicts the report, received here a few days fence, via Matanzies, of that place, having been burned by a Britith fquadron. Colonel Matthew Lyon paired through Lexington on the ad intl. on his way to the Federal City. He Rated, that he believed the rumour refpeEting Colonel Burr was without foundation ; that Colonel Burr intended nothing againil the peace and happinefs of the United States ; and that General Wilkinfon was firmly attached to the Government of the Union, and well calculated for the offices he holds. Mr. Lynn further flated, that Colonel Burr had gone down the river, and intended going round by water, to call General Eaton to account, for circulating a report fo injurious to his charaEler. Eztradt of a letter to a Member of Confrere, dated Nalhrllle, Teoneffee, December *7. " The principal occurrence that feems to agitate the public mind at this moment is, that Colonel Burr is here making preparations to defcend the river im• mediately. It is Rated by Come, that his flotilla on the Ohio is great, and that a raft number of men are about to delcend with bim. Conjeflures are various with refpe& to his obje&."—Aurora. Another, fame date.—" Colonel Burr has juft ar ' sited in this place, from Kentucky. His agents are endeavouring to obtain Spanilb and Britifh gold, for pal notes ; they are alfo endeavouring to purchafe up pork, &c. Some boats are built, and others on the Rocks for him ; all is furmife, with refpeet to his objea and deßination."—/b. We are authorifed to Rate from unqueftionable authority, that James Wilton, who was Secretary to the Wood County Meeting, laf fall, has been ar relied as one of Burr's adherents, was examined before the Magiftrates, and found guilty. It is alio Rated, that on the 24th there were between Pittsburg and Marietta tOOO of Burr's men on the Ohio river.— Fir. Gas. There is a report in circulation, which there are ftrong grounds to believe originates from high au thority, that General Wilkinfon has communicated to the Executive very minute particulars concerning Mr. Burr's hoftile intentions againft the peace of the Union.—Bal. Tel. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, JAN. 7. —The Slave Bill occupiedthe principal attention of the Houfe the whole day. On the amendment, which was offered to prevent perfons brought in contrary to the provifions of the Bill, be ing fold as !laves, the ayes and noes were 6o each, the Speaker decided againft the amendment. ORATORIO, COVENT GARDEN.—On Friday evening laft, after the ferenata cs: Acts and Galatea, was per- formed a Grand Mikellaneous AEI, which afforded a delenable treat to the lovers of harmony. Among the pieces which formed a dillingoifhed part in the Selaion, was the Dead Marti in Saul, whole flow fublimity fwelied with folemn grandeur thcc.:;!.l. the houfe, and excited awful admiration. " He gave them Hailftones," fung in full Chorus, produced a fine tire.% We were much gratified with the new martial long of the " Battle of Maida," which was executed very tatlefully by Mr. Baamam ; it canted general enthutialm, and was rapturoufly encored. Mrs. DI . CKnNS gave 4 , the Soldier Tir'd " in a moR exquifite and melodious flyle. The " Glo tia in Excelhs," and 4 , God fave the King," at the finale, were accompanied by the whole of the Chorus, and the nOmble went off with great eclat. Towards the third Fart the H“ufe literally overflowed. The warehoufe of Meffrs. John Simpfon and Co. Tokenhwife•yard, Lnthbury, was broke open oil Sunday night lad, and twenty-three dozen of roans taken away. MARK LAW. CORN -EXCHANGE, FEIIRUARV tf. There ate not many arrivals of Wheat to-day, and fides in this trade are dull at fm.411 vai►ation in price& Barley is in fhort fuprly, and grod funples are rather dearer. But few Peas and Beans of each kind, which fetch Letter prices. There are feveral arrivals of Oats, and this trade maintains its price. Rape Seed is fomewhat dearer. Flour as our laR, and Fine American 445. to 43,. per barrel. GENERAL CURRENCY AS UNDER: Wheat. 489 65s 82s per qr. Grey Peet ass sosed Fine Ditto. oss 87s od ?cane. (old) 443 scs oil Rye 44 4 48 9 04 Tick Ditto (old) 36s 421 cod 8ar1ey,339 OR Oats, -3s 27 4 304 Malt, 629 7os Poland ditto 3 is 339 03 White Pcafc. (Boilers) 829 9 , 9 Rape Seed. a6l 301 me Fine Flour 631 to 7cs Seconds 6es to 635. A r iILTICAL INT F LLIG EAT PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY .16. Arrived his Majefty's (hips REstSTANrP, from ti'e Wei Indies ; and NEREIDS, from the Itivz.r Att.— Sailed his Majefty'sfhips GANGES and CAP TA's, with twelve fail of Eaft Indiamen and five other veireis, under convoy, to the Weltward ; PE:mots, for Cork; RkTENGIts DREADNOUGHT, and SPARTIATE, to join the Channel Fleet. The outward bound Weft India fleet is expeEtcd to fail to-morrow, on the mo. meat thofe from the Downs appear, if the wind is fair.—Wind N.N.E. DEAL, FEB. 26. Sailed the SAVAG a Hoop of war, with a convoy for Ireland ; SOLINAY frigate for Sheernefs, to get a new bowfprit ; OTTER and KaNceano fl )ops ;—IN TELLIGENT and WRANGLER gun brig, on a cruize off Boulogne ; LEVERET loop off Havre. Arrived the Honourable Eaft India Company's {hip United Kingdom from the River, and failed through with the City of London, Eaft India fhip ; the Diana, GOODCHILD, for Africa ; and feveral outward bound veffels, coafters and colliers, for Portfmouth. Arrived the Royal Efcape lighter, front Deptford, with naval Rotes, for the fupply of the Dock Yard here. Came down from the River the William (tore fhip for the Weft Indies ; General Boyd, for Trinidad ; Dili. gence, MIDDLETON, for Malta ; and the John and Thomas, for Cork and Jamaica, and temain in the 1710ns with the reit of the {hips as per iaa. Wind N. N. W. YARMOUTH, FEB. a 6. The Lord Nelfon packet, Capt. STEwasT, has landed her mails from Gottenburgh at Southwold : report Bates them to bring intelligence of impor tance. Sailed the packet for Harwich. Sailed for Sheernefs to repair their damages fultained in the late gale, the OUSTER and STARLING (loops of war. —The CRESCENT fails to-morrow. Remain in the Roads fix fail of the Line, one frigate, and three cutters.—Wind N. W. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAVESEND, Fas. 26.—Palled by the Walcraft, front Selloff; Commerce, Blackbeard, from Waterford ; Sally Ann. Mitchell; St. John, Kitson ; and the Lord Duncan, Line, from Limerick.—Sailed the Benjamin, Butcher, for Cork; Graff Von Buxhovden, Filler, for Norway; Rucker., Super, for St. Do. !sago; and the l'hemis, Barren, for St. Kitt's. The Favourite, of and from Maryport for 13elfaft, Is loft near Galloway. _ _ The I:eed. Packet, ----, of and from Shield* for Guernfey, is wrecked off Cromer. The Firm, Robfon, from Sunderland for deferred by the crew on the ath infant, off Eftaples ; and Is fuppofet: t have foundered. The Endeavour tranfport, Harris, is totally loft near St.Vallery. The Union, Evans, from London for Liverpool, is loft near Dover. The Harley, of and for Hull from ---, has been captured, re captured, and carried into Dover. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY. The Blanch, for la Guerriere, July in, 'Soo, will be paid on board on Wednefday next, and recalled at No. li, Cecil-arca, Strand. The George, for the Herman, Martha Maria. and Palmbaum, Jane s • 18o1, will be paid on Friday next, at No. 23, Norfolk itreet, Strand, and recalled at the fame place, for three years. The Phenix, for the Germania, Nov. at, 1804, and the Sophia, July 31, aos, will be paid on board, on Tuefdsiy next. Recalls at No. as, Upper Thames-ltreet. The Cruiser, for the Fortuyn, Sept. so. 18D6, and St. Wareld Beloop, nth Odtober following. Recalls at No. 2, James-street, Adelphi. The Peterel, for the Marie Vierge de la Garde, 1803, and the Peterel and Ant fchooner, for the Hoffnung, June 1803. will be paid on their arrivaL Recalls at the Chamber of Commerce, Portfmouth. on Tuddays and Thurfdays. The Mariner, for the Morganftern, Feb. ro, dos. Dogger Ca therine, June 14. 18os, and Comnaene, Sept 30, 18os, were paid on Saturday. Recalls at No. 23, Surrey-ftreet, Strand, on Tuef days and Saturdays. La Fomone, for the Egalite, Auguit 23,1797. will be paid (three pence per man) on Friday next, at No. 3, Salter's Hall -court, Can non-itreet. The Indefatigable, for the Providence, January 10, 1799, will be paid (four.pence per man) at the above time and place. The Otter, for the Entorptize, January 31, 1807, was paid on Monday lag. Recalls Wednefdays and Thutfdays at No. 9, New Broad-greet. The Colpoys, for the Eddyftone, Sept. to, z 836, will be paid on board on her arrival Recalls at No. as, Broad-ftrect buildings. The Growler, for the Voltigeur, January aB, do*, will be paid on board on her arrivaL Recalls at s 6, Tokenhoufe-yard. Tl:e Atnclia, for the Jonge William Van Ling, May ao, 1803, Auguft 11,1803, Jonge Jerrich, Vrede Deft, and Drie Go broders, June 10, 1803, will be paid on the ad of March, at No 6, Stanhope-firect, Strand, and recalled at the fame place for three years. The Amelia, Efcort, Jackal!, and Mios, for fundry Dutch Sitt ing veffels, June as, altos, will be paid and rtcalicd at the above tianc and place. The Stately and Wenle, fur les Troia Antoine., Anglin 6,18°3, will be paid on Friday neat, at 23, b:orfolk-ftreet, Strand. Re calls Tutfdays and Fridays at the fame place. In the gale on the 18th inilant, a brig, name un- known, of ab tut Iso tons, having a white bottom, and a green painted !tern, foundered in about 8 fa thoms water off Loweßoffe : the crew, foppofed to be about eight in number, took to their boats, and drifted about three miles to the fouthward, when fhe difap peared, and it is feared all the crew perilhed.—Some materials from the wreck have been laved : a new fore fail, marked " Rockwood, Sail Maker, South Shitds ;" and Come other fails marked Oliver, Sail Maker," of the fame place, ate amongß the raateri;:c; i Caved.