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1 T' %, MORRIS V. HUNT. • . 1,411 W INTELLIGENcE. • • (.ittissßEßßy APPEAL CAUSES. h is expected, will givt his final judgment in the House of Lords, in the course of a few days, in these important Causes. Iricr-rilMwELLoß's rOurrr,.rnintuAnt MARIETTA V. THE EARL OF ESSEX. On the VICE-CHANCELLOR'S taking his seat this day, Mr. BELL informed his Honour, that art ar rangement had been oome to by the parties in .this case, which stood at the bead of the paper of causes set down for argument this day. COURT OF RING'S BENCIi, FF.BRUARY 3. THE KIND R. A. EOOLE FRENCH, EURKE, AND WELLS. The defendants, convicted of a- conspiracy to ob tain letters of marque from Portugal, under which they captured a ship called the Carlotta, sailing.un der a British licence, were brought up to receive the sentence of the Court. On a former day, the defen dants moved an arrest of judgment; but the Court held that they had been properly found guilty of conspiracy. On this occasion, the.defendants put in affrdaiits, throwing themselves on the mercy of the Court. The sentence was eighteen months' impri sonment in the House of Correction for A. Bogle French and Wells. Burke, who was considered the chief offender, was sentenced to be imprisoned three years in Newgate.—The Court was much crowded. I ', • In this case the Court had been moved to set aside the judgment by default obtained against the defen dant, on the ground of irregularity m the proce:nl - It was an action brought by the High Bailiff 'of Westminster against the defendant, to recover the expenses incurred by erecting the hustings in Covent Garden during the late Election. The action was brought upon an Act of Parliament which expired on the Ist January last. Judgment was signed for want of a plea On the Bth January ; and the defen dant moved, on the affidavit of Mr. Briant, his agent. to set the judgment aside, not only complaining of ;harp practice, but irregularity. The principal ground en Which the Court was moved to set it aside ap peared to be founded on this circumstance—the de fendant had applied for particulars respecting the items of accdunt, and particularly respecting E. 552, for carpenters work. Messrs. Smedley and King, the plaintiffs Attornies, furnished particulars ; but the same did not satisfy the defendant, who served a. summons to produce others. The summons was re tttritable on the morning of the Bth January, and at three o'cicck in the afterntion of the same day, the plaintiff signed judgment. It was contended that the judgment, according to the practice of the Court, should have been signed before the summons was re turnable, and not atter. Mr. Mixt. was this day called into Court to sup port his objections; and, having taken his place near the Bar, Mr. SCARLET? opp osed the application, contend ing, that the Attornies for the plaintiff had conduc ad themselves in the most respectable manners—so Mach so, that the defendant could have no cause to complain. The Learned Counsel cited a case from Mr. Justice Blackstone's Reports, in order to prove the proceedings had been regular, and contended , that the judgment ought to remain. Mr. HUNT, in reply, proceeded to read the affida vit of Mr. Briant, and made various statements of irregularity on the part of the plaintiff's Attornies, which the Court could not hear, because they werei sot annexed to the affidavits. Ile then adverted to' the circumstance of the Iligh Bailiff's demand. He was called upon to pay one .third of the expense of the election, he said, when there weressix candidates. They all at;ehded the High Bailiff, either by them-' selveti or their agents, and signed a paper to be an *terabit for the expenses of the election. Here Mr. SeAttLarr observed, that the Act of Parliament only made thOse persons liable who de- Olared themselves candidates. Mr. Hunt, Sir Mur ray Maxwell, and Mr. Ainnaird, were the only three who declared themselves candidates. • The Cittav Justice considered this Matter for the, consideration of a Jury; and intimated that the only itsestiterwas, whether the j udgment was regular? Mt. Justice BAYLEY said, the case cited by Mr. Scarlett was against him, and held the practite to be, that judgment must be signed before a stulamons is returnable. Mr. Justice BEST was of the same opinion. The point being against Mr. &arms:Tr, Mr. Holm obtained a sort of triumph, which Occasioned a smile among the Barristers. Mr. HUNT, seeing he was likely to gain the point, said, with dry humour—" My Lords, I have no de sire to say one word more to your Lordships." Tho. Coley Justicc then held, as the plaintiff did not sign his judgment till after the summons was re turnable, he had not complied with the practice of the Court, and the rule to set aside the judgment ought to he absolute. Mr. SCARLETT expressed a hope that the plaintiff, would not be obliged to pay the costs. The CIIIEF JUNTICIL" We cannot impose terms on the defendant, when the judgment is not regular. You must pay the costs."—ltule made absolute. C lONIZING Bo's--The Repot t of Colonel S r SON, Surveyor-General of the Board of Works (ad dressed to II as kV lionuouss, Esq. Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, as to the practica bility. of superseding the practice of Climbing Boys by the use of nitichmery, is on the whole favourable to the use of machines, though the result of the expe riments is,.that the three Royal ArChitects concur in opinion that Climbing Boys cannot be at present to tally dispensed with. Colonel STEPHEN/lc* directed an intelligent Clerk, Mr. DaVis, to superintend ea periments, in order to ascertain the truth. Mr. Davis reports, that all the Rues of the metropolis, may be divided into four classes. For the first class the machines now in the are quite efficient r for part of the second class, they , are also competent ; and' for the remainder nithis class, the ball anA brash is • perfectly efficient In the third class, vliere the as cent is:at all preserved, the ball and brush act effec tually, as they do even ht the foerth class, where . there are no parts entirely level. The proportions of the different classes he &bond to he as ender :—Out of 1000 Rues, 910 Ate of the first dint; 50 of the Se cond ; 90 of the third ; ahfl iv a tht fourth. THANKS TO THE MARqUIS OF HASTINdS. . A Special Court of Directors was yesterday held to consider of a Vote of Thanks to the Martini* of Haartats, for the late splendid achievements its In , dia. The minutes of the former Court being read— , Mr. PATTON/21 (the Chairman) entered upon tine business of the day. He described the lag uccesses in India, and pointed out the iMportariantagFs likely to be derived from them. Having eettimented • en these subjects,. to she* the conduct of the Mar- 1 quis of Fleeting% he read extracts from letters which had passed between hint and the Committee of Cor-1 respondence. Those from the Marquis set forth the necessity of effectually checking the Pindarries, and putting a stop to the depredations in which they were constantly engaged. The sinsteter to these gave the Noble Matquis enlarged powers, and directed him not only to repel their incursions, but to pursue and punish 'them for the outrages of which they had been guilty. In consequence of these instructior.s, the 'Marquis of Itastings had taken the field. lie kid ordered a number of detachments to move on diffe rent points at the saw time, but in such directions that they should all meet at certain positions pointed out, and act in concert with each other, so as to sur round the enemy. While this was doing, Scindia was compelled to observe the treaty which he had be fote concluded, but which he was well disposed to violate on this occasion. The consequence was, the discomfited Pindarries, flying to the North, Were dis- , appointed in their hopes of succour and protettion in that quarter ; and in the south they were met by our armies and defeated with great loss. That brave, Officer, Sir Thomas Ilislop, had defeated a force greatly superior in numbers to are army under his. command ; and the whole of the Pindarries, which had mustered in great force, under Ameer Khan, bad finally vanished, as if by the waving of a ma► gic wand. He concluded by moving— " That the Thanks of that Court should be given to the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings, Knight of the Garter, for the wisdom, skill, and energy so eminently displayed by his Lord ship in planning and conducting the operations against the Pin threes, who had long carried on thitir predatory incursions in the heart of Hindostan, which. had produced the happy result of exterminating those marauders." It was further proposed,— " That while that Court deeply regretted the circumstance which had led to an extension of the Company's territory in In dia, they duly appreciated the skill and fotesight by which the Marquis of Hastings, through a Wavy combinationof military and political talent, had dispersed the gathering elements of a confederacy among the Maluatta Powers against the British power in India." CAMPBELL MARJORLBANKS, Esq. the Deputy Chai rman, seconded the Motion. Mr. It. JACKSON wished some extracts to be read from the voluminous papers which were lying en the table. It was true the Directors had produced these papers for the information Of the Proprietors, but front their very voluminout nature, it was utterly impossible for any individual to have se much leisure time as to read them, and therefore it might give the Proprietors some ktioWledge of what had going on, if the extracts were read! This was agreed to, and the several extracts were read by one of the Clerks. The first was an extract from Captain Sydenhana's dispatch relative to the Pindarees, in 1809, in which he described the horrid character of these depredators. They generally, he observed, made long marches, and subsisted chiefly on plunder, while they destroyed what they were not able to carry off, violating the wives and daughters of those whose villages they invaded, and afterwards putting them to death- Seldom did they leave a vil lage without burning it, and it was impossible to pre vent their approaches, as their movements were ra pid and uncertain, nor were their' depredations to be measured by the quantity they carried off. The in habitants were thus driven to the woods, and were under such terror as to make their return to their bitations long and doubtful. Government were thus defrauded to the greatest extent by this army of free- ' boaters, who deprived the agriculturist acid the bus baudman of those blessings which Yeovil:m/4es be stowed on them, the crops being carried off. It was impossible to estimate their numbers, as they gene rally advanced in detached bodies, joined by all who were either disgusted with the pursuits of an honest life, or discarded from society for their profligate vi cious habits—(Near, hear).—The next was a dispatch from Captain Dulzell, in March, 1816, wherein, speaking of the outrages then going on, he said the cruelties practised by these invaders were such, that the inhabitants of a village had chosen rather to de stroy themselves, families, and property, than sub mit to those awful privations they must otherwise have endured. A number of other dispatches were read, equally confirming the horrible excesses which had been committed. Mr. It. JACKSoN then rose. After what had just been read, and the awful description of cruelties that had been given, he confessed the whole appeared so astonishing, that one was disposed rather to think they resenibled a legendary tale, than were actually founded on facts. While, however, such excesses were provzd by the most incontrovertible evidence, he hoped the Court would agree with him in the pro priety of adding some 'words to the Motion just put from the Chair. Sorry as he felt to be the citte., of disturbing the harmony of the Court, he felt it his duty nevertheless to peotest against the proceedings of the day, because Formerly motions of the present nature used to or iginate on the outside of the bar, as' it was generally thought the Proprietors ham eefficest common sense to enable them to vote on the paper! laid before them. In the cases of Lord Cornwallis and Marquis Wellesley, the merits of the respective GoVernors were generally stated, anidays afterward) fixed for the consideration of Votes of Thanks to them. lie objected to the latter,part of the Mateo, which expressed any regret at the extension of the 'territories, ashe conceived the expression of that re gret was derogatery to the Vote of Thanks. He re collected theyhad proposed a Vote orThaisits to Mar quis Wellesley, adding, at the saMe time, that in doing so, they did trot enter upon, the justice of the er.e..--; Peeling at he did, that such a rote Vas wrong, he ern fortunately suitessful in introducing the words, 'a as the do - corneas had not been laid On the table of the Cburt." It was absurd to think, that with a vote of thanks to the Noble Marqttis of Hestinv, the Court should add an expression of regret at +e extension of their tetritories. Their cohduet re hiirided him of the adrhitable fable of the penitential fox, *kith lamented the depredations he had cern , mined, and cautioned others against the same, but, uttfiaftnilitety (ot hititiottlity. a toostistrtngnears be ., Ihogght..it not *Miss to seize a ehickeu or two— (atilitts.Did the Court suppose that any pers on out , would believe they were sincerely averse otort. tia intint in i s e t a e s a e d e af terr .i ito d r is y ? dispersing g e t u' he ots g ls at h i e ir m in e r an e t i t e o . nts," Szc. were, that " he had anticipated and efisoonteted . a confederacy among the Maliratta . States, defeated their armies, and rendered their means of aggression in future disappointed." He' Would venture to say there was net a single Ho nourahle Director within the Bar who could lay his hand on his heart and s.y that this addition was not necessary, especially considering what had already been said by the Chairman respecting the deficiency of the words in the motion to express their just tense of the merits of the Noble Marquis. The very idea of " gathering elements" was absurd, as the vote of thanks implied that something had been done, and a regularly formed army defeated by the wisdom, skill, and energy of the Noble Marquis.— The Learned Gentleman then concluded by reading the Amendrfient. Mr. ileeettest, in seconding it, observed, that he had no intention of troubling the Court, had he not been forcibly struck with the able and humorous, statement of the Learned Gentleman who had just sat down. Whence arose that poverty of language of which the Chairman had complained? Had twenty-four Gentlemen, in the situation of Directors, not been able to find adequate words ? If the mea sutes of the Noble Marquis were not necessary, then where was the propriety of thanking him at all, and if they were necessary, then why were the feelings of gratitude due to him not to be expressed in a proper manner? Concurring petfectly in every word of the Amendment, he, with the sincerest pleasure, seconded it. Mr. S. Dixon felt it would be presumption in him to occupy any portion of the time of the Court, but he hoped the Amendment would be agreed to by the Court of Directors. The language of the Worthy Mover was certainly snore expressive of those feel ings of gratitude, which were due to the Noble Mar quis, than the original Motion was. He never could look but with dread to any further extension of ter ritory in India, as tending more to weaken than strengthen the hands of the Company. He could not help thinking that the " gathering elements" alluded to, arose more from natural causes than any other. When the troops of Britain were collected together, k was natural for the Mahratta Powers to suppose there was a cloud about to overwhelm them, and it could not therefore be astonishing that these Powers should form coalitions, for what they con sidered to be self-defence. In giving this as his opi nion, he trusted the Court would allow him the merit of at least being honest and conscientious, for till the justice and necessity of the war were proved, he thought the vote should be postponed altogether. Mr. ELPIIINSTOt merely wished to state, that when the proposition of thanks was submitted to the Court, it was done by the Directors, with the view of such Amendments being introduced, as might be thought necessary and proper by the Proprietors. Mr. BOSANQUET contended that the amendment was not called for, as one branch of the Mahratta States was in arms against us at the present moment. The Court of Directors had not the slightest inten tion of trifling with the feelings of the Proprietors in snaking this motion, for he unquestionably felt the conduct of the Governor General deserved all that gratitude which language could express. • Mr. Hume concurred with the Chairman in all lie had stated, but felt that not one word of the amend ment could be controverted. The Noble Marquis had received his instructions from the Court, and lie conceived it would be very extraordinary for the Court to concur in expressing a regret that these in structions had been complied with. The Noble Mar quis had no alternative when he commenced the war, 'in consequence of the measures winch had been , adopted by his predecessor. The Court had dis approved of what was done by Marquis Wellesley in 1803, 4, and 5, whereas the Noble Marquis had at that period actually compleated that which the Court rejoiced as being now done. The measures of that noble and indefatigable General were stopped by his successor, Marquis Cornwallis, to whose policy, he had no doubt the increase of the Pindatees was owing. The present Governor General had shown the most unwearied and liberal efforts in their cause, and had even studied the language, that he might thereby be the better enabled to know more of every thing re 7 lating to the country. Yet though this was the case, he had formerly received their thanks for his military conduct without any allusion to his civil policy as a statesman. The worthy Gentleman concluded by expressing his decided opinion, that while the terri tories had been increased, the authority of the Com pany had been consolidated. Mr. BOSANQUET explained. Mr. JACKApti also explained, that while no doubt one part of the Mahratta States was in arms against us, that branch hacibeen twice defeated, and was ac tually now in a state of vagabondage. Mr. GRANT dissented totally from the political views of the Speakers on the tither side. The Court of Directors had .never assented to any extension of the territories, except. itt the case of Tippoo Sultaun, who was the decided enemy of'Britain, and of course was obliged to be put donat. Every extension which had subsequently taken place had not been sane thsned at all by the Court. He. certainly thought the Treaty entered into in 160`2, between Mar euis' Wellesley and the peishwa, was iraeolitic, though, he gave every credit to that Noble Pei sonage for tare best intentions in what he did. 01 - the late Martinis' Cornwallis, he was bound at all times to speak wish' respect, considering the integrity of his conduct, his inflexible rectitude, profound judgment, and con . summate skill. Ile would not say, that it was not necessary for . the present Governor-General not to do as he had done : but, when Europe was accusing the Company of unbouml.s.l:saslii:::... and ‘v!:' ksi-Lias . to seize the whole territory of India, it became thsra to persevere in the .sentiment they had so long ex pressed, respecting their regret that any extension should take place, especially considering that had been declared impolitic by the Legislature ; and surely, as a body, they were not to be ca lled on t o entertain a different opinion. The deist had consi derably increased, and was muck more than when Marquis Cornwallis went out to India, and the es poke was eyed beyond the income. They had 80,000,0E00 of aropulatioato govern, vrhile the Lai- Tepeim tome,. Vic. did not exceed 40,1)00 ; a taking a general review of the war, he mmt coulu see nothing in it but the se(.._, moti In; for, though it was true, titzt the were suppres..ed, ti,ere Was no ,dotat they crease, especially as their numhers were com, ~,t d, persons who were inured to habits of uslitt,;,, ta ; fare; and, when discharged, they could tuk 4 4. dun such habits. True, tlie liindoos were rc.tireek it was said, from their oppressor* ; but, wriulki not Lecome the same as before, the moment ' they nese independent ? He felt the stronr mt Lions to the Amendment, becat.4 he thou g h t Court should trust the Directors, conside:ing;* fidcnce they .had already i.!aced ia them, by grazi tg them their bightsitualion. Mr. 1). lit;;NAIIID CO:WC : ATI 1.071 IT:Laing; e r ;, tied to their es-al-most thank only for his Lions in the field, but for the wisdom with whi c h had planned the operations in the war. H e h u i traduced no new policy whatever, fie if he had:" might bc a clifi%:re..:ce of opinion. He (Mr. must own he ditl . :ked ti.c expression of their rep t at the eltension, as much as he did the langua getf a school-master ...olio ncvor flogged his scholars out saying he was sorry for it. By expressing E m i r regret as they proposed to do, they would in :act s% courage the charge of ambition which Europe w as alleged to make against them He tritsmi the Nobk Marquis would be able to follow as good par it y a te government of the conquered country, 2 1 Marquis Wellesley had clone in the same sitw,ticc. Mr. }IOWA nrifcould not a , .;rce with the auier.4 I ment of his lion. Friend, though he certainly :I:it that the conduct of the Governor General was Le yond all praise. Pitt, Fox, Burke, and Dui:du, all different in pulitical views from each other, had agreed in pronouncing the extension of the te r iix t , to be an evil of no small magnitude, for be it ratc;- , 1 lected the Company now had a territory esteniling twenty degrees longitude and twenty &wets latitude. d Castlereagh, when the Charter was rer.ewed, said, that fortunate as the Company had been, thee was a certain lianit which they could out e:xecd with. out becoming unwieldy. Whether that was the case now he would not say, but he certainly did nut coo. cur in the amendment. After a reply from Mr. JitcKor, and a few %mit front Mr. Moxry, the Amendment was agreed to without a dissenting voice. THANKS TO SUL TWOMAS 11181.0 P. Oct the question of Thanks being =ream Lies !tenant General Sir Thomas Hisiop, a considera4 discussion took place, several Proprietors expzeArl their determinatio.: oppose it, and as the discussion on the question was expected to occupy several hours, especially on account of the conduct of Sir Thomas Hislop relative to the hanging of a Gore nor, it was agreed, on account of the lateness of the hour, to postpone the delrate to this day at Adjourned at five o'clock. Rim—At the East India Houseful week COG bags were brought forward—Bengal ordinary anal good White all sold 20s. to 22-a. Gd. Java ordinary 16s. to 16s. Gd. Madagascar good Waite, bauglu is 20s. to 21s. 6d. The request for Rice by piivate contract towards the don of the week subs del, and generally the market might again be stall heavy. There has been little or no • business lately in Carolina, there apt,leared however yest2Al.l some inquiries for Carolina Ilice, in 'bond aiout 335. AX, AND T.% !.1.0 W.—The Talinv.. continued exceedingly heavy last week, en Ii day a public sale was brought forwat d which wen off at very low prices ; it consisted of Ica calks mixed Foreign descriptions, the wh,.le sold heavily 565. to 655. fhe prices of Foreign Tallow have since given way considerably. Yellow Candiz Tallow ruy be stated 2s. to Ss: Wrier, and very heavy at the de cline. The prices •of jlemp and. Flax are nominal. Tosacco.—The prices of Tobacco have for torn weeks been entirely nominal ; a public sale on Wei nesday brought forward, consisting of 125 Virgitaa, and 51 hhds. Kentucky, which has ea• blished a market currency ; the quality was very gold, but there were no fine blacks ; the price, wet! higher than generally anticipated, but fully 21 rev pound under the previous nominal prices ; the V:- ginia sold IV. to ;1 d. according to quality Kentucky so low as 5c1.. to 53d. since the sale some purchases by private contract are reporzed to be inaae on very low terms. Covrae.—The public sale of Coffee, on Tuesday, consisted of 114 casks Plantathn Coilee, all Devi desctiptions ; these were only two qualities, and fine middling, for the 1 - r:tier 115 s. F. 71 middling, 130 s. and 131 s, was o:ere,f, the whole of the latter taken in at 1315. 6d. generally of the fee market it may be said that there is little bit! doing, but the great &actuation in the prices asl much =cation, and occasioned ayerLnumeroi semblage at the public sa!e : the n,Tcrs 1;,.. Coffee this furenoan xve consider falli higher Oh previous prices by private cc:ntra:t. SUGAR MARX KT.-1» refined goods there has little business doing lately ; the stocks are incrr yet the holders do not press ; one or ts.v. chases have been made at prices a shade lower no general depression can however be stated. lasses are lower, and heavy at the reduction. MANCHESTER, FEBRUARY Ir—a • Vro purchat manufactured goods, to a considerable exteai peared in our market to-day, which gave great to the flatness that has so unexpectedly pseva; some tine past ; but prices still continue mu. . • low, nor is there a prospect of any present al . . inert.—The silk trade, both here, as well as :tt. port and Macclesfield, has felt the least of th vailing depression ; it has been comparatively COAL MAIIIKET, tea s. Ships at Market. 1111dr 11.914. YS} Newcastir 5 SUilderiard I Ca.:l.r. Prim. 94.1 c., 17.4 34$ Id to .2.11 C.d. MTH. At Dublin (7.4.t1e, tie L.... 4 of Captain Sheldon. camp to the Lent Lieutenant, of a daughter. mmtamt). At Bo'ness, on the 27th iast. Lieutenant Petrie. R.N. eabeth, eldest dgughter of Wa`Ave (hindLiy, Eq. Ail filo II WATER at LONDON 1311111VE 10-.. 1 v 4 t 1 Ikcring - fi tenons after Afternoon - 49 —.h....—. 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