Star. — London, England, 1809-04-08 00:00:00

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Mr. Jackson then moved an Amendment, which, ......The Resolutions were then read, as follow : i ', oh . t a—That a Military Secretary be appointed for con-, after some suggestions from the Deputy Chairman and Mr. Twining, stood as follows, viz. ; jr , - , the Military Correspondence ot the Company with India, That this Court, relying upon the representation of the Court t r y Xiooo a-year. of Directors, and fully sensible of the weight of the observations ::: 1 : 1 ,',,,A 0 — f That two .. . Assistant - Secretaries be appointed in the • contained in the Reports now read, as to the necessity of appoin- Jt tuent of the Examination . of India Correspondence,. under 1 I ting a Military Secretary and two Assistant Secretaries to the • terdance of the Examiner, each with a salary of £6OO Jlocrin . , Examiners' Office, do agree to the same • but this C o urt, whilst .:r. tactss ov. t it can have no doub t o f the disposition of the Executive Body to previously to putting the former of I t . ~. Resolutions, moved that the different kesolu- ; countenance and protect the Servants brought up in this House, Idesires to express its own anx i ety to continue to them the protec tionf t he Committee of Correspondence formerly of the East-India Company, and t o a s sure t h e C ourt o f Di s 0 j before the Court, and pointing out the necessity 1 I rectors of its readiness, at all times, to concur with them in re. these app ointments, be now read, which was ac warding long and meritorious services. And this Court doth -di n glv done. further resolve, that should the Dir ectors fi n d i t expe di ent to ap int to chiler of the said Offices of Military Secretary or Assts. Ile bIAIRMAN then put the question, that this ant Secretaries to the Examiners' Office, Gentlemen who have at do agree on the first Resolution. not been regularly bred in this House, or in the service of the ,Ir. SOCK rose to say, that after deliberately con. C ompany, the said Appointments shallin no wise be drawn aing the measure, it could not have his assent. into a precedent for the appointment of other persons so circum. R . o h'erved, that nothing short of a degree of stanced. . e . i ty , n•liich had by no means been made out, Mr. LOWNDES said, the Amendment so completely met his ideas and removed his objections, that he beg icsisi„,,..dy so considerable an additional expence in gad leave to second it. r r sent circumstances of the Company • but even i. ,„irio for argument's sake, that such O ffi cers The amended Resolution was then put and passed ' ' .e necessary, he thought they ought to be selected unanimously. • The Chairman next proposed the resolution for : --heir present servants, who were on all hands ,2 , 1 to be able and meritorious men. Mr. R. establishing a seminary for the ed ucat i on o f t h e Ca vcd, dets for their Artillery and Engineer .1 vcd, with considerable feel in g , u p on the p ainful corps. ,dons which must accompany a measure, which Mr. JACKSON said he had great pleasure in suppor ieended was, as to the present Officers of the ting this proposition ; and alth oug h h e s h ou ld i n t hi s on e of indignity and supercession , and not case also offer an amendment, it wou ld not h ave f or . by the circumstances laid before them ; he its object to check or restrain, b u t t o encourage an d • r therefore move, that all the words of the Re- to extend the system. Mr. Jackson, after adverting to the history of other nations who h a d o bt a i ne d set after the word "That" be left out , in o rder • aaltute one, declaring in substance, That the tlements in India, said, it was reserved for Great Britain to have the renown of re n d er i n g c i v ili zat i on aa ints of the House continued to possess the e steem aj c onfidence of that Court, Scc. commensurate with conquest, and of shewing as ar dent a desire to diffuse the arts as t o exte n d th e i r Colonel SCOTT said , t hat althou g h he p artook of : sen timents which he had heard respecting our commerce ; above all, the glory w a s r eserved fo r th e :.i ,ervants, he could not second the motion, as it English East India Company of giving to their ser :-.: to annul altogether the Resolution of the Direc- vants an enlightened and virtuous education before it naich would not be consistent with the respect sent them into situations of auth or i t y so ex t ens i ve : .. Dore toss ards that part of the Court. over their fellow-creatures. Mr. Jackson said, he Mr. LOWNDES likewise felt for the situation of the could not imagine a blessing so transcendant to the o::cers of the House,• although he was not prepared settlers in India, or to those millions whom PROVI t, ascribe to them so great a degree of merit as was DENCE had been pleased to place under their autho corvcsed by the proposed Amendment ; they might rity, as a virtuous European community—they had u ril'‘ht not possess it ; but he would not vote such taken the only method to secure that blessing, by a tact to be true without the means of knowing it.— previously giving to their servants an education suit licaid, he felt rather disposed to concur in the Re- ed to the stations which they would have to fill.— roll:lion of the Court of Directors, founded as it was Other countries had sent out able men, and brave spin their Report, provided some words or memo - and successful men ; but the y had been too often tur i osclum could he added, which should prevent the bulent, ambitious, and sanguinary ; he trusted they cirnimstance of taking strangers immediately into should prove that Empire was more securely main oar highest offices, front being drawn into precedent. tained by moderation, humanity, and justice. Mr. Th e C'E t anistaN observed, that Mr. Rock's amend- Jackson expressed a wish that the Gentleman (Colo aezt not having been seconded, there was no other nel Mudge) who was to be the public E xam i ner , tam the original question before the Court , which he should be made in some degree r espo ns ibl e f or th e vats proceeding to put, when proficiency of the student, or be obliged to report Ala Jacasos rose, and referring to the ebserva- in writing the result of his examination of each indi vidual, observing, that those who had bee n d rawn • sic wYch he had made at the last Court, upon the ;Thy and importance of the measure, not so much through Universities, and other public semina r ies, :1i regard to expence, as to the danger of the free- must know the relaxation that frequently took place tr., said he should propose some additional words iin the office of Examiner. Mr. Jackson also express . iv of amendment, which he hoped would meet 1 ed a wish that frequent reports s hould be made to :nag opinions, and secure themselves from dan- i the Proprietors of the state of their seminaries. He well as sooth the feelings and tranquilize the , then moved, by way of a dditi on to t h e R eso l ut i on o f aiensions of their Officers, while it gave to the the Directors, as follows, viz. apay, in the present instance, the advantage of the " That this Court do t h hi g h ly approve of the proposed Plan of a seminary tor the more complete and economical education r.t.olire. lie said, the question naturally resolved of Cadets for their Artillery and Engineer Corps, and desires to J: , el: into three considerations—namely, the necessity express the satisfaction it will afford the Proprietors, whenever (sitch appointments—what evils might possibly arise the Directors shall find that they can, consistently with the gene n the precedent—and how they might be guarded i s ra u l ch in ai te i re ih st s s ti o tu f tio the t EastlndiaCompany, extend the . benefits of I : a thewillCadets lay h a t large . efeor And this Co rt re :'.;nst : upon these Mr. J. argued separately ; he quests that the Director s them, from time to ...raitt.al the necessity to be imperative—he was con- time, at least once in each year, an account of their different se .:,l, he said, not only from an attentive perusal of i minaries in England, particularly stating the number of Pupils, the expence occasioned thereby, and their general state as to im '... Reports, but from many cases which had been provement in the various branchas of learning. - :ari. hiJin for professional advice, that a degree of Colonel SCOTT seconded the amendment, but ex. :..al, very frequently, taken place in the offices . pressed an anxious wish that the officers to the semi on,:l so considerable in extent, and so cruel in nary should be taken from the Company's servants, : : .•: , as to afford in his mind a strong impeach several of whom he mentioned as being eminently -t: ot the Company's Government ; he hoped that qualified ; lie seemed to think the Company forgot • chief would be cured by the proposed mew_ qualified old soldiers who had fought their battles. • The evils to be apprehended, he said, were The Chairman defended the Court against this lat '—• to the Officers of the House, and next, as to ter imputation, and chewed that Colonel Mudge was • ::: ..ives. It was impossible but that the Gentle not only the fittest person for the office, but, situated -... , i the House should feel chagrin on the occa ' as he was nothing but his zeal and that of the Mas • ' t: :ugh the Report was not disparaging to them, I t of ter the , .Ordnance, for the undertaking, could have !. aated they could not fill the o ffi ces in question . . induced his acceptance of it. ' i a Ischia- taken from others where their abilities Mr. LOWNDES highly approved of the amendment, adored their continuance absolutely necessary. At, he thought, had been in not avoiding this but feared that he should appear by his observations i . : • to be the echo of Mr. Jackson; however, it argued 1 ' a: 1 callina: in rareian aid, by the due prepa . • some mind, he said, in choosing a person so worthy a sufficient number of young Gentlemen lof being followed. Mr. Lowndes, then, expressed 1 :- .• sa:ess much resembling that of the Secretary ! his fears respecting the relation of the Professor, and • : a the Foreign Department ; this not hav told the Court an anecdote of the Professor of Astro :. 1 done, the measure had become necessary, nomy at Oxford, in a manner so felicitous as to keep -•. ._ thought the Court ought to guard against fru -1 the Court in a roar of laughter. His great uncle, '• 7eession ; lie described the trying situation !h e sa id , h a d b een foolish enough to found the Pro '. who, being received in society as fessorship, but did not direct the lectures to be given, '..:. ...st had much to struggle with to keep up consequently there had never been a single lecture. :lees ; their consolation, and that which ena- O a fi n di ng this, he had offered himself for the c kPro t:vd . , al to pass with fortitude so great a propos- fessorship, thinking that one non-efficient man would :71 C.t tl,, , ir lives upon such narrow stipend, was the I do as well as another, especially as he was of the 7 aral .iataance which they had a right to indulge in, I founder's kin, but he found the appointment went in the alm os t un d e vi a ti ng hi s tory of the Company 1 according w Parliamentary interest, and it was given : 7 I'.:r three centuries, that they should in time arrive : to a gentleman who had been very useful to Mr. • (2 . rear the top of their respective offices; a well- Pitt at his election for Cambridge. .7 iaaed prospect of future promotion operated with The question was then put, and the amended Re p'2:ons as present rank, and had considerable I solution passed unanimously. ''..' ice in the introduction cf their children, and 1 The CHAIRMAN then moved, that the Court do Is ...:pees which they formed ; these prospects adjourn. ' c:-,perhaps, m i g h t o th erwise be thou g ht to be 1 . Mr. ROCK begged, before the Court broke up, to aarea doubtful by the Resolution proposed, he I put a question to the Gentlemen on the other side ~ ., : .1 the General Court should, by its declaration, :of the bar. It was stated out of doors, that they had . .' a and confirm, so that those who had hi- come to a Resolution, in consequence of the Report a , :.:e ked forward to b eco me the heads of o ffi ces , o f t h e S e l ect C omm i ttee , on a b uses i n the disposal s „ , ... nsouran•ed to continue their arduous and ' b of WI iterships and Cadetships in the service of the, . .. —„, s t l a, course of service, without themselves or Company, that all the persons who had so procured aatilies having to live in dread of eventual or .. their situations should be dismissed. He wished to . . . .....'.. .dpetcesston. With regard to themselves, know if his information in this respect was correct ? i..lit what they had to fear was, that having • The CHAIRMAN repeated .the question of adjourn-, ; ...!e an opening to strangers, future Govern- nient. futore Directors would naturally think of 1 Colonel SCOTT said he had come into the Court toa rg those who were allied to them in blood day fully impressed with the idea, that some discus-' ..2.hip, at the expellee of the servants of the 1 sion would take place on the subject of the Report ', v.ith whom they were not likely to be in ha- alluded to. He was satisfied that some notice of that !: iendship, and whose situations precluded Report was called for, and he had hoped that a mo - • :.( in that f ree d om o f access necessary f or t h e tion on the subject would have been brought forward . 1 : •-• . -..;..i'dOß Of the hardship of their cases; he had by his lion. Friend near him (Mr. Jackson), who EAST-INDIA HOUSE. . . was on all occasions so zealous a friend for the in terests of the Company:e thought it impossible to read the Report without being struck with astonish ment at perceiving the figure which an Ex-Director of that Company, Mr. Thellusson, made in it. Who could believe it possible that that Gentleman should, in the common course of things, have given away to one person, his near relative. three Writerships in the course of two years, and that every one of these should have been corruptly disposed of ? Yet the same Gentleman had been again recommended by the Court of Directors to the Proprietors, to come in upon the present vacancy, and he understood that • opposition against him had been waved. This, he was satisfied, was not for the interests of the Com pany, nor was it creditable to the character of their Directors. By a law, he did not know whether it was a law of the land or a bye-law of the Company, the period of intimation was limited to a certain num ber of days. [The Chairman informed him it was a bye-law of the Company.] Then the same authority which enacted the law had a right to alter it, and lie wished that the period should be extended for the pur pose of giving an opportunity to some man of honour and independence to come forward. Mr. TWINING said he was satisfied it was not the intention of the Court to allow the Report alluded to, to pass without a deliberate discussion upon it. This, however, he presumed to think, was not exactly the moment for such a discussion. The Court had not yet had time to consider the Report with such delibe ration, as to enable them to come to a dispassionate decision upon it. He had been one of the most for ward, some time ago, to endeavour to detect abuses of the kind here developed. He was now come to that age when he might be supposed to have retired from the bustle of business ; but still he could not allow a question of this nature to pass over in silence, lest it should be supposed that he had grown cool and indifferent to the interests of the Company, or that he had changed his opinion on the subject. He assured the Court, however, that he should not allow the pre sent Report to pass unnoticed. Mr. LOWNDES said, he had been struck with sur prise on observing an intimation in the public prints, by which it appeared that a Meeting of the Directors had been held, at which they had thought it necessary to pass a resolution, exculpating Mr.Thellusson from all blame in the transactions developed in the Report, and recommending him as a fit person for the choice of the Proprietors on the present occasion. He saw, from the silence of his Honourable and Learned Friend (Mr. Jackson), as well as from the opinion he had heard from the respectable and experienced Proprietor who had just sat down, that this was not the proper moment for discussing the Report in ques tion, which, indeed, was only printed yesterday. He could not, however, forbear from thinking that the Honourable Gentlemen within the Bar, had for the time, forgotten their own s'tuation, and, instead of regarding themselves as the Executive body, had supposed themselves the Electors. Either they must have done so, or they must have allowed their feel ings for the moment to run away with their judgment This was by no means an unusual case. We had seen De.Lolme, who, though a foreigner, was the best writer on the Constitution of this Country who had ever existed, when he himself had a cause in Court, apply privately to the Judge, as if he had been one of the corrupt Judges whom he had been accus tomed to meet with in other countries. Even Mr. Sheridan, whose whole public life bespoke him a sin cere friend to the Laws and Constitution of the Coun try, had so far forgotten himself as to write a private letter to the Lord Chancellor on the affairs of Drury lane Theatre, then under his Lordship's consideration. On the impropriety of such conduct his Lordship re marked in open Court. These instances, however, might serve as proofs, that where a person's feelings were interested, he did not always act with that pro priety, which, were he himself unconcerned, he would expect to discern in others. If the bright eyes of Mr. Sheridan, who so ardently loved and admired the ' Constitution, could be so far blinded where he him self was a party, it was not very remarkable that the Court of Directors should have deviated a little &Om the strict rule of propriety. He protested, however, against the idea of the Court of Proprietors being supposed to be in leading strings, and that the Direc tors should hold them. Mr. JACKSON said, the Honourable Proprietor near him (Colonel Scott) must have completely misun derstood what he said on a former day, if he suppos ed that it could be in his contemplation to allow the Report in question to pass without notice. So far was he from being of this opinion, that he had on the very first day the Report was before the Court, ex pressed his determination to found a motion upon it. He was still decidedly of that mind, and was even satisfied that nothing but a very strong resolution of the Court of Proprietors on the subject could meet their own and the public feeling on this occasion.— The present, he was convinced, was not the proper moment for such discussion. All the documents were not before the Court ; and until they were so, any decision on their import must be premature. He thought the Proprietors might safely wait till a fit moment for discussing the matter arrived ; satisfied as they might be, that they had the means in their own hands of doing themselves justice, even to the dis missal of any Director who might be found guilty. Mr. ELPHINSTON begged that the Court would not separate under any impression that the Directors had acted amiss, or that they wished the Report to be slur red over. Such was by no means their intention. On the contrary, it was the object of the Directors themselves to call the attention of the Proprietors to the purport of the Report. They had no wish, in the Resolution they had come to, to influence the feelings of the Proprietors ; but simply, by a declara tion of their own feelings, to endeavour to do away any improper prejudice which might have been creat ed.—The Court then adjourned. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East-India House, when the following ships were thus stationed and timed, viz. Henry Addington, Captain Kirkpatrick, Bengal direct, to be afloat the 14th of April, sail to Gravesend the 30th ditto, stay there 30 days, and be in the Downs the 6th June. Charlton, Captain Wood; Windham, Stewart—Madeira and Bengal. Latiy 1011, Christiana, Mac keson ; 'William Pitt, Crowder; Sir William Pulteney, Chris topher—Bengal direct. Union, Gaillard ; Northampton, San ders—Madeira and Bombay. To be afloat the 30th April, sail to Gravesend 14th May, stay there 20 days, and be in the Downs 9th June. The Court adjourned till Mcnday next. ECCLESIASTICAL AN) ACADEMICAL PROMOTIONS. The Etrl of SOlcitY. has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Alex. Scott, A.B. Rector of Bondleigh, in Devonshire, to be one of his Lordships' domestic Chaplains. Rev. Thomas Image, M.A. Rector of Whepstead, Suffolk, has been appointed to the Rectory of Stanrungtield, n:ar Bury, vacant by the death of the Rev. Frederick Barnwell. Rev. George Mathew, to be alternate Preacher at the Found ling Hospital. Rev. Michael Mackeneth, to the Vicarage of Ellerton, York shire. _ OXFORD ) MARCH R.—Yesterday, W. James, B.A. of Oriel College, was elected Fellow of that society. PREACHER ' S--BT. MARY'S. Mr. Coneybeare, of Christ Church On Sunday morning. Mr. Brown, of Magdalen College Sunday afternoon. Mr. Heyes, of Exeter College Latin Sermon. The Lord Bishop of Oxford has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Dr. Phillimore, of Christ Church, Chancellor of this dinette, in the room of Dr. Lawrence, deceased. SEPARATION AND RESIGNATION. A PARODY ON COWPER. There goes the DIIKILO most illustrious spark ! And there—no less illustrious—Mrs. CLARKE Saturday last, Mr. Gwillim, of Wendover, Bucks, was ilium? dead on the road between that place and Aylesbury, and is supposed to have fallen from his horse in an apoplectic fit. Yesterday, as the carriage of Mrs. Irvin, of Pall' Mall, was passing St. James's -street, one of the hones fell and broke the pole. The other horse immedi ately became frightened, and rushed on the pavement to the great terror of two Ladies within the carriage. Fortunately the footman, and several passengers, laid hold of the horses. and the Ladies were rescued from their perilOus situation, without having suffered any serious injury. Yesterday mornnig a desperate battle was fought in Locks-fields, between one Jackson, a butcher, of Walworth, and a carpenter named Smithson, resi ding near the scene of action, for 20 guineas each.— The contest continued with unabated fury for nearly 40 minutes, when, through loss of blood, the latter was obliged to yield to the superior strength of his sturdy opponent. Thursday evening the shop of Miss Tracy, jeweller, in Duke -street, Smithfield, had a lane cut out of the window,and jewellery to a considerable amount stolen without the least discovery of the time when it was done, or by whom. On Thursday night, Mr. Weeks, of Wilkes -street, Spitalfields, was accosted by two footpads, dressed as labouring men, near Lowton, one of whom seized his horse's bridle, while the cthm-, with a pre sented pistol, demanded his money, which Mr. Weeks gave tris, to the amount of 301. The villains then cut the bridle, and made a precipated retreat into the • forest. Thursday an Inquest was held at the Jolly Gar timers, 'Windsor, on the body of Sarah Newton, who was found dead, on Wednesday, by her son, a youth 15 years of age, who called on her at her apartments, found the door open, and his mother a corpse on the bed, much bruised. The lodgers heard her call murder several times, about two in the morn ing. Suspicion fell upon one Broomhall, a rough rider in tke Horse Guards (Blue), who had co'ia bited with her five years. The evidence proved his frequently ill-treating her, and therefore they paid no attention to her cries at the time this happened ; but it came out that Broomhall was left: with her at two o'clock on Wednesday morning, and upon this evi dence, and that of three surgeons, who opened the deceased, the Coroner found a verdict of Wilful Mur der against him, and he was sent to Reading gaol. At the Monmouth Assizes last week an Action for Defamation was tried by a Special Jury, which in volved the parties in considerable anxiety, and occu pied the Court a considerable time. It was an action commenced by Edward Eagan, Esq. late a Lieute nant in a Regiment of Dragoon Guards, against James Novies Arnott, of Monmouth, for having, on various occasions, publicly and maliciously accused him in that town of having committed various crimes whilst in such regiment, and of being obliged to leave the same in consequence of it. The case on the part of the Plaintiff satisfactorily proved that the Defen dant uttered the defamatory words complained of, on his own accord, authority, and without any reference to any one as the author of them. The Defendant's plea averred, that before he published the words for which the action was brought, he had heard, and been told by one Lieutenant Robert Read, of the va rious criminal charges he had imputed to Plaintiff ; and that he declared in the presence and hearing of the same persons, in whose presence and hearing the same words were so spoken, that he had heard and been told the same from and by this Read, which plea the Defendant totally failed in proving ; this Read, who represented himself as a Naval Officer, but, who on his cross-examination, denied that he was ever an officer in the navy, was a total stranger to Monmouth as well as to the Plaintiff, and became the companion of the Defendant by being in lodgings in the neigh bourhood, where he resided : the evidence on the part of the Defendant, which went only in mitigation of damages, was distinctly asserted to be a gross and wanton aggravation of the case. Mr. JERVIS, Plaintiff's Counsel, replied with that animated and affecting eloquence, which excited the very anxious interest in Plaintiff's favour, of a very crowded Court, whose feelings were very highly and loudly indignant at the truly unmerited and unpro voked calumny which Defendant had propagated against him, under circumstances of accumulated ag gravation : the Court was abundantly gratified by the Learned Counsel's just and severe exposition of the conduct of this Readahealledged authorofsuch infa mous conduct in this business, which was the subject of marked censure and indignation. The learned Coun sel congratulated the Court and the Country in ener getic terms, that the English Navy was not disgraced by such a character. The JunGE summed up the evidence to the Jury oat both sides, decided in Plaintiff's favour, and observed that Defendant's poverty and family might, perhaps, induce them not to visit the Defend 't with damages which the innocent suffer with the gutty. The Jury returned a vere'c! the Plaitl . titr i the costs of the Special Jury shou,lcti. Lain Plaintiff, to the gr,:at satiblA,:tion o 40s. damages, and the Judge ics t.intl y h cer t iicwe,d the