Star. — London, England, 1806-04-22 00:00:00

Mr. HIL2Y ADDINCTdN hid, the nothing ---- fuptlic.4 him more than the anonilhment expref. honour 'vet t.d by the . ....arable Member, riling to anfiret: the fpeech of his Right Hon. Et iend near him (Mr. Se cretary Foe); and in the whole of what had fallen from that Right Hon. Gentleman, his own opinion fi a l folly coincided, that he felt it un n ic e ff ar y to a d d any thing further upon points In ably and fo elo. quently elucidated. The Noble Lord who brought forward this motion had profeffed, that he had no Intention 'bitchy to criminate the conduct of the Marquis Welkiley. He was willing to give the Noble Lord toll credit tor fincerirr in his declaration; but yet be thought it was impoffible, if thole papers were produced, but that they muft give rife to opinions Injurious to his character, and firongly tend to excite prejudices again!! him. The document alluded to certainly was laid upon the table of the Court of Pro. praetors, by an Hon. Gentleman, who.certainly con. eased it to be a confidential comitunication. It had, by Come underhand means, he underhood, found its way into print. and it contained a Grier olopinions in condemnation of the coodua of Lord Wadley, from the time he firß let foot in India, upon a vs. 1 riety of points totally tinconneded with the matters' sow in charge, and eonfequently irrelevant, and going only to rums general prejudice. in order to ;nil say clecifton that might take place upon the points in gallica. The Honk, therefore, isseseess to the motion for fah a paper. at this asset% would, in his Opiates. do an all of the goofs! isjuf. ties, and, ipon the grated of preadat, perhaps no Member who beard - leien was awe Eddy qualified to appeal from that ufage the* hinkii If the Houk bed, at any time. from hurry ea bleifeectresey. watated a paper which it ought not , nil obi*, apes dews mature deliberation, it wooklaahatre grantede GM it ought not. hereafter, to hold itklf bound by a precedent. -'He had hinsfelf meetly moved for *t papers. gronadins himfelf upon two precedents, the one occurring orgy three days before. and the other not twelve months back. but he felt hiatfelfurged by the prelllog requells of leveret of hie friends to withdraw his motion. Mr. R. THORNTON was of opinion that the Book &old not be kept in darknefs refpeding loch am Important tranfedion as that contained in the pa. per which had been moved for ; efpecially at a time when the Houle and the Country well knew the cal*. *pities of India ' and the fi nancial difirefs to which the company was reduced. It was allowed that twenty sine out of thirty Diredors had fubfcribed to the pa- Nr in queftion difapproving of the conduit of the oble Marquis; why then fhould it be withheld ? At the time the Noble Marquis undertook the adminiltra. lion of the affairs of that country, its debt was only eleven millions, and at his departure it amounted to thirty millions. the paper which had been moved for was now published, and therefore it was prepof terous in the lad degree to attempt to prevent its being produeed to Parliament ; it was lull as impof fible to flop the eruption of Mount Vefuvius as the eirenlation of the paper moved for by the Noble Lord. It was laid elfewbere that " England espeas every man will do his duty :" if that expectation had Seed ticcomplifhtd on the formy element of the fee. why It not Engliftsmen fulfil it on land. and that in the Senate Houle ? He concluded with fopporting the motion. Lord CASTLEREAGH wifiled,tbat as the paper which had been solved fur bad fost:d io i s t h eit k itz u t i o the public, it had been astemasied with the ation of the Board of Casunillasers fee 'ng their prebation ctir the costa rt the gel& Marquis.— e screed wit i t ir he Illle rsu r e neh l amelemanp lasm i g ht o:Fthat dm dof bad made parties with the Hale Magni% tip the taint teen in which they had sided; and therefore he easlliered that it would be unmanly in him to GA& from his hare tithe refponfibillty. Thu NehieLoed (Handl e= ) bad moved for a paper which aspeeted only the opinions of parties; but. as the Secretary of State bad °barred, it was on the metitof the fads, and not on thole opinions, that the quellion mull be decided. He acknowledged with the Hon. Direder ( Ma. Thom+ ton), that Se affairs of the India Company appeared at prefent very gloomy, yet he could not look at the affairs of India without feeling confident that the pre fers gloom would be cli fi tpated in the courfe of fonts dine. Mr. PAULL laid, the Paper moved for had in no part any relation whatever to any of the charges be paw to bring forward to-morrow again& Mavis W Th ensfieT e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Paid, he entirely agreed with the Honourable Thrrx. tor (Mr. Thornton), in the neceffity of producing the document this night moved for by his Noble !friend, with a view to the future inveßigation of India Affairs; and he agreed with hialloble Friend, as indeed he had the honour to agree on molt owl fon., upon the broad balls of Cooßitutional princi ples, in the necellity of laying before the Houfe, at Come time or other, the document for which he had this night moved; but. at the prefent moment, con. ceiving that as it contained opiuiona of the Court of Diredors, extremely injurious to the character cf the Noble Marquis, unfupported by any thing in the baps of evidence, it ought not to be produced. until the charges againft that Noble Marquis Mould be difpofed of. But when the Houfe fhould come to difcufs the general queftion of Indian Affairs, there could then he no reafonabie objection to the produc tion of this document. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH conceived fuch an idea of the importance of the papers this night moved for, that if he did not feel the firongeft confidence that the aid fyllem of Indian Government would he (pee. dily and entirely reformed, he fhould fupport the motion. But feeling the firongeft reliance in his Majefty's prefent Minillers, that a full inveftigation, and a thorough change would take place, he mould be againa the production of the paper now moved for, until a future day,llwhen Indian Affairs fhnuld come more generally under difcuffion. He could not, however, avoid expreffing his aftonifbment, that out of the 29 Directors who had voted the tranfmiffion of the difpatch in its original form, that a confiders hie number of thofe very men fhould afterward tub , mit to the poignant infult of being called on by the Board of Contronl, to fign their names to a garbled and mutilated extra& of that difpatch, without com ing to Parliament to complain. - Dr. LAWRENCE (poke at much length in favour 1 of the on motion. Mr. GRANT vindicated the conduit of the India • prekri; and (aid, they had dikharged their dtitv y the belt dittates of their judgment and confeience. Lord TEMPLE, without any with to withhold from the Direftors any opportunity they cleared for their own vindication, could not confent to the pro dutlion of the documents , Alluded to, as purport i ng to convey any inftruftions to Lord Wellefley, or at all attach any cenfure upon his conduit. In the firß place, it bad never reached him, and coafequently could be no evidence of his departing from any in. Itruflions it contained. Great, part of it confifted of opinions and cenfures upon circumflances in his Ad. miniltration, which occurred five years before, and, confequently, could be no fort of evidence spina him on that ground. . Mr. WINDHAM, though forry to, differ from certain Right Hoe. Friends of his upon the prefent occafion, yet, feeling the queltion one of great im portance, and hinsfelf therefore bound to exprefe an opinion upon it, he mua give an impartial one ; and therefore, beeping, totally. out of view all perfonal confiderations, tussah re f eft to Lord WelleOey, anti confidering the queltion merely as between A. and B. he was rather of opinion that the papers ought io be produced. For though the houfe was bound to main tain impartial juthce with refpeft to the charafter acid conduit of Lord Wellefley, yet it was not bound, to that its eyes and ears to ev ery thing elfe upo n the great Calved of India.Afr a i rs . It would not be fair to give the authority of the Court of Directors againft what had been done,. neither would it be fair to give their fanaion and opinion las An authority approving of th at conduit which the Houk would be called upon to try. In the preterit joitance. however. there was no great danger of the Houle, being nulled by the production of the papers, ai the sontents of them• were already pretty well Wootton. . Thinking, there fete, that the production of thofe papers could be of no material advantage or • difadtantege to the cafe of the Noble Lord, he was inclined to vote for their pro. doefton, becaufe he thought that the Houfe had a right to be put in poffelhon of the means of eßimat• ing and afcertaining the value of the authority of the Court of Direilers. Although, perhaps, According to the ftria rules of one of the Courts of Weßminfter Hall, thofe papers Should not be granted, ye; he conceived that Parliament fhould not be fettered in the fame manner. He could fee no objeftion to the produftion of the papers in the fhape they hid been propofed, and as be thought they might convey much ufeful information to the Houfe, he &mild fupport the original motion. The MASTER of the ROLLS obferved, that no two Gentlemen who called for this document agreed in the rearm' for,which they faid it ought to be pro duced. He maintained that this was a proof there was no folid ground for its prodoftion. He main tained alto, that the falls upon which the opinion of the Court of Directors bad been formed on the con doß of the Noble Marquis, which this difpatch con tained, ought to be before the Houfe before the pro. prietyor impropriety of that opinion could be judged of. He fupported the previous veltion. Mr. WINDHAM and Dr. LAWRENCE faid a few words in explanation. Mr. ALEXANDER did not confider that a dif ference of opinion about meafures of Government could amount to criminality. If the Houfe were to confider thernfelves in the nature of a Grand Jury, they were not at liberty to ark about the opinions of other people, any more than Grand juries were to or& the opinions of the Magißrates before whom the examinations were taken. • Mr. FULLER Aid, the Honourable Gentleman who fpoke laR was wrong in point of feet, as Grand Juries did always examine the Magiarates, who were on that account always in attendance at the Affixes. Mr. WILBERFORCE obferved, that if the paper would throw any light upon the fubjea, the Houfe could not do otherwire than call for it. Mr. SHERIDAN Aid, that he perfectly 'agreed with the Right Honourable Gentleman who Spoke laff, that the Court of Direftors fhould certainly base an opportunity, at a proper tim e , o f p utt i ng t h e Houfe in poffeffion of their fentiments upon the af fairs of India t but it did not appear to him that the prefent was the proper time, when the produftion of the papers might have an cleft on the question of impeachment, which the Houfe were to decide on. It bad been obferved by every body, that the paper ought not to have any influence upon that queßion. It therefore appeared to him better, that it th ould not be produced until it w as d ec id e d. He concluded by fuggefling 'a refolution ' 4 , That the altered dif patch of the 3d of April, 1 805, had not the fanaion of the Court of Direftors." Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON fhortly re. plod to the arguments that had been urged againft his motion, and difclaimed the idealof having brought it forward with any view of prejudicing the cafe of the Noble Marquis. Lord CASTLEREAGH, in reply to a queftion put to Mr. Fox, Rated, that the difpatch refpeiting the Treaty of Oude, in 1803, had been firß drawn up by the Court of Directors, and altered by the Commiifi oners of the Board of' Controul. In every thing that did not relate to queflions of war or peace, the dif patches originated with the Court of Direftors. Mr. R. THORNTON faid, the Houfe appeared to him to be In a great error in matter of fad. The Court of Diredors had Orft written a dilate's, which cenfored (Irately tome part of Lord Welkfley's conduit. The Board of Controul altered that in a great many refpeda, and fofeened down feveral of the cap; 'Mons, but Rill what remained war, u far as It went, the *pinion of the Court of Directors. A Right Hos. Gentleman (Mr. Fex) bad conceived an improper opinion of the Court of Diredors, if be fup poLd they could be &Holed, forced to lip papers contrary to their opinion. If there were no other way id avoiding that, they would at raft be at liberty to reign their atuations. The motion being put on the previous quellion, there appeared oo the divifion—Forthe Motion t I—Againtt It 37-- Majority Stri. While (trauma were excluded, we underltood feveral India pa pers were moved for. When Rangers were again admitted, Mr. EtOSh entered into a hiftory of the policy adopted in tormer years, with regard to the Ripply of the Weft India Mantis with the more important articles of fuhfiftenee. Previoully to the year 1792, the Proprietors had reprefented to the Privy Council, that they could not be fupplied with the neceffaries of life, without imme• diatc intereourfe with the American States; this was nut diredUy acceded to, but, fulefreptently, indulgencies were granted. The confequenee of the adherence of Government to the Naviga tion Law was, that nine hundred and thirty-feven Slips, of a so.ixo tons, navigated by 6goo men belonging to Britain, were employed In the trade for the colonial fupplles, but when this fyltem was relaxed, only 19,00 [OM of British (hipping, and 1900 mariners, were engaged in this fervice. If the line were pro perly drawn, he conceived toopoo tons of (hipping, and 8,000 feamen, could cafily be employed In the trade. He had heard it was the defign of his Mejefty's Minißers to lay open this branch of commerce to the Americans, and to take from the Colonial Governors the ciecaponal refponfibility to which they had been properly expored, by a relaxation of the law on urgent oceatinra. He hoped, that on further couLderation (itch a martin would be • *lilabid; Whitt jata w :llCOeneneta. and in refped to thi t Nartsteqr Ad was Mc- Wed.—t T. That them Mkt ixiorethlt Hoak ;a? iA .eftont of the number et** Mill Ili*. their T indthe Ammen em ployed in Amok bee Maumee eie the' Se Jt is.dia Mande and the Utlitell haft the sth Jilmary, t 74. to the fame pe rind In tso6. W tt to quatity la taelt year. 2. " As d the oom.or of AMASS Mdps their Ton nage, and IlloTiaet. it tint foam teak, loelng the like pc mods, and each year iW he Ike One mew& s." An meastateithermtmehmoadibiad oforovillom Imported hoot to UMW Stites to the Ibbilb VOA la&a lihmdt. from the year 1723 1 te !he left yew, wiry dem Imre • The MIANCILLOit etas admitted that it was thekteatian hi s g=llollMiet midis's the Oeleral fievemeet the to *hi* the Hes. emitiamen had eroded. lat it woad be fond to be a hamiltial eiayc The Ripersaith la osofoloatat of the &reredos that tbstliamfate" Whew sapid to a degree ofoota , minty Illkiefis of *demi honcho. Ifidt aped to ttollimadr. It ins Anil opt lily rube pr•yorky bet to *dr fronts that *so Said In whooltiolol ;lotoodooto the Adam they retifrod ere aboodeat sad eloolia Mike ten In tweivi ream, wiles I ailleaMfylleat was poillid,bibtooss of Mires had weaned, the haw smadon widdi void mitt the molt plaid fenfatiass; and eemaikahemonity W led Minh niftration, for the three left years, to diandos the Atom SIM ()Rem, both in peace and war. So Carmen the Cuatimstol db• bliihntents of this country acr the Ad is wide Gr i = the Width Mends, that at ace period they wan fwd ii to their own fulditatee. On the wick. his WA. hod so oh jedion to the prodnalon of the poper‘but ha .lat inn* risht to captain thus much of the views otitis In reprd to thisobjed. , After (ow oblervadons from Lord Oalkewigh. Mr. INSer. Sir Wm. 'young, Mr. !Barham, lad Temple, and Mr. Jeffrey, the Motions were put and agreed to. The Hosfe then went into Committees on the Iron Duty BM, Stave importation X% and itith Loan Bin, which went through their ryfpeaive lives, but not without force eridturos on the 11. cend, by Mr. roor.ea.—Adjouracd at twelve o:clook. VIE EPENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL 21. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONR O'CLOCEs Couloir, for mum, 60 604—for rec. 6o3—.ocnolunt e. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. 3 p. Ct. Rai Ann. All India Bonds par 11. pre. 3 per Cent. Calf. 60 , 3154 6o Exalt. Hite, zarren. as. dlf.par 4 Per Cent. 7 7 6 11 011thilltal 43 a prem. 5 per Cent. Navy 93 9233 Eaglllk Tickets 191. z9s. Lc% Ann. 17f s T goof. for ace. 6o ft Yeaerday a Meffage from his Majesty, refpating the differences with Prutfia, was brought down to both HoOres of Parliament, which; with the papers prefented at the fame time, will be found in our Par liamentary, Report. The Meffage; as might be ex is dignified aid moderate—ftei from all petu lance and reproach. . . Government yeßerdaY received intelligence that his Mafeßy's flip Leanne arrived at St. Kitt's' on the gth of Mareb, with inftirtn . ation that eight fail of the line, which filled from Siell on the i4th of December were bound to the Eatt Indies. The authority on *bleb the above llatement is given, is, we beliete, that of the following extra& from the log book of the American kip Dorothea, dated the 4th of February, received by the Leeward Ifland Mail. The LiallDilt arrived at St. Kilt's on the oh of March, and the intelligence was feat off on the following days " At two o'clock A. M. ekovered a fleet to the Meth We*, wbkh gave chant* us, in Redding faib, and hem se. At three, the headmoft Delp, the Patriot, earns up with us, sod proved French. Alter exandniog us, the carried map to the Admiral t aed after akin many queftloos, relative to Entail; convoys, they allowed is to proceed. Lat. 15, ss. LOOM 1303, W. The Ps. mot Informed the Capone of the Dared as that they had Med from fiat on the lath of Dumber, eighteen fall In number, but had feparated la different diviflooe ; they had taken three Engillb Alps with troops on baud. They denied that they bad any troops on board, eithougto the Admiral's ildp appeared lull of troops. The tips were--.Bala, 74; hfaJeffic„ 74;11otpetotat, 74; Fondroyant, 74: Veteran, 74; Patriot, 74: le Caftor. 14 ; Valenelenaes, 44 ; all Preach... Admirals Chtililaume sod Jerome Bonaparte. Be. Helena Eaft 130 leagues:* We entertain fanguine hopes that a good account may yet be given of this fqnadron. Sir Howa Pop- HAM, we underftand, failed from the Cape of Good Hope about a week before the enemy's !hips were feen in the fituation above &Scribed. All the fubjees of the Kula of Swrol■ have been ordered to leave the French Welt India Wands. Admiral COCHRANE, in the NORTHUMBIRLAND, was at Antigua when the mail was tent off. HAMBURGM MAIL. The mail due on Sunday arrived this day, and has brought us intelligence, that the Prulßan Command. ing Officer, at Cuxhaven, has given aria orders that the Britifh packet boats be allowed to pats and repafs unmoleßed. Our letters from Hamburg!), which are of the isth inße do not, however, mention that the news of the embargo laid on Pruffian vefrols in Britifk ports had been received there—a meafure which, when known, may occafion the prefent order to be recalled. The CalAbrians Rill hold out againft the French. The Prince of He& PH xi PSTNALi . to a third furnmons to deliver up Gaeta, has replied, that ha willidefend the place as becomes a foldier of honour, to the lilt extremity. The Pruhian Minifler, Count HARDPNIIIItO, has entered into a paper war with the Monis no., and has publifhed in the Berlin Gazette of the loth int. an anfwer to an article in the French Official Journal of the 21h, commenting on his letter of 22d December, to Lard Has ROWRY. He charge.; the French Editor with having aimed, in the copy he has publilhed, many material expteffions in the letter alluded to. Want of room obliges u► to defer till to.morrow the article publifhed by the Count in his own jollification. Different divifions of the French army, which had turned their faces homeward, have received orders to fufpend their march ; others have been ordered to refume their former pofitions ; and every thing teems to indicate that the pc: cc of the Continent is yet far from bring fettled. • . ' r. • The occupation of Cativo bi the Ruffians hay caufed much chagrin to the Freed: Emperor, who demand,, in vain, that the• Emperor of AUSTRIA (ball deliver up to him what isnot in hi.power. aceour.ta from the Mayne fay, that already a revere battle his been fought in that neighbourhood between the Ruf. flans and French, but we have not been able to colic& any thing certain refpelting it.• The following are the only articles for which we thi, day find room : MUNICH,Aratt 6.—Brannan, it is faiJ, will be oc cupied by French troops till Cattaro is evacuated by • the Ruffians. A categorical anfwer is 'spelled by the Fierch from the Court of Vienna. Fameccsorr, Ara tr. B.—Reports of war hare been itl circulation here for Come dos pall, which ..t& d our State Paper Money to fall Rill lower. \l., It At Augerean is returned in pedal health lions Wtita. den. General Rapp i% atri fed here. Yeßerday the troops of Martha Lefevre, whielr font. days before were marched to France, reentered W4baden. Kist., APRIL IL—An order has been received by the Pruflian yards not to venture at prefent through the Sehlefwig•Holfein Channel, but to remain he till further orders. Vignola, Aram g. —Count Boot., or Genet,l ZIDWITZ, will be appointed fueeelf,r to Count Ms!. ?MICH, as our Anthaffador at Berlin. Our Court Gazette contains the following article, under the bead he&: The head-quarters of the Hereditary Prince of Na ples, who has with him his brother Prince Leopold, are Rill at Corona; but the Neapolitan army under Count Dames has advanced from Crati. The bri. gades of the French Generals Verdier and Lecchi, have in the mean time advanced with changeable fortune agaiaft Calabria, but no battle of confequence has as yet taken place. The Minifter Calicetti pro teed. aftively in the organization of the Kingdom. —All the ftrong places have furrendered ; only the Prince of Helle Philip(thal Rill bolds out in Gaeta, and has returned for antwer to the third rummies, that he mall defend the place, as becomes a foldier of honour, to the lee extremity. In the mean time, the Englith have landed in Sicily, particularly in the vicinity of Meta*. Two (hips of war, of the &II rate, and feveral fri. gates and armed refits, are cruizing within fight of the hatbour of Naples. It may, therefore, be con. jeeured that the expedition to Sicily, for which all the vellels along the whole coati have been put in re. quifition, will be deferred for tome time. The Mhdfters Medici and Circello have received their difrnitfion at Pattern/. Venice, Warne :7.—No further accounts have been received from Cattaro Once left week. Accord ing to an ascertain report, the &dna°s have taken OMB= of Amnia. The- greaten aaivity pre. wails in oar *Arena!, in the building of gun boats In alatoft all parts of the Adriatic Sea, Ruffian and Englitli frigates (warm fo, that our trade by fea is a l ine * annihilated, and we can only carry it on under Papal and other Neutral Flags. The merchants of Trieft avail themfelves of their neutrality with great Friday, at North Berwick, the Hon. Hagar Ea stern,. Lord Advocate of Scotland, was unanimoally elated Member for that difiria of boroughs, in abs roots of Colonel DALRYMPLE. Snme more American papers to the 9th of March arrived yeflerday ; but a previous arrival enabled us completely to anticipate their contents. The Poworra frigate, with the fleet under convoys from Lifbon and Oporto, is arrived off Plymouth. Notice is given at Leith, that a convoy will be pro• vided to fail from Leith Roads, with the Baltic trade, bound to the ports of Denmark, Sweden, and Raffia, on Friday the ad of May next. ANIERMSIIII, APRIL 20...—The following flips have arrivedtere, to wait convoy for the Baltic, which is appointed to fail from the N ore on the xadinftant Maria Sophia, Schats, from London to jacobilidt, in Swedlib Finland, in bailiff ; St. Johannes, Hok, from London to Gotta. burgh, with coffee, (ajar, &c.; Emperor of Rolla, Metcalfe, from Foremasts to St. Pctcriborgb, in bailiff ; Triton, Polk!, Maria Chtifthsa, Carlbom, Doan, Strom, and Fortuna, from the Downs to Umo, in Swedith ?Wand, in balls& Dow, Aram sr.—Sailed yeflerday the fhip Bath Captain Boman:tea, of Gothe n b urg , b oun d to Hull with wine ; boy Mercurius, of Hamburgh. Captain jacoss, bound to London with a cargo of wool, from Bilboa ; and the fehoot jonge Pieter Jacob, of Knoephaufen, Captain LANOBROOK bound to Carel! with falt and coffie.—Wind N.E. and blows frefh with (mall rain. DEAL, APRIL lt.--Arrived the COCKATRICE and PEuttota (loops of war, with a large fleet of vef felt under convoy from Ireland and the We ftern Ports, which are failed for the River. —Sailed the CLEM frigate, Commodore Owe),; Osaaota (loop of war; Coteavramv praam, and fever al gun brigs, for the French Coale. Came down from the River the Nep tune and Marquis of Ely outward bound Eaft India. men.—P.S. Juft failed the Coc RATRI cc (loop of war, with the Eaft Indiamen, and the reft of the out wa: d• bound under convoy for Pot tfmou th.—Wind N.E. FALMOUTH, APRIL lg.—Attired the Reward, Thous, from Oporto, one of the Lifbon and Oporto fleets, which pared this port yeflerday evening, under convoy of his Majefty's chip POMONr ; James, PA s. COE. from Brißol ; Three Brothers, Wasrcorr, }rpm Swanfea ; and Dait, BEDLAKE, from Plymouth.— Sailed the outward bound Quebec and Newfound land Fleets, under convoy I f his Majelly's Grips CHAMPION, of 24 guns, and AVENGER. of r 6; and the Auckland Packet, SE H vrsta, with Lifbou —Wind N. E. ,`