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soles consideration o i l . five minutes, down it eame,l eeomene oded of course most strongly to the adop 'em t ithe House. Then their orator, who had just 12 g down, had his sppech to make. It was made—all was eer y well ; and the country, the good-natured countr y, was now to be saddled with an increased e e rriand of two millions and an half. Such was the his tory of this application ; btit he hoped, that in the ab meeent all information, the House would not adopt gege n. The petition stated, that the wars in India wee tee cause of the Company's present application. f i e however,wasof opinion, that theirembarrassments m eowing to great commercial blunders. Since 1806 i ons , by Reports mach as the present, that the gentle men u p stairs covered their nonsensical fooleries, and humbugged thecountry. Every day they were asking e souch, for Gon's sake, horn the country; and for the hg thirty years we had been continually lending them mno ey. By their own spewing, the East India. Com ny was £15,000,000 worse than nothing. (Hear, They said, to be sure, that they had assets, e w e debts, etc. but the fact was that all their stock was owe and that it was an excessively convenient thing f er t eem to have an ally in the Government. But t hough the Company was fifteen millions worse than w hine, it was not so with the Directors, &c. They had a famous business of it. Every one of them had a roost beneficial patronage. Three lvriterships, ten cadetship, and places for fifty or sixty ticket-porters, Wen is the gift of each of them. Then there were the Ladies and Gentlemen Proprietors, who had nothing to do but receive their dividends, and hear an anniversary deelamation, on the prosperity of the c o mpany from the Gentleman who did the annual oratory-business for them, and he balloted also for the Bank. (A laugh) There was nothing in the world so fine as this public orator's speeches to the Ladies and Gentlemen composing the United Con of Merchants trading to the East Indies. (A .*.) The Company and the Bank were all one to hire ; he would prove them both to be as safe and peed as possible ; and in one annual address, the in-. 'liras of fifty thousaud of people were dispatched by him with all imaginable ease. But besides the Bat wing unction of the Gentleman's oratory, the Ladies lad Gentlemen composing the United Company, had rbe gratifying vanity of every year dictating Cover less to the Great Mogul Empire. After some few Meter observations, during which he said, that he un *mood the efforts for effecting a loan in the City to be quite unsuccessful, the Honourable Gentleman occluded, by expressing his determination to oppose the grant in all its staves. Mr. R. THORNI ON defended the propriety of the grant. When the Honourable Gentleman said that th seCompany were 15 millions worse than no ting, he must have been making an unintentional *statement, or he must have said it as a joke. He *lced the Honourable Gentleman for the good ',tour of his speech, and he complimented him on hhtmccess in_decorating so dry a subject with so Nob amusement. The Honourable Gentleman did his duty this year quite in a pleasing way. Every lembe came forward as a warning voice, with a me mitiori in his mouth ; but this reminding them of their mortality, had just as much good nature in it as the Spanish Benediction, tt May you live a thousand pm" As to the loan, it was but a temporary ac mwesodation • and did not the Company deserve to berelieved ? Had they not conquered every inch of ground that could be conquered in India ? Had they lot secured to the country a territory that yielded 46,000,000 a year revenue; £4,000,000 of which went to the country, and that was, he believed, no sum to be sneered at.—(4 loud laugh.)—The fault of the Directors, if indeed they had any fault, was too much economy. Sir THOMAS TURTON said, that when so large a sum as; that of 02,500,000 was required by the East India Company, he expected that some reason would be given to shew the House that jus tice had been done to the public by stating the grounds for this advance. But they said this sum was not asked as a loan, for that all above 0900,000 was owing to them. He thought the Company ought to shew their Debtor and Creditor Account, and prove hew that fact really stood. The territory of the Company, he considered as no security : the conquests they had made were not those of the Com pany, but the conquests of the country ; and he pi o- Phecietls that whether it was wrested from us in the arbitrary way we had seized it, or whether it remained et it 'as now, we should never receive any benefit from it. The Company were coming to the House ear mu loan after another, and he thotrght it was the duty of the House to make a stand, and to consider the interests of the public as well as those of the Com pany; for which reason he cord not agree to the vote. Mr, C. GRANT (a Director) denied that the Company owed the country arty thing : the debts of the Company contracted in India were war debts, mot at all commercial ; and the Company did not ask that the publi c shauld be teed for the payment of the interest of this debt, but the Company would provide for it, and pay it out of their own funds. From the retrenchment of their expenditure, and the "dtiction they lead been enabled to make in the in t_c_reurtlie Crimpan 7 would soon have it in their power Nue off all their loans. The territorial debt did not I 4 rwitint to two years' rent. of the country, which was flehOUo I ,000 annu a lly ; an d t h oug h t h e d e b t h a d eme exec! at £30,000,000 it did not actually amount watore than £ 2 6,000,000, which was not two years' ten t. The Company had only borrowed of the Pub- Lc 41,000,000 in the last fur years, and that had °Y been paid off. °He HUSXISSON submitted to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it would not be desirable to make a eireeng fund of 1 per Cent. or some other rJetthat should be adequate to redeem the present lola to the course of the new term to be granted to ethe Company, by the renewal of their charter, which oesuw no reason to suppose wonted not be made next Session. Mr. N. VANSITTA RT agreed as to thepropriety of a_sinki ng f un d b eing provided ; and it must also considered, that there was always a e running ac count between the Company and Government, which tieing chiefly for war expences, it was highly desirable should be bro ug h t i nto the r egular ' accounts of the Iraq and navy. This was the intent of Government, bat it %vas impouible to effect it at present. /AL HALL said, the question was, whether it was deaf, or rather, whether it was not necessary, to t e lthiS SUM to the East-India Company, to enable to carry on their affairs. He came down with a '0) a deternilUltioll to vote in favettr of the grant, but he found, from the statement of the Right Hon. Gen tleman (Mr. Wallace) that instead of £2,500,000, they would very soon want the aid of £6,000,000, for the remainder of which they must come to Parlia ment hereafter. He thought they would have done better to apply for the whole at once ; and could have wished that a more bold, open, and manly manner had been adopted ; and that the East-India Com pany would not place themselves in the state of men dicants, coming continually to Parliament in the way they now did. Mr. W. SMITH said, he had no doubt but the country would always meet the Company with libe rality, but the House ought .to be on their guard, and ma to give £2,500,000 at this moment before the terms of the renewal of the Charter were settled. If they did so, it was clear the Company would want £3,500,000 more ; and if the House should object to it, the Company would perhaps say, if the House did not agree to it, they (the Company) must he ruined. If the country owed any thing to the East India Company, let them come with their debt and receive remuneration ; but while the Company pay themselves a dividend.of 10 per cent. they ought in justice to pay the public the intertst of this Loan.— The Right Hon. Gentleman had said, if the settle ment of the Charter had come on this year, we should have known what we were a b out . H e (Mr. l Smith) suspected the House would be told next year, that if it did not lend the Company what they wanted, and any demur should be made to granting the Charter, as before, the Company would say we expected you would do by us as you have heretofore done, and if you don't, we cannot pay you. Mr. WALLACE said, all he desired was to give the Company the power of going on till the Charter should be settled. Mr. R. THORNTON said, the truth was, the Company had advanced money to Government; — they had had one loan which they had repaid : they had at this moment in their warehouses, goods to the amount of £4,700,000, and if their ships of this year came home all safe, they would have goods amoun ting in value to £7,000,000. A e;vision then took place—ln favour of the loan 74—Agair.st it 8. . The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the fol lowing grants : To defray the elpences of the Army Extraordi- .2 narks, at home, - - 2,201,405 To defray the expences of the Army Extraordi narks, abroad, - - - 5,290,000 _ . Both resolutions, after some discussion, were agreed to, with out a division. Mr. W. POLE moved the grant of .015,000 to the Irish Com missioners of Enquiry.—Agreed to. Several smaller grants were moved, and voted without oppo. action. The Report of the Committee was ordered to be received to morrow. In a Committee of Ways and Wan., the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia, kc. were ordered to be defrayed out of the Land Taa.--keport to-morrow. The other Orders and Notices were postponed.—Adjourned at half--past Twelve o'clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JUNE 16. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OMR O'er-m - 9c. S per Ct. Red. 57f 561-4 per Ct. s per Ct. Cons. for money shut—DlV° for opg. 58 s} lot Omnltun 2.12 S IS 2 t The Loan of £22,500,000, for the Service of the Year 1812, (for England 15,650,000--Ireland 4,350,000—the East India Company 2,500,000), was contracted for this day. All the Lists made a simi. lar offer, viz. by Messrs. BARING, J. J. ANGERSTEIN, BATTYE, DAW‘ES and ELLIS ; Messrs. BARNES, STEERS and llicaano ; and Messrs. Rl:a/ARTS, CURTIS and Co. TERNS. Xl2O 1- I Reduced s per Cents.l for every .4100 Sterling 56 - S pes !lent. Consols. S subscribed. The Dividend upon the 3 per Cent. Consols to commence from January, and upon the Reduced S per Cents. from April last : and the first Half-yearly Payments, becoming due July sth and October 10th, to be exempted from the Property Duty. Discount after the rate of 4 per Cont. per Annum for Payments made in full. - The Ingle and anxiety in the Stock Exchange was never greater than this morning.—Consols opened at 58i—fell to about 58 before the terms of the Loan were known, and elwa experienced a further depres. sion to 37.—Omnium began at 2i to and declined to only ; then recovered a little, and at one o'clock • was 1 prem. Our Readers will see, ;upon a reference to our re port of the proceedings in the House of Commons, that the PRINCE REGENT has superceded the necessity of all further discussion on the subject of Colonel M‘MAtion's salary, by directing it to be paid out of the privy purse.—This is as it should be, and nothing can tend to secure his ROYAL HIGHNESS more firmly in the affections of his subjects, than a frequent repe tition of similar marks of respect for public opinion. We stated yesterday, that Mr. SHERIDAN would announce a motion for Wednesday, to give him an opportunity of explaining his conduct in the hie for mation of the Ministry. He accordingly did so, and we perceive that Lord YARMOUTH has given to that Gentleman the merit of advising the Officers of the Household not to resign their sltuations.—This happened, it seems, at a place where they usually met at night; and an appointment was made for the next day, to confer on this advice, which appointment Mr. SHERIDAN did not keep. Papers were yesterday received from France of the litt, and privite letters of the 11th instant. The contents of the former are unimportant, but the pri vate communications state positively that all attempts at negotiation with ALP-ZANDER, have totally failed. The departure of NAPOLEON from Dresden for Posen, is considered as the preliminary to hostilities. The French Papers contain no' intelligence from the •ninsula eve . the surrender of Badajoz has not been once alluded to. N4PAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, JUNE is. Nothing arrived or sailed, and the packets are still in the Roads.—Wind W. TORBAY, JUNE 14. Sailed his Majesty's ship MUROS, with the ships under her charge for Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 14. Arrived the HELICON, 10 guns, from a cruize. The TEASER, 14 guns, went from the Sound to Stone house Pool. The DREADNOUGHT, of 98 guns, is fitting with ury masts in Homo:lye. to be sent round to Portsmouth to be repaired, the Docks in this yard being occupied.—Wind S. W. PORTSMOUTH, IUNE 15. Arrived the SormE from a cruize ; and his Majes ty's ship Pni N c Ess C AROLINE , a f ter see i ng the East Indiamen to a certain latitude.—Wind Westerly. DEAL, JUNE 15. Arrived his Majesty's ship CHATHAM. and will proceed to join Admiral YOUNG off Flushing. Sailed his Majesty's ship WARRIOR for off Flushing. LEITH, JUNE 13. The CHEROKEE sloop of war sailed from the Roads yesterday, with a convoy of ten sail for Wingo Sound. The foreign ship Adamant, going to join the convoy, grounded on the Bar, when going out of the harbour, and lay all the tide, in consequence of which sbe has lost the convoy. 1 - - THE ARMY. . -:--- . • Lieutenant-General Sir CHARLES HASTINGS hat failed in his endeavour to raisca seco'nd battalion to the 12th regiment. The first battalion of the Royal Scots (Duke or Kent's) is'ordered from the Leeward Islands to Ca. nada. Wednesday the Dumfries-shire Yedmanry Cavalry were inspected by Colonel M‘Mcatio, Inspecting Field-Officer of the District, accompanied by J. MURRAY,n Esq. of Mui raythwaite, Vice-Lieutenant , of the County. Alter the corps had performed their different manoeuvres, the Inspecting Field Officer addressed them in an anini led speech, approving in the highest terms of their excellent discipline and sol. dier-like appearance, and stating that he would des cribe them to the Commander in Chief as not inferior to that of any military corps on the same.establish ment in the kingdom. Fiid :y the Penrith Local Militia, commanded by Colonel de Wiinromat, were reviewed by Colonel RAWDEN, when they went through their various et°. lutions in a manner highly creditable. The American Congress have just passed an Act, putting a total stop to the barbarous practice of flog. ging in the American army. Their Military Code before was very like our own ; now, they have sub. stituted for the torture of the lash, stoppage of pay, confinement, and deprivations of part of the rations allowed.—This is a glorious triumph of humanity ! MANCHESTER, JUNE B.—The Camp on Kersal . Moor is under su c h m ili tary regulations and ar rangements as are requisite for immediate service; so that the routine of camp duty is strictly ob. served. To complete the preparation for such se:. vice, a telegraph is fixed on elevated ground, from which any necessary information can be commu nicated all through the district in a few minutes,— There are two pieces of artillery on the ground : six horses are attached to each of these pieces ; a driven to each pair of horses ; two men stationed on the gun, and about twelve men on horseback, in attendance. Last Sunday, at the camp on Kersal-moor, wu exhi. bited a solemn and impressive scene, that does credit to the liberality of the times, and we trust, will Se a presage to the return of tolerating and nnbigoted prin. ciples. The Roman Catholic part of that highly re spected regiment,the Louth Militia, with other soldiers of the same faith, were brigaded on the ground, and marched round an altar, raised for the purpose of cele brating Mass. The sight of so many huddred warriors, With their wives and children, on their knees suppli. cating the Almighty for their country and themselves in a way most congenial to their inborn feelings, im posed a religious silence and interested every spectator. BREAM—This day the LORD MAYOR ordered it to advance Two-p ence per Peck, to take place on Thurs day : the price of th eQn a rtern Loaf will then be Is. 7d. In the Court of King's Bench yesterday Mr. R. Bligh was again brought up for judgment, and after his affidavits had been read, and Mr. Warren heard in mitigation, Mr. Gmutow, for the prosecution, sta ted, that Lord DansiLay was still ready to take re. cognizances of some of Mr. B.'s most respectable friends, who might be inclined to be sureties for his keeping the peace towards his Lordship ; to obtain which, he was remanded till the last day of the Term. Yesterday, in the Court of Common Pleas, the Earl of It.ottesren passed, a recovery of several es tates in Gloucestershire, &c. with the usual ceremo. nies. The Judges were attired in their accustomed habiliments. In the Court of King's Bench Dublin, on Friday, the action for arrest and false imprisonment, brought by the Catholic Delegates against Judge DOWNIM was argued at considerable length by Mr. Penang, on be. half of the plaintiffs. The defendant pleaded in de. murter : let. The general issue, £cl.4 - lis patent as Chief Justice. 3d. That whether special informations upon oath were lodged. To these pleas Mr. P.EARIS objected in a masterly tipecrii, full of legal research; and Mr. Lzsua Fosraa replied at great le ngth. The Court adjourned the further hearing of the cause until the term in November next. CORK, JUNE to. The brig Theodore, Captain KNUBLEY, from Ma. ranham to Liverpool, with cotton, and the brig Ge nerous Friends, Captain DUFF, from Surinam to Cork, with sugar and coffee, put into Valencia the sth inst.—the former was on shore, and was got off; and the latter under jury masts, her cargo materially damaged. The Isabella, POLL, and the Ann, Dow- NELL, from this port, arrived at Cadiz on the 26th of April. The James, Grimm, from hence, arrived at Surinam on the 24 th April. The Little Mary, WILTON, from Baltimore to Lis boa, foundered, ten days after sailing—crew saved. Captain KIRKNESS who was saved from the wreck of ,the Dispatch packet, with all his people, arrived in the Abundance store-ship, with mails from Gibral tar, &e. On the Ist inst. in lat. 46. 27. long. 7. 46. passed two ships of the line aad a frigate, supposed to be French, steering southward. The Trinity yacht Is attending the Elder Brethren of the Trinity house, at Portsmouth, who are about to establish a floating light upon Bembridge Ledge, and another light at Hurst Castle ; when there will be an upper and a lower Light, for the purpose of conducting ships in and out of the west end of the Isle of Wight. From the manifcst of the cargo of the Hussar, M•PnErtsnv, now cleared out in the Clyde for Ja maica, it appears that she has on board upwards of one millibn and a half yards of cotton and linen goods, besides considerable quantities of linen thread, hosiery, hoots, shoes, saddlery, hats, flint, glass, soap, stationery, &c. We have leernt the follow;eg perticulste of the French squadron recently destroyed by the NOR THUMBERLAND, from an intelligent Master of one of the merchant vessels captured by it, and who was on board the ARIANNE. It is important in two points of view : first, it skews the wretched state of the French navy • and secondly, the contemptuou s li g h t i n w hi c h the French officers consider theirfriends the Ameri cans : ‘, The ARIANNE, of 44 guns and 380 men, was commanded by Commodore FERTIER, a Member of the Legion of Honour, an experienced officer ; the other officers were young, and ignorant of their pro fession. 'the crews of both frigates were a complete medley of French, Dutch, and men from every part of Europe under the French yoke ; the greater part of them new conscripts; the Commodore's ship had not more than 30 or 40 good seamen on board. The ARIANNE had seldom ler.s than thirty in her sick list; about twelve died of a malignant fever ; the people were short of clothing, very dirty, swarming with ver min, and infected with the itch. From the miserable manner in which they were manned, their general dislike to the service, and the continual dread they be trayed of falling in with a British force, it is thought a very inferior squadron would have captured them with little difficulty. The English Masters and their passengers were treated in the kindest manner, lived and messed in the ward-room with the Lieutenants, and had every indulgence and respect shewn to them; whereas all the American Masters were treated wit marked contempt; were sent to mess with the boat swain and petty officers, and very few of them were al. lowed to shew themselves on the quarter-deck. The ships destroyed by this squadron were, 10 English, 13 Americans, 3 Portuguese, and a Spanish packet —in the whole, 27 ; those of the English not valuable, being all outwardhonnd." The public are entirely mistaken in supposing that the Counsellor alluded to by Lard WILLI:SLIT in his reply to Lord Hill/LOWEY, WAS either Counsellor Lae or Sir PHILIP FRANCIS, whose disputes and duel with Mr. L - Larrnicis are well known. The Gentle man's name was BEATSON, of the Council Board, or Cabinet of Calcutta, who actually flung an inkstand at the bead of the Governor General.; in conse quence of which, a duel took place. On all subse quent occasions Mr. HASTINGS with that good nature which always distinguished him, was accustomed to express his doubts of Mr.Bsarsoa's sincerity, because his dissent was not manffested in the turd manner. A Deputation of Gentlemen, we regret to state, is arrived in town from Lancashire, to communicate the important fact to Government, that a discovery had been made of the Luddite: having established several forges in that county, for the manufacture of pikes . and darts; a sample of which the Gentlemen have in Lord Coonniwx had on Saturday along interview their possession. We are in hopes, that these will with Lord Mrtvitax at the Admiralty. prove extreme cases, exaggerated by very natural ap- Sir R. STRACHAN is said to have relinquished the prehensions into systems. Nocturnal meetings, how command he has so long held in the fleet, under the ever, continue to be held by the Liddita at stated orders of Admiral YOUNG, off the S c h e ld t . ,I periods, in remote and e l evate d s i tuat i ons. W hat c The extraordinary interest excited by L or d M OIRA ' S an these infatuated men propo se to t h emse l ves ? • Pamphlet is proved by the announcement of a Fifth ; The following are some further particulars relative Edition within a week, after its appearance. to the terrible accident which happened at the Low Some American Papers arrived yeste r day. The Felling Colliery on Mondayohe ilk as *Wadi only article of their contents worthy of noti c e is a mentioned in the STAR I letter from Baltimore of the 30th of April, which 1 Ihe shafts of the mine are 550 . yefite, s 111112121611101 tba or f w t o t r i ltril shaft 102 fatho m s , • and tor Orsa i r sees states, that the President and Essex frigates had sail. ed on a cruize, for the purpose of protecting the since , and math atboms deeP. t for the gaffe atlas re el; ll. and lidalli elnago American coast from any interruption that mien be calk:icy of Its arrangensenb-..drcessiPsliglit _ . ta• offered. . emond shift er set. of men to be ftet1211121,911 Ware • Borthwick Castle has been sold by authority of the t i l d le ay firs iam t had . ith a diem * br i Z e t w eie l en tbs o ,= l l 4l therilith 4h4 usual tirne of Whin', a treinesidoes dotabk Watt( Court of Session of Scotland. This remarkable lullowed edifice was built in 1430, by the fir s t Lord B OR T H - hyd rogen gas ex pl o d e d throes * the weskit, nlllll6lO wee Jan • to wino wire, and is acknowledged to be the most entire a nd stantlY by a similar expl o sio n f raik magnificent specimen in S cot l a nd of the man s ion of Ils e ai r , by these iniantmabla e rupt i ons , woe dlegaee w i t h immense qua/utiles of dust and small coal Wiesen a Feudal Baron. irons the workings. Out of the dslrty-frre persons wit* SSA IS The mode of presenting some of the addresses of a pan of the Woe est exposed to the whole fery of the imam ore element bu , and who were d rawn to d ay - l ight save, several are condolence on Mr. PER CI V AL ' S assassination, we ob. t threeetghti. hausf.tentsince died ere . tur two day bodies have serve, has been different from that adopted on ordi- b eev een em i ,,y. d. rn an t ' d nary occasions. From several boroughs the Mayors the least possibility of finding them till the lint be have come up in person to the Levee. At the last we and the wahine ventilated. The total less r 111111 .7 4 " noticed the Harwich address was taken up by JOHN baa fc l et T ie rr t ". l " sic Wes "t i gNi ty = n a iad ', 41/f tbs HOPKINS, Esq. Mayor ; and the Colchester address b o ys. mails in.ll tar persona, else are, by thiq awful Wean by FRANCIS Satern,urs, Esq. Mayor. ma% threat& yea the benevolence af the puNig,"