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'tat GENERAL ELECTION. Jll6/,‘ • AcT, zb • ‘,s 'l'o THE WORTHY AND INDEPENDENT LIVERY OF LONDON. - T HE very general A ssurances o f S upport w hi c h I have received from you, demand my wannest acknowledg ments, and justify the expectation that, through your partiality and favour, I shall attain the highest object of my ambition, that of being again elected one of your Representatives in Parliament. FRIDAY NEXT, at 12 o'clock precisely, is the time appointed for the ELECTION ; I therefore respectfully request the Favor of your Attendance and Suppott at the Common-HalL I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful and obliged Servant, WILLIAM THOMPSON. Upper Thames.street, July 20, IMO. DAILY CONVEYANCE DURING GREAT YARMOUTH ELECTION. THE COMMITTEE for conducting the ELECTION of PRESTON and CAMPBELL, have the pleasure to In form their Brother Freemen, that they have engaged COACHES to leave London daily, during the whole of this Week,and request their Friends will apply to them immediately, to fix the day on which they desire to be conveyed down. Committee Room, Three Tuns Tavern, Jewry-street, Aldgate, 30th July, 1830. N. W. SYMONDS, Chairman. GENERAL ELECTION. ALARGE COMMODIOUS and POWERFUL STEAM PACKET to let on hire. Apply at the Steam Packet Office, 35, Leadenhall Street. A. MITCHELL. EDINBURGH AND LONDON STEAM PACKETS, the JAI If44TT; Captain DAME, ! STARTS, from Binehwolt, for ewhaven, Edinburgh, on Saute. day Evening, 31st July. The SOHO, Captain Bratson, on Wednesday Evening, 4th of August. The CITY OF EDINBURGH, Captain Fraser, on Friday Evening, Gth of August. The JAMES WATT, on Wednesday Evening, 11th of August, for Newcastle. The TOURIST, Captain Jamieson, every Tuesday Evening. Carriages and Horses must be sent to Ashton's Wharf, Black well. Goods for all parts of Scotland and the North of England, received here until Four o'Cleck on the Evening of starting. Beds may be secured, and every information may be obtained, at the Spread Eagle Of rice Regent'. Arms, Piccadilly. Steam-Packet Ofice, A. MITCHELL. 55, Lesdenball Street, IMPORTANT TO HOUSE PROPRIETORS. FURNISHED, OR UNFURNISHED, BOARDING HOUSES AND APARTMENTS, &c. DIRECTORY OFFICES are opened atFA LMOUTI-I , PLYMOUTH, EXETER, CHELTENHAM, BATII, WEYMOUTH, WORTHING, and BRIGHTON, in LON DON, 87, CHARLOTTE -STREET, FITZROY-SQUARE, to supply the Nobility, Gentry, and Mercantile Gentlemen, with information, and to facilitate the Selling or Letting of every description of Estate and House Property, previous to removal, without the necessity of perambulation. No expence to the Enquirer, and very moderate Commission to be paid by the Proprietor, when a Tenant is provided, and a small Registering. Fee on entering the same. Printed Catalogues of Estates, Manors, Villas, Cottages, furnished and unfurnished Houses and Apartments, in the above Towns and adjacent Country, sent gratis to every part of the kingdom. All letters post paid. Considerable Sums of Money ready to be advanced at four per Cent. for Five Years. Mr. QUICKE, Surveyor and Auctioneer. West of England Estate and House Director Office, 87, Charlotte -street, Fitzroy-square. PUBLIC NOTICE. IN consequence of the very increasing demand fo r IN DAY and MARTIN'S BLACKING, the Proprietors have erected a Manufactory on so extended a scale, that they will be enabled to execute all orders for Foreign or Home Consumption at a day's notice, and to secure the Public from imposition an Engra ving of the New Building will appear on the Label. Ist May, 1830. 97, High Holborn. pLATE.-A. B. SAVORY, 14, Cornhill, London, OPPOSITE THE SANK OF ENGLAND, The best wrought Fiddle Pattern Silver Spoons per oz. and Forks Ditto King's Pattern ditto .. 78. lid. The following are the weights in general use, but the articles may be had lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce. Average weights of Fiddle pattern. 02 . at X. a. d. 12 Table Spoo — ns . - 30 7s. 2d 10 15 0 12 Dessert ditto 12 Table Forks 12 Dessert ditto 2O 7 3 4 2 Gravy Spoons 1 Soup Ladle 4 Sauce ditto 4 Salt ditto gilt 1 Fish Slice, pierced 2 10 0 12 Tea Spoons 1 Pair Sugar Tongs, strong 0 15 0 Average weights of King's pattern. oz. at X. s. d. 12 Table Spoons . 4O 71.6 J. 15 0 0 12 Dessert ditto 12 Table Forks 12 Dessert ditto 2 Gravy Spoons 1 Soup Ladle 4 &arc ditto.. 4 Salt ditto gilt, strong 2 5 0 1 Fish Slice 12 Tea Spoons 1 Pair Sugar Tongs 1 5 0 IN THE MORNING OF LIFE, when the blandish ments of passion " take the reason prisoner," it is an evil more to be lamented than wondered a', if, in the vortex of decep tive pleasure, the unhappy traitor against the laws of nature pays in lonely disappointment a fearful exaction for his rebellion, in the compromise of his mental as well as bodily powers. 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The man of pleasure exposed to and suffering from Lues Venerea, however aggravated by malpractice of the quack. or the conceal ment front diffidence, may find a certain restoration ; and finally in cases where the delay of a connubial pledge has almost extended disappointment to dispair, they offer to the married female those hopes which she can reasonably appreciate. Messrs. GOSS and Co. are to be consulted, as usual, every day, at their house • and Patients in the remotest parts of the Country can be treated successfully, on describing minutely the case, and enclo , irg a remittance for Advice and Medicine. No difficulty can occur, as the Medicine will be securely packed, and carefully protocred from observation. GOSS and Co. M.R.C. Surgeons. No. 11, Bouveric-street. Fleet street, London. Just published (Twentieth Edition,) I. The AXIS of LI FE, a familiar commentary on the abdte diseases; d, The SYPHILIS'f, a popular treatise on him venerea, &c. 3d, nY GM ANA, addressed exclusively to the Female Sex. May be bad at 23, Paternoster-row, London; Potter, 72, Grafton-streit, Dublin ; 86, Trongate, Glasgow ; 9, Carlton - street , Edinburgh; Wrightson, Birmingham ; Bath ; Mittel; Weller, Cheltenham ; Loder, Brighton ; Wood, Huntingdon ; Hatt, Cals. bridge ; Trewntan , Exeter ; Deck, Ipswich ; Ham. Loads Gore and Son, Liverpool ; Sowier, Manchester ; Platt and Todd, Sheffield ; Bacon and Co. Norwich ; HMOn a dd Loirndes, and Slatter, Oxford ; Brodie and Dowding, Silldfury ; and of all booksellers. Price Ss. each. TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 27, ISM. N°. 13,536. THE ANTARCTIC COMET. (From the Gaeeta ►fercanti! of the 17th April.) This phenomenon, which has travelled more than one quarter of the heavens since it was first discovered in the constellation Hydrus, near the Antarctic Pole, is now in the Northern hemisphere, and may be seen in that of Pegasus, in the absence of the moon, in the morning of the 20th instant, from two till five o'clock. As was expected, its progress was considerably retarded, when in the vicinity of the planets Mars and Jupiter, from whose influence it is scarcely yet clear. It arrived to that important point called the Ascending Node, situated in the 15th deg. of Aquarius, on the Gth, or, more properly, at 5 day 21 h. 20 min. when it had 61 deg. 38 min. of western elongation. Mr. Kiernan, to whom we are indebted for our information, has furnished us with the following observation+, which, we hope, will be of some importance to the European astronomer, who, from his situation, was deprived of the opportunity of marking its etherial path in its transit from S. to N. They were made with well. corrected sextants, at the same instant of mean time, the able lunarian, Capt. Dwerhagcn, giving his assistance throughout the Whig, COMM ' March 18, at 10h. 2lm. mean time, the Comet w•aa dbtant from a Alpha Centauri 34 deg. 42 min. Canopus 34 deg. 18 min. March 20, 9h. 42m. do. do. a Alpha Centauri 4O deg. 29 min. Canopus 36 deg. 4 min. March 21, 101.02 m. do. do. a Centauri .. 37 deg. 21 min. Canoptu .. 44 deg. 7 min. March 23, 8h 45m. do. do. Achernar .. 25 deg. 38 min. Bets Argo Navis 40 deg. .52 min. March 26, 7k 45m. do. do. Aehemar Beta Argo Navia 54 deg. 20 min. March 28, 4h. 30m. a. in. Alpha Centauri.... 54 deg. 10 min. Jupiter .. :17 deg. 45 min. March 30, M. 00m. do. do. Jupiter ..... 38 dcg. 30 min. Altair .. 33 deg. 50 miu. Fomelbaut . 21 deg. 15 min. April 1, at sh. 00m. do. do. A1tair....... 46 deg. 0 min. Fomelhaut 2O (leg. 10 min. April 5,4 h. 3(m. do. do. Altair...... B4 deg. 32 min. Fomellsaut 25 deg. 35 min. NAVAL AND MILITARY MORTALITY AT JAMAICA. From the Portsmouth Herald. " The following comparative statements, with which we have been kindly favoured by a naval friend, will no doubt be interesting to our:naval as well as military readers,as showing the mortality in the two services at Jamaica, and proving the advantage of keeping the ships' companies of the squadron at sea. It is a known fact that the deaths in the squadron formerly greatly exceeded those of the troops, because the ships were generally kept at Port Royal. It will appear, however, from the following statement , that the mor tality in the navy, under the immediate charge of Admiral Fleming, has been lately only one-twelfth part as great as that in the military, which we attribute to the judicious arrangements of the Admiral in keeping his ship as much as possible at sea. An Account of Deaths among the Troops serving in the Island of Jamaica, from the years 1819 to 1829 inclusive. gAn&qeng e3 l ca• co rear. P_ !Lp 4= ...I, G. Z .., V " 4 5 4 Pr$""Yl" vtaow..76.wr - = .244asysn.-a E § 1C r 72 ii: 3 Z s grj.EENgi Strength. en et a a Ursra Lt. CI a a I Deaths. 1,4 EM §§l 1 Strength. P , GI 2 0 2 at t t a 2 000 Iri) ca . ?: ta cap ea 'asap g =a st ? as s-v2s-sa-.3.2 iilllibliEMlE 0700.42.4 COV 0 WV 0010-10.441 Total strength in each year. deaths in each Average per Ccnt. An Account of Deaths on board his Blajesty's ship Barham, from April 11, 1827, to March 27. 1830, James Finlay Edward Fireman William Young 1829 Horatio Hewlet Henry Albert George Nichols George Roslyn William Newland Joseph Roberts 1830 Thomas Archer John Douch to Mr. Moultrie Thomas Illinshaw March James Mills Benjamin Crichton Of the above, 12 died from disease, and 3 from accident. The Barham victualled on an average, during the three years. 450 men, the deaths being (including three accidents) during the whole of that period. 15; which is very little more than one per cent. per annum, or one man in every hundred each year. The an nual average strength of the army, including women and children, was 3,414. and the annual average deaths 435, being upwards of twelve and a half per cent. per annum, or one man in every eight and a half each year. The years 1819, 1822, 1825, and 1827, ap pear to have been by far the most fatal among the ttoops, AI will be seen by the table. The smallest number of deaths happened in 1829. 1827 1820 1829 THE KING OF WIRTEMBERG. His Majesty, Frederick IVilllans I. King of Wirtemberg, who, on the gracious invitation of William IV. conveyed to him by CoL Finclarenee, now visits England for the first time, is forty-nine years of age, and succeeded to the throne in 1816. His Majesty is son, by a first marriage, to Frederick, Duke of Wirtemberg, who was raised to the kingly rank by Napoleon. The late King of Wirtemberg formed a second alliance with the Princess Royal of England, by ' whom he bad no issue. It has been under. stood that Frederick when Prince, was not on happy terms of union with his father, whose alliance with Bonaparte he resisted on all occasions. The Crown Prince served with much honour dur log the last war, and is esteemed on the Continent as a good soldier and an honourable man. His Majesty's destinies have, however, been in many respects peculiar. Intended by his Royal Father to cement his alliance with the French Emperor, by a matrimonial union with Stephanie Beauharools, no* Orsini Diwbas Mirages of Baden; he entered, as an evasive measure, into an immediate engage ment with the Princess Charlotte of Bavaria, who was equally anxi ous to escape a marriage with Jerome Bonaparte the !OLIO West. palla, afterwards united to the Princess Catherine of W emberg. he Crown Prince livell for four years on terms of fri endship with his Wife; with it Mutual understemding that their union should be dissolved whenever the fortunes of Oennsay and the down fall- of Napoleon plight perthit them tR form a second choice.— In 1815, accordingly, the ties of the Crown Prince of Wirtemberg wine invalidated ; he espoused Ina ielioad &adage the *Wowed Duchess of Olde11511111; lOW tb tam Illeperor of Russia; while his divorced wife beanie Empress of Austria. The Royal pair still remain on a footing of friendly fiord, !bonfires aoddectraiti• stances bring them tol_ether. With hit new. Quern, . 01* the KThg Of Wirtendtng 114ed•Ift the hipplisit tetNiti bid°. mastic affectiOl. In 1818, her Majesty dial of iladtkit without leaving heirs male to the throne; and in 1820, the King PRICE 7I). was re-married to his Cousin, Princess Pauline of Wirtetnberg, who gave birth to a Prince In the succeeding year. In the year 1819 the King of Wirtemberg bestowed a liberal Constitution upon his subjects, which conciliatory measure, com bined with the relax a ti on o f t h e severe game laws enforced by his predecessor, added considerably to his pop u larity in t he kingdom. He also dis persed the enormous menagerie which had been enter. tained by his Royal father—to the great discontent of the lower classes at Stutgardt. The King of Wittenberg is manly and simple in his habits of life. He makes frequent journeys into Italy from his summer pa lace on the lake of Constance, for the purpose of collecting artists and objects of art for the decoration of his capital; and he has per sonally inspected the progress of a delicious villa named Rosenstein —built after his own plans in the beautiful environs of Stutgardt. It is remarkable that this lovely spot, a recent purchase selected by his Majesty, commands avow of the magnificent Mausoleum erected to the memory of Catherine, his second wife at her own dying re quest, on the summit of the mountain of Kaillenberg. This tomb, w*h overlooks the " city of the vineyards," as the Capital of Wir. lA~berg has been not unaptly named, is decorated with fine statues from the chisel of Thorwaldaen and Danekec, and is annexed to a Greek Church, endowed to perpetuity for the purpose of saying daily mass for the soul of the deceased Queen, whose memory is fondly cherished by her husband. Her sons, th e young Princes of Oldenburg, one of whom died suddenly last year, reside in the Royal Palace at Stutgardt. Frederick William is an excellent horseman, and his stud, consisting chiefly of Arabians, is splen didly appointed. The chief stable contains two hundred stalls filled with thorough-bred horses. The Palace of Stutgard is inferior only to that of Versailles in the days of its original magnificence ; and it is fitly graced by the splendid hospitality of the present King. Their Majesties appear daily in public, riding together in the avenues of the Anlanen, or park, and attending almost every representation of the national theatre. The youthful family of this royal house consists of six children, by the second and third marriage. Coxpawtows or GEO. IV.—The late Marquess of Hastings was certainly the steadiest of his Majesty's friends ; but he was an im. provident man, and therefore ill.calculated to be the adviser of the Prince. He was constantly in debt, and taking up money upon post-obits, and other securities, at enormous rates. His servants, of whom he kept a large number, lived riotously, and drank the dearest wines at their master's expence. He also had a number of pensioners, most of whom were blood-suckers. One of these was Felix M'Carthy, an Irish adventurer, who once absented himself longer than usual from St. Jtunes's.plaee, on which his lordship sent to know what was the reason. Felix returned an old pair of shoes worn out at toe and heel, asking " whether those were fit for hid; to enter his lordship's house in ? It is no wonder that the Prince and the Marquess should have been constantly embarrassed. Among the early associates of the Prince was George Hanger, af.l terwards Lord Coleraine—a man of most eccentric character, not , destitute of talent, but of dissipated habits, and fond of low com. l pany. The Colonel succeeded to the title of Coleraine in 1814, on the death of his brother ; but a greater affront could not be offered hint than to address hint in word or writing as "My Lord." He always wore a silk handkerchief round his neck, and a short club stick under his arm. He died in 1817, at the age of 73, having been for some years discarded from the Prince's parties, on ac count of his low propensities. He was at one time a sort of purveyor for the royal pleasure ; but though he had all the vice and good humour of Falstaff; he had not the wit of fat Jack. Yet compared with others, his old patron might say, " We could have better spared a better man." • • • • •. Another of the convivial companions of the Prince was Henry Bate Dudley, commonly called " the fight ing parson." His name was originally Bate, to which, in 1784, he added that of Dudley. He succeeded his father in the Rectory of North Farmbtidge, in Essex, but never resided there, living con. stantly in London, where he wrote for the stage, and conducted The Morning Post. In 1780, he established The Morning Herald, which became The Gazelle of Fashion. Bishop Lowth having called upon him to reside, or discharge clerical duty near London, he, to avoid the former, took the euracy of Hendon. Here he use d to attend on Sundays, with his friend Parsons the comedian • and between the morning and a ft ernoon service, Play at cribbage in the reeky ! When the Duke of Bedford beams Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland he gave Dudley the Chancellorship of the Cathedral of Ferns, and other preferments. In 1816, he ob tained a Prebend of Ely. The Prince Regent made him a Baronet in 1812. But when application was made to Lord Grenville to promote him to the Episcopate, his Lordship referred the appli. cant to the words of St. Paul—" A Bishop must be no striker." The Prince, soon after the establishment took place at Brighton, received into his service Louis Weltjle, a German. He was *rig& nally a gingerbread-baker, and sold cakes about the streets, and the Prince, being pleased with his manner and cakes, gave him a situa tion in his household. Here he rose to be chief cook and purveyor, both at Carlton-house and the Pavilion. His ride kept even pace with his good fortune ; and he even took nally great liberties with his royal master. Weltjie at last, however, lost his place and the Prince's favour by his folly. He had an only daughter, of whom he was fond, till she offended him by marrying her father's assistant cook. Weltjle was so exasperated at this degradation, that he had the assurance to complain to his royal highness, representing the ingratitude of the young nun in strong terms, and stating the disgrace brought upon his family by this match. He concluded by soliciting the immediate dismissal of the offender. The good-na tured Prince only smiled, and told Weltjie to lire amicably with the young couple. This Weltjie could not endure but kept on re. monstrating till his royal highness's patience being tired out, h e dismissed the cook front his )nesence, and shortly after front his service, giving the place to Weitjic s son in law. Weltjie, how ever, had realised a handsome fortune, and built several houses at Brighton. lie also kept a subscription.bouac in St. James's-street many years, the history of which would be curious. He died slid rienly in 1800.—Lloyd's Memoirs. PARLIAMENTARY PAPSRS. • THE CHINA TRADE. The Report from the Select Committee on the Affain of the East India Company has just been delivered, of which the following is an abstract _ The Committee, finding it necessary to call for further statements respecting the Company's finances, have postponed that part of the subject, and made a report exclusively relating to the trade with China. The Report commences by stating that the Company re serve to themselves the whole of the China trade • but that licences are granted to country ships occasionally , to purc hase a quantity of tea, not exceeding 400 chests in a ship, and that thedemand fbr these licences has of late years greatly Increased. The Akin of the Com pany are managed by a Committee of Supercargoes in Canton. They consist of twenty in all; but three or four of them are annually formed into a Select Committee, who manage the whole of the Com pany's transactions with the Ch inese. The influence of the Company's servants at Canton is stated to be considerable, and to have increased of late years. They are admit ted to person al conferences with the Chinese authorities, who occa sionally pay visits of compliment to the factory and the Company's ships. They are the only foreigners who are permitted (and much value is attached to the privilege) to address the local government in the Chinese language. All other foreigners are obliged to use Eu ropean languages, whereby the Government is enabled to put what construction it pleases upon the addresses. The Company's superior influence is ascribed to the magnitude and regularity of their dealings, and to their being able to temporise, without either incurring national dishonour, or bringing ruin upon themselves. But great difference of opinion prevails on the question of whe ther a Btitish Consul could motintain the same influence as that pos. seined by the Company's savants. 'rata were formerly paid for in bullion, and the Americana are still obliged to trade with dollars ; but the Company conducts its uansactions through the means of British merchandise, bartered with or sold to the Hong. These commodities are principally woollen and cloth, but it is admitted that the sale of these ankles has diminished, in consequence, as it is supposed, of the exertions of the Americans, who ate charged with the offence of selling inferkie goods marked With the stamp of the Company, in order to mecum their admission to the interior of China without the usual examiwion. The Company's expo nt front China are confined to tat, and the consuMption hat much in. I creased since 1814. , Tea is,grown and used throughout Ois} Those spell& which ari suited for the Europ e an an t Atd&GMthohlr.Eti tle Mad to be produced in five .proeiess.; bat doubts, as,it,,nggsrom in eel.', deuce, are entertain e d whether the quantity of fine teas required for those marketi could be dint dally augmented, on *lon being ' oho given that an inaaised demand would for a time muse a 'rise of price. Suppoeinig the quantity could be angirer.ted, pre. vious arrangements, Wault.be necessary to obtain it, the tea plant rembring at least two or ihiee years to come to maturity..' sudde. supply of an incteabed demand, especially for green tea, would, it is saki, be of a deterioratcu quality. In cases, however, where de, Chinese have found that the demand was increasinig, they hay , made their provisions accordingly, though some difficulty has occasionally been experienced by traders in obtaining all they wanted. The Report admits it to be proved, that the price of tea is hi ;her in England than in America, or on the Continent, but the quality it. superior; and a remarkable fact is elicited in the evidence. namely, that black tea, if kept in a warehouse and not in a cellar, improves and becomes stronger by keeping. The average amount of annuli Revenue derived front tea to the Crown is 3,300,0001. and it pos. 'eases this extraordinary merit, that it costs in collection somethim; less than 10,0001. The Report concludes by stating the conclusions the Committee have arrived at with respect to the opening of the trade. EFFECTS EXPECTED swat THE ABOLITION OF THE LOB PANIC'S EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGE. The opening of the trade between Great Britain and Chi:, would not, it is thought, cause any alteration in the policy of the Chinese Government towards Foreigners, unless the Revenue shall fall off from an increase of smugglin g by free traders, or unless there should be, from private disputes, more frequent collisions betwce: Europeans and Chinese. In either of these contingencies, appre hensions arc entertained that the trade might be entirely interdicted. But, on the other hand, it is said that such a fatal result a cold be averted either by the sense which the Chinese Governmeut entertains of the rilue of the trade, or by the influence of the population of Canton, And of the tea districts, which are deeply interested in its continuance. If the trade were interdicted, tea, it is thought, might be brought to Sincapore, and other places accessible to the British traders, in Chinese junks; but such a commerce is stated to be contrary at present to the laws of Chine ; and much doubt is felt, whether, by the means of such insecure vessels as the junks are re presented to be, tea could be obtained in sufficient quantities for the English market. It is said that the interest of the Hong merchants, in a pecu niary point of view, would be promoted by an open trade as an increase in the number of purchasers of tea would afford an op. ponunity for commanding high prices. In spite, however, of such ex cted advantage, the Hong merchants, trim an apprehen sion of ihtlattad risk and responsibility, are represented to be against any change. On the other hand, it is stated that the Americans and other foreigners, dealing freely as private traders, have not experienced any combination against them on the part of the Hong merchants. In order to derive advantage from a free trade between Great Britain and. China, it would be necessary, as some think, that ' the monopoly of the Hong merchants sliculd cease, and that a Commercial Treaty, upon mutually liberal principles, should be formed between the two countries. It is, however, appre hended that the Chinese would not be induced to enter into sucit treaty by any other than coercive means, and these it is fancied might be easily and successfully used. Many of the witnesses are strongly impressed with the belief, that a very large increase in the consumption of British manufactur e s would be the consequence of opening the trade. Private merchants. they say, can push a commerce much better than a Company ; and new wants and desires would be created by the never-ceasing efforts of individual enterprise and speculation. These witnesses refer, not only to the fact of the American having of late made exports of British manufactures to China, but they also refer to the result of opening the trade with India, followed as that measure unques tionably was by an Immense increase in the exports from this country. In opposition to these views, it is said that the small proportion of the American exports of British manufactures, relatively with bullion, coupled with the fact that the Officers of the Company's ships, having no freight to pay, have not increased their exports, ought to be considered as a proof that the consumption has not, as yet, been found susceptible of any material augmentation. It is further stated, that a formidable obstacle to the growth of a profita ble export trade from Great Britain to China arises from the obliga tion under which India is placed—of annually effecting a large remittance to England, and which remittance is now advantageously made by the Company through the medium of Chinese produce. It is likewise observed, that the extended use of British manufac tures in India has been promoted by fiscal regulations, which the British Government had the power there to make, but which it could not effect in China. With respect to the price of tea, it is thought that the first effect of an increased ,demand in China, consequent upon the opening of the trade, would be materially to raise the price there ; though indeed this effect (unless the Hong should be enabled to dictate prices) might be expected gradually to sub- side. It is said that the charges of bringing the tea to England and selling it would be much less in a free trade than they arc at pre sent, and therefore that tea would be afforded to the consumer at a lower rate. In answer to this, it's remarked, that most of the Coen. pony's charges are controukd by law ; that these might be reduced if the law were altered ; and that what the Company get in shape of profit is necessary, with the obligations imposed upon them, to enable them to administer the Government of India. According to this view, whatever the consumer of tea might gain by a reduction of the rate of profit to the importer, would either be at a sacrifice to India, not now ins situation to bear it, or must be made up by the people of England ; besides which it has been observed that the abi lity-of the private traders to furnish tea cheaper than the Company, would depend upon the effect which an open trade might have upon prices at Canton. One great advantage expected to result from an open trade with China, is the facility which it would give to private merchants to effect returns from India, in which great difficulty is now expe rienced. It is said that the Company partake largely of this 'neon venience, and that owing to the pressure of the demand for the Go. vernment remittances, it has become necessary to make the China trade a principal channel of effecting them. Deprived of this chan nel, India would be obliged to remit through the private trade, by which (should remittances to so large an amount be practicable) a loss would be sustained equal to the difference between the rupee valued at the Board's rates, and at the current exchange. If the trade were opened, the Company would still possess the power of trading with China • and it is thought by some that their capital and influence might enable them to trade more successfully than private merchants. Bat it is Mid that this competition might be mutually injurious, without the country's being benefitted by an extension of her commerce ; and that this Company's profits, if they had competitors, would be so reduced as to prevent them from ministering to the financial aid of Indian territory. The Report thus concludes : Your Committee have endeavoured to give a fair and impartial summary of the evidence on the China Trade which has been brought before them. Whether this object shall have been faithfully and satisfactorily effected, will appear to the House by a careful perusal and examina tion of the whole evidence itself ; but it will not fail to be borne in mind, that in the midst of such multifarious and conflicting state ments as that evidence contains, and restrained as your Committee have been (both by what has been expressed in the House, and by their own sense of what, at the present period, would be either pru dent or just) to the plain unbiassed narrative of their proceedings, it has not been in the power of your Committee to offer such obser vations, and to enter upon such discrimination of the evidence as might be a guide to the House in the decisions hereafter to be made. Your Committee have, on the contrary, done their utmost to guard against the appearance of a leaning on the one side or the other. Their observations, your Committee have felt, ought not, by any inference of their own, to convey opinion, which may have been taken up ; but in the execution of the important duty committed to their charge, while from necessity some valuable information may be left unnoticed, they have studiously endeavoured, by classifica tion and arrangement, to bring the moat material parts of the evi. denee into view, and thus to facilitate to the House the means of acquiring for itself an accurate knowledge of its real tendency and result. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS-(THIS DAY.) FIRST lIEBTINGS. u. H. Milne., Sackville.atreet, Piccadilly, tailor B. Shaw, Billericay, Rut; grocer SECOND MEETINGS. H. J. Pettit, Hastings, Sussex, jeweller . D. Von, Upper Thaines.street, lighterman . J. Sainthill, Pickle liming, Tooky.strect, French bun mercht 1l J. Briggs, Horsham, Surrey, victualler —. ......... . .. 11 E. Tomes, Blaster, Ochedshhe, tea deale r... W. Turnbull, Upper Oraftaa.street, music seller D. Twort, Honmonden, Kent, miller . II C. Burls, Cateaton.street. merchant J. T. Brown, Bush-lane, wino.merchant .. THIRD MEETINGS. T. Millgate, Friday.street, Manchester, warehouseman ...... . 2 J. Bilton, Newman.street, Isdaing.house.keeper " W. Borne, Birchin.hine, clothier fk Bartram, St. Mary-street, Whitechapel road, outeinnaker J, Fawley, Renrich.strect. vinilllemal pa inter W. Fine, Sheppeston.place, New Nor -road, builder . ll P. A. lalltent, Welbeek-sweet, dales t . .6 H. Flower Walling, Rent, Artist . ' - 'e.." . 2 R. Whittaltr, New Cavendhh.aucet, linardraper— ...... ..... 1 l E. and T. Tinker, Tdwer Royal, 'Wade stationers ... ...... lir W. Norcott , Jatues.street, Covent.ganien, wine merchant .... .. lii