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1. claims of the Petitioners; for, in the case of a private person accepting the assignment of an estate as the consideration for monies by him advanced, it would not be competent to him to refuse discharging the incumbtances taken with the estate; but, on the con. trary, such an assignment would stand good in any Court of .Equity. Sill, .however, he (Mr. Plunkett) begged to be understood as not yet having formed any opinion on the merits of this case. Ile was merely • &hewing that something like a primafacie ground was laid for the application. He was bound to vote for the Committee, because, this being a claim of so pe culiar a nature,.there was no other way in . which the Petitioners could apply for redress but through this House—( Hear). Mr. W. WIGRAM defended the conduct of the East India Company. The Company ought not to be called en in this matter. It was nothing more than an account between the Vizier and the parties vho had been thus concerned with him. The Vizier alone, or his representative, could be answerable for it. Mr. P. MOORE was astouished that the Hon. Gentleman, who was the professed agent for the Pe titioners, could for a moment have been induced so far to sanction their Petition as to bring it forward. The Hon. Gentleman proceeded shortly to state what he considered to he the facts of the case. In conclu sion, he timtight that the House had no judicial au thority, and therefore voted against the Committee. Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON did not mean to say that the Company ought to pay the debt; but he thin; tt that there were parts of it to which they might he liable. What part they ou2,lit to bear, and what part they ought not, he hoped to learn from the Report of the Committee. Mr. W. WYNN thought there was such a prima fade case made out as justified . the House in going into a Committee. The claim, it should be recol lected, was not for services performed, but for money actually lent. Captain MABERLY thought the claim could not be supported. M. MON BY was most anxious that justice should be done; but on looking at the papers already before the House, he thought the main allegations of the Petition were disproved. Dr. PHILLIMORE would have voted against the Committee, it he could have seen that the statements of the Petition stood disproved ; but after looking at tentively at_the documents before the House, he did not feel competent to determine whether the claim ieas or was not eqablished ; and therefore he should vote for fat titer inquiry. Mr. G EORGE SMITH was against the Committee. Mr. RICARDO thought that the Right Hon. Pre sident of the Board Of Controul could not have suffi ciently attended to the papers.bafore the House. In his opinion it would be impolitic to grant a Committee. Mr. W. WYNN, Dr. PUILLIMORE, and Mr.WionAm, explained. Mr. T. P. COURTENAY said, this was a claim, best of liberality, but of right, and there was no jsicli cial tribunal either ui this country or in India by which it could he decided. The Board of Controul might, undoubteJly, have sent their mandate to the Court of Directors, ordering them to send a dispatch to ludia, commanding the payment of the debt claimed, which was about £150,000: but they did not like to adopt such a proceeding, as they under s'ood that the whole 24 Directors were opposed to the claim. It therefore appeared to them far more eligible that it should be investigated before a Com mittee of that House, by whom evidence might be beard, and th e whole of the facts inquired into. Mr. BROUGHAM bikfly replied. A very un candid and inaccurate attempt had been made by his Ilon. Friends the Member for Aberdeen (Mr. Hume), and the Member for Coventry (Mr. Moore), to make it appear that the lion. Member ander the gallery opposite (Mr. Prendergast) was a party interested in this case. This was done with a view to gain certain votes ; but he begged to state that it was totally un founded. lie was merely the Attorney—the person that arranged the case in this country for the benefit of the real parties interested. These parties were un der British dominion, and therefore when they ap pealed to the British Parliament were entitled to a full mea:.ure of justice. Mr.Hus,e and Mr. BROUGHAM mutually explained. The House then divided— Fur the Motion Against it Majority in favour The Committee was accordingly nominated. Mr. HUME complained that there were no Mem bers of the East India Company to be found in the nomination of this Committee. Mr. W INN observed that in a case of a claim upon the East India Company, it was a question whether the votes of the Members of that Company would be allowed? After a few words from Mr. R. SMITH, Mr. PREN DERGAST, and Mr. BROUGHAM, it was agreed tO in clude Colonel BAILEY, wito had been a British resi dent in India, Mr. A/11.m., Mr. WIGRAM, and Mr. Hume in the Committee, which was empowered to meet tomorrow. • THE IRISH INSURRECTION ACT. 39 39 _43 Mr. GOULBURN rose to move the second reading. Sir ROBERT WILSON hoped that a subject so important would not be entered into at this late hour. lle was willing that the 13i11 should pass through one stage, but hcped that the debate would be taken at a future period. Mr. GOULBURN expressed his readiness to tin. dertake that this should be the first subject nn Monday. The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. The lieuse went into a Committee on the Small Notes and, after some conversation between the CHANCELLOR of the Exturovitn, Mr. Ricesno, and Mr. lIUME, the former agreed to withdraw, for the present at least, the clause empowering Country Bankers to pay their notes either in gold or in Dotes of the Bank of England.— Report on onday. The other Orders of the Day hiving been disposed of, the . House adjourned at Lialf-past Twelve &Clock. • isrsotv'errrs.--Yrom Returns to Parliament, we find that tke debts of air thousand and ninety petitioning and discharged debtors amnanted to upwards or fl attains and a half, while the w tmount ' of property received by the as"ig . nci:s was one th au sandfrur hun• dyed and ninety•nime pounds / This was somewhat more.than, Ass "shillings tram each debtor's estate to clear upward s o f we millions and a half of debts ! There is a Bill now in Parlia- swot for erecting a new Insolvent Court near Lincoln's bony which economicifly provides teat aU unclaimed monies o( re •-• keyed debtors shall be applied " towards defraying the expenses of the said Court." MMilmi..., THE IfIGIIG.ATE CHAPEL BILL. This Bill is appointed to be recd s second tittne4his day in the House of Commons ; %it wokope that the House will not perniit measure, involving such serious consequences as are compriseiltn this-Bill. to be hurried through at this late period of - the Session, when it is impossible that that attention can be given to it which it requires, and particularly atfter what hat. fallen from his Majesty's ATTORNEY•GENZRAL in the House. If the Bill should past; it will establish a precedent, never.before known in our jurisprudence, that Parliament may exercise an original jurisdiction' over the rights of private property. The estates be. j longing to a valuable institution, founded as a Free Grammar School, and of which that institution hai' beertin the undisputed possession for upward of 260 years, are by this Bill (at the instance of its own Trustees) to be appropriated to objects never contem plated by the founder, when at the same time the l administration of the Charity, in consequence of the mismanagement of those Trustees, has, with the con currence of the ATTORNEY-G ENE RAL, been placed under the direction of the LORD CHANCELLOR. It is worthy of observation, that one of the Solicitors for this Bill is one of the.Trestees, and a defendant to the proceedings in Chancery. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, JULY 5, 152 STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The market remains fiery steady this morning, and scarcely any business doing. The Jews have been buying largely fir the August Account, and selling for this. Money still remains scarce. To-morrow will be the ant Transfer for Consols and New Fours. Consols are, up to this your; 81 to 1, Reduced 791 SO. Foams Fain.—The market is ratter slack this morning.— The letters from Holland to-day bring all foreign securities highera Spanish has risen in : Holland 11 per cent.—Current prices: Spanish (Old) 1.5 i i; New 621 ; Chilian 791 ti 80, Russian I 3 ti 11.1 ; Prussian tie 1; Danish 114 i ez. iii. Nea politan 70# 71 ex. div. Colombian 1911; New 113 e. STOCK EXCHANGE-ONE O'CLOCK. The Market hooka heavy, and is on the decline. The sales continue, and some purchases have been made for the next Account. Consols are now at eh Possum Mautwr.—Chili Bonds bay. fallen' withiq the last hour, and are now 79 I, and Spanish 63e. Russir and other Securities have nothing doing in them. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Bank Stock 241% 242 A-3 per Ct. Red. 80% 80 3 per Cent. Cons. shut-3 1 ,4 per Cents. 91 4 per Ct5.97 3 / 4 % Ws-4 per Ct. New Ans. 98 3 / 4 34 Bank Long Ans. 20 7-16—Imp. 3 per Cents. 787/i Escheq. liills (E 1,000) 3s. Es.—Do. Sm. Bs. 6s. pr. Consols for Account 81A 81. The French Papers of Tuesday have been received. The Chamber of Deputies is still occupied in de bating, or rather in reading and hearing speeches on ' the law for regulating the Customs, which meets with great oprosition. The foreign intelligence gra dually becomes more and more warlike. Nothing is now said of the evacuation of the two Principali ties by the Turks; and it is acknowledged that not one step has been made in the negotiations with the Porte for the last two months. An article from Augsburg of June SG, says the intelligence from Constantinople becomes less satisfactory, and that Lord STRANGFORD and Count Lurzow have ad dressed a new Note to the Divan, to complain that the evacuation of Moldavia and Wallachia is not yet effected.. It is affirmed that the Reis Effendi has ac quainted these Ministers with the motives which have induced the Ottoman Government to give or ders to suspend for a time all retrograde movement. He has, however, again promised that the Ottoman troops should quit the two Provinces, but without fixing the time when this evacuation should take place. It is said thit Russia will not send any Minister to Constantinople, not even on a special mission, till the differences between Russia and the Porte shall have been finally arranged, an event which certainly does not seem near at hand. It is now well ascertained that the Captain of the Turkish banditti, CHOURECIIID PACUA, has received a signal defeat from the Greeks in the neighbour hood of T 1 icala, and that Napoli di Romania has also been stormed by the Christians. We mentioned yesterday that the King of SPAIN was to return from Aranjuez to Madrid on the 27th ult. and the Journal des Debats contains the Order of the Day for announcing the event, and preparing the scene. The following singular instruction to the troops, and the motive of it, sufficiently testify the state of the capital, and the part which the KING is desirous to play :--4 , The acclamation most grateful to the Leart of his Majesty being that of Constitu tional King, the General Commandant hopes that the Chiefs of the Corps will require their soldiers and the other military to salute his Majesty by that flat tering cry." It Ts said in the Gazette of Madrid , that the Judges of Grenada, having held a solemn conference, de cided by a unanimous resolution, that there was ground for proceeding against the author of the 17th number of the Pluto, as seditious in its tendency, and subversive of the laws. The following are the expressions charged with this character Nothing is said vf our situation and the necessity which we are under of creating a Revolution, and proclaiming anew Liberty and the Constitution." So suspicious has been the conduct of the Minisiry of France towards the Constitutional Government of Spain, that the Journal de Thoulouse states that the French in Saragossa have been placed under the sur veillant ttf the Police. If. we can believe these Pa-- • pers, Catalonia is still in a state of considerable agi- , T Echo who besieiged the under the orders 'Don J. Dosuo►ta, 3000 men, had '• - Tbe Trappist mounted , hnl., _ hand, and a scourge in.the other. His example, was followed by the Royalist troops, in spite of the conti nued fire which was kept up upon them. The forts were all taken the same day, without a single indivi dual escaping. In them and in the citadel:were found a great quantity of munitions of every kind, together ith the wives of the principal Liberals.s While the latter were leaving the forts, the inhabitants cried out Perish all the enemies of the King and of religion ? They added to these cries the Tragala. The troops had great difficulty in saving them from the fury of the people, who wished to tear them in pieces, with out waiting for trial or sentence." It is scarcely ne cessary to add, that this is from a provincial Paper, which supplies the Paris Ultra Journals with articles 'of alarm and exaggeration. French Funds, July 2.—Five per Cent. Consols opened at 91 1. 35 c.—Highest, 91 1. 45 c.—Closed, 91 f. 40 c. Ts. At a late hour this forenodn we received a Dutch *ail, bringing Brussels Papers to the 2J, and Dutch Papers one day later. The following are extracts: fee the purpose of consolidating ing, in a satisfactory manner, the entries with Holland, under the House of Orange: construction of the fortificatio ns Is it not to maintain this unioa that we fortify our frontiers? and are not the ex penses occasioned by it regulated in agreement with England, since nothing is done without the interven. tion, I bad almost said without the order, of 4 $ Commissioners? " Btit I have something• more decisive to allege in support of what [advance, viz. what was said in Parliament, on the 4th March, 1818, by the Secretary of State, who was then and still is Minister t.,. F o . reign Affairs, 4 that it was understood that Great Bri taM should cont: ibute, Equally with Holland, to th e repair of the fortresses upon the French frontiers: and by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Who, whil e he affirmed that the Treaty of 1814 was not very ex. plicit on this point, allowed, however, that it wa s agreed on both sides that the sum to be contributed by England, towards the repair of the iol tresses, might amount to three millions sterling.' 44 Admitting, then, that the British Government has furnished two millions sterling, and even aliew . ing the interpretation which some of its n.etnbers have put upon the Treaty, it scents to me (an yo ur Mightinesses will agree with me), that we are justly en titled to call upon it to contribute the half, not only of the eight millions of wins which are now neces sary, but of all the farther sums which the construc tion a:.d arming of these for tresse . may require, :411.1 which would not render its total contributio . equi. valent to three millions sterling. " Certainly, if even these expenses should he car ried to so great an amount, it %silt still riot he denied that England has made an ecellent bar .Ain, by the acquisition of our Colonies of the Cape of G a ' 11: I ..e, Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice. It world no:. be disputed that the first of these possessions is of ines timable importance ; and. that, .after the a. of Ceyhin, it was difficult for England to make et mere valuable one in those seas. " The consequence of what I have just stateJ that there is no ground to grant the eight mid., rh in question, hut only four millions, in case Ei,,,ar4 should contribute an equal sum." By the late arrivals fr.-.‘m New South Wales we have received Sydney Gnzettes to the 16th Feh , t,,,rv. The colony had ,ufferea much fiorn a severe .iron h:, but rain had come at lat. An Agricu:tu•.t• S‘sc:cty was formed at Hobart's Town, Vein Dienun's Lar,J, on the Ist of January last, one of the pi incipal jects cf which '*as to confer suitable tewards marks of distinction on persons exce►ling in tl:e different bran Ches of agriculture, v. Lb which view the e were appointed Antimal Nieetin e ..s, with a public exhibition of stock on the principles existing in tl:e mother country. The Providence, Minstrel, Claudine, and Hunger ford, had arrived from England, with male and fe male convicts. The fif at , named vessel took out 17 families at the expense of Government, to join their relations at Hobart's Town. The Sydney Gazette of the 15th of February, ens tains a long account of the embarkation of Governor MACQUARIE, which forms a singular proof cf the rapid grow th of the colony, which, forty years ago, was a silent and barren wilderness By eight o'clock, most of the vessels in the hat lour were de: rated in their accustomed costume, honorary to the occasion ; and as soon as the barge, with its illtiqrions burden, retired from the shore, a salute of 19 gins was fired from Dawes' Battery. Launches, barges, cutters, pinnaces, and wherries were seen crowded with those who appeared determined to catch a part ing glimpse of the object of their profound venera tion and fondest regard, who for some time stood ar, uncovered, and kept bowing adieu as he passed.— Never did Sydney Cove look so attractive and gay as upon this occasion; and the sbores were lined with spectators innumerable." Before GovernorMacQua AIE embarked, he inspected the male orphan children, and took leave of the stu dents at Dr. HALLORAN'S Academy " Many of the young Gentlemen (it is said) had handsome medili of merit suspended from their collars. Master 11. u . a fine youth, addressed the late Govern on behalf of himself and fellow students, in an arrro priate speech." We hear in these papers of indir duals sitting down to sumptuous dinners With 3 hUndred friends. The Committee of the House of Commons, on the subject of the Stationery and Printing for the House; of Parliament, the Public Offices, &c. are continuing their labours. The printing for Parliament al,ve costs between two and £ SOO,OOO annually. It 15 not the etiquette of Parliament that the evidence ct Committees should be promulgated till it is regt;• larly printed by order of the Aonse, otherwise smile curious stories might be told. On Wednesd.ty the • Meirs. HANSARD, the Printers, were examined. The intention to examine these Gentlemen existed from the first moment the Committee was formed, an:!, therefore, it might- have been supposed that the Se!ect Committee would have taken care that these inthyl duals should not he made particularly acquainted with what evidence had been adduced previously to their examination. However, Messrs. HA tisA Ito had to print, and did actually print, the three first days evidence for the use of the Committee ; the pecu- Deity of the case was then discovered,when the far ther printing of the evidence was countermanded. 10 do Midi says, u that die Reyna a%f &farther expenses for be forts of Olot, Ike; for some 'day* . and finally estalilishin, 1 of. Mtnet.boi, the trappiti„, and union of the Low Ca' 8, whose troops did notsmo?ht to Government of the 14 taken 14sseision of them by iranit, " Does not the cog punted first, holding a crucial m one tend to this object? 1 BRUSSELS, JUNE 29. His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange arrived on the'27th at Ostend, to visit his Majesty the King of Wurtemberg, who intends to make a stay of five or six weeks in that town. His Royal Highness ar rived here yesterday morning, on-his return to Soest dyk. Prince Lobkowitz, Chamberlain to the Empe ror of and Lieutenant-General Tuyll, in the service of Russia, arrived here yesterday from Paris. We learn from the frontiers of France, that within a few days several fires had occurred in the village of Gonzeaucourt, in the arrondissement of Cambray. In the night of the 22d, some bundles of matches were found placed wider the door of the Mayor -Ad junct. Xn a few instants six houses, five farms, sheep pens, stables, some horses, and cattle, were destroyed, with almost all the furniture of these habitations. Among the buildings burnt are those of the Mayor adjunct, and part of those of the Mayor, his neighbour. The King's Attorney at Cambray has repaired to the spot to make the necessary investigation, and eiery measure is taken to discover the criminals, if possible. LEGHORN, JUNE 19. The Austrian armed brig the Veneto, from Smyrna, cast anchor in this port the day before yesterday. She sailed from Smyrna on the 22d of May, and, up to the 26th, met successively, in the neighbourhood of Scio, the Ottoman fleet, consisting of 4'l• sail, viz.— two of the line, of 96 guns ; two of 72 guns, twelve frigates,'twelre brigs, and sixteen smaller vessels,i— Three days afterwards the same brig fell in with the Greek fleet, which was cruizing off the island of Ip sara, and which consisted of 68 vessels, provided with Congreve rockets. The Ottoman fleet was id lowing the Greeks, and it is consequently very pro bable, that we may soon have information of a naval battle having taken pace. MUSSELS. JULY 1. The Princess Esterhazy arrived here from England the day before yesterday, and set out 'yesterday, at noon, for Vienna. It was well known that the object of the late visit of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, to Brussels, was the marriage of his eldest son with the eldest daughter of the Count de Sarvilliers (Joseph Bona parte). This marriage was celebrated the day before yesterday, at the Town Hall and the Church, with the usual ceremonies. The speech delivered Ly Baron de Serret (of West Flanders), on the 6th June, in the Second Chamber of the States-General, is now published at length ; it was against the project of law for the alienation of the domains by way of lottery. The following is an extract from this discourse: g , The next article we find is, that a sum of eight millions is required, to make up, it is stated, the spe cial fund destined for the fortification and arming of the Southern frontiers. " As the importance of the object, and the sums which it has already cost us, deserve some moments attention, I will begin by putting your Mightinesses in mind, that, by the Treaty of London, we ceded to England our Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice; and that, in con sequence of this cession, England engaged, " t st. To pay, in our stead, a million pound ;sierling to Sweden• 2dly. To contribute, like us, two millio;s sterling of the ex penses to he incurred in the constructing and arming of the line of defence of the kingdom. " 3d. To bear, together with us, and to the amount of a sam of three millions sterling, ' All farther expenses to be regu lated and determined by common consent u necessary to the final establishment as well as to the consolidation of the union of the Low Countries with Holland under the Govcrtment of the House of Orange.'—(These are the exprestwords of the Treaty). " The first of these stipulations having no connec tion with the subject before us, I will say, as for the second, that it has been faithfully performed, and that the whole sum of two millions sterling, therein mentioned, has been paid to us. But I will add * that even then all the excess of the expenses above the receipts already effected for the fortification, can not fall wholly upon us, if it is true that the third stipulation, which I have quoted, of the Treaty of the .1 Sth. of August, 1814, is to be. performed. Foe what *did the contracting parties mean by the words, I I I I 1 1 3 • • • • • •. • • • r e I i . t • . s a I 1, I I.