The National Register. — London, England, 1813-03-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER - • I question to get rid of.the etroct. or an acknossiellg.ment,. i ; of inch an observation, on'aeConnt of the essential if the. fact had been proved upon biro, he must in , e sustained in his profession. He was glad the he led upon to leave the country, before this °ppm.- .ded him of making the statement which he had now Lordships. The Noble Lord said, he wished also to Id been most falsely insinuated against him in print, in the habit of sending anonymous. paragraphs to !r, for the purpose of calumniating the • character of lighest rank: He spurned at the vile imputation, my declare, that ne never but once sent an atm-. to a newspaper, and that.: was on a political mie ne t of another Genttemao. lint as to any all 0; ph, calculated to hut t the characteror the feelings he trusted their Lordships would do him the jus. :hat there was no consideration on earth that would resort to any thing so base and degrading. He melt w nitwit the bare suspi-ion of slid' practices must character in that gnat ter. ‘vherc it was supposed such means to recommend - himself.—The House then TUESDAY, MARCH 29. ssent was given by Commission to the Mutiny Bills, the Vice, Chancellor's Bill,aud a considerable num tid Inclosure Bills. a question from the Duke of Norfolk, whether the Volunteers front service in the Local Militia emit', instructions issned to break up the Volunteer System? Sidmouth stated, that having ceased to be volunteers tons also ceased, bait it had not been thought that they iectcd to the 'present ballot for Local Militia, which completed. DARNLEY, referring to the disasters experienced in with America, gave notice that on Tuesday, the 6th )ould bring forward a motion on the subject, which te not only the Naval Administration, but other red with the conduct of the► war, in which, he -eon vakness and imbecility of Ministers were rendered Alicest. Irder of the Day being read for the commitment of the Earl HAD ROWDY said, that the principal object. of 'matt that all Citrates should be licenced, and to compel provision for Curates out of the income of the incum than a certain amount, but to be increased in the thy benefices, or under particular circumstances to less.—After some debate, the Bill was ordered to be Monday. • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24. )f LIVERPOOL lamented that the melancholy event of his Majesty's Sister, her Royal Highness the Duchess rendered it necessary for kim to move an Address !e to the Prince Regent. It was wholly mmeeessary 1 a word upon this subject, stick an Address being )tin when so melancholy an event of this nature occurred anient was sitting. • His Lordship moved an Address of to the Prince Regent, which %VHS agreed to nein. di s. to be presented to his Royal Highness by the Lords \taves.—Adjourned. TVURSDAT, MARCH L. bueneas of iuiportance oecurred this day. FRIDAA, MARCH E 6. There was nothing wforti; of reporting this day. HOUSE OF COMMONS. MONT)AY, MARCH W. ITZROY reported from the Seaford Electbn Committee, ing Metn`.erS were duly elected. Tit was ordilcd for Rye, in the room of Mr. Wetherall, another place. krxtNS obtained. leave and brought in a Rill, tt. rtain abuses at elections in the Borough of Weymouth ; p:ovided tnat no person r-ceiving alms sli )uld be 'OteS. "FRP LAD, alluding to what had occurred in the House ot tveuip , respecting the paper read by him oh WedneNday :eat evidence of Mrs. Lisle, said, he should feel it neces cousult that Lady ; and ii she disclainicd the pn,er, then he would tdcknowledgs; that he ta Wei impaled .011 ; but until this Wils • disclaimect by the witness, he should continue to be of the sem* (mullet' as betbre. He assultedelie•Howse stuff thieteiperhe- had.read did not come from the Princess of wales; nor from any office, but tram a quarter that must have been imposed dn, had any impcnatica ti.xn practised. EAST INDIA CHARTER. . ". • Lord CASTLEREAGH moved the. Order of the Day for the Herne resolving itself into a Committee on the East India Company's Af fairs ; eed that the different Petitions for and against the renewal of the Company's exclusive Charter be eeterred to the said COM ttee. The Order of the Day tieing read, - the House resolved into the Com mittee, Mr. I ushineton in the Chair. Lord CAS c R nen then addressed the Committee.—The Char ter of the East hese' Company being now about. shortly to expire, it tell to the lot of Parliament to take into their consideration what was to be the nature of the Governinent to he provided for out Eastern Empire in Were. In approaching a subject of such exten sive magnitude and difficulty. it was impossible not to he struck will the extreme singularity of the case; in which the Legisla . ore Of this country was called on to provile for the Government ot a Settlement in:;.nitely exceeding the Poem, State 'in extent and in pc). puietion. It, Avis impossible not to be struck with the impor tance of the duty they had now to discharge, not merely le a .coin tnercial point of view, but with reference to the moral trust repoael is them, in providing what was best for the happin ss of so large a b mdy of their fellow men. They had to discharge a duty. empteee dented in any other State. They had to provide for , the happiness, comfort, and governMent of a body of, men, exceeding thee-fold the population of the Parent*State He had no drilicnlty in stating on his own part, and on the part of thou: with Wivtn he acted, that if the regulations which he was about to propose for the:adqption of the House, in the form of Resolutions, must .have the necessary consequence of. endangeeng, far more, if it must have the effecit of pullit g down the system by which the lodiaii Empire had hitherto been acquired and held together, they would feel themselves celled on to hesitate much, be'ore they recommended the adoption of such a mode of proceeding. At the same time, however, he vault be al lowed to say that the lapse of years and existing circumstances had rendered a partial change an the system of policy hitherto observed towards our Indian possessions indispensably tiN . UiSite• 1 . 1141 that Ohhre was no part of the Empire more crincerned •in adopting .tkat change than the East India Company itself. The mode in govern ment adopted by the East I ndiri CoMpany had certainly raised and fire. servA an Empire unprecedented in the history of the ,world ; andithey had gole-rned the peope under their confroul, on a principle emi nently calculated to produce the happiness of the governed.. .Hedid we believe the history of the world had ever moduced . its• parallel. —a system by which a populetion of fifty millions of native. -subjects were governed, while the Civil Officers of the Company b>whorn time Governfnent was conducted did not exceedl6oo ; and this too un der a Government than which there never. was a milder, nor' one by which the happiness of the people was more consulted. He did not know that there was ever a Government possessed of servants of acmer ahilhy or character than those of the last India Coriipapy.—' If Nlinisters did not'agree with the east India Convent/ on the ques tion, he hoped it would not he Att ihuted to arty wish to break in upon Chartered rights ;• if wrong, they were willing to retract ; at present they were fi rmly convinced that what was intended to` be proposed was safe and expedient. It was not desirable that discussions•of the niture.of the prey-opt should tote frequently be gone ineteethetolote, if it was tehe renewed.* •all, he • teotight the Company 's -Murree should he renewed fqe. ewentr years. 1 -this was to be the case, then he could see no priiteiple qt justice of policy which could waterant the House in tying up thee-twit dl of one-half of .the Glohe, 'and confining the exclusive trade to India, to the Company, and to foreigners. That was so monstrous a proposition—one so much out of the course of nature—that no princiele could be found to support it. On-what pretence ceuld it be argued that all Btitish capital was to be excluded from this trade to British settlements ' except the capital of this Com pany ; and that in add Lion to the Company, foreigners , only were to he allowed a free trade ? He was aware "hat great danger way e to be apprehended from an-over speculation at the first ttiom ineppen e such a trade; but that was in th e n ature of timings , and did not alter a me 'sure of generat e policv. . The next topic• which he should advert to, not argue, was the olijection flee the opening of the trade would lead to an indiscriminate intercourse with the natives, which might in the end endanger the whole system, and the whole of our power in India. •As to the idea of colonizetien there, it seemed quite chimeri cel,•asehe pi ice of labour was so low as to leave no iiAlucernent fo the hard-working •classes of time community to go out there ; and,witlt respc:.t to the hither. classes, who had object , : preierment and pov.er in vieweit was well known that no verson tilt! ai.iuire any property in the country, that was not perfectly clistivet to in •i:esoil, and 1114411enaeut of it. At the same time that he thus argtvd o.m ge ner3l priecip'es, he did not tritaii to place an ii;lpl!ct rtii..nce on them, unpacked he the authority of an ellieiNtt and vigi:ent t; , ,verline Now, it wae his intention to leave the India Connelly in full po , sion of th6ir aut heilq to expel every individual woose cotionct or tentiotta they alight bias or suspcct to be d.uigerous. tdi: ~~; - MARCH 28. the person in cluet that he made use a iiiittry, which, if consequence have had not hem calls tunity was afford( given to their Lo notice, that it hat that he had been an evening paper • a female of the hi and could solemn nyitions paragraph ject, at the rep' nymons paracrap or imy individual ties to believe, tl induce hint to re knew. also, -Itov have injured his tt Ise %visited by sue adjourned. . •.. The Royal As the Starch Bill, ber of Road and In answer to A exemptions of 1 trued after the it Lord Visconnt their exemption should be subjet was now nearly The Earl of I • our naval war m of 4111, he Oil would embrace points connech tended, the we strikingly mani On the order • • Curates' Bill, I it were to ettae the making a p bent, not -less cases of %wall . make, ,fie Muni • ! vaitinio' e . • y ou • The Earl of ) ••• the Death of b of Brunswick, of Condolence for him to sa3 • the usual form whiht Partlani Cotu'olenee t •and c rdercd I with white st • ; Nu • Then / . • • • Lrrd C. Ft • that the sittin • A new wri returned for a • • Mr. Alder prevent ccrta mo , e particul cut tied to vo r. W His • Lo di that eN las , as the ri y to cou.iu rent. It 111. liS