The National Register. — London, England, 1808-05-08 00:00:00

I p ti ga on the resolution till _ fnajority of 112 to SO. motion of Mr:Tierney, further evidence agai►►st the ...ars in Council was ordered to be heard on Thursday.— Adjourned. FRID Y, MAY 6. The Lord Advocate of Scotla n d brought up the Bill fur granting an annuity to the Scottish Judges, .on resignation retirement. Real a first, and ordered to he read a second time on Tuesday. On the motion of Mr. Alderman Comhe, the Ilouse resolvefl itself into a Committee on the Child Stealing Bill, when the Vordly Alderman proposed to make the offence grand larceny. The Report was ordered to he received OH Monday, Mr. Lushington postponed his motion respecting the ship l'Etruscu, till Tuesda) next. EAST INDIA COMPANY. MR. CEEBYLY rose to make his promised motion; he said the Petition presented by the Last India Company, praying a loan of 1,200,0001. gave a fallacious view of the Company's affairs, and was an absolute imposition, In that petition it is stated, that the Company ia only deficient 2,4C0,000/, o hen the fact Was, that they were, to his knowledge, ?alma three millions They also endeavour to make it appear that they had eight millions of property in this country ; but by the accounts which he would move for, he would make it manifest that they were deficient at home 12 millions. They were, to his knowledge, deficient in India $2 milli/a.. which they were bound to pay at home. Ile therefore concluded, by lOW lug for an account or till the luaus they had contracted in India, and the terms of these loans. in order to show that the Petition was a gross fraud; a:so for an account of the India Stock by computation. 11 , . then adverted to the formation of the Committee, which was partial, who were not likely to make an impartial report to the Bouse, SIR J, 4.ycrauruEn said, that with regard to the solvency of the East India Company he thought the lion. Gentleman grossly wrong; or, at least. completely in error and mistake. Ile awned, that the Committee was fully competent to consider the whole of the debts end credits of the Company. liis next objection was, that Mr, Creevey had allowed the Petition of the Company to be sent to a Committee without statipg any objection, or giving the most remote hint of his intention, in the present, or in any other way, to interrupt its proceedings. Lord Folkestotie supported the motion. MR. C. Grt.s.vr observed that the Hon. Gentleman had ex hibited upon the present occasion a great deficiency of know ledge, lie had asserted that the Company had recently had a deecit of three millions, but he had forgotten that the Company hitt' raised a sum of two millions by hoods. The more he con sidered the motiou of the Hun, Genilemae, the more was he convinced et ifs impropriety, as the Hon. Gentleman knew well that the acconnts he had moved for would be laid on the table in a very few days. lie condemned the. partial introdaction of the iubtect, previous to the report of the e.timmittee having been e;..de, as it was his most earnest wish that the affairs of the 4:,,e4iany should be probed to the bottom. Mat. CRECY Er replied, and said, that notwithstanding al! the lion. Gentlemen had said, he still maintained that tle eeficit of the Company amounted to twelve and Go lion. Gentlemen to ;ague that such a sum mould ever be paid. N 1 as holdiog the most grosa delusion that he had ever seen at• tempted. He was contident that next year the Company wou ld be twain under the weessity of coming to Parliament fur the purpose of obtaining another grant of the public money.. eliort conversatimi ensued between Mr. Duudas and Mr. ('carol y, and the former basin; promised productlntrs of the papers mewed for, ha a few days, Ow original inututt was withdrawn. Mr. Creevey moved fur an account of all loans contrac t ed the Company io India, and also ;or : u ► account of the profit accenting to the Company favat investments from India :tint China, for the years 1798.9, and '006.7. nest) snotiaas divosed of in the tame %lay with the tir4t. Sir T. 'furrow deferred ills tootiou respecting the iL'.l . airs r,f the C4roatie, (ill Tuesday so . onight. Ou the motioo of Mr. Tremav or, the Dead llodie Wa%lied to, Shore Irremed L iI , wept through the Cotoutittee.—llepr od Tue;tl.ly.' A Petition wa. prevented from agains: !!as retura (If Captain I}ai t.ici., f s ,i• l'ctt::va' ~;.•d 4ul cur- MAY 8. caption, and a want of qualification. It was ordered to he aken into consideration on Tuesday the tith iustaut. The Three Millions Exchequer Bills Bill was read a first, and ordered to he read a second time ou Monday. Mr. It. Ward presented several Accounts relative to his Ma jesty's Droits of the Admiralty. Ordered to lie printed.—Ad iourued till Monday. ••11••••••.11 , PROVINCIALS, On Tuesday, at Pontefract sessions, the Cloth Returns for the last sear were made as follow :—Narrow pieces 161,51 S ; or 5,921,256 yards ; decreased, 13,516 pieccs.—Broad en.2,o*-44 ; in yards, 8,422.143; decreased 284.13 pieces. —Not.; . he decrease has been during the last half year. At the Quarter Sessions for the county of Somerset, held last Neel,: at Wells, Thomas Prankett, of Bathe ick, was f.olnd „alley of leaving his wife and family chargeable to the .;:id parish, and sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and to be whipped through every street in the parish. A Correspondent, who remarks ou the injury that w ill be done to farmers, if none but licensed gunners are pertniited io destroy rabbits, says, Naturalists have calculated, that a site.le pal, of rabbits may, in the space of tour increase to the astonishing number of 1,274,840. Lately, the hawse of Robert Whitt:4l, at the Barnett's, near Tenbury, was accidentally burot to the ground, together with most of the furniture : what renders it the more distressing, thc poor man (who was a Carpenter by trade) is 8 . 1 years of .ce, and has been blind many years: about t w.enty )cat s shay, he providently made his coffin, in which he had deposited a chee,e made by his late wife some years since, and a game en - . of baron, intended for his funeral, which were Viairely consumed ; and a barrel of cyder, about 1 years old, kept for the same purpose, was rolled into a pool, and the liquor saved. Tug TURF.--it is supposed that there has been a greater mortality amongst the foals this year than ever was known. NiabY gen:ieman have lost half their stock. Lords Grosvenor and f;gremont have been the principal sulteqrs. SINGULAR O.:cuatterscE.—At the Cock, at Kingsdown, in Somersetshire, is an old cat, now bringing up three young squir rels, which were put to her as soon as they could see, about three weeks ago—she also has a kitten a month old, the whole of which she suckles, and pays equal fondness and attention to. The same cat, about two years agd, brought' up . two rabbits. On Saturday se'imiglit, a fl.ne . yonng girl of file years of age, died at Olasgow, in consequence oT being bit, about ten daYs. ago, while asleep, by rats, to whom poison bad been adminis tered. On bearing the cries of the child, leer parents hurried into the apartment where she slept, with a light, but not before these iPoiaciaus animals had succeeded in abstracting a consider able quantity; of blood from ditferent parts of the body. Medi cal assistance was immediately procured, but; owing to the virus of the poison having affected the blood, every effort for restoring the little sufferer to health preyed ineffeetual, and she expired in great agony, exhibitiai; all tlic symptoms incident to such calamitous situations. 296. tie), for delay►ng further procredn Wednesday. It was negatived by a On the 'notion of Mr. Tierney, NI Orders in Council was ordered to THE NATIONAL REGISTER.- TUESDAY'S LONDON CIA4ETTE7 achairalty-Office, MaY 3. [Transmitted by Admiral Sir A. Cochrane, K. B.) 9jt K, arberus, off Marie Galante, March 5. I beg to acquaint you of the surrender of the Island of 3larie Galante to hi. Nlajesty'S arnr. Finding the Island afforded a shelter for the enemy's priva teers with their captured vessels, and that is interfered consi derably with the lilorkade of Onadalottpe. I considered it expe dient to attack it,' whetenpon I gave C:ip Piot the command of ationt 200 seamen and marines front the 4ifferent ship, named in the margin ; and, on the 2e# instant, we weighed from Petit Terre, and, a little after day-light, effected a landing about two miles from the town, with little opposition, and soon after the bland surrendered at discretion. anti the Cnumandatit, with t he national military force, are prisoners of war. 1 Lind it a very valuable bland. in the highest state Of culti ation, and a large qtmntit v of colonial prtidare in the stores. — I have dii.einharked the marines and garrisoned the place, 01 4 •tinli remain witit' the fu l Te taller my orders fur your further directions. I herewith inclose CaFt. Piggies letter to me On the occasi o n ( 41 /erciu I i.J.14 happy Is) Ob: , C:Ne the high terms is Which L . I ~~-