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II ;~y r HE ANNIVERSARY of the BIRTH-DAB` of TtiE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PITT, WILL BE C0E11'4E:N101( A.TED On FRIDAY, the zSth of MAY, at the London . Tavern. EARL SPENCER in the Chair. STE,wAg.Ds. Marquis of Worcester J. Down, Esq, Earl of Euston W. Egerton, Esq. Earl Tr.nyole Lt ' Gun Egerton • Viscount niorpeth C. lt. Ellis, ESq. lord G. Levison Gower. R. Ellison, Esq. . Lord Louvaine 1 . Fane, 'Esq. Sir I. Wrottesly, Bart. N. B. French, EA. • Sir W. Lowther, Bart. Francis Gregor, Esq. • Sir 11. Mildmay, Bart. Robert Milligan, Esq. Sir R. Vaughan, Bart. W. Manning, Esq. Sir 1. W.. Stuart, Bart. T. Raikes, Esq. Sir R. Peele, I.lrt. • Hans Sloane, Esq. E. W. Bootle, Esq. G. H. Sumner, Esq. • W. R. Cartwright, Esq. Samuel. Thornton, Esq. W, Dickinson, Esq: ' J. 'funno, Esq. Tickets, One Guinea each, to'be had of Mr. Hatchard, No. iv, Piccadilly ; and at the Bar of the London 'favern. Dinner on Table at Five o'clock. LLOYD's COFFEE HOUSE, • May S, 12oz. • A SUBSCRIPTION FOR ERECTING A Cx. STATUE of the • Right Honourabre WILLIAM PITT, late First Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellqr of the Exche..tuer, for his distinguished and valuable Services, which he has rendered to his Country, during the course of his able and upright Administration. .1 • Atigerstein, -- To' To CL4get and Pratt, - To to itngersteni and Rivaz, Io (o 'William Bowdon, - To To 'Robert Shedden, 10-ro Robert Steele - Io to cow Shedden - id William Bird, - - 5 5 Robert shedder, Jun. To toJohn Barnes. To To M P. and H. Le esuri er, To To Anderson, - - to To Joseph Nfurryatt, to 10 lames Forsyth, - 5 5 - -•--- . . Earl . Spencer .; , - - at o- Henry Thompson, to to Countess Spencer, to To 'Mrs. Henry Thompson, 5 5 Viscouot Althorp, io to P. 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Seventeen Bills, among which • were the Militia Pay Bill, the Norwich Poor, and six Itemrn Bills were brought up from the Commons by Sir GEORGE SHUCKTIURGH, Mr. DICKENSON, Mr. PANE, Lord GEORGE CAVENDISH, Mr. SAVILL E, and other (.;entlemen ; these Bills were severally read a first time. Several Accounts respeting the Importation of Logwood front the Bay of Honduras, Mahogany, &c. were presented from the Inspector General's Office,-in pursuance ofa recent Motion of Lord GRENVILLE. Some priv.te Business was' disposed of:—after which their - Lordships Adjourned till to-morthw,—when the. House stands' summoned fig the purpose of taking the Definitive Treaty of Peace into consideration. HOUSE OF C'OMIVONS; WEDNESDAY, MAY 12: Ma. Ettor gave-notice that he would move the Army Estimates in the Committee or Supply on Friday.. The Mutiny Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. The Volunteer and Yeomanry Corps Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on MO - nday. The Order for receiving the Report on the Militia which stood for to-morrow, was postponed to Friday. The Marine Mutiny Bill was read a first time, and ordered to he read a second time to-morrow. Thc Resolutions of the Committee on the Alterations in the Lottery Licence Ad were read and agreed to. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means. . Mr. CORRY said,' that the single point with which he should have to' trouble the Committee, would be the statement of the,Loan which had been made for,lrelanil. In giving notice of his intention, to bring forward this subjea, he had observed, that it would he ,incumbent upon him to stare the Circum stances of the Limn this day, rather than on the day When he was to go into a general statement of the. Supplies and Ways and . Means, fOr Ireland. He, therefore, hoped he shoul4Jischargc his duty to the satisfalion of the Committee, by confining himself, upon the present occasion, to that single point, and byrefraining from going at large into the affairs of that COuntry until a future day, .of which sufficient notice would be given, to enable Gentlemen to turn their attentioo to the subjeds which would. then come under discussion-. The Committee would recollect, that in adopting this line of conduti, he' was following the example of the Right Hon. the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and in so doing, he hoped he should meet with the approbatiorf of the Committee. The Interest of the Debt of Ireland, the Permanent Grants, and the Votes of that House, for the Service of Ireland, amounted to 4,611,0001. —The Ways and Means to cover these Supplies, consisted of the Revenues of Ireland, and the Loan of Great Britain, and the proThs of the - Lot.' tery. These sums togethetamounted to 4,366,6001. So that the Ways and Means were 'exceeded by the Supplies by some hundred thoUsand pounds. lie had now to state, as further Ways and Means, a Loan for "1,660,0661. Against the excess which t his would create on the side of the Ways and MeaUs, he begged leave to observe, that there re-' mained to be provided for, the Army Establishment for that Country, for six months, and as that would amount to a considerable sum, that, he hoped, would appear to be a sufficient foundation for the Loan.— Me had now merely to state the terms upon which that Loan had been contraCted for, and he had great satisfaaion in stating that these terms were even better than the terms upon which the Loan had been made in this Country. The Loan had been made in Ireland upon terms more advantageous, not only than any former Loan in .that, but in this . Of any other Country. The House had expressed great satisfaction upon the statement made by his. Right Hon. Friend, the CHANc I.IoR of the Ex ' CHEQUER, of the adVantageons terms upon which the Loan for Great Britain had been made, and the piCture which he then drew of thesproiperity of the Country, rendered it unnecessary for him to enlarge upon the same subjea ; lie only hoped that he migh t be permitted to observe, that the present Loan was an additional proof of the prosperity of both Coon , tries. It was, perhaps, rather insidious to enter into comparisons upon such a subjea, that the inte rest of this Loan amounted to no more than 31. ths. 3d. per Cent. whereas the interest of the late Loan made fu* Great Britain amounted to 31. r Bs. 3d. per Cent. It was not his intention, unless called upon by the Committee, or by any , Hon. Gent eman, to enter more at large into the sublet}, - unless to observe, that this Loan was made in the 31 per Cent. Stock. The amount of the capital created, above - the money received, was little more than 81. on every hundred, so that the increase of capital above` the actual money received was only about 140,0001. At the time that the Irish Loan was advertised to be bid for, the price of the only 31 per Cent. Stock in this Country, viz. the South Sea Stock, was Sz. But the Ge6_ tlemen who went from this Country to hid fur the Loan, leaving the English 31-per Cent. Stock, at . Bz, and finding the Irish 3-1- per Cent. Stock 961, had nevertheless the spirit to bid 911. 555. tII a price higher . than that . of the 4 per Cents, in this Country at that time. It was not necessary that, he shmild trouble the Committee - any longer, he therefore concluded with moving. the, necessary Resolutions, which were agreed tg. The 1-louse Was , resumed, and the Report was ordered to be received to_morrow. Lord HAWKESBTJRY presented, an account of the Territorial Revenues of Malta previous to the year 798, which was ordered to lie on the Table ; and on the Motion of Lord TEMPLE, a certain number of copies were ordered to be printed for the ust of the Members. _ _ _ . Dr. LAWRENCE rose, in consequence of the notice given on'a former day, to move for certain - Papers relative to the affairs of the East Indies. He began with stating the importance of our interests - in the East and West Indies, which he said were acknowledged by our enemies, in the jealousies they entertained of theta. He did not intend at present to enter into a particular discussion of them, but should confine his obsirvations to the situation in which these interests stood by former Treaties, and that in which they arc placed by the Treaty of A al iens With this view he entered into an his torical account of the progress of our influence and posseSSions in the East Indie.s. At first wefap peared there as unambitious Merchants, anxious only to extend our commerce, content with the liberty Of traffic, and never once extending our views to Territorial Dciminion. At a late petiod, even in the memory of some present, our Posses sions in the East Indies were reckoned a matter of little moment ; and a barren rock in Newfoundland seemed a greater objet of importance to the Public than the restoration of Madras to us by the Treaty of MX-la-Chapelle, By degrees, however, the ad vantages to be derived from possessions in that quarter began to be perceived,. and we soon after acquired immense Territorial Dominions. Whe ther our rights to these Dominions were originally real or pretended, we ought at least to resist their being invaded by the 'French or Dutch. In order to ascertain how far this had been done, he proposed, in the first place, to consider ,what claims the French formerly advanced to the C6asts of Coro mandel and Orissa, and how far these claims were now guarded against by the present Treaty. Our pretensions in the East Indies were sanctioned by the example of France. We continued peaceable Merchants within the limits of our. Fadories, till the usual intriguing spirit of the French began to manifest itself in views of aggrandizement. These 'views were first manifested by the Governor of Pondicherry ; and much about the same time their ambitious enterprises in Bengal obliged us to acquire dominion in our own defeace. The medial which the French took to extend their dominions in the Coromandel, was by procuring grants from the native Princes. In particular, they procured a grant of the five Provinces called the Northern Segars.. We acquired a more legal right to diem by a grant from the supreme Sovereign of the coun try, the Great Mogul. The validity of this grant to us was confirmed by former Treaties, but now again remains to be decided by the sword. The French by former treaties were prevented from ereling any .e. Forts in the Subah of Bengal. This was prohibiting them froM exercising a right for. marly possessed by the Zeinindars and time Arabs, who had fortified Faaories in that country before the arrival of the Portuguese. By the non-revival of these prohibitory stipulations, this right was restored to the French, and it was to be considered whether they would not avail themselves of it. With resped to the Coromandel, we' had forced the French by Treaty to acknowledge the sove reignty of the Nabob of the Carnatic, the Nabob of Arcot, our friend, and who had conferred our grants ; and to renounce the family that opposed. 'him, the author of their grants. Bur this Treaty now being done away, would they consider them selves bound to acknowledge the sovereignty of the Nabob of the Carnatic, or think themselves re strained frOm supporting the opposing fiunily, if any branch of it still existed ? Out of the stipulations against' ereaing, Forts in Bengal, arose another against the'ekempt jurisdiction of Fadories, which were taken away by the Treaty of 1783, .Fac tories had anciently the power of granting pro tection to criminals, who sought refuge from . the justice of other nations. By the Convention of 1787, all these privileges were ..completely done away, and the jurisdiction of Faaories strialycon fined to persons residing within their own limits. All these restrictions are now done away. If we loOk to former Treaties, we shall find that the . Frenchwere strictly ciri,umscribed in she means 01 defence they were allowed. to employ. In 1765 they were allowed, merely as a special act of grace and favour e a small quantity of arms to defend their Faaories against any sudden attempt of the natives. In 1767 the intriguing spirit of the . French began to manifest itself,. and representations were made by our Governors, that unless vigorous measures were taken, and, the ; disputes settled by Treaty, our possessions in that quarter would be endangered.' At several succeeding periods, simia • lar representatiOns were made, and the pretensions of the French were at times only resisted by mili tary force. Dr. LAWRENCE then entered into a variety of details, to shew that these quarrels be-. rween' the British and French subjects an the East Indies were perpetual, and that the usurpations of the latter were only prevented by force. He read extracts from' the dispatches of Mr. Hastings, Sir John Macpherson, and other Governors, to shew that they thought the stipulations of the ,Treaty of 1783 essential to the preservation of our possessions in the East. Yet even this barrier was afterwards found insufficient, and further stipulations were procured in the Convention of 1787. This Convention was univers'ally approved of as the means of preventing all future disputes. He then adverted to certain articles for which express stipulations were • Imo v ided in • that Convention ; and particularly :Salt, Saltpetre, and Opium ; in the traffic of all which articles he contended we had relinquished important advantages. Afterathis survey of our present and former state, with regard to France in the East Indies, he next proceeded to call the attention of the House to our commercial conneftion with the Dutch Republic. He adverted to the Treaty of 1784, for concluding which, our Negotiator had. taken great merit to himself. That Treaty did not specifically renew all former Treaties, but it, • did so generally. The two principal Stipulations in it were, the preservation of the honours of our Flag, and the . perpetual freedom of navigation in the Eastern Seas. The importance of the last Sti pulation was evident' from the efforts of the Dutch to have it limited ; but we would not hearken to such a proposition. He then entered into a detail of the importance of the Straits of Sunda, and the Straits .and Town of Malacca. He adverted to the Pretensions which the Dutch had formerly advanced of a right to exclude us from the trade,of that Peninsula altogether. They had not indeed been insisted upon while we were their Allies, but they had long ago manifested .how in disposed they were to our Eastern commerce, and was it now to be expelled, that, when under French influence, they would refrain from advancing claims which were left completely undeCided ? Dr. LAW RE NC E then turned his attention to the objeaions that might be urged against the produaion of the Papers ; he called. for. It might be said, that our rights were so plain that they could not be dis plated but were we such children' 'as to imagin: that Acre claims were nat aanaily for ? °r they would be admitted without con troversY hat rendered the complete adjustment of °, W which rights of more importance was an instrumen t the he meant to call for ; that 'instrument by which Dutch Republic was admitted to treat as the All y of France. This instrument, the Treaty of 1 795; was in . taa the same as an alliance offensiv e and de fensive.- By- this Treaty, Holland might b e at race. faith.Prussid, Germany, or any other Power °t Europe, Great Britain excepted, though France were at war with them. From hence it fol .; lowed, that in all our discussions with the Dutch, concerning. our possessions in the East lndiesi wq Prance also was , necessarily involved. W hen considered the Treaty of 179 e, and the pre:ea Treaty of Amiens in re,peCt to Allies, we coul d no c but be ar witness to the triumph of France, and " r ; own degradation. He then adverted to the Cape (.)r Good Hope; vthich, he stated,, to be of esse'lti3l- consequence to this COuntry, both in time o f Peacr " , and War. It might he urged, he said, in defen c . e , of the . non-revival of former Treaties, that w ed!, not give up our rights, but were prepared to de' fend them to the utmost. But though been revived generally, it was surely worth whi le Jo revive specifically that part, which proteCted out Commerce in the East Indies. " Thus," sai d he, ° f ur ," I have stated what was stipulated in our favo ur by former Treaties, and is now relinquished, tvi! 1- 1 . 1 out giving my opinion, whether the cpnces' i° t -was voluntary, or extorted by force. It is " c however in India, but here, that these affti" mus a they had nag be settled either by Negotiation or Force. We °L i now say, that in proportion to the magnitudu t the concessions we have have made, we are P r t l: pared to defend what remains to the last." L. " concluded by moving—" That there be laid hefi' re .. the House an account of the acquisitions' lllakiCir pretended to 'he made by His Most Christ ian Ibe - jesty on the coast of Coromandel and Orissi, t vn w a e s e e od y re e c a ei r l s isee,. : l : 4 8 and 1763." Mr. DUND AS said, that whether our sitna r • i() l ri to i India il b e y re r , ie:i s o t r i i z l i e tio L n e, o ir r n b2 d , G t b e e n , s o ": 0 0: had stated, he would dare say, that there w" s , difference of Opinion between them Upon this I.° namely, that it was essential to the interests of t Country, wherever our claims were to. be supporle`'t no o and where our rights were clear and i n disputah le ', to do any thing ourselves to bring these rights ' llt i doubt, He stated it, as a general maxim, on apprehended there was no difference of o pinion in House, or elsewhere; and yet, notwithstanding o.°l doubt . was entertained of the truth of this gen era c maxim, he was afraid that if motions like these we r fa persevered in, much difference Of opinion wn' t arise upon the application of that principle ; his 1 )(0 r ; position was such as he held to be clear as the su at noon day, namely, that no doubt could be ,enter tained on the relative situation of this Colvthrel of France in India. No doubt had been expre s 'fa .upon that subject till lately in that House, nor "D r , any doubt he entertained elsewhere, only by' ing forward speculations of our own in that nu"; and making that' doubtful in debate wh ich He long acknowledged 'to be clear in princiP le ,', tine then. entered into an historical detail of ril i n 3i3, and, progress of the British Power - ' o r- the contests which had taken place from th the , liest periods, and the .share taken therein t.,•'' ic ha, French, in order to oppose our progress s o 'down to the period in which Lord Clive ' la a s distinguished himself, to whom, for his valn? r i t he soldier, and wisdom as a Statesman, he l' alt su re's highest compliments ; the result of whose me3,,wer stated 'to have consummated the . British ht in I n di a , a nd settled our Sovereignty there bY hri3gbi. of conquest, which right he reconciled to th e tants by the wise respeCi lie laid to their Pyi,„ dices. Having gone through a coinPl ere nw erl. tory of these events, and having given' a c°- dious account of the progress of the M b g lll ir e — v pipe, and of its revolutions for eight cent"riea'revi proceeded to state the conclusion, which he `g as from all these rpremises ; which conclusi°'la ot thi§, " That though . we may feel it just " n pre pedient to make such allowtinees to the re, judices of the inhabitants, and to make % or gulations in our territories as we' may' Plel r. r5.0,e30 think adviseable, yet . with regard t o PoWers, to them we say freely and distin6l:Y'our haVe gained this Country by our Arms , and ',Yoods. yu ' Arms we will.keep it." For upon all ihe.g r r hat which he had already stated; it was nianites'z purl the Provinces' of Bengal, Baliar,,Orissa, `` troy' come to Great Britain by conquest, as mu ci r . 0. 3 Country ever came into the hands of atioth e v ; gO' from the period when it becalne so under E !' l .. t he vernment of my Lord Clive to the present . I; o `Y. o ' t hc French never had direetly or indireEtly, t er fete Treaty of 1:763, any right whatever anal' 1450? with. the Provinces of Bengal, Bahia, 11( 5 , stlb' &c. ; but,' that they. were by right o f conclu e , jest to the Sovereignty of the King of Grea t , w i g ft' to all intents and purposes, which SoVereigtla Coal; be exercised through the medium- of the Jo, i i s he" e st , i o - parry;- and throlmh the different organs • 01 0 4c lt dow n 11 1 , 3 ' 11 . for 'the preservation b of our Provinces, "s . 1 w e any other part •of His Majesty's- doiniolo,rl:' need not dwell upon these-points , th fr th` j ,' 6 i • . clear and well-authenticated in the historY c ig dominions ; and therefore, he laid . it and indisputable proposition, that wha t t wit 'gained thus by zonquest, was- to be ct" l "' ider s c' tOr' lll : ) ; reference to any other Eurcricati Powcr9oaerferel'of subjed to our Sohreignty, without any. _reigns ‘ev. a a se r ::: 1 5 ); e i: of theirs, that we were ac i o ally the o!', ir India, and no European Power had any fo r t ever to dispUte o'er title to this povvetrhfewh.t po'` r , sess, de faao.. Such was the state of 13" ely y in India ;the sittlation ot . France era, without one inch of territory . l claim under the Detinitiv 0 pa° vo sideration. He would ask the Hoitsc I ; , moment, and then ask itself this cl" ) c i ' ce w ho I" ,! exce ,.,7 )t t ‘ t v rkic r / C :. o , il t; there a. man within hearing of „. l ,, lis ,ir v ih i, t l any doubt whatever its to -ele,e -,se • o ne met'•ctlt- Certainly none.—Was there tiny u . ght t h a t 11 to he the heating of his voice, who too we re - rh e fasts, and the right arising-out of . t o b o c l n d i 'n(!tt t bol, called in question, this) Cuntry Al' . 34 0 length of risking its last stake to r-r" s 5 1 . ta rights, and refuse giviug "eftea in or • —He had no reason to be satis