The Sun. — London, England, 1812-04-03 00:00:00

,VIA'LS. AR R Ivln—T Surinam, 2 ‘Vatetforti. Dub--I C a diz, Malta, 1 Guernsey, t jersey, 2 Dubiin, I Water ford, I' ICE OF STOCKS. Trits,DAy er TWILVE O'CLOCK. COPSOIS.' 59 4 I s per Ct. Navy 90;11 I-1 SUN. sot.e.k: QOIS nicift I.SUM AUDICAT ? 0 IV D 0 N. . I FRIDAY, 1, 1 8 It". A long and i, terestbig debate - took place yester- day, at the East India-House,-upon the subje& of the renewal of the Company's Charter. It will be seen, that the trade to the East-is, under certain and very considecablerPstrittions, to be thrown open, and the British - Merchants are now io he admitted to a parti cipation of that trade, which the Americans and other neutrals have so long shared with the Company. With out entering into any abstract discussion upon advan tages or disadvantages of monopolies, in a commercial point of view, we can state, upon the unquestion able evidence of fags, that nor only the individuals composing the Company, but the Public, have derived very great advantages, both of a com mercial and political nature, from the excite. sive Charter granted to the Company. Whe ther, if the inhabitants of this country had been allowed to carry on an open trade with the natives of the East, greater advantages might not have resulted, it is now impossible to de determine, and useless to discuss. ° The other nations of Europe established Companies to carry on the trade to the East, and granted to them monopolies more or less siria. Toe policy adopted by the Bri tsh was not a singular one. But the system which was necessary to foster an infant trade to the East, can no longer be persevered in now that trade has attained full maturity and vigour. The trade of the East has increased to an extent to which the capital of the Company, great as it is, is not adequate ; and though at the last renewal of the Charter, a small portion of private trade was granted to the Merchants, yet it became impossible to keep foreigners trom sharing it.---Instead of fac tories in the East, we hate acquired provinces; our settlements for the eurposesolcommerce haveswelled ireo a mighty Empire, of which the Company can neither supply the wan ts,nor carry off the productions. Tile natural consequence has been, that the surplus trade of the. Company. has tallen into the hands of Neotrals, and the Americans only had lait year 400 vesselsemployed in it. But the most serious part of the mischief is, not that Neutrals have obtained a por tion of our Eastern trade, but that they have carried it on with British capital ; that some of our tiler charts have become interested in the success of Nentrals ; that their prejudice; and their feelings have gone with the Couniry under whose flag their capitol has been employed, rather than with that ill which the capital has been acqaired. Un der these circumstances we cannot but rejoice that that surplus portion of trade which the Company cannot carry on is to be thrown open to our Merchants. We shall take another op portunityof adverting to the rest tiaions under which it is to be conducted. The exclusive trade to China is to remain with the Company. _ Letters have been received from Paris of the 291.11 ult. which state that BUONAPARTE had not quitted that capital. They confirm the accounts which had previously reached us of the great scarcity of 'bread in Fiance. The Levers by the last Anholt Mail state, that French troops ale in every direction advancirY, towardi the frontiers of Rus►ian Poland, and it is cUntidently stated, that the Prussian troops have joined those.Of BUONATARTE. The Russian army i. stated to amount to 200,000 men, and is to be cmunanded by Generals BARCLAY DE TOLLY, BEN NTG:,EN, and Aamrctur. The Emperor ALEX.. -ANDER will take the field himself. Wednesday afternoon the Duke of CLARENCE ar rived at Windsor Castle, on a visit to the QUEEN, ntlCl remained there all night. Yesterday morning his Royal Highness left WindSor, in his curridge and foup tur 'Maidenhead. The QUEEN, Frific'eSSeS ELIZABETH and MARY took an ailing to Frogmore. rue same day Princesses AUGUSTA and SOPHIA took an airing on horseback. Marquis of HUNTLY left town yesterday morninglo superintend the embarkation of his gal lant regiment (the 42d), which is ordered iminedi aiely to Portugal. The Second Battalion of the 8 Ist is to embark for Pon ugal forthwith. The First Battalion of this fine regiment is upwards of 1200 strong. Mr. BKTTY, we undetstand, is positively engaged Its next season at Covent-garden Theatre. This ci•cuinitance, we conceive, is by no meianscalcu lattd to ailay the differences which are said to pre vail between Mr. KENIELE and his brother Propie tors. George Srti;th and Fiarinigan, who attempted an escape. from Cierkenwe.ll Prison recently, were arm ed with luadrd pistols, but they had no chance of resistance. The report of movements in the enemy's fleet in the Scheldt, is not without fonuda.ion. The ltips,of wAr that were at Antwerp have come down to Flushing, but wheiher for the purpose of coming out is not known. Sir RICHAMD STR A Cif AN . , in the San Domingo, 74 guns, and Lord A. BEAU CLERK, sailed from the Downs on Wednesday, ..for the station off Flushing ; and Admital YOUNG is expecied to leave town in a day or two, to assume the chief command. . Extra6t of a. Private Letter from 'Lisbon, dated March 24.—" Lord Wellington is now„ determined to act on' the o ffeniive.• Gen. Hill, with his diyision, has pushed on as far as Almarez, near whicti it is understood that Marmont means to unite all his forces, so that in a short time you may expect some severe blows. General Graham has passed the Gua diana, and taken up a position rather to the South ward, which is designed as a support, should it be necessary. The Portuguese Regiment of Algarve, On passing the Guadiana, found the bridges not quite ready for their passage, and rather than wait, they swam across, and volunteered to lead their compa nions on any enterprize against the enemy. Clonel Trent has entered Spain to the Northward, with 5000 Portuguese Militia, and those joined by the Spaniards in that quarter, will prevent the French sending troops to the South." The following Letters lately passed between the Captain of one of our cruizers in the Mediterranean, and the French General Lamarque. The French General Lamarque was at dinner at Calilla, when one of the shot from the Curac6a e t through the table at which he was sitting, and spoilt his dinner; on which he sent a flag of truce to Captain T. with the following . notable Letter : " Calilla, thii . i9th fan. ISIS, . " Strt—l* am pleased to let you kuow, that the French troops I have the honour to command are perfectly sheltered from your balls.—Now, if you think proper to some. womah., some child, or destroy SOIT! house of your beloved Allies, you are free to do it ; but we wilt know what we must thick of Engli ii generosity " I have the honour to be, " Your most obedient servant, " The General of Division, Great Officer of the • " Legion of Honour, (Signed) " M. rt LAMAQUE." " His Majesty's Ship Curacoa, 19th lanuary, 1812. " Sitt--In answer to the Letter wherein you state the troops under your command are sheltered from the cannon of his Britannic Majesty's ships, and the inhabitants alone are sufferers, I beg to assure you, this ruse de guerre only proves to me the effeEt of our cannonade. Allgy me, therefore, to.'in form you, it is at the inteices , ion of the Spaniard s that the British are aEting—and as long as •a French man is visible, their cannon will. not cease to fire. ," I am, Sir, your humble servant, " J. T." " To General Lamarque." General ',marque retired speedily after the re ceipt of the above. The proposed plan for raising a Fund to complete the re-building ot Drury-Land Theatre has not been correctly stated. In order ►o raise the full amount of the'subscription, viz. 300,0001., it has been.pro posed to the subscribers to farm the property, acrd to receive 18,0001. per annum for twenty-one years, by which means they would of course have six per cent, for their money, and be exempt front the uncertainty of pr?fit or loss. On the termina tion of the proposed agreement the whole properly Will revert to tire, subscribers at large. A general meeting of subscribers is to be held for the purpose of considering this proposition. At the last Norfolk Agricultural Society Meeting, Mr. Coke particularly took occasion to recommend to the notice of Norfolk Farmers the Devon breed of cattle, of the excellence of which he had no he sitation in saying his opinion was decided ;' and being so, he thought it his ditty to recommend them as a cattle, in which were blended the •two qualifications of milkers and breeders. Mr. COKE desired the company would particularly notice the experiments he is now making. upon 610'1 At: Holkham ; as he has lately' visited Shrotishire, and bought several Devons there for this purpose.' Mr. COKE also made some excellent observa tions upon the badness of rye-grass, and its inferi otity to cock's foot, and desired the Members would pay attention to some experiments now going on at Holkham upon these grasses. He then adverted to the excellence of the Swedish turnip, and its riority above the common turnip, and as every sen timent he delivers upon farming is - always the effect of actual experiment, and of a judgment formed up on incontrovertible premises, Mr. COKE said, be had put t 2 beasts, first to the common turnip, and then to the Swedish : whilst they were at the common turnip they ate each seven bushels and 281bs. of oil cake per day ; and whilst they vi ere at the' Swedish , turnip they ate each only four bushels and -1411 A. of oil-cake. - MANsioN-HousE.;--Yetterday - Shmud Britton was charged before the LORD MAYOR with uttering a forged draft upon the banking-house of Down and Co. Bartholomew-lane. A Gentleman from the house, with their Solicitor, attended, and produced the forged check for 401: and explained the manner of the prisoner's demanding payment for the coun terfeit draft. The prisoner, upon being called upon for his defence, told his Lordship that he had found the draft, and being ignorant of the nature of checks, he had imprudently offered it for payment, not knowing it was forged. The LORD MAYOR told the prisoner he knew very well it was not his, and having given no value for it, he had ❑o right to offer it (or payment ; if it had been a good one, he ought, on the contrary, to have taken it to the banking-house, and told them he had found it, if that was the cage; but at present it certainly ap peared much against him, and he should remand him for further examination. GUILDHALL-John Henley was charged with stealing several articles, the property of Messrs. Burn and Trust, haberdashers, in Aldermanbury, to whom he was porter. It appeared that .the prisoner had long been auspeEted of nefarious practices, and the suspicions being at length confirmed, a search 'war rant was procured and his lodgings were searched, where several things, the property of his employers, were found, together with 751. in bills and cash. He was committed for further examination. NrAVAT, .7N_;ENN'S. PLY:IIO'2,7R, ATOLL I.—We yesterday stated the arrival-of the letter of marque ship Bess, belonging to and from London, W. CARR master, . bound to Grbral!ar, which vessel, off Cape Finisterre, encoun tered a tremendous gale of wind, in Nvhich she strained so much as to make three feet of water in the hold an .hour, when shehore away for this port, and with the greatest difficulty reached it, as on her passage hit-her she experienced continual gales, du ring which, the crew were constantly at the pumps: The Bess is a very fine copper-bottomed vessel,well armed, with a large complement of men, and has a Very valuable cargo, part of which is to be discharged immediately, in order to effect the repairs of the vessel. The brig Susanna, belonging to this port, of about 140 tons burthen, PERRIAIi master, from Lisbon, with a cargo of fruit, bound to this port for orders, was wrecked on Sunday last in Whitsand Bay, a few miles to the westward„ We understand the cargo was also lost, and two of the crew drowned. Sailed the Dryad frigate, Captain GALWAY, on a cruize off the coast of Prance; the Rapid schooner, with a small fleet of merchantmen, for the Downs : among them are the following, viz, the London, of London, FENWICK master; and the brig Minerva, PATTERSON, both for London ;. the latter arrived here yesterday from Africa. Came down the harbour and anchored in Caw sand Bay, after having been docked and refitted, the Royal Sovereign man of war. Came down the harbour and anchored in Sound, after having been refitted, the Plurbe frigate. We understand the Tonnant, man of war, Capt. Sir Jon. Goac, captured, a few days since, a French privateer, which is not yet arrived. Arrived the Arneri,can ship . General Gadsden, HENRY PURCELL, master, from Sunbury, State of Georgia, after a passage of 50 days, wi►h a cargo of timber for his Majesty's dock-yard at this port. — The General Gadsden encour.terccl several very heavy gales, but has nor received any material damage.. The outward-bound remain. DEAL, APRIL 2.—Sailed hst night his Nifi -..'y' s ship 3 San Domingo, Royal Oak, Aboukir, Elepnt, Marlboroioi, and Norge for of Flushing ; this evening Majesty's ships Drake and Tremsous, for tie saLi.s.e place. Can le down from the River the Martin sic )p of War ; 'WALKER, for the South Seas. Arrived - the Speculator logger from PortsmGuth. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 2,---[arrived the Ganymede frbm Plymouth with a convoy and the Spitfl7e, after seeing the West India fleet across the 133 y of Biscay._ Sailed his Majesty's ships Decoy, Courageux, and Orion, for the Downs.---His Majesty's ship Buzzard takes convoy for ditto. FALMOUTH, MARCH 3 1 .—Arrived the Lapwing packet, with a Mail, from Surinam, &e. in six weeks ; the Lapwing 10-st two anchors and cables at Surinam. GRAVESEND, APRIL 2 .-- , AITTIVed the Monarch, Euphrates, and Northampton East Indiamen, ftom the Downs. The East Ind;a Company have given a pension of 4001. a-year to Captain ROBERT HAY, who•sn gallantly saved their ship, the 'lslell, trom the French frigates ; also handsome remunerations to the Offi cers in that ship. There i 3 a label on a door in Palace-yard, which punsters me) , consider as a whimsical paradox, viz. " The Stationary Office removed to Scotland-yard." NOTTINGHAM RIOTERS.—In the removal of the four Nottingham rioters, sentenced to fourteen years transportation at the late Assizes, and three fOr se ven years, due precaution was taken to guard against any disturbance, and to prevent any attempt at res cue. Pearkes and Adkins, the Bow-street Officers, wit h : seyeral of the patrole, were dispatched to Not tingham, to make arrangements for the quiet remo- Val of the conviels. A party of cavalry guarded them for some distance on the road. A stage-coach was hired to start at an unaccustomed hour, which on Monday morning, soon after five o'clock, drove up to the door of the prison : another pair of horses were stationed near at hand—they were rat to without delay ; at that instant, the convitts hav ing ,been previously chained, were placed in and Upon the coach, Pearkes and Adkins going inside, and the other outside. At the instant the convicts came out of the prison the cavalry rode up and sur rounded them : the whole was managed so sect etly, that there were not more than forty people collect ed. They proceeded on very quietly till they got to Leicester, where they stopped to breakfast, and where the novelty of a military guard escorting a stage-coach attracted a great crowd. The military proceeded a few miles out of Leicester, and then all danger being considored at an end, they were dismissed, and they arrived at Newgate on'Tnesday, and yesterday were delivered at the Hulks, at Woolwich. We understand that the respite of the execution of Wm. Jemott, which was to have taken place on Saturday morning last, arose from the discovery of certain circumstances strongly tending to induce a belief of his having been an unconscious agent in the piracy for which he is condemned. This coovitlion .is, we hear, so forcibly on the minds of a very large proportion of the Commercial body," that a petition, stating such convitction, has been sent up to the PIIINCE.REGENT in Council, signed by 300 of the roost respectable names in Lloyd's. The MI - air is now under consideration, and a favourable result is expetted. The 20th ult. Ellen Nevison, of How, near Hawkshead, was found murdeted in her own house, and 15. guineas in gold taken away. EAST 14VDid CONP.INY 'S A General Court Of Propri , tors of Ea:4 - 1;!,!:t Stocli ws.rt:a y ,grerably to at!:totirn teat, to take into consideralion tiie Papers laid Fieior,: t 6;.: Court at the last , nieniin g , The Minutes ct the i.ist Niee:irg having b: , en read, Mr. BosasQur.7 (i he Chairman) acquainted t' e Court with the object for which they ‘vere speci4!7 titltaioned, and rcquessed 0, ( . 1r et?r( ) ah - ever might be o(l 7 z:red by any Pgdpiielor on the of the Papers. _ _ Mr. RANDLE JAcKsom addossed the C,hair on .1 subject which he considered no. merely aff ether the interests of the Company in particular, hut the % interests of the kingdom at large ; therefore h pit! his claim to consider the sukTNI in an abstract peihv of view. He felt disposed to strew, by 2 ty.+i a of reasoning, not as a mere adventucer in Innis Stock, but as a British citizen entitled to consideration, t nat the colleCtive interest of the laxly of Propiietors was consonant with the general interests of the Empire_ The questions which were immediately before the Court, after a deliberate, attentive, and anxious per usal of the Papers, were not whether consenting to receives renewal of the Charter upon the proposition of allowing an open trade to India, with permis,noe t o export and import; the Proprietors would be consolt ing their own interests to consent to that proposition of the Government ; for, with resped to th e state and condition of the army in India, that had nothing to do with the present question, the controul over that part of the Company's affairs being still conti nued in the Directors, subject to certain regulations; nor was the trade to China to be affaled by the pro posed alterations to be made by Government. The project of opening the Trade was not new, for it was open, to a certain degree, by the Act ,of Ina, to all Citizens of the Empite, sailing in their own ships, and subject to certain wholesome•renulations. Oat a former occasion, he had laid down a proposition, which he would not now shrink from, viz. that the trade was of right in the. Company, but that if their capital was not equal to the carrying it on, then the next order - of persons etititled, to participate in its benefits was, the Merchants which walk the Royal Exchange of England, in preference to Ame ricans, and every other foreigner ; forthe commerce to that part of the world would be eat r.ied on in Bri tish shipping, with British capital, Braise produce, and by British seamen. Tee Art of fooe was art infraction of the Rights of the_Companv, for it al lowed to the Americans an uninterrupted trade with India ; that Act was passed in consteuence of Mr. Jay being sent over to settle a Treaty, which should secure to the Americans some portion of the trade to India e but the provisions of the Aet meatit, that the trade should not be permitted other than from America to India, and back to America. But what was the consequence of that Art ? My Lord . Kenyon had decided, that the Americans were by that A& authorised to trade with, and sell to all the India Company's customers. Toe public were alarmed at the interpretation of the law, made by that Learned Lord, and the Company called upon the Government to remedy the evil. In the interim, the French Revolution having broken oot, the French had made rapid strides to engroas ther. trade, and then my Lord Melville introduced an al teration of the law, which was the law to which he bad adverted, and which he considered an in fcat..l of the chartered rights of the Company. The A-ot however passed, and it theta became necessary to put other foreign states in the same situation with the Americans, namely, to trade under their awls flags with their own ships and seamen, and having their own agents, It was in vain that the Compariy complained of the infraalon of the navigation laws, for the Government said in answer, that the oaviga tion laws were never intended to extend to India ; they might as well have said that Magna Charta was not intended for India. If the trade had then been opened to British Merchants, would not the. Scotts and the Battings' have been entitled to the same advantages as the French, and would not mere ly the daring speculator have a claim upon the justice of the Government, but also the manufacturer, sup posing it was then proposed to do what now wet; sought to be dooe ? What was the consequence of this permission to the Americans Why they cloth ed most of our `Vest India Colonies, and dealt with and served our customers. This was not equitable. It was admitted that there was a great deal of surplus, bet might it not be as well to give that surplus to British Merchants, and not to Foreiguers ; much less to clandestine Englishmen ? He was not disposed to deny that great advantages do not accrue firm: the importation of bullion. Mr. J then proceeded to notice the present situation of the Company's affaira, and observed that it might be a orth while for Go verninent to repeal the ANS, permitting foreigners to trade, conformable with the ventilations of the navigation laws. He thought, that under such wholesome provisions, mach of the fair tiade would be reimbursed, tit - het-to carried on in a questionable shape, at least through a foreign medium. He much feared that +Le concession of an indiscriminate trade. would defeat the hopes both of Geverurnent and of the Company. He rather thought t leo it it was to be •perootted, subject to the regulati:eas of the Com pany, u Would be carried on - more advantageously. Wnat loid contributed to the splendour, of India What lied kept that country sa long our posses sion, hie the strictest alherence to the rules and te-. gulations laid down by the Compauy ? but if that trade was thrown open Indiscriminately, the evil.; Which he apprehended, would most c.-rtainly fel low.• With respect to the internal Government of India, however much he approved of the in smut ion of Colleges there, yet he objected at the present moment to that proposition, delighted as he should have been with the view of academic groves ; because the Company had not yet made up their minds to the principle of colonization. That principle, if adopted, might lead to in jurious effects; but if the young men were edu cated hare, they would naturally acquire a love of home, and a wish, after a certain peri6d, to return. Not so, if educated in India ; they would then na turally sigh for independence, and what might be the consequence ?—a separation from the Mother- Country. This was the moment therefore to look the question fairly in the face. In stating the ad' vantages of a free import to the ports of London, one of the greatest, he observed, had teen lost sight of; that was, the innocent to ere in la hick sales of In dian produce were concluded : viz. by inch of can• 41e at public auOioa. Supposing that tbc.Direetors