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~~ ) efi4; P/y4,- "‹, co ./,coAT . _ 0 4 Ot t nrls .44 IMO it)c`' • .; k, / /`/ -- e NtrmßEß 10,129. MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1825. PRICE SEVENPF,NCE, TO OFFICERS ON lIALF-PAY, &c. ARMY PAY-OFFICE, HORSE GUARDS, February 23, 18-25. AT a numerous MEETING of the OWNERS of FISHING VESSELS employed in supplying the Metropolis and its Environs, and of other Persons interested in the Established Fisheries of the Kingdom, holden at the Office of Messrs. SAUNDERS, HEAWOOD, and MAT THEWS, in UPPER THAMES-STREET, on FRIDAY, the 25th day of February, 1825, JAMES EBENEZEIt SAUNDERS, Elq., in the Chair; It was unanimously Resolved, That the Petitions to Parliament for the incorporation of Joint Stock Fish Companies contain allegations unauthorized by the past and present state of the Fisheries, and hold forth prospects that can never be realized. That the occasional scarcity of particular Fish cannot be re medied whilst the winds and weather are beyond the controul of man, and therefore a regular and uniform supply of Fish to the Metropolis can never be accomplished. That with the exception of Salmon, and of an occasional scarcity arising from the reason beibre mentioned, the London Market is supplied with a superabundance of Fish, the average price of which (throughout the year) is less than seven farthings per pound ; and frequently the supply is so great as not to find EAST INDIA -HOUSE. N OTICE is hereby given, by order of the PAYMASTER-GENERAL, that since the Order is sned from this Of fi ce on the Bth of December Last, it has been determined, that OFFICERS who have taken, or shall take, HOLY ORDERS after the .14th June, 1823, shall be allowed to receive Half-Pay and Military Allowances, pro sided it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary-at- War that they had entered themselves at either of the Uni. versifies of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin, beforo that date, for the express purpose of becoming. Ministers for the Esta 'Wished Chtirch. TERRICK HAULTAIN, Cashier of Half-pap. EAST INDIA HOUSE, F e b. 23, 1825, • THE COURT o f DIRECT O RS of the, UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG LAND TRADING to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice, That the COURT will he ready to receive PROPOSALS in writing, on or before WEDNESDAY, the 16th March, from the Owner or Owners of good sound and substantial SHIPS of the Burthen of from 450 to +3OO Tons registered even a consumption. That if the Legislature should incorporate the petitioners, the public will be greatly injured, and the established Fisheries destroyed ; because such Corporate Bodies cannot remain per manent if they are to supply Fish at a lower rate than that which it now yearly averages ; and by the inequality of com petition during the existence of their capital, the present re sponsible Fisheries will be annihilated, and thus in a few years the public will be deprived of the greater part of the supply it cueasurement, specifying the rate of Freicht at which they may be willing to LE such SHIPS for ONE VOYAGE to and from BENGAL. • That the COURT will also be ready to receive PROPOSALS in writing, on the aforesaid 15th March, from the Owuer or Owners of good sound and substantial SHIPS, of the Borthen of from 450 Tons and upwards, registered measure specifying the Rate of Freight at which they may be willing to LET such SHIPS fur ONE VOYAGE to BEN UAL, tf, carry out Troops and Stores. ' -That the COURT will also be ready to receive PROPO SALS in writing, on the aforesaid ihth March, from the Owner or Owners of good sound and substantial SHIPS, of the Burthen of 450 Tons and upwards, registered measure %tient, specifying the Rate of Freight at which they may lie Avilliog to LET such SHIPS for ONE VOYAGE to BONI :el:AY, to carry out Troops and Stores. : The Tenders, with the words "Ship Tender" on the cover, to be severally sealed up and left with the Secretary, at this I-louse, at or before Twelve o'clock at Noon, on the above ustntioned day, beyond which hour no Tender will be re red. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. The Particulars of the Terms and Conditions upon which The Ships will be respectively employed, may be had on ap ptlcation at the Office of the Clef k to the Committee of Shipping, at this 'lousy, on or after Saturday next, the snith instant- NOTICE TO ARTISTS.' A LL WORKS of PAINTING, SCULP TURE, and ARCHITECTURE, intended for the en suing EXHIBITION at the ROYAL ACADEMY, must he sent to SONIERSET-HOUSE on MONDAY, the 4th, or by Nix &Clock on TUESDAY, the sth of April, after which tittle none can possibly be received. -The Regulations necessary to be attended to may be Seen iu the Last Year's Catalogue, or may be obtained by appli cstiun at the Royal Academy. HENRY HOWARD, R.A. Sec. NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, AND ESSEX, RAIL ROAD COMPANY. r rHE SHAREHOLDERS of thi s COM PANYA are respectfully informed, that the ENGINEER i 3 now proceeding through the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and seat, with a view to the Selection of the most favourable Lines c)f. Road to be adopted ; and that competent Persons are likewise engaged in collecting the most accurate accounts of the Traffic, Tonnage, &c. thereon. As soon as these Details are ascer tained, a Report thereof will be printed, and distributed to the ?efipective Proprietors. _ _ By Order of the Dire c t ors , 8, Old J ewry , F e b. 25, 1825. WAI. Sl3l, Secretary. , FOUR PRIZES OF £ 2O,OOO!—ALL IN ONE DAY . HAzA RD and CO. respectfully inform the Public, that the Tickets how contracted for are the last that Government will have to dispose of; so that, of tuttrse, Lotteries must entirely finish in this Country in a motiths.—HAZAßD and CO. hare the pleasure to pie. sent a Scheme fior Public approbation, nearli the same as the List offered by them, which gave such general satisfaction, 4 nd in which Lottery more Tickets were Sold than for many gars past—the best proof of the higkestimation in which it was held. The Scheme now presented possesses FOUR of £20,000, to be Drawn in ONE DAY, And NO BLANKS ! li very Number will he entitled to 4:4, Shares in proporti o n 200,000 Sterling to be distributed in Una Day, APRIL SCHEME. 2 . . of 2 2 4 ti 8 10 10 • eo 1,300 "Pi No BLANKS!--Each of the above, and every other Number, will have £5, be- 100,000 tug - 10 ,oti0 Numbers. Two 'rickets of each Number. HAZARD and Co. solicit Public they at their Old 'stablirlied Offices, where for a Century they have been SUC• tessfol- in selling Capital Prizes, and where, in the last Year's Lot t eriet crily, they Sold Five Prizes of £30,000 and Xio,oon gkeliange Gate; iG, Cornhill ; and 10 Jxfutil "leeti end of Regent-street; and by their Agents in all the i nciPal Country Towns, TFOR COLDS, COUGHS, ASTHIMAS. HEPECTORAL. ELlXlR.—Experience tltr during a very long period, has inconte.stibly proved guperior efficacy of this Medicine, in all cases of Colds, "Os, and Asthmatic Affections. By protroting gentle '4,Pectoration, it very shortly relieves the NO( lit of a slight rreent Cold, and a few doses are gen.-rally sutheir nt to I:i,tnove those whi c h neglect has rendered more confirmed and 4 t ii i 'Ate, and which are accompanied with Cough, Spitting Q 0 ( 1 , and other serious symptoms. its peculiar bak ai ni c I„'"f6 tend to heal soreness, and allay the irritation of the r . "gs, in c a s es o f C ough ; and in Asthmatic Affections it a s . stets and gives freedom t o th e B rea th. 41. 501 d in Battles, at ls. 14d. and is. 9d. by Butl ers , Cl ie - No - • 4, Cheap s id e , St. Paul's; Savory and C o . 196, N ew U. treet ;. 220, Regent-street ; an d by t h e pr i nc i pa l Medi ' le I enders throughout the United Kingdom.. li tN Of whom may be had, BArLSAMIC LOZENGES, used in recent Coughs, &c. and f or ren d er i ng t h e V o i ce Clear arid Flexi and protectin g its Organs from the effects of exertion. Boxes, 13. lid . i Lie c areful to ash f o r Butler's Newt al Elixir and Bal- !c enges. CNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OEFOIID, FEB. 26.—0 n Wednesday last the Rev. Edward Philip Cooper, Fellow of St. John's College, was admitted to the Degree of Bachelor in Divinity ; and on the same day Edward Dighton, Esq. of Exeter, to that of Master of Arts, Grand Compounder. • The new Statute relating to the Examinations, which pro vides that there shall, in future, be nine instead of six Exa miners, and that the Classical and Mathematical Examinations shall be distinct, passed the House of Convocation on Tuesday last. The number of Classes are to he four, of which the three first are to be printed. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.- The Rev. William Buckland, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and Reader in Mineralogy and Geology, in this University, has been presented to the Rectory of Stoke Charity, near Win chester, vacant by the death of the - late R. Gatehouse pa trons, the President and Schol ars o f C. C. C. Mr. Buciland has also been re-elected President of the Geological Society of London.—the Ref. A. Sedgwick, M. A. Woodwardiaa Professor, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, pre sented, by the Master and Fellows of that Society, to the Vi •carage of Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire, vacant by the resig nation of the Rev. George Alacfarlan. The Rev. W. Corbett Wilson, jun. M. A. to the Vicarage of Bozeat cum Strixton, Northamptonshire ; patron, Earl Spencer.—The Rev. W. C. Madden, B. A. of Queen's College, Cambridge, has been li censed by the Archbishop of York, to the perpetual Curacy of Christ's Church, at Woodhouse, in the parish of Huddersfield, in the parish of Huddersfield, on the presentation of Jon Whit acre , Esq. the founder. Finis.—Last night,aboqt a quarter past eight, a fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Rivest, musi cal instrument vender, No. 218, lli^h Holborn. Engines were in immediate attendance ; but though there was an ample supply of water, and the firemen exerted themselves to the utmost,. stilt the devouring element raged uncontrouled, and in a short time extended itself to the ad joining house, the Suu and Punch Bowl. Both houses were completely destroyed. The flames extended in the rear to the premises of Mr. Vizer, a timber-merchant, w here a great quan tity of the property was destroyed; but owing to the exertions of the engines, the fire way stayed in its progress. About half-past ten the flames were subdued. So rapid was the conflagration, that scarcely any property was rescued, We understand that the premises consumed were partly insured.—A destructive fire broke out at lidin Laugh, on Tuesday night, in the printing office of Mr. Ritchie, which destroyed the lands. on which it commenced, by which fifty families, mostly poor, have been dispossesed of their homes. MISS FOOTE.-=-RLISSEL L , the Manazer of the Brighton Theatre, evinced his gallantry and his gratitude at the same time to Miss FooTL, for the three overflowing houses s h e pro d uce d him by her performances the week before last. On her quitting the Theatre, lie presented the fair Lady, with a brilliant bandeau, stuthled with precious stone, which cost the liberal Manager nearly 4U guineas. THE MARQUIS OF HASTINGS. A Special Court of Proprietors of East India Stock was held on Friday, by adjournment from last week, at the East India House, in Leadenhall-street, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Hyderabad Papers, which had been laid before the Honourable Proprietors, so far as they re spected the conduct of the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings, late Governor-General of India. The CHAIRMAN (IW. Astell, Esq.) shortly informed the Court, that they were then met, pursuant to an adjourn ment, from Friday last, of a Special Court, called at the request of nine Hon. Propriet ors , to consider th e Hyd era b a d Papers, so far as they re gar d e d the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings. • The SECRETARY then read the requisition. He also read the original motion made by the Honourable Douglas Kin naird, viz.— " That this Honourable Court having taken into considera tion the Papers which had been ordered to be printed and laid before it at a Court of.Propaictins, held on the 3d of March last, Teletitig to ceataia tketfiVaity transactions with die house of Messrs. William Palmer and Co. at Hyderabad, is of opinion that there is nothing contained therein which tends to affect, in the slightest degree, the personal character, integrity, and ho nour, of the late Governor-General of India, the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings." The Amendment, moved by the Chairman, and seconded by Sir George Robinson, was then read, viz.— " That this Honourable Court having taken into considera tion the Papers laid before it, relative to certain pecuniary tran sactions with the house of Messrs. Palmer and Co., at Hyder abad, is of opinion that there is no ground for imputing corrupt motives to the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings, late Go vernor. General of India, nor to any other member of the Ben gal Government; but at the same time it feels itself called up on to express its approval of the several dispatches to India, made by the Honourable Court of Directors on the 2 lth of May, 1820 ; 28th November, 1821; 9th April, 1822 ; and the 21st January, 1824." The Coma araN then called on Sir John Doyle, as being in possession of the Court at the time of the last adjourn ment. Sir Jones DOYLE wished to know of the Honourable Chair man, whether the Amendment was to be considered that of die Hon. Court of Directors, or of himself and Sir George Ro binson personally. The Cita' nataei said, that as he considered the conduct of the Court of Directors by whom those dispatches were sent out to India to be entitled to the approbation of the Proprietors, and as it appeared to him that the original motion, if carried, would throw an imputation on those Honourable Gentlemen who at that time composed that Court, he certainly had felt it his duty, as an individual Member of the present Court, to move the amendment. He had no time to lay it before the present Directors, or lie had no doubt he should have ob tained their assent to it; the amendment was, therefore, to be considered as that of his own and the Honourable Baronet who seconded it. Sir JOHN DOYLE said, he was quite satisfied with regard to the observations which had been most candidly commieniceted by their Hun. Chairman ; his having acknowledged the amend ment to be the act of himself and the lion. Director who se conded it, assisted him (Sir J. Doyle) considerably, and took away much of the weight that would have otherwise belonged to the speeches of his special pleading friends, who had spoken on die former days of discussion (Mr. Poynder and Mr. Fresh field). It had been said by them that the motion of his Hon. Friend (Mr. D. Kidnaird), was in direct opposition to, and a reflection upon, the Court of Directors, but now it appeared from what their Hon. Chairman had said, that it was in oppo sition only to his and the Hon. Bart. (Sir G. Robinson's) mo tion. With regard to the original 'motion, he thought it in every respect unobjectionable. He did not believe that in any Court, a plaicer e more moderate,. and unornamented proposi tion was ever produced. It only referred to the Noble indivi dual whose character was involved ! he did not know of a more simple and intelligible motion ever having been made in that Court. But his special pleading friend (Mr. Freshfield) had endeavoured to confuse it; he had assured us that if this mo tion were carried, the business could not rest here. Those Hon. Gentlemen, however, came to this Court with their speeches already prepared from Alieir briefs, and went on with the greatest fluency, provided they were not interrupted by any impertinent questions. With regard to the Gentleman who spoke last (Mr. Freshfield), he laid considerable stress on the attack that had been made upon the character of Mr. Adam ; and lead advocated that individual's reputation with consi derable warmth. Now, if it be true, as reports say, that that lion. Proprietor is the attorney of Mr. Adam, he (Sir J. Doyle) thought nothing more injurious to his client's character could be done, than his coming down here and attempting to entrap this Court into an approbation of his (Mr Adam's) conduct, without any inquiry having taken place at all with regard to that Gentleman. But they (Mr. Poynder and Mr. Freshfield) were the great guns, lie knew, on the enemy's side; but the greatness of the gun was known to consist in the greatness of the le-re. lie would now address himself to the objections that had been urged against the Noble Marquis. The first point was that which related to the suppression of the Aurungabad Accounts ; the second concerned the 60 Lac Loan to the Nizam, and the third the preference, or, as the fashionable phrase is, the favouritism which the Marquis of Hastings had shown to the house of Palmer and Co. He thought, that with regard to the two first points he had sufficiently answered them at the last meeting. The charge of favouritism then consisted in the licence granted by the Governor-General, at a time when the very cri tical situation of the Nizam's Government required an act of decision. State necessity must at all times overset these cavils about trifles. The question was, would you lose India or overset an Act of Parliament ? Lord Hastings was a States man, and did not hesitate which to do. fie said an Act of Parliament might go back to Parliament, and be renewed, but a State once lost, it might be very difficult to regain it. With regard to the Aurungabad Accounts, he (Sir J. Doyle) had omitted at the last meeting to say one thing. The Court had heard hut one side of the question ; they had heard the friends of the Noble Marquis. Mr. Stuart in his minutes stated, that upon application being made to the house of Palmer and Co. for a particular statement of the Aurungabad Accounts, Sir Win. Rum bold, who had arrived at the scat of Government, refused to give diem, saying, that as mercantile men they could not with propriety furnish copies of their accounts with their con stituents ; such a measure would be highly injurious to their affairs, and destroy the confidence which the public reposed in them. Now, what Mr. Stuart here said, was completely true and right at the time he wrote his minutes; because Sir Wm. Rumbold had made theseobjections. But it so happened, that while Sir William was thus objecting, his partners ,who under stood the business better than he did, h a d furnished copies of the whole of the accounts, before a letter could have reached them from Calcutta; and the reason they assigned for doing so was ;his, that though they were not bound to do it, yet they knew their soundness, and that the more their accounts were insoected, the more would the facts redound to their character. But when these accounts were delivered Mr. Stuart forgot to do one thing—he forgot to take his minutes and throw them into the fire. This unfortunately was not done—the minutes was sealed and sent off to the Court of Directors, containing the statement of Sir William Rumbolcrs refusal. without one word of the accounts having been subsequently furnished, and which must have been known to 31r. Stuart before his minutes were sent off: Now, the 60 lac loan was the next p w o it i s n tenodbej endeavoured e a d ga t ion sconnected. t J. Doyle) should only say with regard to it, that whether the s y stem upon w hi c h the loan was managed was right or w rong, i t was i n h is judgment Very imtnateird. All partie s agreed that a loan was necessary. The resident had recortunended one plan, M x . be the Noble or with which he Adam another. and Messrs. Palmer and Co. proposed a third ; thus three modes were offered by which this loan, which was agreed by all to be necessary, was to be effected. But two of these modes were deemed illegal whether by competent autho rity or not he would not say, but it was not an authority ap pointed by the Marquis of Hastings. but by the Court of Diree tors themselves. Well they ar e agreed that such a thing was necessary, and as two of three plans proposed were illegal,there only remained one, which was that offered by Palmer and Co. Now it was satisfactory to see what was the opinion of Mr.Adarn at that time with regard to this plan; he (Sir J.Doyle) would read an extract from that gentleman', own testimony, Mr. Ad ana , in assigning the conside rat ions which weighed with him its giv ing his assent to the arrangement between the Nizam's Go vernment and the House at Aurungabad. said, .. The terms offeredby: Messrs. William Pi.lmer and Company were repre sented. and I believe correctly. to be more favourable than any o.her that could be obtained by the Nizam' s M inister on his own credit or that of the S , a!a• , again "On time whole, it appeared to be as favourable an arrangement for the Nizam as circumstances would admit of, and as such was a fit object for the sanction of the British Government."—Why, this was one of the crying sins of the Marquis of Hastings! and yet it was said by Mr. ,-\dam to be deserving the approbation of the British Government. Mr. Adam then went on to say.— " For I willingly admit that we are not entitled to oppose this plan if we do not propose a better." Now, did they propose a better, and what was that better plan ? Both that had been mentioned were illegal; so that he (Sir J. Doyle) would say, whether the plan ultimately adopted was right or wrong was quite immaterial to his argument. In consequence of some passages in a note of Mr. Adam, which was considered to re flect on the conduct of the house of Palmer and Co. in reference to this loan, that gentlemen five years afterwards says, in one • of his letters,—if any observations of his should seem to convey such an impression, he desired particularly and unequivocally to disclaim any such intention. It was upon the letters and statements of Mr. Metcalfe that the whole of this unfortunate discussion was founded, and by which the mind of the public was so much biassed, but in which statements he (Sir J. Doyle) would prove, before he sat down, there was not a single word to be relied upon. .If this were his word alone, then lie should think that no one would believe him again after making what, in that case, would be so rash a statement ; but he would meet those statements by Mr. Metcalfe's own words, and show that that gentleman had, at different times, contradicted himself' almost on every fact—and it would not do for a gentleman to stand up and say that Mr. Metcalfe was an honourable man ; he (Sir J. Doyle) did not say he was not an honourable man, but there were passions in the human breast which were capable of perverting the hest principles, and in fluencing the mind to the worst of actions. His point of at tack had been the house of Palmer and Company, but all his (Mr. Meredith's) hope was, that by a rebound, it would reach and wound the Governor-General himself. Mr. Meredith, in page 191, said, that by the 60 lac loan the Government of the Nizam had been much relieved ; but, says he, I have been dis appointed in finding that relief was not so great as I expected, nor that the money was applied to such a permanently useful purpose as I had hoped. Sic ego sic meas. He's the Knight and hero of his little tale. First of all it was said that there was an usurious demand made by die House ; next, that there was not a farthing paid at all on the part of the loan, and then here it is admitted that there was a sum paid, and which ren dered the Nizam some benefit. Now he (Sir J. Doyle) did not arraign after this the Court of Directors for any pc7Sitive fault in their conduct towards the Noble Marquis, nor for being made the dupes of the representations of this gentleman. How could he (Sir J. Doyle) accuse them of being dupes. when even Lord Hastings himself, who was on the spot, was taken in by the re presentations of that person, and taken in so much as to be pre vailed upon to write to the house of Palmer and Co. in terms of severe censure ? Then came the minutes of Mr. Meredith, in 183, in which he stated, that from the cursory view which he had been able to take of the accounts at Hyderabad, it appear ed to him that not a single rupee had been paid in cash on ac count of the war. Why, if so, what became of that admirable speech of the Hon. Proprietor (Mr. Russell) who made it ap pear in figures that no less than 30 lacy were paid in a space of a few months. In contradiction to all the facts testified to by that Hon. Proprietor, who was an eye-witness of what he spoke to: we have the bare and bold assertions of Mr. Meredith._ ll'ere lion. Members surprised then that the public were taken in by theSe rash and unmeasured statements ? He (Sir J. Doyle) thought he had now disposed of the tirst two points._ lie would now address himself to the third point. It had been extremely laboured by the Learned Gentlemen (Mr. Freshfield and 111 - . Poynder), by distorting some of the statements con tained in - the large volume of papers before us, and omit ting others, to impose-on the minds of their auditors as though they had fixed the crime of favouritism on the Mar quis of Hastings. Now, favouritism was a very vague ex pression. In either was, or was not blamable. In order to make it blamable it must be injurious to the public, and favourable to one's own personal interests. The proof that had been adduced in support of this charge was two or three private letters of' the Marquis of Hastings to Sir Wm. Rumbold. First, it was necessary to know the connexion be. tween these two parties. Sir Wm. bad married a ward, and -a near relation of the Marquis; but still no specific charge had been made, all was founded on suspicion, arising from these letters. Nothing had been taken from that book (the papers) which had been raised to its present extent for the purpose of mystification : it was like embroidery of the fancy to pass off the coarseness of the original material. It was larger than a family Bible, and like that book there were sums parts of it quite Apocryphial. One of these letters was written by the Marquis on the 4th January, 11315, to Sir Wm. Rumbold : but he (Sir J. Doyle) could not help remarking, that it was very curious that the only thing which those Learned Gentleman had to go upon was she private letter of the Marquis of Hastings to the husband of his ward, as to whether his wife's fortune should be entered upon the speculation of the proposed partnership of Sir William with Palmer and Company, or not ? At the time that this letter was written it was quite uncertain whether Sir William would ever join that House or not. He (Sir J. Doyle) would read that latter, not with the metaphysical subtilty of a special pleader, but in a plain unadorned manner, as it should be addressed to the honest minds of Englishmen, who needed not the quips and quirks of a cunning and crafty imagination to interpret to them the intelligible meaning of an undisguised expression of an opinion from a Nobleman to his friend on a private affair. It having been proposed to Sir William Rumbold to become a partner in the firm of Palmer and Campany, his Lordship informed him, by this letter, that he had so written to the Resident at Hyderabad (Mr. Henry Russell) as to ensure Sir William his attention and good offices. His Lordship then said, the partners speculate that you, being one of the firm, will interest me in the welfare of the house to a degree which may be materially beneficial to them ; it is a fair and honest calculation. The amount of advantage which the countenance of Government may bestow, must be uncertain, as I apprehend it will flow principally from the opinion the natives would entertain of the respect likely to be paid by their own Government to an establishment known to stand well in the favour of the supreme authority here; per haps a more distinct benefit may attend the firm, from the con sequent discouragement of competition with you, by any other British partnership, to which a similarly professed sanction would not be granted. No other house would have such a claim." These last words had been much dwelt upon—" No other house would have such a claim." But hear how this is ; W. Palmer was a native of India, he had served 23 years in the army of the Nizam, he had by his valour and influence quelled a mutiny, for which he was appointed to a high rank-near the Nizam's person; these were his services, woad the Nizam—but poad the States, it appeared that in 1812, 13, 14, 15, and 16; lie had rendered much essential !service to them. Now he (Sir J. Doyle) would ask how any other establishment could have had such a claim as this ? Suppose British suer- chants had gone out and ventured their capital in commerce, in opposition to the house of Palmer and Co., would they have had such a claim? Had they rendered services to the Nizam, or ever quelled a rebellion ? But recollect this was not an in. tercepted letter, but voluntarily given up by Sir W. Rumbold to his enemies, upon which alone the special pleading of their advocates seemed to dwell. He would not speak of the pru dence of that act, nor would he praise the candour of those who ad made it the ground of an attempt to tarnish the character and wither the fame of the Marquis of Hastings; every thing the Court of Directors had done was upon the information of Sir Wm. Meredith, because he was their Resident, and there fore to be believed ; when here was a gentleman (Mr. Russell) who had been a Resident for 10 years, a most respectable man, and who was not known to, nor had even seen, the Marquis of Hastings, and upon whose advice it was that the Marquis had acted, and yet the statements of that honourable and eloquent man were not to be listened to—he who bad been appoiated, not by the Matquis of Hastings, but by hie able predecessor, Lord Minto. The gallant General then adverted to the several of ficial persons now abroad; and in speaking of Mr. Adam, he admitted that he entertained the highest opinion of his integrity and honour. He had spoken, he observed, of Mr. Meredith, but he was wrong, because he found that that person had a title. Now he (Sir J. Doyle) certainly thought that Mr. Me redith would have had a title, but not an English nor a Euro pean one. He thought he should have had to introduce him to the Court as his Highness the new Nizam Meredith, for he was become the new Governor and Chief of India, and was enjoy ing the full plenitude Of oriental power. But, after all, this noise about the house of Palmer and Co. was but a tub thrown out to the whale: there were other things 11l view beyond the ruin of that House. Sir .1. Do , ;LE they, desirell the vote of thanks of the Court of Proprietors in 1822, to the 3larquis of Hastings, to be read. The Secretary having read it, Sir onx resumed—The Court has just heard read the °pi_ nion of the Court of Directors and Proprietors_ on the conduct of the Noble Lord's administration. Nov that document, so .• laudatory and warm in the expression of gratitude, was Passed by them two years after the 60 lac loan, and six years,afterthe Aurungabad arrangement had taken place, and with the whole knowledge of those transactions before their eyes. Ile,would ) s a a r y l Li t n h e a n t t h ; e not go over the whole of the Marquis of Hastings' atiminisera ahlaldd r ( e i c ia e t ive: v e be tl n it (I t i l e ppzib b ti e tiote ta ei rd the e n c Ho su u ffi se c s e o it f to i came home from India, some officers who had served under him there. In the course of three days, notwithstanding the Session of Parliament was then closed,, proposed to him a din ner, and they tilled the largest room in London - with the. first personages in the kipgdom, to do him honour. We had te.e company of many Honourable Directors, but were deprived of the honour of the company of their Honourable Chairman, from indisposition—but whether that indisposition was inen tal or bodily, history, unfortunately, did not mention. ,The Gallant General then requested the vote of thanks of the Go vernment and people of India to be read. This having been done, he observed, that it was not an unusual thing for er sons in high rank to receive addresses from persons over whom they had power—but here was one to the Noble Lord after his re tirement. And who were the addressers? They were the come mercial body of Calcutta, the Judges, an,: the three lest names on the' address were of persons who were Secretaries 'in th i s country at thi s m oment , an d h ad an opportunity of knowing well what was the nature of that Noble Lord's Administration. Be it remembered, too, that this was two years and a half after the 601 ac loan, and six years and a half after the Aurungab"d ar rangement. Thisaddress was followed byßengal, Madras,Singa pore, Prince's Island, and though last, not least, from the Native inhabitants of India. Now here we had the whole ofEurope and of Asia on the one side, and who had we on the other ? Why, there was their Hon. Chairman and about eight or nine Hon. Directors. Which of these would kick the beam he could not decide. The Gallant General then complained of the statement made by an Hon. Proprietor (Mr. Poyntler), that the Marquis of Hastings had solicited the introduction of Sir William Rum bold into the firm of Palmer and Co. Ile would declare it to be a rank, decided, and gross faisehood. He, out of courtesy to that Hon. Proprietor, would say, that he must have been misled by his brief. Where did that lion. Proprietor find that the Marquis of Hastings had applied to the house of Palmer and Co. to admit Sir W. Rumbold as a partner ? lie (Sir .1, Doyle) could listen to arguments, but rank and positive false hoods never should be passed by him in silence; and yet that Gentleman has repeatedly uttered that rank, abominable, and infamous falsehood.—(Order, order ! Chair, chair !)—Whare do you think the cries of the Janissaries will put me down ? (Much cheering)—.l wish to respect the Chair, to observe order, and even to s a y thi ngs civilly—but am Ito admit that to nese as truth which I know to be a direct falsehood ? I put it ire the most courteous way I could to the Honourable Proprietor; I said, "he must be misled by his brief." Now, I hope I have satisfied that Ge n tl eman .- -( A l augh.)—lt had been - asked (continued Sir John) whether the personal character of the Marquis of Hastings could be distinguished from his public character? lie would say—No. He would admit that that able statesman, who had saved the states of, the East India Company --who had filled their exhausted coffers, and had ren dered the most eminent services, to his country, was the iden tical person whom those lion. and Learned Gentlemen oppo. site had so ably and critically descanted upon.—(Hear, hear le He had now gone t h roug h the three points which had been urged against the Noble Marquis. lie would now read the original motion, to show how entirely free it was from reflect. ing on any individual whatever.—[The Gallant General then read the motion.] Now, he thought that if the motion had been agreed to, every Proprietor would have risen, and applaud ed the merits of the Marquis of Hastings. All that he and his friends around him desired was, to have the personal integrity of the Noble Lord established ; and when that had been done, they might think what they pleased of his Lordship's politics. He could safely say, his Lordship's friends had not provoked the discussion : and whatever consequences followed this un. fortunate and procrastinated debate, the friends of the Noble Lord were free from blame—they had that consolatory reflec. tion, whatever might ensue. It was said that he had his friends were in hostility to the Court of Directors : this was not so. It was the Chairman, and the Hon. Director who seconded the amendment, who were opposing the Directors.- If the Court pass the original motion, they then leave the Directors as they were before, there would be no reflection nor any spprobatieu. on their conduct : but it' the amendment be passed, then this Court immediately declares their approval of those letters and dispatches of the Directors which directly condemn the Mar quis of Hastings probity ! Mr. POYNDER made every allowance for what the Hon. Baronet had stated in the warmth of argument, but he felt himself called upon to deny, in the most unequivocal manner, that he had ever stated that the Marquis of Hastings had di rectly applied to the house of Palmer and Co. to admit Sir W. Rumbold into their firm. He had heard the speech of the able and Gallant Baronet with unfeigned pleasure, and give him full credit for his unbiassed opinions : why should the Hen. Baronet then suppose that lie (Sir J. Doyle) was the only per son who had spoken without any other than public motives ? Ile begged to say, that his services were not only unbought, but that his opinions were given as independently as those of the Gallant General. Ile must however remark, that the in ference to be drawn from a letter of Sir W. Rumbold to the Marquis, and the reply of the Noble Lord, was, in his opinien, that the house would be particularly favouied W. Burn bold was admitted as a partner.—( Hear !) Mr. STEWART said, that at the last debate the Hon. Baro net had pointed him out, as being distinguished for a determined and factious opposition to all the measures of the Marquis of Hastings. With the highest sense of the ability displayed in the Hon.' Baronet's speech, lie must observe that justice ought not to have been done to his friends at the expense ef others. The Noble Lord should not have been exalted into an idol by vilifying characters who might be equally deserving. He was convinced that the Gallant Baronet would, on reviewing his speech, regret the reflections which he had unjustly cast on him (Mr. S.) especially on reference to his conduct during the ad ministration of Lord Hastings. Sir Jolter DOYLE denied that he had made use of the terms " factious opposition ;" on the contrary, he had given the Hon. Gentleman full credit for the manly opposi.ion which he had given to those measurer of the late Governor-General whin he considered to be impolitic. Mr. STF.WART resumed. He would refer to the Honoura ble Court whetlier any thing else .could be deduced from the language of the Honourable Baronet, than obstinate determin ed—opposition to all the measures of the Marquis.—(No ! no ! no !)-_He positively denied that he had any other feeling in op posing any of his measures, than a consciousness of the duty which he otsed to himself as a member of the Suprenie Council. It was said that he agreed to the Aurungabad arrangement. This he denied : the first intimation he received on the 'abject was by a letter, informing him of the sanction which hadbeta given to the mea sure . When the subject of the lean came offi cially before the Council, he strongly recommended ar. inquiry ; an inquiry was accordingly undertaken, by•the Resident at Hyderabad ; but, as it did not prove satisfactory, a reference was made to the Accountant-General. Sir Charles etletcalfe'3 letter to that official personage (21st July 181 b), in allusion the transactions between Palmer and Co. and the Mean, states that the proposals for the loan were that broached by Palm e r and Co. to the then Resident. (Mr. Russell), arid by him to the Nizarifs Government ; and that the arrangements were entered into with Mr. Ruseell's entire concurrence. .'But Sit Charles submitted whether Mr. Russell was competent by Act of Par liament to give such a sanction to any house to lend money without first obtaining the consent of the Court of Directors ur the Governor-General in Council; neither of which appears to have been given. Mr. Russell appears to have been of opinion that this was the only means of relieving the Nizam's,difficul-, ties, and paying the troops; hut, from a view of ever y thi ng. connected with the subj ec t, he could not .possibly••see how this measure was likely to lead to such a . result. Palmer andleu. declared that they could lay out their money to more advantage, and that their only object for entering into the loan was to be nefit the British Government. He was of opinion that the :loan was Ma necessary,, as there was no want of funds. . At any rate more desirable means of raising money might have been re sorted to. In consequence of this communication from Sir C. Metcalfe, a letter was addressed to him on 4th • September fol lowing ; but before an answer could be received, Sir Wm. Rumbold returned from Hyderabad, and wrote to the Governor n Council in explanation. Sir Wm. Rumbold , objected. to have the accounts of the house laid before the Supreme eil, because they would necessarily be transmitted to . , Eagian,; where they would be liable to misconstruction _rang th e parties to whom- they would be submitted being 7ig ta n tion the the customs of the country. From this eerh_ eee Governor in Council passed a reeolutio n n e ehaeA t " e r e. ut e e_ ()- emery to submit them to the Coe it_ prietor then entered into a vindication ?, e4 v heleeueract er. ) He contended that th e s t a t em ents already proved justified au inier and t." ) . fie conceived that enquiry into the conduct of Pa now enjoys. That the proposed Companies not being subject to the Bank rupt Laws, and the individuals composing them seeking liabi lity to the amount of their respective Shares only, will, if autho rized by Parliament, obtain an undue advantage over the fair trader, whose exertions are induced by causes from which the Companies will be exempt, viz. liability for his engagements to the extent of all his property, and the ,loss of personal liberty if such property should be found insufficient. • That the proposed Fish Companies, by the enormous capital they intend to create, will be enabled to offer the Fishermen such high temporary wages as will leave the present establish ments comparatively deserted; and the thousands of orphan apprentices to the Fisheries (taken in most cases from the poor houses to which they sev era lly b e l ong ) w ill b e t h rown back as burthens on the public. That thr these reasons Petitions be presented to the Honour able the House of Commons, and such other measures taken for opposing the incorporation of the proposed Companies as may be deemed expedient. That these Resolutions be inserted once in all the Daily Newspapers, and three times in the principal Morning and Evening Papers. That Messrs. Saunders, Heawood, and Matthews, be the Solicitors to carry these Resolutions into effect. The Chairman having left the Chair, It was Resolved unanimously,. That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to J. Saunders, Esq., for his very able assistance in furthering the objects 41 this Meeting, and for his conduct in the Chair.. - SAUNDERS, HEA WOOD, and MATTHE WS , Solicitors. This Day were published, In a very thick two. volume, price Ss. ad. boards THE PROCEEDINGS of the CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION in DUBLIN, from May 13, 161 J, to February !t,tS25. i'riii - ted for J. Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly.