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"=4 • - /7 47 , •.; • •%, • , • - '47 r . . t. 4 „. , • ~ flr" `?" ••„0//I.4lrik. ON S N 05,1arrio ay e 6 /4 N trai - n r, R 10,233. GENERAL POST-OFFICE, 25th June, 1325. Br an Act of Parliament which received the Royal Assent on 22d inst., that part'of the Act of 42d Gee. 111. cap. 63, which requires that the COVERS of NEWSPAPERS be signed by, or addressed to, a Member of either House of Parliament, to enable them to pass free of Postage, is repealed ; and hencefbrward Newspapers - may be circulated by Post, under the usual regulations, without the Naine of a Member of Parliament. By Command, F. FREEIANG, Secretary. 10PRITIS11 STEAM and PATENT NAVE - - 13 • GATION COMPANY. Capital 500,0011/. in Shares of 100/. each. APPLICATIONS for the rentaining SHARES must he made by:letter, post paid; addressed to the Directors 'of the British Steam and Patent Navigation Company, at Messrs. Drummond and Co.'s, Charing-cross ; or Messrs. Veres, Ward, and Co.'s, Lombard-street, on THIS DAY, after which no ApPlication can be received. flußsvA INT to a DECREE of the liIGII COURT of CHANCERY, made in a Cause DAVIES against SKY RME, the CREDITORS of NVILLIAM SKVRME, late of Laugharne, in the County of Carmarthen, Esquire, deceased, (who died on or about the 10th of April, UV), are, on or before the 27th day of July 1 8 25, to come in And PROVE their DEBTS before WILLIAM COURTE NAY, Esquire, one of the Masters of the said Court, at his 'Chambers, in Southampton Buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; •or in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded the ;benefit of the said Decree. bspEcTus of the ST. KAt rw HARI NE DOCK . COMPANY; constituted a Joint Stock Com pany by an Act of the 6th Ueo. IV. 1825. This important undertaking is supported by many of the leading Merchants, Ship-Owners, and Traders of the ..Me tropolis, who are deeply interested in promoting its commercial prosperity. The necessity of giving to the Public additional convenient Wet Dock and Bonding Accommodation near the seat of busi ness in the Port of London, and of securing to it a rethiction in the rat es an d c h arges , has long been experienced. Moderate rates upon the lending, housing, rent, shipping, &c. of goods, are essential for the purpose of bringing; tots fort nearer to a level in point of expence, not only with the other Ports of the Empire to which the privilege of bonding is extended; but more Particularly with the principal Ports of the Continent of Europe; which, in consequence of their lower charges, attract a very large proportion of the transit, which would otherwise resort to London. The proserity which cannot hut attend that lucrative branch of coninterte under the improved commercial Code of the coon try, especially if accompanied by a diminution in the Port charges, must be apparent froM the great increase which even under existing circumstances has already been experienced, since the passing of the Warehousing Act in .July, 1823,_ founfilths of which increase has been enjoyed by-the Port of London . The London Dock is the only general bonding establishment within three miles and a half of the Royal Exchange, and that establishment does not afford accommodation for the increage of trade which had already taken place; still less therefore, can it provide for the additional extent of business that may confi dently be expected to flow out of those enlightened principles of legislation; which are so eminently calculated to promote . and extend the commerce and navigation of the British Empire, , and make the P9rt of London the Emporium of the world. _ • 'I! he place which h as b een se l ecte d f or t h e construc ti on o f the proposed Docks, Warehoses, Quays, '&c. which will ye . sur t"onded with walls, so as to entitle them to all . theprivllege . s or t he Warelithfsing Sytem and of Legal Quays, is situated bc .. - 4T,the Tower and the London-Docks, a situation ur p T h '..°Point of convenience. • tore '',,,,, a dvanced state of science in engineering and . architec - ti -411 present price of building materials, will enable ' e Prom the no tw ithstanding the compara tive! ~ oters of the measure, „ ihnited site, to a ff Ord to the public accommodation for (4n.-Leoousing, bonding., and Quay-room, nearly equal in extent 1 „" .te London-Docks ; and from an improved construction of ),'-e W arehouses, which will be erected within a few feet of the saving of the Docks and Basin, a very considerable annual " a vtog will be effected in the expence of labourage, It is computed that the St. Katharine Dock and Basin, will with great convenience afford accommodation, annually, for about 1400 Merchant Ships i including private trade India men ; b es i des craft for loadng and diselfarging. Increased fa cilities will b e af f orded to the ingress and egress of shipping by the improved application of mechanical powers, by means of which s hi ps and lighters, at a very trifling expence to the Company, may, in the night as well as by day, be locked in and out of the Docks during any period of tide; as tire sills of the outward gates will be so constructed as to provide for ten feet dep gat i ng water, and from twenty-six to thirty feet at the height otides. According to the estimates proved before Committees of Par liament, the total cost of the Site, the purchase of buildings, le ases, and the various interests concerned, including compen sations and ex ence s of carrying{ the Act into execution, will 6 hC e about 1 , 3 50 P ,000/.,—whilst the Capital Stock of the London — tick Comp a ny amounts to upWards of 3,200,000/. alculating upon the above estimates of outlay, with an a mple provision for extraordinary contingencies and unforseen d emands, includin g a reserve fund, and making large allo ances fo r a reduction in th e rates of the Port, the profits a re !stimated to he such, as will yield a highly satisfactory return _to the Subscribers on their investment.‘ The profits thus esti • th e calculation may he anticipated with' the greater confidence; because !"e c alculation proceeds on the sUpposition of an extent of busi s equal to only three-forthS of the Capacity of the proposed n e cks and Waretionses, whereas it 'may fairly be expected, that .teinetimable advantage of proximity of situatiOn, and the stirntion which wilt be'paid to every possible impreyement in lgement, may secure full employment, and consequently, Tiarger returns to th e Proprietors. l e e r Act provides for the payinent of interest to the Sub s upon their instaltnents, after the rate of 4 per cent. per annum until the works shall have been' completed. mad depos c of 5 p er cent. upon the sums subscribed has been , d Will be upon payment of th e fir st ca ll, a scr ip t re c e ip t will . +a•Y • issued e to the Proprietors • after which, sales of shares take lac n0t, 4 . -he calls are li m i te d to 10 per cent. upon a two months t i t standing; will be an swera bl e b eyon d t h e amount of the At !,tanding in his name . expiration of one year, to be reckoned from the open 'lle Docks for business, a dividend will be declared and and after that period half-yearly ; regard being had ttr ~,e_ter? cre ation of a reserve d f un d f or repa i rs and contin ' les. ink cun of co t ye a a r . the concerns of the Company for the preced higg;andwlit be laid b e f ore the Proprietors at the annual meet t4etiti ••may be inspected by them a few days previous to such heSirection is composed of the following Gentlemen : „ THOMAS TOOKE, Esq. Chairman. G. DE. 11. LA RPENT, Esq. Deputy-Chairman. ,f" l es Al °hn e l' a nder, Esq. P Jir John W. Lubbock, Bart. ( le • ruLam Buckle, Esq . . John Horsley Palmer, Esq. N ir r?l r ie ta • e t . n P . c .-arc t. l a y , E sg. J 01111" Diston Powles, Esq. •!.tviord, tag. Henry Rowles, Esq. atr as- p Wrn. Sampson, Esq. ' alto s G ' Nil-% A. G renfell, Esq. Alderman Thompson, M.P. . JohnlsligtandmH Esq,.._ Andrew H. Thomson, Eq. k "Cl• M.P. • Thomas Wilson, Esq. M.P. °or) ttormto Heath, Esq. Fletcher Wilson, Esq. s.Tit* Ait if,,,tn) Esq. -elktix:---George Carr Olyn, Esq. Lombard -street. ‘' --John H 11, Es No. 6, Circus Minories. rL t 11°R—William Tooke. Esq. Gray's Inn. • atte . I Iq. E LK—Thomas Telford, Esq. Abingdon-street, tttTFCTand Westminster. All SURVEYOR—PhiIip Hardwick, Esq. Great aPpli ca! , Marlborough-street. 66 4 , L road e ~I ° os relating to t h e b us i ne ss of the D oc k s, & c. alt t he Offic e , N o , 27, Austin-Friars, until th a • 0 1 3 end for bUshieSts. tftsa Vto It'ttitioitiv_tani.d i m,inatro• n and Report b of er a iii, T o t aied nmitt b ee y ur tn wptit. t . of the-Rnbject roa ul / 6 nAtiicatiOti , to 1 4 the ittrettry: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1825. E GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION 11 COMPANY'S PACKETS, will start froin off the Cus tom-house or the Tower, for CALAIS, daily (Sundays ex cepted); DUNKIRK, every Thursday; OSTEND, every \V ednesday and Saturday; HAMBURGII, every other Sa turday; YARMOUTH, every Thursday Morning; MAR GATE, every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, at 9 o'clock, a nd a l so on ever S atur d ay at I.o'clock; RAMS GATE and BROADSTA IRS, every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 8 o'clock; NEWHAVEN to DIEPPE every Tuesday and Saturday, calling at BRIGH TON PIER when the weather permits ; itAMSGATE to CALAIS, every Friday ; a nd RAMSGATE to BOULOGNE, every Monday. For the convenience and safety of the Public the time of Starting. is regulated to secure the entrance of the Packets into the Harbours on arrival. Full information may be had at the Agents, viz.—Mr. Saunders, Calais; Mr. Chapman, Dieppe; Mr. Salotnez, Dunkirk ; Mr. Crowe, Ostend ; Mr. Delaval, Ilaruburgh ; Mr. Galignani, Paris ; Messrs. 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HOUSE OF COMMONS, TvEsD.tv,truxc The SPEAKEtt took the chair at four o'clock. SULLIVAN'S DIVORCE BILL. On the motion of Dr. PIIILLIMORE, the House went into a Committee upon this Bill.—Counsel were called in ; and wit nesses examined thereupon. • THE DECCAN BOOTY. • Mr. HUME presented 4 Petition f ro m Lieutenant-Colonel 'Fitz Simon, late . .Major in his Majesty's 85th Regiment of In fantry, and in command of Brigades in the fourth and reserve divisions of the late Army of the Deccan. The p - etitioner served in the Army of the D e cc an , un d er t h e comman d o f Li eutenant- General Sir Thomas Hislop, during the war which, in the years 1817 and 1818, was waged against the Pindarrees and the Mah recta Princes, and terminated in the most splendid and bene ficial results for the Fast India Company. .The Predatory Bends in Central e ladia were extirpated, tli e e most formid a ble oate Native Powe rs were destroyed or huriifiled, and large and valuable territories, as well meradeple.reveimes, were :indeed- to the possessions of the East India Company. Such were the achievements of that Army, which, from a denial of justice the most extraordinary a nd un p ara ll e l e d h e h ad ever heard of , was driven to seek retires's from. that Houge, Abuses toe fre quently existed in the distribution of prize-money, and he had, its hie inquiries on the subject, never been able to ascertain to what department the superintendance of it belonged. Il e thought that though it might be j us t an d expedient to retain the legal fiction by which it vested in the Crown, some fUrther provision ought to be made to secure to the Soldier the speedy and full distribution of the reward of kik fatigues anti priva tions, which flowed by inaariable usage from the bounty of the Sovereign. He could instance many cases in which the mast impioper delay hatitaken place, but no case that he knew of equalled the present ! The petitioner commanded brigades in the fourth and reserve divisions of the Dec Can Army, which were respectively commanded. by Brigadier-General Sir Lionel Smith and Brigadier-General Sir.Theophilus Pritzler, both of whom were still in India. He had full opportunity of wit nessing and estimating the hardships endured by the troops, and the peculiar difficulties which they surmounted. In the course of the successful operations of the war in question, rich booty, consisting of arms, ammunition, stores, jewels, and the great hereditary treasures of the Native Princes, were cap tured from the enemy, but much of it had been seized by the Civil Servants of the East India Company, who, although the Company derived great and permanent advantages from the conquests effected by their army, exhibited a general disposi tion to withhold from them the fruits of their honourable exer tion. After the terminatibn of hostilities, Officers were selected from the several divisions of the army, and regularly appointed by Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Hislop, the Comman Chief, to act as a Prize Committee, for the purpose of ascertain. ing and enforcing the just claims of the .army; and in 1821, Major Cadell, of the Madras Army, and Major-Wood, Military Sects ary to Sir Thomas Hislop, were appointed Prize Agents, to suxeed the late Lieutenant-Colonel Dalrymple. The Prize Committee and the Prize Agents, from time to time, prop steel agai tat the appropriation of booty by the East India Company's Servants, and used the most indefatigable exertions to ascertain the amount of the booty, and the various cir cumstances under which it was captured, not only with a view to the general amount of prize to be distri. tutted, but to the particular claims of the troops by whom the captures were effected. A long. and expensive litigation ensued as to the rights of the respective Capters which was conducted before the Lo r d s o f th e T reasury, and ended in a distinct recognition of the principle which the .Counsel and Agents of the Army of the• Deccan sought to maintain. By a Treasury Minute in February 1823, the Lords of the Treasury detertuieed." that the most just and ,equitable principle of dis. " tributian would be to adhere, as nearly as the circumstances of the case Might adinit, to that of r actuai capture ;" and their LAelsbips recommended to .the Crawn, that with an es- _ ception in favour of the division of' the Bengal Army under Brigadier-General Hardyman, in respect of the booty captured at Nagpore, that " the booty should belong to the divisions of " the Deccan Army engaged in the operations in which the " same was captured." They also decided that no part should be granted to the East India Company, and recommended that a grant should be made to Trustees " for the purpose of aver " taining and collecting the prize property, and for prepariag a " scheme for the di s trib u ti o n, conformably t o th e pr i nc i p l e " thus laid down and subject to the ultimate sanction of his " Majesty." On the 22d March, 1823, a grant, founded on and embodying the Treasury Minute, was accordingly made to the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Arbuthnot, as Trustees, for the purposes specified in the Minute. Although this was a deviation from the usual practice, no complaint was made, nor did it seem that ally apprehensions were then enter.. tained of the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Arbuthnot swerving front the strict and conscientious discharge of the duties thrown upon them by his Majesty. It would-have been better if Sir Thomas Hislop, the Commander-in-Chief of' the capturing army, had, as in all former cev:ea, been nominated a Commis. sioner or Trustee, but the petition did not complain of the ap-. pointment. It intreated investigation of the case, and stated circumstances calling for the exertion of all the vigilance and jealousy of the House over the Management of the vast fund, which the appointment had cast upon the Trustees, whose con duct appeared to have been as extraordinary and unparalleled as their appointment. Honourable Members would hear with surprize that no distribution of any part of the booty had yet been made, and that the Trustees refused all information to the- j. Army and their Agents, respecting their proCeedings, and of the views taken by them of these large and complicated claims, or of the manner and extent to which they had unthread or pro. posed to enforce them., Ever since October, 11123, all communication .between the Agents of the Army, and the Trustees, it appeared, had been withheld and refused by the latter. lie called tile particular attention of th e House to the extraordinary declaration which the Trustees ,had thought fit .to make. In a letter, dated May 27, 1824, addressed. to Sir Thomas Ilislop, this passage occurred : " We beg you to understand, therefore, that we are ready to 1 "receive information, but WE GIVE NONE." WAS it to be tolerated, that parties interested in a property, amounting to many hundred thousand pounds, were thus to be debarred from all information respecting its,. management. He trusted his Majesty's Ministers might be able to give some explanation of .such conciucta. but for his own part he could find none. It was tiso well calculated to excite suspicion, and to lead to surmises, which, upon repetition, were treated as realities, and accordingly various rumours existed, and statements lied appeared in the public Papers. How far they were well thunded he could not pretend to say, but at any rate there was enough before the. Ilouse to demand inquiry, and he trusted that the Right Ho nourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be enabled to favour the House with some solution of this of sir, which might allay the fears of the gallant body whose interests were sodeeply concerned. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that in the absence of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Arbuthnot) from in disposition, he was ready to give the explanation required. He would not enter into any .of the other cases of prize -money al luded to by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hume). The fact was, that this property was peculiarly circumstanced. It did not come immediately within the operation of the Prize Acts. It was booty, the whole of which became the property of the Crown.— There were contending claims among the captors. The argu ments on both sides were heard, and the fjords of the Treasury decided that the captors alone of the Deccan were entitled to - share. In 1823, the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Arbuthnot were . appointed trustees to the captors; and he believed the House would admit that there were no two individuals living less likely to make use of the appointment for any personal object, such as the Hon. Alember (Mr. Hume) seemed to insinuate__ Immediately on the receipt of the Treasury warrant, in 1823, appointing them trustees, they proceeded to the discharge of their dutiea. The whole business was managed by them with. out any expence to the captom except what was necessary in taking the opinion 6f Counsel. The Duke of Wellington wrote with his own hand every paper connected with the inquiry, and in fact took more trouble, and manifested more zeal in, it, than if it were a business in which his individual inte rest was Concerned. The Honourabl e Gentleman (Mr. -Hume) complained, that in his letter to Sir Thomas His lop, the Noble Duke refused to communicate any infor mation. He would endeavour to explain this circum stance. The information the Trustees wanted was informa tion from the captors, that Might enable th em to ma k e ou t a list of distribution. NoW, the information the other party wanted was this--they desired that the trustees would connutt- M m atte to the the legal o pi n i o n s theyißa ob,iiu ed on the sub ject from the Law Officers W . nie Crown. Ne pereon inlet a right to demand from them an account • of -what they had done, and in refusing it they were influenced by prudential motives. By 'slime means or other, detached parts of the pro c eedin gs , on ly cal culated-to mislead the public on the subject, had found their way into the. newspapers during the Under such circuit stances he thought the trusters acted prudently in retuning the answer they did. It was impossible that the Duke of Welling tor., or Mr Arbuthnot, the East India Company, or any of its servants, could' derive the least advantage from the property claimed by the captors.. The property , was not in their hands, or in any way under their controul. Now as to timeline when this business was likely to be adjusted:—The trustees ha 'already satisfied themselves as to the nature of the different claim', and their extent. All that wee wanted was a scheme Of distribution; and it was not until the first day • or the present month e tune that the Duke of Wellington hail been fur nielm+ley the claimants with such a list as e could enable the trustees to decide who the persons were that were entitled to a share of this prize-money. • Dr. LITS.HINGTON said, he differed from the Right Hon Gentleman in all his inferences, and some e of his facts. It wae not a little remarkable, that notwithstanding the praise bestowed upon the conduct . of the Trustees the Army did not at all con. cur in this commendation of there cenduct ;. on the contrary, .they expressed their marked dissatisfaction at it. Their cone duct he (Dr. Lushington) would not hesitate. to assert was Unwarrantable and without all precedent. There was tot instance on record. of such an affair having been 'managed as this had been by the Noble Duke and Mr. Arbuthnot.— He did not mean to attach any blame to the conduct of Govern ment. • He had been concerned for the Marquis of Hastings aced the Grand. Army in the proceedings before the Lords of the Treasury, and lie could most cheerfully bear testimony to the patient and laborious attention ; with which their Lordships ens . tered upon one of the most. arduous investigations with which he had ever been acquainted, either in reference to the Com ideeity of the details, the difficulty of the questions, or the im mense mass of documents that was adduced in support of the respective rights of the parties. Although the Marquis of Hastings was unfortunate in the issue of the cause, he (Dr. 1.4.) did not complain of the decision. He believed it have been dictated by the most anxious desire to do justice, and founded on the most serious and dispassionate consideration of all the facts and the arguments of Counsel. It was not of the conduct of the Treasury in this respect, or of his Majesty's appointritent of the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Arbuthnot, that he come plainer', though he saw no reason for the deviation which had taken place, of the invariable practice of appointing the Coin mender-in-Chief of the capturing army to be one or the Trus_ tees for the management.of the •Prize Fund. It was of the Trustees he complained, and he thought that in a case of this magnitude and importance it was the duty of the House to institute inquiry, and to secure to those who had hardly earned it, the reward which the bounty of their Sovereign. had assigned them. These Trustees, from the very time of their entering upon their duties had acted in a manner calculated to injure the best interests of those whom it was their duty to protect. In every case that had .occurred within hi s experience, the most unre s tri c t e d communication had .been allowed and encouraged between the Trustees of prize funds and those who were interested in its dietribution, and to refuse it, as had been done in this case, amounted to positive denial of justice. No one could doubt. the vital importance of such communication to the interests of the, Army, and of the strange and embarrassing situation in which they must be placed whilst it was withheld. It was evident, not only that the amount of the fund to be distributed must be depreciated by the want of free and cordial communication, but that it was impossible to prepare a just and satisfactory scheme of distribution without it., Th e Ch ance ll or ' o f t h e Exchequer had said it was not until the Ist of June that the Agents had enabled the Trustees to prepare their scheme of distribution, buehe would ask wheth er • th e Trustees had ever informed the Agents of the. particular claims which they had • prosecuted and established, and without it how could the Agents supply the Trustees with materials to form a scheme Of distribution, founded on the principles laid down in-his Majesty's warrant ? The petition before' the 'House stated that .he (Colonel Fitz Simon t had heard, though from the system of secresy adopted, he could not confidently assert, that a sum . of about 700,0001. had .been realized and ad mitted to be due ao the captors, but that such sum, though large in itself, was small, when compared with the claims which could be legally established by. the Prize Agents on behalf of the Army. Was it to be tolerated that the Army were to derive their information from rumour, when it was the ditty of the Trustees to convey to them authentic information ? The Army alone, after the Crown, in accordance with invariable usage, had made a grant of the captures, were interested in the pro ceeds, and would that House allow them to be shut out of all knowledge of the management of their funds ? He submitted that it was not the intention of the grant, and that it was incense sietent with common justice and common sense to exclude the Army from all knowledge of proceedings in which they were the sole parties beneficially interested. The Right lion. Gentleman (the • Chancellor of the Exchequer) had said that the Duke of Wellington had drawn up the docu ments connected with this transaction in his own hand writing,. and•had devoted not only his time and talents, but had acttialry contributed his manual labour to the interests of this Army, but he (Dr. L.) could scarcely credit the assertion, when he re ferred to the correspondenceand sawthe unparalleled insolence and the unbecoming and reprehensiblespirit and language in which it was couched. He would state to the House the manner in which it had been thought fitting and decent by these Trustees to address an Officer of the high and distinguished rank of 'Sir Thomas Ilielop i and who had commanded th e •A rmy which • achieved the eplendid and brilliant results of the lute war in' India. In .a letter dated Woodford, Oct. 14, 1823, there was a passage stating, " we conceive that when. you are present in "'England, it could be much more convenient, more decorouS, " and less .expensive that those answers shOuld pr ocee d " front yourself." Moref decorous and respectful forsooth l —Wits •it ever heard of that the Commander-in-Chief of an army, entitled to prize -money, was to be compelled to conduct ,the correspondence with the Trustees, appointed for his benefit and that of the troops who- fought under him—that he was to be prohibited from corresponding with them either through the prize agents or his professional agents. He would be glad to know what right these Trustees, who made such a merit of their services, had to put such a restriction upon Sir T. Ilislop. Nor was this all ; the same letter went - on to say, that " In respect to the opinion of Mr. W. Harrison annexed to " Mr. Atcheson's letter, which appears to us to have been " brought before us in a very irregular manner, we observe that " it relates not to any point of law in the case, but to the expe " diency of our communicating to the said W. Harrison and " Dr. Jenner the opinion which the Law Officers of the Crown " have given to us----." Ile would ask who " the said W. Harrison" was ? He • was his Majesty's Solicitor-General, when he was Prince Regent, and he was a King's Counsel, and the brother of Mr. Harrison, who was one of the Secretaries of the Treasury at the very time .when .one of the individuals signing the letter, which made the allusion to him in these disrespectful and improper terms, was himselfa Secretary to the Treasury. This sort of language was not confined to this single letter; it ran throughout the correspondence, and pretty clearly evinced the spirit which actuated these Trustees,; but as the Right- Honourable Gentleman i(Mr.. Arbuthnot) was not in his place, he should abstain front further observation, and reserve his further remarks on that point to some future opportunity. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had alluded to the very disinterested and meritorious services of these Trustees. It Wes a case in which every man was bound to express fearlessly his sentiments, and to state what ht knew ; and when the Right Hon. Gentleman claimed merit for disinterested services, and denied that the trustees could de rive any personal advantage. from this transaction, he would ask him whether it was not proposed to make Mr. Arbuthnot's son, who, as he understood, was not yet twenty-one years of age, an agent for thedistribution of this prize-money; whether due profits of the appointment - were not calcutated at upwards of 10,0001.; and whether it was not decided that the Crown was to confer it on this individual, though it could only be done in conformity to the provisions of an Act of Parliament, with the consent of the captors? lie would ask how he would explain this attempt to put the son of one of the Trnstees in possession ofsome thousand pounds at the expence of those who served ill the cap turing Army, and who had discharged, in the most exemplary manner, all the laborious duties of the Prize Agency. Perhaps he should be told the appointment heel not taken plite ; but why was it not? Because it was found that the Prize .Act secured to the Army the power of appointing their own Agents, and • that the Trustees had no right to interfere with the .appointment. He challenged time Right lion. Gentle man to deny that such was the case, anti that the Law Officers. of the Crown had expressed their opinion that the appointment could not be made. It was a case which_ in all its ciretun ?:teneee 'required investigation, and if - immediate justice was PRICE Si•:VENrrNcr . , . . . not ,done to- the army he trusted the House would inter , pose, and ,by some proceeding secure it- to them. The CHANCELLOR of _the EXCH is:QUER. said, he re gretted that his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Arbuthnot) was unable, in consequence of illnees,- to Attend .in his place, as he had no doubt he would be • able •to - give a -ealiSfac toiy answer to the obserVations of the Honourable :and Leaned _Gentleman (Dr. Lushington.) He would now. re peat dietinerly. that the trustees had not, nor could have, any interest in delaying the adjustment of the claims in this case. With respect to the a pp o i ntment - alluded to, the tact was;, that Mr. Aebuthnot's.son wag not appointed agent At all. If the power of appointing Agents to assist in the distribution had by law been vested-in the Trustees, he could see no impro priety in their appointing Mr. Arbuthnot's son. It was com petent to the 'Trustees nnder the warrant to appoint Agents to assist them in the subordinate dirties of the trust ; and if such a j - iower were not given, it would effectually prevent disinterested peremse taking upon themselves the manage ment of prize affairs. But though the . power of uppoint- Mg Agents to assist them in the duties thrown upon them • by the King's warrant, existed, none had been appointed.— It was, therefore, unjust to charge his.-Right Hon. Friend with an interest in delayike these proceedings—repproaching to tor. ruption. • An agent for the Army cou ld not he appointed with _ out the atictiternf the regulations. pre scr ib e d b y t h e A ct o f Par- The golf:anti Learned Gentleman was also mistaken in the age Of the eon. Of Mi. Arbutlimit. Dr..LUSHINGTON said he would not have asserted . any thing which he had not strong 'reason for- believing to be true. - The Right Hen. Gentleman had denied the, appointment of the son of Mr. Arbuthnot, but there was abundant evidence to prove the intention, was indeed truce as the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, that au agent could he appointed Only:ac cording to the provisions of the Prift Act., The warrant gave the trustees the power of employing persons, and remuner a ti ng t h en' for their assistance in collecting and recovering the-p r iz e p r oper ty and in forming the scheme olilistributioneand there their datics stopped, but-he re,gretted that ,enne vague expr ess i onse h a d b een introduced into tin: warrant, apparently for the purpose of carry ing them further, And of enabling:them to interfere with an ap pointment width the Law had justly and winiy given to the Army, only. The ArIbRNEY-GENERAL said, that this being the property of the Crown, it was competent to it to issue the war rant in-what terms it might think.ht, and to enable the Trus tees to remunerate persona for assisting them in the performance of the duties of the trust. The Hone and Learned Gentleman was mistaken if he imagined that to be illegal. From various conversations be bad had on this sit b;ect with the Trustees, he knew that much of their time was taken up with it, and that they were anxious to complete the list of distribution as soon as possible. It was only the variety and the contending nature of the claims that occasioned the delay. No distribution. could take place till the claimants themselves sent in their lists. Mr. FIUME said the Right Hon. llon..Gentleman was en: tirely mistaken with reference to the letter to which he supposed him to allude. The letter to Which he alluded was one in reply to a letter from Sir Thomas Hielop, requesting permission to inspect the accounts furnished by the. East India Company. He thought it was not unworthy of the notice of the House, that the conduct of these Trustees had been described by seven of the most emjnent individuals at the bar as improper and prejudicial to the army. They said in their opinion. which he held in Isis hand, that " Upon an etteutive consideration of all the &cum " stances, we are at a loss to understand upon what ground:ease " Trustees have refused to hold any flirt/ler communication wish " the Agents acting on the behalf of the Aisny—a proceeding " opposed to every principle of equity and justice, and . which, " if persisted in, must necessarily be productive of anise " quences the moat injurious 'to the interests of. the Army.”___ He should move that the Petitio n b e b roug h t up and printe d . It was most respectful in its language, and stated that the-Of ficer from Whom it was received had been induced to pmy !Or the interposition of the house, from his knowledge of the wares and the anxieties of the surviving portion of the Army in Eng land, of which many of the most active and meritorious-Of - Heels and soldiers had died since its termination, leaving widows and Orphans in circumstances calculated to excite the strongest sen pathy. Such an appeal he (Mr. Hale) trusted would never be wade to that house in vain* and he gave notice that h e wou ld move to-morrow, or some early day, that the Accounts in possession of the Treasury be bud before the House,.in order to ascertain what the. amount of this property was, and where it was. The petition of Colonel I!itz Simon was then ordered to be printed. ft was as followa To the Honourable the Com mons o f t h e U n i te d Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, the humble Petition of Lieutenant-Colonel James Henry Fitz Simon, late Major of hi Majesty's 65th Regiment of b fantry, and in comma: d of brigades in the fourth and re serve ,diVisions of the late Array of the Deccan ; Humbly showeth—.That your petitioirer served in the army designated the Army of the Deccan, under the command of Lieutenant- General Sir Thomas Hislop, Baronet, during the war which, in die years 14:17 and 18111, was waged against the Pindarrees and the Mahratta Princes, and which terminated in the extinction of the predatory bands, in the destructiOn or, humiliation of the most treacherous and formidable of the na tive powers, and in the acquisition of large territories and ample revenues by the East India Company. That your petitioner, who commanded brigades in the fourth and reserve divisions of the army, which divisions were ie spectively commanded by Brigadier-General (now Illajor-Ge neral) Sir Lionel Smith, and Brigadier-General (now Major, General) Sir Theophiltis Pritaler, both of whom are Still a India, had full opportunity of. witnessing and estimating ti e hardships endured by the troops which he had the honour and good fortune to command; the peculiar difficulties which they surmounted ; the signal bravery by which; when opposed to far superior numbers, they ensured success ; and the exem-. glary moderation and self-denial with Which they. used their 'victories. That, in the course of these successful operations, rich booty, consisting of arms, ammunition, stores, jewels, and the great• hereditary treasures of the native Princes, were captured from the enemy ; but that much of such booty was seized, and taken possession of,' by the -civil servants of the East India Company, who, although the Honourable Company derived: great and permanent. advantages from their conquests, exhibited a general disposition to withhold from them the fruits .of their sufferings and struggles, ,and even to prevent them from ascertaining the value of the spoils, and fairly vindicating their claim before a competent tribunal. - That after the termination of hostilities, Officers were-select ed from the several .divisions of the army, and regularly' ap pointed by Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Hislop, the Commander in -Chief, to act as a Prize Committee, for the purpose Of itscer. taining and enforcing the just claims of the army ; and that in the year 1821, Major Cadell, of the 12th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry, and Major Wood, then a Captain in the Queen's Royal Regiment, and 11 ilitary Secretary to Sir Tlioinas Hislop, were appointed prize agents to succeed the late' Lieu tenant-Colonel Dalrymple, of the Madras Artillery. That the Prize Committee and the Prize Agents, front time to time, protested ,against the appropriation Of booty by the East India Company, and used the most strenuous and indefati gable exertion to ascertain the amount of the booty, and the various circumstances under which it was captured, with a view not only to the general amount of prize to be distributed; but to the particular claims of the several officers and divisions by whom the captures were effected ; and that by these laborious investigations an immense m ass o f i n f ormat i on was obtained, most essential to the assertion of the rights of the army, and to the just distribution of the spoil among its various portions. That the booty taken in the war was universally known among the army. to be of great value; and that in consequence attempts were made by the grand. army, and also by the .East India Company, to establish their several rights to participate in The benefits of the anticipated grant from the Crown :. and a long and expensive litigation ensued, which was conducted he ti-ire the .Lords of the Treasury, and ended in a distinct _recog nition of the principle which. the counsel and agenta•of the army of the Deccan sought to . maintain. By a Treasury minute of the sth of February, Ism the Lords of the Treasury, " having heard counsel in support of the claims of the grand army, and of those of the army of the Deccan, and having maturely and deliberately weighed and Considered all the documentary evidence - laid before them in behalf of the several parties, and the arguments of eattisel, were. of opinion that the most just and equitable principle of distribution would be to adhere, as nearly as .the cir cumstances of the case might admit, to that of actual capture.; and that although they were, aware that th'e' prin ciple of constructive -- capture must, under certain - circuit). stances, in a degree be adMitted." Their. Liardshipsahere t ore recommended to the :Crown, thAt with - an --excep tion in favour Of.. the divisiop- of.:the .Bengal..army,..tlnder Ilfigadier-General Ilardymani in .respect of the booty :cap .. DIVIDENDS, July 26, D. E. Colston, Islington road, upholsterer—Aug. 9, N. May, Albion-tetrace, Stepney, builder—July 26, T. Sherratt, Birmingham, carrier—July 26, W. West, Bretlen bury, Herefoidshile, dealer—Aug. 1, 'l'. Leeming, Salford, Lancashire, timber-merchants—July 21, J. Hepple, Northumberland, cooper—July 19, P. C. Lee and W. Ballard, Hammersmith and:Brentford, linen-drarers—July 30, T. Mid dleton, Liverpool; cotton-manufacturer—July 30, D. S. Nor ton, Uxbridge, brewer—Aug. 6, J. Higgs, Dudley, Worces. terhire, linen-limper—July 19, 'l'. King; Oxford, grocer— July 9, urbery, Coventry, silk and trimmin g - manu f acturer —July 26, J., E. C., and .1. Richards, Alartin's-lane, and Bir mingham, merchants—July 21, R. Fairclough, Farlington, Lancashire, tanner. CERTIFICATES, JULY 19. V. Hosking, Walton, Buckinghamshire, builder—J. Hun tington, Skinner-street, Snow-hill, jeweller—W. Sidebottom, Stayley-bridge, Lancashire, cotton-spinner—J. Darnton, Man chester, cabinet-mak er —J. Niven, Peterboro ug h and Merthyr- Tidvil, draper—T. Wood, Birchin-lane, merchant. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R., J., and R. Ransome, Ipswich, ironfounclers—W. Not tidge, A. Drew, and J. Nottidge, Itusiel-street, Bermondsey, and Huddersfield, woolstaplers—J. Stanton and G. Merrick, Crown-court, Brewer-street, \ VeArnipater, carvers—W. Ni chol', and .1. and J. Firth, Shaw:Chapel, Lancashire, iron_ founders—J. Ball and F. Mien, White's-Grounds, Bermond sey, morocco -manufacturers—G. Lowe and R. Bower, Notting ham, circular h o lt-makers--J. Ray, and T. and E. Lewis, St. Paul's Church-yard, warehoutemen—W. Srn ylie and F. Mal lam, Welbeck-street, St. Marylebone tailors—T. Baron and J. IVolfenden, Rochdale, Lancashire, tobacco-manufacturers —J. Lawrence, J., W., and W. Jenkins, W. Powell, A. Lewis, W. Daniell, and E. Jenkins, Abercarne, Monmouthshire,:har_ coal bar-iron manufacturers--J. Welchinan, and J. and E. Lawton, Ivy-house Establishment, Montpelier-row, Blickhe ith —C. Swann, sen., and C. Swann, jun., Grantham, Lincoln shire, drapers—J. and E. G. Abbott, Miles's-lane, Cannon.. street, and Crooked-lane, ale and porter-merchants—S and T. Deacon, and S. Sedgwick, Skinner -street, coffee-dealers : so far as regards S. Deacon—B. and J. Shadbolt, Bishopsgate street-within, oihnen—S. Itempson and J. Kindon, Binning ham, button-makers--T. Cocks and J. Taylor, Birmingham, iron-founders—J. Barker and F. G. C. Briand, Low heyton, Essex, brewers—G. W. Fulcher and W. Sparrow, Sudbury, Suffolk, stationers—M. A. Lintatt and M. A. Cruse, Speen hamland, Berkshire, schoolmistresses--A. Nixon and E. Soper, Bath, milliners—J. Morris and J. Hedley, Commercial-plae:, City-road —lt. Wilson and T. Holroyd, Linconln's-inn-fieldi, attornies—J. Gray and B. Cooper, jun., Brothell's-road, Clap ham, smiths. The subscription for the service of plate to he presented to Mr. Huskisson now amounts to 3,5001. As this is the sum beyond which it was not thought de s i ra bl e to ra i se the subscription, it has been resolved to close the books on the Ist of July - . , --(Liverpoor litive'rtisei• of Saturday.) • Or Wollfrestiay, Mr. Alelantlyr, a Juvith Rabbi, and late Reader at the Synagogue in this town, was baptized into the Chtistitin faith at St. Andrew's church, He is 6ileti about to lib - it:Sad as a IroLlnu , v's Exeter ee) •