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those who were present ought to be eAttaced. A book of attendance should be kept in , ,eacb Com mittee-romn for reference. He.. also wished a book to be made up every month, skewing in %what way the Directors exercised their patronage, and giving the names of persons sent out to India as WI iters, Cadets, Surgeons, Sic. Unless it were proposed'tbat such conditions ,should ac company the increase, .of the Directors' Salaries, he did not.think the motion would have his sup port; • • Arr..PeostEß tind. Mr. lIUME severally'exp9o - and vindicated their conduct, ;and sub:anted that .there had been nothing irregular pr improper in the course theybad felt it their duty to .take on a. former . day. Mr. flu ME expressed his surprise_ at the lavish praises which had been bestowed on the Court, as if all wes so perfect that no change could desired. This, he thotight, was refuted 'by, Mr. -Cobh, in One of the papers before them, where an accumulation of business was mentioned. Had. the Directors merited the unqualified piises they had received, theme would have been no ateinnu lation of business, • ,- Mr. T.' Mooat assured Mr. Howaftb, that no thing had 'been said againt his conduct on the last Court. - He:.for._ hiniSelf had expressed great regret that the Committee rose before he had an opportimity of moving a vote of thanks to the Gyalcman. Ile then entered into an ex planation of his own coat:fact in this' business.— 1.1,.! had pit it in a:fair train to be disposed of, as should be the pleasure of the Proprietors, and it was now for them to decide from the evidence before them. The present scale of remuneration, be , contended, did not go far-enough: to reward those talents which were called foi , , .tp manage the concerns Of a great Empire. What.ever might be the fate of the motion now before the Court, . he should have the satisfaction to reflect, that the _ PrOprietors were en:ablyt, from what had taken place, to form a better judgment on the subject than they could do before. For the conditions that it might be thought right to attach.to the Resolution for increasing the salaries of the Di . rectors, he did not know that' it would be neces sary to five a notiee'of 14 days. Mr. R. TticiiitaToN imagitied.the Hon. Gentle man ha 4 the. power Of annexing conditions to his rnotioo, w-ithout givins,anOther 14 days' notice. The Bye-law on this suLject 'tails here referred. 'to, which states, " that uo Bye-law shall be or . • dained, repealed, or suspended, without the eon- . currenee of two Courts, of the first , of which 14 . , days notice shall be given: 4 This gave rise to a conversatioli of some' length, in which the com petency of the Court t.• alter the qualification for a Director was discussed. In this debate Mr.' Alderman Atkins, Mr. Hume, Mr. Haworth, Mr. R Moore,..Mr. It. Jackson, Mr. Bos'anquet, Mr. Lushington, ;I\ll-. Lowntles,, Mr. F. Dixon, and Mr. Plomer, participated. It.,was asserted on the uue hand, Char the act requiring a Director to possess 20001. stock, left it to the Company to raise the qualifiCation as high as they pleased ; on the other, it w,as maintaitied, that to alter the nualificatiosi in, any way, would be to interfere with/ the law of the laad, and consequently any person returned for the Direction, if po‘;ReS3Cd of - §t.64., might set time bye-law requiring . more at defiance, it it were passed. It was finally proposed (and seemingly agreed tu) to' hear the conditions Mr. Moore proposed to attach to his motion. • Mr. P. Mootte, after a few further observations, moved .the. repeal of the bye-lawJegnlating the present - emoluments of the Directors, and pro posing to enact a law in 'its stead, by which the Chairman should receive 1201.. the Deputy Chairman I 0001. and the other Directors LOOl. per mlnuisi. It further provided, in various instances, fors their more ample remuneration. On the motion being. read, • Mr. PLOMER descanted at,sonie, length on the justice and expediency of giving a proper remune ration to those who performed such an arduous task as directing the coneert4s.of the greatest corn- met cial company in the .world. If any testimony were wanting to prove the ability and industry that_ were employed by these high officers, he would say, " icy their fruits ye shailknoW them." The systematic' manner in which all' the'? business ( if so vast a'coneern was regulated, v(as iculy astonishing,' for there was _not a dpcinnent of arty desctiption on the Cumpany:s aiiairs, within the last forty Years., but cOuld : be : produCed .in few 1 - ninnies after it might be &minded. The nt;nctuality of attendance aleo, on the part of the 1) rectors, was highly prtilst:‘n - orthy ; for fact, that on_an average of lorry ~- ; •i:rs, ,19.0ut of the 4 hard attended every c'o.lrt DiFt'ctors. As to the General ; Courts, the bVe-la:vs rendered it imperative on _them to attend- 3 so that their' tithe was greatly ocCupied, - so small maneration as, they rece:yed.-- lie then atiL verted to what .had been - said 4bcr.tt patron age., and contended,,. that as this conld not :be turned to account without the commission of . . perjury, a liberal salary was just and iiitcesSarv':' . iu snort, he would say to the Proprietor), " Make toe Director satisfied with his situation; - 811 A he will render vou contcuted' with y-slurs-." 'Mr.' P.• fro.in entei cd upon fintly:litptnciai. comparisons, -T.o prove that there was ample means for , the pro posed increase, and cOincided with.,the cictlara-. lion, 'that there was now a surpliA .dri the witole • stock of 2,C60,00/. after every expene'was li viidatcd - , while the average profits tbe stoCk fur the'last seventetin years was. 1,330,0001. 4.1 e concluded with a pointe:l,allnsion to thepre- sent political aspect of affairs, and trusted that the measure now broiq ; ht forward .would be carded, unaccompanied by any-istipulatiims. Air. W. Kr:ENC spoke at seine len'ifth to the same effect'. His principal .wish wa,l, to make it ' worth the Directors while to devote their whole time to the affairs of the Company. • Mr. ft. JACKSON made an animated !nay to the sentiments which had been promulgated, and which he considered to be an attackfupon- the ho nour of the Directors, whom he called upon to protect the honour of the Proprietors, while they shielded their own. lie trusted the, Court would . not be 'induced to vute - away so large a sum .of money by any of the eulogies they had heard= still which would amount to little less than 3',)0,000/. before the expiration. of the rectors, who had descanted so loudly on tbe ne cessity of economy, conld say to the people on the establishments of India, that it was necessary , to curtail their ineonics, when one of thelirst,acus of their newly restored power, w a s to, increase . their own. For himself, he thonght‘the measure so . perft;ctly indefensible, nay, so imMoral, for men of this description to begin their careers, by pouring woney-into their own pockets, that he was ashamed to be of' the Committee. There were of the Committee not only several Gentlemen who werecandidateS for vacancies in the, Direction, but two others who were unqualified Proprierors.pe also thought the ptoposition in regard to,the Ijjro pertyTax a degradation to the dignity of the Dime - tots, whom lie would not wish.to cringe at the feet of any Minister for the sake of a little peen , niary saving. Adverting to the state 'of affairs, lie, ' thitriked G,4fuur the events which haul taken place on the Coutinent,'and also for inspiring the Coun cils Of ourselves and our Allies with sheh'vigom, that there was no longer any'chance of the moral mind being shocked by, seeing qui. country Compel!- ed . to make peace with the wholesale butcher of mankind ! As tO'the proposition before the Court, be could cernsider it as nothing but a premium. for old age ; and it was necessary that the conditions should beWell understood before they were agreed to. I . -The propositions for'taking so IlillerVOI011ey:u ' out of the pockets of the Proprietors,, could not fail '.() generate ; and hewbuld rather have seen soine proposition • fur verifying and recognis ing the arduous labours of the Ditfectors; in. pri)of of their deserving such a • large 'remuneea . - - tion. .Mr. Jackson then made some crere re marks on the conduct -iot those who had ; spoken in defence 'of the Resolutions ; but whose faces were not seen in the Court till the whole' of the contest ;was over, and then. they came to rote away the money.- As to the salaries of the Directors, they were of little import when put in ,competition with their v:ot patronage ; and that man could have no heart Nylto could sly that the patron?ige was of no value was the noblest advantage to the noblest - mind, because it could be disposed of by such a mind in the. noblest manner. Mr. Robert Grant had stated it, 'in his .voluine, to amount 'to '350,000/. so that the advantage of it to each in dividual Director was from 6000 t, to, 8060/.. per CHere Pater Son, a Director; inter rupted Mr.,-.laclis;on,l4y wishint,• to know how he could tell what the patronage was worth ?) Mr. J. replied, that lie had it from a printed sheet of which could be referred to ; but if the , Hutt. Director himself wished to know its value, ley riim . (said Mr. J.) enquire amongst his friends and conneetion,s for worthy objects; let him seek ; out modest, pocu, and unassuming men of merit, slow to ask, - hut anxious for employment ; let him bestoli upon them his share of the patronage, and his heart would tell him the value of it !--= (Ladd find repeated cheeri4.) Mr. JACKSON wen 4. on 'to explain that the pa tronage for the last twenty years vas valued at 3,000,000/. which wa5,6006/. a year to each Di pector ; but that this arose only from Writers, Cadets, and Assistant Surgeims : there were many other sources•of emolument under the description of patronage. Besides this, there tern the loan speculations, cads of which put 16.00t11. lot() the poCket Of the Chairman, and 80001. into that of the private Director. After this, who need ask what the situations were worth ? and he would put it, ad verec . unchain, to those velio had charged the Pro prietors with .being illiberal to . thosethey employ ed. tti•say whether they had any ground for such complaint? So far from this, it was not icing s i nc e a Director had publicly said,' that the weight and dignity of a Director of that Company was far beyond that attached to any subordinate Minister of State,,and, in his opinion, ,there was no situa tion that could he compared with it, except that Of the Fii•st Lord of the Treasury ! J. con chided with moving, as an amendment, that all of the original. Resolutions, after the word `` That," be omitted; and that, there he substituted the fol .„- jorving words, to Wit : " This Court having examine.' the.proceedings of the Se lect Committee, and considered the, doeunte.nts and evidence therein containcil, arid havi - ng particularly. noticed the two foliowingites\dutioits, "Ist, That it is not,the opinion of this Committee that an indiscriminate and unconditioaal increase of salary to the Directors be recomnictided to the Couyt of Proprietors ; " Vdly, That it is . thi , i•-aii , ion of this Committer that it is et:pc:heat reco?nmenA a gradual increase •of .salary, ytided such iticreve be accompaniedby certain conditions for the more efficient tlisclorge of the Direetorial duties " Resolved; Mita 'the conditions herein alluded to have heel' submitted to this Court, considered,' approved of, mid passed into lacis of the East India Co'in'pany, it would be prentatnre and litiw . l..e to make any alteration in the al ltni•anCes •to the Direct-4s, for their 'attendance upon the business of the Company." , Mr Lowswas stconded the amendment. Mr. BosANo.bET said,'that: he had come. pre pared-to speak on the subject ; but as his Speech -must necessarily, be long, he would rather decline derivering his sentiments. lie wished, howct'er, •th?,t the debate could be concluded, and the un pleasant subject condemned to oblivion. 24r. KiXNAIIIII considered the speeth of Mr. 'Jacksoft To - bit an attack upon the Muiitbcrs of are CoMmiztee, and altogether an appeal to thc pas sions of the Court. That Gentleman thus as sAed' might hare Jo opportunity of defending therselves,, he should move an adjournment for -16 days. • Mr. C. CZPANT, sen. was„of the sante, opinion. The whole of the debate had been on one side, and the Directors ought in justice to appeal for a hearing ;- in -short, the whole of the question, hav ing {Ow provoked much animosity, ought to be .heard ont. - After - Much farther controversy, the cliAtirmAs intitnatrtl - that the 16th day would fail on aSun and-suggested the extent to be 18 days. The question ryas then - put by spew of hands, and declarrd . to be carried in the affirmative ; Alr.anine, however, insisted on a'division, when the gallery tvas' , cleared, and the motion for ad, journment till Taesday, the-sth of April, was ear .ried• by 'a large majority. The charming Tale of " jUst pub. has ; deservedly excited much interest. We arc informed if is lion) the pen. of Miss AIKIN Authoress of Epistles on Women ; and the success of this work, We hope, will induce. her to devote her talents to this line of Writing, in which she scents eadoeutly qualified to eical. DUTCH PAPERS, ROTTERDAM, MARCH 14.--According to letters froth Ghent, of the 10th of .March, the Allied Armies had., oti the 7th inttant, at fs;or o'clock in the morning, attacked and defeated the enemy near Harlebeoe, and pursued hit:► as faiTa't Kos. : tryk, into, which place the. Allies .entered ilt,the Bth instant ; .and having received a reinforcement from the Duke of Saxe Weitnar, they pttr.sgetl the enemy as tar as Lisle. • An inhabitant of Phent, who, left'Parii on the sth instant, relates; 'that si►ice the 25th of last month the inhabitants of Paris had begun to esti mate the intelligence front theii Lm4Verot• at its real value, and that every tl►ing there was in great disorder and confusion : That the Allies were at 'but a very short distance from Pais, on the side of Meaux ; and that the said Gentleman bad on his journey been informed, that the whole of La Vendee was in insurrection,.and‘ had mounted the 'white cockade : —(Rotterdam Courant, March 15. We learn from Breda , :under the 13th, that the Dutch battalion of Gillet, and a regiment of ila noverian cavalry had passed ti►rough that place, on is way to Brabant.---(Same Paper.) ARNHEINI, MARCH 1,3 —Last' Friday several inniclrell French prisoners ivere , brought to this place, who were, in a. most deplorable condition, there being More sick than healthy' among them, several of tlieth daily dying t.hrough want and. fa tigue. They were quartered here in the bar rackS, and are guarded by some of the Lands-' turn'. The citizens provided them ivith necessary cloatliing. OUDENAUDE, MARCH 6.—Yesterday the Al lied Troops decoyed the French close under the wills of our city. By thii manoeuvre an enguge , - went took *mat Be,3eren. a village situated near to us, in which the French were driven back with guilt loss.. A strong corps of the Allied troops has arrived here to-day.—(Same Paper!) GHENT, MARCH latest intelligence froui 4 OuLnarde state, that the French, who had been compelled to quit the vicinity of that town, were in fulrretreat. We learn, from another 4u,arter,- that- 200 Lancers, .who had marched dut Of Lisle with Gen. Maison, had deserted that General, and had ar rived ,at Bruges with their arms and baggage. Colonel Count Biehalofk is rharehed out this evening with a - corps of Prussians and Cossaeki, and taken the road to Kortryk..---(Same Paper.) BRussELs, MAuen 9.--Kortryk was _taken last Sunday morning', by the combined PrusSians and SaKtinS, who after havjng completely defeated the Fiench near to that city, 12 to 1500 men whu were cantoned in the , vieinity of this place, march ed away two days since, in the morning, for Ant werp, to strengthen the corps laying before, that city.—(Sanze Paper.) LEYkN, Martptt 13.—The French garrisons shut up in the important places of Bergen-op-den- Zoo n, 'Wesel, and' Julius, continue to defend. themselves,, 'The French, says a private letter, formed a plan for making a. general attack against the4ng lish troops stationed from Breskaat to the FAcaalt but this plan, by which they were to'have waited the troops which they have in the island of \Val cheren and•at Katz, and in consequence of which the•garrison'of Antwerp would have acted at the same time, has fortunately been discovered,— ( Leyden Paper, March 15.) CiUE T, MARC(' B.—We have this moment re-' ceived intelligence by a courier, of the . Allies hav ing entered Kortryk after a sanguinary action, in which upwards of two thousand men were left on the ffeld , of battle.—(Leyden Courapt,' March 14.) AvroNA,.-MARefi are ,sorry •to state, that contagious fevers still continue to rage here, and the state of blockade between the besieging corps and. Hamburxh incommodes us not a little. According to intelligence 'from Hamburgh, a re spectable Citizen there hut been brought before a Court Martial, for having got our Newspaper, the illerciThas,' into - the City,' nod - escaped death only through his daughter's pleadings. Da.voust bad lately given a grand ball:—The attack on "Hambutgi will be deterred till the heavy art:Huy are brought ui).—(Gerraaa Observer, March 7.) GERMAN PAPERS. EASLP,, MARCH I.—A • strong detachment. of Russian cavalry.' and infantry arrived heie yester day. They compose together already 13,400 men, and they are on their way to reinforce Marshal Blucher. A few days since several thousand men• passed through MitilllCirn for the same purpose, t his army having been considerablyreduced in his numerous conflicts with the enemy. Prince Schwartzenherg has been strengthened by a body of newly-faised Swiss troops, amount ing to . 1 or faOOU, winch were marched a short time ago. from 6eueva and its neighbourhood.— Reinforcements are rolling onward from all di rections to the head-quarters of the. Allies. From Hungary there have been dispatched several new and very fine regiments. The rapidity with which the levies raised by the German Princes have been brought into the -field, is very surprising. 'They are marching from Frank fort, Dusseldorf'', Cologne, and other situations on the Rhine. to unite with the krand army._ • .%1,1.11,. I . 1 vs; AR,uvEn-1 II °Hand, 1 Guernsey, I Jersey, 1 1)1 11-° ' 1 cfe' terfot il, Di: E-- 1 , Li s boll , 1 Yalta, 19 LAotte" l "g l4 ' ligoland, 1 Dublin, 2 Waterford. PRICY. OF,STCCIC.S THIS 6.11' l 7 TIVELVF o'cLoctc6 Consols - .97iii IV • 1116i1 SVATER AT LONDON TiItIDGFA TO-NOgv --9 Morning, G kinutes after ,1. Ltveuin•-; 3t minutes alter • F SUN . SOLEM QU DICF:IiL L'it . 'l'.l Al.. DEAT ? LONDON, S r i" T 11 Ddr, 31.4RCH ig, 1614. ir ,4 - .Just as we were going to Press , we learn - t Government bad this day received letters front Maloes', by the way of Guernsey, stating au lt t v t telligence of the arrival of Lord WELLINGT Ot4 Roquefort, had reached . .that place. Roquefor about half way from Bayonne toßourdeaLl%• French Papers to the 16th inclusive 113" reached town. Me have not, yet seen the °. They are reported to state, that BuoNN I.-- ' had returned to Paris, and that he a Victory over ilLocnizit,!, The -French 1 4 t 1' 11 0 have advanced Two per Cent. ; our 01,1.11140 staged a depressioQ of about .a Half. We have this morning Dutch Papers, the c ° ' r , tents of which, with the exception of the ` li t, nunciation of the taking of Courtrav (Or hci ryt) are of little importance. Courtray is i'e ck°il ed a very strong place—it stands on the 14" It' about 12 miles east from'Ypres, a n d twenty s-u t t ij o west twin Great. It appears from(" t Allies are going on very prosperously in Fl' ,lllb-1 1, Two thdusand men were killed in an action, preceded the rapture of this place. • ebo t. So alarpled is the Etiemy in this direction) he is placing AMIENs in a state of defeuce . • der After the late Battles on the Aisne, we lin 5 stand that the nearest approach of the light tr(!aPi of the Allies, up to the beginning .1.5 f the p i ' e ' s week, was to Within forty Miles from • bt The repOrt of insurrections in La Vetlf l6e‘isn fo 11 ' 1 ' worthy of much credit, coming through There is likelihood enough of such an eve llt ' we shall hear of it - first fromthelerench cQ3-t rect,. or from Guernsey or Jersey,. I of c" Our RA:month Letter notices the I 3 ira .tra,Uspot s from Passages, which poet t be) lef t tok the 26th, and as tncre is 11U rucntion of the ' ing of Bayona! ou the 25th, we mus t consi der i ns report brought by the Northern Star, at fea st, premature. ' We underitand that about Eleven Tw 9l : e ti Pounds have been paid to the Trustees aPPIOI,I by the Stock Exchange, as profits .whic h ` r° os have accrued, to the pa r ties suspected c ` l:s fraud lip on the 2lst.---alhis involves inat t4rs greater contusion than ever. The.payment of the debts for which 1 3 " — was confined in the King's Bench, gular and suspicious occurrence. t 'Erie Board of Adintralty, with that prny'V i j o g which is displayed on every occasi o n in re' cl ' r ,, f o' heroic and gallant• conduct, lost no Owe ig I the niotirg, Lieut. SMITH, First Lienteniint °f fo ti Eurotas frigate,',to the rank,of Command er also ()Tie of the Aridshipineri 'to the rank ° I tenant, for their brmery in the 'engageincli. the Ci orinde French friga!e. . . t , o r . - We have'this ilay an unusually scantYl3lll4 tion of news. Even ritmonr has been sti ll' V' , 05 the recent arrival of the official intelli,,enoebr() tit) lli 0 by gr. SLIAW; and in so far asauilitary oP er3 li ? 10 1 , are concerned, we can s,ce ,our way pretd , 0' ttp to the 12th inst. We wish to fle 3 `' e? A , oi . were equally enabled to penetrate the cr? sc l 3O o which . hangs over the negociations. On tli el) .the Ambassadors remained at Cbatilion ; . e 1 6 tliongi, as we reasoned front ciretnnitarict's oe t , terday, it is evident the Parties bad not c()I o li l an agreement, it is also . evident that t l . l° r ' e "' , ~ , • at issue are not, of so irreconcilable a I'3"u r to Cause ?he disctissions to be broken "'Off' • n • On the contrari, IVC have reason t" i v that . ,Lord CNSTLEREAGH twill 11 - 04 °II4 return to this countus, to mutt ,th e tl; hling Parli.areent - on Mon day nviti 1?u ‘ e his . stay on ..the continent t ° . tracted beyond any immediate •perioti 11° L uP been anticipated. This fact (if. vvo l g - ed, whicl in our judgment it is) , 1 c c two things-of vital importance . --the •?.11 very considerable obstacles to the gen e! 34 d i cation and ye-organization of Europ e; • o f expectation entertained-by at least s "' e 8 Allied Powers, that BUONA PARTE wi ll he c e 0 • 0 ti •Tetk .d prolong' his reststanre against thejr cc iafr In the mean time, the grand question.;