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Balance at China on 31 i an. 1803 Balance at China on 29 lan. 1804 in fa your, No. Increase at China - , Balance at St. Helena on 30 Sept. ►BO2, in favour - - Balanc:e at St. Helena on 3o Sept. tgo3. in favour; No. 24 - 26v,966 i82,30d Increase at St. Helena +- 443,390 10 ' 5,194 105,388 Total increase at China and St. Heiena 443147 s GENERAL COMPARISON of DEBTS and ASSETS. Increase cf Debts in India 2,666,981 Increase of Debts . at Home 1.2Z3,331 Total Increase of Debts Increase of Assets in l ndia Increase of Assets at Home 32 8 99)3 1 5 ',833,720 1,273,923 Add Nett Increase of Balance at China 3,107,643 and St. Helena 443, 1 7 8 Total Increase of Assets 3,551, 121 Dedudled from the increase of Debt, will shew a de terioration to have taken place ow the whole Con cernin tiiis view, during the years 1803-4, Abroad, and 1804.5, at Home, to the amount of - 3391 5 94 Amount received in India, and included in • the Quick Stock there, dated the 30th April, 1804, which formed part of the Cargoes aflo at, outwards, in the Assets at Home 031;99 Goods in the Exports Warehouses in In. dia, on the 30th April, 1804, arrived in England, and included in the Assets at Home 43, 6 '9 womb The amount of the deterioration will then be . 966,172 The Assets at Home exhibit, an increase in value, during the yar, in the sum , of 443, t 92.1. front the insertion of the amount of the Claims of the Company on the Public it hay, ing been calculated before it was under-the consideration of Parliament ; as this branch of the Concern is under examina tion, upon principles recommended by a 'Comtnittee of the I-louse of Commons, which will lessen its amount, a farther considerable adjustment will hereafter be (equisite. ABSTRACT OF ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTS. BUDGET, tBos-6. *, GIINZRAI .VISW 'OP 1805-6 d Pevenues of Bengal 8,763,22 i Madra54,774 ,2 9 6 Bombay - ./44: ,0 0 , ' ; Total Revenues Charges of Bengal - 7,4 1 5,37 0 Madras - ,5,650,tas Bombayl,o2,2gs ' •••••••••••,.. ••••••,,,, Total Charges - - .4,6451844 Net Charge of the three Presidencies - „ 366,3 t t Add Supplies to Bencoolen, Prince ot Wales's Island, &c. . Total Surplits Charge • Add further, Interest on the Debts - 2,813,040 Interest payable to Commissioners of Sinking Fund on Secinities.redeemed 1 95.7 88 Total Interest - • ' i66,80e 8330 n 2,018,828 total Excess of Charge beyond the prciclace - of the "Revenues, as estimated for the year -6 2,651,939 E%GiuSiVoGif Commercial Charges not addettto.the invoices, amounting to 199,8061. , DEBTS IN - INDIA, Amount of Debt, 3oth April, 1804, by No. t 6, 25,116,263 Deana in the hands of the Commis sioners of the Sinking Fund ' - NetAmotult of Debts on 30thApri10304. Amount as to Bengal, lan. aos; and Madras and Bombay, 3oth A Prit,2 Bo s' 21 ,197.499 Deana Sinking Fund, as above - • 3,ts tape; Net Autouut of Debts in 1835 - 25,046,434 Increase tA0e,056 22,536,207 2,510,227 DEBTS BEARING INTEREST. Amouht in April, 1204, by No. tó - ii,z76,466 Dedud in the hands of the-Commis sioners of the Sinking Nod - NOr amount of Debts bearing Interest on the 3oth April, 1804 . - - 191 0 3 1 /914 Amount on 3oth April, !Us, generally -24.221,7c.6 . - Dedua Sinking Fund, as above - 1,616,739 Net Amount of Debts bearing Interest on 3oth April, ISos 2,2 44 , 53 2 Increase 24,604,9 6 7 2,43, 0 33 Atilount of Interest payable on the Debt owing on 3.th April, 1144, by No. 16 - 1 1754) 11 43 Dedudi Interest on Securities in the hands. . bf the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund a 166,454 Iva Amount of intere; payable on - Debt owing on 3oth April, 18c4 . 1,05,3119 Amount payable on Debt in. April aes . 2,017,30 Declutrl Sinking Fund as tbove . 195,78 g Net Amount of Interest payable on Debt owing On 34th April, 1835 . increise of Interest payable I,Sit,Oo 233,111 The Noble Lord having gone 4irough his state ' tnent, after some general remarks, adverted to the present state of the Company's Affairs in India, after the late .termination of a long, ardUous, and'suceess- , fill War; and lie expressed his confidence that the Treaties which had been concluded with Holkar and Scindiab, of which Copies had been received by the last Dispatches, were such as certainly . gave strong ground to expe& that the Peace would be permanent, and afford an' opportUnity of rapid re trieval to, the Company's Affairs, Upon the state of those - Affairs he was not disposed to make spe cious observations unwarranted by reasonable con siderations or fair prospe&s. The • Affairs of the Company had beeh for some years embarraSsed-; 'and' their debt, so far from having been reduced ; was increased by Wars, which not only absorbed the whole of their surplus revenue, but forced them into new debts. • But although their debts were great, their resources were amply competent to meet every exigency ;. and with a , few years of Peace, of which there was every .probability, and a Steady, persevering, and welt-regulated economy, he saw no cause to doubt the speedy success of the Company in : surmounting those difficulties, and establishing that prosperity to whieh*so many unfortunate im pediments had, of lite years, been opposed, By • a system of economy he did net mean a cramped, im politic, and illiberal system, that would-trench upoti the fair rewards of official merit, .or that would limit, by a penurious restriaion, that appropriate splendour so necessary to, maintain in .Indla the respeEt due to the Executive Government. The sources of prosperity lay not in' an economy . of that, nature ; but -in a ju dicious Administration of the Government of the Country, and in the adoption of a wise and liberal pall; best calculated to conciliate the confidence and attachment of the Native Powers,, and .to ern, brace those extended plans of Policy and commerce begt , calculated to produce the advantages which this Country ought .to derive from her Possessions in Judia. He poncluded by moving his first Resolution. Mr. JOT„-TYSTONE regretted .that on a subje& of such great importance there should be so thin an attendance ,of Members. The expence of the Civil Charges ot the CoMpariy had increased to a most alarming:degree, and although he could not out concur to a ble Lord- respeaing . the necessity of a system lof Moderation and justice, and a scrupulous adherence to Treaties, yet those considerations were 4istil) 6 t . , from the question of Finance, which,' he thought; was a 'consideration of the first importance. He could very well understand the Noble Lord in his definition of, the sort of ,economy that he wished to introduce into the GoVernment of India. One part of his system was, however, avowed to be, that the expence should be incurred of , giving a great degree of splendour to the person who was to re present the Government in India. Although it might be very necessary that in Europe the dd.; ferent Sovereigns should be surrounded with a con siderable degree-of pomp and splendour, yet he did not see that it was necessary to have that expensive' representation of Soveteignfy in India.. ' It would be recolle&ed, that without this pomp and splen dour the Company had acquired all that territory ; rank, and power, which it now possessed in India, and . all the power and efficiency which, he coli ceived,, was necessary. to the Government. As to the power of recalling a • Governor-General, he thought. it was a power which his Majesty's nisters ought not to exercise but in extreme cases ; and in the case of Sir George Barlow he considered the exercise of it as wanton and capricious, and con trary to the real . interests of India,. Lord HENRY PETTY defended 'the condua. of :his Majesty's Ministers, with respe& to the re call of Sir George Barlow. The power they had exercised was only that power which the law ex pressed; and he was astonished that the Hon. Gen tleman should think it extraordinary that' his Ma jesty's Ministers should exercise the power of re call, when the poWer of recall , was given to the Crown exa&ly in the same words in which 'the same power. was given to the Court of - Direetors.— Since the passing of the A& of 1784, the Court" of Direaors had once exercised the power of recall, and His Majesty's Ministers' had also once exercised' it he, trusted it would appear to the House that it was absolutely necessary that the Executive Government should have a controul over the ExeCutive of every Dependency of the Einpire. It was - as necessary . that. the Governors of India should enjoy their con fidence, as the Lords Lieutenant of Ireland; or the Governors, of the other Colonies which belonged to, the Empire: A Noble Lord (Lord Minto) had now been appointed to the Government of India, . and he trusted that he would.go 'out with all the sentiments Of justice moderation; and rigid adherence to:Treaties - strongly impressed upon his mind.. From these principles would naturally result the solid and listing tranquillity of India: - Lord CASTLEREAGitenteied,. at length, into a vindication of the statements he had •tbrinerly made respecting the Revenges of India; and con. - . tended that it was those wars which could not have been fereseen which alone appeared to falsify his statements. He approved highly of the -Admini stration of Marquis Wellesley, and thought the fair Way to estimate the effect of the war in India would be, to balance the advantages gained by it against the expenditure. The Company had gained on the West the strong boundary of the Jun, nah 3 , it had gained the Province of Cattack, which united Ben gal with the Madras Government; and on the West of the Peninsula they had gainedthe port and mari time distri& of Broach. He concluded by objeaing strongly to the recall of Sir George Barlow:. Mr. FRANCIS considered the India Debt as not less than thirty-one millions sterling, and the annual 'deficiency to be 2,655,9571, although there was 'a territorial revenue of fotirteen millions.' Even on the sales in England, from which the' ividends were , discharged, there appeared to be a loss of 418,5401. Then what was called the Stock Account exhibited at one view the true, state .of the affairs :of the Company; and what was the tniestate of this account All they took credit for was 6,181,0001. and yet even this was fallaciotis : for. out of this amount_ was not deduaed the capital, which in every mer 7, cantile statement must be considered, and when that was subtraeted, there was, in truth, a balance against them Of from three to four millions. Again, they claimed upon Government 4,460,0001, which was a manifest excess on the just demand of .2,000,0001. In a very short time there would be- Come due from the Company in . England 1 7,5 09,0001. and what were the measures to be taken to meet this exigency he was totally at a loss to coujeaure. Such. Was. the melancholy view he was obliged to take of these concerns : but, while helainented the situation of affairs,, he highly approved of the nomination Of a Noble Lord (Lord Minto) to the high office of Governer-General, and he 'trusted that, under his management, some alleviation of these serious cala inities might be obtained. Lord CASi'LPtEAGIt eXplained, Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY entered into a ge.: neral vindication of the Treaties by Sir George Bar low, and commented on the various items of account noticed by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Francis); frolii all which he concluded, that.the Company's affairs Were in a much more flourishing condition than had . been repyesented.. , • • " FRANCIS and. Sir A. WELTLESLEi severally explained. WILITS7.I-IED KEENS .rejoiced at the suc cessful means whiCh had been employedto . , drivelhe French out of India, and said, if Bonaparte could have 'faUnd a fulcrum by whiCh his lever could have been. supported,. he would have subverted:the Easi ern World. Mr. GRANT observed, 'that inane inaccurate .statements had, been dude of India Accounts, and that, on the grand total ) there appeared a,balance in .faVotir of the Company of i 3-8,8791: After a conversation between Mr. Alderman Prin sep, Mr. Paull, , Mr. - Johnstone, 'Sir Arthur Welles ley, Mr. Hiley Addington, Mr. Moore, 'and Lord Morpeth (during which the Alderman said, that the India•Conapany was in a state of insolvency), the question was put " That the' Chairman thport pro gress, and ask leave to sit again." This was carried in the affirmative, and Tuesday, was appointed to re-consider the subject in the Committee; ' „ The House being resumed, an Account of the Expences of Printing and Stationary was moved for, and farther, by Mr. PAULL . , the Charge of printin the Papers relating to India since.llarch last; both which Motions were agreed to. The Bill for Providing for . the 'Falnily 'of Lord Rodney was'read a first' ime, arid it was ordered that it be . read a second time this day. ki - ftßuo . kr9 11 ° 1 4, 1 3k the Report:. of the INowiodildlanti iiishory Bill ; RYBO Of the Exchequei rßill ; and it ~ tras ordered that they be read a third time to-morrow: i • The other Orders of the bay were then disos . ed and the House - adjourned at Half past One cf Clock. • MAILS. AltitlVZO--I Waterford. DUE-3 Hamburgh, Gottenburgh, i Dublin, z Waterford. .PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY At TWZLVE O'CLOCK. Cansols for Opening 63 ki Omnium - 6 THE S, U N. BOLEM QUIS DICERS FALSUAS AUDEAT LONDON, - ' FRIDAY, JULY 11, ,1806. Admiral Llkrots solicited, permission some time ago to return to France, on -his , . parole, in conse quence of his wounds ; but the Admiralty were un der the necessity of refusing his request, as the French Ministry . of Marine. had omitted to send back an equal number of British Officers in ex- • change for the French Officers who have been per mitted to return to France. We understand that the Board of Admiralty had also determined that no French Officer should be permitted to return home until the French Government had complied with the regulations agreed upon tespeaing the. Exchange of Prisoners. We have reason, however, to believe the • difference which subsisted Upon this subje& has been adjusted, as the French Admiral DumANont, and the four Captains who were captured by Sir R. STRACHAN, were permitted to embark at Plymouth, on Wed nesday last, for Morlaix, on their Parole. According to the accounts in , the AmeriCcin Pa pers, which we have received to the 14th ult.. the expedition of MIRANDA has totally failed. The ac. : counts are by no means consistent, and we are' not induced to give them implicit credit as to the .stated 'result of this spirited enterprize. That two of the Schooners which were concerned in this daring pro- • je6t have been captured we have little doubt ; but the main hope- did not' depend on them. The Leander, on bOard of which the Leader had em- • barked,.has confessedly escaped; and it would have been bad policy in MIRANDA to trust all to the issue of an action with the Spanish Vessels which at- , tacked him.—Romantic and intrepid as he is; he is too experienced an Officer to be capable of such im politic temerity. It is stated that MIRANDA, on his arrival at Barcelona, wrote to his brother, informing him of the whole of ..the plan, and advising him to retire into . the ,interior with his mother and sister, with all the property Which he could remove; and. that MIRANDA'S brother, alarmed for his own .per sonarsafety, communicated the contents of this let ter to the Governor of the Carraccas. In the first place, it is not to be supposed that in the state of alarm and confusion which prevailed in that quarter, there was an opportunity for such a regular com munication by letter, 'or that MIRANDA would have sent any letter exposed to the hazard of interception. If any letter were really sent, it may be supposed to have fallen into' the hands of the Spanish Governor by treachery. But the capture of the two Schooners • at sea by the Si:anish Agents is no test of the feel- lags and principles of .the people on shore, who have long been kept in a state of Miserable bondage, ' and have as long eßpeaed to be rescued from, that lamentable and ..degraded • condition by. their heroic countrymen. . Besides, the Americtn Papers in' Which those accounts are detailed are evidently hos tile to AIIRANDA'S Expedition, and endeavour to make use of it as a means to bring odium upon the. President and those MeMbers of the American Go vernment who are supposed to have been favourable to the enterprize, and to have given a clandestine sanaion to all the preparations necessary to - carry it into effea:. Upon the whole, we rely too much upon the CharaCter of MIRANDA to, put entire faith in those American representations of a measure projected by' an Officer .of great experience and talents, who knew the disposition of his Country- Men, who had been for many years preparing their • minds to expo& a deliVerance; and who had roused their hopes'to such a pitch, that they were almost ready to throw off the yoke which oppressed them, without waiting,for the powerful aid and co-opera tion which they had been promise& and then saw approach, to gratify their wishes. ' ' The account which the American Papers - give, of a neW massacre of the Whites in St. Domingo, is entitled to more credit than what they Say on Mx , Rs.rinA's Expedition. The black Emperor of Hayti is so ferocious in his charther, as well as avaricious, that he may be naturally supposed to wreak his ven- 'geante upon . all the unfortunate White person's' in his power, from the united impulse of interest and a Political animosity. Perhaps ; however, even this lamentablerecitalis an exaggerated statement of the real fact, as DRSSALINES, however selfish and .bloed thirsty, cannot but reflect upon the consequences of 'lleh wanton and atrocious barbarity, which must tend to preclude him from, all intercourse with any i utilized State. . , , , ~ . IP PLYkotrilt, itmir - -Arrived the Ani6rican Ship Patius, JcrHN Norzstis Master ; from Philadelphia, bound to Boardeaux, laden with coffee, sugar ; &c. detaiaeCand sent in by the, Rattier Sloop of War His Majesty's Ship Bdi-flew-, of 93 guns ; Admiral. HARVEY ) from the ;Westward, :led was sainted on his anchoring in Caw Sand BaY4 • . ' The French Adrniral , Du*Notaz, and four Cap=. tains; taken by Admiral .Sir IttehAßD .- .Sriaon,ix, embarked on 'board a Fishing Smack this afternoon for Mor' laix, on their parole, and sailed immediately: HARWICH, JULY 10.—The King Geoige . Patket, Capt. SAUNDERS. ; sailed' yesterday for Husum with the .Harnburgh Mail"; - and the. Adventure extra _ • Packet, with the Mail for Gottenbnrgh: 'Lady BEVERLEY' and" retinue landed here'. last night, by a Neutral Vessel, from Holland.' SHEERNASS, JULY 10.--Arrived the ilmelia Fri gate,. of 40 ggns,' Capt. HAUDIMAi`j ; the Furious Oun-brig, and the Rapid 'Milder ; from Hull, with a number' of recruits fOr the Royal Alarines, and seve ral Prussian Prisoners.. The Pegasus Frigate is-ordei.4.-,d to be paid off, and her men to be turned over to the Theseus. WE are extremely sorry: to lear-n that one of the Transports which, galled last year With Troops for Canada has been wrecked on the Coast of New . foundland, andthat every person on board perished. Though Mr. Po/c is graddally improving in health„ yet it, is by a very slow - progression: Theaccount of his having taken an airing on Wednesday last is, we find, not true. He is by no means, at present, so much recovered as to be capable of such an exer tion. The dreadful storm of thunder and lightning which took place this morning excited great alarm throughout the Metropolis, and we may expe6t to hear of many fatal consequences:, A more tremend ous specimen of elemental warfare has not beeu wit nessed for very many years. The lightning was re ,, markably vivid and frequent, and the whole convul.= sion, of nature was calculated to impress the mind with aute, consternation,' and terror. A Meeting of the - Trustees of the British Museum . yesterday took place, in order to inquire into the circumstances of the late robbery of valuable Prints belonging to that Institution. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Bishop of LONDON, the Marquis Of STAFFORD, Earl SPENCER, Sir JOSEifi BANKS, and . , Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, were present.. , —After a patient investigation of all the particulars, it was the opiniOn , of this venerable and most reSpeaable"meeting, that severe measures should not be adopted, but that,': upon a full proof of contrition in the offender; and . entire restitution of the valuable articles he had pur loined, he should be dismissed with due censure and ei.hottation. - • . . Two Battalioris of the First Regiment of Guards, we Understand, are.fo.be embarked the - middle Of next week, upon foreign service. They are going tO Sicily. • . The- following Regiments are ordered to .proceed on foreign service immediately, viz. - - , ---First Brigade of Guards . , General HENRY 'WYNYARD 14th 36th, and 45 Brigade of the Line; and the 52d, 62d,, tisth, 95th-3d Brigade of the Line: Yesterday 5450 men from the . 2a Battalion of the Ist Regiment of Fciot) Guards, volunte e red th e i r service to join the Ist and 3d Battaltons of the same Regiment, now at Chatham, and ordered on. fo reign service. It appears by a return from the Adjutant-General's Office that ,the number of efre4ive men in Foreign and Colonial Corps in thB sevice of. Great Britain is 31.,707. Last night Dispatches were - received at Mr. Fox's Office, from Mr. ADAIR, our Minister at Vienna. A youna Lady eloped on Wednesday morning, at seven o'clock, from her father's house in Harley street, with the coachman, Letter's 'front .GOree, dated the 30th of May, an nounce, that the Garrison and whole Settlement were inn most healthy state. Major LLOYD, and •the Whole of the Royal African Corps, were indeed as healthy as any Regiment in this. Country ; they had lost one Officer, the Assistant Surgeon, 'since they went out two years - ago. Captain MAXWELL, of the Arab Sloop of War, some, time ago brought in an AtheriCan Brig, with seven French Gen, tlemen and two Ladies, passengerg to the' Isle of. France.: The Captain of the American said that he kneW nothing of the passengers, and solemnly declared that the cargo was 'American p ro p ert y it has since, however, turned out to be clearly French. consisting 'of wines, liqueurs, silks, swords, - gold lace, &c. has been publicly sold, and turns out a most valuable prize. The French passengers hired another. Anierican Vessel W carry them to St. Jago. ,Tfie Vessel returned some time ago ; and the Cap stain informs us, that Sir J. B. WARREN- Squadron had been there watering, and had taken a French 84 gun Ship, and a large Frigate.--(Our Correspon dent must here allude to the capture of the Marengo .and Belle Pou,le). The Officers and. crew of the Arab are quite healthy. CORN-EXCHANGE, JULY IE—To-day the fresh . . imports of Graiu in general are b u t few ; prime samples of • Wheat fetch last prices ; Barley rather higher ; Pease 'of each kind likewise, and very few here; Beans in plenty and lower; in the Oat Trade little variation; fine American Flour 435. to 49 - s. per barrel owing to the heavy rain there are very,feW buyers Or sales made. A pugilistic contest took place yesterdayat Pad dington, between a labourer of the name of King and a black porter known by the name of Govee, in cbrisequenee of a public-house quarrel. After a very obstinate . engagement, which lasted an hour 'and a half, King fell, having• rupt ur ed a bl oo d-y es = sel,: and was conveyed out of . the field without hopes , of recovery, ' a.,.-----s ‘47‘ '