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.(• . merits on kite subject. Two idditional. Charge.; since been preferred hilt as no piestion hadarisen oil either of them, he did-not think himself justified in calling the attention of the House to his' opinion. The present was the, first opportunity, that oifered itself.; It was the first question on which the House wag -, called on lo'say aye or no. The right of preferring charges was so strongly recognised, thatit was impos. Bible for the House to refuse to receive them; but he. denied that having received,- the thiuse was bound to entertain or countenance •them.- Even 'in cases in whiCh the Elouse had proceeded some way, they . ithirnately had n refuse n d to come to a deciSioh. Some : , times they had simply dismissed the sqh f jea, with- Put saying whether the parties. were in the right ,or in the wrong. - (The Hon.Genileinan cited. the ,var. iious Ca ( ses of Chief Justice Hales in 1667, 61 Lord 'Orrery in 1669, and,. f, Lord Coningsby n in the reign • of William, to shew,that there had exited no coifti r culty in the HPuSe lib dismissing causes from their 'cognizance under different circumstances.) ,s.vas. - • aware- that the line f which he urged . • 0.1'6: House to adopt looked like. a.denial -of investigation So far he knew it would be Against the. .wishes of . the Noble Marquis and his frieeds,. for' whom, he felt the . greatest respea'. It was ; natural for in nocence to court.inquiry. He was. conviuced that Noble, Marquis , . was,,aw;ities thlt his. coudua should be fully canvassed ; but he would not give up •cihat appeared to him to he a sound principle for tile sake of personal regard ancf personal friadship. . A' concurrence with the wishes' L tSf the Noble Marquit' and his friends Would seduce the ileusefrom . the plain line of their diner, and Might eVentually lead the House - into a situation in.which it was impossible. that any man could be desirous that thby should place . themselves. It was said that the Charge by various means had got tb the Public,; he would reply; so intiq the exculpation; and he could not suppose the Pub lic anxious to read the accusation and be'regardless of the defence. He did not 'deny, that if the House event into a consideration of the Charges, it would be afterwards competent to them to instruct 'the . Attorney General to' move 'for an information in the Court of Kiug's .. BenCli; but as, by the ACI of. 1784, a discretion was-vested in' thd Court pf Bench, that investment seemed to imply that such a discretion was in sorne 'measure taken away from' the House of Commons. It would be a great anomaly for the House to take the previous steps,' mid thin, depa'rtini from known 'cases, to prose*: cite by the Law Officers of the Croten ; and there-• sore, though he did tiot absolutely deny the compe tence of. the House 'so to ..sta.; yet he did hope . that they would determine that. the prosecution, if any, Should be immediate,, and not through the medium of. Parliament. With regard to the merits of the question,, he had cautiously abstained from touchino -- upon them - , as he thought it his dutT so to do. The Hon.. Gentleron' here recapitulated his.various.argqmentg, and ,concluded by giving his negative-W.llle Motion.• • ; ' ArEstER- of tliiAkOl:LS . 'declarect that he should-be individually 0 - lad if the House could adopt coirrse - Wh 'Who: had justi sat down, Iftaose(l6 to pursue, • titnSistently With their Auty artetheir privileges. -- But: it . - appeared to him that the- Principle maintained by his HOn..Friend. *ent - to preclude the Houe in almost every case froit fh.exercise of their inquisitorial pe‘Vers,and More especially in those cAseg which demanded mOstioudly the exercise of thoSe powers: He allowed that there were incOnen j encieirithe m d odYproce6difig Which XiS•Hon: - Friend depre6ated, but fakieothe rood and the ill-together, helfibuiht it-was much better for the House to mitt-ere to the' practice of 'their ancestors, and-not to exercising 'their undoubted rightS i because certain inconveniencies were inseparable from such exercise. His Hon. Friendasserted that impeach tient ought only; to take 'place in cases of absolute ne sessitye and when no othercourseef proceeding could. be resorted to. /lad - that beeb the Usage's?' Besides; *hat was -imp&achmerit ? Tl* prosecution .of . a crime; and vherever acrime existed it must be pi-o secuteel:in some way , or• - other, thOugh the House uhould . pass-it Mitibriced: - 'HisHon7 Friend did not vtintend - that the Aa of 1784' abridged the - right • -of the lious, he only centendedlhatthe tribunal point -ea out by that Mt was betteradarited to subjects- such to tj - ett before the House, except iir eases of absOlule necessity. He doubted this. - He doubted whether-, 'even in point of e4edition, .tn - trA could be expert= ed from,' Stich u tribunal 'not Much, at least, 'if the Houieve - re to judge frotri what had occurred in the case:alluded to by his HOn - The in ibrmati6n'in'that case lialbeen 17f11.' , In 1194 . the Court of King's'ench had-gotthe length Only of examining the forni'of the hiforn'tation. In 'two years More; - perhrtps; thercorreci. - thrm of the in fOntation - might - 11 ave, bien 'aseeiraitted. • Thus, it ap peared- that this mode of proceeding .-- WaSseely lesS tardy than the case sa'strcliqly - insisted dpon of -Mr. Hastings. By - agreeing to.discuss the-present Charge, the - House by no means pledged themselves to , send it ultimatelY to an Impeachtnent. The Noble arclthi4. might be comple-teljesonerated'e or-if the . W'nsationfagainst him• - t‘e4 deeined.worthy of fur !her inquiry, it might then become a' twitter-of - Corr-: sideration,v;thether that inquiry should . proceed by Vachnient,or by thb wj prescribed in t heACI Of 1784. /lir Hon. Friend seemed to'think that there -e.-duld tiOi difficulty in thislatier mode, becauSethe Aelgave a disCretion to the 'Coart 'of King's Bench ; but this 'difficulty, if it - was one,.cxisted in every criminal pro secution direCted by the-House of-Commons at com mon law; for in these ea seS the Court Might differ l'rom' the lidnse in their estimate of the oilence, and cltidare that not to be-a crime which the House: had ordered should be prosecuted... For his,-own. part, he had g4teat. doubt whether or 'net the offences imputed to Marquis Wellesley-were cognizable by' the East India Judicature, or within the meaning Of the framers of the Aa. The words of.the Ad were. ". Extortion and Misdemeanours." ' Now, when any specific offences were just pointed out in an Act, and keneral terrns followed, those general terms tnUst always be -considered -to apply -to offences: of a less heinous desCription, and not to those of a greater. It was. undoubtedly trnes that the crimes with which Mr. Holland had been charged were of a. political nature. So far his Hon. Friend had certainly some authority,fcr his opinion ; but it' \vas probable that in that case the party 'accused was not advised that be might objea to the mode of prosecution. Sup- posing, however, that the qUestion rested.not on a consideration of. the strip positive law,• but on cbn siderations of propriety, he would then. contend that the House had got into a situation in which it would ;be injUdicksas s to dop the:matter. H i e s:vished that his Hon. Friend had offered hi's suggeation at an `earlier period. On. the: first Motion of an 'Ion: Gentleman f)r Poper, there - was a Flutlicient open. ing for such an observation. - It must, ,of necessity, ,have ,been seen, that those Papers would relate to w s the hole of the transaaiona in Oude, froni s the, comfriencement : t fie . conchision of Marquis Wel . lesley's Adm'ini'stration. Now, after - a twelve month shad„passed - iii forwarding the accusation, for the House to say that they were in error, that they had . - Mistaken the objeft of 'the accuser, that thesspow aaW to what he pointed,' and that they will give no opinion on the business, great and important as it. was, .would, in his .opinion, he a most unsafe and unwise proceeding. If this were' tolerated, a malicious- prosecutor (he was far from imputing that charasaer, to the Ho-. nourable Gentlernau . had ,brought forward 'this husiiiesSs - liiigtit'enjoy the satiSfaCtiOn of throwing doubt' dti• the condu6.l of the-person he accused, and ', of a strong impression on. the public'mind, which the refusal of the defence plight prevent from ever being etfaced. Would this be fair? or was it a suf-' ficient'auswerothis 1-kml o l:lend that the matter might ',become a subjea- of :Newspaper controversy ? His Hon. FriPnd asserted, that the sauce medium through which the accUsationshad,heen conveyed to the pub lte, 'Might likewise 'eanVeY 'the - defence. What ! When wadi weighty and important Chargea were pre ferred as those exhibited against the Noble Marquis, would it.be just to leave' lie charader of that Noble Lord to such a tribunal ?, As' the House had not, slopped the' proceedingin limbic., he felt that they were bound to give an opinion, What that.opinion 511910 be, .he would .abatain from touching upon as cautiously as his Honourable Friend; With re-, gard to the necessity of an IMPeachment (if any fUr thter proceeding were resolved upon), he had sheivn that it did not exist, and that the mode preferred- by his Hon. Friend might, .if the House, thought proper; 'be pursued. All his Hon. Friend's obje&ions tathe Motien, therefore, on this score, ended in nothing. He was,firmly convinced that it was indispensiby in- Cumbentun the House to make up their minds, and comp to some'opinion on the subje&. He deprecated arguments, the tendency of which was to deOreeiate the powers of investigation which the House•ofC,:otri, mons;possepsed, and .to shew that the House were: inadequate and incompetent to consider details of importance. The •concltiSion would be, tO restrain them from interfering with questions of this nature .altogether. He was aware that his Hon. Friend by, nes means wished, to accelerate this conclusion, but such certainly was . the tendency of his arguments.— On- these grounds he must support the Motion. Mr. Secretary FOX could have wishettto accede to the proposition of his Hon. Friend (Mr. Bankes) 'if the nature of the case se would regularity of the, proceedings of the House, would admit of it. Ie teas ofOpinionthat the Honse should ip one wayar other= came speedily to same decision on the question, and with . as little embarrasanieut.to the public as, the circumstances of t the.case would, allow. 'With this view hefelt that it was extrensely desirable'to devise sotheanode of quickening 7 the protress of the cause. If oral evidence was to be, saxamined at the Bar,tand the examination were to litscas long, as the examina tion of evidence' in a former case, (the • case of W ren Hastings) it would he • absolutely iMptissible to come to any decision' during the 'present Session. He had reason. to believe, however, that the examination Of evidence would not extend to any such length but when he considered the manner in which such owl denceWas to be produced, 'by taking down the ques tion s first, and then the answers it apueared to him possible to bring the case to a decision in the ordinary course of proceeding iii this Session—impossible, he said, with regard to the convenience of the House. s for . he was aware it 'might be Said, that itwas the duty of the King's Ministers not to advise his Ma jesty to prorogue Parliament fill this business should be brought to a conclusion: - There was certainly much in that consideration, butahapgh it was in his Majesty's discretion \not taprprogue,:Parliament, it was not in his Majesty's poWer to compel the at tendance of Members; afleast such atrattendance as wouldamable the House to proused effedually -with the'business: His wish unquestionably would have .beeti to vote for the proposition of his Hon. Friend. The disposition of his mind was warped in favour 'Of that Bourse; not With 'any desire to avoid the labbur of personal attendanrce in the other.course r but in order that the investigation should proceed with 'as tittle inconvenience as possible to the public bust neSs. .. He .agreed entirely.ins a great part of the speech of his Hon. Friend, as well as in a great part of what had fallen from him in a former instance on the same snbjea,, which had been egregicsasly construed'. He agreed 'With the sentiments' of li k S I-lon. Friend because 'he had 'in .4 diitina'and•unqua= lifted manner aecognized the inquisitorial [salver et the, 'l4beg"e, - which' enabled it to -detea •delih2 titre:net and ip Kiing•gissat public offenders to jits tices He soneurrtd• alsq in a great part Of the,prac' tical observations of his. ,Hon. Friend with iesispa to the'exerciae of thisimportant function of Parlia rent. ' This was is power, however, which thought. would be best preserved by being' rarely exercised's But agreed With the teamed Gen- tlerrian who spuke last, that this was a poworwhich should - never be resorted to but in cases of sixtreiiie . nedessity. If \s-ii 'a4 funcaion-that ought to •be ex - - erciSed in es'-ery case ,in which the honour of th e; . Crown, the honour , of that .House, or the hon ou r Of the Country, was concerned. Yet such was his partiality for the argument of his Hbn. Friend; that he should klifdly : vote, for- his propositions if lie had not serious doubts how far he could, with propriety, support his Motion. One of his doubts arose from the pointsof time at which it was brought 6i - ward., He: .isliraitted,avith _the Learned Gentleman, that they had gone nearly.half way already in the busi- , tress, and that injustice to the accuser and accused, a fte'r the procluelionofsuch.volUmindus Papers, they were bound to come to aometinal decision upon the case.. But lie Could not agree with the Learnacl Gen tlemanthat because these voluminous Papers had been produeed, the House was precluded from re sorting to any other course . of proceeding; if these Papers shouild shew that any Other course was loss burthensome, he did not Mean in a ilium cial,view, but less troublesome to the Public, more consistent with the dispetch ofpublie business, and equally condusive to the ends of justice.— The House was therefore not resttifted from pursu ing . any'wher coarse that might appear niosesde sirable. As'to what had been said by the Learned eiitlet is ; _with resne&to the .obligation on the a House, underhe present ciretimstarices, to pro Led; he considered it, was unanswerable,; because, as the' Hotise had ,:already made an order . fiat' taking' the. Charge into COnsitleration, that votgbOufid them toesa : tertain it. The House wha of couraelacat Aied down 'to the 'present moment, but . ai'as 'pledged ,to take the Charge into Consideration. at aome. tame or Other: On this ground, therefore, the, proposition . of Ilia }ton . Friend, appeartid &fetal) , inadmissible, though on a former occasion it might have been with•pro priety acceded to by the HOuse. When the motion was made that the Charge Should be taken intOcona slieraiion on a particular day; N'aS' the prOper time for chewing why it should not be_taken. into con sideration 'at all, and for the proposition 'of his Hon. Friend.; but as the former order had been made; it was now too late to rescind• . :With respea, to the Alts of 1784 and I'7Bq, he acknowledged that, when ,he entered the House he had strong hopes that the charges might he referred to the, Tribunal created by these AEts. The a. words, of the. Acts are, " extortion, (meaning extortion for individual profit)aatid other misdemeaneuraa"but the Learned Gentle Man was of opinion:, that 'the Tri bunal under the Aa was not competent ton), any other Charge than extortion,, except inferior offences of the same description. His . own opinion was, that the jurisdidion of .that Tribunal extended ato other crimes; but he had no difficulty in deferring to 'the authority of the Learned Gentleman, and to admit that his. cOnstration of the A& was the what right one. .But , had been stated by the - Hon.. Gentleman opposite, relative to • the case of Ha., land, was inconsistent with that doctrine.. They had also the authority of the Court of King's Bench on the stabled. The - Attorney-General in such cases does not file, but move for An information and • When the Court grants 'the information, , upon such motion, it is a proof that the' proceeding is consistent w,ith the flaw, at 'least it gives the atatho ritv of the Court in favour of that process. But it had'-been stated, that theaccused in that case had nct an opportimity, of stating his objections., He was ready to admit, that if the Bill was to Subsistait should he considerably altered, with a view to public utility. The-Learned , Gentle Man had stated, that all descriptions of Offences : might .be brought before some one of the Other Courts. Undoubtedly, there was no criminal a& that 'was not cognizable in the Court ; of King's Bench. But though the Court of ; King's Bench bad the legal jurisdiction, it was not practically competent to try all ['minter of ofrences, and therefore it was that this Particular Tribunal had been eae&ect, in order that Parliament Might not be embarrassed by, the investigation of Charges, the proofs of which 'were .'to, be drawn from 'a great distanee, and to occupy a considerable time. Net withstanding what had been said by his ;Hon. Friend, .and. his own partiality I . to his arganients, it appeared to him impossible that this, charge could be sent before: that Courn With respect to the question ,of .impeachment in, general, hewas :ready to say, that he was then determined, ,whatever might be the result Of the inouiry, (Ovote against the impeachment. deter alination ay asas strong as it could possibly. be, mid pot liable to be shaken by any result of the investigation. As to impeach- Mews on India questions, he admitted, that he had taken 'a considerable -"part ~ inducing the , HOuse to prosecute the impeachment of Mr. Hastings. But without weaning any disrespe& to the Tribunal of the House of L6rda,-he shbuld_not be desirous of ' resorting to it on Such occasions, because he thought it 'impossible to obtain justice on complicated Charges concerning : distant transaElions, and requiring a te diods process and accumulated evidence to substan tiate them. But supposing Marquis Wellesley to have miscondu&ed himself,- and that this should be made out (fpr if otherwise there could be no•qties tien at all on the -stabled), what had the House 'to, do ? He was of opinion that 'their sense of such condo& would be,sufficiently marked by declaring it. If any other eourse was 'to be adopted, he was atire it would, be involved in- difficulty. There were certainly many anodes by which' the House could sufficiently attain its obje& avithout impeachment. For one, be hopecl a that whatever may be the result of this inquiry, no impeachthent would be resorted to. With regard to the mode in whicila the Honse could proceed with the inquiry with any- prospe& of bringing it to a, termination this Session, he had but one to suggest. He was aware that, when he men tioned this, it might be said to him, that lie wanted to avithdraw . hituself from the labour of the inquiry. But whatever may. be said,' he could :not think of any other mode of attaining the,oble&. The mode that occurred . to" him was, that' the House should meet at ten o'clock some day, and proceed that day with tho evidence till five o'clock, when the public biasiness should be gone through.; and so from day .tb day, till the who. .evideliLe slqinkt be gone into: It avouldbe easily admitted, that from the situation he had the houbuieto fill it/ would 'be 'impossible for. hiln to attend ; and he should not recommend - this course to theiHouse if he could point out any other, It had been stated to UM that - the Oral evidence Would not ,last long. • If so, what he suggested would 'not be necessary: But if-it should extend, to'atav tength'of time, h 4 Could see no other - way of getting. through it but by the adoption of some gorous, proceed ing, which would secure them against that absence of Members that would render it im ' possible to proceed. , Another objection he felt to . the ordinary mode of proceeding was, that if the examination of oral, evidence 'were to last' long, it might have the effed of preventing a decision during, the present Session. He agreed with the Learned Gentleman, that in justice to the accuser-and ac eosed, the House ought to come to a speedy decision on-the Charge. It' was necessary to the charader of the accuser particularly, that lie might . not be Chargeable with cieatiug delay, because he would ,find it difficult to exonerate himself altogether from. the imputation.. It was desirable also' to those ,who thought tlat Lord Wellesley was chargeable with criminality, that a decision should take place with out delay. And it would readily beadmitted,that 'some decision Was extremely desirable to Lord Wel lesley, in order that he might be relieved from : the painful, anxiety which he must feel Whilst 'sucli.a ,Charge \vas hanging,over The Charge was then ordered to be taken into consideration; and, on the Motion of Mr. PAULL, tic Charge was n*rred to a Contniittee of the whole House, togethe'r - with die several Papers and Ac / connis on the,subjea.' , The H- use having: regolved , ipt - Q a Comlnittee; Lord Kith:stone in the,Chair, PAULi. i - ric);. - eci, tip't Lord The 81;EAkEit informed tiie Hon:G ntierr<;7; that according to the praEtice of the rfintisk, the Caning. in of Witnesses - ordered to attend . was maCter of' course, not of mutton, and that the OtliCer&' would take care they come in when Ceilled. Lord Teignmodih x l / 4 .a then called,in; and acconi:-; modated with .a chair, within the hir"; In the course tlf the examinAtion _ME GA,Ritov,; - . objekFted' to a question relatiVe to the cdritents of and of the Treaties with the Nabob ofOude, the answ:r to which was contained in the TeOtieft oti the table but theobjeetion vas over-ruled. Mr. GARROW also objealed to questions of opinioii generally; as "not atrording legal evidence by the•anj. savers, and 'Contrary to the practice of-the Con . ils below; though he was not prepared to deny that. such evidence tight be cokisistent with the usage of nnliarrient„ A long conversation arose upon-ILA subjea, in which it was contended on 611 C Side, ti matters of opinion were competent evideno on d Parliattentary "inquiry; which was only prclitziivart fo 3 prosecutiok ; and on the other, that as all' deuce waS res6lfted to for the disccri7ely of truth, t nearer they could keep to the legal rules of evidence, the better prospect they hart of being right. objetStion was over-ruled ; and in the course of thi-3 discussion, Mr. WINDI-A NI said of tire Learned Coun. Sel, that though the Learned Centleman admitted hl4 having strayed from Westminster Hall to that Hou,N; . yet, when there, he'seemed to have forgot that 11 . (.: was .not in Ntrestminster Hall, and talked :I'S if had bean in .the place from Whence became, The question on which the dischssion arose was,,.'' whe ther Lord Teigninotith would have th'ought Lim• - •elf warranted in omit uink as ,Resident at Luclimw.l-, after a remonstrance trom the NaboL , ofOude again ,t his continuance there?" The. question being - cided in theatrrmativt, affirmativ...., Lord Teignmooth was min called, and his m e:-,:an:atinn proceeded in. - • On the motion of Vlr. WALLACE, the Noble Lord vtr,as ordered to withJraw, for the purpose of Jllow• in an opportunity to present a/Petition from sevemt EreEtors, com o . plainin olihe rreturl for the Count ,Of Wexford, which C.:ould, not be pre3ented-ater ' o'clock this night. :Air. Wxu t icn accordingly pre - seined the Petition, which was ordered to'be taken into consideration on Thursday, July 3. The House then went again' in to the Committee. In answer to several questions from Sir A. Wtt.t.v.st.Ei, LordTeignmotith described the Administration .of Oucle to be very defealvv, and to requke the.con.; start : support of a British in the oi dinary transactionsof colletaing the revenue, stc. A question from llo&or LAWRRNCE, as to hal;itg of ihroxic.ktion in the Nabob, was objected to by Mr. WTALLACE, Sir A. WELt.sESIA;Y; and Mr. W. YOLF, as leading to improper disclosure ; and defended by . hfr: - JouNs - rovE nod Lord 4. kik:sit uroN, tenct ingla spew that theSe habits were resorted to in con sequence of the oppression the Nabob was chbject ed to. The question was at length put ; and Lord TeignmOuth allowed that the Nabob Sadut Ally was addiEted to intoxication. The examination of Lord Teignrnouth was then continued by Mr. PAULL, NIT. BAnWRST, Dr. LAW RENCE, Sir A. WELLESLNEY, BEC. It turned chiefly on the capacity of the Nabob to pay certain sums of .money to the Company without oppression to his subjeais. Soon after twelve, his Lordship's further attendance was tliqmnscd with.• The House was immediately resumed, the Chair, man reported progfess, and it va Ordered that Committee should sit again this day. • A lon g and desultoriconversation ensued on th e Ferruckaad Charge, aiid on the thaie this day when the . Dude Charge should be proceeded with. The • Order of this day 'for taking into consideration the Ferruckabad Charge, Was discharged; and it seemed to be generally understood, that the Oude Ch a r ge would he determined orythis Session, but that the remaining charges must.be postponed to the next, • Mr. PAULL expressed hiS.Confidence that ' two . • _ _ days - Would be sufficient for hearing all the temain- . ing evidence ,on, the Oude Charge ; and Mr. FL) , with a view to accomplish this desirable objea,seeni ed to think tha t the second reading oft he Train ing Bill, whch stood for this d:iy,might be postponed. He could not completely answer far this in the absence cif "tight Hon. Friend (Mr. - Windham), but at any rate he WA sure. that it could not be deferredhf.syond early day in the nett week. • After several yropoii tion-s fOr an early attendance, it was.at length agreed, that the .SPEAKER should come down to the House this*day at three o'Clock,_and take the Chair as Soon as possiblt! The Minutes of the Evidence were ordered to ho printed, and at half past one this morning the House adjourned. EAST` INDIA HOUSE. Yesterday a Court of :Diredors was held at ,the ,East India House, when, after the proceedings of the former day had been read, and some other rou tine business was d4osed of, The - CII4III.IMAN called the attention of the Court' to , the siihjed of a Resolution 'of the Court of Di- , rectors, granting a salary of 40001. per annum to the Recorder of prince of Wales's Island., Haying adverted to the necessity of having a Court of Civil and Criminal JOrisdidion in that laand, he said, he understood the Gentleman. who had been appointed to that situation Was highlyeligible to the office, and had been well recommended by Government.. The Dire&ors had wished, and proposed, that A Mayor and Aldermen should have, been appoint s tb administer justice, but . his Majesty's Ministers thought proper to interfere, and propose, that. this office of Recorder should be established ; and the Court of Diredors having maturely . . Considered the. 'Plan laid before their) .for the due administration of justice in that Island, approved of this measure. ' The Resolution being read, • :Mr. JOHNSTONE said, that consistent with the de cided opposition he had hitherto - given the whale of this measure, he rose to express his dissatisfadion of the Resolution which had been just read ; he could not see the necessity of granting So large a salary to such an establishment; and, therefore, de cidedli opposed it: Mr. ,KBArt3LE was of the same opinion, add could • not reconcile sucl - Gi proceeding with the present de pi'e.:>,sed state of the Company's affairs. r nle CHAIRMAN answereti, that the duties of this office would be - very arduous, and that salary ma s allowed in lieu of all fees and perquisites,; So that, .(‘'S