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quaint the House, that the provision for their Royal Highnesses the Princesses stood precisely on the same footing as that for his . Highness the Duke of Glou ceiter,• arid her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia of Glouc'ester, and that of course it became expe dient to pursue a similar course with regard to them. It was intended to allow their Royal. Highnesses the Princesses .66001. The Noble Lord concluded by moving his first Resolution, . which .was That, in the opinion of this Committee, there be grant ed to His Majesty, out of the produce of the Consolidated Fund, an annual sum, not exceeding_ 60001. for each of their Royal .liigimesses the Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Kent, the Duke of CUmberland, the Duke of Sussex, and the Duke of Cambridge." • . • Mr. ROSE explained the circumstances relating to the Aggregate Fund, and trusted that the proposi tion of the Noble Lord would pass with pert - ea una -11 - , fility. The Motion was then agreed to, as were similar ones for the following purposes FOE. the Princess Chat lotte of %Vales - For the Dutchtss Dowager of Gloucester 1- or the Duke of Gloucester - - Tor the Princess Sophia of Gloucester TO enable the College of Surgeons to ere& a Building - fur the reception of the late Mr. Hunter's Collec tion, and to provide for Ltlures on the same - is,ooo On the Motion. of Mr. VA NSITTIBT, Resolutions fur granting the following sums were voted : Forthe discharge of the' Loyalty Loan - £286,179 IS o To defray the e,x peneevf a Horse Patrole, near the Metropolis, for Italia year, from the jth of July, 1806 - Fur defraying the expellees of printing the Records _ , Fqr defraying the expences of printing the Re turns relative to the Maintenance of the Poor - - - - 383 t r • The House havint , been resumed, the Report wa s ordered to be received a to-morrow.. Mr. Moon gave notice of his intention to move, on Monday; that - thealinutes of the Evidence taken before a Cornmatee.appointed to consider a Petition from the Journeymen Calico Printers, in a former Session, should be referred to a Committee, in or der to make- a Report thereon. The Bankrupt . Laws Amendment Bill passed through a Committee on the. Matron of the Sow c - Tort he.reparred on Monday. - £7OOO • 4 00 r 4,060. 4a°6 3i 6 7 s 6 3,596 5 10 MARQUIS WELLESLEY. Lord TEMPLE moved the Order of the Day, for a Committee- of the whole Haase on the Oude Charge. On the. question - that the SKA4,ER• do how leave the Chair, Mr. PAULL' did not mean to give - any opposi tion to the Motion•ar. the NOble laird, but. rose to call the attention•of-the House to- the -very extraor dinary mode 91 proceeding adopted .by the Noble Lord. This was the first • instance. on. the Journals of the House, in the annalS of Parliament, of any Member of the House taking out of the hands of another Member any proceeding of this description, which had originated.with him. Lord TEMP LE felt it necessary to justify him-. self froM the charge made upon him by -the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down. He had never called oe the House to come to any, Resolution on -- this suhje& but when the Hon. Gentleman seemed indisposed to bring the.question .to any decision. Lord FOLKSTON:I:4 if he had not - heard the ,Noble Lord make his Motion, would not have lieved that any Member would adopt a proceeding so little regardful of the dignity of that House, and of the Country, 'and least of all one who professed to* be the friend of the Noble Marquis. He could not think it desirable to that Noble Person to have, any decision come to in the present state of the House and of the Session. The Hon. Mover of theltarge bad brought the business before Parliament last Ses sion, and it was not till a late period of the present Session that the Charee had been regularly pro-. duced. The friends of the Noble Marquis uni, formly stated their desire to have some decision made•on the subject of the Charge, and. yet threw impediments and delays in the way of the Hon. Gentleman-who brought it forward. The Charge was at length before the House; and voluminous papers had been produced in support of it ; and con sidering the vast accumulation of public business, and the attention that had been bestowed on that business for the last three months, he, asked.,--could the House be prepared for a decision on this sub jeat—whether a Charge of so much importance could be disposed of in•an attendance so little-full ? The Noble Lord concluded by- moving, that the }louse do now adjourn. Colonel WOO]) was surprised at the charge of precipitation made by. the Noble Lercfwho-spoke last. Never had any Charge beed brought forward in that House by any Member who. had met so much indulgence as the Hon. ltfember.whor had brought forward this Charge. Tt appeared to him a - most extraordinary propoSition, after die House had been so long occupied with the question, to defer it to next Session. He should now vote to come to • some decision upon the Otrde Charge. Dr. LAWRENCE wit 4 astonished to hear of in dulgence granted to the Hon. Member who brought this Charge forward,. when that Hon. Gentleman bad been watched and - goaded through every part • of his progress. He-did not• consider this a question between any individual and Marquis Wellesley, but a question whether .A.6,ts of Parliament and Resolu tions of that House were to haVe any face--ewhat was to be the state of the half dependent Powers in India, and whether public faith was to • be main tained ? It was also charged, that Marquis Welles ley had concluded the Treaty without communi cating it to the Court of Direelors, as the Law .direEts, till after it was concluded. These were questions that must be decided by falls—by evidence. He did not say that it would be - necessary to discuss the whole before any decision could be made—but as part of the Papers were uqt yet printed, it was ne cessary that they should be seen betbre any decision could be come to upon the Charge. If a decision should be obtained under these circunistances, no thing would be gained by the Noble Marquis, be- - cause a Motion might be made next Session to re scind. if no other Member should move to that effe& he Pledged himself to do it. He had taken a solemn oath to do impartial justice between all par ties, and he should not fail to bring these great principles before the House, in order that the'people of India may have the satisfaction of .knowing that the question was di spose d o f a f ter a full and • fair I discussion. 11if. - C4/I"AING should not enter into the merits of the Charge, but confine - himself strictly to the Question before the House. He could not but 'no tice the very extraordinary - menace' of the Learned Do&or, powerful when coming from any Member, but still more powerful in his lips, and from his manner of expressing. it. Any, the least consider able Member of the House, possessed that power ; but it would be for the House to determine whether it should rescind a solemn decision on such a ground. ,The Learned Do&or, however, had taken his tre mendous oath, he did not know on what altar, and was determined to bring the subje& forward ; but it would be. for the House to decide how far it would be desirable to adapt his course of proceed ing., Before they should come to a deci s i on on t h e Cruestion - for the Speaker leaving the Chair, they ought to consider what was the situation of Lord Wellesley. The Charge had beep - impending over him. during the whole of last Session, and tile busi ness was brought forward - at the chosen time - and pleasure, as every Accusation indeed must, of the Accuser. If the principle of the Learned Dodoe were to be admitted, no decision could be had upon any pars of the complicated Charges, embracing the whole policy of an extended Administration, until the whole could be 'taken into consideration. So that the businesS might be continued year after year,. Session after Session, Parliament after Par went, and the time, of trial or acquittal ucould never arrive whilst the Accuser could produce any su p plerneutary evidence or document to support his Charge. If no decision was to take place, the Noble Marquis ought not to have been called upon for his defence: The Learned Gentleman had kept back his dodrine too . long. It was now too late to require to stay the proceedine till other evid ence can be procured.' The Learned Gentleman might have thought that a peculiar species of knowledge was - necessary to judge of Indian questions, and that he possessed that peculiar. qualification ; but by his cross-examination of Major Ouzely, a Gentleman much better informed on the .subjed, the Learned Gentleman appeared wholly ignorant with regard to the intoxicating drugs of India, and their erreds. He believed the Learned Gentleman to be in no degree better acquainted with Indian justice. Mr. ROBERT THORNTOZ observed, that if the Noble Lord who pressed for some *detetrnina tion on the Oude Charge; .accused others of being slow, he might be charged with being precipitate. He could not conceive any thing that would shock - the Pubkc more, than if beginning at that late hour, at - this late period of the Session,.and before all the ' evidence was before the House, they should come to a decision on this 'Charge. The Charge had given rise to mUcleprinting, and 110 trusted reading too, so that the decision in the present circumstances would affix a stigma on the Noble Marquis, from which he could .never be delivered: There were many reasons fen; deferring the business to next Session. He was aware of the' painful situation of the Noble Marquis, but it was the same as the -situation . of every eecused person. -The. Noble L o rd who was under accusation last Session, and honourably ac quitted in this, had .been 'in a similar situation. The Treaty of Oude, had not beer . communicated to the- Court of Diredors till eighteen months after it was concluded. He did not know how - far he may go with the Hon. Gentleman, but. he thought the busi- PeS - 3 should be put otito next Session. The MASTER of the ROLLS said; it had been universally allowed that it would be desirable to come to a decision on this . Charge betbre the close of the present Session, and with that view the Right Hon. Secretary of State, now absent, ,had suggested an Address to the Crown to keep Parlia ment sitting, and a , Call of the House, to inforce the attendance of the Members. It was a course of proceeding anomalous to all the rules of law and justice, to allow such matter of criMination and fresh evidence to be exhibited in every period of a' Mr. IVINDHAM allowed the propriety of the general doiitrines of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman., but contended, that they were Map plicable,on the present occasion., His Right Hon. Friend, now absent, must have meant no more than that it was desirable to do every thing poSsible to come to a decisfon on this Charge in this Session. ' If he went so far as to say that it must be de cided in this Session, whatever circumstances may arise, he must have made a very imprudent' de claration indeed, for it was such a one as the House would nut support him in. The great point for con sideration was, whether the proofs relating 'to this , Charge were fully before the House. The Mover of the Charge stated that they were not. One Paper necessarily suggested others, and that was the reason why they were called for successively, and some of them not till very lately. An acquittal without sufficient consideration would be extiemely injurious td the "Noble Lord; and if the question could not be fairly before the House till a late pe t-kit of the_ Session, he thought it would be better to let it stand over to the next, He represented the • impropriety of taking the matter out of the hands of the original Mover. But what he deprecated most was, the injury that must accrue to the cha raaer of the House from a precipitated • decision. On these grounds he was adverse to the Motion. . Mr. PAULL argued, from the notices he had ,given, and the Papers that were ordered from time to time upon his Motion, some of which were not yet presented, that he had used all possible dili gence.. Some of the most material Papers had .not been produced till the loth of M a y, an d on t h e , 28th of May he exhibited his Charge.. A most material part of the evidence was the Accounts Of the Effective Strength of the British Regiments serv ing in Oude, and the Sums charged to the Nabob. for them; the obje& of moving for these Papers was, to skew the enormity of the charges made on the Nabob for these_ troops; these Papers had not yet been produced. He warned the House and the Country against the proceeding proposed by the Noble Lord, with which he had no concern. He had no animosity against Marquis Wellesley —he had re ceived no favour, no injury from him—he was im pelled by no personal motive whatsoever. The fate of India depended on the sense that would be she*n by the proceedings of the House, in thiS case, of • the obligation of the faith of Treaties with the Native Powers. During the Administration of Lord Cornwallis, and his successor, Lord , Teign mouth , this faith had been scrupulouslykept; hut, from the first hour Marquis Wellesley had assumed the ,Government, a system of blood, rapine, and injus tice,. had been adopted, by which all India was rendered ripe for revolt.' The only remedy for this 1 mischief was a just decision of the Charges he had, ! from public motives, preferred: ` Whatever may be urged by the friends and relations of the Noble Mar quis, he trusted the House would .not come to a deci sion which all Europe and all India would have rea-. son to blame. Sir JIRTHUR ELLESLEY, though he and his. Noble Relative, and all those aim - lettad with them, naturally wished for a speedy decision, was tar from wishing, either on his own part or that of his Noble Relative, to have that decision has tened -by abridging, in any degree, the means of the fullest and fairest examination : but he doubted whether • the Military Accounts alluded to could be had, as no such Accounts were made up in India. There was now as full an attendance. of Members as was sufficient in any proceeding, of whatever importance. Two hundred Members had voted last night on the Training Bill ; and the American Intercourse Bill, a measure of the highest I importance, was not thought to require a more nu-. merotis attendance. Under these circumstances, he thought that the House may, with every re gard to justice, and to the importance of the case, proceed this night. ' Mr. ROBERT THORNTON sailisOme of the Papers yet wanting would b e produced in a feti.,- days. Some could not be produced. He put it to. the candour of the friends of the Noble Marquis whether they could' with propriety proceed this night, ifindeed the Charge could at all be fairly pro ceeded upon this Session. Mr. Wzi.t.EstAy POLE expressed the same desire as Sir A. Wellesley, tor perfect: investigation, as well as a speedy decisten, Pe cited the expressions 'of Mr. Secretary Fox, in favour of so expeditious decision. Mr. GRANT, after some explanatory conversation with Mr. Paull, stated, that accounts of the sums expended for Military Services in India were to be had at the India House; the returns of the elti:etive strength of the Regint,:nts were made to the War Office. He deprecated any precipitate pro ceeding upon the Charge. Lord CASTLEREAGH thought the Papers could not aiTZA • 'Lord Wellesley, even if the Charges should appear to exceed the number of Troopafurnished. Captain Salmon had stated Lord „Wellesley's instructions to him to be, to make up the adeouhts in a manner rather favourable to the Nabob. He_ urged the'propriety of a prompt decision. . Mr. H. MAR TIN thought it unfair to anticipate the„efFeet of the Papers, and thought it perteCtly corrett in the Hon. Gentleman to wash his hands of the business, it' he was not all , kwed to proceed in a satisladory way. Mr. 13u R roN thought the 'tag of an excess in the charge on the Nabob may be admitted, • without injury to the Noble Marquis, when considered jointly with hisinttrudions to be favourable to the Nabob. . , Sir A. WELL asLE y admitted that the accounts were made up on estimate,, rather than on • strict -retums. 7 The Hon. ent ieman had clone his part ; he called upon hint to proceed. •• Mr. 1' n'u L would not allow the contents of the Papers, or, those bearing on the case; to be anticipated, much leSs the manner in which he may apply them. Mr. CR E EVE Y referred to the War Office fur the• Returns of the Reginients. , .. Sir I. N wpokT was for proceeding withotit further delay.' The.So Lie/ rot. G ENER AL argued at thatde lay lay was necessary in justice to the accuser and accusedi. arid the character of the House. • Mr. HUTcHiNSON spoke td the same cfrec.—s"the Solicitor General.. He commended highly the couckal•of the friends. and relatives of LoriftVel lesleyi Who had - conned and assisteik the most particular investigation,• and who wished fOr no ac quittal but one founded:on the fullestinvettigation. Lord TELiPLE said, could have no intention -of calling• on the House to come tO a vote On the Oiarge thislate hour ;, he merely wished the House to go into'ti.c Comulittee for the, purpose of keeping th e busi n e s s i n view, so as.todecide it, this Session. Mr. FoNnLlN4ue said, a speedy decision was desirable, but it should be upon full evidence. • Mr. PAULL would not I)ledge himself as to any time: The Noble Lord way propose any course he should thick proper ;. but he would.nut star one step faster or ,blow . er on that ac count. . Alf. W. PoLe wished the Committee to be deferred for the present ; but it the Papers could be produced very soon, he hoped it would be'understoott that the Charg; was to be de:. aided in this Session. • t Alter some further conversation, in which-Mt'. Windham, Lord Fnlkstone, Doctor Lawrence, and Lord Ossuistone de clined giving any pledge,' or coming, to any . understanding that the Charge was to be decided in the,present Session, the' Mo tion of Adjournment was with-drawn by Lord Follestone ' and the Order for going into a Committ e e o n t h e Charge used for Friday next, when it will be, in the discretion of the House either to proceed on it. or to adjourn it further. - Omer was made that the House should to-morrow re solve itself into a Committee to consider of the Ad which,re lates to the duty on tiles. The SNCOllii reading of the West India Trade 13111 was fixed for Tuesday next. The House, in a ComMittee, resolved, that ,it was expe dient that so mach of the Lottery Ad as relates to the Li cogce Okay payable by Country Venders should beletnoved, and that the miry to be hereafter payable by such pers ons should be 501.-1 he Report was ordered to be received to morrow. The House adjourned at Half-past T‘yelve o'Clock. MAI LS. ARRIVED—I Jamaica, t Dublin, t Waterford. Duk.—t lidinburgii, 3 Cotteriburgh, illubliii, t Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Omliu►n - - . - . 7 THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERS FALSUM A VI:PEAT ? L 0 N 1) 0 N, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1866: AVE received this morning - Jamaica Papers to the 18th of May, brought by the Duke of Kent Packet, which has arrived at Fahnouth, after a passage . of six weeks. We have also received Barbadoes Pa pers, which annoance the safe arrival of the Cork Fleet, which the American Papers stated to have been captured. The intelligence which these Papers con tain respeaing Gen. MIRANDA is calculated to throw some doubt upon the reports in the American Papers of his having captured St. Marguerita and Cutnana, for it is stated in a Letter from Aruba, dated the 3d May, that MIRANDA'WaS at that time with his whole Force, viz. one Ship and two Schooners, at anchor at the Island of Bonnaiei whereas the Atne 7 rican,accounts represent him as' haying effe&ed his landing, mid having taken possession of Curnana before the end of ApriL A report was circulated at Jamaica that he bad been taken by tl.VoSpanish Guarda Costas, but it was not 'considered as en titled to any credit. ' Oun Plymouth Letter contains an account of a very gallant aaiou performed by the Boats of the Minerva Frigatd, on the Coast of Spain, near Cape Finisterni. They attacked and stormed a Battery of 8 guns, and took the Guard Trisoners. They afterwards cut out seven Vessels, five of which were afterwards de- stroyed:, find' one of them hns arrived at Plymouth. . . Admiral *Lord Sr. VINCENT has sailed frotn Portsmoutloa take the Command of-the Channel Fleet. • The iVilliain Penn, Capt. HUSSEY. is arrived at Liverpool from New-York : she was boarded about fourteen days since by four. French Frigates in the latitude c 5 Cape Clear,/ and longitude 19 : three days afterwards fell in with them again ; they had then an English Ship in company, ‘‘ hich Capt, HUSSEY supposes to be an English Privateer, which boarded him the day before. THE rumours of Peace, judging from their influ ence on the Funds, are not quite so strong as they have been for the last two or three days. We have before observed, that Foreigners were speculating ira the British Funds, and we have reason to believe that many French Agents are now thively employed in - London for that purpose. It is certain, that whatever confident reports may be circulated re speaing pending Negotiations, they are by no means in such forwardness as to justify the sanguine Lopes which have been entertained, and the erfea which they have recently had upon the Funds. The chief business in the House of COmtnons last night related to a proposed increase and provision for the Junior Branches of the Royal Family,_ ex cept the'DURE of YORK, who is satisfied with the present state of his Establishment, for the PRlNeuss CHARLOTTE Of WALES, the DUKE of GLOUCESTER, and the PRINCESS SOPIIIA Of GLOUCESTER. It was also prOpOsed that there should be a suitable provision for the DUCHESS DOWAGER of GLOUCESTER. The annual incomes of the Junior Branches of the Royal . Family-are at - present i 2,0001. .and it is proposed that that sum should be extended to 18,0001. That . an addition of 10001, per annum should .be made to the income of the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE of WAGIIS, which is now 60001. - A .thousand a year is also pro posed to be added to the income of the several PRI IV CESES. The PRINCESES will then have 60001. per ann-and the Princess SOPHIA of -I,otic ESTER . 50001; The late DUKE of -GLOUCESTER had 24,0001. per, annum. .The, proposed income of • the present, DUKE, which is now 80001. is to be. 14,0001. Finally, the Ducir.Ess DOWAGER' of GLOUCESTERAS to have 400,01..• Per • ' W.i: are still unable t o give any information. re . speat nga certain business of a delicate kind. There are . contradiaory rumours on this head, but no tOr mal Report has yet been made,. nor . do we believe that inure: than a very general account of the matter will ever be , cOmmunicated to the Public at large. , ._ . PLYMOUTH, JULY 3.—The SpaniSh Lugger which came in yesterday is called the ,iirgel de la f;uarila, Ond . was'cut out from under the proteCtion of a bat tery of eight guns by the ifoats of His Majesty's Ship Minerva, after taking possession of the battery, spik ing the guns, and making the guard prisoners Six. other Vessels were cut out at the same time, five of which were destroyed, and the other sent in with the prisoners. It took place very near Cape Fith sterre. The crews of the PrusSian Vessels detained at this Port were taken out this morning, and put on bOard Prison-ships fitted uptbr their reception in Hamoaze. „ PORTSMOUTH, J ULY 4.—This Morning Admiral Earl ST. VINCENT came from London, anti imme diately after embarked on board the Hibernia, of guns, and sailed for the Channel Fleet. Sailed also the Venus Frigate, Capt. MATSoN, with the West India Convoy. The Wolverine Frigate sailed.yester, day for Plymouth, for the purpose of collecting the West Indiamen at Plymouth. BARBADoEs, 'MAY 6.—His Majesty's Ship Cer berus, Captain SELBY, with it o' Sail of the West India Trade from London, Arrived here on Sunday last, after a very tine passage of five weeks. On the 27th ult. the Merlin Sloop of War parted com pany with fourteen Sail b ou nd to D emerara, Berbice, and Surinam. It is much feared that the Enemy's Frigates which have lately made their appearance in these Seas have eluded the vigilance of the detach ment which was sent in quest of them, for it ap , pears to have been erroneously stated that they had got into the Saints, or Guadaloupe, these places having been lately reconnoitred, and nothing seen of them. the Agamemnon and two Frigates are still on the look out after them, .and we hope they may - yet be met with. No further 'accounts have : yet been received 'from the Spanish Main of MI 'BANDA'S proetedings; we, however, understand (but not from that authority which would justify. our 'stating it as accurate) that he has received, at Barce 7 lona, delegates from the Caraccas, Santa de Fee, and .Mexico, for the,purpose of arranging the places to be attacked or rather those which are to be surrender ed ; his objet not being to conetier, but to amelio rate the state of the Spanish colonies. MAY 10.—Another squadrop appem - to have escaped from our Cruizert off the Coii: tof Trance, and are supposed to have bent, their course to thee Seas. We hope they may not be so fortunate as those which lately made their appearanCe in our neighbourhbod, as we find, by the return of His Majesty's Ships Canada, Circe, Etkalion, and Verf, that the four French Frigates they had been in quest of have got 'clear off. They were seen to pass Dominica on the 2lst ult. and St. Eustatia on the 26th, steering N, W. and supposed for St. Domingo. MAY 13.—The Cork Fleet which arrived on Sa turday, consisted of 67 sail, four having previously proceeded under convoy of the Qjgnet to the south ern Colonies. The whole of thpse for the other Islands have proceeded ,yesterday and this clay. Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sir A. COCHRANE: K. B. sailed this day for Antigua. Died, HENRY, the youngest son of Mr. JAMES BRUZRE, of Craven-street. #‘