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.141 net asap'!" a remedy to the Stutel, trade, with
Sit odopting that measure?
Mr. PritcryAL replied, he had bekwe stated his
.pinion. end there could be no oceitatin for him to
gn over Ins err:unseats. He repelled the dikicitl-
ties inning out of Me ineeeure, bet •si'l it wits int-
possildt it could be construed as a violation of the
Act of littion. The English and Irish eatwatolle
e ere both concerned in the decieiou of the quer-
-1 tine, and ac he could throw OP new Iliflat upon the
subject, it having bee. already so fui y direastwil,
he %mild content himself by declariug in favour of
the bill.
Al.:. e a few words from Mr. FOSTER. tie Ilona,
Ihiciliell, Whell the smashers were
Airs 74-...1\0141.,.. . Is-Majority 61,
The Hill a.... i ei..44 read st third time and petsed.
A Ilialuiv,.. flora the Lords siestifieit Owe Lordships' run
toiri-eilee in the trial) Tr.asury Bills 11.11, the bash Paper
Masiattarture tiill, slut aryrriii private Bills.
l'lttrATE TRADE O IfilllA.
Mr. l'ltemmauest Mae. 1/41raLlaill to notice, to
move ti.r certaiii papers, re save to chat he Or.-
'uttered a:, nojnet and exorbitant orercli erne made
by the Court of Mist India Directors, for freight
. ~,,:ii, the investments hotnewords 1..,,i I wisa, Ijy
the merchants engaiied ist the private he le or that
country. The hardship attending this lie had ate
tempted to get reilrra.ril Icy an application on the
' euJij.•ct to the 1 :mit tor Directors; but their Chao-
nian (Mr. (lrai.l). although he had behaved in the
nuot fair and eatulid manlier, had &dared he wile
smehle to +druid may retires.; nor did the mem-
ellillll3 (ORII/1 ' • g undergo a greeter hardship
thau himself, 16110 was uldiged to pay the satire
'freight fur the befogging( leen:• his property. The
necessity, therefore, of that Muse interfering ca., •
the snore itrZelit. as there was great stooger of tii row-
in; the trade of India in a great degree into the halide
of the Americans. in the event of a recoaciliotion be-
tween 01,111(4)11;m.y and thew, unless they suffered the
British merchant to enjoy • modilled participatism
of the tradeto India. The bust period the afairs of
the India Company were wader discussion in that
House, they were plydged, in a certain degree. by
the then Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Pitt).
that the private trade should be extended ; but if
the papers he intruded to move for were granted,
:,e undertook to prove, that the conduct of the
Company. however pure and praise-worthy in le-
ap ect to their political gover i , iii eta, was mire mid
more oppressive and intolerant in their commer-
cial concerns. instead of granting that relief which
the private trader was taught to expect. The
Honourable Member proceeded to state the nattiest
of the hardships complained of. It was usual ill every
se icon for an act vertiweuniat to be published in Tbe
Gazettes of the different Preralencies, ow au-
thorised by the Court of Director.. between the
months of July and September. stating the prier
of freight to Le paid by the merchants tug:sited ice
the private trade. The lint advertisement us that
kind that appeared was iu August, 1805, *Win;
the freight fur the atiarion. 1au.5.6. at the usual re.
;4ttlatioli, era. ;11. per tun in tone of peace, end an
ualditiulial ii., snaking 141. in time of war, for ill-
vestments to be made in the Company's extra-
ships. That year there were cm extra-ships 11111114'•
rd; and, on the faith of the advertisement, the suer-
chews loaded such of the t.'nuipany's .ilaps cc thee
.were tilde to procure, with cargoes. perticulativ
cotton. The renson gives why 110 extra--iiii;,
11100% out that y ear, was. Ora they had here row-
polled, instead of proceeding on their voyage not
direct, to go frOin !tenet to Cork, and to tale
troaps from thence on the expedition to the Cape
of Goad (lope. Now all that was wheel or wanted
by the ,merchants engaged in the private trade was.
not to interfere in the legal and regular concerns of
the Company. bet to be suffered to bring horns
their own cal gore at it* cheep • rate an them mold,
by employing such ships of their own as they
should be table to procure ; cud Mr. Pitt had tie-
knowl,dged, in 17))7, that the ships being em-
ployed 111 the traiiSport ',voice, was no good•
realms fur any delay in the bnuging Lome nr-
titles which every one knew were perishable. .
particularly iii it hot climate. As well
might a Noble Lord, who, upou a late occasion
complained of the difficulty of procuring horse-
transports for the conveyance of our troops to Vor-
. tueal, have detailed all the West India shipping
ha that purpsoe. la the year 1806, Ho motet of
the term., of freight fur the season, 11106-7, wee
published ; and as it was usual for merchants, in
case of such °tole-inn, to load on the faith of the last
tun,:icetion, they did e.o in thiti..intitance, and then
came the notiticution of the year 1607, which had
a retrospect to the years 1804; cud 1805; and
charging a freight of tin It', than 301. per ton,
for cargoes by the extra-ships. Thus the East
friths Government, a hirh, as he hefrese.av Im;ttert,,,
was politically correct. was one, than able', he
kers none wore-, or more oppressive, in a coin-
mereisl paint elf viral; owing to. the espense they
themselves wantonly incurred in the article of
shipping, and which they consequently Iruriale'red
to the men:haute engaged in the pti.atr toelr.—
This year there were three ships takesi up as
ships, et 14 price of no lessitisee ;It. 13a. prr toil ;
aud be tweeted that en feu e nimbi stand ate ex-
prose co enormous Its that. With a view there-
fore or brioging air conduct of the Court of Dirce-
tors, 111,1011 chili subject, under the consideratieu of
the Hau.e, he proposed moving for • ',umber of
papers, is lii.t of which he reed, amoteitine ..1 all,
to tit elity-three. cud pledgitig himself. if th. y ware
a niuted. hr would prove the case he I, ,r 1 elated 1..
the a. lisfactimi of the House, and 11 at no le.- a
Sum tl 441. per ton, in some mortar cps, was
chanced, itistend of 141. which was the reetular
charge. The lint article moved for. being a Messes..
nal from the Court of Directors to the Lithe of
the Treasury, Lining date the gds of May, 1607,
having been 1014 fiem the Chair,
Mr. GaAs. r (Claisinnan of the Court of Di,ect-
ore) oppuaril the notion, and entered into a jut-
tilication el the conduct of lice Company, upon
the ground of the necessity they were under of
adraliens„; tier frel4ht upon the private trader,
by the good advance there welt lath of freight and
every other .'..ruse upon themselves,. Neither
was it true, that such 1111•111I1CP was without their
Pr" 6011, knovrl.Atre, beetnese, thong,' not aloofly
pnblished in The Gesence, yet every care wits taken
to make it public ; and, in 'fact, pint the failure of
the extra-slope, the privy t 113M1 1•:!;111b had solicited
end obtained le..re -to mud he.ite their canoes
its the regular .taps. at the awe :unwise the Cosa-
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