The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-12-23 00:00:00

EAST LYDIA HOUSE.

Wedimielay a Quarterly t:ltineral Court wes held,
when the ihiltreeile uh Inc capital :stork of the
Compaity, fasts ritt iitls July lah to the stn Jauu-
' ary was dcciared to be per cent.
lifter the dividend had Lera declared. and the
Clnuruau ii•in stated the tradquri• suite iu which
. the last account. left India,
Mr. It IPIDALI. JACKSON rose to can the atten-
tion of the Court to a sulject of national COMM.,
qUeUCC, and which. he said, had pressed much
'you his iniud for ar eonsirleiable time loot ; hut
respecting which, recent circumstances had deter-
mined him to remain no Ihtiger silent; he meant
the extraordinary, and tuexplieable to himt &mead-
ancy of the euemy's cruisers in the ludian Seas,
and the dreadful ravages which they had been
Mutely pennitted to voiamit upon Ilritish property.
and the still greater di.lienour which they had
brought upou the country; He rejoiced to have
just heard hem the Chairman, the account which
he had given of the peace of India, and of the
security of our Oriental possessions; he wished
he could say as much lior the security of the
liitliati Setts, and the proPerty which was ne-
cessarily adventured upon them. K'ho could
believe, asked Mr. Jackson. that with a man-
! time force greater than had been usually kept
in those seas, the trod/ of them had been so emu-
pletely unprotected, that the Calcutta Insurauce
C pantos aloue, had paid lash.* to the amount of
more then two millions of MMICy. within the last
seven or eight years, and th it in the tivinths of
September told October only, of the year 3807,
tlwir looses lied been upwards of ,lothotrul. that
their". A's well us 1111 l iterous other captures had been
effected by two French frigate*, mud (principally)
by the Iteeemnaut privateer of tams, which lat-
ter had scoured those seas for three mouths toge-
ther, mid in fact Llotkaded during that tiro.-the
flee of Itengid, although a great maritime. futee,
wide Su Admiral's Oa% and several. penrianb
east/rest !yin% adtliie SOO eilitry.oftilisactiienr(lrpre-
lie agalersleed It to.lar stated in a Metnorhil.
(felon whirl, :iv gathered these litchi) reoincise('slcutta
Merchant. to the Busted of Admiralty. that although
the destiostion •of these frightes mid of this pri-
reteer was known to the station at Madras, in Sep-
tember, yet at the date of the Memorial, namely, in
the I)ecetuber following, not a vessel had been sent
for the protection of the liety, till at length the Im-
perial Government of India had been compelled to
do, what America had pretended to do on acconut
of the confederated unintilue strength of the world,
namely, lay an embargo on its shipping. in order to
keep theta from the devouring jaws of this terrible
priviteer of id gum, which, had had, it was said,
the ito lees estraordhuiry good luck to preserve
ia,ry one of its prizes Irwin re-capture, though it
hail to scud them through a known triad of three
thousand wiles to the Isles of Mauritius and Bour-
bon. Mr. J. added. that the Madras Government,
with that feelin::; which heciime it for our fellow sub-
jects of Indrtt.luboiringuuderthe liormrs of famiiie,
has adveriised great encouragement to ships brine-
Mg con, fur their relief; in corisequeute of which.
the shipping interest had directed its attention to
rine object, when, shucking as itMeterld aeem, if the
:Memorial spoke truth, so one shin that the Me-
,tuorialists knew of had been sent out to protect
these 'meek, the eousequenee of which was, that
a eitnsideruhle part of the provisious, thus intended
tai save our suhjects from ,leath, had been cap-
tured by the enemy. Mr. Jacksho olereered, that
, tr marine could only be created through the me-
ilium of commerce, or tlimugh that of ships of war,
our great enemy :not having the former means
iu his power, nos kuatu, though silently,
perhaps slowly, but surely; to be creating a body
of most utheattirous, hardy, smut skilful sailors,
through the latter medium, the whole of which he
would call to his irate., whenever the afbiin of
the Continent should admit of nis directing his
energies to his marine. If his co-m.lmA in this re-
spect did nut declare his meaning, the encouraging
proclamations tie bad issued to MeniMints so to
direct their capital. and to Oni era aid a•amee so
to direct tlwir valour, would sufficiently establish it.
Mr. Jackaon said, he would act suppose it pos-
sible, but duet the Directors had made the strong-
est representutious in the proper quarter, if not,
lie adjured them to Jo so without a moment far-
ther of titne ; lie must sly, that if they had
found the forms of othce in their way at the Ad-
niiralty,they ought to here applied to the Minister.
a Ito, according to the practice of our Cons:initial).
was answerable for every depnrtinetit ; and failing
there, they ought to have addressed themselves to
the !tense of Commons, and laid their crone be-
fort the country, the Directors being as much
bound to the protectioa of every legal settler in
India, as of their own covenanted aervants.
Mr. Iseksou said, he did not pretend, or could
soy, where the fault lay ; if with the Commander,
the Board of Adentralty•that wanted nerve enough
to recal such e mail, ought to be dismissed by the
Minister, and changed for men of more comprehen-
sive faculties and more vigorous exertiolis. If the
Minister waisted courage to do this, he was not the
Mitirster for such a country, its such times. • jslr.
laelcseri,vifteereniarking at the a fffietini abd dis-
graceful accounts of • similar ascendancy in the
West Indies, and of the repeated revietuallihg and
rinforcing of [Martittirme and Gitielatooje, the
importance of the capture of wlueli istimids hid
tees been admitted to be of the ut mos; consequence,
concluded with =preset*, din Mimi, *et the
Directors would feel this sohject as it ought to be
felt, and act upon that feelings
The Chairman, :Mr. Pease. said. that it hail not
escaped the:it attention, that the depredations lad
been most 'canaille's., wiling. as they apprehend-
ed, from neglect, somewhere ; that the Com-
mander hail been recalled some mouths past. mud
that he trusted precautions weuld be taken to pre-
vent the recurrence of the evil complained of.
Mr. GRANT, the Deputy Chairman, went upon
the same ground, but more at large ; he Meiervect,
that the Directors had not. till recently, any proper
documents on a inch to proceed in ntaLing their re-
presentations; he was severe upon the Memorialists,
for not having applied to them in the tint instance,
rather than to Government. Ile observed upon the
conduct of different Naval Coniimmtlers who had
been sent out, aad trim little influence the Go-
verninentsof India had uponi their conduct.

lit WALTILK SCOTT WAitibe supported the

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Rattail which Mr. Jackson had taken, said state)
'owe Ini!itary•coull.laauts, which,lK Ilairedi the pi-
rectors wou:el be deaf too till ton late."

Mr. ROCK allude: to a report on, of floors, that
the renewal of the Compaity Charter ono to be
ouljta of diactismion clurins the ut at Stesioil,
%iibiittl to kuow if H. aerr true, thud Gent;4lnett
pepsin: theiusclk VII accordingly?
The CHAU KM A N and II KM' TV CII AIRM A N
thought the tit:ea:Mu tray „mut:hire, and rather
declined auaw eriug it, a:mitring the Proprietors, that
whenever ouch a negoeiati 111 l I.llould take place,
they would give them timely information of the pro-
bable term,.

Mr. JAL:.SON said, the, question vets an extreme-
ly plain one, and such as he thought ought to be
answeresl:--it was 4, Whether or nu it was the ult.
demanding of the Directors that the renewal uf
the Cotupany's Charter was to be discussed next
Sessions" lie said it was a subject of incon-
eeivahle importance to the country at large, as well
as to the Proprietors, and whenever they should
meet upon the occasion, he hoped it would not he
in the narrow spirit of mere Proprietors of India
Stock, but as Citizens of the Empire at large, at-
teutive, as they ought to be, to . heir own due pro-
tection, hut anxious to make our Indian territories
of the greatest pnasible use to the Parent State.—
He said, lie thought the question alluded to ought
to be answered for the reason assigned for asking it,
namely, that the conutry might be prepared, as
it was known that men of eminent talents had di-
rected their thoughts to the subject, as appeared
by their pithlications ; such persons, be thought,
ought to be invited to eoruissunicate their ideas.
s—f)ur Italian Empire was not, he hoped, the lust,
tho' certainly the greatest stake in the hands of the
country, and. as Ministers should use it, would
depend the prosperity of Great Brltain or the con-
trary. Mr. Jackson amid, it wot:"11 be too late to
come and inform them of outlines previously agreed
to, calling tspims them, perhaps, to agree to some
lieport,. lb rapped up in technicality, and enveloped
its news.... Ur. Jackson such had lately been
the case with a great Couiliany. respecting which
the Minister of the day had thought proper to
' -oak in upon the tempi for a new charter, so-
lemnly settled by one of his predecessors; and,
forgetful of the maxim, which he was known
emineutly to practice in private life, had compelled
• new bargain, which, according to his, Mr. Jack-
eon's commotion of it, was as unjust' as ever power
insisted on, or imbecility had yielded to; he re-
membered on the occasion to which he entitled,
the undemanding conveyed to the i'morietors,
amidst a mass of li!vures, was, that the Directors
hod merely eunetele;their superfluities, thniigh it
was tvozi lifter found, alien the conditime. clime to
be understouwl, that much of tittle substance had
been taken from them.

Mr. Glutnt repcsited,that nothing had occurred
by 'which he was authorized to that the. discus-
riot' alloded to Trguld take place etranitig:Sersiono.

Mr. RocL. referriurs to the late gilt of one thou-
wind pounrlit to the "Slistrish Patriots, prdteited.
amtinst the illegality of the Directors Riving sway,
hie foods of thoCoinivany, however meritonniss the
ottject, without the consent of their Constituents:
10 this protest of Mi. Rock. Mr. Jackson and
other limprietors declared themselves to ogres.
The Court then adjourned.

PaPAL lIYTIE LLIGENCA.

PURTWOUTP, DEC. 21.

Ar►ived the Ilcrlerpsin hired armed hhip. from
the westward; sod- the Orate:mart sloop of war.
from the Dewos.

Put hack the ships Clarendon, Captain Brown,
(late a transport) having lost two anchors and
cables oo Friday etemtig• tort, off Dover.—
Wind S.W.

PLYMOUTH. SSC. 21.
Came in (lii lisjesty's ships Norge, from Ports-
mouth ; and Amazon, from the eastward ; Eurella,
Paterson, from Quebec ; rad the Fine. Christie,
from Stockholm.

DFAL, DEC.

Arrived the Pandora, &seer, Blazer , Cracker,
Furious, and the Indisramit, from a crui►e, and re-
main in the Downs with the ship* as per last.
Sailed through the Downs for the River, the
Duke of Montrose East Indiainan, from Dover
Roads ; Prince 91 Brazil, Carter. from Oporto ;
and the Maori, Coverdaile, from Portsmouth.
The sloop Chrowfmkotomthofogns,Capta;n .M• 11-
WIN G, from Guernsey, For Dublin, with wii.e;sugur.
soup, &e. use drivel, en shore near St. IrPs, on
Saturday last, and is gone to pieces; the cargo and
materials are sewed.

HIGH 'WATER, THIS DAY, AT LONDON-6E110:E.
Mma. 1.. —mu. After.. 8 I Even 03..1.1.n. PAM.. .B_

SALES BY AUCTION.

PRINTS, DRAWINGS, PENNANT'S LONTNIN
LUSTICATED, WORIUS 01 SIR J. RLtNOI.DS,
PROOFS, PRANTS, AND DR.IIIINGS, FRAMED
AND GLAZED, kc.
Hy Mr. RICHARDSON.
At kis Howie, N 4.31. in the Sersiod, the setter of Vallett-
a:eels THIS EVLIS MG, at SS oltllueb,
ACOLLECTION of s'ttl\TS, ineltuling
English Pdrtraits, slay very rare; Des Otis, by
Herding, Gard 's', Ryley, Stuthnrd, he.; the Wallis a Sie
.I..Re)nolds, principally proofs, lu big% preservation , Etch-
nip, by Potur,Swaneerlt, Waterloo, inc.; Me-
-deli Prints, plane mud colours; • large Orillet4ium of Tiro
pogniptileal Drawings for Pensmat's Loathes; Graaget's
Hussy of England, inlaid, ins vols. As. kg.
To he v,egued on Morning of Silo. Catalogues say be
lbad.,o. each, of Mr. Richards*, No. 31, Strand.
LEA DEN HALL-WA/ff.
•
Tbe Ike porta the sped, CABINET rind UPHOLSTERY
STOC IS. preserved ?rostra, sold by Order of the FIRE
cornet: DIRECI'ORS, brilliant large plates of else,
in rich eliiinuey and piir heft shawl; about WY
Turkey, Brie...phi, and Eiddernaiuster carpets ; several
drawing-ruins sits of Errocli drepvry window (wising;
walsugauy eludes emeriti iu blue rind Mt; 3101'04:41
lu siker ; • must elegise Industrie p.a!<,:tal sideboard
Grfte;4ll, rata, l'eworsike, sofa, sad sapper Ft••r• ; Owes
staid patent illaing-teiles 4 sone capita/ China, lee. Cc.
14 Menus. D. SKINNER and CO.
THIS DAV at Tates, o'clock, at No. SG, LearkahalLetrost.
near the Fire Lope,
A nellUT 380 Lots of modern snel fashionable
111. EFFECTS, among winch ars about 30 Lists of potent
portable Cabinet Artie:es ; Moe prints in rich frames ; chair
bedsteads, three sofa ditto; $ quantity of beat plated sued*,
lee. he.; the l'utraitisre, which is very elegant, eus.prises
elezatit 4-pest bedsteads mud fnreittire; down and sore res-
its r bsthi, lune and wool mattrsnwo, quilts, Mentors. i&c.
superb drawing-rocs snAs ofFreud, drapery
Loos, with bloused and gold cornices mode up in the .44u..r
urirfnl canner; fouNcen chairs, wills gilt lien's paws, tw••
chars, Iwura to cum spend ; *gig <A jaOmintd, rust .rutiul,
patent, card, Pembroke, soft, sod lon tables, smut
shlebmiril a ills Imes ;.ImAs of view Suing.tables ; solid ma-
bognuy nen:We F soul bookcases ; wardrobes, ryli cob r
ladies' soul rewire*** hewing-wands r net tables;
large eases sail mirrors Pros& carves sot', 4.4 e red in
bows hair, chairs us rust spiel.; supper, monk, sod lots
tables; • lung table Limier us Moe nankin eh ma ; tea and
coffee sets of nth burnished gold china; valuable prints,
h ' ooks kitchen utensils, stoves, tire irons, (c—Tie sh,de -
of which trill be Sold wink,..,! Iluuo-rtr.
Catsk.iznes to hr bad oa Preniors ; at the Plank and
New-York Coffee-honses ; mod at t 44, KUltrWiAll Cl 4
1 he Directors of the Ogi..u. wall take, as ps)un et, bills ai
two mouths.