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CHESTER, Aug. 28.

We are happy to be able to state, that at our As-
sizes, upon the tri of Daniel Hum/hirer. and two
others, charged with lacing concerned in the tumult
which took place in this city on the 2-411 of Decem-
ber last, it was proved by a very respeetable Magis-
trate, who was producer! as a witness on the pert
Ole Crews. that not above hake of the Royal Chester
Volunteers were concerned in the riot. It was also
proved that the corps contained about haler hundred
men.

Lancaster Assizes ended last Tu, 'day, at which
the following trial took place. Tits Kean Han-
VlT.—This was an indictment brought by the Cor-
poration of Liverpool, against the Defendant, for a
nuisance, in burning lime at his kilns, in Litrie.
street, Liverpool. Doaors Cues:if and f:
and Mr. J. Mutsu ALL, (the physicians and surgeon
to the Infirmary, near to which the kilns complained
of were situated) were decidedly of 'vision, that the
vapours room the kilns were prejudicial to the health
of individuals. Sir ALAN CHAMBRE semmed up
the evidence at length; and d e jury, after an hour's
con.ultation, brought the Defendant in guilty, but
recommend...l a conip::nsation to be mad,: ham for
the loss of his kilns.

A forgery has appeared 4n the Guinea Notes of
the Ship Bank of Glasga•A, which may be e.tsily
distinguished, particularly by the name Achotioia
toeing impelled. The first d of the name is left
out, And the note: have generally the appearance of
being purisosely torn at that place.

Oa Wednesday evening, at IVhitehaven, one
Gsoeos Nt•Fa et ANL, a boy about ten years of age,
who had been riding upon one of thecoal-wAggras,
jumped off, and, staggering, fell over the parapet
of the North Wall, upon the Sands (a height of
about 30 feet), by which he was so dreadfully
braised, as to occasion his death in a few hours af-
ter. The unfortunate youth was a stranger here,
and had only arrived in town that day (Acconip.i-
n;ed by his prents) from Scotland, on his road to
the South of Engl.tati. Coroner's Verdi.% "Ace
ile,ilal heath.

An extrast of a letter from Lexington (Kentucky),
dated June 12, says, " We have been informed, that
on the 501 instant, a negro-man was sent down Co-
lonel Jounsom's salt well, at Grant's-lick, on Lick-
ing-liver, for the purpose of bringing up a bucket
wbich had fallen from the rope. landing a light ne-
cessary, a candle was let down to him when the air in
the wed immediately took fire,and the flame ascended
10 or 1.2 feet above the mouth of the well. After the
fire was extinguished. the aegro was taken up,
burned in the most shocking manner, and it is sup-
posed that he cannot long survive this unhappy ac-
cident. the air in the well, it is believed, con-
sisted of a mixture of hydrogenous gas, with atmos-
pheric fire damp. well known to miners-
Lass place in the same way. Great quantities of
stilphurated hydrogeirous_ges, are continually rising
front many of ourwells&Alt .b and spills."

SUBSTANCE
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LORD CAST LEREAGIT's SPEECH',
Delivered in the Home of Ihuraday the 19th
of Jolc, lifo4, previously to his inoviing for S..veral Ac-
count. relating to the Finance, of ti✓ East India Company,
in India sad Europe, tor the la.t Ten Years.

Before I proceed to move for the papers, of which
I gave notice on a former day, as I shall not deem
it necessary to found any motion upon them when
laid upon the table, I fed it my duty, at. present,
slinnly to state to the House, the obje& welt which
ibis information is called for, and the conclusions
which, 1 apprehend, will be dedec:nle from it.
In the successive debates wl ch have annually
taken peace on Indian Finance, however complicated
and extensive in its nature the subjot is, I have ob-
served, that so long as the discussion confined itself
to the particular accounts of the year then under
consideration, whatever difference arose was easily
reconciled, by a reference to the accounts themselves :
but, so often as the discussion has taken a wider
range (as it has hequently very naturally and very
properly 'one, with reference to the results and
statements of former years), a great want of pre-
cision has been observable, from the difficulty of
referring back, with acctracy, to the voluminous
accounts of preceding years, not at the moment
either in the hands, or in the recolledion, of those
who took a part in the debate.
One of my objeds, and indeed the principal one, at
present, is, to bring before the House, in rise compass
of a single and intelligible account, the substance of
the last ten years' accounts, commencing with the re-
newal of the Charter ; so that Gentlemen, here-
after, having before them, in one point of view,
the estimate of each year, under the several beads
of revenue, charge, interest of debts, surplus reve-
nue or deficit, and increase or diminution of debt,
they may, at one glance of their eye, compare the
same with the actual result, as furnished in the ac-
counts of the subsequent year.
I am the more desirous of putting Parliament in
possession of this information, from the perseverance
with which Gentlemen, on the other side of the
House, have asserted, year after year, that all the
estimates, from time to time laid before Parliament,
with reference to Indian finance, and all the pre.
dictions of my Noble Friend (Lord Melville) and
myself, have been completely falsified by the event.
They have not, certainly, charged either with wil-
ful or deliberate misrepresentation ; bet they impute
to us the having relied for our conclusions upon esti-
mates, formed upon a confined and inadequate view
of the probabh- er—nditure for the succeeding year,
and that. e tb, deception of our own over-san-
guine we have given to Parliament and to
the public positive assurances of results which have
never taken place.
lt; Sir, my Noble Friend and myself have been
in the ha'iit of annually misleading Parliament on
this important subjed, we certainly have taken all
Jae pains :o supply the means of deteling our own
errors. The detailed report, which is annually
published, of the sentiments and opinions stated by
the person who fills the situation I have now the
honour to hold, furnishes more ample and authen-
tic materials, than are to be found in the admi-
nistration of any other broach of the public affairs,
for conviding him of any inaccutacy into which he
may have fallen, or any mistatement he may have
ventured to hazard : and with such means, it is a
little surprising, if they are borne out by tans ; and
a just subjed of complaint, it they are not ; that
instead of bringing the question to this test, they
have confined their attack to general imputations.
Wishing to bring the question, once fur all, to a
distint issue, I shall endeavour to state, as pre.
cisely as I can, the two charges, which, I conceive,
comprehend the substance of every thing that has
been alleged upon this sebjed. Ist, that tl.e an-
nual estimates themselves were founded in en or,
and disproved by the expenditure at the end of the
year; and that whilst the estimates gave no reason
to apprehend an increase of debt, an accumulation,
to a Liege amount, has taken place annually abioad.
2d, That a positive assurance was given by my Nn-
ble Friend to the public, its the year 193, of the
participation of Suu,oool. being regularly paid, and
that his Lordship had often declared, the finances
of the empire would derive aid from the resources
o India, before India became a charge on the mo-
ther country.
And, r:rst, as to the latter charge, which is of a
more general nature, I have only to meet the asser-
tions of Gentlemen, who state, that these assurances
were given absolutely and without qualification, by
asserting they never were; referring for the truth of
my denial, to the recorded sentiments of my Noble
Friend, as published at the time. 'They were, no
doubt, made absolutely, with reference to a state
of peace ; but, so far from being equally applied to
a state of war. Parliament was distindly apprised
by my Noble hr iend, at the time, that war, in pro-
portion to the extent of its operation, and more par-
ticularly war tan the Continent of India, must
wholly alter the calculations then made. A hope
was entertained by my Noble Friend, at the com-
mencement of the late war, that in the then crip-
pled state of the enemy, o'er expence abroad might
not be such, as to disturb materially our financial
prospeds; but he pointedly guarded himself against
causes of expence, distind Irons the probable dire&
efforts of France in India. Since the it time, we
have had two Indian wars, one with Tippoo, the
other with the Main-wets. We have had r
little inferior to wars, in the expenditme conneaed
with their suppression : and we have, in that time,
fitted out from India various expeditions, and pro.
minently that to Egypt, not immediately conneded
with the Company s service, the charges of which,
with interest since accrued (in whatever proportion
they may ultimately fall on the public or on the
Company), stand recorded in the accounts to the
amount of about 7,0u0,0001. Could my Noble
Friend's statements, even had they been unaccom-
panied by the express qualifications which made a
pan of them at the time, he in fairness considered
as applying to such a state of things as 1 have de-
Kribern or is it wonderful, under such an accu-
mulation of expence, incurred not merely on ac.
count of the Company hut of the public, that the
result, which my Noble Friend was justified h
opening to Parliament in the year 1793, should
stand suspended, in whatever degree those causes
have continued to operate
This Howse will recoiled, when my Noble Friend

stated his conviction, that the empire was like', t.,
derive aid from India, before the defence of India
would become chargeable upsthe mother counts ;
that this statement was ma to meet the then
gloomy prediaions of Gentlemen on the other side
of the House, who asserted, such was the deplorable
state of the Company's finances, that the empire
must swirl he drained at home, for the defence j
our possessions in India. The truth of these pre-
di&ions has been now pretty fairly tried, by ten
seal s of the most expensive war, during which tint,:
I udia in important exception to all our other foreign
dependencies) has sustained its own expenee, ani t,
at the present day, more equal than ever to continue
sn to do. What would have been its ability to fulfil
the other and more flattering part of soy Noble
Friend's predietion, that of affording an efficient re-
source to the finances of the empire, had we e,
peace, leave to the House, from its having thus sup-
ported itself in war, to judge only adding, by way
of explanation, one observation, namely, that the
increased annual expenditure arising from the war,
eventful as it has been, icay be taken, on the ave.
rage of ten years, at a sum considerably ea '.cec..
ing a million a year.
Having thus taken notice of the more general
charge which Gentlemen have been in the habit of
urging, I have the satisfiglion of coming to that,
which, from its being precise and specific in its na-
ture, can at once be decided by a reference to the
accounts themselves : and here, lisde more remains
tor me to do, than to read to the House the leading
results of the accounts* for ten years, which I now
hold in my hand, comparing the estimate under the
head of Revenue and Charge, with the result, as
established by the actual accounts of the succeeding
year.
The revenues for the ten years were
taken at
They a !Wally produced
More that estimated

• • 3,0J7,0u0

The chalet for the SSOW period WIC
1 at
They Aelually amounted to . •

More than wit,..tteJ

. 6,313,000

It is here material to observe, that an increase on
each side of the account is not necessarily a trout
of inaccuracy of estimate, as in the cours! of several
of the years after the estimates were tr.numitted
home, new territories were annexed, whits, broujila
with them an addition, both to the revenue and charge
side of the account.

The best criterion to try the accuracy of the
estimates upon, is, to take the result upon the net
revenue.

Thn. wa,fttiinatact in the ten year. at . L. 14,179,000
It aEtulil ~:lloooted to

Less than enimated 3,277,000
so that, in an expenditure of ahnve 80,000,0001.
and during a period nearly of uninterrupted war,
the error in the final result, upon the comparis,l of
Revenue and Charge, did not much exceed three
millions; an instance of precision and accuracy of
estimate, Rut, I will venture to say, to be paralleled.
in the financial proceedings of any other govern-
ment; and which becomes the more surprise 0.
when even this excess of charge is to be account,'
for, by the military expenditure, both for the Mysore
and Mahratta wars. becoming a charge in the course
of their respetffive years, when at the outset, and at
the moment the estimates were framed, neither events
could possibly have been in the contemplation of
officers preparing the same.
(To be contin nett

RIZETIND OF CREDITORS. AT GUILDHALL.
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Mary bier, miter, Hereford, milliner . . 2 112
Peter Ja nei Piiiilion, St. Swithia', I,n:, merchant
Hairy tlutcboigs the younger, High Hu born, baker I BP

CEKTIFICATE.S.
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Willieatlid I Wationt, of Whitchnrch,Sdop, muney.tianmer.
Fdward (Wyatt, now or late of 11(.81, KWIC, iUllkillptf.
John Skill, of the Strand, oilman.
J.ones Arrowsmith, late of Stockport, Chester, baker.
‘Villnam Mocker, of Parker's-row, Bermondsey, baker.
tilt telt Anthony Heiman, of Jofferieswittare, merchant!
Wilburn Thompson, of ItireaMaihara, atone• Tinton.

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MARRIAGE-1.
At Southampton, the Rev. Henry Willem. of Chador).
Dorset, to Mrs. Lawrence, wedgy, of Princes Illuildont••
Mr. John Erne., clerk or the Rank, to Mi.a
n r, both of Tetbury. 4
At Glasgow, on the tith ceere-n, Robin Crawford.
Wbsthebuts, near Largs. to Moe Mingatet Jack, .o.ly
tee of the late Mt. Archib.ildJadt, of Hole H•JOIle

DEATH.
Oa Saturday, oh the 77th 'ear of Mt age, after 14. i. t
Ir. one a very excrue.ating ,ickiiels with in foititoee
Sin ~,,, Prttor, Eq Banker, of Si.ersorne, iu whom 04.'4
has lost a valuable member.

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