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London, England, 1826-02-20 00:00:00

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" Ecport ot the 'mei t • • ••• •i••teil -l•y ..:s rnin of the 'limit—
hnitiers in ti Armes fro-, ,•• •: ..,1 .rneetirg t,;(4,1
ra the Gilt of Janui:it , : •d, nho tees tit: --•01 to prepare
sad present s . , ,‘• • • • •:iitg of t 11.! ,harrholders, au.d
take thsir opinion as ie . : .1 office of etrblin directors.
sod an auditer of It ,• s ,•s. and to it s: lit or nee. as they
might dunk prom—, • t tke Chitirman of the Beard of
Direct:Ts in such reeititisi :•.
" Your Committer -Ivc to state. that they have presented
to the directors a retti..• . •,, dew,. ding that a special general
macting should he c : :, Vie t'd it of March, for the purpose of
biking the opinion ,I : s •h••:•!fr,. ', removing front tin ir
as diree'nrs at.'. . ''•• r. : ( ?trite, !henry Clarke.
11ato by Francis Power..• t Smuts. John Dunston,
Detuircs, 'Emmy', and „' • .. . Esq.. auditor.
The secretary to et: t . ii.tornted your Committee,
that the directors it, e.tti n;tioice with the requisition, call a
specitl general meeting fie t:.e 3.11 of Match.
•'• The name of the Chairman is not inserted In the requisition.
becanse a letter from hint to his agent has been transmitted to Inur
nmunittee. in which he stities, that at the next meeting of the
directors he should resiga his situation as Chairman of the Board
of Directors.

•• 1 he proceedtes in etplity are going en, but no answer has yet
been given to the L.:15 hh t by the share:7ehters.
" The Directors les.e. tee ;its' General sleeting under the
Act of Parliament, for to 23.1 ..ty of February. at which General
Illeeting the account,' Of the reremt and expenditure of the C 7•113•
pany will be pre:ented : and yclir Committee earnestly request,
thar every ptoprietrr will attend. ehher personally or by proxy, to
receive and examine such accou:tts, and to vote that they be referred
to a Committee for inspection. if any objectionable hems should
appear in them, particularly if the Company are debited with more
than 10,0001. for the porcha,,e of the worts, Be. from Mr. Flattery.
Your Committee further g leave to lay before the sharehohlas
a copy of a resolution pa:oed by them unanimously, and of which
resolution a copy was pr..ent,:(l to Mr. Brogden and Mr. Bent.
Your Committee hope that the shareholders will approve of this
resolution, which they cot»idered as an act of justice due to these
gentlemen, from whom they Lad received great assistance In the
prosecution of tl•eir inquiries, anti of whose honour and integrity
they are fully eat istied.
" BotinnT Iftertmrs " RAL:tt RlCAltrn.
"JOll3l !Now st " CHARLES lIEIILLY.
"JAMES 11'11.113150/4. " 'l'. 11. PARKET'.
• 11'3t. FlIA311•TOg. " B. C. CATUIt."
Copy of the Resolution referred to in the Report :
Resolved—That from the documents submit ed to us by Mr.
Brogden and Mr. Bent, relative to the, number of Shares or In-
terest which they held in the Arigna Company at its formation,
it is the unanimous opinion of the Committee, that thesepentle.
men lied good and just grounds for believing that the sum of
10471., paid over to them by 3lr. Henry Clarke, could only sere
from the sale °IR portion of the Shares allotted to them ; and that
such was their belief', is confirmed by Mr. Lent having purchased,
immetluately after the 10471. um paid to him, 100 Shares, at
141. ills. premium per Share, for which he paid 1.4311/. to replace
those which he believed to have horn sold for 1,0471. ; and that they
were kept, by certain of the Directors, in utter Ignorance of the
fact, that the aunt of 15,0001. had been abstracted from the funds
of the Company: and it further appears to this Committee, that as
soon as Mr. Brogden and Mr. Bent discovered this disgraceful pro.
ceeliu.g, they not only endeavoured to investigate it at the Beard of
Direct .m., but did immediately give information thereof to certain
of the Proprietors, with whom they have ever since invariably co-
operated, its order to do justice to the Company by subsequent pro.
ccedings; and they likewise f,el themselves called upon to declare.
that Alr. Brogdeu and Mr. Bent have, throughout the whole of
these proceedings, acted with the strictest honour and integrity.
and that the Company is indebted to them for their services. and
for continuing in the Direction, from which they would have re.
tired, lied they not beets solicited to remain in it, in order to pro.
teat the interest of the Proprietors."
After a good deal of discussion, the Report and Resolution were
adopted.

By an Order in Council, dated the 13th inst., which was
inserted in Saturday's Gm:elle, it appears that the calling
out of the English Militia for training and exercise will be
suspended during the present year.
(hi Saturday, the despatches were doled at the East
India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the following
ships; viz. Duchess of Atboll, Captain Edward Maxwell
Daniel ; and Thomas Coutts, Captain Alexander Chrystie,
for Bombay and China.
The late Charles Incledon was a native of St. Kevern,
in Cornwall, and descended from a respectable family in
the IV4 st of England. At an early age he was placed in
the choir of Exeter Cathedral, and studied music under
Jackson, the celebrated composer, which situation he
quitted ; and entered on board the Formidable man of war,
of 98 guns, under the command of Captain since near-Ad-
miral Ckland. On the `Vest India station be chauged his
ship, and served on board the Raisonable, of 6 t guns, then
commanded by Lord Harvey, where his vocal powers and
sprightliness of character endeared him to the officers and
men. dui this ship he attracted the note of Admiral Pigot,
Commander of the Fleet, who frequently sent for Incledon,
and sang catches and glees with him and Admiral Hughes.
He returned to England in 1783. when Admiral I'igot, Lord
Mulgrave, and Lord Harvey, gave him letters of recommen-
dation to Mr. Sheridan and the late Mr. Colman. His first
appearance on the stage was at Southampton, in A/pAonso,
in The castle of Andalusia, in 1784. In the next year he
first appeared at Bath, as Belville, in llosisa, on the same
night that Miss Brunton, afterwards Mrs. Merry, made
her first dramatic essay in The Grecian Daughter, and his
subsequent career as a singer at Vauxhall, and at Covent-
garden Theatre, is too well known to need relation.