The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1809-06-20 00:00:00

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w~ticltlte kit be itilitterie.ed by. the Report
of that House. He eorildi aware the Hon. Bern- I
net that was not the case ; foe although /be Court
df tlirectors would at all hats receive the opionsys
of that Homo with due attention and respect% still
he was well inform...l thi.t the line they bad pu'r-
adedivould have been that adopted, had the Re-
port never been made. The Hon. Baronet was also
to error as to the recitations under which the 'Di-
rectors had acted. It was not upon those el' 1799,
but upon resolutions passed in tent; ; there cr. atm
prior to that date were allowed to retain 014 up-
poilitinent• ; so that his arguments did not come
within their last regulatimis. The Homemade
Gelid non then said, that every meadis had
been taken to make :hi ietentiodds of the Di-
rectors known, and r •,.; the particular duty
of the Company's :err-ants to he aclisainted
%%Ali them. Adyerti.endents had been inserted
'thein
papers, cautioning the paldie against the per-
ches.. of, appointments, either civil or militery,
as such would subject the purclissers to immediate
dismissal. The order of th, Court of Directors
only affected three Writers, two of whom had gone
to the East Italics, and one remained here. The
Hon. Baronet had- said, the Court of Directors
ought Centel out some other mode : /•at be
contended, that this Resolution of the Court of
Di. ettors ,sae the most effectual tootle to stop such
ouchmeg. But the moment they were fouled to
aet Ilene 'tr. an outcry was raised! ; ued he would put
it to.ecy mail. Ica they agreed to peas over throe
poor creatures, wlist would hive beau the outcry
than ? Hewing sad thus much upon the conduct
of the Comte& barect,rs, he proceded toldittr
we. in, -oteeit on the House lode, amid contended,
that .1. the Hon. 7:•isrur:c. mciet his resolution to
pared at 11-1111:111dAte tei tre,t•..io mut of Dime_
foie, that the Ild;use were of tvoirr.itttett to any such
thing, by w sat had appeared. Hr would pnt it to
the limner, 'other ellen re*.olto ion wee lit ot pro-
per li, Ire a tooted ? If the re,,,, 'bon wile tiot
tended as a roandliite, lie coirsi levet' it as ridiculous.
The Hen, .tleinber couchette' with moving the pre-
citli3l6 Question.
Mr Bastes said, he would trouble the House
with o rly at faw wonls, a art desired that the 36th
clause of the 33d of there Km4sdhould be read; it
Awed, that the Court of • eetors, notwithvtand-
ing any Other clarke in that Act, should have full
Power to meet, ilischaree, or replace, si,y 01 the
Comienty's servatits. The lion. Member thrill sus-
tained the 4e port of I lie ! tee ; and suit!, that
the East ledia Company lied marked out a line
which they were folly cram ,e,tiir to carry into
effect. To hare duet the question fairly, the Hon.
Baron.st should have fir-. moved for the repent of
the Act of the 334 of the King, if he meant
his 11ve-
sot 'AM.' to net .ate as imperative order ;if Jpe
did n d metre it to opri,to in that way, his large-
meet, were rirlicsderty,. emisidered the pro-
pnse.l reeolutio.. -as nie of the. 1111iSt uirconstitistion-
ul 'ever nffered t i lh Hmse, sod ench a., lie trust-
ed], iieither this nor any otter l'arliaineut would
ever agree to. • '
Mr. Vi'leottr A said, lie di.l not ngree with the
Geti'leman as to the idlest that must have
pervaded the mind of line Hue. Baronet. The
question Tr-solved itself under two telt& t first,
what might hes rig'•e for the Court et' ;";rreetors to
de—;aid, n.-at, what. might be cosh. iar the House.
to do ? :rho Coon or Div ~;• • .•6 be earned
Enemy by then. fe..-:in:„s of .• r!•, so as to make
a :..:critics., to display t.f their Own ems.
su:t of outri.eeoii..', d tie, nbittit might lead
to as great cies .• el a wAidt of proper feeling—
'i:in of aunt- very virtuous wonata,
Mite seer tevoW thrive,
'T It ••c, were trona alive.

fettr.4.l-1 he 113.1.G.tit!..,W41; thought thr Hon.
st•r,itc,•• !wt'sc correct the. his ;il.ll. Frieit:'. (Mr.
I btf. 4; : !: • selo.lefilh.!. House to interpose, uot by
hot by ea • ; thk ;vat)*
,;9,- {loose hod 'lnce alr,:.a.;y, made it necessaiy that
they shoot I ti;Je.• intrri•.•-c. to bike away the effect
of their , • ~•,ou. crime origin-
stint trine he a i.ti n.- Onectors, er it hest the
.01141 lie with Mein ; therefioe this pro-
, Ce,1111.4g .V 144 Ogle Of gicsit hardship aid gnat ',eve-
. rill; and although, in the nature id huinato attain,
the jounce:it must suffer cith the guilty, who was
room that did uit lament it? During a period of
•4'VerP dillelplinC, • 501,11.'ea hat was I,IOWO
on; as any a I's "night in a gale of a ind, still it wa.
a puirsoable *leave. and the man 1,914 ptillished ;
yet is recordel that fewer hats:cert. blown olf after-
, ward.. (.4 Math./ Such severities might have some
effect, but Was it necessary to have recourse to
then'? Ile, like the worthy Baronet, was not
specking for any particular orison lie vas desirous
to favour, bin if he hod kuown any person, he
should not have hesitated to avow it. Those who
had nut he autistoined to coasider the effi•et of
general ruby would Iliad great difficulty in deem-
icg thisorder just; ern! although he did not mean to
lel but it ins tight, still, upon principles, of home-
line, lie would recomintiol the adopti ist of the nio-
than, which would relieve the Court:4 Directors
from the previous direction of the /Louse, under
which they had no other °idiots, # also relieve
than hien the impotation of uimec rotary severity.
Mr. W 41., 110 E could not see how the object that,
was proposed could possibly be - &Hinted by the
minims of the Hon. Baronet. If, on the one hand,
the Cotirt of Directors icuinlel persist in their di...
tertnioation. it cosaW he of no possible use-cif, on
the other, it wa. intended to overawe them, it was
10051 tilienissl4tatinilitli motion, as IL was a thing
altogether enpreceditited for that House to come
to a Resolution entarrulicting a ineie observation,
enntaked in a Repint of their own Comintitee.—
Although be felt K 4 deeply ns Any one the hardship
of the situation in 90144,1 those young men were
placed ; yet -hr coold not see oily other line for the
Directors to pursue, 4-semiarid with the r...,:ard
due to their own characters, or the service they
owed to the public. Gentlemen lied talk" d of
severity ; hut he could not are what leer warcre 01eaft
cures could be adopted ; when the 'misconduct
lied been bronght to light by the Cointnictee of that
flume, the Court of Directors hid merely resolved,
that their servants should nut reap th^ losiefit of it;
as. if 4 person having wrongfully posse,sed himself
ohm estate, wine to transfer if over to another,
would it Iwo considered as a hardship to force that
other to ref I it? Thos, in the present instance, the
fault was merely visited oo the pincr by it. If the

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