The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-26 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

A Oenerml Court of Proprietors of East India Stock was held
yesterday. at their house in LeadenhalLstreet, pursuant to adjourn-
ment front thrlilth instant.
4012 D AMIERST.

The usual routine business having been dispatched,
CO, LEICESTER STANHOPE expressed a desire to be infiwrned
by the Hon. Chairman, previous to their entering into the im-
portant discussion of the day, whether the !Marquis of Hastings
or Marquis Wellesley had been nominated to the .Government tH
British India. or whether laud Amherst had been recalled? His
reasons for asLing these questions were first, because in all proba-
bility the information, if obtained, would prevent the necessity of
his nicking a specific motion on the subject; and secondly, because
he conceived that Lutd Amherst, by his administration, had in-
volved this country in a most unnecessary and destructive war.
They were daily receiving accounts of the havoc which was
making among the troops iu India by the unwholesome swamps,
and uncongenial climate of the country into which they were led.
The Company was also put to an enormous expense in conse.
quence of the war ; an expense amounting to above a million of
rupees monthly.
Sir J. SEWELL rose to order. He considered that it was not
competent for the Honourable Proprietor to enter into any reason-
ing upon the subjects to which his questions might relate, it being
usual to reserve them till a specific motion mine hetore the Cour.
Colonel L. STANHOPE said if he were not allowed to put the
question in his own way he must make a specific motion. He was
about to observe, when the Learned Judge (Sir J. Sewell) inter-
rupted him, that this country had been put to the enormous ex-
pense of several millions in consequence ut'this war • money had
been already expended upon it 'lodide/It to have built another St.
Paul's., or to have extended the quay on the river Thames, and
have made it the fittest promenade in the world. Ile thought that
I: land Amherst was allowed to continue at the head of the Go-
vernment of India, he would ultimately be the cause of the total
loss of that empire to this country. He could not but wonder
that such a person as Mr. Canning. a man of such talents—
The CHAIRMAN (C. Marjoribanka, Esq.) thought that the Ho-
nourable Proprietor wu certainly occupying the Court unneces-
sarily by the course that he was at present pursuing, when no
motion was before them.

Mr. Ilipew would recommend bis Honourable and Gallant
Friend to follow the usual course, by allowing the business of the
day to have the precedence.
Mr. RANDLE Jac asow said it was irregular to enter into
arguments when questions only were intended to be naked.
Colonel L. STANttoPE said hie question was this—whether Lord
Hastings, or Lord Wellesley, or any other individual hod been no-
minated to the Government of British India, or whether Lord
Amherst was to he allowed to remain there, and by his line of pa-
hey sacrifice the interests of this country, and place it in the same
situation with regard to India as it formerly stood with America,
and ultimately cause it the loss of that part of the world?
The CHAIRMAN said if he understood the question right, it was
whether Lord Hastings, or Lord Wellesley, had been proposed or
appointed as Governor. General in India. lie had no hesitation in
answering that he had not proposed either of them to that high
station, nor had they or either of them been proposed to him ; and
he also would state, that there was no question at present in agita•
tion which had for its object the removal of Lord Amherst from the
British Government in India, and his Lordship was not removed.