The National Register.
London, England, 1809-04-09 00:00:00

APRIL 9..

nce is felt by the person primarily giving, or by the person ulti-
Mately receiving it." Equally vain, therefore, is Mr. Jackson's
suggested preventive of stirred swearing. Seeing how things are,
" it can never be advisable," judiciously observe the Select
Committee, " to add new °fences to the long catalogue already

enumerated in, the penal statutes ; nor is it wise to diminish the
sanctity of oaths by resorting to them upon all occasions. Where
solemn declarations hace been habitually disregarded, little reli-
ance can be placed upon the sanction of any other species of a.sse-
veration." Gentlemen Directors !—what is your answer to this
ttatement ?

Seriously wishing you better than you appear to wish your-

selves, .what, let me ask, could induce five of you, who were
not absolutely inculpated by the Report of the Select Commit-
tee already seen, to make common concerti w ith the sixth member
of your body ?Is Mr. W. Thelluson, as my Lord Ellen-

borough was in another place, indkpeniahle at your council-

table ? Take breath, and look about ; before you settle upon

swimming, or sinking, together. Light bodies are found to be
most buoyant. If you would float surce,4ully, try the stream
of public opinion. There i, as 1 before ventured to hint, an

atnazing magnanimity in your proceedings. %V bile Napoleon
Bonaparte is menacing your possessions, George Woodford
Thelluson alone engrosses your attention !--Yes, Gentlemen
Directors, that mighty monster, that conqueror of the continent,
that destro er of dynasties, that monopolist of mankind, Napo-
leon Bonaparte, who has long cast towards your empire his
longing eyes, is accordingly intriguing against you in one of the
most vulnerable points of your eastern greatness. Recollect, I en-
treat you, with whose prowess you are thus likely to encounter.
Resembling in this respect a true Scotsman, Bonaparte, if once
he sets foot upon good ground, will not, even to please the'
Devil himself, be induced to give up his footing. Might it not
have been as well, considering all circumstances, if you had
permitted a certain Marquis, some few years since, to rid us of
British India, as far as the toil of governing and defending it

goes, by there s4‘tting up for him,elf? England wants no more
" trilloones" about her neck.

Still :still eN u:t , they say, that, concerning any malpractises
lately discovered, 46 nu one case of corruption or abuse affect,.
any Member o/• our Court ;" or, that there is found " nothing
which traces any one of these corrupt or improper bargains to
any Director." What, however, do the Select Committee
mean, when, r:t the same time, they complain as to " defici-
ency of proof ?" Let us try another point. You have " not the
detail of the evidence" laid before you, and therefore you are
not able to form any conclusion respecting Mr. Thellnson. Now,
Gentlemen Directors! does the digested and recorded opinion of
a Select Committee of the British Senate, solemnly asseverated,
go for nothing among you ? Really this furnishes an admit able
specimen of the modesty of the Cabinet of Leaden-liall,—per-
adventure the only exhting cabinet that would presume to slur
the honest Report of a Select Committee of our Imperial Par-
liament !

It is painfill. Gentlemen Directors ! after such practical evi-
dence of the true light la which you contemplate the Report of
the Committee of the llqnse of Commons, to fetid sou asserting
that you still conceive it to be " naturally entitled to the respect
and confidence of the Memhcrs of the Court of Directors."—
AY hat !—you place tespect and confidence in this Report, but
yet refuse to adopt its opinion ! If- the Committee have, as
yourselves own, "particularly enquired into the disposal of
East-India Patronage, and have had a great deal of evidence
before them on that ~,uhjeet," rue i, purartut to such enquiry
and such evidence, recommend you " to cartail the patronage of
those whose diligence hai been uwaiccessfal in preventinr., the
afiases,"—how is it, with these things before you,antl while you
publicly acknowledge that " there appear,: to have been a de-
gree of negligence and inattention on the part of Mr, Theduson
..n2;:uutr his Patedriae," bow is it, °he

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naturally" asks, that, 66 under these circumstances, the name
of Mr. Theiluson is included," by you, " in tin• Recanunendation
usually submitted to the Proprietors in favour of the re-election
of the Ex-Directors?" What are we to think of all this ?
Notwithstanding "a great deal of evidence has been p:•oi:'aced,"
still you talk of " condemnation without e ride nee ;" ;Ind though
the Committee of tile House of Commons tell you `• 't appcos.s
not unreasonable to curtail the patronage of those who have not
!icen sufficiently watchful in the disposal of it," yet you cyavely
aisure us, in the same breath, that `• it would be manifest in-
justice" to Mr. Thellusson, and " against the opinion of the
committee of the fit. use of Commons," if )on were now to cur-
tail his patronage, who, as you say, discovered "
and inattention in bestowing" it. Cannot you, Gentlemen Di-
rectors, favour the world with some new system of logic ?
Apra 7, 1809.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE I)UTCH P.IPERS.

Homo.

PARIS, MARCH 28.—The Staff of the late Spanish garrison of
Saragossa, consisting of five Generals, and semi or eight Adjut-
ant-Generals, arrived in Bayonne on the 13th init.
?A It IS, MARCH 29.—Count de roentes died lately at Sara-
gossa of a malignant fever, which he caught in the dungeou
where he was confined by the insurgents.

The King of Spain has received an Address from the Junta of
Arragon and Saragossa, whereby they assure him of their
loyal attachment; and the A rragonese had issued, the same day
when the above address left Saragossa, a Decree relative to the,
measures which his Majesty has adopted to repair ti►: d:Lmages
and losses which the war has occasioned in Saragossa.
RovrEaDAM, Apan, 4,—Letters from Germany Viy, that
a Congress is to be held on the Banks of the Inn, s here the
Emperors Francis and Napoleon intend to meet. and that the
French troops, who were marching through Suabia, have re-
ceived orders to halt.

•
Al A DRID, MARCH IS.—The Court Gazette contains the fol-
lowing article :
We this moment received intelligence from Marshal Soult,
which states, that the Corps continauded by Romana, and com-
posed of the remains of at my, and a large number of pea-
:;ants, was completely put to the rout on the 7th inst. on the
frontiers of Portugal, and 5000 were taken prisoners. The far-
ther particulars arc ex pecteit."
The Bavarian troti:ni are assemi4led between the Inn rind the
Iser, where, as it all; ears, they will be joined by the W
irteta-
berg and Darmstadt contingents, as also by the French corps ud-
der General Oudinot..
The Ilavarian General Wrede arrived on the 21st at Land-
shut ; and as soon as the troops under his command shall have
formed an army, the hereditary Prince Is expected. The Ba-
varian corps between the Inn and the Iser, will, we are assured,
he augmented to 80,000 men. It is now c:iutoned between Strau-
bingand Landshut, and between the latter place and Muhldorf.
Tete head-quarters of General Oudinot will next week be re-
moved to Munich, and those of the Marshal Duke of Dantzic
re expected at Augsburgh.
On the Inn and on the Tyrol, there are but few Austrian
troops. The accounts from Carinthia speak of the assembling
of an army in the Circle of the Lay bach, which we are assured
will be commanded by the Archduke Charles. The Archduke
Ferdinand will command the army in Gallicia ; who w ill have
the command in Bohemia, is not known.
There is a report that a great army of reserve will be formed
in the circle of Vienna, which will be joined by a part of the
Ilungariau
FRANKFORT, MARCH 26.—1 t is ui.slerstood that the con
tingent of the Prince of Nassau will arrive in a few days in
Franconia. The troops of the Grand Duke of NVartzburgh are
complete, bai cantoned in Wortzburgh, and along the Maine,
and nothing is yet known of their further destination Detach•
ments of from 2 to SOO men arrive at Mentz almost daily, from
ci-devant Belgium, and inure are-expected from the di3trik.s of
util Liege.