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London, England, 1820-03-23 00:00:00

LEICESTER ASSIZES, MARCH 21.

The Court was engsged the greater part of the
day in actions of the most ordinary nature. At
about one o'clock the Grano Jury of the County
were called over and sworn. The King's; pisa la-
million against lewdness, drunkenness, gaming,
vice, profaneness, and immorality, was then resit,
alter which Mr. Justice Brat pronounced his charge.
Ile observed, that the proclamation seemed to have
had a happy effict in preventing crimes and irre-
gularities in the popoleus county of Leicester, N%
there was a very short list of charges to prefer. His
Lordship made a few observations on the depiwi.
lions on the only two cases of a very heinous kind
in the list. One is a charge of arson, the other of
raise on a child of tender age. This being gone
through, the Court proceeded with actions of debt
and other suits of no public importance.
Sir Francis Burdett was out yesterday with the
hounds. He passed through the town slain this
morning in the dress of the Melton Hunt, afte►
breakfasting with NIG Harmer, his Solicitor, at the
Three Crowns. It was about eight o'clock when be
arrived. Regular notice was given in the Court this
morning that his trial would come on the first in
order nu Thursday troroiog.

An ationymonsletter. printed in script type, has
been forwarded from London, addressed to each of
the Si 4 Gentlemen struck for the Special Jury to
try the Baronet's cause. It is in the shape of ad-
vice, accompanied with a threat, cautioning them
against an adverse decision. I enclose s copy of the
letter. which you will probably not think it prudent
to pliblish. It is as likely to have come from an
enemy as from a friend of the Baronet.

The following anecdote of the Rev. RICHARD
DAVIES occurs its a letter from a relative of his to
thinacc EI•RDINGE, Ftq. and is inserted in
Aficholu's Illustrations ; ' it needs no comment :
In 1745, during the political Item, of the two polies' and
mom Ilse verge or a consisted election, one of his (Mr.
Davies's) relations rode op to the vicarage of RANalson
with a memage from the Bishop, importiug, that if Mr.
Davies experted any favours from him, he mint give
his vote and his interest, fur the Court.--" Will, the,
(my father asked him), and what answer did you make
to she Bishop!—A My dutiful respect; hut adding, that
his Lordship was meddling with subject. or ao fit concern
for lam•—•lost his duty way to visit lbs Diocese—yet we kb
Clapp of their post, and sisporhatemitis. theirliseas—esre.
&My to mellsoes the dawns& sad them simss.—Tbsl, as
lo my vole I should give it secaellimg to toy esessieem."—.
mid what ,mid you is our suss;* !"—A I mid so.
thleg."—." %Thu! modslegsomorhausum r.-. Heald out
maw %los as my Ithaessami bit as slignmul .1 lA. itbkop.
I melded Miss avesvalligth sod UM Reps N elm •Ift
leallard Id Ms *Pr ISIO boss."

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EAST INDIA lIOUSrt.
:f •11.
Yesterday a Quarterly General Csull of the
Company was helrL The minutes pt the last
Court havii% been ►rod by the Secretary.—
The Chairman (CAmpastL MArisoaramrs.
E,q.) acquainted the Proprir.to►s that the Court
was made special for the purpose of submitting for
confirmation the Resolotton of the General Court
of the 224 December lest, approving the Reso-
lution of the Court of t)urr•tors of the lOth No-
',ember last, granting to Sir George Hilaro Barlow,
O.C.R.hart a pension or i,&ool. per annum,
during the continuance of the Company's charter,
if he should live so long, on the grounds therein
stated.

Mr. lIOWOCTH, Chairman of the Committee of
By.lawv, their said that it appeared to be the clear
intention of the Legislature, in passiog the Acts of
1793, and of 1913, to vest the power in the last
resort of, granting pensions or gratuities out of the
fonds of the Company, exclusively in the hands of
the Proprietors. Ile afterwards moved that a re•
port of the Committee of By-laws, in his hand,
should he read.
The motion having been seconded by Mr. R.
JACKSON, was pot and carried in the affirsustive.
The report was then read by the Secretary. It
contained a case submitted to Mr. Serjrant Leos
and Mr. Serjeant llogaiqu'et, for the purpose of as.
certaiiiing whether in the general Courts adopting
the Resolution of the 32d December last, the By
Taws of the Company had been sufficietotly observ-
ed, together with their answer, wherein they stated
their opinion that the Resolution would be con-
formable to the Bv-laws, the proceedings valid, and
the grant legal. if the Court of Proprietors should
he satisfied with the sufficiency of the documents
upon which the Resolution was formed.
The CHAIRMAN then put the motion for confirm-
ing the Resolution of the General Court of the
•2211 December, with the usual forms.
Mr. R. JACKSON opposed the motion. He
thought it impolitic and dangerous that the Pro-
prietors should be called upon to sanction so large
a grant out of the funds, both as between them
ar►d the Directors, and between them and the pub-
lic. Front the former no statement whatever had
been given of the private fortune of Sir G. Bar.
low, to convince the Proprietors of the necessity
or rensonahle►ess of the pension proposed, lint on
the contrary, an apology had been made fur the
non-production of the document containing that
information, he meant Sir G. Barlow's letter. Mr.
had an amendment to proposed to the Proprietors,
and if it met their approbation, it would still be
open to Sir G. Barlow's friends to bring forward
the question of his remuneration in a regular man-
lier. He then read his amendment, which was of
considerable length. It embodied the sentiments
he had proviou.ly expressed, and concluded with
stating that the Court was of opinion that it could
not at present consent to the proposed pension, con-
sistently with the high trust reposed in them by
the Legislature. and their duty to the public.

Sir Jou/4 SKIVE, L seconded the amendment,
and submitted that it was not in the power of the
Court of Proprietor., observing the rules laid
down for their regulation by the Legislature, to
confirm the proposition before them.
The amendment having been read by the Secre•

tory—
Mr. Bests (the Director) solid, that though be
had read the letter about which so much hid been
said, to the Committee of Correspondence and the
Court of Directors, yet he had, from the beginning,
considered it as a private communication, not pro•
per to he put on the records of the Company. He
looked on it as a harsh and
any man should be called upon to submit a state-
ment of his private forimie to the public.
Mr. GAIIAOAN ridiculed the ides of any analogy
between that Court nod the court of law, and sr-
Rued that the words of the Act of Parliament.
with ►egard to the production of evidence, did not
at all bear the interpretation pot on theiu by the
Learned Civilian (Sir J. Sewell).
Mr. S. Dixon said, that what weighed on his
mind wall, the danger of the p►ecedent. He be-
lieved in his conscience that Sir G. Barlow deter/r-
-ed some mark of the approtiption of the Proprietor► ;
hut he conceived a case And imt been fully mode
nut by him to justify hisapplii.ation for a pension.
Mr. PATT/,ON (the Oireetor) thought that the
legal opinion was quite conclusive as to the validity
of the Frueeecheigs in the present case. if the Pro-
prietors felt satisfied that sufficient evidence had
appeared of the justice of Sir G. Barlow's clsiins.
Mr. JACKSON replied.
The amendment was then negatived, and the ori-
ginal motion carried in the affirmative.