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ti ga on the resolution till
_ fnajority of 112 to SO.
motion of Mr:Tierney, further evidence agai►►st the
...ars in Council was ordered to be heard on Thursday.—
Adjourned.

FRID Y, MAY 6.
The Lord Advocate of Scotland brought up the Bill fur
granting an annuity to the Scottish Judges, .on resignation
retirement. Real a first, and ordered to he read a second time
on Tuesday.
On the motion of Mr. Alderman Comhe, the Ilouse resolvefl
itself into a Committee on the Child Stealing Bill, when the
Vordly Alderman proposed to make the offence grand larceny.
The Report was ordered to he received OH Monday,
Mr. Lushington postponed his motion respecting the ship
l'Etruscu, till Tuesda) next.

EAST INDIA COMPANY.
MR. CEEBYLY rose to make his promised motion; he said the
Petition presented by the Last India Company, praying a loan
of 1,200,0001. gave a fallacious view of the Company's affairs,
and was an absolute imposition, In that petition it is stated,
that the Company ia only deficient 2,4C0,000/, o hen the fact
Was, that they were, to his knowledge, ?alma three millions
They also endeavour to make it appear that they had eight
millions of property in this country ; but by the accounts which
he would move for, he would make it manifest that they were
deficient at home 12 millions. They were, to his knowledge,
deficient in India $2 milli/a.. which they were bound to pay at
home. Ile therefore concluded, by lOW lug for an account or
till the luaus they had contracted in India, and the terms of
these loans. in order to show that the Petition was a gross fraud;
a:so for an account of the India Stock by computation. 11,.
then adverted to the formation of the Committee, which was
partial, who were not likely to make an impartial report to the
Bouse,
SIR J, 4.ycrauruEn said, that with regard to the solvency
of the East India Company he thought the lion. Gentleman
grossly wrong; or, at least. completely in error and mistake.
Ile awned, that the Committee was fully competent to consider
the whole of the debts end credits of the Company. liis next
objection was, that Mr, Creevey had allowed the Petition of
the Company to be sent to a Committee without statipg any
objection, or giving the most remote hint of his intention, in the
present, or in any other way, to interrupt its proceedings.
Lord Folkestotie supported the motion.
MR. C. Grt.s.vr observed that the Hon. Gentleman had ex-
hibited upon the present occasion a great deficiency of know-
ledge, lie had asserted that the Company had recently had a
deecit of three millions, but he had forgotten that the Company
hitt' raised a sum of two millions by hoods. The more he con-
sidered the motiou of the Hun, Genilemae, the more was he
convinced et ifs impropriety, as the Hon. Gentleman knew well
that the acconnts he had moved for would be laid on the table in
a very few days. lie condemned the. partial introdaction of the
iubtect, previous to the report of the e.timmittee having been
e;..de, as it was his most earnest wish that the affairs of the
4:,,e4iany should be probed to the bottom.
Mat. CRECY Er replied, and said, that notwithstanding al!
the lion. Gentlemen had said, he still maintained that tle
eeficit of the Company amounted to twelve and Go
lion. Gentlemen to ;ague that such a sum mould ever be paid.
N 1 as holdiog the most grosa delusion that he had ever seen at•
tempted. He was contident that next year the Company would
be twain under the weessity of coming to Parliament fur the
purpose of obtaining another grant of the public money..
eliort conversatimi ensued between Mr. Duudas and Mr.
('carol y, and the former basin; promised productlntrs of the
papers mewed for, ha a few days, Ow original inututt was
withdrawn.

Mr. Creevey moved fur an account of all loans contracted
the Company io India, and also ;or :u► account of the profit
accenting to the Company favat investments from India :tint
China, for the years 1798.9, and '006.7. nest) snotiaas
divosed of in the tame %lay with the tir4t.

Sir T. 'furrow deferred ills tootiou respecting the iL'.l.airs r,f the
C4roatie, (ill Tuesday so.onight.
Ou the motioo of Mr. Tremav or, the Dead llodie Wa%lied to,
Shore Irremed L iI, wept through the Cotoutittee.—llepr
od Tue;tl.ly.'

A Petition wa. prevented from
agains: !!as retura (If Captain I}ai-
t.ici., fs,i• l'ctt::va' ~;.•d 4ul cur-

MAY 8.

caption, and a want of qualification. It was ordered to he
aken into consideration on Tuesday the tith iustaut.
The Three Millions Exchequer Bills Bill was read a first,
and ordered to he read a second time ou Monday.
Mr. It. Ward presented several Accounts relative to his Ma-
jesty's Droits of the Admiralty. Ordered to lie printed.—Ad-
iourued till Monday.

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PROVINCIALS,

On Tuesday, at Pontefract sessions, the Cloth Returns for the
last sear were made as follow :—Narrow pieces 161,51 S ; or
5,921,256 yards ; decreased, 13,516 pieccs.—Broad
en.2,o*-44 ; in yards, 8,422.143; decreased 284.13 pieces.—Not.;
. he decrease has been during the last half year.
At the Quarter Sessions for the county of Somerset, held last
Neel,: at Wells, Thomas Prankett, of Bathe ick, was f.olnd
„alley of leaving his wife and family chargeable to the .;:id
parish, and sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and to be
whipped through every street in the parish.
A Correspondent, who remarks ou the injury that w ill be
done to farmers, if none but licensed gunners are pertniited io
destroy rabbits, says, Naturalists have calculated, that a site.le
pal, of rabbits may, in the space of tour increase to the
astonishing number of 1,274,840.
Lately, the hawse of Robert Whitt:4l, at the Barnett's, near
Tenbury, was accidentally burot to the ground, together with
most of the furniture : what renders it the more distressing, thc
poor man (who was a Carpenter by trade) is 8.1 years of .ce,
and has been blind many years: about t w.enty )cat s shay, he
providently made his coffin, in which he had deposited a chee,e
made by his late wife some years since, and a game en-. of baron,
intended for his funeral, which were Viairely consumed ; and a
barrel of cyder, about 1 years old, kept for the same purpose,
was rolled into a pool, and the liquor saved.
Tug TURF.--it is supposed that there has been a greater
mortality amongst the foals this year than ever was known.
NiabY gen:ieman have lost half their stock. Lords Grosvenor
and f;gremont have been the principal sulteqrs.
SINGULAR O.:cuatterscE.—At the Cock, at Kingsdown, in
Somersetshire, is an old cat, now bringing up three young squir-
rels, which were put to her as soon as they could see, about
three weeks ago—she also has a kitten a month old, the whole
of which she suckles, and pays equal fondness and attention to.
The same cat, about two years agd, brought' up.two rabbits.
On Saturday se'imiglit, a fl.ne .yonng girl of file years of age,
died at Olasgow, in consequence oT being bit, about ten daYs.
ago, while asleep, by rats, to whom poison bad been adminis-
tered. On bearing the cries of the child, leer parents hurried
into the apartment where she slept, with a light, but not before
these iPoiaciaus animals had succeeded in abstracting a consider-
able quantity; of blood from ditferent parts of the body. Medi
cal assistance was immediately procured, but; owing to the
virus of the poison having affected the blood, every effort for
restoring the little sufferer to health preyed ineffeetual, and she
expired in great agony, exhibitiai; all tlic symptoms incident to
such calamitous situations.

296.
tie), for delay►ng further procredn
Wednesday. It was negatived by a
On the 'notion of Mr. Tierney, NI
Orders in Council was ordered to