The National Register.
London, England, 1813-03-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

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question to get rid of.the etroct. or an acknossiellg.ment,.i;
of inch an observation, on'aeConnt of the essential
if the. fact had been proved upon biro, he must in
,e sustained in his profession. He was glad the he
led upon to leave the country, before this °ppm.-
.ded him of making the statement which he had now
Lordships. The Noble Lord said, he wished also to
Id been most falsely insinuated against him in print,
in the habit of sending anonymous. paragraphs to
!r, for the purpose of calumniating the• character of
lighest rank: He spurned at the vile imputation,
my declare, that ne never but once sent an atm-.
to a newspaper, and that.: was on a political mie
ne t of another Genttemao. lint as to any all 0;
ph, calculated to hut t the characteror the feelings
he trusted their Lordships would do him the jus.
:hat there was no consideration on earth that would
resort to any thing so base and degrading. He melt
w nitwit the bare suspi-ion of slid' practices must
character in that gnat ter. ‘vherc it was supposed
such means to recommend- himself.—The House then

TUESDAY, MARCH 29.
ssent was given by Commission to the Mutiny Bills,
the Vice, Chancellor's Bill,aud a considerable num-
tid Inclosure Bills.
a question from the Duke of Norfolk, whether the
Volunteers front service in the Local Militia emit',
instructions issned to break up the Volunteer System?
Sidmouth stated, that having ceased to be volunteers
tons also ceased, bait it had not been thought that they
iectcd to the 'present ballot for Local Militia, which
completed.
DARNLEY, referring to the disasters experienced in
with America, gave notice that on Tuesday, the 6th
)ould bring forward a motion on the subject, which
te not only the Naval Administration, but other
red with the conduct of the► war, in which, he -eon-
vakness and imbecility of Ministers were rendered

Alicest.
Irder of the Day being read for the commitment of the
Earl HAD ROWDY said, that the principal object. of
'matt that all Citrates should be licenced, and to compel
provision for Curates out of the income of the incum-
than a certain amount, but to be increased in the
thy benefices, or under particular circumstances to
less.—After some debate, the Bill was ordered to be
Monday. •

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24.
)f LIVERPOOL lamented that the melancholy event of
his Majesty's Sister, her Royal Highness the Duchess
rendered it necessary for kim to move an Address
!e to the Prince Regent. It was wholly mmeeessary
1 a word upon this subject, stick an Address being
)tin when so melancholy an event of this nature occurred
anient was sitting. • His Lordship moved an Address of
to the Prince Regent, which %VHS agreed to nein. di s.
to be presented to his Royal Highness by the Lords
\taves.—Adjourned.

TVURSDAT, MARCH L.
bueneas of iuiportance oecurred this day.

FRIDAA, MARCH E 6.
There was nothing wforti; of reporting this day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONT)AY, MARCH W.
ITZROY reported from the Seaford Electbn Committee,
ing Metn`.erS were duly elected.
Tit was ordilcd for Rye, in the room of Mr. Wetherall,
another place.
krxtNS obtained. leave and brought in a Rill, tt.
rtain abuses at elections in the Borough of Weymouth ;
p:ovided tnat no person r-ceiving alms sli )uld be

'OteS.
"FRP LAD, alluding to what had occurred in the House ot
tveuip , respecting the paper read by him oh WedneNday
:eat evidence of Mrs. Lisle, said, he should feel it neces-
cousult that Lady ; and ii she disclainicd the pn,er, then he

would tdcknowledgs; that he ta Wei impaled .011 ; but until this Wils
• disclaimect by the witness, he should continue to be of the sem*
(mullet' as betbre. He assultedelie•Howse stuff thieteiperhe- had.read
did not come from the Princess of wales; nor from any office, but
tram a quarter that must have been imposed dn, had any impcnatica
ti.xn practised.
EAST INDIA CHARTER. . ". •
Lord CASTLEREAGH moved the. Order of the Day for the Herne
resolving itself into a Committee on the East India Company's Af-
fairs ; eed that the different Petitions for and against the renewal
of the Company's exclusive Charter be eeterred to the said COM-
ttee.
The Order of the Day tieing read,-the House resolved into the Com-
mittee, Mr. I ushineton in the Chair.
Lord CAS c R nen then addressed the Committee.—The Char-
ter of the East hese' Company being now about. shortly to expire,
it tell to the lot of Parliament to take into their consideration what
was to be the nature of the Governinent to he provided for out
Eastern Empire in Were. In approaching a subject of such exten-
sive magnitude and difficulty. it was impossible not to he struck
will the extreme singularity of the case; in which the Legisla. ore
Of this country was called on to provile for the Government ot a
Settlement in:;.nitely exceeding the Poem, State 'in extent and in pc).
puietion. It, Avis impossible not to be struck with the impor-
tance of the duty they had now to discharge, not merely le a
.coin-
tnercial point of view, but with reference to the moral trust repoael
is them, in providing what was best for the happin ss of so large a
b mdy of their fellow men. They had to discharge a duty. empteee-
dented in any other State. They had to provide for, the happiness,
comfort, and governMent of a body of, men, exceeding thee-fold
the population of the Parent*State He had no drilicnlty in stating
on his own part, and on the part of thou: with Wivtn he acted, that
if the regulations which he was about to propose for the:adqption
of the House, in the form of Resolutions, must .have the necessary
consequence of. endangeeng, far more, if it must have the effecit of
pullit g down the system by which the lodiaii Empire had hitherto
been acquired and held together, they would feel themselves celled
on to hesitate much, be'ore they recommended the adoption of such
a mode of proceeding. At the same time, however, he vault be al-
lowed to say that the lapse of years and existing circumstances had
rendered a partial change an the system of policy hitherto observed
towards our Indian possessions indispensably tiN.UiSite• 1.1141 that
Ohhre was no part of the Empire more crincerned •in adopting .tkat
change than the East India Company itself. The mode in govern-
ment adopted by the East I ndiri CoMpany had certainly raised and fire.
servA an Empire unprecedented in the history of the ,world ; andithey
had gole-rned the peope under their confroul, on a principle emi-
nently calculated to produce the happiness of the governed.. .Hedid
we believe the history of the world had ever moduced.its• parallel.
—a system by which a populetion of fifty millions of native. -subjects
were governed, while the Civil Officers of the Company b>whorn
time Governfnent was conducted did not exceedl6oo ; and this too un-
der a Government than which there never. was a milder, nor' one by
which the happiness of the people was more consulted. He did not
know that there was ever a Government possessed of servants of
acmer ahilhy or character than those of the last India Coriipapy.—'
If Nlinisters did not'agree with the east India Convent/ on the ques-
tion, he hoped it would not he Att ihuted to arty wish to break in upon
Chartered rights ;• if wrong, they were willing to retract ; at present
they were firmly convinced that what was intended to` be proposed
was safe and expedient. It was not desirable that discussions•of the
niture.of the prey-opt should tote frequently be gone ineteethetolote,
if it was tehe renewed.* •all, he• teotight the Company's -Murree
should he renewed fqe. ewentr years. 1 -this was to be the case, then
he could see no priiteiple qt justice of policy which could waterant the
House in tying up thee-twit dl of one-half of .the Glohe, 'and confining
the exclusive trade to India, to the Company, and to foreigners.
That was so monstrous a proposition—one so much out of the course
of nature—that no princiele could be found to support it. On-what
pretence ceuld it be argued that all Btitish capital was to be excluded
from this trade to British settlements' except the capital of this Com-
pany ; and that in add Lion to the Company, foreigners , only were
to he allowed a free trade ? He was aware "hat great danger way eto be
apprehended from an-over speculation at the first ttiom ineppenesuch
a trade; but that was in the nature of timings, and did not alter a
me 'sure of generatepolicv. . The next topic• which he should advert
to, not argue, was the olijection flee the opening of the trade would
lead to an indiscriminate intercourse with the natives, which might
in the end endanger the whole system, and the whole of our power in
India. •As to the idea of colonizetien there, it seemed quite chimeri-
cel,•asehe pi ice of labour was so low as to leave no iiAlucernent fo the
hard-working •classes of time community to go out there ; and,witlt
respc:.t to the hither. classes, who had object,: preierment and
pov.er in vieweit was well known that no verson tilt! ai.iuire any
property in the country, that was not perfectly clistivet to in •i:esoil,
and 1114411enaeut of it. At the same time that he thus argtvd o.m ge-
ner3l priecip'es, he did not tritaii to place an ii;lpl!ct rtii..nce on them,
unpacked he the authority of an ellieiNtt and vigi:ent t;,,verline
Now, it wae his intention to leave the India Connelly in full po,
sion of th6ir aut heilq to expel every individual woose cotionct or
tentiotta they alight bias or suspcct to be d.uigerous. tdi:

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