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London, England, 1818-05-16 00:00:00

SCOTCH SAVING BANKS BILL.

Sit O. CUM% expressed • wish that the second reading
of the Scutt+ Saving Banks Bill, which stood for Monday
st'onight, should be postponed, to girt ermy opportunity
'fo► the due considei alum of it.
Mr. Doticias stated, that the individuals who were
(vicinity to the measure, anxiously wished that it should he
fully discussed lie, therefore, veal that the Order for
3loistlity se'imight, be discharged—and that the second
trailing be postponed to this day three mouths.
The motion was agreed to.
Ois the wintion of Mr Alderman WOOD, the second musl-
in of the Irish Partnership Bill was postponed till Monday
next.

Mr. S. 801.71115 T neared, that the Oral ned second Repents
el' the Committee uu the Nor 's Laws should be seat to the
Lewd. —A ;re eel to.
BRITISH DMCSEUU.

General THORNTON gave sootier, that he 'Meld, on
Tuesday Borst, move for a Copy of the Regulations, adopts d
at Or British Museum, with respect to prrsuus applytrig fur
leave to read is the library.

SCOTCH RURGHS.

Mr. Renstre presented a Petition from the Burgesses of
the Royal Borah of St Andrew's, against the 11111 for reps.
latiug the Royil Burghs, which had been introdaced by the
Lord Advocate of Scotland —Laid on the table.
WAR IN INDIA.

i♦lr. HOWARTH row, in conformity with the no-
tice hr had given, to move for certain papers, rela-
tive to the war in India. Aware as he was of the
indifference, not to sap apathy, with which the
affairs of India we►r viewed in that House, hr
61 111 use abstained from calling the attent►on of
Gentlemen to this subject, if he did not feel the
extreme impure/nice of the transactions which had
recently taken place in that country, to the true

interests of ( lilltaill. HIS object Will purely
to uht tin information—mid hr trusted such papers
would be laid before the House, as would enable
them, on some future occas►on, to form a correct
opinion of the causes which had led to the extensive
WU' fare now carrying on ill India. So far back as
the year 1784, the late Lord Melville brought for-
w..rd certain' resolutions, which received the sanc-
tion of Parliament. One of them stated, •, That
to pursue }themes of conquest, slid aim at the
extension of our dominions in India, was repugnant
to the interest, honour, and policy of this nation."
After ten years' experience, when the Company's
charter was again to he renewed in 1793, that reso-
lution was embodied in an Act of Parliament, and
it was at present an Act of the Legislature. It ap-
peared to him extremely curious, that the Govern-
ments of India should be so particulatly circum-
stanced, from that period to the present day, as to
find themselves uniformly under the necessity of
•iolating, to a great degree, that very Act of Par
liauntit. If they looked to India, East, West,
North, or South, they would find ample confirms-
tion of this assertion. If any Member of that
House would examine the Company's possessions
its 1783, and compare them with their present
(vent, he would be astonished to fluid, that the
precautions of the Legislature to prevent the ex-
tension of our dominions in India, had been very
little attended to. The war now carried on in
India was denominated the Pitidaree war—a term
not generally understood. At the decline and fall
gal the Maliometan empire, a great many petty
Chieftains, who held by military tenure, set up fur
themselves ; if their pntuae•siona did not enable them

to support themselves, they plundered their neigh-
bours. They were, in consequence, called Pin-
da►ea—the atm, purely meaning a robber. They
collected together annually, when the rainy sea-
soa was net r—divided themselves into separate
bodies—and proceeded in different directions, in
search of spoil. They then committed every spe-
cies of plunder ; but, when attackt.d, imme-
diately dispersed. It was very singular, that there
should be colle.•ted together the materiel of an
aruiy such as was uow embodied in India, for
the purpose of overturning such a power as this.
He conceived that a regular army was tint the force
best calculated to subdue hordes of this descrip-
tion. The Marquis of Hastitigs raised an ialinett‘e
artily, with which, he said, lie meant to attack the
jillidareee— but the fact was, the rind:trees were
the only enemy he had not met with. The British
troops had firught both the Peisliwa, with the
Hai.th of Berar (one of the most extensive pro-
sluices in the Carnatic), with [bilker, and atilt
Sciudia—iu short, with every power except that

which l'hey set out to meet. Convinced that his
motion would meet with the concurrence of the
House, he would nut take np their attention much
longer. He should !nearly state, that the Go-
vernor-General wits now in the field with an army
or 100,000 men, at the distance of 1,000 miles
from the capital of Bengal, in the midst of the
Mahratbi empire. He had, doubtless, by this time,
fallen posaeseion of the dominions of Hot kite and Son.
did, and it was to be supposed that the whole Mah-
nabs force was arrayed in arms against him. Under
these circumstances, it was not unreasonable to ask

for general information with respect to transactions
that were likely to lead to events of the highest
importance. He should therefore move—
Ist.—" That there be laid before this Haase copies or ex.
tract* of adveces received from the several Governments of
India, relative to the origin and propels of the disemaions,
which ended in hostilities with the Peishwe
Sd.—" That there be laid before this House copies or ex.
testis of advlees received from the several Governments of
coo cern jog the origin moll proven of the ch.cessious,
which terminated in hiestilities with the Itej.eh of Beer"
3.l.—'s That there he laid before this Howie copies or ex-
Iract■ of :Writes received from the several Governments of
respectiug the aggression, of the Piiiderete, and the
measures adopted iu comeiiiiteire thereof.'
4th.—" Thal there be laud before this House copies or cx•
tracts of the dart..rat Treati►s entered juin by the Govern-
meld of India with Mae Native Powers slot Princes, since
the year Iso4, and not yet presented to the House

Mr. CANNING was vliaposeit to concur ill giving
the information required by the Hon. llember, as
far as it was when the subject of the
affairs of India trine under the ciiimiderlition of the

House, he pledged himself to afford the fullest
possible explanation ii every point. Ile said he
would give the information, us far as isonable—be-
canew, with respect to the Raja!) of Berar. no in-
formation of the description alluded to had been
received. He hoped, therefore, the lion. Geotle-
mon would have liU übjrcuui to withdraw ISIS Se-
cond non, mid he could *more him, whenever
the document* alluded to :•triretl. they 1.611141 be
said before Parliament. As to the circumstances
which hal to hostditiea with the Peisliwa, they
would lie found, on examination, such as could not
be liaised over in silence. On that point, no blame
could attach to the Indian Gores nutria. Nothing
like precipitation appriceil to their conduct. Per-
haps they had placed too great a degree of
confidence in the Peisliwa, trusting to that good
faith, which he was bound by treaty to preset ye.—
With respect to the Mutterers, it was very bur,
they could not lie considered us a substantive force.
But when, fur two successive year*, that Power was
sufficiently strung to make nit urinous into the Com-
pany's territories, and carry tire awl 'mold through
the t try, it would be *titillated that there was
very good reason fur endeavouring to extirpate
pest, formidable to the British Power, and fatal to
the repose oh India. As to the Tie.atier entered into
with the Native Powers. and nut yet laid before the
House, hr had not the slightest objection to their
production. And he would now state, that, when
they were presented, the Treaty with tlw
would explain the peaceable relations of the Bri-
tish towards that power, at the ttttt e that hostilities
were unexpectedly commented against us. Ou the
subject, generally, of the hostilities in which the
British were engaged in lirdia, he eurshl assts.& the
Ilion. Gentleman that no pertain agreed nose
viu-
cerrly with I than he did, in thinking that a pa-
cific pulley, was the truest, the wisest, mid the
most beneficial, for the Government of loth* to
pursue. Bait the lion. Member must know, that,
with trey F cling on the part of tine British Go-
verisineut its bear and to Imbeur, ciicuinstanwes
would arise, winch no prudence could foresee. and
no %shalom eon'd avert, that rendered hostile
mra-
sures sometimes necessary. He must be aware,
that the Goverun►eut had rivets to a height,
to recede fruits which (whatever (million might be
funned of the circumstances by means of which
it had so risen) would be decided ruin. And he
hoped, that, iii erneodering the sublial of peace
and war, with reference to India, the difficult situ-
ation In %%loch the Government was placed would
'eir be overlooked.

The tiro mot. was then agreed to.
Mr. FlowAttm lagtd leave. slier what had
fallen I the Right tiouottrable Gentleman, to
withdraw his set•ond iiropovition—with the under-
'gentling, that, when information oriirod, relative
to the Itjah of lierar (which was of vert• great int-
pootatoe), the Hight Iluti. Gentleman %%wild lay it
before the House.

The two remaining motions relative to the I'in-
Jarer• antl to the Treaties with the Nitive Puwels
were then agreed to.

MARRIAGE. ACT.

Dr. 1211111.1.131011 E brought in re Bill to amend the
2611 i of Grorge 11. commonly called the Marriage
Act.—ltrail a fins, and ordered to be read a ateuad
time uu Nlanday next.