The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-02 00:00:00

GRANT OF 20,0004 TO THE MARQUIS WELLESLEY.

Tue CHAIRMAN had to acquaint the Court that it had
been specially summoned, for the purpose of -receiving the
approval of the Court of Proprietors of East India Stock
to a resolution of the Court of Directors, granting to the
Moit Noble the Marquis Wellesley, the sum of 20,0001.
The report of the Court of Directors on the subject was
then read.

The.CIIAIRMAN bad never risen in the performance of
any public duty with greater pleasure than on the present
occasion. .He had now to introduce for the approval of the
Court of Proprietors the resolution just read.—( Hear.)
The administration of his Lordship was now a matter of
history, and it was fitting that the (aye of a glorious life
should be radiated by the body in the service of whom he
had so noluly laboured.—(Cheers.) The Court of Proprie-
tors were not called upon to take the opinion of the Court
of Directors alone ; the dispatches of the Noble Marquis,
lately published, were open to all.—( Hear, hear.)
The motion was again read, and.
The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN rose to second the grant.
Mr. FIELDER did not rise for the purpose of entering
upon the merits of the question. They had a by-law re-
stricting the Court of Directors from.granting any pension
or gratuity above 6001., and requiring that full information
stould be
.given to the Court of Proprietors before any
large grant of money was made, He moved that the by-
-law be. read. (The Sccietary read the by-law in question.)
The Noble Marquis might be entitled to the grant of
20,0001.—he no doubt deserved it—(Hcar, and laughter)—
but he still thought that the by-law. should be adhered to.
Tire CnammAN said the Hon. Proprietor first asked a
question as to a matter of form, and then indulged in along
harangue upon the grant. He (the Chairman) thanked
the lion. Proprietor for one part of his speech, viz., that he
thought Lord Wellesley entitled to the grant—(Hear, hear)
—which he was very much pleased to hear responded to by
the Proprietors on the other side of the bar. 'lle Hon.
Proerie!or ha I hiniSelf answered the question he had put in
the first Lutar.e3.

M:. MALI:IOTT thOUglIrt
if the Noble Marquis deserved
the grant of `20,000/., the present proposition came at least
thirty years too late. He would oppose the motion as 04
tablishing a dangerous principle. _ _

Sir HALCOU IT JONES gave the motion of the Court of
Directors his cordial support.

Air. WEELDING and Sir GORE OUSELEY supported the
grant.

Mr. ASTEL (a Director) had been an anxious observer
of the Government of the' Noble Marquis. He was the
only Director now at the Board who had been in corres-
pondence with Lord Wellesley, and he agreed with an
lion. Vroprictor, that this. was an appeal to the glory of the
administration of the Noble .Lord, and not on account of
his pecuniary difficulties.—(Hear, hear.) He had been
raised by his Sovereign to the highest rank, but was with-
out the means of enjoying it. Let the proprietors immor-
talize themselves by giving the money—let the gift be wor-
thy of the donor and the acceptor.--(Hear, hear.)
Sir CHARLES FOIIBES entirely concurred with. the Court
of Directors, and was sorry that the grant could not be ex-
tender'. The country owed a debt to Lord Wellesley for
bringing forward the Duke of Wellington.—(Hear.)
The question was then put, and the grant was approved
by an overwhelming majority, about nine hands only being
held up against it.
Sir CH:IIII.ES FORBES called for a division.
The CHAIRMAN thought it unnecessary, especially as die
majority was so great.

Sir Charles Forbes did not persevere, and the Court on
the question adjourned.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, OCT. 25.—The Saxon Chambers have dis-
cussed the Hanover question, not only in some public sit-
tings, but also each in a secret sitting ; and I am enabled
to lay before you some particulars about the latter. ne
first chamber declared itself tranquillised by the explana-
tions given since the publication of the patent: The mi-
nister Zeschan strove .to deprecate any address from the
chambers to the government, stating that, should the inter-
cession of government be at all required, it would do its
duty without that address. Prince John declared the
chambers incompetent in this matter, as he considered
the motion in question to be an intervention in foreign
affairs. The minister§, the aristocrats, and the Catholic
Bishop Maucrmann adopted this view as their own. There
was but one shy vote to the contrary, alleging that what-
ever government might think about the .necessity or
superflousne,s of an address from the chambers in this
affair, they would in decreeing it but fulfil a duty they
owed to themselves. The address was negatived. The
result was different in the secret sitting of the second
chamber, The original mooter of the question, M. de
Dieskau, first cf all regretted that the matter should now
be made the subject of a Secret discussion, Saxony, in her
quality of an integral portion of the German confederation,
possessing the undisputed right of intervention as soon as
the integrity of a confederate state appeared in danger.
Another member added that the basis on which the first
chamber rested its g-ounds for giving up all apprehensions
was entirely fallacious ; for since the patent nothing had
happened which repealed .the anti-constitutional principle
pronounced therein, that the successor to the throne was
not bound to fulfil the promises of his predecessor. A third
member observed that examples were not wanting of foreign
powers intert ening when the safety of thrones was endan-
gered—the same, therefore, ought to be done when there
was an attack upon the constitution. The above-named
Minister here offered the same sentiments which he had
uttered in the first chamber, but the original motion of
M. de Dicskau was adhered to, with 49 votes against 11
dissentients.

The different political sentiments prevalent in Spain are
thus defined by a distinguished person here, who is tho-
roughly acquainted with that country and its inhabitants :
—l. The democratical feeling (exaltaiL). This has its
root in the municipal pride of the cities, either from its
overflowing, or from its being hurt. Thus Toledo is hurt
in her pride, having, by the revolt under Charles V., lost
the title and importcnce of a capital ; Salamanca and Bar-
celona arc hurt from having lost their wealth by the misgo-
vernment under the'dynasty of the Hapsburgs ; Segovia is
jealous of Madrid, as she was flourishing before the latter
was elevated into a capital ; Saragossa has been the asy-
lum of all malcontents for-centuries past. To this class
belong the greater portion of the semi-savant of the
country, and all the -.loungers of the Puerta del Sol.
.2. The Constitutionalists (111)derados). They number
:n their ranks all persons in the cities and in the open
country who have turned the sad experience the land
has made to some account—the merchants; landed pro
prieters, the den of letters, the artists—among the
employes, chiefly the subalterns, and among the nobility
those who prefer popularity to ambition. This feeling is
prevaknt among the militia of Madrid. -.3. The aristo-
crats, viz:, those who are determined to guide the helm
of the State, conic qui conk. To them belong most of the
great capitalists, Most of the general officers of both armies,
a large. portion of thuso eligible to the Cartes, and all those
who are haunt( d by the pro.pett of st,me post of a Minis-
ter, of a Obit haLille, or of the dotatian of a confiscated
eslato. 4. The Monarchists (Carlists). This party calls
it; ov.'n, fiat, the inej.irity of the privileged clergy and
nobility ; secondly, a large portion of the lower classes,
whosa sentiments are trained in the trammels of Catholic
Royalty, who never have drawn any profit from the cele-
brated fecros, and consequently never will comprehend
what happiness can accrue to them from the egg hatched
by the Cortes ; lastly, the Carlists, along with the Demo-
crats, divide themselves among the Decamisados people,
who will give their shirt fur their opinion, .because they
have none.—Morning Chronicle.

On Wednesdav last, •as.the Bishop of Chichester
and his daughter were- taking an airing- on horseback, the
lady's horse fell with her near Oak-wood ; but happily Miss
.Otter extricated herself without receiving injury. • General
Croshie's carriage was fortunately passing at the time of the
accident, and conveyed her safely to the Palace.—Bi-ig.'thin
Guardian.

AN AWK WA RD A NNOUNCZNI EN T.--4.4a1y A. and
her daughter, haying beau much annoyed by the gaucheries
of a country booby of a servant, who would persevere- in
'giving in their names as the Right Hon. Lady A. and tl.e
lion, Miss At at length took him seriously to task, and
desired that, in future, he would mention them as simple
Lady A..and. plain Miss A. Their astoniAbment may be
conceived when they found themselves obeyed to the letter,
and Devonshire House was electrified by the intelligence,
that. Simple Lady A. and Plain Miss A. were " coming up."
IRISH now.—Sandal, the neighbourhood of the
Cross and John-sreet preSented a disgraceful serene of con-
fusion and riot, created by ,cmc disputes on account of wavy,
between a considerable number of county Kerry persons.
The funeral of a respectable citizen was passing at
.a .t:me
when the fight raged in all its l'ary, and ttlitiewprrocceei.sr
sn trYs
instantly broken up
about them, and whiek
fel-
lows. The sdades which
cta trade, to,-ether with stones,
and szatterr;yl
appear to he their sole stoc., inn
were tniscropu7ously used to the rdctriimAt of many an u-n-
-i fortunate head.--•-fliatolvid C4l.cmc e.