The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL 'PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS.

TUESDAY, FEE. 25'.
• The Earl of EGLINTOUN was introduced' by, the
Earrof-MonA and Loild:Kttn;dnd toolt.the Oaths
and his Seat as.Baron.AtkoßossAN.
. .
pAr priyate.l3llis were brought up from the
Cornrhon,s, and read a first time.—,-Adjourned till'
to-morrow. - . _

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY, FEB. '25.

Mr. EYRE presented'a Petition from the Insolvent
Debtors in the gaol of Nottingham. Laid on the
Table.
_ _ _

•Mr. Grey, Sir Charles Pole, Mr. Pigott, and Mr.
H. Addington, took the Oaths and their Seats.
Mr. EYRE. presented a Petition from the Maltsters
in the Counties of Nottingham and Lincoln, corn-
plaining of certain restrictions and penalties con-
tained in an A6t of 42 Geo. 111. Laid on the
Table. _ .

Mr. WHITBREAD mowed, that Mr. Grey and the
..A.ttorney General be added to the Committee for
preparing Articles of Impeachment against Lord

Mr. Johnson, from the Office of the Chief Secre-
tary in Ireland, presented Returns of Residences from
the Dioceses of Ossory and Kilniore, in Ireland.—
Ordered to be printed.
• Dr.-PUMENAN presented a Bill for enfoicing the
Residence of the Clergy in Ireland. React a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time this day
fintnight.
• Mr. HAWORTH, from the Exchequer, brought up
Accounts of the Permanent and' War Taxes, froth
Jan. 1805 to kin. 1806.

Sir PHILIP STEVENS gave notice of the Annual,
Marine Mutiny
The SECRETARY at WAR gave notice of his inten-
tion to InoVe for aßi to Indemnify thoe concerned
in introducincr, Foreign Troops. The number of
Hanoterian,d'ecruits being above what was formerly
permitted by Parliament,_ the Bill, therefore, became
necessary...
• INDIA AFFAIRS.

Air. FRA.NCIS stated, that he rose with a very
'strong impression on his mind of the vast import-
ance of every thing which concerned that depart-
Ment of our • public: affairs which related to India.
In What he had then to offer to the House he must
inform them, that there were tot only subjeds. of
considerable importance, but also of tome curio-
sity. He lamented much, that the great import-
ance of our Indian inlet ests had hardly ever been
sufficient to produce a tolerably 'full attendance of
ligerribers on a day that. they were to be discussed ;
and; for his part, nothing but a' strong sense of duty
could induce him so often to recur to a topic about
• w'bich he saw that so much indifference prevailed.
lelieCothl command a revolUtion in the.opinionS of
that House, it. would really give hini pleasure to
find him Self, by their vote, prevented from again re-
ungrateful and fitthankfin office of
calling their attention to the situation of India ;. but
-froni his experience and long service, lie had ac-
(aired ,
such a knoWdedge of the affairs of that part
of the Empire, that he could not be discouraged by
the coldness and languor that he always met
:with in .that_House, from pressing upon their at-
tention the lamentable situation of the affairs of
the East India Company. He did not mean then
;to speak of its political situation as to War or Peace,
but of its financial situation, which was. growing
-every day more formidable to this Country. The
.first observation be should make on. this subjea
.was, that it appeared to him a most extraordinary
and unprecedented thing, that no Indian Budget
was presented to Parliament in. the course of the
last year. The way in which the Noble Lord
(Castlereagh) who was then at the head of the
Board of Controtil chose to, account for this
most extraordinary omission, was by stating, ei-
ther that the accounts had not ; been sent home
from India ; or else, that they were intercepted
by the French. Although this excuse appear-
ed, at that time, to satisfy the House, Yet be must
declare, that a time was fast approaching , when
the financial embarrassments of India would tome
home to the Finances of this Country ; and therefore
it was incumbent upon the House to examine the
statement of the Noble Lord. If the accounts had
- not been sent home from India, that• omission was
a positive breach of the Aa of Parliament, and
was a high crime and misdeMermour.- If, on the
other hand, tliose accounts were,intercepted by the
. enemy, he
,should ask how they came to be inter-
cepted ? When he was in the Government of India,
such a circumstance coUld not well have happen-
ed ; . for then there were poSitive instrudions,given

to the Captains of Vessels, ,that all tfie official
papers should be ready to be thrown overboard or
sunk when a VessA was in immediate danger of
falling into the hands of an Enemy. If this instruc-
tion was not now given, the omission was, in his

judgment, a liigh crime and misdemeanour; if it had
been given, the should wish to know whether there
11 Kl; been any inquiry into the condo6t of that
Officer who had let those papers fall into the-hands
of the Enemy ? _He considered that it was an offence
of thernNt dangerous nature 'to suffer those Papers
to fall into the hands of Bonaparte; and in point of

ft6t, all- the information that we had of the conduft
of out-Government in India,
,for the last year, was
(terived ft-cm the translations which appealed in the.
Newspapers of what- had been extracted trnm the
Freiieh No:lite:Jr. Such had, however, been the in-
ciitrerence'with which the ax airs of India had been.
treated, that about, a year ago neither he nor the
Noble Lord at the other side'of the House (Lord
Castlereagli had interest to procure. the attendance
of wore than about fifteen or twenty, Members,

although the ,lit:cassion,‘Vas to be upon the annual
Budget of a Country that had-a revenue of at least
fifteen million.;. (M r. Francis. then read, as part of his
Speech, a long extra& from a Speech which he had
made last year, with respea to a Loan of 350,0001.
said to have been made by the Presidency of Bom-.
bay to a Prince in. the distrift of the Guzerat, who
;is called the Gwicawzr.) Since that time he had
.cnde,avoured to obtain . information about this
Loan; hilt could not get a single: ray of light from
any quarter. It was well known that all- the Presi:-
gencia oflndia were in geat distress for si'ant of