The Sun.
London, England, 1808-03-31 00:00:00

LIST lit'Dhl ROUSE.

A Court of Proprietors of the East,lndia Company
'Was held yesterday, when the different-Accouuts or-
dered by the bye-laws to be submitted annually.to the
'Court,- were laid oti the table.
Mr. Itoce wished 'robe informed if these accounts
'would enable the Prepriewrs to fortn any thiog like
corketa judgment of the general state of the Cons_
patty's Adieus. Heedleided to the practice of sub-
mitting to the Court all esuch.Papers is ‘vere laid be-
fore the Haase: of Ceineoone when the India Budget
was, in the use of being brought forward, and, as it.
was underetOod that there was to be no Budget this
year, it was the more necessary that the Proprietors
"should be possessed of such documents as would
enable them to form some idea of the aatial situatiou
, of their arrairi.
The CHAIRMAN admitted that the Papers now laid
on the table did not :Sinai any, eatisfaelory view of
the state of the general affairs of the Cempany. A
,Committee of the Reuse of Commens had been ap-
pointed to examine into this subject, ,and to report
the result: The accounts necessary .to enable this
Cominiqee to loon ejudgtuent cu the subjed were
not yet ready to be laid before them. Since the
slit:edit of. the last Court of Proprietors ,LIO,aCC9I.IOtS
cettneoed with the Atfitirs of the Company had been
laid before the House of Commons; of course, there
were none to submit to the consideration of the Conrt
of Proprietors.
Mr. Boer( repeated his wish, that every docu-
ment necessary to enable the Proprietors to form
a judgment as to the aetual state of the Company's
Affiirs, should be laid before them 0 speedily, as
puhsible.
Mr. GBANr, the Deputy Chairman, thought the
. respectable Proprietor who had just sat down did not
give stirticient credit to their 14 xceutive Body, in thus
pressing a subject on which there could be nb reason
to doubt any want of attention on their part. It Was
. not to .he supposed that the 'Quoit of Dire: tors
submit evidence to Perhament to enable: it and the
public to judge of the state of the Company's Affairs,
and would withehold similar evidence'frorn theiremn
CwnSt humus.
Mr. RANDLE JACESON was Of - OpiDitlll, that the
anxiety of his brother Proprietor was by no means
surprising. lie was convinced that respectable Grin-
ifeiuin meant nothing inconsistent with the fonts of
proceeding of the Court, or derogatbry from that
feeling' of confidence which it was natural for the
Court te place in its Executive Body. When the
cousts were before the Proprietors, a Court would,
of course, be sumneined to consider of them, and then
it would be ie the power of the worthy Proprietor to
trove such resolution upon them as he might deem
proper, or, if he shout be of opinion that the icenteits
produced were not sufficient to enable the Court to
form a judgment, he could move for such additional
Papers as he might think necessary. lie confessed,
that he himself felt particularly anxious as to the pre-
, sent situation of the Company, and he knew that his
eras not a solitary feeling, but ono in which many of
the. Proprietors, with wheal he had conversed, per-
ticipatedi Those, who recolle6ted the Conunittee,
similar to that now sitting, which had. the Com-
pany's Affairs under' consideration in t 802. must
neeeimarily feel anxious that the progress of the pre-
.sent Committee should bewatelied. Softie itn
or alteration- might be in agitation, and if so, it
. was necessaiy to see that the guarantee of the pri-
vileges. of the Cowpony should -o hand in hand with
Guarantee was a slow-paced companion to in-
novatiou where they did not start together. He did
not di,tiust the great body of the present Ministry—
he-believed many: of them to. teeee honest men as
ever raged a • nation, s Goverunc6ts, however,.
Would be Geverinnents, and must Oen; in' some•
measure,-yield to the prejudices of the people. There-
..yes ate subject: en e hie!, the public were so corn-
prejudiced, or so radicelly,, mistaken., as with; I
rOpett to LGHspanv. It ,was
C4:flay .that the public least Lao ,vu the Country,
and toe the Company ite:f, alai) lee(' the Compa-
vy'e political concerns.. It the CoTnimny had com-
nated.4ty mercantile sins, the eunno4tee now ap-
pahliet.4.prpl,4hly, wouldjudge of them, :end visit
them as such.
.wished the publie to knew that
since 1784 the country was nu articled partner of
the Company, and that all the Company's Affairs,
in short, were managed by the dirt aitin of the pub-
lic. There was another serieua charge against eta
Company, wliiili he wished 'to set to. rights in the
public estimatibu. It was generally. supposed that
the Convany was indebted to GOAWltnit4llt to the
extent ut tire millions arida half., arising &bp the
agreement to pay :5°0,004 annually. This Mini, he
WiS:ied it to be understood, was merely conditional,
and to be demandable wily in the, mew of the situ-
ation of Me Company warrauting the paymene-e.a
situation in which they,had not beep
.since the first
year after the apeetikent was made. They had
bete) at war ever since, eted that being the case,
the very terms of the •Aect put it otst of .their
power to make any. payment to Goectument. It
Was impossible to go about through this metre-
. pas, and nut hear the East India Company
talked of, as defaulters to the Qiuntry, while that
Country vas net merely a ,partner, but the ittiug.
passer in the canceru. The Learned Gentle-
lan (Mr. Jackson) assumed-credit to hituseiffur the
part he had titled in regard to this .5.00,0001. Had
he "not interfered, that sum, instead of being•COLltite-
gent, would have been absolute' anti emeonditionel,
etod the Company Would at this 'influent have been,
bract:anti to Goveroment to the exteut of six. ruil-
lone.. He wets" far from arraigning the ceodua of
il.entiemeu on the other side of the table in this bu-
siness, but still 'he could not help cougretulatieg
,himself and the Company on the part lie had then
afted. lie was convinced the Directors would lend
tverfpossible attention to tl.te interette erf the Com-
'peuy, and particularly. to the progress of the Coup
eerotee
,00w evpointed. to ,examioe into their ektiairs,
-They, would, however, 'at the same time, •he was
equally eatistied, piece such liberal confidence in the
Treotietors as to call them. together ‘vhenever any
thing in which they were materially interested should
lieppen to transpire, assured, RS they must be, thee
ilea Court did net wielt 'to meet: tome political or
Jealous ipoevee, but thr 010 bake of delibetatitig on
-6:hat >ii t(4 the. conaniOn iote. eet of the Company :
litey wet as :"..lerchents, not as Politicians. He again