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money ; but of all the Presidencies, Bombay was the
thevery poorest. It was'therefore improbable upon
:the, face ;' of it, that they Should haste lent such a
large sum of money to the Gwicaviar, who was
bounU by a Treaty to give them money, in, order to
pay the subsidiary force' which was kept' up in his
Dominions. In the Report of the Presidency of.
Bouibay,.it was stated that this Prince, was a man of
extremely weak inteileets, and that the Company,
were therefore' bound to 'Support his interests, and
even paid his body guard. Was it probable that
they would lend 350,0001. to such a man ?. It was
his- opinion that the Gwicawar
,never received a
shilling of that money; and he .thought this was a
matter of so much consequence to ascertain, that
I?e' should subipit to the House a motion 'for the
purpose of obtaining such information. He con-
cluded by moving " That there be laid before the
House extracts of any Letters or Accounts from the
Presidency of. Bombay, respelling a sum of mo-
ney inserted in their accounts of disbUrsements for
the year 1803, and said- to be advanced by way of
Loan to the Gwicawar." _ _ _

Mr: HILEY .ADDIATGTON observed, that he
had pot taken his seat when the Honourable Gen-
tle Man yesterday gave notice •of his Motion. He
therefore had not then a right to observe that the
Hon. Member had not sufficiently stated in his no-
tice the obje& of the Motion he intended to make.
As to the Papers respeilting Indian affairs, they were
usually so voluminous, as the Noble Lord at the
other side of the House (Lord Castlereagh) well
knew, that it was difficult to pronounce immediately
What Papers could with safety and propriety be pro-
duced. Under these circumstances, he could not
possiblyibe prepared to form an opinion ; he did not
wish the Hon. Member to.suppose that he had • any
obje&ions to the produaion of the Paper demanded, -
but submitted, it to his consideration • whether it
would not be better to withdraw his-Motion for a
day or two, in order to give Memberg time to con-
sider the subje&, and to make up their minds re-
speaing the propriety of producing the Paper whiCh
was-the subject of his Motion.
Lard CASTLEREAGH said, that there was no
Member of that) I-louse more fully convinced than
he Was of the zeal and anxiety with which the
Hen. Member (Mr. Francis) applied his mind to
the Affairs of India, nor did any one lament more
the ditlicUlty of 'prOcuring such an attendance of
Members' as could be wished, when the annual
statements were.made of the situation of that im-
portant part of our Empire. He must deny, how-
ever, that it was an unprecedented thing, that a
year should pass over without
.an Indian Budget
being presented to ,the HOuse. He perfeCtly recol-
leaed, that the first year he .was. President of the
Board. of Controul, he presented the Budgets of two
years, and that this was owing to circumstances
very similar to those-of the present-case.- He- felt
no apprehension from the produetion of the Papers
Moved for, and he' trusted, upon :exainination,
would be found that,there had been unift.of money
to the Gwicawar, brit a loan advanced on the secu-
rity of landed assignments. The Hon. Gentleman
seemed surprised that there were few • or no Direc-
tors present in- the House: This circumstance
would be easily accounted for when he stated, that
there was a General Court of Direalors held this day,
and that many of those Directors: who were Mem-
bers of Parliament were consequently attending their
duty in another place.
~ • After' a few words from Lord Morpeth,
Mr. -FRANCIS, agreed to withdraw his Motion
for' the present,. but wished
.to Inow when' the
Accounts would be ready to be brought
fur-
ward.

- Lord MORPETTT replied, that he should be
_ready to move for the Accounts on Thursday next,
but he could not state positively what time it might
take to prepare theM.
Mr. GRANT said, that he had no obje6lion to
the produaion of any Document that might be re-
,quired, but whether it would be consonant to the
general interests of the Company that those Papers .
should be produced,
.would be another consideration.
The Motion of Mr. Fititccis was then, with the,
leave of the House, withdrawn. • ,
Mr. P.,-lULL then rose to make a.Motion, of
which he had given notice on a former night. He
begged leave to recall to the recolle&ion of the House, .
how often they had been told of the affairs of India
. being prosperous, happy, and flourishing; how even
they had been congratulated by Lord Melville on the
confidence they she\ved in the security' of India, by
the little attention that was paid to the annual ac-
counts which were presented them of the situation
Of that country, and its finances. He could not
join in that congratulation: on the contrary, he
thought that the blind confidence of the House in the
statements which were presented them, contributed
more to place the country in danger; than.even that
hostile flotilla which threatened to invade its shores.
In this persuasion, be had given notice of Motions
for information, on which-he meant to ground an
accusation against Marquis. Wellesley, the late GO-
vernor-General. :When he heard of the death of
the much-lamented Lord Cornwallis, it appeared to
him that the Sun .of Great Britain was for- ever set.
in India,,and he wished for the appointment of a
Sele& Committee, to consider generally the affitirs
of India. If there-appeared to be any delay in. his
bringing forward his Motions, that delay ought not
to be imputed to him, but to the state of the coun-
try, and of the times and men-; particularly to the
state of that House. At present he had no less than
six questions to ask, to which he expeAed to receive
as many negatives.: He could not help stating it as
something very extraordinary, that Lord Melville
• (against whom Articles of Impeachment are now
depending), in the year 1793, browcht in a Bill,
vfhich passed into a Law, 'for -the entire regulation
of the afiliirs of the Compa.py. This Bill was to
.operate upon a population of not less than forty mil-
lions of people, and upon a property of no less than
two hundred and thirty millions. This Bill of Lord
• Melville's had been violated in all its points. This
Bill enjoined that,: of the surplus of the Revenue, a
million annually should be set apart for commercial•
services; mid shilling of which, however,, had been
so applied since the year 1798. At the time that
the Bill was passed, although the Debt did not much
exceed seven millions, this Debt was conceived .so
formidable, that it was resolved to reduce it to two
millions, and, for this purpose, the Ad required,
that half a million a year should be applied to the
reduEtion of the Debt. Not a shilling, however, had
ever beets applied to the liquidation of the 'Debt,