The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-28 00:00:00

134D1it 'HOUSE.

Yesterday a Quarterly General Court was held.,at
the. East India House; which was respeotattl'),s at-
tended. After the usual

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The CHAIRMAN (Mr. GRANT). submtiteot a nese-.
Julien of the Ceurt of Directors,, re-aPPcrin'i'g
T. Locke, one of Cadets on the Madras Esta-.
blishment, who had been dismissed i .neconsequcnce
Of hating Corrukttly obtained his at pointment in the
st-ivice. - He then moved, That the said Resolution
be Coal!Med,'Under .the condition that. he be colisi-
ileied as h iviticr entered the service 4enovoi Which
, assed unanimously.,
Mr. LowNDES expressed his boix that the .East.,
India Company'', as a Corporate i
Body, w,iuldnot
pass (liter the .fiftieth year of. Lis Maje:sry s reign,
Witt out Paying:the due complime,nts to. a Monarch
Whose eublie. patriotism and .private 'Virtues so
justly rendered bun estimable to all ranks ot his
iubjea.
The CH AttimAtv perfeElly
.concurred, with the
sentiment, of lo)alty . and
ROM' . Proprietor in every
affetilOn 'to the So% ereign, which he had uttered;
!but lea‘e to observe,, that the subjett had
°t passed without duetconsiderafion flout the Di-
reClois, ho ha.t Leen of opinion, that, the best mode
of forwarding the object in view, would be to con-
cur with other Corporate
.a general testi-
)onial of resped and loyalty. Any new distinct
MeasUre might r lier4ore, tend to counteract the grand
abject in cone,inplatien. . .
Mr. LAYTON firotess,-4 iii itself perfrafe satisfied
With the ideas ftb Executive .t ody. fer a tew
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werus in expla,,ation L 0,,, NOES,
' Mr. HER Rill TT, i;klYerliOg 10 the coniplaints which
ha i ti.e.(lliiiicie in a 1.1-!ilc•r General COurt,. asked
whet her any inftirinition had beetvreceived by the
ot;rt of areaturs relative to the prolectiou ot the
comineice,.in the. Inttian, seas?
CHA/RNAN expressed his ebligations to the
Proprie,or f r calling the attention of the Court
to the
.After whit had passed at a pLeced7
.t-
-mg Court, it irecame, perhaps, the dry ot
Chair to take forthei-notice of. the subject. At 04,
'time the Court were totally uninformed. They pos,
sess-sd no documents, and otilv one side of the ques-
tion was heard-3 matter to be regret,edi where the
c'haraders of public and profession I men were con-
certed. The subject, had !of iK'Un brought under
the cognizance the Directors b, e tier party; but
the complaints h virr4 orige att-cl in tile General
it was but fair it sttould hear the defence
a 1 ilucutnet, is had been received since the ques-
titer. 'r as agitated, the tit)sTance of_ which was as
follows, viz. ttiat . Sir E. Tellew,, previous to his
knowledge Of. MeMorial against him tram the
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Met:coants -to ths- Lords of the Admiralty,
st its d io the, Bett;al Government) that he had
always, been ot opinion, the only effectual protec-
tiuit tif the trade-was the establishment of regular
colt s ; that he hat early stated this to the Bengal
i'lerChants, and offered to make an arrangement
for regutar, t onvoys, but they preferred, for the sake
of an early market, to run as single ships; atid, tor
the same rea'Qu, when under convoy, broke from
their convoy ; That in the months of August, Sep-
tember, October, and November, 1807, when the
Bengal M rchartts state that their trade was lett
wholly w tlp,ut defence, Ind many ot iris M,jesty's
ship, lying idle in Madras Roads, there were fifteen
sail in different parts of the Bay for the protection of
the trade, besides other snips continually intersect-
ing the Bay ; More, from repaii• and necessary ser-
vices, could not be: afforded, that the Beligal, Go-
tiernment, in then- letter 'to the Court of Direc-
tors, express their entire conviction that every at-
tention has seen paid by Sir Edward P !Lew to the
protection of the Bay of' Bengal agilitist the enealYl4
cruizers, consistent With a due attention to the exi-
gencies of the public serf-ice; that die Mein, vial
.against the conduct of Sir Edward Pellew by the
Bengal
.Merchants Was forwarded to those Of Bern-
. bay tor signature:, and There unanimously rejected ;
that the Buinbay Merchants solicited and invariably
teceited regular convoy fur their 'trade, and the only
inst"nce of capture wnich (courted was when ships
had deserted
_convoy; that had the Bengal Mer-
chants acct. their
scheme of protection,
accepted a similar
property would have been equally secured--a scheme
• which, however, they had finally adopted. The
Chairman then represented, that the Bombay Con-
sultai ion of that period had nut been received, but
he had seen Resolutions of the Merchants of Bom-
bay, with an Address to Sir Edward Pellew, dated
the 19. h of May, 1808, with about 80 signatures,
illustrating, in the strongest manner, the anxious
attention of Sir. Edward to the security of the trade,
and the complete success of the measures adopted by
Mtn; al:4) that Sir Eduard Petlew first suggested
the system of regular convoys, the immediate effeet
of which was a decrease of 50 per cent. on pre-
miums of insurance. The Chairman concluded
with producing a letter addressed to him front Mr.
Parry, the late Chairman, stating, that he, as well
as other •Ploprietors, when the subject was intro-
duced into the General Court, was forcibly impress-
ed with an opinion that blame must be imputable
somewhere, and had expressed himself to that et-
feet but his information of various official docu-
ments hating bet.n received since lie left the Chair,
had changed his opiniqu, and made him regret that
only one side of the question had been heard in the
General Court; he therefore requests that the
Chairman will take a convenient opportunity of re-
portieg his seniirn tits to the'Proprietors.l and at
the same tune corrett a Report of his Speech in, the
Newspapersat the General Court t:ttore mentioned,
wherein he-is stated to have asserted, in addition to
some observations on the general subject,. that the
Naval Commander in Chief was recalled. If .he
-rased any words that could warrant or countenance
such a statement in the Report, it was matter of ad-
ditional regret to him, feeling, as he does, how much
if is due to public men that their character should
be subject to no unfounded imputation ; but assur-
edly he could mean no more- than that Sir Edward
Pellew was, in the usual rotation oldointnand, on
. the way home; for no information had been receiv-
ed that he was recalled, and he had since learnt that
the fact was directly otherwise ; that he had himself.
some time' before, applied for leave to return, on
account of his health, and that, atter some delay,
this pe mission was given him, ou the ground of his
own request, .
Mr. HuttoTT returned his acknowledgrnents for
an explanation wiiich afforded him.great-satisfaction.
Ott ttie•quethou being-put, the Court adjourned.