The Sun.
London, England, 1813-12-23 00:00:00

INDIA thlr,T4.

A Gtnerni totitt ttto i'mprietrlys of todia
Stock wits held yesterday; ;It thdr lcottse itt ti.tt4
deoli,tll.strvet.

The AttittilititOti Alit! COliit
ReSt)ll!tion of the Court of Director,; that the
Dividend on the Stock for the half-yeat cow_
meneing On the sth of ".Tune, 181:$r. should be
per cent. This Resultttion tvas gteed to by the
Court.

Tile CITATIIMAN Ithd commotricated to the Court,
that the Directors had consented to allow Mr.
Vendall, an old servant of the Company, to re-
turn to India; %vial the same rank on which he
stood:when he left it: Batas 1w had left ir!thiSVC
6%1: years, it was neeegsary that
,the deckion
the Directors should he confire4ed by the Pro-
prietors, by ballot. The ballot was accordial..oy
fixed for the 16th .lanuary. . .
a!,,IAN also informed the Court, that
the Court of Directors had voted a sum to General
llislups as compensation for losses sustained by'
'him, and gave notice that it would be .reterred to
the consideration of the next 6eiteral Court.
The Cu:tia MAN then read a :letter from •Mr.
Randall .facksoli : it contained a notice of 'a Mo-
tion, that a Special Court be.stiminonedon the 7th
of Jitnuary, to consider a proposition, that. !lir
Proprietors• be eligible to Committees who are not.
Intitled to vote at a.Gencral Court ; and also,
" that an addition.' be made .to' theitye Laws, Ma-
tto Proprietor,. not bladed to vote hr General
Court. be allowed-to' take a part An' the discus-
sions." -

• 31r. dArEsns: then rovy to ;make his-motion, and observed,
that he intended not any perttooal reflection on the Gentle-
men whom the motion would tend to exclude, fessoure of
whom he had the nihilist respect; hot be thought: the exist-
ence of the circumstances which his proposition Wai intended
to remedy, was frown the beginning a Contravention of the spi.
tit mid policy I,f the. ComPanY's lie could at pre9ent,'.
he u sitramary method, which), however, would 1.. e. innSt tin*
pioasnnt, produce the same &au: bv the ntotiotCw!tich he
was to submit to a future Court, viz. 11 that thi
Court be cleared of strangers as often as any Proprietor..nor
qualified to vote, isttempted to speali ;" eolhitlnene,.. At
which, these miqualificil Proprietors would be requested to
witbtirta' -.fir: j; having, on the stiggegion i,f My; Thorn_
ton, the
,(ibaitoutn,• consented to alter the day ltked in his
motion, Gris the 14th to the etlst of January, movca, that on
the ittat January a special Court of I'rtiprietors be summoned
for the purpose above specified.
M'.. pi,oste.,, Mr. AT N and Mr. DtxoN, expressed their
opinions in opposition to the proposition which was to be
brought before the Court. . •
Mr. C. ;',rant, giro. ore his noioion, that lu« ot pre.
sent t,toOrl, the Proprietors not qualified to vote were qualified
to. speak.
The motion was then put and carried.
Tium gave notice of a motion, referred to in a letter
from him to the Chairman, "That no sum of money he voted
to any individual, in a General Court, utdes4,4o Proprietors
be nrchea."

The motion %vim fixed for the 21st of January.
Mr. KEsPivr :NMI 4140 the Chaition, whether :my thing
had been done by the Directors for the relief of the Coutman-
dersatcl ()dicers of the Company's shipping?
The CilAtit”.ol emu ered itl the hegat
Mr. K. ‘,:4!114 then gave notice of a Motion on the subject,
and alto of. another Motion to abolish the reglatien trailer
which the Captains of ships paid to the Company .500/. for
each voyagt..—Ou an assurance, however, front the Chair-
man that the Court of Directors bad the *Aro. muter their
consideration, both these notices wete withdrawn.
HUZIE said, that heating the sum voted .to Cienerid
Hislop was of an unprecedented magnitude, :3000/4 he hoped
the Directors were prepared with doruments to prove the
propriety of the grant. Ile also obtervee., that the precise
sum not being snentioned in,the 'notice, the motion would
Tali to the ground, inconsequence of a bye law, which required
Otis observance.

—The CitAtttstm.: said, the Director. were prepsied with the
retinizite 41..euntents, and consented to the :dictation of the
Dotico.-.-Adjoillord•

LAW JNTELLIGENCE.