The Sun.
London, England, 1813-06-01 00:00:00

yinly ; • bet thlt pro'oeed with that de.
liberation which the importance of the question de-
anded.

Air. ri..-Ev4p, sairl a few words, which were
notandible in the guilery

Mr. CANNING did not conceive that postponing
the disenssion of,thatin%)ortant question from day
to day would be productive of any good ;, and,.
therefore thought it would be better to proceed at
that' time, .as the Noble Lord proposed. •Putting
it off toatty more di:Ain't period wonld appear;
Out of doors, etpliv;-iletit to a posfponeint.:mt of a
decision ~for the present. session. Whatlhe in-
tention of other• Alearbers.might he was not•
awareN but be „gave nOtice that when the House
catnet&thet onsideration of thesecond Resolution
respecting the China trade, he should propose
that Aire China -trade should he reserved to the
Ct.impany for a shorter time than the period speei-.
lied in that resolution. But the House could.
not proceed to :the- consi,ieration of that. resolu-
tion until it was first determined whether the
dharter was to. be renewed to the CoMpa4yOn the
same terms .as at present. Until t his 'preliminary
matter was determined, entering into the discus
Sion of any .particular branch of the regulations'
would he quite prernatnre. Viewing the maller in
this light, for his own part, he should postpone
Ills alterations on the, second Resolution, until the
Committee came to make its report. It the House
should decide that the East...lndia Company.were to
bare theirChartcr renewed on terms exactly the same
with their present Charter, irr,that case he would not
. interfere with a sweeping resolution of the house.
But on the other hand, should the house deter-
mine that the Charter of the Company was to be
renewed with exceptions and limitations not be-
fore mentioned in it, then he certainly Would fol,
low up the principle on 'which such, a, decision
should he made, and he would propose any i.dtera-
tions which ,he might deem expedient. Certainly
the IJoitse could not go on in such a way as to dis-
cuss particulars, before the general principle on
which thew particulars were to rest should be de•
termined. Neither could he bring farward an ex-
ception to an exception before the original excep-
tion existed. Though it was not likely that the .1
House could get on that night to any of the specific
details, yet it was highly expedient that they
should proceed,. without delay, to decide upon the
fundamental: principle. On these grounds lie
should support the motion of the Noble Lord.
• Sir JanN NE WPOler, in addition to what had
been said by the Right lion. Gentleman who spoke
last, wished to observe, that the general feeling
out of doors, in the event of any postponement,
would be, that:the decision of that question would
be put off for that Session. The public not only.,
would, but they ought to entertain such a feeling ;
fOr there Was trot any alternative between proceed-
ing in the business immediately, and hanging it up
tilt the next. ession of Parliament. He could not
help thinking, that the proposal for postponement
was made by the advocates for -monopoly
.; be-
cause, if it was acceded to, they hoped to .be able
to put off the discussion until those Members
who were advocates for free trade should have
been obliged to retire to their 'different occupa-
tions. •

PoNsowny confessed, that he fur one felt
great doubts as to the propriety of coming to a
deriSion °upon that great questiott,during the pre-
sent :sessiOn. The period was ratidly approach-
4ng %/-Lett OecHuttendanct ‘,/ntid be too thin fur
the di:.cttSsion of a question of suet' .importancc:—
While these were his .sentiments as to the matter
of fleei.s o ; he was far from chinking that the
nouse should not proceed now ; Iwe thought that
much miglit he clone during that Session, in get-
ting through n great deal of the detail of the busi-
ties's, though the house should nut come to a spe-
cific and ultimate decision."

Lord CAsTt.ettitAon .thOuglit. that it was un-
questionably proper to come lin:lied:lady to such
discussions its 'should' tend ,to'. bring the different
parties to an immediate understanding. Ile
vis-lied those lion. Members 'Who represented the
Company ti) understand, that, although lie pressed
the immediate diseusslon of the .4itestion in oppo-
sition to their wishes, lie did not do this with any
unfair feeling towards the interests of the
East: indin Company ; he thought that • any
delay in the matter would ..he more injurious to
their interest than to those of any other liiirty.con-
cerned. EL! was disposed to submit to the Honse.
At holier it would not be more advantageous to
view•the first Resolution iu the light of a pre,
amide to a Bitl, tind therefore, whether it wontl
not be better to postpone the coii,ideration of it
anti; the other Resolutiow; Sivull..l be di eussed.-,---
Ills intention ‘vtis, to propwie in the Committee,
that the eon lileration 01 the first ResolntiOn should
be postponed; that they should, therefore begin
with the second Resolution, which involved the
question of the China trade ; that they shouhl
then go on to the other Resolutions, which con-
cerned tine India Trade; and having discussed all
these, that they should.lastly talteinto consi:lera,
Con thelir!it Resolution.. •

Mr. A. ItortiN3oN thought thAt it vtrottill be e"-
trot-101v illcittat'otkrit to the nation At large, )
Imre tile', tiefs:idt))) tlytt imp')rtant citte4tl))ll
delityed till Ow )1w :A tti the• clisqussion
of the third ilf-,ultiti•m WO: to
,gorle
tt) On that night, he had to the C91":3-
rnittee..

Lord CAGTLEIMAGI! said, if th'e Elton. Di-
rector, and those \rlto the part of tiie
Company, wished to postpooy] the,con3hieration
of the third pi ovssition to some future day, be bad
no objettion to have it deterred. ,
General (A.scow SCid, that to persist in the
'system of delay would be a vitli death blov to the
.decigion of the question during that Session.---
t !mad Lciugliter,)
DAvu,...., said a few words which' were not

l'hc House then resolved itself into a Com-
mittee upon the Affairs of the East India,Com-
pany•
L.Olll CASTLEUPAGII said, that ns the first Reso-
intion wits a proposition altogether general, he
thought the Committee would come to the consi-
deration or it more regulady -after havlTl gone.
Omni)) the tither parts. lie conceived that it
would he better to discuss the more particular
vropositions first, because otherwise they
would hive the qbestion in all its generality,
ts"