The Sun.
London, England, 1825-04-28 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

A Special fleneral Court of Proprietors of 'East India Stock
was held yesterday.
' On the motion of the CltAtitmAN, (C. Marjoribanks, Esq:),
the resolution of the last Court, approving of the resolution of
the Court of Directors of the 2fith January last, foilhe appoint-
ment of a person in the capacity of first assistant, in the office
'of surveyor of buildings, at a salary of 350/. per annum, was
con firmed.

The CHAIRMAN next moved the confiimatifin of the res-olu-
tion of the last General Court, approving the Resolution of the
Court of Directors of the 3th January,. granting to 314j0r-0 en.
Sir John Malcolm, G.C.IL, a pension of-1,0001. per annum on
the grounds therein stated.
. Sir C. Fort ins cordially agreed to She, motion. 'Both in a
tnilitary, and civil capacity, Sir. J. Malcolm had distinguished
himself highly. His arrangement with the Peishwa ahn)e, by
which an end was pia to the war, and the Company became
',possessed of that Prince's territory, was descrying of the highest.
praise.. • .
• General TrroRNTON expressed' an anxious wish that Sir
J. _Malcolm should again be called into the service of the Com-
:pany.L-Motion agreed to.
• EAST INDIA JUDGES, &C., BILL.
The.CnAram.ts stated, that.the Court was made further,
:special for the purpose of submitting to the Proprietors the
;draught of a bill now in progress_ through the House of Com-
itions, for further regulating the payment of the salaries to the
'Judges of his Majesty's Courts in India, and the. Bishop of,
;Calcutta, for authorising. the transportation of. Wenders.. from
,the island of St. Helena, and for providing for the,adininistra-
'tion of justice in Singapore and Malacca, and in..
certain
pos
:sessions on the coast of Coromandel, and, in the_ Northern
Circars.

Mr. Ommoisix expressed his surprise. that the late Chair-
lman (Mr. Astell), and other-members of the Court of Direc-
;tors, who had seats in the IfousCof!: Commons, should have
a:maeirot.end,
forf. r
the vpeurar .1
!suffered this, Bill to pass through several. stages. sub sikntio.
Sir M. W. Ridley had given notice of a motionfor arranging
. and classifying the different Acts of Parliament, which were at
present in a very confused state.; and very lately, the Lord'
, Chancellor, the first law authority in the country, complained
'of the strange concoction of the statutes. The title of the Bill
now before the Court was of so curious a description that -the
newspapers had noticed it. He was glad they had done so, as
it shewed that he did not hold a singular opinion on this sub-
ject. In the title of the Bill, judges and pickpockets, house.:
breakers and bishops, were associated. together.—Wear.f)_
Suppose a judge were hereafter to ask a barrister under what
Act offenders were transported front St. Helena, the latter
might answer, very ludicrously, but with great truth, " Under
the same Act which regulates the9suoansleatrolyitiosfmtehaet„uLroeil Bishop of
Calcutta."—(Hear !)-..:Sucli anomalies ought to be avoided;
and in the present case the separation of that part of the Bill
which related topEestuhceecotnractnisrpreodrtaintiottihoeroobffseenrdveartaioinisomof tit:let whichiioil
regulated the salariesoto.fa' tshleicebtisohiptpmailnicdaipifpthe judges might be
s the case with Bills re-
futing
of the late King,
mPraSodpireri(aeltiottisi°;elea'xund assured him that he had
; but it was
stating hiS sen-
timents on it.
that the •
pbnroigos nights
gtsol
t.t
tot making
lollanlnkwtsli oil e'agi)le some
Lel al
toti observationsece
k art 1 opportunitytwhnaosiialay
Mr. AIVTELL observed, .
_._ btil now before the' Court
t measure copied from the
least pleadprecedent • its so that they could at
1_
had been associated wit' those who hmligi..
it it into Parliitment,
and he did not shrink from saying that he approved of it. - -
was in a great
Mr. 1). Eli NNAI RD strongly enforced the necessity of intro.
ducing a clause in the Bill to regulate the exercise of the
(supposing, for argument .'s sake, tl at .power
, any necessity existed for
the continuance of such a power), which the Suiirerne Govern-
India at present 'possessed,. f d
deratilr II" 113ritis4 sUbjects from
. He dealt at VMS . engt,i on the
treatment
which Mr. Arnot had experiencuead, which, accertling tO the
' story told by
_tbA; i
piteous h 441'41 . •
.I, W 45 unnecessarily harsh
.
41-1(1 severe.
as the ca • The- CHAIRMAN hoped, that se of Mr. Arnot had
by the Court of Directors,- .1, '
not been decided upon
the
..on or ~,,e con-
stituted authorities here, II ' Proprietor would not now
introduce it.
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,11U lININO OF THE HPIT I NpIAIKAN.
The CHAISMAN then he had to lay before the Court a

PRICE SEVENPi;NCE:

.„ • . ,
resolution of,the Cogrt of Directors of the 3 t u v, in. se
for#i, if 'is -•th' Of' illis ' CAure War:the-oin;
monde!, and Oiveers of the thip.Keyi are fully, aalito-.4, trt`
alllimputation of neglect or, misconduct respe'cish ltr's
of ;that ship." As the &on-lin:lndia 'ISY aileit
tion Of his. Ife*Ould, with the permission of the CbUrt,':Widi"'
draw while, the, discusSion was going on,
tand hi. lion, -Col,
• • •
letp,ie (Sir G.. A. Robinson) would, in his absence, take dal
elixir.—(hear !) ' •
`rho PgPUTY CIiAIRILAN Reliinson). holing
taken.the Chair, the Report of the Court of Directors, exonerat.:
ing the comtp?nder and owneri of the Kent froth ktiy charge tif •
neglect.or Misconduct on account of the' loss of thnt'vtissel, eula
giolg.daptain Cobb .for his tiertiops•lu the crew
atikpassenger*, and expressing a
.deep.senite.of 'the services of
Cqlonel Fearoli and 'Major 'M'llie:gor; the ":13d
for theiicOndtict'Wheit the accident occurred, • was read - ;'•

The DEPUT Y CHAIRMAN' ObsCrVeti;:tliat theresolution •of
the Court must Directors was one` nst ultimitteli; 'be de-
tertniued Gy bullot: Ile should'ijtiw rric;rcly niove:
(:ourt concur in the said resolution of the Court of •Direcrchg'of
the &Ala Ult." . .

Sir p..FORBES did not mean to offer any opposition to' the
rnOthiti,' but heMO,st strongly condemned the resolutien -.of the' "
Court Of. *Directors, by which the Company's ships were sent 7 •
out separately, ..instead of two of. them; as was formerly -the..
case, being dispatched togetlir. In- this instance; theltent
was alloWed to sail with the right wing of the 331 Regiment
on board. The Scaleby Castle, which should have 4eem heir
consort, carried the left wing of that regiment. They ought,in
his opinion, to have sailed together, for the purpose of Est/sling' •
each other In mid Of any accident. • If they had been in -cctrir
pany;not. only.ivOuld every life on board the Kent have been-
savF.4, biat it was, very probable that the fire might have been
extinguished: He would not say that it Was the Ei4•,4eil-objece
of the resoltition to which he had alluded to prevent ships trona •
assisting 4ach,other;. but such certainty was its virtual
The history. of that resolution, was this the CotiipAny4s
ships, the Britannia; on her return froni China; was near '1)&4
wrecked in the Straits of Sunda; another of their ship*, the
WinchiLsea, eathe.to her assistance, and rescued her from her
perilous situation. On the arrival of the Winchilsea in this
country', 'Captain Moffatt appliedto be allowed demurrage for
the delay which his exertions to save. the:Britannia had. occa-
sioned. , The sum demanded, about 300/. or 4001. was refused ;
and he then insisted on the'Ctimpany's paying hint safra4,,'
e.Yee
brought an action against them, and recovered 4,0001. or 3,000:.
which they had to pay, and its Much more for costs of ; suit. 11
this fell on. the Court of Directors, he would not care ; but it
Proprietors-on &tithe Court of ProprietOrson their' Honourable Masters.
In consequence of the justice so done to the owneis of the I.Vin •
chilsea, the Court of Directors came to a resolution, OW-no two
ships should be dispatched together on any future occasion. They
determined to dispatch the ships singly, and thus to prevent any
claim for demurrage or salvagd.Afterinitaneing one or two cases
in which this practice had been .productive of very bad effects, the
Hon. Baronet adverted to ,the
.cause. of the fire on board the
Kent, and strongly condemned the Condliet'ef the olfic'etr 'who
had.taken a candle into the hold of the vessel, especially as
spirits were stowed in it. 'With respect toile number of per-
sons on board the Kent, he said he had been informed that they
amounted to upwards of 700, and Were' most' itiativeniently
crowded together.

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The. Ron. HUGH LtsnsAY denied that the Kent wa4 incon-
veniently crowded. The officer second in 'command oe the 33d'
Regiment had informed him, that during the time he-hatt•been
in itis Majesty's service, he. never saw such good accommoda-
tion as he found on board of the Kent.

The DEPUTY CHATRIVI.I.I4I adduced the authority of Sir A.
Christie, the inspector of His -Majesty's troops at Chatham, to
.prove that the,Accommodation on board the Kent.was exellent.
Instead of there-being upwards of 700 persons" nn board,
there were only 619, including the crew. Helhen defended the
system of dispatching ships singly, and argued that there. was
.no more risk in dispatching them in that manner than there
would-be if two were sent out together. As a proof of this he
observed,. that if he wished to effect a policy at Lloyd's, they
would not abate a shilling premium because two ships were
idispatched together. Hebegged leave to state to the Court a
circii.nstance which was not generally known; but which was
connected with the conduct of a body of Jun who were pas-
sengers-on hoard which rendered such essential assistance to the'
Kent.- It did them so Much credit and honour, that he should
be.sorry if it were hidden amongst the records of the Court._
The Court was anxious to manifeSt
,its liberality. to indivi-
duals who had conducted themselves so-, well; but there was
one description of persons in a more elevated situatipn..of)ife,
whom the Court could not reward by a grant of .inoncv.. lie
alluded to the substantialclass of miners, who werec:,bin. pas-
sengers. The Court was Lt a loss how to prove the 'sense th, y en-
tertained of the conduct of those individuals. ' It was ho. lly
agreed that a sum of money. should be placed in the hands of
their agents in town, to purchase additional comforts and con-
veniences for them when the brig was going -to The ac-
knowledgment of this grant was made in the handsonil st term.;
to, the Court of Directors; but at the same tine those itativi,
duals expressed to the Court their hope, as they were most jibe.:
rally and abundantly provided with necessaries by the Alining
Association who were sending , them, out, that thellirectcrs
would be satisfied if they assigned the sum of: money* inttlndetl
for:their Use to an hospital, situated in some town, in' Cornwall,
from. which they had come.—(Bear !)—This was not, generally
known, but he thoughtit ought rot to be. concealed.
After a few words from Mr. CARRUTHERS, Mr. THANT,
and Mr. WAsnuouou, the motion was agreed. to, and the
ballot .was fixed for Wednesday, May 11.—Adjourned„

PREROG ATI VE COURT.--(Tiers Day.)

CURIOUS CASE,
CLARKE AND BAY LEY V. JOWLF.S.

Sir- JOHN N cn ord. pronounced juiign-ii‘nt in
this suit, which was instituted to obtain probate of three papers
found in the writing-desk of the late "Sirs. .loWles, df. Eimillz
in Staffordshire. The first paper, marked A, was re,;•olzu I
signed and attested, and contained bequests of several hun-
dreds Of stock to different individuals, ballad afterward 4 been
mutilated by the cutting out, with a pair of seissors', the words
containing the amounts beqUeathed-all of Which Were.thus left,
excepting a bequest to Mr. Cooke, over the part thus Mutilated,
in which was written by the testatrix the words "'Five build r,11."
The Co uwr was of opinion, that the testatrix, in making these
noutelations did not intend to invalidate,- but only to alter the
instrument. The other two papers contained bEquesth of trin-
kits, and were both dated subsequently to the paper Al. Tht y
were all three -found folded together, andencloSed,ina ;blank
envelope, and the Court was of .opi ion therefore ti'lat. EtieY were
meant as addenda to the original paper 4, and clei.reed probate
accordingly.

IMPORTANT TO BENEFIT SOCIETIES.—Mr. T.
CAt.-citAFT a prin'er; this day appeared at Bow-street Office,
before Sir •R. BsltxlE, to answer the complaint •of Cie.fifficers
of the Benefit Society called the " Hearts of Oak.'" The charge
against him was, that he was absent•tive daysfrorn'his beitise,
on one of which he went to.,Doctors' Commons to'seareli a will,
and that be also acted as a Physician. With respect to the latter
part of the complaint, it only excited 'laughter, the ()Peers of
the " Hearts of Oak". only suspecting that he did sg., With
respect to the other part, Sir liteitAtip Bums; said, there was
no ground made out for discontinuing the Meniber, and added,
,‘ In fact, I think it will be well for Befiefit,Sneieties. 4o weigh
well how they act, or I shall not be the lgait surprised if an Act
of Parliament is passed that will knock thetas on the head alto-
gethar‘ the conduct of some. of them is really intolerable. I
order that Mr. Calcraft be restored."
L •
DISTIL ESSING ACCIDENT.— 1 ms morning, about
•
eight o'clock, a very distressing accident happened in the hous,3
of' Mr. 'Jaques MasSalto 'an artist in fire works, reSiding' in
Broad-street, BleonaSbury. One of his children; -a boy of seven
years of age, got hold of an illuminating hand rocket, 'and by
some Means the tube; probably caused by the friction bf the
boy's bands, ignited, and the rocket exploded' with.b-.tre;
mendous noise, forcing its • way through the window into the
open air, where. it biirned out; but the tilifoitimate boy had
his right arm shattered in a shocking manner, and, from the
esplosum of the powder in
. his face, Which is in a drsaatul
state, it is feared his sight is irrecoverably lost. Nerx
rlledi-
cal advice has heedprocured, and the usual and.
applied to counteract ilfit4nmatign. The boy is endull?J f.l/
most dreadful torments.
HORSE ST LA LING.-1. WO more informations
cam ~
e to town this morning of the stealing of
horses from Essr x and Kynt, 11,114 f,TO
.
uy-
spx. A description of one of the ottendv.rs is
.•
given.