The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-24 00:00:00

?,".\, VAL NEWS.

LIVERPOOL, MAILCII 22.—Arrived the Watson,
Gn•Et3.p, from Halifax; sailed the 16th Febriarv,
in company with the Patriot, TINGLE, a:,d parted
from her the following night. It. was reported at
Halifax when they, sailed, that
.the American
flotilla on La Rio had-been destroyed.

. .
DEAL, MARCH , 23.—Sailed. the Defender tugs.ger for.the Roompot. Came down from the Rivrr
his Majessy's ship Brune, '. • .
• FIVE o'CLoefi.—Sailed the Nymph cutter, as a
Flag of- Truce, with Mr. GUY, the Messenger, on.
board, for Calais.—Wimi S.W.
!PALSIcUTHO MARCH 21.—Arrived the Vest t
from Passages., in three days, and the Sherbroke,
HILL, from: Halifax for London. • Sailed the
Priscilla, NAs•H, fOr Newport.
HALF-PAST ELEVEN AT NlGHT.—Since writing
the above,, the Duke of Kent. packet has arrived
with a Mail from Lisbon, in 21' days.

LYMINGTON, MARCH 23.—Arrived t!,e Mary
armed cutter, with Sir JAMES SAIJMAREZ, Bart.
and family on board, from Guerngey.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Sailed hislqajes,
ty's ship Zephyr on a cruize. His Majesty's
ship Terror gives instructions to the ships bound
for Bermuda.—Wind S.W.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Arrived the Derwent
gun-brig, with 20 sail of transports, fri►tn Pas-
sages. Among the ►essels lost at St. Jean de!
Luz are the following :—transports, 612, C. V.
C. T. and the ships London and Ardent, mer-
chantmen ; Minerva letter of marque, of Guern-
sey. Crews all saved. Also arrived the Juniper
schooner from Passages.—Wind S. E.
HAEwton, MARcn 23.—Sailed the Auckland,
Lord Nelson, and Lady Nepean packets, for
Gottenburgh ; and the Beaulost and Lord Dun-
can packets for Holland and Bremen.—Wind
South.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the following Comman-
ders took their final leave of the Court, previous
to departing for their respective destinations, viz..
Captain
.SAMUEL BEADLE, Surrey ; GEORGE NI-.
•
cuoLs, Bengal, for Madras 'and Bengal.
The, following Naval Officers have received
gold medals from the CROWN PRINCE of SWEDEN,
on account of their condUct.at the bombardment
of Gluckstadt :—Captains FARQUHAR, GREEN,
MARSHALL, ROSE, BANKS, KNEESHAVV, and Sir
GEORGE MONAT KEITH, Bart.
The following has •been received from Port
7viabon,'dated Jan. 8, 1514:
`° We the undermentioned Masters of .mer-
chantmen, think it oar duty to mention the very
great attention that Captain Cook:, of his Majes-
ty's ship Tortois'e, paid the straggling ships whith
were separated from his Majesty's ship Indus in
a heavy gale of wind in the Bay of -Biscay, on the.
2d, and 3d ult. And we also' wish to repre-
sent, that we came under convoy of his Majesty's
ship Tortoise from Gibraltar to Port Alahon, and
had a tedious' passage of 15
.days, and Captain,
Coon's attention to the whole of the ships was
such as merits our warmest thanks. (Signed)
JlO. SLEAVY, Master of the ,Peggy ; DAvro
TALBERT, "ditto Of the JUliana ; C. GRAYBURN,
ditto of the Charles ; -W. AiKk:br, ditto of the
Clio; ROB. YOUNG, ditto of the Vigilant; Roil..
flAwlANsoN, ditto of the Mm ia ; Wm. ANDERSON,
ditto of •the Barossa ; ANDREW DAVIDSO', ditto
of the Jane ; JOHN ANDREWS, ditto of the Selina;
JOHN ROBENSON, din() of the Ann ; and STEPHEN
STEWART, ditto of the Liberty.

fNIPRONiPTU.
'WhenCe has dis mighty bugle sprung
On-YouNG and KLAN, and KCAN and YOUNG ;

Since, to a letter, it is Steil
'that KEAN is YOUNG, and YOUNG is

Yesterday her MAJESTY came to town for the
time since her i:idisposition.. She arrived at
her Palace, accompanied by Princeses AUGUSTA
and ELIZABETH, about half-past twelve o'cloCk,
fisom Windsor, in the QuEEN's travelling carriage,
escorted by a party of Light Horse i and in the
evening went to Carlton-house, to (Lille With the.
PRINCE REGENT.

The British prisoners of war lately confined at
'Verdun, and recently sent from thence to Blok,
have again been ordered to be removed to Gucret,
about 35 miles N. E. of Limoges. It is alMost
needless to add, that they starer excessively from
these harassing and fatiguing journeys, haxing-
thus been compelled to travel a circuit of nearly
600 miles, and that their distress is in consequence
greatly increased.
Major FIIFEMANTLE, who was the bearer of
Lord WELLINGTON'S dispatches ,relative to the
passage of the Adour, has been promoted to the
rank,of Lieutenant-Colonel.
We understand, that at the meeting which is tf)
he held at the Freemasons' Hall, On Saturday
next, Ladies have been invited to attend : cards
are issued for that purpose, and a past of the Hall
is prepared for their reception.
Yesterday a Deputation from the Committee of
the Common Council, and a Deputation from the
Committee of the Traderp of , the Metropolis, at
tended by the City Members, and Mr. Iternem-
brancer, had a conference with the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHECIU en, relative to the intended Biil
for the suppression 'of Frauds and' Impositions by
Itinerant and other Auctioners.___ _ _ _

THE. REV. WM. I'ETEns.7-This Gentleman,
whose talents were long • known and admired in
the graphic world, died on Sunday last at Bras-
ted Place, Kent. His professional me it had rais-
ed him to the rank of Royal Acat'emician, but he
had resigned that hon Our, and relinquished the
pencil many years, except as an amusement,
or fa the gratification of his friends,. and
entered into the church. By the patronage
of his friend, the present Bishop, he be-
came a Prebendary of the See of Lincoln; and,
by that of the late Dake of RUTLAIsTD, ob-
taineda valuable benefice. He married a niece
of the late Dr. TURTON, the bulk of whose great
fortune has descended to the second son of Mr.
PETERS. Mr. PETERS has left a very amiable wi-
dow -and family, to feel deeply the loss of an af.
fectiunate husband and father.

INDIA-11013SE.

Yesterday a General Court of Proprietors was
lief 1 at
.the India-House, for the purpose of taking
into consideration two motions ; notice of which
had been previously submitted to the Court.—
One by llr. RANQLE JACKSON, embtaaingstwo re-
solutions : Ist, That no Proprieter should sit or
vote in a Committee, who was, not qualified to
vote oiaballot in a General Court.; and 2dly, That
na Proprietor should take a share in the debates
a'.2 :Inv General Court,. who was not 'qualified to
eofs ir ballot. in the same. The other notice was
• lIUME, that a bye-law should be enacted,
. ng.the presence of sixty-four Proprietors !ie.•
eessire to sanction any grant or money, either in
the'shTane of Compensation for losses sustained, or
remenet.titionfor
.serviees performed.—The mi-
putes of the last General Court having been read,
Mr.'fi. JactasoN addressed the Court at -canal-
- &rabic length, and proceeded to state, that the
practice of unqualified Proprietors interfering in
the debates of that Court, though formerly per-
niito;d 4s a matter of courtesy, had .been latterly
claimed as a right., The law, however, on the
subject was dear, that none should interfere in
the debates of the Court, or, in the words of the
Charter, ." should inteameddle in the administras
1:on ot.the affairs of India," who was not also en-
titled to vote' respecting the same ; and the
court, should
.it deem expedient, had an lode-
fea,ible right to enact such- h Bye-late. The
Learned Gentleman proceeded to corroborate
his position, by taking an h:storical review of
the powers and privileges of the Company, from
the time of Elizarseth down to. the Charter of
1793. By that Charter all the fOrmer grants .to.
the Company bad been corfismed-, and whatever
might appear dotahttal was to be interpreted in the
sense' most favourable to the Company. By the
6th of and Mary, every one who took any'
share in discussing the .affairs of the CoMpany
was obliged, if called upon by aqualified proprie-
tor, to take an oath, that he was duly qualified to
take a share in such discussion ; such was still the
law, amid' the person who reinsed to take such an
oath, could not be admitted, in any capacity, into
any Court where the affairs of the Company
were to be discussed. By
.the Act of the 10th 'of
William 111. the qualification entit4g to vote in
General Court, was reduced from, 1,000/. to
500!. which Act was the substratum of all the
rights possessed by the Company. In the 7th year
of his present Majesty an Act was passed to prevent.
collusive transfers of Judia Stock for -temporary
purposes ; by which it was enacted, that every
proprietor must have held
.his stack for 6 months,
in order to entitle him to a-vote. A subsequent"
Act went the length not only of making all cols
lusive transfers of stock void, but also imposed
a penalty of 1,000/. should the property be
transfered by the temporary holder. His object
was to prevent strangers from disposing of the pro-
peril of the Company to an immense amount, as by
the Act just alluded to, 1,0001. was made requi-
site to constitute a qualification, which must also
he held for twelve months. A bye-laws indeed,
had been, afterwards passed, making 5001. sufii-
cient for a qualification ; but that was at a time
when commercial objects were lost in political
ones ; and the Indiashouse had become the theatre
of the most important debates. About the year
1779, unqualified proprietors began to be admit-
ted into the Courts at the India-house, but were
not permitted to vote. By the regulation he pro-
posed to introduce, it might be said that valuable
men would be excluded from their Courts, but all.
general laws were productive of partial incon-
venience, and a line of distinction must be drawn
somewhere. Should
-any doubts be entertained
as to the competency of the Court to make the
proposed enactments, legal advice might be taken.
The Learned Gentleman concluded by moving
his two Resolations; Ist, That no Proprietor
should sit or vote in'a Committee, who was not
qualified to vote in a General Court and 2d,
That an additiOn should be made to the sth sec-
tion of the bye-laws, enacting, that no Proprietor
should take a share of the debates of a General
Court, who was not qualified to vote' in the same.
The CUAIILMAN ens. R. Thornton) informed
the Worthy Proprietor, that his suggestion with
respect to taking the opinion cif Counsel had been
aaticipated ; and that the opinions of the Attors
ney and Solicitor General, anti of Mr. Adam, bad
been taken by the Court of Directors.
The opinionfi were then read, and were in sub-
- sfanee, that any bye-law vit'n respect to the qua-
lification necessary to sit on a committee would
be valid, inasmuch as a conniiittee was cre-
ated. by the Company, and nothing was said
respecting it in the Charter. With regard to the
second resolution, though by the 13th of the
King, 1000/".. was necessary to constitute a quali-
fication to vote in a general court, nothing was
enacted to exclude proprietors to a less amount
from attending and discussing questions in the
sane ; no bye4aw,.. therefore, regarding them
would be valid, unless passed with their own con-
sent, which was not,proposed to be done by the
resolution in question.
y.
Mr. It. JACKSON thought, that though from
this opinion the holder .of 5001. in India Stock
saas entitled to attend and speak in the General
Courts, yet the Stock must be held as described
in the Act of King William.' It could never be
meant that the holder (115001.- stock should be
entitled to participate in any discussion. The
question might be put pro,fos • mu upon the first re-
solution, and might be confirmed by another
Court. •
Mr. PLUMNER moved, that a Resolution passed
in 1787 should be read,-signed aloe with others,
by Mr. Jackson, who, he stated, was not then
qualified.
Mr. JacxsoN was disposed to admit that he
might have signed some resolutions, .wheu not
qualified, through inadvertency or mistake:
Mr. PLI/MMER contended, that the honourable
proprietor had signed his name,, svhen he must
have been aware his, was not qualified,;,,and, in so
doing, bad invalidated nli the proceedings that had
then taken place. With respect to the second re-
solution of the learned Gentleman, he must nnajn-
tain, that the description of proprietoraalltided to,
could not be excluded even by, a vote enjoinirve
them to stithdraw ; but still would hasea right to

remain. He was sorry that his learned friend,
who had deserved so well of the India Company,
should have attempted, by one sweeping Woke,
to exclude six or 'seven hundred GentleMen.from
their Courts. The privilege:attempted to be
taken away was not derived from ctistom or cont.:,
test', but was a legal right long ,and uniformly
recognized. The only question befOre the. Court
resPected'the formation or a Committee ; and the
practice hitherto adopted of clinging it from dif-
ferent descriptions of proprietors, was the best
adapted, in order to form au accurate opinion,
which• Opinion, however, was not binding upon
the Court. He thought that any limitation as to
the appointment. of 4 Committee -should rather
spring from the eircu4stances of the particular
case, than be laid down as a general principle.—
The Honourable Proprietor concluded, by mov-
ing, as an amendment, that the further considera-
tion of the resolution be-adjourned-sine die.
A long desultory conversation ensued, on the
part of Mr. Dixon, Mr. Elphinstone, Mr. lime,
Mr. T,.vining, Mr. Whalley, 'Mr.•Paterson, Mr.
liosanquet, and Mr. Atkins, when Mr. Plummer
limited his amendment to the resolution respect-.
.ing the formation- of a Committee. A division
took .place,. when the numbers were—
For the Adjournment sine die.. . .:33 •
Against it
With respect to Mr. Hume's intended motion,
that the presence of sixty-four Proprieters should
be declared necessary to sanction any grant of
money, the CHAIIIMAN stated to the- Court, that
the Law-,Officers abovealluded to had given it as
their opinion, that the Court had no power to
enact any such bve;law • and that no such
bye-
law, if enacted, would be valid.—Adjourned..

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF* CHANCERY, INIARcu 23.

SEQUESMATIONS.

LGVELL V. THEIR ROYAL SIGHNESSES THE DUKES

YORX AND CLARENCE.

Mr. ROUPRI.L. this
.clay, being the -last and
fourth seal utter Hilary Terni,-Innyed the Court
for an 'o:•tler of, Sequestration ,against,. the aoyal
defendants, for their not 'answering the plaintes
Bill.

The like application was to be rakde by in-.
structions to the Learned Counsel against his
Royal Highness the kirince Regent, but aban-
doned, on perceiving that by virtue of the Re-
gency Act his'Royal Highness the Prince Re-
gent, was clothed or privileged from such process
equally with the King. The circumstances of the
case were as follows :

Above ten years ago, a 'Frenchman named Le
Coomb, obtained permission of his Royal'High-
ness the Prince of Wales to negociate or raise
money to the extent of 100,000/. as agent, by
means of hondS of 10.01. each, to be guaranteed
by the joint bond of their three Royal Highnesses;
lodged in the hank of Messrs. HaMmersley. and
Co. in Pall-Mall. Several- Minor sums were raised
by this pretended agent from various persons, and
from the plaintiff in particular, as the bill alleged
upon some of the lesser bills or bonds by him pass-
ed in such agency, all which he cunningly con-
verted-to his own use, without any consideration
of the Prince.

Not content with such practices in England,
this agent went to Faris, and was negboiating
there also, until arrested and put to death by the
Revolutionary Tribunal, after which the security
bond was taken from the Bankers, by desire of the
Prince..
The ten years limited for payment of the, ori-
ginal bond of 100,0001. having now elapsed, the
plaintiff filed. his bill, and on this anytion obtained
the sequestration prayed fin. against their Royal
Highnesses the Dukes of York .and Clarence. ,
Mr. BELL afterwards obtained three weeks tune
to answer the-bill.

THOMAS V. JACKSON.

Mr. WiNtorlEno moved for a sup-ersedeas of the
writ of prohibition which had issued in this case.
It was an action of debt brought in the Court of
the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London,
commonly 'called, the Lord Mayor's Court, in
which an attachment had issued, on which the
defendant, without either putting in bail Or plead-
ing to the jurisdiction, had applied to the Cur-
sitor of this Court for the city of London, and
had obtained a -Writ of prohibition against the
plaintiff from proceeding in his action in the
Mayor's Court, on an affidavit, in Which be swore
that the cause of action did not arise within the
jurisdiction of the Court of the Lord Mayor of
London, fitt.in Woolwich in the county of Kent.
Mr. Wingfielenow moved to have the prohibition
superseded on an affidavit by a Mr. Jones, an at-
torney, practising in the Mayor's Court, that the
prohibition had improperly issued, in respect the
defendant had neither appeared and put in hail to
the' attachment, nor had made a tender of -a fo-
reign plea,. one or other of which things lie was
bound to have done, before be could apply for a
writ of prohibition.- The Learn4C66lsel; in
support-of this doctrine, read_ an extract front Ba-
Coll's Abridgment, under the title Prohibition,_ in
which it is laid down that ,a persm applying for,
such a writ must -do so on an affidavit, in which
he swears that the cause of action lay out of the
jurisdiction of the Court in which die suit was
brought, and that he had tendered a foreign/plea
to such action, which had been rejected. This
the defendant had failed to do in the present
instance.

The VICE-CHANCELLOR asked, had the Writ of
prohibition in this case been granted by the Lord
Chancellor, or was it a writ under the Great.Scal ?
Mr. WINGFIELD said, the writ had surely not
been granted by the, Lord Chancellor; such writs
were granted almost as matters of course by the
Cursiturs ; but there could he little doubt that
they must be under the Great Seal. • •

- The Vicz-Cnaziccuma also thought there
could be no doubt that writs °rail's kind must•he
under the Great Seal. The Cinsitori could have
no right of himself to grant such writs, and there-
fore, he presumed, they must beat to have :been
issued in the name of the Lord Chancellor: His
Honour.bad no right to supersede any order made
by the Lord Chancellor, which the writ of pro-
hibition in this case must necessarily bear to be;
and; therefore, he thought the application had
'better be made to,morrow'to his Lordship.

PRICE OF .STOCI
Bank Stock, shot
Nary 5 per Cent. 97iii
4 per Cent. shut
3 per Cent. Red. shut
3 per Cent. Cons.
Bank L. Ann. shut
India Stock, •