The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-31 00:00:00

TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST IN-

DIA STOCK.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—When you decided,
by. a very large majority, in favour of the justice
of my claim to some compensation for the losses.
I have sustained, I supposed that the question
had been set at rest, and under that impression
returned into the country.
Mr. JOSEPH HUME, however, from an anxiety.
for the accuracy of his statements, has again ad-
dressed you ; and had he confined himself to his
own vindication, I would have left him to the
benefit of whatever success might have attended
the effort; but as he has again, by misrepresen-
tation, endeavoured to impair your confidence in
the justice of your decision, I am constrained to
trespass once more upon your attention.
It can only be necessary to compare this Gen-
tleman
.with himself, to. shew how easily he can
shift his ground or change his opinion, when his
assertions are disproved or his fallacies exposed.
MR. HUME IN HIS LETTER OBSERVATION'S.

OF THE 10TH INST.
" Mr. PELLY accuses me The charge of mis-statement
of two glaring mis-statements. stands proved.

"'Tie first,, that the Born- -A reference to the papers
bay Government advertised for must have satisfied Mr. Hu ME
a supply of hempen rope by that the Bombay Government
public contract." did not invite or advertise at
all, in any form or shape, pub-
lic or private."
"On reference to the papers Then why does he not inge-
-1 find that the Bombay _Go- nuously say so ? Why has he
vernnient did not advertise in recourse to the miserable ex-
cite Gazette; therefore so far pedient that they did not ad•
I was in error ; but this ap- vertise in the Gazette, thereby
pears to me in nowise to af- insinuating. that they did in
fect the merits of the case, as some other mode ? It is really
it signifies little whether Mr. clarions to observe the shifts to
PELLY sent in his tender on which he has recourse to get
public or private notice." out of a scrape. Unwilling to
acknowledge his error, though
it stares him in the face, he interposes the Gazette, the creation
of his own imagination, and magnanimously conzesses, that as
the Government did not advertise in that paper, " so far he
was in error." He would have you believe, first, that although
the Government did not advertise in the Gazette for tenders,
they did advertise in some other paper ; and, secondly, if
you will not believe this, he would have you do so, that I sent
in the tender not on public but private notice.
In the General Court, in a debate upon my claim, on the
19th of December, Mr. HUME addressed the Proprietors to the
following effect :
" That when the subject was beforq the Court on the 26th of
September, he had not read the papers ; but having since pe-
rused them with minute and diligent atteration, he felt he should
not discharge his duty if he voted for the proposition. That
the /acts of the case were these :—The Bombay Government,
towards the end of the year 1817, odder iced for ropes, and Mr.
PELLY sent in a tender, which being deemed the most advan-
tageous of lino other Aubmitted, was accepted. Mr. PELLY
then stood in the situation of a person entering into a contract,
to thee:re/us/on-of o. her perso no front the competition, who were
ready and willing to execute their en fragements,"
He thought it very material to Slew the injury done to
other competitors, who, if my tender had not been accepted,
might have executed the contract ; he therefore laid great
stress on the circumstance of tenders having been invited by
public advertisement; and three weeks afterwards, in a letter
addressed to you for the express purpose of inducing you to
vote against my claim, he puts this circumstance prominently
forward in his narration, or, I should say, mis-statement of
facts ; but when he receives a public contradiction which he
cannot repel, he shelters himself under the remark, that " it
signifies little whether 1 sent in my tender on private or public
notice."

And here again he displayshis reluctance to confess his error,
at my expence ; he will not admit what he knows to be the
case, that there was no notice of any description, but insinuates
that, if not public, it was private ; and this he does with a per-
fect knowledge of the ground upon which the tender was made,
it being stated in my first letter to the Bombay Government,
after I took charge of the Residency at Bancoot, and with it
the Rope Manufactory established by one of my predecessors,
that a contract with Government was essential to the very exist-
ence of the Manufactory.

MR. II1JME• OBSERVATIONS.
My letter of the 7th inst. Mr. HME here palpably
stated " that Mr. PELLY, in his
,turns from my challenge,which
Memorial, assigns, as an ex- was in the following words,
cuse, that a war had begun and appeared in the Times of
with the Peishwa after lie had the Bth instant :
taken the contract, and that he " I defy Mr. III:ME to point
was thereby prevented from out the place in any part of
completing it." my Memorial where such an
excuse has been assigned."
This Mr. PELLY noticed as The ground of his Address
the second glaring mis-state- to the Proprietors is the hay-
ment, and in reply to it says, "I ing carefully read the papers
defy Mr. IluatE to point out at the India House, and my
the place in any part of my Memorial among
i the rest.—
Memorial where such an ex- Finding nothing n it to sup.
cuse has been assigned." port his allegation, instead of
"'ln confirmation of my as- liberally avowing that he was
sertion I offer the following mistaken, which it would not
extracts from the papers open have been unbecoming in any
to [Here
inspection." man to do, he quotes from two
[Here the Reader is referred documents, which in no de-
to the extracts already pub- gree alter the fact, because it
fished in Mr. HUME's letter, is impossible to do so, and
which appeared in the Times keeps out of view my Memo-
of the 7th Instant.] rial, which he had originally
charged as having assigned
the excuse ; thus clumsily and
• disingenuously attempting to
shield himself from his own
mis-statement by echoing the
errors of others.
I have all along maintained
that my losses were occasioned
by the war extending into the
country wheie the hemp grew;
but I defied, and I now again
defy, Mr.l/ uses: to make good
the truth of his statement, that
" I r.P E L LY, in his Memorial,
assigns as an excuse that war
had begun with the Peishwa

ter he had taken the contract."

" As to the omission charged hlr. IluzuE is determined to
against me of having suppress- render me entitled to no cre-
ed that in his account the dit in the execution of this un-
Hon. Company have credit for fortunate contract, however
compound interest upon the much I may, to my own loss,
sums advanced to him, I have have saved to the East India
only to observe, that the Corn- Company.
pany did not advance him When I found it impossible
money to lie at interest, but to procure hemp, my consola-
for the specific purpose of pur- tion was the certain knowledge
chasing materials to complete that, from the failure of the
his contract. He did not so cotton crops, they would not
apply it, and should therefore require it ; but as money had
take no merit to himself had been advanced to me for the
he thought proper to allow the purpose, I thought it just to
Company 50 per Ct.' interest." allow compound interest,
though under no obligation of
law, or custom, so to do ; yet,
not even for this can I find
favour in the sight of this Gen-
tleman.

I will not weary your patience by entering
into any further details, unless provoked by Mr.
llumc ; when I shall never hesitate " faithfully
and fearlessly" to expose his misrepresentations,
with whatever pertinacity he may choose to ad-
here to them.

I will only assert, without the fear of contra-
diction, that by the fulfilling of my contract,
I saved to the Company, and lost to myself, a
large sum of money : and that the price which
the Bombay Government had to pay on the first
contract they made with others, after the termi-
nation of the war, anti whilst my cordage was in
course of delivery, exceeded what they paid me
for the same quantity of lashings, in the sum of
6,5001.
You, Ladies and Gentlemen, may perhaps be
amused with the reveries with which Mr. HUME
concludes his letter. They, however, neither
concern me, nor the subject on which he address-
ed you. And as to the amiable sympathy which