The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-22 00:00:00

MR. LEE'S PAMPIILET.

We resume our Extract trout the -above intel-
ligent Work, entitled " The Right of ever
_British Merchant to trade tvithin the Geographi-
cal limits, defined by the Charter of the East
India Company, vindicated."
"The public opinion lial. long ago and often
been expressed on the question of the generarpo,
licy of the charter, awl it has been viewed in every
light taut it might suit the vision of the philo-
rber„statesnian, or merchant to place it in->: ; but
'it may be useful shortly to attempt to obviate
some pretensions to a claim of public respect for
their chartered rights, which are rather unfounded•
ly made on the part of thy Company.
`" There is probably a present acquiescence in
the opinion, that every thing of good would not
be derived, to the community, were the Govern-
ment of his Majesty to be substituted (orthat of.
.tile East ludic Company, and by this .substitution
tilt; trade to India, opened to every. British subject,
no otherwise restrained than subjects genei ally arc
restrained in 'their intereoiirse with any other de-
pendency of that GoVernment. Yet the principles of
mciditicat ion oldie chartered rights of the Company
may adthit of very considerable relaxation, and
that too as to points, and under circumstances,
npon which it is said modification is' to be denied.
Upon commercial questions, and indeed upon
every question, commercial or not, abstract rea-
soning, as it is called, however speculatively use-
ful, is always of doubtful authority; het to mer-
cantile, more than other men,. facts whereon to
form their judgment mast be submitted, and rea-
soning unsupported or uncorroborated by facts
in their view takes its proper character of specious
sophistry. •
"'Upon the most impitrtial view of the facts
and arguments existing and adduced upon the
mere poiicy of the general question of renewal of
this great charter of exclusion, this position May,
it is„presumed, he advanced beyond even plau-
sible contradiction, -that the East India Com-
pany, in their chartered character, have not con-
ferred a greater benefit upon India, or upon the
British public,. than his Majesty's Government
would have conferred on both had no such char-
ter. existed ; and it may-also be asserted, that
the evil through Which good has been ostensibly
attained under the governthent of the Company,
controuled as that government has- been front
time to time, and 'with no gentle hand, by theLc-
gislature, appears to have been ineornmensurable
both in enormity -and extent.
vaunted juiisprudence has been impos.7
eel upon them by the Legislature, in consequence
of public and private wrongs reverberated from
one end of their territorial possessiOus to the other;
their residents and other official 'nun have been
wrought into a seeming recognition of the prin-
ciples of justice, , by the dread of impeachment or
of-exposnre ; of impeachment which, if it failed
to punish by a judicial sentence, yet might be-
wale an often well-earned punishment, by its ex-
pence, duration,. and disgrace : of an exposure
which might consign these men on their return
to their native country, to the gloomy of solitude,
to neglect, to remorse, or, timaly, to, despair ; for
What honourable or' well-eharactered mind could
brook association with the 'venatjudge, or With '
the rapacious oppressor : with him who, hunted.
out of one country where his crimes were kno4ll, •
might yet possess audacity enough to attempt
to push himself into notoriety in another,
where his criminality was paly gueSsed at or ru-
moured.

4° With regard to the treatment of delinquents
in India, Mr. Pitt,. when what is called his India
Billovas underdiscussion,declared that we had it in 4;
in our power to punish them ;--,that either a new
process must be instituted, or offences equally
shucking to humanity, and contrary to every Kin,
ciple of religion. and justice, must be permitted to
continue unchecked : every person, therefor*,
Mr. Pitt added, who went thereafter, would know
the predicament in which he stood. Comes it
gracefully, therefore, from the Company to al-
lege, in their resolutions of %he sth May last,
'; which may he called a manifesto ugninst She
itr-
terference of his Majesty's (linvernment, that by
that interference ' the excellent system of
and military service, framed under the Company,
and maintainable only by such a hotly, \val, be
broken down and the tranquility and happiness of
the vast population which that empire contains,
and the 'interests of this country in Asia and
it* constitution at home, will be imminently en-
dangered.'
"There is something in this manifesto very in-
decent, very deceptions, or very forgetful. If the
urgent hecessity for Mr. Pitt's Act, and for the in-
stitution of the Board of Controul, were- nut in
our immediate, recollection, we Might baled to
imagine, from the assumptions, of these resotu-
tiomi, that the excellent judicial establishments
in India entirely and originally emanated from the
Company, instead of their having been forced on
theadoption of that body by the Legislature.
" But no matter, if a 'Wise- find impartial admi-
nistration of jiisticc in India noW take place, how
so great and radical a change Was effected n here-
fore it has at length been thought good, that
something More than a name and shadow of
Lice should non be found, is less matter for
Inky, than that justice being to be found in India
rs Matter of lively congrattilMidn't"

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•It is sillgui4 to trace these %runts Irt Ni. V. Pupers re._
specting the tic/ niation fur. the rettewul of the East latlia
Ciimpany's e 4 titive privileges
" th tutu c4ise it will he unnerissary to enter into any dis-cussion of tile right. uf the Company to the territorial pu.ses.
sions, 4 right o Inch they hold to he si,ur, anti taint always
maititltin, tt limtving from their acquisition of those 1,11 no.
ries unites tine anthOriti, and after long hazards' utid ,i: issi-
wdeA) and :reat.eXPetteu." ' •
T'r'out this, istitiuis44 it, wapiti appear 1 hat the xenet. i I ~l' the
chatter were cuti‘eiveti to lie mere ;natter of lui... ; .1 0t th,ti
the cliorterettrlght4.uf the Company tvt.re to eeit,e kith th.:.;
*Rum Thtir territory it nuthing.nittereut front air; outer
:rf1,2014; hold. for, a, 41:0 of yov*,,lttitt a which tae Sul ere ign ,
i-tif beikon%idortd as the grantor, ur as the parauwunt and
tiro iota, and true mid Indy owner of the soil. Every char.
tan of ty:lrma of the charter, it tvill be recolltatoil, makes
rooto ,itio4 of this Juvereignty. i
0 „

irp tp rday se!nnight, two troops of the 2d Dra.
g9gti guords marched from Newcastle for Doneas.
ter. The same days division of the ith „Dragoon
guards arrived at NeWeastle.