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put in comparison with the vat increase of
trade that will be derived to the great body of the
merchants and manufacturers of the Empre.
The opponents of the measure say, that the in-
jury is certaini andflie advantage problematical ;
but to that we answer, that. either an immense
mivautage to the commerce of the country must
accrue from opening tb trade to India, or else
all those great principles upon which British
commerce, in its general extent, has hitherto been
carried on, and by the practice of-which it has so:
happily flourished and increased, must be, when ati-
plied to the Trade to India, utterly fallacious and
erroneous : a conclusion so absurd can never be
achnitted, unless it is demonstrated by actual eN-

pediment.

IVHE Ktmo.—Considerable importance has been
attached to the circumstance of the PatscE RE-
GENT'S journey to Windsor on Monday% as it was
supposed to be in consequence of another pa-
rosySin of the KING, . The paragraph we inserted
yesterds was copied from a Morning, Paper.—
The facts, however, arc now stated to be these :
—A communication was sent from the Prin-
cess CUARIAITTE of \VALI? on Sunday from
Windsor to the P:RiNcE. REGENT, by one of
her Royal • Highness's footmen, who arrived
in town about half an hour past two o'clock. A
hobby groom of the QuEEN'S was also went off
from Windsor with dispatches to the PamcF.,
Who arrived in to,Vvn on the same afternoon at five
o'clock ; there was no other communication to
the PRINCE during that.day or night tram Wind-
sor ; but in fact, there is no importanet to be at-
tached to this mode of corresponding by the RoyA
FAMILy, as there are but few days pass with-
out PUch a circumstance taking place. At a
late hour on Sunday night, the I'4mi-cc REGENT
sent to the Loao'CoANceLLort, :at his house in
Bedford-square, commanding his Lordship's atten-
dance upon his Royal Highness early in the morn-
ing. The communication was made to his Lord—
ship in bed, we believe, as he is an early man.—
His Lordship was at Carlton-1100e the following
morning by ten o'clock, and set oil with his Royal
Highness the anise REGENT, at about .s quarter
before eleven, in Iris travelling carriage, for
Windsor. - The business they went upon, we have
every reason to believe, was notany thing relative
to the Ktso, but, quite of a contrary nature.
The Commander of the forces in the Leeward
Islands has received orders to send the 13th regi-
ment of the line front Martinique to North Ame-
rica.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
,East India House, Whell Capt. C.W. BUTLIZA was
sworn into the command of the William Pitt,
destined to Madeira and Batavia,

CITY OF LONDON TAVF,RN, JAW. 13.

EAST INDIA AND CHINA SHIPPING.

A numerous and respectable meeting of ship-.
owners, ship-builders, and others connected with
the East-India shipping in tits Port of London,
took place this day, pursuant to advertisement, at
the City of London Tavern, in order to agree
upon the most efficient measures to be adopted,
for the protection of their respective interests, in
the discussion shortly ,expected to take place in
Parliament, upon the subject of the renewal of
the Charter of the East India Company.
About one o'clock Sir Itonawr BVIGRAM stated
to the Meeting, that Mr. Wells, who intended to
have been present, and who would have been
happy to have taken the chair, WAS prevented from
attending by indisposition), be should therefore
move, that. Charles Hampton Turner, Esq. should
take the chair. Some Gentlemen hells culled to
Sir R. Wigram to take the chair himself : this how-_
ever, Sir Robert declined, and Mr. Turner took,
the chair accortlin4ly.
The CHALRMAN 'briefly stated the object of the
meeting to be, to take into consideration the inte-
rest;• of the, •Gentlemen concerned in, anti con-
nected with, the East India-shipping in the Port
of London. Upon a subject, however, which
had attracted so much attention, and had been',; so.
generally the subject of discussion and converSa-
tion, he thought it unnecessary to expatiate at
any length, and rather Wished to hear the senti-
ments of others,. should any Gentleman be in
(lined to favour the meeting with hiS sentiments
upon the present occasion.
Enw,,an GBoaok BERNARD) Esq. moved, and
was seconded, that the following Resolutions'
should he read, as expressive of the opittiose of the
meeting.--( Te follow the Resolutions, for which
see ihe Adetrtisentelt,)

After the litesolutions bad been read, the
CHAIRMAN observed, it would be more regular if
the different Resolutions were read 'separately, and
the sense of the mectim; taken upon each. This
being acceded to, the different resoluGons were
read by Mr. Teasdale, and each carried unani-
mously.
Mr. AldCrlMlll ATKIN3 stated, that he was ex»
tremely sorry to inform the meeting, that the sub-
scription set on foot last year had not produced
more than 12001. of this sum, printing the dif-
ferent papers, and other unavoidable expence,,
had absorbed 8001. so that there now remained a
balance of only 4001. disposable by the Com-
mittee.

Mr. BERNARD observed, that: the anbscription
ought to be as. general:* s possible, on account of
the great importance of the object:

Letters were then read from Mr. Wells, 'excusing
his absence on-thc score of indisposition' ; trona
Mr. Abler Man Conahe; apologizing for his absence
as being iniavOidable, but warmly concurring in the
object of theMecting ;. from Sir James Shaw, who
Wa 5 under the necessity of going to r hrist's Hospi-
tal, but stating, on bi s own intet,anclou that of Sir
Win. Curtis, theiv,readiness to give every:support
in their power to the object for:which the meet-
ing h;nl been called, awl from sir P. Sutton,
Meniber for Surrey,. expreve of his desire to
forward, by every means ,in hiS power„ the wishes
of the meeting, in his place in Parliament. 'Fbanks
were chair voted to the Chairman, for his tondruct
in the chair, utter which th 4 glean% breu u 2: