The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-02 00:00:00

SURREY ASSIZES, Mmica 31.

• William White was convi&ed of stealing a 201.
bank-note, the property of 'Wm. Manners,
James Gudgeon was indiCted for breaking and en-
•tering the dwelling-house of Mr. Squires, no person
being therein, in the day time, and stealing vari os
articles therefrom. It, appeared that the prisoner
Gudgeon was a lodger in the house of Squirts, and
while the latter was absent; the prisoner bioke into
the rooms occupied by the prosecutor Squires aunt
I-is other lodge:rs, wh, were also absent, and s'ol;:.
every thing he could. carry off. The prosecutor
heard nothing of the prisoner (who bad decarni ed)
for a considerable time, the robbery being in De-
cember, 1810, until he was brought into Chelms-
'ford gaol, in alober last, upon another chatge.--
Squiies then went to Ciielmsford, and ideniified
a smock-frock, in which the prisoner was found.
as being his own, and stolen from his house.—
Besides this, there was-a silver watch found up ti
the prisoner, which was identified by one Iliown-
Mg, who also lodged with Squires, and who was
also robbed at the same rime.
The Jury found him Guilty.

At Carrickfergus Assizes, Montgomery BrosOn
lave master of a vessel belonging to Irvine, in Scot-
land, was to have been tried for the murder ci
Charles Moore, late a butcher in Belfast ; he, how-
ever, applied to the Court that his trial might he
delayed till next Assizes; stating in his affidavit as ct
reason for this delay, that a material witness, whom
he expected froat Scotland, had not arrived. Tt,-!
Court agreed to delay the trial till next Assizes...—.
The moment that the Court had so decided, the
widow of the deceased rushed forward through the
crowd, and came up to the table in front of 11'9
Lordship. She thdb, in great agitation, fell down
upon her knees, arid with 'much vehemence crieil
out, " Oh, my Lord, give me justice against the
man who murdered my husband ! I intteat you,
my Lord, that I ,:nay have justice done for the nun-
der of of my dear husband ! His metJerer Ins got
time, but he gave no time to my dear good hus-
band !" Having so expressed herself, she silently
withdrew. She was dressed in deep mourning,
her agitation and screams excited very palutul sen-
sations in all present,
MARLBOUOUGII-STFMET.-;-JaMeS LonEArd was
convicted in the penally of 40 shillings; Lir stealing •
shrubs out of Mary-le-bone Park.
• Several of the Nottingham Rioters, who were
conviitted at the Assizes, arrived in town yestercia,,'
and were lodged in Newgate.
A number of weak and idle persons from remote
parts of the City assembled yesterday at Wel'olin.
ster Abbey, desiring to see the new silver cuLlin
rearlynarde for the King, and it was a consider::tite
time before the more intelligent spectators con d
convince them it was Alt Fools Day.
The apattmeots of Belcher, the' pugilist, in Wa• -
dour-street, were entered at mid-day, a few days
since, by means of a pick-lock key, and sever.,l
ir-
ticles were stolen.

A gardener, at Glasgow, .praaisel n Mode of de-
stroying caterpillars, which he discovered by acci,
dent. A piece of woollen rag had been blown br.'
the wind into a currant bush ; and when- taken our
was found covered by the leaf-devouring inseas.
He immediately placed pieces of woollen cloth in
every bush in his garden, and found, next day, t
the caterpillars had universally taken to. them for
shelter. In this way he destroys many thousan,s
every morning.

PAPEItS RESPECTING the NEGO,CIATIOAI
FOR A RENEWIIL OF

THE EAST.INDIA COMPANY's .EXCLUSIVE
.PRIVILEGES.

yo.
SECRET-COURT OF DIRECTORS.

LETTER FROM THE,CHAIRMAN AND DEPUTY CHAIR-

MAN TO THE RIGHT HON. R. DUNDAS; NOTICED

IN TJIE PRECEDIdG SINUTE;

[Continued from yeiterday.]
' • East India House, fan. 'l3, 1809.
tat,—The letter which you did us the honour to
address to us on the 28th of last month, 'on the inn-
plirtant subject of a -renewal of the Company's
. Charter, has received the most serious consideration
of the Court of Directors; and we are, by their una-
. nilnons resolution instructed, to submit to you the
folloWing answer to,it.
The Court having, in the letter which we had. the
honour to address, to you on the 16th of last Month,
thought it sufficient, to sketch the outlines of those
principles and propositions Which should, in their
opinion, form the basis of 'a new Charter, and the
reply you have been pleased to make to it, declaring
-the same intention of stating observations 'merely
preliminary, and '" not the result of any plan or
projected system, matured in concert with his Ma-
"- • jesty's confidential servants," our present letter will
abstain from any disctissio'n of minor points-, those
especially relating to the proceedings of the Court of
Dire: tors with servants of the Company returned
from India, to which article your letter is under-
stood to ,allude; and likewise from 'some other
points, connect Ad with the exercise of their autho-
thy at borne, s‘Uich may be found to require re-,
Vi6i4JD and modification. Neit!.er can it be neces-
sary now to go into the. •übject of Indian Ex-
penditure, although it is impossible, after the no-
tice'taken of it in your letter, to omit saying, that
the Court will feel with the liveliest solicitude, bow
indispensable it is to reduce thlit article far below
the income, and are deter tnined to act accordingly.
The attention of the Coult will, therefore, be
confined, at presext,. to two propositions of 'the
highest importance contained in your letter ;•.the
one suggesting such an enlargement of the trade, of
indiViduals with British India, as shall admit into
it indiscriminately the merchants and the ships of
thiS couotry ; and the other, thetransfer of the
Company's Indian army, to his Majesty. If these
Propositions had not been accompauied by the de-
claration with which your letter concludes, they
would have filled the Court . with the deepest con-
' cern ; but you'are -pleased to close the whole of
your obsepations with an assurance, " that it will
be the earnest desire of his Majesty's Government
to suggest to Parliament such a system only, as
shall be conformable to the principles on which the
regulations of 1784 and 1793 were founded, .as will
secure to,this kingdoin alfthe benefit that can prac-
tically be derived from its trade with our rossessions
in India, and to the natives of those countries a go-
vernment, and' an administration of laws, suited
to then= customs, _habits,. and prejudices, and con-
sistent with the British character, and which shall
also be strong and efficient, without adding tin-
necessarily to the authority of the Executive
Government at home or increasing, to any dan-
gerous extent, the influence of the Crown." .Satis-
fied, by this declaration; that his Majesty's Govern-
ment understand the lute r:sts of this country and of
British India
,too well to intend any alteration that
Would subvert or endanger the system by which.
these cast possessions have been acquired, governed,
and improsed, and which alone they can be held,
to the mutual cenefit of their immense popUlation
and of the paramount state, the Court must, of
course, believe that the propositions which have just
been quoted are supposed to hi& compatible with the
continuance of that system, or reducible to a con-
sistency with it. These suppositions the Court are
now called upon to ex.amin'e, and they will endea-
vour to do so with•the respeCt due to the authority
• with which they have to treat, with the duty which
they owe to their constituents, and with that regard
lot the. interests of their country. which they do not
*intend, nor teel-thentselvei required to sink, in sup-
porting- the integrity of the present Indian system.
• If either -of eke two propositions respetting the
Indian trade and the indian.• army were to be aced
upon in the sense which the terms of ii seem obvi,
ouslyto convey, the Court have no hesitation in de
daring their decided convietion, that, it would effec-
tually supersede .and &.stroy, not merely' the r gilts
ot*the East India Company, but the' system of En-
dianadminisiration,. established
.by the Acts of 1764
and-1793 ; and with res Peel to the latter proposi-
ti•n, for the transfer of the native army, it appears
to be incapable. of ,any modification, which would
riot still -make the overthrow' of the present system
the certain consequence of it. The Court will take
the libefty to stale the reasons on which these opi-
rtions are founded, with as much, folineis as- the
bOunds of a letter, and (he diSpatch necessary at this
, period,' will permit ; premising only, that in the
tithe and spate to which they must now confine
thernselvesymany things, belongitfg to the consider-
ation of both suhjeas, Must be omitted.. .
With respect to the Private Trade, the Company
are not‘governol by*narrow considerations of com-
mercial profit or commercial jealousy ; and in fact,
the Indian trade,. as
.an object of gain,, has gradually
ceased to be of importance, either. to the Compaoy
or to. individuals. The admission into it-already
accorded to British 'residents in India, with the.
irodigious.. increase of ' the cotton manofactures of
Europe, the changed circumstances of the Euto-
. pean Contineot, and the almost incessant wars
which have* prevailed for the last sixteen' years
.(wars still without' any near prospect .of -,termina-
. tiori) have reduced the value of that trade to a very
low point. The Court arc actuated by a thorough
persuasion, that the 'unlimited freedori3, for which
some persons have of late" years contended, would
bare politic?' consequences More • injurioui to th-
power of 'this. country arid of British 'lndia, than
,
the advantages anticipated by sanguine minds, from
en enlargement of the'conimerce• could compen-
sate; it those advantages were to be tealisert ; and
noire.lover, exptctatoo of such advantages
iiti brifoontld, -resulting from general piesumptions,
which are cororadcted by theseaturo of the Indian