The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-06 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

R. Waistall and Mary Yare, Worship-street. Curtain-road,
Shoreditch, Middlesex, stable.keepers. March 25, 1812.
S, Burge and J. Green, Castle Cary, -Somersetshire, worsted-
stocking- manufaaurers. August 30, 1810.
Elizabeth Powley and Mary Brown, New Bond-street, Lon-
' don, milliners and dress-makers. March 25, 1812.
%V. Woolston and S. Woolston, Wellingborough, North-
amptonshire, shoe-manutadurers. Feb. 5, 1812.
E. Barker, S. Barnett, and T. Fernyhough, Cannock Chase,
Rugely, Staffordshire, Metcharp. March 25, 'Bl2.
R. Smart and Goodridge, Cranborne, Dorsetshire, sur-
geons. May to, t 8 rt.
J. Phillips, T. ,Atkitisoni and G. Diliwyn, Corhet.court,
racechurch- street, London, linen-drapers. April t, 1812.
E. Taylor and I. Barlow, New Cross, Surrey, dealers and
chapmen. March 1, ;812.
•

sOn Saturday the dispatches were finally closed at
the East India House, and delivered to the Pursers
of the follow ing ships •
City of London. Capt. T. Jenkins; Sir Wm. Bensley,
A. Gledstanes ; Harriet, W. Lynch; Sovereign, A. Camp.
• bell ; Madras and Bengal.
Lord Keith; Capt. I. Freeman ; Ann, P. Cameron; In.
dus, G. Weltrien; Madeira, Madras, ani,geogal.
Passengers Ifer City of London.—For Bengal: Lieut.
Coulthard, Mr. and Mrs. Butler itild family, Mess's. Baker,
t:airne, and Turvet ; H. Midland, Cadet ; Mrs. Dickson,
kisses lane, Elizabeth, and Arabella Chadwicke.
For Madras : lolin Turing, Esq. Mr. Burton, Assistant-
Sur,eons Bradbury and Ogilvy, glessrL . Babington and
IVrite7s ; glr. and Mrs. Harrington and family,
Misses I' trick and Metcalfe, Mr. Dormer, Cadet.

• Per Lord Keith.=—For Bengal Capt. Owen. Messrs.
1,-ncti, Gordon, Cockburn, and Wobdring ; Mr. Assistant-
Surgeon Benny, Misses Hitchcock, Mary and Anne Mylanc,
and Br(glie.

Fur Madras.—Lient.Col. Forbes and Lady, Misses 1.
ard E, Spry, Mrs. Puget and family.
Fur Madeira : Messrs. Grace and Casonas.
l'er Ann.—For Madras : Messrs. Hewerson and Dobson,
Miss. Thompson; Mr. flewetson, Cadet.
Per Indits.—For Bengal : Mr. Dyer, Mr. Cayley, Writer;
Misses A. and M. Coodlad and Pierce, Mr. Kemp, Cadet.
For Madras : Mrs. and Nirs.lebb,.Lieut. Fro= and Lady,
Miss Johnson, Mr. Vinson, Cadet. •
Per Sir William Bens!q.;—For Bengal : Mrs. Dobre.
For Madras.—Mr. Philips, Writer; Lieut. Willson and
Lady, Mrs. Skipp, and Mr. Brown.
l'er Harriet.—For Bengal : Messrs. Nisbet and Creighton,
Writers; Mr Bacon arid Mr. S tudd, Free Merchants ; Miss
Field, Mrs. i;laky and Son, Mr. Monke, Cadet.
For Madrass.—Messrs. Mason and Assistant-Surgeon
King ;• Messrs. Dickson and. Walters Cadets.
Per Sovereign.—For Bengal : Messrs Glynn, Hobhouse,.
and Walker, Writers; Captain Copper, Lady, and Child,
Mr. Surgeon Dickson, Mrs. Denniss and Family, Misses
Sloane, Thornton, Munn, Stone, Robertson, and Davidson ;
Messrs. Marshall,- Fitton, and.Twemlow, Cadets.
For Madras.— Rapael, and Miss Kirchhofler. •
I.or Ceylon.—Lieut. Kane arid Lady. •
Letters from New South Wales, of the 20th May
sate that great improvements have taken place in
that colony since the accession of Colonel Macquar-
rie to 'the Government. The large town of Sydney is
vow planned.and laid nut in regular streets, and di-
vided into di3tricts, with headboroughs, sub-consta-
bles, watchmen, &c. Mr. D'Arcy Wentworth has
been appointed to the htrad• of the police. Five
townships have been laid out on the Haw kesbury
and George Rivers, to be called Windsor, Rich-
mond, Wilberforce,- and Castlereagh. Tire roads
- from Sydney to Paramatta and Hawkesbury, 'which
were scarcely passable, have been repaired, bridges.
thrown over the small streams, and turnpikes esta-
blished. No fears of a scarcity of provisions was to
be apprehended, vast quantities of cattle. being rear-
ed, and the store-houses being -filled with grain.—
Butchers meat was .frOml s. to Is. 3d. per lb. and
the supply of the colony:equal to its consumption,
without assistance to the mother country. Wool
ants likely to be their first staple of commerce. Set-
tlers of good charther were furnished with live stock
from the Government stores, on consideration of
paying the value in money or grain, in eighteen
months. The population of Sydney is estimated at
ten thousand souls, of which number eight thousand
have been sent from England as conviaisf: Governor
,Macquarrie was indefatigable' in ,reforming public
molls, both-by example and precept, and in check-
ing druokr,nness,-concubinage, and other vices which
were too prevalent.

LONDON': Printeeby Tl 4(
At the SUN OFFIC

PAPERS RESPECTING the IVEGOCIATIO.N

roR A RENEW 4L OF

THE EAST-INDIA COMPANY'S EXCLUSIVE
PRIVILEGES.

[Continued from Saturday.]

No. IX.

SECRET COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE,

East Indip House, Feb. 28, 1L.9

The Chairman and Deputy Chairman reported ro
the Committee, that in consequence of an invitation
from the President of the Board of Commissioners,
they had yesterday an inlet view with him, .in u hich
he discoursed with them on the present state of the
negotiation for thorenew,al of the Company's Chor-
ter. He inquired, in the first place, 'whether the
Company would have occasion to apply 'to the
Public for pecuniary aid in the course of the present
year. To this inquiry the Chairman and Deputy
answered, that from an estimate lately made up of
the Company's receiptS and payments till. the month
of January, 18 10, appeared probable they might be
able to do without any public, assistance till , that
period; but that this could not be positively affirm-
ed by the Chairs without further and More certain
investigation. Mr. Dundas then said, that if the
Company were not. under a necessity of coming to.
Parliament this Session on the score of their finances,
he thought it would be expedient to delay the agita-
tion of the subjeel of the Charter in Parliament till
next Session,. because the Committee of the House
of Commons for inquiring in'o the state of, the Com-
pany's affaiss recently re-appointed, being about to
examine into all the great brarches of those affairs,
which-would necessarily engage the pUblic attention
on the tenewal of the Charter, it would be expected
by•the 'House,' that' the reports of that Committee
should be submitted to them, before the 'question of
the tenewal was brought forward; and from the
number and weight of the subjeets to be investigated,
it would be impraticable to report upon them soon
'enough to attbrd sufficient time to the House to go'.
through the Consideration of them in the remainder
of the Session ; it was, therefore, Mr. Dundas's
opinion, that it would be advisable to postpone the
agitation of the question until next Session ; but be-
fore lie.fixed his deterininatibn,'-he wished to receive
the.sentitnents of the Chairs and the Committee of
Correspondence on this i:liportant point, and those
sentiments would, probably influence him in shaping-
his answer to the last letter of the Court, daed 1.31 h
January, i 809,,0n the renewalbt the Charter. Ttie-
Chairman and Deputy Chairman beg leave to State,
that they, in reply, expressed their opinion to be
clearly in favour' of proceeding with, the business of
the Charter this Session, if it' should be praCticable
for the Committee of the- House to make the re-
qui+ite reports in due tune.
The Committee having deliberated on this com-
munication, are of opinion, first, that it will be ne-
cessary -to form as accura'e an estimate as possible
of'the home finances of the Company for the cur-
rent year; secondly, that it is very desirable the re-
newal of the Company's Charter should be brought
forward in Parliament this Session, even if the
Company should stand in ,need of no pecuniary
aid; but, thirdly, that if the Sete& Committee
cannot prepare their reports in due time, and
his Majesty's Ministers deem it proper to wait till
next Session, theiCourt must, of course, 'acquiesce ;
the wish and hope, that•if any circumstances should
occur in the course of the present season, favourable
to the agitation of the measure, it may still be
brought forward ; and if not in this session, as early
as possible in the next ; to which end the Commit-
tee-will be very ready to proceed with the President
of the Board of Commissioners in the discussions
already commenced.

No. 10 is another minute of the Court:

No.l t is a letter from the Chairman and Deputy-
Chairman to the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, dated
the sth of December, 1809, and states; that ip the
opittion of the Committee of Correspondence em-
powered by the Court ot. DireEtors to conduct the
details of the negociation, it was desirable that the
discussion on the renewal. of the Company's Char-
ter should tae brought on in the ensiling session,
toth on account of the general situation ot the Corn-
psny's affairs, and also on account of the particular
pressure on their finances, arising chiefly from the
transfer of pait of the Indian debt to England.

No. 13 is a letter from Lord Melville to the Chair-
man, dated 17th Dec. 1811. •He adverts to tile pp-
vision for renewing the Charter with
.the exclusive
trade and territorial possessions, and the views of
Government as expressed on'the subject in 1808 ;
but does not feel' it requisite to enter minutely into
the arguments and on behalf of the Company. He
touches on two points of importance : the first is the
transfer of the Company's army to the Crown,
which, though strongly recommended by many,
he considers as a matter for future arrangement ;
the second is the plan for transferring the Indiadebt
to this country, to.enable them to meet their eit—
peaeti demands. He hopes the time is come, since
uncertainty as to the amount of the demands is
removed, for providing out of the Company's ow4l
resources, without public aid, the means of satis.
tying their India creditors. If the Company are
willing that the discussions on the charter shall pro-
ceed as relating to the trade on the principle-he pro-
poses, he is willing to receive farther suggestions as
to the mode to be pursued.
Nos. 14, 15, and 16, are merely Minutes of the
Secret Court. .

No. 17 is a letter front the Chairman and De-
puty "Chairman to Lord Melville, dated the 4th of
March, tBl 2. It states that' as to the trade of India,
they conceive themselves precluded from. any far-
ther observations by the answers a!ready received to
all the arguments which they could urge upon that
subject. If this alteration should be with his Ma-
jesty's Ministers an ildispensable condition; to pro,
posing in Parliament the renewal of the Company's
privileges, the Court would, though ieluCtantly,
offer this measure to the consideration of the - pio-
prietore. They felt themklves, ho .-A ever, obliged
to state titer convietion, that although this change
might be attended with serious inconveniencies to
to .the whole frame of their Government, it. would
not give to the nation those commercial advan-
tages which many persons are in the habit of con-
templating.

MA S WOOD, of No. 35, Maiden-lane, Covent-garden; and
No, 112, Strand, where Advertisements, Orders I

The C.urt,,without meaning to contend that mo
nopoly was alWays advantageons in cases of distant
commetce,'wete convinced that an :exclusive trade
to andia was the only one applicable to its peculiar
circumstances, and to the preservation of our pos-
sessions there, and for the truth,of opinion they
referred to the general accounts of the trade of tkat
country. •

The Cotirt, however, hoped that it would be un-.
derstood that such military lowers as are now vested
in the .Company would -remain unimpaired, whir h
could alone-induce them to expea to be Able, sails-
fae-totily either for the Company or the pnblic., to
perform the part which, had hitherto been assigned
to the Company in the government of, a distanteM-
pire; and also that such regulations would be
adopted as to prevent the'dangerons intercourse of
Europeans with the East ; and that such arrange-
ments would be made, With respe& to pecuniary
matters, as •would enable the COmpany to meet
with onfidence the present state of their affairs.
le Company had been accused of having made
repealed calls upon the public, for money for the
prosecution of ruinous coneerns, as if they had, dis-
sipatedslarge sums in useless undertaking's. They
were ready, however, to shew, that their. cormner-
cial affairs (to which alone their management had
been restri&ed) -.was invariably successful. • The
disbursements of the COmpany for 'commerce, for
stores, and for sums expended in the aCquirement
of territory,wit h forts, &c. amounted to 51,1£3i,1271:
whereas the capital of the Company, including bo:':d:;
at home, and other contingent credits at home and
abroad, amounted only to 22,567,9631.1eaving wba-
lance of more than twenty-eight millions and an'
half, which now constituted a permanent debt in
India and in Europe.
It was really a matter of astonishment, that from
such a capital they should be able to make such an
expenditure. In every war which had taken place
since the Company became possessed of territorial
acquisitions, large stuns had been expended in cap-
toting the settlements of the French, Dutch,. and
Danes, and in keeping the same until the political
views of the public required them.to be restored for
other.ohjeas in which the Company had no. inte-
rest. They had incurred part Of the expence of cap-
turing Ceylon for the Crown, and even of the Egyp-
tian expedrtion,which the Company always thought
ought to have been borne by the State. In the se
cond place, it had often been urged that the Com-
pany bad been favoured.with an exclusive trade. It
might, however, be fairly asked, if it were not fur
this exclusive trade, would India have now belonged
to Great Britain ? Whether the trade would have
been of greater magnitude in the hands of indi
viduals, yet remained to be proved. This trade had
last year produced to the public a revenue of
4,213,4251. which was colle6ted with 'a facility un-
known to other concet ns. It must also be particu-
larly observed, that for the:protealion of this great
trade, the public were not called upon for any direa -
contribution, while the possessions of the Crown-in
every quarter of. the globe have drawn from them'
large sums for the maintenance of troops. What
had thus been saved to the stare, the Company con-
ceived was gained by the public. I-laving offered
(hose cursory observations, they should refer to the
accounts subjoined to this letter.

To be continued.]

• On Tuesday the Captains of the Navy at Ports-
mouth provided an elegant dinner at the Crown Inn
for Admiral Sir ROGER CURTIS, Bart. on his retir-
ing from the command. Upwards of 6o Ottcers
were present.

The Gazette of Saturday contains two more Ad-
dresses to the PRINCE REGENT,Ihe one from Great
Yarmouth, the other from the town of Paisley,
thanking his Royal Highness for the grateful proofs
he has given that his' regard for the interests of the
Empire is paramonnt to all other considerations.—
The following just and patriotic sentiments will 'not
fail to be applauded by every sincere well-wisher of
his country : " Upon the evidence of the past, we
build firmly our hopes of what the future will be,
and we congratulate the Empire on so well founded
a prosped of having all its rights and liberties;both
civil and religious, guarded as heretofore, and the
brightness of its increased military glory preserved ;
trusting, that your Royal. Highness will ever most
readily find, in a candid and enlightened nation,
Counsellors, who will feel themselves hound" by duty
and honour to strengthen your Royal Htgliness's
Government with their advice, without stipulating
for particular measures."
The waste lands in England, capable of cultiva-
lion, are estimated at twenty millions of acres.—The
Grand Juries at the Stafford, Worcester, and Oxford
Assizes, have agreed to petition the Legislature for
a General Inclosure Aet.

A Mr. V. Shermute, hair-dresser, at Baltimore,
was lately found murdered in his house in that city.
An American Journal says, that he was allied to
the Bourbons 'through the maternal branch ; that
he was wealthy ; but that having conceived a pre-
diletlion for the business of a frizetar, he perSisted
in .praCtising it : he was of a mild and inoffensive
temp'er, except w hen. t he atrociousness of the French
Republic were the subject of discourse, when he
spoke with warmth : he is believed to have fallen a.
victim to his political pi
Tuesday, last a reputable farmer, residing at
Brent, near- Bridgewater, was committed to Wilton
gaol; charged with the murder of Elriabgth Coomer.
It appears that the deceased was within a few days
of her delivery of a child, of which the prisoner
was the supposed father, and that he had endeavour7
ed to persuade her to charge her pregnancy on some
other person: " odshe night `of her death. the pri-
soner had appointed to meet the deceased in a field
adjoining a publ c house, into .which he Went,' and
purchased a pint of brandy, and borrowed a glass.
When. tbe body was examined, nearly the whole
quantity of a pint of brandy was found in the
:stomach of the deceased, and the footsteps Ofa man
and likewise those of the untortomre woman, were
traced to the edge of the water. There were, it is
said, likewise other strocgly corroborating circum-
stances. The prisonetT was committed for trial.'

Last week Thomas Nlaxemen Brolievillg, chimney-
sweeper, wascorinnitted to Gloucester Gaol,"Charg-
ed with the wilful murder, by cruelty and ill-usage,_
of 'his apprentice, JatneS Briant, a 'boy about ten
years of age.

MR. liOkNEMANN, TUE GERMAN TRAVELLER

The Moniteur of the 3d ult. states, that act hen'ic
adviees kid been'receivei at Frankfort, announcing
that the celebra ed German traveller, Hornernanu,
who, about ten years at,o, set out from Cairo, to
di cover antiquities, and explore the interior of
Africa, was at Murzook, in the kingdom of Fezzan,
where he enjoyed the confidence of the Sultan, and
aEled as his Minister. From the long period which
had elapsed sinceany intelligence was heard of him,.
it was generally concluded by the Literati that lid
had perishtd., Fureign Journals, in slightly noticing
the aboveintel:igence, add, that like-our lamented
countryman, Mungo Parke, he had been carried
into slatet,y, and endured the most incredible hard.:
ships. Hornemann will he the first European who
ever penetrated to 17, zzan, the existence, of such a
kingdom hitherto resting on the credit of the Moors:
Fezzair is, a small circular domain, placed in the
midst 44-vast deserts, and is south of Tripoli, near
500, miles.

Extra& from the Calcutta- Monthly Journal, for
June, 1311 :—" No certain, intelligence has hither-
to been received of the,fate of Mungo Parke; but
it appears, by the English papers, that the accounts
(Ins .safely are again doubted. We knOw not
whether the folloAiog circumstances, as. communi-
cated by Mr. Pearce, in Abyssynia, to Captain Rod
land, at Mocha, in a letter, dated Ant ilon, rhr 2.9111
of December, 1 8 0, are calculated
.to lessen these
doubts or pot. The person alluded to is either Mr.
2.;:mpgi-, Parke or Mr. Hormfmann, who has been
sent by ,the Dilletanti Society on a similar mission.
A friend of Mr. Pearce, who has a relatton, a mer-
chant in the Srioa, Cotfa, and wt oleft `Eitar three
monthsago, said, that some strange white' man had
arrived in..the cc.ymtry ot 'Shot, acid .A as expemed at
Eta, with an intention to proceed to Tigri. Since
this information, Mr; Pearce heard, that a white
man was seen be,,Ond ..Ihoa..•` Mr. Pearce had •ob-'
tairied leave from _the Ras •to proceed to Shoa. In
consequence ofa letter addressed by Capialn Rod-
land to the.Ras_Welleta Stlasse, orders had been
given, that -in case Mr. Parke entered the t;rritOrts
of the.Ras, every attention was to be shewn him,
and every assistance afforded to him to reach Mas-
sown. • -

'The Emperor of Ansi-la has issued a rescript to
the States. of f-Tungary, in Which he, in suLstance,
states, that under existing circumstances he' cannot
desist from the demind he has made of 12,000,000
in money for the want.; of the empire.
A few days since; the remains of a Roman bath
were dkcoVered by some men ploughing near Dune-
ton. By the tines which are remaining, it is con-
jeaured to have been a vaporium, or sudaioriunt. It
is situate about two miles westward of i he celebrated
bath discovered last year at Bignor, and seven from
Arundel.

Friday night or early orr Saturday morning, the
preinises of Mr. Greats, of Old-street, St. Luke's,
%vele broke open and robbed of several articles of
plate, linen, wearing appaiel, &c. to the Yoke of
about 401. with , woich the thieves made their
escape. The villains etrefied their entrance through
a back yard, foking, with an iron crow, the hinges
of a back door.

On Saturday, at the Hatton Garden Police Office,
a person known to possess from 5 to 00001. funded
property, was remanded for further examination,
there being strong grounds for suspe6ling that he was
a principal, or an accomplice, in the robbery of the
Taunton mail coach, in May, 18 10, when a parcel,
containing 25001. in Bank of England notes was
carried off horn the coach by some passengers who
left it befote day-break. • -

Saturday evening, about eight o'cloCk, the driver
of an empty coal-waggon, which was passing down
Ludgate-hill, riding on the shafts, having, as sup-
posed, fallen asleep, fell f.om his seat under the
.waggon, one-of the wheels of which ran over his
right leg,. just below the knee, by which it was
sh .ckingly fraaured. He was immediately taken
to the Hospital, and, it is feared, must
,undergo an
amputation.