The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-19 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

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A Quarterly General Court of Proprietors of
East India Stock was held yesterday at the Company's House
in Leadenhall-street, which was made special, for the purpose
of resuming the consideration of the East India Trade Bill.
On the motion of the CllAlltitAN, the Court agreed to it
dividend of si.per cent. on the, Company's Stock for the halt'.
year commencing on the sth of January last, and ending on
the 6th of July next. •
Mr. it. JACKSON wished, before the Court proceeded to the
business of the day, to correct an error which had gone abroad
in a report-of what he had said at the last Court. Ile was
made to say, when alluding to the attornies practising in the
Supreme Court of .Calcutta, that many of them were persons
without rank, fortune, character, or education. Now he would
appeal to the Honourable Chairman whether he had so ex.
pressed himself—and whether he had• not put the case hypo.
thetically—in this manner • that as the same regulation did not
exist in the Court at Calcutta,' as in those of Madras and
Bombay, the want of such regulation would perhaps open
the door to the adniission of improper persons ; he, at the
same time, expressed the high opinion he entertained of the
eminent agistrate at the hea.d of that Court which precluded'
the idea of any unworthy individuals being admitted. He un-
derstood, from very high -authority, that the Judges of that
Court were ready to .agree to any regulation that the Hon.
Court of Proprietors might choose to adopt. So far from ar-
raigning the character of any one of those Gentlemen: who
practised in the Court: at Calcutta, he had no hesitation in
avowing,:that he knew no fact on which he could impeach -their
respectability.
TheCtrainmax said imperfectly recollected that the Learned
Gentlemen put the case-hypothetically.
The CIIMAMAN then laid before the Court an amended.
copy of the India. Trade and moved, " That the Court
approve of the-said Bill;.". .
Mr. Rims expreseed;librepprobation of the general prin-
ciple of the hill ; but complained that the system of recipro.
city between Epgland arid India wile :not complete. He cell-,
tended that the Laiicar ought' to be. placed on the same footing
'with British 'seamen. • t • ,
Mr. Tocsin argued that, Mex.tend to the natives of India
the privileges. of seamen; Would be useless, is India
was not a merit:42e Country'rneither -was its population at,
tubed to maritime affairs.
Mr. B. JacKsow, in a speech of great ability, urged the
necessity of securing the coasting trade of India for the natives.
'Phis Bill would entirely deprive them of' it.
'Mr. Gnaw Thad never, since 1813, changed his opinion with
respect to the coasting trade.i lie thought it was at that time.
secured by law to the natives. But some Gentlemen on this
side of the water, and certaitf.of the Company's legal officers
abroad, had discovered that the law did not prevent the Met-
chants of this country. from partaking in that trade; when this
was the case, he did not think the Directors could devise any re-
medy for the evil. :
Mr. THANT viewed the measure as wise and salutary:
should therefore support it.
Mr. S. Ductile expressed his entire hostility to the admission
of Lavers to the privileges of' British seamen.
:Mr. RonEwrsow approved of the Bill, which' would not, in
his opinion, injure the Indian population.
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Mr. 14owwitEe repelled, strong terms, the proposition
for placing Lascars, a crafty, deceitful, body of men, on a
footing with the generous name of England.
The motion was then agreed to.—Adjourned.

CORPNERS' INOIESITS.---All Inquest was held
on Monday evening on the body of Edward Searle, a hair-
dresser; of Milk-street:, Walworth, before C.. 1 E )11.: TT, Esq.
Coroner, at the Red Lion, near Camberwell turnpike. The de-
' ceased, it appearell;- cut his throat on Thursday night, and
was found dead on Friday morning. Verdict—" Insanity."—
Yesterday cvenifig, an Inquisition was taken at the Catherine
Wheel, , Catherine Wheel-alley, Whitechapel, before J. W.
UnWih, FIR., Coroner, on the body of John Ilughes, a shoe-
" Maker, who on Monday night was found hanging by a cord
from an iron hook over a window, at the house where he re-
sided. It appeared that the deceased had for sonic time paid
his addresses to a young woman to whom he was very much
attached, but who had latterly discarded him, and transferred
her affections to another.—Verdict, " Temporary mental de.
rangement."