The Sun.
London, England, 1815-12-21 00:00:00

GENERAL OCI-ITERLONY.

`l-.lesterday a 6eneral Court of -Proprietors as-
sembled at the Ir.c i i ilouse, and on the Chair-
nith's taking the Chair the ''ltesoliition of the
Court of Direct Ors, with respect to the prOpriet‘y
of granting a I.U:usion of 10001. per annum to Cie-
nerillony was read.
•
The ChairTll4.(Mr, Q..GRANT) conceived, that
it %could not be necessary for hint to go into much
detail upon the services of Sir Da id o!;hterlony.
They were sufficiently huown and appreciated by
that Court and the public, lie had, however,
tristinguished himselt -lately in a tvar such as we
had never hcfme known in India,—a war, which,
frmn the discipline and courage of the enemy, as
%vell as front the difficulties of the, country, pte-
sented :the greatest obstacles. Those obstacles
were, however, .surtnotinted by the vaiout and
skill,displqed by Sir David Qchterlony, and the
enepy were reduced to sue for peace; on terms.
.appeared honourable- and advantageous to
the Company, by the cession of provinces that
were of- :great importance to the enemy. The
Prince. Regent had already sheen his sensemithe
value of his services, by rewarding him with ho-
nours,' and especially %vith the' hereditary honour
of a 'oaronetage. lie taped, that the, l'Foprie-
tors wound unanimously agree in the vote foe
giving hint the means .of supporting those ho-
nours. tie therefore moved, that the Court
sli,mld agree in the resolution- which had " been
read to them.

Mr. R. JACKSON found himself ohlige(l to i object
to the vote propo,ed, on the ground that sufficient
information had not been laid before the Court.
lii the post common vote of: giving an indemnity
to an officer who had lost his oaggige, there re-
quired at least two COurts,to be held, and now a
pension of 10001. a-year is proposed, without the
'troper doeuntents being; laid. before the. Court.
tie could not; at a time that the' Company had a
debt of forty' tuilliOns on their backs, consent so,
hastily' to the grant of_ a pension of 1,0001. a,
year. He did not mean to insinuate, that the
grant vas:itot deserved, but• he thought it would
be more for the credit of Sir Para! Ocliterlony.
that the grant should be agreed to, after lull infor-•
matron, and after the dispatches had been reguhi-r-
-ly inid before the Proprietors. There
,Was 'one
point, however, of which he could nor avoid talc-
ingThotide. It appeared to hint
.e2“raor.iin:iry,
that such a grant should be proposed in favour of
a very meritorious but ,subordinate Officer, •a
time when the merits- of •his superior, Lord
Moira, were passed over. in sileqce. Whllever
Sir DavidOcatellooy had dune in the • Nepaul
vfi.if, was dune the: anthortty and Orrec,
butt iLit great statesman, Who was his su.
perior. He' ethiLl riot avoid considering, from
all the dispatches that had
.been published in
the newsnipers, that Lord Moira had acted
throughout this war, with.a, feeling; worthy of an
Englishman. He had endeavoured, in the first
place, to conciliate the'Rajalt of Nepaul, but when
that Prince had iovaded some of our provinces, anti,
intuderea in cold blood, Officers that had been
scot tolom, then hi, Lordship most properly de,
terinined upon war. -When he had made that de-
cision, lie, vOhdueted the war in such .1 mapper as
that it Was finished in one campaign, on terms
most advantageous to the Company, and, at the
sainutiine, giving a severe _lesson to the
.enemy..
'To grant the vote of thanks and a,pension to an
interior officer, would appear to be siiently casting
an: afirout on Lord Aloira. It wontd be departing
from the constant practiceof the Company-pit other
oceitsions.
,Neither Loid•lVelle,ley, the Maimis
Cornwallis, Sir H. nonroe, or any other superior
Officer; .had been passed over by them in that
way. For this reason, as well as for the other
reasons he had submitted, he \visited that the dis-
patetieS should be laid regularly before the pro-
prietors, before such a vOte \tkis passed. :Ile felt,
as he was sure every_ proprietOr telt,.asincere ac-
knowledgment of the• great services which .had
been perforated by General Qiitterfony;
,but he
thought that it would be better, that, a ;;rant in
bus favour should pass atter the regular int-Orin:a-
. tion on,thusubject wasiaid
,before the Court. it.
'would then he the deliberate act of their
,judg-
ment, instead of a tribute from their feelings:, Lie
thought that ail the acts of the Court shodld ap-
pear to be acts of deliberate judtinent, .and. not
of tumultuous feeling. He therefore could not
agree. to the present .resolution now, but wished
that the dispatcnes respecting the Nepaul_ war,
should first be laid before the proprietors.
Mr.: HUMa spoke at some length out the same
side. He entered into lit pretty long detail Of the
military career of Sir llavid Oeitieriony,.to wh.ont
he gave the highest tribute of applause. 42- the
sauce time, he thought that the debate, should be
. postponed wail the papers -were before the itro,
prietors.

Air. KINNAIRD .also spike- at some _length Ott
the same side, and concluded, by moving an amend..
mutt for the purpose of haying the papers previ-
ously laid before the proprietors.
A very long co,:verittion then took place, in
which' Mr. T wtss, • M DI y.mx, and untoy other
Gentlemen, spoke warmly favour of the grant
to Generul Ochterlony, which they did not con-:
ceive as casting the slightest reflexion on Lora
Moira. When Lord Nelson, With a detachment
of Lord St. Vincent's fleet, %von the celebrated
battle of the Nile, thanks and rewards %veto inr.
mudiately eon erred upon him, without referring
to his superior.
The resolution was finally put and unanimously
agi ced to.

f
Allen moved that all thspatt.hca
from the I,varl of Moira, Lr IU tt,e cunttncncenr,:ilt

FPnicE, sEVENPF,NCE.

•- • - • *-.7k
of the Neraul ray, should be laid before the
Coin t.
- •

Jr.it Ttuss to know whether any nite-
istwthr,„ hkendetl. it' be hrou. tt. to, ...I: J.
lie thou.ohL,lt to. m.,i?t-u-ni; the exec.., ti wc
111:••:c ctltitut.tlic .!lett s:kir-cc
JACKSOZt- said; th C. it
,stary In :;I ate whAi other_ itif/ti4,11 ht. S?li^!lt ti ink
necessary to bt.iitij torwartt on a'•fu.Ant; lie
hopedlll,,lt unition of his t :)e
as he trusted teat: the Direci.s.r kvonti them-
'selves torwi:rd scone re.so;iirion of thanks :o -
Lord Liiitt •WOtlid sale liitu'li•ont
;,I1(1 tint lie:would nothing more to do
thoti echo the sebt oncuts of. Court.• •

The -Ciiairmau -said, that at prelient the Court
of Directors were riot able: to •forin a I;ecide; (TV;
nion On fire subject,. .They Avititeti for the -I:.xt
&spate; from Lord.Aloira„ m answer to the last.
He Gill not seethe necessity -of the mution; hut if
the Court were disposed to agree to it, he thought
it would be better to :JAW to it,the production also
of the dispatcliet from the Comr.any eu Loft

Mr, Jficx.sox bad no objection so to amend his

Incitisot).

After some conversation the. ;notion was zega.
tived the Chairinan signified, ti there
coal be.no. objection to the Proprietors _reading.
the diSpatehes. at the India-.l),ottstr.

M 4. .(:0014.

The CHAIRMAN stated, thAt the Directbrs had,
received tliis morning,. just hero; the Court met,
a letter from the Board or Control, in which 'Neva
many alterations to .the ,di-patch which they hail
prepared upon tl►is subject. It s:% mild be, of
course, itecessar2, to take some time for the pur-
pose of...considering those. alterations..

KINNAIRD was sorry,. in sonic respect, to
find .(hat the Board of Control w as. the body to
which the Proprietots had to look upAn the pre,
sent instance, for the carrying into. effect what
was their intention and view of the case: appeal'.
ed now to be clearly proved, that Mr. Shearsl/4,1i, all
old servant of the Comptuty, had been; most
wrottaully deprived of .his situation, by the re-
preSentations of
.Mr. Cook,
.who was looktog
for. his place. The court had already granted
twenty thOmand pagodas. to 'Mr. Shearson, as et
coMpcnsation lor his loss, and it they abstainett
from givhtg, a positive recommendation to the
Directors ,to restoi e Mr.. Shearsou, and to suspend
Mr. Cook, and put lum• on his trial for ,t conspi.
racy, it :Its merely Iron, delicacy to their ex,o-
ti.e,
,and a confidence that they woidd have 'so
acted. lie.believed now,.that the .Board of Con-
trol, the' Court ot Proprietors, and the public,
were all of one mind, that Mr. Cook might to be
reMOved trinn that situation into which he had
gotten lay inisrepresentati: .1 of the conduct of Mr.
Shearson, and he would he sery surryil the 1./1--:
rectors were to endeavour to thwart tihot thtfy
must know to be the intention laf the Court of
Proprietors. lie would appeal to the Chairman,
and to every one of the'Dii•eetors, whether, uvula.:
their honour, they did not believe that it at a for-
met Court, be had spec.i tc.tliy inlayed for such a
recommendation to, the Court of Directors, it
'would not have been adopted.
Mr. JACK SQN conceived, that justice would no?.`
be.done npon the occasion, if Mr. Shearson was
not restore.d situation front which he had •
been wrongfully reinoved, and -if Mr..COok irast
not suspended and pot upon his trial for the con-
spiracy. Mr. Cook had already, in a legal docu-
ment, confessed -that he made those representa-
tions trout the basest inOti, es As Mr. Shear-
son then•had been susp.2l.le;i, put upou his trial, ,
and found completely innocent, it Was but jus-
tice that Mr. Cook should, in hiS turn, tie sus-
pended- and put upon his trial, and that
Shearson should itinnediately be put in possession.
ot. that.place from which he had buch wroligtully
driven. ' •

CUAIRMAN could not pretend -ity whe-
ther a former Court would n.). tnave agreed Co such.
a motion, as the Hon.Member.(Mr.•Kintatird) ha. 4.
Mentioned, it it had been hen-[nude. He thought,
however, that even it they laid given such re-
commendio i‘m, unless .they hail intended it to be
Mandatory on the Court .01 Directors, the Direcw
tors would still. have .hceo oonad to exercise w
ever discretion was confitkd to them, to the, 'test
of their. judgments dna .conscienee. - .As to Mr.
Shearson, an indemnity had bat,,ii voted to him for
his-sufferins, he had gone track. to India
with su::11 a recommendation, :as it must be sup-
posed.the (ioveritniet of Madras would pay the
most prompt, attention to. He did not,
ever, understand that the removal of- Mr. Cook
from his situation and. his absolute destruction,
was,the Measling.of the .Court. :This transaetiutt
had taken place four or five years ago, ki no com-
plaint had been made of Mr. Couh'6.conduct in his

otfice, • It eras. nut catstothaty tvith the Directors
to .deprive auy of their .servants of their piace
and order a proseciitiouagailibt thew, withoht, at
, least, hearing first what they had to S their
own vindication. There Nver(": sortie recoinineu-
dltions which the Court of Proprietors mutt give,
th:tt would be felt as Inaridates Iw the Court of

Dinctors ;ba if the recoanendmion was i)ot of
that nature, they inust act atemding tO their
jwigrpeor, and whatever -discretion it. was itl
tended to repose in thorn. -
1. A very long conversation then took place, but
for the reason mentioned by the Ch4irman in first

mentioning it the determination AN-its po.,;ponetl
to a tuture nay.

Two acres ofground have lattly been marked
out near BoVision,B4y, at Plyinowth, on the vast
side of the entrance_to the Sonnd, t‘hich ale to
be cut into• a reservoir, •as a watering vlaix fo;
the lloyal Navy.