The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-07 00:00:00

No. XXVIII.

OBCEIIVATIONS ON VIE HINTS SUGGESTED EV THE
DEPUTATION op THE COURT OF DIRECTORS,
MARCH 3, 1812,

Ist, 2d, and sd. IT is deemed' advisable, with a

- view to the security of the revenue and to other ob-
jeCts conneaed with the trade tó China, to leave it
.on its, present footing, and to guard, by proper regu-
lations, against anyericroachment on that branch of
the Company's exclusive privilege.
4th. This proposition ought to be acceded to;
‘vith the reservation, however, that the Govern-
_ monis in India ought to be restriated from imposing
new duties, without the previous sanction of the au--
thoriti'es in England.
sth. The Company are understood to have; in
some degree,, the power of regulating the internal
trade of s altpetre in India ; it appears, therefore, to'
be scarcely' necessary to impose any other restrictions
on the exp. ottation of saltpetre from India, than such
ds mats be tieetnal expedient for political ob'e4ts, es-
pectally in tin le of war.
Gth. The at loption of the regulation suggested in
this' proposition,, will probab:y tend to the security
and advantage o f the public revenue, in collecting
the duties on all ;.trecles imported from the East In-
dies and China, as well as other coun!rtes to the
eastward of the Coe of Good Hope.
7th. The Cornpat ty ought at least to he indem-
nified from the charges incurred by this manage-
ment.

Bth. There does not appear to exist any sufficient
reason for preventing sh ips from clearing out for the
East Indies from other pasts of the United Kingdom
besides the por of London..
9th. It will be necessary., eit,her by the rrgula-
tions suggested in this proptoition, or by others of a
similar description, to guard :gainst the evil- therein
described.

10. It will probably be neceOsaty to regulate the
exportation of military stores to the East Indies, and
also of naval scores in time of war.

t. It is understood that the obj r6l of this propo-
sition is to. secure to the manutatturers of piece
goods.in India the continuance of regular and con-
stant employment, under the same system of local
management, for their benefit, wlbich prevdils at
present. If that object is likely to btt attained,with-
out continuing the restrictions mentioned in this
proposition, it certainly would be desirabile that they
should cease, except in so far as it may be necessary
to regulate the importation of- India piece goods,
with a view to the protection of British m ilnufac-
turers. - • •

12. As no such restriEtions exist at present the
importation of silk by pi ivate merchants, and a $ the
reasons ivhich have 'hitherto been -adduced, oi t the
part of the Court of .Diretiors, for establishing.!tuch-'
a regulation, though entitled to much considerat ion,
do not appear to be conclusive, it will scarcely bo
deemed expedient to agree to this proposal.
1,3., This suggestion appears to be perteelly tea- I
sonable.

14. It is understood, that this.proposition is found-
ed on ,a principle of guarding against the• dangers to
which vessels of less burthen than four hundred tons
would be exposed on a voyage to the East Indies,
and also of. providing for the security of the revenue,
which might be atietled by permitting importations
in smaller vessels. These reasons, though entitled
to due consideration, do not appearto be sufficiently
strong to justify the proposed restriotion, or the
making a distinEtion, in that respeO, between
ships trading to the East Indies and to other coun-
tries.
15. I his seems to be reasonable.

36th. It will be necessary to provide, by proper
tegulatiOns, for the care and maintenance of those
persOns, and for their return to the East Indies.
171 b. This proposal would be wholly inadmibsible,
unless it were jimited to 'such unexpired engage-
ments as do not extend beyond March 14, 1814,
when the Company's present term of exclusive pri-
vileges will expire; but the public may fairly look
to the Company to bear this bnrthen, as a compen-
sation, to a-certain extent, for the continuance of
the exclusive trade to China. .

18th. It will be in&spensably necessary, for the
purpose of guarding against the inconvenience here-
in alluded to, that the existing restrilion shall be
continued, with such alterations as may be requisite
in the new system of trade.

91 b. The number of his Majesty's forces.to be
maintained by the East India Company may, with-,
Out inconvenience, be limited, as herein suggested.
It will be necessary, however, in consequence of the
increased extent of the British terthories in India,
since the passing of the A& by which the numbri-
is'at present regulated; that a considerable addition
should be made to it.

20. It will be necesiaryjphat the present system
of accounting between the East India C6mpany and
the Paynnster-Ganeral should be' abultshe4, and
new regulations enaEted.

21. These demands must necessarily '.be arranged.
on the principles suggested by the Committee of the
House of Commons, who have reported upon the
subject of the aecounta hetein referred to. It it
were necessary or proper, in discussing the future re-
gulations which it may be deemed advisable to es-
tablish, respefting the affairs of the East India Com-
pany, there would be no difficulty in demonstrating,
that the amount of force maintained in India has
not gone beyond what was requisite for the defence
ana security of the Company's possessions, and for
other operations. 'intimately and 'inseparately. con-
neeed with those übjetts.
22. The Propt:etors,'ought to be secured, as at
present, in their dividend, Of ten and a halt per cent.
.23d. The whole of the surplus funds of the East

d
'mkt (.'..,:mirany, ar home, apd abroad,- ought to be
applied, in the first instance, .to the redudion of
debt, tilt it is reduced in India to the sum of ten
millions, and the bond debt at home to the skirl] of
three millions, after providing for, a proportionate
increase of thecapital stock of the Company, lithe),
shall think fit to avail themselves of the power now
vested in them by law to that etre6t.
,2 4t h . It, is intended to submit to Parliament, a
proposition to that effed, or' similar in sobNrance.
th. If the objed adverted to in this proposi
lion can be obtained by exclusion from the domi'-
nion's of the Emperor of China, and a prohibition to
import the
,produce of that country without license
from the Company, it will be preferable to the mode
herein suggested. There seems to be uo reason for
excluding the private trade from the Spice Islands:

To be continued.)

POLICE:

UNtnN tiALL.—A Mr. Cribb stated that be had
an orphan nephew, about eight yeaes of age, whom
he bad brought up from infancy, but the hardness
of the times had obliged hitti to part with the child,
and he had determined to send him fora time to
his /grandmother, who resides at Bristol. Edward
Sweet was the son of a neighbour, .and was appren-
tice SO a person at PoistOl ; he vv as, however, about
three months ago in London on a visit to his friends,
and offered to takecharge of the child on his return
to Bristol; this offer was &dilly accepted, and Mr.
Cribb gave him a one-pound note to defray , the
expences on the raid: they lett town to-
gether about ten weeks.since ; and, some time after,
rr letter was r,ceivedl from the grandmother; expies,.
sing her surprise that she had not seen the child ;
this litter proome 1 inquiry, when it was discovered
that neither he nor his conduCtor had ever reached
Bristol ; nor has the child yet been .heard of. In-
formation was given of the circumstance at Ibis
Officer and a warrant granted. for Sweet's' appre-
hension ;. and on Saturday Ire was discovered and
taken into custody by Barrett, the Officer, at his
father's house. When brought belote the 111.gis7
trate, -he stated, that he took the child as far as
Reading, where he stopped at the King's Arms, and
got out of-the waggon in which they had travelled
so far, and whilst drinking with a friend, the Wag.;
gun went forward, and left him and the boy behind.
Upon this he changed 'his Mind, and determined to
return to London. Fie, however, gave the child
five shillings, which was what remained of the one-
pound note he had received from, -Mr. Cribb, and
recommended him to the care of the landlord, de-
siring. him to put him into the first Bristol waggon
thatt should pass by, and left him ; he had not
inquired for.or heard of him since, but supposed he.
had beached Bristol in safety.
The worthy Magistrate- observed, that the pri-
soner did not seem aware of the awkward predica-
,ment in which,' by his cotidua, he had placed him-
self; for should the'child 'not be found, unless he
could give a much more satisfatitoty account than
he had yet done, it would probably prove of seri-
ous consequence to bitrh So serious' did he con-
sider it, that he should feel it his duty to commit
him, unless he could produce sufficient bail, till some ,
information respecting the child was procured. The
prisoner not being able to procure bail, i.vas com-
mitted till Tuesday. ,

Extra& of a Letter from Carrick-on-Suit- :-
-" Notwithstanding the •capital consiElions which
hive so recently taken place at the Assizes at Clon-
mel and Waterford, we are sorry to find that, the
system of Caravatism continues to. prevail with un-
diminished terror in the neighbourhood of Carrick-
on-Suir, where the devoted peasants (in many. in-
st3nces) like the deluded Indians, worship their
savage leaders more through fear than love.—An
old loan of the lowest class, the opposite neigh-
bour of a person (who some weeks ago was most
harbai•ously and 'inhumanly murdered in the suburbs
of that' town) horror-struck at the sight of the
mutilatt d carcase of his intimate, exclaimed at
the wake , that if the wife could identify the mur-
derer& of .Iser husband, she ought to swear against
them. In consequence of these words, he was
dragged
,frorn his bed on the night of Monday
last, the 3Otl instant, to the outside of his cabin
door, and theme beat most inhumanly until left for
dead ; his daughter threw herself on, the body of
her aged parent to save him from their blows, and
was also, cut dreadfully in the head, and beat with
savage barbarity. His son, vs ho slept in a horise ad-
jo ng,*rushed out, armed. with a pitchfork, to their
deretice,:and in some degree succeeded in putting
the assailants to flight, and as it appears must have
infliEted a severe wound on some one of the party,
a tooth, belonging to one of the villains, fresh torn'
from' its socket, with the flesh of the gum largely
adhering to it, having been, as it is supposed, thrust
out with the point of alit pitchfork, having been
found at the door. Application was made early next
morning by the, poor woman so 'severely beat, to
Counsellor Herbert, ,who, with Capt.-Blake, of the
North Mayo Militia, a Magistrate ,of the county,
proceeded to, the spot, and, on
.information given
by the old Man, secured a person of the name of
Hickey, under very coroborating suspicious circum-
stances, who has, we hear, been identified by the
old man, Read, whose life, we hear is despaired of.
—Same night, at ,Mo!hil, two [Liles the ot!:er side
of Carrick, in the county Waterford, the house of
an industrious man, who had been warned by the
'Caravats a week before, to throw up his farm, .was
surrounded, hut having expeEted their attack,, so'
well had he secured the entrance, that they found it
impratticable to force admittance, whereupon they
climbed upon the roof of the house, and sttippiug
the thatch from about the chimney, they fired
doWn through the breach, and shot dead a fine boy
of three years old, at the moment, vainly clinging
for prote6tion round the neck of its unfortunate mo-
ther, who, far advanced in a state of pregnancy, has
been reduced to a state that leaves, little hope that
she can long survive the event. •

Sunday se'nnight, as three men were in an iron
stone pit in Sheffield Park, clearing away the water,.
the wall and part of the batik fell in upon them;
Two of them escaped by climbing up the ropes, but
the body of the third was atierwards found dead un-,
der the stones and earth.

BIRTHS.

On Friday, at his house in Carey-street, Lincolies-1111.~
fields, the Lady of D. Pollock, Esq. of a Son.
On the 4th inst. in Great Rusiell-street, Mrs. GC'-4
Twining, of a Daughter.
On Sunday last, at Buntingford, the Lady' of Frederic';
,Vantlermulen, Esq. of a Sou and Heir.

• MARRIED.
On Saturday last, at Queen-sqtiare Chapel, Bath, t‘
ReY. George Calvert, to Mrs. Ryder. •

DILD.

Lately, in the East Indies, Captain William Stokoe,l3t4
Commander of the I;tinces6 Charlotte, who (when
:minder of the ,Union extra-ship) so gallantly captured I'4
Venus French privateer, of striwrior force.
,„
On the ad inst., Mary, (laughter of George Cooke, k of
Lincoln's-inn-fields, aged five mouths. •
The same day, the Hon. Mrs. Augusta -lenkm, wife
the Rev.• Dr. lenkin, of Wotton, in. Surre, sister of s'.
Frederick J•'.velyn, Bart. and late. Maid of llouour to the
Princess Dowager of Wales.
On Thursday last. in her .7ith year, Mrs. Anna Catlia:ir,
Slapp, relict of Thomas Slapp, Esq. of Botterdale, in S":i
folk, add only daughter of the late )ohn Kendall, E:.'4 °
Norti.valsharn, in Norfolk.
Early on the same -m,,rii;ng, at his house in Montr,gui,
street, Portman-square, StqMen Payne Galway, Esq• °t
Thetford, in Norfolk.. •
The same day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at t;cr
.
house at Beaconsfield, M rs. Burke, the amiable relief of th`
Right lion. Edmund Burke : she.was in her 76th year. f
- On Friday last, at Denmarkehill, Mrs. Wright, teli6-o.
the late Peter Wright, Esq. Master of the Reports, ltco'
ter's Office.
On Saturday last, Elizabeth Ann Sparkes, in the 9th
of her age, third daughter of Mc. Charles Spsrkes, of lint
ley.street.
•. Suddenly, last week, .at yforcl• place, KenningNii;
Mrs. k lizabolvE Ilion, late of Little Gacdesden, H-rts
the advanced age of 87..

111G14 WA"' ER 'AT LONDON BRIDGE TU.MO

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