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LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1841.

1811 E A:D-S TREET WARD.
At a COURT of WARDMOTE, held at Cord-
wainers' Hall, within the said Ward, on the 21st day of De-
cember, 1841 (and continued by adjournment on the 22d),
before the Worshipful JOHN LAINSON, Eq., Alderman of
the said Ward, for the Election of Ward Officers for the year
ensuing, it was resolved unanimously—
That the very exemplary manger in which their various
duties are performed by our long-tried and faithful Repre-
sentatives in the Court of Common Council demands the most
grateful acknowledgment from the inhabitants of this Ward,
and that, therefore, the cordial thanks of this Wardmote be
given to James Southby Bridge, Esq., Deputy, Messrs. Wil-
liam Davisson, William Kipling, William Laurence, Nicholas
!Vaughan, and John Laurence, for the zeal, integrity, and
diligence at all times displayed by them in the discharge of
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Drvbrough, for the very able mahner in which they discharged
their duties as Inquestmen of this Ward during the past year,
when their collection for the poor exceeded any former year on
record, and which collection was expended entirely in the relief
of the poor and destitute recommended to their consideration,
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loC arles Williams, who have resigned their t.ffices of Common
uncilmen of, this Ward, for the performance of the various
( lies devolving upon them so long as they continued in the
'urt of Common Council, and particularly fur their attention
o the local interests of the Ward.
That the Resolution be fairly transcribed, and transmitted
to those Gentlemen, signed by the Ward Clerk.
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Worshipful John Lainson, . Esq., Alderman, for the z'a.l,
ability, and integrity, with which he discharges the important
duties devolving upon a Magistrate of this City, for the ready
access he has uniformly afforded to the inhabitants of this
Ward, for hit polite attention to his fellow-Citizens, and for
his impartiality during the present Election.
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MANLY VIGOUIt : a Popular Inquiry into
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TURE DECLINE ; with Instructions for its COMPLETE
RESTORATION, addressed to those suffering from the De-
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and Delusive Habits, Youthful Imprudence, or Infection ; with
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than in " Lucas on Manly Vigour." The initiation into
vicious indulgence—its progress—its results in both sexes, are
given with faithful, but alas ! for human nature, with afflicting
truth. However, the Authors have not exposed the evil with-
out affording a remedy. It shows how " Manly Vigour"
temporarily impaired, and mental and physical emasculation,
produced by uncontrolled indulgence of the passions, can be
restored ; how the sufferer, who has pined in anguish from the
consequences of early indiscretion—afraid almost to encounter
his fellow man, can regain the vigour of health and moral
courage. The work is written in a concise and perspicuous
style, displaying how often fond parents are deceived by the
outward physical appearance of their youthful offspring ; how
the attenuation of the frame, palpitation of the heart, derange-
Ment of the nervous system, cough, indigestion, and a train of
symptomsindicative of consumption or general decay, are often
ascribed to wrong causes ; and instead of being the natural re-
sults of congenital debility or disease, are the consequences of
an alluring and pernicious practice, alike destructive to the
mind and body.''—New Bell's Weekly Messenger.
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organization."—Magnet .
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Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on
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The rage for books in all departments of Science, literature,
and the, arts, was, we believe, never so prevalent as at the pre-
sent time. The unavoidable consequence of this is, that we
meet a very considerable proportion of indifferent, uselr.,s, and
eveti bad books. With the- tome of this prejudice on our
minds, we with no little reluctance were induced to peruse
Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled " Manhood ;" nor did it re-
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one of the common stamp. The scientific views taken by the
authors of the source and origin of many of the most distressing.
effects of certain depraves! habits, fully establish . their claim to
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never-failing consequence of the vicious habit of which it
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[ADVERTISEMENT.]
CHRISTMAS SOUVENIR.—At a period when
the social sympathies aro ,most predominant, and the
genial influence of" Home is felt in the highest degree
—more espticially by "My young misses," just arrived
to spend her vacation at the " Old Hall," the most ap-
propriate present-becomes the first subject of considera-
tion ; a merely useful one can afford no evidence of
taste, while a present possessing no claims of utility,
shows a want of judgment. To combine these requisites,
we can hardly suggest a more fitting souvenir than Row-
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" Odonto," which, from their beautify mg effects on the
hair, complexion, and teeth, are calculated to preserve a
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The Editio Princeps of Virgil, which is now
in the possession of a Neble Lord, was, a few years
since, discovered in a monastery in Suabia. The jolly
old monks to whom this valuable morsel belonged could
not be prevailed on t. part with it for money. It, how-
ever, happened to be known that they were remarkably
fond of hock, which came to the ear of an English con-
noisseur, and for seven guineas' worth of hock he ob-
tained this rare copy of Virgil. He afterwards sold it
to a collector of books for 501., and it cost the present
possessor 4001.
THE LIBERALS OF SOUTH SHIELDS AND
THE PUBLIC DAIL—We 'are autherised to state that
the para?Taph in last weeks' Newcastle Journal relative
to the South Shields Liberals, is, as Usual, an unmiti-
gated fak.elieoti
,that, instead of Mr. Wawn, the mem-
ber, refusing to advanFti money for his election expenses,
the Committee returned him. some weeks ago,
50/.,
which he hid adVanced above what was required ; and
that, instead of being in discord, the Liberals there were
never more united, and better able to beat their oppo-
nents, as fustigated John's honest friends there well
known.— Tyne Mercury:
DEATH BY A .I A LL.—An inquest was held
on Tuesday before Mr. Baker, at the London Hospital,
on the body of James Dunbar, aged 15, an apprentice
belonging to the brig Collingwood, of Ayr. From the
evidence of David Calloway, chief mate of the Colling-
wood, it appeared that on Wednesday last whilst the
vessel was lying for repairs in a dry dock at Gun Dock,
Wapping, the deceased was sent upon an errand. Wit-
ness stood upon the deck awaiting his return, and just
as deceased placed his foot upon the gangway he slipped
and fell to the bottom of the dock, a depth of 25 feet.
Witness, with the rest of the crew, went to his assist-
ance' and without delay carried him to the above hos-
pital. The injuries he received were fractures of both
legs and severe lacerations of the scalp. He died on
Saturdo, last. Verdict—" Accidental Death.".

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

A C eneral Court of the Proprietors of East India
Stock waS.held at their house in Leadenhall-street, yes-
terday morning:
G. LYALL, Esq., M.P., and most of the Directors
entered the Court at twelve o'clock, when the minutes of
the last Court were read and confirmed.
The documents relating to the Portuguese Catholic
priests at Goa, which were laid before the House of
Lords, were laid on the table of the Court.
Mr. MONTGOMERY MARTIN said. he had been entrusted
with a memorial to present to the Court, signed by every
mercantile firm in the metropolis trading to the East
Indies, representing several millions of property, and
the statements it contained were so forcible and so true,
that he trusted they would induce the Legislature to
give them that attention which their importance
deserved, and that, not in justice to India alone, but
in justice also to England. The memorialists expressed
their gratification at the prospect that justice will be dune
to India; they pray that means may be taken to obtain a
reduction upon the piece-goods of India, particularly
those of cotton manufacture and on shawls. They showed
that the importation of silk handkerchiefs had very
greatly increased, tut not for use in this country,
they being prohibited nearly by the high duty of
twenty per cent.; they were imported fur the pur-
pose of being printed and afterwards exported. The
details of the memorial were well worthy of the consi-
deration of the Court of Proprietors, and he trusted they
would make it a question for the consideration of Par-
liament at a very early date in the ensuing session of
Parliament. Two years ago they had presented a peti-
tion
.tO both Houses of Parliament, nearly in the same
terms as the memorial ; but it had lain almost as dead
during that period, and unless the Executive of the
Coon il, persevered in demanding that justice to
which. the people of. India were entitled, pro-
bably other two years might be as unprofitably spent.
The memorial indicated one most important thing—it
showed that the Merchant Princes of England cowsi-
dered that • Company as responsible for the good
governmvut. of India. That was indeed not only
a most ,important, but a most gratifying thing.
The trade and manufactures
.of India had been

utterly ruined by the .competition of
,this country,
and it had been proved before the Committee of the
House of Lords; that a piece of bandannas cost at
Madras 205., while a piece of the same cost only Bs. at
Glasgow. Now, how could India stand against such
competition ?—why, therefore, tie her further down by
high protectinc, duties. A witness who appeared
before the Committee stated that the manufac-
turers in India paid nothing for their labour,
and that all they eat and drank was untaxed.
Now, considering that they had several friends in the
Committee, it was astonishing that a fallacy so gross
should have been allowed to go before the manufacturers
and labourers'of this country, because it was one which
would most naturally alarm them, and prejudice them
against the claims of the people of India. It
was well known to every gentleman present, that
the very reverse was the case—that India was the
highest taxed country in the world considering her means,
and that through the medium of the land lax, the salt
monopoly, and others, the price of food, &c., was raised
enormously upon the people, and it was right and just
that the people of this country should be aware of the
fact. The cotton manufacture had been almost utterly
destroyed by onr competition and high duties. Sir G.
Larpent, in his evidence, gave its history as follows. He
quoted a paper given to him by a gentleman who had
resided thirty-five years in India in the civil service,
who states that, at one time, 200,000 persons were em-
ployed in the manufacture of the fine cotton fabrics of
Dacca, in that city and its environs. "It is supposed
that a much less number than 10,000 in the district now
practise the art. They have all disappeared. The
city is reduced from 300,000 inhabitants, to
about 30,000.'—Q. 2,776. Y The statistical re-
turns fully bear out this testimony.. Those
documents show that the quantity of cotton piece-goods
imported into Great Britain from the East Indies had
fallen off from—in 1814, 1,266,608 pieces, to,, in 1837,
414,450 pieces. The average value of all piece-goods
annually imported into this country from India, during
the five years ending with 1814, was 1,400,000 L, the
value of cotton goods brought to England, and entered
for home consumption during the five last years, has
averaged only 2,5261., and of silk goods 9212851. per
annum.—(Qs. 554 and 610) In 1815 the cotton goods
exported from India were 13,000,000 rupees (1,300,0000 ;
in 1832 they were less than 1,000,000 (100,0001.) In the
year 1800, Calcutta exported piece-goods alone to the
amount of 3,908,810 in number, and in value 1,795,887/.;
while in 1835 the total number"of cotton, silk, and em-
broidered piece .goods received in Calcutta from the inte-
rior, was only 348,727 pieces, value 150,0001. The cotton
piece-goods received at Calcutta from the interior in
1812, were 4,000,000 of pieces ; in 1835-36 they were
only 250,000."( Q. 3,877.) We now imported only
2,000 pieces per annum, and that not for our own con-.
sumption, but for the purpose of sending out to Maga-
dore.' Indeed, the people of this country would not use
Indian cotton now. A gentleman told him a few days
ago that he had sold a piece for 103., which, only a few
.years ago, should have brought 50s. It was Nubted by,
many whether a reduction of duty would at all revive
that branch of the manufacture of India, but he was
of (pinion that it would ; but, at all events,
in justice to India it ought to be done. Our export to
India of cotton increased most wonderfully; even within
the last four years it had more than doubled. From
1814, when we exported to India 818,208 yards, it had
risen gradually, till, in 1837, it was 64,213,633 yards,
about a yard for every man, woman, and child in British
India. Even this, however, is not all. We are not sa-
tisfied with displacing the complete native manufactures
to this enormous extent. In
.1825, we began to return
to India her own_ cotton in a state ready for weaving.
In that year, the value of twist and yarn sent to India
was 16,000/. In 1836, it had increased to 602,000/.
In the Report of the Lords' Committee—a Report which
he had good reason to believe was drawn up by the
Noble Lord, whom he was happy to say was now
Governor-General of India—it was a document which
did him much credit as a statesman, and the position
which he now filled he viewed as an augury of good to
India, for there was a prospect of the views he
expressed being carried into effect. That document says—
" It appears to the Committee that the general prin-
ciple upon which commercial regulations affecting the in-
tercourse between the United Kingdom and the Colonial
dependencies, and the mutual intercourse of those depen-
dencies with each other should rest, should be that of
perfect equality, subject to exception only when the per-
menant interests of the whole - empire, or the
temporary circumstances of any part of our fo-
reign possessiona, may seem to render such exception
necessary or expedient ; that no partial favour should
grant to one colony any advantage over another, either
in the colonial ports, or in those of the United Kingdom;
still less that Parliament should partially secure for the
produce and manufactures of the United Kingdom any
advantage in any colonial port over the competing pro-
duce and manufactures of its own dependencies; for it is
the firm conviction of the Committee that Colonial pos-
sessions"scattered over the four quarters of the globe,

and legislatively dependant on the acts of a distant
Government, can only be maintained in peaceful
and willing obedience, by making strict justice and
impartiality the sole guides of every legislative
proceeding by which they may be effected.
These were noble sentiments, and were worthy of being
printed in letters of gold. It was much to be regretted
that the Committee of the Commons had not followed so
worthy an example. Some:good had already been done;
the duties upon rum and upon sugar, had been assimi-
lated with those paid upon those articles the produce of
the West Indies. So far, well; but they had even got
more. Formerly the produce of the East Indies, on being
imported into Australia, and our other possessions in that
quarter, were subject to the same duties as if they had
come from a foreign and independent nation. By
an Order in Council of May last, that unjust system was
abrogated, and now the produce of India was admitted
on the same terms as goods from the mother country, and
that was only justice; but much remained yet to be done.
For instance, Ceylon could not grow enough of rice to
supply the inhabitants, without taking up the whole of
the soil, yet we imposed a duty of 20 per cent. upon all
rice imported there, and thereby prevented a very con-
siderable traffic, which under a small duty would in-
stantly arise between that island and its neighbours and
the continent of India. Then, again, let them look at
the absurdity of our regulation respecting the trade in
tobacco. Mr. Melville, then Secretary, had laid it so well
before the Committee that he could not improve
upon his statement ; he would therefore read it :
" Tobacco, the produce of, and imported from, any
British possession in the-West Indies, America, or the
Mauritius, pays a duty of 2s. 9d. per lb. ; if the produce
of British India, it pays a duty of 35.; being the same
that is levied upon all foreign tobacco, principally the
produce of slave labour. With this aggravation, that as,
at present, the tobacco of India is very inferior to that
of the United States and Manilla, the duty bears,
of curse, a much higher relation to its value
than it does to the produce of those and other
foreign countries. The general result is, that of
22,000,0001b5. cleared for home consumption, but
.45,0001b5. are imported from British India. Mr. Melville
quotes the opinion of ' parties conversant with the trade,'
that if the duty wet e reduced to 2s. 9d., a very
considerable consumption of East Indian tobacco would
ensue. • Although,' says his informants, • ' the ship-
ments of East Indian tobacco have hitherto been
I cry limited to this country, we liave obtained sufficient
knowledgo of the quality that --Might be produced ;
and we have no hesitation in stating, that if more
care were taken in the ,cultivation, and the sorts of to-
bacce cultivated, a very superior description might be
grown, and to an extent quite sufficient, even in the
finer descriptions calculated for cigars, to supersede the
use of Colombian tobacco and second-rate qualities of
Havannahs ; of which sorts the number of pounds clear-
ed for home consumption generally averages 36,0001b5.
per month, with a gradual increase' (425); and there is
little doubt that, as in the case of coffee,
the reduction of duty would result in such an
increase of consumption as .would effectually pro-
tect the revenue from loss, it not improve it."—
Why should we receive our tobacco from the slave-hold-
ing States of. Virginia or Maryland, yet impose such a
heavy duty. upon it when it came from our own country,
where it was the produce of free labour? Surely that
statement was so explicit as to convince every one of the

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absurdity of the course we had pursued, and must force
attention to its injustice. But it was not alone in the to-
bacco trade that the same course was pursued. The spices
drugs, and other articles; varied from 62i per cent. up
to 4.000 per cent., as shown by the evidence of Mr.
Melville ; and these duties, enormous as they were, were
not only injurious, but they impoverished the articles by
preventing their improvement. They.. had an example
of the working of the system in the article of indigo. No
sooner was the duty upon it reduced, than we were
supplied with a much better article than any we
had before. It was painful to compare the state of
India with that of any other country. The small
Island of Java was far outstripping India. In sugar,
from 1830 to 1839, the increase in exports from Java
was 110,000,0001b5., while the increase from British
India during the same period was 45,000,000. Indigo
exported by Java had increased 1,000,000 lbs., while
from British India the export had decreased one million
and a half ; and in coffee the difference was still more
enormous. Java had in that period increased her export
by 63,000,0001b5., while British India and Ceylon had
increased only 2,000,000. Were not such statements very
alarming, and did it not lead one to inquire how it was
that India did not increase in a ratio with a small petty
island like this? In the petition the Directors had pre-
sented to the Legislature, they had very justly said that
they were responsible for the good government of India.
Now, surely, it was not the policy of England to terri-
tories comprising 450,000 square miles, with 47 millions
inhabitants, and a revenue of upwards of 12,500,0001.—the
Governors of which countries were in fact our subjects,
and tributary to us—surely it was not our policy
to take the whole of their sea coast, and
then treat them as foreign and independent states?
The whole area of the subsidiary, dependent, and tri-
butary States of British India (exclusive of Scinde, Be-
loochistan, Affghanistan, or any of the territories west-
ward of the river Indus) is estimated by Colonel Suther-
land at 450,000 square miles, which, at. the rate of 100
mouths to the square mile, would give 45,000,000 inhabit-
ants. The revenue of these States is estimated by Capt.
Sutherland at 12,500,000/. sterling per annum ; and the force
which they could bring into the field, at 120,000 cavalry,
and 45,000 infantry. Some of these States pay large
subsidies annually for the maintenance of the British
supremacy in India, others have commuted these annual
payments by cessions of extensive and fertile tracts of
country, which yield considerable profits to our Govern-
ment, and others are under strict engagement to furnish
heavy quotas of troops, both cavalry and infantry, when-
ever required by the British rulers. They are all pro-
hibtted from entering into foreign alliances—from form-
ing commercial treaties with other nations, and from
entertaining foreign Europeans at their Courts. Their
territories are surrounded by the British dominions,—
we have taken possession of their sea-ports, and isolated
them from each other, with a view to their political sub-
jugation. Mysore pays an annual subsidy of 280,0001.,
and maintains a contingent force, of which
4,000 is cavalry. The revenues and government
of this State are now actually administered by Bri-
tish officers, under the superintendence of the
Madras Government ; and yet the coffee, and other
products of Mysore are treated, on their attempted im-
portation into England, as if they were the products of
a foreign and independent country. Oude, in the year
1801 commuted its subsidy to the British Govern-
ment of 760,0001. per annum, by ceding the districts of
Allahabad, Goruekpoor, &c., which yielded a yearly re-
venue of 1,352,3471. Troops paid for by the King of
Oude are placed in his capital, and his Ma-
jesty has advanced several millions sterling to
the English Government. Hyderabad, in 1800, agreed
to cede territories yielding 803,6411. per annum
to the British Government, in order to pro-
vide payment for 8,000 infantry, two regiments of
cavalry, with a requisite portion of artillery, European
gunners, stores, &c. The Nizam (which is the title of
the ruler of Hyderabad), agreed further to grant a subsidy
of 300,0001. per annum, to provide payment for a con •
tingent of 9,000 cavalry, and 6,000 infantry ; and fur-
ther, he is bound, on the demand of the British Govern-
ment, to bring into the field the whole of the forces
which he may be able to supply from his
dominions, with a view to the speedy, and effectual
termination of any war in which the East India Com-
pany may be engaged. From this state (Hyderabad), we
have taken its sea-ports and coast line, and for several
years we took upon ourselves the Civil Government of
the country. Berar—the Maha Rajah of this State
(from whom we have taken its coast line of Cuttack Sea)
is bound to pay 80,0001. a-year to the East India Com-
pany, to furnish a contingent of 3,000 cavalry and 2,000
infantry, with the necessary equipment of guns and
warlike stores, . at all times fit for active service;
the Rajah is also bound to keep as large an army as the
East India Company may deem necessary, and to be
ready at all times to assist the East India Company with
the whole of his Highness's forces, and with all the re-
source of his State whenever required. These examples
will fully show the position of subsidiary and dependent
States of British India ; they are all entirely at our
mercy, devoid of political power or commercial freedom;
their whole resources, military and financial, at our
control ; no alliance permitted between them and foreign
Powers, or even between each other; and the British
Resident at•each native Court is virtually the Sovereign
of the country. Yet the raw produce and manufactures
of all these States are denied admission into the United
kingdom and its dependencies, except as foreign products.
That was unjust not only to India but also to England,
and demanded immediate alteration. Why should we
take our coffee from the slaves of Brazil while we treated
these, our own people, with such injustice ? It would
surely be for our benefit to show such a vast population
that our relations with them were not wholly political,
and for our own advantage, but also commercial and for
their improvement. It was quite impossible that the
present system could go on, they were wholly impove-
rishing the country. By returns which had been fur-
nished to the Proprietors, it was proved that the exports
of India exceeded her imports by upwards of 27,000,000
of rupees; they were, in fact, destroying the very life
blood of her existence. During the last 20 years the
whole flow had been from the East, and it was only par-
tially supplied by the importation of some silver from
China. Surely it was 'not for the interest of this country
that such a ruinous system should continue. In Mount-
stewart Elphinstone's valuable work on India what a
picture was drawn of the former state of India. He says—
" The condition of the people in ordinary times does not
appear to have borne the marks of oppression. The his-
torian of Firuz Shah (1351 to 1394) expatiates on the
happy state of the Ryots (peasantry), the goodness of
their houses and furniture, and the general use of gold
and silver ornaments by their women. Nicoli di Conti,
who travelled about A.D. 1420, speaks highly of what
he saw of Guzerat, and found the banks of the Ganges
(or, perhaps, the Megna) covered with towns amidst
beautiful gardens and orchards, and passed four famous
cities before he reached Mazeria, which he describes as
a powerful city, filled with gold, silver, and precious
stones. Barbosa and Bartema,_ who travelled in the first
years of the 16th century, corroborate these accounts. The
former in particular describes Cambay as a remarkably
well-built city in a beautiful and fertile country, filled
with merchants of all nations, and with artisans and
manufacturers like those of Flanders."—Elphinstone's
India, vol. 11. p. 240. Ibn Batuta (A.D. 1440 to 1450)
enumerates many large and populous towns and gives
a high impression of the state of that' country. The
Emperor Baber, in the beginning of the 16th century,
although he disliked India, declared that it is a rich and
noble country, abounding in gold and silver, and ex-
presses his astonishment at the swarming population,
and the innumerable workmen in every trade and pro-
fession. Abdurizak, Ambassador from the grandson of
Tamerlane, visited the south of India, when under the
Government of the liindoos), A.D. 1442, and gives his
impression of a prosperous country. Bijayanager, ex-
cited, by the extent and grandeur, and the wealth of the
inhabitants, the admiration of all who visited it. Bartemi
states it at seven miles in circumference, and that it was like
Milan. Madura, at the extremity of the Peninsula of Hi n
doostan, is described by Ibn Batuta as a city like Delhi.
The same authcrity says, that through the whole of
Malabar, for two months' journey, there was not a span
free from cultivation ; everybody had a garden, with his
house placed in the middle of it, and a wooden fence
round the whole. The roads were excellent ' • shaded
by trees, with resting-houses and wells at regular inter-
vals along a great part of the coast of Malabar. But,
adds Mr. Elphinstone, " the sea-ports, above alt,
seem. to have attracted admiration.' Those on both
coasts are described as large cities, the resort and habi-
tation of merchants from every part of the world, and
carrying on trade with Africa, Arabia, Persia, and
China. A great home trade was likewise car-
ried on along the coast, and into the interior."
Why was it that such a state of thing's had entirely
passed away ? lle hoped that document would make
some impression on the people of this country, and rouse
in them a desire for justice being done to the people of
India, for we ought to be ashamed of ourselves, as
Christians, to have permitted such spoliation. When
the discussions respecting the Charter were on,
Directors evidently participated in the feelings
of alarm, for the said it was imossi tht
they could continue toy draw from four topfivle blemaiisii°fl,ar
s
annually from India, without taking some
promoting her trade. Such a course as was n
in
operation must undoubted) 3 prove most injurious to both
countries. He had a most alarming document before him,
to which he would have been afraid to refer had the Deputy_e
Chairman not said that public .discussion to the
benefit was 1-;
!meat of the good Government of India. By that do-
cument he saw that in September
`rig
the Government
cash payments—
in India was on the point of suspeen
, a t the present
the public works suspende4,e&_-
uovernm)ent exceeded by
moment the expenses of th
fifty times the revenue of_ the cow. We had
now a large military force in possession of the
Burmese territories, of course gi.e.atly increasing
When was this to ceasetime expenditure.
?
The people of this country had of late been often peti-
tioning for free trade with France and other countries,
but they seemed al together to forget British India—a
country which,
in place of taking anything out
of the Exchequer, put many millions into it.
The motion he intended to propose was as follows:
. That petitions be presented to both ?louses of Parlia-
ment, in conformity with the resolutions adopted
by this Court on the 16th of June, 1839, and with
the petition of the East India Company to the Legis-
lature in February, 1840, praying that Parliament,
in the exercise of justice and sound policy, will
authorise the admission of the produce and manufac-
tures of British India into the ports of thetTnited Kingdom

on reciprocal terms with the produce and manufactures o .
die United Kingdom, when imported into British India '
that ships built and registered in British India, and na-
vigated by our East India fellow-subjects, be' entitled
to equal rights and privileges with British shipping ;
that the produce and manufactures of the subsidiary
States of India, whose seaports and frontiers are occupied
by the British Government, and who are prohibited
from entering into foreign commercial intercourse, be
admitted as the produce and manufactures of British
India into every part of the British empire ; and that
such other measures may be adopted as will
give perfect freedom of commerce between British
India and every dependency of the United kingdom."
Ire was only asking them to follow up what they had
already begun. He thought the time most opportune,
and he trusted that the East India Company would ap-
pear as the first
.petitioners at the bar in the ensuing ses-
sion. They might not be successful ; but every
concession that was made must only be con-
sidered as the herald of another till full jus-
tice was done. First, they asked for the introduction
of a system of low duties on the importation of East
India produce ; secondly, that the ships managed by
natives might b permitted to trade in our ports in the
same manner as others, and that the absurd regulation
of requiring that there must be so many English
sailors in every ship should be done away with. The Lascar
seamen manned the cruisers of the Government in th elndi an

seas, yet they were not permitted to come into our ports
as seamen.; and our system led other nations to act in the
same manner. It was an absurdity, and acted as a pro-
hibition to the general use of Lascars as seamen.
With respect to the third part, that relating to the sub-
sidary States, there were goods the produce of Mysore
at that moment rotting at the Custom-house, in con-
sequence of the existing state of the law. How could
they expect prosperity to attend these subsidiary States?
If they kept them growing food and nothing else, that
would effectually prevent their ever rising in the
scale of prosperity or • civilization but if they
gave an impetus to the productions and manufacture of
other articles that would most essentially contribute to
raise them in the scale of civilization. The last point
was, that such other measures should be adopted as

would tend to increase the commercial intercenrse be-

tween India and the United Kingdom. He.would not

then go into details, but v he would merely
allude to one point of that most extensive and
most important subject. He thought the wheat of
India ought to be permitted to be entered at a
nominal rate of duty.—(Cheers.) There was at the pre-
sent time a loud cry for a free trade in corn, and he
thought that-British India certainly had the first claim to
be permitted to supply that article. Its claim was cer-
tainly greater than that of either Poland or Dantzic_, to
be permitted to supply wheat to the British market.
Large quantities of wheat flour had been imported from
India into Liverpool, and had been extensively used
in the manufacture of chintzes, for the purpose of
stiffening, for which it was better adapted than
any other sort of flour ; it was also, he believed, capable
of being most advantageously used in the manufacture
of starc. He felt assured that India was capable of
supplying by far the greater portion of the wheat ex-
ported for the consumption of England. He trusted the
Directors would accede to the motion, and would present
a petition to Parliament, couched in such terms as in
their wisdom they might _ devise. He thought he

might take upon himself to state that the pre-
sent enlightened Premier, Sir Robert Peel, took
the warmest interest in the welfare of India. That
great man, he had every reason to believe, had long
entertained the opinion that India and England ought to
be united by the closest ties, and he was satisfied that
he would, as a great and enlightened statesman, see the
necessity of adopting measures so essential to the pros-
perity both of England and India.—(Cheers.)
The motion having been seconded, and read by the
Secretary,

The CHAIRMAN said the Court of Directors fully con-
curred with the memorialists in almost all the great
objects they had in view, and therefore he should not
object to the reception of the memorial. He
thought the Directors could not be charged with
want of attention to the subject, inasmuch as they had
last Session presented petitions to both Houses of Par-
liament, from the consideration of which great advan-
tages had already been derived. With regard to the
subsidiary States, the' Court had been most anxious to
adopt the views of the lion. Gentleman, which he consi-
dered to be founded on justice, but the Attorney and
Solicitor-Generals and the law-officers of the Court of the
East India Company had given it as their opinions that
no relaxations could be made in favour of Mysore and
the other subsidiary States, without foreign coun-
tries, with which we had reciprocity treaties,
having a claim to be put on the same footing.
Concurring generally in the views expressed by the
Honourable Gentleman, he put it to him whether
it would not be a more effectual way of carrying out
those views to withdraw his motion for a petition, and leave
the question entirely in the hands of the Court of Di-
rectors at present, more especially as he (Mr. M. Mar-
tin) had expressed his confidence in the desire of the pre-
sent Premier to do justice to India, an expression in which
he (the Chairman) entirely concurred—(Cheers)—while,
at the same time, he felt it was only an act of justice
to Sir John Hobhouse to state that he (the Chairman)
had always found on the part of that Right Hon. Baro-
net every disposition to do ample justice to the claims of
India.—(Cheers.) He trusted the motion would not be
persevered in.

Sir JAMES LAW LUSIIINGTON thought it would be
more respectful to wait and see what the Government
would do before again presenting a petition. He, there-
fore, hoped the motion would be withdrawn.
Mr. iVEEDING would, if the motion were not with-
drawn, meet it by an amendment that the petition was,
in the present state of affairs, uncalled for and unnecessary.
With every disposition to do justice to India, he could
not concur in is hat had been proposed relating to the
Lascar seamen. lie thought it essentially necessary to
the naval superiority of this country that the nursery for
seamen afforded by the East India trade should be kept .up.
Mr. MAnutorr seconded the amendment, as he thought
the motion was a tacit reflection on the Court of Directors.

Mr. SALOMONS recommended the withdrawal both of
the motion and of the amendment.

Mr. BROWN said the duty of 50 per cent. on the im-
portation of rice into Ceylon was merely a countervail-
ing duty. With regard to tobacco, which in the
province of Malabar was a necessary of life
to the labourer, it should be recollected that
in that province it was a grievous monopoly,
which the Court of Directors could do away
with at any time they chose. The produce of Tanjore
was admitted to England as the produce of a British de-
pendency, and so also was the produce imported
from Singapore. Why then, could not the produce
of the other subsidiary States be put upon the same
footing as the produce of Tanjore ? The pm Proprie-
tor then related various facts to prove the former prospe-
rity of India, and concluded by vindicating the character
of the Lascar seamen.

Mr. OLIPHANT thought it time to rescue the the native
States from their present anomalous condition. It was
a farce to treat them as independent States.
After a few words from Mr. Twining and Mr. Fielder,
Mr. M. MARTIN consented to withdraw his motion.
which, however, he could assure the Court, he had never
intended as a tacit reflection on the Court of Directors, as
one Honourable Proprietor had thought fit to assume.
The motion was then withdrawn.
SIR HENRY WILCOCK.

Mr. SALOMONS wished, before the Court broke up, to
allude to a certain paper, purporting to be a letter from
Sir IL Wilcock, one of the Court of Directors, to the Earl
of Aberdeen, one of the Secretaries of State, which letter
had been lithographed, and afterwards published in the
newspapers, and made matter of discussion by the Press;
and as the document would doubtless become matter of
discussion in Parliament, he thought it best that it
should previously be discussed in that Court- Before going
into the House of Commons he wished to ask, first, whe-
ther there existed any declaration of opinion of the Court
of Directors on the subject of the war in Affghanistan ?
2d. Whether there existed any protest by any Directors
on the subject? and,
Whether the war had been
made a matter of discussion in the Court of Directors ?
Mr. ST. GEORGE TUCKER had not made any protest,
but he had in a letter, addressed to the Court of Directors,
dated June 29, 1839, given his opinion fully on the subjectsubjectSALOMONSfordocument.
Wilcock,
.L he
thought that every communication from a Di-
rector to a member of her
Dfajesty's Government
ought to be considered in
the official
t the
of
an
document, and as such he hoped Director would
have no objection to laying before the Court of Pro-
• .

prietors. - been in the Direction at
The CHAIRMAN, not having
the time, was unaware of the contents of the letter of
Mr. Tucker, and could not therefore reply to the Hon.
Proprietor until he had seen and considered it.
Sir II LINDSAY
aosramidtohne Honourable Proprietor
vas asking
which he must be
aware co
the
smoooroutshys
information
be
ef
afftloierdedCoihnimmf attees
of
of
theh membersd; not
forermetically seated by Act of Parliament. He did
i
li"o•eetrthink that members behind that bar were at all justified
in pi: niul,rating anything that passed in that Committee.
Aftert' a few words from Mr. WEEDING,
Sir 11. WILCOCK said that he had thought it right, as ,
an old servant of the Crown, to act in the manner he had
done. From having long resided in Persia he had had great
opportunities of judging of the policy or impolicy of the
war in Affgliamstan, and he thought he should have
been wanting in his duty if he had not
communicated the results of that knowledge to the Go-
vernment. Therefore he thought he was justified in
expressing his opinion to Lord Palmerston as to what
was about to take place. With regard to the letter
being lithographed, that did not make it the less
a private communication. He had no secretary, and
persons as frequently employed a confidential lithogra-
pher as they did a confidential copier. When a
change of administration had taken place, he
thought it was his duty to addresS Lord Aberdeen
on the subject of the war in Afghanistan as he had be-
fore done Lord Palmerston ; he had done so, and at the
same time had communicated a copy of e k tue letter
to the Chairman of the Court of Directors.
lie regretted his object had been defeated by the pro-
mulgation of that letter to the Earl of Aberdeen. He
had never intended it should have been published, still
less bad he ever intended it should have been an imple-
ment for party purposes.
The CHAIRMAN acknowledged having received from
Sir H. Wilcock a copy of the letter alluded to ; which,
however, he had, as yet, had no opportunity of perusing.
et,'
—(Cries of ." Oh, oh.")
Mr. MONTGOMERY MARTIN was the person who had
given publicity _to £he letter, and he did not
regret having done so, because he considered
the document to be a most important one. A
mutual friend of himself and Sir IL Wilcock
had met him (Mr. Martin) in the Strand, and had put
into his hands four lithographic copies of letters, three
to ',Ord ialnierston, and one to the Earl of Aberdeen.