The Sun.
London, England, 1802-12-17 00:00:00

AFFAIRS OF THE CARN:'TIC,

Mr. SHED rose, in pursuance to a notice
he had given yesterday, to move for certain
Papers relating to the Affairs of the Carnatic. He
did not intend to ask for any information • beyond
what would stritily apply to his objea, and should
leave the quantum at the discretion of persons in
office. If fie thought it before a matter for Parlia-
mentary investigation, he was not induced to sup-
pose it less pressing ott the Justice, Dignity, and
Honour of the House, from the unexpeted and cri-
tical death of the person who was supposed to have
been treated with injustice. The impossibility of
now redressing him did not take the matter altoge_
ilier out of the reach of Parliament, and he should
therafora ennAne hirmelf at present to the mere state-
ment of his Motion, which should be for an Ad.
dress to His Majesty, praying that he would be
graciously pleased to give orders that there be laid
before the House, copies c,f all the Correspondence
since the 26th of March, i Soo, between the Go-
vernor-General and the Governor and Council of
-Madras, relative to the Deposition of the late
Nabob of Oude, the Minutes of the Proceedings of
Council on the same, the Instruetions from the Mi-
nisters at home respeaing that event, a Copy of the
Will of the late Nabob's Father, faithfully trans-
lated from the Persian Records, the Correspriridence
between the late Nabob and the English Govern-
ment, &c. &c.

' Mr. WALLACE said that as the correspondence
was not very numerous, he saw no great objeaion
to the. Motion. Convinced that any inquiry into
the Affairs of the Carnatic would redound highly
to the honour and credit of the Noble Marquis and
the Noble Lord engaged in those transaaions, he
was willing to leave the matter to the justice, ho-
nour and wisdom of the House. •

Sir T. METC ALF E expressed Iris convi(tion that
it would reflect equal honour on the Diredors of
the East India Company, who had no disposition
to withhold any thing the House might think pro-
per to call for.
Mr. WALLACE explained. that he meant not to
recommend any inquiry, and only alluded to what
he thought would be the result, should the House
determine that it should be instituted:

Mr. SiIERIDAN'S Motion was then put and
agreed to.• He next stated that his wish was to have
a sufficient number printed of these Papers which ar-
rived since the last Session. Of these, some had
been, he believed, printed before the dissolution of
Parliament, but nut distributed, and it would there-
fore perhaps save an expellee to print no more
than woald be sugicient for the use of Members.
Mr. FRENCH said, that if the papers were not
distributed, these must remain a sufficiency of them,
2s the number of Members was now the same as
last year.
The SPEAKER observed, that the Motion was
quite regular, and could not be absurd ; and he
should make an inquiry into the numbers now in
hand, and give orders that no more should be
printed than what was necessary.--After which the
Jt ion for printing the Papers was agreed to.
The House went through Committees on the
.Woollen ManufaCturers Indernnity;and the English
and Irish Corn Intercourse Bills, which were order
d to be reported to-morrow..

The Dublin Bakers' Bill was. read a third time
ancl passed.
Mr. Cor.a-Y brought in the Irish Militia Par, and
the Irish Sugar J)rawback Bills, which were read
p Arst time, and ordered for a second reading (,)-
morrow.

NAVY ARUAVI.
The HOUSC having remilve4 itself into a Cyp.
mittee on the Bill for corretling the 'ibises ,:xisuPg
in the Navy,

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tended to leave out the first part altogether, or in.
troduce it in an altered shape into some other parts
,of the Bill.
Capt. MARKHAM replied, that an amended
clause was intended to be introduced in another part
of it.

Admiral BERKELEY said, the reason why he
asked the question was, because as the Bill now
stood, it was extremely objeaionable, as it would
he ereaing the Navy Board into a Tribunal for
the trial of all the other Boards. _ _

Mr. STURGES' recommended that the altera-
tions should now lie agreed to pro forma, and the
Bill afterwards re-committed.

The CHANCELLOR 'of the EXCHEQUER
declared himself disposed to ,adopt the last sugges-
tion. The Bill would no doubt be very much al.
tered, it might then be printed and re-committed
to-morrow, the Report received on Friday, and the
Bill, with the permission of the House, be read a
third time on Saturday, as they must all be aware
that any delay at this time would be extremely in-
convenient.

The names of the intended Commissioners under
the new Bill were then read, and severally put for
the _approbation of the House as follows :
Vice-Admiral Sir CH ALES POLE, HUGH LEICES-
TER, Esq. EVAN LAW, ESq. JOHN FORD, Ecq. and
HENRY, HUNTER, Esq. which were all unaribmwsly
agreed to.
The Report was received immediately, and order-
ed to be taken into farther consideration to-morrow ;
with an understanding, that it would then be re-
committed.

Mr. DENT expressed his surprize, that such
names as those of His Royal Highness the Dtlx€ of
CLARENCE, Lord GARDNER, and Lord KEITH,
should have been omitted in the List of the Com-
missioners ; but this was not followed by any ex-
planation.—Adjourned.