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circumstances which had led to the tate eonqueati
India hut as so many dired intradions of-the
principle laid down by Parliament, and untie.
cessary in point of policy. The foriner war
with the Mahrattas had created a debt for the
Company, which hai been, perhaps, the foundation
of all their other debts. The unlimited diffusion of out
dominion in India would he but to lose `ourselves.
As to the French Farce in India, he thought. the
danger from them exaggerated. He-thought it de.
sirable to re-assert the principle laid down by the
Legislature, in order to ,assure others as well aa,our.
selves that it should nor'agein be departed frnm.
This was certainly nos time fur us to extend.our,
selves in The looseness of the Native-Go.
vernments, and the little subordination existing
among theta, facilitated' the purposes of adventurers
procuring followers.
Mr. HUDDLESTONE, though he did not mean
to enter into a detailed discussion of the question,
hoped from .his long everienee in Lotto affairs to
meet the indulgence of the House, in offering his
sentiments upon it., The Noble Marquis dis.
patch of the. zsst of December stated, that the
Treaty of Bassein had received the approbation of
His Majesty's Ministers and of the Court of Direc.
tors through the Secret Committee. The fad was,
that that Treaty had never been before the Court of
Direltors. The Court of Diredors had no morel° do
with the annexation or separation of Provinces in In.
dia titan any Member of the House, though in the eye.
of the Public supposed to have the so.rense power.
. It had been stated on a former occasion, that the
brilliant successes of the Noble*: Marquis would
have been greater if not for cbstrudions in a cer.
lain quarter. This was hard upon the. Dire tors,
as it was well known than no orders were Sent
out but through the Council, the President of
wide!, was a Member of His . Majesty's Ca-
binet. confessed he could not comprehend
the plans of the Noble Marquis. They appeared
to him to be accompanied with present,-difficulties,
to teem with mischief, to set existence on the
cast, to 'be. unwise ,in policy, to be founded on
:sehenieS and projeda wherein failure:would be de.
strudive, and even success ruinous ;- whereby
thing-w4a to be pint:Jinn the expence of blood and
treasnrei and perhaps ,a permanent hatred inspired
into the inhabitaetsi These were his sentiments,
and were not lets so last year, . when the accounts
hastbeen received of the brilliant successes, than at
present on receipt of the account of a disaster,
which, had opened the eyes of many, and would,
he feared, open the eyes of many snore. The
Honourable Member bore testimony to the exem.
plary conduit, abov e all praise, of the Noble,Gover.
nor General, on his first arrival in. India ; but
argued, that from the moment of the conquest of
the Mysore, he had conceived the projelt of re,
clueing all the Native Chiefs to a subjedion to the
British Government, by obliging theta first to re.
ceivc Garrisons into their. Capitals, then to pay Sub.
and afterwards to change these Subsidies into
territorial cessions. As to the Mahratta War, he
looked upon the Mahrattas as formidable , When
united, bot always engaged in quarrels among
themselves. By the conquest of the. Mysore we
became their neighbours, and should either have
conciliated them by accommodating their gnat.
,reds, or suffered, them to weakest, their aggregate
power by destroying each other. The middie course
that had. been followed, the Hoo. Member repro.
bated :as likely to excite the hatred of all parties.
As to the justice of the War, lie thought that no
meal' could argue from the' Papers, that it had
arisen from the violence of the Mahrattes, and
not from an effort to maintain their independence.
llis candid opinion was,, that the total abrogation
of alt. piesent system. should rake place in all
its branchea if we wished to preserve
Affairs there should he managed with wisdom, jus,:
tice, moderation,. and rational economy. Govern.
' !tient had given a proof of its disposition 'on that.'
head by the appointment of a Noblemen to govern
India, Marquis CORNWALLIS, who had the rare
quality of uniting 'with absolute power, wisdom and
moderation, and whose acceptance of the appoint.
ment Would ,be.a pledge to the Indian World that
their rights would be respeded. But he thought
that to assist that Noble Lord's-efforts, some such
Declaration as that proposed in the , Motion 'should
be adopted: he should therefore vote for the otigi.
nal Motion. ,
Sir THEOPHILUS METCALF differed alto.
gether from the two lion. Gentlemen, who had
spoken last. The Treaty of Bassein had been
founded on ,consummate policy, and did,great ha.
flour to the Noble Marquis, whose principal objc
was to prevent the Mahrattas from being' united
:under one head. • The Hen. Baronet proceeded. to
review the circumstances which led to that Treaty,
mOrtaining, :by a reference to the Papers, 'that
Marquis Wellesley had been forced into the. War,
.jand would have preserved, the Peace if it had been,
possible.
Aire CHAP/174Ncontended, that it.. was impos.
sible-to have carried the Treaty taf Bassein into:ef.
fed, without the occurrence of a War. He took the
same lioeof observation with Messrs. GRAN'S' and
HoornEsToul, and declared his intention tai vote
for the original Motion.
Lord CA.ITLEtta no explained.
Mr. PIO ASEP thought the House :indebted to
the persevestance of the Hon. Member in calling
tpeir attention to so important a sullied, and ex.
Messed his approbation of the magnanimous conduit
' of those Official Gentlemen, who, disregarding the
• resit:aims of tiflice,so candidly arol honourably avow.
ed theiuseutiments. He trusted, as the attention Of
the House seemed now duetted to the aubjed,, they
would notjgive it up till they hadfully iniseatigated
the Manner in whico the affairs of our Indiatt Depet.
dencies had been administered, 'He could not agree,
however, with the Hon.:tvlover, that any abrupt
change of systeM ought to be adopted, for that
would have the effat of clogging the measures of
the Nolte Marquis now, going Out.

111 r. 1? 77161ZNTON way of opinkm, that the
syscat rOW aard upon respetiing India ought to
he. changed, and that we should ad on principies and
iodic irit,uN moderation and forbearance, and not
in the !,piiit of conquest and aggrandizement. lie

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