The Sun.
London, England, 1803-03-10 00:00:00

t 'EAST' 1.791)111 GENERAL COURT.

YESTERDAY a General Court was held at the
East India House on Special Affairs. After the
usual forms, and the accounts laid before Parliament
had been read,

The Chairman (Mr, itosEßTs) stated, that the
objet-of convening the Pruprietors was, to lay be.
fore them a Plan approved by His Majesty's• Minis.
teis,, for the reduaion of the Indian 'Debt, by
appropriating, for two years, four•millions sterling
for the discharge of two millions per annum of debt,
in India. This was to ha effeaed in the folloifing
manner ; and for which it would be necessary to
apply to Parliament for their saistlion to the Bill,.
to which the Ministers had promised their most
cordial co-operation (here the Correspondence be-
tween the Court of Diredors and Lord CAsTLE.
REACH was read), viz.
To furnish an investment in India and China to
the extent of four millions in each year, as thus
. 1,8&:),000
oeo,ooo
1 ,toomo

Goods and Stores
Bullion
India and China

.

.4,030,000
Two millions of debt to beliquidated after the*
first year, by Bills on the Court.
Mr. cf! ArMAN made a Motion to this effea,
"-That thit CQurt approve the plan, and recommend it to
thepir4d9rs.to tarry it into immediate aut."

•Which,was seconded by Mr. Biticxwoopt anal
supported by the Deputy ChAirman
.(Mr. Bosi.‘"-
Qwwos7 Messrs. kIVDLSSTO.N, ,MPOR Et FRlNsErs'
Sir F. BARING, and. Mr. ATKINS.
. •Mr. HexcHMAYmoved an.. amendment--" That'
the Court adjourn to the 23d instant, and that the
10Pars pe be printed," which was .seconded by Mi.,
:61c.

. The Amendment, after receiving
pcnverful sup
port- iron! Messts. JonNsioNg and 'BABitts VV`l3'
'withdrawn by Mr. HE NC 'MAN, and the moll
question was carried by a decided Majorith.on, 1Y
tour•hands being held up against it.
A subsequent Motion for printing flask Paperslaid before Parliament, was negatived without a
division.
A Bill to enable the Company to keep up- the
-Bripde of Royal Fast India Voluntetirs, on a IC'
duced scale, was read and. approved.

EDINBURGH, j\fiAtcli 8.

,NYE regret to 'state, that an investigation hilt
been going on for eight ot ten day s past, before the
Sheriff of this County, regarding a Combination
among the Journeymen Paper.makers for a rise of
wages, which is said to be of a very extensive anif
gaming nature, and very similar in the leadjog
fearurcs of it to that among the linen-printers, lately
detected and punished at Dumbarton.

An Officer ip a high officidl situation,
we under-
stand, sold 40,00ol: on 'Tuesday at 71, by which'
there was a net gain. of 8 per cent. !! I
We -unaele,..Qa that 2,y1i...0 rnviish Lady will
make her appearance on the Opera 9-trb-,--'"'-.
.. ~
day next, as a singer.

The Vestrymen of the Parish of Sr. James, 'lest"
minstcr, greatly to their honour, held a meeting. ort
Monday last,, for thq purpose of examining
Into
the conduCt of Axdrfko Pollock, one.O
..O ran f f the watch-
men of that Parish, towards D t Lovell other,-
•
wise George Mango, a black man, who was fount
dead'one morning last week, at the corner of Noel.
street, in Wardour-street (an account of 'which ap-
peared in this Paper 'on Tuesday last) ; and it appear-
ing on such examination,, that Pollock had aaca
with great inhumanity, and' in dire& coritradidioti
to the, special "rules anti orders made by the Yestr.Y
of the said parish, for the regulation of their ni,ghtlY
watch; 'by permitting, the deCeased to lie in the
stroet exposed
.to the inclemency.pf 'the weather,
they distniis,iti him from 'his employment, andur-
&res.' their Clerk to iniTstigate the matter further,
with a view- to prosecuting- Pollock. and any-other;.
persolis concerned in the said iOliuman transaelinn.