The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-07 00:00:00

' HJUSE OF COMMT),NS,,

• - APRIL —6z-- --- - -
LORD JOHIICASqBA4L 'took the oaths and his
sear. .
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,I
- Mr. VANstrrAtt:r .tnnve. for several Accounts •of
the Official Value-of•Exprts and Imports- for the
last seven years, which ttvere ordered; and alio-
urclered to lie on the. Table and to
wards presented ;-
be printed. ,
Mr. VAtorrrear.lso moved for Accounts of the
net Produce of- the permanent Taxes for the years
en .ling the jih of January ..1
_O3,
.anti 1894 respec_
atld of the.net produce of the Do.ties.of Cus.
toms; fur the year ending the sth of April .1804..
Mr. Secretary Yo%ki withdrew the Lilt of Re..
giments and Companies of the Irish who
had voluntarily offered to serve in this Country, and
presented another more Cotred, which 'was ordered
to lie on the Table, hod to be printed.
r.. VA Ns rrtt a.l-41esented..an Estimate of the
Sums wanted under. the 7th Article of -the Treaty
with America ; and also an Account of Exchequer
Bills outstanding, which were severally ordered to
lie on- the Table.. .

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Mr. FRANCIS adverted to a Motion he' made
on the t sth of last month, fot Paper's respeCting the
origin of the ivlahratta War, which he was then
induced to withdraw, in cons:Tie:lce of its being
intimated to him by a Noble Lord (CA,erLER s AGO),
that the necessary Papers were not received. He
now found that advices had been received, giving
an account of some brilliant successes in ILdia, and
he therefore thought it probable that the Papers
which he wished to move fr, might also have been •
received :—Upon this subjett he wished for some
explanation from the Noble Lord. However•great
our successes had been in India, they had nothing
to do with the original object of the War ; a 'War
undertaken on the justest principles might be un-
successful, whilst, on the contrary, one unjust in
its principles and objeft, might be eventually suc-
cessful : the point, therefore,- with tespett to the
origin and object of the War with the Mahratra
Princes, still remained an important subject for in-
quiry. It appeared that General Wellcsley's Army
was in motion early in August, the deliberations
with respe6t to the p:ilicv or the justice of com-
mencirl that War, must have taken place some
taunt!;:; before; this would carry than back at soon-
est to May, and he wished to know it the Marquis
Wellesley had not since that period informed the
Court of Diredors of the plan and ohjeU of the
War. 1-11: concluded, by moving ler Copies or Ex-
irk-is of all Dispatches received from the Gover.
not... General of Bengal, or the Presidencies of Fort
George, or Bombay, so far as the saui' related to
the Was with the Mahratta Princes or States.
Lord CASTLEREAGH declined enterbig
the.' general subject, but expressed hiln.self
same disosition which indLiced the
to hope that the
Hon.on former occadon, to svich!

draw his Motion, would equally operate on the pre- I
sent, 'as the same reasons for not pressing it still
existed-. He would certainly have apprized the Hon.
Gelitleman if any advices had been received calcu-
laud to put the question into a state of discussion,
but since the period when the Hon. Gentleman last
made a Motion upon the same subjea, no (fired
communication_ had been received either by sea or
land from Bengal ; intelligence had been received
from the Presidencies' of Madras and Bombay,
through the medium of. which they had adtqces of
our late glorious Successes in -India : they had, how-
ever, no later intelligence from Bengal than up to
the z6th of June. He agreed with the Hon. Gen-
tleman ihat-thise successes had nothing Co do with
the merits of the War ; the measures which led to
that War were undoubtedly of some time standing,
hut they Could not be-brought into discussion with-
- out sufficient information upon the subjea. He
trusted therefore that the Hon. Gentleman would,
as on a former occasion, withdraw his Motion, and
he might rest assured that he, (Lord CASTLEMEACK)
would apprize him of the circumstances whenever the
necessary informatian arrived.
Mr. JOHNSTONE expressed his surprise that.
when they -had advices of a date two months subse-
quent to the commencement of the War, there should
be no information as to the grounds on which hos-
tilities had commenced.

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Laid C4STLERE4GH said, they were in pos.
session of the discussions which took place between
General Wellesley and Scindia, which undoubtedly
led to hostilities, but these discussions were,found.
ed upon instruCtions which they could not judge of
until they were in possession of the motives of the
Governor-General for issuing those Instruttions, and
his view of the subject.
Mr. FRANC IN, after pressing upon the attention
of the HuuSe the importance'of the subjett, con-
-sented to withdraw his Motion.