The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-11 00:00:00

SKETCH OF PETITION.

To the Lords Spiritual and Temporal (or to the Commons
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) in
Parliament Assembled. The humble Petition of the
Merchants, Manufacturers, Traders, and other Inhabi-
tants of Sheffield :

HUMBLY SHEWETH.—That your Petitioners have read
in the Parliamentary Reports and in the Public Journals,
the following Resolutions of a Select Committee of the
House of Qommous appointed to examine into all the
facts connected with the banishment of James Silk Buck-
ingham from India, and the subsequent Suppression of
the Calcutta Journal, of which he was editor and chief
proprietor ; and which resolutions the said Select Com-
mittee bad unanimously agreed to, and reported to the
House of Commons on the 4th of August, 1834, viz. :-
1. " Resolved—That it appeared to your Committee that
Mr. Buckingham resided in Bengal from the year 1818 to
1123, under a License of the East India Company, and was
engaged as principal Proprietor and Editor of the Calcutta
Journal, which was then a highly profitable concern, yielding
to himself and other proprietors a large annual income."
2. " Resolved—That it appeared to your Committee, that
in the year 1823, in the exercise of the discretion vested in the
Governor-General, Mr. Buckingham was, by the acting
Governor-General, ordered to quit India within two months."
3. " Resolved—That it appeared to your Committee, that
after the departure of Mr. Buckingham from India, the Cal-
cutta Journal was, by order of the Governor-General, alto-
get'aer suppressed."
4. " Resolved—That your Committee, without impugning
the motives which actuated the measures of the Government,
feel that those measures have, in their consequences, proved
to Mr. Buckingham and his family penal to a degree which
could not have been contemplated at the time of their adop-
tion."

5. " Resolved—That your Committee are, therefore, of
opinion that Compensation ought to be made to Mr. Buck-
ingham."

6. " Resolved—That your Committee abstain from expres-
sing any opinion as to the amount of Compensation, in the
hope that that subject will be taken into the favourable consi-
deration of the East India Company, and thus the interposition
of Parliament, in the next session, to fix such amount, be
rendered unnecessary." _ _

That your Petitioners have since learnt, with pain and
disappointment, that although these unaniMons Resolutions
of the Select Committee of the House of Ccmmons, were
duly laid before the East India Company, by the then Pre-
sident of the Board of Controul (now a Member of the
House of Peers, and one of his Majesty's Cabinet Mi-
nisters as Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,)
the said East India Company refused to grant such Com-
pensation, and declined to entertain any proposition what-
ever on the subject.

That -your Petitioners humbly beg to assure your ho-
nourable4louse, that they regard such a denial of justice as
this, to' be highly derogatory to the British name and
reputation ;as it appears-to your Petitioners that a British
subject has been banished without trial—punished without
conviction—and ruined in all his fortune and pursuits
without even the allegation of his having been guilty of
any crime.

That when the great charter of English liberty guaranteed
to the subjects of this realm, that no man should be pu-
nished but by the judgment of his Peers—that all punish-
ments should be proportioned to . the offence—that there
should be no wrong without a remedy—and that justice
should neither be delayed nor denied to any man—your pe-
titioners humbly conceive, that these protecting privileges
were meant to be extended to all Englishmen, in whatever
part of his Majesty's dominions they might happen to be.
That in the case of the said James Silk Buckingham,
your petitioners regret to perceive that all these principles
of English liberty have been violated without necessity, and
without adequate cause ; for he has been punished with-
out judgment of his Peers—his punishment has been
wholly disproportioned to his alleged offence—he has suf-
fered a grievous wrong, without having any remedy at law
for the same—and for more than twelve sears past, during
which the facts of his case have been so often before the
public, as to be familiar to almost every one who reads, jus-
tice has been delayed and denied—without his havity, yet
been proved to be guilty of any other offence than that' of
advocating; in India, that freedom of trade, freedom of set-
tlement, and freedom of publication, which were formerly
denied to Englishmen in that country, but which are now
happily made, by the last charter for India, the established
law of the land.

Your'Petitioners cannot bring themselves to be'ieve that
the advocating and practising in India, what both Houses
of, Legislature, and his Majesty on the Throne, have since
sanctioned and approved, and what the most distinguisbe's'i
Governors-General of India, past and present, have 'pub-
licly declared to ,be as great a blessing and advaniage to
India, as it is to England, and to every other it/A-governed
country (namely, the Freedom of the Pres,:—subject only
to the control of the laws, as administered by a Judge and
Jury)—ought to be ecnsidered in any other light than that
of a public virtue and a public good: and therefore, they
humbly conceive that the sunr.nary banishment and arbi-
trary ruin of an honourable individual, without trial or
conviction—on no other g.round, than*that he was
guilty of advocating . and practiiing the Freedom' 'of the
Press—cannot be defended by any principle of the Br'itish
Constitution, to the very spirit and essence of wh;_,:n it is
wholly and entirely repOgnact.
Your Petitioners,,•therefore, humbly imrLore your Ho-
nourable,House, that you will be pleased t.o give your
sanction to such a bill as may enabld the said James Silk
13tickingham to recover from the cast India Company, that
compensation, which the Select Committee 'of the House
of Commons reported it:to be their unanimous opinion that
the said East. Company ought to make to -him, for the de-
struction, of his property, occasioned by the measures herein
before, mentioned.
*d. your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

The Consall Estate, :en Staffordshire, is now to be
civided into three lots, to meet the views of those who have
-not 100,0001. to lay out in one sum. There are altogether
1,800 acres, within a ring fence, tithe free, exonerated from
land-tax, an;; extra parochial, with a rental of 3,600/. a-year.
We hare George Robins's authority for stating that it is
an investment infinitely preferable to the uncertain tenure
of per cents. at 02.
COWPER'S LOVE.—The effect on Theodora, the
qf.his choice, was durable. Neither time nor absence
diminished her attachment to the object of her first and
only love ; the poems,. which while their intercourse con-
tinF.9d, he had transcribed for her as they were. composed,
she ciiefitty preserved during many years ; and then, for
reakiiiillinwn only to-herself; sent them in a scaled packet
to Alitadyrher ':.Pltillicular friend, with directions not to be
opevoitl tilhifter her decease. His death, perhaps, or the
hopcieststattcitito stsfhich he had, sunk, rendered the sight of
theist; mies tQkl,Surrthe/I'fr, of Cotter.

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