The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-10 00:00:00

ELECTION OF DIRECTORS.

Yesterday a Ballot was taken at the East India
House, for the election of six Directors, in the room
of the following Gentlemen, who went out by rota-
tion, viz.:—

The Hon. Hugh Lindsay Robert Campbell, Esq.
John Morris, Hugh
Josias Du Pre Alexander, Esq.
J. Goldsborough Ravenshaw, Neil Benjamin Edmonstone,
Esq. Esq.
At six o'clock the glasses were closed, and deli-
vered to the Scrutineers, who reported that the
Election had fallen on—

Henry Alexander, Esq. George Raikes, Esq.
William Stanley Clarke, Esq. Sir G. A. Robinson, Bart.
R. Chicheley Plowden, Esq. John Thornhill, Esq.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the thanks of the Court
were voted unanimously to the Hon. Hugh Lindsay,
Chairman, and James Pattison, Esq., Deputy
Chairman, for their zeal and attention to the Com-
pany's interests daring the last year.
The following Commanders took leave of the
Court previous to departing for their respective
destinations, .viz., Captain William Elisha Farrer,
Orwell; aptain Timothy Smith, London; and
Capt. Philip Baylis, Canning, for China direct.

'l he Marquis and Marchioness DE LOULE
(sister to Don 111:GuEL), whose presence in London was
scarcely known, but to a few persons, arrived in town last
Thursday week. They travelled in the strictest state of
incognito. From Falmouth they engaged the whole of
one of the common stages, and thus avoided the expence
of posting. There were :three female attendants and a
homme d'affaires only of their suite. Such was the se-
crecy observed, that the coach-proprietors, and the
English female attendant as interpreter, knew not who
the party really were, until their arrival in London, when
it accidentally transpired.

Extract of a letter from Malta, Feb. 28.
" An important trial began in the Piracy Court on Thurs-
day last. The Captain and eight of the crew of a Greek
schooner, called the Herakles, were indicted for having,
on the 29th of July last, boarded and plundered a Maltese
merchantman between Candia and the Barbary coast.
The conrt consisted of Admiral Sir E. Conaiwcrot; ; Sir
J. STODART, Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court ; the
Honourable SEYMOUR 13AT H U RST, Treasurer of this
Island ; and two Captains of the Navy, SPENCER and
RICHARDS. The bill was quickly found by the grand
jury, and the petty jury were sworn, and the trial began
that day. It was continued on Friday, and the case closed
on Saturday, at five in the afternoon, when the jury retired
to consider of their verdict. They had been kept apart
from all intercourse, from the time of their being sworn in,
but now they were also kept without food, and so continued
above twenty-four hours, and till same of them became ill;
after which the court allowed them food and medicine, but
would not permit them then to separate, the case being a
capital one, till they had given a verdict, which was not
till yesterday morning, near ninety hours after they were
first enclosed for deliberation ! What renders this the
more extraordinary is, that soon after they retired, they
sent ward they were agreed on seven of the prisoners, and
only differed on the eighth ; and it seems, from the result,
that one juryman stuck cut against eleven to save this
eighth, who was a young fellow of 17, and whose mother
had come from Greece to try and save his life, it being the
second time he was tried for a like offence. The judges
very properly declared they could have nothing to do with-
any divisions between the jurymen ; the verdict must be
unanimous or none. At list the obstinate man got the
better, as is usual in such cases, and a verdict was re-
turned of guilty against the captain and six of the crew,
and not guilty against this young lad. Report says, this
juryman, who stood his ground, vas the very person who
commanded the guards of
.the Spanish Cartes when they
conveyed FERDINAND from Madrid to Cadiz, and who is
nowan emigrant in the cause of liberty. There were only
three Englishmen on the jury ; the rest were Maltese (who
are now British subjects), Sicilians, one Frenchman, and
the above. mentioned Spaniard. I understand the Greeks
had a right to have half foreigners; but they complain that
there were no Greeks. If there had been it would have
been so much the worse, for these people stick very much
by one another, and would probably have held out for a
verdict of not guilty in favour of all the prisoners. The
defence was, that the Maltese ship was carrying contra-
band of war to Alexandria, where the Turks were at that
very moment fitting out a large armament to invade Greece ;
and this would have seemed a plausible defence enough, if
the Greeks had taken only the contraband articles, or if
they had carried in the ship as prize to their own Admi-
ralty Courts; but they did neither the one nor the other.
They plundered the cargo, and robbed the saptain and
crew, and, after all, left the chief articles of a contraband
nature. However, it must be owned, that they were not
guilty of such violence as we have heard of in some other
cases. The utmost they did in that way was
to hold the
Maltese ship's clerk down on a gun, and threaten to flog
him ; but this threat they did not carry into effect. Since
the taking of Carabusa, we apprehend little from pirates.
The piratical ships there were destroyed ; at which the
Greek Government complains bitterly, alleging that they
ought to have been given up to them to employ against the
Turks. I think, however, it was wiser to make sure of
them. A plan is talked of to prevent the mendicity which
is as intolerable a nuisance in the streets of Valetta; but
it is extremely difficult to persuade a Maltese that the poor
have not a right to beg, or that it is not an act of virtue
and religion to give money to beggars.'

PRICES OF STOOKS THIS
Bank Stock
3 pet Cent. Red. 83% Ty ex div.
3 per Cent. Cone 933(34%
3% per Cent. 90% ex div.
Ditto Red. 90%% ex div.
4per Cent. New 1005(
Ditto. 1826 idu%% ex div.
Bank L. Ann. IS 13-16 ex div.
India Stock 245% 61i
Ditto Ronda 96 87 pm.

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