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London, England, 1826-07-25 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE, LILY 19, 1826.

THE COURT ofDIRECTORS ofthe UNITED
COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND • Trad-
ing to the EAST INDIES do hereby give Notice,
That at the Generid Court of the said Company appointed to
be held at this House on Wednesday, the 26th instant, the fOl-
lowing Resolution of the COURT of DIRECTORS of the 6th
instant, will be reported, to the General Court, agreeably to the
Act of the iiSth Geo. S. cap. SS. viz.
." That it is•tbe opinion of this Court, that the Commander and
Owners of the Ship Royal Georye, are fully acquitted from all
imputation Of neglect, or misconduct, in respect to the loss of that
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, .1111. Y 19, 1826.
rimiE COURT of DI RE C TO R S ofthe UNITED
JL COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND Trad-
ing to the EAST INDIES, do hereby give Notice,
That a SPECIAL ,GENERAL COURT of the said colt-
PANY will be held at their Hons. in Leadenhall-street, on Wed-
nesday next, the 26th instant, at Eleven o'clock in the-Forenoon,
at the desire of Nine Proprieiors, agreeably to the following let-
ter, received on the 10th instant, viz.:--

"To Joseph Dart, Esq. Secretary to the Honourable the Court
of Directors of the East India Company.
" Sir,—We, the undersigned Proprietors of India Stock, re-
quest that you will lay before the Honourable the Court of Di-
reetors of the East India Company this requisition to call a Ge-
nirat Meeting of the Honourable' the Court of Proprietors, thit
the following Motions-may bersubmitted to their immediate con-
sideration. •
" Ist. That adverting to the Act of Parliament recently passed,
which contains the following clauses :—"f hat ut any time within
three years front the passing of this Act, it shall and may be
lawful fur the Court of Directors of the said United Company, to
nominate and appoint, and to send to the Presidencies of Fort
William, Fort St. George, or Bombay, in the capacity of a
Writer, any fterson who shall produce such testimonials of his
character and conduct, and pass such an examiration as, by
Rules and Regulations to he framed and established, shall be re-
quired. That the said Court of Directors shalt and they are
hereby required, with all convenient speed, to irame and seta-
hlkh,proper Rules and Regulations respecting the due and neces-
sary qualiticationS of Writers, and that it shall sod may be law-
ful to alter and vary such Rules and Regulations from tittle to
time, as circumstances may appear to require e this Court, there-
fore, requests the Court of Directors now to stbmittheir intended
Rules and Regulations, that the same may be deliberately di.-
cussed by the General Court of Proprietors; also, in order to
obviate every attempt to establish any unfairmonopoly in Oriental
laucation, while the College Suspension Aft is in force, like the
one lately.tnade by a regulation of the Cout of Directors, which,
though published in their Court Coteau, or Red BOolt, has
since, Otc.mature reflection, been rescinder:
" 2d. That considering the manifold alvantages of reroneiling
the feelings • and interests of the variow public Departments and
official communities at the different Presidencies in British India
with each other in every branch of tie service, this Court re-
commends that the Executive Governiettts there lie instructed to
abolish irrunediately. the odious pracice of paying the Civil ser-
vants in Sleca'Rupees, and the Amity in a less valuable Currency,
called, Surat Rupees, to prevent all discontent, from the conti-
nuance of this' treasonable distincton among the Kings.or Com-
pany's Civil Military and Naval Finctionaries in future, by the
whole receiving their respective abwances in the same species, or
equitable rates of the local coins, there 'such payments are made.
" We have theaonour to be, Sir,
• " You; most obedient servants, .
" W. MASON " • BORT HWICK. GILCHRIST
" WM. THORNTON "JAMES MOUAT
" R. SLADE ,ctICESTER STANHOPE

WILKS, ADDINELL
" JAMEFPATERSON.
" London, June 30, 1826
JOSEPH DART, Secretary.