The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-18 00:00:00

EXST INDIA libUSE.

cluA nor ItylAw GP.-,V., RAI, "cotivr. •
Yesterday, after the usual forms had been gone
throu.h,
Tilt, Clialltm AN stated, that the Court of Di-
rectors- had c ' e to -,, Tes(Antion, recommendiug
that a ,fi, idlimd (if 5 per cent. on. the Company's
stock he Taid for
,the half „year, commencing on
the 5114( LI skuni-y last, mid eliding OIL the sth of
3n:v nrxt.'

After .4 few ahservations •bv Mr. Fiume, the
proposir•an for a dividend of 54-, rer Cent. WaS
then insam.i.onsly agreed
Mr. Cu MMI NO presentell the Report of tilt
Comnittee at live•la,As. It set Earth, • that the
Committee -had the sati•fietion of finding,that,
(hail's; the past year the Bye-laws, of the Com-
pany had in no instance been violated.
ST. HELENA.

Air. Hum a obaerved, that amongst the papers
laid before Parliament, there was one detailing
the expense incurred for supporting the eVaiblish-
!tient at St. 11cletra,41ii which he wished to.bave
some information. The sotto devoted to !fiat ser-
Niee was, for the year ratline May. 18:5. 79,0001
greatly incica,,ell. Fur. 1816, it was
1U6,0001.;• for 1517, 127..0001.; and the last ac-
count was 173.0001. Now, he asked- whether the
Company were to meet this increased expense 'al-
together, or whether they %vete to receive any
as,.istaiire from Government,?
The Cll.%ttimAx- said. that all -the expense be-
yond what
_the Company formerly paid for the
cstabli•lttuent at St. flelena was debited, and
charged to hi, i\lajesty's Government. •
fIUPLES'ro:NI AND cot.. WII.tiS.

Mr. 1-1 u oce,!. roN said he was anxious It, inform
the General Court that be had drawn up a Report,
which had been 14id before the Court of Directors,
mod which, in conformity with the pledge he had
given some time since, should now.be read to the.
proprietors. Airaccusation had Ire,ql made against
in Colonel Wilks's History of the South of
India, to which he hoped this Repots would fur.

Dish a satisfactory answer. If, on the contrary,
.he were disappointed itr that hope, he-.must say,
and he said it witk.the most shicere feeling, that
,as he originally obtained a seat hi the direction in
,consequence of ths_farourable opinionthe'Pro-
..prietors entertained of his character, if he found
,that chariot r at ail impaired in their estimation,
.be, would retire front their service without a mut-
Jam% lie then moved--
• "At there be laid before this Court a letter
addressed, to the Court of Thectors, by John
IludL.-ston,. Esq. on the 30th that the Re-
port, together with the documents connected
kith the same, be
.now read ; anti that Copies of
the same be left open at this Howe fs)r the iii-
Spection of_th, Pionrietors of East India Stoat."
Mr. GRANT seconded the motion.

. The lettrr, which was extremely bong, was' then
read. It went into, a history of the proceedings
of the three Cotomissoners., 314.. Sadlier, Mr.
(af.erwnrds S;r George) Staunton, and Mr.
lindleston, appointed by Lotd Macartney, itt
17.:1 rt• wit(, Tilllloo
Hon rebutted, in the strongest terms, and
_by a
refervice t.o circumstances, as. tar as 114(4 could be
adduced, after a lapse 0f.3-I years, tne accusation
contained in The Hisi:ory of the Sotali of
that Mr. Slaimom and Mr. Iludteston-had enter._
ed into a scheme. ro.get on boatd a ship in...•Ban-
galote roads, tor_ the purpose of escaping ham
the pOwer of Tippoo Sultana, leasing their co-.
adju•or, Mr. Sadlier, and other servants, at the
mercy of the Tyrant. The.
,1 tter also defended
tine .Peace,of Bingaloye irom the attack made on
it in Colonel.‘Villis's book, as being absolutely
necessary,,in.consequenee of the exhausted state
of the-Qoupauy!s finances at the time.
. Sir II: Ituz•seu.,- looking. to the unanimity
which marked. the Hon. Director's re-election,
considered it to be a decided proof that his cha-
racter4iad not suffered' in the estimation of his
Constituents.... It was,clear that no suspicion of
impropriety attached to his conduct, and thereiore
be conceived an extinguisher alight now be Pin
Oil the business.

air. Hupt.Errow said, that having pledged
libuself to.the Vroprietors•to give au answer to
the attack that had been made On him, he- only
relleemed that pledge,. by drawing up the present
revolt. He- should now, leave the Court, and

the Proprietors would act with it ;AS they thought

groper,

The morion.►hr+t the Report should lie on the
tat& was dm) considered; and On the motion

Alr. fit) M it (Mitred." That a Copy of Ge-
neral Macleod', Letter, and oho of, any nocoments

referred to in. the Report,, be selected by MI%
Hudleston, and left open to the perusal. of the
Prop.riet ors ."—The .Coutt 't hen adjourned.

The Kentish- Courier gives the following expla-
natiiin of :a mysterious affair :---" In our last we
related ow.mysteritius citcumstances of ttto human
heads having been tound .n a basket, in in atilt
plantation; near the Halfway House, between
Roche ter and Gravesend. Ott Monday afternoon,
,the Stli inst. one of the Gentlemen of the
111tdical Staff, at Fort Pitt, •went to _view the
heath ; when he recognized them as those of
two soldiers who died at Fort flu, during the pre-
ceding week, and who had-been buried on Friday
evening. On returning to Chatham to make
thii communication, the graves in the burying-
ground at Chatham were opened, in•which the
men had been buried,, vrbenit was discovered that
the nails. Of the coffins had been drriwn,atitd the
head-board taken out and replaced. Ott opening
the coffins, the bodies were found to be decapi-
tated, and as there was no doubt of their ;den-
tity, the two heads were fitted: again to their re-
spective bodies, and: re-bmird, never, we hope,
to he again disturbe-d. The two soldiers hattre-
markably good .teeth, and the whole of the'front
ones had been extracted, previously to the this.
covery of the beads." .
'Tuesday night, about -half-past ten o'clock,
Mr. AmPhlct, Of Rupert-Street,
towards.Keosington,:was attacked by two men,
dressed ~,ii,soldiers, with 'black crapes on their
faces, w4kniknoCked hjin down, and after beating
him in a• most. severe manner, robbed him of his
wateli and money, threatening to mutder hint if
lie gave any alarm.