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marked thus • are new Candidates.
BRIDGE WARD.
in the place of Mr. Con, deceased.
QUZEWHITHE WARD.
in the place of Mr. SuAw, resigned.

BREAD.67ItEET.
.. the place of Mr. Harstmr. resigned.
Wards are represented in Common
former members.

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

_ Court of Directors was held at the
House, when Captain JAMES MURRAY
the command of the ship Devonshire,

Madras and Bengal.
Quarterly General Court was held,
,vidend on the Capital Stock of the Com-
: sth July last to the sth January next,
be 51- per Cent.
ividend had been declared, and the
A stated the tranquil state in which the
left India,
JACKSON rose to call the attention of
subject of ratitmal 'consequence, and,
had pressed much upon his mind foe
time past ; but respecting which; *
ices had determined him to remain no I
he meant the extraordinary, and to
able ascendancy of the enemy's cruizers
seas, and the dreadful ravages which they
tamely permitted to commit upon British
the still greater dishonour which they
upon the country. He rejoiced to have
m the Chairman, the account which he
. the peace of India, and of the seen-
Oriental possessions ; he wished he could
for the security of the Indian seas, and
vhich was necessarily adventured upon
:ould believe, asked Mr. Jackson, that
ie force greater than had been usually
seas, the trade of them had been so coin-
'protected, that the Calcutta Insurance
alone, had paid losses to the amount of
two millions of money within the last
. years, and that in the month of Sep.
October only, of the year 1807, their'
upwards of £290,000 ; that these, as
numerous other captures had been effected by I
igates, and (principally) by the Reven-
of 16 guns, which latter had scoured
three months together, and in fact,
during that time the Bay of Bengal,
great maritime force, with an Admiral's
several pendants flying, were then lying
hundred miles of this scene of depteda-
iderstood it to be stated in a Meniorial
he gathered these facts) from the Cal-
Merchants to the Board of Admiralty, that
destination of these frigateupd of this
known to the stttion at Madras, in Sep.
at the date of the Memorial, natntly, m
following, not a vessel had been sent
,cection of the Bay, till at length the Im.
ivernment of India had been compelled to
America had pretended to do on account
confederated maritime strength of the world,
- an embargo on its shipping, in order to
from the devouring jaws of this terrible
16 guns, which had had, it was said,
extraordinary good luck to preserve
of its prizes from re-capture, 'though- it
them through a known track of three
tiles to the Isles of Mauritius and Bout.
lackson added, that the Madras Govern-
that feeling which became it for our fel.
of India, labouring under the horrors of
advertised great encouragement to shipt
co. .1 for their relief, in consequence of which,
.6 interest had directed its attention to this
rhen, shocking as it should seem, if the Me.
truth, no one ship that the memorialists
been sent out to protect these vessels, the
.. of which was, that a considerable part of
tons thus intended to save our own subjects
, had been captured by the enemy. Mr.
observed, that a marine could only be created
tiro ugh the medium of commerce, or through that of I
skips of war ; .our great enemy not having the for. I