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powers. The commercial and political characters of
the Company were irreparable. But that did not
apply to their accounts, which formed a different
question. Why then - should not the Crown ex-
ercise power over the political characters of the
Company ? The state of the army was a very
important consideration, and the disorders have been
principally from the nature of the Civil and Military
Authorities, and the jarring of the Governor and
the Commander in Chief. Of this he himself had

experienced nothing. Though on that account he
had applied -either to be relieved from his situation,
or to have the commission of Captain General. Such
misunderstandings arose from the Undefined nature of
the Civil and Military Authorities. The constitution
of the army rested upon a principle in a great degree
erroneous, that of profit, unconnected with the prin-
ciple of public honour at home. But no body of men
could be more loyal, or more ready to make every
sacrifice. The Seapoys, too, had on many occasions
sacrificed the customs, habits, and prejudices imbibed
from their earliest years. But honours granted to
other Officers had been denied to Officers serving in
India. As there was nbw a great reduction of their
emoluments, he hoped they would not be excluded
from the honours given to others of a similar descrip-
tion. The army must be under the direction of the
Company, but a greater portion of honour and publi-
' city should be given to those who had distinguished
themselves in the service. The case of foreign ad-
, venturers had been wholly omitted in the Resolu-
, tiOns. Such, however, might go out to India, and,
beyond the verge of the Company's settlements,
would be wholly exempt from the operation of every
law. That did not make the influx of British ad.
venturers more safe. On the subject of theEcclesi-

astical Establishment, he had aliays thought it did
not test upon a sufficiently respectable footing. Put
it upon that footing, it would make the national cha-
racter more respectable. Whether the mode pro-
posed was the best, would be a more proper con-
sideration elsewhere than in that House. But great
precaution should be used that there might be no
collision betwixt the Civil and Ecclesiastical Autho-
rities, and there was reason to fear lest the intro-

duction of any great novelty might create alarm.—
The. Resolution contained not a word as to any sys-
tem of education, civil or military. It was strange,
when the Church Establishment was under considera-

lion, that the question of education did not occur, ;
nor that, as here, learning and religion should not
have been combined. Upon the subject of instructing
the nations in the doctrine of Christianity, any thing
of that nature should be done gradually, and should
be left to work its way by means of establishment of
education, and a general diffusion of knowledge, ra-
ther than by any exertion on the part of Government,
as a recommendation on the part of Government
would be equivalent to a command. Such was his
opinion, and such had been his practice. When he
was in India, the residence of the Missionaries had
been chiefly in the Danish settlements, and he had
never heard of any objection to any part of this con-
duct. Some of them he had employed as teachers in
• the College of Fort William, and others in translating
the Scriptures in the language of the country. No
order had been issued to force the Scriptures upihn
! the natives, but they had been left open to them,
through the medium of the Oriental tongues. A
Christian Governor could not do less, nor should a
British Governor do more. The plan proposed by
Ministers.held out the Company as the organ of Go-
vernment, while it took away from them all the
means of supporting it. It took from them the power
of the penal law, it menaced the revenue with a great
diminution, and the manufacturers with the greatest
danger, from a mal-administration of trade.—The
Noble Lord concluded by moving for the following
Papers :

No. 1. Copy of a Letter from the Governor-General to the
Court of Directors relative to the Private Trade to India, dated
the 80th of September, 1800.
No. 2. Copy of a Minute of the Governor-General, relative to
the College of Fort William, dated the 18th of August, 1800;
together with copies of the Regulation for the establishment of that
College, dated the 10th of July, 1800, and of the Statutes of the
College of Fort William.
No. 3. Copy of a Letter frora the Governor-General in Coun-
cil to the Government of Fort St. George, dated the 19th of July,
1804, relative to the internal Government, and mode of pro-
viding the investment at Fort St. George.
Ne. 4. An Account, chewing the amount of duties of customs,
and of any other duties paid in every year during the last five
years, to the Governments of the East-India Company in India,
on the trade to and from Great Britain.
No. 5. An Account of the establishments of officers of customs
throughout India, with a total expense of the same.
No. 6. An Account of the average annual amount, for five
years, of duties paid to his Majesty's Revenue of Customs and
Excise in England, on all goods imported from India and China,
exhibiting the gross average amount of duties received, the charges
of collection and management' and the net average amount of the
respective duties paid into his Majesty's Exchequer.
No. 7. Copy of a Letter from the Governor-General in Coun-
cil to the Court of Directors, in the Financial Department, dated
the 10th of October, 1812.
No. 8. An Account of the description and amount of supplies
furnished from India to China, in the years 1798 and 1812 re-
spectively.
No. 9. An Account of the description and expense of the com-
mercial establishments of the East-India Company in India and
China, on an average of five years.
The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE felt that
he could not remain silent, from the official situation
in which he stood, and therefore would proceed to
offer some observations on the speech of his Noble
Friend. His Noble Friend had set out with charging
his Majesty's Ministers with having brought forward
a system for the future government and regulation of
India, without having procured or laid before the
House such previous information as was requisite on
so momentous a subject. This charge of his Noble
Friend he considered most extraordinary, for his Noble
Friend well knew that a Noble Lord on the other
side had moved two years ago for a. Committee upon
East India Affairs. His Noble Friend well knew
also that there was a most voluminous Report laid on
the Table by that Committee; and, lastly, he knew
that he himself had never been seen attending :hat
Committee. Under these circumstances, he con-
sidered the charge of xis Noble Friend a most ex-
traordinary circumstance. With respect to what had
been said by his Noble Friend on the present occasion,
he acknowledged the ability which he had manifested,
and he agreed with him entirely in the statement
he had made of the advantages which had flowed
from the Government of the East ludia Company.—
' The Resolutions which had been laid before the