Star.
London, England, 1807-07-22 00:00:00

TN! POLYGAIRS.

Sir THOMAS TU RTO was glad to find, that
the motion he intended to fubmit to the Houfe was
not to be oppofed ;if eked what were the objets of
his motion, they were twofold, &ft, reparation to the
injured parties, the miferable and abufed Polygars;
and, fecondly, reparation to the national honour, fo
much injured thereby. He difapproved of the fettle-
ment of 1792, commonly called the Cornwallis Aft,
and thought the late melancholy bufinefs at Vellore
was not entirely unconnected with the previous impo-
litic treatment pf the Polygars. No change from one
fide of the Houle to the other fhould ever make any
alterations in his fentimeots on that fubjed. He
concluded with moving for a long !cries of Paper%
containing the correfpondence between the Court of
Direaors and the Governor of Fort St. George, and
the copies of inftrudions ifitied from the Court of
Diredors to Major John Boman in 1779, relating to
the reduElinn of the Polygars.
Mr. R. DUNDAS had no objedion to the motion
of the Hon. Baronet, but wifhed it to be diitindly
underftood, that, in affenting to the production of
thofe Papery, he was far from imputing the flighteft
blame to the Government at home or abroad. He
thought the Hon. Baronet entirely miitaken, in at all ,
attributing the unfortunate mutiny at Vellore to the
treatment of the Polygon. As to any change in the
fyftem that had been purfued towards them, he fhould
look upon fuch as the greateft misfortune.
Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON raid, that as the
Right Hon. Gentleman .had Paid that he would not
oppofe the motion, he (Mr. Addington) would not
divide the Houfe upon it ; but, at the fame time, he
Inuit enter his proteft againft granting Papers for
crimination, on demand of any individual, without
fpecifying,. or even hinting at any dire or fpecific
charge.
Lord FOLKESTONE, in anfwer to what had
fallen from the Hon. Baronet, (aid, that it was his
intention to profeeute, early next Sefton, the revere'
motions on Eaft India affairs, of which he had given
notice..

Sir T. TURTON (aid, he was well aware to what
the mutiny at Vellore was to be attributed—to a de•
liberate fyitem of attacking and infulting the religi-
ons preudices and national: habits of the natives.
Mr.GRANT though] that the Hon. Baronet had
made ufe of affertices which he had not fattsfaitorily
proved—that with refpea to the mutiny at Vellore
was certainly one of thole affertions. •!
Sir T. TURTON explained. •
Mr. W. KEENE read the order of the Court of
Direaors, hearing date the stab June, 795 • and,
alfo a ktter of initiations from fame to the Gover-
nor of Fort St. George, which, he contended, fully
evinced the urgent neceffity of reforting to decifive
meafurer, in the treatment of the Polygars.
Mr. WALLACEi denied that there had been any
fyflematic plan refolved upon by the Government, in
the treatment of the Folmar§ ; but that they were
regulated by the exigencies arifing out of the condua
of the Polygars themfelves.
Sir T. TURTON laid, in explanation, that the
word 44 fyftem," as applied by him to the condua of
the Government, had been mifunderltood. He was
proceeding, when the Speaker called him to order.
Mr. WALLACE briefly explained.
Sir A. WELLESLEY was proceeding to com-
ment on what had fallen from the Hon. Baronet,
when

Sir T. TURTON called the Right Hon. Secretary
to order.

The SPEAKER reminded the Hon. Baronet, that
he himfelf had been the caufe of the debate taking
the irregular turn it had done, and fubmitted it as
a proof of the neceffity of confining Hon. Members,
while explaining, within the limits of explanation.
The motion was then agreed to.
POOR LAWS.

On the motion of Mr. WHITBREAD, the Houfe
went into a Committee on the Bill for the Education
of the Children of the Poor.

Mr. STURGES BOURNE objeaed to the corn
pulfory part of the Bill, and fuggelled that the oiled
of it might be more readily carried into effea, if it
were put into another fhape. The country would,
by this Bill, be called upon immediately to go to a
confiderable expence for an objea, the advantage cif
which appeared doubtful, but which was certainly
.very dillant. If the Bill was not adapted to the cir-
cumaances of the parifhes, the parifhes would find
themfelves under the neceffity of adapting them-
felves to the provifions of the Bill. If the Bill was
generally difliked by thofe who were to put it in force,
it could hardly be expeeed that it would be aged
upon with zeal and good will, and in loch a cafe it
would fail to produce the effedl expelted from ir. It
was an impotfibility that thofe parochial (amok
thould be all eftablifhed within a year after palling
the' ra. He was fenfible of the great importance
of the fubjeCt, and in order that it might be well con•
fideted, he did not with any Bill to pals into a law
during the prefeit (Ann. He withed chat the pre-
fent Bill fhould be amended in the Committee, and
then reprinted, to be again fent down into the coun-
try. He fhould propofe as an amendment, that in.
Read of compulfion, the veftries of the different pa.
rinses amid be enabled (if they thought it necerary)
to build fuch fcboul houfes, and charge the expence
of building and maintaining them on the poor rates.
Mr. W. SMITH was aware' 'of the difficulty of
making the fitteß arrangement on a fubjet fo cons.
pliclted and f 6 important, in the courfe of the pre-
fent felfion. If. thowever, the queltion was to be,
whether the maafure th luld be adopted now or never,
rile &sated vote for its adoption now. He thought,
howtever, that the meafure might be made more per-
feEt by delaying it till next feffion. Some Gentlemen
Seemed to think the advantages of education to the
poor were rifionary... To him it appeared that the
'dangers apprehended from the meafure were mcne to
'be termed vifionary.

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