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(s‘weemnent of the tountty as would the Permanent beheldcl .:thlit. ' d iii.ge nitwit tklittite :r. ternal etthISMIS
trader and the regular settler.' What hid beenhsaid
batnue;tsi the landed interest; and they had seen amongst
respecting the atcotrnts of the Company; had not been .
drawn from the most correct sources,' for *then! was
tiChristian'o banners:l '. Such, wear the iiiiniutabilihtof
01._ , 7 t .000. hf its inlistbitanas aitayed under
no truth in theittatement that the Company had lost
hilaatic.: unity 'o et fir. hich ; aged had rolled" withoni
four millionshvithin the last nineteen lean'. Henfould
contend: that the Coinpany had galheit' Mill Rom not tirukeaßlo'irmthPeresfilandn'belifeas'• ;hear )—Bet
it stns
every 'branch of the India trade, than'had ever been all %their cial.Auty . ice
.and•military establishment*
the)' )laid 1 beheld'' tn corn; lite chattgeof
gained. by private traders under the most advanta.
genus circumstances. ' If wag- said•of the ComNiny, t audt
inieotiwoanschl thongli.t.:eauch Might yet be done;
not throwing- opett the trade' withhut
that they had. established a most 'excellent•gottern strict‘ regolationt• tor the security'of i paritimmi
meat in India; :but that -their view. s 'of commercial party—the Company.' If' the House,' in IlispOsing
policy.were extmmely narrow. : He begged it to be of the'ptesent questions, did hot fall 446' a:Speen Of
obserredis that the Company had always had higher ' exclusion, what they were abotic to-du might idd id
views than those of mere monopoly; and they cons ' the race. and indepenaence• of this'Elap re;
tended against the enlargement of the trade, not be-and to
.theid
juappinTs, and wolf-being of our possessions in
cause it would affect their monopoly, but because by
vs doing, the possession of the whole would be risked. s1:1 Mr.' C.
GRANT,... kW.' W. Ceannto, and Mr. C.
He, therefore, protested against the ideathat they
GRANT, severally explained, • -. •
acted from those narrow views Whichhome were in- i , hfr. PONSONBY thought the other propositions
elined to attribute to them. • With others he would
should first have been considered, before the House
ask, whether the hope of toetributing to the little in
was called on to give a-vote cn tha subjeat of conti:
terests of some petty port ought to induce them to
:suing the Governnient in the hands of the Company ;
neglect the security of sixty Millions of people ? • •.. anchif now forced to give a vote nn the subjec4 he
' HMr.. CANNING felt inclined
quo agree
which with
had . the should say the Government of India ought not to con.
'on. Director, that of all -eestion*
'tinue in the hands nf the Company. It had been said,
been discussed in that House, none had been exposed
that the Company had been' the reformers of In*dia.—
to•a greater degree of exaggeration than, the one new
He did not mean to impute blame t i the Company ;
before them ; but he could not agree with the Hon.
but he was bound to say, they were not the Telma
Director, that all the exaggeration was on one side.
mers of India; India owed- its reformation and im.
He admitted that there.was much delusion in .all the
provement-to Mr. Burke t that great man it was who
glowing visions of the golden results that would at-
first called the auention of Parliament to India ; and
tend-the opening of the trade; but they only required
Parliament- it was that had refarm •d her ; and he
the chastening views of. that House, and of other •
could now see nothing in the situation of India whidt
branches of thh Legislature, to bring them•within the
rendered it necessary that she should be g Iverned by
coMpass of sober expectaflonsto lop away those ex-
a different system to that which prevailed in every
crescences which were barren .and fruitless, and to other part of the empire: If he could regulate this
leave the parts of the case that were sound and whole.
subject, he would continue the government td the
some. Such would be the advantages that would,
Company for six or seven learsa •In Which time it
most assuredly, result from the discussion; at all would be seen what effect was produced by it under
events, to throw out of it what might tend to inflame
the new regulations% :If, however, the restrictions
and irritate,. even if they could not come to •one ge- were put for twenty years, he should certainly oppose
neral opinion of the great question before them. But it.. ,The Right Hon: Gentleman'alsd proposed, that
much as they had heard about the exaggerations 'of
the Chill Trade, shouldbe thrown open to the public.
others, he must own, if up to that night he had heard
nothing which could induce him to believe that they , t Mr. • ROBINSON' said, :'he did not conceive it
ought to lessen the dignity of the Company, and to would be expedient to limit the period of anew Char.
alter the mode of carrying on the• trade of India, he ter to a few years, but he concurred 'in the wisdom
had heard abundant reasons in the Hon. Director's pl opening the :Trade. . All apprehensions of Euro-
speech, and in the arguments of one of whose speech peans exciting anarchy and confusion in India, on the
that Hon. Director had much reason to be proud— trade being. thrown open, were to him wholly vi-
(Near)—for not guiding themselves by their views of sionarYa The•numerous Petitions for the introdoc- ,
the question.—Thotigh he was speaking of a corporate tion of Christianity into India also was a sufficient
body, he had no intention to deal in corporate enmity; proof that Country did not entertain them seriously.
but he could not withhold the expression of the surprise —The Hon. Gentleman then adverted to the island
with which be had heard, that the Company were to of Ceylon, which contains 800,000 Christians, and
be considered as the rightful sovereigns of the soil of from which. all the valuable pioducti ins of India
India—that it was a question how far it was delicate could be obtained, were we even to possess no settle-
to discuss their Ode to the territory! But he could nei- meet there.: .
ther entertain sech views of their right, nor could he • General GASCOYNE said a few words in favour
see the great delicacy of touching on any such ques- of an open trade, but said heshould have no objection
tion, especially whenhe remembered that they were le- to the Company's retaining their Charter for another
gislating respecting the trade and government of India years •
equally as theymight have been calledupon to legislate • Sir JOHN NEWPORT said the House was called
for the colonies properly so called. The question of ex- upon to correct the Government of India about once
pediency arose as to the propriety of continuing the go- in every ten years, and yet it was now propcisekto
vernment of India in the hands in which it was now continue the present imperfect system. He denied
placed ? but they had advanced very little, if the ques- that the Company of themselves had introduced any
tion of right had not been completely settled. The salutary regulations of Government, but on the con-
Government of India had been called an anomaly— trary, they were compelled to it by the Legislature.
it was so ; but did it follow that this anomaly was a Every year they were applying for fresh loans to save
something ex necessitate rei which, according to the them from bankruptcy, and now they most unjustly
Hon. Member who spoke so eloquently, ought to be called upon the House to shut out all spirited adeen-
continued for the sake of forming a striking page in turers from competing with them.
the history of the present times. Because it was our The Resolution was then put and agreed to.
anomaly, it did not follow that they ought not there- . • Lord CASTLEREAGH said, at that late hour
fore to make it more analogous to other governments the House probably would not think proper to pro-'
in the world. But, he wished it to be remarked, that teed with the next Resolution. (A cry of Adjourn 1
he was not for removing the sovereign power in India ildjourn !) If it was the wish of the House now to
out of the hands of the Company ;on the contrary, adjourn, he had no objection. An Hon. Member
he wished it to remain there ; yet must not this be (Mr. Creevey) had a motion standing for to-morrow;
considered as recognizing the right of the Company but perhaps, as this wet a subject of so much impora
to the territory of India, for it resulted from his no- tance, that Gentleman would postpone it.
tions of its expediency. He certainly was not for Mr. CREEVEY assented to this proposition.
doing that which would erect the Company into an The House then resumed, the Chahman reported
independent sovereignty ; but even assuming what progress, and obtained leave to sit again to-morrow.
they said to be true, and that they wished to become The several Irish Bills were forwarded in their re-
the ally of England, they assumed most ungracious •
spective stages.
language. If the Autocrat of Russia, or the Empe- The Fire Arms Bill went through a Committee.—
ror of Austria, on proposing to become our ally,
The other Orders IDay
. o tine were
disposed of, and
were to say at the same time :—" but you shall not
the House adjourned at Half past Twelve.
trade with us, because you are a pack of piratical re-
bels ; we will not admit you into our kingdom, be-
cause you come with the taint upon you of an odious
traffic, carried on by you for one hundred years, and
which you did not at last abandon without a struggle; '
we will have nothing to do with you, lest you pollute
our atmosphere!" If such language were to be as-
sumed on such an occasion, would it not be deemed
most ungracious. Yet such was the language used
at the very moment when the Company was propos-
ing to become our ally. But from whom did this
language come ? Not from the Sovereigns of the race
of Timonr, but from the British Merchants trading
with India—not from the Sultans of Asia, but from
those a great ones" who had sprung from their own
loins, from the Conquerors and Kings of Leadenhall-
street—(Laiizhier.) But they must be considered
as the territorial Loids of India, who were amenable
to Parliament—( Loud cries of Hear, hear, hear,)—
for our Indian Empire was purchased by British
blood and policy; and it had ever since been sup-
ported by British :urns and British money. As to
the allusion that had been made to the Slave Trade,
it was illogical, wed the bearing that it might be in-
tended to have on the present question was incompre-
hensible. It was heaping censure on large bodies of
men which did not of right,belont; to them. It was
not the crime of any particular set of men—at the
Peace of Utrecht it was the game of Europe; and
in England it was sanctioned by every succeeding
Parliament till the accomplishment of that work
of imm.ortaiity which emancipated the African
from the horrors of traffic. But was this load pf na-
tional shame to be got rid of by removing the bur-
then on to the backs of any individuals? The
changes now proposed, it was said, would be of no
avail, for they were to affect a country that had
continued immutably. the same for the period of
three thousand years. It was maintained that
the vast Continent of Hindostan had seen the revolu-
tions of empires, and the convulsions and downfalls
of thrones ; —nay, it had even beheld rivers change
their courses, without ever evincing any thing like
change. But what was the truth respecting this im-
mutable quarter of the globe ? Why, that they had

His Grace the LORD LIEUTENANT of IRELAND was
this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood
on ALEXANDER WILSON, of Bath, M. D.—Dab. Gas.
May 25. •
The Earl of BREADALBANE returned to town a few
days since, with a carriage, in which his Lordship
travelled nearly one thousand miles with only the
third part of a half-crown box of the Patent Anti.
lAttrition Composition being applied to the axletreess
and there is no doubt but this carriage would go many
miles further, without any other application.
FRIDAY Nur, the 75th Anniversary of the Birth
of our good, venerable, and beloved Monarch, will
give a new birth to the fortunes of many of his loyal
subjects, who are, and still may be, adventurers in
our present State Lottery. It is the Last Day of the
Drawing, and from the few Numbers now remaiaing
in the Wheel, has to boast an unprecedented interest
aii,l‘veiglit ti C:apital Prize:.
LACNCiI OF THE BLF.NIIIIIM, or 74 OUNS.-.-Yeller.
day this beautiful ve,sel was launched from Deptford,
and cailed the Blenheim, in memory of the aelieve.
men:A acquired at Blenheim by the illustrious Duke
of Maici.soiouctt. She WAS received most cordially
into the bosom of old Father Thames, amidst the.
acclamatiens of thousands of spectators, all rejoicing
in the additional reception she afforded our brave
tars, and adding to British thunder to chastise the
disturbers of the race of mankind.
W. G. Harrison was yesterday brought up to r...-
ceive the judgment of the Court of Kii-g's Bench, for
a conspiracy with Edits St. Julian, to detraud the Hoe
nourable B. Cochrane of ABlO,OOO. The Court sen-
tenced him to be imprisoned for one month in. the
King's Bench.
FIRE.—A large wood in the neighbourhood
Bo urcleauz ,calleti the Four Squares, was set on fi•-•
in April last. Notwithstanding the utmost efforts if
the people of the commune, the flames destroyed
houses, barns, cattle, growing crops, and timber,
along a surface of `PI mil:: in exteat, aad twelve
i ' -
broad.