Star.
London, England, 1824-09-30 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

A Special General Court of Proprietors of East India
Stock was held yesterday at the Company's House, in
Leadenhall,street.

On the motion of the Chairman (W. ASTELL, Esq.),
'the Court confirmed, the Resolution, to which the Pro-
prietors came, on the 21st instanr, approving of the Re-
solution of the Court of Directors, granting to Mrs.,
Franeklyn, formerly the widow of the late Major-6e,
neral Stevenson, the sum of NO/. per annum. •
The CMAIRMAN also moved, that the Court corifisrrt
Ithe Resolution of the last General Com t, approving of
;the appointment of Mr. R. M. Leeds, as Purveyor and
Steward to the Company's Military 'Establishment At
Addiscombe, which was agreed to unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then moved the confirmation of the
Resolution of the last General court, approving of the
Resolution of the Court of Directors, granting to Mr.
James Marjoribanks the sum of 69,000 rupees.
GeneraITHORNTON opposed theßesolution,and moved
as an Amendment, That this Court do now adjourn.
Mr. Lowell)Es contended, that, as this grant would
not take a shilling out of the pockets of the Company,
it ought to be agreed to. The Honourable Gentleman
took occasion, in the course of his speech, to animadvert,
.with considerable asperity, on certain misrepresenta-
tions of a speech delivered by him at the last C, urt,
which had rippeared in one of the Ministerial Journals.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM opposed the grant, on the ground
that Mr. Marjoribanks had not been compelled to mule
to this country, and therefore was not entitled to the
allowance now called for.
Mr. Tuceatt was anxious to know whether the opi-
nion of the Company's Law Officers had been taken on
this case? If it had, he wished to hear it; if not, he
wished it to be called for. He doubted very much whether
they were justified in leaving out of their view the Act
of the 33d of the late King, by taking advantage of a
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clause in the 53d of that Monarch.

The CHAIRMAN • defended the grant, which he !untended was
strictly legal and proper.
Mr. Ramses supported the motion. There was, be argued, a
moral compulsion sufficient to justify Mr. Marjoribanks in coming to
this country.
Sir Jolts Sawsub contended at considerable length against the
grant, for which, he observed, no sufficient reason bad been assigned.
Mr. Weenum said, that all he bad heard that day had only con-
firmed the opinion which he expressed at the last Court of the pro-
priety of the grant. ,
• Mr. Hem opposed the grant, and Mr. Tama supported It.
The Camellias then put the question on the amendment, which
was negatived, and the original motion was cashed by a large majo-
rity.—The Court then Adjourned.

The following article, which we extract from The
'New York ifercenigile Akiertiser of the 27th ult. will be news to the
inhabitants of Plymouth : Private letters received yesterday front
Quebec state, that as arrival at that port from England, brings in-
telligence to the 16,11 ult. ♦ destructive fire had broken out at
Plymouth, by which forty sail of shipping were burnt."
DEVONPORT, SEPT. 25.—During the last fortnight,
great commiseration has been excited here, in conse-
quence of the following melancholy circurnitances :
Several men belonging to the Dock-yard, who had been
slightly bruised, or had accidentally cut themselves in
the progress of their work, have become alarmingly 111,
mortification has ensued, and seven shipwrights and
tw•o sawyers have died. These effects are by some rr e-
dical men attributed to atphosmerical inllueoce. To
ascertain the probable cause, Dr. Bell, the Surgeo:t,
on Monday morning last, opened the body of Gregory
Nicholls, a shipwright, who had died on the preceding
day, and in the course of the dissection happened to
scratch one of his fingers. .This passed unnoticed at the
time, but in the afternoon Dr. 1341 became alarmed at
perceiving it, thinking he might have imbibed some of
the morbid matter. Shot tly afterwards a shivering fat
!came on, and lle was. obliged to be put to bed and
-bled. The best medical aid was administered, and the
most rigid attention paid to his case ; but in spiie of all,
the symptoms daily became worse, and yesterday even-
,ing he yielded up his spirit to GOD who gave it.
According to Lloyd's List upwards of 400 vessels,
from foreign parts, arrived in the port of London be-
tween the 200 and 26th inst. ' the majority or wgutb
tress laden with oaLs: