Star.
London, England, 1812-02-07 00:00:00

REGENCY BILL.

The P egency Expenses Pill was brought up from the House
of Commons, read a Ent, and orders d to be read a second time
to-morrow. The two Hnuseheld Bi Is were committed ; and on
the motion of the Earl of Liverpool, ordered to be rt ad a third
time to•menow.

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'1 he fat the: heating of the Roxburgh Appeal Cause was pnv-
poned till Mcndzy, on account of the sudden indi,position of
Mr. Matonochie, one cf the Respoudel.t's Counsel—Adjourned.

HOWE OF COMMONS.
The annual account of the sums experbieti by tbe C(11111113-
&loners for the Reduction of !he National Debt was brovglit up. I
Also an account of the net produce of the Excise Tax in the
Irish Exchequer.
Mr. WHARTON moved to bring in a Dill to amend the Ant 1,
eastive to the Exchange °Minds in his Majesty's ft.rests, and to
the prancing leases thereon.
The House then resolved itself into a Cor,lmittee en !lie Coal-
Trade Bill, which was ordered to be reported to-morrow.
The Insolvent Debtors Amenilment Act was read a third
time, and passed to lie I.llrds.
Mr. PARNEI. niovi.el for an account of the corn, grain, nu al,
a d flour, imported front Ireland iu llt 1 1.
Mr. HOUSTOITN proaentod a Pc ition of the Merchants of
Creettock, on thc subject of the R• elation of the *I I..de with
India, on the Expiry of the present Charter of the Exit India
Company.
Mr. BROUCHAM, after asliinz a question relative to the
production if two ;tapers which had been tto-ted for some time
since by Sir Frat•cis Burdett, and alts 1 few words from Mr.
. . .

What ton, g rut ce of a motion for Friday week, that a Select
Committee be amsointed to consider the ::pi lication of certain
sums already approrr and from the Droits of Admiralty.
The. Bill rc'ating to the embezzle inert of Irish naval stores
was read a second One, and commit. IA tor to-morrow.
' Mr. lID roil NSON gave notice that he would on W. t!negday
next submit a motion relative to the Royal Marine Corya.

On the motion of Mr. PERCEVA L., the thank, of the House
'rue %used to Dr. Blagtien, for his sern.t n on the Fast-t:ay.

THANKS TO LORD wri.tiNoTnx.

The CHANCELLOR of the INCH FQItER •aid, that he
should on hlunday ..ext move the '1 hanks of the House to Lord
Wellington.

MOTS AT NOTTINGHAM.

Mr.WHITBKEAD wished to be informed by the
Secretary for the Home Department, who was the
first Pc:lice Magistrate in the kingdom, tyhether the
scandalous proceedings at Nottingham, which had
for threw months disgraced the country, were quelled,
or whether any measures had been or were in con-
• templation to quell them ?
Mr. RIDER said, that he had reason to think,
that fcr the last two days the rio:s were subsiding—
th :t he trusted to be able, in a f:w days, to bring
belcre Parliament something which mii;ht lead to
• discussion.on this sutjec,.. The HonourabL: Gentle-
man had preferred no charge ; if he should, Le was
• reArly to meet it.
Mr. WHITBREAD ub erv.:d, that after whit
had fallen from the Right Hon. Secretary, he should
not himself now give any notice on this business ;
laut he must ask, was not the existence of those dis.
graceful riots prima facie a charge against the Home
Administration ?

Mr. LAMBE said, that the riots at Nottingham
had tact only not subsided, but were increasing, and
loudly called for inquiry.
Mr..l SMITH stated, that he had received letters
that morning which expressed that a greater degree
of tranquillity prevailed in the country than had been
for sonic months past. .
EAST INDIA COMPANY.
• • Mr. WA LLACE rose to submit a motion relative
to the late loan of iC1,500,000 advanced to the East
India Company. The ob.pet of his an thin was to
alter the Act, so far as it went to presctibe the mode
of repayment. The Act conta'ned one cot;dit on,
;which at the time it was enacted his Noble Friend

(Lord M.elviiie) at ilie head of isle baltrd ct Ci.n-
tioul, had said cauld ri,.t in probability be coirplied
with, viz. the actu.d revs-nit:lA is .I.lla try, 181'2.
The company had since advanced wry large !Aims

to lie
for public services, for part of which bills had been 'panfs monopoly, by any pwrions.sgreement t:lllllooin;nonformbeet:lvecorn-ththeerGeanlvseritunmateniont oanfdlnthdieanEalfftatiiz
given. -These bills had not yet arrived, and it was Goveftment and the Company.. (Hear, dear.) It was well known that a negeciaticio iyass a.t pri-Z
- dia Company, and that the matter WAS :S nenly t
of course impossible that they could have been yet Mr. GRAN 1' said, that the Committee on
rendered convertible to the purposes of tht Company's Affairs had really brought forward a great deal
Treasury. His Majesty's Exchequer, however, could formation, though it possibly might have brought for- tied between them as it could be • I •
w"'"'t a minute.,
only receive payment according to the form and man- ward still more. Besides the account between the East All this was carried on in silence ; and if •
ner prescribed by the Act, and he conceived that the India Company and Government, they had produc- as good as conelnded, it was in a train 't
yea' not
House could entertain nu objection to his motion, for ed two very elaborate Reports, one on the Ordinary I eluded, and Parliament was tell to b
ib rteou Z cfC:;..
leave to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the Act Revenue and Expenditure of the East India Corn- ward as a matter of form to putythe's!
to which he had referred. piny, and another on the Extraordinary Revenue and , tract. There were so many facts naecetsosartly2
t
Mr. CREEVEY said, he rose merely to answer a Expenditure of the Company • and he would take known before it w..s possible to entertain any f
taunting remark of the Gentleman who spoke last. upon him to say, that any dentlemao who might : opittion en the E.tst Indian airairs,that, correct
to 'he'd; -
That Hon. Member had animadverted on him, as choose to look into those Reports, could not fail to the production of documents alone would not he
htleln„lt
having predicted that the loan of 51,500,000 would get much infarmatien with respect to the proprittv factory, and that witresses ought also to hennet ;1*
never be paid ; and yet, at the same time, came for- of a renewal of the Company's charter. With respect In the presrnt state of theleesticn, it was imx7i-iPel,
ward with a Bill, which proved in effect, that the to the Ninth Report, which had been Pl!uded to by for any enlightened man to come to any • '"'•kk
money hid not yet been paid, (a laugh). I the Honourable Gentleman opposite (Mr. Creevm.y), either satisfactory to himself, cr safe totat: ceereT,
Mr.. WALLACE denied that his object was to ;it merely came down to the year 1780, and though it One man one day will give you an account which se.'ij
prolong the day of payment, and insisted that the ' certainly did not contain much useful information, it be negatived by the next man you happen
loan had in effect been already paid. was. ot applicable to the present state of India. The equally competent to give inf •rrn ition respecting I."
EAST INDIA cowsurrez. sum of £500,000 to he paid to Government, was dot. He spoke from what had !termed to him-66
Mr. WALLACE, after stating that the delay not, as the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Creevey) He would allude to one subject, for instance, on see):
hitherto experienced in bringing forward the Reports bad said, in consideration of a monopoly of trade.— he had received the most contradictory inforneleet•
of the Committee, had been produced by causes be- The Monourable Gentleman was mistaken, if be . NVouli it be safe, in the extension of an interc`e
om:-
ond their controul, and that the Ce imagined the East India Company would resist the with India, to allow of
mmittee had in _
emigration to tear C Ant?, )
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preparation two voluminous and elaborate Financial extension of commercial intercourse with India from One set of men say that nothing would be mod: nk •
Reports, moved that the Committee be renewed, with any principle of commercial jealousy. On this subject rous as this measure, and that colonizatiou and -it;
the alteration of two names, viz. Mr. Howarth and it was not at present perhaps proper to speak, as it surrection, and finally separation, are spenanetn.—
leer, Lushington, in the room of Lord Melville, and was only anticipating the proper time for its discus- Another set tell you that these Wets are chime:ice',
Sir John Anstruther, deceased. sion ; hut this he would say, that the expectation en- scout the idea of danger, and appeal to the cue of
Mr. CREEVEY rose and observed, that he must tertained by the commercial part of the country, of the Americans seel.nocies. Tiinse persons silo are
oppose this motion altogether, bu. before he male the great advantages likely to be derived' by them averse to colonization tell you that this el.* be
any further remarks, moved that the Clerk should from laving the trade with India open, would in all thwarting the religious prej'idites of the neer.
read that part of the Regent's Speech which related probability only end in disappointment. It was a Another set say, look to th:Mahomstins is lndiefe.
to the East-India Company's Affairs. The Hon. fact, that the European traders in the different ports more eumerons than the Eur.ipe ass rill ir, wheat e
Gentleman then proceeded to say, that the time was of India and China, bad more goods in their ware- cvea ahhorred by the ratives. The hithort e anskt
near at band when the present agreement between the hinises thati they could sal, and they found that Eta only proselytized die natives, but they end. aecandtk,
Company and the country would expire. Last year ropeen goods were becoming more and more unsale. ex itpate them, and yet no insurrecti n took plate._
the Company had received a notice to this effect.— able. 'rhe.success of the American traders could to All these thins were set in air ty against oar sue,
This Committee, which was now proposed to be re- etoily accounted for. It was to be considered that ther, so that it was impossible to come to any utis,
newed, had been sitting five years, and he would the Americans were neutrals, whereas this couvry factory opinion without the eranfhation of vaunts.
venture to say that not one human being, in the was engaged ir) an extensive war. The consequence One thing he wouid caution the country agine,aed
House or out of the House, was one tittle the wiser was, that the A.mericans could get admission into all that was, against forming too great an expectathed
for all they had discovered or communicated. The the ports of France, and carried Indian goods there, the advantages of an extended Indian trade—(mx,
accounts furnished by them were even more compli- which the merchants of this country could nor do by hear, front Mr. Peraval), as he was aft aid this ape
cated and obscure than the other papers on the same any possibility. He did not know what the Ho. talon would only end in disappointment. He wished
subject occasionally laid before the House; and he nourable Gentleman meant, when he stated, that the exportations to South Ametica to be bene it
challenged every individual except the Right Hon. the East India Company were at the expellee of mind. These exports had prevented the measersse
Gentleman himself, to say that he had been the least paying the expences of four Members in that House. Government during the last f. ur years from beiago
enlightened by them. it was his intention to pro. [Here Mr. Whitbiead said the Company paid the clearly felt here ar, they were throughout thecountry.
prise that the House, instead ef appointing a Select Board.] ! With respect to the property tax, measures had ben
Committee, should go into a Committee of she whole
General TARLETON said, that the out ports taken by Government not only so raise arrears,be
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House, to consider the State of the East-India Com• would indeed be very much disappointed if the trade tq raise the amount of the taxes. It was well kanee
mittee. The public would then see what was dine, to India was not thrown (yen. He hoped that the that there was no part of the country where theme
and could form their epinion accordingly. There merchants of Liverpool would be indulged in their lions of the inspectors were not felt.
wishes; and he trusted, from their known skill and Mr. LUSHINGTON recommended that the cle.
were quite sufficient documents to enable such a
Committee to enter into a titre consideration of the industry, that instead of a losing they would make it cuments upon the table of the House should bem
subject. He would then have it in his power to a gaining concern. The distress of Liverpool was in- ferred to, and that until their contents were lam
move certain Resolutions which it would be no easy deed very great : that opulent town was now coin- any discussion upon them should be postponed.
task to oppose. He might then move, that one of pletely shorn of its beams. 1 Mr. WHITBREAD felt it necessary to put we
the conditions of the present Charter was the pay-
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ral questions to the H. nourable Member Dyer the
ment to the public in compensation for being exclud-
thought the House would find no difficulty in throw- . way, who had moved for the re-arpnintmcnt of the
ed from the trade, of the sum of £500,000 per sit. ing open, to a considerable extent, the trade with East-India Committee. In the first plat- be asked,
num, which, in the nineteen years that had since pas-
India, without infringing on the East.lndia Cons. why, after the recommendation contained in the Re.
sod, had been only once paid, while a sum of
patsy's Charter, or without endangering the security gent's Speech, that this subject the.uld be tab:needy
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£1,500,000 had been advanced to the Company of the East-India possessions. On this subject lie con- into consideration, if the Committee were in testy
That their debt had increased to theenormous amount ceived the Honourable Gentleman who had spoken necessary, its revival had not been proposed befog
of R 30,000,000. That their bond debt, instead of list but one, had given a very satisfactory answer to four weeks of the Session had elapsed ? Nat to
being reduced, now amounted to £7,000,000. That the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Creevey). He rose at wished to be informed, whether it was at all probs.
the accumulation of a sum of R 12,000,000 as a secu- present merely to give expression to the surprise ble that the Report, supposing the Commlttee agate
rity for their capital had entirely failed—(Hear, hear.) which he felt at the statement made by that Honour- to be nominated, could be in the hands of the Kew
If the House looked into the histary of the Cons-
able Gentleman respecting the produce of the pro. hers before the general concerns of the East-hula'
patsy, at the time of the first Parliementary Chatter, perty tax at the sth of January last, compared with Company were investigated on the question of
they would find that the Cempany teen was in the the produce of the property tax for the year ending newel of the Charter ? In the third place he '
practice of making good its payments, and that they the sth of January preceding. He believed those to know whether the Honourable Member I
also advanced a sum of 02,000,000 during the refit u;
were the periods compared together by the Hon. that irwas possible for the Committee to ctrlof Willem, as a consideration for their exclusive pi- Gentleman—(Mr. Creevey expressed dissent.) He the necessary objects of previous enquiry, so tl
vileges. In the reign of Anne, they advanced ano- apprehended, that instead 'of the deficiency cf and cempleteexplanati- n upon them mirlitbef
ther sum of £12,000,000. Ever since 17615, when 51,100,000 of the one year compared with the other, tithe Heine ? It appeared to him, that tel
they became not merely merchants but sovereigns of ; the real deficiency would be only £280,000. But Report were in truth already prepareme and .itil•
India, the new policy adopted by the Legislature I though the produce of the year, ending in lell, was the s .notion of a Committee, tle: Report caul
was, that the country should participate still more' less than that of the year ending in 1810, by the sum laid upon the table in sufficient Lane to be of ,
largely in the Company's profits. No such partici- of F 289,000, it was at the same time to be remarked, est use in the deliberation of the great tilt mat
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petiole however, hid t iken place. A Report was that it was greater by 8700,000, than that of the tion. 'The Chancellor of the Exchequer to.nie,
drawn up, in 1782, with great labour, by Mr. Burke, • year preceding the former of these periods. Certainly was usual with him whenever the slightest
but never taken into the consideration of the House, . a deficiency of £289,000 would not warrant the Hon. fered,had indulged in a strain or exttitetioe ui
owing to peculiar accidents, in which it was dis- Gentleman in the desponding views which he had sent state of the country,which was calculat
tinctly stated, that the Company were no longer mer- • taken. But it was not fair to draw such a conclusion to deceive the public ;in reality, he could I
chants, but were the great landholders of India.— 'at any rate on a comparison of two years only, and doing the Rigtit lion. Geteleman the justice
That their fleets, indeed, continued to exist, but ex- especially a compalisnu of the present year with that throughout the whole of h:s nub rainatc
heed only for the purpose of carrying out stores, the most productive year which the country had oration, be had himself focus y;ressty imposed upon,
and !stinging home the tribute or rent in the ma- ever known. It was also to be considered that the he never weuld willingly has c redeced the natr
nufactured goods of India. Having, however (said ' produce was only diminished in comparison well this present condition of distress and wretchedness,
Mr. Creevey), no tribute to bring home, they are most productive and greatest of all years, and that it Honourable Gentleman, late a Director of '
obliged to borrow fiom their servants, in order to was gre'ater fir the present year than for all former India Company, hid assented, that during
make good their investments. A paper was to be years, with the excepton of the year ending the sth of tectorate the Mercantile Interest had been
laid in a few days upon the table, by which it January, 1811.-The increase at- the sth of January, almost to ruin, by a free trade to the settles
would appear that the amount of the property.-tax ; 1811, was also in a good measure owing to those the Indian Seas, and joined to a Petition to
for the year 1811 was R 1,100,000 less than in the pre- measures which had been adopted in consequence of monopoly established. This statement was i
ceding year. This loss could not have been sus- the recommendation of the House to bring in the ar- correct, but did it not always happen, din
tained either on the 1 mud or the stock of the country, rears and to levy the tax more effectually, all which new channel of commercial Fifth was opened,
but on the trade merely, and the result was, that if measures began to take effect last year, and had the chi:lnked at first by greedy speculators, wh
the tenth of the trade had suffered a loss to this effect of swelling it in comparison to the present '.— ed in the attempt; but that future ad.
amount, • the whole must have suffered no less thank, for the same increase could not be expectNl from these ing themselves of former example, derivtu
£.11,000,000. He held a paper in his hand, shewing measures after they had been some time in operation. portant benefits from that which had proved
that the distress at Liverpool was at present extreme, Comparing the whole receipts of the tax during last of their predecessors. Was not this opinion
and entered into some details, sheaving that the nutise% year and the present year together, it would be found by the experience of our van day. and were
trr of persons who had lately received relief in that .•
that they amounted to R 10,700,000 for the present, years, or rather months, (for it bad not lasted
town, had increased in one inen:h fremBoooto 15,000. and ten millions for the past year ;so that if the of prosperity—so much the boast of Mi
When he recollected that at every period when-the Property Tax of these two years were compared to. attributed to this cau e ? Was not the
merchants of this country have enjoyed a free trade • gether, independent of the arrears recovered in each spirit of speculation which had raised that
to the East Indies, commerce had always been bene- year, it wculd be found that the increase was rather the revenue to a height.it had never bee-
ficial, and joined to this recollection, time present state the excess of arrear recovered in the one year over created by Adminis ration and the Board "1. •
that in the other. Instead of a deficiency then of
of trade and mannfactuies, be saw new and pressingwho held cut a fallacious idea, that successful
reasons to induce the House to take this subject into 51,100,000, it was only £289,000, and comparing coerce could be carried on to various siosatioase
its earnest consideration. It was time that the British : the total receipts, there was £700,000 More for the nothing but almost indiscriminate ruin woolif
merchants were put CO a footing, at leas, with ncu- I present year, than for the third year back. He be- and whether by their means the Gasme hid heels
trals, and it was well known that while the Company lieved this statement was not far from correct, al- ded with bankrupts, thus'reducing whole fail,'
was plunged in embarrassments, the Americans were though he might be mistaken in a small degree. As irremediable and unmerited distre-s? If than;
carrying on a prosperous trade. He must protest, to what had been stated respecting Liverpool by the ing but delusive hopes had not been held 061,
however, against all idea of transferring the revenues Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Creevey) it he meant that true the Right Hon. Gentleman would "416
of the Company to the Crown, the influence of which such was the general state of trade throughout the fore hays had to congratulate the coulluTo°
country, he could inform him, that though the trade rishing state of our finances, nor would he
was already so enormous. Upon :he grounds he had
detailed, as well as upon that of the interests' of the of the present year was less than that of the prece- had to lament the rapid decline of ourriti"lll.l
stock-holders themselves, who had no guarantee or . ding, it was greater than that of any other year, and perity. His Hosiuurable Friend (Mr. Crrver,
security at present whetever, the original stock of that the preceding year was greater
known. than any year the two Members for Liverpol, had &pawl
ever
the Company ,being all gone and spent, he con- . House in colours that could not be too
ceived that the House otteht to lose, no time in
Mr. CREEVEY said, he bad taken his calculations' melancholy condition if that once i
binning xCommittee of the whole House, instead of the Property Tax up to
the 25th October, and not They had shown that many thousands cif
of the cose Comm up to the sth January. Committee proposed by the Right Hon. , • tants, formerly gaining by their Wool
Gentlemen. 1 Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY thought the State. competence,were now reduced t,.•
General GASCOIGNE, though he-would not Op.l ment of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Grant) extremely now compelled to seek relief with- t.
satisfactory, and
he could not help thinking that the These assertions.the Chancellor of the. a-
post the nietion, yet protested against committing only. proper way of proceeding was to appoint a Com- not attempted to deny, and it
mittee.of the 'whole House. remained
the interests of the seaport towns, which were pre-
paring petitions ageinst the continuance of the Com- . sample of the fruits of that mists
Mt, BROUGHAM thou;ht therbliz had a right and his supporters had hog tuff

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he third place he beged
treble Member Mewl
onutittee to imbrued
imts enquiry, so drat fall
in them might bearer&
to him, that unless
srepareAl, And :ally wai
the Report could ant te
at time to be of the dight
the great ult mate q
Excaequer to•niQl,t, at
r the slightest occasion al
of esultation upon there- , I
ch was calculated ready
I.IIY, he could not aro4
eman the justice to
unti rtunate admen
gfcssty imposed c
c reduced the natua to it
and wretchedness.
a Director a the
ed, that during the •
uffest had been raw
tde to the setchments
d in a Petition to haw
is statement WAS perf -
ays happen, dsst vim
pfefit was opened k
y speculators, who • s,
future adventurers,
sample, derived most ki•
rhich had proved the lie
is not this opinion reriii
in day, and were sot*
1r it had not lasted a Of)
boast of Ministry, ak
\Vas not the unbomala
I had :a:sed that put al
tad never before attaintli
and the BoArd if Ira&
dea, th.tt successful coy'
o v.tr;ous situatiros,4o
min Ate ruin would envoi
the Gazelle h id beaten*
educing %%hole families,
I distre. s ? if these ploP
not been held out, it siss
deman would neither bP
ste the country on the by
t, nor v. ould he noir bin
:cline of our ratio nal pi*
Friend ( Mr. Creerey),,d'
rp 01, had depicted to Os
id not be too strong, di
hat once prosperous 011
y thousands of its
If their industry as
aced t,-) beggar!, and
et with the parish par
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mistaken policy, yr.
In the beginning

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ej, The fact spoke for itself, and could notlnett."
troeerted by the statement of figures to which the
Riot Honourable Gentleman had resorted. The
he ,
last question had to put, and to which he thought
the House required an answer, was, whether it were
the intention of Government to propose the renewal
of the Charter of the
If
East India Company, during
the present Session .satisfactory replies were not
Then to these interrogatories, he should feel himself
wind to vote against the motion proposed.
Lord FOLKESTONE was of opinion, that if the
Report of the Committee now proposed were not very
(*rent from their former statements laid before Par-
j tent, little or no useful information relating to the
question of the renewal of the Charter would be ob. ,
tined from k. It was trues as had been said, that
these Reports had produced some beneficial effect,
but only to the Company, since upon them two loans
to the East India Company of £1,500,000 had been
founded, but they comprised no opinions regarding
the great question of policy, and no examinations of
pewits, who, from local knowledge, could thronr
the faintest light upon the subject. One Hon. Gen-
tleman on the other side of the House had stated, that
the Report was prepared, and that it only awaited
the appointment of a Committee, that it should be
Lid upon the table. If such were the fact, it would
be a mere farce to accede to the motion proposed,
since a Committee of the House was not to be de- '
graded to an office that a messenger could perform,
'that of bringing the Report into the House. With
,egard to the receipt of the Income Tax, it might be
4/ well to compare figures with figures, the account
of one quarter with the account of another ; but, as
Statesmen, it was most fit that other matters connect-
ed with them should be taken into view—such as the
risen occasioned by it, the calamities actually ex-
isting, the surcharges after surcharges, without cause,
and the appeals after appeals, without redress; all
creating distresses, the picture of which, however
melancholy, could not he exaggerated.
Mr. HUTCHINSOk, in a few words, called the
attention of the House to the existing state of the trade
of Ireland, and to the advantages it would derive from
opening the trade to the East Indies.
Mr. WALLACE, in reply to the several remarks
that had been made, and- to the questions proposed
by Mr. Whitbread, said, that if the Committee were
revived, he had sanguine hopes that their Report
mould be in the hands of Members before the di scus-
s;un of the propriety of renewing the Charter. He
believed that it was the usual practice in cases of this
kind, that the Report should be prepared previous to
the appointment of a Committee to give its sanction
to it, and to present it to the House with such amend-
ments as were deemed necessary. That such a docu-
ment v °aid contain all that was necessary for the de-
cision of the ultimate question, could not be imagined,
nor could such topics as must be entered upon be fit
tubjects for the deliberation of a Committee. With
regard to the inquiry, whether the renewal of the char-
ter would be proposed during this session, he was happy
to sap he believed it would, as the preliminary steps
were in great forwardness. Private aegociations be-
tween the East India company and the Ministers were
absolutely necessary before any proposition was made
tothe House. He was surprised to hear the revival of
khe Committee objected to, by those who, when the ac-
counts were laid upon the table, had strenuously insist-
tdUpon its appointment. The principle on which the
Chatter bad been granted was wholly mistaken . it
ottght to be recollected, that it was only formed as a
peace arrangement, and the state of war in which the
country had since been continually eitga•,ed was not
in the contemplation of the Legislature.
Mr. CREEVEY observed, that at the termination
of his srech he had omitted to move, that the House
resolve itself into a Committee to consider the present
state of the Affairs of the East-India Company.
The SPEAKER observed, that such an amend-
Matt was now out of order. The question was then
put and carried without a division, and the Committee
revived.

Mr. H. MARTIN gave notice, that on Monday
se'nnight he would move for leave to bring in a Bill
to regulate the Office of Registrar of the Court of
Admiralty.
Mr. BROUGHAM gave notice, that he would
tomorrow move for some papers relative to the grant
licences by the Board of Trade.--Adjourned.

CATHOLIC QUESTION.

LIST or. THE MINORITY ON LORD MORPRTII9BMOTION.
Abercrombie, Hon. LGrati an, Rt. Hu. H. North, D.
Adair, IL Greenhill. R. Odell, W.
Agar, E. M. Grenktl, P. Oglauder, Sir W.
Aithosp,, Vise. • Gienv.lle Lord G. Orde, W.
Aubrey, Sir J. Greenougli, G. B. Oiborne, Lord F.
Antcnil, Let Halsey, Jos. Pelham, Hon. G. A.
Bazenal, W. Hanbury, W. Parnell, H.
Baring, A. Hamilton, Hans Piggott, Sir A.
Paring, Sir T. Herbert, H. A. Ponsonby,Rt.Hon.G.
Bennett, Hon. H. G. Herbert, Hon. W. Ponsonby, G.
Bennett, R.. H. A. Hibbert, G. Ponsonby, F.
Bernard, S. Hobhouse, B. Power, R.
iradsbaw,Hon. A. C. Horner, F. Po)ntz, W. S.
Brand) Hop. T. Howard, H. • Pt ittie, Hon. F. A.
Brougham, H. Howard, Hon. Wi P. m, F.
Brown% A. Hughes, W. L. Quin, Hon. W.
Busk, NV. Hume, W. H. )(Utley, Sir M. W.
14110, +G• Hurst, Rob. Romilly, Sir S.
'OO9 Thos. Hussey, Thos. St. Auhyn, Sir J.
Campbell, D. Hutchinson, Hon. C. Savage, T.
Chaloner, R. Ingleby, Sir W. Scudamore, R. P.
Cuke,T. \kr. Knight, R. Sharp, R.
Coke, E.
Knox, Hon. T. Skeridan,Rt.Ho.R.B.
Colborne, N. R. Lamb, Hon, W. Sinclair, G.
Combe, H. C. Latouche, D. Smith, John
Crtne7, T. Latouche, J. Smith, Wm.
etithhrr t,J. R. Latouche, R. Smith, G.
Cori,, James Leach, J. Stanley, Lord
Nadas, C.
Lemon, Cb. • Speirs, A.
buo,, dai Hon. R. L. Lemon, J. .ravistock, Marquis
rmannon, Lord Lemon, Sir W. Temple, Earl
'ill, Bowes Lyttletun, Hn. W.H..Fempletewn, Visc.
3.4m.H0n. G. I.loyd, J. M. Tierney, Rt. Hon. G.
Ithot Rt. Hon. W. Longman, Geo. Tighe, W.
Fitzpatrick,
R. C. Macdonald, J. Tracy, C. H.
Hon. IL Madocks, W. A. Talbot, R. W.
F e!ttr°Y, Lord Ch. Mahon, Hon. S. Vernon, G. V.
' uzzoy Lord Wm. Markham, J. Western. C. W. •
yAiley, T.
Marryat t,J. Whitbread, S.
l'reuell, A. Matthew, Hon. M. Warrender, Sir G.
I'
,ulkeitone, Vise. Milton, Vise. Walpole, Hon. G.
trankiand w
testi/trait', Lord H. 11Mloortadee, P.
Wynne, Sir W. W.
; non. J. Wrottesley, H.
Gilt.
Mildmay, Sir H. Txt.cras.
Cdotr Earl Nyforpeth, Vise. c. w. W. Wnne
'rant, C. jun. Neville, Hon. R. W. H. Fremantle.
let following Gentlemen were in the House, and favourable to
the Motion, but either paired off, or were obliged to leave it
before the Division :
Ro,
..ui.
f, —li ',ir C. Howorth, H. Maxwell, Wm.
• Di
orwen,
Jultll,3.
likulion. Hon. A. Mahyon, Lord Newport, Sir J.
Tarleton, General
to°+ Lord A. Martin, Henry Ward, Hon. .1: W.

1_ THE EVEN INC SEAR.

LONDON.

I

VRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7.
PRICE OF 3 COCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
3 per Cent. Red. 831— S per Cent. 1797 94q
S per Ct. Cons. for money 6211—Ditto for anount 6211
4 per Cent. 791—Bonds 17s. Iris. pre.—Omninns
Exch. BlUs Ss. to Bs. pre.—Long Anns. 161
9vrirr's Is the only Office that sold a Prize of £20,000 In
Shares, in the last Lottery.

Letters have been received in town, from Malta to
the 23d of December, and from Gibraltar to the 16th
of January.

The latest intelligence received at Malta from
Sicily states, that since the return of Lord WautANt
BENTTNCK, perfect tranquillity had been restored. It
is some days since we informed our Readers, upon
the authority of our Correspondent at Gibraltar, that
several spies and traitors had been executed at Mes-
sina, and that much good was expected to result
from these vigorous measures. The extracts from
the Sicilian Gazettes, which we this day lay before
our Readers, contain ample details of the recent
events in that quarter.

Our letters from Gibraltar inform us that the enemy
had totally disappeared from that neighbourhood ;
but from Alicant we are sorry to learn that the force
which had been detached by SUCIIET against General
Mexy previous to the capture of Valencia, had suc-
ceeded in driving that General, with 5000 men, into
Alicant, where the consternation was great, and the
inhabitants were leaving the place in great numbers.
The letters from Alicant are dated on the 10th, at
which time the fall of Valencia could not be known.
The garrison of Alicant consisted of 2000 regulars,
besides those under General MARL ; and General
FEEVRE, with a Spanish division of equal force, was
at Requena. The operations consequent on the cap-
ture of Ciudad Rodrigo, may perhaps suspend the
fate of Alicant, but we fear the worst.

We have received accounts-from Mexico, to the
21st of November. A large convoy of silver was ex-
pected at Mexico, which consists, according to re-
port, of 1600 bars. Accounts have been received,
which state that the army under Gallaga, of 4000
Infantry and a quantity of Cavalry, was advancing,
towards the insurgents ; another division, under
CONDE, is also approaching. A noted insurgent
leader has been shot. Several other divisions of the
IVice-Roy troops have not succeeded in taking Garcia,
who bids defiance to them at the head of GOO Cavalry.
No sort of security can be relied upon in the central
provinces ; in New Gallicia there is some tranquillity,
there is great deficiency of supplies in the various
provinces ; the insurrection is general on the Southern
coast—nine towns have taken up arms. The roads
to Mexico are infested by the insurgents; the want
of arms and money is greatly felt ; and even if troops
should arrive from Spain, it would only tend to widen
the carnage which has already destroyed twenty thou-
sand human beings.

A letter from Paris, to a respectable American
house, dated January 30, states, that the affairs be-
tween the United States and France bore a very flat-
tering appearance : that no condemnations whatever
of American vessels detained since the 2d November,
1810, have been made ; on the contrary, that many
have been liberated : that American vessels loaded
with the produce of the United States, and arriving
in French ports, are immediately admitted to entry,
with permission to sell and to reload with merchan-
dize, of the produce and manufactures of the Em-
pire, and depart with the same at pleasure.—This
information contradicts the statement made in the
letter said to have been received from ,Paris, dated
the 30th ult. : and when we consider that several
letters came over in the Hornet, and that the one last
referred to appears to be the only one upon which the
report of the seizures in question is predicated, we feel
no hesitation in declaring our unbelief of the account.

Private letters from America, to the 3d ult. were
received in town this morning. Among these are
immediate communications from some of the most
intelligent Members of the Senate artd the House of
Representatives.
The whole of the the proceedings in the Congress
are hostile ; but on one distinguished occasion, a dis.
po:ition was manifested to pause before the Bellige-
rent measures should be carried into effect, in order
that the ultimatum of Great Britain, as to the Orders
in Council, might be made known, before those mea-
sures were definitively carried into operation.

In the mean time the MADDISON Party is most
powerfully supported even by its late opponents.—
Mr. QUINCEY, a man of great ability and influence in
Congress, with about 30 other Members, have gone
over from the kderalists and have become the advo-
cates for war, should this country persist in its pre-
Sent deportment.

The National Intelligencer contains a strong Address
from Pennsylvania, highly complimentary to the con-
duct of the Executive Government, and abusive, if
not vindictive, towards England.

The LORD MAYOR has backed a warrant for the
impressment of Seamen ir. the City for the Navy.
Lord GAMBIER and Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ attended
yesterday at Lloyd's, for the purpose of proposing a
subscription for the relief of the widows and orphans
of the unfortunate sufferers in the late shipwrecks off
the coasts of Jutland aad Holland.

NAPAL tAtTELLICEArCt

FALMOUTH, FEBRUARY 4.

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Sailed this day the Duke of Kent, Contswonnt ;
and Arabella, PORTEVS, packets, for Lisbon with
mails ; the Prince Ernest, PETRY, for tl:e Mediter-
ranean ; and the Darlington, li.iitvv, for the West
Indies, with. mails. Arrived, off the hatltour, the
DOTTEREL, of 18 guns, in 12 days from Lisbon with
dispatches, and after landing the same proceeded for
the Eastward. She had directions from Admiral
BERKELEY to cruize in quest of his M tjesty's Ship
ELIZABETH. Having sailed previous to the HERRING,
no information has been received by her.