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HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, MARCH to.
Counfel were heard relative to the Scots Appeal. John Howler
of Matilde, pauper, tr. James Merry, of Green End. Ayrilaire,
ditto ; viz. Mr. Noland, at (erne length, u leading Couifel for the
Appellant. After which, their Lordfnitia deferred the farther hear-
tug upou the cafe till Weeineklay.
I RI P I AC H ME N T.
Mr. WHITBREAD relented at the Bar the Additional Arti-
cle of Impeachment, voted by the CoBllllolls gotta Hens? Vif-
count Melville.
The Commons having retired,
Lord AUCKI.AND laid, that at prefent he would make no'
obfervatlons on the Article of Impeachment now prefented, but
would move that it be referred to t heCom ni it tee appointed to lurch
the Journal• fur pm-edema of Impeachment.
The Declaratory Bill was read a reread time, and ordered to be
committed.
DIPTORb' IPITITION•
Lord HOLLAND prefented a Petition from the Debtors eon.
Stied in the King's Bench prifon, praying relief. His Lonith(p
obferved, that he would at prefect make no other minion. than
that it moult lie tie the Table for the peed') of their Lordihips.
The Earl of.MOIRA Rated, that both hind& and their Lord
flips, who bad two trials beton: them, were too much recurted
at prefent to attend to the alteration in the law refpeeling debt,
which he had formerly prowled. His opinion wit (till the lance
on that fade& His avocations would MK allow bim to bring in
ao Infolvent Bill, but if any ocher Noble Lord Bout,' do fo, it
Ihould have his wernieil fupport..
The LORD CHANCELLOR °l:reeved. that In the eourfe of
lain ezperienee many melancholy cafes of diftras had fallen under
his olifereadon. He too had his avocations, which were both nu
zeerous and important. lie could pot promife at prefent to pay
STUCh attention to the Mike ; on another opporrity be woolel
give it all the eonlideration he could. Should an lofolvent Bill be
bit endured , he woubt fay thus much, that he would eve lt hismolt
attentive conflderatben.
Several Private Dills were paired, and their LordQtips adjourned
till tomorrow.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. SPEAKER having taken the Chair : after the tranfeaka
of private buSnefe,
A perfon from the Trigs Chief Secretary's Office prefested fe.
wend Papers, relpeetteig the Public Accounts of that Country, up
to the 4th of March infant. .Ordered to be printed.
Mr.CALCRAFT prefented an Entente of the Charges for
plateaus, Seraiee of Great Britain and Iceland, for the current
Tear t and gave notice, that he Mould move for the Gramatbere-
ospin the Committee of Supply onlriday out,
Mr. Alderman PRINSEP poltpooed Isis motion for India Pa-
pers till Friday 'next.
Mr. fowls te, from the Office of the Infpeetor Generator Caf-
tans. parented an Account of the Maoufaelorer of Wool and
Wooled Imported into this Country for a feria of yeara-.-Or.
dried to Ile on doe table.
LORD M LRILL E'S IMPIACHMSIIY.
Mr. WHITBREAD moved the Order of the Day, for taking
Into timbre casdideration the Additional Article of Impeachment
againft Lewd Melville; whleKArtiele being read,
Mr. WHITBREAD moved, That the fad Article he added to
thole Malady voted for the Impeachment of Lord Valmont Mel-
loc.—Ordered ; of l that the Paid Article be eon/wired.
Ordered alto, on the motion of Mr. wHrrustEAD, that a
Cladfe he prepared purtiunt thereto, which bang accordingly
prepared, the lanai was brbught up by Mr. Whitbread. It included
Air *wide of lenwahmait, and fared to the Commons the right of
prefarting fartheg Article(. It was read a Aril and feemol time
• Agreed to, alerted, and ordered is be carried to the Moore of
Lords by Mr. Whitbread; praying, that I.ord Melville might be
put to b
ad the fame. Mr. Whitbread went up forthwith. at
tended by Lewd Temple, Mr. Van fittart, and fevers, other Mem-
bers; and being retumed,reported to the Houle that he had pee.
rented the rime, porfeant to Order et the Houle.
IMO ACIr.
Mr. TJERNEY role, in purfuance of hi: police,
to move for leave to bring in a Biil to prevent Can-
didates at Eledinns from being pat to charges and
expences. The Right Hnn. Gentleman Rated, that
an Ad of William the Third was the fouldatioo,
upon which he went. • His object in moving or ant,
$lll was to render Ekdinns not a matter ot riot and
confufion, but of peace and good order, and to re-
move all doubts refpeding non•refident voters. The
At . to which lie had alluded, had art one word hi
it which made any diflindion between thole voters
refident In the place where the election was carried
en, and thole who refided at a dillance. His view;
aberefore, was to make his BPI a Declaratory one,
and to get at ref, ail doubts as to the conllrudion to
be put on the Ad of William. The great expentic
which Candidates- were burthened with, prevented
many well difpofed perfons from offering theirifelvse
at an Eledion. Voters reliding at a dillance were
in the practice of receiving large lams to pay their
travelling expenees ; added to which they mull be
paid for lob of time. There bad been different opi-
nions upon the conarudion of the AA, and lonic of
his I.earned Friends were 'at alb(' to advife,th-ir
clients what cootie to purfue with relped to allowing
travellimt ettpences, fo as-sot. to incur the penalties
of the )3 ribert AR. The Woreefter Election Cont•
inittee, in iyl4,l4Cias the Era deellion which he could
find : tkere,. according to the very excellent kepaut
cf my Lord,Glenbervfe, it.was decided, that a voter
was entitled to reisfonable compenfation for Ifs of
time. Decifions under the 'Grenville AR had been
made on quite different grounds. It had been decid•
ed, that a voter was entitled to his travelling ex-
pences. 'Fp be fare, in the latter cafe, lie was ready
to idmit that a man in circumftaneed was not going
on his own ballad's, but that of other ptrfons.—(2/
lairgh). Difficulties in deciding under the Ad had
auks occurred in Warninner Hall. The Court of
King's Bench and Common Pleas held different opi-
nions. In the cafe of Ribbons v. Cricket[, which
was an allion brought by an innkeeper agAinft a can-
,3;date, C'fief Janice Eyre held that the adion was
bottomed in the malurn prohibits:2n? " that the Court
was in no wife ndet the Aof William 111 b:und
to enforce a conutra& which that Aft had declared
vicious; that the Lesi4ature bad drum a Ark)

line of duty for them to puerile, which it wa: im
pollible to depart from, and therefore the plaintiff
had no tight to come there." The Court of King's
Bench decided contrary. The cafe of Smith se. Slee,
which was an action brought by an itinerant rourfician
for lots of time, to recover the Imo of 301 The
plaintiff, a freeman of Durham, had demanded 301.
for his travelling expel ces in ring from Taunton to
that city to give his vote. But the Court on that oc-
cation had not put a flop to his fiddle ; they eon&
&red that though he had made an exprefs bargain
by letter for that fum for leifs of time, yet that the-
diftance from Taunton to Durham, and the expence
of polling at the rate of is. 6d. per mile, he might
have expended the whole fum. He therefore obtain-
ed a verdia. The Right Honourable Gentleman
ei.nrended, therefore, that theft two cafes were fuffi-
eient for him to call upon the Legiflature to inter.
fere, and by a declaratory Bill to take from the can:
didate2 all pretence of paying voters. It certainly
had been in the contemplation of the framers of the
Al of William to pref.,' a general remedy for the
abates, and not to confine it to thof: aftually refi4ent.
It had been urged againtt the introduftion of his Bill.
that it would go to disfranehife three fourths of the
etearos in the kingdom; he, however, was not of
,hat opinion; he &mild not have brought the robjedt
forward, if be conceived it would have that tendeo-
cy. He thought that if the Bill &odd be received, I
it might be defirahle to give the nontefident voter
compenfation in Come other way. Voters reftding at
a distance, if they choof to go, fhould go at their
own expence, ood not at the Candidate's, becaufe he,
would go to pleafe himfelf. In the cafe of the fidlero.
it was evident that the man by removing himfelf had
ceafed to b;ye any interelt in the property of Dur-
ham ; by refiding at Taunton, be became entitled to.
vote for that Borough, and, thetefore. by the
change, to two votes. In making Cie bargain for
301. he had an eye to his own, and not to the public
uttered. The Right Hon. Gentleman confeffed, that
among the variety of argument; ured againff bit
Bill, none bad (truck him fo forcibly as that which i
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refpeaed County Eleaions. He admitted there yet
a difference with refpea to vl4e,b, efpecially in flick
large counties as Yotk, where of neceflity the voters
raided at a great din:trice from the place of elation;
but that objettion might he obviated by taking the
poll in different parts of the county. It had been
urged, that with refpeft to freeholders of forty Wl-
'logs per annum, that it was impoffible they coubt
afford to convey themfelves to the place of eleftios.l
To this objection he would anfvier, 'that it might beo
better for the frenjom of count's, elections iEfuch fret- '
holders were not known. The Right Honourable
Gentleman referred to the Aft of Henry VI. which
gives to petiolns. parceling a freehold *of that value
the right of voting, and contended that from the
great depreciation in the value of money, fince the
time of Henry, a freehold Rated at the valise of aos.
'would now be 301.—he therefore was of opinion that
the right of voting fhould not be veiled in any free-
holders not poffeffing 301. per Annum in freeholds.—
cry of Hear! Hear!) It certainly was the Inten-
tion of the Legiflature at that time, and taking It
fairly, that the depreciation was fifteen times more
than at the time he alluded to, it certainly was but
juft to give the tight to freeholders if 301. per ann.
The great expences attending enntelled Eleaions de•
'erred men of moderate fottones from coming for-
ward ; men vflio were folly competent to reprefent
'the people; men polfelfing abilities, independence,-
and aria integrity. It was well known that a man
travelled much cheaper at his own expence then at
the expence of another. He had no diliftupon him,
and did not (top fo often to drink. (Pasigh.)--Per.
lons would walk to fairs at confiderable distances for
their own amulement, but when Elcation was the
word, they could not flir a mile witho,pt a poll claire.
It had been fuggefled this might be &lie by coil:ROI
rate, to which had no objeftion. Inflead of ima&
ing county elections a fcene of riot and difgrace, and
clofe compromift, recourfe might be had to the old
Englifh hofpitality, though to this praCtice an *coo
don had been taken as coming within the Treating
Al.f He then referred to the laft three elections for
Southwark in proof of the order and' decorum ob-
ferved dunng the poll, when, inftea4 of the eleftors
coming drunk, they had polled fober, and yet he faw
no diminution of the fpirit of elections.. A Bill bad
been paffed twenty year; before the Treating Alt,
which enjoined Candidates Trom fpending more than
five pounds to carry their elections, which, however,
was afterwards increafed to tee pounds. He profeffed
to have no other objeft in view in bringing in the Bill
than making the law declarneory. It would open the
door to the aJrniflion of many Gentlemen mho were
virtually secluded at prefent, who could nut afford
to fpend 20, $O, or 40,0001. in a conceit for a county
—men of independent forfones, awned mad refpea-
ed. ()WIC were the men lie wilhed to fee within there
-doors ; men who perhaps were not in the poffeiton
of more than 6001. per annum, which qualified
them for Cooney Members, or 3001. fur Borough
Members. 'Dealt& would not operate to the injury
of the monied or the landed intern', it would wily
injure thole who relied their pretenlions to a feat in
Parliament alone to their money. (A cry of Hear
Hear o—Thp Right Honourable Gentleman con-
cluded with moving-o-
o Foy trove to bring in a am to explain and reader more effec-
tual the MI of MIMI 111. called the t rearing
- Mr: Secretary FOX was certainly of opinion with
the Right Honeurable Gentleman on many of the
points he had Rated, with rofpea to the heavy ex-
pence. to %%NO candidate; were put ; but he
telt it oeceffary te,ltaie thus ea,ly, that there were
many other paints upon which' Ire difin ed.iti opinion
from the Right' Honourable Gentlemia, and that I
ihardifficulres niter' which he feemed toyers fo light-
ly, Walt not fo e4fily remedied a; be teemed to ima-
gine. The Right Honourable Gentlemen' had ex.
pre fie d an opinion, that, forty. (billing freeholders at
this day were not the.fame kind of men originally in-
tended under that qualification ; and that the qua
tfication ought to ire-railed to thirty pounds, on ac-
count of the depreciation of money fince the days of
Henry VI. bee be, for one, was not dilpofed to
abridge de mstber'of that ale of voters, or to take
away their francltifes, betapfe of the fcantinefs of their
property. He. too, was ready to rec;tr to the origin
of their franehife, and to compare it with the circum.
Rance' otthe preknt day ; and, (vim this compari.
fon, he was rattly rejoiced of their increare of nom•
bars, at a petio4 when the liberties and the Conflitu-
tion of ibis trio y wcre fo mach better uodcrltood,

than in the days of York and T.Ancafter, when their'
t atie:iifise were regulates! under an aritlocratical
fcheme, to ablidge the tights of eleeion. The Right
Honourable Gentleman, he believed, as he had pro-
/cited, would not now vote to disfranchife them ;
but he, Mr. Fox, could not tee the fairnefs of flinch.
ing (itch a measure to others, if the Right Honoura-
ble Gentleman thought it was one for which he him-
felt deemed it improper to vote. He was very fedi-
ble, the Right Honourable Gentleman's arguments
would very Itrongly apply, not only to York, but to
Lancaller, and to many other counties in 'ht. king-
dom, and that fame remedy was defirable. To a
plan formerly propofed for taking the votes of the
freeholders in their refpeeive diaries, or at their own
residencies, he was, heretofore, no friend ; but yet he
fluni:d certainly vote for fuch a regulation, in prefer-
ever to any plan which should go to disfranchife any
contiderable number of forty Ihilling freeholders ; a
coacquence much worfe, in his mind, than any in-
convenience complained of on the part of the
dates. The Honourable Gentleman had argued,
that no man had a right to vote at an eleeinn, for
I any town of which he was not a refttlent ; but was
he aware of the extent to which loch a privation
would go? or, how could he reconcile the principle
of disfrancnifing an elators whole neceLlary occaficas,
or means of livelihood, fhould occasionally require
his absence froM the place whence he derived his
right of franchife: He thought the Right Honour.
able Gentleman, upon mature confideration, would
not approve Inch a principle ; for bow would it ope-
rate on the militiaman, who, for no other cause than
his removal to a diftanr county for the lervice of his
King and Country, mull forfeit his franchife, others
he choofes to travel at an expence wholly incompa-
tible with his obvious circuratances in life ? He hat-
ed there few objcds, merely that the Right 11On.
Member might fee he had in lune degree confidered
the Attlee, and that the remedies were not quite fo
eafy as he feemed to imagine. But if the qualifica-
tion of the forty (hitting freeholders, agreeably to the
lunation of the Right Honourable Gentleman,'were
to be railed to thirty pounds per annum, how was
he to reconcile the continuance of the reprefentatives
qualification at Root. for a county, and rot. for a
borough 1 For though Mr. Fox &mild will; thofe
qualifications Rill lower, and was as defirnus as The
Honourable Gentleman to inereafe the number of
Candidates, and to open a wider dons: for the admif-
lion of fuch Members to that Houk as he had del-
cribed, yet Purely men patching qualifications no
higher than 6001, or goof. a year, were no more of
the defcription of men at this day, originally defignat.
ed by thofc qualifications, than even the modern iot.
freeholders coMpired with the ancient ; confequent-
ly, if the qualification of the one be advanced, fo
mull that of the other, in a limited ratio. He fincere-
ly whiled, with the Honourable Member, that the
meaning of the Ad in queßion humid not be left in
doubt, and that no difficulties should Rand in the way
of dommiitees In forming their decifion ; but be.'
could not agree to disfranchife any man merely
cattle he was poor. To any competent regulatioui
clear of this, or of disfranehifing any eonfiderable
number of voters id the country, he &outd have
objeeinn.
Mr. TIERNEY explained.
Mr. LEE thought the arguments of the Right
Hon. Gentleman 'tended to do that by a fide wind,
which he diravnwed'ili direct intention.
Sir KOBERT BUXTON begged leave to differ
from the Honourable Member moll materially ; as
he had ever underflood that the freeholder, in exer-
cising his frauchife, did it for the advantage of the
omMunity at lar;e.
The queftion being now put, leave was given to

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INDI• parses.
Mr. JOHNSTONE safe, purfuant to notice, to
move for copies of two letters written by Lord 04:Is-
maili' to the Court of Dite,gtors, as alfo of a • letter
from Sir George Barlow; his fatceffor in the Govern-.
Matt of India. He ditclaimed any'perfrinal arridio-
fity to the Marquis Wellefley, pr any with to bring
charges agairill him, but he thought it was neceiTary
that the Houle Ihould at length turn its attention to
the mode in which India had been for a long time
,governed, and that the Members fhould compare the
ifyaem of Lord*Cornwallis with that of his predecef-
kr, end make up their minds on the fubjea. As for
his part, he felt that the Empire was indebted to the
Marquis Wellefley for fo much of his fyllem es can-
blilhed our military reputation and afoadancy in
India, but be highly djfapprpved of the lengths to
which that (yam was afterwards palled, when, un•
der pretence of defenlive war, all the Native Powers
of India were forced to receive Britith garrifons, and
were.kcpt in greater fubjettion in their own capitals
than the Kings of Wirtemberg and Bavaria are at
thif moment by the Emperor of France. Wnder
vague pretences, a great part of the territory of our
ally, the Nabob of Oude, was wafted from him, and
the polleffions of-the Nabob "of Arcot were feized
under the .pretence of treafon, Paid to have been
committed by that Prince almoh under the eyes of
Lord Cornwallis. Highly as he difapproved of that
part of Lord Wellefley's fyftem, he by no means
truant to biing any charge againtt him on that ac-
count, as hr could not impute to him any improper
motives. He only conlidered :hat his Lurdfhip was
porfeffed of too ardent a mind, and views of too
great ambition. He hoped theHotife would recur
to their former resolution, old shat that Should be
for the future the eflablifhcd fyllem of Indian Go-
vernment. Choler tl.e former fyftem,, se:Noble
Lord (CafileteaO) had often' expatiated ott althea-
, rages that were to refttlt from it, but v.hicb promifes
were never tealifed—whereas, on the other fide ' it
appeared that the real Situation of our larks in In
dia had become fo diftreffed, that 2ootoool. have
I been stopped from the treaftire deftined for China,
and e0,0c.01. borrowed from the government at Ma-
dray, to help to defray the arrears of pay to a number
of irregular troops, which are kept up at an expence
of 60,ep01. per month, and whole fupport is 'timed
to he much more injurious to the Company than
their ho'tility in the field could In. lie them took
a review of the various treaties catered low by 4he
Marquis Welldley with the Native Powers, molt of
which he thought highly impolitic. • A very Wert
time after the treaty with the 1(44 of IThotiPme,
that Prince admitted our enemies into his fortreSres,
and the Britifh army loft above three thonfand men
in vainly endeavouring to take his capital. The
treaty witbSchatlia be equally difapproved of. SOMC

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difputes Lad atifen ah•int the ennflrodion or Come of , '
the articles of that treaty, Nod Scindia immediately
feized and impritoned the Da ifh Refident in hi. do-
minions, which veto the occafion of the preterit ear
in India. He thought it was full time for Parliament ,
to lay down tome filed principle, and he hoped the
Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Fox) would con-
fttit to thC papers he now moved fur, and would
pnr-
Me, in pradiee, thofe principles which he had fo of-
ten profeffed on India affairs. He thought it ticcef-
Lay that the Government thould now declare the
precife plan, on which they /1124.6 that India thould
be governed in future. He concluded by moving for
Copies of two Letters, written by Lind Canwallis,
bearing date on the loth of Auguß, and 9th of Sep-
tember, 1804.
Mr. FOX raid, that he bad no intention whatever
to (Ned to the production of die papers moved for,
although he mull obferve that his Honourable'
Friend did not appear to him to have Rated any ne•
ceffity or parliamentary ground, upon which they
ought to be laid before the Houle. As to du- ri..• t 4:
mutable Gentleman's allufion to the prrpriet) .fa
declaration on the part of his Majesty's aiinillei s,
relative to the fyftem of Government meant to be
afted upon with regard to India, he was at a lots to
conceive any reafon upon which that demand could
be juftified. No difpofition was manifested to der
viate from the courfe which was now purfuing re-
fpeding India—and until fuch a difpofition &mild
appear, he apprehended that it was quite unneceffitry
in Minillers to make aay declaration upon the fubjed
—indeed, it teemed to his mind that, according to
prailice, Come refulution fhould be adopted by the
Bonk, eapreffive of its opinion and before •
Minifters were called upon to enter into the queßion.
The Honourable Gentleman had alluded to the
opinions formerly delivered by him (Mr. F.) relative
to the Government of India. To there opinions, he
could affure his Honourable Friend, that he
completely adhered. They were declared above four
and twenty years ago, and as far as he bad fine as
opportunity of &ifes-wing the affairs of India, to
which, perhaps, he had not attended as much as other
men had "done, pr as much as he ought, he had never
feels or heard ofa traafaition whiefi-ferved to weaken
the confidence he entertained in the juftiee of his
original opinions, but which did not rather tend tel
their complete juftification. However, an Ad had
paffed in confequence of the refolutions upon the
fubjed of India, which he had the honour of Cup. •
porting. That Alr had been now proceeded upon f
for a ferries of years, and whet; the fobjed fhauld be
regularly brought forward for difculfion, he vron/d
be perfectly ready to gate his fentiments ref peding
At prefent lie Should only fay, that under that A
a Board of Controol had been appointed, and of
the Boards which had prefided over the Government
of India, be few leaft ground to queßion the inten-
tions, or to afk explanations, as m the views of the
prefent. by Whom every difpofition was (hewn to
follow the courfe prefcribed in the Refolutions for-
merly adopted by the Houle, and of which the
Honourable Mover profelred to approve. No one
could doubt the propriety of entering into an inveßi-
gaildn of the affairs of India, but the prefent did not
appear to him to be the proper time. When the India
Budget Sall be brought before the Houle, his Hon.
Friend was aware, that the Rater/tent to be looked for
en that occifion, which he hoped would be fatisfac.
tory, would naturally be connected with die political
fyllein of India, and that then would be the proper
time to (*lea for a full .difeuffion of that fubjed.—
The Right Honourable Gentleman repeated his
difindimition to oppofc t ie production of thole papers,
although no adequate reafon was affigned by the
Mover, although no intention was announced, pror,
puling an inquiry, or of grounding any proceeding.'
upon them. 'At the fame time he took occafion to
remark, that ha Fould not conceive any good reafintiq,
for the alarm and anxiety which was. by his Hon.-,
Friend, and by other Friends, for whom he had ea
high relive& fo particularly Rated to prevail with'
regard to the Government of India. It really appeared
to him very thane, a much greater degree ofjealonfy
Should feem to apply to the prefent Board of Conttoul,
than to that which preceded it.
Upon the whole the Right Hon. Gentleman did
not feel the propriety of tailing upon Minifters for
any chain& pledge as to the courfe of policy which
they meant to follow with regard to India. No in-
tention appeared to esif, either on the part of his
Majefty's Government, the Board of Cantroul, or the
Court of Directors, to abandon the courfe of which
all fides of the Houle expreffed their approbation, and
therefore no pledge was requifite. If any variation ,
of circumflances timid call for a change of fyftem,
an eaplanation would of courts become neceffary.—
But in the prefent 'offence he did not think that any
further e :planation or pledge could be fairly required.
Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON concurred with what
had fallen from the' Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr.
Fox), be did not fee chit any neceffity had been ffiewn
for the production of the papers which Sad been
moved for, but at the fame time he taw no objection
to their being produced, efpecially as the contents of
them were already pretty public. and as the Hon.
Mover had, in his fpeech, read a long extract from
one of thofe letters (which, as an EaR India propri-
etor, he had teen) he thought that it would be the
bell way to produce the papers, in order that the
whole of the letters might be before the Houk, in-
Read of a partial extract. He, as a Member of the
Board of Controql, had confidered thole treaties on
which the Hon. Mover had made fo many obferva-
tions ; and he viewed thole tranfadions in a very
diffetent light. As to that with the Rajah of Burt
pore, it would not be fair to charge the failure of the
treaty upon the maker of it. The failure was owing
to the unexampled treachery and perfidy of that
Piince, and not to any improper conduct in Lord
Wellefley, who concluded the treaty with him, lie
fincerely gave the Hon. Mover the greateft credit,
for the motives which had induced him to bring for.
ward the prefent motion, and was fore that it was nut
at ell dictated-by any perfonal animfity to Martini,
Wellefley. He hoped he might alto obtain credit,
when he Rated, that it was from public motives alone.
that he was averte to prejudging any part of the
conduit of Lord Wellefley, which, on a future day.
would come before them more regularly for difcuf-
fion. As to the papers now moved for, as he law no
objection to their production. he Ihould not oppofe it.
Mr: GRANT declared that the Court of Directors
had no other intention than to purfise the (Om re•
commended in -the Refointions alluded to by the
.

tt ti,inourable &ere tat y of State. With that
y:ew they tonenrred in the appointitient of Lord
Cornwallis, and in the fubfequent one of Sir George
Barlow, from which he was happy to perceive. that
his Majefles prefect Mmillers approved of this courfe
of umceP,liva.
Mr. HUDDLESTONE confidered the motion
important. He thought the giving publicity to there
papers would counter:lft the Lae which the inter-
cepted letters, publifhed lab year in France, and in
this country, were calculated to produce on the ene-
my. They would tend to undeceive them refpeCting
*hat they vacceived the ruinous policy whichwe were
parfsting in thvEaft. They will alto thew that the
Court of Diredors were as maxim's to repair thefil
as if they had themfelves occafioned them. They
will refute an erroneous opinion that the Mahratta
war was alone the caufe of the (late of the Comp&
*y's finances. It *as the general fyflem, which led
di that as well as to all other eapences. He the*
highly praifed the Government of Lord Cornwallis,
and expreffed a with that a Retaliation might be
brought forward by the Minillry, pledging the Hoofs
to a perfeveranceln the jull, moderate, and- wife mac
lures of that great man, whofe lots all India deplores.
Mr. PAULL deprecated the idea of forming a
judgment of the charalter of the Rajah of Bhurtpore,
Trona the ftatement which the Houfe had kill heard
from the Right Honeurahle% Member of the Board of
Contrail. When the cafe Ihould be fully conGelered,
be had no doubt it would appear that this much iv-
Jared Prince has been inevitably compelled to that
c randy& which was called the molt wanton and atro-
cious treachery. ,
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Mr. FOX mottled the inchtigence of the Hindi,
inertly to Rate. in allufion to what had fallen from
the Honourable Direaor (Mr. Grant) that his Ma-
jefty's Minifters did not, in the appointment of Sir
G. Barlow, mean to pledge themfelves to the purfbit,
of any particular 'fyftem of Government in India.
The faa was, that the appointment of the Honour.
able Perfon referred to, for whom he entertained a
high refpea, was made even before the prefent Ad-
Imniftration was fully formed, in order to prevent
the inconvenience of any interregnum in India.
. Lord TEMPLE pledged himfelf to prove, that
re enormous expence of our blood and treafu, re in
be wax with Holkar was principally owing to the
,:reaehery of the Rajah of Bhurtpore. Upon this
onint, as well as upon the others, from which Gen-
tlemen profetTed tb derive their grounds.of accufation
=mink Lord Wadley, he had no doubt whatever
that the condo& of that illufirinos perfon would ap.
pear to have been completely juttifiable.
Mr: FRANCIS entered at great letigth'into his
emit political life, and the great Cervices he had ten-
dered to the Eall India Company, arid the zeal with
which he had, for fuch a number of years defended
their interelts. He declared, that he fliould hence.
forth decline to fet himfelf forward on.thofe fubje6s.
As a Member of Parliament, he might fupport the
'notion by a filent vote, but he would leave to others
the alive duty of prote6ing India. He had pro-
teaed it for a long time, with all hii might, but be
found it an unthankful office, and for the future, in.
/Read of giving his attention to the intereß of India,
he fhould, as a Bran Member of Parliament, en-
deavour to prate& Great Britain. from India. and
from that embarraffmcnt which the derangenmet of
the Indian finances-might bring upon this coentri._,
Sir THEOPHILIYS METCALFE thought tht
publication of the papers moved for would have a*
ofeful cleft by countaaaing the reprefentation vrhiehl
bad been circulated through Europe refpeaing thel
sate of India, principally in confequence of the let.'
tern intercepted by the enemy. He vindicated the
tharaaer of Marquis Wellefley.
Lori ?OLKSTONE confidered the fending out
of Lord Cornwallis with orders to purfue a fyftem
of conduit diametrically oppofite to that of Lord
Wiener, as a direa cenfure upon the latter, at teat
as an exprefe acknowledgment that Iris, fyllens was
not, according to the opinion of the Noble Lord
(Temple), perTealy jullifiable. Indeed, he thought
the prefent fituation of the 'Company's affairs, their
debts at home and abroad, fafficieut to waif), the
ill effeas of the fyftem of Government purfued by
Xord Wellefley—a fyftem which was now fo gene-
rally reprobated, that he was furprifed settle ap.
pointment of Sir Geo. Barlow, who was known to,
be among its principal fepporters. '
WIC ADDINGTON difclaimed any intention,
to pronounce en opinion upon the conduit of Lord'
Welder.
Mr. GRANT endeavoured to vindicate the con-
dos of Sir G. Barlow, by Rating, that although he
followed op the fylken; ,of Lord Wellefley for fome
time, yet the moment he received an intimation from
this coentry that a different courfe was determined
on. he expreffed his readinefs to conform to it.
Mr. FRANCIS explained.
Mr. WALLACE (poke egainßiany attempt to
prejudice the cafe of Lord Wellefley.
Mr. JOHNSTONE semarked upon the difference
which was known to prevail as to the fyftem of Go-
vernment which ought to be *fled upon in India,
between the opinions formerly expreffed by Rime of
the prefent Minifters, and the courfe now purfuing in
that quarter. He was glad, however, now to have
the doubts which naturally role out of the difference
alluded to, completely removed by a declared change
of fentiment.
Mr. FOX obferved upon the logic and the prudinze
evinced by the laft fpeaker. His logic, he thought,
by no means jut, and his prudence was certainly not
laudable. For as to his logic, it did not follow that
litcaufe Gentlemen thought proper to adopt a certain
line of •policy, under certain circumstances, they
would be fubjea to the imputation of inconfiftency in
purfuing a different line where thofe circumftances
had undergone a material change ; and as to the Ho-
nourable Gentleman's prudence, it Purely was not
laudable to prefs the charge of inconfiftency upon
any men who might Phew a difpofitioo to abandon
opinions which the Hon. Gentleman himfelf pro-
nounced erroneous, and to adopt thofe which he pro.
felled to confider correilly right.
The feveral papers moved for were ordered to be
laid before the Houfe.

asilasca,
The Moore in a Committee oh the Amer's= Trent, Adds, re-
folved, on the motion of Mr. VAMITTART,ihat the Chairman
be direcled to more for have to bring in a Bill to continue the
.tet of the 37th of the King for carrying into execution the Treaty
of Amity and Commerce entered into between his Majetty and
the United States of America...ale Report was ordered to be
received to-morrow.

Mr. ALEXANDER brought up a Report from the Committee
of Supply, and thadificrent Refolotions were read and agreed to.
On the motion of the SECRETARY at WAR, the Mutiny
Bill was ordered to be prepared, and brought in.
.1 he Houfe refolved Itfetfinto a Committee of Supply, when a
Rd-elution was agretri to, that the fora of 41,7151. be granted for
defraying the exeence of the embodied Militia of Great Brims.
and Ireland for two months, from :‘,l.,rch 24 to MI), ey..—.Repiat
to be received to-morrow.

Mr. VANSITTART brought up the Britlfh and IrHb Sugar
Drawback Bills, which were rcad a Ern time, and urdertil to be
read a fecond time tomorrow,
Mr. ALEXANDER. brought up a Report on the Pay and
Clothing of Militia, and a Bill fuuuded an the Itcfoiutions wan or
dered to be Fraught In.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up a Report on the Irifli Duties
Continuation 11W, and the Bill was ordcred to be read a third
time to morrow.

He alto brought up a Report on the espiring Laws.
The Refolurions were referred to a Committee of the whole
Houle to morrow.
Mr. VANSITFART moved for an Account of the Wont and
Woollen Yslll Imported Into Ireland fur the hilt ten years.—Or-
dered.
The Tortola Free-pert Bin was read a fecond tinse,and ordered
to a Committee of the whole Houle to-morrow.
The Bill for continuing the fulpeofion of certain Laws relating
to the Woollen Manufacture, was read a fecond time, and com-
mitted for to morrow.