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London, England, 1801-11-26 00:00:00

under the proteaion of the 'Company; aud they
were the perfons who had the leaft right to claim
any of the privileges they required. But in or-
der to give come colour to their claim, they went
upon the principle that they wanted only to pro-
mote the public welfare. How far they deferved
credit for that afiertion, muff appear from the
threat they held out if their demand was not
complied with. They would take care that fume-
thing elfe &mid be done : that Britilh capital
lhould be laid out in foreign bottoms. The Hon.
Baronet, rif eobtending for thefe privileges, had
placed two great names in the front of the battle.
Thole of Mr. Du n das and the Marquis ofWellefley.
With refpea to the laver' he once had the honour
of being acquainted tl. him, and knew him to be
a veryaccotnplifhed man, with a mind highly culti-
vated. There was no Gentleman whole opinion he
would fooner take on a fubjea of tulle or litera-
ture; but he certainly was not competent to lay
down the law in a cafe which fo deeply involved the
intereßs of the Eaft India Company. As to Mr.
Dundas, differing with him as he bad done for
Come years in that 1-loufe, he would not nowbow to
his authority, but he mull remind Gentlemen that
Mr. Dundas was the author of the very Alt which
vefled an etc:Wive monopoly in the Company ;
and if he had been wrong at that time, it did not
follow that he was right now. With refpea to a
great Shipping Interell in India, he did not agree
with thofe who faid it could not be formidable ;
and he was convinced that the idea of coloni-
zation in that country was one which ought to
be held in fume degree of dread ; and the efta-
blifionent of a Shipping Interea there, together
with the encouragement of private trade, would
lead to colonization. But if the conceffions now

aiked for were granted, would the bufinefs :eft
there No; applications would be made to fuf-
fcr importations from India into other ports of
Great-Britain and Ireland, betides that of Lon-
don. The argument drawn from a diffimilarity
between India and America, led to a conclufion
directly the reverie of what was contended for:
there was more to be feared from new fettlements
in the one country than in the other ; becanfe in
America there was every thing to make ; in India,
every thing was already made. The increafed
diffance alto made nne country more liable to be
torn away from us than the, other, in cafe of new
fettlements, becaufe it would be fo far beyond our
controul. Much as he refpcaed the army in In-
dia, for their zeal and loyalty in fupport of the
mother country, he would not undertake to intim
the continuance of that favourable difpofition,
'Should the prefent claims be acceded to : many of
the perfons belonging to the army would be con-
cerned in the private trade. Great firers had
been laid ce the Advantages likely to ante from
transferring a large portion of Ship-building to
India.; he, on the contrary, was convinced it
would be of effential injury to this country, by
throwing numbers of men out of employ. At
one time, when the India Company had flopped
taking up any more (hips, Such was the alarming
emigration of fifipwrights, which was on the
uoint of taking place, that the Company ordered I
new Ships, which they did not want. to he laid
down; merely to give there people employment,
ad keep them in the country. He admitted
that nothing was of more importance than to
bring in to this country as great a quantity as poffi-
hk teak timber; but between that advantage
and the danger of creating a rival navy in A dd:
taAt country there was no kind of comparifon.
And betides the Monk Should confider the chafitts
which this new place of Ship-building would create
in the dock-yards of this country ; where the
workmen hid exerted themfelves on various °ma-
fiosi' in an uncommon degree for the fervice of
Government;. and the Houfe was bound to ice that
thofe meritorious perfons did not toffee any injury.
But, after all, hecould not fee what economy there
would be in building thofe fhips in India, except
that wood could be got cheaper than that in
England : for it appeared, that all the flips fo
built mull be Supplied with malls, yards, and rig-
gin
frram Europe.
Laid
Qt.sassavia fpoke at fume length on the
legal merits of the cafe. #e obferved, that with
a proper regifter, 'lndia-built (hips were now ad-
cussed as Britifh veffels. He was, however, more
an advocate for admitting the importation of teak-
wood as a convenience in the fcarcity of oak, than
for tranfplanting our (hip-building to India. He
looked on the prefent Peace as durable. He raw
no ground, mu could he reckon much on the pru-
dence of quellioning the lincerity of our late
adverfary ; he therefore murk give his vote for the
previous queftion.
Mr. Tmoteros raid, the Houfe ought to give
the perfons who had the direaion of the affairs of
the India Company credit for aging with no other
view than that of the public intereft ; and he confi
acted that any encroachment on the Company's
charter would be attended with confequences of
the molt injurious nature. The Company had of-
fered every afliftance to the private trade through
the medium of Britifh-built (hips ; a concellion
which he was perfuadedtheHouredeemedfufficient-
ly ample for every beneficial purpofe of theitrade.
Sir Ja maiPu LT& w a was of opinion, that as the
private traders had not felt that facility in carry.
ing on their trade which they had a right to ex •
pea, it would be highly advantageous to adopt
the motion of his Friend, the Hon. Baronet.
Sir WILLIAM PuLTENty replied; and after Tome
few obfervations upon the propofitions, brought
forward as the balls of the concellions, to which
the Direaors were willing to content—he confi
dered them as manifefting a determination to throw
every impediment in the way of the private trade;
and therefore that there was an abfolute neceflity
for the interference of Parliament.
The CHANCLLLOR of the Exert actota explained.
He would not have refilled the motion for a par-
liamentary inquiry, if he had not been convinced
the Dire tors wcrc clzfirous of carrying into effeet
the^ provifirns of the Al of 1793, refpefting the
e: c. ..ragernent of the private trade, confiflently
the interefis of the Company.
motion of the Larunet was put and ,
arid the p: ylcition catriel in the '
w:thcut a diriC,on.—Adjourntd.