Star.
London, England, 1806-04-22 00:00:00

Mr. HIL2Y ADDINCTdN hid, the nothing
----fuptlic.4 him more than the anonilhment expref.
honour

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t.d by the . ....arable Member, riling to anfiret: the
fpeech of his Right Hon. Et iend near him (Mr. Se-
cretary Foe); and in the whole of what had fallen
from that Right Hon. Gentleman, his own opinion
fial folly coincided, that he felt it unniceffary to add
any thing further upon points In ably and fo elo.
quently elucidated. The Noble Lord who brought
forward this motion had profeffed, that he had no
Intention 'bitchy to criminate the conduct of the
Marquis Welkiley. He was willing to give the Noble
Lord toll credit tor fincerirr in his declaration; but
yet be thought it was impoffible, if thole papers were
produced, but that they muft give rife to opinions
Injurious to his character, and firongly tend to excite
prejudices again!! him. The document alluded to
certainly was laid upon the table of the Court of Pro.
praetors, by an Hon. Gentleman, who.certainly con.
eased it to be a confidential comitunication. It had,
by Come underhand means, he underhood, found its
way into print. and it contained a Grier olopinions
in condemnation of the coodua of Lord Wadley,
from the time he firß let foot in India, upon a vs. 1
riety of points totally tinconneded with the matters'
sow in charge, and eonfequently irrelevant, and going
only to rums general prejudice. in order to ;nil
say clecifton that might take place upon the
points in gallica. The Honk, therefore, isseseess
to the motion for fah a paper. at this asset%
would, in his Opiates. do an all of the goofs! isjuf.
ties, and, ipon the grated of preadat, perhaps no
Member who beard-leien was awe Eddy qualified to
appeal from that ufage the* hinkii If the Houk
bed, at any time. from hurry ea bleifeectresey. watated
a paper which it ought not, nil obi*, apes dews
mature deliberation, it wooklaahatre grantede GM
it ought not. hereafter, to hold itklf bound by a
precedent. -'He had hinsfelf meetly moved for *t
papers. gronadins himfelf upon two precedents, the
one occurring orgy three days before. and the other
not twelve months back. but he felt hiatfelfurged by
the prelllog requells of leveret of hie friends to
withdraw his motion.
Mr. R. THORNTON was of opinion that the
Book &old not be kept in darknefs refpeding loch
am Important tranfedion as that contained in the pa.
per which had been moved for ; efpecially at a time
when the Houle and the Country well knew the cal*.
*pities of India' and the financial difirefs to which the
company was reduced. It was allowed that twenty-
sine out of thirty Diredors had fubfcribed to the pa-
Nr in queftion difapproving of the conduit of the
oble Marquis; why then fhould it be withheld ? At
the time the Noble Marquis undertook the adminiltra.
lion of the affairs of that country, its debt was only
eleven millions, and at his departure it amounted to
thirty millions. the paper which had been moved
for was now published, and therefore it was prepof-
terous in the lad degree to attempt to prevent its
being produeed to Parliament ; it was lull as impof-
fible to flop the eruption of Mount Vefuvius as the
eirenlation of the paper moved for by the Noble
Lord. It was laid elfewbere that " England espeas
every man will do his duty :" if that expectation had
Seed ticcomplifhtd on the formy element of the fee.
why It not Engliftsmen fulfil it on land. and that
in the Senate Houle ? He concluded with fopporting
the motion.
Lord CASTLEREAGH wifiled,tbat as the paper
which had been solved fur bad fost:dioistheitkitzutio the
public, it had been astemasied with the ation
of the Board of Casunillasers fee 'ng their
prebation ctir the costa rt the gel& Marquis.—
e screed wititirhe Illlersurenehl amelemanplasmight
o:Fthat dm dof bad made
parties with the Hale Magni% tip the taint teen in
which they had sided; and therefore he easlliered
that it would be unmanly in him to GA& from his
hare tithe refponfibillty. Thu NehieLoed (Handl-
e= ) bad moved for a paper which aspeeted only the
opinions of parties; but. as the Secretary of State bad
°barred, it was on the metitof the fads, and not on
thole opinions, that the quellion mull be decided. He
acknowledged with the Hon. Direder (Ma. Thom+
ton), that Se affairs of the India Company appeared
at prefent very gloomy, yet he could not look at the
affairs of India without feeling confident that the pre-
fers gloom would be clifitpated in the courfe of fonts
dine.
Mr. PAULL laid, the Paper moved for had in no
part any relation whatever to any of the charges be
paw to bring forward to-morrow again& Mavis
WThensfieTe CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
Paid, he entirely agreed with the Honourable Thrrx.
tor (Mr. Thornton), in the neceffity of producing
the document this night moved for by his Noble
!friend, with a view to the future inveßigation of
India Affairs; and he agreed with hialloble Friend,
as indeed he had the honour to agree on molt owl-
fon., upon the broad balls of Cooßitutional princi-
ples, in the necellity of laying before the Houfe, at
Come time or other, the document for which he had
this night moved; but. at the prefent moment, con.
ceiving that as it contained opiuiona of the Court of
Diredors, extremely injurious to the character cf the
Noble Marquis, unfupported by any thing in the
baps of evidence, it ought not to be produced. until
the charges againft that Noble Marquis Mould be
difpofed of. But when the Houfe fhould come to
difcufs the general queftion of Indian Affairs, there
could then he no reafonabie objection to the produc-
tion of this document.
Mr. WILLIAM SMITH conceived fuch an idea
of the importance of the papers this night moved for,
that if he did not feel the firongeft confidence that
the aid fyllem of Indian Government would he (pee.
dily and entirely reformed, he fhould fupport the
motion. But feeling the firongeft reliance in his
Majefty's prefent Minillers, that a full inveftigation,
and a thorough change would take place, he mould
be againa the production of the paper now moved
for, until a future day,llwhen Indian Affairs fhnuld
come more generally under difcuffion. He could
not, however, avoid expreffing his aftonifbment, that
out of the 29 Directors who had voted the tranfmiffion
of the difpatch in its original form, that a confiders-
hie number of thofe very men fhould afterward tub-
, mit to the poignant infult of being called on by the
Board of Contronl, to fign their names to a garbled
and mutilated extra& of that difpatch, without com-
ing to Parliament to complain.
-Dr. LAWRENCE (poke at much length in favour
1 of the on motion.
Mr. GRANT vindicated the conduit of the India