Star.
London, England, 1813-01-06 00:00:00

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

Yesterday there was a General Meeting of the
Court of Proprietors, convened to receive informa-
tion from the Directors, respecting thzir Charter.
The Chairman (Sir Huot Nears) said, that in
submitting to them the papers upon this must impor-
tant subject, he could nit avoid stating, that he was
extremely concerned indeed, that the present appear-
*ance of their affairs wore the most unfavourable aspect.
.--Arnong the papers which would be read to them,
was it letter which he had received but yesterday, at
t e late hour of seven in the evening. That letter
would, no doubt, make a serious impression on their
minds. He begged, however, tom be understood as
merely expressing his own feeling, and by no means
the sentiment of the Court of Directors. The Pre-
sident of the Board of Control (Lord Buckingham-
shire) had, indeed, declared that it was not the in-
tention of Ministers to pro,:ose a change in the man-
ner itt administering the Government of India. He
did not wish now to offer any observations on the
correspondence which would be read to them, but
would submit it entirely to 'their judgment. 'Tie,
however, he would say, that upon a subject of such
harportatice, neither he nor the Deputy Chairman
was of opinion rat it would be right to come to any
iMmediate resolution : they thought it would be bet-
ter to adjourn to some future time, when their minds
might be calmly and deliberately mae!e up upon the
question. He by no means wished to check discus-
sinn at the present-time, nor to damp the desire which
any individual might feel of how expressing his sen-
tirmnts ; but he thought rt would be much better to
abstain nom embodying their feelings in the shape
of resolutions, until ample time had been afforded
to give tie subject the fullest consideration.
The following Papers were then read :

No. LXVI.

AT A SECRET COERT OF DIRECTORS HELD ON FRIDAY, THE
isnt DECLIIIII.R ISIL:
_ _

The Court having resolved itself into a Committee
of the whole Court, and being resumed, the following
report from the Committee of the whole Court WAS
read :

66 The Committee taking into consideration the
present state of the negotiation with his Majesty's
Ministers for the renewal of the Company's exclusive
privileges, deem it to be highly imp ..rtatit, that the
sentiments of the Court of Directors, upon the propo•
sition brought forward for admitting the imports
from India to the outports of this kingdom, should be
unequivocally known."
The Committee therefore recommend to the
Court, to pass a resolution, stating that the proposi-
tion in question is, for various reasons already set
forth in the Court's writings, pregnant with ruin to
the affairs of the Company, inasmuch as it would ren-
der them incapable of performing the functions al-
lotted to them, as well in their commercial as in their
political capacity, and that the Court cannot there-
fore, consistently with their duty to their Constituents,
recommend to them the adoption of such a pro-
position." And it was, on the question,
Resolved unanimously, That this Court approve
the said report.
And the Chairman and Deputy Chairman were
requested to wait on the Right Hon. the President of
the Board of Commissioners for the affairs of India,
and to communicate to his Lordship the above pro-
ceedings of this day.

No I.XX.

LITTER FROM THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SLICK..
INGIIAMSIIIRE TO TUE CHAIRMAN AND DEPUTE CHAIRMAN,
RFIFIULED 10 IN TUE PRECEDING MINUTES.

(4t4TILNIEI,

India Board, 24th I)ecember, 1214.

The conferences held at this Board with the Corn-
mittee of Correspondence, having bad for their ob-
ject the most unreserved and candid discussions
upon points of the.greatest importance, with respect
to the renewal of the East-India Company's Charter,
and it having been understood that no further steps
should be taken upon the subject, until a communi-
cation was made by me, in an official shape, to the
Court of Directors, it was not without some surprize
that the copy of their resolution of the 18th instant
was received by his Majesty's Government, because
that resolution, adopted under such circumstances,
appeared to them to have for its object an abrupt lei-
mination to all discussion. They cannot, however,
consider it the less incumbent upon them, through
you, as the proper official channel, to bring before the
Court of Directors, the principles upon which the opi-
nions I have to apprize you of have been farmed, in
order to present to the Proprietors and tile Public a
correct view of a subject to which so much inipor-
tance is attached.

PAPERS
RESPECTING THE NEGOCIATIoN FOR A HFNEwAr. OF THE
EAST !SHIA CO.HPANY73 PY.CLUSRE
N. I.X.

Al A ScCAZT COMMITT77 07 COURE,SPONDENCI, THE ti! 07

NO.,.l.Mbxit, 151 Y.

The Chairman reported to the Commisree, that
he and the Deputy Chairman had this morning a
ci \oft:rence with the President of the Board of Com-
m:ssioners, on the subject of the renewal of the Com
piety's Charzer, at wnich his Lordship declared it to
be the intention of fits Majesty's Ministers, not to
abatitit.ii the proposition they had made, for allow-
ing a direct trade between India and the iwports of
ti:e United Kingdom ; but that the proposition might
be modified, by confining the p-rts to which ships
shall be allowed to import goods from India, to a
number less than that to which the Warehousing
Act now extends. Lord Bucklugham,thile, how-
ever, was d.:sirous, before restintsing the coi respon-
dence relating to it; that the Committee of Cone-
spondence should hold a conference with Lord Liver-
pool and himself upon the subject.
The Chairman farther stated, that, in reply to
Lord Buckingliamshir'e, the Ltcptuy Chairman and
--el declined making any observation at present,
but staved their intention to communicate the sub-

I shall, therefore, convey to you the sentiments of
his Majesty's Government, precisely in the terms I
should have done, if no intimation had been made of
the resolution of the Court of Directors of the I bill
instant ; and with that object 1 procced to inform
you, that with regard to th.,se points to which the at-
tention of the Committee of Correspondence has been
cared}• directed at the conferences held at this hoard,
the principle tmiformly maintained, as the basis of
any arrangement for the renewal of the East-India
CoMpany's Charter. viz. that the merchants of this
country have a substantial claim .to as much liberty
of trade as they can enjoy, without injury to other im-
poi :ant national' interests, eannoir 'be departed from.
It was in the hope that the opening of the export
trade with India to the merchants of the City of

stance of his Lordihip'S feMarks to the Committee Leaden, and of the ant-parts, whilst the import was
of Correspondence, and also expressed, their wish, ;confined to the poet of London, might not be found
that the ComMittee might have the honour of wait- inconsistent with this principle, that a disposition was
ing *poet his Lordship, previously to the proposed . felt by the Government to propose an arrangement to
conferences with Lord Liverpool; to which. Lord !that effect. Inconsequence, however, of de pro-
Buckinghamshire consented. Imulgation of such an intention, several persons, in-
The Committee, in conseqUetice, resolved to as- I terested in the commerce of the tint-ports, represen-
semble at eleven o'clock on Tuesday next, for the i ted in the strongest terms, that the pr, posed limitation
purpose of deliberating upon the subject of the above !of the import trade from India, rendered the eeten.
communication, previously to waiting upon Lord sion of the export of no value to them ; and they,
Buckinghamshire, at the hour of two on that day. Ideclared themselves prepared to maintain, that this
No. I.XI.
limitation was not called for by any adequate motive
/ATM PROM THE CHAIRMAN ANIS DEPUTE CHAIRMAN TO :of •
public interest. They urged their claim .to an
Tax RIGHT HON. THE EARL. or IRICEINGHASIONIRE. equal participation in the general trade to India, and
Mr LORD, East India-House, Nev. 28, raiz their conviction, that the ground upon which the ex-
We have the honour to acquaint your Lordship, elusion in favour of the port of London was defen-
that we have communicated to a Secret Committee ded, viz. the additional danger of smuggling, could
of Correspondence the substance of the conversation not be supported, and they were satisfied that the al-
which we had yesterday the honour of holding with iledged danger might be obviated by revenue regu-
your Lordship, Mr. Wallace, and Mr. Sullivan, and lations. They also entered largely into the subject of
in which it was notified to us, that the opinion of his !the China trade, contending strenuously against the
Majesty's Government remains unaltered, regarding I renewal of the Company's exclusive charter ;—and
the expediency of not confining the import trade from stated their reasons for believing, that measures
the East Indies to the port of London. might be adopted by which that trade could be
The Committee received this communication with opened, without injury to the revenue, and without
the deepest concern and regret, its Members unani- hazarding the continuance of the intercourse with
mously concurring with us in opinion, that should the Emperor of China's dominions. The importance
the proposed extension of the trade, even to a small attached to these representations, induced his Ma-
number of the outports of the kingdom, be sanctioned jesty's Government to revise the arrangement which
by the Legislature, the measure will be highly preju- had been in contemplation • and although they did
dicial to the public revenue, injurious to the East not see cause, under all the circumstances bearing
India Company, and detrimental to the prosperity of upon this question, to alter the (Tipton they had en-
the me: chants, manufacturers, traders, and .other nu- tertained, of the propriety of continuing the existing
merous bodies interested in the commerce with India restrictions upon the commercial intercourse with
as now carried on through the channel of the river China, and of preserving to the Company the mo-
Thames. The Committee being still desirous of an nopoly of the tea trade, they nevertheless felt, that
opportunity of renewing their representations to your the merchants belonging to the out-ports had este-
Lordship upon this important question, before any blished a claim against an absolute restriction of the
communication is made to the Court on the subject, import trade to the port of London. Under this im.
have directed us to requeit the honour of a conference pression I addressed my letter to you nn the 27th of
with your Lordship for that purpose. Should- it be April ult. The observations made by the Commit-
perfectly convenient to your Lordship to receive the tee of Correspondence, in their reply of the 29th of
Deputation on Tuesday next, at two o'clock, we shall the same month, did not fail to engage the serious at-
be able to lay the result of the conference before the tention of his Majesty's Government ; but after the
Court on the following day. We have the honour to best examination of those observations, aided by all
be, my Lords your Lordship's most obedient humble the information they have obtained from the Boards
servant, (Signed) rlttGtt INGLIS. of Customs and Excise, they are not enabled to con-
' ROBERT THORNTON. cur in the opinion, that the proposed extension-of the
I The Right Hon. the Earl of Buckinghamshire, &c. &C. Scc. import trade from India would be productive of any
I- No. I.XIII. great increase of smuggling, and certainly not to the
AT A SECRET COURT OR DIRECTORS, lULD ON WEDNESDAY, extent stated by the Court of Directors. It is con-
Tat tru DECEMBER ISI2, ceivedi that the apprehensicns entertained on this ac-
The Chairman acquainted the Court, that a-meet-
count might be obviated by various regulations, such
ing took place yesterday, at the Board, between se-
as confining the trade to those ports which are, or
veral of his Majesty's Ministers and the Committee
may be so circumstanced, as to afford security to the
of Correspondence, upon the subject of the renewal
due coLection of the revenue by the limitation of it
of the Company's exclusive privileges, when it was
to vessels of four hundred tons burden ; by am:chin,*
agreed, that no minutes should be then taken, in or-
the forfeiture of the ship and cargo to the discovery
der to afford the most unreserved mode of" carrying
of any illicit articles on board ; by an extension of the
on the discussion ; at the conclusion of which it was
understood, that his Majesty's Ministers would cons-
Manifest Act ; by regulations for checking the prac-
tnunicate, in writing, their sentiments upon the whole cite of smuggling in the ships of the Company ; as
of the subject. well as by other provisions, too minute to be entered
into at present, but which will, of course, be attended
to in discussing the details of the subject.
I am persuaded it will not escape your observation,
that from obvious considerations the English Chan-
nel must at all times, especialiy in times of peace,
afford facilities and inducements for smuggling, which
do not occur elsewhere to the some extent, on account
of the clandestine traffic already. established, and the
ready communication with the opposite shore. But,
with respect to the whole of this part of th.. question,
it is impossible to lose sight of the deep interest which
the Government must feel in the prevention of smug-
gling,. The interests of the Company are, no doubt,
involved in it; but those of the Government are still
more concerned ; and it cannot he supposed that they
would bring forward any proposition, which appeared
to them likely to endanger a revenue of from three
to four millions ; or that, if a defalcation should un-
expectedly arise, they would not immediately take;
measures for applying a remedy. The Company I
'have, therefore, an ample ground of confidence, not
only in the disposition of Government, but in their
effectual co-operation on those points, on which the
Court of Directors appear to feel the greatest anxiety,
and on which they urged their strongest objections
to the proposed arrangement. The several articles
which may be imported from the countries within the
limits of the Company's charter, and which are
charged with an ad valorem duty, although with the
exception of tea, they bear a very small Fropoi Lion to
the whole of the revenue collected kern the trade
[from India and China, are nevertheless of sufficient
importance to demand the attention of Goveniment,
as the question may affect the interests of the East
India Company as well as those of the public revenue.
With this view, it will be necessary to consider, whe.!
ther, with respect so some of them, a rated duty I
might not be substituted, and whether regulations
may not be made for the security of the duty ad va-
lorem on those articles which shall continue to he so
charged, and which, at the same time, shall prevent
their being purchased at a price, likely to operate in-
juriously to the manufacturers of this country. The
justice of the observations, respecting the additional
number of Europeans that would find their way to
India in consequence of the extension of the trade,
must be admitted to a certain extent ; but it is ob.;
virus, that this danger would arise from the extension
of the export trade to India, and would scarcely be
lessened by confining the import trade to the port of
Lr,ndon. Every individual, during his residence in
India, would of course be sul:j •ct to the existing regu-
I lations of the local Governmenzs. The situation
Lascars, who ate occasionally employed in the navi-
gation of ships from India to this country, would de.
• mend the interposition of the Legislature ; and there
can be no doubt that effectual provision for their
I maintenance while in England, and for their return to
; India, will be made.— Having gene through the
principal points to which our recent conferences have
related, it may be proper for me to apprize you, that
is Majesty's Government are of opinion, that the
establis'lment of King's troops, which may be requi-
site for the preservation of the peace and security of
British possessions in India, Must depend upon cir-
cumstances that it would be difficult to anticipate;
but as the financial situation of the Company may
render it necessary, that the :limbos to be main-
tained at their charge should be limited, there can be
no objection to propose to Pediment, to specify that
number by legislative enactment I have thus en-
deavoured to bring the sentiments of his Majesty's
Government before you, with the same candour that
bas been evinced in our recent discussions ; and I can

(veature tOalidently tit assure yota, that my collemruts,
las well as myself, are most aneinus to promote stick •
!an adjustment between the Public and the Ci.irt ~f
'Proprietors, as may be satisfactory to partits,
The expediency of adhering to that syst, m, by *Lids
the 'Government of India has been adiniiiistv.,!
'through
the intervention of the Company, is strongly
felt by Lis Maiesty's Co 0 Vt`fil Ritl I ; but it must 11,n
be supplied, that there are no to that evia:.
diency, or that there arc ro advantages whith mid
result from a different course.

It iffor the Court of Proprietor! 16 decide, vhz.
ther their own interests, as well As tht:.se of the tinTle.
rows persons depending upon theft., both at home .:.;
abroad, can best be preserved by their r•Jettion ci,ql
acquiescence in, those conditions upon which aloce.:
consistent with their public duty, his Islajestis
vernmeza c.. 0 submit a propositi.:n to. PArliitheo
'die renewal of the Chimer. You, Gentle:nen, muss
be aware, from its approaching expiration, proviiion
must be made, witheut delay, for the future Covet*
ment of India ; and that his Royal Ifghtlett thy.
Prince Regent/ in Its speech at the opening r.f tae
present session, has called upon P.ltli.tment to m 414
such pre/vision. I hay.? the honour to he, Gentlentot.
I your most obedient and faithful lattmrl.e servant,
(Signed) DLCRINGH.UtsiIIut:.
The Charm 'II and Deptny Chairman
at t:,e Court of Directors.'

No. LXIII.
LZTTEIR :Rosa THE CUAIRMAN AN, fitreTy•ctimikmAN, TO
Tat RIGSIT 140111.TME FAIL OE 1110CLINGUANIaillifte, sorizse
IN Mt eaCCSDING 1411141rfr9. -
eittaedia House, sloth Deeamber, lore
Div LORD—We were lioncored, on the 'l3th not.
with the fetter wliich your Lordship was piee,ed to
address to Us on the pieceditig day. and base laid it
before the Court of Directots. We arc histructeti
by the Court to acquaint your Lordship, that a Ge-
neral Court of Proprietors of Eest•ledia Stock his
been' summoned, for the special perpose of trainl
into consideration the important subjects treated of
in your Lordship's letter, and we shall lose no time
i in submitting to your Lordship the result of the deli-
berations at that meeting. In reference to the first
paragraph of your Lordship's letter, in which the
resolution passed by the Court on the IStli instate, is
stated to have caused some surprize to his Mejestre
Government, as appearing to have for its object an
abrupt termination to all discussion, we are desired
by the Court of Directors respectfully to offer the
following explanation. Your Lordship is aware, that
at the commencement of the recent conferences on
the subject of the renewal of the Company's Charter,
it was agreed between you; Lordship and the Depu-
tation trim the Court, that no minutes should be
taken of what passed in conversation. Accordingly
no particular communication was made prior to the
'receipt tif your Lordship's letter of the teeth instant,
of the result of these conferences ; but an earnest de-
sire •! having been expressed by those Geralenun in the
Direction, who are not Members of the Committee
of Correspondence, to be informed, whether the 4kt-
: ferences of opinion formerly known to exist, on some
import:rut points, between his Majesty's Gavernm.:at
'and the Court, were in a train of recoriciliation, ;sad
the general answer which we thought ourselves hiatitel
in duty to give, not having tended to efford them the
satisfection they expected, they deemed it proper Ilea
the sense of the Court, respecting the question of Otis
'outports, should be formally notified to' your Lord-
ship, and in consequence the unanimous resolution of
the ISth was transmitted. Had the Court petceived
1 that that proceeding admitted of the inter pietatioa.
!which has been put upon it by his Majesty's Govern-
ment, they would assuredly have taken pains more
!eff; ctually to guard against so great a misconcep:ioa
lof the real intention, which was no other than to
mark thew adherence to the opinions they have nni.
tormly entertained on the disputed question, of ex-
tending the import trade from ludia to the outports
of this k.ugdoire which had formed the principal sub-
ject of dire lesion betiseen the Members of his Ma-
jesty's Government and the Committee of Corres-
pondence. It was certainly desirable for the Mem-
bers of that deputed Committee, and it was thought
that it might not be unacceptable to your Lordship
to know, that the sentiments which titre had ex-
pressed in the course of discussion were sacctioned
by the uneuimous concurrence of the Bedy by whein
they were delegated. The mode in which the rev).
lution was adopted, was conformable to the usage of
the Court of Directors on solemn occasions, itani,:;y,
alter a report from a Committee of the wlicr!e Court.
which always requires signatures, and which, in the
present instance, was subset ibed by every Director.
We trust, my Lord, that this explanation of the mea-
sure alluded to, is ill prove satisfactory to your Lerd-
ship and the other Members of his Majesty's Ge-
Ivernment ; and while we return our sincere acknosv-
ledgments for the attention with which our represen-
tations have been listened to hi the various interviews
! with which we have been honouree by your Lordship
i end his Majesty's Ministers who ;mauled, we hope.
! at the same time, to stand perfectly acqueted of any
design, either to prevent or embarrass a lull and de-
liberate discussion of the great interests at stake.
1 It is matter of deep concern to us to find that Lis
Majesty's Ministers seem still to adhere to the pi ir.
ciple of opening the outports of the United Kingdom
to the importation of conenod.ties frem India. %%e
itave already, in our letters of the I eeli and .29:1i cf
Apra List, tully state.: the daagers that must rctil:t
to the Company from so great an Lill trgeintot of
I the privilege in Eastern commerce tir b3itish leer-
'; chums. IVe preserve to thiek our O•j.etiens to the;
1
enlargement freer nut been adequately answetcd : '
and we have to express the cencern felt by the Cue::
I that no communication has yet been merle to there
1 of those reprerentetioes which first led Iris Makete f
! Ministers to entertein, and which induce them seir :e
adh-Te to the opinions, that the public interest e•ill :'-e
' best consulted, by not confining the import trade
' from the East Indies to the port of London. it
would uccus'on much sctisfaction to the Court 51,0u..1
• such a communication have the effect of obvietiee
' their objections, even in part, to a measure which the
most imperative censiderations alone could hove in'
; floenced them to oppose: and were it unfOrtimately :t)
fait in producing this effect, it ;5 nevertheless des re
. b:e that the Ceurt of D.reetois shell have an cpp.e;•
' tunity of reviewing the question, with all the intele-
, gence that can be brought to beer 'Ten it. I', et
Lordship has indeed been pleased to favour its w'l
la brief summary of some of the argno,ents it: .1 !,f.
; the merchants on this subject—areetitietrtt, we re'''.
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sure ourselves, that in adverting to them, your Lord- only other
:document to be read was the Leasr of well as of the Ptoprhstors, would be unanimous on
ship does not mean that the Company should be con- the President of the Board of Controul, received late this point.
ell ied, or their fate determined, by what those who last night. The letter was then read— Mr. RollEitT Tunneller.: could not, in the situation
oppose their interests choose to advance h although India Board, January 4, 3E113. he held, avoid saying a few words. As to the Ml-
their reptesentationg appear to have so far influenced Gremvant—l had the honour to receive your portant trust committed to his hands, lie hid exe-
his Majesty's MinisTers, as to lead them to think that letter cf the 30th ultimo, and proceed to convey to cited it, and should always endeavour to execute it
the merchants have a claim to as munch liberty of you the sentiments of his Majesty's Government, as with fidelity. If lie should ultimately secure their
trade as they can enjoy " without injury to other ini- far as it would seem advisable, under present cir- aPPnibation, he should ad it the ptide and honour
portant national interests." In those interests, we may cuinstances, to continue the discussion. Of his life__( efeseiende.) A great deal of industry
presume, are comprehended both the consideration of With respect to your observation, that the repre-
.had rife some yeas been much misapplied in run-
the public revenue and the maimenance of the East- sentations which induced his Majesty's Government ning down and misrepresenting the conduct of the
India company. But what that extent of trade is to give their opinions upon the subject of the exten- Company. The interests of mankind had been tam-
e which can be granted with safety to those inte- sion of the Import. Trade have been withheld from pered w ith, and promises had been made, and
rests," is still a question undetermined. We confess I the Court of Directors, and that your objections to
hopes held nut, which could never be realised. The
bet the regulations contemplated by his Majesty's that extension have not been "adequately answered ;" commercial interest conceived themselves to he suf-
, teninisters, so far as your Lordship has been pleased you must allow me to avail myself of this occasion fereis ; and what panacea did they hold out for the
to explain them to us, appear by no means calculated to apprise you, that although his Majesty's Govern- I restoration of commerce ? It was simply to destroy
to remove our fears. The comparative interest which meat has shewn a strong disposition to enter into the I the greatest and oldest commercial establishment in
the Public and the Company have in preventing the most frank and unreserved explanations with the i existence ; (eippiatoe) this Company which had so
ereugeling of tea, was described in our letter of the j Court of Directors, they have not felt that it was long excited the wonder of mankind, and the jea-
e9ih of s‘pril ; and though it be true, as your Lord-
i. within the range of their duty to engage in a contro- lousy of our enemies ; this bright jewel of the Bri-
ship observes, that the stake of the Public in this : yersy upon the points at issue :—That duty has been , tish empire, which Benaparte so anxiously eddied to
elncern is numerically greater than that of the Corn- ; sufficiently discharged, in stating, for the information deprive us of. He proclaimed that what he wanted
ean
•y ; yet the importance of the Company's inferior of the Court of Proprietors, the condition upon which , Was—" ships, colonies, and commerce." Now, if
cote is, to them, infinitely greater, than would beto they were prepared to submit a proposition to Par-: Ministers persevere in !heir present intentions,our ships
the Public the importance of the loss the revenue • liament for the renewal of the Charter, accompanied (as far as the India trade would be concerned) would
might sustain : because, as matters now stand, the 'by such reasons as are conveyed in the commuuica- turned into revenue cutters and smuggling yes.
ce,neiew have no certain dependence but the China : tions they have authorised me to make.
trade. lot resources essential to their subsistence.-1 I can, however, have no difficulty in acquainting
We do not the least question, that his Majesty's Mi- you, that the claims of the Merchants connected with
i be
1 seas. Colonies, to be sure, would be established for
a time, but our territories would be lost : and as to
commerce, it would entirely sink to the illicit trade.
sisters world be thoroughly disposed to frame addi the outports have not been brought before Govern- Our merchants, who now thought only of the gol-
tional regulations to prevent smuggling tea, should ment by written documents, that they have been den and silver trade of India and China, would soon
tense now in contemplation be tried and be found in- urged and discussed at personal conferences with in- . come back to the iron trade of Birmingham and
sufficient. But, besides that we extremely distrust dividuals interested in their success, and that you Sheffield. As he conceived the cause of the Company
the practicability of preventing smuggling to a large have already been informed of the grounds upon to be just, he felt convinced, that if they were but
extent, where ti-,e temptations would be so great, we , which they were supported ; but that it does not ap- firm, they must finally succeed. He could not, how-
,
must entreat your Lordship and his Majesty's Minis- pear to his Majesty's Government, that you can be ever, avoid remarking, at what period this commer-
ters seriously to consider what would be the situation warranted in expecting that they should give a more cial revolution was proposed. It was when a bright
cf the Cerripenye if they obtained a Charter upon no , particular account of the arguments adduced at star had arisen in the North cf Europe, which pro-
better terms than those now proposed, and upon trial ' these conferences. : mised to be the harbinger of a general peace. It
it Should be found that their commercial income i 1 may add, however, that RS the Merchants and such a hope was realised, what would be the situa-
failed, arid that their dividend should be unprovided , Manufacturers connected with the out ports, consi- tion of the Company ? When the deliverance of
fee, or towered : their stock would immediately fall ; , dering themselves entitled at the expiration of the Europe Was effected, in the first dawn of peace and
their credit would be diminished, the currency of j Charter of the East India Company, to carry on that general salutation, the India Company would have to
their affairs, in their payments particularly, would ; trade from which they had been excluded for a limit- lament its downfall. While all other commercial
be impeded ; general alarm and dissatisfaction in all led time, bad entered into a statement of their case men would be congratulating one another on the re-
f.:flies connected with this great establishment would jby Petitions presented to Parliament in the course of covers, of trade, they alone would be ruined. For
be felt ; and there would be a necessity for going to 1, the last Session, you may obtain from those records his own part, he felt it individually his duty to say,
Parliament again, when evils great, perhaps ivretrie- 1 that further information which you appear desirous that he conceived it would-be much better for them
vable, would have been experienced. It is the duty to possess. to wind up their concern, shut up shop in the India
of the Executive Body of the Company to cart y their With regard to those points to which you have House, and every man mind his other affairs, rather
views forward to
,such contingencies, and to seek pro- alluded as requiring particular regulation, the Mini- than come forward at the end of a very few years,
vision against them : and we must beg leave to add; sters of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent hay- and tell them that it was impossible to go on any
thett whatever rights the merchants may claim or the ing signified to you, that consistently with their sense longer.
nation be pleased to bestow on them, it cannot be of public duty, they can submit no arrangement to , The Rev. Mr. THIRLWALL spoke for some time
equitable to make concessions to them which should Parliament that does not include an extension of the on the number of labourers and clerks employed by
destroy the Company, who acquired the Indian Em- Import Trade, and the Court of Directors having, . the East India Company, and the distress which they
pine, and who are as much the owners of the chief with the knowledge of their opinions upon that' and their families must feel, if they were driven out
seats of European trade in dist empire, as they are I point, by their Resolution of the 18th ult. declined ;of employment.
of their freeholds in London. With respect to the to recommend to the Court of Proprietors to agree
j Mr. KENNET Barrett observed, that the Charter
resort of Europeans to -India, if we do not misunder- I, to such an extension, it wculd seem premature to given to the Company 200 years ago, was for ever,
stand the scope of your Lordship's observation, it j enter into details until that question shall have been " unless, the grant should prove prejudicial to these
seems to imply that their numbers might be in pro- I finally determined. . realms, and the interests of his Majesty's crown."
portion to the export trade. from this country. Li, You are apprised of the disposition of his Majesty's ' Now, he believed that it would not be said, that any
indeed, they were to be regulated by this scale, our I Government to adhere to the present system of Ad- prejudice had arisen to these realms from the India
apprehensions would be the less ; bat we have no dif- ' ministration in India, and lam not aware, that if Company. His opinion upon the present occasion
ecuity in acknowledging, that, in addition to all our I circumstances should admit of its continuance, it was, that rather than consent to the trade being ex-
other 41-patients against admitting • importations to would be necessary to propose any material ahem. • tended to the out-ports, they had better give up their
%he outports, we think that the granting of
:this pri- Lion in the existing provisions for carrying it into Charter altogether. In that case they would ote em'
vilege eould increase the spirit of r a 5,11 speculation execution, except such as may arise from the open- titled to the value of the territories which they had
,fram Great Britain and Ireland, and thereby the •Mg of the trade. j acquired—of their freeholds in the East, as well as in
number of adventurers in -search of fortune in India; The confidence you express in the wisdom and this country,—as well as of their stores. If Govern-
for it is to be remembered, that those adventurers justice of Parliament, will, I am persuaded, not be ment would pay them a fair value for their territories
would naturally seek for new establishments, even dh.appointed ; nor is it to be supposed, that in the and stores, they would do better to give up the Char-
out of the Company's territories, and there endeavour consideration of this great question (to use your own ter altogeth r. They had as much right to their free-
to acquire real property. words), " the safety of the British Empire in India, holds in the East as in this country.
But, my Lord, this is only one of many points and the British Constitution at home," will be over- Mr. Rosette GRANT could not avoid expressing
which require particular regulations ; and, at the looked either by the Legislature or the Ministers of his surprize at the very singular letter with which
stage at winch we are now arrived in the negotiation, the Crown. j they had been favoured by one of his Majesty's Mi.
we cannot but state to your Lordship the anxious j If the Government of India cannot be carried on sisters. He was also surprized at finding, that when
wish of the Court to be made acquainted with the ' with safety to the Constitution, except through the his Majesty's hinderers thought proper to comrnuni-
whole plan, which his Majesty's Government may intervention of the Company, the propositions of the cafe to them their sentiments, they should not think
have it in conternplatiOn to recommend to Parliament Court of Directors, whatever they may be, must un- it necess sty to make any comnomication at all of the
for a renewal of the East-India Company's Charter ; conditionally be admitted. r• arguments which had induced them to adopt those
including such amendments in the sys eine of the 1 It will be for Parliament to determine whether the sentiments. He did, however, concur with them in
Company's territorial Government and administrit- ' nation is in this respect without an alternative, or ' the hope, that when the East India Company should
tiOnt as past experieece may have indicated—the re- ' whether, if a change of system should be rendered throw themselves, and the interests of 50 millions of
gulations deemed necessary for promoting the disci- necessary by the decisions of the East India Corn- people in India, on the wisdom and justice of Par-
pline and efficiency of the Indian army, the amount of pany, measures might not be taken for opening the , liament, they would not be disappointed. He was
force which his Mejesty may be empowered to main- trade, and at the same time providing such an Ad. - not so much surprised at die tone assumed by the
tent in India at the expellee of the Company, and ministration of the Government of India, as might Minister, as by the matter of his communication,
.
the provisions that may be thought requisite for sett- be found compatible with the interests and security , " that if you should refuse to accede to those pro.
ling the relative powers of the Board of Commissio- . of the BritishConstitution.
, posal3, it may be submitted to the decis on of Par-
nets and the Court of Eirecters. Though these to. j • I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obedient liament, whether an Administration might not be
pies were specifically mentioned in the letters from and faithful humble Servant, formed for India of another nature." Now he had un-
Lotei Melville to the Chairs, of the enth of Septem- j (Signed) BUCKINGLIASISIIIRE. derstood, that the Ministers, the Parliament, and the
bar,' 1808, and the 21st of March, 1812, the Court The Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of the country, bad settled the question long ago. The
are still, in great measure, uninformed of the arrange. • • '
- East India Company. Minister had admitted the expediency, but had said
meets, in regard to them, which his Majesty's Go- The CHAIRMAN, as this last was a most important that there was a limit to that expediency. Now, as
vernment may have in view to propose. And we doe ment, wished to know it the Court was desirous lie always understood this expediency to be for India
entreat, also, that your Lordship will enable us to thaf it should be read a second time ? as well as this country, he could translate the words
lay a
yma before the Court of Directors, end
ultimately
the This being accordingly done, •of the Minister upon the present occasion, in no other
Proprietors, in any shape that • • •oa y judge fir, the The CHAIRMAN then stated, that the papers would manner but that there were limits to the expediency
information, additional to that of the - be printed, and distributed among the Proprietors in of governing well--(a laush).—But where Was this
ready solicited, on which the determination of his the course of to-morrow. He then repeated his wish limit to be found ? Why, in the commercial conve-
Majesty's Ministers rests, as to the extension of the j that they would adjeurn, in order to afford time for . nience of the our; ports. They, however, had the
trade to the outports, and their intentions upon the I deliberation on a subject of such serious consequences. imperative obligation cast upon them of zealously
other parts of the arrangement, to which we have I The Court of Directors wished now, andett all times, watching over the interests and happiness of the po-
ra,w adverted. The requests we now make, appear to receive information from the observations of so pulation of our territories in India, as well as of their
to us the more reasonable, from the weighty inti- enlightened a body as the General Court of Proprie- own commercial concerns. lie wished to know wire.
elation conveyed in the concluding part of your tors- The Court of Directors had pronounced no ther his blisjeety's Ministers had weighed the ledger-
Lordship's tl•' ie sem s letter. It brings into view (to repeat an opinion upon this letter—but he, as air individual, books of the out-ports, against the Charter of the Corn-
expression used in our letter of the 15th oe A n •
1i) would say, that Ire saw no reasoning in it which pany, and the happiness of fifty millions of men. The
i
" questions of the last importance to the safety cl the could induce bins to change the opinion he had al- demand of the Ministers now upon the Company, was
" British Empire in India, aud of the British Consti- ready formed. . only another step of that progressive encroachment
4' tution at ironic," This is a solemn subject for the Mr. Ricee said, that circumstances like the pre- which had been pursued for many years, and to which
t °tint' y as well as the C'
empeny. lf, indeed, it sent must rouse the best feelings of our nature, which they must object somewhere, or lose all. There was
o
seould ever come under actual dkciissm, we have I would arise naturally from the heart to the head.— a time when the Company had to contend for all ;
lirat confidence in the equity and wi-dorn of the na- The Directors had acted with zeal and activity, but now it appeared as if the Government had turned
1", that pi ,se•nt cmoors notwithstanding all - • 1.- they v •
hich called for the gratitude of the Proprietors at the siege into a blockade. First, they were obliged
will-
r•
.ish to do the Company jeoice, and to guard 1 1 age. He certainly thlt the deepest regret at the UR.. to grant extra tonnage—next to admit private ships
all the other great interests* which most come into I for ornate turn that their affairs had taken. He —then to allow the general export trade to India-
9tiestion. But prepared as v.-i, 'hail be, if forced r thought it inconsistent with the free spirit of the and now they are called upon to give up the import
into this situation,Constitte inn that Ministers should attempt to assume also. It was true, that the private adventurers who
to maintain the del. his and claims
; i .
of our C •
onstituents, we rnuA yet express our hope, that ey law they
such a time. L was with strong feelings of shame would now go forth, would learn, I I
that the Company will not be reduced to the hat d al- and indignation that he learned that any Ministers were to be prohibited front trading with China.—
tentative, of thus having to contend for all that is should dare to nr:tke use of such langu ige in addres- All the general arguments, however, about the im-
dear to them, or to accept a Charter on terms which slog their Court of Directors. The danger to the prescriptible rights of British merchants to general
will
not enable them to execute the part hitherto as- Brutish Constitution was such a one as had before trade, the right of locomotion, and all those princieles
signed to them in the Indian
We have the honour to he, my Lord, your Lord- It was almost evident, that if Ministers were to seize it was not to be presumed that they would entirely
. shi p's most obedient humble Servants, upon the whole patronage of India, the British Con- r. train from the prohibited trade to China. He was
i (Signed) mien !Nous. stitution would be in the mast serious danger. This convinced that a continuation of those encroachments
r 110 BERT TIiORNTON. • consideration must necessarily arouse such feelings mast soon deprive the Company of the means raid
I-f. Di •
-sght }lon. the Earl of B
uekinghantsh!re, ace. as it was impossible to avoid giving expression to. &facilities for providing for the internal Goverment
. The Cilitut. then informed He hoped that the feeling of the country at large, as of India. It the, this), were obliged to give it up,
MAN the Court, that the

in-
We

Ministers %wild say it %vas a voluntary surrender —4.
It was very certain, that the extci ior ftbric nt iht4.

power was however left standing, and that no in—
struments of war were brought against their walls :
if. therefore, the Company suffered it to be undermi-
ned in this manner, when its fall should come, Mi-
nisters would say that it was (torn no act of theirs
that the building fell from its own weight—that it-
had collapsed from its own greatness. They might
speedily be ruined, with all the exterior marks tef
greatness about them; or, as hid been well expressed
by an eloquent Member of Parliement, they might be
" checkmated with all their pieces upon the bieird." He
thought at would not be improper now to remind
Ministers of the services which the Company had refs.
dered to the people of this country, as well es of India.
He had, to be stile often heard it stated, that the Come
pany had no regard either for this country d: toe
India ; and that all they had done which was praise-
worthy, was the effect of mere accident, or of the
genius of some individuals accidentally employed in
their service. It Appeated to him, however, rAthee
hard that the company should be reproached for mo-
tives purely interested, by the advocates of those most
di:inks-triad personages, the ptivete traders, laugh).
—lt should he considered, through what times of
peril the Company had prtseiv_el this trade to :he
country, and raised this empire ; through all tile
mults, confusion, and evils of the civil war, thus :r .e
was still upheld. When the hesulities of France w •
directed, by her ablest men, ageinst those teiesessieus,
the Company knew how to defend them. W..s it no
praise to the Company, that they secured the rzspect
of all the people of India ? He might be told, that
there WAS no merit in this, and that it WAS ail actisLot.
—He would ask, however, was it ac ideal that sent
Lord Cive over to India, in the quality of a pecitie
cator ? Was it by accident that he went over an that
character, or-was lie not specially chosen for the pus..
pose by a triumphant majority of vete' in thatCourti
In alluding to another great name, and dear to them
all (Lord Cornwallis), he would ask, was it accident
that made him propose those acts fur the perpetual
settlement of India ? Greet as the mind of that
Nobleman, and capable as it was, of originating the
most important things, still it would be found on
looking over the records of their Court, that all those
regulations which constituted the great Charter, and
the Bilt of Rights for the people of India, did not
spring up from accident, but from the deep and
anxious deliberations of the Court of Directors, And
their minute and positive instructions transmitted to
India. Of those great measures which had marked
the conduct of the illustrious names he had mention.
ed, the first movement came from within those walls,
which were now decorated with their effigies.—
(Mr. Robert Grant here alluded to their statues in
the Hall, and the allusion was received with great
applause.) And was the system which had
afforded protection and happiness to so many mil-
lions of men now to be made the sport of commercial
experiment ? He thought that the Constitution of
India could not be destroyed, without giving a se-
vere blow t. the Constitution of this country. If the
people of this country felt so much alive to Any thing
. which could endanger the r Constitution, they should
reflect what it was to unsettle I overthrow the
Constitution under which India had I,ved content and
tranquil far so many years. 'll it Constitution had
also existed for many years : and, although it ni;glat
not have arrived to theoretic perfecth;n, yet it had
appeared well adapted to the particular circurn-
s.Ances, and the particular nature of the population in
India. As this was a question of lie and death to
the India Company, it was not surprising that they
were not contented by mere (Nein:eat remedies and
conic:ural safeguards. (iiNdeer ). Amidst the effu-
sions of provincial wit, he had teen it often sett d,
that the arguments of the Company were merely
ad aiirsthorali.m. With tut desire or hope of rival.
ling their wit, he should gravely and s. riously say.
that his argument to the people of this country
should be ad miscriconliant. But it was not for
the India Company alone that he would wish to
move their compassion, but principally for the many
millions under its Government • in the East. He
would even add, that some compassion was due
to those private Adventure's who were now on the
point of ruining themselves by their new specu-
lation. He felt that for the interest of the he. plc of
England, as well as Hindustan, the gteat system
which had so long been found successful, should not
now be put to hazard from the mere rage of commer—
cial speculatien. He should intreat the Pediament,
and the country, not to be more influenced by the
din and clamour at home, than by the profound still-
ness and tranquillity which has happily existed for so
many years throughout our vast empire in ti indostan.
(Great amlaure.) If those considerations were fairly
weighed by the people of this country, and by Par-
li :meet, he should have no fears for tie anal testa.
[The speech of this Gentleman was delivered with
gteat eloquence, and, on his sitting down, the ape
plause lasted for some minutes.]
It was then moved by a Proprietor, That the Meet.
tug should adjourn to Tuesday the 9:11.
Mr. Kese er Smelt moved, as an amendment, a
Resolution, conveying tie approbation of the Court
of the watchfulness and zeal displayed by the Court
of Directors, and concluded with a vow of adjourn-
ment.
Mr. Huste objected to the amendment so movel
Tic thought th it as it was expressly uoderse.od, th it
they weie to come to no decision !heti upon the ie-
forrna6cti laid before them, it would be quite pre.
mattue to return thanks to the Ceutt of Diteccure
for their conduct, before the Plop:Lew% had time to
consider the papers ssiti.:ll had thi., day been read to
them, and to determine whether their conduct was
deserving of praise or not. He considered that the
real qtastion had been entirely depined from. There
was only one point at issue now between them and
the Government, and that was, whether they we uld
agree to the cendiii ins of Admiei-tratien respecting
the imports being allowed :ieuther pot is besides th t
of London ? As it appeared to hit's Hitt the was
th. only question, he could not but think it had been
very wren departed front. lie must say, that he
did nt t view the letter of Lord Buckinghamshire iu
the seine light that it had appeared to other Gen-
tlemen. He could not but s my, that when the
Directors clw. It at such length, to Ministers, about
revenue, and the British Coosttleion, they appeared
to hint !either to deserve the little rade that they had
got tti,on that point.—[He was here interrupted bye

LONDON.
THE STATE LOTTERY
Will be Drawn in TWO DAYS, viz. 14th of I'llls MONTH
(JANUARY), and following Day.

A meeting took place yesterday between some
Members of Government, and the merchants in-
terested in the trade under licences to France, at
which it was intimated, that under certain limitations
and restrictions such licences would perhtips not be
suspended. We are told as one of.the reasons, that
80 licences have been issued in France, which do not
stipulate, as the condition of their validity, that any
export whatever to Great Britain should be made of
the produce or manufacture of that country.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1813.
Ehruntsr.—Holday at the Stock Excitarge.
1 he Bank pay the Dividends to the Bankers to-morrow, and to
the Public on Friday.

Our columns of to day present a full report of a
discussion in Leadenhall-street, in which the vital
interests of the Empire are more deeply involved
than in any public question which has excited the
attention of the nation, since the period of the glori-
ous Revolution of 1688. Having said this, it becomes
the duty of every thinking individual in the Empire,
calmly, temperately, and deliberately to review the
Irguments of the contending parties, whose corporate
and individual intc.•rests are now so completely at
'stake, 'ere any opinions are formed, or doctrines pro-
mulgated, which might have a tendency to prejudge.
the grand question about to be agitated.
Ministers and the East India Company are now
decidedly at issue. The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE'S
letter admits of no alternative—he demands, in the
name of the great body of the Merchants of this
country, a full participation in the export and import
trade with India. His Lordship guarantees the con-
tinuance of the territorial dominion of the Company,
And admits that the natives are happy under it. Tne
Company is likewise to exercise their usual controul
over the Europeans who may resort to India :—in
•other viords, no person is to be perthitted to reside in.
the Company's territory without permission from the
local governments. The exclusive trade with China
is also to be preserved to the Company.
In answer to these proposals the Directors contend,
that ruin to the whole establishment will inevitably
*low—that the trade with China is not sufficient to
enable the Compuny to keep .up their commercial
respectability—that the tempt4tions to smuggling
will be so great as to injure the public revenue, to an

By an arrival from the North of Spain, we have
been put in possession of some details of operations,
which convince us that the Spaniards in that quarter,
at least, are still alive to the interersts.of their coun-
try. The successful enterprize of LONGA, the Gue_
rilla Chieftain, merits the highest encomiums :

66 LETTER FROM COLONEL DON FRANCISCO LONGA, COM-
MANDANT OF THE THIRD DIVISION OF THE SEVENTH
ARMY, TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL IN CHIEF
DON GABRIEL DE MENDIZABAL :
• " Poza, November an, ism
" Respected General—l recently acquainted your
Excellency that various French troops, proceeding
from Burgos, were quartered in the valley of Sedano,
but that I had not ascertained their numbers and
object. I have since been enabled to do so, and have
discovered., that in it, and the adjoining villages,
there were 4000 men, under the orders of General
Fromant, making requisitions, and committing their
usual robberies and excesses.'

g, The protection which I promised to all the in-
habitants within the hoe of demarkation which you
were pleased to assign to me, and the marked afrec-
tion which I feel for them, determined me to act in
thee; defence. With this view I took all the neces-
sary mtaiures, even though I should not be able
completely to rout the enemy, at least to liberate the
district which they were barbarously oppressing
and I have now to inform your Excellency, that I
have had the good fortune to attain both these ob-

equal extent with that of the East-India Company.- jests, by the action which my division yesterday hal
that there will be an influx of rash speculators and with the enemy, and of which I shall now give you
adventurers from this country who will seek estab. ! a brief detail.
lishmeuts beyond the limits cf the Company's juris- I " After a rapid and secret-march, I succeeded in
diction ; and finally they maintain, that the ports of taking post a quarter of a league from the town of
India are as much the freeholds of the Company as Sedan°, and the road which leads to the church,
their landed possessions at home. I which is in reality a fortress. There the division re-
In reply the Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, on the 'pained till seven in the morning, when three com-
part of Ministers, assumes a bold, dignified, and re- panics, detached to take the church, and the house of
solute tone. He tells the Directors, that no dept.'. the Colonel Commandant in the town, opened their
ture will be made from the terms which he has al- fire. 'I hey accomplished their object with the
ready submitted to them, and threatens them with I greatest bravery, making 87 prisoners, with the loss
taking the whole institutions of India, political, civil, of only three grenadiers, and the First Serjeant of the
and military, under the immediate controul of the Battalion of National Guards. I then advanced the
British Government. whole division, pursuing the other French who pre-
In the present state of the great question now at cipitately retired to the heights and ravines, till they
issue, it would be presumptuous in us to pretend to collected various detachments, to the amount of 800
give a decided opinion on points which yet require men, in Mozuelos. They were all, however, corn-
consideration, and which will no doubt receive much pletely routed, and the greater part of them had ;:a
elucidation from the discussions, both in and out of other resource but death, or surrender ; so that after
Parliament, to which the question must inevitably seven hours vigorous firing, there were left in the
lead. So far as the matter is yet before us, we cannot town of Sedano, and for two leagues along the road.
but subscribe most cordially with the Earl of where they were pursued, more than 700 dead, with
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE to the utmost extent of his corn• a great number of wounded. Four hundred and
munication on the part of his Majesty's Govern- ninety prisoners remained in our power, besides two
ment to the Court of Directors. On one topic, small cannon, all their baggage, muskets, camp-
in particular, we would be inclined, from every kettles, &c. all the cattle which they had robbed, their
view we can yet take of the subject, to go much far biscuit, brandy, bacon, and other provisions.
ther than is expressod in his Lordship's letter ;—we .4 General Fromant, Colonel Bremond, and several
mean, the introduction of an increased number of other officers, were killed. We also succeeded in
Europeans into India. If the trade is to be laid open, liberating sixty respectable inhabitants, destined to
as proposed by Government, the country should also be conducted to Burgos, where they were to remain
be rendered as free of access to British subjects, as till the contributions imposed on the valley were paid.
any other of his Majesty's dominions. Without this, " Such is the brilliant result of an action in which
it is impossible that the commerce can ultimately the brave Iberians have distinguished themselves, and
prove beneficial to the new adventurers ; without of which I shall soon send you the details more at
this, all the evils predicted by the India Company length. (Signed) " FRANCISCO LONOA."•
to those who may embark in the new trade will pro- [Here follows a letter front Geperal Mendizabal, recommen-
ding the promotion of Colonel Longa.]
bably be realized. In one word-cif the partners,
agents, factors, and servants of the Merchants of the
Out-ports are, in any way whatever, to be subjected
to laws, regulations, and restrictions, differing .at all
from those to which the India Company itself and its
servants may be.subjected, the former must enter the
field of competition under disadvantages, which can-
not but work effectually, though secretly, ultimatel;
to under Mine and blast all their speculations.
To us there appears no way possible to be devised
that can so effectually secure to Great Britain, as an
empire,- the co-operation of the energies and resources
of Hindostan ; and to her merchants the utmost be-
nefits of their mutual industry, as the unrestrained
colonization of India by British adventurers; nor can
any way be .devised so well calculated to hasten the
civilization, to advance the knowledge of the natives,
and to destroy their lamentable prejudices.
If the partners and servants of the new adventurers
are to be subjected to the operation of municipal re-
gulations, devised and dispensed by the monopolists,
against whom they come into the market, the nature
of men must be changed before we can believe that
their efforts will receive countenance and support
from the local Governments, and their persons equal
and impartial protection. The supreme power ought
to be vested in men who have no interest in spewing
favour to one set of merchants above another : nor
would such a regulation be any more an encroach.
ment upon the freehold rights of the India Cernpany
than the daily decisions in our English Courts of
Law can be conceived to affect their freehold rights
in the buildings which it has erected in Leadenhall.
street.

THE ARMY,

It is rumoured that the Marquis of WELLINGTON
is coming home for a short time, to put Govern-
ment in possession of the real state of Sp:tin.

Monday and yesterday six troops of the 18th Light
Dragoons marched into- Portsmouth, and embarked
for Portugal.
By the death of General Sir THOMAS MUSGRAVE,
Bart. the Government of Gravesend and the 76th
Regiment of Foot, which was raised in 1787, and
has never had any other Colonel, is vacant.

The Edinburgh Militia. at the late volunteering,
made choice, almost exclusively, of the 102 d Regi-
ment, stationed at Bermuda.
It. was mentioned some short time since, that in
consequence of the appointment of an Officer from
another corpf to the Blues, a coirespondence had
passed between the Duke of NORTUUMIERLAND, as
Colonel of the Horse Guards, and his Royal High-
ness the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, on the subject, a
similar appointment not having taken place for up-
wards of 50 years. The result we now hear has been,
that his Grace on Monday sent in his resignation.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex has ex-
perienced a relapse of his very distressing asthmatic
disorder.

Letters from Ireland represent the health of the
Duke of RICHMOND to be in so precarious a state,
that his Grace's physicians had recommended him
to try the air of the county of Wicklow, and that, in
consequence, the Duke had taken up his residence at
Newry-bridge for some weekspast, and had received
considerable benefit from this change of air.
Sunday, Lord and Lady MALPas arrived at Lord
CtioLuo:,DELEY's elegant mansion, Piccadilly, from
Portsmouth. His Lordship and his amiable consort
(late Miss CAMPBELL, second daughter of General
CAMPBELL) were received by the Earl and Countess
of CHOLMONDELRY, with the warmest affection ; in
short, the greatest happiness prevailed on the occa-
sion. All the family will leave town in a few days
for Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire, to celebrate Lord
MALPAS'S birth-day, which occurs on the 16th inst.
when his Lordship will attain the age of twenty-one.
It appears, from the country papers, that the libe-
ral subscriptions in the capital, for the relief of the
Russians, are likely to be generally followed. Sub-
scriptions have already been commenced at Birming-
ham, Brighton, and Swansea.
J. F. RABBE, Colonel of the regiment of infantry
of the Parisian Guards, who was condemned to death
as an accomplice in MALETIS conspiracy, has had his
sentence comuted into perpetual imprisonment.
Marshal DUROC' the personal favourite of BONA-
PARTE, arrived at Paris from the Grand Army on
the 211 ult.

Mr. B. ROBINS, who was shot on Friday, the ISth
ult. on his return from Stuurbridge market to his
house at Kinfare, expired on Monday, in consequence
of the wound he had received. To the reward of
£lOO already offered, the inhabitants of Kinfare have
added £5O, for the detection of the villain who per-
petrated the horrid deed.
CHARGE OF Mum:mt.—Sullivan and Griffith:, the
two men taken up cm suspicion of murdering Bloom-
field, the watchman, on Snow Hill, on Sunday mor-
ning last, and for an assault in the street, were yes-
terday again brought before the Sitting AlLternian at
Guildhall. No evidence appearing as to the .eithtiou,
part of the charge, they were admitted to
answer for the assault.
CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, JAN. 6.

We have ralme few arrivals of Oats fresh up tre•clay,
being prihripally of an inferior qualay, do not jo off eery tr't ly
Hug I'ea.l and Boilers are each per quarter lower ; aid in
other recpects we observe no alteraion in the trade this weak.

English Wheat, Sr. 100 i. 120 s.

Caraway, rer cwt. BCs. 9V s.
Cum:oder, do. 40s. 445.

130 s.
Foreign do. 765.10C5.1145.1245.
Ryr, 725. 741. 765.
Barley, 655. 681. 70s. 745.
Malt, 105 s. 114$.
Oats 48s. 535. 695. 645.
Horse Bans, 76s 82..
'Pick Ditto, 68s. 745.
Hog Peas 81.. 90s.
Boilers 910.1195. 120 s.
Canary Seed 95..1055.118h

Fares, per bushel, GOs. 004.
White Mustard, tie. 2t;g. :ag.
brown do. 32s 3Cs.

Rape Seed £58,1.62 per la,t
Flour 105 s. us 1 los. per sack.
Windsor beans, 945.1055. 1 CUs.

130 s.
Long Pod do. 765. 80s. 82s.
_ _ _

Dwarf Marrow Peas 1151.1 4Cs.
H. P. Peas 1265. Ms. 170$.

INTELLMENCS.

FA1.D.101.71W, Ls.Nti.taY 3.

Arrived the Ma!win, Cum:, from Nassau—sailed
in company with the George, under convoy of hit
Majesty's ships Mo. LLLE and VARIABLE, and parted
from them in lat. 32 :!0. Icing. 50. •