Star.
London, England, 1812-04-23 00:00:00

EAST-INDIA CHARTER.

Sir JOHN NEWPORT presented a Petition from
the Chamber of Commerce c,f the City of Waterford'
against the monopoly of the East-India Company.
On the question of its lying on the tabk
Mr. BROUGHAM made some inquiries of the
Chancellor tf the Exchequer, respecting the renewal
of the Charter of the East-India Comp 11,y. After
the numerous Petitions which Ltd been laid upon the
table from all parts of the Empire, he thought the
Right Hon. Gentleman was bound to make some
communication to the House and to the country,
more particularly since it was understood that the
matter was to originate with him, and that the other
House of Parliament was to hive no participation in
the suggestion of the measures it would be right to
adopt. He wished to know, whether, at this advan-
ced period cf the Session, it was the determination to
submit the subject to the House during the present
year ? There appeared to him to be three parties
concerned in this important question-1. The East-
India Company ; 2. The Manufacturers and Mer-.
chants of the United Kingdom ; 3. The inhabitants
of our Indian possession..—Regarding the latter the
Marquis Wellesley, from his long residence in the
country, was peculiarly well calculated to give in-
formation to Government, and Mr. Brougham beg-
ged
to be informed whether Ministers had thought it
right to ask his Lordship's advice and assistance ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that it would be a very novel proceeding to sus-
pend the proceedings of Parliament until the opinion
of any individual, however respectable, was asked on
the subject to be brought forward. He thought that
k would be also unfair to the Noble Lord to involve
hbu, or appear at all to pledge him to any particular
line, in consequence of any communication which
might have taken place between the Noble Lord and
himself in the course of the discussion of the subject
between Government and the Company. As to the
question which had been put to him, it certainly was
his intention to bring the master forward, and carry
it through, if possible, in the course of the Session :
if any thing, however; should occur to make him
change his intention, he would lose no time in com-
municating it to the- House. Ile certainly would not
launch the subject at all, unlesthe thought he should
he able to carry ittlirough in the course of the session.
Mr. P01430141' and Mr. TIERI4EY impressed upon
the Chancellor of the Exchequer the impropriety of
bringing a question of such magnitude forward by
piecemeal. If the matter were discussed at all, it
would be fit that it should be concluded, that the 1
'Public Might not be left in a state.of anxious ;ulcer-
:.ainty' as to the result.
The CHANCELIaI the EXCHEQUER
again repeated: 'that. be would not bring the matter

ftid W be did net think hirnself able
h in the course of the Session.
danger and inconvenience of bringing
an important measure by piecemeal. _
ever, his intention now to bring it forward
if any circumstances, of which he wr
should induce Irm to change his intention,
apprize the House, without loss of time.
The Petition was then received, and c'
ou the table.
The other orders of the day being ,"
House adjourned.

LIST OF THE 311NORITY ON THE CATHOLIC QUESTIONI4O
TIDY HOUSE OF LORDS ON TUESDAY.
PRESENT.
. DUKES. Spencer Mottford
&max Ml(buroosh Gractbant
Norfolk Grosvenor Boland
Grafton Fortescoe Duck

Bedtord Caernarvon
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Devonshire Roselyn AI gyU)
MA It Qt.; ISSt 1. Grey role
Lansdowne Lauderdale Granary
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Welk, ley I.ucau Boutin
Headfort Donouemore Borrlngdois
EARLS. %%scooters. Brayhroohe
Derby Hereford Amb•rst
Suffolk Bolingbroke Grenville
Essex 1.0 a n s. Bradford
Albemarle Say and Sale Yarborough
Plyissoutb Hastings Cawdor
Jersey St. lobo Erel.,",:re
Ozford • t.`tifi on (Darnley) Youssuby
huh Byn Alba (F. Cassini')
Stanpe Dutton (M. Douglas) Kingston
Wahlegraire . Boyle (E. Cork) Cosynghain
Fitzwilliam . King Erseues.
Hardwkke Ponsonby (Bobo- Nirwick
Eiszlingruti rough) Kildare
PROXIES.
Dues. St. Vincent Carrir non
Somerset VISCOUNTS. Ulaweebtny
St. Albans Duncan LiVord
MARQUISSISS. Anson Corydon
Buckingham LO a a i. Alvauley
Byte Spencer (M. Bland.; Hutchinson .
for!) Gra:lard
Hauler Crewe
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Aehb J rots Preattliene
1 hurl, w ' Ardroesan (E.Egles.
Demuth ton)
Auckland Butler (E. Ormond)
Mendip blourrnle (M. asgo)
DunJas Ctsuleusout
Present
Proxies
Paired off
Lost
In all

FAIL 4.
Tbanee
Carlisle '
TJnkerville
Guildford
Portsmouth
Udinter

Lord Keith and the Earl if Selkirk paired otf, and the Prete
of the pit.hop of Rochester was sent, but too late to be entered
before Prayers.
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DECLARATION,
Tire ifias.t.o wpm se rim ONTICIAL sous on rite outs
1 sni COUNCIL, MISCH WE REWOUSICED YESTERDAY I
a The Government of France, having by an Offi-
cial Reports commnnieated by his Minister fir Fu-
reign Affairs to the contieryatiye Senate, on the 10th
! day oFMI4FcIi last, r‘moveld all doubts as tothe per-
. mererance of that Goiernment in the assertion of
principles, and in the maintenance of a system, not
imore bottle to the maritime rights and commenii4
interests of the British Empire, Ulan inconastent with
' the rights and itidemience of Neutral Nations ;*sod
ihaving thereby plainly devc.loPed the inordinate's*-
. tensions which that system, as promulgated in the
Decrees of Berlin and Milan, was from the first dc-
:
, signed to enforce; his RAI al Highness the Pima
Remus; acting in the name an lon die behalf-of his
Majesty, deems it proper, open this formal and ase
' thentic re-publication of the principles of those De.;
trees, thus publicly to declare his Royal Highness's
determination still firmly to resist the intredoctil
land establishment of this arbitrary Code, which` the
Government of France openly avows its purpose
to impose by force upon the midi, as the Lava(
Nations.
** From the time that the progeeuive injustice and
violence of the French Government made it imp*
sible tor his Majesty any longer to restrain the ler.
cise of the rights of war within their ordinary limits,
j without submitting to consequences not less ruinous
I to the commerce of his dominions, than derogatory
! to the rights of his Crown, his Majesty has endea-
I voured, by a restricted and moderate use of those
; rights of retaliation, which the Berlin and lrlilaa
Decrees necessarily called into action, to reconcie
Neutral States to those measures, which the conduct •
; of the enemy had rendered unavoidable, and whisk
I his Majesty has at all times professed his readiness td
revoke :is soon as the Decrees of the enemy, which •
$ gave occasion to them, should be formally and ea'
I conditionally repealed, and the Commerce of Neutral
I Nations be restored to its accustomed tout*.
At a subsequent period of the war, his MajellYs
j availing himself of the then situation of Europe,Whis•
i • out abandoning the principle and object of the Or!
tiers in Council of November, 1807, was induced so
to limit their operation, as materially to alleviate slow.
restrictions thereby imposed upon neutral consn'ePlZt
I The Order in Counsel of April, 1809, was subset' a
toted in the room or those of November, 1807. ismi '
the retaliatory system of Great Britain acted no lon- j
j ger on every country is which the aggressive rnel.
sores of the enemy were in force, but was confinedit.
its operation to Fr4nce, and to the countries UM
.which the French yoke was most strictly imposed t.
and which had become virtutily 1 poet of thi daii.
pions of France. ' ..
" The United States of America rallbill 84 nom'
theless, dissatisfied ; and their dissati isisb".
doe*
greatly increased by an artifice too suet
ployed on the part of the enemy, who has
that the Decrees of Berlin and Milan w
although the l>,:cree effecting such reyed
Agin promulgated ; although the nctifi .
oit .J
lientendeo repeal distinctly describes it to ''t
dent on conditions, in whi,h the enemy We!
Britain could never acquiesce—and Abattoir
dart evide •ce has since appeared of their.. .
Ixecu.ioa.
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AO
' , t‘ But the enemy hai at length. laid .... • •
vitt* ton—be now publicly and sole!)
"11111
OAK o ly that those Decrees still cootie! oess On •
' but dust they shall be rigidly executed until Lin",
Britain ;ball comply tint/ additiooal
equally extravagant;. and he farthiT illailills ,
i•enaities of those Decrees to be in full fosse artri
all natiqus which shall steler-tbeir lig to'btat

able to cawrit
He knew th , iA
g forward :nib WE
It was, hoe. vas
ward soon; and
was not awart, m
Irtion, be woult en
me.
crdered to lis e
disposed of, the wail,‘,l
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in Ns new' Code, I denationalized.'-4-ad,,
inn to the disavowal of the blockade of Miy;
006, and of the principles on which that blockade
las established, and in addition to the repeal of
le British Orders in Council—he demands an
omission of the principles, that the goods of an
enjy, carried under a neutral flag, shall be treated
neutral—that neutral property under the flag of
an enemy shall be treated as hostile—that arms and
wailike stores alone (to the exclusion of ship timber
andnther articles of naval equipment) shall be re-
praed as contraband of war—and that no ports shall
be considered as lawfully blockaded, except such as
ore invested and besieged, in the presumption of their
lo:ing taken (en prevention d'art fern), and into which
a merchant ship cannot enter without danger.
By these and other demands, the enemy in fact
requires that Great Britain, and all civilized nations,
snail renounce, at his arbitrary pleasure, the ordinary
and ir.disputable rights of maritime war ; that Great
in.particular, shall forego the advantages
of her naval superiority, and allow the commercial
preeerty, as well as the produce and manufactures
of France and her Confederates, to pass the ocean in
security, whilst the subjects of Great Britain are to
he in effect proscribed fi om all commercial inter.
course with other nations ; and the produce and
manufactures of these realms are to he excluded
from every country in the world, to which the arms
or the influence of the enemy can extend.
" Such are the demands to which the British Go-
vernment is summoned to submit—to the abandon-
ment of its mcst ancient, essential, and undoubted
laritime rights. Such is the Code by which France
apes, under the cover of a neutral flag, to render
tr commerce unassailable by sea ; whilst she pro-
reds to invade, or to incorporate with her oe n do-
tinions, all States that hesitate to sacrifice their
rational interests at her command, and, in abdication
/their just rights, to adopt a code, by which they
,e required to exclude, under the mask of munici-
plregulation, whatever is British, from their do-
'Mons.
' The pretext for these extravagant demands is,
tkt some of these principles were adopted by velun-
ere compact in the Tieaty of Utrecht ; es it a
Treaty once existing between two particular coun-
ses, founded on special and reciprocal considera-
tions, binding only on the contracting parties, and
which, in the last treaty of peace between the same
peers, had not been revived, were to be regarded
seleclaratory of the public law of nations..
e It is needless for his Royal Highness to demon-
strate the injustice of such pretensions. He might
otherwise appeal to the practice of France herself, in
this, and in former wars ; and to ber own estahlisised
codes of maritime law; it is sufficient that these new
&mends of the enemy form a wide departure from
dose conditions on which the alledged repeal of the
French Decrees was accepted by America ; and upon
Mich alone, erroneously assuming that repeal to be
omplete, America has claimed a revocation of the
lrkish Orders in Council.

His Royal Highness, upon a review of all these
circumstances, feels persuaded, th it. so soon as this
formal declaration, by-the Government of France,
of its unabated adherenCe to the principles and pro-
eisi,:ns el the Berlin and Milan Decrees, shall be
made known in America, the Government of the
United States, actuated not less by a sense of justice
to Great Brit:in, than by what is due to its own
dignity, will be disposed to recall those measures of
hostile exclusion, which, under a misconception of
the real views and conduct of the French Govern-
spent, America hss exclusively applied to the cum-
tierce and ships of war of Great 'I: itain.
" To accelerate a result so alvantageous to the t
tine interests of both countries, and so conducive to
the re-estatilishment of perfect friendship between
them ;aid to give a decisive proof of his Royal
d;spoNition to perform the engagements
nthis Majesty's Government, by revoking the Orders
in Council, whenever the French Decrees shall be
actually and uncondtiona'ly teptaled ; his Royal
Highness the Pluses RIXiEN r his been this day
pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Ma- i
!esty, and by and with the advice of his Majesty's
Privy Council, to rrder and declare :
" That if at any time hereafter the Berlin and
Milan Decrees shall, by some authentic act of the
French Government, publicly promulgated, be ex-
pressly and unconditionally repealed ; then and from
thencefoith, the Order in Council of the 7th day of
inu07,.1807, and the Order in Council of the pith
day of April, 1809, shall, without any farther order
be, and the same hereto/ are declared from thence.
forth to he wholly and absolutely revoked : and fur-
ther, that the full benefit el this Order shall be ex-
tended to any ship or vessel captured subsequent to
suet' authentic act of repeal of the Frenoch Decrees,
although, antecedent to such repeal, such ship or
vessel shall have commenced, and shall be in the
Prspecut:on of a voyage, which, under the said Or- ,
ders is Council, or one of them, would have subject-
ed her to capture and condemnation ; and the ciain,-1
sot orally ship or cargo which shall be captured at
iny time subsequent to such authentic act of repeal
by the French Government, shall, without any fur-
ther order or declaration on the part of his Majesty's
Gdvernment on this subject, 6e at libertir to give m '
evidence in the High Court of Admiralty, or any
Court of Vice-Admiralty, before which such ship or
ressel or its cargo, shall be brought for adjudication,
that inch repeal by therrenchGovernmeet had been
htsuch authentic act promulgated prior to such
.capture ; and upon proof thereof, the voyage shall
oe,4eemed and taken to have been as lawful, as if
tree said Orders in Council had never been made ‘—
ai'ing nevertheless to the captors, such protection
tuilindemnity as they may be equitably entitled to,
1c the judgment of the said Court, by reason of their
'filorance or uncertainty as' to the rejisal of the
!bX tench Decrees, or of the recognition of such repeal
his Majesty's Government, ar the time of such
capture.

•
44 His Royal Highness however deems it proper
to declare, tliat, should the repeal of the French De-
crees, thus anticipated and provided for, afterwards
prove to have been illusory on the part of the enemy:
slid should the restrictions thereof be still practically
enforced, or revived by the enemy, Great Britain
Mill be obliged, however reluctantly, after reasonable
notice to neetral Powers, to have recourse to such
measures of retaliation as may then appear to be
just and necessary.
'6 %ssusuister, April 21, 1814."•