Star.
London, England, 1812-04-09 00:00:00

TrIANKs or rilE itou4E.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, n'tlce moving the Vote of Thanks to the Officers
and &ldiers employed in the capture if Ciudad Rod-
riqo, he ::bserve.l, thataLveral names of °dicers whom
the lionse would have wished to have included in
that vote, had been omitted. He should therefore,
with the leave of the House, move, that the entry of
that Vote of Thanks on the Journals should be read;
which being Accordingly done, the Right Honourable
Gentleman moved, that the names of Major-General
H. Campbell, Major-General Charles Stewart, Major
Generat 3aron Major-General Clemis, and
Brigadier-General Harvey, of ti.e Portuguese Army,
be added to that Vote.—Agreed to unanimously.
EAST-INDIA COMPANY'S CHAIM:h.

Sir CHARLES MORGAN presented a Petition
from the Town of Birmingham, signed by ab,,ve
16,000 persons, complaining if the monopoly of dit
East-India Company, and praying reiiet.—The
tioa was ordered to lie on the table.

Some other Petitions were priiented of a simila:
import from other places ; but they were read by the
C:erk in so low a tone of voice, that it waiimpossi'of:

teetollect in the Gallery either the names of the places
from whence they came, or their precise import.
Ow the question for receiving the BirminghamVe-
tition,
General GASCOMNE roc to state, that h'e
wished to wait for the production of the papers already
moved for, before he submitted to the House there-
solutions of which he had given notice yesterday.
Mr. WALL./ CE thought that it would be rather
an unusual course which the Honourable Gentleman
proposed to pursue, Of anticipating the Government,
and bringing forward resolutions of his own, with-
out knowing what it was that Government meant to
propose.
Mr. CREEVEY wished to know whether the ac-
connts which by the Act of Parliament the India
Company ought to have laid before now upon the
table, were to be presented before the resolutions were
brought forward. This course had been pursued in
the yea- 1793, and indeed. it appeared to him abso-
lutely necessary that the actual state of the %%hole
concern should be before the House, before resolu-
tions of such great importance should be submitted
to their consideration. The country had been for a
long time in anxious expectation of something bejne
done for the public on the expiration of the. prat'
of the East India Company. .""
Mr. WALLACE said, that he had every reasonto
suppose the papers alluded to would he laid before
the House previously to any sops being taken for the
renewal of the charter. The only accounts, however,
which the Act of Parliament required to be laid be-
fore the House early in the Session, was the home
account of the Company's affairs. As to the accounts
from India, it was necessary to wait for the rival
of ships, which did not come till late in the Session.
If then, they were to wait until the whole of the ac-
counts or what was generally called " The India
Budget," should be laid before the House, it would
put off the business until a period so very late in the
Session, that there would not be titne enough fi r the
due discussion of a business of so much importance.
General TA RLETON thought it would be better
to wait until the business was first broached by his
Majesty's Ministers. We should then see how the
Indian loaf was to be cut up and carved among 'the
out-ports by his Myjesty's Ministers.
.The petition was then received, and ordered to lie
on the table.