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The following Officers are alfo timed to be necef-
fary, but their Marie: have not yet been fixed :

JUDICIAL ESTABLIIIIMCNTA••MiyOr arid Aldermen, Clerk of
the Crown, Sheriff, killices of the Peace,

PoLien EsrArt,asostvrs I—Three Captains, with Militants,
other Officers of Police, Provoit, Ckrk of the M.aLet, Malay
Tranflator.

Yefterday a General Court was held at the Eaft-
India Houfe, agreeably to adjournment, to take into
confederation the propriety of eftablifhing a fettle-
ment on Prince of Wales Ifland. The ufnal forms
having been obferved, the penflon of Soul. to Sir NA-
TMANIIIL Daace was, on the motion of Mr. Twta-
tmo, unattimotifly agreed to. The Chairman then
brought forward the motion agreed to at the lafl Ge
neral Court, for the formation of the fettlement at
Prince of Wales !nand, which having been feconded
by bfb. Gram; the Deputy Chaittnant

Mr G. Jastesront: entered into a Very !biotite re.
emination of all the bofii.ets and tendentlzs ti the
queition. The idea war n.;e %%rich he cold nor !.e.
hen to haste originated with she Diredi •n, bot was
impoted upon thorn by Government : indeed it car-
ried with it all the features of a foul job—it w,itild
appear that all the periOrs Already appointed were
Scottin.n, and it W,16 cif)• to crajeCture from what i
quarter. came that glating in itanbe of national Patti.
ality, by whorl they were treated as a fet of elYinato
612-lbends. The Hon. Gentleman !Gen inveighed
ag that the amount and inequality of the prop fed
Wailes, and in general againd the immenle expencs 1
which the undertaking would involve, and which l'
was likely to fall ultimately on the Company; while 1•
the ellablifitment, in his opinion, would never anfwer i
the objed in contemplation. as the trisiiies of timber !I
was not the: e to be found, either in quality or quan-
tity, nocefrat y for the condi-stet:on 01 men of was-v.
the motion theref re fhoold have his negative.
Mr. B Jackson took a very comptehenfive view k°
of the queftion. He looked upon the Prince of
Wales Wand as the fpot in moll refpeds the kali cal-
culated for a naval dation in India; but he thoughi .1
it might anfwer every deferable purport if it was cal. l'
enlaced to repair, not to !mild, thins of war. The
builaing of (hips in (Itch a country, amidd tO vaR a
population, a population fubjugated and tributary to
our Empite, war, in his mind liable to very ferious
objedions. Befides, the eapence attending the em.
cution of filch a projeß would be enormous ; It
would be filch as would jollity him in repeating a
well known alfettion, that every plank of fuch (hips
would he a plank of (deer, and every nail of them a
nail of gold. As to the objedion urged againtl the
Gentlemen who were already appointed, namely,
that of their being all Sentfmen, he thought it was I
fomewhat too much inlifled upon, though he was
free to confers, that the national partiality of the
Noble Lord (Melville), whole favourite plan this
was Connoted to be, was often very ftrikingly confpi-
cuous ; but it was for the Diredion to watch over
the choice, and to fee that it was made upon proper
grounds. Were an eitttblithment like this indifpea-
lably neceffary, he fhould prefer Calcutta, as a
place abounding with every fpecies of materials,
and every deli/11)60n of artificers, which was not
the cafe with the Prince of Wale: Itland, and this opi- •
nion of his had the fandion of the higheff authorities,
among whom he might mention the prefent Gover-
nor-Gentrai ; hi: alio found this opinion corrobora-
ted, if he referred to the report of Colonel Kid, which
to him appeared a very fair and difpaffionate Rate-
went, and Much preferable to the view given of it
by Mi. Macalliiter. But the main objet for which
he role, was to remind and warn the Direetion to
ufe their utmoß caution in ineumbering themfclves
with the expences of this eßabliflonent—they mutt
already have received revere teams on that (core
Surely, they could not forget the expences incurred
for the Wend of Ceylon, for the expedition to Egypt,
/cc. which,
l in amount, were to enormous, and re-
Ipeding which, Lord Clitlereagh, and other perfons
high in office, had cantered their doubts where there
expences might tiltimately fall. The Learned Gen.
tleman concluded with moving an amendment, re-
commending, among other things, the Bencooleu
fervants to the notice of the Court.

Mr. PRINCE? fecanded the motion, and took op
the fame idea, and infiited on the propriety of enter-
ing into a Ipecifie coutraa with Government, rellsea-
ing the proportions of the expence.
A Proprietor, whole name we could not learn, did
not deny but the Prince of %Vales Ifland offered ma-
ny of the facilities requifite for a naval Ration ;—but
they would not anfwer the objet in view. He had
praflical knowleilge of that Ipot, and of the places
belt calculated for fuch an eftablithment ; and if the
Company and Government were anxious to accom.
pin this objea, they Ihould fend out an expedition
againft the Nl:tutititti, the expence of capturing
which, will be much lets than that attending the pro-
poled eftablifhment.
Mr. Joy IS ADAI a animadverted with much warmth
on cettaihexpregiong that had fallen from an Hon.
Gentleman, Mr. G. johnlione, refpeaing the marked
predileaion for Scotfinen' the mandatory mftruaions
of Government to the Direanrs, and all the other
circumftances which had induced that Gentleman
to fligmatize the prefent tranfaaion as a foul job.
Another Proprietor expatiated much at large on
The capacities of the Mind, for the porpoles of a
naval arfenal, and thought. no time fhould be loft in
putting the plan in execution.
The CHAIRMAN recapitulated the different objec-
tions urged againli the meafure, and very ably re-
futed them ; he denied that Government had ever
attempted to dimtate to the dire&ion or adoption of
the prefeot meafure.
Sir H. INGLIS, Mr. Twusts6, Sir H. POPHAM,
Colonel Stuns, and other proprietors, fupported the
original quellion while the amendment was as
flrongly preffed by Mr. JOHNSTONE, Mr. JACKSON,
and others. At half pail five the goeftion being
loudly called for, the Court was cleared and the
amendment negatived.
A ballot, however, was demanded, on the origi-
nal queltion, by MetFrs. P.Mooaa, Cita PMAN, YOUNG,
lIUNTFR, RANKIN, Roox, BLANK, JOHNSON, J. ROOK,
and GRI ma Hs, and fixed for Tuefday next.

A fctv days fine; a Gentleman of Oxford fireet,
who had been on a vitit to Plaiflow, walked out late
M the evening, and loa hinifelf in the Mar(hes. He
was miffing for three dayc, when he was found dead
near the Abbey Mills, with part of his cars, nofe, and
cheeks, eaten off, as is fuppofed, by water.rats.—The
Cot otter's Ineviell brought in a verdiEt of—Acciden-
tal Death ; after which the corpfe was delivered to
the friends of the deceafed.
_ _ _

As a country dealer from Salifbury vas croffing
Tower-hill on Tuelday, he was acetified *uy two no-
torious (harpers. one of whom defignedly dropped a
paper pa( Lt, hich the other picked up, and (hewed
to the countryman. A gentleman palling at the time,
obferved their motion:, and :4cl:tint their inten-
tions, took the countryman out of their clutches.—
Being interrogated with rerpea to his converfation
with the (harpers, he laid, that the man aho picked
up the parcel told him, he was lure it crntained tense-
thin,'' valuable ; and that they were going to a pub-
-1;c hrufe to open it, and (hare the piize. The two
niitiperS were well d-card men, about fifty, and have
been °Mei ved in Smithfield, and various other parts
of the town. They ay:: known to be dealers in mock
diamond tinge, crcab, &c.