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And then, the Good Brig ADVENTURE,

Length - 55 ft. 1 in. I Depth - 9 ft. 101 in.
Breadth - 18 7 Admeasures 74 63-94 Toe&
Tbis is a remarkably firm oak-built Brig, about three yearsl
old, strongly fastened, and treenailed, and has been lately docked
and refitted, bulwarked, sails fast, and takes the ground well;
has a large Hold, will burthen about 110 Tons; is well calcu-
lated for the Mediterranean, Lisbon, Newfoundland, or Fruit
Trade, or for the Irish, Coasting, or any other employ her dimen-
sions may suit; abundantly supplied with valuable Stores, and
requires nothing but men and provisions to send her immediately
on any voyage.
And then, the Goods undermentioned, vls.
13 Pipes, ?. Hogsheads Spanish Red Wine
5 Hhds. French ditto
About 10,000 French Tiles
19 Long Guns (4 and 9-pounders) with their Caniages.
And sundry Warlike and other Stores.
For viewing the Vessels and Goods, Inventories, and further
particulars, apply to Mr. THOMAS COLE,
Plymotuh,i March 19, 11119. George-street, Plymouth.

7. That the following Gentlemen be a Committee, with power
to add to their number, for carrying into execution the objects of
this Meeting, and that the Committee be open to all Member. -
of both Houses of Parliament, who are friendly to thee, °Wm%
and to all Clergymen anti other Ministers.
Wm. Alers, Esq. Samuel Mills, Esq.
Thomas Allan, Esq. John Miller, Esq. •
William Allen, Esq. J. 0. Oldham, E.q.
Thos. G. Babington, Esq. Thomas Pe!lett, Esq.
Joseph Benne!, Esq. Joseph Reyner, Esq.
William Burls, Esq. V. illiam Samler, Esq.
David Cook, Esq. H. P. Sperling, Esq.
Thomas F. Fors. er, Esq. Richard Stainforth, Esq,
J. W. Fresh&ld, Esq. Robert Steven, Esq.
Joseph Gutteridge, ksq. John Thornton, Esq.
L. Hoslope, Esq. ' E. N. 'Thornton, Esq.
W. H. Hoare, Esq. W. B. Trevylian, Esq.
Z. Macauley, Esq. John Weyland, jun. Esti.
Robert Marsden, Esq. Samuel Woods, Esq.
8. That the Right Hon. Lord Gambier be requested to pretest
the said Petition to the Huse of Lords, and Sir Thames Baring,
Bart. M.P. that to the House of Commons.
9. 'that the Committee be authorized to advertise, at theta
discretion, the proceedings of this Meeting; and to adopt such
other means of giving effect to its objects, as to them shall seem
expedient.
10. That a Subscription be now entered into, in order to Mb
fray the expence of carrying into effect the objects of this Meeting.
11. That the cordial Thanks of this Meeting he given to the
Right Hon. Lord Gambier, for his able conduct in the Chair.
The following is a Copy of the Petition which the Meeting
resolved to adopt : -
That your. Petitioners are deeply impressed with the moral dm
gradation of the immense population of the British Dominions
in India, and lament that so little has hitherto been done to re.
move it, although the Honourable the House of Commons we.
pleased, in the year 1793, to resolve—
,' That it is the peculiar and bounden duty of the British Le.
gislature to promote, by all just and prudent means, the interests
and happiness of the inhabitants of the British DonVtlions in
India, at.d that for these ends such measures ought to be adored
as may gradually tend to that advancement in useful-knowledge,
and to their religious and moral improvement."
That your Petitioners most cordially concur in the just and
humane sentiments contained in the above Re..ilutions.

Your Petitioners, ttierefore, implore your Lordships, that
such provi,ions may be Inserted in the new Charter to he
granted to the East lulls Company, as *hal afford suffi-
cient facilities to those benevolent persons who shall be
desirous of going to India for the parpose of communkaa
ting to its population the blessings of useful knowledge,
and moral and religious improvement; and also such pro..
visions as shall prevent the obstruction of their cvdravoure
for promoting that object in that country. so long as tht y
shall conduct themselves in a peaceable and orderly man.
ner. And your Petitioners shall ever pray,
&c. &c. &c.

Subscriptions are received by the Niembers of the Commit-.
tee; by Messrs. Down and Co. Bartholomew-lane ; Mews.
Hoare, Fleet-street; Messrs. Ransom and Co. Pall-mall; Mr.
Hatchard, Piczadilly; and Moat. Z. Macaulay and In.
Wigton, n 6, Birabin-lane.

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FILIAMEIvreiRr pxocEEDiNG&

HOUSE OF LORDg, MARCH 31.
4,- The Canada Rum Bid passed through a Committee, and lOU
leponed.
On the motion of the Earl of Wats-Lae a natation was or-
-1 dared of the British Naval Force stationed'off the United States
• off America, on the Ist day of each month, from April, 1812, to
February, 1813.
The two Exchequer Bills' Bills, the Waste Silk Bill, the Su-
'or BPI, Intl the Irish Sugar Bill, were read a third thine, and
famed. Adjourned till to-morrow Obis day).
, .
Mount OF COMMONS.
•
Mr. THOMSON presented a ,Petition frost the Dock Com-.
party of Kingston against the East India Monopoly.
WEYMOUTH VOTERS' BILL.
Mr. STEPHEN moved to postpone the Committee on the •
Weymouth Voters' Bill to Monday. 4
1 he SPEAKER hoped, that if so postponed, k would be on
the peremptOry understanding that the Bill should then be corn-
nutted. A Bill, by the non-enactment of which, three seats in
. that House were kept 'vacant, ought not to be delayed, without
the assignment of some sufficient reason.
' After some conversation on the subject, in which Me.
Sra-
putst, Mr. /instatement, the SP/AILIta and Lord CASTLZ•
ISM* participated, the Committee was flied for to-morrow.
PRINCESS OF WALES.
•
Mr. WHITBREAD rose to call the attention of
the House once more to a subject which he had
hoped might have been dropped; but circumstances,
' the Hon. Member continued to observe, have oc-
curred of so novel and extraordinary a nature, that
It is quite impossible to pass them by without exa-
mination. A letter has been circulated with respect'
to the Princess of Wales, purporting to be a letter
from Lord Moira to a member of the Grand Lodgy
of Freemasons: it appeared in the Papers of Monday
last,. and I have good reason to believe tbat the
Noble Lord whose name is affixed to it is the author
of it. Sir, this letter is of a most extraordin try na-
ture. I had fondly imagined that all secret examina-
tions had been put an end to. We had been assured
that her Royal Highness the Trincees Charlotte had
been permitted to visit her Royal mother,. without
restraint; and much were the Public pleased that she
bad bee 9 permitted to visit her at all. lam sorry,
therefore, that any- necessity should present itself for
the revival of this subject; but., Sir, I am driven to
the hasty step I am taking, by the approaching de-
tauture of Lord Moira from this country, in order
to execute the duties of the high offices with which'
he has been invested in India. I dm not now wish,'
itr, to advert to any of those topics which have been'
discussed heretofore, but there is a paragraph in the
letter of the Noble Lord, containing an implied ac-
cusation, to which it appears to me 'absolutely neces-
, eery to call the attention of the House, in order that
Abe Noble Lord may not quit the kingdom, till he
bas either substantiated his charge, or explained the
'leaning of it. Here the Hon. Member read the
following extract from Lord Moira's letter :
4 When the Prince did me the honour of relating to me this
representation of Lord Earelley's, expressing great uneasiness,
Oat the asserted notoriety of the interviews at Belvidere, sad the
costments of the neighbours should force hint to take any public
:taps, I suggested the possibility that there might be misappre-
benslobs of the circumstances; and I enire.ted, that before any
ether procedure should be determined on, I might send for the
. steward (Kenny), and the porter (Jonathan Partridge), to us-
Saint them. 'I his was permitted. I sent for the servants and
questioned them. My report to the Prince was, that the matter
:tacit occasioned very little observation in the House, note at et
In the neighbourhood, and that it was entirely unnecessary for
the Prince to notice it In any shape. The servants had been de-
sired by me never to talk upon the subject. Lord Eardley w.,s
Informed, that his conception of what had been stated by the ser-
'ants was found to be inaccurate; no mention was ever made to.'
any one, not even to the Lords who conducted the inquiry three:l
Oyan afterwards, of the particulars-related by the servants, and
the circumstance never would have been known "at all, had not
the legal advisers of the Princess, fur the sake of put:irg a false
colour on that investigation, indiscreetly brom,ht it fors, ard
The death of Kenny, in the interval, tempted them to rick this]
procedure. Jonithan Partridge havirg been known, at the time.
when he war questiured, to be devoted to the Princess, front h a
oau declaration to the steward, no one can doubt but that her,
Ravi! Highness would the next day be Informed by him of his
avtng been examined. The measure was most offensive, if not
jt.stified by some uncommon peculiarity of circumstance. Yet
absolute silence is preserved upon it for so long a period by her
Royal Highness' advistrs—a forbearance only to be solved by
Abele being too (amities to touch upon the point while Kenny
was alive."
Nose, Sir, continued The Hon. Member, when I first
it ad the paragraph in his Lordship's letter, it appeared
t', me to admit of but one construction, and that too,
plain to admit of any mistake with respect to it ;
namely, that if Kenny were now alive he could state'
facts, which the legal advisers of her Royal High-
ness the Princess bt Wales would not wish to have
Stated, and that therefore they prudently abstained
from strriog the question till after his decease. Un-
der the impression arising from this conception I was
aheut to have taken acme proceedings On Monday ;
but, on reperthing the pirragiaph, I desisted for the
time, conceiving that it was capable of receiving ano-
ther construction— so far as regarded the motives of.,
she Princess's advisers in defecting their proceedings
„till Kenny's demise—but, Sir, whatever may be the
,proper construction here, there is ant therpart of the
paragraph which Lord Moira alone is capable of ex-
,plaining. His Lordship states, that a menial set-
"rant of Lord Eartlley's was at the esevotion of the
-Princess.of Wales. Now:how this person could be
in the confidence of her Royal Highness, or what
inotiveshe could have to enter into any communication
with him, if such communication ever took place;
seems very fit matter for explanation ; and I repeat
it, it Lord Moira quits-fae kingdom without explain-
ing it, no one will remain capable of doipg it. The
opportunity of obtaining any satisfactory information
on the subject will have been irremediably lost, it it
be not obtained before his Lordship's (!eparture. I,
ud too, Sir, that even with respect to the first part'
of the paragraph, the more obvious construction, and
that which I was at first disposed to put upon it, is
that, which as it may be collected from the public
prints, which-the public have -affixed to it. Now,
Sir, it must be recollected what weight and autho-
rity with that public every thing has which conies
t urn Lord Moira, and how desirable it must there-
fore be, that while it is yet time—while he is yet in
England, he should explain the ambiguities he has
thrown out, and rediess the ii,jury they have inflicted.
Under the impression caused by this view of the sub-
ject, and u: ged by the, in all probability, early de-
parture of his Lordship, I have presented myself to
the House at this early period of the evening, tiougki
*ware that subjects of great importance were about to
be brought before them ; and though I am conscious
there is some t:ngularity in the proceeding, I shall
to them a moticn, which I am satisfied cannot
being most congenial to the, feelings of the

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"Me Lor4 enabling tsho, as it pay, to ipso Ito " fire . . tb, in le 2.i
planation of what has created sou neskra inesailliiiit ' - 'opportunity Of explammg.the passage, m his
in the public mind to the representations tree pferiple. letlif, on which thelnotion is crunded.'
rep. snit, Sir, r had hoped that thetenhjefttien3" e I Re. M. A. TAYLOR. -" apprehend that it is
closed foriveir, but fresh Matter has coniasefort the thecommon wish of the House that an end should
public which has, revived so keen a sense 'With re-= be put to all discussicin upon this uthappr subject
spect to it, that I utterly despair 4 its being. elite- (Hear, hear.)—,and I believe that such a wish is in
wally stilled without-some formiti recognition of the perfect unison with the feeling of the country at
innocence of her Royal Highness in. this House, sult large.—(Hear; iftear.)a- If my Hon. Friend below me
.ts may put a seal upon ixthat reed- one`will beats z ' nreani as well`toWarde the Princess of Wales as lam
posed to hold inviolate. I will not pretend to say confident he does,t •I could wish him to believe that-
what the form of such a recognition should be-•-•but the revival of t cannot be serviceable to her, and that •
if Ministers be adverse'm take such steps as may ap. to promote discussion• cannot have tke effect of pro.
pear adequate to redress -the evil, it may be necei: Motiog her wishes, if those wishes are forpeace. The
sary for the House to address his Royal Highness wisest plan the I-10 use can adopt is to avoid all dis-
the Prince Regent to that effect--butlet it be brought cussion on the subject : for if discussed within these
about in what way it will, that in some way' or ano- walls, it will•
it be discussed by every man in this coun-
cher a recognition to the effect I have stated should try. That 'should rest altogether is for the advan•
take place, appears to be of the last degree of neces- tagerof the country, and ultimately, lam persuaded,
sky. S:r, I shall conclude with moving, for the advantage of the Princess herself."
" That a Messenger be sent to the House of Lords, desiring Mr. WESTON.—" Sir, any Hon. Friend has been
taxed with_ seeking lg. to. agitate the public mind, by
that Lord Mara should be permitted to attend in this House
Ibringing forward this moon , in my mitd he has
to be examined as to his knowledge of certain circumstances re-
been actuated by a wish to quiet it, for surely nothing
lacing to the conduct of her Royal Highness the Princess of
I Wales:' can more tend to allay any irritation that has been
The SPEAKER..-" I am not prepared to offer
excited than a satisfactory explanation; for this rea-
a decided opinion as to the motion of the Honourable '
son I should support the motion, if it were not incon-
.
' Member but from a general consideration of the ba- sisteqtMr. House."
CANNING.—" Sir, having come into the
with the rules of the
bits of Parliament, I must observe, that they do not House after the Hon. Gentleman had made his mo-
appear to admit of the attendance of a person here to tien, I was at first led to believe that they were en-
give information on any subject but some matter de-
pending isithe House. I think the Lords would re-
gaged in one of those irregular conversations which
ject such a message as the Hon. Member has moved
have, unfortunately, grown up of late within these
should be transmitted to them—they would naturally walls ; but, finding my error, I shall, previous to
iving my vote for an Amendment to the motion,
say, that before we bad sent inch a message, we
at the Orders of the Day be read, or whatever else
should have resolved to institute the investigation on
may be moved to get rid of it, state the principles by
the proposal for which it was grounded."
Lord CASTLEREAGH "I do not in the least which it will be influenced. A reference has been
made to the understanding on which the former dis-
'apprehend -that the House will entertain the motion
of the Hon. Gentleman. I merely rise to state the torsion on this unhappy subject was terminated, and
then it has been argued that a case might arise which
impossibility of Ministers taking any auch steps in
notwithstanding this might make it expedient to re.
this House as he appears to wish they should, and I
vive it. Sir, the continuance of proceedings of this
cannot sufficiently express my surprise that he should
nature will render such an understanding abortive, it
now, for the sixth time, bring forward a question will render the tranquillizing of the publid mind a
which can have no other effect than to agitate the
thing quite hopeless, and it may at length produce a
public mind, and wound the feelings of the House. situation of affairs in which there will be an absolute
I aim surprised that he should not feel himself pre-
necessity for the interference of the House of Corn-
eluded from calling on the House to go into the eza- mans; at the same time, however, that I express this
mutation of any collateral part of a subject by the re- opinion, let me accompany it with the anxious wish
coLectitm that they bad come to a grave and final
that an extremity so much to be deprecated may be
decision on the principle of it. Nothing can new be
avoided. Sir, nothing can be more adapted to check
laid before the House which can induce them to alter
the progress of any measures that may be adopted to
that deCisino or depart from the general principles by promote the favourable termination of this unhappy
which they should regulate their conduct. The in-
business, than repeated discussion in this House--a
terference of Parliament •on the present occasion,
termination for which every good subject must so ar
means productive of any public utility."
would hi a measure of great violence, and by no dently wish : those who think otherwise, must have
Mr. WHITBREAD—" Sir, if there be nothing
but a very imperfect knowledge of human nature and
human feelings. Instead of throwing •olsstacles in
in the request militating against the authority of the the way of the happy result which we desire to see,
Chair, I must desire that you will put the question." we should, by abstaining from discussion, afford time
The SPEAKER complied with the request of the for the workings of all aiose feelings which would be
Hon. Member. likely to promote it. Every new discussion dimi-
nishes the chances of k ; the progress of the milder
any thing in dissent from the Chair. I have no e:notions of necessity take a new date from them, and
doubt that the statement made horn it with respect the hopes we cherished, are debilitated : taking this
ito the older of Parliament is correct, and that there view of the subject, I shall give my vote, as I before
;is no instance of such an application as that which stated, for any Amendment by which the present
has been proposed being made, except in relation to . .
motion' may be got rid of."
some proceedings depending in the House—indeed Mr. WHITBREAD having, with a view to the
I there is an obvious reason why such an application information of the Right Hon. Gentleman who had
spoken last, re-steed his views in bringing forward
should not be made without, namely, that when made
the other House should have the means of judging the present motion, then continued as,
follows :
of its fitness as well as the individual proposed to be " Now, Sir, 1 as are the Noble Lord, that I do not
exanaiued—and without some inquiry previously in- entertain any animosity towards him for the imputa-
stituted they could not have those means. Under tions he has thrown out against me, as it I had
these lircumatances, I rather suppose Illy Honourable brought ii-rward the subject now for the purpose of
Friend's motion was brought forward with a view to agitating the public mind, and wounding the feelings
raise a question than any thing else, but whatever of the House ; but T must affirm, that I was not ac-
may have been his view it was for him to judge-of its loafed 'by any such wish, and I must remind the
correctness in acting upon, and it is for us to decide Noble Lord, that had I been actuated merely by a
on it. I shall reserve my judgment, on the subject spirit of party, I might have harassed tirn in no in-
till I know what proceedings may •beresorted to;— considerable degree by the examination of those pat.
but I shall, in the mean time, suggest to my Hon. titulars with respect to which he refused to give any
Friend, that instead of seeking to promote any pro- information ; but I did not press on those points,
ceedings in Parliament, It would perhaps be more conceiving that if I did so I should lay open much
eligible for persons choosing to address the public on that could be odious and disgusting to the public ;
this subject, to choose the same medium as that that I should probe wounds that would not bear the
through which the Noble Lord (Moira) delivered operation, %I ithout the risk of gangrene. But when
his sentiments. I saw, however' slight an impression it might produce
Sur F. BURDETT.—" Sir—l anxiously wish to upon some individuals, a very strong impression pro.
see some termination to this business, satisfactory to duced upon the public by the publication of a letter
the feelings of the illustrious Person concerned in it, obscurely worded, I really did conceive that I should
and I think that it is the more desirable, inasmuch as not fulfil my duty if I did not afford to its Noble au-
she has been injured by calumnies set in movement thor an opportunity of developing its meaning. It
by proceedings directed by his Royal Highness the has been said that the less this question is agitated '
Prince Regent himself. (Hear.) Ido not agree with th%better is will be for the (Princess of Wales herself.
the Noble Lord in thinking, that it is touching oo the Now, Sir, if this be said in merely a general sense,
feelings of the House to propose a discussion of a par. and that the meaning of ft be that the less subjects of
titular branch of a subject, because they had refused 'this kind are agitated in the House the better, I have
to adopt the principle ut general interference. I con- nothing to say ; but if any assertion be implied in it,
unfavourable to her Royal
ceive, Sir, the House is extremely concerned in pro-
that investigation would be
moting the discussion of all the particulars of a trans- Highness, I challenge that investigation, though I
action, in the course of which it now appears such do not consider it any part of my duty to press
it.—
foul and mischievous attempts were made against the The Right Honourable Ckntleman opposite has
honour of the Princess of Wales, and that it was only called to my recollection what I. before stated on this
on the understanding that the business was best en- eubject, and I now again state, that there is no one
' trusted to the hands of Government, the members of more desirous either than the Illustrious person whose
which would advise and direct such measures as cause I have advocated or myself, that a termination
would preclude the necessity of discussion, that it was should be put to the business." The Hon. Member,
abandoned ; otherwise, it is obvious how important after a few further observations, concluded with stet-
that discussion must be—how important it is to the ting his determinfition not to agitate the question
a
public that the falsehood of the charges affecting the again, unless called on so to do by a case of extreme
Princess of Wales should be formally avowed, affect- necessity, the existence of which he fervently &pre-
ing as they also do the Royal Family in general, and cated ; and having intimated his intention not to
more particularly the individual member of it who, press the question to a division, the House passed to
in all probability, is destined to ascend the Throne the Order of the Day, viz.
of this kingdom. Conceiving it to be the general JUST-INDIA AFFAIRS. •
sense of the }louse, that some effectual measure of On the motion of Lord CASTLEREAGH, the House
conciliation should be adopted, Ido not think that then went into a Committee on the East-India Affairs.
my Hon. Friend has flown in the face of the House. lt. Cowsen was called to the Bar, and examined
or transgressed in the least the bounds of delicacy, or by Mr. ADADI.—The witness stated, that he had
given the least room for the surprise which the Noble been thirty- years in India, in the Bengal Establish-
Lord has thought proper to express by the motion he meat. He was principally examined as to the extent
has brought forward, and so secure ant lin that opi- of the establishment in which he resided, and the dis-
nion, that I shall follow his example ; and if some- tance of the most remote settlements in it from th;
thing be not done to render it unnecessary, shall sub- seat of Government. He was of opinion it would be
mit some specific proposition to the House upon the difficult to regulate the conduct of strangers, in the
`subject now before it. With respect to the present event of an unrestrained intercourse with India, at
motion, I certainly do not recollect any precedent by places so remote • though he thought that persons
which the Message proposed in it can be justified; misconductinge themselves might easily be removed
but I conceive that proceedings, somewhat irregular, out of the country. As to the probable consumption
may be resorted to, without any dangerous violation of European commodities by the natives, he should
of rule, in very extraordinary circumstances. Aod imagine it must be very slow, and always compara-
as Lord Moira is about to leave the country in the tively trifling. Being asked, if in his opinion the ap-
, course of a very little time, I do think that such irre. ,pointmeat of a Bishop and other Ecclesiastical Dig.

niterie ieWeable, OP ovate v.
pleasant sensations in the !weds of the natives ? The
witness stid, he had not at first been of opinion that
any appointment of the kind would have been much
regarded by the natives in India.. Front some recent
publications, however, his ideas on this subject were
very much changed. If the House would allow him,
issaboold-refer to one of those publications.. In the
Papers of this morning, there appeared an advertise-
ments stating the proceedings of a public " Meeting
'oUpersont Imendly to the religious instruction, moral
improvement, and deification of the inhabitants of
our Indian. Empire," Lord Gambier in the Chair, at
whiCh a resolution was passed, that " there are more
than fifty millions of inhabitants subject to the Bri:
fish Empire in India, under the influence of inhumad
and degrading superstitions, which form an effectual
bar to their progress in-civilization." If such sentia
ments as these were propagated in India, as connect
ted with this proposed Church Establishment, be was
convinced the appointment of the Bishop and Arch.
deacons, which might otherwise be passed over as a
matter of little or no consequences would create dig.
satisfaction, and might even lead to results highly to
be deprecated.

Mr. STEPHEN, without wishing to interfere with
the course of the Hon. Gentleman's evideace, remar.
led upon the irregularity of his addressing himself to
the short-hand writer, and not the Chair; after which
the witness WAS ordered td withdraw, and *as not
re-examined.

Lord TEIGNUOUTII was then called to the Bar, for
the purpose of correcting some part of his evidence
given on the preceding day. His Lordship stated in
addition, in answer to questions put to him by sere.
tat Members, that he thought Missionaries, properly
licensed, might be productive of considerable bene-
fits in India.

On the Motion of the CHANOILLLOR of the.Excnv.
QUER, the further examination 01 his Lordship was
suspended ; and the House having resumed, the
Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to
sit again to-morrow.

Mr. R. THORNTON moved for several Returns
regarding the Coasting Trade in the -East Indies,
which were ordered to bere,sented to the House,
and they were afterwards laid on the table.

RUSSIAN TEOOPS IN THE PENINSULA.
Mr. LAW, seeing a Nutle Lord in his place, begs
ged to put a question to him on a subject of great
importance—Whether any communication had been
made to Government by the Emperor of Russia, on
the subject of the employment of a portion of the Im-
perial troops in Spain and Portugal ? If any inter-
course had taken place upon the subject, he wished
to know what steps Ministers bad adopted—whether
the proposal had, or bad not met with their appio,
batioa ?

Lord CASTLEREAGH replied, that he was
sure the House -must feel that it was impossible, w•itb
out a manifinit injury to the public service,
.for him
to make any communication on a subject of the de-
scription adverted to— (Hear, hear.)
Mr. LAW then gave [pike of a motion for Thurs-
day seionight, for an Address to the Prince Regent
.n 1 the subject. •

Mr. TIERNEY, after some desultory conversa-
tion, postponed his Motion respecting the Sinking
Fund until Friday. He also observed, 'that tt was
not the intention of himself or of his friends to de-
bate tie Finance Bill on that day, but should resist
its further progress when the Report should be recei-
ved' on Tuesday next.

On the Motion of Mr. STEpusx, the Commit:eeon
Cie Weymouth Electors' Bill was postponed until to-
morrow.

C'MMITTEZ OP SUPPLY.

The account of the advances made to Government
by the East India Company having been referreci to
the Committee of Supply, the House resolvedi hien'
into the Committee.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that the only vote which he should have to pro.
pose to the Committee, on the present occasion, was
for the purpose of repaying the East India Com-
pany the advances which they had made for the
public service. He was sure that the Committee
I would agree with him, that it was peculiarly desir.
able, while so important a subject was pending as the
renewal of the East India Charter, that the accounts
between Government and the Company should be
, wound up, and drawn as near to a close as possible,
.in order to prevent any jest cause of complaint either
cu the one side or on the other. The East India
Company had made advances to a great extent—to
an extent, indeed, that appeared alarming in the first
instance, as those advances were for military services,
respecting which no previous estimate had been laid
before Parliament At the same time the impor-
tance of an ally so ready to make such advances was
very considerible. In future it was to be hoped,
however, that no advances for a similar purpose would
be necessary, as no hostile flag waved on, the shores
of Asia. The Mauritius, Bourbon, and Java, had
been subjected to Great Britain ; and there was no
reason, therefore, to expect any further expensive ex-
peditions in the Indian seas. In future, he hoped that
the advances would be entirely confined to the current
ascertained expenses of the naval service, of which
the previous estimates might always be laid before
Parliament. With respect to Java, there was every
reason to believe that the revenues of that island
would be equal to the expense of maintaining it. It
would not be exactly the same at the Maui itius ; but
the preponderance of the expense over the revenue
would not be very material. He proposed us follow
the example of preceding years, by voting a certain
sum on account. The advances made amounted, as
appeared by the documents on the table, to iett,291,000
—He should move to vete 5e2,000,000 on account,
and he accordingly moved that that sum be grantel
to his Majesty, to enable his Majesty to pay the same
to the Hon. East India Company, towards defraying
the expenses.at which they had been for the public
service.

After some conversation, in the course of which
the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated, in answ,r to
questions from Mr. Baring and• Mr. Pcnsonhy, that
it was probable, unless the company received certain
remittances from India, that they might apply to
Parliament for aid ; and that the nature of that aid
would be to obtain permission either to borrow on
their own credit, or, if aecessary, to obtain the pa-

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