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up much of their Lordships' time. The evidence be
fore theth would slew, that, while it was ezpedent
to open the trade to India, that to Chin' shoo 4 be
still confined to the Company—who else would rind
extreme difficulty in proceeding without it; and it'
was clear, from the nature of that trade, that coold
not so profitably be conducted by mewls cf 5t14.8 of
any_stueler size than those at present mployed, and
that an open trade would increase, rather than re.
duce the price of tea to the public. Toe measures
proposed were calculated ar once to promote the 'ri-
miest: of this country, and the con merce, govern.
ment, and revenue of India. With respect to the in.
troduction et strangers into lodia, •it was generally
admitted, that much caution should he observed ;
and the Resolutions were guarded as to that point.
To prevent indiscriminate .r.ercourse, licenses were
required .His Lordship then turned to the appropri-
ation of the revenue in India, which was Iraniesl on
the arrangements of 1793, and did not at all inter-
fere n ith the right of the C mpany. He thrn adver-
ted to the Resolution relative to the church establish.
ment. The number of Protestant inhAbitAnts in India
was 142,614, and it [meanie necessary, for the credit
of the empire, to have a suitable church establishment
in that country. His Lordship nez: came to consider
the college which had been founded at Calcutta, and
which had derived such eminent advantages from the
wise and active superintendence of the late Chief Go-
vernor of India. The regul aloes there laid down
for the education of young men, and for preparing
them to enter duly qualified upon the imp rtant of-.
fices of the Governmei,t, were likely to promote the
Most benefici:il consequences He should not haler
'detain their Lordships. If he was n.a convinced that
the measures proposed were calculated to promote
the welfare, happiness, and prosperity of all the na-
tional interests, political and commercial, both at
home and in India, no consideration should induce
him to recommend them ; but, thoroughly convinced
as he was of the tact, he should proceed to read the
Resolutions separately.—llere Ir.s Lords tip read the
Resolutions in order.

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Upon the question being putt on the fi-st,
The Earl of LAUDERDALE cried, not content,
and added, that he meant to object to every one of
the succeeding*Resolutions.
Upon the tiii:d being read,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE observed, that
he considered the period of the Session much too far
advanced for the due discussion of so important a
question, but that he should reserve his particular
reasons for the Report.
Lord GRENVILLE said a few words to the same
effect.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE, adverting to that
part of the Noble Earl's (Buckinghamshire) speech
which stated that there were 143,000 Prrtestants in
India, was desirous to remind the Noble Lord, that
more than half of that number were Scotch Dissen-
ters ; and therefore he hoped, that instead of one Epis-
copal establishment, due care would be taken to pro.
vide for the proper religious accommodation of the
Irish and Scotch Dissenters also, and that a fit pro-
vision for that purpose be applied out of the terra°.
rial revenue of India. If no provision like what ha
had named should be introduced into the Bill. he
should move that the same advantages to be enjoyed
by the Episcopal establishment should be extended
to the Presbyterians and other Dissenters.
The remaining Resolutions being read,
The Earl of BUCKINGHAMSHIRE moved thaC
the Report be brought up to-morrow.
The Marquis of LANSDQWNE could not omi
that opportunity, perhaps the only one which wotil
occur to him, of urging again -the impropriety o
pressing on the House at so late a period of the Se
shin, and when so few, of their Lordships could a
tend, a measure of such magnitude and moment
would require the most mature consideration, an
the most ample discussion. In considering so i
portant a subject, he was naturally led to 'the reco
lection of a remarkable observation which lately fe
from the Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's
vernment, that whenever any great measure require
the consideration of Parliament, the season for tnt
ducing it, howsoever late, was a matter of compar
tive iud.fference. He would leave it to their Lor
ships to judge how far that observation would appl
to a question like the present, in which the futu
destinies of India, of 60 millions of inhabitants, we
involved. Was such a subject to be dispatched li
a Stamp Duty Bill or a Vote of Credit? A Vote
Credit, indeed, to Ministers, the present Bill mig
not improperly be called,- as delegating to them t
important functions of that House. If such we
the character generally of such implicit confiden
it was peculiarly manifested in the present resolution
Had their Lordships only been called on to contin
or to destroy the monopoly ; if the whole were to
retained or done away with, the proposition wou
be simple, and might with proportionable facility
decided upon. But these resolutions embraced
measures, but adhered to none. They were aco
pound of monopoly and free trade, of arbitrary a
free government, a system wholly undigested
indigestable at such a period of the Session. If th
Lordships would consider the term alone of the pr
posed extension of the charter—twenty years, wh
vast effects might there not be produced during th
time, both in India and Europe ? When he look
forward to the probable events which in that long
terval might occur, he could not bring himself'
consent, and he thought their Lordships would IN
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do their duty if they consented to so dangerous
precipitation of so momentous a measure as that
volved in the Resolutions which had been read.
Noble Marquis then entered minutely into the ses
ral Resolutions, all of which he condemned. Ups
the third, the selection of the cliff rent ports to
opened was a dangerous discretion left with Mil
um, and would certainly have better become t/
House. Then the ports in India were all to be
plated by limns, at the pleasure of the Nab*