Star.
London, England, 1812-05-08 00:00:00

EAST IN.Dlat 30L131, Meg 5, lItI IL
ATA T a GENERAL COURT of the UNITED
''' COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND trading
to the 7.A8 nmniEs held this day, • .
Reatileed Unsuietnu.oly, . . •
That this Court has learnt with deep conc•rn and surprise
thit his Majesty. Ministers have been [rename to ellang: the
' view they first 'cetertained of the propriety nf. . confining to ,
the Port of Landon the rattan oft the lastie to India new to be
permitted to all B. kith subjects ; that the measure of openirg
the Outputs to repels of ail deecrlptions from India compete
bonding ikthat mist the &stern Island's, akpeirs to ;his Court
to •be fraught with cenevenceseuluons to the Company, and
all the :erg train of it:offers deteseeted with it ; by removing
Frans the Port of London the greater part of the iiiiien Trade,
which it has hitherto enj ;Ted; Ivy rendering welts many of the
extenrive es.ablisinnents ... reted there for t'.e ivlerchan.lize sod
:littering of that trade, and thtewirg out ct breed many thou•
[by
ands of ram, whoipok deriee C013,43t1t employment foram it;
do singing the peactice tell fruit, aeirg the end of dated Pnistic
Sgles which are laurel and important both to the Cumin/ and
the Company, who are neeesianly restricted to this mut ice ; hut,
I above ae, by affordieg fee:l:Sas for the Finuggi rag $f Teas into
the Ports and Harbours if Er gland, Scotland. and lealandettlasi
1 extent u -limited, and u thia Court appreheod, uncontroulable—,
That the consequences of this must be the destruction of the
Company's China Trade, their best source of commercial probt ;
the failure of their Dividend, the depheation of their Stick, and
unless a fond is -provided from some other source for the ply-
, ment or the ,Dividend, inebiEry on their part to coseinue to per-
form the functions assigned to them In Vie -Goverorqeut of Bri-
tish India. That if the ennet'taflon by which the Ludiae Empire
la new admini-tered dionid thus be buirettrtedi the rteellent sys-
tent of Oviland Military tiersjee formed under the Compute,
and maintainable only by such a body, will be broken down, the
tranquillity and happiness of the vast p4itletiou which that Em-
pire contains, the interests of Mis Country hi Asia; and Its Could-
tutioo at home, Win be Itioninenily endangered.
That the professed object for which the Fopnscd climates ate
to•be made, and such irninense 'teases hazarded, namely, the
Increa a of the Commerce of this Kingdom, cameo. be In anv
great degree attained; there being no practicablity of extending'
materially the use of our Manufacture.' among the India,. people,
the toer.age allotted by the Conieanye or afforded by ii' en
Shire in the management of individie.l4, for such exports, not
;main; bets fully uceupied; neither does It ape ar profitable
largely to augment the imeortatioo of profi:abk commodhles
from t'-once; of all .which the eiainplt of the American Trade
to the East is a proof; British .Manufactures which they could
easily have procured, makktg no tart of it, nor their returns ex-
hibiting any new uncles of irryrnaance.--That thererore the
Trade now enjoeed by the Company and individual, will be the
only certain trade to which new advenntrers can have remorse ;
and this will be no ajilition to he Commerce of the Country, but
only an-antler from not ~.*: cf hatdd to astm her ; so that, Old
Evablishmetts will be subverted, without substituting any thing
equary good in their -. laee ; Ardis) all appearance with treat de-
triment to the Nation, particularly.in the Defalcation of a large
part of the bucks now collecte4 on Tea to the aneun! of four
Millions sterling per **num ; fur all which Detakstiordtwhetber
eve or two, or three millions, New Tats must be laid on the
pee;ele. • e
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I hat the Cause of the Company.bas been deeply Nutted by
prejudice, ignorance, irtonrous assumplons, and of late by ex-
tensive coneibiu.tienn and by unfair representation, canvas, and
intirelduticm—in 211 V/ Wel, the merits auJ rights of thy Company,
tke.Polit"cal interests of British India, and- of this Country e.
counectiel with them, have been le t out of sight, sad the single
object of the Extension of Commerce, an object too only of we- ,
Onetime, in opposition to past experience, is the governing
principle.
.• This Court, however, confidently. hope that Preliammt will '
-not decide the tate of the Company, on the representations sad
demands of private interests, but °nine and comprehensive view,
,Of National Policy ; and the Curt must also believe that his
'Majesty's Ministers ere too enlightenee aad equitable finally sea
'adopt any measure calculated. to. destroy the commercial prolite•
efehe Company, and 'thereby to, disable them from performing I
'their political function.. . 'rids Court therefore entirely ip-
proving, both of the firmness which their Directors have 'hewn
' kit maintaining the interest of the Company, and of the manner in
Which they have, In the papers now produced by them, defended
those interests,
...kith rectimmend It to then, to persevere in the
Negoesation with his Majesty's Ministers open the same prioei-
ples; assured-of the d.termitration of this Court to support them
to the utmost In maintaining the t ermaneece of the Company
anti the National Waves, which are involved in their stabili y. •
Resolved Utlauim ,usiy, That the. •I hanks of this Court be
given to It at. oet Jectsoe, Esq. for his very luminous and cs- I
eellent speech this day, far the great zeal, ability, and industry
he has on various occasions, and particularly on this, displeyed
for the honour and advantage of this Con ipany.
Resolved Unanimously, That the warmest Thanks of this Ges
meal Court be uttered to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and
Court of Directors of dais Company, for their very *hie conduct .1
in the Negotiation with Government for the ReneweVa the I
Charter; alike evincing the most luminous ideas of -th,bes, k-
teeests of this Company, and their most honourable .conduct in I
the management of steimportant a concern.
WILLIAM 1t44101401-10r4in:
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