Star.
London, England, 1806-04-23 00:00:00

`youth of the Nobility of this country, who had hp-
potted him. and would Rill fupport him in this quel-
ltion, and whom nothing but inners prevented from at.
; tending at prefcnt. Having little knowledge of the
form of proceeding in fuch a Winds, he had taken
the cafe of Mr. Haflings as his precedent. If the
Houle fhould think the charge worthy of I ying on the
table, he thould move that it be taken into confidera-
tion on Come future day. As to the mode in which
the charge was drawn up, any inaccuracy or irrego •
larity in form he hoped might be fupplied, as he had
not been aided in the framing of it by any Gentle.
man of the Law. He then proceeded to read the Ar-
ticle of Impeachment which was of immenfe
It commenced with Rating the period when Marquis
Wellefley was appointed to the Government of India,
and the time be was fuperceded by the fending cot
of Marquis Cornwallis. That it was his duty in this
filtration to have attended to the ;nitrations of' his
employers, and to have cherilbed and protaled their
interehs ; but, that letting at nought their orders,
and taking on himfelf the eliaraften of a defpotic
mailer, he, in many initances, aced in dire& oppoli-
don to their infirottions' and to gratify his own v:aiity
and inordinate love of , fbew did genfsly wage and
lavilb the money of the Eaftlndia Company. It then
proceeds to Bate the Al of Parliament granting the
Ea ft India Company Charter, the engagement which
the Company thereby came under to pay to this coon.
try the Cum df 500,0001. annually, that on failure for
am& year it timid then become a debt -recoverable
but the profits of the Company, and bearing is
hmt. buena, and that payment of fuch debt ,
ukt only.belpodponed. on application to the Trea-
fary, asewing that the failure in payment proceeded
from being engaged in a war or other neceffary
rade. That, notwithhanding, no part of this coo-
p aderation money, except the firft year's initalment,
had bean paid. That when the Marquis of. Wel-
lefley went out to India, the debt of the Company
amounted to eleven millions, and, at the time of {I
his being floperkded, to thirty-one millions, ti'.
additional twenty millions having been borrowed ,
at an ;meta of fix, eight, and ten per cent. That,i
et the time of•his going out to India, all was peace,
and commercial as well as political profperity ; and
that nothing was required Whim but ordinary at-
tention to the orders of his employers to prelim
things lutist fame train. Yet, notwithßanding, fo
exhauded were the re:Wm of India before his re.
-cal. that he felt himfelf driven to fell the imports of
Bengal, to relieve the immediate embarraffirsents.—
The paper then proceeds to thew in what ftste Mar.
'pis Cornwallis found the affairs of India, as expref-
fat in his difpateh to the Company at home. It then
toes on to fate the proceediags in the different wars
sawhich Lord Wellefley had been engaged, at con-
mimed in his own letters. in which he gives a favour•
kfaillepifture of the fifuation of the Company's affairs;
and Rates, that eicept thefe, he was entamed in no
labors whatever which could nesafusuany•lofs or ex-
plain but•that of livesand of honour. That to other
utak', thereforeymuß be afcribed the embarraffmetiu
and pecuniary diffreffes to which the Company *as
reduced, and there were the unexampled. prodigality,
profufion, and love of fplindoor which charieerifed
his government. That almoft every mealure df '
his adminiltration was marked by an entire difre-
gard to the orders and ineruelions of his employers,
and by a new modelling and enlarging of every fpe-
eies of expence. ! hat in this way, in providing for
his favourites, granting finecures &c. he expended
in one year 1,300,0001. For a College in India, after
it had been difapproved of by the Company. in the
courfe of three rears, 121,7001. In the year 180 t , in
a lira to the Upper Provinces, which was alfo dif
approved of, an expence of upwards of 30,0001. For
a boufe, no,oool. In a yard and houfe, at Barrack
ore, i 5,0001. The body guard, which had been
pre,
by Sir J. Shore, he replaced: in addition to
that cavalry, led on by his ungovernable love of (hew,
and thereby, for the fivft three years, incurred
an expence of 40,8001. yearly, which, notwithfland.
ing orders to the contrary, he con.inued till the
arrival of Marquis Cornwallis, thereby making the
expence to the company amount to 250,0001 It then
alludes to the expence of the TownHoufe at Calcutta,
and hates, that all thefe extravagsncies were gone
into at a time when the pay of the troops was five
months in arrear. It then proceeds to Rate his fending
his brother, H. Wadley, to Oude, as Governor, at
an eapence, in thirteen months. of a 6,0001. 'being a
'Cum exceeding that allowed to the Governor General
of Bengal hindelf. That his own falary was re,otiol.
year, in addition to which he was prohibited from
taking any falary or gratuity whatever, direely or
indireftly, and that. notwithitanding this prohibition,
he did order large Cervices for his table, and for put-
poles entirely dometlic and private, to the amount
of 140,0001. or thereabouts. The illuminating of '
his houfe, and the general fplendour of hi. living.
wasluch as greatly exceeded that of any former Go.'
vernor, or any former idea even of Bittern magni-
ficence ; and at this very time it was hated that the
Company were paying at the rate of 16 per cent. for
the money which they were borrowing. By all of
which intlances of profofion it was charged that the
Paid Marquis had greatly contributed to the embar.
ratinsent of the Company. Mr. Paull then moved,
that the laid Article of Impeachment do lie on the
Table.
The SPEAKER °Verve& that the proper mode ,
of proceeding would be tor the Honourable Member
to deliver in the paper at the table, when it would be •
read. After the courfe, however. which the Hon.
Member had himfelf adopted, it would be for the
Houle to exercife their judgment how far the latter
part of this proceeding would be neceffary? •
The paper was then given in, but the the of it•
only was read.
The SPEAKER arced Mr. Patric, what he bad
next to propofe t
Mt. PAULL (aid, to move that the paper do lie
on the Table.

The SPEAKti.R °Vetoed, that teas rot a quenion
He taok a view of the different cafes !ince the Revo-
lution, in which Anieles of Imricachmi.nt had been
given in at the bar by individual Membeis. The
right of a Member to do in, he beiieveel, could hard-
ly be quellirtned ; it would, however, be afterwards
.or the Hnufe to fay, whether ihcy would erttertain
the T•eftion, and in what manner they would take it
up? There were various modes r,f proceeding. /It
Tome cafes the motion that witneflea be caned its
rapport of the elrargv. In ethers, thee the thole be
taken into coafuieration.