Star.
London, England, 1803-09-20 00:00:00

EAST-INDIA NOUSE.

Yeßerday morning, purfuant to adjournment, M.
Ds took the Chair in the Sale Room, for the
purpofe of continuing the Pale of fugars.
Mr. BENJAMIN T entered at large into the
fubjed of the prefent difpute between the Company
and the Dealers, and Rated the firm determination of
the Trade to defiß from bidding, till the Court had
agreed to allow the cuftomary Rrike of one pound.
_ _ _

Mr. Flit4ll followed up the arguments of Mr. Tra.
verse and contended that thetompany would in the
end be conliderable lofers by difallowing the ftrike.

Mr. DISVAYNES declared that the orders of she
Court left him without any difcretionary power, and
that the Cale ma proceed.
Mr. TRAVERS haled that the Chairman was in
poffeffion of equal power with that exercifed upon a
former occafion by Mr. Robert Thornton. He then,
in irder to prove the neceffity of an adjournment,
read the following paper, being the refult of a meet-
ing of the Dealers in Ealt India Sugar, held on Sa•
turday at the City Coffee Houfe :

4, This Meeting having taken into confideration the
declaration of the Eati India Company, to refute in
future the accullomed draft of alb. per bag on Eaft
India fugar, refolved unanimoully—

" tit, That foth refufal is a violation of the Invariable ufage of
trade in general, from time immemorial, founded on the princi-
ple; of juitice, and abfolutely needfary to fecure the dealers in
this article from the lots they mutt otherwife fulls& on the rota&
thereoG
ad, That it is the opinion of this Meeting, that as the EAR
India Company enjoys the ezelufive fupply of the market, it is
more particularly iucumbent an them to take efpedal care that
their Sales be concluded on the principles of Ilberallty and jultice.
yd, That this Meeting cannot Aylmer to awe& their firm
conoaket, that the Trade will not Candi= ■ reedit= which
mull entail inevltabk ids an theinfetves, by perchating Ealt India
fogars upon any other mad/Lions than the , to which they have
hitherto been secuitomed.*
The Arlis and third of there Refolotions, (Mr. Da-
rave's declining to ea) were read by Mr. T sr
once more, and each Refelation being fubmitted by
him as a feparate gueflion, was palled unanimoutly.
Mr. KIMIILZ urged the propriety of an adjourn..
ment, and deprecated the evils which mail refult to
the Company and the trade at large fro partial
biddings. As a Proprietor of India Stock, be pleaded
the caufe of the orphan and the widow, and earnettly
implored Mr. Dav•vaas not to folly his wellearned
popularity by pertinacioufly adhering to the rigid
order of the Court.
Mr. DITATISM after it few conciliatory remarks,
which had the dewed etre& of creating good humour,
obferved, that it had been the uniform with of the
Court to pd up to, and keel) Plc. with the exifting
Laws of the Revenuer having been given to under-
hand that the Dealers at large were to have an in-
terview with the CNANCILLOR of the ENCRIOSIII,
that day of one o'clock, he thought it bat fair to ad-
journ the Meeting till Thurfday sundry which rho,
circumeances may have fa far ehango as to selkare
to the fale.ropm its wonted harmony.

MILIVIS CORNWALLIS is gout to SoSolt on a Soot.
tog party..

Lord CITNCACE is .xpeaed to kt out in a few
days for Ireland, to take the command of the troops
in that country, in the room of Gencrul To*.
ROBERT Eimer was one of the Students expelled
from Tnnity. College by the late Lord Chancellor
CLAIM, as Vice Chancellor of that feminary.

Saturday 10 the body of Mr. CIIRISTOPUII Dal*
PIT, Surgeon of the Wellminfler Volunteers, was
interred with military honours in the church-yard
of the parith of Si. Ann's. Soho, of wbicb 444 cin-
ceafed bad been Aa inhabitant.

Giles's-Hill fiir, near Winthefier, was 'very nit.
meroutly attended lan week t a great quantity Of
cheefe was pitched, the whole .af which met with ie
rapid fele. It fetched ss. per cwt. more than the
cheefe at Magdalen-Hill fair.
At Wilton fair, near Saliibury,on the i ath tai. abet*
38,000 Cheep and lambs were penned for title ; dime
voo lefs than lan year. The prices Of lambs were
from 4s. to ys. thole of ewes frpm is. to 5µ cheaper
than left year, though, on the whole, the ewes wimp
confidered about is. a head dearer than at the late
Britford fail, and their Pale was much Wither in the
afternoon than in the morning. One Gentleman de.
dared the ewes be fold this year for stk. were is bete
ter condition than there of
Ilaitrarfor 4ss. Mr.
Hawaii. was the ten ; he boughtgrea
ese, of yl
about moo. Mr. Mes-court.fium,
his Lemener rams as low as ten guineas each.

Yefterday there was an inquell held before Gee.
Howson, EA. Coroner for the County of Middlefes
at the Green Dragon in Chelfea on the body did
Mary Anne Staker, who was Chelfea,
in the Canal
facing Chelfea College, about two o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon. The deceafed was a very amiable
young Lady, in the sIR year of ber age. rather de-
licate, with Candy hair, of a fickly habit I her mother
is a widow Lady, having no more children, except $
fat, who is abroad in the ferrice of his Country.—
She took lodgings at No. 9, Upper Eaton•areet,
Pimlico, where the fended a few months for the be.
nefit of hes daughter's health, of whom the was re.
markably fond, and every fine day generally took a
walk in the Garden of Chelfea College, contumely
called the Water Garden, owing to a Canal whirl
went through it. On the fatal day the mother and
daughter walked there as ufoal, and, after walking
for Come time, they fat down on one of the benches.
The mother complained, that the place they fat if
was rather cold, on which the deceafed replied, " I
&all run and find a warmer fituatien." She then
flood up, and ran down the green, which went
atlope towards the water. Her mother thinking that
the flak' longer than necefrary, went in ketch ofber;
but not finding her, the was alarmed, particularly as
there was no other way out but the one they came in
at. She therefore ran to fee if the deceafed went
back ; bnt meeting two Gentlemen, who were go.
ing into the garden, they allured her that the did not
go out that way. The alarm being gi.ein, Mr. Garth-
iltore came with a boat hook, and, as a little time,
he hooked her clothes, and the was taken out of the
water lifelefs. She was brought into the Infirmary.
where every means preferibed by the humane Society,
were ufed without elk& Thus periled an amiable
young Lady in the bloom of youth, and under the
unused*. care of aa affatiesite taceber.—Serdiat
Accidental Deadu