Star.
London, England, 1818-01-08 00:00:00

.FAST INbIA HO U5B

Yest*day a General Court of Proprietor: cf rag
India Stock was held, pursuant to adjournment, fit
the purposeof confirming the Resolution entered into
ou the 17th%lt. approvhig of the Grants matte L►
the Court of Directors, to different
♦arious periods, partly from the Company's cash,
and partly from the Fee Fund.
The Resolutions, confirming the Pension anderrul
en Mr. G. Domiuicu.s, Mr. Coggin, Mr. liellzr;
Mr. Frost, Mr. Peart, J. M. Neale, W. Matter, 11l
Coward, and Lady Witterton, were put from the
Chair, seriatim, and agreed to unanimously.
On the question for confirming the dppcitatert
Colonel Bryce, as Assistant Military Assistant tr, to
Auditor—
Messrs. HOWARTIt and Flume shortly addrev.d
the Court, on the importance of selecting for Offi(,t,
requiring talent and integrity, Gentlemen who
reared in the House, instead of introducing saariut
to the establishment.
Mr. GRANT (the Director) shortly answered,
the eveative Body were most anxious to male
of that talent, for the performance of the businea
this great Company, which they found
own walls ; but, when circumstances rendered it Le.
cessary, he submitted that they were perfectly
fled in looking elsewhere for ability.
The Resolution was then agreed to, mid the Con
adjourned, tine die.

Friday esmtinL Thomas Ggring, ri-mat. It tie
employ Of Mr. &ates, tt Hythr, on
work, from the darkness of she night, anis:ca. 64
path, and fell into he aria of his cmpin7er's hya;
by which ancider.t his head was fractured. at a.=tt
instant death succeeded.

A Letter from Paris dated Jatniary S. s^.—r
—s
' circumstance took place here the other night e'4ll
shews that there still exists a great er,m;r: endiepne
of some of the French towards the English. As C.
taro B. was walking in the Rue de la Paix, lac RI
himself jostled by a man, and on turning rare or
demand what he meant by it? was immedi .telve•-rct.
A scuffle ensued, which ended in Captain B. challeig.
ing the Frenchman, who wished to tight with xwor!s.
(being a remarkably good swordsman Capteix 1.
replied, that he would fight him with pistols, are
not with swords.' The other exclaimed, Why do
you wear a swot d, then, if you don't know lAA, to tit
it? They exchanged cards; but it appeared nest
morning that the Frenchman had given him a file
address, and was no where to be fobs d. After a tittle
time, it was discovered that he had decamped to kar
regiment, which was quartered at some distance front
Paris. Having now no excuser to avc,tl the cenbr,
he returned to Paiis, and a meeting according:. -• t
place last Mandril, Captain B. vrAmanded his ir• . .
-
rust in the groin, iftd he is new d:ingerously ill c. .
wound. Captain B. slimed the greatest firnmas
throughout, and the whole affair reflects the b:7'..et
credit upon him, lt is to be laped that this will ri
a stop to those frequent insults which an h:.:1r..-s
but too often :netts with in Pails from • ‘f ri
dividuals."

It is sometimes curious (says a Correspea3rul
to trace the incidents to which we are inclebt.: irr
some of our most useful laws, and to which. is the
lapse of time, we owe the present glorious fabric el
the British Ceristitution. Sir Wm. Conus,-whe Rrs
Master of the Horse to King Hums VUL asd tar-
ried thr Lady MAII7ET.9, of Derbyshire, haviag bets
chosen Knight of the Shire, while on his way ttqlse
Parliament which began an. 21. King Herby for
Eighth, 1529, in panting by a church-yard, uso a
multitude of people standing idle he inquired ilia
the cause thereof, and was informed they had brevet
a corpse thither to be buried, but the Priest re-
fused to do his office, unless they delivered him Ire
the poor man's cow, the only quick goods be 14
for a mortuary. Sir WILLIAM sent for the Prims
and required him to do his office to the dead, who
peremptcuili refused it, unless he had his mor...i.ri
fist wherelpou he caused the Priest to be pu: into
the-poor man's grave, and earth to be thrown in tiros
him; and he still persisting in his refusal, thew
was still more earth .throwo in, until the obeunin
Priest was either altogether, or well nigh su6,..catc,l
Now thus to handle a Priest in those days, a
very bold adventure ; but SirWittlasi Corns. with
the favour he had at Court, and the interest he had
in the House, diverted the storm, and is lively
represented the mischievous c.xisequences of the
iest's arbitrary demeanour, that they bound t!e
'matter ever after by a particular statute, to be f0ut,..1
in the statute book, 1652, a. 21. Hen. 8 chap. t.
page 481.—This same Sir WILLIAM COPT= Witt
one of the eighteen asl.istants of King Hums ;
at the Just or Tournament held between him au.l
French King, before &Wales, in France, A. D.
He died without issue, but the family has c.-Jr.i.v.11.,
the line of his elder brother in Derttrishire, w.
here, to the present day."