The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-03-23 00:00:00

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and not from a wish to Ileittr
interests; O was Billy proved by
differing from both. Although
conflicting interests, he did not ►
Riad compromise, by some sacrifice of interest, an 4
what was a greater sacrifice; of feeling, with minds
anxious for the public good, they. would not be found
unequal to overcoming this difficulty.
- The Regolutione were then read, whPth recapito-,
lated the principal points of the Speech.
Mr. R. THORNTON remarked, that the NOM*
Lord, by expressing his intention of still leaving • to
the Company the appointment of their own servants,
proved that the Noble Lord'r radical change was not
foooded apoe any locapacity in the Company. From
Ms personal responsibility, he took the first oppor-
tunity of entering Ms protest against the Noble Lord's
plan. He claimed attention from the Committee,
not on his owp account, but on account of the weight
of the subject : 1t concerned the welfare of two em.
I'pires, and involved the commercial credit of the
;country : the happiness of 60 millions of people in
India depended on the plan. The Noble Lord had
not named the number of ports on which he Wended
to confer the evil of the trade to India. The fact
was, that the Noble Lord had treated it more as a
commercial than a political question, and in that he
thought the Noble Lord was very wrong. -The pro-
position of the NoWe Lord participated of a mixture
of diffidence and boldness, which was almostiescom-
Pa• tible The Noble Lord wished to open the trade
to a certain degree to the out-ports, without having
duly weighed the vital stab which such an °peeing
must give to the most important interests of the Corn.
pony. The monopoly of the East India Company
was of a particular kind—it was a thing sof gesso* ;
and if this monopoly was destroyed, what would be-
come of the Bank ?—what is to give security to that,
if it was liable to be broken in upon whenever dis-
contented persona of any description should think pro-
per to find fault with t lottCompany ? The out-ports ask
to partake of the trade which has been established by
the labour, the genius, and the treasure of thp East
India Company. Nothing could be more unreason-
able or unjust—they wanted at once to come into a
participation of a trade which the East India
Company had established at so great an expence.
Having incurred this immense expence, the Com-
pany ought certainly to derive an advantage
front it ; and it was the opinion of eminent
men, now no more (Mr. Fox and Mr. Pitt), that
to open the trade to India would be the rein of
the country. He ridiculed the idea, that the stock-
ing-weavers of Nottingham, or the potters in Staf-
fordshire, would be benefitted by the trade to India;
and particularly the making of docks in Liverpool,
in contemplation of this trade being opened to theta.
The credulity of the country was likely to lead it
into a fatal error. It had been said, why should fo.
reigners run away with the trade? Why should
Americans run away with the trade? It was no such
thing. The Americans had certainly traded to India,
but they had no manufactures to send out, they
traded with bullion only; and how would the mer.
chants of Liverpool be able to make returns of that
kind. Would the Gentlemen of the out-ports, who
wanted to participate in this trade with the East In-
dia Company, repay them the expenses which they
had been put to in conquering that country, and
possessing themselves of its products ? If they would
net, it was the height of injustice to ask for such
participation ; and he hoped the House would never
countenance a scheme which would really destroy an
approved and existing. benefit of the highest impor-
tance, for the purpose of indulging idle speculations.
Mr. PROTFIEROE differed in opinion with the
Holt. Gent. who had just sat down, whom he consi-
dered as the organ of the East India Company : he
I would not, however, enter into any discusion this
'night, but had no doubthe should be able to show
at a proper time the futility of the arguments ad.
sauced by the Hon. Gent.
Gen. GASCOYNE spoke shortly in favour of the
claims of the out-ports.
Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that the resolutions
were calculated to bring the question to as speedy a
derision as possible. If it was necessary to hear
, any evidence, the House could not proceed on it too
I soon.

Mr. WHITSHED KEENE thought the question
could not be fairly determined without hearing evil.
deuce at the Bar of the House.

• Mr. TIERNEY coincided in opinion with the
Honourable Gentleman who spoke last, as to the!
necessity of examining evidence at the bar on both
sides. lie had as yet heard nothing but assertions on
one side, and he would wish to be informed where
the place was to which they would have their mano.
factures sent. He should be happy in being satisied.
-they Could On any'advantage" by their speculations. !
Therewas nothing to complain of in the present system.
They ask for the adv antages of a new trade,and they had
not-proved that those advantages were to be obtained.
Ile thought it wrong to hazard a positive good for a
chimerical advantage. No time, however, ought to
be lost ; and he was of opinion, that if the House
applied seriously their attention to the business, in.
stead of making speeches, they might get through it
before the Easter recess.

Mr. CANNING expressed his approbation of the priadpal
propositioos laid down, and of the arguments advanced bey tip
Noble Lord ; yet there were, in his opinion. some points, re-
specting both the great interests of the country, and the
ticularinterests of the East India Company, which wows,* to
be submitted to the consideration of the House,- nal which
called for the most attentive coaniderationt
•
Mr. T I ERN EY explained. •
Mr. C. GRANT stated, at some length, his opinion in favour
of the renewal of the Company's Charter.
Mr. R. GORDON fokowal as the same view of the question.
Lord CASTLEREAGH (*served, that it was his wish the
subject should undergo every possible investigation. Hs mould,
therefore, wish it to be naderstqod, that the proceedings relative
to the again of India should commence next Monday, and that
every Member of the House should enjoy the opportnaky of
delivering his sr ntiments upon the qttesttoo.
A, law conversation then took place between Mr. Wilber-
force, Mr. Haring. Lord Castlereagh, Mr'Wm. Smith, Mr.
Stephen, nod several other Members ; whet; the Chairman re-
ported oursets,
he and the Com .
mittee was ordered to sk
Adj at lf-past Goa

The salary of the Vice-Chaueeller of England te
to be 50001. It year, not 75001. as erroneously statikl
some.of the Public Prints; the sum of 250014 to
be annually paid by the LORD Cuenccu.on set of
his fees aodielOillakellefscoastitute part of the 50001.
the remainder being to be paid out et the dead cash
la Chaneerr.

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by sea, we imp tbeeght proper to pass it over.
Vats raiwas received this morning, bet as his well-penned
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peeled till Artier satire.

PRICE OF STOCKS TILIS
Sank
3 per Cent. Red.
9 per Cent. Co. 59i
per Cents.
5 per Cent. Navy Eli -
Long. Asn.

DAY AT ONE O'CLUCK.
India Minds 4 6 dis
Exchequer 4111131 d.
two 50. 4 b p
Cimino
Cowls fee Aecf. 591
Lottery Tickets

THE ST.4TESMAIV4-

LOATD011:
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DESPERATE NAVAL ACTION.

Po IMINAUTIII Masten 22.—Arrived the Amelia,
the Hon Capt. hay, from the Coast of Africa, on
which station she hts bees for 18 months. She brings
accounts of two Fritsch frigates being on that coast
the Areikusa anditaby ; with the former she had a
desperate action of three hours and a half, on
the 7th of February, in a perfect calm, off
Sierra Leone. The ships- were close along-side
each other, generally touching: the enemy three
tikes attempted to board ; in one instance, one
men got into the dinelis's misen-chains, zrho' was
immediately pitched overboard ; neither ship lost a
mast nor spar, but the hull of the enemy, on the
ships separating, was observed to be much battered.
Qur loss was immenset as well might be expected,
from ships Co near, determined, and steady in the
water. Lieutenant PASCO, late of the Daring, with
his crew, were on board the admais, be baring de.
stroyed his brig some few days previous, 10 prevent
her falling into the hands of the-enemy. Lieutenant
Pasco was killed, as were Lieutenants BATES, P 417,
acid Wiu.s; Lieutenant Gatseau, of the Marines,
Mr. Keirescot, Midshipman, Mr. -Boom:, Purser
of the. Thais, Honourable Capt. hoer, wo,inded ;
Mr. DIDIATNII, Master, wounded; Mr. Riz, Mid-
shipman, lost his arms; Mr. ROBERTSON, Midship.
man, part of his jaw shot air; 50 seamen and ma-
rina killed, and 93 wounded. During the early
part of the action the Ruby remained at anchor; but
finding the Amelia did not surrender, she got under
'weigh ; the enemy bore away, unable* to lay along-
side the Amelia; and the latter, from light winds,
was enabled to get away.

We are glad to have It in our power to, say, that
our reflections of yesterday, on the relative condi-
tion and beneficial connection of England and
America, are likely to be followed by flattering
prospects of a speedy revision of the causes which
have occasioned the rupture between the two coun-
tries, so destined by nature and origin for mutual
good offices, and good understanding.
We have it from respectable anti. ,11‘y, that the
dispatches from America, brought by the Dutlerell
ship of war, contained the offer from the Republican
Government of an armistice, intended to be p-va-
ratory to a Treaty of Pacification with Great E.:t
The basis of such an arrangement is supposed to be,
as follows:

I. A law to be paned by Courts', under which it sill be
highly petal to employ British seamen is the ships of Oki United
States, wbeitter commercial or naval.
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2. No British seaman to be lo Ware naturalized by the exist-
ing law of citixeoship, obtained by residence; awl as Act to be

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passed, to exclude such penons from the operation olikal law.

- S. A aegociatina to be entered into herding die interchatir
oldie Britt* and American mums, 'reciprocally claimed by
the two countries.

With respect to the first article, it has been seen
that a Bill has already passed the House of Repre.
lootatives to proride for the purpose it contemplate.

The Post has made a coarse attack upon one of
the peolle's beat champions ; and with a natant asid
manner, which prove that it'llnot upon tlieground
of love of truth or justice, that it takes up the
tomahawk. We are disgusted. with 'this sort of
" distributive justice," which is laid so heavily on
the ungarnished coats but is lightly dealt out on the
ermined toga ! The copy of the depositions which
has given rise to the unmanly abuse by the scribe in
the Post, may or may not be 4i fallacious," for
what we know. Mr. Wutriazan's good nature, as
well as that of any other ardent mind, may have
been surprised into the adoption of a spurious docu-
ment. But before we will allow our opinion of him
to be let 'down, we must be convinced of what is
incredible, that he was conscious of its inauthenti-
city. If the Honourable Member for Bedford has
been imposed upon, we lament the effect, while we
still admire the cause, viz. an eager desire to
vindicate the wrongs of. an Injured Princess.—
What man who is prompt to do good, who occupies
the chief part 'of his time in seeking occasion toren.
der services to the oppressed, may not have an over.
charged brief put into his hand by an helpless client.
By this, however, we do not In the smallest degree
wish to have it understood that the Princess of %razes
is such client. No; if the paper alluded to be not an
authentic one, which Mr. WiIITIREAD believed, it has
In all probability been produced ay an over-zealeus
advocate of isnecenee, who, as le many other simi
In MINI WOW @MUNN a good cave by substi-

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them men, of such ability as would do credit to any
Government, and he found highly useful in the
Councils of any nation. This was done to show,
that in whatever way the negociation may end, with
regard to the terms Ministry feel bound to
insist upon on public -grounds, the change might not
be imputed to a belief there is any charge implied
against tip conduct of those who have bad the
minampekeet of the Company's snwieldy affairs,
.The %aide Lord candidly affirmed, that the trade, as
it now stood, was too much for the faculties and the
capital of the Company. In the course of his excellent
speech, at once methodical and conspicuous, his Lord..
ship laid down certain maxims, in which we cordially
agree with him—That Parliament ought to interfere
as little as poisible in the regulation of commercial
•concerns--a-that commerce best regulates itself."
Our Parliamentary report will explain the gene-
ral outline of the modifications 'about to be adopt-
ed ; from which we doubt not oar Readers will
derive considerable satisfaction. It 'appears, in this
instance, to be the wish of Ministers to conciliate
the good opinion of two parties, whose interests
may, at first right, appear to be greatly in opposition
to each other; but which, in realitylarenot in the de-
gree conceived by those • who have paid only a super.
ficial attention to the stupendous affairs ofa Company
of Merchants, who have obtained a proprietary (some
have called it a sovereign) footing over a territory
four times as large as all England, and inhabited by
above thirty millions of people.

Yesterday Count Muss Tut, accompanied by a
Foreign Officer of distinction, were in attendance
at the Foreign Office.
IVP are assured, says one of the Papers, tlia' " -
strtictions have been given to the servants of u.:
Princess CHARLOTTE'S establishment, by and with
the ads ice of the Confidential Servants of the
Crown, to prevent,• u far as- possible, opportu-
nity for the exchange of even a passing salute with
the Princess, her mother, in their airings, In their
carriages."
Mr. CANNING did, in the course of his speech on
Wednesday night, distinctly charge the present Mi.
nisters with having offered and engaged, upon their
accession to office, to withdraw all intercourse and
countenance from the Princess of WALES, and that
such ofter was volunteered uiaott.their part, and not
required by their Royal Master, and the charge,
thus distinctly made, was net denied ner replied to.
The letters by the Heligoland Mail were delivered
from the Post-Office yesterday, and the dates from
Hamburghore to the 16th, and from the island to
the 18th instant. The following are extracts:—

HAXESURGII, MARCH 15.—Tbe French hare withdrawn, mi.
we are in expectation that the iotetteurse with England will be
immediately re-established. Bremen has also been evacuated
by the enemy.
Hrzteousno, Alaaca 17..—1 have jog time to inform yon
that the trade is completely open with Ow Continent, the French
having let the whole range of the opposite coast. In conse-
quence of this situation of things, forty ships have arrived in five
days. Two ships of war bare gone from hence, to take posses-
sloe of Qaxhanen.
We're here all bogie, and the activity is equal to what it
was in 1209. Ships are arriving every hour, and the market is
se 101 l of costomersthat we can hardly move fee things. Coffee
is at lOod. and will soon be at 12d."

Letters have been received from Jamaica, to the
dth, and from Bermuda to the 27th test month. By
the former we learn the arrival of the fleet which
sailed from Portsmouth on the 20th of November,
under convoy of the Victorious. A convoy for
England was expected to sail from Jamaica on the
Ist of April. At that island iatelligonce had beets
recelired of the flight of the French from Russia, and
the acceptable news had occasioned considerable ac•
tivity in the shipment of coffee, to supply the ex-
pected delland in the Baltic.
We hear from good authority, that orders have
been given by BONAPARTE to bring round the Dutch
ships of war from the Texel to the Scheldt, flom an
apprehension that the spirit which is rising in the
INorth should extend to Holland, and that they may
fall into our blinds. If they should, be suffered to
escape, it can only be owing to that ignorance or
dotage which prevails in our Admiralty, for, with
proper vigilance, a ship ought not to be suffered to
slip out of the Teel.
THE Book.—Much expectation has been raised by
the different advertisements about The Book, but the
Public are informed, it is impossible an authentic
Account can be published before the 7th of May, as
the State Lottery will not commence Drawing till
the 6th, and on the following day genuine Extracts
from the Numerical Book may be relied on ; and as
the Lottery.contains more Prizes thin Blanks, the
Extracts are likely to be interesting, especially as
every Ticket Drawn on the First Day will be a
Prize.

BRIAD.—This day the LORD MAYOR, after in.
spectiag the Meaiweighers' Returns, ordered the
Price of Bread to continue at is 6fd. the Quarters
Loaf.

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Nathaniel Nicholls, bate. at Tottenham, was cosvieted s$
Worship-street °See, for reilimt at shots in Featherstone.
street and Prmiamulane, lity .driisisul is ssiell• tie wss
Hoed 111. IS. sad "the bread forfei tut to the poor.

UtillONt Printed and Pub Hotted lov I). I (way. 40 out
WriTimatto Omen. 87. F1N141,041.

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kiiiffillite fwd. 11, Logolave nobly de,
beasises and animaters I If they
it takes etp that of the Princess with half the
mar and half the fervency, bow many pings
they Met have spared the unhapphthe ill-used)
setiiesl Lady in queition.?
I CAlliteltrAaat in the Committee or the
!fosse of Commons last night, to consider
ions Petitions on the *abject of the East India
r, intimated what would.be the nature of the
ulnae of the Government to the India Com,
in consequence of their application for the
al of their Charter. Before, however, he
of the intended regulations and alterations
were lass (Accompany such Renewal, his Lordship
high and, we think, deserved compliment to
—_s • .