The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-12-20 00:00:00

F..! .1; INDM ROUSE.

tirterly Oeueral Court of Proprietors of East
vOla S•o-k Wag restrrday held at the Company's
I # rse ie ioadenhall-street.

• J: &retool', Esq. the Deputy Chairman, took the
Male. t/ir ahsettee of Tuoasss Kato. Esq. the
elhavessa. Wiese ill state of hioth prevented him
Rust ottesdisig.) The minute of the last Court hay-
.h bldh read, he moved,--•" That the Coon do agree
WMltlveolutiou of the Court of Directors. declaring
414. tiled of SUper Cent. en the Company's Capital
Stork for the half year commencing on the sth of
July list ant ending on the sth of Jas. nest. The
Motion Ts. .4
hied to; ' •
The Cisataissw then moved, that this Coon approve
i r ilsQor. of thrtourt of Direetersegranting to Dr.
as Lecturer la the Hindoos-
of 2001. per annum for a
togetber with an allowance
enable biro to provide a suit-

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expressed his participation in the
ertained by the Company for
the long . ______---labours of the distinguished
in4lyi4sal to whom the present .grant was appropri-
ated. He could have wished, however, that in the do.
seription of that learned person, words of a more coMO
plienentary character bad been introduced ; and he
shheld propose, avenemendeeent, the addition of the
w+ife; " late °Metal Prifessor in the College of
noie William. and now Professor and Liikiiirer in the
Hutkitanoe ruiner In London." There was no
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other point to which be wislpd to call the attention of
theCoott, he =east the limitation of the grant te a
Perilldwit three Tom. He could not but think it a'
little ungracious, that a Gentleman, to whose bawd!,
Mil. &briny was so much indebted, and who had cow
Mitdieffsei much towards facilitating a knowledge of
thielfeldninl languages, should be put, as it were up6n
Iffifyibiebekatiour for a term of three years. One
of itfiPvineenaty effects of this limitation would be
to preclude Dr. Gilchrist from any benefit he might
hegoafter derive from the Superannuation Act, and he
ifee:mire that !Gibing could be further from the in-.
tendon of the Company than that the grant should
1;11Te, eiseb an operation. He should move, there-
for% liras the words " for the term of three years,"
bermaitted.
-ilk fkeicamendments a long discussion ensued, the
Clininami thought the latter part of the Hon. Proprie-
-4'o 'Apiladnient obiectiosabie. since it would operate
ap,po.extension of the Company's grant. It would
onlorhe introduced as a substantive motion to be deter-
mined': spos.by two Courts. The Hon. Proprietor
wail' mistake. in supposing that the terms of the grant
*Mild have Hie ',feet of depriving Dr. Gilchrist of the
liegefit of ,the Siperandiation Act, for the three years
siciyld becorne a'pert'of the period which would entitle
iiiP p the hF4444.4i1ial Act-
f ,111 C. JACKSON!' caromed himself willing to withdraw
the second part of his amendment.
On the title of oriental professor, he., the Chair-
man observed, that the appointment of oriental pro-
fit/tor bad been made by the Marquess Wellesley, and
anhqsqueotly disapproved of by that Court. It would
be ?pi, the Court, therefore, to consider whether it
would not be somewhat inconvenient to give a title to
fir. "Gilchrist, which had not Veen recognized by the
Company. • • . . '
• Mr. Hump remarked that the title was von m isec-
eerie aileil. He could not help thinking that D. Gil-
christ bad been hardly treated. It was usual for the
Company not tp consider the retired allowance of their
servants as part of their allowance for present services,
but Oat practice had been departed from in the case
of 'Dr. Gilchrist. Other Professors, Profeseor Stuart,
for example, received a salary for 5001. per annum,
independent of his salary. Di. Gilchrist received
102 A-retired pay as a surgeon, a pension of 20.01. for
his literary labours in India, 2001. salary for his pro-
fessorship, and 150/. a year for a lecture room, making
in the whole 6521. Now if he were placed on the
same footing as the other Professors, he would receive
600/. salary, and 1821. retired pay, so that if every
mark of degradation were removed, the difference to
the Company would only amount to a sum of 401. a
year. He trusted the Court would not refuse to a me-
ritorious servant the trifling gratification of having
his name mentioned es Prnfessor.
,The acting Chairman then withdrew the objection
which be had urged to the word's" late Oriental Pro-
fessor at the College of. Port William," forming part
of the resolution. He found that the appointment in
question had been already recognized by the Court.
'The Resolution at timeodect by Mr. It. JACKSON, was
then carried without a 'dissentient voice.
After this point was decided,
The CHAIRMAN laid before the Court a Report ad-
dres=d to the Court of Directors by Dr- Wilkins.
their Oriental Visitor, together with certain Letters
from ' the Oriental Professors and Sub-Professors of
Aylesbury and Addescombe, on the subject of the ki-
legefl`diffemisce between the mode of imparting in-
stinc(iike le the Oriental languages to the Company's
servi*!.s in this coolant. and in India.
Tile Papers, after a 'desultory cauversation, were or-
dered to be panted.
The Ca AlltnAlt nett moved that a Resolution of the
Ciurfof Directors be confirmed, granting a sum of
1,001. to John Hind. Peiley, of the Bombay Civil
Establishment, on the grounds therein stated.
Mr. Huns opposed the motion on thkground that Mr.
Peiley bad failed to fulfil the terms of a contract, which
be had made to furnish the Company with ropes for the
washing of cotton bales. It was true that be had ulti-
mately famished the whole amount of lashings contract-
ed for, and be also believed that he might have lost mow
sideraby by the contract, bet as he had failed to furnish
them within the time specified in the contract, he wen
not entitled. to compensation.
Mr. S. Dixon opposed -the grant. .
Mr. Cnaurans and Mr. Manny supported it.
After a few words from Mr. ilecklin,./dr. Hallett, Mr.
Money and. Mr. Treat,
atr. liefira, on behalf of himself and eight other Pro-
prietors. demanded a ballot, which was fixed for that
day three weeks.
fter *some other business, relative to the by-laws of
thr Courf; had been dionnoed of,.the Court-adjourned:
_ Pas —Monde" nilpt, about flan o'clock, an alarming
fire broke out iti the ?realties of Mr. Child, cheese-
mimeo', Lower East Smith Id. which raged with great
key nptfl Mae o'clock yeiw+day morning. There being
a- plentiful siiiipi o surrounding
f irate, the surunding houses were
ass inateriallyi red, with the exception d!. the one ttc-
co sh
pied. by liv.4 hp., mem who lost p op. rty to a••
1 orderable amount in the contusion.

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S resolution- of the uours or 1
Johitrlftrybwitit Gilchrist, as
lapage, the sum o
eterm of three years, I+
is Ore ammo, to *nal
.Agoia•
L.• ; *LION expresser
fee ngs of gratitude entertai
the long and surcessfullato