The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-05-20 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, Mir 18.

The npenln evening Whinge et the Royal Stevie
Library teat night war elegantly and nemereesly at-
tended • I 'fly Dormer and Ninny Ladies of high
fowiionehla di.tiaction were there. The diverting
pastime of Ivo for p►ise teener, with the usual musical
accompaniments, predominated. Toppen's Marine
Parade Lihrary, end Wright's Pavilion Parade, are
preparing to follow the sample of their contem-
porary.
The weather here cantina's remarkably bright ;
tlia nuoinhigges on the risks arid walks dilly are in
consegaeece considerable; bet vegetating now is
earls its mutt of rain.

INFORYANT.—AI the late Hants Coonty Sosoloos
an Appeal mo. occupied the Court several boars.—
ft was instituted by the Reg. HENRY WAKE, R.ctor
of Over Wallop, against the accounts el dm Our-
seers of that parish, who had been in the habit of
eking not the poor laboorers' wages by allowances
from the Poet's Rates. One of the witnesses ei-
*mined was a solo with a wife and five children, who
in the summer ree..ived 61. In the winter 9.. some-
times 104. pe► week. Ile could not subsist on ibis,
and by galas tat the Overseers they etas it up to
12s 6.1. This practice was so commonly understood
by the farmers, that they asade.mosielamasts with
their labourers accordingly, and Ow. pen were
induced to accept almost any oasis bon lawn
sake hired them. The Noble Chairman (the Earl
of Cionanvos) said, the payment of a portion
of labourers' wages est of the Pont's Ital. was illegal,
and should be disallowed : t►at it was alike nojost in
principle and practice, and pressed hastily on the
small farmer, on the shopkeeper, and on other per.
soes its the parish, who conttibuted a hirer propor-
doe towards the l'oor's Rate, than the more osten-
sive occupiers of land. The Overseers were accent.
iugly diregteil to refund 151. to t►e 1t... H. WAKE,
and discoatinue the practice.

LONDON, OR A NORTH AT STEVENII.II.—Tbio new
Satirical Nov.l continues to form the subject of con-
versation among a large number of fashionable de.
velem. The Author justly observes In his Preface:—
" At a period when genllcmaa•like dishonesty in
the shape of 'reeking, iadpiike infidelity in t►e
form of (,rim. Gov. Trials, leaky of principle,
absodonment of morality, .and public bed example,
ender the garb of fashion, corrupt ear youth, and
disgrace high hle, there cameos be a more impe-
rious duty than In point oat the evil, and to apply
the powerful remedies which freedom of thoughq and
equally useful freedom of the Press, offer.
titre have never cured wide-spreading correribm.—
Thy may remote inflammation, c►euge appearances,
oatmeal the deep-rooted evil, and give a healthy ap-
pearance to the exterior, coder w►ich gangrene sod
the foulest Lammers lurk. The imputative knife,
arid the caustic's biting property, can alone eradicate
the disease. Satire and esposete furnish these re-
medies. The cagier folly, with its bells, is (mirth-
some end sidicelous—it might sail any head; and he
whom • the cap fits may wear it.' But the case be-
comes quite different when. we feel it imposed upoe
our owe, and looking in the glass, little imagine that
Is Can appear so fright's! as on my Lord or Lady
Betty, or Mr. or Mrs. Seth..-one."

The will of the late Dr. WILLIAM ADAM! has been
received in Engtand, from the East Indies, whet, he
died in October last, as formerly 'opposed. lie has
bequeathed are whole (a trilling token or two of ra.
tatembranee excepted) of the immense property,
amounting te tinily half a million sterling, to tonic*
be became entitled under Ilse will of his late father,
Am. ADAMS, Esq. of this town, bet which he did
not live to take peestasion of, ante kis cousin, Mr.
THos. NATIMS (dm WM of his amber% sist•r). who
is stew is the State of Vermont, North America,
having been unfortunate in trade in England. It is
remarkable that this vest property. the gr►at.r part
of which is personal, sheold devolve upon t co natural
children in *accession. end conseqwently (inserts-
meat will revolve the fell legacy dotty of 10 1... r coot.
&We over (Nail to a lift% .1 the value) before abs
rich inheritance la dually taken pomesaitse of by the
fortecate legatee, who is sot that least feinted in
blood to the original testator, sod could not hatre
bad Ilse smallest espeerffitien of this prodigious gift of
I legless I—( Nester s& Proper.)

a • •

A General Court of Proprietors of test India
Stock was yesterday b•ld at the Company's noose,
in Loadashall-si rest, at the desire of ohm Propr icier',
is order to consider a propositi.,n for grantiog a sem
al mosey, wpm! to 180,000 slam rupees, to Mr.
James Wilkinson, in cossogoesso of lessee sestained
by bias from (ha coactwese of a monopoly salt.
pets ►y the Bengal Government, les the year 11114.
This Minutes of the last Covet hating 10,8 reeds
Mr. Fosses rose, and listiag sherdr adverted to
Mr. Wilkin►en's claim, which, be cootended, was
foondod not merely osi principles of libtreloy, but
on those of justice, moved—
" That a sow of money, equal to If f 000 sire&
mimes, to be taken from rt.• Company's commercial
revenge, be paid to Mr. J. Wilkinson, on 'cermet
of losses he bed sostained."

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EAST INDIA-HOUS 11.
--enb.--

The CsietimeXToOltThet opportunity of Inpresll.
jag his sestiveents on thy question. Whatever it
might have been at first, the subject was not en es+
tersely difficult one, pertie•tarly with reference us
Ilse main point, that of de •Ming •n the precise
amount of remuaeretl•a. is t.is opinion, Gentle-
men who fovea'd the claim, had harried the gaes-
ti•n beyond its proper bounds, when they censored
the sets of the Indian Government, for unwitting
what wee denominated a monopoly, as 'sprains
which shays mode a very greet impression •s the
public mind in this reentry. He conside•red that
when the Bengal Governetrot gave individuals per-
mission to embark in the Saltpetre. Trade, It was
merely meant as an indulgence; and 'hen, after a
trial of 12 months, it was found That the reperimest
hindered the Company from foldiling the contract.
which they had entered into for e large apply of
saltpetre annually to this canary, the Government
were jostified IN resuming the right they had tempo+
verily laid down. Ile leoked upon this es a goa-
lies of principle, not of detail ; and, considering the
inconvenience Mr. Wilkinson bad suffered, be was
•llling to great him 10,0001. bet as to the grant of
}BO,OOO ropes, or 24,0001. staling, he was deter-
mined to resist it.

Mr. 1.011/lon conceited gist Mr. IVilkinfoo, by
abase wens the Company had realised a very Iwo
foe, wee entit.led to remeneration, on the principle
of
salvage at sea.

Dszon said, after biting the demand of Mr.
Ws[kisses the moot eeeee eonside-. firm, ft appeased
to his that he had not a tittle of delis an the Com-
pany for losses, real or Insagisery. 8.1 as the Com-
pasy's egeots abroad, by •hose sr!, they were
bond, had terognised that Gentleman's rLint, ho
was ready In accede to a `rant of 73,000 rotten,
the sem originally propoied by the Coen of Ds.
rector*.

Mr. llosse went ever all the feels of the case, and
cambered the moments adduced by the nine
Di-
rectors, who had dissected from the Re 'tattoo for
granite( 75,000 ',IMMO to Mr. Wiliam/tn. At the
some time he eirreseerl hie dissetisfaction at the
course of proceeding adopted be the Committee of
Warehouse,, In al.pertioning the specific sem of
76,000 rupees when they had co date 1.nf0,0 them.
Be had examined all the documen'•, a -t/ betted I"
move, as ets amendment, that the sum of 147,3.J0
repays be inserted, instead of 190,000.
Mr. Twieteo seconded the am.•ndtaent.
Mr. Es.ruterroec defended the conduct of chomp
Directors who bed signed the Protest. He argued
at some length, that Mr Wilkinson had no claim,
either in law or equity, on the Cesspits*.
Mr. biota stated to the Court the Course of pro.
I ceedlog that had been adopted in the Committee of
Warehouse,. On the r•fereea to this subject, that
Committee considered the claim with /feet victim
and deliberation. They attentively investigated the
imperfect documents that were laid before them; an 4
if they bad no sore and cattalo date to proceed on,
the fault was not theirs, bet that of Mr. Waking's,
who bad not afforded them any. It was at Ant do-
teradned by that Committee to recommend • gnat
of 76,000 rupees; bet it hiving been eel/coiled that
the Board of Trade in India had *etiolated the loss
'retained by the claimant at 73,000 rupees it was
deemed proper to adopt that sem, as it was fairly
inferred, that the Board acted on evidence which the
Committee of Warehouses was not in p f ion of.
Sir C. Cocatneet. contended, that Me. Wilkinson
bad a right to demand composition, founded oh
every equitable principle by which the conduct of
mercantile men was insisted.
Mr. IMPIT said, as be understood the ease, he
never knew any claim presented to any body of men,
that had less ground to stand u,ron than the present.
Mr. Mosel straggly advocated the claims of Mr.
Wilkinson to compensation, He argued, that wiles
the Government threw open the trade is saltpetre,
obey not only permitted, bet encourage& persona to
embark in it. The persona who bad so speculated
were justified is relying on the good faith of Govern*
ment, that a Resolatiou promulgated In so uuq•ali.
lied a manner, would be perniseent ; and, if they
were afterwards disappointed, and stsfi•7ed loss in
consequence, they certainly ought to be regenerated,

. ,
Mr. K. J•cason, in ili very eloquent speech, sop.
'ported the claim preferred by Mr. Wilkinson. He
would not argot te• yeestion on the mend of lib,.
runty, much lees on that of ceespossion. Unless the
Proprietors avoid abstract the tontine from ell nett
feelings; unless it was shown, that • certain son
I was dee to this Greenman, independent of every
personal consideration, he lied no claim on their
purse; and, on the ether lAnd, if is justice he had
serh a claim, hammy most fall on them if they re.
jvcted it.
Mr. Moons spoke in favoer of the amendment.
M,. Anns opposed the larger grant, as did Mr.
Utah.

Mr. PALMER spoke to Disport of the aeseadmear,
as did Mr. Forbes.
'I hesieavian was thew pot, upon the awmpoisawee
it;•ing the larger
59 to 50; and a
t.ousiltd lot this el.

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were pot sod ogre-
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.1 • ballot being •lernanded, it nee •p.
hie dey fortnight (Jon.. t).
epeeist sasesers appointed for s•sistrday,
agreed so, withoot en dlet-aseino.
f a ego of 11401. so Sr Merrily Stag•
eervine on bnard tW Alehene, is the
r• Chung, prodnerel • shod theasitroey
but Ir .1111 carried asaaisoealy• Th•
joantad.