The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-07-22 00:00:00

tare .rusted
entitling. the difficulties with which they were actom- three years.,
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4,400, to the beet of their ability, and-witirthe hest Mr. rtnerVellhffelleour of the Bill; aid are ed
intentiops towards ell rerties intereeteda.elle begged that no real danger *al; ,!,o be apprehended 'from the
to add one word before be concluded. He was private trader. .
.. certain the country would be disappeleted, and that 1 Mr. Lowsuss said, he argued under tholtilleeffee
,
' rgrievoualy too, in the expectations theyefilertilned 'of three attributes—truth, justice, and humanity. :
on the subject of this measure; but let it not be said., they were bit. Deities,—[if 1 .merit . 3---if he wig trot
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that any part of this was owing to the East India heard with patience, he would affirm that he was no
Company. Ministers, too, he must say, had proved' longer living in &civilised country, for even among
the friends of the Company instead ,of their enemies. the American Indians the Chiefs listened tome:bother
The country had been decidedly against the Com- • with attention. He *hed some indivWeals be bad
pony, and matters would have been. worse than they :in his eye would sake. example fatten ler Francis
pole were, had not Ministers stept in. I' Bartlett, who was the most gentlemanly ewe living,
' The motion being pat, for he always heard others with patience.—e--
Sir It. Di.t.ctts seconded the motion., lie thought [Laughter.]—With regard to what had fatten from
the Bill so fenced with securities, as to ward off al- the last speaker, he differed from blie,. as he be.
most all the evils that bad been dreaded. Whatever ; lieved great•dangers were to be apprehended from
desists the Court might entertain as to the conduct i the private trader embarking capital is British bet.
'of 'Ministers, they could heave none as to the zeal ' toms, manned with British seamen. We knew whet
'and ability displayed by their Executive Body, not r British capitol had done when employed in elenerken
on the present occasion alone, but throughout.— i bottoms, sod sorely mote might be expected when
The conduct 'of that body hod been such, as in sac- ; employed in a legitimate, way, He would Rhea the
eardieg times, Masi spread a lustre Amer the reign of '1 Bill to a vintage : Government had get the Grit prem.
George the Third. It would be one of the proudest ing—the Directors the second—and, what had been
features in his Majesty's reign, that India had en• left for the Proprietors ? Nothing but the bog-wash.
joyed greater peace-than any part of Europe. 1 jr-eughter.]
Mr. GEOIME Sasyrn, after reading a letter from r. Ilene spoke to order.
the remaining Director, concurring in the opinion Mr. LOWNDEs maintained that he was perfectly is
of the great majority of that body, was proceeding order, and proceeded to animadvert upon the manner
to deliver the grounds of his own individual opinion, in which the Bill had been accepted by the Directors
when contending, that if they bad said to the Government
Mr. HOARE submitted, that the Directors hiving that they would accept the Charter only upon such
already given their opinion collectively, the present and such terms, Ministers would have been too wise
Court was held for the purpose of ascertaining the to put the four millions a year, which they received
opinion of the Proprietors, from the China trade, in jeopardy, for the sake of
a few trifles. With regard to the clause concerning
Mr. Sem thought the individual opinions of the
Directors had been required. .•, . • Missionaries, &c. all he should say was, that es soon
• Mr. lloA ea presumed they had given their indivi- as he saw a Bishop la the Bill, by G—d he thought
dual opinions in their collective opinion. it lea: gone to the Devil.—[Ltesd cries of order! and
- Mr. Serra acquiesced. laughter.]. • -
Mr. Bosaweerr presumed that he was an exce The CRAIKNAN very properly rebuked the indeco.
p- ram of .
eon from this rule, his opinion being unfortunately Mr. Isteee expressed
Honx Member.
pressed his intention to vote for the
different from that of his brethren. Great as the as originally made, rather than as amerMed
merits of the Report were, he confessed he could not motion
by
Mr. Jackson, because that Amendment seemed to
subscribe to it. He believed however the Pro-
s • s
victors would and he was almost tom fed to sa imply a sort of doubt or distrust of the Directors,
p, , mp
~. though they bad hitherto discharged their ardeousi
after the unanimous recommendation to that effect, duties with unimpeachable zeal and assiduity. Withs
from behind the Bar, ought to accept of the Charter. regard to the proposed Charter, he advised its .mci:'
'Phis being his impression, he should not urge his ceptance, and in acceptiog it a full and vigorous esel
opinion upon the Court; but, if there was any thing' ecutiot of it the so' 't of the legislature.
like a divided sentiment, then should he debate the ' 1/ in in
I Mr. eels congratulated the Court upon the dote.
point, to the best of his ability. An Honourable ! sion they were likely to come to, as that decision 1
Gentleman had talked of a vote of thanks to those
I would completely bear him out in all the statements
Members of the Court who were in Parliament,— t
which he had made some months before. He wished
For his own part, he thought, that some to peculiar submit a few Resolutions (6ve in slumber) tousle.'
mark of respect and gratittees was due to an Ifon.i
.
mg certain points connected with the Bill, end he'
Director,' for the eminent zeal ait.: atelity which he hoped _...1
some Member would do him the honourto eh'
had displayed, and for the frtegue he had' undergone . cond them that they might at least be recorded.
in promoting the interests of the Company through. ' The eis 7
nemies* informed him that there was a
out the present important discussion.
motion already before the Court, to which an
' Mr. P. Monet thought, though the present Char- Amendment had been proposed, and it was not
ter was very different from that of the year 1793,' competent to the Ilonourable Member to move an
that the Court ought to accept of it. Their vested Amendment to an Amendment. Ile had allowed
rights in the territory conferred on them were more him to read his Resolutions as part of his speech.
than equal to their capital. Those rights he, there- The question being now loudly called for,
fere, wished should always be kept prominent, and The CnAICMAN briefly addressed the Court. He
on the sltface, that they might not escape out ofl said they were now come to that most important de-
view, and be forgotten. i termination of saying yes, or no, upon the question
Mr. Rasesee JACKSON asked an explanation, asl before them. In delivering that-alecision he could
to somepart of the Report, which was satisfactorily i wish it to be unmixed withany other consideration.
given him by Mr. Grant. ! The Directors, one and all, had done their utmost
Mr. JACKSON then went on to take a view of the for the Proprietors ; they had not only fought for
situation in which the Company stood under this Bill, them, with courage and perseverance, but .they had
the very power of extinguishiug them being originally fought for them on their stumps, and even yet their
leffwith Ministers, though they had chosen them. Maces were towards the enemy. They were now
selves to relax great)), in the extent of this power.— i come to ask what they were to do at this momentous
He agreed that they had merit in this; for if they i crisis ?—Were they to say aye, or no?—The Bill,
had actually chosen to extinguish them, and then tot with all its objectionable parts, had some good cha-
march over their dead bodies, they would hare been I racters ; the dividends were rendered more secure by
hallooed in their proceeding. He agreed that certain : it, the commercial funds were rendered more secure,
ameliorations had been made in the financial depart- '- and their capital stock was as safe as by the last
mete ;hut it appeared that there might still bee neces- ' Charter, though,' after all, their assets were the best
sity, next year and the year following, for borrowing security for their capital stock.
team Government. The interest of the last lean, besides The question was then put ; the Amendment was
being secured in India, was made preferable in this negatived, and the original motion was carried unit.
country to the payment of the Proprietors' dividends ; nimonsly. -
and if the interest of other loans was'also to stand j Mr. P. hlootte moved the thanks of the Court to
in it similar situation, the Company might be made., the Directors for their zealous and unwearied seer-
the means of extinguishing itself. Theie standing tions in behalf of the Proprietors, which was also
Counsel had given it as his opinion that 'they could carried unanimously,, when the Court adjourned. '
not deliver themselves from the present Bill, if they ) _ , , .1w
once accepted of it, without an Act of Repaid, and GOT' ►1"
that Government might settee coaditioits '!o- ......,........................._
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repeal. 'While the Company held the Charter. of 7 • '
King William they must have justice done them ; ' bat '• The following reflections me Ike idea of a Cbngress
if they L-arrowed money from Government whieb for a Peace, are inserted in the St. Petersbargh
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they could not pay, and, in that way suffered a Writ -GueePes of the %eh of June, extracted from the
of Extent to come into that House; then, indeed, • .-11:0nOgsber4 Giaxlie:—
It the mercy of Government, and then ! • " Now, when all the Powers of Europe which,
rter of William be wrested from them. retain ' their independence unite together, to' set
to avoid this was tit practise economy. ' bounds to the ambition of France:—now, that it ii
'refore, propose, es an addition to the determined titet'the Subjugation of the Continent of
words, assuring the Directors that Europe shall cease, since the nations are awakened;
theirs calculated to produce retrench- • —now, when There cannot, without rendering
spenditure, should meet with the warm- herself ridiculouS, repeat to England, that she is
4 encouragement of that Court; and sovereign of the continent, and, tberefore, may
Imended to the Court of Directors not quietly wait the rteeninatidn• of 4e British maritime
fly pecuniary espence which is not ne- power ;—now, when the nullity of 'a separate peace I.
the interests of the Company. Mr.. apparent, and the obstinacy wklt.'st Mils moo war after
.proposed his addition to the me- another bus been waged is exhausted; the voice of
,snas of which was, teat the Direc- peace is heard, and the French Emperor, propOsing
ill the cßest in their power to the a general Congress for Pollee, concludes an Atmis.l
the Charter, nesting, at the same
_lice, to put an end to the effusion of human blood;-'
issurances of Ministers, that they would and while he speaks of sensibility, seems' desirous to
assistance and support al would en- bare It believed, thit he his had no part in pro-
, effectually to discharge their rune- clueing the misery, which, duriniilhe lasi ten years
suggested a caution ales to the. Directors, has allicted Europe. 1
r into any pecuniary ettgageesents but • •" Few believe in the sincerity 4 enoliMproposal :
absolutely required by law ; and to en- they cannot stimose that any thing else is intended
pro:Ai-cable and suitable retrench. but to, gaits thee. For, our own part, teu t w• s con.
home and Indian establishments' as'ip that we ditftw from this opinion. Frisco h uot '

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hatiOtlNT op
Ir/GTO/trilt*'r/Toil/4,
thitreilsuneite, wasth
were
rainti
eGagl
i.:rleti Gardens,
bi
ngikvl was over,
4 for a cossideratnk
conversing with dif.
Officers annoy
military uniforms.
i
I Pe were h 3.
variegated by Ilyfu,
-. vv mace aririn MS wan.. -_ .. . . ets4-14:ar were superbly adorned ai6
no nines ramie by a Secovering them force !Nooses also • Though a spa
SpattWi Jumericiltas detached herself from the mo. , moiler the. temporary wning formed by the eri:
then oeentry, and wilt *verve her resources for * tido Wears,' and ilie • r of. the loug side salon,
rang seer Milikilbill'' or the. wiridair of the Frail was beautifully ileal (or dancing, that amuse,"
kei,
Minister--4a buten law she ear herself elded meet gairaway•ta the genre! taste for pronienad r IN,
*rely to Engtasid. Tbswhole septum world kis The spiesdain *litho 00corations more peeoliorj‘
Filimemotion, and refuses to lend Itself to an Inflame belonged ttithe dibilifitrrangements. The effect .r
WM& has owned all its misery. Under such dram- so rut a sennbeist eddhional lamps in the Garde,
dances, the wick for Maths is waturals even in those was, unqiesdeltehlys ettrenely brilliant, and far sat.
ogii ho have to thank also war for every tblif passed any tomer ezhnsltion in the same place : hut
" But how shall this wish bit "added- it seemed the opinion of many, that something more
' . 66 A Coups...for a general poises we are told, of the surprising light have been accomplished, by
Shall be assembled at Prague, at witicis shall,ite; some novel and imposing mode of illumination : sad;
w lei the e pert, the Plenipotentiaries of
.for instance, as a more resplendent concentration of
'than of the United States of America,Dernnark, the Iligbeei litmus's. The are-works went off exceed.
-Bing of Spain, and all the Allied. Princes (segues- I ingly well,; yet, owing to the shortness of the time
tionably of Italy and Germany) 11' 401 the eflidS.Petts allowed, the devices had net that degree of inveetiou.
Plenipotentiaries of England, Rink, Prank,. which 4elcinled*to such ',commemoration.
Spanishlneargents,and kbp Ober Allies anis* She first division waiushibittd soon after s„
Belligerent Po
Belligerent which, doubtless, Swede.' • 'the spiral platform; under the direction of
le to be reckossed).. It is eddinistbattlateti priaciplin Mania ' and assistants.. snit spectators
ACCeed with the views of.Mitttiet ' '-' Ohre Wetly pleased by. the following expressions in
" It consists with the naterwaf things, that, if glewing,fire--6:, Long lire the Duke of York,"--.
Europe should over enjoy. a peace: of some length-18116 Long lire the Prince Regent." In addition to
its duratioe, it can mdy be the ,work of a Congress, the above, which received loud 'applause, there wai
end cannot be pro&s.ud by such negociatioas at those' a brilliant display et bonqeets, lowers, and
of Presberg,' Tilsit, and 'Vienna.. This, however,' serpents, mounting and mending with precision
must be the first- creation, Who Shall be admitted to f truly' astonishing: The second division was pecu.
this Congress ? liarly remarkable for three greed pillars, enclosine
' . 66 If the French Emperor can procure an adlnisSion " Lonflin the rang!' The third and last dim.
to it for the Plenipotentiaries of the United Stateiof lion displayed the portrait of Lord Wellington,
Americas it is difficult to JOY why the Turkish Eqi- amidst a discharge of cannon.
peror, the King of Persia, and the Republic of Spanish No adequate provision, however, was made for the
America, should not be admitted. The 'policy of ladies in the evade*. These was a scramble for re-
the United States is essentlia ly different from that of the fresinnents at the buffets round the promenade--to
European States, though they are for. the moment which it was Kandy possible to get access—and the
involved in the war which France carries on against hardiest were but 111. requited for 'their labocr by
i England. Their interest, therefore, can be only the
.what they could -Watch. Even the Prireess of
general interests of trade; and they can have nothing WALES was dot .'accommodated with a seat—the
to do with a Congress for Peace, held at. Prague, bat royal boi was 'otherwise occupied ; and her Royal
Merely to perplex and pretreat the negeciations. 1 Highness walked round, accompanied first 'op
"It is still mere remarkable,, that the Plenipotee- i the Duke of Glowietters end afterwards by her
navies of the Spanish Insurgents snail be admitted ' own brother, the • Dike of Brunswick, without
together with those of Kies Jet:spilt, Bowl Havel sitting down. nitre was not even care taken
the two, then, any thing in c,ornestis ? Is there any ito arrange the approach and departure of carriages
npitalation between the Indurgents and the Kintuof, to and from the gardens—so that the way was corn-
Spain ? ' Must not the former insist that Joseph Na- ;• pletely choked ep, and it required three hours to
poleon shall evacu&te Spain ; and the latter that there travel from Westminster-bridle to the gate. The
shall be no insurgents in Spain ? Duchess of York at with great- patience for more
• " And whet should the Allies of France do at a than two hours in her carriage on the outside the
Congress for Pace, if among them ive are to reckon I hedge. All this was owing to the employment of
eke Princes of Germany and Italy ? How lee; have I Hunters, instead of the good old, but now almost
they had interests to espouse or defend ? Hitherto 1 obsolete, officers called Constables, for they would
their greatest virtue has consisted in slavish obe- I have directed coachmen how to set down and take en
' dience. They were the vassals of France, in the ! without delay. Bo perhaps we are not sufficieuny
1 worst sense of the word ; and, es such, in negocia- , familiarised to the sew system of carrying on the
tions for a general peace, they can only be the ob- Government by Fetes. They understand these
1 ject of them, not participators In them. things better in foreign parts. But though the guests
66 The only real Plenipotentiaries, therefore, that under despotism may be better drilled, certainly
will remain, are those of England, France, Ruisia, , neither Paris nor Vienna can boast of such a garden
Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark. The ob.. '
as Vauxhall, of 'such illuminations as, with our tra-
irjects they have have to discuss are of sufficient snag- i nufacture of glass, we are able to display, or with
anode, and sufficiently perplexed, to engage them 1 such au exhibition of beauty as this metropolis can
i-for a long time, and to set in motion every passion. ' assemble.
" The French Emperor, before his departure from Such, however, were the allurements of the fete
Paris, in April last, said to the Deputies of the Le- itself, that many endeavoured to obtain a sight of,
1 gislative Body, that the integrity of the French
i their curiosity. Tickets became so scarce on the and participation in it, who were unable to gratify
Empire had never been endangered, nor ever should I
the morning: of celebration, that ten, and even fifteen
be. If he continue to adhere to this declaration,
Congress for Peace at Prague is supertinomt. Not I guineas were in vain offered for one for the dinner.
only must there be a question of what France has I Proportionate prices were also tendered for the
evening's meetement : and of those who had secured
usurped from Germany (the Rhine being considered
their admission, such were the dangers and thifi.
as the boundary between Franke and that:conntry) ;
cuftiss they had to encounter, that many returned
but of the abolition of dill 'Confederation of the
without a sght of the fete. The obstructions to
Rhine, and even the kingcle in of Italy itself ;as also they-
in and retiring after twelve o'clock, became
what has been annexed to *France in the South of l'itettinfl
Germany ; or the Independence of Germany can almost insuperable. Such a scene of confusion, we
never be re-established.
believe, never before existed. servants being ha-
. ~ ,-.. ,
" prance must return to original principles, and
Dished from the entrance, Gentlem, en were obliged to
open the Congress with declaring, that she is willing come out and, endeavour to call fiscal Ow n earriaces
to retire within 'her natural bouedaries. This de-
to which, if tiy any hazard they found them, they
claration, alone worthy of a great Power, will re-
were Yet unable to conduct their company, for they
concise all the Powers of the Continent ; and though
were universally
veh parsallyrtreis were separated--carriages
admitanceted-7caagea ren-
into the Gaul. us
it contains the confession of past faults, it is the again' '
onlyinitiative of a future_ peace with England.—
dosed useles—persons of all ranks exposed—and
France must now feel, that she has only weakened many who had vehicles of their' own waiting,
herself.by her acquisitions: she has now au oppor-
were obliged to 'chafer for, ' and hire hackney-
coaches at any price. Families who had int.nidee to
tunity to repair that error.
quit the Gardens at one o'clock, if by . any chance
". In short, either F`rance understands the art, at they 'reached tbeiriarrlogoe, were forced, after wait-
the approaching Congress for' Peace, wherever it
-.. lug three or fourhours. to quit them again, and find
may take place, to reconcile to herself the Powers of, th.li, ma., ka....e oeirtooi_theie eerrieges followed at
Xtur°Pet---and Om' will she.. °143411-4". tibibli .11.:—Ii;,..entfo,...—and even eight o'clock yesterday morn-
-40.-Ifiti expected : or she does not understand i tug. Scores, after proceeding as near as they could
that art,—and then is the itevolution of the lath ofd to the Gardens, finding their patience exhausted, got
Brumaire not the last that site may expect. Able!. out, and overcome by fatigue, trudged borne on foot
Physic-het, in desperate. cases, have 'often recourse without seeing the show. Many ladies walked from
to opposite remedies. There is now only one menus,
the Asylum, after being as long stationary there as
to regain the confidence, of Europe, which must be, female patience would admit, and struggled through
before the Congress commences, to real the French
the crowd, unprotected, to the Gardens. The whole
armies from Germany and Spain ; for a negociation was confusion worse confounded.. The battle of Vit-
for peace in the neighbourhood of 300,000 French ioria itself, which the fete was meant to celebrate,
troop., .1111 not be• wiled on in the best spirit.— was peace order, and harmony, when cominired to
If Napoleon cannot previa on himself to remove/ the modern' Babel,
which extended from Charin
theM, he boasts in vain- of commiseration for the' crossto Sonthville, on the Wandsworth-road.
shedding of human blood ; the war most still coq- I men;
carriages were nearly destroyed.
time.; and as be has already found a Marlborough I .
•The Stewards, we learn, confidently expected a
in Spain, he may find a Prince Eugene in Germany. I visit from the Queen, the Princess Charlotte, and
I the other female branches of the Royal Family.—
That a
,dieeppointment•Should have taken place iii
this respect is attributable to the feet of its brio'
understood that her Royal Highness' the Princess
of Wales,' intended to honour the Gardens ai.h her
presence. It does 'appear that her Royal Ilighne
did receive several pressing invitations, anti that she
was at length iodated to promise compliance; ani al-
though her reception . was very flattering, it was by
no memo so evithe,iastic as we could have wished.
An expectation was also entertained that the Prince
'gent would have attended in
.coF. but his absence
-" been-aelviliatod to the projetted• visit of his

Tuesday night has ben one of the inckiett for
coachmakers of any other for many years. It is
supposed that not less Oda 200 carriages have been
broken in the back pannels and sword cases, besides
many others which hays had their poles broken and
were *thorn ise injured. Many gentlemen had the
precaution to lire old carriages of the different
coachmakers to save thole 4so

A huge ship, mound% 11 pm, supposed to he
the Loyal Sao; of Clyde, sad fuming 70,000 Jul-
ian au-beard, was captured on her passage from the
.11? titt to Clyde., by as African' rts,Vier:
tutted at Urotlio4l, .- •S. ' • •

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SIII sow passed with satisfaotion • neiertbelests, de. funds. ..• . .. Islotte, *ma has no longer the power to conflate. it ; Dirt ERTE•eros ram ffiCTIMJ
(erring to the sense of the Legiiature, and relybig Mr. K. itesrra 'seconded this addition ; end. tvii. sliff N. *lino I, as the founder of a new dynasty,
Many persons of high /auk Oil
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en their wisdom and justice for Allier, in the event pressed his opinion, this ender all the tircunwhneell !mast heap Notllloes on sacrifices. The theatre of war .
n Omani" Spillia- Mu int he The Marquis Wellesley remained •
- of their expOnliotss, an to the possibility •Of going of the cab', they could net do better thai accept tile oninndn'hnen.
walking and cc
a to the Nora, Ala. (Mil the on Tuesday night, soon after the
on wrier the provisions of that Bill, being temp. Charteri if far se other !mean than that of the many enle,hette,tlie
Pointed, they cannot think it expedient to refuse. to thousand inditfehlaht who neeula pititoprilid *timid Ye" **air:. aged into 4'dfie4 istentitie been time afterwards,
0417'114A* *for the Frendhe4Aset':-ThWPiite leveret persons. Several Russian
rept of the Charter under the provisions contained in the avast if ity bolos rejected... lit ales ogled the
In the Bill in question. They do therefore authorise medal_ Pa ntillibehatint. ' *,:.,
~... ',...' are yet titan which, in 'the plane a Rai& much tioticekilisiaLhaeir peculiar
the Directors to commuoicate to Ministers the Coot. . Sir Brlsitt-Wann spoke in profile ef. tia•cOnduet the bodies or lairs than three trfidttill,, The Spanish
ficeutly dressed. The Lid' ies '
dor and his
. pity's acceptance of the Bill, and the anxious desire .of thejDiteateothised the aeseptaneo *NU Off% • inni4014•414. WM ofWestern Europe, m
of their Executive Body to proceed to the a ischarge. ter, to _contended that the apprehends' eau
.from were Consumed, -to prevont the pestilence. 411 the bited in white muslin or satin, v
of the importailt duties entrusted tolhem notwith- opening the trade lambi end Now* cure iv two or a/Maio of Tahoe iron the hands of England% and colours; so._ $ nits
super 9
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that it be'recomi
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