The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-12-20 00:00:00

EAST-INDIA-qOU,SE, &cc. 19.

This day a Quarterly Court of Proprietors was
held, IVALTEtt ASTELL, E'q. in the Chair.

The proceedings of the former meeting were read
'over, and the first Resolution adopted was, that a
dividend of 54 per cent. shOuld be paid upon their
capital.
The salary of Captain James Salmon, Military
Secretary, was, on the motion of Mr. JACKSON,
ordered to be increased from 10001. to 15001. a
year.

• Silt Ge..Oli,GE 8A114.0W.
Mr. P. Moon* said, that he rose with a view to
give Os is notices; but as the mode of his proceed-
ing must be, in a great meastre, regulated by in-
formAtion which he then hoped to receive, he
should, with the permission of the C still, propose
two preliminary questions, relating to the subjects
of the notices he intended. The first subject ma..
tecially implicated .thie hoeing, the character, the
Conduct, and, a bore all, the justice or the Execu-
lite Trust of the East India Company ; for the
&edit end the privileges of which htelaad uniformly
been the unremitting and disinteregted advocate
in that Court, and elsewhere; tei the Members of-,
the Court must themielves testify : he shotild, there-
fore enter upon the consideration orthat point first
Mr. Mooce Gilds it would be in the recollection of
the Court, that at the General Quarterly Court of
March lasts at which he was present, an Honour-
able Proprietor, who sat on the Bench below him
(General Brown), who had done honour to the mike I
tary establishment of the Company anq the Stet4V
by lung, faithful, and successful services, bad mull,-
fested his anxiety for the honour of the military
profession and his brother officers, whose sonjoint
services had added another world in fact to our Em.
pire, then labouring under what he conceived most
unmerited suspetision.from the Compaqy's eervice ;
and humbly requested from the Chair some infor-
'station as to the state in which the Court's pro..
•ceediags good relative to the case of those Officers.
In reply to which, the Firm Gentleman who then
filled the Chair, stated, that the Court oi Directors
waited for further dispatches from India, which
were expected to contain further information rela.
five to the euspouded Officers. It was, on the other
hand, retilarknit by some Gentlemen of the Direc.
tion, !het, the Court were in possession of all the
documents that could beiecessary in the case, and
that no more information could be requisite on the
subject.—Bearing in remembrance the substance
of that disetission, Mr. Moore begged to cull the
attention of the Court to a paper which he then
• held iChis hand, and which purported to be the
copy Of a Resolution of the Court. of Directors of the
Ath of December, eso9, pledging the Court to
proceed, at a future day, to the dismiss t 1 of t',ose
°facers whose cues were before them ; but.
who at. that period Tere.e)theard and eticharged,
who had no opportunity of offering deface
or .egplanation, net then • being arrived in
England. • Air. Moore viewed this imputation as a
sedans inipeachment of the honour, the dignity, the'
moderation, aiiii thejustiecby which the proceed.
inks of the Court Of Llitectors'bud uniformly been
distinguished and he.eossld not but feel the great.'
est anxiety to remove a charge so foul and so dis-
graceful. In order that there might nut exist any
mistake respecting the substance of the paper, and
that the Court might be fully apprized of the extent
of the subject, Mr. Moore begged to read at large
the Resolution to whiCh he halt alluded. 116 then'
read frotn'a paper, dated Igth November last, as
follows •
" At a Court of Directors, held on Tuesday, the selehf
December 1809, it was, on Motion,
" Resolved Ballot, That flit Court having, conformably
to the intention expressed in the Military Letter of the 20th of
September last, tariff( Si. George, resumed the emaideratioa
of thircave of certain Officers suspended from the service by
thaainveraltent, on the gronads stated in their Secret Lettered
the 12th of-iday, 1909, ate of opinion • •
" That the ofteners with which those Officeri.cire charged
are off' the most 41.ingerous and criminal matte, subversive of
all legitimate authority, and ought always to receive the 'seve-
rest punishmeat whicirthe Court of Directors can Jolliet, race
lenity' in and It a case to iudividualt. would prove most detrimep-

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tad and perideinds to the rilvoliir iiieresis of ills Army, .the la.
diawaosernment, mid the alt ion. ''' ' A
I" That, ia ttt eircumKanees in which the doverament of.
Forl Si, George were Marled, and. nadir the eriairction.theil
• had fart evidence before them, the measmres they adopted
with respect to those Officers were proper and necessary.
" That those evideoces, so far as they are brought I:rfore a'
the Court, d.. appear clearly to establish the,guillof the dif..
fereut parties to whora they aerate, and to Skew them worthy
of dismission:

" That it is therefore proper to pi..weed to the act of dis-
mission; and that, agreeably to the standing rule of the st 4.-.
vice, which requires notice of a msmiou 'of Quondam, the
Court do on a future day proceed to the said act—narnely,the
dismission of Colonelt.utfyer, Major D. Morgan, Capt. Mar-
sha I, Capt. Groat, and Zieolen:o3Ptliiliiiiel Martin (stow at
borne, who was equally implicated, and upon the same evi .
denee, he t‘bevatfroce for which Captain Marshall was mi.'
praded, who would have been tospiolded in like mutter; had :
be been in Willa, nod whom the'Yort St. George Cosertiniou
recommead it to the Court to dionas with lbe other Officers),
he, until the final' consideration of .their case comes on, su..
pended, as they. tire, from the Company's servic::.."
Mr. Motto then proceeded to state, that he
filmed it impossible to reconcile the declaration
made by the Chairman in March last to the Conziti-
tuent Body, with the ResOintiou just read, di-
rectly, profe,sing a final decision open a sialiject,
wbieh, almost four months afterwards, 14Chi•iir.
man declared the Court's inability to decide from
want of information; and as he inferred that there
MUSL, be some gross imposition somewhere, .he re.
quested that the Chairman would have the goodness
to in arm the Coutt, whether a Resolution, MOCti
as that he had then read, had been passed by the
Court of Directors on the sth of December,
109?-
The CHAIRMAN declined to reply to the goes.
Obi; 'and after some further conversation,
Mr. Moons said, that he should take an Dppor.
tunity of bringing the subject substantially bet. Rs
the Geocral Court on a future occasion ; and then
rroccede to propose- his -second. question, which
i ais—Wh her Sir G. Barlow, the Governor of
Madras, hail beep 'recalled from India; or whether '
t
ho had been incited to come to &gland ?
The CHAtitst)tais replied-, that he did not know of
any recall or any ;Invitation of that nature basing
been, scut to Sir G. liarle*; upon which

Nr. Menai gave notice, " That ho shook!, at a
future General Qourit move the question of the Re-
call of Sir G. Barlow."

ATRITERS, STUDENTfii AND' CAPETS.
, Mr. AaCsisom moved the readiog of the Risotto..
tions of a former Court of Directors, ,as to the
great progress made by the Students in general its
the College at llertfurd, both in the civil aud.mili.
tray departments.
These Resolutions being read, .
Mr. JacKsox expressed his high satisfaction at
the information. Ile concluded his observations by
moving--
" That this Goal has heard with great satisfactiou, from
the account given by the Court of Directors, die state of the
College at Hertford, and the considerable progress made by fh,e
Studeins iugenerak; mid has peculiar pleasure in. recording the
names (jibe follnwitrg young Cikentleineww au signalised thew
`lrftca (i.. diesa.mes grate M he lowered). ;: And that-the
Court is oot less satisfied with the occona; gkven of toe Semi-
' nat.; imemied for educating Cadets for the Artillery and 441,
neeril Departmeats. And that Copies of this Resolution be
•
sent to the Heads of these Semioaries; in order to be read to
Elhaltaferata. "—Carried unanimously.
next moved—
" Thatiliks Court, taking into considera‘ion ;he represents- •
lions made by the .Court• of Directors, respecting the
conveolence they experience from the circumstance 'at itit
Writers, Student., one Cadets being examined by theme
pursuant to a Resolution dated Oth July 11309, are of of al:.
nion that they should be examined sty the Committee of tSO
Co.urt of. DirectUrs already appointed to supetiotend
Hertford and the Military Seminaries: but that there shoat,
be nit deriation'froni the usual and approved mode of exatols
nations; that the said Committee be considered as an oyes;
Committee ; rind that five lar a quorum."
This 'Resolution was unanimously carried, an 4
the Court adjourned.

•
As Colonel LEE and Mrs. Lea were 'taking
airing on horseback, yesterday, in the Park, op.
ing to speak to a Gentleman of the name of 131.,rxd;
Mrs. LEE'S horse became suddenly restive, anal
kicked and plunged tit a most Vicious manner. •Mr.
liciptie.cdught hold of the Wilted animal's bridle
Kitit<one hand, and held. At'l• 143 on tli.c.sadt4e
the other, for soma time, endeivolirieg to discutaii.
gin key foot from the stirrup. Finding this im~iosri:
.hies with:considerable presence of mind, while -was endeavouring to quiet the horse, ho extricated
the unfortunato Lady from her Fossilous situatioi•
by cutting the girths with his pocketknife ; on
which Mrs. LEE, with some little difficulty; '
ceeded in reaching the ground, with little or nd in.:. •
jury than that of a violent fright. Mr. B. receifeel
only a contusion on the shoulder, but colonel Lae*
in his endeavour to keep hold of the Imam, attar hid
Lady had been edtricated, fell wish
,jealliolcuice
on the ground, and received. d' !ever* 4urt oq the
knee, by the horse kicking him.after 11 Wits hewn. ,
DUEG,•-••••Early on Tuesday, morninglast, a
was fought in' a field not far from the.eight mile
stone, on the Rumford road, between two Gentle., •
men unknown, one of whom was dressed jo a naval
uniform,_ Ind the other in a louse coat and hunting.
cap. The parties traveltrd to the place or action
from London in chaises they exchanged three
idiots, when the'person in the loose ,cont appeared
to have beets wounded, as hp %!'39 tcd to :his chaise
by his antagonist assisted by his second, and the
post-boy acne off the coed:sty way from town. •
Yesterday aftermion,flai tWo,Gentlemen's coach.
men were driving fertMialy along the Strand, near
Bp.tleigh.street, a young man -was crossing Oa
street, when one of the carriages.kdocked him Awn,. •
and passed over him, by which means his head and
right-leg were exceedingly cut. Be was conveyed
to his friends in a coach. •
Yesterday aftertinon a decent middle...aged wourin
weirinto the' tillop of e poulferti,- at (he back. of
•Exeler 'Chetigi,ltraml, and kele it goose; and 'rad
off with it : she was immediately imrsaed, and the
goose foundupon'her. It was liken froinher, and
she was sent away, with'a cantion never to be sees
there again.

FRENCH PAPERS.

Palm, Dm 12.—Tbe day before yesterday
there was so extraordinary sitting of . the SOOStip ad
oriach the Prinee,Arch-Chancellor Presided.
On the sth December all the goods of teglisb
manufacture • were burnt- at St. Milo and St. tier..
tan. Tito same operation took. place at Brist-on
the 6th. .
A number of Spanish Generals and Officers at
the depdt at Nancy have made their submission to
his Majesty King Joseph, .ant 55 of them have al-
ready set out on their return to Spain. .
Dec. 14.—Yesterday at one o'clock, their Ma-
jesties the Emperor and Empress, Promenaded in
the Bois de Boolope-, Their carrlage was prece.-
ded by some out-riders, and followed by a detach.
snout of horse.grenatliers. It wetit at a slow pace,
and permitted the spectators to enjoy the happiness
of contemplating the cherished persous of their au.
gust Sovereigns.
The following letter has been received at Hotter.
dim from London, dated the lath November ; it is
perfectly authentic :
" It is impossible to form an idea or the code. I
sion in which we are. The immense extension'
which commute had. acquired, has been suddenly
paralysed by the severe measures adopted by the,
French Government. Yes, my fri,ind, 'this coon..
try, the centre of the commerce of the' world, fir
the last three months, that is, since the adoptien,of
the Continental system, has been in a crisis, the
results of which it is impossible to calculate. The
Gargefie contains fists of 50 or 60 bankruptcies,
which taksplaceevery week in the different cons.
inertial towns. . .
" And how can it be otherwise utips little isle
of Heligoland, at the mouth of this,gibes which
served as an entreprit for all the eolinsial pea ha*
that passed into the interior of 'Germ;
cambered with merchandise of ever;
coffee has been lately sold there at 6
arid sugar at 3 sons, not enough to ,
insurance. Judge from this of the sits
colonies; produce there must be
Ivor
' " Consternation is this at its heig
merchants ; those who have any line
adaious to retire from husineasvand
tiniesi others are failing one after I
to this the King's malady, whim is
pity, and the obstinacy of Ministers.
the appointmeut of a Regency, iu i
their places, And you will see that tilt political eir,..,_
is as great as the commercial. GollAisowe bate all
Oils will enil,l3 &C.
basorome, DEC. 6.—We learn from an officer
who is arrived from Castel-Bras', that the divi-
sion of General Gardanne was at ilehnonte on the
16th of November, on the road to Guards and
Absentee, on its way to join the Prince of Entine.
Thu junction was expected to take place on the 24th
or 26th. General Drone), with his corps, was on
the 24th within three days march of Castel.Branco.
Be had established his eorainunictition with the Prince
of &sling. .
.I.hialllUKGll, DEC. s.—The merchants of this
city have received a great alley fetters Trom Lon.
don, dated Nov. n, of whieh the Walking is the',
subt:tance :-e" The Esi;change of London is in the
most painful situation; siabarrasment and Metope.
tent pervade all eissess. Public (v401)11,1, mudi
chimp,' in tlso test sist months. Wu. have some
commerce, but it is a eniumeree of testis. The
course of exchange is against me in a degree to mho
one shudder.
" Our Nettie motor sat our Insurance eons.'
panics ininierese wee All of them are cinharrassedi ,
and many of them itiluted so muck as to excite fea' re-
ef their gelidity. All Eiesd desires a chime."
STOCIITOLM, Nov. 2o.—Yesterday *as poiblisliedi
the declaration of war eviliat 'leogland. The sub:
Malted of it is, that in order lib remove every Wog.
that was equivocal in the palliest of Sweden, and to
' co.operats with all the Cagthsental Powers in fore.
' jug England to re-establish a !widen pew, the
King declares war against the [hilted Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, order% tbocilosation of all
intact/title, either br Wtters "Ib i
litwisc with'
that country, and enjoins all his PlitiatlarsheK
Generals, Admirals, be. to cause that order to•bn
-published and executed wkereter it may be necessary..
" DANTZIC, Nor. 24...
.. custom.house oft.'
ten belanaging to this pQI b seizure at sea of
three vessels, laden with 'lutenist produce,
aid other articles of this iissiii Men. One of these
vessels was taken at keen tab front the roads,
by a coNsiptroller and /hit° cstatotn.house officers,
who embarked in a {Mai boat. • The other two yes-
acts were very richly laden.- the meet, called -Le'
Lucia, whose cargo is not leis eidushle, was tinder
Pappenburgh colours, had on Weed 260 bile* of
Manchester velvets, 150 of niniiineil; b 5 Cud of
loaf sugar, 28 bales of coatis twist, and a eunsi.
derable quantity of dye stud's.
Among the papers touad on Wird these vessels,
there was a very Curious document, ilia which
_proves- in the ckarest manlier the artifices which
the Ktiglish merchants employ to :mask their
operations by putties for ward preteinied neu-
trals, which are nothing more than English. vessels,
more or less disguised. It also serves to prove
with how,mueli justice- the papers of all vessels
which England per.nits to sail on the leas are dire.
trusted. To arrive from. thefarthest destinations, it, is
only necessary for them to premed to London, to
take iu on Euglish aecount.a lug*, of British ma.
sidectures, to receive from the muivittriory.falac
certificates which the Government euunteisatices,
Dud of which it shares in the protite ; documents
proving, as iu the case of the ship La Lucia, that
they cause from Norway, that they arrived at Ain.:'
stordam, in ballast or with a cargo of corn ; and
its case of ueceisity, that they did nut COW froM
Norway, but from Atnerica, &c.
Crosse Papers are full of accualts ts of .the burn.
jug of Eugiide inantiftetures ill Fiance And other
harts of the Coutiacyt.)