The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-06-15 00:00:00

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• I • method by whick-the Indian milers lions sir possible. la Isitiesellyt wantalb awe' the Compost Illta retretri To ttlflifithi 'fleet isrit, fof i AO, tta 9,—frer thirsty thetutpress girea
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IJ be better governed, than by the system of suc. • Company would withdraw from a Irak which h_k4 a ter tftg gov 4 Isadlrithey-inul ireepcmlitlared , and Reged has received the following. news- from.the
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oiion exercised by the Company. . never been beneficial to t or to the public.. Itt ~by Parlifursent, and had Ewer llnce the mail of. dis...trmy, dated. May 30 : - •
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Lord CkS'I`LER.F.AGII, saki, that lie should not the arrangement before the 'foal,. le was provided !grace 'fitting to them: il *paid he:Asetter to take, ' t', A convoy pf artillery 'of 50.carriegee,_.wlicb ,
folio, the lion. member (Mr. Ci.teveyilmall kil ay. , that the political and commarderaeadeets should sbb Alm perm out of .the bajada' of Sifis, COI. pep" alto. • left Atigsbnrg, quitted the route of the army, and'
mot, a., to the general question. It would be' kept apaftte. He trusted that Obis Ptah weak] be !gether than crumble it, es win dose by thii Relolu. ' proceeded trona • Augsburgh to tareuth.—ThO''
',liwise in the public to expect any consideration 'strictly adhered to, for the nee:Welty Wes obvious its I tiona proposed by the Noble Lord. ' Tgla Parliament enemy's partisani attacked, the convoy between ,
uf,,n, the Company, *no were under the premium of consequesice' of the discoveries lito had made, byl had **effect right to do .' for, however PresamPta- " Zwickau and Chetnniti width 'occasioned the less
~, henry a debt. tic silent(' observe, on this head, ' which it appeared that pert ear tits commercial charges i ously the Company talked Gotha subject, their Char-' of 700 men, and of 300 horses takeo, 7or 8 pieces .:
thli t'a're had been no dezeption practised by .the which ought to have been.distiietly made under their : ter waist end in 1814 ; and after their Ablated pit. tor cannon, mid of several carriages, which were
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Coti in engaging in former Charttits, to give a proper head, had been intermixed with the political I mises (violated, whether unavoidably or net)
.they destroyed., . The pieces have.lieen retaken. ' His Ma.
sera ill 1.,,e r.141:c. The fact was, that Peace bad accounts. In the Bombay tee.. eats. of this latter I had no claim of any kind .on the' public. .No fight ,jesty Itiu.ordered an enquiry Co be made to know
tom.,, ,xpocted, but that the Company, as well is the kind, be found that a aoasidovable sum,' strictly conld'imealsed out offline- contracts Wfth'inir..niono.iwho took upon himself to change the route of the
Government at %ome, had been involved in wars.-- speaking, commercial charges, were comprehended polistai iihipeboildere;aaldrotbird, fatthij; hiatiarinet convoy. Be he a General or a Commissary of War,
. to the proposition for sbortaidegthe term to ten ender the head political thirsts, • and thus the these ingagementi at their own' peg: The. Hon. !he ought 'to be punished with the rigour of military
oars. it was natural that those gentlemen who former appeared much lees than' what they really . Member concluded with stating, that 'he' would vote : law, the route of the army having been ordered front
,rucht that Ole Company's Government was not the, were. He referred to the 3d and 4th Reports liar the-flaked period, and if thot•Assondmaat should ; Ausburg by Wiartzburg and Fulda. . .
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.Tor iudiar should wish that the term should he to prove his opinions or the Company's affairs, of Ibe nelpdived,. he would vote against the Original Re. ‘.‘ General Foinsot, coming from Brunswick with •
shortened. .on.the contrary, those who wished the which such different views were givest-of their profits ' solution. I a regiment of cavalry, 400 strong, was' attacked by :
Watiniance of Ifie Company's Charter, would be within sesenteen years; some terevesenting them at I -Mrs B. BATHURST spoke' against the•Amend.l7.or,6oo men of the enemy's cavalry, near Halle.--
careful not tp shake the Company in the opiniearof twenty-one millions, and others at only two. Ap- 1 anent, being persuaded that it was indispensibly • ne.1.11.• wea made prisoner, with a hundred of the men :
the natives ; and the shortening the term of Chatter ,Peudix.• No. 6, contained several accounts of their - cessary to, the authority of the India Company, and ; 200 are returned to Leipsic, • .-.
aoald he felt as a preliminary to the extinctioa oft masses en remittances, advaatee, la.; but he main- ithe inaltstenance of their system, to extend their de, 1 46 The-Duke of Padua is arrived at Leipsic; where
arse Company. The term of 9.0 years would certainly I tamed there was a real deficit of three millions.— ratiorirto 'twenty years. In fact. if the: had not-l.lie Is collecting his ,cavalry to clear all the left bank. •
tr too long, and any term would be too long In suth After animadverting on the anode of the China Trade, any right, as the last speaker asserted,- still, from, .ot thii,Sibri.ti, .1,
~e3,e, if India were taken entirely out of the con- he netit:ed the charge for Saint Helene, which was i the detts they had contracted, arid from the expences Her Majesty fie Empress-Queen and Regent,
trout of Parliament ; but Parliament had the mow:- kept chiefly for the refreshing of the ships, and had ; they had leceired in the fOrMation of 'various estals. has received the' fo lowing intelligence c 4 the situation..
F'^", r over the 1;.,:i rd of Controul, which shared the i nothing to doovith politics or territory. The fact I lishmerits, but still• more in the suppoit of several. of the Armies on the 3let May, at night :
Govertim,iit of ?Julia, as was posiessed over any was, that the commercial' tastes- of the Company ! wars for the common interest of the Empire, this I .66 The Duke. of Vientizai'the Count Schouvaloff,
Mir"- ers. The authority still were in agreat / , concealed, k -reetatercial mat. • had a claim desert+ • the consideration of I add ' -10 - had a conference of 18 lora, •

Company _ _ ring ,
Parliament. if the Roue, indeed, should not agree
tbnlonser period, it would be more *pit( of ones
fn. itted for the abolnion of dm. Coilsoittnitniallker,
for with a shorter period of existence Ibis Company
must be inefficient to the objects oT its institution.
Strangers being excluded, a division .took place
upon Mr. Ponsonby's Amendment 7-,
Aye -
Nue - - 137
Majority - '---78
• Upon a division lespecting the original liesolution
for the. continuance of the Charter—
Ayes - - 184
Noes ' . 14
!Notify . • ---170 . .
Oa our re-admission into the gallery,. we found
Mr. MARYAT on his legs, speaking against the
tnonopOly of the India Company. Ile maintained,
that by throwing open the trade the India Comany
would not suffer any loss, although the general com-
merce of the country would acquire considerable
gain. It was on historical record, that although a
great outcry was raised in Spain against the Govern-
anent, which abolished the monopoly of the South
American commerce by a particular company at Ca-
die, which abolition was decreed without any previ-
ous notice whatever to the Company of monopolists,
that the trade of that Company actually increased
"three-fold within twenty years, while the general
trade of the Spanish provinces, which received a sti-
mulus froin the abolition of the monopoly, was con-
siderably extended. A similar consequence would,
he had no doubt, follow in this case. The India
Company would be benefited by pursuing only that
description of trade which was profitable, and instead
of overstraining its efforts to exclude private traders;
it would proceed with those advantages et established

,tt GenertiKiebt Jth hot ,
at the Convent -Wahl-Stade, near Leignitt. • They
separated ey, Ike 30th, at Ave is the after:.
mood. Tile' hi" nal fet known. It is mai
the principle of an Armistice is agreed upon ; but it
appears that they are not agreed upon the limits that
are to form the line, of demarcation. Olathe 310, at
six lathe ereelog, the cinforence. s reconilogiced on •
the side of Striegatt, . .
• " The head-quarters of the Emperor were at
rk. Those of the HMV of Noskwa, having
e I Louribton and General Regnier ender his
order., at Lust.. The Duke of Tarentim and
Count Bertrand were between Saner and Striegae.
The Duke of Ragusa was between Mops and Neu.
mark. The Duke of ,Belluno was at 'iteinan on the
Oder. Glogau was entirely relieved from the block.
ade: the garrison has been constantly successful in
its sorties : the place has still seven months'• provi-
sions left.
" On the 28th the Duke of Reggio having taken
a position at Hoyerswerda, was attacked by the
corps of General Bulow, from 15 to 18,000 strong.
The battle began: the enemy was repulsed at all
points, and pursued for the space of two leagues.—
The report of this affair is subjoined.
" On the 12th of May, Lieut.-Gen. Vandamme
got possession of Wilhentsburg before Hamburgh.
" Oa the 24th, the head.quarters of the. Prince of
Eckmuhl were at Harburg, Several bombs bad fallen
into Hamburgh, and the Russian troops appearing
to evacuate the city,. negotiations .were opened for
the surrender of the place. • The Danish troops
• made common cause With the French. •
There was to be on the 25th a conference with
the Danish Generals to. arrange the plan of opera*
tionta Cannel del,esta, Minister of. the Interior to
thr-liing of Miiinlik; and charged with a mission
to the Emperor hid eetisff to iepair.to.itead-quar•
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Ow of .he Ki IL, en's _
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post... ed by LA; Gore amen• of this country, • tees Whig so mesh mixed op with those accounts
wnu' . extend soli ci tly to an a ';tt 'meta With which wet merely political: la isonseguence of which
fa, :zn. p.µ r . Misty acts relateiv t • Inalialme;saasty owe. did oat tipplers' order lbeir plettaer heads.
two passe' du •ng tse term offorit, ..
oar Cffarter ' Here e at •-ed into a great variety of statements
eel the-same thing (regard 1... iig had to the Cons- .and talc: ations of the East India Revenues, and
pany's right-) might be done under this Charter.— contends that not one of the brilliant expectation
By the measore now under consideration, the House held out nad been realised. There was, indeed, no-
rteoglized the piii.ciple of a free trade, although thing Inv loss; and the melancholy picture of the
gre,r factl;ties, n uch treater than those poss'ssed by' Company's finances, now obvious to most men, was
ind.. Our :... were left to the Company, and, by these 1 the only reality. The trade was now carried on by
In 'SUSI to a tertain extent, it would possess a mono- revenues in India, and borrowing at home. The
ri!y• It had been said that their political power I continual extension of our empire, was another
soold enable the Directors to .injure if not to ruin ! source of expence, as it was the fruitful source of
cov.netitors; but a high sense of the duty they wars. Constant borrowing at home must, in the
fe•‘i to the country, would deter them from a may- i end, produce certain bankruptcy. The Company
a,lae.listration of their authority ; besidei which, . never could continue to carry on their trade but by
e;er% reasonable security had been imposed and ob- I increasing the burtheus on the public. There ought,
taint' bt Parliament. It was true that the Com- ! therefore, to be no delay, in opening the trade se as
pant, for the purpose of removing all competition, ito admit a bettor order of things gradually. Observ-
miglit, by possibility, attempt to carry on a mighty ling due precaution and care, the result would, he
trade in some degree injurious to themselves. and i was convinced, be for the advantage of the Company
ruinous to the private trader ; but two modes !as well as for that of the public, if the present system
by the Bill were adopted to prevent i..—lst. I Wore brought as speedily as passible to a close.—
It was required that the Directors should keep; The period of the new charter should be made as
tacit. political and commercial accounts separate, : short as it could be, and the Company would have
so that Parliament would always be al la to cause to rejoice at the ehonge. He then read an
inspect and controul them.-2d. The Company was , analysis of the state of India.. lebt and revenue, and
inittured in the mode and in the extent to which ! proceeded to make many observe.. ets on the Govern.
their trade should be carried in opposition to the I went of India. Sucn was the pewee of the Company's
merchant. With regard to the intercourse with Chi..l residents over the poor manufacturers, that their wish
r.a, there were, in his Lordship's view, many Tea. was obeyed as a command, and they could prevent
sons for adopting the larger term of twenty years, ' the private merchant from all dealings. Competition
instead of the Amendment. Ist. The great public was not permitted, and the weavers were kept in
advantages that would result from the commerce be- bondage by the Company's Officers. Was this a
ing placed in the hands of the Company for so long good system of civil government, wherein the right
and so certain a period. If, indeed, the Directors of appeal to the District Judge was, in fact, rendered
did not chose to act politically, his. Lordship was nugatory ? Ure quoted. Lord Wikueskyte letter w(
fully persuaded that'a government light be roiled' July, 1804, published here in 1812, to show the
ill Lydia, not only adequate to the conduct of affairs evils in the Madras Provinces, where no merchant
there, but perhaps even tnere beneficial to the an. could procure goods but through the Company's Of-
tires than the establishments at present existing. ficers. No effectual improvement had since been
11y. The nature of the Chinese Government roe- . made : coercion, even, was used, to procure goods
;_;led it a matter of speculation, whether trade could for the Company. He adduced the case of Niurat,
he conducted with any other individuals than 'the where the weavers refusing to work for the Corn-
Company, even though under the immediate protec- puny, were prevented from quitting the town.—
Lon of the Crown of Great Britain. 3dly. A free At one time they paid 3 or 4000 rupees to be
trade, properly so called, could not be established,
,excused working for the Company. Those who en-
because, on the one side, it never could be open, tered among the Sepoys were, at another time,
and consequently a partial monopoly must exist, and forced to go back to their work. Weavers frequent-
the price of the article would not be reduced. 4titly. ly were obliged to ask for advances from the resi-
It was not in the power of Parliament to give the dents, and then were forced to work ; there were
monopoly of the China trade to any other indivi. instances of some of them having died in jail for these '
duals, even though they would have given a premium advances. There was once an order at Bombay to
for its possession, nor was it easy, under all the cir- confiscate all goods not of a certain standard value, i
cumstances, to eprive the Company of the enjoy. and not required for the Company's use. In the
meat of it. sthly. The continuance of the China Guzzerat, the piece of cotton was settled by the
trade in the hands of the present holders was abso. Company's officers; by which the Riouts were I
lately necessary at present, to enable them to exe- tempted to smuggling, and the military employed to
cute the functions of Government; but if at any, fa. prevent-it.' Thus the cotton trade was rendered un.
tare time it should appear that the expenses of Qa. •proMailtfg and many merchants in Bombay bad been
TProment were not so greatAs to require it; this part ruined, itid the total extinction of that trade threat.
if the monopoly might also be removed.. -Upon gm '44 -: The Company had various monopolies, such
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whole, therefore, his Lordship saw
_nothing tor: as jilt, lbc. ~Even the indigo planters in Bengal
duce the House to alter the practice of former times conaplaiited of their interference. The article of FRENCH PIPERS
by renewing the charter for a less peeled than twenty !either hid nearly trebled in cost by a wrong system. .
years; and, in his opinion, in a less period the ex. After a variety of details, in an argumentative —one--
periment of an open trade to India could not be ; speech °kw° boon, be strongly recommended the , Pears, Juax 7.--.-To-day we have received. intelli-
fairly tried. Parliament would be rather misled than ! period-of tea years in preference to twenty, for the genes from the army, dated the Ist June. General
assisted in its deliberations on a future occasion, . duration of the new charter. If the latter were de. Lauriston entered Lireslau on the -morning of that
if ten years only were allowed for ascertaining the; tided tqr=n, there would be. nothing but injury to day. The Civil and Military Authorities remained
benefits or defects of the system now about
,to he, commercesPring the whell'of the period. in it, and a deputation had proceeded to hts Majesty
~ established. •.- ' t 1 Mi: LUSLIINGTON was for granting the Com- the Ethperor and King at Neumarkt. Thusothe land-
Air. RICKARDS vindicated, at some length, the' patty the term. if tweetyyears. Re.coureuded, that storm has produced no effect in Silesia. The army
opinions which he had occasion to deliver on a whatever abuses might have taken place in India is superb. The Emperor never enjoyed better health.
fui titer discussion.- He entreated the House to re. thirty years ago, they were now remedied. Bengal It appears the Russians and Prussians have sepa-
cl•ive with great caution, the accounts transmitted had greatly improved, sad the principle of the Go- rated, and we do dot exactly know the different
fromlndia, for they were accounts of our own acts.rvernment was. iociple of amelioration. directions they have taken.
--They were distinguished almost uniformly by the I Mr. CANNTG observed, that the Noble Lord I June B.—Private letters from the Grand Army
grand and leading features of justice, humanity, andl (Lord Castleswegh) had spoken of 20 years as the ! announce, that on the Ist of June General Lauri,.
moderation ; and it was natural, that an implicit re- i customary term for which the Charter was reoewed.l ton was at Breslau. His Majesty the =Emperor was"
lixrrce upon them should throw the House off its I One would have append by hie Statement that it at Newmarkt. The army is abundantly •opplied,
award. lie certainly did not wish to impute any I had gone on in this way fee notaries: whereas, in preserves an exact discipline, and all the •v,orps are
improper conduct to those who filled public offices , fact, it had not been three dines, or even twice re- • animated with the best spirit. .
in Wilts for he could hear ample and honest, testi- I newed for that term : There bad been many renew.l It was thought, with reason, that measures soi
many to the extraordinary services and merits of ale for a shorter period of years, but never more ~extravagant as that of the land-storm, could not be I
most of them. India could in that respect exhibit as i than one term imaged for precisely the period of 20 I executed in a civilised country, and thee the- pro.
lid n picture of talents and integrity as any other ! years. If, however, they governed India well, be' prieton themselves would oppose it. This• bat bap.
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.22uritry, and the evidence given- at the bar of the I had no ebjeeefecto.groutiog them a renewal of their pened. There have been no excesses in this 'part of';
Roche, during the examination, proved beyond territorial Government for the whole term of 20 Germany, but those which have been •committed by ,
a doubt the justice of his remarks : but while ' years; but as to the China trade, he could see no the Russians. They have left in that country, traces
he admitted the abilities and the virtues of those ' reason for granting that to them for so long a period. of their/dead:AO) which the inhabitants would wil-
elaPloj edin public situations iii India, he felt him. , The 20 years renewal of their territories might in tingly have dispensed with.
selfentified in asking how it happened, that with these . time be considered a matter of right, but he could Letters from liamburgh of the Ist of JON inform ,
nyni to administer the affairs of India, India should . not allow that the monopoly of the China trade us, that since the entrance of the Fronk late that
Is' still stationary ? Was it not wonderful that with should be for ever considered as the property of the City It has enjoyed perfect tranquillity. Thisialtabl-
Ch men, fitted by every acquirement to promote Company. If the amendment' was lost, he 'should tants who had fled to. the neighbouring tow* were
eselioration, and entourage improvement, the move another amendment to confine the term of the 'eager to return home. Tettenborn lis the Ruskin
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(I,untry should continue the same, and the natives China trade to 10 years. - had retired across the Elbe, and dared not wait the
5: nilld be incapahable of mending themselves ?*M I s Mr. WHITBREAD said, that from what he had arrival of our troops,
•fiei conviction was, that some radical defect wasslig heard in the course of that debate, he should *Ai Liam of Oarrival
m 2d, announce the ;val :off. the
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.' 'it ill the civil government, and be believed that against the Resoletion. The Company bad no title Prince Christian, in Norway: -.His jointer had
I.•''.' -I &rod to exist in the exorbitancy of the land- at all to the Chills, Ind*, and.vnln if ballad voted Tor, bees kept so secret, that the official journal stated -
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'' A free trade would, he thought, prove advitn. the continuous, of the Indian monopoly, he might Holstein to be his destination. :C!," bear tit' since 1 '
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, and tie trusted, that the one now proposed have voted itgrviiist the coutinuance of it as to Chloe his arrive! the army and the 'country have Wee 'pia* '
', Lim granted, *Quid be as independent of restric- As to 'the Government of India he conceived the - ender his immediate orders.

private competition could injuriously operate, while
private enterprise would be allowed a free scope fort
action. If sach scope for action had existed, heap-
pealed to .the House whether it was probable that
Great Britain should have derived such limited ben*.
fit from the Island of Java, to which the Company
had only sent two ships since it came into oar posses-
sion; whereas if it had been fully open to private
traders, it. would most probably have been visited by
above 100 vessels. This, however, he cited, but as
one instance, in which the Company by eagerly en.
deavouring to grasp at every.branch of trade in our
Indian territories had excluded others, without ade-
quately, if at all benefiting themselves.
' The question being loud!), called, , strangers were
again excluded, and the numbers were—

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Rusin* 440161 -11FiGHNEIRI THE PRINCE OP NEUF.
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CIIATEL,•WAJOR.GEPIERAL OF THE ARMY.
4g MoNittontit,—l. arrived about sit in the
evening, with my 13th division, et Hoyerswerda.
All the information of the peasants assured me, that
the enemy were 'in the town, and I marched with
precaution. Sry advanced guard not perceiving any
riddle, entered the town during a violent storm of
rain. The- first detachment of light horse, corn.,
manded!by one of my Officers, had already galloped ,
through different streets, without meeting any one,
when "oti retching, the square, the squadron of Ba-
varian Light Horse, which followed, perceived and
fell upon two squadrons of Cossacks, occupied in,
loading bread. - Several of those who were on horse.
back made theieescape, but ail the rest were sabred
or . cut to pieces. I derived from this affair seven,
Officers, a Major, Captain, five Lieutenants, and
three Prussian Officers (not one escaped), 61 Co..
sacks, and upwards of 90 horses.
(Signed) " Marshal Duke of REGGIO.
" Ifo)ertwerila, May V."

For Mr. Canning's Amendment, for libelling the
Monopoly of the China Trade to 10 years - 57
Again it r 133

Majority

The original 'Resolution was carried, and the fur.
ther consideration of the Report was postponed un-
til this evening.
The other Orders of the Day being disposed of,
the House adjourned at three o'clock.

REPORT TO RI/ RUMNESS THE PRINCE OP NEUP•

CUATEL, &C.
ig Monsisoxzea,—The enemy came to attack me
in the position, of lloyerswerda, where I am, and
where I am detained, expecting the division of Ceei.i.
neral Gruyere:
" The enemy arrived from Semtenberg by-pi Ws..
banks of the . Hie firsi.aigerkiontr;
plate about liy.Beigen and Neuwiess,..where #ie ea.
Tail:), drove ba4. my advanced posts; and about
the same time .I eso attacked on my left on- the side
of Narditz„..whernthe enemy iteployed 30 pieces of
cannon: • ,
" I was yet ignorant of the side on which the prin.
cipal attack wosuld be, and I was obliged to divide my
men between *se two points.
"-The -14th cliiision formed its squares on the plate
of ltsrditii, under, a very warm five ,of artillery, to
which mine replied with effect.
The enemy perceiving the
_qaelessness of 'his of
on this fie, carried his force to the right bank ;
he debouchecl columns of infantry, cavalry, and can.; •
non: My artillery, very ad vantageonsly placed, then
pufthem colbians to the rout, beating the per de
charge, General Paithod drove back dale Prussian
corps a good its ybeyond Bergen, doing it much in. •
iurY. From that moment his retreat was quickened
at all pieta, and I remained master of the field,
where he Jett many dead. I cannot praise too high-
ly trowel of Gen. Pacthod, as well as of Gen.
roe Ity Who with his brigade, carried two villages
with the bayonet In the 'neatest manner.
" We are still following the emilty at five in the

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