The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-05-05 00:00:00

EXPIRED PE/MONIS.

The Cu UIKMAN said, that the Court of Directors
had come to itiniointions on the subject of the Ex-
pired Pensions, and for the convenience of the Pro-
prietors they, had considEred and resolved on each
pension separately, and in that ontotter they would
be submitted to the Court for their consideration on
feta.. day; at that time all that could be done Was
to give notice of the flture discussion.
Mr. R. J Acasost proposed that the proceedings.of
the Court of Directors should be then read, that the
Proprietors mrilit be prepared for the future dis-

The Clerk atcordiugly read a Resolution of the
Court of Directors, that they deemed it proper to
.continue the pension which had been granted to ,
Wc-rren [lasting, Esq. for 28f years, and which
had terminated on die sth of December last, for the
term of his natural life."--[Great applauses.]
Some conversation took place on this Resolution, 1!
in the course of which Mr. LOWNDES observed, that
It would be proper to increase Mr, Hastings' Pension
#O6OOOl. or 80001. per annum, as a Mark of the
sense which the Company had of great services.
The next Resolution read, was one for the conti-
nuance for the term of his natural life, of a pension
granted to Sir J. Kenaway, for 'the term of 1.71,
years, from the 13th of Octooer, 1796.
Mr. ELPHIN6TONE state', in explanation of this
Resolution, that it was at the time intended to grant
this pension for the term of Sir J. Kenaway's life,
had such been within the power of the Company,
conAsten.ly with their Charter.
The nest Resolution, for continuing to Marquis
Wellesley, during his life, a pension which had been
granted to him for 171 years, of which term 4f
..ears were unexpired, was received with great ap-

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" Admualty Office, 30th April, 1811.
gg The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty I
cannot announce to the Fleet the termination of hos-
tilities with France, without expressing to the Petty '
Officers, the Seamen, and Royal Marines of his Ma-
jesty's ships, the high sense which their Lordships
entertain of their gallant and glorious services dur-
ing thelate war.
1' ' 44 The patience, perseverance, and discipline ;
manse. . 1 the skill, courage, and devotion, with which the
Mr. R. JAcEsoN thought 'it was scarcely sufficient; Retiree!' and Marines have upheld the best iuterests,
rtwrt,ll.- to continue the present pension to the Mar. and achieeed . the noblest triumphs of the Country,
gas i'.. •tlesley, though he should not himself move entitle them to the gratitude, not only of their na-
te ittc..•.ts6- it. lie skould,_ on a future day, move tive land, which they have preserved inviolate, but
ilia: ;tit Resolution -of the Directors be confirmed ; of the other Nations of Europe, of whose ultimate
and on that proposition any other Gentleman might deliverance their successe4 maintained the hope, and
graft an Amendment, proposing an increase of the accelerated the accomplishment.
pension. i " Their Lordships regret that the unjust and un-
Mr. IMPEY niiics he should, op the day when the provoked aggression of the American Gevernineut,
discuision of the Directors' Reenlations came on, in declaring war upon this Country, after all the
move for the continuance •of the pension to Mr. causes of its original complaint hadbeen removed, does
Postings, of whose public and private character he net permit them to reduce the Fleet at once to a
was a warm admirer. • . pestle establishment 4 but es the question now at
Mr. W. KEENE complimented tiusatarguis Wel.' issue in this war is the maintenance of those Mari-
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lesley as inferior only to his brother. time Rights, which are the sure foundations of our
Alderman knurls thouget the liberality of the' naval gory, their Lordships look with confidence to
Company would be properly exerted in a continuance' thet.part of the Fleet, which it may be still neces-
or increase of the pension to Marquis'Wellesley. i sack to keep In ermintission, for a continuance of
Mr. Hesse moved, that the resolution of 1800,' that spirit of discipline .and gallantry, which has
granting the pension to Lord Wellesley, shoutd;he i raised the British navy to Its present pre-ereinence.
read. The resolution was read accordingly, stating l' '‘ In reducing the Fleet to the establishment ne-
tse great services of the Noble Lord, and that in a cessary for the American War, the St',,atnett and Ma-
d'spatch from the' Court of Directors, that Court had vines will find their Lordships attentive to the claims
acknoeledged that the salvation of India was to be of their respective set-vices.
o-cribed to his efforts. The Resolution also stated, ; "" The rAuctiots will be first madeie the crews or 1
that the Noble Marquis had anticipated the recom-; those ships which it may be found expedient to pay
mendation of the Court of Directors on the subject , off, and from them-the Petty Officers and Seamen
of emitting the French iadueoce. in India ; and by' will he successively discharged, according to the
his influence, a body of 14,000 men, among whom I length of their services, beginning, in the first in-
were 25 French officers, had been disbanded, and! sttece, with all those who were in his Majesty's ser-
thus. the Subah of the Dekkao brut been left at liber- 'viee, previous is the 7th of March, 1803, and have
•tv to unite- his forces with )Bose of the Company.-- since (-entailed in it.
The lion. Proprietoe'vr' ".on to observe, that the i " IWheir the reduction shall have been thus made,
,
, Noble Lnrd had eiiule A prodigious addition to our . as to the *lshii pail' off, their loriiihips will direct
territories in India ; stud that it might well be made theirettention to• them which it may be found !weeps.
a luectian, if the proposed grant were adequate.—asaary to keep in commission, and, as 'soon as the cir
An offer had beef matte to the Noble Lord by the . Ocentances of. the war will admit, will bring horn*
Court of I:Erecters, with the sanction of ltis Ma- : and discharge all persons heaving the same standitsk
jeity's Government, of the sum of 100,0001. from ontl,periods of service, as those before discharged
the booty taken at Serittgapatam ; but this he had de- fr:nu the ships paid off: so that, in a few months-,
etined, because, as lie said, it was the due of the the situatiots of individuals will be equalined ; all
conquerors of the Mysore. Something more should be i titan of a certain period a service will be at liberty
done than the bare continuance of a [musli) foe !A./ to ietura bow their families ; hod the number
--The cenduct of the Noble Lord had heentried,t Olds it .may will neces,:ary to retain, will ha
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and he had come out clear from .the trial ; and he composed of the whp have been the shortest time is
trusted that the Court would think that none of, the/0174 .•
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their servants had, in ability awl zeal for the in, ~
,‘. An Aura isiitiklf so lust, cannot, iu
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