The Sun. — 1833-08-14 (London, England)

EAST INDIA HOVSE.  (Concluded from The Sun of Yesterday.) Sir C. FORGES would never consent to the Bill, which was one of spoliation and robbery. He would have a meeting called to consider wln-ther the Company should place upon the natives of India the additional burden of 630,0001. a year. From a moderate estimate the plan of Government would place an additional burden upon the natives of India of one million sterling. He held the opinion, that if the Company continued to participate in the China trade the profits wou d be greater than ever. He had heard that ,he Indiin navy was to he abolished ; if so the pirates would materially obstruct the Indian trade. The Bill he would never consent to. By the China Bill it was proposed to place a tonnage upon British vessels at Canton. This the Do ectors must oppose. He concluded with moving the following amendment : " That the Court of Directors be instructed to intimate to his Majesty's Ministers that the Court of Proprietors cannot with justice to themselves and to the people of India consent to place their commercial Charter in abeyance under the provisions of the Bill now before Parlianse..t for effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better government of his Majesty's Indian territories,' because, whilst by the provisions of the said Bill the proprietors of India Stock are to receive only the same yearly income and the same amount of capital, at the expiration of their proposed Charter, as they were entitled to under their present and former Charters, their security will be greatly lessened by the withdrawal of their commercial assets, and their exclusion from the trade with China, and they will be made wholly dependent for their dividends on the Indian revenue, in which th,re is a growing deficiency at a period of profound peace, after pushing retrenchment to the utmost, although taxation has been carried to an extreme length, and ought to be diminished instead of being increased, which cannot be attempted without great danger to British supremacy, and great misery to the natives of India, already the most heavily taxed people on the face of the earth ;* but which increase of taxation must inevitably take place, in order to meet the heavy additional charges arising out of the proposed plan for the future government of India, if unhappily it shall be persevered irl ; a plan by which despotic power will be placed in the hands of one man over a hundred million of British subjects, and over every authority in India. not excepting his Majesty's Courts of Justice."  Mr. FIELDER seconded the amendment, and said not one word of what the Hon. Proprietor had stated in pro• posing the resolution was in support of it. He contended that India ought to be placed on the same footing as regards the admission of sug tr with the West Indies. The Bill as it now stood would not confer any benefit on India. He opposed the continuance of the College of Haileybury, and hoped that it would not go out to India that the Company had passed such a bill as that before them—that the Company had committed an act of felo de se. Dr. GILCHRIST, Mr. WEEDING, and others addressed the meeting, after which Mr. R JACKSON replied. The CHAIRMAN then put the qm.stion, but in consequence of the lateness of the hour, he stated he could not count the numbers and a division was called for ; when there appeared—For the amendment, 11; for the original resolutions, accepting the Bill, 40. The original motion was carried. A ballot was requested, and fixed for Friday next.... (See Advertisement.) The Court then wtjourned. * Expression of the present Secretary of the Board of Con. trol in the House of Commons.