JAN. 10. Ot) ism, England, but t oat every thieg, benelnial had been the effect ofaccident , or proceeded from the enligineneri men who happened, from time to time, to be abroad in I ',idle, aed that the Company never for a mo meet locked hey orel their own interests. In the thirty years war in Inch.:, when the trade to then coteory was in darker of utter extinc tion, trot!) the formidable malice! of European fiVRIS, and when it stir- vived by the exertion it a fortitude and oerseverance, unrivalled in the history - of theeworld. was it no reel it in the Company to have then preserved thee trade ? Was it no praise to the Company that they endured successfully the lung striseele with France, with the ahle.t functionaries of that cc tintry arrayed against them ? • When Lord Clive went out a sec.•od time, no longer a soelier, but the pecifieetor of India, did that great man go cut by accident ? Or was he not dele gated by the votes of a triumphant majority of that Court i When I afterward; sensihle of the tooranoos irregularities cormnitted by - flee 1 merchants in the interior, he chaced the tribe of oppressors to Cal cotta—had he not ex pre: ;s instructions iront that Conic to effect that ref •rmation ? Whett aeother great name, Lord Cornwallis, proposed the measure of pet eetual sett itneent—a measure of which the policy has been -sometimes doubted, bet as to magnanititity ef which there ;lever could he two opinion—was it the consequence of accident ? Ila•. 1 he not the express instructions of that Court to amehurete the coedit en of the natives in the nianner effected by that measure ? A ns: At one o'clock it very numerous body of Mtritchants interested ha with respect to all the care which had been emplined in the enact- the export trade to India and China, tat at the City of Lendte ; alient of the laws, by which the administration of justice and flatly:. Tavern. properties were :secured, and which might he considered as the Bill ot The Loan Meyon, who waealn the Chair, stated the object of Al'e Rights of the tieople of lietia, did hot the'e• recorde contain the fullest i me hil e and that, holvevea deficient IX might lee! in the kuowlede• , ee _ evidence that all these benefits were the result of the express instritZ.a nit. iii the ' emu:4lnm of the subject. he had conceived it his / err, ,ions or the Court ? Their functionaries abroa d could nut eessibly do wit thing:, uoless they were Silpourte 4 at home , w i th in those very as C M hief egistrete of the City, ity, to accept the Chtiir offered to I ,f;,, by walls which now ma:lilted thetr ettleies, and it id the highest right to the Dewey oftheir Committee. be ornemented with them, for there were theses measures originated Mr. Alden') •n An:: se observed, that lee had last year f A c e t h e which gave rise to their liviog weetnese. (Applause.) He hat hoed I Chair not. - held by the feed Mavor, but the niesottition of r 016 ment i: '•id, that all the aigtenente wh ch the Company could adduce 'sett: hail placed him iii a satiation winch be thought inconsistent ' n t h t h at o f inerelv an MISER:tem DI AM: I'ur his part, he would say, net wittily but 4 their Chairman : he should still, however, direct his min(' . 10 t h e i r h e . gravely, that he also ehould be inclined to tree an argument Ao NI isEit t. terests, ;Ind recourrn(ald them to exert thenhtives, to eonvi• sc .„ t i weoehe cortor aot. He should eddress himself to the compaseimotte feelings of I r a y of the delesion into a hielt they had been I.d n the atleiets re•pecti • the ci,wlta - v—ht- should 010 . 1/3 a a appeal to the coinpassion of the cages . ot th . , ' e nu „ m (it t 1 - le remote s t tra d e. people of England in favour of the people of lielia. 1•Ie woeld esie !lie Lotto 'AI kV 0 R 111th c rated, that a meetieg of the iCorporation of them if they were disposed to allow a system nhielt was adinitten to he the beet which camel possible he devised ter :lot eeople, Ina p,,li_ I,,, n d tar s b o rdd he c o nvent (1 as soon as possible ; that tl iry were alive t. • that point of view, to be all breneh: to danger in a few s ears from the !he views of die East India Coiapany. rage of commercial epeculatien ?He woohl have the:: do by the Tile lirst ile4(.lurion proposed by Mr. Goanow, cud seconded b y people of that country, az; they woul.t do by themselves, and then he Mr. N :sit, was irT,:reed to nuanimoosly. had no doubt of the result. (Loeg and reiterated apples:cc.) Vie •econd was propo,ed and seconded by the sr inc Genticiner. ' A Gentleman, whose name we could not learn, thought, that as Mr. Rowe aorr imposed au amendment, " the k the remove! of the it was proper to rite asrtple time for the consideration of the papers trade would 'uo tittended, ut no great distance, wi $1 the dune te er of die Which they liad heard, it mi4ht no mpr loss of the Indian Empire."--A; to. t be ioner to move an adjourn- meat to Tuesday the 19th instant. .'e•tonie cries of too long.) - Ott the reading of Jilt: thi•d Mr. flour rose 1 : • • ..11 mekesorne observa- Mr. Kee NE I Soviet moved a resolution, that this Court do approve • . . tions on the cireunistatice of the SIII Of the V'aCtlfllliltiS and attention of the Court of Directors ; and in ill quantity M tonnage exported law consider it ionof :he high importance of the subject, think it expedient solvate adventurers. 111 said, that the East L o n, te em p ne y, aware to adjourri to Tue:elay the lizlth instant. (lint politics end connueece should nut be mitt • Mr. 1Z tc sv wishes! to fellow whet het Ministers had been assured hated that the vessel of private merchants shoe tied together, had mic ell e ,trd be free from all deterte b. the Dile:tors, that. they would he wiling to accede to.any arrange- tints, except that of w;ather, and should still i 0 the fair weather season; :nem, by, which all manufacturers might export through the Cotn- and yet scarcely a whip had sailed in that se: , s „ e ; n e w., b a d h a pp e n e d Pane '6 ;AP I'S ? Of titre e, six. and tiv dye months.---(Crics of . .no, no !)—fie woold waive Ti •e Chairman stated, that so early as the renewal of the Chatter, the time, but delays had tae a ell piece, and i is a proof it, sot additiomal in 17 3, this had been attct:sled to. Three tons had then been allotted I r erourra e e of many thousands had been 1 - iiid. It was importaot that to the private tracts, not halt of which had ever be:sn tilled, anti this, NTerchants should have their goods in En e anl to meet their bites, and in great pert with wine, which was not of the manufeetute of this fir particular matkets ; but delays, frogs: country, at lesst he hoped so. (.1 laugh.).entiv for political comes, had The imition being read, .prevented the sensortable arrival of the' x ships. lie did not think the Mr. Hume sahl it wit . . wrong to call on his Majesty's Ministers for qnnlity of the toatittge a criterion of the i quantity of immured ures that a deaided ;mercer on !hie subject, on which they would •of have to- would be eetit ton by enterprising men • ander other circumstances. , Has decide. It bed been said in the Prince Regent's speech, that it would himself ens not flir confadite the trade so the pore of London. /est with Parliament to determine on it. He did not wish to ap- Mr. I'd InerN celled toothier, and d es ired the notice for calling the prove of the cooduct of the Directors, until be had an opportunity of :11r:ethos, to be read. Alter which, IV ir. M. oinserved, that the object of informing him-elf coneerteog it. Ile could not but say, that it was the met.e , t • , mg W.. 13 for the !artier inter ested to devise the best measures unJ'nst, while the out. ports hes! suffered to such a degtee, to cocflee '• wt . furthering their interests; and • ;Ile Gentleman w h o s p o k e last wa s to to porr of London, the wily trade which remained entire. He adducing ar -1 nuns against the oh' did not wish 1.0 diSpll IC the right of the Company to their territorial• At 1 , .. fire of their Meetine. possessions ; yet whatever might he said of the trade, after the ea pi- itlf; sm IT ii "lied to i° lo wß if the Gentleman was interested in the trod,: ? Winn of the charter, their exelusive ertvilege ceased, and they had it Y e . to atlc ova whet terms the government was willing to renew it. Mr• Hi'm a atall'd , that be W 8 e interested in the trade, and was a Two points had, recsented the.: elehe fur consideratioe : —lst. Had proprietor of India Stock . : he wss preeendina, where— the ir,de to Boinhev, Beise,,tl, &c. been the weans of paying !heir Mr. lio IVC II ot•T observed C .tr interruptio.;) that the object of this dlvitleods ? Oec item of she charge or: this trade was nine milltone, m eet i ng eastu.cons id er the ht fit means of scull's , forth the stinc of their which would amount to a cos iderable pert of the debt with which itacreststo the 'oh't re.. iilse _ P erlia merit, and not to discuss the g eneral Ties they were burtheneel. This belle; the cese, was there any lot' iii ~ c . t ee as to the f:Topriey of iniening the trade ; that was of too eompli glvinr, up that which was of iie he ell' ? 1.1. Was it an object . to ceted and ethherel a hi itc e for them to examine with fell effect : they quer rel with M toistets, and 'wadi the coulter y, in order to preserve cohld feel il4 . neturo of tlseir interests; the great question would be ex t his trade, winch, its he could :dim ter rn paocrs laid before them by emoted and eliecossati in another piece. the. Directors themselves, had I-ocelot:eat initial: le, or next to nothieg ? Mr. Huane said Ire should decline making any farther comments, ex. He wr.hed to enter his p rotest a g siest thie vests; at the rime trine he w tilled to be noderstoed, that he dirttr.7l. &are hitt:et:if niet be I rcpt that Ittecridhr to the general int e r ests of the eitintr y was the dm- Should rwt, at a future reeetina, at er having considered tl:e .Ilbjr - Ct• 1 I farfOrisl:C. flif a l'.iitish Nlerclient. Consent to a vote of approbatiou of much mere explicit velure than i ;ate Rot (Amite: taus then agreed to unanimously ;as also were the 40, the present. sth. title, t.ofi 701. Mr. CHA et.es GRA NT said, the :item - nem of the Direct' was, 'flue NI I, Mr. I);:.o•. teonelit better omitted ; nod aflrr r. r.,-,v woe di :-.li • ' tAkc niac• 1 wot.l‘l •. r that it all) C2tlCilbloll 01 the r gist Qiitri" ) ; -1 -----"ahi - , et ' ' sto:a .I.;',e. Ante:a:mu :kik IN S Rad MI UV X E. ) it , A ;*.I• i'. it?:Jr;:w.3. In tba - rf• teat, . itim of the wide with China. The Honourable Gc man sUpposed, that the Directors had care/ rically called e, ll hi s Majesty's Ministers for a decisi..n. This was not the case—elfy had o • ly asked a statement of the arguments on Which their &Kt - initiation was grounded. A Gentleman surgested an adjonrriment to this day virzek only. The Cu A 1 It MAN thought it would be mere convenient that the day should stand as - it had hcen proposcd—Tuesday the 19th. Hequoted a letter of the late Lord Melville. against the ext,nsion of the right of import to any port but I.ondon. Mr. Pi:t had been of the same opinion. Alderman ATKINS supported the motion. He observed, essential serene had been rendered to the Country, by the concentration of The Company's shipping in the Port of London— by the facility of manning . ships of war, before the battle of Camperdown. The motion was put as it stood, and carried ; only one hand (that of Mr. Hume) being held up against it. CITY OF LONDON TAIERY. FitIDAY, JAN. 3. i IL• .. • ..... - -- lle w shed to be undcr,toi,d, that ht (Iv.t net plearc n 00... —.... .._ should not, at a future r4.:!Aii).!., at er tilving considered Oa: .I.Jareti. It raereric. Ica a Elitish Nterclinnt. consent to a vote of approbation of inuell tit le explicit tiatuz - e than I the present. .. , stli. tith, VIA 701. i 1 . 111 . 1109 Oilit1:41 was then agreed to onanintrniely ;as alau were the 40', Mr. CHA r.l.es GRA NT S:11(1, the eruyrnent of the. Directors was, 'fbc tld 1, Mr. I); -..:(3 , 4 . Olooglit better rllll . lltcd ; ntla aflrr r. f.",v we. di that if an) eAtetiaion ut the r Lilt Qlia . v.):: :-.l,,eu,'J take place, vv0....1‘1 • . fLoal M.;ip. :1 1 .0,c.. - elan Ark ANs a:stl MI ft.) xr.., it , A;•.)• LI: itl:Jr.w.l, In ilia :.. . • , '4 . .. , . . THE NAT