just mentioned. What expectations, then, ought they to form regarding the issue of the present campaign? He would briefly inform them. In six weeks from the date of the last despatches, the rains would have set in at Rangoon. (No, no!) In March, the rains would have set in. He could not exactly say what monsoon it would be, as he knew that the commencement of the monsoons was different in different parts of India. He would, however, affirm, that a month, or six weeks at the utmost, was all the time left for the operations of our army. It was his belief, that those operations would terminate in disgrace and defeat. He had made that declaration on the very first day of the session of Parliament. On the occasion to which he had just alluded, he had regretted that ministers had not instantly recalled Lord Amherst, for wantonly engaging in a war so unpolitic, so unjust, so unnecessary, in every point of view. (Murmurs of disapprobation. Why had he regretted it?

Because he looked upon Lord Amherst as a man who was in every way unfit, by education, habit, and character, to be entrusted with the administration of affairs in India. (Murmurs continued.) If in what he had just said he was saying that which was not the feeling of that Court, or of any other public body, or of the country at large, let him be met and controverted by fair argument. Let the man be pointed out to him who would declare upon his honour that Lord Amherst was a fit man to govern India.

Mr. Twining said that he rose with feelings of great respect, to call the hon. bart. to order. It was with regret that he interrupted the hon. bart, ; but he felt it necessary to appeal to him (Sir C. Forbes) whether, at the conclusion of a quarterly court, which, he allowed, was open to the discussion of the general affairs of the Company, but at a time when the Court was nearly empty, it was right to enter into a discussion of such grave and important subjects as those which the hon. bart. had submitted to their notice. If such a discussion were right and proper, still he would suggest to the hon. bart., whose candour he well knew, whether in the absence of Lord Amherst he ought not to decline bringing on this question, until he had given the friends of his Lordship full intimation of his intention and design.

Mr. Lowndes attempted to address the Chair, but was immediately called to order by the Court.

Sir C. Forbes said, that with all due respect to the hon. proprietor who had called him to order, he could not but express his concern that the hon. proprietor had thought it necessary to interfere with him. Was it his fault if the Court was at that moment thinner than it was three hours ago? As to the gentlemen who

had left the Court, without waiting for his observations, they were perfectly welcome to do so; all he objected to was, that their absence should be attributed to him as a fault. After the Chairman had stated the dividend on their stock, what was doing in India became a matter of no interest to them. They went to eat their beefsteaks at taverns and coffee-houses, and considered what he had to say as the wild phantom of a diseased brain. Be it so; he only wished that if he were mad upon this subject, he could bite a few of the gentlemen whom he saw sitting around him. (Great laughter.) In that case, matters of such importance as the present would not be treated with the present lamentable lukewarmness. He would

now proceed to tell the Court, that though their forces had been reduced by the pestilential marshes of Rangoon, the Governorgeneral had issued orders to recruit the European forces stationed there. He had ordered a European regiment from Ma. dras, another from Ceylon, and a third from the Isle of France, in order to send them to Rangoon, where they would just arrive in time to reap, as their predecessors had done, the advantage of its unwholesome atmosphere. In another place, he had been told that May was the proper period for the arrival of troops at Rangoon; but he did not expect to find any body in that Court willing to blazon his ignorance of India by repeating so senseless an assertion. Let those, who thought May the proper season for a campaign in Rangoon, try the experiment in their own persons; but let not that Court give any sort of sanction to the folly by which they were possessed. The hon. bart. then adverted in terms of great severity to the manner in which the Governor-General was managing the financial affairs of the East-India Company. He was tantalizing the Indian publie with bills, and was exhibiting a pettifogging, weak, paltry, and ineffective conduct, which was unworthy the high situation he filled. In what would his measures end? In emptying the treasury of the Indian government, in order to send home specie to the Court of Directors, as he had been desired in certain despatches sent out to him, shortly after his first arrival in India, under very different circumstances from those which existed at present. What did the Court think was one of the wise measures which his Lordship had adopted? Being in want of silver to pay the troops, he issued bills to obtain it, which bills he promised to pay in specie, as soon as ever they became due. What was the consequence? The holders of the bills carried them to the government on their becoming due, and demanded specie for them-thus shewing the Governor-General that there was little use in robbing Peter to pay Paul. By S 2

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this measure, the East-India Company was compelled to commit an act of bankruptcy; they were obliged to suspend payment for one hour, until they could obtain funds from the Shroff to take up their bills. That was one specimen of Lord Amherst's financial arrangements. He should like to ask the Court, what opinion they had formed of Lord Amherst's character as a financier? He now came to the unfortunate affair at Barrackpore, in speaking of which he could scarcely trust his feelings. For two months past they ought to have been in possession of the report on that melancholy affair. What could they say in defence of the Governor-General, when they came to consider the delay that had taken place? What excuse could they make for his not having furnished them, at this late period of the day, with a document of such melancholy importance ? He had been told that the report of that Committee of Inquiry, formed as it was of only three officers, Major-general Watson, the Adjutant-general, and the Townmajor, was most distressing. It was said to be highly favourable to the unfortunate men whose lives were sacrificed at Barrackpore. This must be felt as a most deplorable circumstance by all those who felt an interest in the welfare of India. Now this omission of the Governor-General, in not forwarding the report to England, deserved, if it stood alone, a decided vote of censure. He was convinced that a petition to his Majesty's Government to recall Lord Amherst, would meet with the approbation of the country at large. Eighteen months had now elapsed since the commencement of the Burmese war, and nothing had yet been laid before the proprietors to justify it. Who would not, having considered these things, come to his conclusion-namely, that the recall of Lord Amherst should be moved for? They could not go into society without hearing expressed over and over again, the sentiments which he had that day uttered. What he wished -what would meet the approbation of the country generally, and would be hailed with delight by every man in India,-from the Indus to the Barampoota-aye, even to Rangoon-was, that the noble Mar quess, who lately returned from India, should be solicited to resume the government of that country. (Hear!) presence would inspire universal satisfaction and confidence. (Heart) If he were at the head of affairs for one twelve months, such was his opinion of the talents of the noble Marquess, that he was quite certain he would retrieve all the errors of his predecessor. (Hear!) All he had heard, and he had seen written from India, proved that the greatest anxiety prevailed there for the return of the Marquess of

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Hastings. (Hear!) He would restore peace and confidence from one end of India to the other. He was the only man who could remedy the fatal blow which had been struck against the British power in that empire. (Hear!) On certain points of the noble Marquess's administration, there might be a difference of opinion; but he would again press on the Court the necessity, the importance, with a view to the interests of India, and the welfare of the vast population of that empire, of taking into immediate consideration the propriety of hastening the return of the Marquess of Hastings to India. (Hear!) Let them do as they had done on a former occasion, when the return of a former Governor-General was not wanted nor called for. Let them act in the same manner as they had done when the Marquess Cornwallis was requested (he thought most unfortunately) to resume the government of India. He was sure that the Marquess of Hastings would sacrifice the remainder of his brilliant life, if he thought that, by doing so, he could serve his country. His presence would create unbounded confidence in the civil and in the military departments; but, above all, it would produce confidence amongst the natives. (Hear!) He had not the least hesitation in saying, that if some measure of this nature were not resorted to, they would, ere long, hear of more serious disasters.

The Deputy Chairman.—“I confess, sir, I am a good deal astonished, that the hon. proprietor has not concluded by making some specific proposition to the Court. This I conceive to be necessary; because then, and then only, this conversation can be carried on with propriety. There is, at present, no question before the Court, and therefore the proceeding of the hon. proprietor is somewhat irregular. He has indulged in a long string of invectives, which I heard with a great deal of regret, as proceeding from a member of the Court of Proprietors. (Hear!) I now beg to know whether the hon. proprietor, having made so accusatory a speech, does not mean to conclude it by offering some motion to the Court?"

Sir C. Forbes said he felt perfectly justified in having made to the Court the speech which had been alluded to by the hon. bart.-and no less justified in deelining to follow it up by any motion. He should like to ask the hon. bart. whether, after the sentiments which had been expressed by his (Sir C. Forbes's) hon. friend on the other side of the Court (Mr. Hume)-sentiments which appeared to meet with the concurrence of the proprietors-it would have been fitting for him to proceed farther than he had done? He wished to inquire how far it would be proper, after his hon. friend had with

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drawn his motion, for him to institute a new one? Did the hon. bart. think it would be altogether right or correct in him to submit any motion on this subject at present, after what had occurred? He would say "No;" and when he thought proper to make a motion on this important subject, he would give due notice of it. At the same time, he would not allow himself to be precluded from submitting a motion, instanter, if he deemed it necessary. This, it should be observed, was a quarterly general court, and was open for the discussion of every subject which related to the interests of India and the rights of the proprietors. (Hear!) He had, as he was authorized to do, made use of the right which he possessed, to state his sentiments on the present situation of India; and he would always assert that right, whether his sentiments were or were not palatable to the gentlemen behind the bar, or to the hon. bart. If the hon. bart. regretted that he heard his (Sir C. Forbes's) speech, he could not help it. He had not the smallest doubt that he had uttered some unpleasant truths, which perhaps the hon. bart. might wish to have been kept out of view. The hon. bart.'s feelings towards the present Governor-General, arising perhaps from personal respect, might be very kind with that he had nothing to do. He viewed this question as a public one-as one which appeared to him to be of the utmost importance to the interests of the proprietors and the country at large; and so viewing it, he had availed himself of the right which he possessed to speak his sentiments. He had asserted precisely the same right in the House of Commons, in going into a Committee of Supplyand would, perhaps, do the same thing again. He should very much like to know what the hon. bart. had to say in defence of his friend, the Governor-General of India; but he knew not why the hon. bart. should question his right to declare bis sentiments as he had done it was a right which every proprietor was entitled to, and one which he should ever maintain.

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The Deputy Chairman.—" I will satisfy the curiosity of the hon. bart. by assuring him, in the first instance, that I never was in the company of Lord Amherst three times in my life; and, therefore, I may be allowed to say, that I am connected with his cause by no ties of private feeling. I only view Lord Amherst as a servant of the East-India Company-holding a high and important situation-entrusted by the Company with the charge and direction of their affairs, and therefore entitled to their respect. (Hear!)-Certainly, but little respect has been shewn to Lord Amherst on this occasion. Indeed, I must say, that I never heard such a string of invectives, from the mouth of any man, in any place, as has this day been levelled by

the hon bart. against Lord Amherst-those invectives being professedly foundedon what?-on' I am told,' or else' private correspondence,' which has recently been received from India. (Hear!) The hon. bart. commenced his speech by telling us, that what every one says must be true. Now I will answer him by observing, that I believe common fame is very generally found to be a common liar ;' so here there is one wise saw for another. (Hear!)I will ask of the hon. bart. and of the Court-I will ask of any reflecting manwhether our affairs are likely to be well conducted in India, while such an attack on the Governor-General, as that which had been made by the hon. bart. goes forth to the public of India, through the medium of the newspapers which are sent to our Eastern possessions? (Hear!) If the hon. bart. had taken a manly and dignified course (Sir C. Forbes. "I did.")-if he had concluded with a motion of some description, his conduct would have been more regular and consistent. If a notion of censure had been persisted in, I, however, would have said that it was very ill-timed. In my mind, it would be much better at once for the recall of Lord Amherst, since the censure of this Court must of necessity be attended with loss of confidence, of character, and of respect, in the eyes of the individuals whom he is appointed to govern; and, bereft of confidence and of respect, how could he govern effectively? (Hear!) Observing the course which the hon. bart. had been pleased to take, I must say, that it would have been better, after he had indulged so largely in invective, if he had concluded his speech with a direct motion for the recall of Lord Amherst. I am, however, as ready as the hon. bart. is himself, to admit that the military proceedings which have grown out of the present war have been as unpromising and as unfortunate as could well have happened; but I am not, therefore, prepared to say, as he has prophesied, that it will be a war of disastrous termination. (Hear!) There are many gentlemen in the Court who may recollect the commencement of as glorious-as distinguished as successful a war as was ever carried on in India.-I speak of the Nepaul war. (Hear!) Gentlemen must recollect that there were, in the commencement of that war, disasters and failures, which created a general feeling of despair, not only in this Court, but throughout the country; and yet no war was ever concluded more honourably or more successfully. (Hear!) In the present war disasters have occurred. To such disasters all wars are liable. But I hope that the hon. bart. will prove to have been a very indifferent prophet, when, at the commencement of the session, he predicted so much misfortune as the inevitable consequence

elevated station in society, is justly entitled with that consideration, fairness, and urbagreatly to diminish his authority. (Hear!) to claim." (Hear!) The Court then adjourned. nity, which every public man, holding an his measures; but I hope he will be treated merits of Lord Amherst, or the policy of I will not enter into a discussion on the if suffered to pass unnoticed, must tend

LIST of SHIPS trading to INDIA and Eastward of the CAPE of GOOD HOPE.

Batavia & Singapore
Penang & Singaaore
Penang Malace
and Singapore

Cape

Mauritius & Ceylon-
Cape & St. Helena
New South Wales (

and China..

Van Diemen's Land
and New South
Wales..

New South Wales
New South Wales

Van Diemen's
Land and New
South Wales....

Cochineal.

Zedoary

0

0

Galls, in Sorts

700

Bourbon

Blue

Cotton, Surat.

tb 00 10

0

1 1

Fine Blue and Violet.

Fine Purple and Violet

Fine Violet

Aloes, Epatica

Borax, Refined....

Camphire unrefined..

Bourbon

Drugs, &c. for Dyeing.

Anniseeds, Star.....

-Unrefined, or Tincal

Cardamoms, Malabar..b 040

.cwt.

12 0 0

13 0 0

Good Violet & Copper

Fine and Good Copper Good ord. & brok.ship.

Good mid. and mid. do. Low and Bad

Consuming Qualities..

0 13 0 0 12 9

Cassia Buds

Madras Fine

Lignea

Castor Oil

.......tb

00 6

0 1 8

Rice, Bengal

Safflower

Sago

Columbo Root..

Saltpetre, Refined

Dragon's Blood.

5 0

Gum Ammoniac, lump..

40

0 0

Arabic

2 10 0

5 00

5 0 0

20 0 0 700

Silk, Bengal Skein
Novi

Ditto White
China

Organzine

Spices, Cinnamon.

Cloves

1 15 0 170

tb 0 15 8

0 12 4 0 14 11 1 4 5 1 11 0 Ib 0 4 6

0 32 07 6 0 5 9 1 15 0

1 15 0

140

1 17 0

1 19 0

0 8.4

0 3 6 080 060

1 18 0

1 14 0 220 18 0 250

2 3

1

1 7 3

1 8 11

MARKETS during the MONTH. The markets have been generally dull, owing partly to the uncertainty when, and to what extent the import duties will be changed. The cotton market has become very depressed, and the prices nominal. The stock is increasing, and the manufacturers buy but little. Some Manilla cotton was sold on the 10th and 17th at 13d. to 14d. per lb. It is clean and silky, but uneven and poor in staple. Sugar is firm and improving in price. Owing to the new Act, Mauritius Sugar has advanced. A sale of 4,000 bags this day fetched 32s. to 368. 6d. ; a sale of 10,000 bags is advertised. A large quantity of Manilla sold for 338. 6d. to 37s. Coffee is dull; spices depressed; tea has advanced since the saled to ld. per lb.

GOODS DECLARED FOR SALE AT THE EAST INDIA-HOUSE.

For Sale 11 July-Prompt 14 October. Company's.-Cape Madeira Wine.

For Sale 12 July-Prompt 30 September. Company's and Licensed.-Indigo.

For Sale 9 August-Prompt 4 November. Company's.-Cinnamon-Mace-Pepper- Salt

petre.

Tortoiseshell

Wood, Saunders Redton 20 0 0

Licensed.-Mace-Nutmegs-Cloves-Clove Oil -Cinnamon Oil-Cassia Oil.

The Court of Directors have given Notice, That the per Centage for Landing, Housing, Management, and Sale of all Cotton Wool hereafter deposited in the Company's Warehouses will be charged upon a fixed value of Sixpence per Pound for Cotton Wool from Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, and on a fixed value of One Shilling per Pound on Cotton from Bourbon, instead of its being calculated on ratio fluctuation with the price of Cotton Wool in the market.