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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1813. 



nuance of such a monopoly was 

 not necessar}' to tlie political power 

 of the Company, he moved as an 

 amendment, that theexclusive trade 

 to China should be granted them 

 for a period of ten years. A de- 

 bate followed on this topic, *vhich 

 was concluded by a division, for 

 the amendment, 29; against it, 69. 

 Majority 40. 



Mr. Phillips proposed as an a- 

 mendment of the clause that notice 

 should be given to the Company 

 on the 10th of April, 1813, that 

 their exclusive trade was to termi- 

 nate in three years, the substitu- 

 tion of April 10, 1821. 



This amendment was rejected 

 by 59 votes against 18. 



When the clause respecting the 

 propagation of Christianity was 

 read, a decided opposition to it 

 was declared ; and Sir T. Sutton 

 moved the omission of the words 

 in the preamble of the clause de- 

 claring the purposes for which mis- 

 sionaries were to be sent to India, 

 and the substitution of the words 

 "for various lawful purposes." This 

 motion rekindled the debate be- 

 tween the opposers and the pro- 

 moters of the scheme for Christian- 

 izing India; of the former of whom 

 were the greater number of those 

 who had resided in that country ; 

 of the latter, those at home who 

 are distinguished by the name of 

 the evangelical party. The sub- 

 stance of the debate being only a 

 repetition of the matter of prior 

 discussions, it will suffice to state 

 the result, which was a division, 

 when there appeared for the origi- 

 nal clause, 54 ; for the amendment, 

 32. Majority 22. 



The consideration of the bill be- 

 ing resumed on July 2nd, Lord 

 Castlerengh called the attention of 



the committee to the clause rela- 

 tive to the appropriation of the 

 Company's funds, which, he said, 

 had been generally misunderstood. 

 It was not the design of the 

 framers of the bill to take out of 

 the hands of the Company the ap- 

 plication of any funds of which 

 they were in legal possession, and 

 of which they might dispose to the 

 general advantage of the proprie- 

 tors : the great object in view was, 

 to draw a precise line between the 

 territorial and the commercial 

 transactions of the Company. 



On the clause providing that 

 20,000 of the king's troops should 

 be maintained in India by the 

 Company, Mr. R. Thornton ob- 

 jected that it was a larger number 

 than was hitherto allowed by law 

 to be employed. Lord Castlereagh 

 said, that although a much smaller 

 number had been named in the 

 last act, yet that in point of fact 

 many more troops had been found 

 necessary, and that the number 

 employed was above 20,000. Our 

 territory in the East had trebled 

 since 1793, whence an increased 

 military establishment was requi- 

 site. 



On the clause respecting the 

 appointment of a bishop and three 

 archdeacons, Mr. W. Dundas stat- 

 ed that a majority of the British 

 residents in India were of the 

 Scotch church, and therefore would 

 have no provision for their public 

 worship ; he therefore proposed a 

 clause for the appointment of three 

 Scotch clergymen, one at each 

 presidency, with a salan' of 1,000/. 

 each. This clause was discussed, 

 and no other argument was brought 

 against it, than that its principle 

 would require that wherever there 

 was an establishment for the epis- 



