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this country to pursue, in concert 

 with the {jririce of the Brazils- 

 Monte Video still holds out against 

 Liniers, and must be prevented 

 from falling under his authority, or 

 the whole of Spanish America may 

 be lost. 



It is to be apprehended, that the 

 French squadron which sailed some 

 time since from L'Orient, may have 

 proceeded to the Rio de la Plata. 



TIeport Jrom the Committee of the 

 House of Commons, on the Pa- 

 tronage of the East India Com- 

 pani/. — Ordered to be printed, 

 23rd March, 1809. 

 The select committee appointed 

 to inquire into the existence of any 

 corrupt practices, in regard to the 

 appointment and nomination of 

 writers or cadets in the service of 

 the East India company; or any 

 agreement, negociation or bargain, 

 direct or indirect, for the sale there- 

 of; and to report the same, as it 

 shall appear to them, to the House, 

 together with their observations 

 thereupon ; and who were empow- 

 ered to report the minutes of evi- 

 dence taken before them ; and their 

 proceedings from time to time, to 

 the House — began their investiga- 

 tion by examining into a case 

 brought before them by George 

 Woodford Thellusson, esq. a mem- 

 ber of this House, in which his pa- 

 tronage and confidence appear to 

 have been grossly abused. 



The whole evidence being given 

 at length in the appendix, your 

 committee content themselves with 

 inserting in this place, a short ab- 

 stract only of this, and every other 

 transaction; giving the names of 

 the persons appointed, of those by 

 whom they were recommended, and 



by whom their nominations were 

 signed, together with the names 

 of the intermediate agents in any 

 of the negociations where money 

 was paid or received. 



Those appointments which have 

 been completed in consequence of 

 any such bargains, and upon whicht 

 satisfactory evidence has been pro- 

 duced, will be placed first; a second 

 class will be found of nominations 

 which appear to have taken effect, 

 but with regard to which, from the 

 death of some of the parties, or 

 from deficiency of proof in other 

 particulars, your committee are un- 

 able to ascertain the names of the 

 persons who were sent out to India, 

 it is a satisfaction to your commit- 

 tee, throughout the whole evidence, 

 toremark nothing which traces any 

 one of these corrupt or improper 

 bargains to any director, or induces 

 a reasonable suspicion that it was 

 done with the privity or connivance 

 of any member of that court. Seve- 

 ral negociations which never took 

 effect, will be found alluded to, or 

 detailed in parts of the evidence; 

 which it was thought proper not to 

 reject under the comprehensive di- 

 rections "that your committee 

 should inquire into any agreement, 

 negociation, or bargain, direct or 

 indirect, for the sale of such nomi- 

 nation ;"and when such information 

 was received, they deemed it inex* 

 pedienttowithholditfromthisHouse, 

 though they are fully aware that 

 their desire of opening every chan- 

 nel of inquiry has led to an extent 

 of examination, and to a mass of evi- 

 dence from which much might be re- 

 trenched wilhoutdetriment, if it had 

 been easy to establish a satisfactory 

 principle of omission, or abridg- 

 ment, which might have left nothing 

 wholly irrelevant or trifling, while 



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