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Chriltian Knowledge, foliciting, that, in the event of the 
renewal of the (aid charter, a claufe (hould he referved, 
permitting the fociety to fend miflionaries to propagate 
the gofpel in that country. 
On a petition from the city of London being prefented 
to the houfe of lords (Mar. iS) in favour of the renewal, 
lord Grenville declared that lie approved the views of 
minifters in throwing the trade open, and would fupport 
them.—The earl of Liverpool faid the refolutious would 
be l'ubniitted to the other houfe in a few days by lord 
Caftlere'agh. 
Accordingly, on the 22d of March, the houfe of com¬ 
mons having refolved itfelf into a committee on India- 
affairs, and to confidec the petition for the renewal of the 
company’s charter ; lord Caftlereagh, after acknowledg¬ 
ing the very great ability of the company’s civil fervants, 
both in this country-and in India, and difculiing the va¬ 
rious propofitions, as he read them, for the future regu¬ 
lation of the company’s affairs, concluded by fubmitting 
a feries of refolutions, of which the following is the fub- 
ftance. 
That it is expedient that all the privileges, authorities, 
and immunities, granted to the United Company of Mer¬ 
chants trading to the Eaft Indies, by virtue of any act or 
acts of parliament now in force, and all rules, regulations, 
and claufes, affeCting the lame, lhall continue and be in 
force for a future term of twenty years ; except as far as 
the fame may berein-after be modified and repealed. 
That the exifting reftraints reflecting the commercial 
intercourfe with China lhall be continued, and that the 
exclufive trade in tea lhall be preferved to the faid com¬ 
pany, during the period aforefaid. 
That, fubjeft to the proviiion's contained in the preced¬ 
ing refolution, it lhall be lawful for any of his majelty’s 
fubjefts to export any goods, wares, or merchandife, which 
can now or may hereafter be legally exported, from any 
port in the united kingdom to any port within the limits of 
the charter of the faid company, as herein-after provided ; 
and that all Ihips navigated according to law, proceeding 
from any port within the limits of the company’s charter, 
and being provided with regular manifests from the lad 
port of clearance, (hall refpeftively be permitted to im¬ 
port any goods, wares, or merchandife, the product and 
manufacture of any countries within the faid limits, into 
any ports in the united kingdom which may be provided with 
Warehonfes, together with wet docks or bafins, or fuch 
other fecurities as lhall, in the judgment of the commif- 
fioners of the treafury in Great Britain and Ireland re¬ 
fpeftively, be fit and proper for the depofit and fafe cuf- 
tody of all fuch goods, wares, and merchandife, as well as 
for the colleftion of all duties payable thereon, and lhall 
have been fo declared by the orders of his majefty in coun¬ 
cil in Great Britain, or by the order of the lord-lieutenant 
in council in Ireland. Provided always, that copies of 
all fuch orders in council lhall be laid before both houfes 
of parliament in the feffion next enfuing. 
Provided alfo, That no (hip or veffel of lefs than 350 
tons, regiftered meafurement, lhall be permitted to clear 
out from any port in the united’kingdom, for any port 
or place within the limits aforefaid, or be admitted to en¬ 
try in any port of the united kingdom from any place 
within thole limits. 
That no Ihip or velfel lhall proceed to any place within 
the limits of the company’s charter, without a licenfe to 
be granted for that purpofe 5 and that no Ihip or velfel 
clearing out from any port within the united kingdom, 
fnall proceed to any port or place within the limits of the 
company’s charter, and under the government of the laid 
company, except to one of their principal fettlements of 
Port William, Fort St. George, Bombay, and Prince of 
Wales’s Illand; and that every Ihip 16 proceeding lhall 
be furnilhed with a licenfe for that purpole from the court 
of directors. 
j~ That nothing herein contained lhall be conftrued to 
prevent any Ihip or velfel from proceeding to any place 
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upon the continent of Alia, between the river Indus and 
the ncareft point to Prince of Wales’s Illand, and not one 
of the principal fettlements under the efpecial authority 
of the commiffioners for the affairs of India ; but that all 
applications for licenfes to proceed to any fuch place lhall 
be made to the court of directors, who, unlefs they lhall 
have thought fit to grant the fame, (hall, within fourteen 
days from the date thereof, tranfmit the fame to the board 
of commiliioners for the affairs of India, with any repre- 
fentation which the faid court may think proper to make 
upon the fubjeCt of fuch application ; and that the faid 
court, if directed fo to do by the commifiioners for India, 
fnall ilfue their licenfe or licenfes accordingly. 
That no flip or velfel clearing out from any port within 
the united kingdom, lhall proceed to any port or place 
within the limits of the charter of the faid company, and 
not being upon the continent of Alia, between the JRiver 
Indus and the neared point to Prince of Wales’s Illand, 
without a licenfe from the commiliioners for the affairs 
of India; and that the faid commiliioners fnall from time 
to time make known the rules and regulations under 
which fuch licenfes lhall be granted; and that, in any cafe 
of fuch licenfe being granted otherwife than under fuch 
rules and regulations, the fpecial circumltances under 
which fuch licenfe lhall have been granted lhall be re¬ 
corded in the books of the office of the faid commiliioners; 
That no Ihip lhall be permitted to clear out from any 
port of the united kingdom for India, unlefs atteded lids 
in duplicate (hall have been delivered to the principal of¬ 
ficer of the cuftoms at the port of clearance, fpecifying 
the number and defeription of all perfons embarked on¬ 
board of the faid Ihip, and all arms laden therein ; and 
that all perfons proceeding upon fuch Ihips, dial!, upon 
their arrival in India, be fubjeCt to all the exilting regu¬ 
lations of the local governments, and to all other rules 
and regulations that may hereafter be eftabliffied, with re¬ 
gard to the European fubjeCts of his majefty relident in 
India. 
That, upon any application made to the court of di¬ 
rectors, by or on behalf of any perfon defirous of pro¬ 
ceeding to India, the court of directors (unlefs they (hall 
think fit to grant a licenfe for that purpole) (hall tranfmit 
every fuch application, within the term of one month 
from the delivery thereof, to the commiffioners for the af¬ 
fairs of India ; who, if they (hall fee no objection thereto, 
may, and they are hereby authorifed to, direCt, that fuels 
perfon or perfons (hould, at the fpecial charge of him or 
them, be permitted to proceed to India ; and that any 
fuch perfon or perfons, fo defiring to proceed, (hall beffur- 
niftied with a certificate by the court of directors, accord¬ 
ing to fuch form as dial! be prelcribed by the faid com¬ 
miffioners, (ignifying that fuch perfon or perfons have fo 
proceeded with the cognizance and under the fanCtion of 
the faid court of directors; and that all fuch certificates 
lhall be confidered by the governments in India as enti¬ 
tling fuch perfons, while they (hall properly conduct 
themfelves, to countenance and protection in their feve- 
ral purfuits ; fubject to ail fuch proviffons and reftriCtions 
as now are in force, or may hereafter be judged neceffary, 
with regard to perfons redding in India; provided always, 
that the faid court (hall be at liberty to offer fuch repre- 
fentations to the faid commiffioners, refpecting perfons fo 
applying for permilfion to relide in India, as they may at 
any time think proper. 
That no fuch (hip, which (hall have proceeded as afore¬ 
faid, (hall be admitted to entry in any port of the united 
kingdom, without a regular rnanifeft, duly certified, ac¬ 
cording to fuch regulations as may hereafter be enabled. 
That no article manufactured of filk, hair, or cotton¬ 
wool, or any mixture thereof, (hall be entered or taken 
out of any warehoufe, except for exportation, unlefs the- 
fame (hall have been brought into the port of London, and 
depofited in the warehoules of the faid united company; 
and that all fuch articles (hall by them be expofed to pub¬ 
lic fale by auction, in order to afeertain the duties payable 
thereupon y 
