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fifritv i ^ o ^ uM It * v * r h 4 ve infeMI , and tHottfctWl of ^ tt ^ itiftittMftMt ^ hat , but for hinr , they wt ^ uld hM ete « harve cdilftldetedi BtH tfcfc gi ^ antic / oppressiou ,, tbou gh trampled beneath W » ffeefcv still rlrtkinU ftoasesaion of his children ' s bread . Shall this be ? I trust not . > 4 Ebbnezer E ^ jtibgRT ^ f Sheffield , 20 th November , 1895 / , r
' ; Sketch or Petition . 5 * 6 the I * brd $ Spiritual and Temporal ( or to the Commote of the tfitifed ttingddrhoj ' Great Britain and Ireland ) in Pdrtidtoitiit tt . fsfeMfeferf . The hilttkbte Petition of the Merchants , Ma ? ttofd&tuH& , ttMcfcrs , arid dlher Inhabitants of Sheffield . ' ' '"
EIumbly Showeth . —That your Petitioners have read in the ^ ariiamentary Reports and in the Public Journals the following Resol utions of a Select Committee of the House of Commons , appointed ip examine into all the facts connected with the banishment of James Silk Buckingham from India , and the subsequent suppression of the
* Calcutta Journal / of which he was editor and chief proprietor : and which resolutions the said Select Committee had unanimously agreed to , and reported to the House of Commons on the 4 th of August , 1834 : J . * Resolved , That it appeared to your Committee tbat , Afa *
Bqckingham resided in Bengal from the year 1918 to 1823 , ua 4 ej \ a iiceivce of the East India Company , and was engaged as principal proprietor and editor of the * Calcutta Journal , ' which was then a highly profitable concern , yielding * to himself and other proprietors a large annual income . 2 . * ' Resolved , That it appeared to your Committee , that in the year 1823 , in the exercise of the discretion vested in the Governor-Gerteral , Mr . Buckingham was , by the acting Governor » Genferal ,
ordered to quit India within two months . 3 . 4 Resolved , That it appeared to your Committee , that , after tfie departure of Mr : Buckingham from India , the ' Calcutta Journal' was , by order of the Governor-General , altogether suppressed . _ , . 4 . * Resolved , That your Committee , without impugning the mo * tives which actuated the measures of the Government , feel that thpse measures have , in their consequences , proved to Mr . Buckingham ; and his family , penal to a degree which could not have been contemplated
at the time of their adoption * 5 . ' Resolved , Thai your Committee are , therefore , of opinion that compensation ought to be made to Mr . Buckingham . 6 . ? Resolved , That your Committee abstain from expressing any opinion a » to the amount of compensation , in the hope J , ha ^ ip «^ » ubject will be taken into the favourable consideration oV the East JwTia Cooapaaj . and thus the interposition of Parliament , in toe next session ,,
to n * such amount , be rendered unnecessary / . 1 . That your Petitioners have since learnt , with pain and olsapj ^ oiou inent , that , although these unanimous Resolutions of the S ^ e&Gifan * irtittee of the House of Commc ** were Atfij laid bftfore ihe 6 a « t i India Company , by th ^ then Pfeftkfeut of the Board of toh # r ^ ( Hot a in ^ blM of the House of Peers , a * d oiie of Mi Maj ^ y 'W CiOdiartfc Mitristm , as PriDchml Secretary of 8 t * t # rt > # t \ x > ( 2 tiMttM |>> ib ^ ImM
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1835, page 803, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2652/page/47/
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