§ Mr. Tulkrose to move for leave to bring in a Bill to provide for the payment by the East-India Company of compensation to Mr. Buckingham for certain losses of property in India. The measure was founded on the evidence taken before a Select Committee, and their Report upon the same presented to the House of Commons on the 4th of August, 1834.
§ Sir John Hobhousesaid, that this was a measure involving a demand on the East India Company for some sum from40,000l. downwards, and that it was impossible for him to assent to it without full discussion, which the Motion could not then receive.
§ Mr. Tulkdid not wish the Bill to pass without ample discussion, but thought that the debate might be taken on the second reading.
The Question having been put,
§ Sir John Hobhousesaid, it was with pain he felt himself obliged to say "no" to the Motion. He objected to the East-India Company being mulcted in a large sum of money because the hon. Member for Sheffield stated that there was a considerable sum owing to him—he objected to a proceeding like this, which, if ever acquiesced in, should be decided on after ample discussion, in a full House, and not hurried over in the present exhausted state of this Session. If the hon. Member persisted, he should certainly divide the House on the Question.
Debate adjourned.