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The East India Company has been unable entirely to evade
the discussion of Mr. Jones's curious question respecting the French tenure of Pondicherry and Chandernagore, under the treaties of Paris at Vienna of 1814 and 1815. The Chairman naively answered that France having received back her possessions in India under certain conditions, she could not violate those con- ditions without forfeiting her territories ; Colonel Sykes, net perceiving that the accession of a Napoleon to the throne of France is iii itself almost an annihilation of those treaties of 1815. However the East India Company is labouring under a chronic access oefatalism, and it seems prepared to entertain no question except the one of dividends.
