It is extremely remarkable, that when the Directors were asked in the general court whether they had taken any opinions of council to justify their pretended doubt as to the Company's power of contracting such debts, they declared that they had not, and the chairman said, he did not think they would have been justified if they had taken such opinions. Nothing can shew more clearly the unjustifiable motives of the Directors opposition than this answer: they opposed the dividend upon pretence of a doubt of the Company's power of incurring debts beyond six millions, and yet they did not take the opinion of council concerning the Company's real powers. They knew that no opinion could be procured to give a foundation for the doubt which they pretended to entertain, and therefore they took no opinions, but made use of their pretended doubt as a mask to cover the real motives which induced them to engage in their conspiracy against the interest of the proprietors whose servants they are. The act 9 and 10 of king William, c. 44. contains no clauses which can any way restrain the Company's power of borrowing or extending its trade, except what is to be found in section 61, 62, 64, 75 and 86.--By sections 61, 62 and 64, there is no other restriction except that the Company shall not, _in any one year_, successively, send or cause to be sent to the East Indies from England or any other country, goods, bullion, or commodities to any greater value than their principal stock subscribed. And the fact is, that the Company never has sent _in any one year_, goods, bullion or commodities to the value of one-third of their principal stock, and therefore no argument can be founded on the limitations contained in these three clauses.