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. s 2 \ WAR IN IVDIANA • The following private letter vises some interesting. details of the attack in which the British were repulsed : " On the River under Take% in Cachar, Feb. 2908:14. " Having just returned from visiting the stockade - at Doodpatlee, I embrace a Teisnre moment to give you an idea of it from the observation I made, and of the gal hitt though unfortunate attack by our troops. " TM: indescribably strong possession lies north and south across a narrow slip of level country, having hills cn, its lintel face, and the river Sorsrma on its south, with a deep ditch about 14 feet wise in front of a fortified wall, cannon proof to the front or western face; with a double fence, thickly planted at the bottom with bamboo spikes o.:er-topped with longer ones sloping outwards, and very strong. The ditch was covered with long grass, and quite I,id from view, until you arrived at it ; the north face was also very strong, Navin}; a parapet with a ditch inside, and spiked towards the hills for about fifteen pac'es; the - east face much the same as the north, with the addition of sunk redoubts; the south face was by no means so !Along, and afforded the only way of entering by a Mir low opening, but this so completely hid that chance or 4 could direct our troop: to it, and then the road up the bank was so steep and rugged, that a few determined men Might bid defiance to hundreds. • Lieutenants M'Lean and B.irbarie, with a few men, however, were nearly succeeding at this point, for they arrived at it, but the fire was so well directed upon them, that the few' men who were with them were constantly knocked over. " I understand Lieat.-Col. Bowen, on the morning of the attack, came on a-head with five companies to re connoitre, leaving Major Newton to follow with the guns, and remainder of the force: very shortly after the Lieut.-Colonel's departure firing was heard in the rear, when the guns which were drawn by elephants came on with such rapidity that the column was kept at a run, and no time was lost in'bringing them to within 120 paces of the stockade, and not 250 as formerly stated, for the distance was traced yesterday: here the elephants were unharnessed, and Major Newton, assisted by Lieutenant Adjotant M'Lean, laid the three guns and kept up a sharp and well-directed fire for a considerable time: the men wot king them were trained by Major Newton to the exerci:e from the wing of the corps with which he was originally dispatched from Dacca, and their con duct on this occasion, I understand, was very conspi cuous, and worthy of notice ; several of them, I under stand, were knocked down by the enemy's fire. The exe cution of the artillery, in the absence of an artillery offi cer, excited the admiration of this little force yesterday, on discovering the effects inside the place. One of the Burmese Chiefs was cut in two by a round shot, and the grape slaughtered a number; in short, there can be no doubt but the guns, and hearing of the approach of more, and Col. lanes' detachment, have driven them out of the country. After an'exposure to the enemy's fire for more than three hours, Lieutenant-Colonel Bowen, who had been wounded in the hills to the northward, arrived, formed the troops into line, and ordered a charge on the west face—a more gallant one cannot be imagined—the men did all that could possibly be expected of men ; the charge was made up to the spikes, and the enemy, about 2,000 behind the ditch, poured in their destructive fire. File firing in a square on parade was a joke to it; this, together with the obstacles in front, made the poor fellows step back, but none went to the right about until the retreat was sounded. Here was a dispensation of PROVIDENCE, for which all engaged ought ever to be grateful ! How so many fine Officers escaped, who were all conspicuous in the example they set their- men, is miraculous; or bow more than a fourth of the men returned is equally to be wondered at ; much, however, is to be attributed to the badness Of-the enemy's muskets, and the time they take to reload them. The inside of the stockade was found studded by sunk redoubts, so that an interior warfare was evidently premeditated, and the work of murder would doubtless have been •ery bloody had weforced a passagehere or at Jattrypore. " A Bus mese orderly book was found, and the names of forty-two Birmahs and a Chief, who were killed in the attack at Bickrampore, were struck off the list of the army. The Assamese, whose loss was the severest on the occasion, %ere not noticed, and an order was issued in the book that any Officer or soldier heard speaking of the affair at Bickrampore should suffer in stant death ; previous to this business services of com paratively trifling nature had been performed by Lieut. Colonel Bowen's detachment, having dislodged a body of the Assamese troops from one or two stockades at Iris koolali, without loss on either side. Our loss at Doodpatlee, I regret to state, was severe; Lieutenant Arnistrong, of the 10th, killed ; Lieutenant-Colonel llowen slightly wounded with a spent ball; Lieutenant (;raves slightly in the arm; and Ensign Barbaric dangerously, lel.• since amputated; about I'2o men of the 10th killed and wounded. Captain Johnston, a very active and gallant Officer, I regret to say, was very severely wounded through the knee, and about forty men of the detichment of 23d ltungpure, were killed and wounded, including the sot ty• two men spiked in the feet and legs opposite Buddeepoie, where the enemy had commenced making some stockades. Our camp hos pital is tolerably full. . 1 % •••• k• • s )r , . . • - • ,- PORTUGAL. PROM THE FRENCII PAPERS. their sincere desire to promote every measure the ensure the preservation of pace and order, and tn. aversion to everything at variance nth these principles, of check the itile declamations of these pap! imaging sac* bdt what iee,e4l.: with their ion!, and thin)! everything *dined that can tilio . ce their own bise ends. .It-" Vere tv be wished these self-constituted defenders of legitimacy learn-the difference between tight and wrong, before they assume a part for which their bad intentions and sentiments wholly disqualify them.—German Paper. . LISBON, JULYS. The following official documents have been lblished I.here, viz.—A note from his Excellency the Marquis of IPalmella, Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign, Affairs, to Baron klydede Neuville,Count of Bemposta, French Ambassador at this Court;—the answer to the said note; and a dispatch from Count de villele, Pre sident of the Council of Ministers of his Most Christian Majesty, and ad interim Minister for Foreign Affairs. These documents serve to prove the lively interest which his Most Christian Majesty takes in the support given to the royal authority of the King our Sovereign, and the close union ahich unites all the Kings of Christen dom against everything calculated to disturb public order, peace, and the triumph of those religious and monarchical principles which are the desirable and solid bases of the happiness and liberty of nations:— f.• • of the island of Malta and its dependencies. " Palace, Valetta, 7th June, " By his Excellency's Command. " FREDERICK HANKEY, Chief Secretary to Gave LANDING OF HIS EXCELLENCY. STACK 13XCH A NOE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols 'opened this morning at 92a to for the Account, and in chf emit , part of the morning a good deal Ifittdoim. They are now at 924, 4, with a brisk Mariam. FOREIGN FUNDS. The most doing in the Foreign Market this morning is in Colom bian and Mexican Scrip. Current Prices : Old Spanish 21 f, Russian P 44, Alliarce Shares 12, Mexican 524, Colombian Scrip 54 4, French 104 4, Austrian 934 4, Chili= 714, New Prussian 97, Old 96, Portuguese 87, Greek 16 dis. Buenos Aym 4 prem. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Reduced 93 92Ye 93 1 / 3 per Cent. Cons. 92% 3 A-31 1 per Cents. 101 1 / 8 4 per Cts. Assented 100 3 / 4 -4 per Ct. New 105. 1 / 4 Bank Long Anni. 23 2215.16 23 India Stock 287—India Bonds 88 84 E cclieq. Bills of 1.1,000 (2d.) 40 5 ; (1 V 2 d.) 41 40 Do. Small (2d.) 40 6 ; (1 1 / 2 d.) 43 India for Acc. 288—• !olisols tor Acct. 92 1 / a 1 / , Vs 14 The following intelligence of the arrival of the Mar. quis of 11 ASTINGS, at Malta, was received this morning at Lloyd's : s•MALTA, JUNE 7. " PROCLAMATION " By Ills Racelimey General the Most Noble Marquis of Hastings, K.G. K.C. B. and G.C.H. Governor and Commander-in-Chief " This day the Moss Noble Marquis of Hastings, K.G. &c. &e. &c. appointed by Ms Majesty Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Island and its Dependencies, took the Oaths of Office, and in consequence has assumed the duties of Governor of the same. " Notice is hereby given, that all persons are required to obey him as such. Owing to the haziness of the weather, the PIINTON was not perceived till nearly eight o'clock in the morn ing, with the signal flying that his Excellency was on board, and by half-past nine she entered the great har bour, off which she received the salute of his Majesty's ship Il [ND, with the yards manned, which had just arrived from Alexandria. Immediately after the frigate came to anchor, she was saluted by the batteries on shore; and, , the Lieutenant-Governor, General Sir MARLaz Poway,' attended by the Military Staff, and the Secretary of this Government, repaired on board, to offer respectful con gratulations on his Excellency's arrival ; and shortly after Sir PAOLO PARISI° presented himself, to express a hope that the Marquis would condescend to land on a spot selected by the Maltese Nobility and inhabitants, and on which preparations had been made for the pur pose; with this request his Excellency complied. At eleven o'clock, he left the frigate, under a salute, and with the yards manned, in the Government barge, attended by the Major-General, the Marchioness and family following, in Captain Srnar's barge, in which were in attendance en them, time Commissioner ,of the Navy, and Captain KING, of his Majesty's ship ACTIVE. His Excellency was received on land* by Sir PAOLO PARISI() and the Baron SCEBERRAS TRIGONA. On passing the gates the Major-General tendered him the keys of the fortress. Ilis Excellency then pro ceeded to his Palace on foot, through the streets of Valetta, which were lined with troops, passing under a triumphal arch, erected en the occasion. He was met in the square before the Palace by the President of the High Court of Appeal, the Members of the Supreme Council of Justice, the Treasurer to Government, the Superintendant of Quarantine, his Majesty's Judges, and all other Civil Authorities. The concourse of pet). ple was immense. His Excellency was greeted by them with incessant cheers and by every demonstration of joy, which he repeatedly acknowledged. The enthusiasm which prevailed it is impossible to describe. A Morning Paper, which sends French fleets on any expedition it pleases, and not unfrequently, like Ton, Thumb with the Giants, even makes the fleet it self, has discovered •that g , if the disputes between England and the Holy Alliance are settled, there can be no doubt but that France will make a bold at tempt to get possession of St. Domingo. The French naval force now collected in the Vest Indies, and the immense preparations making in the French ports, are a clear indication of the . use to be made of them.' One of our Stock Exchange Reporters goes further than this, and in all the simplicity of his soul, informs us, on the authority of private letters, not from Constantino ple, like the Mr. Solomon of Korzmurt, but from Paris, that the French fleet which is ordered to cruize between Cadiz and the Azores, the Mediterranean, &c. until September, is destined to cover the landing of troops at St. Domingo. He sagaciously adds, that the Haytian Commissioners are totally kept in the dark on this subject. How considerate in the Gentleman, thus to illuminate !—Of course, when the intelligence reaches Paris, Ole secret expedition of the French will be discovered, and they must study some new way of taking Hayti by surprise. Whatever means France may ultimately employ to regain her influence in St. Do mingo, we feel assured she is not preparing any expe dition for that object at present. In another column we have given, from the French Papers of Friday and Saturday, a diplomatic correspond ence between the Portuguese Minister, the Marquis of PAL.lstet.ca, ar.d M. Ilynx DE NEUVII.LE, the French Ambassador at the Court of Lisbon, and M. DE VILLELE, by which it will be teen tit the conduct of M. HYDIC nt; dozing the attempt of the Infant Don Itot..t.t. to detl.: I.is lather, not only met with the MEW Int id their G an 2....:=_•...-...---z-....-....-.".....-.7.t.r.......... .. . ___. 7 ........_.._ _ • - ~- ii H. El' EN IN . / MR • --- 1 . - Ncipies, ~ r I44Q.N 11 :it own . 41';:4 a., . tlit i a n Pi° - ". -,:-..-.'. MONDAY, J 10V6 11124. . 1) as. i , ed th • • ..'••:. THE FUNDS. would ... . . deer ••11:ivil 10111 ' "II • 9. T RIP "44 VI VP tvig _nem_ SHIYZERLAND. In the second sitting of the Diet, on the tith of this' month, no opposition was made to the proposal of the Presiding Canton to continue, for twelve months, the re solutions adopted last year relative to the abuses of the 'prsss and the survcillan,..e of foreigners; on the contrary, great praise was bestowed on the desirable results which mey had been found to produce, and they were accord ilgly confirmed unanimously. The Minister for Basle regretted that his Government was not able to furnish irltor rnation respecting the University of that city, which might have corrected erroneous statements, and pre vented a measure of the Prus.ian Government directed against that University. The Concordat respecting the effects of a change of religion upon civil rights, led the Minister of Berne to declare that the legislation of his Carton on this subject was still incomplete, that its chief object was the prevention of mixed communities, or the staintenar.ce of purely Protestant or purely Catholic communities—ad Lb* zealous and active spirit of pro selytism of a class of Catholic priests in the neighbour hood, vi - ho chiefly e::er tad themselves to seduce minors aad childrer., requile,l measures of protection, and must prevent Berne from acceding to the Concordat. 'The D:inisters of Friburg and Soleure replied, that they did Lot believe that anything passed in their Cantons which crld give just ground for complaint.' Certain French papers cannot refrain from vilifying azd calumniating Switzerland. The daily pro that boot. the 6rbvevidi.cnt and the people well knew the si tuation in which the iuttac.t. of Europe has plated them, NOTE OF THE MARQUIS OF PALMELLA TO BARON HYDE DE NU/VILLE. " The undersigned Councillor, Minister, and Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs, has read with much satisfaction the dispatch of Count de which Baron Hyde de Neuville, Count of Bemposta, his Most Christian Majesty's Ambassador, has had the goodness to communicate to him. " The undersigned can assure his Excellency the Am bassador, that the King, his master, regards as a new proof of his Most Christian Majesty's friendship the authentic testimony which that august Sovereign has given his Excellency of his approbation for the firmness wherewith his Excellency professed and maintained, on the 30th of April last, those true principles of Royalism which unite the cause of the throne of I'ortugal with that of all other thrones. "It appears extremely useful, at the present mo ment, that his Excellency should authorize the publica tion in the Gazette of an extract of the before-mentioned dispatch, in order to give public proof of the opinion of 'his Most Christian Majesty, not only respecting the conduct of his most meritorious Ambassador, but also respecting the unhappy events which gave occasion to his displaying his zeal and loyalty. The undersigned seizes this opportunity, &c. " Lisboa, June 28. ." The Marquis de PALMELL TO HIS ILICELIANCY THE MARQUIS DE PALmaLLA. " M. le Marquis---Since you desire it, I do not he:i tate a moment to send you an extract from the dispatch which I had the honour of laying before his Majesty, through the medium of your Excellency. In doing this, I make a sacrifice to self-love, for I cannot de ceive myself as to the merit of my actions. On the 30th of April, I, like my honourable colleagues, only did my duty. I followed the beaten road, the only one which an honest man, who knows only GOD and his legitimate Sovereign, could and ought to take. I have not ,therefore, merited all the marks of ap probation with which his Most Faithful Majesty and the King my august master have been pleased to ho. nour my zeal. But I feel with you, that it is proper and useful to put an end to the absurd and criminal re ports-which some obscure perturbators take a pleasure in spreading. It is above all proper that worthy men, whose easy credulity might be taken advantageof, should be enlightened and informed under what point of view the offence of the 30th of April is considered in Europe. —Moreover, Portugal can no longer be troubled ; the Army and the people acknowledge the King only; and if the 30th of April be on . one hand to be deplored, it may be said on the other, that it has proved a real tri umph of public morality. It has shewn that the genius of intrigue and revolt can number in this kingdom only a handful of accomplices, and that small number of men could only obtain a momentary success, by basely de ceiving a noble courage, and cowardly abusing the love which the nation and the Army bear to the King. Finally, it has been shewn, and this grand lesson will perhaps serve both here and elsewhere to curb the lovers of revolutions, that Europe is closely united whenever it is necessary to maintain and defend the power which comes from God. Accept, ice. " July 2. " Baron HYDE DE NEUVILLE." Extract from the dispatch from his Excellency the Count deVillele to the French Ambassador at Lisbon : " In the critical circumstances in which the Portu guese monarchy was placed, you have worthily fulfilled the important mission which was confided to you. You were sent to his Most Faithful Majesty, and after nobly supporting the Royal authority, you have efficaciously concurred in maintaining it when it appeared on the brink of a precipice. I have laid before the King the mai ks of approbation which his Most Faithful Majesty has bestowed on your conduct, and the distinctions which he has conferred on you ; and the King is pleased to authorize you to accept of them, as well as the title of Count of Ilemposta. I have also much satisfaction in announcing to you, that his Majesty has appointed you Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, in testimony of his satisfaction for the signal service you have ren dered to his Most Faithful - Majesty. His Majesty has likewise been pleased to grant the Cross of the Legion of Honour to M. Gros, attached to your Embassy, whose conduct you have eulogized. " Receive, &c." About half-past eleven o'clock on Saturday mcrning, two houses in Warwick -street, Golden-square, tell to the ground with a tremendous crash. One of them was uninhabited—the other was occupied by Mr. Gobby, a• tailor, and is family, one 4 whom happening to be in an upper room, heard a slight noise, and also felt the room to shake. She immediately ran down stairs, and alarmed the other inmates, who, with herself, kid SCRlcely time to reach the street before the whole in terior of the house fell to the ground. A boy, about nine years of age, son of Mr. C. It. Rolfe, of Colchester, was drowned on Saturday se'nnight in the river near that town, at a spot used for bathing. PERSONS GOING ABROAD, as well as others residing in this country, and in foreign parts, are informed that the Merchant, Shipowner, and Ship-master's Custom and Excise Guide for the Years V 124-1825, comprising every species of information relative to Shipping, Navigation, and Commerce, together with Finance Accounts and other Official Documents, not before published; also descriptions of Countries, Places, Exchanges, Weights. and Aka. Imre% and likewise Maps, by Mr. Pore, is jusCpublished. Truth Bditiosr, price it. is. Sold by all Booksellers. 7 1 1 r"" 7TimrTr - - . I 7.I77WIFTIJit -77 approbation of the King of Po ft rooAt, but the Ring of InioccE also. We have also received Lisbon Papers . of June to the 6th of July, which are chiefl , extracts from the Spanish, French, and Eni . From the Spanish Journals are extracted , from Spanish America, gala as the reconquest and Callao, and various news from M, April, from Cadiz Papers of 15th June. vessels arrived or sailed, are several to de Janeiro, Pernambuco, and Bahia. are extracts: LISBON, JUNE 30. The Directors of the Bank of Lisbon Proprietors that the Dividend for the firs, the present yeas is thirteen a half (treze emeio) IC,, or 17,500 for each share, the payment of which commence on the Ist of Jay. Juty 2. A notice from the War-office ccnts. , ins a D.. cree of his Majesty to the effect that, the departl of the Chief of the Staff and Military Secretary beim, abolished by a Decree of May 9th, his Maje.ty think; fit to dismiss from their employments all persons ub were attached to these departments; and those ss ho we e transferred to these employments from the office of t':e Secretary of War, may be replaced in the latter w4l l the same title and salary that they had before the De. cree of the 18th of August, 1823, if it should be necei :airy, in consequence of the final organisation which it ordered by the Decree of this date ; and if the conduct and circumstances of each renders him worthy of this new admission, it is farther ordered that all those per. sons employed in the said abolished departments, who are not military, and who by virtue of this Decree ale not employed in the office of the. Secretary of State, ' shall receive two months' salary as a free gift. I The French Papers of Friday and Saturday have reached us, by which we learn, that the long and tedioJ; ' discussions on the Budget have been terminated, ;Ind the Financial Law Project adopted, by a majority cf 316 to 27, a circumstance which proves that M. ee Viu.n.a possesses great influence in the Lower Charn. ber, however formidable the opposition against him may be in the Chamber of Peers, and by the Journals. —Out of eleven political Journals published in Paris, seven are against the Ministry, viz.—the Constitutionnel, Courier, Journal des Danis. Journal du Commerce, La Quotidienne, Pilate, and the Aritargue, about to appe tr. The Journals in favour of the Ministry are, the Drarzu Blanc,r Etoile, Gazette, and Journal de Paris. The number of circulation and weight of influence still more against the Ministers, which induces an opinion, that in order to regain their influence over the Press, they will revive the Censorship, at the end of the present Session. It is not the least anomaly in French politics, that the ultra. liberal Journals have joined the ultra-royalist ones opposing the Ministers, although the ground of the . l opposition must, of course, be decidedly different. A false translation of an article in the ;quo Correspondent, was a few days ago circulated on t. e Paris Stock Exchange. M. de CUATIMIERIAND w.s represented as going. as Ambassador to Petersburgh, in the room of the Count de la FICIIRONAYS; whereas the purport of the report in the Hamburgh paper was, that the latter diplomatist was on his way to Paris, to take upon himself M. de CIfittENVARIAND i aI late oEce of Minister for Foreign Affairs. Brussels Papers to the '2'56 instant, ha'vereacted They contain no article worth extracting, eicept ti.;e following : " The Journal of the Conferences at Johannisberg was signed on the 16th instant, when it broke up. The matters:discussed in are of the highest importance, but hitherto we have only vague in. formation concerning them. Some persons pretend that there wiz be another Ministerial Congress at Coblentx, but this seems very doubtftil." Saturday, the new Spanish Minister had his fist interview with Earl BATAIIIIST, at his Lordship's office in Dow.i. ing-street, since his Excellency's arrival in England, on his Milsion from the Court of Madrid:' Saturday the Earl and Countess BArnonsr, accom panied by Lady EMILY BATHURST, left town for the Wilderness Kent, the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of CAMDEN, to re main there on a visit for a few days. The Earl of HA RROWBY and the CHANCELLOR of 0.! EXCHEQUER transacted business at the Foreign Office in Downing street, on Saturday. Mr. Secretary CANNING left Gloucester Lodge 01 Saturday, for Eton. Saturday, the Princess AUGUSTA. left London for be lts* Highness's mansion at Frogmorr, near Windsor. Prince Leopold., and the Duchesi of KENT honourci the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Yesterday morning the Duchess of KENT, attendel Divine Service at the Royal German Chapel, and heard a sem . by the Rev. Dr. Kunz. Prince LEOrOLD dined with the Russian Ambasadc: yesterday. Mr. STRATPORD CANNING is expected to leate £ ,g -land in a few days for St. Petersburgh, to ricceed Sir C. D.C. !I his Embassy to that Court. Mr. W4au accompanies the 1' b Mon. Gentleman u Secretary of Legation. Major-General CHARLES TURNER, C.B. Capta:n•6c neral and Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Sierra Leine aid i Dependencies in Africa, will, it is expected, embark for his (io vernonhip in the course of six weeks. Mr. BAILEY, the King's Messenger, arrived At Pe Secretary of State's Office for Foreign Affairs,Downing.streer. yr' terday morning, with dispatches tar ,Ir. Secretary CAN•Y%'.; f"' .l Sir CHARLES Bacot, our Ambassador at St. Petersburglt, t , the 7th instant. Friday evening, Mr. DYKES, a King's 'Aiesscr.r , was sent off with dispatches, from the Foreign (Xfice, to the Honourable Sir SWAY WILLI-SLIM, at the Court of The Right Hon. the Loitu MAYOR and his Mime bad. proceeded this morning, in the City barge, on au opt's' excursion to Richmond. Friday night, as Lady SUSAN and 11IrF. CliAnT• 74 PERCY were quitting the Dowager Marchioness of Excess's h at Privy siardens, for Vauxhall, whilst the coachman was stop::^: from the box, the horses took fright, in consequenc of Sir ‘‘r. - LOCI:MST Goanou's carriage drawing off, threw the coachoun 1 the iron spikes, and becoming totally unmanageable, dashed thir, selves and the carriage with great violence against the rat sof I. I Y Wit.t.ovvetav's garden, haying knocked the servant down sslio At. tempted to stop than. Fortunately the watchman was ini and with the assistance of the servants, the two Lidies w. re _a'' cated front their perilous situation, and though covered o ith bloat 'hewed the greatest composure.—Lady Svaxv Jimmy's 4 was very dangerously wounded, and ;:iscr Sit NV tr.toccusv ,servant much hurt. • CI sp VII of FA bt De Tc no Ca Ca Da Da Tit the wit Poi ing, fan bro • qw bee Ste oat ear seat red boa Hatt I 0 11 • him Car last acc •'1 31111 Bs, of 1 -Fre the Kn IC em trio `Co (h len 'Ste bei stri cul alai lon poi 1 for co( 4141 ell to 01 with ftom the 90th filed wi t h sglish Jourrials. ,:1410 .:c1 the accourt t , rsquest of Litt ! , Mexico to . ti In the list o t • and from /t o The follow'r ITI th accrialr.: *T" six rtlOnths,.*