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ffir tfAr Y_L l. < I t• - ICH r 0 -4°l Stfrith4_ 'N • •• 1° jl3 POI . INus* e 4 O ( 1 . I is • THE CONSTITUTION-NOTHING LESS, AND NOTHING MORE. _ _ NUMBER 13,302.3 CONTRACT FOR OATS. COMMISSARIAT DEPORTMENT, Treasury Chambers, Oct. 22, 1829. SUCH Persons as are desirous of Contracting with the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to deliver 1,260.000 Pounds of OATS, at the Ordnance Depot, in Tooley-street, may receive particulars of the Contracts at this Office between the hours of Ten and Four ; and deliver their Tenders sealed up and directed to the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, marking thereon " Tender for Oats," on or before Tuesday, the 10th November, but none will be received after Twelve o'clock on that day ; sos will any Proposal be nodced unless made on, or. annexed te, printed pardetdar, and , this prises inserted ist wails at lintOa nor unless a letter be subjoined to such Propos4 eigheil b 1 Two persons of known property engaging to t beeslisie bound with the party tendering, in the sum expreiied in the particulars, for the due performance of the contract. PRIVATE TUTOR. A vAC ANCY for a PUPIL is now open in the Family of a MARRIED CLERGYMAN, the number of wbeee Pupils is limited to SIX. He can offer the most satisfactory re. ferences to Noblemen and Gentlemen, whose sons have been under his care. His residence twelve miles from London. Letter to be directed for the Rev. I. C. C. Mr. RodweU's, Bookseller. 46, New Bond -street. London. BOOKS PUBLISHED THIS DAY. MR. COOPER'S NEW WORK ON ANATOMY. This day is published, LECTURES ON ANATOMY, INTERSPERSED WITH PRACTICAL REMARKS : VoLowa I. By B. B. COOPER, F.R.S. Surgeon of Guy's Hospital, Lecturer on Anatomy, &c. &c. !cc. London : Printed for the Author; And sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster row ; Highley, Fleet-street ; Underwood, Fleet-street; and to be had of all Booksellers. Just published, Price Six Shilling., No. VIII. of THE FOREIGN REVIEW. Contents— Art. I.—Phrenology. IL—Letters on Germany, by a German. lll.—Modern French Drama. I V.—Milner ; the Dorians. V.—Bourrienne ; Napoleon Buonaparte. VL—Political Economy. Vll.—Goldoni, Gozzi, Nota, Giraud ; Modern Italian Comedy VIII.—The Cid. IL—General Jackson ; the United States of America. X.—X V. Short Reviews of the Newest Clanical, Italian, French, Spanish, German, and Danish Publications. XVL—Continental Literary Intelligence. XVlL—lmportant Foreign Publications of the last Three Months. No. IX. will be published in December. London : Black, Young, and Young ; Bossaage and Co. and Whittaker and Co. L • • ICHFIELD, September 20, 1827.—Gentlemen — Impelled by a sense of gratitude for the remarkable cure I have received by the use of your Invaluable Antiscorbutive Drops, I forward you the particulars of my case, that others who may be similarly afflicted, may know where to apply for relief. For twenty years I bad a most inveterate Scorbutic Eruption upon my arms, legs, and back of my neck, attended with the most intolera ble Itching and smarting. I tried various remedies, and had the advice of medical men in this city, but all to no purpose ; the dis ease increased to such a-degree as to destroy my rest at night, my appetite and general health failed, and I despaired of recovery.— Being recommended to give your Antiseurbutic Drops a trial, I purchased a small bottle from Mr. Edwards, Druggist, of this city, and, after taking five small bottles, to my great astonish ment, as well as that of my family, the complaint was entirely eradicated ; and I am now able to follow my business, which be tore I was incapable of attending to. It will give me pleasure to answer any enquiries, either personally, or by letter, post paid. I remain your obedient Servant, JOHN SMITH, Saddler and Harness Maker, Market-street, Lichfield. Attested by Mr. Edwards, Druggist, Lichfield. To Messrs. John Lignum and Son, Surgeons, Manchester. These Drops are sold in moulded square bottles at 2s. 9d. 4s. 6d. and Ils. each, by John Lignum and Son, Surgeons, &c. 63, Bridge street, Manchester; Butlers, Chemists, Cheapskie, corner of St. Paul's, London; 73, Prince's -street, Edinburgh; and 54, Sack ville-street, Dublin; I. Sanger, 150, Orford-street ; I. and C. Eians, 42, Long-lane, West S mithfield ; Barclay and Sons, 95, Fleet-market ; Sutton and Co. 10, Bow Church-yard ; Evan Ed wards, 67, St. Paul's Church-yard ; F. Newbery and Sons, 45, St. Paul's Church-yard, London; and 29, Dame-street, Dublin; Scott and Orr, 100, South Bridge, and 67, Prince's-street, Edinburgh ; E. Nelson, Surgeon, Glasgow ; and all respectable Medicine Vender.. Of whom also may be had, Mr. Lignum's Improved VEGE TA BL E LOTION, for ?U Scorbutic Eruptions, price 2s. 9d. duty included. Mr. Lignum's SCURVY OINTMENT may now be bad of the above Agents, price is. 9d. each Pot,dutt iocluded. IN THE N.I.ORNING OF when the blandish mentslol,F •Er of passion " take the reason priairier," it is an evil more to be lamented than wondered at, if, in the vortex of decep tive pleasure, the unhappy traitor against the laWs of nature pays in lonely disappointment a fearful exaction far his rebellion, in the compromise of his mental as well as bodily powers. To all per sons so circumstanced as to require the protessiiroal aid of men of *meddler, whose time has been for twenty years studidusly and successfully devoted to the complaints arising from nervous de bility,whether natural or acquired, GOSS and Co. proffer the most consolatory assurances. The youth who has enervated his frame by the strangely fascinating sin, which the poor victim of folly will too readily comprehend without further description, may find re lief from his misery, and be kindly taught tb regain his lost place in scale of creation. 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Tbe, 4GIS of Lllj4, a familiar commentary on the above diseases; 2a, The SYPIi I LIST. a popular treatise on Itiis 4eti6viirtie. si, H'-; nt A'S A, addret,4ed exclusively tb the Female 'Sell; • May be basrat ex), Paternotten-row ; 4, C41:11010-.stic.et, gauze), London ; of l'otter, 72, Grattan-street, Trongate, GLagow ;at 9, Carlton-street Ndialneralt and bf all bookseller:. Price ss. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1829. EAST INDIANS' MEETING AT THE TOWN HALL, CALCUTTA. At a General Meeting of the Subscribers to the East Indians' Petition to Parliament, held at the Town Hall, un Monday fore- noon, the 20th of April, 1829 : On the motion of Mr. F. D. Kew's'', seconded by Mr. Wats Bran, Mr. J. W. RICKETTS was unanimously called to the Chair. The CHAIRMAN opened the Meeting with an introductory ad dress, in which be detailed at full length the nature and import ance of the business which had brought them together on so inte resting an occasion. After much discussion on the subject, it was nnanimoudy resolved as follows : 1. That, in order more actually to promote the objects of our Petition to Parliament, this Meeting consider it to be a matter of . . first-rate importassco that some individual from among their own lowly be deputed to aietompany the Petition to England. and that the Individual 'aimed fof this purpose be authorised to place him self in communication with the General Committee of the 'Muhl- tants of Calcutta, in order to seek such aid and assistance in the matter as they tniy be able to afford. 2. That Mr. J. W. Ricketts be chosen as our agent Cur deputa. Lion to England on this occasion. 3. That subscriptions be raised for the formation of a fund for promoting the great and important objects contemplated by us. 4. That, under the present vacillaney of things in respect to a suitable name for their class, this Meeting consider it proper to re cognise themselves as " East Indians,"—a designation which, as including the wiled body to which they belong, they prefer above all others. _ _ _ 5. That the hands of the Committee of East Indians, as now constituted, be strengthened by the accession of Messrs. E. Barn field, Wale Bryn, P. D' Mello, and W. Stormer ; and that the Committee be authorised to appoint one of their own number to officiate as their Secretary during the absence of Mr. Ricketts on deputation to England. 6. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the gentlemen of the Town Hall Committee. for the use of the Town Hall on this occasion. 7. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to Mr. Ricketts for his disinterested offer to proceed to England on deputation, and for his able conduct in the Chair. _ . _______ JOHN W. RICKETTS, Chairman. EAST INDIAN COMMITTEE. Messrs. E. Barnfield, W. Byrn, W. Dacosta, P. D' Mello, J. L. Heady, A. Duluth H. Martindell, C. Reed, J. W. Ricketts, W. Sturmer, G. Wodsworth. Secretary, Mr. J. W. Ricketts. Messrs. W. Byrn, J. W. Ricketts, and W. Sturmer, are duly authorized to sign, in an associated capacity, all receipts for dona tions to the East Indians' Petition Fund; which done, they are to be made over to Mr. W. Dacosta for recovery of the sums sub scribed. All collections to be lodged in the Bank of Hindoostan. N.B. At the final.close of our work, a printed account of receipts and disbursements will be rendered to each donor or subscriber to the fund. PETITION OF THE EAST INDIANS. _ _ To the Hon. the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The Peti tion of the undersigned Christian Inhabitants of Calcutta, and the Provinces comprised within the Presidency of Fort William. Humbly showeth,—That your petitioners are members of a nu merous, increasing, and widely-dispersed class of subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, living within the territories at present go verned by the United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies, in the province of Bengal, and in the town of Calcutta. 2. That the body of which they compose a part forms a distinct class of society in British India, which dates its existence more re motely from the time when the East India Company first formed permanent establishments on the continent of India, but chiefly from the more recent period, when the acquisition of immense ter ritories required the presence of an increased number of Europeans to maintain and govern them. S. That they are descended, in most instances, en the father's side, from the European subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, and on the mother's side from natives of India ; and that, in other instance., they art the children of intermarriages between the off spring of such connections ; but that, although thus closely allied to the European and Native races, they are excluded from almost all those advantages which each respectively enjoys, and are sub ject to peculiar grievances from which both are exempt. 4. The first grievance which your petitioners beg leave to bring to the notice of your Honourable House is, that a very large majority of the class to which they belong are entirely desti tute of any rule of civil law, to which they can refer as a standard that is to regulate their conduct in the various rela tions of society. Those of your petitioners who live in Calcutta, within the limited jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, are guided in their civil relations by the laws of England ; but the mo ment they pass beyond that jurisdiction, to reside either tem porarily or permanently in the interior, they are thereby placed beyond the pale of all civil law, whether British, Hindoo, or Mahomedan. By the rigid interpretation which sucessive Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort Wil liam have given to the phrase " British subjects' in the various Ac:s of Parliament relating to India, your petitioners are excluded from coming under that denomination, and are consequently pre vented front enjoying the bet:efits of the law of England; and, by their profession of the Christian religion, they are equally debarred from the adoption of the Hindoo or Mahomedan civil law ; while there is no other civil code to which they can have recourse as their guide in the various transactions and relations of life. How ever extraordinary the fact may appear, your petitioners affirm, without fear of contradiction, that there is no law which regulates their marriages, and makes them lawful—there is no law which shows the rule that is to define the legitimacy or illegitimacy of their Issue—there is no law which prescribes the succession to their property—there is no law which points whether they possess the right of bequeathing by will, and if so, to what extent—there is no law that declares which of their children, or whether one or all, shall succeed in case of intestacy. In these, and in other equally Important particulars, they have no law to direct or control them ; and they are thus treated as utterly unworthy of any one of those rights which it is the expren object of a code of civil law to define, and the primary de. sign of society and Government to protect. Your petitioners thus liter ally'compose a great body of outlaws, not made so by any crimes of their own, and on that very account feeling the more deeply the legalised wrongs that have been inflicted on them. and the con temptuous indifference and neglect with which their anomalous civil condition ha. been regarded. It is not, however, the invidious judicial construction of the doubtful language of Acts of ParlL ment that has alone tended to degrade their civil condition ; nor have they ev e r been p..rmitted to enjoy the full advantages that would have 41 iSCIO to .tjtem Irons the absolute and totatal neglect or that condition by their immediate rulers. A rule and regulations* of the Government of the East India Company has, by cle..r and ex press definition, included your petitioners in the class of " native suisjects of the British Government," and has thereby subjected them to, the numerous 'lnabilities of their Hindu., and Mahomedan fellow-subjects; while, by another enactmentt of the Local Government, they have, 413 belonging to the above-men tioned class, been deprived in a body of the protection of the Act of Habeas Corpus ; having been made liable to be taken up •on suspicion by any of the local authorities, and confined as state prisoners, without the legal possibility of ever obtaining their release ; since the only appeal they could have would be to the Local Government. Thus they are, not virtually . and by impliCation, but directly and immediately denuded of the first and most important of all civil rights—personal security ; and they may, therefore, be justly considered as holding their property, their liberty. and even their byes, at the discretion of every power ful public functionary. 5. The second grievance under which your petitioners labour is, that they are amenable in the interior to Mahomedan criminal law. ---a law in itself barbarous and imperfect. founded on the most intolerant principles, and intimately interwoven with a system of religibn and state of society wholly unpfised to their opinions and habits. 'Eby law of Mahomed was promulgated only for believers in the Koran; and towards all who are Ciiiisidered Infidels it bears a most oppressive aspect. Many of the ppnishipepts, when specific, are of a sanguinary cisscription ; and, in others, an almost unlimited cretlon is given to the Judge. It arbitrarily'administered ; and, •thougit, _a right of aPPO I O O . in many cases. allowed to the superior, Court ol" criminal jurisdiction of, the East nibs Company, called 'ttie fillsinnit Adaivhit, yet ihat tiihmiXl possesses the extraordinary • pubrer, on. such meal, of increasing the punishment which is, . awarded at their dinintiqn, and without bearing fresh evidence. modibcaiisins which the Mabomeslao criminal cede has re- . • Reg. viii. of 1813. t Do. iii. of 1813. ceived, in its application to your petitioners, have been produced by the supplementary regulations of the East India Company, which, instead of softening and mitigating its inflictions, have, in some in. stances, even increased the harshness of its character. In proof of this statement, year petitioners beg to cite the third regulation of the year 1821; by the express provisions of which they are made liable in all cases to be dealt with as Hindu° and Mahnmedan na- vties of the lowest rank, and to be fined, imprisoned, and corporally punished, not merely at the discretion of the European Judges or Magistrates of the East India Company, but even of the Hindoo and Mahomedan officers of justice; while from the operation of this regulation not only British subjects, in the restricted applica tion which has been given to that appellation, but also European and American foreigners resident in the interior, are exempted.— Thus the law recogniees the existence of your petitioners only for the purpose of puniahment, and never for that of protection ; while the criminal code, to which they have been made amenable, is dis tinguished by the hanks's.** of its spirit, by the aggravated severity of its provisions. by its total incongruity with their religious belief and social condition, and by the deep-felt degradation to which, in his actual demonstration, your petitions are subjected. 6. The third grievance to which your petitioners are subject is. that they are excluded from all superior and covenanted offices in the Civil and Military services, and from all swor n offices in the marine service of the East India Compauy. The invariable preamble to the appointment of an individual to any of these services runs thus : " Provided A. B (the person re ceiving the appointment) be not the son of a native Indian,"—a restriction which was first adopted by the Directors of the East- India Company on the 9th of November,.l79l, and which is al ways republished in the Gazette of Government, on the notifica tion of the appointment of any one who may be then residing in India. Your petitioners do not dispute the right of the Court of Directors to give the appointments in their service to those whom they may deem most worthy ; but they humbly submit that no wise, just, or beneficent Government will ever impose any other gener+l condition on candidates for employment than fitness for the offices which they may seek ; still less will it exclude any clan of men on the ground of birth or colour, when it does not possess the power of limiting their increase or of diminishing their number i and least of all, will it wantonly add insult to injury, and to proscription a load of public and gratuitous contumely. 7. The fourth grievance of your petitioners is, that they are not only expressly excluded from all those offices of trust and emolu ment in the Civil, Military, and Marine Services of the East India Company's Government which are open to British subjects ;" but that they are also treated as ineligible to most of those subordinate employments in the Judicial, Revenue, and Police Departments and even in the Military Service. which are open without reserve to the Hindoo and Mabomedan natives of the country. Your petitioners are prohibited from being appointed to the situations of Moonlit, Sheristadar, and almost all other inferior judicial offices ; they are prevented irons practising as Vakeels or Pleaders in every one of the Courts of Justice of the East India Company from the highest to the lowest ; they are shut out from all the subordinate offices in the departments of Ge neral Revenue and Police; and, in the Army, they are not per mitted to fill the posts of native commissioned or non-commissioned Officers, nor even that of naick ur corporal in a native Regiment, although leave is given them to shed their blood in the ranks as privates, and to officiate in the regimental band as drummers and musicians! Thus, of the many thousand subordinate employments under the local Government, there ate few from which they are not excluded, except on condition of abjuring the Christian faith; in which case their eligibility as natives of India would be at once restored. 8. The fifth grievance of which your petitioners complain is, that they are expressly declared to be disqualified from bolding his Mae jesty's Commission in the British Indian Army. The Comman der-in-Chief for the time being of his Majesty's Forces in India, on the 27th of February, 1808, issued a General Order, still in force, by which no person can be recommended in India for any vacant coinmissi .n in his Majesty's service who belongs to the class of which your petitioners compose a part. Your petitioners humbly trust that his Majesty, in the exercise of his Royal prerogative, will see fit to mind this invidious order ; and, although they are aware that it does not belong to your Honourable House to free them from the galling disability to which it has subjected them, yet they have deemed it important to be mentioned its this place as an ad. ditional proof of that system of cruel proscription of which they have been made the unoffending vi, tines. 9. The sixth grievance imposed upon your petitioners is, that, by stipulations in treaties with all the Powers of India, which still preserve a shadow of independence, they are debarred from employ. ing your petitioners •in any capacity without the permission of the Supreme Government of India. It is true that in those treaties only " Europeans and Americans" are expressly prohibited from being so employed ; yet, although these are denominations under which your petitioners cannot be classed, the restriction is practically applied to them also. Thus, by the limited signifi cation which has been given to the phrase '• British sub jects," so as to exclude your petitioners, who are subjects of the British Crown, they are exposed to intolerable grievances ; and, by the extended meaning which has been given to the terms " Europeans and Americans," so as to include your petitioner., who are natives of Asia, they are prevented, except under special license—seldom given, and always liable to be recalled—from em ploying their talents and industry in the service of any of the Na tive Princes. In both cases, but by contrary means, alike cruel and unjust to your petitioners, the one great object of exclusion is effected ; and thus, whatever step they take in life, and to what ever quarter they look, exclusion, disability, and proscription meet them at every turn. 10. The last grievance to which your petitioners will advert is that every plan proposed by others, or adopted by themselves, for the improvement of the class to which they belong, instead of receiving the fostering countenance of a paternal Government, has met with positive disapproval or cold neglect, strongly contrasted with the active and liberal encouragement that has been laudably given by the local authorities to various institutions formed fur the benefit of other classes of the population. In support of this statement your petitioners beg to refer to the benevo lent plan proposed by the late Colonel Kirkpatrick in 1782, having for its object to secure a provision for the sons of European Officers by native mothers, by educating them in England, and obtaining Cadetships for them in the Indian Army. This scheme, which received the approbation of the wle.le Military Service, and was not oppcned by the local Government, was rejected in the most unqualified manner by the Court of Directors; the resi dence of such children in Europe for education being that part of it which especially called forth their reprobation. In the same man ner, at a more recent period, two Institutions, commenced by the exertions of your petitioners, and devoted to the education of their children, called the Parental Academic Institution and the Calcutta Grammar School, amid severe pecuniary difficulties, and with the certain prospect of great advantage resulting from even a slight measure of assistance from Government, have been refused a parti cipation with other similar Institutions in those funds which the East India Company is required by Act of Parliament to apply to the moral and intellectual improvement of the natives of India.— Thus their European parents are fr wned upon for endeavouring to send them to Eatgland for education. Your petitioners themselves are discouraged in their humble attempts to extend the blessings of education among their own class in India. Every avenue of honour able imbition and of social improvement is shut' against them; and it is with a keen and long-cherished conviction of the wrongs which they have suffered from the race of their fathers, that they now bring themselves to the notice of your Honourable House, and _respectfully ask for that tquility of rights and privileges to which, in common with every other ones of his Majesty's subjects. they are unquestionably entitled.' 11. Your petitioners have now briefly enumerated the principal grievances for which they seek redress item your Hon. House; but the statements they have made are very far from expressing the depth and extent of the degradation which his been entailed upon them, and the numerous ramifications of the evils which they suffer. What they have styled their grievances are not individual cases nt grievance peculiar to one person. one time, and one occasion ; but they are classes of grievances, each class extending to the whole body to which your Petitioners belong, and all of them spread over the entire period of existence, pervading every transaction in rela tion at life, and doubly felt—first, in their own perfons and for tunes ; and, tiecondly, in the condition and prospects of their rising _ offspring. - 12. However diVersified and pervading the particular effect% of the grievances your Petitioners suffer. there is One unvatying general result. which they produce, there is One point to ; which they are all made to tend—at.il that is, to place your Petitioners id the situation of a proscribed class. to present their amalgamation with the European population, and to create and perpetuate 4 gains : them the must mortitying and injurious prejudices. Your PRICE SRVENPRPICF. petitioners are aware that the abolition of those social prejudic. s, of which they are made the object, cannot be brought within the scope of Legislative enactment ; and it is with no such view that they seek for the interposition of your Honourable House. They trust to the loyalty and rectitude of their own conduct for that place and consideration in society which belong to them; but they think they have a right to complain %then the acts of the legis lative and governing powers, instead of having a tendency to neutralize and destroy the prejudices that exist against your i tioners. have had the direct and certain effect of calliag them into existence. Your petitioners neither ask nor expect any special in terference in their behalf; but they warmly protest against those invidious distinctions which mark them, in the land of their birth, as outcasts and aliens, bereft of all privileges, and strangers alike to the rights of society and to the feelings of humanity. It is surely not the characteristic of a paternal and an enlightened Goveniment, which should be common and equal protector of all its subjects to scatter with its own hands the seeds of discoed, ind to array the different classes of society against each other in bitter contempt and impla cable hatred. Yet such is the undeniable tendency of the exclu sive and contumelious system of mis-overnment under which your petitioners have long suffered. and Chiefs, if continued, must pro duce in the class to which they belong, hitherto free from the slightest reproach of disloyalty or disaffection, permanent dissatis faction, and even entire alienation of mind from the British au tbority in India. 13. Your petitioners disclaim every invidious or unfriendly feeling in the contrast which they have had occasion to present of their oat depressed condition with the superior advantages and privileges enjoyed by other part. of the population. There are numerous and weighty grievances which they sulfa in common with British-borer subjects on the one hand, and with Hindoos and tiahomedans on the other ; but which, as the organs of a distinct class, your petition, rs hive not considered it proper on the present occasion to detail. These common grounds of complaint have produced in their minds a sympathy with those classes; and in those instances in which your petitioners labour under peculiar disadvantages, they are far from wishing to bring their fellow-subjects to the same level with them selves, or to claim any exclusive countervailing privilege. Although professing the Christian religion, speaking the English lanetiagt o and assimilated in dress, manners, and education to their paternal ancestors, they do not, on these or on other grounds, ask for any favours or immunities which they would not equally solicit for their fellow-subjects of the Hindon and alahomedan religions. But being Christians, and descendants of Englishmen, your petitioners hum bly submit that it is cruel and unjust to make their belief and de scent the grounds of civil outlawry, of degrading disqualification, and of a uniform and persevering course of contumelious and in sulting treatment ; and that it is especially in..onsistent and impoli tic in a Christian and a British Government to adopt and reduce to practice such an odious system of exclusion, and thus to fix marks of deep contempt and degradation on the partakers of their own blood, and the professors of a common faith. t 14. Your petitioners may be permitted to observe that, however strong the language they have deemed it requisite to employ in tt expositions of their grievances, and however acute the feelings j A which that language is the feeble and imperfect expression, they have never lust sight of the obedience and respect which have been claimed by their immediate rulers. From them, indeed, the con dition of your petitioners has not receiver' the consideration which they had a right to expect, and which receiver' earnestly hope your Honourable House will bestow. Their complaints, when pre sented in the most respectful terms through the proper channels, have been treated as futile and unfounded ; nor has any disposftioti been shown to alleviate the acknowledged extreme hardships under which they suffer. To the Eaat India Company. therefore, in its own character, or to its local Government, your petitioners as a body feel that they owe nothing. They have received from it n,i sympathy or redress—nothing but studied insult, contemptuous indifference, or at best, empty profession. But in that Company and its servants, your petitioners see the legally constituted repre sentatives of British power and authority in India ; and they have, therefore, conscientiously discharged the duties of peaceable and obedient subjects, in the iund, although hitherto vain expectation, that their peculiar grievances would attract the attention of those who have the ability and, they trust, the will to remedy them. 15. Your petitioners hope that it is only necessary to bring to the notice of your Honourable House the evils which have been entailed upon their body to produce at once the disposition to remove them. With regard to such matters as may appear fit for the direct interference of Parliament, your petitioners cannot doubt that an immediate remedy will be applied ; and with re gard to such as seem to reside, during the existence of the present Charter of the East India Company, within the pro vince of that body and their local Government, your petition, rs pray that to them their rights and interests may no longer be com mitted without appeal; and that, in any new Charter which the Legislature may grant, a clause may be inserted expressly pro hibiting, in all its parts, that system of exclusion directed against your petaioners which has hither to formed a distinguishing feature in the policy of the Company's Government. They pray to be delivered from the state of neglect and abandonment, in which they have hitherto been allowed to remain beyond the pale of civil law ; ignominiously driven from all community of rights and privi leges with any of the denominations of the aociety in which they reside. They pray your Honourable House to admit them to the fellowship of their lathers, to rescue them from subjection to insti • tutiona the most degrading and despotic, and to treat them as sub jects of the British Crown, to which alone they recognise their allegiance to be due; and to which they desire to bind themselves and their posterity by the indissoluble ties of justice and of gratitude. And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray. GERMAN PAPERS BRUSSELS, 45 The Augsburg Gazette says it has received in the originsl language (the French) the Treaty of Peace. which it publishes it. that lan guage in an Extraordinary Supplement to its Number of 17th Oc tuber, and in a Getman translation hi the Number of October IS. After the 16th Article we observe that this document contains the following paragraph, which we do not find in the English given by the Courier : " The present Treaty of Pesee, containing sixteen Articles, and which shall he completed by the exchange of the respective ratifi cations within the time stipulated, has been signed and sealed by WI by virtue of our full powers, and exchanged for another of the lime tenor signed by the above-mentioned Plenipotentiaries of the Sub lime Ottoman Porte, and furnished with their seals." The Plenipotentiaries of the two contracting parties were— " On the part of the Imperial Court of ilusala—the Most Excel lent and Hon. Count Alexis Orloff, &c. and Count Frederick Paen, &c. and on the part of his Majesty the Emperor. of the Ottomans—the Most Excellent and Honourable Mehemid Mick Effendi, Actual Grand Defterdar of the Sublime Ottoman Porte. and Abdul Kadir Bey, Cul Aster of Anatolia." SEM LIN, Ocx. 4. - - • Letters from Salonichl of 14th September say, that a Russian corps had appeared before Cavalla, and taken possession of it, after having dispetseti nr taken prisoners 1.500 Turks, who were sta tioned there. The Turkish Governor, Ibrahim' Pasha, and the son of the Pasha of Salonichis were among the Prisoners. VIENNA, Oct. 14 —Commercial letters front Semlin say that the SULTAN has ratified the Treaty, and sent the ratification to Adrianople to be exchanged. The publication of a Haiti &he riff was immediately expected, granting an Amnesty to all per sons who, during the late treats, have excited the displeasure of the Government ; and also the appointment of Commission ers to negotiate respecting the emancipation r f Greece. In the printing office of the Ku. • Bar a &man was in the press, re storing the Servians to their ancient rghts, and adding to the kingdom of Servia the sit districts which were to be annexed to it according to the Treaty of Akermann. It was also re ported that great changes would be made in the Sultan's household and in the Administration ; and that the Sultan would appoint a C0n1116161 011 to put an end to the embarrassments which retirements have caused an the internal administration of the empire, and e.pe clan), to find means to levy the contributions and to defray the charges of the Imperial household. Meantime the Sultan has the greatest confidence in the gracious sentiments of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, and hopes to obtain some reduction in the amotint which he was never led•to hope for, by a Power that per , . sews great influence. BERLIN, OCT. 15. Prince Tinretzskoe, Aide .de•Camp to the Emperor of Russia, has arrived hers from St. Petersburgb to testify to our Court the gratitude of bill-Sovereign kr the co-operation of Prussia in the restos-410n of-peace. Gen. Miffiling has received de Order of St. Vladinter of the 'First Class.