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-.~-~- - . a* ~~.. , 71 ' TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA-STOCK. LADINO AND GINTLIDIEN, THE ELECTION of SIX DIRECTORS ofthe East. India Company being appointed for WEDNESDAY, the 14th AMU. next, the Favour of your VOTE and INTEREST is requested for the following Gentlemen, viz. John Baillie, Esq. James Law Lushingtoa Esq. James 'Butt Carnae, Esq. John Petty Muspratt, - William Wigram, Esq. Which will much oblige, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your most humble Servants, East-India House, 51st March, 1830. Charles Mills, John Loch, John Morris, William Astell, Charles Elton Prescott, Josias Du Pre Alexander, George Rallies, Henry Alexander, JohnGoldsborough Rayenshaw, Robert Campbell, George Smith, William Stanley Clarke, Junes Stuart, Neil Benjamin Edmondstone, John Thornhill, Robert Cutler Fergusson, Sweny Toone, Hugh Lindsay, Henry St. George Tucker, John Masterman, William Young, TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. 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There was little shadow to be seen—the lightfa. netrated through the hedges,:and gave a transparent effect to their green leaves. The scene, the climate—time, space—all seemed to have been touched by a wand. And, I verily believe, there was indeed a spirit of enehantmict at work at that boor, Mitch will account conveniently enough fee the marvel and the mystery I am about to record. We were in the most exuberant spirits—like school-boys let loose without a task. But there we were, full of such true mad cap merriment, that had we lighted upon old Jack Falstaff, we had infallibly committed robbery for very sport, and made an Eastcheap of the first inn we could take by storm. Nothing es caped us that morning ; we " Found puns in trees, pranks in the running brooks, laughta in stones, and jokes in every thing." In this mood we strolled about, careless of the way we were going, and ripe for romantic incident. At last, we resolved upon crossing the river, and were informed that we were near a ferry, to which we immediately directed our course. A joke, however, sprung up in the interim, and took ■s half a mile out of the way in running it down. We then perceived that we had missed the path, and were about to return, when we were overtaken by a being—but I will not, at this period of our history, attempt to describe him ; as, in fact, we took but very little notice of him at this encounter. We merely inquired the way to the ferry, received the desired informa mation, and, as the stranger walked on before us at a pretty quick pace, we soon lost sight of him. We proceeded in the path pointed out to us, when some odd, joke. engendering name, over a shop door, called oit our attention, and we were once more at a loss. A debate ensued amongst us ; one contending that we were to go down the lane--and another, by the ' clump of trees. Our embarrassment was, of course, only pniductive of mo►e mirth, and we at length agreed to follow the movements of a peripatetic pig, which was lounging about in a state of self-enjoy meat, and looked as though he longed to make one of out party. The pig turned the corner of the lane, and we followed; but we' bad no sooner done so, than we beheld, coming towards us, the iden tical traveller who, but a few minutes before, had passed us on the road, as he directed us to the ferry. His return excited no surprise ; but the tone of his voice when be addressed us, by saying' You are going wrong—l told you to keep the road round the ruined awakened a new and rather startling sensation. The note was hollow and heavy. Its niodulatimni reminded one of the creak ing of a dungeon.door. He spoke as if he bad a thunderbolt sticking in his throat, that occasioned a sort of supernatural hoarseness. We Dave heard comic songs and cabbages cried in the most eccentric of tones—we have communed with hackney-coachmen, and heard the notes of watchmen at all hours of the night ; but these.— they were merely the roarings of a nightingale, or, the hoarse. ncss of a cricket, compared to the full, deep, internal, and sepul chral sound that issued from the mouth of our travelling finger. post, as, with an eye darting reproach, and a lip mingling some. thing like scorn with its civility, he said—" You are going wrong— ' I told you to keep the road round the ruined wall r As he paused a minute to explain the way to one of our party, I had an opportunity of observing him. He looked like a romance in one volume. He was above the middle size, rather thin, and with nothing remarkable in his dress but a wide slouched hat, and a pair of boots that seemed to have been made for a satyr. His face, however, as well as I could judge of its character through the dark shadow flung across it by the overhanging-brim of the hat, betrayed one of those expressions which, to use a phrase no less convenient than original, are "more easily conceived than described." It was compounded from a whole library of horrors. He had taken his nose from the " Monk," and his eyes from " Melmoth." The,Dl i. nerve press was in his mouth, and Mrs. Radcliffe frowned fiercely from his vaulted brows. " The Italians" slept in the hollow of one cheek, and " The Robbers" in that of the other. He was a coon. position of Middleton and Michael Angelo—the spear of Satan, and the broomstick of Hecate. Having re-directed us, he hurried off in a contrary direction to that prescribed for us, and was quickly relieved, by a turn of the road, from our gaze. We tried to forget him, and again set forth in search of the mysterious ferry. To put an end to our doubts and difficulties, we applied to a pretty little country-faced girl, whom we saw at a shop-window, to re-direct our erring steps. This she did with so much gram and good-nature, that, instead of proceeding, we staid to make a whole catalogue of inquiries. In short, we got into such a chat with our ruddy little directress, that we had nearly forgotten the ferry alto. gether, when we were suddenly reminded of it by the re-appearance of the wandering wonder—the /tie, et whirose, and the hint illor lack erne' of our tale. This time we fairly started; I believe one or two of us turned pale ; but I .know we all experienced a feeling of curiosity not untniagled with a kind of awe. At this encounter the Wanderer did not speak; he turned a keen and searching glance on us, intimating that we had disobeyed hie directions, and were trifling with him impertinently ; and then, pointing to the path we were to take, glided hastily past the window, and dis appeared. This silence, and the emphatic motton of his finger, alarmed us even more than the sepulchral tone of his voice. We prepared now to seek out the ferry in good earnest—though it were foe no other reason than to have the Thames between us and our perambulating acquaintance. Another cause of delay move, however; for, jut at this moment, a heavy shower came on. We were driven for shelter into the village church-yard, and took refuge under a dilapidated porch. Determined to preserve the gaiety with which oar march commenced, even amidst the gloom of the weather, which bad been but a moment before so mild and animating, we drowned, as well as we could, all recollection of the portentous pedestrian; although it was impoisible not to associate the sudden and singular change in the heavens—the transition from a clear calm sky to a tempes tuous range of clouds—with the coming and conduct of a being whom we were secretly disposed to consider something more than mortal. As we stood under the porch, our attention was drawn to the epitaph. that surrounded us. We admired the piety of some of these, but the poetry of others was of an order so perfectly novel and original, that I fear we read them with any thing but a feeling of sainuaness. We proceeded along the paved path towards a little gate that led into the public road; and, in passing close to the white-washed wall of the church, we stopped to look in at a low, small, grated window. The object that first caught our bode, was a door standing open at the opposite end of the church; and the next moment we discerned the figure of a person issuing thence, the sight of whom almost chilled our senses. We could not be deceived i n that figure, although his back was toward* us; but as he passed PRICE 7D. from the portal he turned his head, and fixed such a look of recog nition upon us, that we stood in mute astonishment, staring at each other. It was the supernatural stroller—the sub-human Captain Barclay—the possessor of übiquity—the very " truepenny" of our terrors ! After a minute or two we began to try our surmises upon the cause of his visit to the church. Had he sought shelter from the !form ?—it might be, as the door was left open. Or had he come to reprove, perhaps to punish, our ill-timed merriment !—we wish that we had been less critical upon the epitaphs ! Anxious to escape from the spot, we hastened towards the gate ; and came within sight of it just in time to see the selfsame figure, with the face turning round to recognize us, hurrying through it, and pointing to wards the river. We were once more riveted to the earth—com. phut,' satisfied now that we were hauuted by a vision—an Igo's fatuus—a vampire ! Welistened, but we could bear no sound of footsteps, although his boots were so heavy, that Hoby must have employed a crane to lift them from his window, and have sent home with them a steam-engine, of a forty-bootjack power, to pull them o 0 And here a thought struck us that threw a light on the mys tery. Why did he wear those prodigious boots, unless be possessed feet to fill them ? If so, those feet must bave been cloven ones. Again, we reflected, that with a hat like his, slouched over the brows, horns might be very easily concealed ;—and as for a tall, it was doubtless tied in a double knot, and put into his coat pocket. Our minds were made up—there was no room for doubt. All idea of merriment was suspended. We hurried to the bank, eager to cross the river and to elude our pursuer. On reaching it, we were informed by the boatman that he should start in a minute or two, having other passengers. There were several already in the punt ; but of these, occupied as we were with our own feeling, we took no particular notice. We en. tered, and were requested by the boatman to go towards the head to make more room. But in doing so—spirit of mystery ! what a sight met our eyes ! We were standing in the same boat, com mencing the same voyage with a creature compounded, not of clay, hut of sulphur and smoke ! We were within six paces of the wan derer ! We were about to cross the water with the spirit of fire ! We had the evil one for a coespagnon dm voyage ! What sensa tions were ours ! Nor were our terrors in the smallest degree allayed by the ghastly grin which we observed playing on his lips as our eyes met his. He distended his mouth, as he surveyed us, into a horrible exaggeration of a smile. What might this mean ? If we could believe him human, it might be interpreted as an expression of self.saiisfaction at having reached the ferry first, and transacted business, at various parts of the village, while we were idling about. We endeavoured to comfort ourselves with this supposition, and turned to look at a poor idiot boy who was angling at a little distance, and complaining that he had not bad a nibble for several minutes. Alas ! he little imagined the cause— the fish were as frightened as we were. At length the boatman put off At the same instant a bonen dous peal of thunder burst immediately over our beads, and another shower descended. We felt our worst fears confirmed. It was evi. deatly the intention of the fiend-passenger to sink the boat as soon as it had reached the centre of the current. He had decoyed us to the ferry on purpose, and we had no means of escape. We were afraid to mention our suspicions, or to ask to be put back on shore. The ferry-man looked grim ; we felt that we were gazing, for the first time, on old Charon—that we were crossing the Stygian stream ! We contemplated our fellow-voyagers with feelings of commissera. tion. Instead of human beings, we beheld only a congregation of ghosts. We saw one spirit pulling up the shadow of a shirt-collar, that had the appearance of being wet ; and another was holding the apparition of an umbrella over its head. I pitied one lady who seemed to take great pride in an immense vapour that hung over her, in the shape of a bonnet ; and who was enraptured with a rainbow that encircled her waist, which she mistook for riband. I observed a beau casting an admiring eye down his aerial leg, and criticising the cut of a transparentpair of trowsen; while an attorney's clerk, stand ing near him, was buttoning up a black cloud, which he was fondly imagining I to be a coat. We felt for them all—.it was afflicting to see them fancying themselves within a mile of Hampton. Court, when, in fact, they were only crossing an imitation of the Thames. The ferryman continued to toil, sod the boat approached the centre. How we envied the ghost of a duck that glided past ! How we longed for cork-jackets ! We ventured a glance at the mighty mys tery—the great agitator. He was pretending to take something th..t seemed to be snuff out of the spectre of a box. He even affected to sneeze—the sound was answered by another peal of thunder. This we took for the signal—we awaited our fate, firm and collected. The boat, however, to our intense surprise and relief, passed the middle current in safety—the waves rolled harmlessly by—the vessel made a zigzag movement through them, and, in a few minutes more, ac tually touched the shore on the opposite side. At the same moment the rain ceased—the clouds cleared oft—a stream of sunshine burst on the river--and the glories of nature were onee more visible through the darkness and dismay that had enveloped her. I need not say how agreeable our astonishment was. We deter mined, however, to fix an eye on our superhuman fellow.passenger. We saw him, as the boat landed, take out the phantom of a penny. piece, which lie placed in the boatman's hand, who seemed quite contented with the illusion. He turned, and saw that we were watching him ; he smiled, as if in mockery of the terror that was still visible in our aspects; he then nodded to as with much fiend. ish familiarity and demoniac politeness, and in the next moment sprang upon the shore. After lingering a minute or two, we fop . lowed his example. We beheld him glide along a winding path, extending from the bank, till his garments melted almost into mist. We followed. He turned off into a lane, and wu hidden from view. We still rushed resolutely forward. When we reached the lane, hardly expecting to obtain a glimpse of the object of our search, we paused to peep down it; and there, seated on a stile at two yards' distance, we descried the dreaded demon, with the image of a clasp-knife uplifted in one hand, and in the other (never shall we forget the feelings with which we surveyed that scene) the sem. blance of a huge piece of bacon upon an acre of bread ! This was a termination to our adventure so perfectly unanticipated, that we stood, for a second or two, petrified; but I must admit, at the same time, that we felt disappointed. We could not have suspected him of such ploughman predilections. We should have rather expected to find him banqueting upon a seraph, cut intosandwiches—or pick ing the bones of a cherub. As the fiend looked up from his feast, which he seemed to enjoy with the relish of an epicure, we felt that we were in danger of forming his dessert ; and darted off accordingly like a herd of deer that had surprised a lion at dinner. Never, since that eventful hour, have we encountered the mysterious object of our terrors ; nor can we find, upon subsequent inquiry, that be was known in the Leigh. bourhood. All trace of him vanished with the tempest ; be went out like a Congreve rocket. We feel as if we had seen the wan. dering Jew ! Surely—will the surmise be pardoned P— surely it could not have been out old dramatic and demonized friend, Mr. t obi Smith that prince of terrors and trap-doors ! We leave the suggestion for the consideration of the reader. It is the only one we can possibly offer respecting our extraordinary acquaintance—the' Fiend of the Ferry ! „ b 111, .... N°• 13,437. GERMAN PAPERS. DUCHY OF NASSAU. The government has given notice that it will pay off ins bonds bearing interest at four per cent. and, in order to effect this, has ne gotiated with the house of Rothschild, a loan at 31, per ceut ; the bonds, which will be shortly issued, are already purchased at 98& on delivery. The debt of the principality of Hohenzollern Hechingen has lately been modified in a similar manner, through the inter. vention of the same banking-house.—Nurtosehurg Corr espultrit March 22. ..- - r • . • • - , , •-• ~;3. • , .•• • . • -4 AaNCONA, MARCM 9. According to a letter from Paris, of February 6, the atl'ii•s of Greece are at present in a better situation ; the opposition party is gradually becoming more friendly to the Government, and the President, who enjoys very good health, is incessantly en gaged in the organisation of the internal affairs, in order to ac celerate the civilisation of the country. The Universal Gazette of Greece publishes the Chiliarchy and the organization of five regiments, according to the new system. The troops took the oath on the 16th of November, and received their colours on the same day. The Government has appointed a Special Commission to di. Sect the reform of the Chiliarchies of Eastern Greece. Regulations respecting the teachers and pupils in the elementary schools of the Greek State have been published at Napoli di Romania. There has been published at Egina a prospectus for a monument to be erected in memory of the brave defenders of 3lissolonghi : all Gietk architects and statuettes are invited to produce, during the present year, a plan for the monument, with an estimate of the expels..., ..nd of the time necessary for the completion of it. The author of the best plan will receive a gold medal. NUREAIBURG, MARCH 21. A detachment of bombardiers, with rockets. &c. ha+ n sent from Vienna to the frontiers of Cevatia, where it will be joilied by other troops, and with the consent of the Turks, destroy the re treats of the banditti, who are becoming more and more numerous on that frontier, and wnom•it is equally the interest of both Ottrctn. nicuts to extirpate. DARMSTADT, MARCH 22. According to yesteday's bulletin, his Royal Highness the Grind Duke had passed a restless night. The catarrhal affection, !we— ever, had not become worse, nor had his head suffered. Ile in e•Lry weak, as is natural from the duration of the disorder, which d. not present any new symptoms.. PEST—FEE. 25. It seems that it is in our city that the strange history of Gasper Hauser Husem, by the name of the Nuremburg foundling, is to be cleared up. A person,who is governess in a family here, has been pointed out as suspected, to the magistrates of our ci'y, by those o" Nuremburg. The examination which she has undergone has 63 greatly alarmed her that she has lost her senses, and is now in one of our hospitals. FRENCH PAPERS. We have just received by an extraordinary exprcu from Par s the Messager des Ckantbres of Tuesday and Wednesday, and ti e Momileur and other journals of Tuesday, March 90. From the Constitutionnel. ROME, Maacm 17. The day before yesterday the Pope held a Secret Conoistory in the Vatican. His Holiness nominated nineteen Bishops for all parts of the world. On the same day he raised to the dignity of Cattli nal—let, Thomas Weld, born at London, 22d January, 1773, Bishop of Amyclea, isperlibus ; 2d, M. Raphael Maiio, a native of Rome; 3d, M. de Simone, of Beneventum. His Holiness an nounced that he kept in petto the names of eight Cardinals who would soon be created. The agents of Dim Miguel, supported by the Minister of Naples land the Cabinets of London and Paris, and Cardinal Albani, have in vain done their utmost to induce his Holiness to recognise the usurper. Plus the Eighth said to a Prince of the Church, who was a member of the first commission appointed to examine she titles and the validity of the demandof the usurper, " I have several times said to Cardinal Albani, that if all the Kings of the universe shculd acknowledge Don Miguel u the legitimate King of Portugal de facto ci de furl, he never would be recognised by Pius VIII. before the Emperor of Brazil shall have voluntarily abdicated in favour of Don Miguel, in the name of Donna Maria da Gloria, his daughter, whom Leo XII. acknowledged u legitimate Queen of Portugal. I will sooner annul all the canons of the Church than recognise Don Miguel." From the Moniteur. NAPLES, 11Lutcli 14. An extraordinary courier, who arrived from Madrid the day before yesterday, brought to a mercantile house of this city authorising it to purchase in Sicily and to export 20,000 &ems of wheat, which are supposed to be intended for the French expedition against AI. gins. The salem of the finest wheat costs about thirty francs, be sides the export.duties. It is supposed that the corn will be con. veyed In Neapolitan ships to Its destination. The extraordinary sale of 20,000 salems of wheat, when trade of all kind is at a stand, is a piece of good fortune for Sicily. PARIS, Muten 29. The King and his Highness the Dauphin left Pariv, at a quarter put eight, on a shooting excursion in the forest of St. Germain. From the Messager des Chantbres. PARIS, MARCH 20. The bettter to ensure the success of the expedition to Africa, it has just been decided, after u debate in the Supreme Council of War, at which the Dauphin presided, that a corps of 8,000 or 10,000 men shall be assembled in the environs of Marseilles, Toulon, and. Cette, to form the reserve ot the army, to furnish it with reir.forcements. 'a case of need, and to relieve the regiments which may have suflond the most. The chief command of the corps de reserve is said to x• destined for Lieut.-General Viscount de Montesquieu Fesenzac,who commanded a bngade of the grand army in the corps of 3lanhal Davoust, in the Russian campaign. An emissary of the Dey of Al glus quitted Paris a few days ago. lie contented himself with re. (inking that three millions should be paid to his muter, being the balance of an account in his favour, which is actually deposited in the Cease des Consignations. On this condition an Envoy hxtrear dioary was to be sent to Paris by the Dey to make all the reparation that should be required ; only half a million of fiance were asked .o defray the expense of his mission. These proposals were rejected. From the Gazette de France. PARIS, lilancit 29. It is affirmed that his Highneas the Dauphin will go to Toulon to be present at the embarkation of the troops composing the expe dition against Algiers. From the Messager des Chanibres of Wednesday. PARIS, Malicia 30. A letter from Constantinople of the 28th of Februazy, informs us that the Reis Effendi (who has been allowed to retire on account of his bad health,) has been succeeded by Alehaned Hamid Hey, who has twice before filled that dice. Ilamid Bey held the post of Riaja Bey and Reis in the camp of the Grand Visite at Adrianeple, where his place ha been taken by Bali Effendi, one of the Pfeti. potentiuies of the conferences at Akerman. One of these Papers give the continuance of the proceedings in the trial of the Baron de St. Clair. Among the witnesses was the real Col. St. Clair, of the British service, who, in 1811, was Major of the sth regiment of Chasseurs, in the service of Portugal, who declared that be was the only officer of that name in the Portuguese army, and that he did not kaow the accused. Another witness wns the secretary of the English Genetal.in.Chief, who commanded in Portugal, who declared that he did not know of any officer of the name of St. ClAir, in Portugal, besides the Major of the Bth regi. meat of Choiseul's. He recognised the accused as having served in the Ist regiment by the name of Mejer Maekline, who, he says, was a troublesome person, writing letters to the General-in.Chtet to ask proatotion, and had been punished for his importunity by being sent to serve in the 78th English regiment. Ithi letters were Mitred Mackline." .1 . FRENCH FUNDL- T hlatwo sn, roars P.M. 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