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WILTS AUXILIARY DIME SOCIETY. THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING of the WILTSHIRE AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY, will be holden, io the TOWN-HALL, DEVIZES. oa TUESDAY, the lab AUGUST, Instant. N.B. In compliance with the wisbes of the Committee. T. G. ESTCOORT. Esq. M.P. will preside OR the above occasion. The Chair will be taken at Twelve o'Clock, preciwly. T. A- MEI HUEN. Secretaries, R. ELLIOTT, EIS7' INDIA PAPERS. CALCUTTA GAZETTE. FEBRUARY 12, 1817. We have received letters of a most satisfactory na ture from the Bengal Subsidiary Force, in Nagpoor. " Camp Myheer,a few marches distant from Belliary. Jan. 27. 44 Major Clarke, with the sth Cavalry and eight flank companies, was sent in advance by Colonel Aaiun from Birramgunge to Belhary, eight or ten days ago ; and on the strength of intelligence the Major had received, he ordered Captain Caulfield, with one squadron and two companies (if infantry to Ch India, where a body of 5000 Pindaric: was ex pected on the 21 st. Captain Caulfield did not ar rive until the 22d inst. though lie made incredibly long marches They had unluckily passed on be fore. However, on the evening of the 24th, at sun set, lie got a sight of their camp, at Bilhaut, after a gallop ot neatly 76 miles. A steep banked nullah unfortunately brooght the cavalry up in full charge, otherwise the came would have been surprised, and our success of course greater. The rascals had time to mount and arrange for a regular flight ; but in spite of darkness, miltalis, and fatigue on the part of our gallant troopers, 400 of them were killed and wounded, during A pursuit of seven or eight miles in the da: k. This is infinitely satisfactory. Madras long cloths, silks, swords, and daggers, comprised our prin. cipal booty ; amount averaged at 5 to 8000 rupees. " With another squadron Captain Caulfield thinks they would not have allowed a man to escape, and probably would have secured goods and money to the amount of a lac of rupees. We are on the look-out for another piece of good news from Major Clarke, upon whose position the discomfited body must al most of, necessity fall, lie being in their direct route. Captain Caulfield wsites in confidence of surprizing a third body, which is now in full flight towards him. Ibis hircarratis may be depended upon, and every cit.- cunvtafice has tended to strengthen his hopes. These villains Ile will probably handle in a similar manner, and then turn them over to Major Clarke, who is full of energy, activity, and spirits. Capt. Caulfield calculates the force he encountered at 8,000 horse men. All our damage is one man wounded, four horses ditto, and seven or eight horses missing, two or three of which have been heard of, and most proba bly will be recovered. We have taken 300 tattoos and horses, in addition to the abovememioned prize articles. " Letters of the 31st ult. state that various detach ment: of the sth cavalry were actively employed in bunting after another gang of marauders. One di• vision reached Belhary on the preceding day, after marching 61 , miles in 21 hours. " The ether affair took place on the morning of - the 1601 ult. at a spot lying 70 miles west of Beder. Oa the lst, Major Mactlowall, of the Madras Esta blishment, was dispatched from Hydrabad with two or three companies of infantry, and 1000 Mysore horse, in pursuit of a body of the enemy, reported to be plundering to the southward of Doulatabad. He came up with them on the nigl:t of the 15th, and got into their canip unobserved. The execution done by the fire of his detachment, was not howeaer great ; ' as the enemy, under cover of the dark night, soon took to flight, and dispersing in every directiun, suc ceeded in affecting their escape. Not more than 30 0r,40 men were killed or wounded. A thousand horse were captured ; and a large quantity of bag. gage, consisting chiefly of brazen utensils, taken from the villagers, and cf little value. A considerable number of matchlocks, spears, and swords, likewise' fell into the hands of the victors. The Mysore horse are said to have shewn touch backwardness on being ordered to charge. Colonel Russell is understood to have gone in quest of another band in the direction of Nundrall." uIcFROM THE IVIMBAY COURIER OF FRB. 15 .) y inforniation received here from Nagpore, we learn that on the 12th of January a picquet from the Sth Regiment of Light Cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant Crowther, who had been directed by Colonel Walker to patrole for that purpose on the Boorhampoor road, fell in with a patty of about 60 Pindaric., attacked and killed 50 of them. Colonel Walker had further, up to the 21st of January, de. atroyed and taken several small patties returning from the southward, in all about 200 men, being apparently part of the survivors of the body so roughly handled bi Major Lushington ; very few of them had any plunder. " One of the dispersed bodies of the Pindaric:, that bad been co successfully attacked by Captain Caul field, consisting of about 150 men, was fallen in with by Major Clarke, commanding a light detachment of the Magpere subsidiary force, ou the 25th of January, about three cost on the left of his position at the camp Of Goculpore, two coss south of Soporra, at four. o'clock in the afternoon, and the putsuit was con tinued till dark for seven miles; at least 100 of the banditti were killed. Major Clarke continued on the . I ick out for other bodies of them, and, ne expect, will ;Ave a good account of them. " We are sorry to state, that by accounts received here, dated from Anjar, on the 14th of January, it appears that the plague. or a contagious disease very Fp• similar to it in its symptoms and effects, has made its re-apperance near Butchoco, in Cutch, a village called ',Aria, and that there was also a report of the disease having appeared in Wankanneer. No parti culars are given of the amount of the daily mortality, front which circumstance we are induced to believe that the disorder had not yet committed any great ra vages, and we hope that it will not extend to the sea coast." The Maras Gazette of the 15th of March contains the following paragraph : " It was with much satisfaction, we were enabled in our Supplement of Saturday last, to notice, by an abstract from the Calcutta prints, the Honourable Company's six per cent. paper, as being at p ar , a circumstance without parallel in the history of India. By reference to our Calcutta price of the funds in this day's Gazette, it will be further observed, with in creased satisfaction, tbat the paper or the old loan is at a premium of three Annas pet ccnt.". THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1817. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWEI.VE O'CLOCK s Reduced 601I—Consol► 201 f —Consols for August Son 4 per Cent.27f 94-5 per Cent. Navy, iOS India Bonds s ill li3 pr.—Exchequer BiUs 324.355. pr. Bank Long Annuities, 201 13-16 tbs. TO CORRESPONDENTS. MR. OWEN Or LANARIC..—We think it useful to Inform the Public that a farther development of important particulars respecting Mr. Owes's Plan, will be given in this Paper on Saturday next. The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this morning. A sort of demi-official article in the Journal des Abaft on the" moderate and paternal Government" of Lotus, presents us with an account ot the financial situation of France, so witch more favourable than any thing we had been led to anticipate, as not to be passed over without notice. " Much expense," it states, has been incurred; much was necessary. The Representatives of France, by voting the Loan, have put at the disposition of Government considerable resources, but not more than appeared proportioned to the wants of the current year. The Government has still been able to meet every demand upon it, including even a large unforeseen Expenditure, which the rigour of the seasons has rendered indispensable. And such altogether has been the order and economy observed in the Treasury, that only halfof the Loam voted by the Chambets, has as yet been expended. ° 6 6 The negotiations," it is added. 66 which are now carrying on, are for the supply of the Ilifff half of tlso Loan," and not as has been erroneously supposed, for any new Loan occasioned by any new necessity on the par: of the French Government. The Swiss Diet is stated to have been occupied, in one of its recent sittings, with the consideration of a Brief from the POPE, addressed to the different Can tons, in which his HOLINESS renews a demand made last year, for the reestablishment of the Abbey of St. Gall, suppressed during the Revolution; when the Diet, by a great majority, refused the demand, and ordered this its definitive resolution to be com municated to the Papal Court. The remains of Madame we STAEL were deposited in the family vault, at the Chateau of Coppet, on the 27th ultimo. The Duchess of Baoctio, her daugh ter. the DUKE, her husband, anJ Mons. de SrAlt, her ton, attended the funeral solemnity. Sir THOSIAS MAITLAND, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Isles, is stated to have arrived at Ve nice on the Ilth HAMBURGH MAILS. Accounts from Stockholm, of the 18th ultimo, received by the Hamburgh Mails, of which two ar rived this morning, announce that 'siren. GIBRAL TAR, isn agent of MEHRMED ALT PACHA, has bees there for some time buying military stores foe the PACHA. Among other purchases for which he has contracted are 250 twenty-four pounders, with a ne cessary supply of balls and gunpowder. Istaan. is a well,inforrned man, speaks the principal European languages with fluency, and pays great attention to every thing that goes on around him. On the 4th ultimo, when Ts Draw was performed in the Royal Chapel, he made a conspicuous figure in the gallery for strangers, dressed in his rich oriental costume. But, while the Pacha is providing in the North the means for extending and maintaining his autho rity, we have accounts of a different kind from the Eastwards. A letter from Constantinople, of the 25th June, says- 1, For these two days past a report has been in circulation that a revolt has broken out in Cairn, and that the Governor WHAM) ALT PAVIA has been taken prisoner by the revolted inhabitants. It s likely that the Pours may not be displeased with this news, because M/IHMED ALT PACHA seems to aim at making himself independent master of Egypt.' Accounts ftom Damascus say, that the deposed Governor, HAFT ALT PACHA, has been forced to shut ' himself up in his residence till the arrival of his suc cessor, in order to secure himself against the fury of the people, who cry aloud for vengeance, on account of the oppression and cruelties which they have en dured under his government. The lately-appointed Aga of the Janissaries has had, like his predecessor, the rni.fortune to draw on himself the displeasure of tl:e SULTAN. He was dis, missed from his tlfice on the 11th ult. and till he should depart to the place of his banishment, brought under a guard to a country house out of Constanti nople, v.-here he :win died—it is not known whether n4tUriii or a violent death. • ST. PETERSBURGH. WIN 11. In the Imperial Ukase, publiihed on the marriage of the Grand Duke Nicholas, is the following pas , sage: _ " ALMIGHTY Gon, who guides the fates of Empires and People, who so lately showered down upon Russia 'so much favour and goodness, now also casts upon it his gracious eye. It pleases his holy will that the Rus• sian Imperial House shall encrease and be confirmed in its strength and glory by ties of blood and friend ship with the most powerlul States on the Earth.— At the suggestion, and with t: e blessing of Htst in whose hands are the hearts of Princes, and with the consent of our most beloved mother, the Empress Maria Feodorowna,,we took the resolution, in con ceit with his Majesty Frederick William the Thi:44,, king of Prussia, to choose his most august daughter. the Princess Charlotte, for the consort of our beloved brother the Grand Duke Nicholas Pawlowitsch, in conformity with his own wishes. On the 24th of June she made her confession of faith, according to the creed of the Greek Russian Church, and was named, on receiving the holy unction, Alexandra Feodorowna, &c." The New York Papers of the 'sth ultimo having given some details respecting the battle which took place on the Orinoko, in which the Spanish army was defeated by the Patriots, and lost 800 killed and 500 wounde", some of our contemporaries have con ceived this to be a new event ; but this is the same battle of which we before had accounts in the Boston Papers (see the STAR of the Ist inst.) The authenticity of the Protest of MAIM% Lot-rsA, (a copy of which was given in the STAR of Tues day) is very much doubted in the political circles, and positively denied by some, who could hardly be ignorant of Its existence, were it genuine. Accounts from Halifax, dated June 14, state, that a distressing file took place at Carbonear, (New. foundland), on the 18th a May. Seventeen houses were consumed. The EMPEROR of RvsstA is about to introduce for his domestics, liveries similar to those of the PRINCE RYGENT, with the variation of dark green cloth in stead of dark blue, with which our royal liveries are (Aced and turned lip. Suits are now making for two English lads, who have been training daily for about two months past at Carlton House Stables, under the direction of the PRINCIL REGENT's principal Coachman and others, to learn to ride and drive properly, and when they are in every respect thoroughly qualified to undertake the management of horses, they will leave England for St. Petersburgli, taking with them under their care certain choice and valuable horses which were purchased by the GRAND DUKE during his stay here.—His Imperial Majesty is having St. Petersburgh paved in a similar style to the streets of Landon. The Glasgow Astronomical Society has lately pro cured a Solar Microscope, from a celebrated opician, the largest that optician has ever ciasstructed- It is exhibited to most advantage betwixt I I and 2 o'clock, dining which hours the sun is in the best position for chewing it. The first trial cl . this instrument dis closed some wonderful phenomena—hundreds of in sects were discovered devouring the body of a gnat, and scores had lived luxuriously for several months on the leg of a moth ! These animalcule were mag nified so as to appear nine inches long, their actual size being somewhat less than the fourteen hundredth part of an inch. The mineral kingdom afforded another display of brilliant objects ; their chrystalliza aqd the splendour of their cokuring, exceed any thing the most lively imagination can conceive. Plossrittanism.—A Gentleman has backed EATON (the pedestrian), receiving two to one, that he accom plishes the task of walking from Colchester, in Essex, to London, in one day, and returisiog to Colchester the I next, and so on for twenty successive days. Colches ter is 52 miles from London. Tuesday se'nnight there was a ringing match at Gwennap, near Redruth :—the Camborne ringers Rot the first prize, which was six silver-laced hats ; the Redruth ringers got the second, a gold-laced hat; and the Glavin ringers the third, six pair of gloves. Tuesday sennight being the Anniversary of the Gloucestershire Pitt Club, a highly respectable cotn pany,atnounting in number to seventy-seven, and in. eluding some of the first characters in the city and county, assembled together at the Bell Inn, Glouces ter. MICHAEL Hicks BEACH, Esq. WAS President of the day, supported by TnomAs DAVIS, Esq. as Vice. The American Physicians have announced the Pyrela Umbellifera, a Virginian plant, to be a specific in cancer and scrophula. The fine weather continues to encourage us with the hope of a rich and bountiful harvest. This con fidence spreads beyond the sphere of agriculture, and seems already to animate the operations of commerce. Colonial produce rises in price, nhile articles of the first necessity are rapidly declining. Last night, between seven and eight o'clock, 22 convicts were put into an open waggon in the Old Bailey yard, which soon afterwards drove off on their , way to Portsmouth for embarkation to Botany Bay.' The earl" hour attracted a greater crowd than usual outside;' and a curious incident occurred. Several' persons climbed up, as usual, on the outside wall, to take a view of the convicts. One of them was im prudent enough openly to claim acquaintance with one or two of the most hardened ; when, the Officers in attendance knowing him to be old offender, rushed out at the gate, and took him into custody. He was lodged in Newgate, with some difficulty. The body of a child, supposed to be murdered, was lately found in a wood. in Neilston parish. Sus picion has been att iched to a woman residing in Gorbals, Glasgow, and she has accordingly beers ap prehended. Monday afternoon, a child about 18 months old, belonging to a waterman living in Victualling-Office alley, Chatham, strayed from its mother, while she was engaged, and walked into the river, which flows up a part of 'the alley at high water ; the little help less creature soon lost its looting, and was carried away by the tide. A man, in a vessel, who saw the body floating, following the undulation of the water, and with the head immersed in it, got into a boat, ' proceeded to its assistance, pit ked it up, and took it I to its terrified parents. Medical assistance was in stantly procured, and in a little time the child was so far recovered as to be out of danger. At the Manchester General Quatter Sessions, on Thursday last, N. Lodolsky. Samuel hoar:, and J. Levy, all Jews, were indicted for conspiring together to defraud and cheat Messrs. Skikelthorp and Thomp son, (considerable manufacturers in Manchester,) of sundry pieces of goods, their property ; when, alter a patient investigation, which lasted nine hours, the Jury in about three minutes returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners. They were sen tenced to be imprisoned is Lancaster Castle—Lo dolsky, two years and six months; Isaacs and Levy, two years; and each to pay a fire of fen, and to be further imprisoned until such fine be paid. WINDSOR, Aucusr 6. Yesterday evening, about nine o'clock, lie I .i. lity began to arrive at Princess Entearertes Cottage, for the evening. Dancing commenced about ten o'clock, and WAS kept up with great Apirit 1.11 'tear one. when the company sat down to an elegant seprr prepared for them. The Ladies' dresses were witch more splendid than we have seen at any former ball. Her MAJE`TY and the rest ot the company began to leave the Cottage soon After two o'cl..ck. he Pp: , :e. REOFST left at the same time, for the Stud-house.... Most of the Foreign AmbaFcad-rs were grew..! at :his entertainment. The Ball room was inter••;isscl with Bowers of all descriptions, and other rc.. - e,ties of grandeur. The Duke and Duchess of Gr.ctrr'rrn *e:•rt t!'e Castle to-day, for Bagshot ; as did the Duchess aE Youx, for °elands. Last night the PRTNCE ltt:Gr.srr arrived from t'v Stud-house, Hampton Loott, at Calton Hi:she. Lord CASTLEKEACII going on well, but will not be able to use his band, even in writing, for some weeks. The Rev. Mr. BtoNtnERG is sn far recovered as to have been Able to leive town fnr his scat in York shire ; but ''e by ino:nies of ottly '.:5 nr day, And will b.: e , giit days in re..c. ing Kir ;;', : I'he Esti and Countess of M Al.ltll :ittud leaving town in a fetv days for Ein, , liottu The Earl and Countess of ESSEX are trite gin a party of lashinnables at their SCA I, f ) Pad, tSSeX. The Doke of Gonnots, still at Gordon Castle, is recovering from his late severe indisposition, and gra dually becoming cenivalescent ; he takes An airing in his carriage daily. The Doke of Bcrirnma is r2.-elected President of the Devon County Clob. ENGLISH Oectra.--Tbis Theatre presented rather a novel appearance last night, the stage having been il- Itinsina , ..l with gas lights. The effect which they prcditce is extremely brilliant. C A mo.r.— M. I.,xnue, A tradesman of the Rue da Four, in Paris, perished lately while he was bathing in the Seine. body was ocened and examined by the surp,,tons, and thyri, was reason to believe that Lis death was owing to his having gone to bathe too soon alit s' !!a had taken a hearty meal. St...lames's &lime is !taw undergoing a material alteration, which, when completed, will be A very great improvement. A considerable portion of the unnecessary wide coaehway is isiciosing, in orc: r to br added to the present centre enclosure, the whole or which is to he laid out in neat shrubberies and gravel walks, after the elegant and pe:turcsque plan of Grosvenor-square. The first arch on the Surrey-side of the NS - eerie"- bridge presents an uninterrupted, commanding, a-d panoramic view of the Metr.polis, from Chelsea to the Tower ; this has not been generally observed. Tuesday the fnundation-stone of the new Rom en Catholic Chapel in Mourt: i. ss as laid. The cup, r-,e is to be defrayed by priate cortiributions. The it. , g!t Rev. Dr. POYNTER, accorpFanied by a respcciiib:e body of his Clergy, and supporter: by Lords Frsc and CLIFFORD, of At the cererunry. 04 western side a marquee was pitched, in which ti Committee provided a collation for a select cilmbt: of their friends. The Duke of Nottrnic last week made a tour of his estates in Norfolk, paying an Agricultural visit to his tenants At Kenninghall, Bressingham, Fersfield, Boylands, and Shellanger; attended by the Earl o f ALBEMARLE, whom be was visiting At QuidennAm hall. Tuesday se'nnight, Lord Vi.count Exmourn ar rived At Durrant, on a visit to Sit RICHARD GOODWIN KEATS, Recorder of Bideford ; and on Saturday, the Corporation of that town presented his Lordship with the Freedom of the Birough in a gold box, with an appropriate inset iptton. General AXIFILT, Wilo is confined in a prison at Hddesheim, in Hanover, has become insane. He imagines himself an Emperor, creates Marstials, dis tributes dotations. wins battles, and raises enormous contributions upon conquered comitries. The cause Of his detention is not known. The Lot:La Cunmuu.Lott's complaint of too mach luriness, appears a very singular one at the present time. The tradesmen in the city lament tney are ty.t all as diriretrid as his Lordship. Madame 1)1: GIiNLIS, in retiring to a Convent, has only verified the proverb, which says, .4 A French Lady is tint a coquette, next a deist, and lastly 4 devidre." The following pleasant anecdote, pleasantly tc,l , !, is translated from the Joined des Dela' : —A In 4n oi imposing figure, wearing a large sabre and inimerne mustachios, arrived at one of the princival ions of a provincial city, accompanied with a female of agri.tf- . able shape and enchanting mein. Ile alighted at the moment that dinner was serving up at the 144 d'het , . At his martial appearance all the giieqs rete with re spect ; they felt assured that it must be a Lieutenant- General, or a Major General at least. A new Gover nor was expected in the province about this time, ard every body believed that it was he who had arrived incognito. The Officer of Gendarst erie gave hie) C'e place of honour, the Controller of the Cuqnms anti the Receiver of Taxes sat by the side of Madam:, and exerted their wit and gallantry to the utmost. — All the tit-bits, all the most exquisite wines, %rev: placed before the fortunate couple. At length th., party bruke up, and every one ran to report thi-cey!t the city that Monsieur the Governor had i J arr.ve_.-- But oh ! what was their surprise, when tit..• next (i: , y his Excellency, clad in a scarlet coat, and his august companion, dressed out in a gown glittering wit!, ti.- sel, mounted a small open calash, and, preceded bf some musicians, went about the squares and public ways, selling Swiss tea and balm of Mecca. Hew shall we describe the fury of the guests 1 They and complain to the !slayer, and demand that u c 1 audacious quack should be compelled to lay ariee 1 the characterisic mark of the brave. l'fie prukient ' Magistrate assembled the Common Council ; and those respectable persons, Ater a long deliberation, considering that noticing in the chatter forbad :' , e citizens to let their beard grow on their upper lip, distnissed the complaint altogether. The same even , ing the supposed Governor gave a serenade to the complainants, and the next day took his leave, and I continued his journey amidst the acclamations of t!.c [people ; who, in small as well as in g re a t c i t i e s, are very apt to becurac px.sloaately load 01 cilia-fawn:. ~.