Star. — London, England, 1821-09-27 00:00:00

%. He (Mr. Hume) when he enforced the necessity of the Company! adopting Dr. Gilchrist's plan of teach ing the Hindostanee to all their servants going out to India, by no meanglifished to damp the study of the, higher oriental languages, which might be considered more as branches of accomplishment, than as acquire ments of immediate practical utility. These would always find students and admirers, as classical learn-' ing uniformly did: all he meant was, that the study of the colloquial language in common use should be deemed an indispensable acquisition, and he intended to have submitted a motion on the subject; he would however, for the present, merely suggest the subject to the reconsideration of the Court of Directors, in the confident hope that they would see the evident utility of adopting his suggestion. From the year 1793 to. the year 1812, when their charter was re- mewed, there had been 4,728 Cadets sent ant to India, and 592 Assistant-Surgeons. In the year 1813, 5,467 Cadets were all that remained in Bombay and Madras ; and had Dr. Gilchrist's plan been then more generally adopted, they might have reckoned on the whole number he had alluded to fully understanding the native languages. How was it in the present year? . Of 496 sent out to India, only 55 had been educated at their College; fortunately, however, in the year 1819, 165 had been educated by Dr. Gil christ, at an expense of £2OO, being equal in propor tion to twice the number, whose education had pre viously cost £20,000. In 1820 he bad educated 228, and in 1821, 226—a1l valuable to the Company's service, proportion to their power of discharging their duties with more efficiency and satisfaction, ac cording to their knowledge of the people among whom they had to live. It was the want of so ne- .1 cessary an acqui:sment which made the admission o f strangers into India objectionable: let them merely qualify themselves to commune with the inhabitants by a knowledge of their language, and then lie for one saw no danger in their residence in India. Many of the evils which arose from the misconduct of Eu ropeans, and the vain consequence assumed by them among the natives, would have been obviated, if the parties could have better communicated with each other. When it was considered that previous to going out to India an ateendance o lor two months upon Dr. Gilehiist would obtain the necessary elemental y knowledge, it was surprising that so valuable an op portunity should be disregarded. The only objec tion lie had ever heard was, that it would expose in experienced youths to the danger of a two months' residence, terhaps at a distance from their families, in such a metropolis As this. It was asked, Would you expose a boy, in his raw state, one just caught— suppose from Scotland—(.4lnugh)—to all the allure. relents of London? To this lie would reply, that he thought the advantages greatly outweighed the risk, and he saw no peat harm even from the knowledge of the would which, independent of the professional education, was to be acquired by such a domicile. Lt them bear in mind the cheapne,soi the proposed education. compared with the expense of £50,000, which they had previously, on a much smaller scale, obtained, and then reflect on what was due to Gikluia's labours. Mr. LOWNDES (who had just entered the Court)— " 1.50,(X;0 for what education?" Mr. E—" For education in some of the Indian lan,t ag es." Mr. LowsoLs—" An Asiatic and luxuriant price fur educatiou, indeed." Nlr. Hume said, that his objection was not so much to the sum expeuded, as to the system upon which it was applied. Mr. It. JAcKsos expressed I:is entire concurrence in everything which had fallen from his Honourable Friend resi•Qcting the merits of Dr. Gilchrist, whose services he highly extolled, and the value of which to the Company's servants in India he thought of the most paramount importance. The CHAIRMAN said, in explanation, that both at Addicombe and Hayleybury there were Professors of Ilindostanee, so dirt that particularlangnage was by no means, as the Honourable Gentleman who spoke immediately before the last supposed, neglected in the collegiate education of their ()dicers. To strew that both their military and civil servants were required to study Ilindostanee, he referred to a com plimentary expression used by the Marquis of Has tings, in a speech he made at the College of Fort 'William, in the year 1819, when be alluded to the education of the students who came out from_ Hay leybury, and pointed out Mr. Lindsay, who was at the head of the Persian class, and fourth scholar in Hindustanee. The Chairman then admitted in the fullest term‘ the merits of Dr. Gilchrist, to whose pension of .00 a-year the present Resolution would add 050 more; but said that various opinions were held upon the propriety of the general requisition, for compelling all the young men to reside in Lon don two months, before they were sent to their ulti mate .lestination. Mr. litany also spoke upon the value of a system of education which diffused a knowledge of the na tive languages among the Company's servants. After a few explanations from the preceding speakers, the Resolution respecting Dr. Gilchrist was put and unanimously agreed to. The next Resolution submitted was for a sum of £2,000 to be granted to John Ilindo Pelli, of the Bombay Civil Establishment, as a compensation for looses sustained by him in furnishing the Company with hempen ropes, in January, 1818. Mr. HUME would not at present object to this grant, because he did not know upon what grounds the claim was made; but he thought it a bad prac tice, and one which ought to Le put a stop to, to permit the Company's servants to enter into contracts. Mr. RIGBY opposed this Resolution. Mr. JACKSOX said he should reserve his observa tions until the next consideration of this question. The Resolution was put and carried. I•Ir. RICBT then gave notice, that he would, at the next quarterly Meeting, move that the fine imposed upon Mr. Hornblower, for not performing his con tract within a specified time, be remitted.—The Ho nourable Member moved, that there be laid before the next Court of Proprietors the Memorial of Mr. Ilornblower, and all the papers relative to, the trans action.—This motion was put and negatived. Mr. Rioav—. , Then I must say, a Court of Pro prietors has refused to produce papers upon a sub ject of the highest importance. When the motion was put, there was not a dozen proprietor; present.—Adjourned at four o'clock. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. 1821. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: 3 per Cent. Consols 76 1 / 8 75 7 A 76 5 per Cent. Navy 109 1 A Vs —lndia Stock 233 3 / 4 India Bonds 645. pre. Exch. Bills par, Is. pr. Is. dis. Do. Small 2s. 6s. pr.—Consols for Acct. 76 3 / 4 V 4. An express arrived yesterday, with dispatches for his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, announcing that his MAJESTY had landed at Calais, at half-past four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. Every prepara tion had been made by the local authorities, to give him a suitable welcome, and all the English . from Boulogne, Dunkirk, and other places on the coast, had poured into Calais to add the warmth of British affection to the demonstrations of French civility. CALAIS, SEPTEMBER 26. His Majesty King GEORGE the Fourth landed here yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, having been con veyed from the Royal yacht to the harbour in a French pilot boat. His MAJESTY proceeded imme diately to DESSEIN'S Hotel, where be dined. In the evening his MAJESTY, accompanied by the Duke of WELLINGTON. honoured the Theatre with his pre sence, and was greeted w ith the most lively applause by the whole of the audience. At about eight o'clock this morning his MAJESTY left us, expressing his particular satisfaction at the accommodation and attention be had received at DESSEIN'S Hotel, which Mr.Cunvis was commanded to communicate to the proprietor. We have received the Palk Papers of Sunday last. It is said that our KING will maintain a strict in cognito on his first arrival in France; but, that on his return from Hanover, he will lay it aside, and be re ceived with those honours which are due to a great Sovereign, and to the ally and friend of the king of. FitAxce. An article from Vienna, dated the 12th inst. says: Our Funds are improving perceptibly, though slowly. The Me(elves were quoted yesterday at 71 13.16. This proves that the hopes that therewill be no rupture assume every day more consistency.— At the same time the conviction is felt, that should hostilities break out, tivl would necessarily drag on slowly, as the season is so far advanced. It is not enough to send an army into Turkey, it is necessary to provide it with food ; and the more numerous it is, the more difficult to obtain the necessary supplies." It is said, in au article from Stutgard, that a new family alliance is on the tapis between the king of WuttremßEno and the Imperial Family of Russia.— The K LNG had married a sister of the ENIrEROR but we know of no Princess of the Imperial House, with whom he could contract a new marriage. It is said, that several Greeks, who belonged to the Sacred Battalion, have lately passed through Stut gard, coming from Transylvania. They wished to embark at some Austrian port, in order to join their countrymen in the Toren, but having been refused permission by the Austrian Authorities, they have directed their steps towards the South of France, where they have hopes of meeting no obstructions. The subscriptions in favour of the Greeks continue to increase hi Germany. The l'russian Professor, ZEuNE, has published a sort of catechism in seven at ticle, for the instruction of the Germans relative to the Greek cause. An article from Leipsic, of the 1 tth inst. assumes that war against the Porte is nearly determined on ; and that it would have commenced before now, but that the Russian Cabinet was anxious first to regu late its relations with the great Powers. It is stated, that the great distance between the different capitals, and the frequent communications between the Courts have solely retarded the military operations. The exasperation of the Russian army against the Turks is said to be wound up to the highest pitch. The troops, it is added, are approaching, in succession, the southern frontiers; whilst the northern provinces of the Empire are almost entirely stripped of a mili tary force. A commercial letter from Bayonne states, that in consequence of the recent events, of which Spain has been the theatre, all the garrisons on the Spanish frontier, from Saint Jean de Luz to Colliouse, are to he considerably reinforced, and that different corps of troops are marching to proceed to their respective destinations. The Paris Papers of Monday have also arrived, at a late hour this forenoon. Neither Sir CHARLES STEWART ncr the Hanove rian Envoy had left Paris, in order to receive his MAJESTY at his landing on the French territory.— The customary etiquette in this respect was dispensed with by his MAJESTY'S desire. Count MOLE is said to have been named Ambas sador to London. Accounts from Madrid state, that tranquillity had been completely re-established in that capital, and that General Moatm.o had resumed the military command of the province. The Gazette de France says, that letters from Milan announce, as a report generally current, that Belt , GAMI died on the 10th August, and that certain per sons relate strange things as to the manner of his death; but the whole statement is, we suspect, only an echo of one to the same purport which was set afloat, last week, by a credulous London Paper, and which we declined taking any notice of at the time, on account of its apparent want of authenticity. We have received to-day, by another Lisbon Mail, a further supply of Papers to the 15th instant. The following are extracts: • LISBON, SEPTEMBER 14. The Cortes have been discussing, among other matter, the regulation for the Council of State, which consists of tea Articles, of which the following is the substance : 1. The Council of State is composed of eight Members, chosen by the King from the triple list which the Cortes shall present to him. The Secretaries of State attend the Sittings, and each has a vote in the affairs of his own department. On being debated, it was resolved that the Minis ters should not have a vote or be present, and that the Secretary should be one of the Counsellors, chosen by themselves. 2. The Council shall meet in the Royal Palace twice a week, or oftener, when the King desires it.—Approved. :S. The King presides, or, when absent, one of the eight Mem bers. There can be no Sitting without the King (ur the Counsellor presiding in his absence), five Counsellors, and the Secretary. 4. No Counsellor to speak without the previoui permission of the Council. .5. The Counsellors, before they enter on the exercise of their duty, shall take an oath to the King to maintain the Catholic Religion, to obey the Constitution and the Laws, and to give to the King, with impartiality and freedom, the counsels which he shall in his conscience judge the most conducive to promote obedience to the laws and the general good of the kingdom. • Articles 6 and 7 relate to the mode of discussion. 8. The King is at liberty to follow the opinion of the Council, not the votes of the Members, being merely consultative. The resolution which he shall take shall be written in the margin of the Act by the Secretary, Ind read in the following Sitting. Some alterations were proposed in these Articles, and referred to the Committee. 9. The Counsellots shall advise the King in all the affairs de. clarcd in the Constitution, and also in those in which the King shall wish to hear his Council. This Article was suppressed. 10. kis for the Council to propose• to the King triple lists of persons to be appointed to offices in the Maghitrisy,.to Bi shoprics, and all other ecclesiastical benefices, with Lifsiithout Cures, which are in the patronage, one of which persons the King !nay choose. The Council shall take greal'carc that the lists contain only persons who, besides their well-known are distinguished for their love and firm adherence to the consti • tutional course. ..... This Article and the following, relative to the ap pointment of other civil officers and to the Army, gave rise to many long discOurses, and several amend ments and additions were proposed. The Deputies from Rio de Janeiro have taken their seats in the Cortes. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ST. JAGO DE CUBA, DATED JULY 28TH. 4 , Our late Governor, Escudero, took French leave on the night of the 22d inst. and embarked on board a French ship, bound to Rourdeaux. All is quiet in the city ; indeed, the Governor's absence appears to have restored tranquillity, but how long it will last I cannot say." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM JAMAICA, DATED AUGUST 15TII. " His Catholic Majesty's ketch Hyaena, of twelve guns, for Puerto Cabello, last from Curacoa in five days, with several transports under her protection, having on board Spanish troops, anchored at Port Royal yesterday. It is said the above vessels have on board SOO men. They came from Spain, and touched at Cur:spa, where they left the Asia, of 64 guns.— The transports are to wait for a reinforcement from the Havannah,when they will proceed toCarthagena." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BOSTON, AUGUST 30TH. " The new Viceroy of Venezuela, having lately arrived at Porto Cabello from * Spain, with a fleet of nine sail, has deemed it prudent to retire for the present to Jamaica, with a considerable part of the Royal garrison : the Patriots were making rapid pro gress towards the possession of the whole country." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM FREETOWN (AFRICA), DATED JUNE 20TH. 4 , By letters received from Gambia we learn, with, much satisfaction, that Omar, the Prime Minister of, the Trarzhav Moors, had arrived at Bathurst, for the purpose of making arrangements with the mer chants for the supply of gum arabic and other ar ticles: he manifested the greatest anxiety to establish this trade with the English on the firmest basis. Lord MELVILLE left town yesterday for Scotland, to join Lady MELVILLE and family for the remainder of the season. A -Paper of a very offensive character has for some' time been publishing at Edinburgh, under the title of The Beacon. The personal attacks in which it has indulged have provoked inquiries as to its supporters, and the result is of rather an extraordinary nature. The supporters, or rather founders of the Paper, turn out to be Sir WILLIAM RAE, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, and a knot of Gentlemen in office, or pant ing after it, who gaie a bOnd of _credit to a Bank for the funds.-to carry on the publication. The detection has produced a panic ; it had led to one message and was likely to lead to more. The Cakdonian Mercury of Monday, received this morn ing, states, that on Wednesday, the 19;11 instant, a 46 Meeting was held of the Subscriberl to the B ond ' of Credit, when a Resolution was adopted to with draw the whole names from that Bond, which Reso. lotion was on Thursday, the 20th, intimated to the conductors of The Beacon, as also to the Bank, and that those Subscribers were thus, after that date, no longer connected directly or indirectly with that Paper." FEVER IN SPAIN. By some former accounts received in town, ... a,e - e-: I demic disorder in the east of Spain wa s t n , , ern _l': those to be favourable declining but pr o prospects t t s h l e t a lv'elpbe'eaetcria te n ( ! i t s i e t r d i e i . c i e n i \ r t l ' : .1 fever has broken out again at Barc elon o a n u• t i l t i h e i f: 1 and very alarming symptoms. All conne t ; -or) ' . ., 1 Barcelonetta bad been studiously cut off an d i. ;: t . z '' . i i hoped by that precaution that th e tow . . 1 a Migh t I saved ; but it had made its a walls, with symptoms equally fatal ; an d inst. which is the date of yesterday s l etter, ito t Barcelona, the panic-struck inhabitants vete p v i r , from it in all directions. E ven the NI • • p a ~* 1 . uniet, .1, ; thorities and military force, whose presence rir,.. 6 so essential in such emer genc i es to preserveur;,l,-., partook of the panic, and were l eav i ng the c:;•..,,.., fever is described to be of the most mali-n a . 1 '• •• 1,, and very few of those who had been attacked \ 0,,. port i o s : c b t a i fi v. ce l , .. : - escaped. At Tortosa, on the Ebro, the I,:ve r 1 ., also made its appearance. ACCOUNTS RECEIVED TIliS DAY. NIALAG A, SEPTEMBER $. loninsboocacrtdirroefd dipniiratiel:iresmt ,a wls. ''i t a t vg n e t n a de s i: c d harged with the ca:e of the pul4 saiNThlooresthl Juntas th ir o h m a v t e h this fine ared city neit her tlte (.1116 C011t.Ig1:111 ta i,. , averth tl e ir a e l atened it, and which, either fl inn catelessne si : • misfortune, had shown itself en board the ves,eis:. the port. We have all Feen, that the judicious n t. . -- sures taken hitherto had succee,ied in sloppi l y, : lb progress of the contagion, and we were alreadyie tering ourselves with the hope of seeing it f ar „ .; nro.ve'd from us, when the death of the two saiior.: : . Corms us that this dreadful scourge is still suspe :; ,: e over our heads. (The writer p:oceeds to s3s, e a there is reason to fear that the Captains of ves:ea k!s ceive the Officers of Health sent to make inqui t ic,..,, concealing the state of their crews, and answea that " all is well," except in case or death, whicht..; cannot conceal. Yet, by rigorously cutting ci., communication, and sending the suspicions vessei i!) . the Lazaretto at Mahon, it is hoped that, witi r continuance of the same circumspection that lust - ' the contagion may b eam ftrhoemrwtiblcnity. employed, BARCELONA, SEPTEMBER s. On the 3d of this month the Supreme Board:: Health of Catalonia published a notice, stating,6 4 the number of sick in the Barcelonctta basing Ini •increased; it had been judged necessary to cut di communication with the Barcelonetta and the ca, and the other 'towns of the Province. A noticela also been published by the Constitutional Mu..i. pality, declaring the measures and regulationsitba it is judged necessary to adopt in consequence; J. I ing I confident hope that they will be attcndc4!na the desired success. STATE OF TIIE LAZARETTO. (Lazaretto Sudo.) AXMA INING. NEW cmiss. PIMA August 30, 12 - 0 - I 31, 11 - 0 - I. Sept. 1, 11 - 0 1 2, 16 - 0. - 1 3, 9 - 2 . 1 4, 10 .• 0 - 0 August 30.—1 n the Barcelonerta there are some patients surveillance. At San Geronimo, the City, and its Hospitals thing new. August 51.—1 n the House of the Vice-Queen of Pere, the two sick there has died, and six others have enterd other parts nothing new. Sept. I.—ln the Barcelonetta, dm no new cases or death. Sept. 2.—ln the House of the Vice-Queen of Pcrn, one ease, one death, seven remaining. In San Geronimo, Su. thing new. Sept. 3.—House of the Vice-Queen of Peru, two curcd,tN deaths, no new cases, four remaining. At the Barcelonetta,s ‘ previously remaining, four new cases, four deaths, six remairr.4 —At San Geronimo, Jesus, the City, and its Hospit.ds, if .. . - .• ' • thing new. i There has been a great alarm at Tortosa for f of the contagion; the Authorities, it is said, %meg. ing to leave the town, and the inhabitants beginsi_ to do so: complete disorder prevailed, which r calmed by an official notice, stating, that the I' : declared there were no symptoms of contagion is . town and district, and that certificates of hei:' would be given to whoever desired them. CADIZ, SEPTEMBER 4. The Board cf Health has published a notice, dad 30th August, stating, that from the official repd it results that there is not the smallest symptom's contagion in the city, in Xeres la Frontera, or fe St. Maria, and the persons who are ill have cal common disorders. LLOYD'S, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE AGENT AT GIBU TAR, DATED SEPTEMBER 6: " The Superb, Murdock, and the Auspicious, Dar vet, have arrived here from Malaga; ordereJ :oral from thence in consequence of a man having died on board of each, on the 2d instant, with symptoms the yellow fever. The Superb came in yester day, an d had one man sick on board, who died last night. 111 Auspicious was visited this morning, and was fo und to have one man sick. The former sailed this :Y r ' ing at ten o'clock, and the latter is now (thiee going out, both, I believe, proceeding to Englaa 2. of There have been illuminations and other rejoickfl in different parts of Portugal, in consequence of ca abolition of the office of Capitan-Mor, which was' occupied by Lord I3ERESFORD. By a Deiree of the Cortes, a new national cock' has been adopted for Portugal. The colours areld:;: and blue. Two Officers of the Bourbon Cavalry Regimen t.. .. Naples, Monst.l.l and SMITANI, charged as the pm' cipal authors of the late revolution, have been V?' hended at Ascoli, a small village in the WO territory, and committed to prison. A r eward d . 1000 ducats had been offered for the apprebensice either of them. DUEL.—Early on Sunday morning, a meetingo place in a field beyond Pertobello, Dublin, bet l3 ! : , J. M—N and J. Esqrs. both studepft College. After an exch.:lige of shots, in whicl fornier's ball passed through the latter hat, the conds interferred, and the bu.iuess was am icabl i to, ox. ' RV In aft we