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LANDING OF 'TURBID!: IN MEXICO. Icy his Majesty's ship Parthian, from Vera Cruz and liavannah, we have received the intelligence of the land ing of !turbine on the 15th of July at Soto la Marina, in the Gulf of Mexico. Captain Qitelsh, of the brig Spring, in which the Mexican adventurer left England, has sent from Ilavannah to the owner Of the vessel in London • communication re-petting !turbine to the following .fl'e'et : The Spring arrived off Jamie., but did not communi cate with the island, oil the 14th June ; touched at St. !lament's, in the Gulf of Mexico, on the 94th June, het could not find any information there ; July I, made mil fur Soto la M eeina, *nil anchored ow that plan on the 19th July, where one of General !turbine's mite landed. M the evening of the 15th, the I leneral himself landed, and proceeded on horseback, with his Aid-de-Camp, to Soto la Marina, where General Garcia, who wasiniand it that district, received him, turned out the troops, and proclaimed !turbine Captain-General. On the 11th, Ma dame !turbine, the family, and baggage, vere landed, anil it appeared tl a the whole were very well reeeiveil. The accounts which Captain Quelsli received were as late sr the 2•20, July, and were inmt favourable ; but on that morning, it war reported that iturhide had been shot nn tho 19th. This report was circulated by American Captains, but was not at all milked by Captain Queheh, lOW sailed on the 2:91 from Soto la Marina, and who con veyed a letter from one of thew? Captains to his friend in th^ Ilavannalt, which letter Captain Qaeish then read, anti in which no mention whatever was made of the cir- Ctimataucr. The following are extracts from three private letters from English merchants at flavannah Avo. Ai you may fiel some interest In the tate of. and moveinente in, Mesieo, I tak- h ay. to inform you that the Ihin.h brig Spring, Captain Qiirlsh, who carried the Emperor of Mexico out, arrived here kat evet.i,g, aft 1- having landed him at Soto la Marina on the lath tilt , with his atilt.. ilor,C* had been prepared for them. nett they procerthil into the interior for Mexico, without any military ear" from that port. This is the spot w here Mina lauded ; and they ray that the upper road from thence to Mesir.i is • good one. From my last aermints I have no doubt but he will be favourably received, as all the chiefs he left behind wish to benders. We um sieMate• favourable change, an soon as he reaches 111esien, in fa vour of the commerce of this inland, which, no doubt, will be im mediately renewed twain. I'.S. I open this to say. that the Captrin of the Spring replete, thst at 11w niont,it of hi. nailing, a rumour had rtnelivilSMO la Marina, of the Lit peror havirg been *hot the third day after he limits'. and when on his way to Mexico. This, if true, will be e•nfirmei by the nest vessel that arrives. (Extract of another I'rivate better.) lI.AVAVNAn. Aro. 13. We hare Information of the landing it; Irina on the 111th tilt., and a report that lie wan slim a few days after wards. This report, though it wants cotilinnution, is given under eireumatantes of considerable probability. (Extract of another Private Letter.) HAV AN N All, A ra. 12. I embrace an opporninity offered by a brig of war to inform you. that the Emperor has actually ar.irmil in dm empire of 31estico, and landed it Soto la Marina, (where :11itia landed,) on the lath ult. from the brig Spriog.l:aptain (Jutish, who returned to this port on the lath inst., in search of a freight. The Emperor found no op position, and, having horses furnishes' to him, intim shatsly pro. etwded Into the interior with his suite, without a military escort. Ili. safe arrival in 3lesien will be al'..important to the commerce of this island, provided he adopts his old regulations, and allows the same privileg,ea we Inul when he abdicated. 41f EX WAN DEURE E. The following is a copy of a I .ttcr from the Agents to Lloyd's, at 51..itieo, dated June 16 This Onvernment has issued, under date of Oat June, and published yesterday, the following Decree : " • let. The Executive I'nw,n will give letters of marque to Mexican %obit-et% sod to strangers. " • 2,1. The execution of this Decree will for the present hr governed by the regulations contained in the Spanish law, Nu. IV. e tap. It. book 6, of she newest compilation of Vestals-, with the frit, 60. and Bth, as for as they are compatible with our present lows, and grate► precautions may be taken wish regard to w.ran}•rot. " 3d. A net► regulation of the letters of marque will be mm. piled u early as pusaible, and laid before Congress fur its appm bat ion.• " ...... We fear this Decree r ill ()prate hurtfully on commerce, encouraging smuggling, withr pretence of bringing in prise goo Is, atoll will very likely tend to a ri.ticwal to a gecatte extent of piracies in the (kilt RESIO.‘'ATIO.V OF GENERAL LA 5R11.V.4. TO Rl3 EXCELLENCY THE CIENF.RAL-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMY OF TILE NORTH, DON JOSE CANT FAIN *. Lice t.t.r SIR— n g et:fleeted maturely since my circular of the 6th of the month current, on the Itnyal ly^ercc of his AllaiestJ. datni tioni the port of St. Mary, on the Ist of October, 11123 I undcn•nnil that es the King has 'teetered by article let of the above•mrntioned Decree null and void all the ordinances, M. IN Wien% &e., (tom the 7th of March, 18211, to the lit oft ktober, JIM, I am justified in nut cont 4 nuing the charge of this high which I acrepted against my will• and solely because the genres' gaud moulted it t no other satisfaction having resulted to Joe during the three years that I have 101 l it, but that of having contribuiol, with my companions in inns, to the preservation of this Integra/ pan of the monarchy. In support of this opinion. which for me is an axiom, I feel compelled to make the following oliaervat Moe Ist. That I resige dila command without waiting fur an order inns his Alajesty, to pass over to the Peninsula, because it may he the most peaceable means by which tleneral (Sancta and his fol. lowers can be recalled to order. %Mt equally to 'hew any iniquitous mai who mar entertain doubts as to the rectitude of my intentions, not only my obedience to the Sovereign will, but that not the smallest idea of ambition Cs command has passed my mind in 1 c rmnotest 111:411,1 , T. of which there MT many proof,' in my repeated at d earnest entreaties to hls Majesty, that he would relieve me ficm this pni.fill service, and of this his royal 'lliad must be fully ie ';meal, 74. That ewer ordinances issued by hi. Majesty from the 7th Ili March to the Ist October 1823 being null, it Is evident Wit my command should cease, and the (Willi for regolating the tureession of commanders cannot include me in this Viceroyship. Though, intluhitably. I am now the oldest general In these arum Trt it is mai•li'rst, dm. according to the spirit of the above. mentlisted Royal 11ecree, of the Ist October 1113. I ought not to mein in P.m, because the o t.inances for my remaining, an well as the approval Moly nomination of Captain tieneral 3r .d Viceroy. were is.uod at the period of the Constitutional torm, which the King A's thought proper to annul. If ibis salinity or no doubt, tediel t I !relieve it does not, neither slitoild I hesitate to adhere ti the Royal ( /Minnows of 18111, when his 31,ijoire thought proper to accede to my resignation of rienit2l in l'hief of the army Or UPpet Peru. and to translate me to the Peninsula, whieli Is new the only ruling onlinsuee, it being ism 0,1 at the time thAr the King was in all the plenitude of his authority ; and, according bo this. I tannin consider myself as having any relation to these countries, or as honing any right to enter into the enjoyment of , the olle-• tor conoualid that precede the Royal ()filmgoers of the tl.l of 11r!.!wr 18116. " 3 d. That independent of the reasons I have here exposed, my "tin dchmey requires that I should not continue in the command. trunvinced or thin, it follows that your Excellency. being the senior General in wive service, should assume the command; taking into eonsidtvation, on that brad, only, the 110)al Orders not appertain in tr. de r . nod of the Constitutional system. It thus results. Oat that aco Brigadier of old, r standing than yourself in Peru c because, tliciugh General D. Pio Winton is of the year 11110, still I insider hint an having retired front service. I desire to give a new pr'otrt I.ia 31sicuty, and to the universe. that I moreover now sallies all to obedience to liia sovereign will, as well us to the good of these corctries they always having been object,' of m cares a ' • ' l7ll2, tic ,. . I think it rev...airy to Gnusta% OM to the preamb y le n ''''' ,l ee'r• The reasons I have stated, and my declining health, "'t etnring me to labour as 1 wish, and an hen-tame. jmnify and pre weight to the 'notice% which actuate me to Yet* this high th , " , ro , c 1 Finite no doubt that your Excellenry, your P. , 41 (Kens of this army, will agree to your Excellency's taro ;• the rommawl, as your knowledge, political as well as in , lependent of )our other qualities, its so well known, that will he r nothin g hy it; on the contra:y, I am prrsuaded that ••il gun much by the change, under every consideration. • Wnh this statement, I transcribe this to the General in Chief 4 0e Army of the -iotith, and to the principal authorities of the l'ovinces to whom I have thought it nece s sary to communicate th r * step. I expect that your Excellency will Pend me a reply *them delay, and by an express, being convinced that my own 41 , rat/ require.' me to resign this command immediately, and that 14 ' 4 ' 11 . 1 PM over to the Peninsula, t• present myself to his Ma 01' I onumonicate this to your Excellency, that you may bear 111 mind in the answer that you will give me. and particularly ~...innaly to my above-mentioned circular of the folt. hat I copy fur y ou . ei r (General Valdez), is for the same reermintendirg you again to send me an answer by an ex ,. wording to try circular of the rith. 1 : 1 " I espy for you, Sir, (General Olatieta) Is with the same desiring you not to fail to answer legally and confortnuhly ate laws on the tints question stated in the same circular as ' c l is my decree of yesterday. Ono°, March 21, 1824. (.t cony) VALDEA. OLANET.t. ' ll4o ul a week stnt ' ..A1111.4c s man I l'atrlck Doyle, wh" atm porter to Mr. Crowe, grocer, of High-street, show.tl symptoms of insanity, and got so outra n on Thurstity nioltt, that it was found nectssary to conveyed to %Vcrburrh's watch-house. whore lie at limn o'clock on Satunbiv morning An inquest bold on the body—Vcrtlict—'• by the visit:lU( nof THE :rrsT INDIES. By different eonveyahces we have received a mass of Colonial _ 'file two Houses of Legislature of Antigua met on the iStli of July, when numerous resolutions were adopted by the Assembly—" on the &premed state of agriculture —the apprehension of the injury from the measure in agi tation of admitting into the British market the sugars of the Mauritius on the same footing with these of his Ma jesty's Colonies in the Weat Indies, should it be carried into effect ; and that, 'under the pressure of such accumu lated difficulties, the House feel. itstif called upon to an nounce its detenninstion, se one step towards the alleviation l of the public burden, nut to grant a larger salary than, 3,0001, currency to ■ny future Captain-General. It was also resolved, that the Speaker do, by thy first tunity, transmit a copy of the sail r lotion t•r the Colonial Agent, for the information of his Majesty's Go vernment." it in etdi, WI: news, to cot Urn aiS Diabl i rtiu haajedwasvellai DT ♦ SOLDIER. This volume, which is said to be the production of a private soldier, is written with considerable truth anti feel ing. The following sketch will justify our good opinion:— •' We heel le en about three months in Jersey, when the order came for our embarkation for Portueal ; but only six women to every hundred men were allowed to accomrany us. As there were, however, a great many more than that number, it was ordered that they should draw iota, to see who should remain. The women of the company to which I belonged were assembled in the pay-sergeant's room for that purpose. The men of the company had gathered round them, to see the result, with various degrees of in terest depicted in their countenances. The prop rtionate cumber of tickets were made with ' to go' or ' not to go,' a Mien on them. They were placed Li a hat, and the women were called by their seniority to draw their tickets. I looked round me before they began. It was an interest. Mg scene. The sergeant stood in the middle with the bat in his hand, the women around him, with their hearts palpitating. and anxiety and suspense in every countenance. Here and there you would see the head of a married man melted forward, from amongst the crowd, in the attitude ;of' intense anxiety and attention. " The first woman called was the sergeant's wife—she drew 'not to go.' I t scented to give little concern to any one but herself and her husband. She was not vet y well liked in the company. The next was a corporal's wife— she drew 'to go. This was received by all with nearly as much apathy as the first. She was little beloved either. " The next was an old hand, a moat outrageous virago, who thought nothing of giving her husband a knock-down when he olii•nderl her, and who used to make great dieturb anee about the fire in the cookipg way. Every one uttered their wishes audibly that she would lose ; and her hus band, if we could judge from his countenance, scented to wish so too. She boldly plunged her hand into the hat, and drew out a tick. t. On opening it she fell it up tri umphantly, and displayed—' To go. A general murmur of dieappointment ran throegh the whole. " The next in turn was the wife of a yeeing man, who was much respect d in the company for his steadiness and good behaviour. She was remarkable. for her erection for her husband, slid beloved by the whole company for her modest and obliging dii position. She advanced, with a palpitating limn and tretnblieg band, to decide on (what was to her, 1 believe,) her future happiness or misery. Every one prayed for her success. Trembling between fear and hope, she drew out one of she tickets, snit at tempted to open it ; lint her hand shook an that Site could not do it. She han ded it to one of the men to open. When be opened it, his countenance fell, and he hesitated to say what it was. She cried out to him, in a tone of agony, ' Tell me, for God's sale, what it is.' Not to go,' said he, in a compassionate tone of voice. ' Oh, God, help nee ! oh, Sanely !' she exclaimed, and sunk into the arms of her husband, who had sprung forward to her as sistance, and in whose face was now depicted every variety of wretch einem The drawing was interrupted, and she was carried by her husband to his birth, where he hung over her in frantic agony. Ily the assistance of those around her she was soon recovered from her swoon; but she awoke only to a sense of her misery. The first thing she did was to look round for her hashand. When she perceived him she seized his band, and held it, as if she was afraid that he was going to leare'her. ' Oh, Sandy, you'll no leave me and your eoor babie, will you ?"The poor fellow looked in her face with a look of agony and despair. " The scene drew tears from every eve in the room, with the exception of the termagant whom I have already mentioned, who said, ' iVhet are ye a' makin' sic a wark about? Let the babie get her greet out. I suppose she thinks there's nachody ever parted with the it men hut he r. We her faintin', and her airs, and her wark.' ' Oh, you're an end hard-hearted devil,' said Dennis, anti he took her by the shoulders and pushed her out of the room. She would hare turned on Dennis; but she had got a squeeze from him on a former occasion, and 1 daresay she did not like to run the risk of another. '• The drawing was again commenced, and various were the expressions of feelings evinced by those concerned. The Irishwomen, in particular, were loud in their grief. It always appeared to me that the Irish either feel more aeutsly than the Scotch er English, or that they have less restraint on themselves in expressing it. The barrack, through the rest of that day, was one continued scene of lamentation. " I was particularly interested in the fate of Sandy and his wife. I wished to administer consolation; but what could I say? There was no comfort that I could give, unless leading her to hope that we would soon return. " Oh, no,' said she, ' when we part here, I am sure that we'll never meet again in this world !' " We were to march the next morning early. The most of the single men were away drinking. I slept in the birth above Sandy end his wife. They never went to bed, but sate the whole night in their birth, with their only child between them, alternately embracing tin it child and each other, and lamenting their cruel fortune. I never witnessed in my life such a heart-rending scene. The poor fellow tried to assume some firmer:es, but in vain ; some feeline expression from her would throw him off his guard, and at last his grief became uncontrollable. " When the first bugle sounded, he got up, and pre pared his things. Here a new source of grief sprung up. In laying aside the articles which he intended to leave, and which they had used together, the ides seemed fixed in her mind, that they would never use them in that way again; and as she put them aside, she watered them with her tears. Her tea-rot, her cups, and everything that they had used in rommon,all bad the :r apostrophe of sorrow. lie tried to persuade her to remain in the barrack, as we had sic miles to travel to the place of embarkation ; but she said she would take the last minute in hie; company that she could. " The regiment fell in, and marched oil', amid the wail ing of those who, haying two or three children. could not accompany us to the place of embarkation. Many of the men had got so much intoxicated that :hey were seereely, able to walk. Tue commanding officer was an displeased at their conduct, that, in coming through St. Helier's, be' would not allow the hand to play. " When we arrived at the place where we were to embark, a most distressing scene took place, in the men partite& with their wives. Some of than indeed it did not appear to affect much ; others had got themeelves nearly tipsy; but the most of them scented to feel acutely. IWheei Sandy's wife cattle to take her last farewell she lout all go-, remittent of her grief. She clung to hint with a despairing hold. 'Oh, dinna, dinna leave me!' she cried. The yes , set was hauling out. One of die sergeants clime to tell her • that she would have to go ashore, 'Oh, they'll never he so • bard-hearted as to part us,' said she • and, running aft to the quarter-deck, where the commanding officer was stand ing, she suuk down on her knees, with her child in her arms. `Oh, will you no let me gang wi' my husband ? Will ye tear him frac his wife and his wean ? Ile has nee frien's but us—nor we ony but him—and, oh, with you mak' us a' frienless? fiee my wee babie pleadin' f or us .' " The o ff icer felt a painful struggle between his duty and his feelings ; the tears came into his eyes. She eagerly ese•e-see•teeseeeseeeese._ caught at this as favourable to her cue. ' Oh, aye. I see Ca EH Fon-mum—An Emperor of China proposed; you hare a feeling heart—you'll let me gang wi' him . 1 making a progresa through pert of his dominions. One of ; You have nee wife ; hut, if you had, I am sure you his counsellors opposed it, as at that time improper. The! wad think it once herd to be torn free her this way —sod Emperor, in beat, drew his sabre, and cried, " Pass the j this wee darlin'.' 'My good woman,' said the officer, • I order fur my journey this hist:tie, or 1 will strike off' your, feel for you much ; but my orders are peremptory, that ao head." The officer, without the least emotion, took off more than six women to each hundred men go with their, his Mandarin's cap and robe, and, kneeling down with 1 huebends. You have had your chance a s we ll as t h e ot h er ' his neck extended, said, " Your M testy may strike, for women ; and, alth o u g h it is hard e n oug h ox you to be I cannot comply with what I know to be contrary to the 1 separated from your husband, yet there aro many more good of the empire.'"fhe Emperor checked him se lf, an d i n t h e same predicament; and it is totally out of my gave up his jeurney. I power to help it. ' Well, well,' said the, thing from A weak sulphureons m mineral spring has recently been t ier nod knees, d straining discovered, on the Reich, at Ilawsker Ike, ins, near I 'it's a' owre wi' us, my pith. babie ; this day leaves Whitby, which appears, from some experiments which Us friendless on the wide world.: ' God will bo your bare been made for the purpose of *seen • ' g its compo-: friend,' said 1, as I took the child from her until she would skean, to he very nearly similar to the spring issuing from , get into the boat. Sandy bad stood, like a person bewil die Alum Rock near Ouisbrough, and may no d -Ott be tiered all this time, without saying a went . • Farew ell found very useful, though not perhaps endued with those tken, a last ;'arewell then,' said she to him; ' Where's my sineularly brilliant properties ascribed to some of the foue- habit. ?' she cried. 1 handed him to her. 'Oite him a last tains of the celebrated wakeing-places, which are Mute s- kiss, Sanely.' Ile pressed the infant to his bosom in siknt , sible to tae more indigent ranks of asciety. On this account agony. ' Now, a's owre; farewell, Sandy; we'll ma be alone, it ilea: rtes tole. hailed as a happ y acquisition in the m ee t in Heaven ;' and she stepped into the boat with a neighbourhood. and to have its qua lities further investi- wild despairing l oo k. Th e v esse l was now turning the Fated by the science of the chemist, and extended by the pier, and she was almost out of our sight in an instant ; exper'ence of the rhys:clau.-I,c l i Paper. but, ari we got the last glimpse of h.r, she uttered a shriek, The liarbadues Globe, of the 26th of July, contains an ac"ount of the procenlings in the House of Assembly, relative to admitting a second Moravian establishment in that colony, on the petition of the !U.:v. Mr. It •rg. The Assembly was favourable to the petition, and a Bill was it.troductsl to nrry the object prayer( for. It aprars by the last accounts front St. Vincent's, which are to the Voth July, that numerous complaints had been made of the unfr'endly conduct of Admiral Jacob, Gover nor of I inadaloupe, in causing British vessels to be detained, tne-elv for pas,:ing within a certain limited distance of that Captain Duaiseinnb, who commanded a small yes eel from Bermuda, bound to Antigua, was taken by a French cutter, on the pretence Ot: lie was too near the land, though six miles off shore, and claimed as a lawful prize: other vessels were in the sa u te SiillAtiOn. There is no doubt, however, but that when the circumstances arc made known to our Admiral on that station, (inventor Jacob will be taught to respect the maritime rights of nations. the knell of a broken heart, which rings in my ears at this moment. S udy rushed down below, and threw himself into one o, die births, in a state of feclim , n a hich defies de scription. Poor f e llow, hi s w if e ' s for e b odings were t tray ! Ile was amongst the first that was killed in Portu gal ! What became of her I have never bean able to learn." SIXGAPONF. Three are few of our eastern possessions that have at tracted a larger share of the public interest than that re cently founded by Sir Stamford Raffles, at Singapore; and if no other argument could be adduced in favour of the colonisation of India, and the benefits of free trail., ov-r monopoly, the history of this infant, yet flourishing, settle ment would be sufficient. The history of its foundation must be known to most of our readers ; and it will be gratifying to them to learn that the early promises held out by its intelligent founder, of a rapid rise to opulence and consideration, have been folly borne ma by succeeding events. We subjoin as the latest tu counts from that island which have reached England, au ac.-ount of its state 'anti condition at the close of the year te23:— The nienharts of Singapore begin at length to surmount all dillirulite.; and, an it were. the foundation atone of the .• 'Min" is already laid. Ifodowns (warehouses) and dwelling_ houses are ri.ing fast on all sides, and marking, by their daily pro gress, the general spirit of this settlement ; the south-eastern aide of the river, .shieh Wag, previous to the arrival of Sir S. Karnes, a mere marsh or the worst description. and when taken possession of be the English, covered with j u n g l e . an d over ti owe d in some places four feet by the high tides daily, has been converted into the most valuable spot npon the whole island. It wilt form the centre of the commercial establishments- Roads have been made in va rious directions over the sante marsh of the most desirable con struction, and every encouragement girzn to individual industry. A bridge is erecting across the river, which wan a most desired improvement. It is of a gnat length, with a double-draw in the centre, to allow the largest resod.' to pass sip the river at any time—there being almost all the way frosu tine to fifteen feet at low water. The (*kinetic here manifested a spirit of colonization fit ex ceeding what could have been petted front existing circumstan ces; new streets, Ate. have been lined out for them, intersecting each other at right angles, and the order and regularity which have been preserved in each distinct Camping defies description. By a seasonable regulation, every I se has • verandah of six feet, tieing every street, which in the worst weather allows business of ell kinds to be carried on, front one end of the town to the other, without the chance of damage. The difficulties which sir S. Raffles hail to surmount in the first place were of no ordinary nature, but to • ready and comprehen sive mind like hie„ obstacles only drew forth his extensive know ledge, and his capability of turning everything to the best account. 'louses were removed and rebuilt on other sites, and the places formerly poesessed by a herd of petty &alerts, Chinese and others, occupied by noble goduwna in the shott space of • few montha, end to the satisfaction of all parties. The • tish market,' which !in a place where the population chiefly exist upon fish, and when may say hundreds of pounds are brought its daily, became a great nuniasses limn this pans which were thrown away becoming iitialed, has been removed over the sea, upon a trance-work, well tilativicel for this purpotie. A road Ines been executed arrow the island to the Rangone river. which is from 2110 to ratio feet broad. Ity this a passage is opened overland with all the native states on the east coast of the Malayan Pennisida, and even to Siam itself. Since the mission of Mr. Crawford we hare had en increase of our Siam and Cochin Chinese imponx, and every prospect of a still further intercourse. as we were visited loiely by two war junks belonging to the King of Cochin China. who proceeded onwards to Prance of %)'ales Island in furtherance of their mission. They were received kindly by Sir S. Rallies. The Siamese also some time ir,u obtained a grant (ground at Singapore, and it is supposed we shall soon have a large company of that nation residing here. It is worthy of remark that when Sir Stamford Raffles (who has recently arrived in England) quitted Singapore, he received the most flattering testimonies from merchants and others quite independent of his patronage and power, awl therefore probably declaring their real sentiments, as to the Isla fits conferml by his liberal policy on the set thement of Singapore. In their address they say— To your unwearied real, your vigilance, and your comprelien. sive views. we owe at once the foundation and maintenance of a settlteitent tufparalleled the hberaltty r!fthe prineipks on which it has been istablished—prinelples, the operation of which has con verted, in a period short beyond all example, a haunt of pirates into the abode of enterprite, security, and opulence. These principles. which have Ohs led such wonders at Singapore, arc simply the principles of fair competition and free trade; and they would do the same for every part of our Eastern possessions if they were acted on throughout their whole extent. This certainly ought to induce the Legislature to extend sill more and more the freedom of intercourse with India, front which ltritish subjects alone are now most unjustly excluded, while subjects of every other nation can trade there freely, instead of counte nancing, as they appear to do, the narrow and selfish po licy of the East Italia Company, in making that inter course even more difficult than formerly. We transcribe with pleasure, the Reply of Sir Stamford Rallies to this Address, from the merchants of Singapore ; and we beg the reader to observe that it is a servant of the East India Company that speaks, one who has been bred tip from his youth in the very school where pr.judices against free trade, and in favour of monopoly, are taught and encou raged. Ilia enlightened judgment soon perceived, how ever, that colonization, BO much dreaded by his ignorant masters, would be the main spring of all improvement in the East ; and in his :Inswer to the merchants of Singa pore he distinctly says :- 31onopoly and exclusive privileges, against which Public °Onion has so long raises! its voice, are here unknown. Sings. pore is a free port, and as long as it so remains It cannot fail to rosper. Let us hope that Sir Stamford Raffles will devote his time and talents in England to impress the importance of free trade and colonization to India generally on the minds of the prestnt Ministers, that our British and Indian fel low subjects may alike reap the benefits of a more littoral police in the interecure between their respective countries. oat! Trued/cr. LITER.ITURE. RECOLLECTIONS OF AN EVENTFUL LIFE. BURA7NG OF lIINDOO WIDOWS. A return has been made to the Houce of Commons, of the nullifier of Staters, or immolations of Ilindoo widows on the funeral piles of their husbands, which has caused a good deal of discussion in the daily prints. From these returns it appears, that the annual number of victims to this horrible superstition has hardly either increased or de ems:A throughout the Bengal Presidency, as far as the re port goes, at least ; though there are different numbers reported every year, yet these are not regularly greater or less than the se of the year preceding. The question upon this subject scans to be within very small h Is indeed, and to resolve itself into two beads ; tinit,—llave we, the governors of the country, aright to In terti!re with what the people of the country consider as a religious rite, and of which the victim is so voluntarily f and, seemully,—llave w•e the power to pr.:vent such a sa crifice ? On the first of these questions there may exist some doubt. Ram Mobun Boy, the best-inforined and most liberal-minded Bramin that ha• ever lived, declare s, that there is nothing in the Willis, or Ifindoo Scriptures, which even sanctions hitch a barbarous usage ; but as his duo rine4 are not considered more cirtlnalox by his e:ountrytnen than Mr. flume's or Mr. Oii.bon's are by oars,—and as every one interprets the Scriptures after his own fashion, without much regard to tI:Q reasonable meaning of the text, his opi nion must be put out of the question altogether. But one thing is certain, that even if we atimit the justice of allow ing this sacrifice t 3 people come to the years of discretion, we ought not to permit those whose minds are not suffi , ciently expanded to be freed from tin shackles of parental control, and who can have none of that connubial affection for a husband to whom they arc only betrothed by the fiat of their parents, to throw away a life of which they know i not the value. We should not, in that case, hear of children of twelve, and even seven years of age, burn ing themselves with old men who might be their grand fathers. If, on the other hand, it i 3 admitted that we have a right to interfere to prevent what we consider a movt atrocious murder, the means are at hand and very eadly used, and the outcry about the danger of interfering with the reli gious prajtulices of the natives is nonsenvieal. A police officer, with a serjeant's guard of Sepoys, has been found amply sufficient to prevent the annual sacrifice of children at Sangur Island, and no tnunnur has' been heard on the subject ; and the Thannadar or Derma of the district, with a doz n of his men armed with hill lattice (Hi bernere, shillelahs), nould he amply sufficient to pan a at hole procession to the rotate, Bramins, relations, Wal lahs, and all, and no complaint would ever be beard on the subject. As the matter stands at present, it does not appear that the Thannadar has any interest in interfering at all ;—if he is a Ifindoo, he will be loath to interfere with the rites of his own religion ; if, as is most frequently the cue, a Mussulman, he will look upon the sacrifice of a heathen in her idolatory as a matter so perfectly in the proper order of things, that he would no t l ay d own hi s hookah to prevent a whole generation of unbelievers front petishing body and soul : but give him, in either case, a reward equal to what he would receive for killing a tiger, or intercepting a smuggler with a load of contraband salt or opium, and you will not have a S u tt ee f rom C ey l on to the Himalaya Mountains. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following ships were thus sta tioned, 'hr.:— The Sealeby Castle, Capt. D. R. Newall, Bengal and China. Charles Want, I:Apr.--; lionihay, Capt. ; Lowther Castle. Capt. Baker; Bucking hanuhire , Capt. Iliciiant Maioipoole; and Warren Hastings, Ciiptain Richard Rawer—for China direct. The times of the ships Atlas and Herefordshire, were changed, via.:—To be afloat 4th January, 1823; sail to Gravesend 19th ditto; stay there 30 days, and be in the Downs the tad February. Last week a ship was taken on a slip in this dock-yard— liftoslren Sir Robert Seppings plan, her old false keel taken out and a new one put in and fastened, befor: the reflowing of the tide !—Piumonth Parer. PATMUNT or PRIZE-MONEV.—Ann, widow of Thos. Hanes, a seaman on board his Majesty's ship Sanspareil, in 1792, on a late application to Greenwich Hospital for her husband's share of priz:-nloney, was informed that it bt ing only Is. Gd. it was too small a sum to be remitted ; reply was immediately forwarded to the clerk of the Check office, stating that it was nut too small to be accepted by an aged widow ; when an order was in consequence dB. cially issued that the sum of Is. Gd. should be paid, free of expense, lit di: Excise-office of Towcester, and it was re ceived there by the poor widow on IVe.duesday last.— Northampton Mereury. In the spring of the present year, the crew of the Pre v. ittive Service boat stationed at Portpatrick caught a young start or water-raven—a species of sea-fowl, which, though scarcely known on our shores, abounds particularly on the coast of Ayrshire, and is at once remarkable for its whimsical appearance and great dexterity in the art of diving. This nursling was brought on shore, and placed in a shed at the village of Drumore, where it has regularly roosted ever since. In the morning and eve • git hops about very much at its ease, and is ready to give battle to the boldest of the poultry, by whom it is regarded as a sort of interloper. It then retires to the coast to fish and gam bol with its own kindred: but evening always brings the wanderer home. Though only about the size of an ordi nary duel:, it has been known to gobble up at once, and apparently with case, a fish weighing 21bs. '1 his feat, of course, occurred at Drumore, for as it never brings a single fin home, nor rejects a codling on account of its size, no one can tell the extent of its swallow.—Domrries Cuuricr. ST. LEO ER START.—The Corporation RTC about to adopt means to have the course near the St. Leger starting-post kept quite clear of the populace during the time of starting. This excellent regulation will allow the company on the stand, and the whole line of spectators, to ace the horses take their canter past the Grand Stand towards the Red House. Independent of the gratification this will afford to the company, it will obviate the sudden turn which several of the jockeys were obliged to take, to get any thing of a start with the leading horses, as, from the great space about the starting-post, the horses may be walked up by a gentle curve. This is a desideratum. Other regulations for the greater comfort and safety of the lives Rini property of the visitors are being adopted. Besides the usual attendance from Bowestreet, a number of additional constables are to be sworn in.—York Courant. On Saturday week, in the parish of Davidstow, Devon. a person gave a tea-lroonful of oil of vitriol to an infant, in mistake for syrup of rhubarb. The little innocent lin gered in torment fur an hour, when death put a period to its sufferings. An inquest was recently hold on a Mr. David Jones, who arrived in Bristol on Thursday, from London, and after dining at the house of a tradesman in IVine-street, took a walk towards Clifton, and on ths following morning he was found drowned in the river, near the Black Reck. Several sovereigns, a watch, pencil-case, &c. were found ou his person.—Verdicr, FannilDroirnel Coax WA LL MlNl:S.—Quantity of Copper Ore, sold at Rear-nth, on Thursday, 1703 tons.—Average produce, B. Quantity of fine Copper, 136 tons, 19 cwa—Arnount of Sale, 11,92'21. Ks. Ga.—Average Standard, 1411. St.—No 'Sale next week.—Copper Ores sold at Swans.a, Sept..l, 593 tons. l'inntmo and Co.'s Office, No. 1, Cornhill, still proves the foots of attraction ; the public arc Impelled there by the never-to-be-forgotten instances of extraordinary !Int— one Gentleman, cf Ltadenhall-street, obtainc Five Capi tals there within twenty-five months, two of them ilitkrent 20,0001. Atiodur Gentleman purchased Two Shares of 20,000 f. in two sucemding Lotteries (the last Share sold by Pidding and Co. to one, and the first in the next): be had also two other Capitals there, a 1,0001. and a 5001.1 These and many similar occurrences, though sounding like! tales of romance, are absolut •ly facts. Thera are now Four of 20,0001., with 34 other Capitals, all to be decided Sth of October, and Pitliling and Co, hope an ample die tribution of diem will signalize the new office they hart, opened at 13, South Bridge, Edinburgh, which will always have part of every number shared at the Lucky Corner,' No. 1, Corolla, DESPERATE ATTEMPT ET THE rzLzErit" !SLANDERS. The Syren, South Sim Whaler, Captain Frederick Coffin, arrived, on Thursday evening last, at Deptford, after a voyage of twenty-five months, having left Gravesend the 21 of August, In She was beeilt as a pleasure yacht, by. the express command of Duonaparte, and has met with great success, having returned with three hundred and twenty tons of oil. During the riaswige out, on Easter Monday, March 31st, 1523, while off' the southermcst of the Pelew Islands, under a lively breeze, several lar ge l ulling canoe. mipearea. in sight, which increased in num ber to near thirty, each having from six to ten on board, upon which the Syrcn ,lackened sail, and on approaching, Imany of the natives called out, as through metiers of le quiry; " English ? English ?" and being answered in the at 9 trniti ye, they came alongside, and with tolerably correct !pronunciation, repeated, " Give us a rope;" this was coin plied with. From the generally reported mild and pacific de - meaneur of these people, who, to the number of about Into, quickly crowded the deck, civilities werr exchanged in ap i parently the most. friendly manner, and as they brought few provisions with them, and no artier a of curiosity, the crew comineneeel bartering for their spears, wit's which they were armed, and with which they seemed t. 4 , part reluctantly. At this time the vessel continued under easy sail, the canoes closely accompanying tit m, to their companions, in which those on board seemed in no degree anxious to return. The mate, *rho felt a little elistrtht from their superiority in number, the cr •w being on!y thirty-seven, communicated his op!uien to the captain, who instantly coincided, and gave orders to crowd rune sail, thinking it would induce them to depart. This ap peared to occasion some little dislike, and in a few minutes after, while Captain Coffin was in a boat !imbed is the side, giving orders to that effect, two of the natives, at a preconeerted signal it is supposed, suddenly seized him, and endeavoured to throw him into the sea, while a general attack was commenced on the rest of the crew. The Captain disengaged himself, succeeded in gaining the deck, and calling aloud that their lives and the safety of the ship 'depended on desperate lighting, a fierce engageMent en ' sued. Those of the natives whci in traffic had parted wick their spears were assisted with others from the canoes, or availing themselves of the harpoons, which with great den , rity they broke to a suitable length, while others gaining the whaling spades, used in digging into the fish when caught, continued A most furious attack; notwith standing the disparity, the crew succeeded in driving them to the stern of the vessel, Where they leaped overboard and regained their canoes. _ _ It is worthy of remark, that when any of the native, were wounded, or Ftunned by being knocked down, they were instantly thrown by the:r comrades i•ito the sea, wit. ra they either swam, or Were picked up by their emu. panions, who frequently attempted to accompany them to return, but were always repulsed in endeavouring to get up tile idea, and throughout encouraged than by loud cheer. in'. On their quitting the Syren, the crew commenced tiring, and though greatly exhauited, having a ready sup ply of ammunition, it was kept up while within maraca shot, but with what effect is riot known, as several they suppt sod killed, from their falling into the water, we:Ferrol to rise, and regain their canoes. Nearly the whole of the ship's Company were wounded severely in this attack ; the effects of which, notwithstanding the unremitting exer:it»:s and skill of the surgeon, several will never, it is feared, en tirely recover from, and it is to be regretted that the cat- Fitter, named Joseph Caulfield, who fought most cou rageously, lost his life by a blow from a whale spade, whieht nearly severed his head from his body ; as did Witiiaru Warren, boat-stecrer to the second mate, who was speared most duradfully through the bo.ly. Th • !vine has left an aged mother, and the former a wife and ten children, liv ing in London, totally unprovided for. The retrcit el the savages was as sudden as tl:e attack, from their mode of which, their pronunciation of certain words, their jealousy in parting front their weapons, the seizure cf peculiar im plements, and converting them into weapons, the attack and a:izure of the captain, and its commencing when there were fewest on deck, the crew continue in opinion, that the whole was concerted end organised by Huropeans or Ame ricans, resident in the bland. What deterred Vim from entertaining the least suspicion was, the Syren having a short time previous spoke to a vessel, which stated that she had been a-ground neat the Pellew Islands, and the prompt assistance that had been rendered by the natives. C.4NXIBALIS.IL (From the Bogen Deqy .4deernser.l In the tr;g Sultana. which arrived at this port yesterday, from London, came passenger Mr. Joseph Price, of Wit. inington, Delaware, who was one of the crew of the brg Genersl Gates, of Boston, and was taken pawner by the natives of New Zealand. The General Gates sailed from Boston in IP2I, on a scaling voyage, and on the 10th of August fonowing, Mica was landed, with five others, on the coast of New Zealand, to catch seals. After remaining there six weeks, having procured 3.563 skins, they were taken by a party of native of New Zealand, at ten or eleven o'clock at night. The naives set fire to their huts, burnt their skins, and de stroyed their provisions, not knowing the use of them. They then tied their hands behind them, mulled them to Looking-glass Bay, a distance of more than a hundred and fifty miles. They had nothing to eat but roasted fiall. They were then marched 200 miles, to Sandy Bay, where they found a collection of savages, who carried them be fore their King and Queen. As soon as they arrive!, one of their number, John Rawtcr, of London, was ordered to be killed. Ile was tied to a tree and struck on the hea.l by two savages armed with clubs. His head was cut off and buried, and the rest of the body they roasted in a kind of oven under-ground, and offered to the survivors to cat; and having nothing else, they were forced by hunger to partake of it. They tied the remaining five to a tree, with SO men to guard them. Time next day, James Webster was killed and roasted ; the day after, William Rawson, of New London ; and the day after, William Smith, of New York, shared the same fate. The next day, from what they could learn from the ceder, James {Vest, of New York , was to die; but the night previous, a heavy , squall rose from the cast, with thunder and rain, which se frightened the natives, that they all ran away to the wee,t, with a hideous noise, leaving the men feel under tit: tr.y. They succeeded in untying themselves, escaped to the shore, found their boat, in which they put to sea witbeut provisioner. They were not thirty yards from the shorn when they saw 700 savages coming in search of throe. They had been three days en the boat, when they were pie Led up by the brig Margery, Captain White, of Sid ney, New South Wales, at which place they were landed on the 10th of November. ArrarnEwstow or A SWlNDLER.—Thurstlay, a well dressed fashionable looking fentlrman, going by the name and ad:lress of J. White, Esq. of Sligo, but whose real name is Taylor, from the county Tyrone, went to Mr. Ellard's, in Patrick-street, and ordered ■ pined of t;!ik handkerchiefs and stockings, two pieces of linen, loos of thread, needles, fie. which he ordered to he sent to Mr-- White, at the Cork Hotel. The gentleman of the chop having seen the customer in the Cork jail, recognised bins on taking his order, and immediately after Squire 11'11!te Lft the shop, he went to Captain Drought, who load two of trio police dressed in coloured clothes and sent to this shop, and on the goods being made up, one of the voliee went to deliver them as the shopkeeper's clerk. The roods were taken up to his rotes., and after a few rollout a the new clerk was called, and asked by the gentleman why 04 remainder of the ordtr was not executed, adding, at Oh: same time time. " Stay here with these goods, and I will go over myself to order the remainder, and I will rhrn pay for all."Phe policeman retrained; but Mr. White, aut.; Taylor, not minim; back, the palieeroato return•d to the ebtp, alien iewaa discovered that ,welre of the silk ham:- ki rchlefa hail vanisheeL The police went ito pursuit ; and at two o'clock yesterday morning this unfortunate young, man was found in a lodging-house iu the East Liberties, about tour miles from town. He An accordingly brought in and committed to gaol.—lt appears that this young man, who is about twenty years of age, has been practising similar carers in Cork, Waterford, and Clonmel ; bat, per haps happily for himself, his career in this way is cut short, as he w a d have to meet with the tuitigatcd punish ment, a bile a continuance in these pract:ci.z may Lave lad to utory serious results.—/rirA Tines. I I I 1 1 1 1 ' 4