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. . -*lusters with Melly purchase; and. the value of that property e chiefly depended on my continued superintendence of it. lid, as a . punishment for daring to say that the duties of a Clerk of Stationary were unsuited to the character of a Minister of the ''-Church, I was sentenced, by the mere will of the Governor-, General, 'without a hearing, it trial, or defence, to instant banishment from iny property, my connexions, and my honest and lawful , pros.pects offortune; forced to break up My haute,. ] awl returrrto England, with one portion' of my, family to ac-S • company me,,and another expected out to join me, whom, by' inakieg a rapid ramp, we fortimately . arrived to meet three: days enlybefore they-were-to have einbeeked from England e and all thbrat - avery Considerable...olm 'nioney,elseeides the sacrifice of tinie, and the:pain -it 'neeessarily 'inflicted on the muster of those who were Were:iced my 'fate, .I'liere is no -.men breathing 'whol-an lay IdSheridon'his heart, _and say truly Oat pis was not a unishment infinitely. beraniftlie nature of the oWente, even admitting thee expreseion of my the to her'e ennitituted one. It is a punishment equal to -refine of Ithatlble, and banishment for seven year.; to any country'Setnote treniahat in allie.h a man's hopes and expectations are centred ; si , Ponisliment e in whore that no Englisli Miry • would inflict for tbeeneet atrocioue libel, that --dull& tie ' tittered; though it has been inflicted on 'Me, fee the perfiiiinanee of an inneeent and even an honourable duty, of wliieb, were I to live a bundled yearieel hope 1 sltnttlil always be honeitly proud. _ 'es 1 had taken the - eeelimmary steps necessary to the bring. ing this - affirifbeilate the - India, Ilonse, the Courts of Law, and the Parliement.of England, before (vatted India, 1 have re mained tremeuilly and happily 'retired in the bosom of my sinte my return to -fengland, which has been only a few weeks, patiently -nwaitiur the arrival of the authenticated do.' connotes: which were to Milan me, muter the iteal of the Su- Terme Curt in India, before i ventured to intrude myself or my. case either on the East India Company, or any 'other public body e---for I have only the attaiement of justice in view, end.' desire to pursue the legal and conetitutional orreiirsms, in a way Omit will, I luipe, be unobjee tionahle to ell.pseties, and as acceptable to the East India Gen pany, Whoee antereits I was defencling in the very case for which I am made to suffer, &I to the Chiuseli of Scotland, whose purity I was anxious to preserve, and to r the British people at large . , who must desire to see the affairs of their Indian Empire,. -administered with justice and integrity. In this spirit of patient - abstinence from any hasty or irritating proceedings, I declined tanking any applications to the Prot% of this country to espouse my cause ; and even repressed, in more instan ces than one, a cleave expressed to me by Others, to admit of their appeal to the public en my behalf. For the same reason also I remained silent under a most wanton and unprovoked attack .in the -Asiatic stournol of the last month, published by the East India - Company's booksellers ; but I am sure as much disapproved of by the Gentlemen who form that body, as it was despised by inc.' When however, Papers like your own , , ofec knowled g ed popularity and extensive circulations contain the opinion of a -.fudge, coupled with i allusions to my case and the mention of my name in a manner that is at least calculated to produce an isrtoneous as well as an unfavourable impression, I can no longer remain inactive ; but owe it as a duty to myself, to the Public of India, whose distinguished support 1 so long enjoyed, as well as to the Public of England, before whom the whole case will shortly be laid, to state as 1 have done the leading features of it, for their consideration, until they . see the details which "will, 1 doubt not, still more excite their surprise and indig eetion. If I had not already extended this Letter far beyond the li mits I at first proposed to myself when I Jet down, 1 should 'venture to spew the errors with which the Report copied into youe Paper of Satunlay abounds. As it comes, however, through an intermediate channel, the Bombay Courier, there slay be many inaccuracies in it; and we shall, no doubt, have a fuller and more correct edition when the Calcutta Papers of the same date arrive. I must entreat your indulgence, how ever, for, a few lines only on some parts of it, reserving the main pbints till we shall see the Report in a more authentic shape. let. The Learned JUdge admits by his argument, that before any rule or regulation can be considered as passed int a Law for the Government of' India, it must be tegistered in the Su preme Court, tinder the sanction of the Judges, who are bound to see that such. regulation contains nothing repugnant to the laws of England. Yet the regulation for restraining the prima, :or an alleged breach of which I was deprived of my license to remain in India, never was registered in the Supreme Court, nor passed into a law ; besides which, it is in entire repugnance to the freedom of publication permitted by the laws of Eng bud, and regarded by Lord Ilaetinge as the natural right" of his fellow-subjects even in India. Therefore, such restrict.. tions were lieeeed; and my banishment without trial, on the Enema of infringing them, an act .as repugnant to law as it Is at variance with every principle of justice. ld. The Learned .indge says it 14 a4sumed in the erg - time:it (meaning I sup se the argument of Counsel which welfare riot saan)ethat Catliattta le as tree a land as England; and he iteerne to doubt this. 'lt It f i tnerally admitted that wherever Englishmen are settled under their own flag, they are free to do every thing that is not prohibited by law. If this be the freedom they enjoy in England, this is also the only freedom they ask in India. if there is no law of England, there is certainly no law of India that forbids the free exercise and' free expression of opinion on all topics, religious, moral, or poll. trial, such opinions being subject only to punishment, stibse. Jent to publication, if declared criminal by a Court and ury. In this respect, therefore, Calcutta is as free a land as' England, to all p,ersons of Indian birth and it is only less free to men of English birth, because the latter can be punished without' trial, whereas the former cannot. ed. The Learned Judge says he shall always rejoice at the fpread of liberty; but he adds that " the introduction of liberty into India would be "Mai than the, most °diens tyranny' 1" Have it is to 'Spica if countries that do not pose Selig it are .ever to remain without it—l shall not attempt to ex plain butif Sir William Jones ever used the expressions here attributed to him (which I doubt), it is as lamentable an in stance of weakness, combined with splendid talent, as thostal. ready given, of Lord Hastings' irreconcileable contradictions and would not be true, thetigh Sir William Jones should rise , fterna the dead to repeat it. Alia Mill, the author of the ad mirable History of British India, whose work compriseernore philosophie and comprehensive rievreof the interests of that em pire than were ever before enieftaineilliy any one man, contain ing indeed the essence of all the talent that hail been before brought to the consideration of that vast subject, is a much better authority than Sir William Junes or Sir Francis Mac tueeliten eminent and estimable as their testimony ma y be in many other respects : and Mr. Mill, I am satisfied, will fur nab a thousand proofs as will/ es arguments ter the contrary of their assertions. ette. The Learned Judge asks upon what principle we can feared oar, right nefreedom of opinion in linlia, (for this is the efibjectlif diepute). ' He might be answered exactly upon the tame principle as man founds his right to the free exercise of every other faculty ; namely, because his Creator has furnished. him with the power to use it for good an 4 lawful purposes ; and because no man ought to be deprived of its exercise, ex. eept it should be decided by 'a verdict of the law, that he exer. easeed it to the manifest injury of the society in which lie lived. This is the principle on whichet/lour rights are, or ought to be, grounded, and is as applicable to India as treany other country under the sun. .fith., The Learned .Tudge says, he knows of no place where 'there is more rational liberty than in Calcutta, or where indi. 'Maids are more free than there, since they have nothing to tear front.. the freest expression of their sentiments : What Ilia notioli of " rational liberty" may be, is not easy to define; but is there nothing to fear, when men may be sentenced tq initani , banishment and ruin en expressing their tentitheents, soul that, too, not in the freest manner, but with great oration and. temperance? 13r, Maclean was sent en board ship like a osiminal, at the point of the bayonet, for expressing leis honest ees aj suen tee Colonel Runineini, or his Majesty's 24th regiment of toot, prNi er . deria inetioney . to leave the country, rend march Rats the interior, se=veral hundred inileieta the sea coact to eme bet*, though in a state of ill health (of which he died before be reached England), and: in * tnost unhealthy season, for venturing to express its honest sentiments, though in a court ntartiat which he ,dernantied at , Bombay he Was acquitted of tiei principal charges urged against hitn. The Rev. Mr. Willis, a ,Oergyrium oldie Church pi Eeglantl e was banished from the country neatly about the same time, for something displeasing to the etoyernment in his expressions, Mr. Adam, a Gentle man, who, being a Christian Illissionary in the country, pro fessed the Unitarian faith, and associates with the Learned • Brahmin, Rain Mohan Roy, to establish a Unitarian Chapel. Unitarian Schools, and a Unitarian Press in Calcutta, was ori the point of being banished, at the urgeht request of the late Bishop, for daring to express his, honest sentiments rte 'to his belief in one God, though the idolatrous Hindoos, who believe in three hundred and thirty-three millions of deities, are suffer tio ed ursue their horrid rites and sacrifices without hindrance. IlliMary Officers of the highest character und talentte have been Moat unjustly passed over and superseded, ohly because they were known to have supported The Calctitia downed, and en couraged its honest strictures on the Measures of GOveannient. And have been tiocibly banished from the country, as well as paM and suffering,- avid sentenced to irreparable loss, for suturing to.express honest opinion as to the oppeslieg duties of a Christian Divine and a Stationer's Clerk !—Who, then, after tide, can put any faith in a Judge who says therein nothing to fear in Calcutta front any men expressing freely hitt Milton sentiments ? 6th. Theis/earned Judge says, that the Indian Government ennnot stand before a Free Press—that they are incompatible, and cannot be co-exietent. 'Phis. is a bold confession ; and if it were made any where but on the Bench, Would, I imagine, be deemed criminally' libellous.- Lord Ilastings said, that a pet Government hall nothing to fear from its exposure to go /104 comma : from witioil it would lose no strength ; but, on the contrary, would gain an incalculable addition of force. What then is the inference? The Learned Judge cannot haw! meant to say that the present Government of India is not a just one : and yet, without this admission, it is difficult to see why it could not Stand before a- Free Press. I contend, even in opposition to this high authority;: that a'Ftee Press and the - Indian Government are perfectly `compatible, and thatthey can be and ha. been The days of n co Warrettlastings were full df danger and alarm. The Tress - of India was never more free than at that period,— yet the Government stood firm and unmoved. In Lord Hastings' time it has been the same ;, anti th,e.Nohle Lord, I himself will testify, Lam sure, if this should reach hk eye, that during his long and successful administration he saw no incompatibility whateVer between a Free Press and an In dian Government, hut that he thought the one the bebeat secu ritynf the other. The world ought by this time to have expe rience enough to enable them to determihe ihefther Govern-• ments that permit Free Presses are more secure than those that do "not. Compare, for instance„ the security of the GO vernmentes of America and England, with the security of the Government„ of Turkey and its dependencies. Ask the Stock holders on the Foreign Exchange *hose securities would sell best? and•there are no better judges of the stairility of Govern ments than they are. Ask, indeed, the East India Directors themselves; `whether their Stock is considered less safe from the existence :Of a Free Press, to -point . out whatever may require amendment in their Government abroad ; and 3 will engage that no one among the whole oftheir respectable body will, indi vidually, enter the lists to establish such a position, however .they may think it necessm'y to act in their collective capacity. This conclusion is inevitable. qf the Government of India be conducted on honourable piincifila, :and with worthy motives, it must, be wise to give their acts thb utmost publicity, perticue larlyethrough an empire which they profess to rule by opinion. If, on the contrary, the ,objects of their Government be unjust and unworthy, thou, -and then only, can it be said that a Free Press and such a Government cannot long stand together. 7thly. The Learned Judge has been made to say. (for I con fess I strongly &mkt the accuracy of. the report), that after I bad openly, bearded the WA/eminent, and used every means of defiance towards them, they had acted with " great leniency" towards me in eending me home. ,This is indeed a strange opt nion for an English judge. If I had bearded Or defied the Go vernment improperly, I asked only the common privilege of a trial by Jury, and was always ready to submit to its verdict; I wanted net their "-leniency.' Such surrey was almost (leash. I . asked:6r .an open trial ; they gave me a secret decree. I asked for fiupartial justice ; they gave me a sentence of their own body, being themselves accuser, witness, judge, add ex ecutioner in one. I asked for .Inry of my countrymen ; thergaVe me an order of immediate banishment, signed by their, Secretary. This is the " great leniency" which the Learned Judge extols ! I," said he, 4 ! would not have per mitted a paper of Mr. Buckingham's to havequitted Cal cutta by my post."i Let the people of Englandimagine the Members of his Majesty's Cabinet issuing an order to the Post- Meeter.Generalof England not toreceive into the Post-office any copieivofehe English Papers advocating the cause of the people, becailee some of their strictures were unpleasant to the sa id Cat binet,'Alinisters, however just in themselves ; anti they will have an Aatt,idea of the Measure which the Learned Judge on the Calcutta Bench would have executed, had he been a Alem. her of the Council in qu'estion ! ! lie Wks of Air. Bucking. ham's paper containing " outrages" (I must still doubt the ac. curacy of the report) which rendered it the bounden duty of the Indian Government to send him home ! What ! was theie no Advocate-General in India to present an indictment, or file an information, for such " outrages ?" Was there no Bench to try, and no Airy to condemn the publisher of the " out rages' in question ? Alas ! such ." outrages" never existed ; or if they had, the keen eye of the Government Functionaries would never have suffered' them to pass unnoticed, or un punished with the utnuist severity that the law could inflict. There is tine Confe e selein in hie Report which gives me, how. ever, great pleasure; it is this—ln speaking of the power to be given by the new egidation for Licensing Presses, the Learned Judge says," if the Government abuse the hewer it vests in them, they are responsible for It." lam ,satisfied with this ; and 1 hope the day will soon arrive whets this great slues. tion of the responsibility of Italia. Governors to their country alliteme for abuses of power abroad, will be heard under all the solemnity which its extreme importance to the country and to mankind deserves. In the mean time, I beg to say, that havin'g thus, by your indulgence, enjoyed the opportunity of explaining what must otherwise have niade en erroneous and einfavenrable impression regarding the state of the press in India, I shall return 1 to that silence and retirement from which I should not yet have come forth, but for the necessity which has drawn me thus earlier than I intended before the tribunal of 14 countrymen at home. When my documents arrive from India, I shall pursue my steady course in the great object I have in view, of bringing the whole question before the constitutional authorities, tit the land. Till then, I think it prittlent to abstain from further controversy ; but, in the mean tithe, the friends of a free Press in India, and those members of the Religious, Political, and Commercial Bodies of England, who desire, to see that vast field, covered as it now is with a hundred millions of degraded human beings, more accessible to the enterprise of British seal, British talent, and British industry, may rest enured that to the latest period of my life I shall retain that lively interest in the welfare otindia which will induce me to feel the greatest pleasure in .doing all that iny humble effbrhs can effect, to pro . . mote its moral and intellectual improvement. I reirlain, Sir, your most obedient Servant, e l, S. BUCKINMEIL No, 11, Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, Sunday, Aug. 31,11123. A RULE, ORD LATAArCE, aid RE GULITIO,Y fokihe rood Order and Civil Government of the Settlement of Fort William in'llengal, mode apd passed by the Honourable the Governor General in Connell, of and or the- Presidency of Fort if illiam in Beurd, the Fourteenth Day of March, in , the Year of Our Lord Ora thousand eight 'hundred and twenty-three. Whereat matters tending to bring the Government of this country as by law established into hatred and contempt, and to disturb the peace, harmony, and g?od Order Of Society, .have'of late been frequently printed and circulated in the Newspipprs and other Papers published in Calcutta, foi tite prevention whereof it is deemed expedient to regulate by law the Printing and Publication with ,the Settlement of Fort William, in Ben gal, of Newspapers, and of all Magazines, Registers, Pamph lets, and other Printed Books and Papers, in any language or character; pUblialied periodically, containing . , of purporting to contain, public neivs, and intelligence or strieturea on the acts, measures, and proceedings of Government, or any political events or tranaactionsi whatever. 1. Be it therefore ordained, hy the authority of the Governor General in Council, of and for ate Presidency of Fen William in Bengal,. at and Within the said Settlement or Factory of 1 Fort William in Bengal aforesaid, by and in virtue of and um- 1 der the authority of a certain Act, of Parliament, made and i passed in the thirteenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for the better Ma.; nagement of the Affairs of the Last India Cinnpany, as well in India as in Europe," and by a certain other Act of Parliament made and passed in die 40th year of the reign of his said Ma jesty King Geo. HI. idtituled " An Act for establishing further Regulations for the GovernMent of the British Territories in India, and the better Administration of Justice within the same," that to irteen days after the date, due registry, and publication cf this Rule, Ordinance, and Regulation in the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, with the consent and approbation of the said Sarre= Court, if the said Suprente Court shall in its diicrean approve of and consent to the registry Lind, publicatio# of the same, no person or persons shalt, within the said Settlement of Fort William, print or publish, or cause to be printed or published any, Newspaper or 'Magazine, Register, Pamphlet, or other printed Book or Paper whatsoever, in any language or , character whatsoever, -published periodically, containing or purporting to contain public news and . intelligence or strictures on. the adts,' melt:arrest, and proceedings of Government, or any po litical event* or transactions whatsoever, without having ob tained a license for that purpose irons the GovernorAleneral in Council-, signed by the Chief Secretary of Ocriernment for the time being, or other person officiating and acting as such Chief Secretary. . If. And bb it further ordained, by the authority aforesaid, that every person applying to the Governor-General in Council for such licence as aforesaid, Shall deliver to the Chief Se, cretary of Government for the tulle being, or other person acting or officiatine, as 0.0, an affidavit specifying and setting forth the real and true nAmes, a ddi t ions, descriptions, and places of abode of all and every person d , r. persons who is or are intended to he the printer and printers, publisher and publishers of the Newspaper, Magazine, Register, Pamphlet, or- other printed book or paper in the said affidavit named, and of all the proprietors of the same, if the number of such proprietors, exclusive of the Printers and Pub lishers, dews not exceed two; and in case the same shall exceed such number, then of two of the proprietors resident within the Presfdency of Fort William and places thereto sub ordinate, who hold the largest shares therein, and the true de scription of the house or building, wherein any such News papa., Magn;ine, Register, Pamphlet, or other printed Books Or Paper aforesaid; is intended to be printed, and likewise the tide of such Newspaper, Magazine, Register, Pamphlet, or other printed Boa or Paper. 111. And' be it frttier ordained, by tbe authority aforesaid, that every such Afhdavit shall be in Writing and signed by the person or peratins making the same, and shall be taken with- Out any cost or charge by any Justice of the Peace acting in and for the Min af Calcutta. IV. And be it further o:dti:nee,. by the authority aforesaid, that where the persons concernedatf printers and publishers of • 1 , • any such newspaper, magazine, rUiater, pamphlet, or other ' printed book or paper as aforesaid, together with such number of Proprietors as are herein before required to be nailed in such affidavit as afOresaid, sfill not altogether exceed the number of four persons, the affidavit hereby required shall be sworn and signed by all the said. persons who arc resident in or within twenty Miles of Calcutta, and when the number of such per sons shall eXceed four ? the same. hall he signed and sworn by four of such persons if ressident in or within twenty milks of Calcutta, orlayam many of them as are soresident. V. And be it 'further ordained, by the authority aforesaid, that an affidavit or Jlidavits of the like nature and imp,oo shall be made, signed, and delivered in like manner, as often as any of the Printers, Publishers, or Proprietors, named in such affidavit or affidavits, shall be changed ? or hall change their respective plitcea of 'abode, or their printing-houses ,'place, or office, and as often as the tide of such Newspaper, Magazine, 144 , j - titer, Pamphlet, or other Printed Book or Paper shall be changed, and as often as the Governor-General in Council shall deem it expedient to require the same; and that when such further and new affidavit, as last aforesaid, shall be so required by s the.,Gayernor-Oeneral in Council, noece thereof, signed by the. aaoi Chief Secretary, or other person acting and officiating as such, shall be given to the persons named in the affidavit, to which the said notice relates, as the Printers, Mi r lishers, or Proprietors of the Newspaper, Magazine, `Register, Pamphlet, or other Printed Book or I'aper, in such affidavit named, such notice.te be left at such place, an is mentioned in the affidavit last delivered , as the p la c e at which the Newspaper, Magazine, Register, Pamphlet, or other Printed Book, or Paper, to which such notice shall relate, is printed ; and lit failure of making such affidavit on the said several cases afdreshid, re quired, that such NeivsPaper, Magazine, Register, Pamphlet, or other Printed Book or PaPer shall be deemed, and taken to belirinted and published without license. VI. And be it further ordained, by the authority aforesaid, that every liicense which shall and may be granted in manner and form aforesaid, shall and may be resumed and ridded by the Governor-General in Council, and from and inini id Chief a ft e r notice in writing of such reca ll, signed. by the sa Secretary, or other person acting and officiating as such, shall have been given to the person or pereetis to whom the said license or licenses shall have been granted,. sitcli.notice be left at such place as is mentioned in the affidar . it last delivered, as theplace at which tile Newspaper, Magazine, Register, Pamphlet, Or other printed book or paper to which such notice shall relate, is printed, the said, license or licenses shall be considered null and void, and the Newspapers, Alagizines, Regiiters, Pam phlets, printed Books or Papers, to which such •-license or licenses relate, shall be taken and considered as printed and published without license ; and whenever any Fitch license as aforesaid shall be /evoked and recalled, notice of such revoca tion and recall shall be forthwith Oren in the 'Government Go. cede, for the time being, published in Calcutta. VII. And be it further ordained, by the authority aforesaid, that if any person within the settlement of Fort William shall, knowingly or wilfully, print or publish , or cau se to be printed or publishes], or shall knowingly and wilfully, either sal Pro. prietor thereof, or as agents, or as servants of such Proprie tor or otherwise, sell, vend, or deliver out, distribute, or dis pose of, or if any Bookseller or Proprietor, or Keeper of any Reading-room, Library, sltop, or place of public re sort, shall 'knowingly and wilfully receive, land, give, or supply for the purpose of perusal or otherwise, to any person whatsoever any such Neispaper, Magasiine, Register, Pamphlet, or other printed book, or Oilier as aforesaid, such Licence as is required by this Rifle, Ordinance and Regulation, not having, been first obtained, or after such License, if previously obtaiped, shall have been recalled as aforeaald, such erson shall forfeit for ever such offence, a sum not exceeding Sicca Rupees 400., VIII. And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, that all oftbnees cothinitted, and 'all pecuniary forfeitures and penalties had or incurred under or against this rule, ordinance and regUlation, shall and 'lity b heardaind adjudged and de termined by two or more of the aforesaid Justices of' the Peace, Who are hereby empowered and authorised to hear and deter mine the same, and to issue their sarntnons or warrant for bring. ing the party or parties complained of before them, and upon his or their appearance, or contempt and default to hear the par: ties, examine witnesseu, and give judgment or sentence accord ; ing as in and by virtue of this rule, ordinance and regulation, is ordained and directed, and to a ward find issue out warrants un der their hands and seals, for t h e lev y ing of such forfeiture,Aind i o i tr el e i n al d t er ies s, a a s n n d ia t y o l ea 'e u i s nl e P rftl e e d to uP be nti goods and chattels of the made of the gOads and chat tels, if they shall not be redeem ed within six days, rendering to the party the surplus; If any be, after dedUcting the amount of such forfeitures and penalty, and the costs and charges at tendin., the levying thereof: and in case sufficient distr e ss sha l l ' not he found, and midi forfeitures and penalties shall not be forthwith paid, it shall and may be lawtill for such Justices of the Peace, and they sic hereby authorised and required, by warrant or warrantlituntler their hands and seals, to cuti4e such offender or offendera to be committed to the, c'ominbn Gaol of Calcutta, there to restrain for any time tibt exceeding four months, unless suck forfeitures and penalties and all reason. able charges shall be paper paid and satisfied, and that all the said forfeitures when. paid 01. levied shall be from time tti tinfe paid , into the, Treasury of the United Company of the Mer chants of Enland trading to the . East Indies, and be employ ed and disposed of according to the order and directions of his Majesty's said Jttitices dl' the Peace, at their general quarter or other sessions. IX. Praided always, and be it further ordained; by the an; thority aforciaid,, that nothing in this Rule; Ordinance, and Regulation contained, shall be deeiffed or taken to extend' and apply to any printed Book.or Paper tontillifing only Shipping Intelligence, Advertisements of Sales, Current Prices of C,otn. modities, Rates of Eilchange; or other intelligence solely of a commercial nature. J. ADAM. f JOIIN FENDALL: EDWARD PAGET. J.• 11. - HARRINGTON. W. B. BAY LEY, Chief Secretary to the Government. Read and published this 15th March, 1112 a., A. MACTIER, Reading Clerk. (A title Copy.) .J. W. 110t1U, Registrar: I‘ll l ll DENI4ItARA: • AN ACT, By his Excellency Major-Genetal John Murray, Lieu tenant-Governor imand over the United Colony of Ilemerara and Essequibo; and its dependent districts, Command/9in; Chief, &c. do., and thelionettrable the ourt of Policy of . thg said Colony, &c. Unto all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: Be it known : Whereas differences frequently arise between purchasers and sellers, with respect In the quality and measurement of deals, planks, boards, scantling, and Other, timber, &c: • the weight of cod and scale fish , and.Wher. O ' tie/es usually imported into - this colony, and sold by weight; alio from the want of a fixed standard to regulate the - dimensions and merchantable quality of articles imported and winelly sold by tale, such as Shooks, staves, and heading, wood hoops, clap-boards, shingles, &c. • and as well r• betWeentpurchasers and sellers of colonial produce,' respecting the weights, gauges, and .prhilf.i s litereof. With a view therefore to provi against the inconveniences arising from such differences, we haste thought fit toenacii,lo,o be it enacted accordingly, that from and after the expiration of six calendar months troth the publication of these presents, no person residing in this colony shall sell, barter, or dispose of any deal °rather hoards, lumber, scantling, or other timbersold by measure, which shall have been imported therein, or any packages of cod or scale fish, until he shall Intife., caused such lumber and packages to be measured and Weighed respectively, 'and stamped with the colonial stamp by a sworn office attpoint ed for that purpose, in the manner. set forth in his instructions hereinafter inserted, under a penalty of 1,000 guilders for every offence:- '- .. And fie it &titter emitted,-'that the stamp to Ire toed, as di., rectal by this act, shall consist of the letters I). and E. , And be it further enacted, that from and after the expiration of six calendar tnontits from the publication hereof, the follow.* Mg shall be established as the Colonial Merchantable Standard of the articles hereinafter recited, iIS", t— ' '.. : . • Clapboards shall be four and a half feet in leng i ilt fiveinches wide, and at least half a n inch thick at the thfCkestedge, clear of sap. ' Shingles, wide, and 2 4 8ce inc — he C s y l p o r n e : , . or cedar shingles shall be 22 inched. in length, and 4 inches in breadth.. White pine shingles, of Boston chips, each bundle eo be 12 inches thick, 18 incites Staves. First Class Staves shall be. 42 - inches long, 4 inches and not less than limed, and seven-eighths of an inch in thickness ; but if dress ed, 'ix - eigbaltref an inch thick. i a, hot ,ih' thickness, or five: Second Chats Staves shall be 42 inches - long., 3 inches broad, six-eighths of ' eighths if dressed. , , . . Shooks--First Class Shooks shall contain 28 staves, 4 inches wide, five-eighths of an inch thiCk, and 42 inchei long. lleadir% ihall consist of 1:2 pieces for each shook, each piece 29 to 30 inches iong, ' and n . ot leis than five inches broad, and . five-eighths of an inch thick. . Second Class Shooks shall contain 36 staves, 42 inches long; and not less'than three inches wide, and five-eighths of an inith thick. ~. Heading lo consist of lbpieces, to 30 fnehei long , and not less than live or six inches broad, and tiVe-eighths of an mei thick. Wood Hoops, long, not to be less than 14 feet in length. Short, not to be less than njfet i ni en gi ll; e i And he it further enacted, 417 4 t *urn anu after tae expiration of the six calendar months trim» the publication hereof, no per son or persons shall sell or offer for sale, :is of the colonial mer chantable standard, any of the beforeouentiontd articles that may be imported into and ex psettl'fig e4e in this colony, being of less dimensions than is hereinbefore described ; nor any ar ticles of the second class of the said standard, as being of the first, under A penalty of 1,001) guilders fofeverY offence.' BRUSSELS PAPERS. CARLSRVIIE, At m 27.—Our Gazette contains ilie.followin,g article " It results from Roports of the Central Committee at May frenii'the late events at Leimig, Halle, and Berlin, that secret assoeiailons among the stitektits have not yet ceased, notwithstanditt Al the measures adopttel by the Governments to hinder them. .But as the Societies, v.hich are entirely se cret, are most intimately connected with those which are less so, and which are known in the Universities under various names, and lis'theTniti:ticiinn - of the German youth can derive no advantages from the barbarous language which insulates them, or from a costume which is often very expensive, and lietly, as the advantage and profit of the innkeepers in Uni versities is essentially different from that of the country, there is reason to expect, very shortly, the establishment lance over the private conduct of the students, which would be introduced at the same time in all the Universities,iaad from which the happiest influence might be expected." Auosn u no, Auo. private letter film Breslau says, that the Supreme Tribunal of Breslau has coedeenteed to six years solitary confinement in it fortress two young teen who be longed to a secret society of apolitical nature. The penalties and exclusion from ptptic offices, lately pro nounced at Berlin against the Students who, belonge hi d to the Society called the Armenia, hake been mitigate by s Ma jesty's orders. Our readers remember that, in consquence of the massacre of the Greeks at Pergamo by, the Turks, after a descent made by some of the islanders of Ipsara, the Sultan sent Ibrahiam Pacha with 2,000 men to the spot. The Alvmeine Zeitang says. under the head of Smyrna, July 18; " In consequence of the landing of the Greeks, the Asiatics have burnt and murder.. ed all that came in their way in the environs of Pete's.. mo; the Janissaries (according to a letter from Broupa), who were sent from this place to restore order, have joined the Asiatic !eq. diery, and are likewise in complete insurrection. This news has been brought by coariers to the Paella. All this adds to our alarm." . FRANKrORT, Ira. 2.—A lettei ft:OM Zante, of 16th July, gives long deteile of a great battle at the end of June between the Turks commanded by Mahomet Pacha, Muetapha Pache, and Bede niche, raid the Greeks tinder Odysseus, Coloco troni, and .Nketigt, in the plains of St. Luke, between Thebes and Livadia, in which the Turks are said to hive last 2000 killed, end 000 prisoners, and 3000 wounded. All the artillery, procifions, tend ammunition, with a great number of camels and borees,-p - lye taken by the Greeks,, who say, they never made such a rleTehooty. [This does not „agree with the news from Sit)onicha of the Ilth July, grin from Seres cif the 30th, which affirmed that Mehmet was still at 4.-Ampi on the 21st July, and Odysseus at Zeitouny, and that notting of importance had taken Bit ussu es, STPT. I.—The wise Decree of bis Majesty, of the 20th ult. presenting measures of retaliation against France for its prohibitory system, has excited great sensation in that kingdom e but the places where it effects will be the most seriously felt arc the countries along the Meuse and the Mo selle, in Loraine, which produce vast quantities of wine, the gyeater part of which used to be exported by land by way of Belgium. The Decrece has been received with gratitude in our Manufacturing provinces. If tile beneficial measure could he extended to the manufactures of another Power, which re fuses to admit ours, the wishes of our neinttfacturers would be accomplished., The detachment of troops which have lately marched to bur frontiers have already occupied the posts as gn O th sied them. n e other hand we learn that France to draw close its triple lice of , custom house officers on us Northern frontier. . At the departure orthe last courier from Rome it was as serted that the Emperor of Austria would stop but a fe* digs at Milan, and would then visit the capital of the Christian World. This report has caused some sensation•there. The Antwerp. Journal of Commerce has letters from Rio de Janeiro of the 24 July, which state that the llinperor had just had fall from his horsend broken two ribs and dislocated his shoulder, but that his a Majesty's life was not iii danger. 7 ---- PUBLIC LEVPURE at' the CROWN AND ASIGiIOB, STRAND, on WEDNESDAY EVENING, the 10th of Sctember, at SEVEN o',OLOCEL liviclt. II AMI LTO N, rttlin,quishing the . testi , : mony of several thousand Pupils formed in an En lightened Nation, is desirous of submitting to a pritish Audience his Pretension,s to the Merit of a successful Innovator. It is i n tended to Demonstr'ate in this Lecture the EFFICACY of the HAMILTONIAN SYSTEM, by enabling every Lady a nd Gentleman who rosy honour it with their presence, to Beall several Verses of the Greek and French Testaments—to Pro nounce the Wools of them with the same Propriety as the Lecturer—and to Translate them with the utmost accuracy of Grammatical Analysis, in the short space of one . Hour and a Half.. ,Every Person will be invited to verify, hy, Rx.pericaent, the reality of the Talent thus instantaneously c ommunicated ; and the compliance of a certain number will afford' a perfect idea of the Facility, Certainty, and Celerity with which a Language may be thtis acquired.-ADMITTANCE TWO SHILLINGS. . . „ . *4* For an interesting Account Of the OrENINO of the NEw Dogs at-StlEEttxEss, see the Fonith Page. PRIC.t OF STOCKS TIII9 YAT ciNE.Wcf,c)Cti. India Stuck India Bonds ea. South Sca Stock Old Annuities Ex. Bills 34 38 pr. Ditto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. Cons. for Atic. B.li Rank gl6oi 3 per Cent. Rect. ;' shut 3 per Cent. Cons. . '' .... 3i per Cent. 4 per Genf. { ()Id shut New 101/ 5 pr Cents. 1797 Blink Long Ann. shut 3 per Cents. - PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS ix LONDON, Szrz. G. AT ONE O'CLOCK. Five per Cents. Oti. bfr. i P7 2 A Ilt• Stk. per Cents. 00. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. Ditto New 83i. Five per Cent. Bonds, 00 . Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. irhie per Cent. Bonds, 111 . 24, 00,, Ditto 1821,- 3fii. Ditto • : 1822, 00. Prils.:ian j Five per Cent. Wilds, Bit 1 Ditto New, 86g. Five per Cent. ponds, 00. French Russian Neapolitan Austrian Spanish Vanish Chili Colombian Six per Cent. Bowls, 53i New Loan, 00. Bank Shares £2l 14s. Seven per Cent. 00: Six per Cent. 9:4-10f1 Five per Cent. 98-100. ,Three per Cent. 70. Americii 111011 NITA TER AintAing, mbio iT LONDON MUDGE TO-MORROW, :'es after 3. 1 gientitg, 48 minutett after 3 - - 7 u-NT SOL!4I QUIS DICERE F4f.SUM AElllt;47` LONDON, SATUIUi4Y, SEPTEMBER 6, 18231 We are still without decisive intelligence from Cadiz. The French Papers, indeed, are u►►- usually barren of itileresting information from any quarter. The subjoined extracts are little else than' repetitions of their former contents. The Qiiolidienne endeavours to keep up the spirits of the partisans of the war by a pompous statement of the preparations for the attack on Cadiz, and of the confident hopes of success entertained' by the Prince Generalissimo. " The preparations for the bombardment Of CadiXhave been carried on with extraordinary activity. From all parts, am.. munition, artillery, and all that is necessary for a siege which it is intended to push with vigour, had been collected. Zllean while reinforcements arrived. Thirty-tWo thousand men are in Erie on the shores of the Bay. These fine and experienced troops are" full of ardour; of Royalism, and of unbounded - con. ilidence Wale Chief by whom they are commanded. It had . . been proposed in the Council of Wat to grant only 24 hours to the Cortes to return an answer : the Prince has given them five days. 4 I will not,' said he, expose myself to the re proach of not having allowed sufficient time to the Cortes to weigh my proposals and take a determination, which, if it be favourable, will prevent the effusion of blood.' We await tlutit answer calmly. No sooner shall it arrive and be known, than we shall enter Cadiz, or else tight. Our enemies know what men we are. They have tried us once, and have not since shown themselves." PEttPIGe tw, AUG. 2(1.—( Retracts of private Letters.)--' " The enemy commanded by_Milans and Idobera, after the affair of the 14th between Manresa and Moya, effected their retreat., on Mont Blanc, and were but feebly pursued. Our troops ar. rived on the 20th at Villafranca, so that we and the enemy oc cupied on that day the same positions as before Aug. 10. " Our troops were to put themselves in motion on the 20th to wards Mont Blanc. &isms that the Marshal has decided to attack the enemy in the positions he occupies. We know not if Milano will defe.nd the Cal do Saint Christine, or If he will give battle on the height of Mont Blanc, or if he will effec t his retreat on Tarragona, or on Benz, or on Tarrega by Verde ; in this latter position he would be able to retreat to Lerida. 4 " The task of the Marshal is much more difficult. lie may cut offthe enettty front Tarragona, by sending a corps of troops on the road from this town to Mont Blanc by Lovendrell and. the tower of Des Barrts, but it is not very probable. that ii will, by this means, be able to prevent the retreat of the enemy by Reuz or on Lerida. If 31ilans decides on giving battle, he may defend the Cot of Saint Christine, and fight in the t►atue position as General Saarsfield occupied when he fought the Italian General Eugene in the war of independence. 'We shall not be long in ignorance of the movements of the two armies." . it is rcpoxted that the Emperor of Russia was to leave St. l'etersburgh on the 15th (.17th) of August, for his grand tour through iiis vast states; he is first to inspect the second, grand army, and afterwards to visit Odessa. 'hence he will go to Bessarabiti, and return to Bretz Lettwsky, a city between Rus.sii and Poland to review the t:'ss:0111liled Polish army, as well as the Russian corps cantoned in that kingdom. Eighty thousand men will be reviewed under the orders of the Grand Dulie Constantine, Commanderin Chief. It is said that I.N Miije'ity will be two months abient. CITY, Twelvc o'Clock.—Consols opened this. morning at B}, went up to 84-4, at which price' they remain steady, with scarce any business d oing . Although it is reported that the French Rentei have come lower, we cannot ascertain that any Express has really arrived from Paris. The ex pected attack on Cadiz is, therefore, not belle,ved to have taken place on the 28th; as it Is nine days since that period, and it would have been knowti in seven days at Paris. some persons believe that nothing would be done until the arrival of Mr. WARD at Cadiz. -L- Mr. WAnn is the bearer of dispatchesisupposo4 to be inipOrtiini, from this country. 'toothier report prevails, that the French have been defeated in an attempt on the Trocadero; and that their funds have in consequence fallen to 92f. 30c. FOREit;N MARitEr:—Nothin . g is doing except in Colombian and Spanish. The fluctuation in • Colombian Bonds has been onntinual they opened at 53, 52}, 541, ; Russia, Bii; Spanish Bonds, 364 j ; French Scrip, 2to tait pr. `We have received the subjoined communica tion, on the subject of the Colombian Loan, from a Gentleman who is intimately acquainted with the merits of that extraordinary and unfor, tunate transaction.—We cheerfully contribute by inserting the letter of our Correspondent, all that is in our power towards the exposure of the juggles which have entailed "ruinous lOsies on so many of our fellow subjects. The whole affair seems to have been engendered in fraud, and conducted upon a systematic scheme of impose , ture and delusion, well calculated, amongst other results, to terminate in the ruin of 'the specu tutors,- and in. covering the promoters of the iniquity with disgrace. FOR TIJI SUN. , (COLOMBIAN LOAN.] Mn. Etirro . n--Of all the delusions and impositions prac/ tised on a credulous Public, perhaps none has been kept up with more chicanery and trick than this Colombian Bubble; and I must say, it, is little creditable to the're t ros, whose duty it is to protect the Public, that they have not taken more pains to, expose to the light facts that were well knOwn to a few, and ought to have been made well known to all. When the whole of this disgraceful transaction is exposed, and all the falsehoods and scandalous misrepresentations detected, as they must be in the end, nothing in the annals of Stock jobbing will match it.— The Decree of the Congress of Colombia has at length arrives, and will awaken those ,who have repuse4 in c.ofider.:.!. gn the Vold assertions and statements of the Contractort. At 1 0 ' 4 '1 • sent great is th e a b use o f th e Colombian e lover:mem.' but when Mr. Guat.la detail of this proceeding, as laid before CoOgresis, shall be published here, it will be found, that there are two sides to a story;" and it will be seen if the blanie of this scandaloui transaction belongs to parties on this of on the other side of the water. Mean, while I have looked to hear of a public meeting to itulehT into the business, that the whole might be probed tO bottom : And I would ask, why do 'these - bold contractors npt come forward now, and give explanation to the public ? Is it, that they dare not meet those who haVe been so egregiously duped ? The time will come when the' whole . will be brought to light, however long delayed, and it behoves those who may still remain interested to make themselves well' informed as to the probable result.. The language of Congress in °alit decree is unequivocal, however sophistry may etempt to pervert it--they are ‘, severe anti inflexible" In justice to -themselves as to otherz, and they will adm it only so much h ave .. debt of this L oa n as i t s h a ll b e proved they value fez,. The queries then a Nirliat value ha ve they h ave received re ceived for Mr. ZEA'S debentures, issued at various rates, and for viriOus unsubstantiated -and unfounded claims ?— 1 The public w ill b e d e l u d ed gross l y if they expec t this wil .btar at the utmost one-third proportion of the amotiitt charged; -1