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hut the whole.of the manufacturers throughout the kingdom. The outrages eudangered the public , tratiquility in a very great degree, and if by this Bill men would for the future be deterred from the coinm sion et similar crimes, the House in passing the 13.1 i had done their duty. • He did not mean to affirm the 1311 could give facility - of deiection. The or making the offeece capital 'would have the eff.-ct of deterring men horn crimes, then the House would have a fair chance of gaie. ing their ebjeel. When men "knew .publicly hat. Parlialeeei 'regarded their offences in a heinous light e—tte , t it . W: tie determination of the Executive rower to send „ledges specially down,, and not watt fot the ordinary Assizes, to try offenders, it was .14;r to conclude the obje& would be accomplished. . At all evens, it •was admitted on all bands that the .evil el..:sts, but no Gentleman on the other side of the House had, thengh he objeßed to the present measure, come forward with a remedy for the evil: Therefere; -ender these circueistaeces the House would, he trusted, receive the present measure, considet whether the rejection of it would not pro duce effeas which no one could - forste. • Mr. BASTARD wished to know whether the law would be better 'executed - by the present Bill ? He thought that Government should not have suffered , the riots to exist three or four months. In so do- ing, the charge of supineness - would very properly . attach upon them. He could not join in the praises bestowed upon the Bight Hon. Secretary, because it was his duty to have come immediately to Parlia ment. He hoped a Committee would be appointed to inquire into the conduct of Government, and see whether they hid done their duty. • ' Mr.WHITBREAD conceived, in allusion to what had fallen from the last speakeri that no Aa of Par liament could invigorate the Secretary of State. He could not have done his duty mere efficiently than he had ckne. Notwithstanding this convidion in his own mind, he should not be deterred trout voting against the second reading ,of the Bill, because he was satisfied the principle of it was objedionable.— The preamble was also objed,ionable; but if both the preamble and the body of the Bill were not so, he should still deny that this , was the remedy. The Statute Book teemed with capital punishments. So long back as- forty years, the penalty of death for offences was considered so lightly of, that the House came to a resolution, that no Bill imposing .that natty should be introduced without a previous Com mittee. For.that resolution the Public - were indebt ed to Sir William Meredith, who, in 177 t, being on an Enclosure Committee, accidentally heard some of the interested parties complain that some of the peasants were refractory and. troublesome, and say that the only way to get rid of them would .he by hai ging a few. The Hon. Baronet was sp struck by the injustice and wickedness of the observation, that he moved, and the House adopted the resolu tion. Following up the ,resolution, he (Mr. W.) intended to propose that it should be n?ade a stand in g order of the House, that no Bill should be in troduced having for its object the infliction of penalty of death, without a previous Committee. The Hon.-Gentleman contended, that with respect to suggesting any remedy, the Committee which he and his friends devisrd would. be the proper place for that suggestieo, for they would trace the causes of the evils, and consequently would be best enabled to supply a remedy,. He should vote against the Bill. • Mr. FRANK.LAND contended, .that when, tholaw was openly violated, it was the duty of the Legis lature to enact severer laws. If the parent •were not obeyed, while mild and indulgent, who would-main tain that he ought not to change his countenance, and express his indignation ? The law proposed was a law not merely to prevent the breaking of frames, but to protect whatever was most dear to us in life.. When ("en lemen talked of sporting with • the lives of (Ale rs, he would •ask, 'Who sported with the lives of the people? Who neglected the general safety ? and on whom must fall the awful responsibility, if a remedy were not -promptly ap plied to those alarming evils which were under their consideration ? It the law were openly defied, and force continued to be opposed to force, while they al ere speaking there,• thousands 'of lives might he swept away, and thousands might fall the viatims of a too re Stied sensibility, and a mistaken feeling of hu in ;laity. -He denied that there were more crimes visitetl wi• !t caeletl punishment in our code of laws than in any other ; and adverting to what had fallen from an Hon. Gentleman, who had contended that eSpital punishment should only be inflided where it was authorised by the Scripture, which it• was..said .only jileitied it in one instance, where it is written - ",WhosoeVer sheddeth•man's blood, by man shall his bioud he shed." He was surprised how any inn could read Leviticus and Deuteronomy, and be of such an opinion. It would be found, on lotikintz into them, that they contained more ca- Olaf 1 reisLeems ell.n any modern code of laws, tied Eerope had been convinced that. it would • ~be improper to adopt - a code so sanguinary.— ' In :he Scripture it would be found,- that bY the law . the I taelites, he who " disobeyed his father and u ould not hearken to his voice," was sentenced to he led out and stobed till he . died. He then pro ceeded to strew, byanalogy, that exemplary punish m-m ought to be ietlided on these who opposed the parental mandates of the Legislature. He con - eluded. giving if as his opinion, that it was incum bent- on the Legislature to express its disapprobation it such outrageous proceedings in the strongest man- Per, by enaeting that they should be visited with ca pital e uteshment, and those who suffered in cense-. (pence of the passing of such.a law, were to be re :vadat' eas the victims of their own illusions and w ee • tie et. The House divided, Yor the seLond reading •Ag:arat it • - Majority • -- 77 The Bill was then read a second time, and on the question being put that this Bill be committed to- Sir S. ROM ILLY obserted, in answer to some re- Marks that hdd been made on what had fallen from that he had distindly given it as his opinion, that a strong remedy ought to be applied, but he had doubted it the measure proposed would furnish such et remedy. He str,,ngly objected to going into the Cotntni.tee so boon as was proposed, and wondered w hat excuse the Secretary of Stare ,could otferfor 3i•ti4li.iii!, , , - t,c, _ . on il , totictay Last, the It6v.t.Freke, M.A.Vicar of F.autft. Lawton, Chaplain to the.Edrl of Cdritat von, t, the I•!ect.,ty of Down St. Miry, in De.vbn, by the c'esion c f the ti l( f e t v h . e.. ll. : y j :f r i t t n y . o t h i e in r ;;I ClHebrewa i r t :t 'te l-L s s j f 1:t . Hospital., iii the room of the Rev. Hall, who ret:res.— The Rev. H. W. Powell, Curate of Hampstlimoite, Lin. elected master <A the Curainar•schuOl of Ktwies.. borough. BM! This mottling, the Lady of I. f atharn, Esq. of CrAven. street. Strand, of a Dat.r,hter. On'the sth inst. in Hertford -street, May-fair, the Lad, of Gilbert Math:son, I sq. ot . a .!•i!)o. V 67;S;;(113 evening I.r . sr, in Bridge—street, Westminster; Mrs. R. S. Cooper, of a Son. The same day, the Lady of Dr. Uwins, of Aylesbury, at a Daughter. • 41 AR Rlfib On the 4th inst. at Farnham, in the CoUnty of Surrey; Captain Alexander Brown, of Calcutta, to Miss Barth°ha. mew, of the same place. On Thursday last, at WiWon, George Frederick Krum!). haat,' Esq. of Kilburn, to Mar}aret,•eldest daughter of Tho.. - Iliat Tw.vnshend, Esq deceased. On the iitli inst. Charles "Gilchrist, Egq. of Sunbury, to Clara, daughterot the late Benjamin Baldwin, Esq. of Oak. ingliain, Berks. Lately, Dr. D. - I. 13. Dickson, Physician to the Fleet at the Leeward Islands, to Miss 'Tracey, sister of the late I. S. Tracey, Esq. Secretary to Sir Alexander Cochrane. DIED Lately, Thomas Stewai — t lames Brisbane, Esq. third SOB of his Excellency Sir Charles Brisbane, Governor of St. Vit.:. cent. ' . _ On the 7th inst. at Mr. Lloyd's, Halley Castle, near Upton-on-Severn, Worcestershire, rs. • WO, wife of Mr. Joseph Lloyd, of Charles-Square, Hoxton, Cornfador. On Sunday _the gth in:q. Mrs. tioneywood, reliti of 06 Rev John Honey woos}, Prebendary of Salislury, and sonar Sir 1. Honeywood, Bart. On Tuesday, at his house in Pulteney-street, Bath, th. Laiy of Thomas Tarletun, Esq. of Bouldsworth Castle, Cheshire. On ‘Vednesday,.at Monmouth, of a dropsy on the brain, Andrew Cherry, Esq. Manager of the Theatres at that tor'in, and at Swansea, and lioraterly of the London, Dublin, and Bath Theatres, PRICE OF srocxs YESTERDAY. India Bonds, is's. 16s. pr. Excheq. Bills, 4s. 6s. pr. Omnlu►n, I Imperial 3 per Cent. Ditto Ann. Cons,; for 27th Feb. 62 if Pant Stock Navy c per cent 92; 4 per Cent. 7g:l 4 ; per Lent. ReWirzib 3 per Cent. Cons. 62$ 621 1 Bank L. Atm. 16 5 16tlis India Stock, HIGH WATER AT LUNLIONERIDGE "10-1110 - ROW. Morning, 59 min. after 6:1 Evening, 24 min. after 7. LONDON MARKIES, Sec. RETURN OF WHEAT IN MARK-LA? , - By Messrs. CHILD and MALPAS. Meal Weighers, - . Including only from Feb 3, to Feb . B. . Agreeably to the Ad. , 209 Quarters at t . ,7,2S od 1423 Quarters at toss ed I 150 -- at't3os od 207 -7.-7 at ;$45 od 24 -at 1263 od I 245 —7----- at 1033 od 435 ------ at 1205 od 152. ---- at ziSs od 17 at cols od 196 ------.-at lI7S ad 1 3+6 2 39 at 1163 ad 102 166 - at Os od —at 1145 od to —at 1133 od I 20 ' -at 963 ad —at 1 125 , - .. d 231 ---- at tits cd 49 , at I los od 273 . at 925 cd ---- at ;as od 764 —at 1075 oil I to at tr6s , cd I 5 Tota: 8288 Quarters.—Averaga 1065. 51. is. 4id. higher than last Return. A RETURN OF FLOUR, 494 699 178 7oL From Feb. r, to Feb. 7.--From the Cocket-Offi:c: Sacks. s. d. Sacks. s. o. S,,cics. ~.i. 23 - too o 104 91 o 1026 -- 8 5 4 , 7 --- 96 o 9633 90 0 34 34 6 1 55 0 4 95 0 1 45 8 9 0 so — 8; °' 271 --- 94 o 1 380 88 0 i 1.12 81 et 1120 91 0 3BO 87 o I 377 --8 J a 585 --- 92 o 86 86 *1 - is -- 7 8 * Totd —29,852 Sacks.—Averagt:92s• 4.1. qt• per Saeif.. 3s. aid. higher than last return. • ____.. SEEDS. , Red Clovei(rtew) -t. . ..--s. 6os. to r3os.ctvt. Old ditto . . -.s. 355. to loos. White ditto . - - —s. to 705. tios. do. Rye-Grass . . - --s. 235. to st). quarter. Turnip, White' -; - t - —s. tBs. to 245. od. bush. Red and Green . - 245. od. to 362. . White !Mustard Seed . IoS. od. to i3s. od. Brown ditto .. . - 2os. od. to 2ZS. od. do. Carraway seeds - - .. 6ss. od. to 7os. od Coriander do. - - 355. cd. to 4 .s. „ einque Font - - 765. cd.- to 355. per qr. Tretuil - - - —s. los. to 765. per cwt. Canary - - - 7.,15. to Sos. od. per qr. Oil Cake at the Mdl, 171. i7s. per thouua. d. UXBRIDGE. . . Corn-Inspetor's Return.—'fiturt snAy, I' ze. t 3. \Vheat,pr.ld. 23:. os to 3I I. tot Beans - -5 2 s cd to bee od New do, —I, os to-1...es Rye - —s od to —s od Barley,periv. 4os od to sis od Pease - 56s od to bzs ad Oats ---,---- 34s 0(1 to 40S cd 1 PRICE OF 11()1'5. NEWS VG S . N EW POCKETS. 1 Kent, 31 , os. to St. iis. Kent, 4'. 0.. U) /1. 7s. s iussex, 31. os. to 51. O. Sussex, 41. O. to 61 6i. Est.ex, 31. Os. to 51. i 5;. Farult.on,6l. os. to 101.05._ PRICE ()I. LE. PliElt(iwzr th.) A l' J.EADENHA LI,. Butts, so to• 56 , 1 b. each - • 2lici„ to .244. Ditto, 56 to 661 b. each 2i.1. to z6;l. Nlercl;auts' Backs, • - - . To stressing 11 ides - , - Fine Coach 1-Ib , les, - - _ Crop Hides, 35 to -10,. ( ' or cutting . 1 - 1 :9; 71.. 1. t t t o oc; . 1 :1 4 91 .1 1 : : Ditto, 45 to Soil. - - 19 , 1. to z 1.4. Call Skins, 3o to .4plb. 2 1 3.1. to 32.1. per. lb. • Ditto, ' ,so to 7011). 36.1. to 44,1. per lb: Ditto, 70' to Solt). 36 1. to 4,d. per lb. Small Seals (Greenland) 335. 11, to —s. oki. per Ili. Large ditto, - izos. to 17-:s. per dozen. Goat Skins -- . 345. to (es. p.:l ditto. • Tanned Ilorsellides - 17.1. 2... A. •NE,IVGA D .4,r1R1i.;.. is. By the Carcase. Net' -4,. od. to 53. 41. veal si. oft. to Si. o d. Mutton 43. a(1. to ss. 4 1 . 1 Pak 53. ,to 6i. PRICE °) t T 1.1;9 kV .. • St. f arnes's Mattet 4s. 0 . ' T0wi11a110 , ... , .?t5. 6:1: —s. Clare Market ' 4s. 9,. Vello‘ir ,R,Lisi,v 76i. ad. , Whitechap..Market 4,.,;x.:. \V ire do. , 74; . 'pd. —s. ,41. per stone of 81.4. ------ ~ : o.ip d0..71 , . —s. cd. Nleitmi.v. StoII,04;. cd —s. Ditto rough 4.0 od• 435. Graves 20;. CU. - I(;(1041 ilre?7s 9i. cd. ---. , t: fed, roz.—Lo.rd‘; te63. 925, 4i. 20. Average price 4s. 9 , t I Yellow Soap, 92s. --M; Palm Price of Candles per dozen, o-t.- -\l'l rl ii:`; LIS 01. 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What, he said, he did expedt would have any -weight, but he was Induced to rise, that it might not seem to the world that he and his friends had coniented to it, or that they were not aware of the impropriety of so going into . the subject. The observations made on the folly of their being too backward to shed hurrian; blood, wider circumstances like the present, were, in his opinion miscslaced. The statute, he thought, would be a dead letter with respect to the particular case it was 'framed to meet, while its ell is would he deplored where it was not intended to operate. Mr. BATHURiT defended what he had before ac vanced, and could not agree with the Honourable and Learned Gentleman (Sir S. Ron - idly), that they would not be justified in passing a law making the offence they wished to prevent capital, till the ef fed of transportation could be tried. It was curious to hear the Hon. and Learned Gentleman 'declare the law proposed would remain a dead letter on the Statute Bock, after he had been so pathetically de scribing its probable effects. Sir S. Rommr..v explained ; and, after a few words from Mr. Frankland, and an Hon. Meinber, whose name we' could not learn, Sir S. Romilly moved as an Amendment, that the word " to-mor _ row" should be left out, for the purpose of inserting the word Wednesday." On this the House divided, when the nurnl - rs were,— _ For the Amendment Against it " - Majority - —6 5 The East India Loan Bill was read a third tirne and passed.—Adjourned. • By the Nottingham papers, we are happy to find that the disturbances in that county have decrea-ed, one instance only of outrage having occurred - during the past week. There are one hundred Yeomen of the King's Guard. It is said fifty of them are to be disbanded, fifty being deemed ,ullicient for the duly. - • OXFORD, FEB. 15.—0 n Thursday last, Mr. John Sayer:Poulier was admitted Fellow of Now College. The Rev. flinjamin Cheese,; M. A. Fellow of Bal , ol Coliege, has been appointed Chaplain tth the Dowager Cotintess of Galloway.—On Saturday last, the fol lowing Gentlemen were admitted to degrees : Rev. Theophilus Lt•igh Cooke, M. of Magdalen Col lege.:—Rev. B. Lewes, 8.. A. of Jesus C-11e. , , , •: 0. Piers, of Magdalen Hail, incorporated 8.. A. from the University of Dublin ; Esq of Christ Church, Grand Compounder ; Messrs, W. Read, of St. Edmund Hall ; J. Knight, of Magda len Hall ; J. Brigsiocke, of Jesus College ; r. J. J. Hale, and W. Jackson, of Queen's College; P. John- ; son and T. Hawkins, of Exeter College ; H. HOS.' k 14% - J. N. Rogers, and R. Bill, of Oriel College; P. F. Hinckes, of WOrcester College; R. H. Lucas, of Brazen-nose College; R. G. Baker, of Trioity Col lege ; S. P. Sawe, I. Preston, R. V. Richards, W. Cleaver, Esq. J. Boulger, J. B. Wildman, and J. Hare, of Christ Church ; W. Ford, of University College ; and C. P. Rushworth, of St. John's Col lege. THE CHACE.—Mr. JOLLIBFE'S fox-hounds meet on Saturday, at Brookham-green. The Surrey fox-hounds meet Thursday, at Windraill, Wter ham-road, near Goodham Lodge Wood; Saturday, at Kennel. The harriers meet Thursday and Satur day, at Kennel. The Essex hounds meet te-mor row, at the Green Man, Harlow ; Saturday, at Matching-green. • The Pytchley hounds meet Thurs day, at Brington Hills ; Saturday, at Stow Wood. The Oakley hounds meet to-morrow, at Swines head Wood 4 Friday, at Kempston Wood ; Satur day, at Oak Close. The Quorn hounds meet to morrow, dt Seg.; Hill ; Friday, at Widmere Pool Inn ; Saturday, at Oakley Wood: MERINO SHEEP.-It seems to be generally sup po•ed among the lower order of people, that these animals derive their name from a province of Spain. The following, from a recent work, will set the mat ter right There are in Spain, two species of sheep; the course-Wooiled that do not migrate, but pass the whole of their lives in the country where they are dropped, and are penned in their re-pedive yards or folds; and the fine- woulled, that go regu larly every year from the mountains, where they pass the Summer, to the warm pastures of the Southern parts of the kingdom, as La Mancha, Es tramadura, and Andalusia, and are called merinos or migrating sheep." GENERAL Morizau. —The country seat of this celebrated man, situated near Trenton, New Jersey, was destroyed by fire, With all its valuable furniture, on the 24th of December. The loss is estimated, by the American papers, at 20,900 At a late Cow t, says a Boston paper of the 14th ult. in Philadelphia, there were four" complaints of women, that their hus►rands refused' or negletied to maintain them. In all these cases, orders were is sued for " the seizure of the men's estates, and their delivery to the women I !" The gardener and footman of Jon N WIND eR, E.q. of Vaynor-park, Montgomeryshire, have'beeo c..m 7 mitted for trial on charges of robbing their master's cellar. Having access to a room over the cellar, they had cut a trap-door large enough to obtain en trance, and had fur the last eighteen months been siding High Life below Stairs, after the family re tired to rest. Two hundred and thirty bottles of wine, besides rum and brandy, are ascertained to be missing : a dozen of old sherry was found buried in the garden. On Monday evening last, about half-past seven o'clock, as Mr. Joieph Mycock, a respectable far mer of Slate House, in the parish of Ham, near Ashborne, was sitting by his fire-side, with his wife and two women servants in the same room, some villain fired a gun loaded with two balls through the window, and shot Mr. M. in the right side, and caused his instant death. No clue has been disco vered that is likely to lead to the detetlion of the perpetrator of this horrid deed.—(Siaftbrd Paper.) It has been lately ascertained, that Vinegar will have the eftea of neutralizing Arsenic.—A child, who had accidentally swallowed so►ne arsenic, has been restored, by a timely application of this remedy. A further respite, during pl"asure, has been ex tended to William Hodgson, who was condeinned at the last Volk as,izes. 11'A. . As this iiland has recently been added to the tri pmph4 of British valour, the following sketch of its inhabitants, for which we are indebted to the last number of The Quarterl . 4 - Review, will doubtless be eeceptable to our readers. " The native Javanese are nominally governed by Sovereigns who are the descendants of those Arabs who carried their arms, their commerce, and their .religion, into the East, long bekre any Europeans made their appearance in that quarter. The isla mism which pi evalls, however, is debased by Hin doo superstitions, and the dogmata of the sett i of Vishnu, from whom they affect to be descended.— The Javaneseeof the interior still profess the religion of their ancestors, wear the Hindoo mark in the forehead, and the women of the better cast burn themselves on the' funeral - pile of their deceased husbands. Their Alphabet, however, has no resem blance to the Devanagari either in the form of the letters or in the rdel e sounds. It consists of twenty characters, varied and modified by means of four vowel sounds. Flom an inscription mentioned by Thunberg, it would appear that the ancient Ja vanese wrote from. the right hand to the left. There can be title doubt, however, that antecedent to the invasion of the ,island by the Malays, they had re ceived colonies from Hindostan ; and that both Ma lays and llhrdoos mingled With the native islanders, who, there are many reasons to suppose, were of the srme race as ih se of the South Sea islands. Throughout all P lyneSia there is a mixture of the Hindoo features, colour, and language, with those of tee natives of the Pacific; and South Sea islands. Many words are cot-ninon to both ; but by far the greater hart of the language is Sanscrit. 'rite Javanese are in gerferal well made, with features ptetty regular, the face tallier broad across the forehead, and the nose a little flattened, their complexion a light brown, their hair universally black, which they smear with a profusion of cecoa nut oil ; the women twist - it into a knot on the top of the head, where it is fixed with gold or slver pins and decorated with sweet smelling flowers. They live in mean huts of bamboo, plastered with clay, ar.d thatched with leaves, and their food consists of holed rice, fruits, vegetables, and water. Theirs is a life of unvarying indolence. They: inhabit 'an island so fertile, and'so abundant in every species of grain and fruit for the sustenance of man, th'at no thing but force or necessity compels a Javanese to 'labour. This apathy ought not to be considered as a constitutional disease, or the effet of the - heat of the climate. The Chinese and the Malays are free from it. -It affects the Javanese only. To what . then can it be ascribed but to that hopeless state of penury to which they are clobniedhy the unrelenting despotism of their rulers, and Which affords them no security 'fur, no- enjoyment of, any little property which their labour might accumulate ? The Dutch demanded so much produce to be delivered to them at such a price. They had a resident at the coast of each of the sovereigns of Java to -enforce those de -mands, and generally a' fort which commanded the palace of the Prince. " The country was divided into distriBs, 'over each of which was a chief or' governor, called To magon. It was the duty of these Tornagons to take care that the tull share of the peasants produce was delivered for the use of the smereign, the DutCh, and themselves. What that share was, has not, to our knowledge, any where been stated, but there 'can be no question of its amounting to whatever quantity the uncontrouled despot might find it ex pedient to impose. " A'Javanese prince dreams away his existence. The clay is consumed in' Smoking his hookar wit h the Most placid indifference, while a troop of dancing men and women are supposed toAtford him amuse ment. At other times the females of his zenana relate their long traditionary stories, to amuse the despot with the lotes of the deities, the faithful ser vices of the genii, and the feats and adventures of the ancient heroes and del-M.:gods contained . in 'their Cheritras or sacred books, which are said to bear a very strong resemblance to the E-linded" Puranas.— Sometimes, however, he takes the diversion of ex-. ercising his guard in throwing the javelin. But his . "greatest delight is that of witnessing the fight of a tiger and a buffalo. These wild animals are kept in cages for this purpose, and (heir keepers in turning • them loose exhibit no small degree of courage and dexterity, for the tiger at least is much more dispos cd to attack the man than• the buffalo. The latter requires to be irritated before he has any inclination to fall upon either. This is done by lashing bun with bunches of the urtica stimulans, or buffalo leaf. Another source of amusement is the combat of a tiger and a condemned criminal, 'armed with no other weapon than s a kris of eight or nine inches in length. Nothing can be more cruel ; for should the man have the good fottune to vanquish his ad versary, a second is brought for Ward,, and a third, until his strength is exhausted ) and he is finally de stroyed. " The Javanese women are generally marriageable . at eleven or twelve years of„ age, till which time they go nearly naked, wearing only a belt round the waist with a metal plate in front, rings round the wrist, chains about the neck, and flowers in their black hair, i khining with cocoa-nut oil. Not only all the Dutcti inhabitants of Batavia, from the Go vernor-General downwards, but every description of persons on the whole Island, ate firmly persuaded that many of these women, besides a knowledge °V herbs of wondetful virtues and efficacy - in the cure of - diseases, possess great skill in philtres and fasci, nation. If empiricism is found to thrive in the midst of regular and well-educated practitioners, we cannot wonder that it should succeed where Cis eases are frequent and dangerous, and physicians ig norant and few. Men of sound uneerstanding, to other respects, are the dupes of 'Javanese fascina tion. Mr. Titsiegh is a person wiMse name has been brought forward by Sir William Jones and others in the records of literature ; he long ago'an , trounced to the world. his intention of publishing a , History of Japan, where for many years he was 1 chief of the factory; he was subsequently Direc , for General of the Dutch possessions in the East, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to ti e Emperor of China. (To be continued.)