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LITERARY REVIEW. lIEUDE'S VOYAGE and ANIRNEY overland from IN- DI A. Dile Volume, 4to. illustrated by-Plates. After some very unpleasant occurrences during the passage, the Author arrives at liosheer ; gives bonie intelesting particulars regarding this port, KArt•li, Orlin's, and our trade up the gull ; ant leaving Bussora with a guitie and an Arab iervant o►:ly, comniences his journey overland through the deseri. The first ex►ract we shall make is from the Author's description of a Public Enter tainment in the camp of the Bedouins : " The preparations for the feast were certainly Conducted in a style of profuse hospitality, which I was not prepared to expect. Three or four buffaloes' hides, sewn together, were spread upon the ground, in the midst of the large circle that •had filled the tent, and extending several feet be yond the outer wall. It was easy to perceive, from the grease and filth it was loaded with, • that this delectable t able-clot h had descended as an heir-loom in the family, for many successive generations : the guests, however, approached its wide circum ference with the appetites of hunters pteparieg for the chace. A long train of slaves and servants now appeared, extending from the private tents to the p resence , and each bearing in •Ins hand a mighty trav l loathe!' with coarse black rice, and the legs, beads, and bodies. of many a slaughtered sheep, which I had seen browsing in perfect tranquillity •an hour or two before. I had soon occasion to perceive their skill and care in the cookery was about ereval to the , simplicity of their •manner of serving; :on Large pieces of the ,skin, that had been neglected to flayed, where banging in loose folds or pat...-5. on many a goodly joint ; and the whole appeartd, in truth, as if the animal had been aorn to pieces by the hungry dogs that now •spproached, waiting, at a respectful distance, their expected gleanings of :he feast. • " The whole being quickly arranged, the • Bi,w Allah,' or grace, was pronounced it. an audible voice; and the Chief, dashing his brawny hit iico the nearest leap, set us art exanip cotiStr•tined to follow from pure civili:y, and to avoid :iffence• The utmost silence prevailed for a while, until the Chief, having sati nerl the first cravings of a kern appetite, looked room!, and eneoureged his guests to persevere. I was se unlucky, at this moment, as to attract his at tentiou ; when, observing; nee •at a steed, my stomach being in a very critical unsettled state from all I had witnessed, he seized a remaining head with past of the neck and shoulders hang ing to it, and fast euieg his claws in the cavities of the eyes, divided the morsel in two, and bec koned the to eat. I felt this the concluding stroke to rite sickly feeling that was stealing ever all my faculties : alter an attempt, therefore, I ts•ts ob liged to resign my seat ; and the remaining guests all ►isiog in their tion, i their places were supplied by some inferior company, that was only entitled to appear at the concieston of the feast. " these also were withdrawing, the servants handed water round (as before (linnet) to wash nor hands; and the hungry curs, that had been kept off with diliicuity,now rushed in with ea- Dine fereeiy, attacking the bones, the wooden trays, (Ind the hide itself. In a morpeot every thieg was clear ; and coffee being handed round to -all the guests, (the youth standing up respectfully behind his father, as during the whole of the en tertatiment, and presenting him with the cup,) we smoked the partio,o pipe, and prepared to menet. Stranger, sahi the Chief to me at parting, (as it was interpreted), I understand [boil art a servant of the great Aly's. Thou art come a wcary dangeroes pilgrimage, ouch art 'arrived in the day of stiite. Mien thou art presented to the Pasha, (as, God being willing, thou shalt reach Bagdad i►i safety, with the assistance of my guides,) tell bun thou has( dwelt with the Montifies at Coot, in arms, and for the support of his cause, God being willing ! for be is great, the son of the mighty Solytnan not bend to a Georgian slave ; Sapid Pasha accompanying the word with one of those motions it was not easy to misunderstand. Sayud Pasha, is the Pasha of the Mout ifies." lie coecledes this part with a brief his tory of these Bedouins; and !peaking of that tract, tA!;i:::h is supposed to Lave bean assigned to man before his fall, he says : " At 8 A. M. we crossed a rivulet, emptying itself into the Euphrates. It flaws on the boundary of the original abode of fallen man. Alas-! • how changed this paradise ! It is nott a barren waste, that scarcely produces a scaly), crop of the coarsest grain." The entire period of our author's wanderiugs in the desert amongst the Bedouins, his meeting and descrip tion of their army, are equally interesting. lie • visits Babylon, devotes an entire chapter to his friends in the desert, to the manners and habits of their lives, and reaching Begdad during the height of the contest, gives (no doubt) a very ac cura'e accOnut of occurrences during the siege ; with a brief review of the history of Bagdad, and the deposition and death of Saynd Pasha, whose head he afterwards accompanies to the capital. We shall reserve all notice of onr author's jone hey into Koordistan, were he seems to have pe netrated farther than any other European before himself, for some future opportunity. The examinations before the Secret Committee o f t h e H o i tse o f Commons, for enquiry into the state of the Bank, terminated on F►iday. The importance of the subject., and the extent of the. evidence, will of course require much time and delW.eration befdre the Report can be presented. The result is expected with much anxiety by all classes in the City of London. In the lionse of Lords' Committee, the exam►nations arc not yet efuicludtl. Li the Rolls of Parliament, A. D. 1445, is a Peti,ion from the Commons of two Conwies in England, stating, that the number of Atiornies had lately increased from six or eight to twenty-four, whereby the peace of those counties had been greatly interrupted by suits. The Commons there fore petition, that it Indy be ordained that' there shah he no more than six common Attornies for Norfolk, the same number for Suffolk, and two for tic Ci:c of Norwich. Any other person ac►- ing as an ..,ttorney, to forfeit twenty shillings ! D I A. The Speech delivered by Mr. CANNING, in the Horse Of Commons, on the 4th instant, gave so ,satisfactory an account of the origin of the late War in India, and afforded so complete a justifi cation of all the operations of our armies-in . -that iin,luter, that the Directors of the Ea;Mndia‘' Company, with a !amiable desire of convincing the people of this country that it was not aggressive on on r part, but rendered. expedient by self. detince, and the imperious necessity of vin dictive justice, have published that Speech at their 'own expence. This Speech, which is le- commended by the simplicity and energy of truth, presents a bt ref but comprehensive statement of the perfidy of our Allies, the horrors inflicted by the Pindarries, the %fuse policy of the measures adopted by the Marquess of HASTINGS, and 50 fully acquits the Company of all desire of territorial ext ension, farther than has been render- rct ticcessary in consequence of the treachery of tome of the native Powers, that it cannot but be highly gratifying to the nation. With respect to Sir TnomAs HtSLOP, from the character of that Officer, we have no doubt that he will fully vindicate lig condtict, and we may presume to agree %vial the eloquent Speaker, that it %vas not possible that the Marquess of H ASTI NGS would have expressed his approbation of that conduct, unless it was founded on the most honourable princi ples. We shall therefore present,to our Readers that part of the Speech. which relate: to the gal 7 lane Officer in question, persuaded that farther information will justify an entire confidence in the rectitude of his proceedings. • " I mentioned in the e!:lier part of my Speech, that o ne of the first results of Sir Thomas Ilis• lop's ric:tory over Holkar was au Order issued by that Chick', and intrusted to Sir T. Hit-lop, for the sort ender of certain fortresses to South of the River Nerbudda. Amongst t)e fortresses so on!: red to be surrendered to Sir 7 . Itas His lop, was that of Taloier. At that p' • an event occurred which is related in the r:; before the House, and the oartienlars o uu rlt i: is not necessary for tne to repeat. In thofe Papers the Hoose is possessed of all the inform , ,tiot, which the East India Company or the Gov iment have received no this subject. With tha, information neither the East India Company nor the Govern ment are satisfied. The roily course which, under these circumstances, could be adopted, was to send instructions to the Government of India to transmit to England the most ample information, and to institute, if necessary, the most minute in gaily. lam very far from admitting that be cause there has been an omission in sending home sat istactory documents, we are therefore to con elude that the transaction is not Justifiable. The inference must be the other way t'st, from l the character of a British Officer ;secondly, m the . individual character of this Officer, whom {though I am not myself acquainted w ,. 1) him), 1 understood to be eminently entitled to waise, not more for his professional talents than tor his ab low en ce of every thing cruel or severe. We have further in support of this irifeeence, two separate approvals of his condo'ct by the Mar ques,. of Hastings, conveyed in the most unquali fied terms. It is impossible to imagine any in terest or. effect ion that could have induced Lord Hastings to slur over a transaction which in his conscience he thought deserving of blame. I say this the more confidently, because instances have occurred in the course of this campaign which prove that, however anxious Lord Hastings is to bestow praise where praise is merited, he knows his duty too Well to withhold blame from those who have justly incurred it. Those •instances it would be unfair to mention ; but I can asssure the Horse that such are in my possession. " When the dispatch which contains the ac count of the capture of Talneir was transmitted in the military department of the official corre spondence, it came Unaccompanied with any civil details whatever. I felt some reluctance in mak ing the hare military statement public, but I thought the plain -course to pursue was, to deal with this dispatch . .as other dispatches of a mi litary nature had been dealt with ; looking for ward confidently to the arrival of the details which were wanting to give the transaction its true colour. " Those Gentlemen who take an interest in Indian affairs must know how uncertain corre spondence is with that part of the world. 'l here have been--there still are—great chasms in the correspondence respecting the late campaign.— In last Saturday's Gazette is an account of oc currences which took place not less than a year and a half ago : it is not the fault of the Govern ment that the intelligence of them did not arrive sooner. And here it may possibly he expedient for we to state, by the way, why dispatches, of which the general interest is gone by, are never theless inserted in the Gazette. The reason, Sir, is this Front the intense and laudable eagerness with tvhich military liononts are sought tor, it is ,necessary that those services by which such Ito . - nours may be merited should be publicly record ed. Public record being made—and wisely—an indispensible condition of the grant of those ho nours, it would he hard to run the risk of invali dating any OfEeer' title to them hereafter, by keeping back altogether-the notification of ser vices, the official report of which might have happened to Cie delayed. " - return to Sir Thomas Hislop : his dis patch arrived in Angus? ; the approbation of the Marquess of Hastings, though dated only a fort night after that dispatch, did not arrive till, the 27th of November. The details of a complete justifi,atioa nay be now on their way. " In this imperfect state of evidence three modes of proceeding presented thernr,clves to Government. The first was, to withhold re-1 dioneration altogether two.' the set ViCCS of j the Milian army till this point should be cleared up ; hut no man who knows the spirit and temper of armies in general, and the composition of the Indian army in particular, would recommend a course so ungrateful. and ungracious. The next was to grant to other deservers the - proper honorary rewards, omit ting the name of the Commander under whom the most-considalable, vietoly had, been gained— ' the name of him in whose praise the letters trot; India were lavish : but such an exception would have placed on his character a stamp of obloquy too deep to he effaced by any subiequent atone ment. The last course was, to include hint with the body of Officers to whom military honours were due ; still, however, expeciing and requir .ing at a future period a satisfactory explanation of this particular part of his conduct.—=lt the House shall be of opinion that the Executive Government have not judged amiss in the choice which they hare made between these three modes. of proceed ing, the House will, perhaps, so far countenance and concur with their decision, as to vote its thanks for military service to Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Hislop, in common with his brave com peers in glory; and to he contented with enter ing, at the same time, a special record of its own suspended judgment on this particular transaction. " I admit the reasonableness of such a record, • on the grounds which I have stated; though I feel that, standing in my situation, it would hardly be becoming in me to propose what that record shall he. To join it with the Vote of Thanks it self, when every end can be obtained by a sepa rate Resolution, would be as harsh as unneces sary :--unnecessary, since the suspension of judgment of the House may be sufficiently marked without such a junction;—and,harsh, because the Vote of Thanks will be placed on the regimental books, and read in front of every military line in India. This,. I am ready to confess, would not be too ievere a course if the transaction were finally to.,ae imprinted with a character, such as, 1 trust, it never can assume : hut what would be the feelings of Sir Thomas Hislop and of his comrades, if such a censure were sent forth, in ignorance here, to be read before an audience in India, who might well know that it - had not been deserved ? " I trust, then, that the House will allow the name of Sir Thomas Hislrq) to stand in my second Resolution of T hanks, without any phrase of qua lification ; and in return, if any Gentleman shall propose a separate Resolution of the description which I have ventured to suggest, I shall think that by assenting to such Resolution 1 best dis charge my duty to the House, to the Indian Army, and to Sir Thomas Hislop himself." LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS D.Y. [Morning Chronicle.] Extract of a Letter from Frankfurt, dated March 16, 1819. M. de Stourdza, author of the famous pamphlet upon the Universities of Germany, has been challenged by two students of Jena, to which he answered in French, "that having written, thought, and given to the Press the pamphlet in question, by command of the Emperor of Russia, he could not fight a duel without asking leave of his master." Upon which the two young men answered, "As M. de Stourdza has declared that be wrote, thought, and printed the pam phlet by command, he has consequently declared himself to be a writing, thinking, and plating machine, and they with draw their challenge." The Prussian Minister at the Diet, Count Goltz, is dis graced, and it is said that Baron Altenstein will he nomi nated in his place. Count Goltz made known by mistake, in one of the Sittings of the Diet, a private note addressed to him by his Cabinet, which threw a light upon a great many existing plans of Prussia, and gave some hints of her future one!. This gave rise to a very warm debate, upon which he teceired his dismissal. It is rumoured, that the seat of the Diet will be changed from Fran Wort to Nlanheim. The affairs of Bavaria and Baden are not yet settled. None of the Ministers of this Committee have received instruc tions from their Government; so that, excepting Lord Clan carty, none of them knew what business they were sent here for. They hare bad some conferences together, and have declared that they had no instructions what to do. You will see by this that the Governments are playing with us. However, the thirst for liberty is daily increasing in Germany, and the number of Ministerial adherents decreas ing. Bavaria has set us a very good example:and I have no doubt that we shall obtain a victory over our Governments. Count Boulay de la Meurthe resides here at present, hav ing received permission from the Prussian Government to re side where he pleased. There is a report that Prince Eugene de Beauharnois has been in Paris in strict is cog. It is said that h was int►o auced to the King, and that he had several interviews with some of the Ministe'rs.-,-(Bid.) An order has been sent to the Custom-House at Dover, to pay the most respectful attention to the Persian Ambassador and his suite—so the Fair Circassian will avoid seach, and will nut even be visible.—(lbid.) [Morning Herald.] The exposition of the Aetna' state of the Navy by Lord. Melville and Lord Liverpool, in the House of Lords, on Friday, is peculiarly gratifying at the present moment. It is our great bulwark against all the world; but most espe cially against America ; and the ambitious cupidity,, arro gance, and national spirit of that power, has justly awakened the attention, if not the fears of this country. For our own parts, we regard the acquisition of the Floridas rather as an event that envelopes the views of America, rather than as a formidable accession of positive strength. Nothing can be clearer, from the publications that issue from the American press—from the speeches in the American Assez2blies—from the march of the American Government, and the character of the nation, than that their first essay of war or politics will be to dislodge European power altogether from the northern continent. But we do not look upon their means as prospec tively so alarming as it scents to strike some of our contem poraries. On the contrary, the more the northern and southern extremes of that extensive EMpire increase in po pulation, wealth, and trade, the more will the United Federation he placed at our mercy. So strong is the aoutlict of interests, even already, that an ambitious and daring leader might, without rashness, attempt to sever the Republic—and it will be remembered that, some years since, such a project was entertained. Nl' thing therefore need be feared from the-maturity of this in. fant giant. But our Navy should be maintained in a condi tion adequate to meet, and to subdue any aggression on the part of America. The war with that Power should be essen tially naval. Even in Europkwe hare reasons for looking to our maritime power. France, it appears, by Budget of the present year, has demanded a considerable sum ill - to restore her Naval force ; and Russia, that a short lime since bad scarcely a flag at sea, is nuw becoming a ili a. titian as well as military nation. .[The Times.] The origin of the intelligence, happily proved to be false. ; of the destruction of the city of Messina by an earthquak e, appears now to he explained. A ca l a mity of that description appears actually to • have visited Sicily; hut its rarag eg ' though sufficiently dreadful, have not been of so important, a nature. A letter from Palermo of the 4th instant, received on Saturday, contains the following particulars:--" WC have had most dreadful weather here these last 14 days' with three heavy shocks of an earthquake, which l's' " De much mischief on the south-east part of the island,throbVic; down churches and destroying whole villages. Much damask has also taken place among the shippin g; b u t I am haPPY ° say that nothing of any consequence has happened here. Letters from Messina of the 3d, and from Naples of the9t h ° were also received ; but though they remove all d' u : bis i r a e i r specting the safety of Messina, th e y con t a i n no ra ft." I • of the devastation mentioned.in the Palermo letter. [British Press.] gall' yorU! We understand Charles Winn, Esq. of Nostal ht shire, will shortly lead to th e Hymeneal altar the 43125 " - of Sir W.lliam Strickland, Bart. THEATRICAL REGISTER' Performed on Saturdcq( Plight . .THEATRE. ROYAL, DUI RY.L A NE. The D that strest W Orestes, Mr. Kean ; Andromache, Mrs. Glove r• A A 71 ( 71: which, The Rival Soldiers. To which s;as ari d" time), The Castle of ntlerg. isr" THEATRE ROYAL. Cov Vi ENT-GAnnE4.---Tbe Clande stor- , tiage : Lord 04Ieby, Mr. W. Farren Miss Ste rling' C. Kentl:le. After which, Cyinon. ; • PRICE . OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWF.I,VE o'CLOCH• ~f . 51 01 per Cent, fled. shut B an k L ong Annuities.e.4s, pr . per Cent. Cons .. 741-1 ' India 80nd5..... O s' ss. rlis. 31 per Cent ... shut' Exch. Bills, 2th... 05 ' .740 •• 4 per Cents shut I Cons. for Account ,. per Cent.. Navy Ann 104 MAILS. , flani lersll Attrttvgli—'Z Dublin, ?Water ford, 1 Hamburglis ' jerselt I France, 1 Lisbon, 1 Malt a . DuE-1 Guernsey au I Sweden, 1 Hamburg!), OW• 4 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO•N a g iter "" Morning, 20 minutes after 5. Evening, 45 miners Ti :E si p" N. SOLEM QUIS MCI:RE FALSUM AUDE.A. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1819 We' received yesterday the Paris P a pers 0f Thursday last. Those of Friday, which were da c this .morning, have not arrived. On Wednesday the Chamber of Deputies ba d public sitting, at which, after several petitions ha ° been reported, the discussion was opened oo the each dc' projet for opening auxiliary books in partment for inieriptions in the great book o f tbe public debt, or, in other words, for oPenin,g c ili k tu ,, Stock Exchange in each . department, f or tra . ij - ing in 5 per cents, in the same maPo er as p pegged Bourse at Paris. This projet was strol i g l Y ° " and odi by M.PosTET, M.de la BouanoNNAO' to on the ground, arnongst others, of it s tending ( e introduce an injurious spirit of gambli n g into b y departments ; and was supported by AL nrcag d; the Marquess de itiosTcAtum, and o thers , on to ground of its tending to support. public credit' to increase circulation, and to afford fac ilitie9 the persobs who wished to purchase reotes for or sake of permanent income. The din ner 11 %. having nearly arrived, the discussion w rs as a journed till Thursday ; and the Chamber ad.Purto--: fz oo , ed also, after resolving itself into a Secr et C(' • A mttee, for the purpose of receiving a P rb P °' a ds made by M. LAFITTB, to pray the NING ° ors thorize the Bank of France to divide a O r of 25,041 , francs amongst the proprietors °I 133 Stock; onc ii of The King 'on Wednesjay •11e1(1 3 Cc- g to Ministers. His Majesty s'Ctil con&oed his apartments. There is a curious contradiction in tb eBe 2 ° , l l l nals respecting the PERSIAN AMBASSADOR. ted, 1 ' them of Wednesday, as we stated, a sset ; direct opposition to each other, that he hat l ' an lie had not received his passports, and that' was, and he was not about to proceed to Loa n" ' all th e whilst •a Journal of Thursday say s that difficulties respecting etiquette had been arranged' (0 the and that his Excellency was to be Presented King early in the present week. CANTILLON and Maattslaer,ebarged withatteroPt" ing to assassinate the Duke of WaLLINGTorg, Were removed on Tuesday to the Conciergerie. An article from Rome mentions t he arrival flier*, on his way to Naples, of a Spa nish Courier, who stated that FERDINAND VII. had confirnied the w ill of his Father, CHARLES IV. so far as related to the bequests in favour of the domestics of the latter' but that he would c onsider all the rest of it as null. Tlt- will, it scents, was dictated by CHARLES 01' and written in the pretence of the Spani6h INV," 1 1 t I I', ci 1