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I I f ...._ ~` ~ ~ ' ~:.. *0 4 44 /7 _• tr iei S ()L'iititt) N. NUMBER 9923. FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1824. PRIVE SEVENPENCE. ROYAL ACADEMY, SONIERSE r PLACE. THE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACA DENIY is now OPEN. Admission (from Vl;lit o'Clock till Seven), is. Catalogue. is. HENRY HOWARD, R.A. Sec. VICTUd LI ING-OFFICR, Jane 5, 1844. THE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING His MAJESTY's NAVY, 4-e. do hereby give Notice, that they will be ready to receive Tenders in Writing (sealed tip), and addressed to them, on Friday, the th July next, from such Persons as nay be willing to con tract for CONSTRUCTING a RESERVOIR, to contain Wa ter, at a place called Ilewis's Field, near Plymouth; and for Providing and Laying a Line of CAST IRON PIPES Awn thence to the Naval Hospital at Stonehouse, and on to Cremill Point ; agreeably to Plans, Specifications, and Form of Tender, to be seen at this Offite, and at the Offset of Commissioner Crryke, at Plymouth Hospital. No regard will be had to any,Tender that is not made agreeable to the prescribedArnt, nor will any Tender he re ceived for performing part of the 'roe: only, but a P, n e muse be inserted against every article. Each Tender must be delivered to the Board before ale • o'clock on the said Friday, the 9th July next, and the Per son who makes the Tender, or some Person on iris behalf, must attend to answer when called fyr. Each Tender must be acco»tpanied by a Letter, signed by two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Party tendering, in the Penal Sum cf 2,5001. for the sine performance of the Contract. M. frALLER CLIFTON. FOUR OF £20,009, ALL IN ONE DAY. . GCARROLL announces the present Scheme • with pleasure and confidence, being aware that ONE DAY LOTTERIES have ever been favourites with the Public, who like to have the fate of their Numbers decided as promptly as possible.—The present Scheme contains 2 -of £20,050... £40,100 10 £3OO £3,000 2.. 20,000.. 40,000 14 220 3,080 2 ... 2,050... 4,100 20 lOO ' 2,000 4 1,000... 4,000 4 4 4O 1,630 4 510... 2,0 t 0 ALL MONEY, All to be drawn in One Day, sth OCTOBER, on which day the Chance of every Ticket and Share will be decided. • There are NO BLANKS, for every Number is sure to receive Five Pounds at least. Purchasers have now the cheapest opportu nity of taking a Chance for Four P r izes of £20,000 ever pre sented to the Public. Schemes, with every particular, may be had gratis at CARROLL'S Lucky Offices, 11, Cornhill ; 26, Oxford-street ; and 7, Charing Cross. The Four Twenty Thousands in the present Scheme will no doubt remind the Public that it was at Carroll's Offices that FOUR Prizes of £20.000, ONE .of £lO,OOO, and 26 other Capitals, were Shared and Sold in the short space of Three Months. FOR ROTTERDAM. With a BAG of LETTERS front the POST-OFFICE. THE KING of the NETHERLANDS, Steam Packet, Captain JOHN SLATER, will proceed from off the Custom-house everySttlurday Morning, at Eight o'Cloek, returning hum Rotterdam every Wednesday Morn ing, with Passengers, Carriages, and Luggage. The Pruptiutors beg to announce to the Public they are siow building a Second Ve'sel, which will be got ready with all possible dispatch to afford the aceonnuntlation of a eon , veyance twice in every week between London anti Rot terdam. For further particulars, and to secure places, applicAtion to be made at the General Packet Office, 858, Strand ; ur at the Steam Packet Office, No. 37, Crutched Friars. LONDON REPOSITORY for the CABINET AIAKE RS' SOCIETY, for every Description of CABINET FURNI TURE, FEATHER BEI) and MATTRESS MANU FACTORY, No. 71, Corner of LEADENHALL STREET, London, opposite Aldgate Pump.-Ready Money Only. TII E Society of Cabinet-Mak e rs resp e ctf u lly inform the Public that they still continue the above Establishment, for the Benefit of Industrious Mechanics who have large Familes, by offering them Manufactured Articles in the Cabinet Line, of the best Workmanship, and Cheaper than any House can do in London by twenty-fiv e p er cent ., there being no other profit required on the Goods but the bare house expenses; at the same time will be sufficiently satisfied with haying constant Employment for themselves and families. This Society was Established in June, 1821, consisting of 20 Mechanics, adding the number of their Wives and Fami lies, amounted to 66 ; in June, 1819, five more were added to the Society; in June, 1820, 10; and in June 1821, 8. The total Number now receiving Support through the Means of this Establishment is 191. The Society and their Families beg leave to return their sincere thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have hitherto honoured them with their Orders and Recommenda tions, and shall always feel happy in their endeavours to give future satisfaction ; at the same time solicit a Continuance of their Benevolence, whereby they may be enabled to increase the Number of the Society. The following Articles are inserted as a Specimen of the very Low Prices, all warranted..-Ready Money only. Full size Mahogany four-post Bedstead, lath bottom 31. 15s. -Full size tent Bedstead 11. 65.-Bordered hair Mattress to tit 11. Is.-Mahogany Drawer, solid ends 31.35.-... Feather Bed 21. 10s.-Ditto, free from dust and smell, full size 31. 10s.- Six japanned Chairs of any description in oil 11. 65.-Best do. 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Translated from the French of NIAJENDI E. Syciitni Edition, wit h numerous Alterations and Additions, By ROBLEY DLINGLISON s &c. P: init.(' for Thomas and (icorge Undet wood, NO. 3e, Fleet' street. STRICTURES CURED BY AN INTERNAL. 11'.1)ICINE. This 1);ty was imbli,Ned. By Callow and Wilson, Princes-street, Soho, and Sold he all Booksellers, The Third Edition, enlorced, price Is. PRACTICAL 0 I.3Sgil VATIONSonSTRIC TURE, and other DISE ASE. 4 of the URETHRA, describing an effectual Mode of Cure by Hn Internal Nledi clue, and proring the application of instruments unneces sary, anti generally nroduet;ve of injury. Illustrated by Cases; and on the Origin, Symptom'. and Treatment of Dis etise in the rteLl By WILLIAM RENO[', I,:;:the•r of the Royal Coliege of Surgeons, London. rtuiu the difficulty of the Chemical Process in the Campo• sition of the• Iteu►edy (the effects of %%hid) are delelibed in the cases contained in the Work), it cannot be dispensed by prescription, or in the usual course of business. For the accommodation of the Faculty and of persons residing abroad or in the country, the NTedicine is sold in !m ad. o f ( .1 ae . otch, by Mr. Gant" ' Chefilitt, 104, Str►nd. The immense wealth of Mr. Bowes, father of the late Countess of Strathmore, arose in great part from his mines in Durham. Ile paid in tithe to the rector of one parish an equitable modus of 7001. per annum. The living, exclusive of this, was worth only 100/. The rector becam e co vetous of a larger modus, and demanded 1,0001. per annum. Mr. Bowes desired a few days to consider tho matter. In the interim he sent for his head miner, and gave him orders to shut up the shaft then in use, and to open one in the next parish, where was a very poor living.— Ile then sent word to the covetous man that the shaft was shut up, and should never be opened while the living was held by him. A man of the name of Charles Callaghan, re siding at Mountshannon, was returning fron► the fair of Tomgreany, on Saturday ,week. When passing through the village of Scariff, county of Clare, a number of people were assembled in the streets, and the man, being somewhat inebriated, said that he was an •Orangeman. Immediately a ruffian from the crowd rushed forward, and struck him with a two-handed club, twice over the ear, which fractured his skull, and the poor man instantly expired. An in quest was taken on the body by Thomas Samp son, Esq., which was adjourned three times, to produce evidence, and afford every facility to the fullest investigation. On examining a number of witnesses, the Jury agreed to the following verdict—" That the deceased came by his death in consequence of two blows of a two banded club, which he received on the head, and broke his skull ; and that James Moron'', of Clonesker, is , the man suspected of the murder." A duel has been fought in New Orleans be tween a sexton and a grave-digger, in conse quence of a dispute on the subject of grave making. The grave-digger was twice wounded before the combat ended; but not so dangerously as to make him an immediate tenant of one of his own houses. BIOGRAPHICAL sKETcn OF AN OLD INDIAN CHAPLAIN. O THE F!DITOR OF TIM ORIENTAL HERALD. MAY 14, 1824. Sr n,—l beg leave to offer you some account, such as can now be recovered, of a scholar, who cultivated science in British India several years before Sir William Jones introduced to that injured, ill-governed, but now growingly.interesting portion of the globe, what may be not improperly termed a new intellec tual era. Nor can one contemplate the tendency of liberal pur suits to form those minds which shall successfully advocate human rights and promote a practical kriowledge of human duties, without being ready to apostrophize a retarder of human improvement, an ,Atiamite Governor of any country, one of those who " meanly seek the blessing to confine," in the glow ing and indignant language of the bard—. Fond impious man, think'st thou yoteitinguine cloud Rais'd by thy breath has quench'd - thgewb of day ? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood, - • And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Some of your readers, who, like myself, have seen many a summer's sun, may recollect the public interest excited by the as loss of the Aurora frigat e , w hi c h wee carrying out to India , in 1760, Mr. Vansitt.art and his colleaguits supervisor s o f the Company's affairs. In that vessel, " navete.atusis et virtue:" inimica, t ' sailed William Falcone:. author of tneetahipiereck, the story of where utc teas deservedly engaged the attention of several biographers. Of another voyager, to whom I hare re. ferret!, who at the same time unconsciously embarked for " that bourn from which no traveller returns," I stn not aware of any biographical notices, except a few in the third volume of Mr. Duneombe's '" Letters by several Eminent Persons deceased," published in 1773. There arc live letters from the Rev. W. Mine, F.R.S. ; to these, with the editor's notes - . and the Philosophical Transactions, I am indebted for the following account. William Hirst was " the eldest son of the Rev. Die Hirst," chaplain to the Earl er Halifax, who, in 1740, was presented to the rectory of Bengeo and Sacombe, near Hertford. where he died in 1760. Th e son " was educa ted at St. Peter's Col lege, Cambridge," and there took his Master's degree.' In 1754, he was probably residing at Romney, near London, as his first communication to the Royal Society', of which he became a Fellow in 1755, is dated from that village. lie was now a chaplain in the navy, and in that capacity he tifled, im mediately after the earthquake in 1755, to Lisbon, the ruins of which he described in a drawing executed on the spot. In 1739, he embarked fo r Indi a , a s chaplain of the Lenox, in the squadron under Admiral Cornish, .to whom he was secretary. The squadron anchoring at Madeira, May 2, Mr. Hirst found th at i s l an d to b e " a very fertile spot, but the generality of the inhabitants poor," because " lammed with swarms of idle priest s a n d mon k s , mere d rones , who Hve upon the h oney of the hive." Here he observed, and described to a friend in England, " a comet in the constellation Crater, from its great southern latitude," probably '! not vi s ibl e i n E ng l an d , as it dis appeared before it made any considerable progress to the north ward." The " next rendezvous was St. A.ufzustine's Bay, on the west side of the island of Madagascar," where he spent more titan a fortnight. It appeared to be " a very line island, productive not only of the necessaries but even of the deliceteiee of life." The following conclusion of Mr. Khrss l ettll'fli - h" L e nox, Off' Madag a s car friend, Mr. Thencombe, dated Sept. 6, 1759," may deserve to be quoted entire, as the re marks of an intelligent observer on a country which has been lately-brought to the notice of your readers. Madagascar is divided into a number of petty kingdoms er states, the largest of which is that of Breams, which (as the na tives informed me) abounds with gold mines, as does the .king dom of Volambo with those of silver: - And there is great rea son to credit this assertion • for the teeth of many of the sheep and other cattle, killed on board our ship, were so much cover ed with a metalline scale as to resemble teeth of brass. This the miners are said to look upon as an infallible indication of a mine being under the surface, on which such cattle grase. will not answer for the infidithility or this trial, but ant sure it is more consistent with reason than the idle tales of the diein. ing rods. In the first volume of the learned Bocrhaave's Elements of Chemistry (part ii. p. 22), I met with the followinv obseiva. tion ; the author, treating of gold, ssys, "In Madagascar there is a very soft sort, which runs like lead with a gentle fire," for the truth of this he refers to Placourt's History of the Island of Madagascar (0.49). I have not this book, yet have often observed a large button of a yellow cast, like those which the Dutch wear on their breeches, tied by way of ornament, to the crown - of the Madagascar princes' heads. This I found was remarkably soft, whiekmade me think it was base metal, but they all affirmed it wax fine gold. • I shall pention•but one circumstan ce more to corroborate the above opinion; not far from Tent Ro,:k in St. Augustine's Bay, in the King of Baubau's dominions, is a mineral spring, which also affords reason to suspect that there are tunics of sortie sort or other in its neighbourhood, However, our Eu ropean Mammon has not yet set foot on this rich soil ; for Ile, according to Milton, first taught men to value gold : By him first Men also, and by his suggestion taught, • Ransack'd the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth, Fur treasures better hid. t In a letter to Mr. Fazakerly, dated " off Cape Comorin, Nov. 18," Mr. Hirst thus further describes Madagascar:- 1I e found the shore, for some miles near the sea, surrounded by some mountains of sand, and saw not a foot of earth all the time we were there ; but the natives say there is a very tine rich soil in the inland countries." There were alligatms, and " tigers, who often leave the print of their feet on the sandy beach ;" also " many bats, so large that some of them measured more than three feet from the extremities of the wings." These were seen " towards the evening, flying over the valleys in great flocks." Our voyager procured. slats a chumelion, " and a crea ture called a macawk, of a very harmless nature, and easily tamed. Its shape was between a monkey and a squirrel, but not at all mischievous ; its tail very long and beautiful, and diversified with rings of black and white." Mr. Hirst found at Aladagascar 4 , no priests, the chiefs dim charging the offices of religion themselves." When these great personages, he remarks, " are at variance, they come to • a reconciliation by d r i n ki ng together seven spoonfuls of bAllock'e blood, and for differences of long continuance they drink seven drops of their own blood." The editor adds, that " the cere mony which . Drury meutions as the usual ratification of treaties, is the roasting the liver of an ox, which is put on lances, and eaten with-imprecations by the princes, or their ambassadors." Joined Admiral Poco c k," now prot m eded fral " Co to r Ti is ll l ich h e a rt vi y u f' Mr. Hi rst was afterwards present at the sieges of Vellore, and Pondicherry, in 1760 and 1761. In the early part of the latter year, he appears to have resided at Madras, front whence he dates his second communication to the Royal Society. The philosophers of Europe Were now preparing to advance the great objeets of astronomical science, by observations on the expected transit of Venus; which according to the calculations of Kepler in 1626, and the later c A lent at i o ,, o r D r. Ha n ey, would appear in 1761. This phenomenon was first observed, Nov. 24, 1639, at Hool, a village about fifteen miles to the north, of Liverpool, by Jere miah Horn); a native of Toxteth, near that town, educated at 2 Emanuel College, Cambridge. Ile w a s a young astronoster of extraordinary attainments, who died in 16 4 1, a t th e age of 2, just as he had finished his " Venus in Sole visit," published by flevelius in 1662. Mr. Ilorrox, relying on the tables of Kep ler and L.ansbergius, had exactly calculated the clay on which this transit would be visible. These calculations he communi cated to his friend, Win. Crabtree, of Broughton, near Man chester, another early accomplished but too short lived astro nuttier. Mr. Crabtree, invited to his Urancan banquet, very • An account of a Fire Ball seen at liornsey, communicated in a letter to Samuel head, Esq. F.H.S. See Phil. Trans. p. 11. 773; No. 91. t This View of Madagascar, as possessing the precious metals, the Editor, Mr. Duncombe, confirms from an " account pub. fished in 1729, by Hobert Drury, who being shipwrecked on the south side of that island, lived there a slave fifteen years." CrutweU, in his Gazetteer, says, that " there are in Madagas car three sorts of gold ;" though he instances only " the coun try gold, 6114 nutlacassa, pale, anti as easy to be cast as lead: an ounce of which is worth no more that 20 florins." readily complied with his friend's request, and these two were the only persons in the world who observed this transit the first time it had ever been viewed by human eyes."' In 1761, the observations were numerous, no less than. ten being on record in England alone. Mr. Hirst made an observation, probably the only one at tempted in the East, June 6, 1761, at the Government House at Madras, where he was assisted by the Governor, afterwards Lord Piget. The result, he communicated in a letter to Lord Macclesfield, President of the Royal Society.t He afterwards complained" of the mutilated manner in Which his account was inserted, in particular of the omitting his observations of the equal altitudes, and tneridianal transits for regulating his time keeper, and his reasons for concluding that Venus had no satellite, as had been suspected by M. Cassini, and the late Mr, Short" 4: " In Slarch, 1762, Mr. Hirst was appointed chaplatt to the factory at Calcutta, by the favour of Mr. Vansittart, Governor of Bengal, and resided there in general esteem." In Novem ber that year. he communicated to Dr. Birch, Secretary of the Royal Society, " an account of an earthquake at Chattignon, in the region of Islantabad„kpril 2, 1762 ; il a sular eclipse, observed at 011yzotty, on the banks of the Ganges ; and a lunar one at Calcutta. In December, 1764, he embarked for Eng land, with his Ir:end Governor Vansittart, to whom he gives unqualified _commendation for " honour and sagacity, con. vinced " that llfenetnepte tekel tipharsin. will nes-a. De pronounc ed against him, not even in fur° conscientix." Of Mr. liirsesoccupations, after his return to England, there is no account till June 3, 1761 ; he then undertook again to make an observation on the transit of Venus. His friend Gover nor Vansittart was now his assistant, as Governor PigOt had been at Madras. The result was communicated to the Royal Society by Dr. Maskelyne, the astronomer royaL T To the Hint clmrtributed "an account of several phenomena observed during the ingress of Venus into the sager ascribing;discrina letter to the astronomer royal."' A few days after he commun i cate d to hi s f r i e nd, Mr. Duncombe, his de sign of r eturn i ng to I n di a , as c h a pl a in to the commissioners, his acceptance of the appointment to his connexions with 3lr. Vansittart. " I thought (he adds) to have spent the remainder of my days in Old England, under my own vine, and under my own fig-tree, but cliis aliter vistent est, and I must submit. Adieu, therefore, all th oug h ts o f domestic life ! Adieu the domus et placens n.ror !" Sept. 30, Mr. Hirst bade a final adieu to England. -1-t The last of his five letters, and probably the lastletter he ever wrote, is dated " Dec. 19, 1769," and addressed to his friend, Mr. Fazakerly, from " the Dutch town at the Caps of Good Hope," from whence he expected to sail in two days. On the voyage he had " felt his ruling passion" for the advance ment of astronomical science, as appears by the following passage:— The comet which we saw in England approaching to the sun, we saw returning from it. I took two observations of its situa tion in the heavens with respect to the neighbouring fixed stars, and wrote on the occasion a sheet full, which I intended to have sent to my friend ilaskelyneat Greenwich; but this, as well as many others papers, I have left or mislaid at sea; and it often happens, as the Earl of Dorset says, that Our paper, pens and ink, and we, Are tumbled up and down at sea. . 4 4 The circumstances which produced and attended the catas trophe of the Aurora, will probably, never be ascertainpd till " the sea shall give up the dead that are in it." The historian of British India says of the supervisors; " the vessel which carried them never reached her port ; nor was any intelligence of her or her passengers ever received." It is, however, relat ed, though without a reference to tiny authority, 1111 that " qn be fore the East India Directors, who affirmed that lie was one of t h v e e persons of f s N Z l l n ia b d e r. b ' ee l7 n 7 saved b i l ;o e n k t n t ' h a e d ß e 'r j e L a o l e r i a lu w r e ura that she had been east away on a reef of rocks oil' Macao ; that he was two years upon an island after lie had escaped ; and was, at length, utiraculously s, preserved by 'a country ship happening to touch at that island. BIOGRAPIIICUS. * " %f r. Crabtree intended to observe the transit in the same manner with florrox, but the sky was so ,covered with clouds that he, gave himself up entirely to despair. But, a little before the time of sunset, the sun breaking out for the first time from the clouds, he eagerly betook himself to his observation, and happily saw the most agreeable of all sights, Venus just enter ed upon the sun. " Let not any severe Cato (adds Mr. Tiorrox) be seriously angry wilt these vanities of ours; for what youth, such as we are, would not timtily admire upon earth Venereva Soli, pulthritudinem conjundant." See An. Keg. (17111.) Iv. M. t Sec Phil. Trans. LII, 256, No. 40. 4. - Referring in a later communication to these omissions, he sags, " Had. not this been the case, every one might have judg. .ed of the care and pains I took in that distant part of the world, as, well in making several of my instruments myself, as in using them when made." 11 Translated from the Persian by Mr. Colston. Sec Phil.. Trans. r.nl. 2M, 256. No. 39, 40. § The eclipses were observed by Mr. Hirst, also an earth quake. at Calcutta, July 13, 17Q. See ibid. 258, 202. 4 1, See Phil. Trans. Ly I it. 361. •• Dated " Inner Temple, June 2, 1769." See ibis. LIX. 228. 1-1- On this occasion a Latin ode, entitled Ad Amicum gaturam, was addressed to Mr. first by Dr. Kirkpatrick, who distinguished himselfat the battle of Plassey.—Drincontlic, ill. 158. Appendix C. tr. Air. Hirst adds, " We continue to be very harmonious, told consequently very happy, on board the Aurora. I know this will give great pleasure to all Mr. Van's real friends, and be the occasion of great chagrin and di sa pp o i ntment to a ll w h o expect the commission would be overact by the disunion of the commissioners." ' 1111 Sec Lives of Scottish Poets, v. 76, SWINDLING AVIV! A FORGED SHIP'!" (1:11.111'l GATE OF REGISTRY. [Extract of a Letter from Deal, dated June 23, 6 1824.] " On ►he 7th Mg, a person having the man ners and appearance of a Ship-master, called (in company with another person) at the bank of Messrs. May, Mercer, and Co., of this place, stating his brig the Robert, bound for Malta, was then at Ramsgate, and producing a letter, signed William Thompson and Co., dated London, the 31st May, 1824, an nexed to a printed prospectus of the Thames Bank Chain Cable Company, and addressed Captain Henry Smallwood, brig Robert, Post-office, Deal ; this letter permitted him to draw for 1201. at sight, adding, that the Bankers at Deal would ad. vance the mono; for that sum he then drew at sight on Thompson and Co., Thames Bank Chaill Cable Manufac. tory, Cannon.street, St. George's in the East, London, re. quiring only 501., which the Bankers incautiously advanced, on the bill,, letter, and certificate of registry being left with them, the pretended Captain promising to return in a few days. lie has, however, never made his appearance since; the address of the bill is nothing snore than a barber's shop, where the par. ties are not known, and the eertVeate of registry has teen altered by means of some clu',.eical process, and no such vessel as the Robert either was or had been at flamagate. We trust that other Bunkers on the coast will be on the alert should this clever Captain attempt a like experiment." Though the above extract is dated so far back, it did not reach this office till yesterday afternoon. TILE llol.l' ALLIAi\CE versus COLMAN UNI. vriurtiEs.—Two hundred and fifty htudents have lately been expelled the University of Halle, in Prussia (being more than one-hail of the whole nutnber), andi some have in YAM applied to be received at Gottingen (kingdom of Hanover), and at Leipsic (kingdom of Saxony.) Two gentlemen of the Duelly . of 01. denburg, who left the Uni versi ty a b out 12 mont h s ago, ate ac. cused of having belonged to Secret Societies : they were put under arrest in their houses, their papers sealed, and were ex. omitted by a member of 'the Council of Government, Bent ex pressly to their place of residence. They had afterwards to give bail to a considerable amount, and are incapable of holding any employment until they are perfectly cleared. One of the above a n u iv a eni h t gentlemen held a s i tua ti on , f rom w hi c h h e w a s instantly sue. the e nt ua let e r Halle je n is a, the U sent yiatr tt notice, on acc oun t of their known patriotism and attachment to the Prussian Alouttreby. from which i w lu it o hill nap 2 a 4 rte h,oatftirser, TRINIDAD. PROPOSED REGULATIONS FOR THE FUTURE TREATMENT OF SLAVES IN THIS COLONY. FORT SPAIN, MAY Ifi. A General Meeting of the Inhabitance was held on Friday last, in King-street, 'illicit was most numerously and respec tably attended. at which a petition was framed, signed, and carried, praying his Excellency the Governor to suspend the promulgation of the late proposed Order in Council; and a Committee nominated for the purpose of presenting the same. The Petition was signed by above 290 individuals before the Meeting dispersed, but our space will not allow of our giving the names in our present number. Mr. CADETT hiving been callal to the Chair, spoke with great force at cOntiderable length. The following Petition wall agreed to rsTITION. " To his Excellency Str.RALru .botrs Woopronn, Bart., timrnir and Corontandor-in-Chief in and over the said Island and its bcpendencies, Vice-Admiral of the same, etc. We, your Petitioner - a, his Majesty's loyal and dutiful sub jects, the free inhabitants of the Island of Trinidnd, respect fully approach yOur Excellency. " We have read with grief and eliFnay the draft of an order in Council, laid.by his Majesty's I.llinisters before both Hout.es of Parliament, on the 15th chi of Mardi hat, and declared to be intended for the improvement of the condition of the slam in this colony. . " We recognize; to the fullest extent, the power of the Crown, founded upon those principles of British justice which have secured to the meanest subject of the realin the undis turbed enjoyment and use of his property, until lie has re ceived full and fair compensation. • " We arc sincerely impressed with a grateful sense of our Gracious Sovereign's beneficent intentions. We dutifully sympathize with his Royal wish to meliorate the condition, and promote the moral improvement, of the negroes, by adopting measures in which due regard shall be paid to considerations of justice ; which, by tempering zeal with caution, may lead to practical good ; which, without harrassing the fortunes and the safety of any classes of his Majesty's subjects, may promote the welfare Of the slaves and that of their employers. " We appeal fearlessly to your Excellency to witness. that every heart in this island beat in unison with this his Royal wish : that. these, his Royal words infused joy and gladness Into the breast of every inhabitant of the colony. " Animated by loyalty, and by gratitude, we feel it to be our first duty, to aid in promoting these his gracious intentions. and to oppose ourseltes to every obstacle, which may tend to disappoint his beneficent views. Actuated by these senti ments only, we, the 'free inhabitants of the colony of Trinidad, respectfully beg leave to express to your Excellency, our solemn conviction, that the. execution of the whole provisions and clauses of the aforesaid Order in Council, will inevitably prove rui:•:ous to the property of the master; injurious and demorilizing to the slave; peculiarly hazardous to the lives of the freecoloured inhabitants, under part of the :Ifith clause of that order ; and totally subversive of our gracious Sovereign's benign intentions. %I . c, your Petitioners, therefore humbly pray that your Excellency will be graelously pleased, under the authority vested y,ou-by thelaws now in farce, to stay the promulga tion and, the execution of the proposed Order in Council, until a true representation of its eflects may be made to his Majesty's Ministers, to be laid at the foot of tbe throne for his Majesty's gracious consideration. " And by so doing your Excellency will avert that catas. trophe which must otherwise involve every class in this Colony in one common ruin; and will deserve the sincere and grateful thanks of a loyal and affectionate community. 44 And we your Petitioners shall ever pray," &c: THE AIM Y. GENERAL. ORDER. The following copy of a Oeneral Order has recently been issued front the Commander.in-Chiers Office relating to the distribution of religious works to the soldiers. 6 ' douse. OttAßDs.—lt hot been reported to the Comander in-Chief that, in some instances, Regimental Offi cers h ave b ee n employed by certain Societies for the distribution of Batiks and Religious Tracts among the troops; and, considering that such a duty belongs solely to the Chaplains of the Army, who are attached to thurisons or Brigades, and who are the - proper and only channel, with the approbation of the . Commanding Offi cers, for all communications of this nature, his Royal High ness strictly forbids 31ilitary Officers, from accepting or exe cuting any such commission, under the penalty of his 31djesty's severe displeasure. _ " In giving this Order to the Army, his Royal Highness feels it essential to declare, that, Military Chaplains are always ready to perform the duties for which they are held responsible ; and that they will never fail to issue to the troops, under re gular authority, whatever it may be proper to distribute among them. " B his Royal Highness "The Commander-in-Chief's Command, " H. TORItENS, Adjutant-tien." REV ir.w or Caviatty.—There will be a grand Review of Cavalry Regiments on Monday next, on Hounslow Heath, in the presence of the Kula, the Duke of Vona, the Duke of WELLJNOTON, &c. The Bth, Pith, and 17th Dragoons; the Ist life Guards, the 2d Life Guards, and the Royal Horse Guards, are in the. neighbouring vilhtges around Hounslow, preparing for the review. The City Light Horse Volunteers are to keep the ground. Final. BATTALION or THE GUI:NAPIER His Royal Highness the COMIHANDLII-IN-ClllEV,.katended by ItlaJor-General Sir HENRY TORO ENS, the Adjutant- General, and sever.' other -officers, inspected the Ist Battalion of the Ortuadier Ouards, yesterday morning, in .11yde . Park. The movements and formation of the Ist Ilattalion -were wvii. executed. MONTHLY MILITARY (ThITUTAttY• Rol,.31,011:::juotTun...A(c:::—:orlit:::::: —r.lll)Y.;:ohlfi'atitor:l2;ll:aBti:liii.lini):.CP4Nlve:infralceinttsaw:ili:soidg:.nisocarB:l,:orlo4c2:lllBi'll.'ttillaFlyeinmx:::::lllotilceuirs,;;l:... .Mar. Chatham. AiDliv L ll 4.oB:up " i l . 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