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LOAN ,--o" for jot eti VICTU,ILLING-UFFICE, S e pt. 2, 1824. riE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING iris MAJESTY'S NAVY, ti• c do hereby give Notice, That on Friday, the 1714 Instant, they will be Iva, to receive Tenders in writing (vealed up), and treat for the supply of all such quantities of SOFT BREAD as may be required for the use of the Officers and -Men at tached to the Six several Divisions of the Coast Blockade for the Prevention of Sartiggling in the Counties of Kent and &sees during the, apace of Twelve Calendar Months from theist October nate, The Conditions of the Contract miry he seen at this Office; or by applying to Captain 21'Cult oc h, at Deal; Mr. Reeks, .Agent for the Pictuolling at Portsmouth ; Mr. Stokes, Agent Ju the Picluulling 41 Chatham ; and to the Pursers of the tespeetive Divisions. • Rach Tender must specify the Price in words at length, and be delivered before One G . Clock on the day appointed : n'4414.141 be -accompanied by a Letter signed by tarn re,spon sibts Persons, engaging to become bound with the Party tendering, in the Penal Suns of 1001. for the dne perfords ,, °Ace of the Contract. 7'he Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his " l 'ali s must attend to answc, when called for. • M. W.ILLER CLIFTON. A!. W.11.1..ea CL !FTON. Ina ....•_, ..-- UK', VICTU ALLING -OFFICE. Sept. 14, 1824. Tn E CO MMISSIONERS for VICTUAL LING. His mijEsTrs VY, lc. do hereby 'ire N ' t itei That osi Thursday, the tad Instant, they will be reviv to receive Tenders in writing. (sealed up), and treat for the ~f °ll" Q i ng quantiti es of PROVISIONS and STORES, 'to " elive red into Ills Majesty's Victualling Stores at Dept ford at the u nder.mentioned periods:— One Thousand Sacks of BISCUIT MEAL ; nee .Ifundred Quarters of PEASE I t• be delivered, one-half by the 201 h October, and the re mainderby the tst November next' hit? Ifundred Sacks o/' KILN DRIED HOUSEHOLD FLOUR, ; one-half by the ist, and the remainder by the 20th October nest. dud One Thousand Five Hundred Bolts of FLAGS; to be delivered in Three Months from :he date of proporti ons. 14 '" 41 ,V Contract, by dad for the supply hf certain quantities of COOPERAGE S PORES, and Town. made COOPER'S TOOLS, for the Service of ills Majesty's Cooperage at Deptford; to be delivered in ThrevNonih, ev ia l monthly proportions from the date of the Contract:, :7',4e B oar d will at the same tune receive Tenders, and treat for the Stile of what GRAINS and YEAST may be made on the said Priniices for One Year front the Id October nett. 74e Condition: of the Contracts for Cooperage Stores, 4"e.. ''' l 4l 'exkibit tie r quantities of the dfl'rrent drticles required, '6 ' tl4 " with the Conditions m of the other Contracts, may be 44 ' , at t4 is o ffi . ee. onte i " rif' the Pease, of not lets than . two quarts (e e r a s c . h, ,°,0 , 1' the Flags, mast be produced ~ , s t. l l a l te length, anti de tle;. 4 " 4 "._st 'W ed & the r"" / "' ' a y minted ; and rite P le , e-e '• Lult.re One o' Clock on se da y p o inted on his. i,„,, c ' s °ltvho ',fakes the Tender, or some Pe Paw attend to answer when called for. LON ET F URNI of CABIN , °ON REPOSITORY for the CABINET MAKERS' VILTY, for every Description pilltli, FEATHER BED and MAI i `T E R A E B SS EN y i A A N L U L: .4 1' (T° ItV No. 71, Corner of p.- Ready k i n t 1 ; E O T 1 ' , London, n , opposite Aldgat i e Puin Tlill So ciety of n tne - i ' l Y. ' C b* t Makers respectfully t inform the Public that they still continue Mechanics who i ,,lt_sblishnient, for the Benefit of Industrious the above Manufactured Articles ir l i'V a ,rg.o . Faniiles, by th ...c uvatimet Line, of t hem Ih efl e er be in st g lV n 'orkrnanship, d by twenty-five . per cent., and Cheaper thereby' s House can do in Lon t ic ,_ e in x gno other profit requir ed on the Goods but the bare 11l be-sufficiently satisfied iiiti7L penees ; at the same time w . emselees and families.. gri'triig con stant Employment for tu 1821, consisting of 5 4) Ai , s Society was Established in June,. wrive„nd F am i. 1 4:ei . telli lnits adding the number of their th e y natant, 10 66; in June, 1819, five 18 4 1 O. The t„,,-kicty • in June 1820 10* more were added to and in June . , 41 N u , ,' tililkiousuli9l;irniZZ i r s e ' c l e , i l v . ing , &ippon tliroughtothreet.uMmealtilsl their 1 : ,4,ltitc.ciety and their Families beg leave Gentlemen who have , IZ,Z . ,_ !iitinics to those Ladies and tiqus',4'llllaeateartil them with their Orders a nd Recommend- I ' ntinuance of e si l .! all .tilwaya feel happy in their . ende co avours to give ir Il e - 4e , tl ° ll ; at the same time solicit a i _ nevotence t 1 ~tr, e NUlbb er of to whereby ley.ln . 4 he foll ow i, g illui Society. Specimen of the very ay be enabled to increase Low Pri ci es Are inserted as a Fall • -e e, all 31. 15s. size 11111- wa rranted. - lath bottom ' 4 411 s i z ' ms s ' four-post Bedstead, . M a tt r ess to -.-Ready !Honey only. fit IL 1 extellit bedstead 11. 65.-Bordered. hair 21,106 3•"--.ahogany Drawe r , solid ends 3L 35.-y athcr Bed Nix ,ft.--Ditto, ree from du st and smell, Best do. 11 4i P l uuned C h 4l rs of any description in oil 11. fis.- Ilearth full size 31 1 10s.- It is : null-stand 6 5.--Ditto, Dressing Table 14 = e.. ,.___ ~,,p, Ili.- ft , ti ine.hes Chest of Drawers 41. 45.-Thre IT?: I.44°RanY Pembroke Table IL 18s.-Tbree- tint ditto on 11.-Dittopil 171 . 14114 cla ws 31. 151.-111_ahogany Dressing T 11 12s. li i: t l e to , ditto 21. 2 4 - b, and best 11. 45.--Ditto Beilsteps 11.85. -Ditto ditto . ditt i,. Wass large size, corn . niod Ditto NI ) , 98.--Ditto ditto ls • 6 5 ,-Ditto ditto 11. . 18s. - Ditto Ditto Box Glass 2 drawers, best British di:, tkift'"--Di'ito ditto 19-Dit to 'l` ts --itto ditto 7 -3.-Sea Bed Standaii 78. -Long Mahogany Lie 1)1!!.--Japanned IlLoiSrlaulfs-- e 3a.--Ditto ditto bt Tea Caddy 10s.- ' h i sifs t a - :sly iZte21%,.....Dtbil covers in number ' 1.15.-Music ..,ith hcl rie li,,Trlitla• Q. - Eight Mahogany Chairs: c 0,, - _ t t ditto , 4 ltto 71 7 . - ' , o rris nailed 61 65.-8 ditto ditto bl• sus. ~5.••,--8 Traftdgar dilto 91. Us.-Alahogany ik ds te•ilritto Couch 71. 10s. Ditto ditto 81. Ws'r9ltt' with on Sofa to match b oned 1 71 . 103. -Set of Mal ogany Card and Sofa Ta bles, l lthlt 4 e. ', handed in rose-w l ood 01. 155 .-Set of .). Mahogany ,s. blu e : 4, 1 : 1 % Card and Sofa, on pillars and claws . 1. 1 2..! . .. 05. -..ii, 44 ;e beat that can be made-to order or pattern NI 1 carved 4 clc,„ ili utTl e 7 foot 6 pedestal, Sideboard, ' with s t o f ",,,itiii ls , --bitto 7 foot 161 Ditto U foot six IM.- e _ uitt a _" t .Gabler of th 1 ‘--. 4 foot by 10 foot 61 11.- 7 l i k IF' 4l / ° Pt iby ll e f :i 11 as s.„! : , era ,,,,itto 4 foot 6by 12 foot 8, -. 1 At n .4 Spanish a n advance '' .- of 31. , 105.-Straw Palliasse 44hillti --Tent B th4ad n ndf rn hare 31. 15.--Banlbco Be d '4, 'iv... -- f h ' Pre elypti a m - 1 with ti drapery and fringe, 131. 10 . ; 4eneWwli mahogany feour4ost Bedstead and furniture, _with Plve.taetthl!Deries, lined all through, complete, f °4l liot I , 4 T°, ditto 16s 10s.-Ditto ditto s ., with cornice, of 151. 10s._- a i tnt dr b ,.. 44 ,i . el 18L 10s -.. D'tto ditto, with gold cornice, cle -`le llndl4-7 201---Dra.wingl room Curtains, of the best 11_0. -4)44) Clibitz, fi tted for win - dow 61. 6d.;-Ditto ditto 71. Is hilt*. s Q 1 4 111 Pe 1 andelegan t style of work, 101. 1119. 7 . Lit ini c ,,, o ,, tor an Trafalrr Chairs fh:tlk% itilitie:4oi.le.wood-Dr&wing.rooclivers, and Sofa, 181. „„ : :i xt blu e 11 71: . bu i li ) l. 2 01.-Table , 2 Sofa 61. 6tto, 71. 7s. 4440 4 t 1, 41' H3--- Horse r ria l i n r g C - outdone, each 6s. &L-Covered W. TH URN ELL, Agent. kk (441 44,, C"WSIIi lorkusits SUPPLIED. 141 l' a ekeil free 1 . exce p t the materials, and sent ti e , Dart s of „ 0 expsmee, 1 East and West In i;,_ ...c,„.,,, ~r‘eat outlandß nd to tie . ... . , -let (.10ns hued merchants supplie d with Ca ',tilor p i i ,i• .4_ aportation. Otts, s t 'thlents Furnished at a f e w hours' notice. and IN , . ur four lys. LAST GRANT OF PARLIAMENT• EYTON, STOCK-BROKER, 1, CORN HILL and Loinbard•street, has the pleasure of lay., ing before the Public a List of Prises in the Peewit Lottery, which are to be drawn ALL in ONE DAY, viz. sth October :- 4 of L 20.000 I 4 2 4 Besides £lOO and £4O, and every Ticket entitled tr 3 £5 Shares in proportion, all of which are Sterling Moriey. ' Tickets and Shares fur the above Prises are on Sale at EYTON'S Lottery °thee, No. 52, Cornhil I and Lorobard•street. All Business in the British and Foreign Funds transacted with fidelity and dispatch. 'FOIL CORNS.. BUNIONS, &c. MORRIS'S ROYAL BRUNSWICK CORN. PLASTER, prepared from a Recipe b elo n g .. big to her btte . Majesty. It is an excellent Remedy for eradi. eating Corns, nod giving relief to those who have hard fleshy substances at the bottom of their feet. without the least pain or inconvenience, and will prove a very useful Family Plaster for fresh Wounds and Scalds, likewise fur Bunions. Prepared by 0. MORRIS, Chemist to the Royal Family, Kensington. Sold in Boxes at Is. and 2s. 9d. by Butlers, Chemists, N 0.4, Cheapside, St. Paul's, and 220, Regent.street (near the Argyle Rimms), London; Waterloo-place, Edinburgh; Sisekville-street, Dublin ; and by the principal Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom. ' ' Of whom also may he had, TERRY'S ESSENCE, which has been declared in highly respectable Medical Journals ' to be the '• best thing ever discovered for th e Tooth and Ear Ache." In Bottles, 15..10. and 3s. 9d. N. B.— Be Careful to ask for " MORRIS'S Bausswtex CORN PLASTER," and " PERKY'S ESSICNCS: FOR rise Too us ACRE." • PATRONISED BY T-HEBO AR HONOURABLE THE NAVY D. CHUBB'S PATENT DETECTOR LOCK. THE Hon. Sir GEO. GREY, Bart., K.C.8., (the Commiisioner), and the Principal Officers of His Majesty's Dock Yard, Portsmouth, have given the Patentee permission to publish the following Statement of Facts relative to his PATENT DETECTOR LOCK; namely, That hay. ing, by order .of the-Honourable Navy Board, lately supplied a considerable number of his Patent Detector Locks for the use of the Portsmouth Dock Yard, and being informed that there was a Convict on. board one of the . preion-ships at this port, who was notorious for picking Locks, (being by profes. mon a Lock Maker, and who has, till recently, for several years been chiefly employed in picking and repairing Locks in London), the. Patentee requested the favour of Commissioner the Honourable Sir George Grey to send for this man, that he might exercise his skill in attempting to pick his Lock ; and the Commissioner having been pleased to acquiesce in this re• quest, the man was sent for acemdingly, and one of Chubb's Pa tent Locks was submitted to his inspection, at the Storekeeper's Office, in the presence ofeeveral of the Principal Officers ; when, after a careful examination, he said, " he thought he could pick or open it with false instruments." He was therefore fur. nished with files, and all the tools lie stated to be necessary to prepare the instruments for his purpose; and was direcml to give notice to the Storekeeper when he should be ready to snake the trial, for the promotion of which a Reward of Five Pounds was promised him if lie succeeded. In about three weeks after this time, he sent to say that he was ready ; and, a time being fixed on for the purpose, he com mented his operations in endeavouring to pick one of the Locks, in the presence of the Principal Officers 9f the Dock-yard; but he could-.not succeed. He then stated, " that his failure wits in consequence of his instruments not exactly fitting the Lock." To remove this impediment, the Patentee offend to supply him with some blank keys, which should fit two of the Locks, in order to his making . another trial .; these were fur nished accordingly, together with a Lock exactly the same in principle and in kind as those he had been trying ; s o that he might examine its construction, and make himself maw= of its principle. Shortly after lie made another attempt to p ick two of th e Locks, in the presence of the Honourable Sir George Grey, anti the Principal Officers of the Dock-Yards his success in this attempt was not better than the first; but he overlifted the Detector of each Lock. Sir George Grey then asked luni, - what he would do in this case, supposing he had been making an attempt on such a Lock, with an intott to com mit a robbery ? He said, " I would go no more tol'he Lock, they would set a watch and catch me." 'lle still thought, how ever, that, by a further alteration of the instruments he could yet succeed ; more time was therefore given him, and every facility afforded him. Some time afterwards he ag a in repeated his efforts, in the presence of the same Gentlemen; but having, in his previous experiments, overlifted the Detectors, he could not by any means disengage them ; this was done fox him seve ral times, with the Keys belonging to the Locks ; but, as often as they were regulated, on every successive trial lie detected them again ; till at last he gave them up, saying, " That lie had used his utmost ability in his repeated attempts, and could not succeed : that these Locks were the most secure he had ever met with, and that lie did not think it possible for any man to pick or open them with any false instruments whatever. The Patentee of the above Lock, in making the following observations, disclaims any intention of depreciating the merits of other Locks, by describing their defects, or demonstrating their insecurity : but trusts the Detector Lock will entitle him to a share in the attention and patronage of the Public; as it possesses, in a much higher degree than any other, the four principal requisites of a good Lock; viz. SECURITY SIM. PLICITY, STRENGTH, and DURABILITY. Its Sk:- CUKITY, particularly, is increased beyond calculation, by an improvement, which not only renders it impossible to be picked or opened by any, false instruments, but also detects the first attempt to open it besthy preventing those repeated efforts, to which even the Locks hitherto invented are exposed. In these Locks, the combinations admit of so great variety, that millions of them may Le made , a n d y et one Key shall not pass any two Locks; and the Detector renders that variety infinite; for the instant that one or more of the tumblers are lifted beyond the place where the bolt is at liberty to pass, it overlifts the De. tector, which then hooks the tell of the bolt, preventing it from passing, and thus gives incalculable additional security,(aa well as immediate notice, the first time the true key is put into it to open it, that an attempt has been made to pick it,) and renders all farther attempts useless; it being impossible to discover the first combination, to disengage the Detector, or the second, to remove the bolt ; and nothing but the true key can either re lease the Detector from its grasp on the bolt, or open the Lock. In reference to its DURABILITY, it is not liable to'be in. jured by constant use in any length of time ; this has been as certained, by an Iron-rim Lock having been attached to a Stearn. Engine in the Dock - yard , Portsmouth (to try the effect of friction), by which it was lacked and unlocked upwards of four hundred end sixty thousand times, .wit h receiving the least injury.. The STRENOTH of its parts, and the SIM PLICITY of - its construction, are such, that no False Key, or other Instrument, introduced into it for the purpose of open. ing it, can (without very great violence) injure it. The Patent Detector Locks , of ever y site, and . he Paten. for the uses to which Locks can be rivalled, may be had of t Paten tee, CHARLES CHUBS, liortsea. Cornhill ; bidge, 130, Fleet-street; Bailer and Go. lia 'market ; The Locks arc also sold in London, by blears. 3 1 0 7 _and Bur.. Phillips, M, High Holborn ; Mr. (.olwel,ia7, Mr. Howell, 96, New Bond-street; Messrs. ly 66, Oxford-street; Mr. Phillips, 13, mile-street ; Mr. "111° Co 10, Skinner. y and ) Morrett, Hicks, 149, Borough; Messrs. Hancorne an d_ stanhope. street, Snow-Hlll. Messrs. Bobyer and Co . 14 r. Benham, No. 1, Edward-street, Portman-square ; street, Clare•mark i et ; Mr. Downer, 155, Fleet-s . tree r d 'Hawke, 29, Wood-street; Cheapside ; Messrs. PaYentll ment -179, Strand ; Messrs: Adams and Morris, 32, r street ; Messrs. Drurr treet Liverpool Mr. Mr. Raper, Leeds; r. Parlor, London-lane, Norwich; _ Groom, Bury ' St. Etlivond's ; and may be had of the principal and Wilde, Castle.* , Ironmongers in the Kingdom. SELF-BURNING of HINDOO WIDOWS. There have been printed, pursuant to the order of the House of Commons, papers presented on the 18th of June, " relating to East India affa►rs--viz. copies or ex tracts of all communications and correspondence since March 1823, r es pecting the burning of widows on the funeral pile: of their husbands." The following arc extracts from those papers : EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL OF BENGAL. &C. It will be satisfactory to your Honourable Court to observe, that the number of suttees reported to have taken place during the year 18'20, was less than in the preceding year; and that compared with the number which had been reported in the year 1818, it exhibits a reduction of 242. We have not sufficient means of estimating the causes which have operated in produc ing the more favourable results in the year 1819 and 1820, com pared with those of the two preceding years. I'o C. C. liorrxEn, Esq. Magistrate of the twenty-four Pergunnalis. Sir—Although a long protracted residence in India has served to make me acquainted with much of the manners and customs of,itsiubabitants, yet it Not near been my lot until ,yesterday evening to witness that disgraceful ceremony which is known so commonly to prevail in Bengal, and which is so re volting to the character of its people, and to every reeling of humanity ; I allude, of course, to the practice of widows immo lating themselves on the funeral piles of their husbands. 2. Yesterday evening a report was conveyed to me, that a suttee was about to take place within a few hundred yards of my residence at this station, and that the ceremony would take place immediately ; horror-struck as I felt at the thought of witnessing such a scene, I yet felt it a point of duty to repair to the spot. 3. 1 was accompanied thither by my assistant, ley the assist. ant-surgeon of the station, and by another medical gentleman, who happened to be here on a visit. 4. I cannot doubt, sir, but that you will give both myself and the gentlemen who accompanied me credit for the exer cise of every feeling which humanity could dictate, in our en deavours to ascertain whether this was a perfectly voluntary act on the part of the flniale, and in cur efforts to dissuade this deluded woman from a sacrifice, which, under the circum stances of her particular case, justified severe remonstrance. At one time I was fully impressed with the belief, and such was the general impression, that I had succeeded in my object of dissuasion ; but in the end, either other sentiments, or rather, as I fear, other advice, prevailed, which strengthened her reso lution to perform the sacrifice; but be this as it may, the point to which I am most anxious to draw your attention is, the grossly inactive and deficient conduct of the darogah of the .thanneh, who, instead of remaining in the immetliate neigh. bourhood of the funeral pile, with a view of taking advantage of any relapse in the resolution of the vic tim, at this awful nio nient stood aloof from the spot; and when questioned and re. monstrated with on the point, replied, that he, being a Mussel. man, could not be permitted to remain so near, although in the face of this assertion, he saw European gentlemen surround. ing the pile; but this was not all; the ceremony was suffered by him to take place in known contravention, as I am informed, of the principles and rules which au thorize this ceremony. 5. l'he Shuster, which sanctions burning, enjoins, I am told, the junta cheetaarohun, that is, the victim mounting anti throwing herself upon the funeral pile, when it has burnt vitt into flumes ; this feature of trio ceremony, and a remarkable one it is, from its offering a momentary in. o f t ni re:rfut of rf t h e nt ; ep‘ S i.li l ec l at betaiS victim r : citement to shake the strongest resolutions of human nature, bad was wholly dispensed - with. In the case of this suttee, the victim was laid down by the side of her deceased husband ; and if she was not bound by her clothes with the deceased, yet they. were so wrapped about her and the deceased, that It would have been tlitlictilt for her to disentangle herself from them ; upon her was then laid loge of wood, some of themof a size a nd weight such as but one man could li ft and carry : a minute or two elapsed in this portion ofthe ceremony (which, from the term jullut cheetaarohun, must have beenU':contrary to me ITijwhen the pile w„g so fi re to, and immedtately after large green bamboo was placed across anti held down by two men on each side, so that it rendered any effort on the p uiifest meaning li g e s cap e ht , sv whenhw h olly she made a most violent effort to escape from the flames, but the nature anti construction of the pile rendered any immediate unavailing. Scarcely effort to release her from the flames, with the chance of escap. jig with her life, quite impracticable. Had I noticed the bamboos at the moment they were placed across the pile, or had I 'been aware of all the informalitieg that were taking place, I should at all hazard have put a stop to the ceremony ; but never having seen a suttee before, and ignorant until, now of the particular forms to be observed there in, I was fearful of too great a degree of interference on my i e t n tr u e,e s se d part. b ; a t an m d e , 1 an i f cli t o h l ri a r c e c v o o u i n ti t n ; f ceremony e en sfe on n y e I 7y.elteicrhdayii the w cannot be altogether prevented, (but which, as far as every information I can obtain, it could by a short prohibitory enactment of the Legislature), it at least appears to me of great importance that the terms and manner in which it is enjoined to be observed should be rigidly adhered to, as ex erting every hope of diminishing its frequency, by the pros pect it holds out of often shaking the resolution of the victim at the most awful moment of the ceremony. I therefore view ' it as a duty I liwe to humanay, and to the Government whose paternal solicitude is well known on the subject, to bring the 1 particulars of this suttee, anti all the information with respect to it, and the ceremony in neral which has reached me , for such notice as you may cons ider expedient, or the Government upon your representation may think proper to take of it. Barripore, Salt Office, let June, 1823. I have, Ate. 11. C. PLOWDI4:I,I, Agent. EXTRACT FROM THE PROCEEDINUS or THE NIZAIIIIT ADAWLUT, UNDER DATE Tim 24TH MAY. The Court observe that the touttnumber of Hindoo widows ascertained to have been burned or buried alive in 1821; ex hibits an increase of the number of fifty-seven above the num ber of the same description of the preceding year. The total numbers of the four past years are as follow : In 1318 - - - - 839 1819 - - . 650 1828 - - • . 597 1821 - . - - 654 COPY OF A LETTER rims' Tux XAGISTRATE OF ZILLAH (JITAZEI:POOR, TO BEWARES COURT OF CIRCUIT. - I have the pleasure to forward the prescribed annual Re port of Suttees. Nothing particular occurs to mention upon the subject. lam of opinion that any immediate compulsa tory measure to stop the performance of this rite would be pre mature, and might occasion a general and unfavourable ten. Nation in the public mind, for a few years wore (I cannot say how many), we must be contented to permit a continuance of the practice. The interference of the Magistrate is gradually becoming more efficient, as the rules become more generally known, and this easy gradation is, I think, very much as it should be. The next step, perhaps, would be to get another bewastah condemning the practice in toto, and a concurring re solution from a number of bmbinins in various parts of the country . , to abandon it. I shall not conceive either of these gradually and measures all impracticable, if attempted EXTRACT FORT ST. GEORGE PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS 7TH HARCII, 1823. Sir,—l have the honour to state to you that a native woman, of Brahmin caste has waited upon me this afternoon, and re quested permission to burn herself with the corpse of her hus band ; and her relations who accompanied her expressed their disapprobation of her intenuons• I haveendeavoured, as much as possible, to dissuade her from committing such an act; and finding her resolute, I told her that my duty was to prevent her destroying herself, and therefore she must entirely g l ee u p her intentions ; but she has expressed her resolution of taking away her life as soon as possible, if prevented from burning herself with the corps e of her husband. Although the relations have endeavoured to dissuade her from thi s act, th ey are desirous , upon her persisting in her intentions, that she should be per. nutted to do so ; and as the funeral ceremonies of the husband are delayed until to-morrow, I have to solicit the orders of Go vernment on this very important point. W. ORMSBY Superintendent of (Signed) Police. Matlreg Police Office, March 6,, 1823. Ordered, that the following reply be dispatched : Srn-1 am directed to acknowledge the receipt of your let ter of yesterday's date, and to express the opinion of the Hon. the Governor in Couneil, that all practicable means should be employed for preventing the woman in question from making the intended sacrifice of herself. With that view, her rela tions should be informed, that such a practice being contrary . . to the usage of this lace, Cannot obtain the sanc tion ofGo vernment; and that it is considered to be their duty to cite their strongest persuasion and influence to induce her to forego her intention. .You will also :apprize them :that they will be held answerable for any interference of a contrary ten dency.--I have, Sze. (Signed) D. HILL, Secretary to Government. Fort St. George, 7th March, MI. Note to one of the Lists of " Self-burings." N.B. On the 2d of October, in the evenin i . u re port arrived' from the darogah of Shehn u g ar, stating thaeMuesatuaut Ks mal Debya, aged 65 years, was ciesirous.of burning on the fu neral pile of her husband, who had died at the age of 70 years ; as there appeared to be no objection according to the bewaittab of the pundits of the sudder tlewanny adawlut, and the Ma gistrate being unable to 'proceed himself to -the place where the suttee was to occur, he issued strict orders to the darogah to follow implicitly the instructions furnished for his observance on similar occasions. The darogah communicated to Mussu maut Kornai Debya, the orders he had received, but she still persisted on her determination to burn with her husband's body. The darogah, being a llindoo, said, before she could burn she must undergo the test, viz.—that of putting her fin ger into the fire to try' if she were a t r ue suttee. on hearing this became alarmed , and , not bein g able to bear the' pain, gave up the , idea of burning with her .httsband',,a The woman corpse.. EXTRACT OF A LETTER IN TUE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT, FROM THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL OF DOSIRAV TO THE COURT OF DIRECTORS; DATED 'THE 25TH JUNE, 1823. Cud& date 24th February last, we received a report from the b hi u s rn fa t n there, ily Magistrate of Southern Concan, of the burning of a su ttee under the following circum s t a n ces : —A married bralimin having left and but a part ofilistoholi:oesonhaa,vitnligethl,mainttclolniivseyboettl toywhasis family in Rtttnageery, notwithstanding the interposition and prohibitory mandate of the Sirkuutaviesdar,.his widow, having two children, the one nine, the other two years of age, proceed. ed, aided by the elder brother of the deceased, to the perform. ance of the horrid rite of suttce,and was actually burnt with that portion of her husband's bones which were conveyed to her for that purpose; this suttee was, therefore, consummated contrary to both the letter and spirit of the Shuster. The burning of iC Brahmin woman, except on the funeral pile of her husband, and with his body, being strictly prohibited ; and the inhibition, rendered operative also on a woman having an infant child un der three years of ay, " unless some persons will undertake to provide suitable maintenance for such child." With regard to the children, their grandmother, of a very advanced age, stated she would take care of them • but this he could not consider as providing for them a suita b le main. tenance. In respect to a widow burning, with the bones of her deceased husband, the former custom of the Concan is understood to be at variance with the_ Ilintloo law.; but on a similar occurrence in June preceding, orders were given to the Sirkumaviesdar by the Magistrates, to prevent any woman in future burning with only the bones of her husband. The Magistrates considering the subject of suttees generally to.he one of a very delicate and difficult nature, rather than act as would be regular in ordinary cases of Magisterial duty, thought proper to solicit our• instruction without in the mean time unerfering with the parties. We beg to refer to the sentiments monied on the occasion t we considered the Sirkumaviesdar of Rutnagecry to have done his duty in prohibiting the suttee, and the disregard of his pro. hibition illegal and justly punishable; that such a step in this instance would have been highly impolitic, and Mr. Sparrow showed great prudence and judgment in forbearing to adopt it. If there be any doubt that it would give offence to interrupt the burning of a suttee, there can be none that it would excite great disguato punish the deed when it was actually performed; and as it is , not at ell. Improbable that it would excite a spirit of discontent, if not of opposition, we, therefore, con sidered it expedient that no farther notice sh ould be taken of ' this transaction. • The species of defeat suffered in this instance led us to doubt the policy of die circular orders themselves ; it is possible that the authority of the written law May be greater among the Hindoos of Bengal, than among those of the Deckan ; and it is more than probable that the long subjection of the former to a Mahomedan Government has made them mere submissive in points of this nature, than the Mahrattas, who have now been under a government peculiarly devoted to their own religion. It might for these reasons be safe to enforce the orders in the one p lace, and dangerous in the other. In the Mahratta coun try it is known to be the practice for women to burn, not only with the bones of their husbands, but with his tur ban or his dagger ; this may be contrary, to the Shaster, but the Shaster is winded to no attention,• except as it is the object of popular veneration ;- and if the attachment of the people be in this in sistatloicethteracnus custom, custom med that int we e ie o w u r g it h t t en law to rhea toattend ;ratrien rather, than incur the smallest risk of exciting, not the opposition alone, but the jealousy of the natives, we have suspended the orders of the sth October, 1010, and beg to refer your lion. Court to our instructions on the occasion. 'The prejudices of the natives arc rapidly giving way to the I effect of our example ; at no very distant period the worst of their delusions will, we trust, vanish of themselves before the general diffusion of knowledge. By attempting to lop off one branch of their superstition, we run the risk of interrupting the progress of those causes which are already consuming it at the root. It is undoubtedly the policy of our Government to ab stain froth interference with the religious opinions anti pre judicew of the natives ; and it is, therefore, upon an intel ligible ground that you have adopted the rule which permits the sacrifice, when it is clearly voluntary, and conformable to the Hindoo Religion, and authoritatively prevents it in all other cases _ - '' • • 7 - It is, moreover, with much reluctance that we can con . sent to make the 'British Government, by a specific permis sion of the suttee, an ostensible party to the sacrifice we are averse also to the practice of making British Courts ex pounders and vindicators of the Hindoo Religion, when it leads to acts which, not less as legislators than as Christians, we abominate. This reasoning we will at present push no further than to enjoin you, for this as well as for other considerations, to inter fere as little as possible, &e. Instances of this nature, therefore, would not warrant us to authorise a general prohibition. But connected with the opi nions expressed by many intelligent men, that the practice of suttee is not a tenet of religion to which the people arc enthu is,irai s e t s i t c s a o l l r y r e a l t a t a t i c o h n e s l, o l3 l e u s t e r i a n t t e a r n s u n s n o li f u p s a e r , t L o ll s t successcte by d i o n t l e e r il e d s te u i s t to regard the notion of prohibition, modified according to cir cumstances, of this barbarous custom with rather less of appre hension than it has generally produced. , We say this without hesitation, &c. Abstract statement of the-number of II indoo Widows who were _ burnt, or buried s alive, in Zillah and Cities Calcutta Division-1817, 428 ; 1818, 553 ; 1819,3118 ; 1920, 337 ; 1821, 364. Cuttak Commission-1817, 14 ; 1818, 11 ; 1819, 33 ; 1820, 33; 1821, 28. Dacca Division-1817, 52; 1818, 58 ; 1819, 55 ; 1820, 51; 1821, W. Aloorshetlabad Division-1817, 42 ; 1818, 30; 1819, 25; 1820, 21; 1821, 12. Patnah Division-1817, 49 ; 1810, 57 ; 1819, 40 ; 1820, 43 1821, 69. Bareilly Division-1817, 19 ; 11118, 13 ; 1819,17 ; 1820,M 1831, 15. Benares Division-1017, 103; 1818, 137 ; 1819, 92; 1829 103 ; 1821, 114. brand Total-1817, 707; 1818, 839 ; 1819, 605 ; 1820,597 1821, 6:A. (Signed) W. H. MACNAUGHTEN, Acting Regicer. PROVIDENTIAL EscArt.—The neighbourhood of St. in Shrewsbury, was thrown into great alarm about six o'clock on Tuesday morning, by t;le cries of a male and female in the upper story of the house of Dr. Lawrence. In a few moments a large concourse of people assembled near the spot, and were horrorstruck to see a young man, in the service of Dr. Lawrence, hanging by his hands from the leads upon the top part of the house, and held by one. leg by a nearly naked wo man leaning through the upper garret window. The terrified wom an, in a few moments afterwards, fainted away, and the young man, being . unable to maintain his hold, fell into the arms of an heroic miner), who first saw him in his perilous s i tua tion; and, wonderful to say , neither of them sustained any injury. The unfortunate man had been afflicted with delirium. ~-(Stolbrdshire Advertiser.) MAYOR'S COURT: ATTACHMENT UPON THE PROPERTV OF THE CO.' LOIIBTAN GOVERNMENT. In consequence of an affidavit tiled In the Mayor's Court, he enormous sum of 3711,0001., which lies in the hands of Lynn Abraham Goldsmidt and Co., hat been attached. The affida vit was that of Thomas Ambrose Edwards, of Surrey-street, Strand, and it stated that the Government of the. Republic of' polombia was justly and truly indebted to him, and one Samuel Penfold Thomas, the assignee of Edwards, in the sum of 3713,00N01., upon two sets of bills of exchange drawn by himi, and accepted by Don Lewis hopes Blendei, deputy of the Go vernment of Venezuela, now calling itself the “oternment of Colombia, in the name and on behalf of that Government; that, the bills were made payable at a certain day now past, to the order olJames Ludovzc Grant, and by him endorsed to Ed.. wards, who was lately discharged as an insolvent debtor, and that no oiler had been made to pay the said suni of T78,000t., or an' part thereof, in any note or notes of the Ocriternot And Company of the Bank of England. Yesterday, before the RT.:council, Jr. BARNARD, one,or City Counsel, rose to move the Court to tot aside the action altogether, as one wholly incapable of being maintained upon any principle of common la* or common sense—as a thing, RI fact, amounting to a complete nullity. The firm of Goldsmidt and Co. were sued as the garnishees in a case which represented the Colombian Government as the defendant. It weight:she.; lievod, the first time that ever the Goverment of any country was made party to a.suit of any kind • and it was still more extraordinary that a Government should be made a party to a personal action of debt. In every proceeding for the recovery ,of debt, each step was in persona ; when a capias was to be made, it could not he made but in persona : the process fur compelling an appearance was inevitably subject to a similar 'form. In the case of a corporation, which might be consi dered somewhat analogous, the attorney for that corporation must be sued, and not the body itself. But, to sue n Go vernment for money, struck him as 'one of the most palpable ebsurdities by which a commercial people could be deceived: IVhat did Government mean but the effect produced by the operation of the functions of the governors towards the go verned ? The RECORDER.—" Vou certainly have stated enough to show that you are entitled to a rule to show cause." Mr.-Ba Otani) said the object of his motion was to have the whole proceedings act aside as a nullity, and he trusted that the result of his application would have a tendency to put down the very injurious practice which so materially prejudiced com mercial dealings--the practice of resorting to the Mayor's Court, in order to be supplied with a power to be exercised in jobbing in the stocks. It would be most desirable that the person who presided in the Mayor's Court should express his opinion as to the consequences likely to arise from suing out attachments when the parties who asserted their claim never entertained the most distant idea of prosecuting it to a termination. If the Recorder would publicly declare the mischiefs arising' film that practice, confidence would be restored in roman• tile relations, and the franchises of the citizens of London would not he so subject to violation. Ile (AIL Barnard) would not say whether the action had been entered inadvertently, or whe ther the whole proceedings were a mere pretence, for the Pur pose of serving the gambling adventurers on the Stock change. The process, however, could not have been issued out without the privity of some of the officers of the Mayor's Court. who of course were in some degree chargeable with the fact of attaching where there could be no legal redress. The RECORDER said he did not know that he could set aside the action itself, but he thought it would fully answer the Learned Counsel's view to put an end to the attachment, which certainly did not appear to the Court to be at all maintainable. Mr. 11AttxAnD said he founded his motion upon the high ground of the mere nonsense of suing a GoVernment for a MIDI of money. Such a thing had never been heard of before; and the rule for which he applied ought, he submitted, to be made absolute at once. The toleration of such a practice as that to which he had alluded would do immense injury. He Would ask any man in his senses, whether he believed that either the plaintiff or any one else ever enertained an idea of making a direct or legal use of the attachment against the Colom bian Government ? When the case was put into his hands, it immediately occurred to him that the measure had been taken for the ►purpose of affiatting the Colombian stock in the mar ket. The sum of 378,0004 had been now two months locked up, anti it was taken care that the attachment should be sued out on the I.lth of July, the day preceding the great settling day, and the fact was notified in all the pacers.— It was done, too, under circumstances which rendered it impos sible to proceed forthwith for the removal of the process. To say that the stock suffered no depreciation in consequence of the attachment, would be to talk absurdly, and no ono could doubt that if the Colombian Government wanted the money thus locked up to meet the exigencies of the State, and could not get it, they would resort to another loan, and necessarily de preciate the price of the Colombian stock then in the market. The holders of the stock must of course be a ff ected, and the Court would say whether, in a country where regularity and punctuality of commercial transactions were so positively ne scteasbs ility apr law,oc process s s t b tf a u s l u d e b h a a p d e eg a r i i t ti d o , n , p a w r i t t i l: t o d u a t ri t y h tia s t l i i e g r h e t e l r s .. t cumstances which made it the instrument of extensive public mischief. The RECORDER said, he certainly was of opinion that com mon bail should be filed tinder the circumstances stated. It was, indeed, a most extraordinary sort of proceeding to sue a Government. The plaintiff might as well sue a whole nation. How such an idea as that of compelling n Government to pay a debt to an individual by such a process could enter into any man's head, he could not guess. He should direct that com mon bail be filed, and that a rule be granted to show cause why all the proceedings should not be set aside. This was accordingly done. The attachment has been, by this determination of, the Court, rendered null and void. NVACTOII 0. TILE BOVERNMEITT OF COLOMBIA. ___ ... _ Mr. 11.tuN Ait n applied for the same rule in this ease. The plaintiff' issued out an attachment against Messrs. Golds chmidt and Co., upon an affidavit, stating that Simon Bolivar and others, styling and calling themselves the Govern ment of the Republic of Colombia, owed him the 'sum of 17,96 N. 4s. did., the balance due for money paid by him for that Government, and also for work done for that Govern ment, and for their use, and by their direction : that all this had been sanctioned, approved, and agreed to by Simon :Roll var, on behalf of himself as Chief, and on behalf general' of the Government, anti that Simon Bolivar, and t he others, were the persons calling themselves, and the individuals constituting thatOovernmentnt was not stated,slr. Barnard said, that those persons were the individuals forming the Oovernment at the time the money was said to have been lent. Republics more frequently varied than any other form of government vend it would, indeed, be extraordinary if one set of governors were to pay for what had been contracted b y another. Rut supposing them to be liable, how was a capita to reach them, and bring them over? Without any fitrther comment, he moved for au len;rsue'e'is„"lttiynio lgiu n inYg therefore, was. w hether' a set order similar to that granted in the last case. materially different from the former He admitted, at.once; ; kind i ) a e l i ' ll t ealt7Cdt adapted withcb mischievous.. e a : 0 1 1 11 8 R ca . 1 1): li t :l l l ,l 4 %d t i t :an g e Mr. BOLLAND, for the plaintiff, argued that thi ot s rohv c iepn a rn s ertyg ei tl w h a oa s ft i i t iv r it oc ch Fs a: a ,a g y :inst the Gey t e ic r tt: legal responsibilt t apartnership in a political concern; were e g re an t y o raise a large sum Y of itlrriwn from the consequences of themselves a state. The Lord Chin hail ilut been lr. Walton" o niB The c 1 a t t achm e nt n il' a untouched i wa a s t e t v a e i a n i s ' y t t h t a e h n e y o p oo t i o lff°l c come persons vi it n lro e I. na h n e b i iia r .t li rht n ie t nT i goil contract eihne s u e under d t e o r the recognisenam e of Colombiat he G overn . a,s a proved that Bolivar's money was been sued out. . If' not, m n_ se en subjectt a : oiI n oop ah t er. ye o yt, t hhli * toaneani : Colombia , tdf,tasoahfact, thenntby,iailetcattachment; calling else 0: 0 stiris enti.igaiageddlalti:, without hve them s elves nwie tt i :col n l Ifsi adventurers hail men were to be considered as justified in coming to this country an d making plunder of the property that the motion in this thus le ft without the chance of retribution. The n atives, wil? succeed. The averment stated . , that was not averred who the Governmen ll t ir o:e N r l e ra ; to TBhOclivßaErcanc'tilmthr:totsiateitrl: as were that Bolivar and the others show cause rule Commonto o s ordered stthyeleatothbe Government I file d l v el ; i t ofo t t the n‘ wleac this ftes::ltill e : a tvlemh s ner e el) ire : : nlsaty: t i t : T ag l en d alnes:ltYd a t. set aside granted.. why the whole proceedings should nut be PRIVATE EDUCATION.• . AMARRIED and BENEFICED CLER GYMAN, hertofore Tutor to a Nobllinati of the first rank. and who subsequently for tome years has received a FEW PUPILS into his Family, resident a cuirvenitut distance from Londoit. has now a VACANCY. . Letters tube directed for the Reverend A. 8., Mr. Trip. hook's, Bookse4ler, , 23, Old Bond-street, London. tiep