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*414/ • . -I- • . t , , . . -- • • _7l.okt .t:Arpa P r,. •r:, • • • S u . •. . ~,.• (4 . ,wd umwr NUMBER 9785. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1824. PRICE SE VENRENC r: COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND / PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, REGENT - STREET, LONDON, Established in 1806. PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES. The DUKE of RUTLAND The MARQUESS of NORTHAMPTON EARL GREY LORD BRAYBROOKE LORD KING, &c. &c. &c. DIRECTORS. Lord Northwich William Praed, Esq. Francis Const, Esq. Sir Henry Pynn Sir John Doyle, Bart. James Sedgwicl, Erq. Robert Downie, Esq. M.P. Hon. Washington Shirley tiir George Docket, Bart. Sir W. E. Welby, Bait. Sir David Ogilby I Sir Robert Wilson, M.P. &c. &c. &c. Iklanaging i pirector, J. T. Barber Beaumont, Esq. F.A S. IMPORTANT BENEFITS REALIZED. • Capitals—A Million Sterling, and upwarelii. - All Insured' Share Profits equally. Exemption from Liability for Losses.. • • s 'aleturns. of 25 and 20 per. Cent. paid invariably; 242,900 returned in the last nine years. Bonuses of £l3 Bs. and £26 12s. per Cent. paid on Life Policies. BRITISH COFFEE-HOUSE, COCXSPUR-lITRIET, JANUARY 1, 1824. THE COMMITTEE for the RELIEF of the REFUGEES from SPAIN. PRESINT• Hon. GEORGE AGAR ELLIS, M.P. in the Chair Alex. Robertson, Esq. M.P. W. J. Denison, Esq. M.P. John Capel, Esq. Richard W ellessley, Esq. M.P. Robert CaMpbell ' Esq. John Smith, Esq. M.P. James Morrison, Esq. Lord Holland Colonel Jones Wm. Haldimand, Esq. M.P. James Barnett, Esq. The Committee, in announcing the additional Subscriptions received, have the satisfaction of informing the Subscribers that they have already relieved a great many meritorious indi viduals ; but at the same time they beg leave to apprise the Public, that a great many Refugess from Spain continue t ° arrive, and it is earnestly hoped that the accustomed liberality of the Public will increase in the same proportion. Amount of Subscriptions already advertised - £4,263 5 3 Moses Edwards, Esq. £lO 0 E. M. Barrett, Esq. 10 0 L. 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STRICTURES CURED, BY a new Method the above troublesome Complaint is entirely eradicated, (without the use of Bougie or Caustic), whether of long or shalt standing, ex cept constitutional, as well as all weaknesses generally ac companying it, and in a short time the whole system is re established, being one of the greatest discoveries ever made. By JOHN LYNCH, 44, Duke-street, St. James's. Respectable references will be given, if required.—All Let ters post-paid. Ca The price of the Medicine is Four Pounds a parcel. A perfect Cure for Bilious Affections and Obstructions in ►he Bowels. Just published. price ss. r7d. Bvo., the Third Edition of A PRACTICAL TREATISE on NERVOUS, BILIOUS. and INFLAMMATORY AFFECTIONS, with a new 'Method of Curing Strictures without the use of Bougie or Caustic; with an Appendix on the Diseases of Women and Children. By JOHN LYNCH.--To be had of the Author, 44, Duke street, SG James's. • LONDON REPOSITORY for the CABINET MAKERS' SOCIETY, for every Description of CABINET FURNI . TURE; 'FEATHER BED and MATTRESS MANU FACTORY, No. 71, Corner of LEADENHALL STREET, London, opposite Aidgate Pump.-Ready Money Only. E Society of Cabinet-Makers respectfully 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 dean any House can do in London by twenty-five per cent., there being no other profit required on the Goods but the bare house expences ; at the same time will be sufficiently satisfied with having constant Employment for themselves and families. This Society was Established in June, 1821, cons; •+;eg of 20 Mechanics, adding the number of their AI" - mi lies, amounted to 66 ; in June, 1819, five se Al to the Society; in June, 1820, 10; and in June 18.., e,. 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 endeavour: 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. 1.55. -Full size tent Bedstead 11. 63.-Bordered hair Mattress to fit 11. ls.-Maliogany Drawer, solid ends 31. 35.-Feather Bed 10s.-Ditto, free from dust and smell, full size 31. 10s._ Six japanned Chairs of any description in oil 11. 65.-Best do. Wash-hand-stand 165.-Ditto, Dressing Table 165.-Hearth Rugs 145.-3 ft. 6 inches Chestof Drawers 41. 45.-Three-fo o t mahogany Pembroke Table 11. 18s.-Three-foot ditto on. pil lars and claws 31. 155.-Mahogany Dressing Table IL-Ditto Bidett, best 11. 4s:-Ditto Bedsteps 11. 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Is.-Tent Bedstead and furniture 31. 15.-Bamboo Bed stead and French elyptic top, with drapery and fringe, 81. 10s. -Five-foot mahogany four-post Bedstead and furniture, with French draperies, lined all through, complete, 151. 10s.- Five-foot ditto, ditto 16s. 108.;-Ditto ditto, with cornice, of a superior make, 181. 10s.-Ditto ditto, with gold cornice, ele gant drapery 201.-Drawing-room Curtains, of the best Mo rine and Chintz, fitted for window, 61. 6d.-Ditto ditto 71. 7s. -Ditto, of a superior and elegant style of work, 101. 10s.- Drawing-room rose-wood,--Drawing-room Trafalgar Chairs Ditto, inlaid with buhl. 201.-Table, 2 Covers, and Sofa, 181. Ala.-Ditto 11. Ic-Drawing-room Sofa 61. 65.-Ditto, 71..75.. -Ditto 81. Bs.-Horse-hair Cushions, each ss. 6d.-Covered ditto 41. W. THURNELL, Agent. COUNTRY DEALERS SUPPLIED. Goods packed free of expellee, except the materials, and sent to all parts of G rea t B r i ta i n , an d to t h e E ast and irest In .-Captains fitted out, and merchants supplied with Ca binet Goods for Exportation. *** Apartments Furnished at a few hours' notice, and Houses two or four days. CORONERS' INQUEiTS. SUICIDE OF BARON E. DE GRAFFENVIED. About five o'clock yesterday evening an In quest was held in the Committee Room, St. James's Work house, before Mr. HIGGS, Coroner, on the body of Le Baron Edouard Degraffenvied, a German Nobleman, who put an end to his existence by shooting himself with a - pistol. Mr. Thomas Alcock, Surgeon, 11, New Burlington -street, was called upon at eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, and found the deceased at No. 48, in a passage, St. James's-market, lying on his back on the floor ; the head was dreadfully shat tered—there was a wound on the left temple, and another oppo site below the right temple, apparently as if a pistol ball had passed. Life was totally extinct; the left hand was blackened, and smelled of gunpowder, probably by holding the weapon. F. Avis, 48, Haymarket.—The deceased lodged at our house two months; he was a native of Switzerland ; he dined with us that day, and was very much dejected during the evening. He went out about eight o'clock ' • he returned again to inquire if the Count de C a pot a i ne was at home; he was informed in the negative; returned again and asked for a g l ass o f negus , i n t h e coffee-room, and inquired for another gentleman, who was not at home, and then he wrote a letter for him, which he put in his pocket ; he then left the coffee-room in great haste, but again returned ; he sat and sighed very hard. A letter was presented to him by the servant of Mr. Hawkins; at first he would not take it, but again took it and began to tear it : he then stepped out, and in a moment the report of a pistol was heard, and he was found dead in the passage leading to the market. He had taken the pistol out of another gentleman's room. Mr. F. J. Morri, of Savoy, a merchant, through the medium of an interpreter, deposed he had only known the deceased at the said Coffee-house; he knew his family to be of noble ex traction, and he travelled about the town with him : he consi dered him insane. The letter before stated was addressed to witness ; it was now handed to him to read, but lie said he could make no sense of it, except that it related to a debt of 1/. 10s. he owed to witness, and his bill in the ho u se. Prince de Capotaine, of Milan, said he first became ac quainted with the deceased three months ago in Gibraltar, and they came together to England in the ship Grace, Captain Blackmore. During the quarantine they stopped at Cokehaven, where the deceased cut his arm to bleed himself to death ; sometimes he would seize the Captain by the throat, and at tempted to strangle him, as he said, because he put them on short allowance ; they paid 401. for their passage, the Captain to find them in food : but he only gave theni junk, hard biscuit, and rotten water. Witness considered the deceased to be in sane. Whenever he would be in trouble he talked of destroying himself. The pistol with which he committed the deed belonged to witness. Verdict—" Destroyed himself with a pistol whilst in a state of temporary derangement." ANOTHER SUlClDE.—Yesterday afternoon an Inquisition was held before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq. at the Duke of York, in York -street, Portman-square, on the body of James Clark. a servant, who was found drowned in a cistern. It ap peared in evidence, that the deceased had thrown hiniselfinto the cistern in a temporary state of derangement, fcr which no cause could be assigned by his fellow-servants. Verdict— Temporary mental derangement." WEST INDIES. The Missionary Chronide for January, just published, gives the following particulars in re lation to the - recent transactions and pending judicial proceedings at Demerara. Hitherto the representations have been nearly all on one side. DEIVERARA. The Directors have at length the satisfaction of informing the Members of the Society, that they have received a letter from Mr. Elliot, dated October 18, enclosing a copy of one written to the Treasurer on the 2.:ith of Septembei, but detained in the colony; besides communications from other persons. The letters of Mr. Elliot assert the innocence of the Mis sionaries of all participation whatvirlit the crime of the insur rection ; and the Directors entertaii tro aPprehension of ad vancing that which they shall have to retract, in saying they give full credit to the declaration. They will quote the terns in which the assurances are made to' themselves, convinced that the manly feelings of conscious integrity which shine through them, will carry to the bosom of every impartial reader a conviction of the veracity by which they are dictated. " Numerous false reports have been sent forth against :lir. Smith,"—(Mr. Elliot might have added against himself also)— '` but assure yourself and all the Directors, that whatever reports you may hear, the only crime that the Missionaries hays committed is their zeal for the conversion of the Negroes. They have neither been so weak nor so wicked as to excite the Negroes to rebellion. The missionaries want justice only ; they have no favour to ask ; they have nothing to fear. The missionaries have not degraded their holy calling, nor dis honoured the society of which they are members, by sowing the seeds of rebellion instead of the word of life. The real causes of the rebellion are far, very far, from being the instructions given by the missionaries." He adds, " We are not cast down ; the Lord our God supports us ; and we are persuaded that He who protected Daniel in the lion's den, will support and pro tect us." The Directors are persuaded that the friends of the Society will approve of their not making larger quotations from these communications at present, and that they will accept the brief statement which they are about to offer, in the confidence that they will be enabled, ere long,' to present to them a cir cumstantial justification of the character and conduct of their greatly calumniated missionaries. The statement, brief as it is, will be sufficient to show the falsehood of the almost innumerable reports which have been industriously circulated through the kingdom, and indeed through the World. Tbe colony of Demerara is divided into the East and West Coasts by the Demerara river, the former, including Mahaica, being on its right bank. Mr. Elliot is stationed on the West, Mr. smith on the East Coast, about 20 miles distant from each other. It appears that the instruction: was entirely confined to the East Coast, so that no commotion whatever took place on the estates on which Mr. Elliot labours, and not one of the Negroes under his instruction was implicated in the rebellion. Mr. Elliot's being taken into custody was therefore owing only (though he had threatenings given him) to an alleged c, disobedience of orders," which he had not understood to be such, in visiting Mr. Smith• at the Colony-house the day after he was sent thither. After a detention of about 10 days, during which his papers were all taken from his house, he was allowed to return home, under an injunction not to interfere with the trials. No charge was preferred against him ; and thus are the vehement accusations against all the missionaries of the . Society within the colony, circulated for several weeks past throughout the country, reduced to that only against Mr. smith. IThe insurrection, it should seem, manifested itself first at Mahaica, the district to the eastward of that in which Mr. Smith resides. I ts appearance on Le Ressouvenir estate, where Mr. Smith resides, was on Monday, the 18th August, in conse quence of an order to take into custody two slaves belonging to an adjoiningplantation, whom the Negroes of Le Ressouvenir, as the prisoners had to pass over it, rose to rescue. Mr. Smith was at home. He successfully used his endeavours, on per ceiving the tumult, to rescue the manager from the Negroes, and continued his exertions to induce them to return to their duty, till he himself was driven off with violence, and with a weapon held to his body, from the estate. Mr. Smith was taken into custody on the evening of the 21st of August, and all his papers seized. He is kept a prisoner in the Colony-house, and has, since the 24th of August, had a guard stationed over him. Mrs. Smith is not detained as a prisoner, but does not avail her se lf o f h er lib er ty, lest, on leav ing her husband, she might be refused access w him again. After the 22d of August, Mr. Elliot had no communication with him. Mr. Smith was on. Monday, the 13th of October, brought to trial before a Court-martial, the legality of which proceeding is greatly doubted in this country. The public papers have stated four charges as forming the indictment against him, but of their accuracy the Directors are not enabled to judge. They trust that, under the direction of Divine PrOvidence, he has been able to prove himself Oldest: of th'em all. It is not, however . to be concealed, that he will have had much to contend with from the violence of public prejudice in the colony, and it is to be feared from the false assertions of some of the unhappy Negroes, whom the hop e o f f avour towar d s themselves may have led to bring against him " things that he knew not." Indeed the Directors are informed, upon autho rity on which they can rely, that some of the condemned Negroes, finding the hone of lice taken away, had in the most solemn manner declarer that they had been induced so to act, and that others, on - ming questioned whether they had not been incited to rebellion by Mr. Smith, had in the s t r o nges t terms which their b-,oken language could supply, deni e d th e imputation. It is stated by the writer of one letter, that he his often heard charges circulated against the Missionaries, as if spoken by the N e ;r o es a t th e t i me o f t h e i r execution, which he knew (for he was' a near spectator) that they never had uttered. The issue of Mr. Smith's trial is not yet known in England ; but it is stated in the public papers, that by a vessel arri ve d a t one of the out-ports, l e tt ers h ave been received of the date of the 27th of October, which mention that, the evidence for the prosecution closed on the 25th October, and that the Court would meet on the Ist November to proceed on the defence. While waiting for the decision, the Directors are much griev ed in knowing that the health of Mr. S. has for some time been in a dangerous state, and that his physician had just before the insurrection broke out, advised him to take a voyage to England, as the best means of recovery. The Directors have written to him, recommending his compliance with this advice as soon circumstances will allow him so to do, which it may be hoped will be the case ere long. The Directors have received letters from Mr. Davies, dated the 15th and 18th October. He arrived with his family in Demerara on the 11th of that month, through the divine good ness, in health and safety. Under the shock which the state of affairs occasioned, he had the happiness to find his own con gregation enjoying tranquility, and that not one of the Negroes who attend his ministry took any part in the insurrection. He speaks of the kindness with which the Governor received him, and states that he was allowed to preach as before., THE HONOURABLE JOHN ADAMS. As it is the duty, and must be the pleasure, of every Public Journalist, to record the merits of those who have distinguished themselves by the ability, as well as by the purity, of their of ficial conduct in high and important situations, we feel peculiarly gratified in the opportunity of extracting the following article from the CAL-. CUTTA NEWSPAPER of August 14, 1823, which is not only a due tribute to a meritorious indivi dual, hut is characterized by a degree of im pressive eloquence, altogether, that may be truly said to come " Wann from the heart, and faithful to its fires." NMETING AT TIIE TOWN-HALL, CALCUTTA. To 'WILLIAM rti‘NAuoirrox, Esq. Sheriff of Calcutta, We, the undersigned, request that you will co n v ene a meet ing of the British inhabitants of Calcutta, for the purpose of considering the best means of paying some suitable mark of public respect and attachment to the Honourable John Adam, on the occasion of his retirement from the office of Governor- General : August 6, 1823. .T. Palmer Wm. Prinsep T. Pattie John Smith R. C. Ferguson Alexr. Colvin T. Paton C. R. Lindsay John Haynes W. Paton J. P. Larkins T. Plowden J. C. C. Sutherland H. Sargeant G. Bellard R. Sanders T. W. Hogg Geo. Kippell T. Alsop R, C. Plowden NV. Donn R. Robertson C. Trower James Calvin D. Clark Thos. E. M. Turton "W. Ainslie James A tkinsons. In consequence of the above requisition, the Sheriff' conven ed a meeting at the Town-hall, on Saturday, the 9th of Au gust. A great number of individuals assembled ; amongst whom were many of the principal civil and military servants of the Company, and a great portion of the merchants, and other highly respectable inhabitants of Calcutta. Mr. FERGUSON, having been called to the chair by acclama tion said he should add ress the Meeting only in a few words ; for although Mr. Adam had retired from the office of Governor- General, lie still filled an important station in the Government. That they had not yet seen the close of his public life, so that the time was not yet come to give a final opinion on it ; but for those present to deal on such a meed of praise as they considered him to deserve. Mr. Adam had passed the whole of his public life among the people of Calcutta, so that none could be better qualified to judge of it than they were. The Learned Chair man said, he had long known and been intimately acquainted with Mr. Adam, and lie felt convinced that much of the present prosperity of British India was owing to the close attention of Mr. Adam to his arduous duties for so long a time. He would say more than this, and would assert, that in no part of the public life of Mr. Ad a m had he been actuate d b y any b u t t h e purest motives, an d th e wa rmest de s i re f or t h e i nterest of this country. He believed that it was the lot of few individuals to be loved like the excellent and amiable individual in question, whose sound judgment, he believed, was surpassed by nothing but the purity of his heart. The people of Calcutta on this oc casion, wished to pay Mr. Adam a mark of respect for his pub lic merits, and in such a case the plainer the resolutions the bet ter. He proceeded to read the first resolution, which in sub stance was, That the meeti ng was o f opinion that a testimony of the regard and esteem of the inhabitants of Calcutta should be expressed of the Hon. John Adam. The Chairman therefore proposed, that a full-length p or t ra it o f M r. Ad am should be public edice in the city o f C a l cutta, w h ere i t would placed in so ei m n e the midst of the people, who had been witnesses of the excellencies of his public character. He next proposed, that Mr. Adam be requested to sit for his portrait, to be put up as a permanent memorial of his virtues. Mr. Ferguson then sat down amidst long and unanimous applause. Mr. J• W. Hoot; rose to second the motion. He did so, because he was confident that it embodied the sentiments and feelings of the people of India • and if the resolutions h a d b een sini without the prefatory remarks of the eloqu ent charrlyinan, read, it must have been received. This he said, was no p l ace for contention with them on points of doubt. But when they met to pay a tribute to worth, to unbounded benevolence, and unshaken integrity, he could hardly brook the tedium of debate, and wished at once ro come to the object of the Meet ing. He had known Mr. Adam for a long time, without being intimate with him, and he had ne ve r k nown a more b enevo l ent man. The next pleasure to the possession of great talents, was the payin g a tribute to them. He felt honoured, and felt a kind of artificial elevation, in paying a tribute to so good a man. Ur. Adam had been long known to the Indian public, had ar rived in early life, almost in boyhood, had passed through the several ranks of the profession to that which intrusted him with the destinies of the people. On his conduct they were to pass the resolutions, and if the painful duty of bidding adieu to Mr. Adam should arrive, they would doubtless meet again, more fully to express their sentiments. He said that on his first landin g in this country, he had heard the name of Mr. Adam associated with all that was good and kind, and he had learned to venerate him without knowing him. He concluded an elo quent speech by saying, that he entirely concurred in the pro posal, as the most appropriate mark of respect; and he believed more unanimity and concord never prevailed on any occasion. The Resolutions were then read, and it was proposed that the gentlemen who signed the Requisition, with any other that they might think proper to add, should be a Committee to carry them into effect. Agreed to unanimously. On the 11th of August, the gentlemen who signed the re quisition, and several others, waited upon the Hon. John Adam, to communicate to him the resolutions, when R. C. Fer. guson, Esq. addressed him in the following manner:— Mr. ADAM--.We have the honour to wait upon you, at the desire and on the behalf of a very numerous meeting of the British inhabitants of Calcutta, who have availed themselves of the occasion which has presented itself, to record the sense which they entertain of the merits of your long and efficient public services. Tbey are desirous of obtaining and.preserv ing among them some lasting memorial of the virtues for which, in public and private life, you are so eminently distin guished. Your presence, Sir, forbids me from dilating do them in the manner in which, on a late occasion, 1 not un willingly ind u l ge d myse lf , t h oug h t h e attempt was difficult to embody in any language of mine the sentiments of respect, esteem, and affectionate attachment, with which the breast of every man who heard me was animated towards you. I will refrain from any such attempt now, and will content my self with reading the resolutions which were adopted at the meeting. 111 r. FERGUSON read the Resolutions, and then pro ceeded : If, Sir, the earnest solicitation of myself and others whom you see around you. by whom I need not tell you how much you are beloved, could add any thing to the force of the re quest conveyed from so large a body of your countrymen, that solicitation would not be wanting. But we are assured that you will feel no hesitation in complying with the wish which has been publicly expressed, and that you will give effect to the object in view, in the manner which has appeared to be the most honourable and pure, and therefore the most suitable, and which, it is believed, will be the most acceptable to you.— If I were permitted, Sir, upon this occasion, to allude to any thing which is personal to myself, I should not be disposed to conceal how much I have felt gratified in being thought worthy, of taking the part which has been allotted to me in these pro ceedings. You, Sir, are the oldest friend I have in India. I have not forgotten the warm and cordial reception i met with from you, on my first arrival in this country, but I was pre pared for that reception and all the kindness which followed it, by what I had experienced from one, whom you, as I well know, in no ordinary degree, lose and venerate. Your excel lent and much respected father extended to rue his countenance in early life, and indeed I may say, that attachment to the name of Adam had come to me as an inheritance from one, now no more, whose memory 1 am bound to cherish, and from whom, in my childhood, I had heard the expressions of regard and esteem WhiCh he entertained for William Adam. Need I say, Sir, that the interest of these proceed ings will not be confined to this country, or to those who have taken a part in, or been witness to them. Of the feelings with which these tidings must be received by your valued parent I can in some degree judge, from knowing the affection_ which he bOre towards you, and which' cannot surely have abated, because in the fullness of your reputation, you have realised to = the utmost the hopes which he had fondly cherished of you:— The honours which are paid to .you are his, as much as yours. I trust with my own lips not to communicate to him the ear liest intelligence of these proceedings but to be able to i m p art to him somethin g o f t h e f ee li ng which pervades my bosom, and - the bosoms of all who on this occasion have sought to do jus tice to the merit of a son, so honoured and beloved. Allow ' me, Sir, in conclusion, to request that you will accept from your friends who now surround you, wishes as ardent and sin cere as can have place in the human heart, for the happineso, welfare, and prosperity of yourself and your family. To this eloquent address, Mr. ADAM, deeply impressed with those feelings which so truly honourable a- testimony of public esteem could not fail to produce, returned a short but inipres- • sive answer, complying with the request of the Committee, and acknowledging in strong and emphatic l anguage t h e grat ifying.., tribute of the Briti s h inhabitants of Calcutta. No language, he said, that he could command would adequately convey the deep sense he entertained of the distinguished honour conferrei3. on him by the Resolutions which had just been read. That. the British inhabitants of Calcutta, among whom nearly th 3 , whole course of his public service, and by far the greater por tion of his natural life, had been passed, should consider hint worthy of such a distinction, rendered the present the proudest moment of his life, and must be a source of exultation and pride to the latest moment of his existence. He begged the Com mittee to assure those whom they represented of his profound : and lasting gratitude for this mark of their regard, and of their too partial estimate of his public conduct. To-the Gentlemen present, among whom he numbered some of his oldest and most attached personal friends, he expressed his warmest thanks, and declared that the value of the compliment lie had received was greatly enhanced in his estimation by receiving it through such a channel, and by the gratifying and affecting terms in which • it had been conveyed by their Chairman. • A Sub-committee, to carry the resolutions into effect, con sisting of Mr. Hogg, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Shakespeare, and Mr. Atkinson, was appointed. (From the Calcutta Gazette.) Ptrisr.ic IMPROVEMXNT.—It is in the contemplation of Government to carry into speedy effect two measures, which, in their operation and consequence, promises incalculable be nefit to the Indian population; one will be directed to the spread of education and the gradual introduction of European arts and sciences throughout the country, which, by augment ing the intellectual endowments of the natives, and • ad vancing them in the scale of civilization, must permanently secure their temporal welfare and moral amelioration ; and the other is the proposed application of town duties to the local im provement of the places where they are collected (on the princi ple under prosecution by the Lottery Committee in Calcutta), which by increasing and extending the facilities ofintercommu nication between the provinces, must lead to an ample develope ment of the physical resources of the soil, and ofnative industry and enterprize. The paternal solicitude of Governmen t thus inces santly directed to the happiness of the millions under its sway, cannot fail to operate with grateful conviction on their minds, and secure their attachment and loyalty on a basis never to be , shaken. The accomplishment of these important measures are to be attributed to the liberal policy of 3lr. Adam. The Hou. Mr. Adam proceeds to Bombay, for the benefit .of his, health, on board the H. C. ship Investigator, Capt. D. Ross. Marine Surveyor-General. The Investigator is expected to sail about the 25th inst. (August.) ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE, SURREY WINTER ASSIZES, JAN. 1. ARSON. John &rapid, a person of respectable appearance, was in dicted, under Lord Ellenborough's Act, for feloniously, will fully, and maliciously, setting fire to the dwelling-house of Mary Bonsol, widow, deceased, at the parish of St. Georg e ' s , Southwark, on the 13th of September last. A second count alleged the house to belong to Mary Nichols. The prisoner, in September last, and for two or three years previously, carried on the business of a cheesemonger and gro cer in the lower part of a house in London -street, Surrey, as under-tenant of a Mrs. Mary Nichols, who had been previ ously tenant of that part of the premises to Mrs. Mary Bonsol, widow, the landlady who resided in the upper part of the dwelling. Soon after 12 o'clock on Saturday night, the 13th of September last, a fire broke out in the lower part of the house. The neighbours had become alarmed, and Mrs. Bonsol, who was known to live in the upper part of the building, was rescued from the flames. She had just retired to bed, and, upon a loud knocking at the door, came to the window, received notice that the house was on fire, and after huddling on some clothes escaped in safety. In less than two hours the house was burned to the ground. On Monday morning, in conse quence of some expression:: which dropped from the prisoner, importing that he knew that the house was on fire 20 minutes before he left it, he was taken up on a charge of willingly setting fire to the house, and was finally committed for trial. The evidence was all circumstantial. The prisoner being called on for his defence, solemnly as serted his innocence. He declared that he had carried on a flourishing trade in the shop in question: urged the improba sibility of his committing an act which must be attended with such serious consequences to himself in every point of vie*, and relied upon the justice of the Jury to acquit him after they should have heard his witnesses. A great number of witnesses were then called for the pri soner, who proved, first, that the property in his shop and pre mises had been insured to the amount of four hundred pounds in the Phoenix-office, and that he had never made any claim on the policy ; second, that he had carried on a most lucrative trade ; third, that he had taken a house in Watling-street to carry on his trade in the wholesale way, intending not to give up his shop in London-street, but still to carry on the trade there by means of a confidential servant ; fourth, that so fur from his intending to quit that shop, he had actually been in treaty for redeeming a mortgage on the premises, and taking the whole house into his own hands ; and, lastly, that at the time of the fire the shop and premises were well stocked with goods in trade and household furniture. An immense number of witnesses spoke highly of the pri= soner's character, and described him as an honest, upright, and humane man in all the relations of life. Mr. Justice P ARK summed up - the ;hole of the evidence, and made such comm en t s as the circumstances of the case suggested. —The Jury found the prisoner —Not Guilty. Tower of Horses, and Asses, in Carrying and Drawing Burthens.—The energy of some of our racers, for a short effort, is prodigious; the famous race-horce Childers ran a mile in a minute, with a weight of 731bs ; and was equal to continue this speed for ten miles. An ordinary racer, with about the same weirt, clears from .twenty to twenty-four feet of ground at each leap. By placing the burthen on his back, a horse will perform 5 or 6 times more labour than if the load were placed so that he must draw it horizontally over a pully, or on a sledge, than is exerted in ploughing. Two horses cannot exert a greater force in drawing a plough than 751bs. each horse, and move at the rate of two miles an hour. But by the mechanical effect of the wheels in diminished friction, a horse can draw in a cart a load fourteen times greater than he can do when he is harnessed to a sledge or in a plough. The carriers between Glasgow and Edinburgh use two-wheel single-horse carts, which weigh from 7001bs. to 8001bs. and the load of goods weighs 2001bs. additional: with this load a horse travels 22 miles a day. The London dray horses are capable of powtr-- ful temporary exertion, but the average of their labottr is less than that of the lighter breeds ; much of their force is ex pended in moving their own ponderous mass. In 1805, a cart horse was exhibited, which measured l 9; hands high, 16 feet 5 inches long, and 8 feet 2 inch e s i n g i rt h ; b ut all its move ments were sluggish. In pumping water a horse will raise 2.0 hogsheads 10ft high an hour. It will raise by a wheel and axle 10001bs. of coal 13 feet, and continue this exertion 13 hours daily. Although a strong horse, by a temporary effort, will draw in a cart a weight of 20001bs. up a steep hill, whichis but short, and is able to draw 7 times more on a level road than a man can carry—yet if the hill road be long and steep, three Men can carry as much up as one horse can draw. Next to that of the horse, the labour of the ass is extensively used in England ; and from its hardy habits its labour is much cheaper. An ass will carry 2001bs. 20 miles a day and from thus being able to vet at a higher angle than a horse, three asses will carry as much up a hill as two horses. At Carisbrpoke Castle, the work of raising water in a walking wheel was peqormed by the same. individual ass for 45 years.