The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-08-04 00:00:00

rasmoY.llll.l: IYTELLIGENCE.

Count and Countess Lieven entertained a distinguished party at
dinner vest... Mar. at .tslibumharu !louse, Dover-street.
The Earl and Countess of ikalington arrived a fey days since in
Parts, from German STA. . . - .

Lady tiranthani lett town yrsterday fur Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Ilia Lordship will inflow in a few days.
The Earl and l'ountom of Surrey leer town yesterday, for their
seat, IVork%op Manor, Not.
The Earl of Scwboroagh hat ler: town for his scat in York-
shire.

Earl and Countess Cowper have arrived in town from Windsor

Cwole.

The !lon. P. At.liburr.ltant has left town for Aubburcham-place,
Su‘v.t.x.

I sowsger Lady Sr:Key hss left town for West Dean, Sussex.
lslrd care-sal Selo has left town far Ontiwdshire.
limry garing, Esq. 51.1'. has left town for Paris.
Lord Eliot left Fet.:on's Hotel, Jeranyn-street, yesterday, for
M'orth
Departures horn the floral lintel, St. James's-street :—Sir 11.
Lane, Bart. for his seat in Ilants ; A. 11. Mills, Esq. and faulily,
for their seat. Knoyle House, Wilts.
Colonel Ward left Blake's Hotel, Jertnyn-atreet, yesterday, for
Ireland.

Mr. and Mrs. Fulljames harearriyed et the British hotel, •TCT
myn-street, trim) Margate.
-Departures fmni the Sr. Peter...burgh lintel, I)over-st,yet :
General Hall. for Cheltenham ; Bey. Thomas lirigslnek, for Ox-
ford ; (*airman Evans. for Paris ; Sir Beurehier U Batt. for
his seat, Tationock, I/evonshire ; Captain O''lara, fur Chelten-
ham ; Garrard, Eli. for Itri.eiton.
The Rev. Mr. Petway and lady Lindsay lett the Clarendon
Hotel, Bond-street, yesterday, on a tour.
Ciptsin and Mrs. Tller hire left 3lisart's Hotel, Lower Brook-
strict, for the Cor.tinent.

INDIA.

THE WEST INDIES.

By the Union, arrived in the Clyde from Demerara,
files of Papers to the 15th of June have been received.
The following extract is from the Guiana Chronicle of the
lath of June :

" We are sorry to learn that within this last fortnight the gangs
of three estates between Georgetown and 3lahaica have refused to
do their work, and that the principal pars of each of them have
' been down to the Fiscal, to lodge complaints against their owners
or managers. These complaints, we understand, have been, for the
most part, of a frivolous and vexatious nature; but we have vet to
learn what measures his Excellency the Governor, or the Fiscal,
has adopted, or intends to adopt, to prevent the recuirence of this
improper and disorderly conduct on the part of the slaves fur the
future. A great nutiiher of the nqtrocs from the Big Diamond
estate up the river came down to gins this morning; anti if some
decided steps are not promptly and vigorously enforced, his Honour
may empect to he visited in a short time by the gangs of all the
estates in the country. A listless toleration on the pan of the Exe-
cutive of this striking of work by a few evil-disposed negroces will
prove not only highly subversive of all discipline among that class
of people in general, hut will be a source of very considerable injury
Ito the just intet.aits of their masters."

will net fail to transmit to ti:6e
The Governor regrets, that the especial commands which he
1 of it seem evidently opposed to the objects of the Cabildo in row,
occasion; and in the IneyAn titneadre
' ring to it.
dwathitachchmthaentt oboftithe raw 1,-
noared` . receinicedefft.corn his Majesty's Government, for carrying rei,
We have received a file 4—Calcutta Papers to the 21st
of March, from which we make the following extracts :
ect, will precept his a:implying with the wishes .:
A battalion of native infantry has been ordered from Rename, to the t o
Cabildo ; but his Excellency
' Secretary of Staite the proceed towards the eastern fror.tier.
We are informed that the different detachments on the eastern deemed . ..
oenrethpre6eethattiyonans
frontier have been ordered to assemble at tioalparah, preparatory to reit;:iitoh neeenns",.en”^:_the present..
advancing on Assam. to his 31ajesty's person and Government, to worms • :4
Five companies of the 20th Regiment of Infantry are under snhere of their influence, that obedience
to the law
I te, •ithln use
orders of embarkation from Ltarrackpore, for the same desti. -which is nee,.
say to the tranquillity of the colony.
nation. " RALPH WO(SDFORD, Gr
The 34th Native Infantry, we learn, has received marching or- were,w.••
den for the Sylhet frontier. A meeting of the Board of Cabildo was subsequently consert„l
Extract of a letter, dated Singapore, !ash January, 11:24 :—" This • when his Excellency's reply to their petition was read, and orti,„.i
place is improving daily, not only in its commerce, but in its popu., to be entered on the minutes of the Board ;—" the wee bent::
cation also. There are upwards of ten thousand settlers in it, most sent expreosing their deep regret, that the especial converses o, ;
of whom are Chinese. New streets are made in all directions, sub- his Excellency had received from his Majesty's (ion, ii: ;
mantis' brick houses are built, and the bridge across the creek is should have prevented his complying with the prayer at Oleo ~•, '
finished. Much land has been cleared by individuals, and. in short, : dress, to suspend the promulgation of the Royal Geier io Cohn•••
everything wears a new appearance. On the 29th and 30th of Fe. until their humble supplicatton could be Jail at the foot a.;
bruary, the first two junks arrived from Cochin China. These yes.. throne of his most gracious Majesty ; the Board, notwiin,i_,,e. :.
sels came from the port of Sisigun, in lower ('ochin China, in the • being still of opinion, that the provision!' of the Oriler, if pr.-
very short period of four days ; a striking proof that the N.E. Mon-, gat stet
, would be attended with injurious consequences to the : • .
..
soon is at the very height. They have brought rice. sugar, raw , bitants of the Colony."
silk, Tooquin lead, pickled pork, hog's lard, and live stock ; also I Peer OF !•41't1N..11.Nr%
tea, and some oder aniclis the produce of China. At a meeting of the Committee appointed en the 14:h of M,
PEISIIWAR NEIFS.--ht is reported hy the Ukhbats, that Yu last, held this day, the following Resolution was proposed ~;
Muhmed Khan, the filoYernor of Peishwar, was informed by mes- adopted •
sengers, that Nabob Pundel Khan has taken Jalalabad front 31ch. ! "
Resolved,—That as by the vigilance of His 3lnjesti's (;aver.
tab Khan, and is encamped with an army, procured from that place,imcnt, and the imposing appearance of the regular anti iiiiiiio fort..
in an adjacent village.—Xemachar Merritt. Feb. 7. any overwhelming catastrophe arising front relaxation of iliscii.s:":
TRADE OF Bescoat..—We are indebted to Phipps's annual Ltd the excitement of unwarrantable expectations in the ignoe..,
statement of exports and imports from and into Calcutta, fur the' minds of the slave population, which must come from the eese.
following important information relative to the shipping and corn. ! ments of the late Order in Couneil, may, under the blessing ;I
menial interests of this port. The imports into Bongs' during the ! Providence, be averted, and the colony be 'subjected only to s!! ii;
last year have amounted to 34,11110 tots, in 61 Vessels. (If this ton_ and lingering ruin, which will not be Ins oppressive and sere. 1...,
nage, 13,6114 tons have been brought in 16 of the Company's yew'. cause exhibited in vexatious detail ; this Committee are of opic:;;:•
lam and chartered ships ; 20.113 tons in 43 rescinders from London, ' that the inhabitants should be invited to transmit to the then :t
Liverpool. and Greenock, and 943 tons in two licensed Bengal ;of this Board its Port of Spain, a statement of every case in whi,:,
ships, one from London, and one from Gibraltar. During the saute they might find themselves in any degree sufferers by lower 'ie.
period the exports have amounted to 37,402 tons, in 60 vessels, of Ithour, or otherwise, under the enactments of the aforesaid Order.;
which 9,651 tons were in 11 Company's regular, extra, and char. ' and that it be recommended that such statements be clear, untie.
tered ships ; 20,716 urns in 4.1 free traders tor London, Liverpool, . touching upon facts, avoiding. as much as possible, expression,
and Greenock ; and 7,1135 tons in 12 licensed Bengal ship. 11 for !opinion, and to give them additional weight, and to render ill;
London, and one fur Gibraltar. Of the 11.alinane's regular ships, I useful foe the ulterior purposes for which they are intended : ti.:
fin, the tonnage of wthieh amounted to 6,716 tons, sailed for they be attested by other respectable inhabitants in their vim:-
China, and of the 6ce traders from London, we, aromintlntto 1 and 411•11111 i to. where practicable, before the Commander:
1,086 tons, arrived hen by the way of Port Jackson. the quarter, or Alcalde of the barrier, in which the depooent r....,
31eauf:a AN') ItarE.--On the 31st of February, at Ratinaye- reside."
poor, in the south of Seranipore, two villains entered the house of The inhabitants of this colony are hereby earnestly requestcl ..4
a young woman, aged sixteen, who slept there alone, and carried comply with the recommendations therein contained.
her off: The wretches afterwards violated her person, and stripped I , JA WS (.'..IDErF, Chaienat.
off all her ornaments; and, while their helpleas victim was crying . - - . .-
for assistance, they stabbed her in the throat and ran away ! The WEST INDIA AFFAIRS,
following morning she was found dead. The thannadars have
since apprehended a gwala, who is reported to the Magistrate.
The accounts brought by these vessels represent the country in
the same state of repose as it is known to have enjoyed for many
years back. The Envoy from Ave, in company with the Cochin
Chinese Deputy, who had returned with him front that country,
had reached Saigon safely in the Portuguese ship, in which a pas.
sage had been hospitably taken for him by the Hon. Mr. Phillips,
the Governor of Penang, after the destruction of his own junk by a
fire in the harbour of that place. Front thence he had proceeded to
the capital. Here he was reported to have been well received by
the Court. The old Governor of Saigon, who received our 3liis.
lion so graciously in Itt.i2, and without whom no public measure of
consequence is carried into etrict, hail also gone up to the Court a
short time after him. The ieing of Cochin China had prepa•ed a
vessel to carry the Burman Envoy back, and we may expect to ace
him at this place in about two months. %.hat political conse-
quences are likely to result from this Mission we have not been able
to learn, but the present accounts do rot confirm the rumours which
have been for some time in circulation at this place, that it had
ended in coalition against the Siamese.
The pirates have again made their appearance, and taken post on
the smaller of the two 4;azinton islands. Effort" have wen made
to send out a small party under an officer against them, but they
have not been successful in getting a vessel to take them. If the
pirates do not shift their quarters in four or live days, the party will
be sent against them in boats, which is, however, a vc-y dhotis:an-
-I.3;ZCOOX mode of attack ; none at present procurable are able to cope
with the prows of the pirates.

IMPORT OF THE WESLEYAN METHODIST IttcSlONAn*
SOCIETY FOY THE YEAR ENDING DEL-EMBER, I.

WEST INDIA MISSIONS.

(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.)

BA R BA DOES.

The details of the disgraceful outrage, committed in a moire%
of unfounded alarm and irritation, the isnie or was the- ds
struction of the Mission Chapel and dwelling_house, are /00 141
known to the public that they need not be reiested here. :at
Shrewsbury was obliged to escape to the island of St. Vincent.
This is the hnsis of the sweeping assertior.s in the Erliaturgi
Rrr ire. anti from this one instance of vandalism the writer cos
eludes that all planters are averse to Methodist Missionaries. Fe
this is the only instance of oppression complained of 111 tie
report.
If the Reviewer was acquainted with one hundred planters. at
of whom was his enemy, but ninety-nine of them Lis firm friends
he must, to be con►istent, tell the world that all planters are ill,
friendly to him.

DEMERARA.
It is not neeetv.ary in this place to examine into the individual
merits .11 31r. Smith's case but the following remarks of the C.
mittee of the Wesleyan 3! isAimu.ry Society, extracted from ce
report before referred to, will shew that the measures taken aga.l
him were not founded on the mere circumstance of his beep
Missionary ; in short, that no general crusade against Missiortans
was intended ; and this is quite sufficient for our present
On the news of the unhappy insurrection, which recently
eurred its this colony, the Committee met the indiserinnrxe
charge brought against Missionaries, as having excited the
by publishing the instructions under which the tiociety's Minot.
aries are required to act, and expressing emir confidence the
neither of their Missionaries in that colony (Masora. 3lurtierxri
Chersewright) had acted contrary to them. They expraned !,•.e
hope also, that the slaves in society would be found to have or,
ducted themselves becoming their Christian profession. Os tat
receipt of the first letter from Mr. 31,srtier, after the insigne:l:r,
we leamed that not only was he and his colleague free flow all a.
Natation. but that only two negro members of our Rekiety had bes
suspected. Mr. Alortter at that time expressed his belief of their
innocence. A second letter front that 3lissionary, dated SeptX.
1823, ennumunicated the gratifying intelligence that those tiro pa.
sons, who were servants of the Governor, had Len libersts4 j. 1417
full eOIITICIiOII oftheir emit e innocence."

One more document shall be given, and it is important, beta
of its recency, and because it conies tram the principal indirit.;
agiongst the Methodists.
At the annual mee:ing of the iVesleyas Methodist hlissionsry
Society, held hlsy 3, I.32.l,Jtexpli Butterworth, Esq., 11.1. berg
called to the chair, he delivered a speech, from which the Nikon
is an extract : _ .

" It Ines not necessary for him to go over the various trauma
occupied by the Wesleyan missioos of which they would her u
account in the Report ; hut as considerable anxiety had prewaid
respecting the West India Missions, he should be excused for so.
lag a few words respecting them. He had a great pleasure in
meeting, that the general state of the Mission cause in the
Indies was never more prosperous than at the present time ; ti..
sever rectiv,d ssuetiou from so tw.m plo:ders ; and that it we
derived so much help hum the public, whether connected o
connected with the Westbated. so truly sensible ant
many proprietors of the singleness of bean, and the hottest
verity of purpose. by which they were actuated, in sending fors
men to preach the Gospel of Christ to their beniAlited slave* the
they had come forward to assist in their urdertakitsg. lie had the
morning received a letter from a West India Proprietor, eaeloa:s
a donation of 50/., which the writer said use in ennsideratioe of
the extensive benefit he had received from the labours of :as
Wesleyan 31issionary Society, b' their having taught the Deco
slaves on his estates the Christian religion. He thought it pr,sz
to state, that, so far as relates to his Majesty's Goeernmor
home, every protection might be expected. The tinging rer
aware that, without any sort of provocation, the Mission teed
and dwolling.house at liarbsdoeshad been destroyed, and thar.:l
Missionnry, a most excellent man, had been obliged to Bet ha
that island, but he had bee.' received with affection in a neichhrf-
ing Colony, the bland of St. Vincent; and they had tic bes:
answer to all that had been said agaihst him, in what had bat
lately done there, a sum of upwards of fions. currency having bee
recently subscribed by the principal gentlemen of that hied.
towards the erection of a Wesleyan Chapel. This was the Lst
answer that could be given to the accusations brought against cat
3lissiens in Ilarbadoes.
_ . . .

.....
No other Colony had followed their ccample, and they re
carefully to distinguish between the outrageous Colonisn ,
Island and the conduct of other West India Islands."—Me, -4
3fapa a June, p. 413.
The Reviewer ascribes a general spirit of persecution w :tt
Planters; the Methodists. on tiie contrary. arkaorinis: !!',l
kindness And aid: the public will not hesitate is deteradoirg
authority to addpt.

Sutr LA t'N C 11.—On Tuesday was launchol esr tle
Pembroke Royal Dock-yard, his Majesty'a ship VcogralT:
of e t guns, considered the best built and most begun,
tassel of her class in the British nary. The Blida H
Lady Candor performed the ccremouy of naming, al .1
glided most majestically into one of the finest haves it
the world, amidst the roaring of cannon, and the show-
ings and joyful acclamations of at least men thsss,:id
spectators, who were assembled in the Royal yard, ou
surrounding and in an immense lumber o "'•
and boats.
Dtvgett's coat and bade, according to annual ev!trce
::
was eentendtd for on Nlonday, hy Fix watermot

not been above one year out o.fthjir trim' of apprrini‘S4.
and by two o'clock the Thames. from the Sauthuark Hn.r,
Pres:mull All animated spectacle. Six boats stew,' for a
contest, and the prize was won with case by a yvr-

termai:nanictl Geo.. Fa;,o.

•`.Si A N..\A%IG.tTION.The G lowers.' er Jw.rnr! cs.
nn arrangement has now bran made by tii:
Establiplonci: at Milford, to tiruct a pass:ll,c,

from ten to fourteen hours, to Duume-re,

frota *

coach will depart iiiiiiit•diatel,- to %Vat, rforil ; and tilt' -......,:
cycning the l'ork mail is to be dispatched, so a< to arii,,it"
Cork by L
nine tin: fo:losving morning ; thereby (I,l.n.tty.
77.
letters in Cork from ondon in the !,11..ift ,race of r
t ight hours. The ext,iit of the accotioethi;:,ii to 11;"'

r..n
.1 ford and Cork by such an wrrangeir- ut in a%t i e i.r, a:.
LATE DC I: 1..--J. W. I% 11,:iiM1S, 1..... q. t %pro, en ti. 1:::::•.
was not to be
dtbliauyttiPte)P:ir.,l4'.onvli'.infus;vo:nof:t:litnetuhnautitio.lillitethr:eli.,-ri:l,lll,l.a.tysi3O,,trlllei :ifur.,
ft iends, he expressed a wish that there slionhl he ro it's'
,:,.
PARISIAN FAAII In N 9.—Leghorn Imes, U ith tlinf 07"-:-
blamteltila.t all teas fair, sad that Mr. il ---!-
drooping white flat forthers of mire, n hr,iii,,. Pros
,"'',,
nets of gllll7C. drat muslin. or rough or s:00011 c! ape• .,
bouquets of full rasa, with wreaths of - .rt ivils te'r.'
~
•I the crown. A few muslin Mous: s, with V3in!‘kol I•in
kerchiefs to correspond. For silks, strirs shilol of 1.0
i
1 calours, blending into one ; eineri.dil rihhcns on whit' I°7l
unentisit,,dariind
fbrrroantilacrriholsasntihse passedbri,ast ob‘y-, ra
gold
slh,,ci iAlt::‘,:rs..
1.t,:;,,
and pink are also much we; ii.---.lfitei.r 1!:''. "
31 otlcs.