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}Nem of Revenue .C. 110,617
In IVI, the total or charges for this Presidency
0,750.74
13.487.218

Rererues

Epitaph in the church of St. Margaret Moses!
Budy-1, M Diary Passion. ly below sleeping.
Soul—i, Mary Lawson, sit above waking.
The funeral of Lady Noel took place last night by torch-
light. l.ut at so late an lions as to prevent us giving any
derail of the ceremony. The body has lain in state for ti c
three last days, and the public were admitted to a view.
The funeral decorations of the 11111 and Church ware of
the mutt magnificent description. An ante-chamber, the
gallery (100 bet long), the dining-room, and the spacious
hall-ream were hung and carpetted with black cloth, and
ligheil up with about leo large ainumbra lamps. The
Intly lay in the ball-room, under a canopy of state. The
Nilo was covered with rich crimson velvet and gold furni-
ture. On the plate is the following inscription :
" lloriet, the second wife of Sir Gerrard Noel, Baronet, lineally
iteverded by her father. the Rev. Josepii Gill, from the Duke of
\I tattoo. Born 24th July, 1783; died 9.h August, ltr.fl, in the
4.2t1 year of her age."
This room was lighted by two immense chandeliers, each
weighing half a ton. They are the richest and roost splen-
did things of the kind we bay:: seen. Each contains 20
sinumbra lamps, and tile massive burnished gold work of
they are composed contrasted beautifully with the
s ill light the lamps threw around. Behind the canopy the
hatchinent and harmers were disidayetl, and the whole pro-
gltict:.l mush effect. The procession from the hall to the
church was a walking one, the tenantry bearing 100 light
OVCTed
torches. Its the church another canopy was erected
the vault ; and at that pent of the funeral service where the
clergyman consigns the dead to the earth, the coffin was
gradually lowered, by means of concealed machinery, to
take its place amongst the ancestors of the House of Noel.
The church at Exton is of itself an object of such beauty,
and so rich in monuments, as to be well worthy a visit at
any time. Some of the finest specimens from the chisel of
Nollekens are to he seen here, and the ancient monuments
are of the most finished and delicate description.—Stant-
fred News.

Excess of Revenue (1821) - £3,736,161
In this statement, the great increase upon the debt of the
Company is not noticed. That has arisen from a variety
of accidents, which do not prejudice the general position
relative to the extraordinary increase of the India trade
during the last half century. Now, if the enormous ex-
penses of the Company's civil and military establishments,
occasioned by !heir excessive augmentation during this in-
terval—if the charges and losses caused by their exhaust-
ing weirs with European competitors and native powers--
their loins, compensations, salaries, &c. to divers native
Princes—their heavy advances to the growers of opium
within the districis of Behar and Benares—the charges of
their judicial establishments, of the collection of their re-
venue (the latter being an enormous item against them),
and of various supplies to the Presidencies •—lf all these be
taken into consideration, the reader must fie astonished, not
that at a given period the &agitators. of Bombay or Madras ,
for example, should have exceeded the net revenae, but
that the revenues of any Presidency, as of Bengal, should
have exceeded its charges; and that all of them, in the j
first year of a peace with the Asiatic Monarch, recently'!
engaged in hostilities against us, should be in a eon-
dition to become immediately productive in ratio
perhaps tenfold their present aggregate net amount.a But
to come to our more immediate objects • anel—brat, as
to the. possible extension of the trade Of India. From
the very commencement of George the Second's reign
the trade of • Persia has been an object of equal curio.'
sity and of neglect with the British public. The vicinity
of its south-eastern frontier to our northern provinatolle
India—the facilities of maritime communication afforded
by the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Bussorah—the rich but
differing productions of either country—lndia proffering to j
Persia precisely those commodities of which the other stands
mast in nail, and Persia tendering to India inexhaustible
supplies of those luxuries and magnificent fabrics that are
best adapted to the tastes Bud the Sonsumption of the latter;
—these relative features in the natural constitution and po-
sition of the two countries, from the earliest ages, have
excited the attention of commercial enterprise. Had it not
been for th ! insuperable aversion to maritime navigation,
which, even in Straho's time, characterized the Persians,
their trade with India, instead of being crippled by the
dangers, delays, and difficulties of overland transport,
would have been ere now one of the most lucrative and
extensive in the world. It is fortunate for us that, except-
ing only the Parsees, the great bulk of the Persian nation
still retains this invincible antipathy to sea voyage'; but to
how little account have we hitherto turned the abundant
opportunities which have offered for becoming the great
purveyors of Persia ! During the two last reigns we
equipped one royal embassy to that empire; but the gene-
ral countenance and effect we have given to our missions,
and to the condition of our residents at one of the most
magnificent courts in the world, has been as meagre,
and parsimonious, and stinted, as—or even snore so—that
which the jealous avarice of James the First extended to
the gallant but unfortunate Shirleys. Every body knows
of the unpardonable error we have so long persisted in of
sending to tichiraz or Teheran embassies from the Company,
instead of am',aasadors immediately accredited from our own
Sovereign. The pride of the Schah naturally took the
alarm, and our representative, as in the case of Lieutenant
IY., has been usually left to the marked though cautions
indignities suggested by the resentments of a Prince whose
presence-chamber was graced by the splendid retinue of a
ereeich Plenipotentiary. awl whose closet was eagerly tap,
preached by an active and intriguing envoy from the Em-
peror of Russia, sot ioundeel with magnificent appointments
worthy of that great monarch. Every body is aware also,
that when that great and extraordinary man, the present
Sir John Malcolm, wan offered the appointment of Diplo-
tnatic Agent to the King of Persia, on behalf of the lion.
Company, lie declined it, on the ground that if the coin-
mission was not a royal one it would not be received in a
becoming manner. The Company's mission was despatched
some two or three years since, and ;he supercilious ni
which met it on the frontiers front this eastern ono=
himself entirely justified and realized Sir John Malcolm's
anticipations. The whole objects of the mission were of
course frustrated, and it proceeded no further. Yet, with
the knowledge of these facts, and with these recent.exein-
plifications of them before us, we are scarcely nearer at the
present day to any right understanding with Persia, as to
the cultivation of a mutually beneficial commerce, than we
were in the times of honest Jonas Hanway. Among the very
first steps to be adopted with a view to the improvement and
extension of our India trade, we should certainly take care to
establish our diplomatic relations with the Persian Court
upon a liberal, politic, and becoming footing. The Mala-
bar country is by no means so rich in its productions as
that which borders on the coast of Coromandel ;e
but on the
other bawl, its produce is much more capable of being
raised and increased by European colonists, and its trade is
always brisk, extensive, and profitable. Its exports consist
of cassia lignea. pepper, cardamom, santalutn or sanders-
wood, curcuma (Indian saffron), ginger (the hest, except-
iug that- which is grown in the Mo!uccas),..9coa nuts,