The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-09-14 00:00:00

0 UGEIN.
Description of Oogein, the erital of powlut
from

Rao Scindiah, received in a letter , _ Bombay :
The City of Ougein is far superior, almost in
every respell, to any I have hitherto seen in India.
We approached the city on the N. W. side, on
which, with the exception of some very high Pago-
das, it is entirely concealed, until you approach close
under the walla, by means of gardens and plea
sure-grounds, laid nut in a very churning stile,
and which has a very pleasing elle& Between
these, and the town (which is entirely without de-
fence), runs the river Tembra. The bed of this
river is, in 110 part that I have seen, very wide, not
of a greater depth, than the middle of a moderate-
sized man, but may be probably deeper in the
freshes ; hut hitherto we have had very little rain
here. The street by which we reached the main
one, is rather narrow, but paved in the same manner
as the carriage-way in London ; the main street is
very wide, extending, I believe, nearly the whole
length of the city, in a straight line, running from
South to West. The principal part of the houses
are built with an extraordinary degree of uniformity,
seldom equalled even in European towns. On the
ground-floor, which is considerably elevated from
the pavement, runs a ventiriak of shops, to a vast ex-
tent ; over the whole line of which you may glance
your eye at once, and forms a very pretty reap dad.
In these shops are exhibited the various and richest
produdions of kndia, Persia, China, and even Eu•

rope.
The inhabitants appeared extremely affable, and
asked a great number of questions, and were frankly
communicative in their torn. I was accompanied
by an English officer, dressed in the cavalry uniform,
with a helmet similar to the 19th Dragoons, and
they took him fur one of that corps, of which they
have heard prodigious accounts, and whose prowess
' they conceive to be invincible, and they term them,
the red-haired-men, in allusion to their helmets.
The bazoars for grain and vegetables were exceed-
ingly well supplied, and the articles, in genera!,
much cheaper than any place we have yet visited,
notwithstanding which, we observed many both
dead, and dying in the streets. On enquiring of one
of the inhabitants the reason for what appeared to
me unaccountable, he replied, that those miserable
people were strangers, who had come in from the
country.
In so rich a place as Ongein, one would suppose
some relief would be afforded by a general chari-
table donation, but, I believe the reason of its being
otherwise, is the fear every man has of chewing that
he has money. Holkar summoned this city some
months ago, and, by threats, extorted a considerable
sum of money from the inhabitants.

The harvest, In every direflion, is most abundant.
In some parts, it is calculated by the farmers them-
celves, that the produce of the crops will be at least
treble those of last year, and in all quarters Provi-
dence has been unusually bountiful : wages arc un-
commonly high.
The new copper coinage, which is ezpeeled to be
issued in a few dais, from the circumstance of its
being designed to circulate uniformly and generally
throughout the United Kingdom, has been truly
considered as the first step towards the attainment
of that lsighly desirable objea, the equalization of
the currency in all parts of the Kingdom.

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• A very sin-suler eloper...nt took pl ice at R ye, in
Sussex. o.i Monday last, of which the folio.. Mg are
the particis!ars : A par y of the Royal Staff. quar-
tered in and around the town of Rye, frequente I a
house kept by a very respeetable and lulu trious vi.--
mailer ; and one of them, a private, of the natde of
Uuggin. became enansoured with the landlady, a
woman abrnt thirty, and mot'uer of a family. She
had not known her fresh suitor many days, when he
eir eased the most ardent love for he-, and, by nu.
merous artifices, contrived rodeeny her finis!' her hus-
band, on Monday last. The parties decamped dot-
ing the absence of the husband, who was informed
of die cii cums:.•nce by his children, and he traced
them to A village five miles distant from Rye, where
he learns-J, that they had departed from thence in a
post•cha,,e rid town. The husband returned borne,
! and he missed monies, &c. to the amount of about
tool.
Mr. Butler, the Chief Clerk at Marlhornogh-
street Office, was at Rye, and he of ered his assist-
ance to the sifaiEted husbart.i, in pursuit of the fu-
gitives. I'y his avistance, they were traced to an
inn in the Sonnies; and Lovett was sett to appreh•r.d
the soldier. eft Thursday evening. They were yfsicr
day examined at Marlborough-street Office,anditap-
peared, by the staternentof the wife, that she was mat-
ried at St. Clement's Danes, on Thursday, she hav-
ing refused to grant the soldier his di sire, unti such
ceremony had taken place. It also appeared.
that the money, and a quantity of the hushand's ap-
parel, had been taken away by the wife; and, as shere
WAS no evidence to implicate the soldier in the rob-
bery, he was released from that charge, and sent to
the Savoy as a deserter. The wife appeared sensi-
bly affeifted at the imprudent step she had taken,
And said something had been administered to her,
which rendered her senseless.
The husband consented to forego any kind of pro-
secution for bigamy or toe robbery, and the wife
was restored to him, with whom he is returned

home.
'!'here never was an instance of this kind where
more artifice and intrigue were used, than by this
debaucher of domestic happiness; and, as he has
(citved the Civil Authority, we trwst, Com-
manding Officer of the Regiment V% I'll ail:* him his
just reward.

POLICE.

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SW LOH t Lt.
Yesterday, a lady of the Paphian tribe was charg-
ed before the sitting Alderman, with an attempt to
rob a gentleman, in a house in King% Ilea.l Court,
near Fleet-street. The gentleman stated, that he
was a stranger in town, and that his re.idence W4l
in Liverpool. Being the night before rather intox-
icated, he was decoyed by the Prisoner, to a house,
but he could not exaely tell where. The Prisoner
condo led him into a miserable apartment, when,
alarmed at the appearance of the place, he endea-
voured to get away ; but the Prisoner, on fi—ling
him determined not to rerna:n, caught hold of the
chain and seals of his watch. He struggled to pre-
serve them, and she seized him by the throat, and
forced him upon a bed. She then cried nut murder!
and held him until a watchman came into the room,
and, with difficulty ezirkated the gentleman from
her fangs, The gentleman further stated. that he
was considerably alarmed, as he had property about
him, to the amount of L3Ol.
The watchman said, that. on hearing the cry of
murder in the house, No. 13, King'sliead-courtt
he went to the room, and saw the Prisoner holding
the gentleman on the bed, as before stated.
In her defence, she said, she took nothirl front
him, and that she was very much in liquor.
The Alderman committed her let a month to
Bridewell, to be kept to hard labour.
14 A tt. 50 aouo tt-ITI WIT.
Yesterday, at Marlborough-street. an Attorney
.was held to bail for perjury, in giving his address at
a house which proved to be uninhabited. while stand-
ing forward as one of the bail for Major Smart•, who
was committed from this Office a few weeks since.
The Officer, who was sent to ascertain the nature
of the bail, proved, that the house was shut up.
The Defendant held, that he was recently the occu-
pier of the house in question, and the. he was there
to be heard of by reference to his present abode.
which he supposed, at the time, sufficient fhe Ma-
gistrate, however, was of a different opi lion, and.
in a professional man, he conceived the as to be
wilful and corrupt. The necessity of bail was for
the Sheriffs to have access to the propetty of the in-
dividual, when the recognisance became estreated.
and such could not be tne case in an empty howe.
In the present case, he thought it necessary for a
Court of Justice to decide on the Defendant's con.
dud.

AN NAOS
P ray, can you think what l're heard tan,
A t a Shop that Shaves went, for a S,.us,
C uts Hair for 'Pero:Jerez ever, rhy.
eeps Men such Wiol fur to do ?—•
W hi! I've b^e., told that in his read.,
0 id and Young like to be "Mid neat,
tJ n strops he has a Fortune made,
we set`--at IG, t.race Churrh.stneet.
The Reverend ROWLAND HILL, during a tour
through Wales this Summer, has inoculeed far the
cowpox upwards of 1000 of the poor, gratis; be-
sides 3000 in other districts, without a single in-
stance of the failure of success. The small.pox, in
some places where it began to be fatal, immediately
disappeared.
An inqueit will be held this evening on the body
of the unfortunate man murdered on Thursday
night, in Feather's-court Holborn.
Of the vigilance of the police officers, and their
anxiety in the discharge of their duty, the following
circumstance affords a striking instance : —As the
Porter of Mr. H• ;coati o, of Piccadilly, Bookseller.
was passing near St. Luke's Hospital, on Thursday
night, he was stopped by three or four fellows
armed with bludgeons, who demanded what he had
g• at The Porter took to his heels, and etfeaed his
escape from them. Shortly after he was met by a
party of men, to whom he told his story.—They
examined his parcel, and sent two of the party to
escort the Porter, and see ate parcel safely de-
livered. They proved to be a party of police,
anxious not only to protea the Porter, but to as-
certain the truth of his story.