The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-10-12 00:00:00

TATTERSALUS, OCT. 11.

The room was very well attended ta.day to subscribers, notwith-
standing the wetneas of the weather. and receiving began
immediately, and terminated in a abort time to the satisfaction u.
all. As soon as this was settled, some general and heavy beving
took place on the Derby and St. 1....ger in particular. Very little
was done on the °Ake ; but the matches, &c. for Newmarket, next
week, occasioned some extenaive engagements. The following is
an accurate statement .
NEW3I A RIC ET, NEXT WEEK.
29065. STAKES.
5 to 4 the field apt Lord Exeter's Athenian filly.
IW SOT. SWEEPSTAKES.
9 to I Duke of Grafton's Gavotte apt Lord Exeter's Attica.
MATCIIES. .

II to 9 Emilius apt llizarVliTo 4 Zinc apt Don ('arLc.
3 to 4 Don Carlos apt Cinder

10 to I apt Rufua
II to I apt Advance
14 to 1 apt Bolero _

other.
117 to 1 apt Canvas
25 to 1 agst Macdutf
SO to 1 asst any other

nowcarrii ST. LEGER. '-
9 to 1 apt Memnon 14 to 1 agst Cleveland
9to 1 apt Mr. HouWs- I 2t) to 1 apt The Alderman
worth's Lot

lIUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

His Majesty's stag-hounds meet on Friday, at Tower-hill—at
half-past ten o'clock.
The York and Ainsty fox-hounds will meet to-day, at Wass
Backs, at nine o'clock, and on Friday at Bow Bridge, at halt.-
past ten.
The llurworth fox-hounds meet to-day. at Ravenscarr, at nine
o'clock, and on Friday at Birkby-lane End, at ten.
Mr. Farquharson's hounds will meet to-duy at KnoyleWindmill,
to-morrow at 3lelcomb Park, and on Thursday at Bare Wood.
The Earl of Darlington's fox-hounds will meet to-morrow at
Howded Hill, and Friday at Wilton, each day at half-past ten
o'clock.
Tho Berkeley hounds will meet to-day, at ten o'clock, fur the
first time of bunting this season, at the Magpies, Hosuislow Heath.

USEFUL OBSERVATIONS.

WINES.

The rage for superannuatetiWine is one of the most ridi-
culous vulgar errors of modern epicurism ; the " bees
wing," " thick crust on the bottle," "loss of strength," &e.
which wine fanciers consider the beauty of their tawny 6-
yourite," fine old port," are forbidding manifestations of de-
composition, and the departure of some of the best qua!itit
of the wine.
The age of maturity for the exportation from Oporto, is
said to be the second year after thevintage (probably some-
times not quite so long).
Our wine-merchants keep it in wood from two to six
years longiir, according to its originel strength, &c.; surely
this must be long enough to do all that can he done by
keeping it ; what crude wine it must be to requir even
this time to ameliorate it, the necessity for which must arise
either from some error in the original manufacture, or a false
taste, which does not relish it till time has changed its ori-
ginal characteristics.
Port, like all other wines, ripen; in a short or longer
time, according to its lightness or its strength ; the quality
of the grapes, according to the fermentation they have un-
dergone, and the portion of brandy that has been added to
it ; also one cellar will forward wine much sooner than atm-
thee. Sound good port is generally in perfection when it
has been from three to five yeari in the wood, and from one
to three in bottle.

Ordinary port is a very uncicansed, fretful wine; an-I
we have been assured, by wine-merchants of good taste.
accurate observation, and extensive experience, that the
best port is rather impoverished than improved, by bein,;
kept in bottle longer than two years, i. e. supposing it to
have been previously from two to four years in the cask in
this country, observing, that all that the outrageous advo-
cates for " via passe" really know about it is, that tins, y
is yellow, and port is black, and that if they drink tune Li
of either of them, it will make than drunk.
White wines, especially sherry and Madeira, being
more perfectly fermented, an,l thoroughly fined before they
are bottled—tf kept in a cellar of uniform temperature, ale
not so rapidly deteriorated by age.
The temperature of a good cellar is nearly the same
throughout the year. Omble doors help to preserve this;
it must be dry, and be kept as clean as possible.
The art of preserving wines is to prevent them front fret-
ting, which is done by keeping them in the ,amc of
heat and careful corking, and in a cellar where they will
not be agitated by the motion of carriages passing. If per-
sons wish to preserve the tine flavour of their wines, they
ought on no account to permit any bacon, cheese, onions,
potatoes, or cider in their wine-cellars; or, if there be any
disagteeable stench in the cellar, the wine will indubitably
imbibe it; consequently, instead of being fragrant ara
charming to the nose and palate, it will be extremely d;s-
agreeable.—E coonmist.

Tat;ao Itscre.—A vast concourse of people of all de-
scriptions, on foot, on horseback, in carts and carriages,
assembled on Tuesday last in a field about two miles from
Truro, on the Bodmin road, to witness the novel spectacle
of a horse-race. In a race between Captain ll'ightman
hr. h. and Captain Gilbert's b. m. Potteen, Captain Car-
thew rode Captain Wightman's br. h., and Captain Gil-
bert, Pottcen. In ihis race the attention of the field rm.;
universally drawn to the easy and elegant style of Captain
Carthew's riding, when, on turning a sharp corner, on a
descent ncar the winning-post, his horse stumbled ; Capt.
01.:arthew was thrown with considerable violence over b.s.
head, and so great was the shock, that the unfortunate gen-
tleman was immediately deprived of sense and motion.
The most intense anxiety now prevailed : happily four
medical gentlemen were present, who pressed torward
render their assistance. Captain Carthew was bled, and,
on recovering a little, was conveyed from the ground in a
carriage. The medical gentlemen have been unremittin•7,
in their attendance, but we are extremely sorry to observe,
that doubt' were entertained yesterday of Copt:on Carthew's
recovery. As may be imagined, so melancholy an accident
threw a gloom over the rest of the transactions of the day.
Cornwall Gx:ette.
TAsrs.—There is now in the possession of a gentleman
at Creeliton part of the skin of the late John Thurrell,
tanned.—liret,r rvst.

Ditto

FltkeßS OF Ft)tiElliN
Austrian Bongs
Ditto Acct. 972 C 73
Brazilian Scrip par
Ditto Aect. ilia par
Busnos Ayr.' i Scrip
Ditto Acct. 3 :3 tits
1:03,i5. 74
Ititra Acct. 744
11'nlenzili. Bonds 783
Ditto Acct. 781
Vitro Bonds (1314)
Ditto Acct.
• Ditto Snip 71 dis
!Atte Acct. it 7647 7 di,
Bonita

44

.t

Ditto Marks 13men 1111] 11/1
Feenek acmes 50e. 21k.
Eta:sage 2.5 r. 20e.
Intte Serip
Pim Amt. 111 3 pm
Dine Mak Shares
Y.:change

ADELPHITkatRE,
STRAND.

PRICES OF BRITISH STOCKS YESTERDAY.
'Bank Stock Limg Ann. 2 15-16 2"31-16
Otto Aect. South Sze Stock
S per Cent. Reiltreed 95i 94j 9rnith Sea Old Annuities
0 per Cent. Cons. 04 I eeA oat% Sea New .Innuitics
Ditto Acct. 9.9 i cr EN.8i115.2d.1.000,:. 53 52 pm
Si per Cent. 1014 j Dwo, 500/.
New 4 por Cent. Itril i Ditto, Small 52 pm
SI per Cent. Reduced 1014 1 4 Ditto, lid. 1.0001. 50 51 pm
India Stork Onto, 5001. 60 61 pin
Ditto Ronda 91 93 pm Ditto, Small 52 51 pm
Amt. Lottery Ticket, 19/. 1151.

wrocisTEit IA V .
Week Bondi 45
DDitto Scrip 13 1A 11 dis
itto Acct. 13 12 11 dis
Mexican fords WA aa CO
591 lb!
Ditto Acct. 59!z g6O co 50l
CO 591
Neapolitan Bonds 92
Ditto Acct. la Ii
Pt 7116211 Bonds
Ditto Acct.
Portuguese Bonds $O
Ditto Acct. 90 a
Proemial] Bonds 931
Ditto A:et.
Ditto Builds (in 22) 99
Russian Bond% 105 i
Ihtto Acct. 95
Spanish Bon.. 901
Ditto Ant. 2P3
Ditto 413 Ilonda
Ditto eons. (111::.3)

kite "'MOM Vrtoo•

THRATRR ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
Vile litanies. TUESDAY. Oct. IL will be perforated
TOE INcoNSTANTI
Or, THE WAY 10 IN HIM.
CU iontbel,llr.W.Farren ; Voting lairobel. dlr. C. Ramble; °metric.
Bir.Jo:.ea. Bizarre, Ln. Chatterley.
After which.
COZENINODiet ut: or
M. llAable,
&e. 11?A0r.Vatee. CR IN FRANCE.
To conclude with
A TAI.} 0F MYSTERY.
Coital Rattail, Dr. Cooper: Frame:NCO, Mr. Parley.
Tbereerbw, The Man of the World, and Charles the deeood.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMAI?Ia:T.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADAME VESTR I i.
Tills Trifling, TUESDAY, Ott. 19, will be perf”roied (with Songs,
Inlets, he.) Shakspearel Cored:: .r
THE MF.RRY Wll ES OF WINUSoR.
Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Dowton ion this oeitairion. and for thin night
WWI; Justica Shallow. Mr. Your let ; Master :deader. Mr. Harley:
Ford, Str.Cooper. Mrs. Ford (drat time), Madame Vestals; Anuc
Page, Mlw Povey ion this oecadon. and for this night oniF I.
The fellowhor are the Meets of Music Introduced, being Sslectlons
ent!rels from Sllessivare:—Song. • VI f.h thee fair dun:totes soya Ep-
war' :Urn it to the time of Sung, • Crabbed age'—
Duet, • Lora like a shadow tiles—Duet, • All that glitters'—Duet, • I
Ii.UAV a hi:V—Duet, ' When dalskA plerT—Chorus, • Trip, trip awn)''
—s'lnale, • Away, away, make holiday.'
In the connect the evening the following Songs and Duet When
1,64 de/Arnim: and • In infancy snr hopes;
ande Vest ris aml
When little Fawn we thrP; by Mr. Harley Madame estrls,
To conch:de with the Operatic Comedy of
SWEETHEARTS Ani I) W11E.:::.
Admlrtl Franklyn. Mr. W. Farren Charles: Mr. Sandford.
Mr. Mel ro.e: haekaday, Mr. Liston. Eugenia, Mrs. Cliatterley.
Lanra. Madame t Susan, Mrs. Garrick.
To-morrow, 11, r R. n 4 to Ruin, Twould Puzzle a Conjuror, and
The Tiro Pages of Frecirriek tW t.rent.
A-FIE sURREY THEATRE.
Tu. present TUESDAY, Det. 12. will be presentee • Mew Drama,
tidied
THE SIERRA;
Or, TIIE INDIAN PIRATE'S VESSEL.
After which,
THE COOK ; . THE WEDDING DINNER.
Guenot .orthe C0...k). Mr. Herring.
The celebrated Fratc:a Hercules. Monsieur Cline, will display Eta
wonderful Powers In DslAnclug. Ac.
To conclude with
DER FREISCII UI Z ;
Or. THE DEMON OF SHE
MOLES GLEN AND TUE 11111DYN
CHARMED BCLLETS.

T. Pubße ire wort respectfully Informed. that thls Theatre will be
Opened Olt THURSDAY Ni:XT. Oct. 11. wheu will be prwluev4
ru
entirely new It/ mantic SpeetLMON aele. called
le
Or. THE UNHALLOWED SF.PULCHRF-
The Principal Chsmetyrs by Messrs- Clemons). Pulver. Les. Villiers.
Posies. Payne. J. Reeve, W. Brown, and Ilieulanws Roden.
Beyeu, Rhona, Daly, and Eurroc.k.
To oistelues with
DI thertißvourits Barletta of
NO NN Er.
sp..nrc, Mr. Wrench.

The BRITISH Pees comm
fienced publkhing yesterday moroirg
at ve o'clock.

LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1824.

The official and other intelligence which we publish
this morning from India, will be found to be highly im-
portant. The expedition under Sir ARCHIBALD CAMP-
In LI. captured Rangoon on the 11th of May. This place
is ...re principal seaport of the Ilunnese, and the chief mart
for teek timber. A faint resistance only was offered to
the British arms; the Burmese authorities, having been
seized with a panic, fled, with nearly all the inhabitants
of the town, into the neighbouring jungles. The ra-
pidity of Sir AREIIIIIALD CANTRELL'S movements en-
abled him to save the lives of twelve Europeans, who
had been thrown into irons at Rangoon, avowedly to be
put to death, if the British General would not grant cer-
tain terms to the Ray woon of Rangoon. Only one Eng-
lishman now remains in the power of the barbarous Court
of An. The island of Cheduba had also fallen into the
bat e.z cf ;he British. The utmost vigour and prompti-
tude have been displayed by our Indian Government, and
we may, confiding in the success with which superior skill
and valour are almost invariably crowned, look upon the
capture of these places as the harbingers of our certain
t-iumpli over the haughty Sovereign of the Burman
Empire. From the private letters from Bombay, it ap-
pears that an opinion prevailed, that the war would be pro-
longed much beyond the duration which it was origitially
expected to have, and consequently that the expenses of the
contest would be greatly aggravated. This opinion seems
to be founded on the obet:nate resistance made by some
detached parties of the enemy in the vicinity of Rangoon.
A report was also in circulation when the advice. left
Bombay, that the Burmese bad succeeded in surprising
Dacca and Chittagong. We have no confirmation of this
tcpui t from any quarter, except that two large ships be-
longing
to Bombay had been ordered to proceed from
Madras to Chittagong, with troops to meet thevnemy iu
that quarter. It was said that the British had sustained a
lon of 500 men in defending Chittagong ; there can be
no doubt that this is at any rate a gross coaggeration.
Chittagong will soon again acknowledge its subjection to
England, and the enemy will be driven back with a severe
chastisement within the limits of his territory. We
regret to find, by our private letters, that that dread-
ful disease, the cholera morbus, had carried off great
numbers of our countrymen in India. At Calcutta, Sir
CHRISTOPHER PULLER, the new Chief Justice, was

parties, and seem determined not to submit without a struggle.
The contest is likely to be !urger than was anticipated, and the
Bombay ships will probably not return here for sonic months.
'Clic Cambridge. shout to bad for England, has procured the
cnorniens freight of 1.7. a ton.
The warlike measures on the other aide of India have not had
any effect on the money market ; nor are likely to bare any, unless
they an! protracted beyond the expected time. Remittable paper is
at 31: per cent. premium in Calcutta, I Itonthay rupees for
100 siceas hew. The numbers comprised in the 5 parent. utire.
mittuble debt, which is to he paid on the 31st March next. has
advanced I to 2 per cent. .1 month ago It had fallen to 3 Far
cent.; new it is ..

Ji•Nr 20.
Sir John Macdonald, K.C.8., a Lieutesiant•Gentral in the lion.
Company's Service, died in llalcutta on Saturday last, aged iii.
Ilia remains were intents! yesterday evening between Live alld aix
o'clock, attended by his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, all
the General Staff, and a large body of Civilians, who assembled to
poy the last tribute of respect to one of the oldest officers of the
Uormarable l'ornrany's Service in India.
llf our private minces from l'aletitts, we learn that Major John
Mac Donald, of the Military Establishment of Fort St. George,
had been appointed Envoy to the Court of Persia. Capmin
Henry Willed, of the same establishment, had been appointed
Secretary and Assistant to the British :Mission; Lieutenant J.
R. Campbell, of the same establishment, to be the Second Assist.
ant; Mr. Assistant-Surgeon Mageath, of the same establishment,
to be Nlediral Officer attached to the Mission; and I.inster,nt
R. Mac Donald of the belt Bengal Native Infantry, had been ap.
pointed to command the escort; Lieutenant Strong of the Bom-
bay European Regiment hail been appointed to command the es-
cort, attached to the political agent in the Persian Gulf, and is di.
meted to proceed to ltushire by the tirst opporrunit.
P.ovin•Yy, Jr NE 21.
I shall not repeat the accounts respecting the capture of Rangoon,
which rust will hare front other quarters. The fcors of the inhabit-
ants of Cale:lt:a for their property are much abated, and we hope
will not he renewed.
The charm 'wrings continues to make great ravages here, but
as yet principally among the natives. A Parsee family of live, the
man, wife, and three children, fell under it in twenty. four hours.
A Sepisy, his wife, and two children, in four hours. Two of our
servants have fallen vietinia. These few instances will convey an
idea of the degree in which it prevsils, and of its appalling chase.
ter. As yet it has not prevailed among ourselves to any extent,
though there has been a satious aria or two. One of the pursers was
rear:7 lost.

Last nii.lbtt we received the Brussds Papers of Friday
From Tritstc we learn, that the GUANO I.TAN is urging
the States of Birbary to s.md their respective contingents
to augment the Turkish navy. The successes of the
Greeks compel the Mahutnctans to consolitlate their
strength. The Poss.': is manifestly unable of himself to
withstand the revolted Christians. The following arc ex-
tracts :

[From the Oracle Ile Bru.relies.l
AtOt,BrIIII,SEPT. 30.

We learn by letters from Trieste that-news has been received
there that the Semi' aw has sent positive orders to the Barbary
States to finish immediately a certain number of ships of war, to
join the CarITAN PACIIA. The Bey of ALGIERS. who at the
begianing et the mummer could not furnish his contingent, has
been warned that he must now send a more considerable number,
WU' that the St:l.Tarl will not listen to any excuse.
On the other hand, it is affirmed that the British Ambassador at
Constantinople had obtained from the SuLTAN a finnan, positively
enjoining the Barbary Powers to rettaingfioni all hostilities towards
Laropean vessels. This finnan is said to have arrived at Algiers
some days after the Pry had declared war against Spain, and
threatened other secondary Powers, such as Naples, Sardinia, and
the Netkilands.
It is thought that the DET. who has no interest in embroiling
himself with the Porn; will return to mar,: pacitic sentimints.
The PostrE will insist as much as possible on the execution of its
lirri.an, for the AI Brine pirates might easily attack the weak
Austrian marine which cruises in the Adriatic ; and Austria, so
near a neh_ffibuur to Turkey, would not want means to make the
Ottoman Government indemnify it for the injitty done to its ma-
line by the Barbary pirates.

BRUSSELS, OCT. 7.

The Countess of Sustettstras and her family, after baving.so
long resided in this city, is going, we hear, to settle at Rome with
Luct Ex llowaraate, who inhabits the capital of the Christian
world. JOSETIII BOWATAIITE scents resolved to remain in Arne.
rico, where he cultivates the tine arts, improves his estates, and on
all occasions remembers his unhappy countrymen whom fate has
tarried to the coentry where he can be useful to them. The States
of the Port and Tuscany are the parts of Italy bi which those who
have fallen from their former greatness prefer seeking hospitality.
ITURDIDt, iii.StiVised, left Leghorn blow. to go and meet his
I fate in Mexico ; rind the ex.Qucea of Hayti is going to reside in
the flue climate of Florence.

Letters have been received in the City from Canada,
giving an account of the feelings of the inhabitants of that
colony on the subject of the Canada Company. All these
accounts seem to agree, that it will have the most bene-
tidal effects on the colony, and many of them entertain
the most magnificent ideas as to the wealth, splendor,
and improvement it is about to introduce. Truth, we sus-
pect, holds case, as iu most others, lies in the medium.
The following is an extract from one of the most reason-
able loters we have seen on the subj,•et :
•4 We are all very much pleased here with the intelligence you
have seat us of the propased Canadian Company; indeed it now
seems astonishing to the good people in these parts, how the large
capitalists at home were so long of thinking of so feasible a scheme
fee investing their property; but the fact bt, that though this is
the most important colony Great Britain poetesses (?), you folks
at home know nothing at all about it. The Company, if conducted
as proposed, will, by furnishing capital, and giving an impetus to
industry, advance us in improvement at least half a century beyond
what we would hare been without such a stimulus."

Though we have not guile sa high an opinion of the
importance of Canada to tireat Britain as this gentleman
entertains, we have no doubt that the Company will be
highly advantageous to that rising colony.

Let tcrs have been received bv a mercantile house in the
City, from Batavia, via Amsterdam, dated stli May. They
state that every species of produce is remarkably dear. Cof-
fee, on board an English ship, Ii dollars and a half; sugar,
seven dollars 66 c. ; freight to England, U. 10s. per ton.
They complain of the l)utch celciiial regulations, which
we formerly adverted to, and state that the markets are
completely overstocked with European articles, particularly
piece-goods, of which the sales are slow, but not much
lower in price than formerly. At this rate, including freight
and charges, we can purchase coffee cheaper in England
than in Java.

Did the uselessness of our present Corn Laws require to
be exposed, nothing conld do so more forcibly than a fact
which is at this moment patting under our immediate ob-
servation. Every one knows that two months ago, with
the prospect of one of the finest harvests in the memory of
man before us, the speculators of Mark-lane managetl to
raise the price of oats so high as to open the ports for that.
grain: Tile result is, that the influx of oats from Holland
and other parts has been so great, that the market will be
inevitably overstocked ; and the consequence of this exces-
sive supply must necessarily be, that the home-grown oats
will not riford to the cultivators a remunerating, price.
An eft ct of their cheapness will be, that oats will be
used extensively for the purposes of distillation. Bar-

FASHIONABLE INTELLICEACE.
Lord Alinuiley gave a grand dinner on Sunday to Count and
Countess ',levee. hard and Coun:css Cowper, the Earl and
Countess of Jersey, and a large party, at his house in Park-plate.
Count and Countess Lieven entertained a distinguished party at
dinner yesterday, at Ashburnham House, Dover-stroet.
The Marquis of Salisbury will give an elegant entertainmant to-
morrow to a large party of distinguished personages, at his seat,

Hatfield.
The Duke of Susses has left Newstead Abbey, on a visit to Lord
Anson, at his seat, Shugborough, Staff shire.
The I)uke of Devonshire left Lord (I. 11. Cavendish's, Compton-
piece, Eastbourne, on Saturday, for his and, Chatsworth, Derby-
shire.
The Duke of Wellington left town yesterday on a visit to the
hlarquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at their scat. Hatfield.
Emily, Marchioness of Londonderry, arrived in town yesterday,
front her Mkt, North ('ray, Kent.
The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury has left town foe
Hatfield.
The Marquis of Lothian arrived in town yesterday frcm
Petersham.
The Earl and Countess Cowper left town yesterday for :heir seat,
Pansenger, Herts.
The Earl and Countess of Bristol and family have left Tunbridge
Wells, for their seat, Ickworth Park, Suffolk.
laud Hervcy has arrived at ditto from Ireland.
The Countess Normanton arrived in town yesterday from •
Tour.
Lord and Lady William Iflentinrk left Oreillon's Hotel, Albe-
marle-street, yesterday, for Lady G. Sparrow's seat in Hunting-
donshire.
D. Hemming, Esq. left town yesterday for Hinckley, Leicester-
shire.
Earl Stanhope hes left his seat in Kent for Paris.
The lion. Robert Smith has left his s_at, llayburst, Bucks, for
Melton Mowitray, Leicestershire.
Frar cis h I organ, Esq. has arrned at Fenton's I I otel, St. James's-
place, front his seat. llorndean, Hants.
Arrivals at Blake's lintel, Jenttyn-strect hlichael Field, Esq.
Mrs. Field and family, from Brighton ; Itobert Ogleby, Esq. front
Scotland.
Colonel Dickson arrived yesterday, at the Pritish Hotel, Jenny 0-
Etter. from a tour.
Arrivals at the Waterloo !lotcl, Jerrnyn.street :—ylr. and Mrs.
Boyd Greenshicla and family, from the Continent; Undale
Price, F.q., from Salisbury ; Viscount Bury has left ditto for Paris.
Honourable Frederick Lamb left town yestenlay, for Earl Cow-
per's seat, Pansenger, Herts.
Departures from Jordan's Hotel. St. James's-street :---J. Taylor,
Esq. for his seat, Spring Grove, 'Worc:stershire ; R. NVilbraltam,
Esq. for his scat, Round Hall, l'hes'ore ; E. It. 'Prcvanion, Esq.
on • tour ; Colonel and Mrs. Madden, i.e Ilcilinrdshire.
lie 'loran Schilling de Constadt has arrived at the St. Peters-
burgh Motel, Dover-street, from Russia.
Departures front Thomas's Hotel, lierkeley.square:—The Mar-
quis and hlarchiones of Exeter, for their seat, Iturleigh, Lincoln-
shire; General and Mn. Grant, for Ipswich; Mr. Mrs. and Miss
Poyntz, for their scat, Cowdery, Sussex ; the Rev. John and Mrs.
Peel have arrived at ditto. from the Continent.
Arrivals at Long's Hotel, Rood-street :—Slr William Anstey
and son, from Paris; Colonel Creaylock and Captain Ferguson,
from Brighton; 31r. and Mrs. Hamilton and family, front Paris.
Departures:—William Russell, Esq. M.P., for Ilrancefreth Castle,
Durham ; J. C. 'Parisian, Esq., fur his seat, Collingwood Hall,
Northumberland; John Inglis, E..q. for ilium; Captain Stewart,
for Ipswich; Captain Hugh Massey, for Cheltenham; J. Sucyd,
Esq., for Brighton.
Arrivals at the Bath Hotel, Arlington-Erect :--Mr. and Mrs.
Carew, from !lath; Colonel Moreton and hit. Chester, front
France. Departures:—The Honourable hlrs. Prown and family ;
Lord Northrsk on a tour; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Warner, fur

THE LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF BENGAL
[From the Calcutta Freckly ilcueliger of May 30.1

The late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of this Pre-
sidency, whose lamented death so deeply afflicts us, has
been such a short time in this country, that the opportuni-
tits of exercising the important functions of his station
have not been sufficiently frequent to enable the public to
form a due estimate of his worth. Ile has upon one oeca.
,ion, and one only, iwesided in the Supreme Court at the
heating of a cause, when, indeed, it must have been OM-
one to all present, that he possessed, in no ordinary degree,
high qualities for the judgment scat ; a clear and quick
perception, and a calm and dignified temper; es:Meeting
facts u ith most patient investigation, and deckling upon
them with prompt judgment. In this Presidency much of
the business of the profession of the law is transacted be-
fere a Judge at Chambers ; and many subjects of com-
plaint are there laid before him in she shape of petitioes.
Sir Christopher l'uller sat two whole weeks at Clistece„,
in his turn, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; sLm
the facility and readiness of his despatch of the Ix:sisals
brought before him excited observation. The professimal
gentlemen, who have bcen in attendance before this cacti-
lent Judge, will do justice to his merits ; their habits of
business will have enabled them to appreciate his qualifi-
cations, and I sin sure that they can have but one opinion,
that these qualifications were of the highest order. To the
supplicant by petition he was at once the kind friend and
righteous judge, lending li:s aid in all casts within his ju-
risdiction that appeared to require it, and dismissing with
kindness thew which he hail no power to redress. No one
has preferred a petition to him without the satisfaction,
either of obtaining the relief he was entitled to, or of being
conscious that his coinplaiut had been carefully considered,
and was dianiissed only for want of the means of applying
a remedy by summary jurisdiction.
Thus had the late Chief Justice, in the short space of
five weeks from his arrival in Calcutta,' established a cha-
racter which gave a happy restage of the benefits the p.th-
lic were likely to have derived from his strict admitaistra-

thin of justice, if it had pleased the Almighty to here per-
mitted him to mouth) amongst us. But be has thouOit
proper to call ibis pure spirit from the Tanitila of 'hi
world to place it, as we may surely hope, in those regions,
where " is a reward for the righteour.

Sir Christopher Pullet was a scholar of high attainments:
in his boyhood he gained early el:stifle:ion by his profi-
ciency at Eton College, of which he was one of the many
illustrious ornaments; from this school high character fof-
lowcil him, and kept pace with his career at the Univesity
of Oxford, where, as a member of Christ Church, be
gaited high academical honours, and established a repute.
Lion for morality, integrity, industry. and ability, wllith
he sustained throughout his meritorious life. Ile became
first known to the public as the joint reporter with his
• friend Mr. Sergeant Besanquet, of caws decided in the
Courts of Common Pleas, Exchequer Chamber, and House
of Lorde. This was before he was called to the Bar, and
during his pupilage under that eminent and virtuous Juke
Mr. Justice Bayley. The superior merit of the reports
has uniformly been acknowledged, as well from the Bench
as from the Bar. For many loam he had maintained a
high rank as an Advocate in the Court of King's Bench,
and on the Oxford Circuit ; and of late had become King's
Counsel, anti one of the leaders of the Circuit. His pro-
tlissional course in England was such as justitied his frienes
in the expectation that he would he in due time called to
the Bench there. Of such expectations he must be sup-
posed to have been in some degree conscious ; yet he did
net hesitate Ed forego them, in the hope of being useful
upon a more extended spite cin India. As soon as he h3d
beta appointed to the high station which his Sovereign I ad
selected hint to fill in this country, he set about acquiring
knowledge of the history, laws, customs, and languages of
India: and he pursued his inquiries with to much perre-
verance and discrimination, that he soon laid a foublation
fur the more extended research which his residence in this
country would have cpened to him. His great object and
aim was to be useful in India!--to aid the great work of
disseminating knowledge and religious instruction—mil to
preserve and continue to the millions who look up to this
Government for protection, the benefits of British juris-
prudence.
This is but an imperfect outline of the public character
of him whose light has beamed for a moment only in our
horizon : happy had it been for us if the dimensaticeis of
the Almighty had permitted him to run his course through-
out the perfect day. Let us, however, humbly bur eur
heads to the will of God, for he "is the Judge ;Ile pout th
down one,and seteeth up auother," and " His footsteps are
not known."
If the writer cf this had thonght that it would be proper
cn the present OCC3gOD to disclose the private character f
the late Chief Justice, he must have declined such a duty,
from a consciousness of his unworthiness to do justice to it.
Let it suffice here that he was A man of singular piety, vir-
tue, and benignity. His religion was not in the mowli
alone, but was deeply and permanently settled in his mind.
Well versed in the Ilk Scriptures, (which lie was in the
constant habit of reading, and considering with that sing.e.
mai and simplicity of mind, which is b. et fite d for the
reception of the truths of Divine Revelatine.) he was a
Christian in Ftith and Practice. In him, all who kn
him, could "mark the perfect man, and behold the up-
right," and " the end of that man is peace."
• He arrived in Calcutta in the night of Wednesday, the 13:h of
April, and was taken ill on Tuesday the 113th inst.

The payment offof those persons holders of the old tr
per Cents. who have not assented to the reduction o:' the
interest to 3i per cent. commenced on Baturd:►/
but very few individuals appeared to claim their money.
Parts, OCT. P.—The English Journals seem to attach
much importance to the movements of our tro ,ps in the
Colonies, and yet nothingis enure simple. It is in execu-
tion of the Ordinance of the 31st of December, 100, con-
fiding to the rand forces the service in the Colonies. Tha
movement caused by the exchange of marine troops f
land troops, which is now everywhere taking place, will
cease as soon as it is efrected. There will then be only
regular changes. Our squadron of radiation has returned
to the Nlediterrancet.—letede. •
The Journal des Dcbats mentions in a letter from Nfselriel
of the i/th ult., that keen discussions wen: carried on in
that capital respecting the financial operations of M. Z.A,
which were said to have failed. The two preinninary pro-
positions for a new loan could not of course be entertained
by that power which hail 'brow /4y so peremptorily rejected
111021. These propositions were the acknowledgment of
the debra of the Cortes, by acc:pting them to the Imo• nt
of twenty per cent. in a new loan, and the security of the
church property for the repayment of both. As they could
not be agreed to, M. Zea was obliged to declare that he
could not, on any other terms, obtain a luau in Frame
or England.
t;rreler the date of Berlin, October 4, we find it stated in
the Ilamburgh papers received yesterday, that the reported
reductions in the public expend►ture of Prussia have et
yet been decided upon. The reportson the recent improve
relents of London and Paris are noticed, and it is aglran"•
that those of the Prussian capital arc so grcat, that th.-:
who have been absent from it a few years wot.lel har
know it again.
By. the last arrival finer the Mediterranean we lore..
IfeaLli, h -be 'nforsiwel lrr

fly the Mary An
on the 22d of Jam
from that Presider),
pen and letters ft
from Matins to th
are extracts:—

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Despatches, of i
tracts, have been tl
Sir Archibald Can
forces at Racgoon:-
To Oosree Swinton,
Political D

Sta.-1100 are a v.:,
at the transports will
posing the expeditint,
ral in Council did me
()wing to ealndi and
reach the piaci. of re;
last month. and the
which period seven,: •
I had however detcrie
would hare dune ui t
general rerwirt of the
traniporta, some of
Lion. This diffirilliy
ryatt, of his Majcvt!
in collecting mid a, it
springs aforded,
as were well !Uri it 3
following dty to repir
wermaccordir sly g:' ti

Commodore (lentil. (;
the siNsent transports.
be in want of v.-au
cowry arrangements
future operations, 1
ore day lower.
finally pot to sea, O.
311heagh against
tachment under M
against the island of N
mated in the mart;it,•;
the Rangoon Rhcr, w
within the Her. tln
baying bezn precis :v.l
up the river, followed
employ the troops on
of a for hours Wive':
mine ir.siguiscart di.
Cl.nkies on the bank
Commodore (;runt
the Kinp's Wharf rdt,
front twelve to sixttwn
brill from motives of
unwilling to column

memo superiority tat
hare induced the A utl
gociating; their presu
sue a diticrrat cuttrae;
lire was opened upon t
effectually silenced. an
clumsily directed Lis
plait of attack, and nc
recline... in their bract
commanded by Major
his Majesty's 13th lig
meat in the main hart
tl:e stockade; and a
town, under the din
3ti.la and this brigade
enter the town, should

Mtge MettllrCS 111
battery and (manner
broaddiefrom the LC
to land in the order al
head
and soldier-like
had the satisfaction of
w:thout the troops hat
ket, and without my
vidual, killed or wour
the enemy, front their
latter, killed, orly eigl

-
The news of our an
the preceding ni!zilt, a:
irg marked bv an occa
e:Makics, togritirr with
ties for detente, threw
nation as to catiFie a ge
Jungles, so notch so
think one hundred met
session of it.
The leathers of G
them seven our of clei
imprisoned and rot iii
were left in the King':
troops on entering the
Whcn we wee.; actu
an A nieriean
cornpanied by a ]torn:
the Ha worm and nth:
oft in the Jungle) to e
what terms would he
Englishmen nut with
Fend upon the enswor
told them, that it son,
in our possession ; yr,
ha.* to expect, and se,
them until the pritone
them that, if they dan
fire and sword should
face of their country.
as soon as passible ;
could again be found,
country.
We remained in m
during the night. bt
some recoonoitro g
tsrent places of etiotiii
tied at our approach ;
with to transmit.
I am sure it will af
Council much sat irla:
to b: correct) that di
ccption of a Mr. Gay
tnent.

Although I ant net
the subjection to the
Negras's, together •
hum the ealeulltion
the attack in these
render their fall, abu
most certain.

The captured erdn'
posed the country to
dacription; the get:;
ties, ar.d as anon as
ths honor of forwardi.
It would be prcsur
officer 10 well kliown
you, that the cord.at
receive from him cal

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