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JiMAICA.

The !loose of Assembly was (record on the 271 b
of Octieb,r, The Duke of Nlancliester, in a short
spr,rll, referring lo the events in England, pArti.
cola, Iy cal!. el the attention of the Assembly to the
pet--rut state of the island. A Committre was
fi,rlll-t1 for that purpose, who were the
case of fore ion ra lately landed in Jamaica, the
stet• of the goals, &c.
Oa the 3,1 of November, ?4r. Stewart culled the
enteeetion of the Demise to the diminution of ter
squadron appointed fur the protection of the trade
of the island, and a motion was filially agreed upon,
for requesting thin the Governor would commutes-
rate to Sir Mime Popham the great anxiety of the
Hoose on this subject, and stating the numerous
depree:aieutis collimated by piratical vessels.
Use the 4th Nieveenher, a letter was "rat by his
Grate to the House, which had been received from
the Secretary to Admiral Popham, lie which it was
%rated that adverse winds had prevented the reliev-
ing ships ream reaching the Jamaica station. It
wee promised also that the utmost vigilance should
be used tee protect the trade from the attacks of
cruisers under South American flag,.
From the FoMouth Paper of the 111 h Norembcr.
During the lest three days this part or the
',land has been visited with the Int,st severe wile of
accompanied by frequent and heavy falls of
ra is, that leas leers, experienced Oilier the storm of
1812. It lies blown the whole time with determined
violence. at infers:lls increasing almost to a litarri-
eine. Much mischief, we fear, intsq have been
none to the cane fields and negro grounds, as c ell
ati to the snipping along the coast. The unlit Ocean,

NOM

114.Neilege, lying in this harbour, parted her cab!e
yesterday morning, and was driven ashore near
DOOMS'S Wharf, luckily on soft ground, where we
trust she will not receive much dower. The gale
efOntinard with unahated fury at the tine this paper

itivi going to pre••.

TH E Barri S II PRESS.

LON DON,

THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1819.

The energetic and spirited Protest by Sir T. S.
RAFFLES. Lieuienant•Governor of the Brutish
possessions in the Nand of Sumatra, which we
yesterday gave to the puhlic, cannot fail to raise
that higoly-ilistingoislied officer in the opinion or
Ins country. Fortunate must it he considered iii
the highest degree for the interests and character
of Great Britain, that tit moment of such im-
portance, and iii circumstances so delicate, the re-
preseutenve of the British name in that quarter of
the world should have been a man possessed of
such firmness and promptitude to risist the un-
warrantable eneroachnietits of the Dutch, and at
the same tunic so eminently endeared to the natives
of those places by his personal qualities, and the
remembrance of his former Iteuelits while Lieu-
truant-Governor of Java, that his presence alone
should be capable of counteracting the ungrate-
ful and ungenerous conduct of the Netherlands
Government to degrade the honour and destroy the
interests of this country. Nothing can be conceiv-
ed more outrageous than the conduct of the Coin-
tuissioners-Geueral at Batavia, than their sending
an armed force to Palembang, and without the
slightest pretence of right or injury, there dethron-
, Mg the Sultan who had been placed on the
throne by Great Britain, whose rights were conse-
crated by treaty and the faith of Great Britain,
and who, to ensure the observance of that treaty,
had ceded the island of Banat as the purchase of
his independence and safety. This alone was not
ouly a violation of faith on the part of thrNetlier-
lands Government, which, on receiving Basics from
Great Britain, accepted likewise the conditions
that accompanied its possessiiiii, bat also an
insu It
to Great Britain, under whose protection the Sul-
'tau of PALEMBANG h,41 been expressly placed;
but it vanishes into nothiil4 in comparison with the
wanton outrage committed against the person of
Captain SALMOND, the British Representative at
the Court of Palembang, mud the British flag,
which had bveu mounted over the fort of his resi-
dence. '('lee matters require an instant explanation
on the part of the Netherlands Government, and will,
we tru‘t, tend to the termination of the system lit-
tle short of actual hostility against the interests of
this c try, which has too long been pursued by
the Dutch Authorities in the Malayan Archipelago,
where, according to tits opinion of Sir T. S.
RAFFLES, there exists on the part of the Nether-
lands Gower 00000 rot " all evident disinclination to
concede any thing to the more and character of the
British nation in the Eastern Seas; and that, judg-
ing by the general policy evinced, there seems
reason to believe it to be the wish of the Nether-
lands Goveritment to erase the recollection of the
fiiinsb Administration, and studiously to prevent
the Native Princes and Chief- perceiving any influ-
ence of the BritialiGoveroment in the arraugements
of that transfer."
The island of Banca. which is mentioned in
Sir T. S. RAFFLES' Piotest, is of cousiderable
importance, principally on account of its valuable
tin-mints, which are very productive, and are
work-d by a Chinese colony said to consist of
V 5.000 persons. Many cargoes are yearly carried
to China, where the consumption is chiefly for reli-

sinus purpose:4. It sells rather higher than the
English grain tin, as the Chinese say it is more
malleable, and on that account prefer it. In former
times the prutit from it to the Mitch East India
Cowl/nil was estimated at 1.50.0001. but very little
was sent to Europe. The ',stolid and the tin-
res were taken postression if by us in 1813, and
restored to the ling of the NETHERLANDS by thi,
SNd article of the Convention of 1814, under the
stipulation*, and for the purposes, stated in the
Pe dtest of Sir 'l'. S. RAVELBS.

We have received Parts Papers of Saturday
and Sinnlay last. On the former day the Le-
gislative Chambers assembled. In-the Peers it was
notified, that a prrtjet de loi would be shortly sub-
mitted by the King's Minister, to the Chambers.
on the subject of the Marquis de LALLY-To-
SANDAL'S jiropo.ition relative to the Duke de
Rtottm,ii:u. and, its consequence, the Chamber,
in respect to the intruded communication, por-
ported the voilAiclerstion of this subject. Projects
of leas u'-re submitted by the Ministers to the
Chamber of Deputies, for regulating the sale of
)iiininia der. soil fur imposing an additional duty on
toe 11111/411ta!1011 of foreign saltpetre. M. MAN CRL.
atm mid been elected as Representative by two
department., viz. la Vendee and Finisterre, has
um& his elifetioti iii favour of the former.
Accounts from Lim, of the 2id December, re.
peseta the blinlitti that infest the Sierra Morena
and La Months, as very forusidablc.

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