The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-24 00:00:00

TRADE, MANUFACTURES, & COMMERCE.

The Litchfield Mercury rays—" We regret that we have this
week to announce the suspension of payment, in the old
and established b.iiilsing-bottNe of Gibbous and CA.. of W‘Aver-
hampton.
The severe and imexpeeted shock produced by this occur-
niter, caused a temrrrry run upon the Rank of Messrs. I tor-
den, .:.clinctix, and Co. ; but it has subsided.

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We r. tht. f.t.•,tre of Another banking-hottse, that Messrs.
lkichttaltt uott Co. of Taunton, tionsemohiret

'1 lie letters received ou Saturday from Liverpool. mention
that flic Committee no: .e.ed to inspect the concerns of Messrs.
Roscoe awl Co. had proposed that the whole of the demand
should be paid off in Sik years by instalments, of 3,..1d. in the
vomit in each year.
I we great Russian loaisea failed lately in St. Petershargh—
one of them for fist millions of rubles. 'I heir istisioritanea are
attributed to au extrusive monopoly of colonial produce, par-
ticularly si.;ar, for the disposal of which, they base been
enabled to hull it., advantageous market.
Friday, aceomits readmit town front I/rubies, that the bank-
ing-house of Messrs. Clough and Co. had stopped payment.
'the house .of Messrs. S. id, Burn, a!I.I Cu. 'tl t. regret to
state, stopped payment 4.1.4 I I'llne,digy also, the house'
of Messrs. Nicholson an,. Co. distillers, Clerkenwell; and
Messrs. Hood and Co. Ca osby -square.
The Nlinister of the Interior has addressed to the tqtambee
of Commerce of the following let ter :
GF.V T t.nntir-1 believe I ought to caß your ate:ntion to those
parts of the Sea wlich offar matter tor useful srculation:;. A regular
organhattiou—a perfect staurity and European mstinutinti—eannot fail
to neon to our navig.....ots the customs and manner of truding with
places of commerce anciently frequented. They coveuitablish the surest
way fur their priolucts.ishere they find a hospitable reception in tae ports
of the Baltic, and timbre they inert with peculiar advantages. The tom-
modites and nasal previsions. which they seek in itustia, and are not
timid in the Nurthei n nnaktch, bUt at the charge of along conveyance,
are the producta of countries in Cie swiglilieurhood of the Black Sea.
where in consequence of the courseof that sea, they have established
in Critneo a much better market. Our wir..s, our liquors, the saute
products which we fun :ih to litusia by the North Sea, and which are
proper tine the winner/Toon of the more Eastern eetuuries, font the
nirans of advantsgeoas exchange. It will be th..sireable to incrtiw,!ihe
cmumerce or e:rance. and to Owen: it wit:tin the nt.ans of enjoying those
advantages which the benevolence of the Ermicau Al :xanler appears
to hold out in the relation s hetworn the two countici, .ud Govern-
ment comma:ideal those hashible (Abets of the in. rehants that parlor,
and will .round their efforts with all their influence. L will he tiesirable
that your %wads should mal.e a trial of that track, i.nd observe which is
the 'hest preferable, by arms/do( cor.siderations, to 611: sea attic North,
and to the inconveniencing of clic Straits of the Italtie.
'• I tJwll ham with sati.tactisat of those expeditions in the erimear
which have wale entvrprizis at your TC'.Uleds ctrl I shall receive
with yleasure toy cerenainicationo you way make to we on the
facild: s which th 7 may expect frin Governm.nt, and on the obstacles
whlah t;overit'ii st cs..ay be mablol tf tVtUr)ed.
(SiJned) VAUSLASIe, the 11.111!Sti:t S.cretary of State..

THE NATIONAL

EXPEDITION TO ;LEXICA.

The expedition under Captain Tuckev's directions in the
Congo sloop, accompanied b.:, tie I)..rottiy transport, for ex-
pinch's( the source of the river Zaire, or, as it is commonly
tcr..ied, the Congo, has sailed on that important discovery. The
steam-rot:Me which had been fitted on board the C.ingo has
been removed, together with the whole of its vast machinery,
o Itie WWI found iinpractic .1,1,!, and it prevented the sailing
•11:ric e,..set with the celerity that was requi,:ite.—While this
cape . 11141 is prOCeel.llllg, another is to be affected across the
conti..ent of Al. ica, to the point where Nisingo Park terminated
his 14liorions cs.ecr, sail Orme:• no the Niger, in the expects-
; Con of ideetiag with Captah. Itte'• (.y, a A, in that event. ca-
tablishing the hypothesis w;tiet long been indulged, that
the Zaire or Conde, mil the Niger, %re one and the same river.
The source of the termer, as also the termination of the latter,
have hitherto caused It large chasm iu the iaternal geography
of Africa t and until now no measures so extended, or similar
%%hit regard to the employment of vessels, have beeu attempted.
The terrestrial :ids- ton is placed under the direction of Major
:John Peddle, assisted by Captain Thomas Campbell, and thi,;
number of persons to be attached are nut fewer than. those
!ruder , whose line of march is to he t.lhercd to. The lot-
lowin important d...cuntent, of which soar. numbers Lave been
•rinte'd in 'as: I.sl,;tesli and Arabic latienages, will be distri-
buted for tile purpose of th.• natives rendering such service as
the travellers may stand in need ef ; end particularly in the
conveyance of -..;spa•ch s f. a them to any of our settlements
on the enISS. The 1.0111/Willg represented as a true copy, to
which 0.1 sea; of the African .:,uniyany is affixed.
"(LS.) P-ee tradl to Africa by Act of Parliament, 1750,
" This is to make !mown. 0, at Maior John Caddie, Captain Thomas
ramobell, and Aur;;•-on William Coissli.y. have ban eniClyed dv the
SrLish Government 1 vro,eull Loom Senegal into the interior if Atrira,
rl true the source of the ricer Niger, and to Amain such information
'sip-e,;r .; the counter; through .which they t..ss, as may tie use-
ful it Cie .:x.ension and improvei.,.•.nt of eemmeree, which is the object
of the British Coveminem in timeline those persons to Africa; and mat
any pinson ....Ito may happen to fleet with those gentlemen, and shall
be the biace: ct a letter file (;..sernor of this or any other British
aie:tt en the (ion Cutest, tool either of Mewl, shall receive tire
once sof ohl, and b.: W... ally re:ranted fur any service or arts of
Id.: trim witch it way at,: is :by such letter may have been rendered
to either of therm—Witmais my hand at

The munb,_•l of ounces of ,r,i!el being fixed at fir,, has been
t..: act. at to by persons who have been at Morocco, as an cx-
p ession which is avoided by the Atabians and the Western
Moore. in their numerals. When they wish to expre•s that
number, it is gmsi ally done by saying four and one, or two
and tin ee ; and the reason tosigned for this singular eugom
aris.s from their idea of five being connected with the epithets
o!..nalediation, reprobation, &c. and also being the mark of the
live fingers on the hand, in the manual rejection of any parson
to whom the) have an aversion.

INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE CHURCH MIS-
SIONS IN INDIA, AFRICA, @.

CALCUTTA—A Society has been established, to which
1,5001. per annum is allowed from the Society in London.
The European residents have patronised it so much as to add about
OM. to be applied, besides the salaries al/owed to the Missionaries, to
the ptupAse of readers of the Scriptures and Catechists, and the main-
tenance of native schools.

Ac.mt—Abdool Messer, a converted Alusselman, with Talib Niessee
and several Christian native% are readers of the Scriptures and Cate-
chists utOer the Sdidety, with encreasing success among the inhabitants
of that large and populous city; more than forty of whom, many of
them hitherto, proud nishometans, have been baptised in less than
a twelvemonth past. The Rev. Wm. Greenwood, an English Clergy-
man, and the Rev. Christian Frederick Cotthalt Schroeder, a Lutheran
Clergyman. hare embarktil for India to assist in carrying un this great
work round Agra.
NlAnit,v4.—A society is formed, to which aord. per annum is also
allowed for the same rurpose.. Two Lutheran Clergymen, J. C.
Schnarre, and C. T. E. Rhenins, have proceeded to Madras tinder a
licence from the Court of Directors, ro enter into the labours of the
Dr. John, and extend his advisable plans. as opportunities may
open before them. About moo children in the schools of the ute Dr.
John, art: under th,e care of the society. And the Rev, T. Norton,
an kltylish Clergyman, with his wife and child, have embilisted for
Medea-. _ _ _

CEYI.OX.—P. H. Gerardua Philips. and J. G. P. Appolimey, two,
native Cingtilcse of high respectability, and clipendints of Christian Mi-
nisters, educated in Holland by the Dutch Government. arc now on
their voyage to England, having been selected and recommended by
Sir Alex. Johnston, Chief .Instice of the Island, ter education fur the
Christian Ministry among their countrymen.
Settlements in Western Africa have also beets formed at Bashi.: on
the Itio Pongws Cisnstlee on the Bullom shore, Gambier, anti another
was forming when the last letters were written, each conducted by two
clergymen anu their wives, who take an active and essential part in these
intrautant con.:erns. In the e settlements about two hundred native
children, many of them the sons of the neighbouring el iefs, ere con-
stantly tinder Christian initruction, and most of them wholly main-
tained by the scatty. ('hunches have been eraeted at Bashia and ('a-
nottee. The New Testament is in a course of translation into the Gusoo
and Bullion lannatagiis, and elementary books have been printed in those
totigtrw to tt...cl) the native stn read. Some of the missionaries have sup-
plied the place of ehapinin at Sierra Leone. and ii mat number of native
children have reciivel instruction front them. Bev. Leopold But-
whir is now chaplain to the colony. which has become a place of greet
iii if wry n containing about 10,41141 inhabitants, of which net much less
th,:a i4s 4) are native children of difihrent African tithes, liberated fnim
inittOingvi.esels. A large giant of laud hems he: a made to the society.
lon which :: erecting builtnngs for the nacepiion and education of all
these destitute children, who will be Instructed in agriculture and other
useful occupations, to civilize their mines, and render t :ern fit for
Christian instruction. The maintanance and cloathing of each child
costs the murices- about five pounds a year, and they are baptists' into such
nainesms their liberator may desire; totes ChM one hundred of these
had been thus w:h.vtad. .

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Government have mated their ready support to these rrocccilings in
Africa. atal a cononotildus entirell is to t.,fli erecud in the isaony,
ably to a mepsona`.. in conjunction with Co..ernor Maxwell. ;and tiio
libtratal. children will he pluectl under the kxlety's care; and a regular
intercour:c will be heucetortb maintith.ed by a ship ta be named the
William Willi-TM:T.!. _ . _

'llte saute active steps arc also in process under the direction of the
Rev. Sam. Alarmlen, and an auxiliary society to be formed in New
South Wales, principally in New Zealand, a' ere there is cup): sn-
teuragernent. Mn M4rstlea 1 s purchased t"e brig Active, .f Ito
tam and several New le.ilatad chiefs have been carried in her to New
Sout'a Wales ; and ;:tler they had received instruction, hewn" to r• tarn
with them on a visit to New Zedand, acootr.r.at.i:d by all the sst;:ers.
.Intigua, Malta, and the Levant extend the long line of these efforts.
Two yoang Arabians, nine English students, four Cenoto. snuLnts,
two I .utherau clergymen, there srlaxdrr.estcrs, are preparing to under-
take tbse anluous :.ntl laudable labours.

The Old Testament is now translating irtn Petri :n. nzo nemtopany
that of the New Testantent by the Rey. H. Nlat tyn. 'The New 'Tette-
mer.t is proceeding in %pm and IS:elont, two /Vt.lean tongues of great
extent. 'The Liturgy is in preparation hiNiar. Aralnc, and Hln-
.lo,,tanee ; and thus. anivaro,:s othut lautco,trr:. rt Multotnetors and
lietitht n 3, tr(Ntinrcs ate tt.1.4 to IniLt tw.i tist:ulaw' taly se/apt:v.)l
and relii,nous tracts..