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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

DUTCH MAIL.

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Lieutenant 'Burke, 4d Ceylon Regiment, was se
*trete wounded ; Second Lieutenant Gray, of the
lit Ctylon Regiment, was on similar du►y between
Iltllialle and Hanwelle on the 14th April, and
wounded through the face, hut was left at TM-
denim, and reported by the Medical Officer to be
doing well.
The addition of the troops to the garrison of
Kandy gave an opportunity of distorting the re-
bets, who had strongly entrenched themselves in
the extensiie villages of Artiste and Gotlartsclone.
Situate in Iltwillietty, about nine miles from the
capital, in a rich and beautiful country, hitherto
not Visited by our troops ; three small divisions
moved nit these places, two from Kandy by differ-
ent routes, under Lieutenant-Colonel Hardy, and
Captain Fraser (of the Staff); and one from Go-
negamme under Captain Drew, 73d ; on every
road were numerous 'Mattis and thorugates at in-
fertile, which prevented any surprise on the in-
habitants of the villages, and whin consequently
escaped, leaving large stores of grain and cattle to
the disposal of a detatchment which ivas•-posted at
Curtail:moue. under Capt. Fraser.
The rebels of the upper part of the Seven Korles
'utid Tooinpane, are reported to be assembled iu
force on the borders of the Korles; hut the pre-
Cautions t iken to gitard the last valuable and faith•
ful province have as yet prevented any irruption
ibto it. and in the various movements of our forces
in advance. the rebels have sustained considerable
loss. Detachments also m■de from the force at
Kornegolle have equally punished the presumption
of such iosurgents as were in its neighbourhood.

BATAVIA, APIII. 1.

Major Meyer, who was honourably wounded at
&woos, died on the 16th of January at A whops,
of the consequence of his wounds. Every body
laitienti the death of this breve and Skilful officer.

Their Excellencies the Commissioners• General
have resolved on some provisional measures fur the
regular raising of the laud-tax, and have given or-
ders for the measuring mud valuation of the lands
as soon as possible, for the purpose of regulating
far the future the sale of the land-tax on a perms=
tient basis.

The Commissioners-General have resolved, that
a military school shall be established i►► Java, for
the purpose of educating young men u officers id
the army, in the colonial marine, and its the ser.
vice of the navy (waterstaat). The school is to
be established at Sainaning, and, fur the present,
seventy-three scholars are to be admitted into it;
viz. 30 cadets for the army, eight for tl►e navy, 25
young men wholly at their own expense, and 10
gratis, which last will certainly be taken from
among the sons of deceased or indigent officers,
civil and military. The pupils are to be instructed
iu the Dutch, French, English, and native lan-
guages; history, geometry, mechanics, geography,
sistronomyi navigation, general physics, with the
application to navigation, artillery, &c. civil and
military artichecture, &c. The scholars shall be
armed as infantry, and be under a Director, whO
shall have the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Its Majesty's ship of the line EVerilelle and the
fligite Maria fteiKersber gee, have arrived at
B,urabaya, from the Molucca Islands.

BATAVIA, APRIL 8.

After the airiest! of General de Kock, st Amboy us
owl his installation se Governor of the Molucca
Islands, Admiral Buysker, the Commissioner-

General, sailed for Java; on board the Wilkelabia,
frigate. Ills Excellency has now been for some
days in this city, and we have on this occasion
received the assurance that since the successful.
result of the expedition against the bland of
Ct'ram, all signs of insurrection iu the Moluccas
have entirely disappeared. The Everisen and
Maria Reigertbergen, hare arrived at Sourabaya
from these peas, where the navy has performed
such important services, and will soon be followed
by the Prince Frederick and the Tromp.

FRANKFORT, SEPT. 3.

Letters from Aleppo stair, that they had there
on the 19th July the news that Ibrahim Mocha has
taken Desoge, the capital of the Wechabites, and
blocked up Abdolla Bell Sayd, the chief of that
sect.

The autumnal fair here turns out very well ; the
number of strangers is, very great, and the quan-
tity of goods very cousiderable. A great deal of
business is done, and the Saxon' and Swiss boast
that their goods are now in greater demand thou
the British, both on account of their superior qua-
lily, and the greater deg►ee of taste in the patterns.

PETERSBURG'', AUGUST 14.
The •um of five indiums luta already beeu sub-
scribed to the new Imm.

One of our Journals says " coffee is becoming
dearer, and has already risen to 70 roubles per
Food. The cause of this is partly the unfavoar.
able crop of coffee last year, and portly the cir-
cumstance that in 181 the sugar plantations
being more profitable than the coffee plantations,
'several of the latter were planted with sugar, and
the cultivation of coffee neglected.

MAMBLIRGM, SEPTEMBER 4.
His Majesty the Emperor of Russia has granted
new privileges to the University of Kiew, in order
to encourage his subjects to frequent it. The Rus-
sian Governsuent snakes great exertions to dissemi-
nate knowledge and science. It is calculated that
above 10,000 pupils are instructed and maintained

expitiae, in the varioui 'public
education in St. Peteraburgli alone.
The King of Sweden his abolished the Royal
French Tfiestre, estsblishid by King Gustavus ills
in 1773. the-singers and dancers attached to it
are gone, smite to Paris, and others to St. Peters-
burgh.
They write NM Copenhagen that there were fires
in that city on the efith and .27th of August ; in the
first fire u sugar refinery was reduced to ashes; the
second broke out in a foondery, on *hid' occasion,
by the falling of a wall. several persons were killed
and mail wounded. The King himself was present
at the fire, to encourage the people to rigs rt them-
'selves in extingasbiug the flame-.—(Derck Papers,
September- 9.)

HAMBWRGII MAIL.

: CHRISTIANIA. AUGUST

His Majesty has biter' the stslh of this mouth for
his departufe, and thinks to reach Droolbeim on the
.2tl of September. 1-14. travels by the way of Tido-
*old and Roeraiis.

The Joy of the coronation is not yet fixed, but
it is probable that this solemnity will take place
immediately after the King's, arrival.

HANOVER. sErrcussit 1.
Ilia Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence set
out yesterday on his visit to the Hartz. On the
way lie will hoa.our with a visit the Prince Bishop of
Heddeshairu, Baron Farstenherg.

• We learn that his Royal Highness the Duke of
Kent will shortly come here, to pay a visit to his
august brothers.

Mr. Baring, •the London banker. has arrived
here.
It is said that a student, who, contrary to the
orders issued lately, scraped with his feet on the
entrance of a foreign student. into the lecture-
room at Gottingen, will probably be confined for
some time in the prison at the Cleves-gate or this
city.
It is said that the indemnity hitherto allowed at
the Royal expense to Iris Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, for the disbursements of his house-
hold establivtintent, will cease from the tut of
January., 1919.
BERLIN. SEPTEMBER 1.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland
has hired the hotel formerly the resideke of the
Duke of Brunswick °els, for one year, at the
rent of 4,000 dollars (670/.)

STOCILHoII.II, Arm's? 25..

The Royal Opera, founded by King Gustavus 111.
in 1773, and the Royal dramatic theatre, the
direCtor of which was General Count LoweiNelm,
who is gone as Ambassador to Paris, are both abo-
lished, and left no a private individual. A part of
the ballet dancers is gone to Paris or to St. Peters-
burgh, and several af the princiPal actors to Pioland ,
in order to petition fur a patent for a theatre at
Helsinfor, the new capital of the province. Ma-
dame Clough, the chief singer, a Swede by birth,
is gone to Italy. Some of the best rooms in the
opera-house are let, and the old theatre, it is sup-
posed, will be pulled down to enlarge the Parade,
on which the foundation for a statue of Ring Gus-
tavus 111. is already laid,
The Artillery School for thirty-two pupils, on
the Mete of Marienbuig, neer the capital, which
has been purchased for the purpose by General
Von Cardell, Commander-in-Chief of the Artillery,
is now entirely organised, provided with excellent
musters, a library, a cannon foundery, &c. The
battering cannon hate been removed thither from
the capital, and the men put into barracks there.
The President of the United States has appoint-
ed Mr. Murray, merchant at Gotteriliurg, and Mr.
Erskine, in Stockholm, to be Consuls in these two
cities.

CUPENHAGIN. AUGUST 29.
As they write from Norway that the harvest there
appears to turn out about a third better than last
year. we may perhaps say, that this year's harvest
in all Denmark will probably turn out a third
wdrae than the last.

According to the latest reports received by the
Missionary College here, the population of Green-
land at she end of the year 1816 amounted to 8,836
persons, who inhabited the west coasts, divided
into 17 colonies. Since the year 1789, the popula-
tion has increased by 714 personsij hi that country
they know neither utor.ey nor any substitute for it.
All trade is carried on there by barter alone.—i-(See
Anneal in Greenland, by E. Saabye.)

The great book sale of Count Schiel, in Jutland,
is ended. The library, which is said to have been
sahied at 40,000 dollars, was bold for 9,000.

A Burgher of this city, named Andreas Thom-
sen, has bequeathed his fortune of 25,000 dollars
in specie, and 83,000 dollars in notes; to churches,
school*, and poor-houses, in the capital, and in the
town of Frederica, his native plate.

CASSEL. AUGUST 27.

The Elector has resolved to pay his compliments
in perion to the Emperor of Austria, while lie is in
the neighbourhood of Frankfort and the Maine, and
for that purpose to go to Hanau, attended by the
guards, and all the Court. The day for his depar-
ture is not yet fixed.
On account of the great stagnation in almost
every branch of trade. several rich Jewish houses
have thought of removing from this city, and fixing
their abode at Frankfort on the Maine.
ST. PETERSBURGII. AUGUST 15.
The operations of the Quake►, Dowel Wheeler,

I,ON DON,

SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 12. 1819.

A tlainhurgh Mail has arrived, bringing letters
and papers to the sth instant. They state that the
King of SWEDEN and NORWAY Was to have left
Christiania on the 251 h of last month, slid that the
sole 1111 l ity of his coronation was to take place imme-
diately after Isis arrival at Drontheini, where he was
expected on the 2rl inst. As far as it is possible to
collect from the partial accounts received through
doubtful channels from those countries. it would
seem that CHARLES, JOON retains among his
Swedish subjects the same confidence and esteem to
whit•h he originally owed his elevation; and what is
still more remarkable, that lie has by his prudence
and skill overcome the hostile fee:sisgs with which his
newly-acquired subjects of Norway must be suppos-
ed to have viewed their forced and unnatural union
with Sweden. We may j urine of the Sovereign's soli-
citude for his people's welfare, by finding him sym-
pathising in their wants, and not ingeniously devis-
ing means to oppress them by excessive taxes, or by
imposing burdens on them disproportionate to their
►trengtls ; and, on the other hand, we may estimate
the happy effects of his policy, and the affection and
confidence of his people, by seeing that the Govern-
ment has no recourse to extraordinary measurer for
inaintsining its powers, and does not rely oss the
bayonets of soldiers for the tranquillity of the
country.

The harvest in Denmark is represented to be RS
much inferior to that of the last year, us that of at..
most every other country in Europe is allured to
be superior.

Calcutta and Madras Papers have arrived in
town, from which copious extracts will be found
in our present publication. They convey to us the
happy assurance, that our military operations in
India are nearly brought to a close, and that the
shattered remains of the enemies' force seek for
safety only in flight. The late Peishwa, BAJEE
RAo, was still enabled, by the rapidity of his
movements, to escape the pursuit of Genera!,
SMITH and PRITVLEICS troops, and thereby pre-
veined the complete pacification of the centre of
India ; but the commencement of the rainy season,
it wasexpected, would prevent the possibility of his
further flight, and ensure his submission. The
force that accompanies this fugitive Prince is very
differently represented, and while some raise it to
100,000 men, others,with more apparent correctness,
reduce it to a tenth of that number. Two strong
forts, well garrisoned; still hold out for him, icr
the command of some refractory Killerlimb; but
their resistance could not much longer protract the
war, particularly as al t every other strong hold
of importance has acknowledged the power of the
British Government.
We are very happy to learn; that on the StOth of
March last Sit DAVID OCIITERLONV vier invented
by the Marquis of HASTINGS, as representative of
the PRINCE REGENT, with the Grand Cross of the
Order of the Bath. The Noble Marquis, in his
ad-
dress to the gallant General, observes, that " lie bad
obliterated a distinction painful for the Officers of
the lion. Company, and hud opened a door for tats
brothers in arms to a reward altich their recent
display of exalted spirit and invincible iiitrepidsty
proves could not be snore deservedly extended to the
officers of any army on earth." It is really astonish-
ing how the advisers of his Hoyal Highness the
PEINCE REGENT could have recommended the ob-
servance of a distinction between she army in India
and their brethren iu arms who bail been employed
in other parts of the world. It insist indeed have been
very " painful" to Officers who had distinguished
themselves by the most exemplary gallantry and dis.
cipline in the performance of a most galling service,
to see themselves rewarded fur their exertions by a
humiliating exclusion from the ranks of honour,
and regarded in if they hid been deficient in zeal,
or had been engaged in a duty frosts which no ad.
vantage or glory was to be derived to their country
no army ever existed having higher claims upon
the gratitude of its Sovereign, than the brave one
that now graces the field of honour in India—and
it is onsocountable how its gallant Chiefs could
have been overlooked in the distribution of insignia,
which were lavished at home as if they possessed no
value, and which certainly could never be regarded
as the holiest rewards of valour, if the Indian army
were excluded from sharinK in thew.

A Dutch Moil has arrived, containing some
recent intelligence from Detavio. It is stated
that the aseasures poisued by the Dutch audio-

srities !titre at length hat) The effect of termitiat.
ing the rebellion in the Mohicca Iles. This re-
bell' was canned by violence, extortion. and
cruelty ; and the race** to which they were carried
must have beets treat indeed, when they were cepa.
We of rousing to action a people clisractetititically
so passive as the inhabitants of the I.lalids in the
Indian Archipelago. By violence the reputed
rebels have beets suppressed. and the usual pier.
tier', of the Dwelt in those regions dots hot war.
rant the Wipe that the unfortunate Oativea will in
future be exempt front their extortions and cruel.
ties. A .6001 is about to he established in Bata-
via, for the education of young deritleoteis destined
for the military and slava, service in the East.

An article from Frankfurt represents the present
fair as well supplied and attended. The British
goods, lin&ever, w•e are *soured, are far inferior to
the Silicon and Swiss, both in their quality and in
the taste displayed in the patterns. The foreigners
have changed their mode of warfare; for, having
r,,,iii,l their cousploilits unavailing against the want
of patriiiii%m manifested by their respective country-
full:, in purchasing English commodities in prefer.
ence to the inferior productions of their owl' looms,
they now chauge their groMtd, and endeavour to
decry the manufactures of England, as the best
means of interrupting their sale in futtire.

About the time of the late Palace-yard Sleeting
a placard was exhibited in Many parts of the me-
tropolis, declining that the sufferings of the lower
classes of society were past endurance, and endea-
vouring to stimulate the rabble to acts of violence.
The placard wHA au almond mixture of nonsense
and stiliti 4444 anal, in our ls, quite unworthy of
serious notice. •?onle of our Contemporaries, how-
ever, Woe, in their wisdom, thought otherwise;
but while they c lescetioled to censure it, they
completely fell in with the views of the mischievous
and foolish writer of it, and helped to give the en-
culAtion which was wanting to his purpose.
Perhaps, however, many of our readers may dif-
fer with us in our opinion of the insignificance of
this placard, when they shall have read the follow-
ing energetic and highly-wrought description of its
bearing and tendency, which, for their edification,
we have extricted from The Morning Post, a
Paper remarkable for the uniform force of its

a II (nit. the infamous placard) would he a monument of
the unparalleled wickedness and atrocity of* select banditti,
• disgrace to the name of Britons, who have dared, in •
moment of universal awl perfect peace and tranquillity, and
under the most certain and evident prospects of a rapidly_
returning national prospetity, to stimulate, by 'midnight
operations, the logy, the profligate, and abandoned weetches,
whom they think ready for any enterprise of desperation, to
rim and murder their employirs and protectors, ht order
that they ricty revel for a fleeting hour iu the plunder of
their mopes ! If such infernal Wong as this ii, or is to
be, the result of diffusing education antong the lower
orders : if, by enlightening their 'minds, as it is jet-left
called, we not only give theni the means of setting every
principle of Christian Morality at defiance, bat place, as it
were, a dagger in their Lauds, to raise against our hearts in
the hours of repose and security which nature requires and
sanctifies—then would to Hearcu they bad been suffered to
remain in their ignorance! ' Whit men are innocent
(says a mit bratcd moralist), they are happy'."

We are rxtreniely concerned to perceive that
The Moulin.; Past should hold learning in such
abhorrence, and that the writer of the above pas-
sage, hitmelf so learned, should, by quoting the
words of the " celebrat,d moralist," consider in-
nocence and ignorance as iymmimous. We must
acknowledge that we have often fallen into the
athclution, as it is termed by The /Horning
l'ost, of representing the dfftisiox of education
as the best menus of enlightening the minds of
the people, and could even defend the error
by pleading the opinions of some " celebrated
morolists :" but probably a new light may have
broken upon the learned writer, who will ■t some
Future time prove to the world that the most effec-
tual miNuts of securing the fidelity of • people,
and of enlightening their minds, will be to keep
them all as ignorant and as stupid •s a post.

The following Bulletin was exhibited lest tuctii-
big at the Quern's Palace :

" Kew, September it.

" There in no nnierial aliettation in the atate of the
ChM' hettlth rince yeotertlay, although her Majesty Las
had Nom good Merit its the last night."

" F. MILMAN."

PRUSSIAN LOAN.—Privy Counsellor Boast E-
-14 4NN is arrived in London with the rental 111 l
g
ohloglitians of this loan, completing the stint of
5,060,000 sterling. They are at present its the pos-
session of Mr. ItoTHScHILD, the contractor, who
will deliver them ice a few days to the subscribers.
The following notice has been issued front the
Exchequer Office :
••
CONTKISIoN OF EXCHEIMER 111.7.1 INTO TORRE

PF:R CENT. ♦NNUITIEN.

" The Certificates on which the instahnents dee on the
3.1 instant hare been maik, will be ready fur delivery to-
morrow, the 9th instant, auil following day.
" li:chequer Bill-Ofjfeet Sept. 8, 1S18."

The weavers held a alerting of Deputies for the
counties of Lanv;ishire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Der-
byshire, &c. on the Atli alumna, at the Spread Eagle,
in Bury, al►out nine miles from Manchester, whets
a Resolution passed for an advance of 7s. in the
pound-4.. istivance no the 7th instant, and 3s.
more on the tst day of October ensuing. Mort of
the manufacturer. at Manchester and its the neigh.
bourhood, bare agreed to give an advunce of 4s. but
the further N. it is expected, will be strongly re•
'mud.

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