The National Register.
London, England, 1817-12-22 00:00:00

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

The Nen. York paper of the. 15th ult. states very positively
the apponitment of commisioners, Messrs. Roduey,Gruham, '
and Bland, haviiigfor their secretary Mr. Brackentirige, who
were forthwith me to proceed to South America in the Con-
gress frigate, on business relative to the indeperitinee ut
that country." Judging from the language of the Nalioral
•o the same subject, and from that collateriat
ciremnstanre% cot necessary at the time to enlarge upon, we
should not be surmised to hear that the Executive Gosern-
uncut of the United States had resolved on ackauwirilging
some, at least, of the South Americen provinces as indepen-
dent of the Crown of Spain. 'lite National Intelligencer first
recommends a system of natitrality on the part of the North
American Govern:milt ; and titan endeavours to prove, that
the neutral character of the republican policy would remain
oveltdoitill by a recognition of the independents. We may
teeter limn this mode of reasoning what result is likely to flow
tram the mission.

The fallowing is an eittriet of a letter from the Agent to
Llopl•s at hitt nth, dated Dectiober 8 :—" It is with regret
1 11411 i to infirm yon, that the M.trtin sloop of w..r was last
night tirivt non shore, in a desperate gale, in Mall Ray. The
ship is totally lost; but I am happy to add, that the greater
p.:rt of the mew and all the (Miters ate safe. The inizen.
'mist b:•ing cot away, lotkily kit wtlb the mast brad on a
rock, which 'et '.rd as a cr.:tot:way fot them, and euabltd them
to reach the shore. I tainolia telj tau teeming intent.
geese„ I dhpatched cale sink rt,fr.chlitoctit:i for the erf s%,
•who, ;Mt informed, are in a mast Itepme.tlile stale." 'lime
Mai tin was commanded by Capt. A.
lime total aitimattt of the hop duty Mr the current yeer is
118,1911.:1,. Cl.;. 68,0761. 4s. fml. the lapin:trawl at the oltl,
Riad 50,311 i. IN. of at mc du V•

REIIEIV OF LITER4TURE.

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SeY-Cultivation recommended; or, Hints to a Yoarth
leaving School.

By ISAAC TAYLOR, Minister of the Gospel, at Oo gar.

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Tins is a little volume which we strongly receipt.
mend to parents to put into the hands of their sons;
when about to quit school. As Mr. Taylor very justly
observes in his preface, it is a mistaken opinion to*
prevalent, that when a child leaves school, his educatiara.
is finished ; a notion destructive of all real improve.
meat : which filches from the mind almost all it has
; and as it prevails totally or partially, prevent*
so liir, all future improvement, all actual excellence,'
There are few parents, we believe3who are not enabled
to afford their children a university education, who
will not acknowledge the truth of this :—and who'd*
not often regret that, in their riper years, they bill
too often foro-et every thing which they had been taught
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in their school-days, except what their immediate oe.
cupations or pursuits in life, tender it abst.lutely tie.
cessary to remember. It is Mr. Taylor's object' to
prove to the young, that instead of having finished
their education wile.: they quit school, it is but begun;
and that all their hopes fbr honourable excellence must
rest on their own exertions. We shall present our
readers with a few extracts from the book, while we
again recommend its entire perusal to every parent,
and every youth who is on the point of entering into
the career of life.
" Education is not the end, but only the means. Let ns
then see what is the object it has in view. A person growing
..11 a certain age must appear in the world; he can no longer
hide himself at st hoot, not withdraw behind the routine of
the trammels appointed fur his minority. tie must start for-
ward, 311L1 become something. What that something is to be,
education only can surmise; even talent, genius, fortnoe,
can give little guess. The It:Oiling tortes even all these, if
judiciously conducted ; mid it otherwise, an these 'e ill tail,
in most CARI-P, of attaining the wished-for object. A titan
must act : whether he Is tiecessitated to labour for his main.
teuauce ; or is freed by fortune from all apprehension and
from all constrained exertion, yet lie must art. it Is the ins
tent of education to enable him to act tightly, honourably.
successfully. Wiihout retention to prophetic powers, one
may safely say, a man, coming iuto life, will, au some way or
other, perhaps in various shapes of sorrow, lie will lie must
suffer. Youth may fancy life one scene of gaiety ; lint reality
and fancy differ widely. if edneation has been rightly con-
ducted, it wilt teach the man how to suffer with diguity, with.
tumour, —nay with profit.
"The man launches into life, and will he exactly, or very
nearly, what lies actual education purposed. "lis well, wheu
guided, stored, and stimulated, the youth starts forward, and
iu manhood prospers ; answers his own wishes, his parents
expectatioes, his tutors' labours, by actual success in his sta-
tion, whatever it may be. The dreary hours of learning will
then be recollected with pleasure, and the labour will be
abundantly repaid. The cud which education bad in view
will be attained, and its importance fully acknowledged.—
The alternatives will show this importance in a *till clearee
light. The man, forced tutu action, obliged to take per.
haps souse prominent station, may fail to fill it properly ;
may fail, notwithstaisdiug the best endeavours, and become
unsuccessful in all his pursuits. Tu fail for waut of leariima
what edubation would have taught him, would be great dis.
grace; but to fail when conscious of talents exerted, und care.
fulness ever active, will take away hum the maws on is nano,
mid front the opiMon of by.stauders, rill that is disgraceful :
lie may even gain honour, though lie fails, by the exertion*
made to prevent, or by the disposition show ti during the deep
adversity. The lessons of education may be as useful to hits
hi this case its iu the other. All that he has learned will help
him iu some shape, and the laboUr once etidured will, even Us
his sorrowing moments, yield him assistance, satisfactionc*
perhaps tranquillizing peace and joy."

In speaking of example, the author says,
"It ninst.not to be forgotten, that strong as is the efficacy
of example, it is nut always good example which catches the
attention, and influences the mind, and feelings, and habits of
the young. To the ruin of many a fair prospect in life, of
many a lovely character, ati.ihe first blossoms seemed to pro.
wise, pestiferous example, like a bligkir or mildew, has in ono
monteirt come aerots and dist reyed all the fond hopes, of the
broken-hearted parents. It is baleful to a yeung mind to
perceive that certain hateful crimes are possible; that person,
use in criminal iiidulgeuces, who nevertheless, maintain s
fair character, and are received into what are called good
company. All familiarity with sock innutoralitice, tends to
lake oft that horror at sin, which unpractised mind- find to be
a considerable preservative against it. Silent compliances.
will now and then be yielded to ; and when Olive this awful
lesson is learned, who can say how deep a proucteni in vice
the tyro miry become? fly shnv deciec. pet hay., but in
manner dreadfully certain, the best feelings are blunted,
the better habits are broken in upon, the chef acre; soon bee
cotne deteriorated. Principles are forgotten, cheeks of con-
science uo longer rise, or use ineffectually. Insidious vice,
winch here and there penetrated and inidermined principle,
comes on some occassion as an ifitnida, ion, anti sweeps the
whole dam away, or wears such it tire deli, at IcaNt, as permits
continual el:allow.. From Leung suth red. sive, tinder the
fostering indaenee of example, becomes adopted ; is heartily
cultivated. 'l' he allurements which ones. fill. el with disgust,
attract tee now corrupted taste. Continued esamples leads
to emulative viciousness, and with heroical boldness are the
most desperate schema el atrotit blooded over, hatched,
and brought into Open day. How is the di eadful hist' union
imbibed? tl h.O Ilt) prcei pt moult bare tricot-if, is gradually
produced by insintiatio; exanopie : and abt re the tailrace
does not take effect to stick alarming tlegite,y rt flit evil pros
domed is always soinethrug st,inetiiing to 'to dreaded and
guarded against with ihe utmost care, by such as %saki' wUh
:tumefy the ,povvois wiech most effectually combine, to form
and to fix the groi‘mig eh.rcactt r."
In the chapter on the importance of self-cultivation,
Mr, 'r has bruug4t. thrward the following apposite and
encouraging examples.
rill whit, 1,,,%,.1.,v1ca5ed our know ledge In science, nature,
or art, oust uccissity be self-tamibt. Newton did not learn

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ins sublime discoveries at school ; but tanght himself by pa-
tient attention, irate sagacity. and laborious investigation.
cida, volartic, enobservant -0411 d, could have Weenie k
]liewton. 11400 trained at fifty universities. *Before him Ca-
pernirus nod displayed the ocheme of the heavenly bodies,
sad the general manilla theirototions ; not as he had learned,
hot In direct opposition to the Ptolemaic system then iu
vogue. His 41Iseaveries were carried tittalter, stud proved to
he true, by the labours et .Galileo, with his new invented telt.
trope. Whatever general knowledge school; and universities
might have given to such nitol, it was their own application
of what they had so obtained, which enabled them to perform
the woaders recorded ; tool to fis their names, like the stars
they contemplated, brilliant and uodeeitying iu the hemis-
phere of philosophy.
I. Were the list increased, as it might easily he, with
wows noble and honoured by posterity ; 11;1111C‘4 of men who
have enlarged the bounds olknowledge, and given new worlds
of scienee to the bunion miud : we should discern mauy whose
previous edneatim yielded thou exrellent assistance In their
profound and sublime researches ; bat a much greater pro.
portion would arise from ranks of illiterate poverty; or such
as come very near it, in the estimation of lettered pride.
" See IL indley leading his at tificial rivers through the
bowels of the mountain ; or wafting his uaviesittigh in air over
Ilia deep ravine, or the widespread vale. While smiling
commerce attends, wondering upon his labours, and distant
provinces met by iris help to interchange their specific pro.
ductions, and mutual good °dices. No early education fos-
tered his genius. His genius rather broke through all time
shackles of illiterate poverty; and grasped, by its own exer_
tions, all the wonders of mechanics in her varied powers
" Observe Franklin, a poor printer's lad.-13y acute rea.
soning on electricity., and happy, though simple expo intents,
he fetches front the clouds their vivid lightnings; rises at the
rank at which philu-ophers look up, and moves in an exalted
sphere aatong statesmen • the honour of his country, the boast
or the transatlantic world.
" What was Simpson, the great mathematician, author of
learned treatises. ranking bins with the most scientific oleo of
his age? At first only a poor weaver ; butt by sedulous atten •
Lon he taught himself; and rase from his obscurity to a name
of lasting eminence.
" Herschel, whose mighty telescopes carry us, as it were,
close to the stellar orbs ; rose to the patronage of majesty,
and the listening attention of European astronomers, from the
low station of .1 fifer boy in the army.
The nano. of Chambers, author of the Cyclopcedia; of
Ferguson, eminent iu has day as a lecturer on astronomy ; of
Sir Humphrey WY% now deeply searching into the secrets
of nature, by the aid of chynostry ; rise in the sante rank."

EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE.
[From the Bone,ay Papers.]
The first part contain% extracts nisdc by the Bombay editor
from the Calcutta papers. and is as follows :

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FORT WILLI NI, .lutAr 10.
Discussions having occurred between the British Government and
the government of Pranta, which threatened to shake the amity sub-
sisting between the two States, the Governor-General in Council has
the satisfaction to announce the execution of a new treaty between
the Honourable Company and his Highness the Peish•• a, explaining
and amend ng the arttcles of the treaty of Bassein, with the addition
of certain provisions calculated to improve the alliance, and to pro-
w-tote and render permanent the harmony which both Governments
are solicitous to maintain.
Hy command of Ids Excellency the most Noble the Governor-Ge-
neral in Council,
July 5. J. AD..M, Act. Chief Sec. to Gov.
• FORT WILLIAM.
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Pratic 'DEPARTMENT. JULT S.
ills Excellency the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings, Gover-
nor-General. having nominated the Honourable N. B. Edrnonstone
M he Vice-President and Deputy-Governor of Fort William, during
pis Lordship's absence from die Presidency • the Honourable N. B.
kiiiiionstone has this day taken his seat accordingly, under the usual
aalure from the rampart of Fort William.
By order of the ti ice-President in Council,
W. B. BAYLEY, Act. Chief Sec. to the Got.

Aecoonts from Khoordah state, that the rainy season bad
net in with great severity in that quarter. There has been no
intermission, however, of military operations. Information
had ben received by viir Cr. Martindell, that Jughundno and
Krishoa (Insider had united together with their followers at
s illage called Ky.apuilda : in consequence of which a de-
tachment under Captain Armstrong was directed to march
against them, and on the sth instant about 3 p.m. they arrived
within sight of the enemy, posted on a plain surrounded by
thick jungle. But no time was allowed fur a steady attack.—
The insurgents, after firiag one volley from their matchlocks,
retreated precipitately, but not before a considerable number
of them had fallen by a prompt discharge of our musketry.—
Captain Armstrong followed with alacrity, but from the diffi-
culties that opposed him at almost every step, trees having
been ft fled and thrown across the narrow path to obstruct his
progress, he could not overtake them. Four rebels were made
prisoners, and hanged near the village of Kyapttdda, which
was afterwards burnt to the ,ground.
The Pykes, who were a sort of local militia in the pnrgun-
nah of Khaurdah, are, it is said, disheartened and begin to
show symptoms of returning allegiance. We understand that
a great number of villagers have abandoned them, and have
thrown themselves on the clemency of tiosernment. Their
folora condition, the uselessness of resistance, and the un-
favourableness of the season, seem to have made a due im.
pression on their minds.
A detachment of Madras Cavalry from the force nnder the
command of General Burnley, in tianjam, was daily expected
at Khoordah. The Body Guard is, we understand, under
orders to return to Calcutta.
Nothing, of consequence has occurred in Cnttack since the
affair of the nth by the detachment under Captain Armstrong.
We have letters front Khoordah to the 2Til. They state,—
" there has been no change in the aspect of affairs here, and
no particular movements have talon place but such as has e
had in view to sin-prise small parties of the Pykes. There is
no such thing as any etlective force among Om insurgents
eitherin this neighbourhood or any where else, and no eetting
eight of them but by strstagi in. Captain Kennet with 3 coin-
Banks marched from this on the afternoon of the 9th to go in
the first place to Girlie, it is believed, on account of the dis-
turbances in that quarter. 'the rains commenced on the Pith,
and fell incessantly for the first 4b hours. but have since he•
conic mmlerate."
The Uklitiars from Kaolpundy to the middle of May, state,
that thousands of peop;e had perished of famine at Pco,ollr
:did that es my night the hungry proceed c3llO to plundr
for their annsistenre from 4iie bauses of the defenceless.
Milkers head-quarters on the :Oh of this month were at
BohjaGurree. The mutineers had promised submission, if