The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-09-23 00:00:00

fithDOOSTAN FEMALES.

It is a most painful het, that there are, st this time, in
iiindoustau, thirty millions •Ifewsalts totally destitute of
education, and to whom egret, vestige of mental enhivation
has been denied. Their satire laws bate prohibited them
from all knowledge, and doomed them to a state of merle,
subjection. Hence then, there is, wader the British Coverts.
went iti ludia, a whole empire,containing se messy ininimis
u( f. .des sailer: the must horrid inthieuce of eastern fans-
licisett. .
The females hate sever seen a book, except in the heads
of ones, and have ail knowledge a any one of the usual
employments of females lit a eiviliaeel country. Their lingers
base sever torched a needle, a pair of reissue, a book, our
a pea ; and they are entirely excluded from all interewsise
wi.h the other sex. A woman is nut allowed by law to go
out of the house without the consent of her husband; to
talk with a @imager, cur to laugh without a veil uss her
face, nor to stand at the door, cur look out at the window.
In such a state of ignorance what can be (species!, but
that the female character mast be debosed. Hemet, among
the Reboot mothers, the murder of female infinite is univer-
sally practised ; not one survives. Mothers aiming the Cams,
is fulfilment of their vow to obtain offspriug, are semi sarri-
tieing their first child its the Brims his piastre sail other
sacred rivers. Many females drown themselves. One morn-
itet au officer, while sitting at his window at Allshabast, sew
sixteen females, under the itiflisence of superstition, drowa
themselves at the junctiow of the Jasmine and the Gauges.
Awl there are sow in Loudon copies of oilfield documeals,
which petite, that iss the year 1817, antler the Presidency of
aroma, eat less than 70S froisks, British subjects, entunte-
thruiretres by 6 hag Mulct, or burned alirt,
with the deed bodies of their husbands.
No parallel ease of such direful efftels of ignornace ap-
pears to exist its human history. Never iu the most savage
Flats, have fires like these been kiesilid, cur similar graves
been dug. Never were such •ppalliog touseqiiences of Ig.
moralism exhibited to the civilised world.

CHOICE PHIASEOLOCT.—A gentleman, known
for hi% habitual 'unbolt's, was invited to join re ;July
at Noshant, sod appiiii.ted for that purpose to be
at his frieerd's house at Nis early hour in the morn.
ing. Coarsely to ull expectation he was the first
ea the ground ; his friend, its surprise at his
punctuality, burst out in the following lucid iipow-
troplie So you've come first at lust ; you used
to be behind befire ; L suspect you get up curly rf
lute."
Three forsign Noblemen of high distinction,
Count ITTEnsultu. and the Counts P. L Z AMOY.
SKI turd A. ZAsioesits, who ate how making a tour
of thes country, attired in town Isom Dublin Oil
M lay. From Ilelfaid they lax:reeled to time Mar-
quis of LONDON DF.ltttleo, we believe with the intros-
-11011 of ufterwatils visiting the tlls:ll.'ssrairsifsay.
These diettoguishrel atiangetr, on their way the rough
Lama. stopped for a considerable time at Ali-sees.
Ceti sates' dannosk manutactoly there, icopequng
the stvrt.il ilagits of this finnan-soul branch of our
national an:tisisfactiere, re•pecting which they evince4l
to tillnefl cutiensity, and expres.eJ ninth 611114-il,
110114.0 the Vt 11011• plait Fess and heraldic
orruuuuts to lire luolurr misre partiesdarly those
Very eateosive drolgps ail present wettritig for the
KING, who. we are gratified to find, coot it to
p.strouize thus establi,limetit, in the plespelity of
which. his NIAJEACCY 'twit 111 all times Coodrurcentleti
to take s livey iutesert.— (Be/fast .sews-Letter.)

• ,
THE ENG AG Ell ENT
• OT Tilt • OPERA-DANCERS AT COVENT-RAI:DEN.
Leal this subject should be mistshes, U is peeper the
pnblic abochi b. informed that the engagement is by so
mesas of a permanent suture, but merely temporary, sad
made with the laudable motive of reisianeratime these
otrangers is some measure for the Image* they have renitain.
ed by the pranattere close of the Opera Heim ; and it was
hoped, that by ■tfordiag an sMiiionglemerosinisieue to the
regular drama, at s cheaper rate than it could possibly be
procured elsewhere. the expense the Alamseement bad nn•
dertaken would be met by the reward of public apprub.itioo.