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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1824.

THE MISSIONARY smmi. •
This Day was published, prier ss. or on coarser paprr, 3s. dd.
srwed,
QUBSTANCE of THE DEBATE itt the.
HOUSE of COMMONS, on Tuesday the Ist and on
Friday the 1 tth of June, 1824, on a' Motion of Henry
Brougham, Eq., respecting the Trial and Condemnation to
Deal hby a Court Martial of the Rev. JOHN SMI late
Missioluoy in the Colony of Demerara. With A PREFACE,
containing SOME NEW FACTS illustrative of the Subject.
Published with the Sanction of the Loudon Missionary So-
ciety.
London; told by J. H.itchard and Son, Piceadilly.; .1.. B.
Seeley and Sun, Fieet-street F. Westley, Statiyners -coat t ;
and J. and A. Arch, Cornhill.

Fit LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Pvcrs, Sept. 23.

[THE TIMES.]
An immense mats of papers are published by
the East India Company, relative to certain pecu-
niary. transactions rshich took place between a
house of British hankers at Calcutta, and. the naf

Nizam, during
tive Court of the the Government
of the Marquis of Hastings ; and which seem to
have been looked upon by the Court of Directors
as hirecting very setiously, if not his Lordship's
personal character, at least the correctness and
general merits of his administration. To detail
with minuteness, or, indetert*rommunicate ever

so slight an outline of the several topics embraced.
by a correspondence of above 800 pages, would
be a task which our readers can hardly require
from us. We must, content ourselves with stating
briefly, that the house of Palmer and Co.,
bankers, at Calcutta, were countenanced by the
Government of Lord Hastings, in advancing
large sums by way of loan to the Court of Hy-
derabad ; that the Company at home were not
satisfied, either with the imperfect explanations
received from the Governor-General in Council
relative to these transactions, or with so much of
the nature of them as could be understood from
his dispatches ; that Sir William Itumbold, a
ward, or some other intimate connexion of Lord
Hastings, who had accompanied his Lordship to
India, was a partner in the banking-house of
Palmer and Co. ; that by sin Act of Parliament
no British subject can embark in pecuniary trans-
actions with any native Power, without incurring
severe penalties ; that in the opinion of the Court
of Directors, a license from the Bengal Govern-
ment to the Banking-house, exonerating them
from the risk of such penalties,was granted without
an adequate necessity, and was abused by the
bankers, in the terms of their contracts with the
Nizam, and in the exorbitant interest for which
they stipulated—" to purposes injurious to the
interests of our ally, and discreditable to the
Bri-
tish character." We may add, that the ground
on which the continuance (thoigh not, perhaps,
the original employment) of those means of rais-
ing supplies for a native Power, are vehemently
condemned on another cons;deration—viz. their
being destined to provide for the pay and esta-
blishment of auxiliary native corps, disciplined
after the European wanner, and ,commanded
by officers from Europe—all object which, it
,appears from the correspondence, the Court
of Directors could not mediate without pro-
found ale rm. The correspondence is maintained on
inthtin.ir letter toe
of of
severity November
e part of he Company tone
28, 1821, they tell the Governor-General, that
an apsasrutmopft i
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,h,etlitoansaeryxhiphoiwteedr,"o7lot the
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4 formationlaid
which is before
from ignorance of us ; but that,
not only, unnecessary, but unsafe, to
that we ought to know,
3 it is
" put us possession of the materials of know-
cc ledge. We should be unworthy of the
44 station we hold we did not
strongly
" condemn such proceedings defended by such
cc 011egatiOnS." This is pretty stiff language, and
is accompanied by the charge which had before
escaped us—that Lord Hastings had, in substance,
thought not in .words, lent the credit of the Com-
pany to the pecuniary transactions with the Ni..
zam. It is further stated, that Messrs Adam and
isttuAl?cli:tnilll7:llla:l.wwhat
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d
Stuart had opposed, uniformly but vainly, the
whole course pursued by the Gov.-General rela-
tive to these proceedings. The reply of Lord
Hastings in 1823 is designed, apparently,as a justi-
fication of his own official conduct, and a reprehen-
sion of the Court of Directors. The defence of the
acts whiCh were impugned by theta is rested on the
exigency of the crisis--on the peril of the war
which raged over central India--,on the intrigues
at Hyderabad against the British interest—on
the equity of the transactions in which the house
of Palmer had engaged—on the moderation of
the terms which they exacted—and on the ne.
cessities of the public service. Between these
conflicting authorities, we shall not attempt to
offer A. decision, which it would exceed the limits
of a newspaper to support, by argument, or in-
deed to express in its details ; but having point-
ed out the Adel documents to public notice, we
refer to them as the best guides of opinion on this
delicate and important question.

•
PATRONISED BY TILE HONOURABLE THE NAVY
BOARD.
CIIIJBB'g PATENT DETECTOR LOCK.
rirliE lion. Sir. G EO. GREY, Bart., K.C.8.,
I- (the Commissioner), and the Principal Officers of His
Majesty's Dock Yard, Portsmouth, have given the Patentee
permission to publish the following Statement of Facts relative
to his PATENT DE'PECTOR LOCK; namely, That hay-
ing, by order of the Honourable Navy Board, lately supplied
a considerable ,number of his Patent Detector Locks for the
use of the Portsmouth Dock Yard, and being informed that
there was a Convict on board one of the prison-ships at this
port, who was notorious for picking Locks, (being by profes-
sion •a Lock Maker, and who has, till recently, for several
years been chiefly employed in picking and repairing Locks in
tendon), the Patentee requested the favour of Commissioner
the Honourable Sir George Grey to send for this man, that he
might exercise his skill in attempting to pick his Lock ; and
the Commissioner having been pleased to acquiesce in this re-
quest, the man was sent for accordingly, and one of Chubb's Pa-
• tent Locks was submitted to his inspection, at the Sierekeeper'e
Office, in th,.: presence of several of the Principal Officers ; When,
after a eareffil examination, he said, " he thought hi:Lout&
pick or open it with false instruments." Ile was dierethre fur-
nished with files, and all the tools he stated to be necessary to.
prepare the instruments for his purpose; anti was directed to.
give notice to the Storekeeper when he should be ready to
make the trial, for the promotion of which a Reward of
t Five Pounds was promised him if he succeeded. Iu about
three weeks after this time, he sent to say that he was
ready ; and, a time being fixed on for the purpose, he com-
menced his operations in endeavouring to pick one of the Locks,
in the presence of the Principal Officers of the Dock-yaTd;
but he could not succeed. He then stated, " that his failure
was in consequence of his instruments not exactly fitting
the
Lock.". To remove this impediment, the Patentee offeied,lo
supply him with some blank keys, which should fit two of the
Locks, in order to his making another trial ; these were fur-
nished accordingly, together with a Lock exactly thso e s ahatnte
lie
in
principle and in kind as those he had been trying,_ t
might examine its construction, and make himself master of
its principle. ' Shortly after he made another attempt to pick
two of the Locks, in the presence of the Honourable Sir
George Grey, and the
,Principal Officers of the Dock-Yardut
his success in this attempt was not better than the first ;
b
he overlifted the Detector of each Lock. Sir George Grey then
asked him, what he would do in this case, supposing he hail
been making an attempt on such a Lock, with an intent to coin-
mit a robbery ? He said, " I would go no more to the Lock,
they would set a watch and catch me." He still thought, how-
ever, that, by a further alteration of the instruments lie could
yet succeed ; more time was therefore given him, and every
facility afforded him, Some time afterwards he again repeated
his efforts, in the presence of the same Gentlemen ; but having,
in his previous experiments, oVerlifted the Detectors, he could
not by any means disengage them ; this was done for him seve-
ral times, with the Keys belonging to the Locks ; but, as often
as they were regulated, on every successive trial he detected
them again ; till at last he gave them up, saying,
." That he
had used his utmost ability in his repeated attempts, and could
not succeed : that these Locks were the most secure he had ever
met with, and that he did not think it possible for any man to
pick or open them with any false instruments whatever.
The Patentee of the above bock, in making the following
observations disclaims any intention of depreciating the merits
of other Locks, by describing their defects, or demonstrating
their insecurity : but trusts the. Detector Lock will entitle hint
to a share in the attention and patronage of the Public ; as it
possesses, in a much higher degree than any other, the four
principal requisites of a good Lock ; viz. SECURITY, SIM-
PLICITY, STRENGTH, and DURABILITY. Its SE-
CURlTY;particularly, is increased beyond calculation, by an
iMprovement, which not only renders it impossible to be picked
or opened by any. false instruments, but also detects the first
attempt to open it ; thereby preventing those repeated eftnae,
to which even the best Locks hitherto invented are expo:ed. In
these Locks, the combinations admit of' so great variety, that
millions of them may be made, and yet one Key shall not pass
any to u Locks ; and the Detector renders that variety infinite ;
for the instant that one or more of the tumblers are lifted beyond
the place where the bolt is at liberty to pass, it overlifte the De-
tector, which then hooks the tail of the bolt, preventing it from
passing, and thus gives incalculable additional security, (as well
as immediate notice, the first time the true key is put into it to
open it, that an attempt has been made to pick it,) and renders
all farther attempts useless ; it being impossible to discover the
first combination, to disengage the Detector, or the second, to
remove the bolt; and nothing but the true key can either re.
lease the Detector from its grasp on the bolt, or open the Lock.
In reference to its PURA lIIIiITY, it is not liable to be in.
jured by constant use in any length of time ; this has been as-
certained, by an Iron-ring Lock having been attached to a
Steam-Engine in the Dock-yard, Portsmouth (to try the effect
of friction), by which it was locked and unlocked upwards of
four hundred and sixty thousand times, without receiving the
least injury. The STRENGTH of its parts, and the SIM-
PLICITY of its construction, are such, that no False Key,
or other Instriiment, introduced into it for the purpose of open-
ing it, can (without very great violence) injure it.
The Patent Detector Locks, of every size,
had and
d' for all
en-
the
uses to which Locks can be applied, ybe the Pat
tee, CHARLES CHUBB, Portsea.
The Locks are also sold in London, by Mesra. lye and Bur-
bidge, 130, Fleet-street; Messrs. Bailer and Co. 30, Cornhill ;
Mr. Phillips, 54, high Holborn ; lwell, 57, Haymarket ;
Mr. Rowell, New Bond-street ;
00, Oxford-street; .mfr. Phillips, 13, Camorntle-street ; Mr.
Messrs. May and 3lorrett,
street, Snow.lllll
Hicks, 149, Borough ; Messrs. noncom) and Co., 10, Skinner-
street, Clare-market; mfr. Downer, 1.55 Fleet-street .
Messrs. Boobyer and Co. 14, StanhoSper-
Benham No. I, Edward-street,llawke,
Wood-street, Citeapside ; Messrs. Payenter and
Portman-square; mfr. Ude,
170, Strand ; Messrs. Adams and Morris, 32, Parliament. Castle-street.
street; Messrs. Drury and Wilde,' tiverPol ;
Mr. Raper, Leeds; Mr. Parlor,
"room, Bury St. Edmond's ; pod may be had of the principal
Londuane," Norwich Mr!
Ironmongers in the'Xingdoni.-

morning gives the
paw TM'S.]
ay
oftheTßueesndt at the close of the
moTnel,tye
price:Eto ileof
preceding day ut 99. 75.; and by the Time
List which we have received, it appears that the
price for Account was 99 80. No other news
of importance is
given by the Journals ; and our
private accounts only contain rumours of partial
changes in the Ministry which are very un-
certain, and which, if true, would not affect
the general policy of the Government. The Ex-
presses from Paris were reported yesterday
forenoon to have brought the Rentes higher in
price, but the error being afterwards ascertained,
a sudden variation was produced in Consols of
one half per cent. Having opened at 9511, they
suddenly fell to 941 ;, and a variety of repots
were immediately in circulation of too absurd a
nature to deserve repeating. At the close of
business Consols had again recovered to 95 for
the Account.—There were no arrivals from South

America.—The business transacted in the Fo-
reign Securities was leis than 'for some 'days past,
and the prices were mostly rather lower. Mexi-
can Bonds from 59 to 581. Colombian SCrip 71
discount. Brazilian Scrip'remains at par.; and
that of Buenos Ayres, at 14- discount. In the
other Funds there was very little business trans-
acted.
•

[MORNING HERALD.]
Monday's Paris papers arrived last night.—
There are some blanks in the Journal des Debuts,
caused, no doubt, by the suppressions of the Cen-
sorship. Hence it would seem that there is no
relaxation under the new reign—and yet, at this
particular moment, there is a tone of Court praise
and loyal admiration in all the Journals that
should have propitiated the Censors. A fragment
of an article has been admitted into the Comilla-
tionnel, which base tendency to bind down Charles
the Tenth to his declarations in favour of the
Charter. Their principal contents, however, are
mere Court news. The King returned on Sun-
day from St. Cloud to the Tuileries—and the
principal present object seems to be the funeral
service over Louis XVIII. in the Cathedral of
St. Denis. Death and destiny appear to have
singularly favoured the Bourbons since their re-
storation, as if to compensate previous calami-
ties. Had Louis the Eighteenth died yet in the
life time of Buonaparte, whilst party feeling was
strongly pronounced, and capable of decided and
daring projects—whilst the elements of the old
armies still existed, though disunited—under such
circumstances his demise would have produced
an alarm, and most probably a violent crisis.—
Had he even died before the successor became
completely familiarized with the practice of
the Charter, which may be called the Parlia-
mentary Constitution of France, it is probable
a change of system would have Liken place,
and with it, perhaps, a change of dynasty. Thu
very age and infirmities of Louis XVIII. render-
ing his death a matter of obvious calculation at
no distant period, may have kept quiet whole
masses of mind, ready to attempt revolution,
until at last, when the event took place their pas-
sions had subsided, and their projects vanished ;
there is something effervescent in the passions
and projects of the French which quickly •passes
away. The only change at all likely, is the
change of Ministry—and notwithstanding all that
has been said on the contrary, we think this pro-
bable. The present King is greatly under the
. dominion of the Clergy—and this body is strong-
ly opposed to the power of m. de

[MORNING POST. I
iTamburgh Papers to the 18th inst.-arrived last
night. They have brought intelligence from va-
rious quarters, none of which, however, is of
much importance. That from Si;Petersburgh
comes down to the 4th of the present month, and
shows that for some unexplained cause or other
the children of Israel have excited the displea-
sure, or the fear, of the mighty Autocrat of all
the Russitts. Not satisfied with compelling those
whom the Treaty of Paris made his subjects by
impolitically giving him Poland, to abandon the
commercial pursuits in which theyhad been engaged
for ages, to become diggers of earth and hewers
of wood, like their ancestors in captivity, he now
closes the doors of his paternal dominions to
every foreign Jew who may wish to enter them.
The Officers at the frontier posts are ordered,
by an Ukase, to take care that no individual
of that description be allowed to proceed into
the interior of the Empire, or to return to it
after having once voluntarily left it. Even those
who had settled there must not expect to be,
re-admitted, unless they had obtained legal pass-.
ports and a permission to come back, before they
ventured out of the Russian territory. It is sin.
guilt,. that at a time when the Sovereigns of the
Holy Alliance are indebted almost exclusively
to the Jews for the means of supplying the wants
of their treasury, such a system of illiberal po-
licy and apparently unreserved severity should
be' adopted towards that people by the most
powerful of the Allies.

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from Paris,
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King's
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culiar distinction, not supposing, we suspect, that
the honour of the correspondence was so exten-
sively shared amongst its cotemporaries. The
other papers that thought fit to insert this singular
letter, gave it in a way snore creditable to their
discernment. They were evidently doubtful
whether it was worth giving at all. The Editor
of The Times pledged himself to the " correct-
ness of the particulars." We know not why so
much importance was attached to this communi-
cation, which, of new matters, states only some
trifling facts, which, if they really happened,
were, most probably, " generally unknown," be-
cause they were not worth repeating. The writer
states, that he had his information from " an at-
tentive and dispassionate witness, who observed
for history ;" and as a proof how well qualified
his informant is for the high duty he assumes,
the most interesting of these anecdotes of the
fatal illness of Louis X VI 11. is, that his Majesty
had a servant named Lusqnenet, so dexterous in
changing the infirm Sovereign's position, that he
always expressed his regret to Monsieur that he
was not in a condition to feel the value of Lus-
quenet's services. It is not unlikely that this
Historical Observer was Lusquenet himself, who
has thus contrived to advertise his own excellence
through the London Press. There is unquestionably
no remark or reflection in the letter that a person