The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-03 00:00:00

No. 11,018.

To sail from the River on► or before '7th January.
A Chartered Ship.
For COLOMBO and BENGAL,
THE Fine First Class Coppered Ship ELI-
ZABETH, burthen 250 tons. JOHN GRANT,
Commander. Lying in the West India Docks.
For Freight apply to Messrs. HODGSON and DRANE;
Messrs. SMALL, COLQUHOUN, and Co. ; or to
BUCKLES, BAGSTER, and BUCHANAN, 33, Mark-
lane.

This Ship will leave on the above-mentioned dar whether
full or not, of which a guarantee will he given if required.

IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING ASSOCIATION.
Broad-street, Dec. 28, 1827.
/b4,IOTICE is hereby given that a SPECIAL
' GENERAL MEETING of the PROPRIETORS
of the IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING ASSOCIA-
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next, at One for Two o'clock in the Afternoon, to enable
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of the Deed of Settlement, of his intention to propose, at
a subsequent Special General Meeting of Proprietors, cer-
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government of the Affairs Cf the said ASSOCIATION.'
13Y Order of the Board of Directors, '
L. S. SIMOENS, 'Secretary:'

eIOVENTRY, GRAND JUNCTION,
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and MONMOUTH CANAL SHARES; EAST LON-
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NOTICE is hereby given that a HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL COURT OF PRO-
PRIETORS will be held at this House, on WEDNES-
DAY, the 16th inst., at One o'Clock in the afternoon pre-
cisely, to declare a Dividend for the last half-year.
By order of the Board,
P. MILNER, Accountant.

CHARACTERS OF THE BRITISH SOVE-
REIGNS WHICH HAVE REIGNED FROM 1066
TO 1820.

According to the curious and extraordinary work of
Monsieur Cresar Moreau, F.R.S., on the Chronological
Records of the British Finance, we find the character of
each British King described in the following manner :
William 1. was at first just and humane, afterwards
cruel and severe.

William IL was violent and arbitrary, and historians say
he had not one good quality.
_ -

Henry I. was cold, prudent, and politic, yet intriguing
and ungrateful.
Stephen was prompt in decision and hold in action, his
friends applauded his generosity, and his enemies admired
his forbearance ; he won the high by' courtesy, the low by
condescension, all by an air of affability and benevolence.
Henry 11. possessed every accomplishment--he was
liberal, humane, and courteous.

Richard I. was a great warrior, even a century after his
death his name was employed by the Saracen cavalier to
chide his horse, and by the Saracen mother to terrify her
children. But when we have given him the praise of
valour his panegyric is finished. His laurels were steeped
in blotid, and his victories purchased with the impoverish-
ment of his people. To his wife he was as faithless as he
had been rebellious to his father.

John, historians say, was polluted with meanness, cruelty,
perjury, and murder; uniting with an ambition, which
rushes through every crime to the attainment of its object,
a pusillanimity which often, at the sole appearance of op-
position, sank into despondency; arrogant in prosperity,
abject in adversity, be neither conciliated affection i❑ the
one, nor excited esteem in the other.

Henry 111. Historians say he was gentle and credulous,
warm in his attachment, and forgiving in his enmities,
without vice, but also without energy, he was a good man
and a weak monarch.

Edward I. Historians say lie was cold, penetrating, and
courageous.

Edgard 11. was weak, indolent, and incapable of govern-
imnt.

Edward 111. Authors say that this was one of the greatest
and most accomplished Princes that ever sat o❑ the Throne.
Richard.H. Authors say that his education was neglected,
which rendered him haughty, irresolute, and a slave to
pleasure, but he was liberal to his favourites.
Henry IV. Historians say he was proud, cautious, and
resolute, and sometimes cruel.

•
Henry V. was not only a warrior, but a statesman, but
being continually engaged i❑ war, he had little leisure to
discharge the duties of a legislator, he was endowed with
many amiable virtues, and unstained by any considerable
blemish.

Henry VI. His personal character commanded the re,
spect of his enemies ; he was virtuous and religious, hu-
mane, benevolent, and forgiving.
Edward IV. Historians say, was a Prince of elegant
person and insinuating address, cruel and revengeful, a slave
to pleasure ; but in adversity, evincing a great fortitude.
Edward V. reigned only from the 9th of April to the
22d June.

Richard 111. was cruel, unrelenting, silent, and suspici-
ous, and as much deformed in body as in mind.
Henry VII. seemed to have been formed by nature for
the circumstances in which accident had placed him ; it
was his delight to show an air of mystery over the most
ordinary transactions : his suspicions kept him always on
his guard, he watched with jealousy the conduct of his ►ery
ministers, and never embosomed himself with freedom,
even to his consort or his mother ; tenacious of his own
secrets, and adroit in divining- the secrets of others, he was
able to unravel the plots, to detect the imposture, a❑d to
defeat the projects of all his opponents.
Henry VIII. Authors say was endowed with genius,
talents, and courage, but stained by all the cruelties that
characterize a tyrant.

Edward VI. All are of opinion, that this young King
possessed excellent qualifications and mental accomplish-
ments.

Mary. This Princess possessed few qualities, either esti-
mable or amiable, except sincerity, a quality she eeems to
have maintained through her whole life.
Elizabeth was arbitrary, cruel, and intolerant in her
public character, asd in her private life she had neither
the softness of disposition, nor the amiable benevolence of
a woman.

James I. possessed many virtues and many vices, with
generosity bordering on profusion, learning on pedantry,
wisdom on cunning, and friendship on fancy.
Charles I. was a man almost without blemish, an indul-
gent father, an affectionate husband, a kind friend, and a
good master.

Charles 11. authors say, was affable, easy of address, and
good-humoured, but often averse to business, and too
much addisted to pleasure.

James IL possessed many virtues, many vices, and on
several occasions so arbitrary that his children forsook, and
his army and favourites deserted him.
_ _

William and Mary. Authors say William was a brave
General, a deep politician, just and merciful.

Anne was a pattern of conjugal affectitm;, a tender
mother, warm friend, and a munificent ptron,
George I. was prudent, wise, ai:A cautious in the choice
of his Ministc.n:.

George 11. was in his temper sudden and violent ; but
this, though it influenced his conduct, made no change in
ds behaviour, which was generally guided by reason. He
plain and direct in his intentions, true to his word,
te"Y in his favour, and protecting to hiss ervants, not
Par,ti4g even with his Ministers, till compelled to it by the
viffieneo of faction.
George i„.
i„.„, II is represented as a Prince, remarkable for
his c—"eY, and possessing many accomplishments, a
pattern of cotij
and much bel yed by
gal affection, a tender father, warm friend,
the people which he governed.

All lrishman
travelling good address and insinuating
levying contributions on the public by feigned
about this county for some
months,
mannersi
tales of distress, &c. lie was at Truro in the last week,
and stole several articles from different public-houses where
he had been taking refreshment, and which he sold imme-
diately afterwards.--.- Cornwall Gazette.

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1828.

RESENT STATE AND, FUTURE PRO-
SPECTS OF THE COTTON MARKET.

(From the Liverpool Albion.)
We purpose, according to our annual custom, to inay6
few brief remarks on the above interesting eohimeroial
topic. The statements of, the brokers will be made up in
the course of to-day ; and the'antiouncement of As stock is
looked for .by holders and speculators with an anxiety gom-
mensurate with the interests _which they have at - stake.
On the favourable or the unfavOurable character of thoSe
statements' much is generally supposed to depend.' T6t
the stock on hand will be found to. be unprecedentedly large,
no man who has noticed the imports of cotton during the
present year, and compared them with the outgoings, will
feel the least surprise. But, 'whether that stock, heavy as
it undoubtedly is,. will, when officially declared; depress Or
elevate the'hopes.of holders and speculators, depends, in, no
inconsiderable-degree; on the knowledge, the forecast, the
very. temperament of the individuals whose . attention has
been fixed on the subject, and who have made it a matter
of minute examination as to the past, and of probable calcu-
lation and reasoning as to the future. The great, the en-
:grOSsing question with these persons is—Will the present
holder.of cotton and the future importer realise,better prices
'during the next than they have •realized during the past
. year ? , enable.them to, solve-this all important question.
the deeldrathin 'Of die probable stock in theports is suppoia
to be indispensably necessary,: although the.loose and un-
satisfactory manner in which that stock, is ,ascertained
renders the statement scarcely more to be depended on
than the private calculations of individual :importers,
brokers, and speculators. Still, .the declaration of stock
has always a powerful effect on the market; and, however
its accuracy may be questioned, its influence is universally
felt and acknowledged.
'On a question which commercial men are the most com-
petent persons to form a decision, it would be the height of
presumption in us to hazard an opinion. We shall, there-
fore, content ourselves with making a few general and de-
sultory observations on the subject ; observations which,
whilst they cannot possibly do harm, may, in 'some degree,
tend to the elucidation of the interesting topic which will,
to-day, engage the almost exclusive attention of the mercan-
tile classes of this great commercial town.

In our last article on this important subject, we stated,
that the comparatively low prices of cotton at that period
were not likely to check production: on the contrary, we
anticipated that they would increase it, because, cotton
being, for the mast part, the produce of slave labour, the
deficiency in price would, most probably, be wade up by
quantity, (the seasons being propitious,) until the crack of
the whip had forced from the slave that effort beyond which
hiS physical strength could realize nothing more. This po-
sition has never been doubted ; and recent experience con-
firms its correctness. Whether the superabundant crop
which the United States yielded, during the year 1826-7,
was the consequence of such forced labour on the part of
the slave, and whether the utmost has been extracted from
the soil which his labour can be wade to produce, we have
not the means of judging. We are informed, that, in addi-
tion to the large plantations, it is common for even children
to clear strips of land and to sow them with cotton seed;
that they weed the plants and gather the fruit, when there
is nothing else to employ their time ; and, such is the ac-
commodating character of these little crops, that the pick-
ing can be put off until all other necessary labours are at an
end. This class of producers may have sprung up in con-
sequence of the high prices of the year 1825. But, be
that as it may, the system continues, and the annual amount
of the crops, from whatever cause, is greatly augmented.
This is evident from the crop of cotton,' in the •United
States, during the three preceding years, for which the re-
turns were as follow :

Total crop of 162 t-3 369,249 bales.
Ditto ..... 720,027 ...
Ditto 1826-7 957,291 ...
The vast and increasing consumption of cotton, in the
manufacturing states of Europe, requires, it is evident, a
correspondent augmentation in the production; and, al-
thcugh prices do not appear, at present, to keep pace with
the increased consumption, no other article of general use
can be fixed on which offers greater inducements to specu-
lators and capitalists than the staple. Whether or not the
prices which have been current have remunerated the
planter, we know not ; but we know, that too ninny of the
importers have lost, this year, money on most of their
transactions in cotton. And, if the following statement,
which was handed to us in October by a respectable spin-
ner, be correct, the manufacturing department of the busi
ness has been equally unprofitable :—A third seventy-four
hand-loom calico, in October, was selling at ss. Iod.
The price of cotton, Boweds, was 6,1 d., and Pernams, 91d.
The proportions of these descriptions for twist and weft
make an average of 7d. per lb. The calculation, then, is
as follows :

Cotton 311 b. at Id. per lb 2 8
Add 1-sth for waste 0 5
Spinner's wages 0 101
Interest of capital in machinery, cards, ?
incidental expenses, &c c 0 21
Weaver's wages 1 10
Carriage to market, expenses of sale, &c 0 3

6 3
Leaving a loss of .sd. per piece, or 7 per cent. ; I per cent,
more than the duty on the cotton.
Having made these general observations on the increased
production of cotton, particularly in the United States of
America, and shown that some increase was required to
supply the augmenting consumption of the staple in Europe,
we proceed to state some facts respecting imports, prices,
and stock.

The import into the United Kingdom, during ?.
( 880,000
the present year is 3
Stock, 31st December, 1826, 342,500

Total 1,222,500
Estimated consumption in Great }
725,000
Britain
Export

Estimated stock in the kingdom at present....... 419,5-00

PRICES, LAST YEAR.

Uplands 61d. to 7idl, Pernams, 9id. to 10-kd.

PRICES, THIS YEAR.

Uplands :id. to 6,0., Pernams, Sd. to Sad.
The prominent features, in the above statement, are the
great increase of consumption, the heavy stock remaining,
and the great disparity between the prices at the piesent
and at the correspondent period of the last year. The con-
sumption of 1826 was 175,000 bales less than during the
current year. This great increase may be partially ac-
counted for, by supposing that more than an ordinary pro-
portion of Brazil cottons have been used, which are only
half the weight of American hales. If this be the case,
the great bulk of the present stock must be of the latter
description ; thus constituting it really heavier than at
first it appears.
The question, however, whether or not cotton will ad-
vance in price during the ensuing year, requires us to con-
sider the subject on a wider sphere than that of the British
stock and consumption alone. Franco and Germany are
making rapid progress in the art of manufacturing cotton
goods. The former wants annually a supply of upwards-
of 300,000 bales : it is estimated, that she consumed, kst
year, 310,000 hales. The supposed consumption of
Europe and the United States is—

Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherh',%Cig 100,000
England
Franee 300,000
America retains for her own use 130,000

1,230,000
The supplies are supposed to be as follow :

The only doubt in our minds on the subject originates in
the unprofitable character of trade in general, owing to the
action of a 'combination of causes at which we can only
glance. Among these may be enumerated.—The great
diminution oftapital by former overtrading.—The weight
of. taxation.--The multiplicity of commission-houses, whose
system of advances and accommodation to consignors has
inundated all the knoWn fOreign markets with goods to
such excess, that years will be required-to run off the stocks.
and to eestofe Price's to a remunerating level. The in-
crease of foreign Manufactures, as shown by the consump-
tion of cotton in France and the Netherlands, &c.—The
present heavy stock.--And, lastly, the system of national
legislation, which partially shuts the English merchant out
of the 'lndian markets, and closes the continent of Europe
against our manufactures. But, in spite of all these draw-
backe; there is, we think, from the detail we have given of
the stock,llie'consumption' and the supply, better ground
to expect improvement than to fear further decline. A
.revival in the foreign markets is, -however, •essential to
a permanent improvement; and we trust that this indis-
pensable support to the cotton market will not be long
delayed.

We anticipate no reduction on imports during the next
.year. The' same sources will, we doubt not„contipue to
yield the same supplies. The cotton must come to Europe.
It is the chief payment which the Americans and Brazilians
can make 'to tifi;' and, if they exported every pound of their
wool, they Woad still be in debt to the Europeans for Manu-
factured goods. , . .
Whatever. may be the future prospects of the cotton
market, and be must, be p, bold Man whd will undertake,
after the experience of the last two years, to pronounce a
dogmatical opinion on the subject, one fact is' certain, that
there will be no scarcity of cotton during the coming year.
There will be "enough and to spare." Egypt, as we pre-
dicted tWelve'mOnths ago, bas ceased, for the present to
afflict the holders of cotton, by sending hither any of her
plagues in the shape of cotton'; and the Pacha of that
country is too busily engaged in war and politics to attend
to agriculture and merchandise. But America will con-
tinue to pour her myriads of bales into Europe, and make
up, from her superabundant stores, for any deficiency in
the imports from the East.

In conclusion, it must be expected that this article, like
all other descriptions of property, will .be sensibly affected
in price by the acts of the legislature in the ensuing session
of Parliament. If the Government, as at present consti-
tuted, would continue to rule the destinies of England, it
is possible that the rigid course of legislation adopted last
year, with reference to what the economists term the mo-
netary system of the country, will, for some time at least,
remain undisturbed, and that the nominal value of all com-
modities will be thus forced down to a point of unexampled
depression. If, on the contrary, any material change of
the ministry should occur, or any attempt be made, by the
present cabinet, to soften down that inexorable policy
which limits the small-note circulation N April, 1828, we
may look for an immediate and a very perceptible advance
in every species of property. The uncertainty which is
felt on this subject, and the vivid recollection of the ruin-
ous consequence of frequent changes in the money arrange-
ments of the kingdom, have, by creating a strong disin-
clination in the minds of capitalists to invest their money
in articles of commerce, produced an effect such as might
have been expected from any circumstance tantamount to
the annihilation of half the unemployed capital of the
kingdom. The attention of importers and speculators
should, therefore, be' strongly directed to the position which
Ministers take with regard to this all-important question ;
and, abstracting their minds from the more obvious consi-
derations of supply and demand of Cotton, they ought ra-
ther to watch with an observant eye those great public
measures which influence the demand and --the +supply of
Money.

We have before us the quantity of cotton taken out
of the Havre market alone for the last ten years:-
1817...62,166 1821-122,820 1825...120,749
181 S-90,049 1822...129,221 1826...186,430
1819...95,321 1823-112,625 1827...160,000
1820-96,15 S 1824...144,970 Stuck 50,000.
The quantity taken out of Antwerp, this year, is upwards
of 50,000 bales.

North America 900,000
Brazil
East and West Indies, Egypt, &c lOO,OOO

1,250,000
Those who hare watched the market, during the pre-
sent year, must have observed, at different periods, that a
spirit of speculation has Occasionally shown itself; but no
sooner had a small advantage in price been gained, than
languor agair/ seized the dealers, and prices drooped below
the former currency. Capitalists were too doubtful and
importers too necessitous ; and the improvement was not
sustained. It is certain, however, that, notwithstand-
ing the heavy stocks in the ports, some bold opera-
tors entertain a favourable opinion of a speculation in
cotton : and, looking at the production and consump-
tion abstractedly, we can readily suppose these per-
sons have before them a flattering hypothesis as to the
causes which may tend to increase the value of the article.

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TIGER. HUNTING.

PRICE ID.

We have been kindly favoured, by a Corres-
r
1() nNexlhatetrursion of Doongul ::---
Sltg
Hydrabad, who -formed one of the
the 'following interesting narrative of
made their appearance in
the district and hear the village of Doongul,
about eighteen miles in 'a northerly direction from
'l)3trlidYee' verael tigers having
the city of Hydrabad, belonging to. the Chief
Minister of the Ni7,ain's Government, a young
gentleman of his service was desired to assist in
their extirpation. He aceordbigly proceeded
with a small party of horse and Soot, amounting
to fifteen horse, Nvlio dwindled into une at the
end of the excursion, and six. Arabs and tea
Shiharees, or: 'huntsmen, who are employed
something like chasseurs. •
He proceeded towards the end of February,
and terminated his. excursion about the middle
of April last, with .some satisfaction to his em-
ployer and to hiMself, thouah4nOt attended with,
such beneficial consequences to him as the nature
and danger of the service might have led him to
expect. His attention was first directed to se-
cure all the points where the tigers generally ap-
peared, by placing men on trees, by excavating
little caves to bold three pr four men covered,
and the top raised a little above the surface- of
the earth, with loop-holes for the guns, in all di-
rections, excepting the rear, where the entrance was
made, and secured with thorns and bushes, form-
ing a kind of masked batteries, in which he and the
men placed themselves, in moonlight nights, which
is the usual time of the tigers roaming. Another
mode was, to enter the woods and rouse the
tigers out, which did not well succeed, though
it afforded much sport on one or two occa-
sions; the country, from the road, in appearance
is only covered with heath, and would not lead
one to suppose that tigers would harbour there ;
but as you enter the thin scattered bushes one is
gradually led into a low, thick, and almost im-
penetrable wood, through which it was with the
utmost difficulty that man, horse, or, elephant
could penetrate, .and at every step, exposed to
be seized by the tigers, which, during the excur-
sions, very am passed" within thirty or forty.
yards of the party without being seen, and were
observed by the first tracks imprinted on the
ground. Another.thode was; bpiS§Ociating one
or two other young men' of .his acquaintance,
and collecting. parties froth every village, to enter
the jungles at different points, to meet at one,
making the greatest possible noise with tomtoms

to rouse the tigers, the probability of driving
them to a central point, where they might be
enclosed and attacked on all sides. This was
one of the least successful modes, as the tigers
seemed to be shy of the noise and tumult, and
though frequently roused, always contrived to
skulk off through the thickness of the jungle and
the high grass with which the ground is covered,
and ome or two of my companions had some nar-
row escapes on those occasions, as they were
often obliged to go on horseback, and to dis-
mount whenever an alarm was given, to prevent
their being carried off by the terror of their
horses, or their own ; and although they went to
the attack with alacrity, the result was very
doubtful between the feeble efforts of a man and

Itt
' at Doongul, some at,
.7,9 a 0 at amiiparthetic
nature. The6l.st 1,%.S 00F. ni , ,--.(?r Otal,A.,
pf: the . village. ut DII ,11. i, ht \to the
city of Hydrabad to eet ee( i
Ai
ocha
1.- 11003 i
And was returning aft vin -c tse4.,estra 'sin.
sum, and on the way, "a -little ....yonA the n-
torithent of Secunderabad, 4 44L iA , arearstie Peon
seated, and.apparently a traveller on the same
'Way. . After mutual inquiries, the Peon told the
- Bunnia he wat-ggink to the same place ; and as the
Bunnia was glad to'have somebody to accompany
him, he gave him apart of the victualshe had about
him. tcreat, and on their:iray, asthey mutually re-
lated. their, histories, the Bunnia innocently men-
' tinned the object of his visit to the city, and of
his returning-with the money he had, collected;
this immediately raised the avarice of the Peon.
who decided in hisinind to kill the poor Bun-
nia at a proper place, and strip hini of his
money f they were proceeding together with this
design in his mind, 'until they came to a place
where the ravage i of the tigers were notorious,
and he prepared to kid the Bunnia ; and while
spweoornd
ai, tod
carried him Ahe was struggling with him and was drawing his
slaybi‘l'atiger sprang upon the
;caving his shield and
sword, which the ;Bunnia cam:. a to Doongul,
' as trophies ofretributive justice in lila-
favour. if
such' instances of retribution were frequei.: and
regular, it would better deter us. from •thou.."
crimes which are often committed in defi:,iceof
every real or fictitious. terror with which our
minds are incuicata. , , , • • '
The next was a,Bunjarra and his wife, who
were lying together under a tree, when a tiger
sprang up and seized the woman by the head.
'l' he husband,. from mere impulse to save his
wife, held herby the legs, as ru and t .., crgle ensued
between the tiger pulling her by li'-e head and
the man by the legs, until the issue; which-could
not be doubted, when the tiger carried off the
woman. The man seemed to be rather partialto
his wife, and devoted himself to revenge her
death, forsook his cattle and property, and i,e-
signed them to his brother, and offefed ilia ser-
vices to be of the tiger-killing party, and strayed
about the jungles until he was heard of no mote.'
A young handsome woman, who had dresse6z
and ornamented herself for some particular oc,
casion, happening to go a little beyond the pre-
cincts of the .village, was seized by a tiger ;• but,
being rather stout, and too heavy to he clearly
carried off, her limbs were torn off from the
waist, and the upper part of her body was ea,:-
ried about a mile from the place, through a
thick part of the jungle, where it was seen by
the party fresh, with the viscera devoured, the
sight causing many painful emotions.
A camel driver, who had just been married,
was bringing home his bride, when a tiger fol-
loWed, and had them in view a great pax' t of the
road for an opportunity to seize one ofth,em-; the
bride having occasion to, alight on the road; was
immediately seized, and carried off by the tiger.
, A shepherd was taken by a young tiger, and
V% as followed by the mother, a large tigress, .and
devoured, at the distance of two miles ; and a
Bunnia, or dealer, from Bolarum, was taken re-
turning from a fair.
A woman, with an infant about a year old,
was taken by a tiger, ; and the infant was found
by a Putts!), or head of the village, who brought
it to his-house.

the ferocious strength of a tiger. One of the
high roads was entirely impassable, and deserted
from the ravages of the tigers, and the others so
infested that people. could not travel, or the vil-

Some ofthe Company- s elephants that were going
for forage were chased by a tiger, which was ke'A
oft' by a spearman ; and a comical chase of them
was made up to Doongul, the elephants running
before the tiger until they entered the village.
Among the artifices practised by the tigers to
get at their prey may be mentioned one, while
the party was at Doongul, where two Bunjarras-
were foraging their cattle about a mile from the
village, and a tiger got near the herd unperceived
by the men, who were the object ofthe tiger's prey_
as it is generally said that a tiger, when once he
has tasted human flesh, prefers it to all
other. The tiger screened himself behind the
cattle, and whenever he was exposed by their
moving, crouched himself, until at length he was
espied by the men, who immediately fled with all
the speed their terror could communicate to the
village, where the drove returned in the evening
pontaneously to their place. The Bunjarras
were so struck with fear that they had not the
power of informing the party of the circumstance
until the next morning. The Bunjarras are great.
sufferers from the tigers, as their mode oflife oblige 7
them to pass through jungles and places where
they and their cattle are continually exposed to
the ravages of the tigers, and cause a great ob-
,aruction to the industry of a useful kind of
people, in a country where the impediments to
the industry and activity of trade are sufficiently
great without such dangers. These are what
occurred during the stay of the party at Doongul,
besides many others that were daily reported, and
do not require describing, from the uniformity of
the occurrences. It is said the lives lost by these
tigers amounted to about three hundred persoPs
in one year within the range of seven villages;
and the destruction of cattle, sheep, and goats,
was said to be immense.

lagers move out Of their villages with safety, as the
tigers often lurked about the skirts of the villages,
and carried off the poor inhabitants; and some of
the accidents that happened are so melancholy and
affecting, that they will be narrated in the course
of this narrative. After various unsuccessful at-
tempts, the first tiger was killed by one of the
parties. The tiger having killed a bullock, he
was scared away by the people, and the carcase
was left on the spot to allure the tiger, and some
of the party secured themselves on trees, whence
he was shot by one of them when he returned at
night to his prey, He received two balls, but
afforded no sport. The second tiger was killed
when returning from a morning's hunt, when he
suddenly started upon one of the Shikarees,
whom he threw down by the mere agitation of the
air caused by his blow, and the Shikaree merely
received a scratch from one of his claws. Mr.
A. 8., who was mounted on an elephant, im-
mediately fired both the charges of a double-
barrel gun at the tiger, and laid him sprawling
On the ground, when one of the party ran a
spear through his neck, and he received a charge
of slugs in his mouth. The Arabs kept firing
at him at random without a shot hitting, but to
the great risk of those about him. The third

tiger was shot almost in the same manlier as the
first. The fourth tiger afforded the most sport,
and the sight was truly grand from the efforts
and attacks he made, from the scene of the sport,
which was a small range of low rocks, among
which he secured himself, and repeated his at-
tacks, bounding from rock to rock, and pro-
ducing a striking effect on our minds. Three
tigers made their appearance at first, one of which
was fired at and wounded, when the wounded one
and another disappeared, and the other was fol-
lowed to the rocks where lie lodged himself, and
first threatened the whole front ofthe party ;then he
sprang at an Arab who was on a small rock. The
Arab fortunately in attempting to escape fell below
the rock, upon which the whole force of the tiger's
blow fell, and the stroke was so violent that he
lost all the claws of one of his fore paws, and he
then received two shots, and was wounded. He
then retreated, and made an attack against Mr.
A. B.'s elephant ; the elephant standing his
ground, he retreated again, bounding upon the
rocks, and crouched himself on one which over-
looked the elephant, and caused apprehensions of
his springing upon it from above, when Mr. A.
B. gave him a
ed his head, em
shattered againg
sive effort was

A panther was killed on the return of the
party, near the residency, where he attacked a
Bunjarra, and lacerated his right arm dreadfully
and kept bounding towards the passengers, until
he was followed by Mr. A. B. into the rice field
and shot.
A large ferocious tiger has lodged himself in
thick and large field of sugar-cane, near B ceder,
which cannot be cut, and has been standing up-
wards of a year from his ravages. A gentleman
Japing
with a party of horse surrounded the field, and
in attempting to dislodge him lost a few men
and horses, and the attempt was found so diffi-
cult and thathazardoust,hat
v as eras
st
togiven d
road to Madras near :Ne.igoonda, and that of
Nlasulipatam, is noo' Infested with tigers ; and
stumpy. them,ihe
i'Ze-noect; the
erioptals7 wounded, and they have not
any. Some of the tigere
have made their. appearance within so short a
distance 0 eight miles from Hydrabad, near
succeeded in
Hyatnuger, where a' tiger, three data ago, tore
~ff th, right arm of a Sepoy in the Minister's
serviee•
The establishment of the Pandemonium in
"t. James's lately called forth the opinion of the hightst
Personage in the kingdom, who expressed himself in a
'canner which reflected the utmost credit on his head and
leart. A Nobleman of some standing at Court,in answci
o a question from his Royal Master, denied, in a most un-
equivocal way, having become a subscriber to this splendid
einple of vice. The Monarch evinced his satisfaction
,t the intelligence, and in his usual - nervous style, de-
nounced such receptacles Lie not only
/ a disgrace to the
country at large, but to the age in which we live.— Thum
ACCIDENT AT THE NEW POST OFFICE.—..--
Tuesday morning, at about ten o'clock, a most shocking
iccident took place at the New Post-office. A young man,
,iamed Witaiaar HART, was assisting some of the ma -
,ons in lowering a scaffolding, when he incautiously trod
,1„,, ~,,e of the loom, planks, which, giving way, lie
vas precipitated to the ground, a height of nearly 'event',
..,,,,t. In the fall hi:i body came with excessive vio_
lence against some thick planks, foaming another scaffold-
: ng, and the force of his weight broke them completely
hrough ; and on his arriving near the ground his heal
gime in contact with a large stone, which dashed it to pieces,

t
. ,
shot front a rifle, which penetrag'
ntered his chest, and tha ball 'las
Ist the rock, and his last ecay.ul.
so great, and he struck its lin
rock with such force, tha' they lost
heir claws, and he hgd only one
mining. The fifth tiger was on(
)ovementioned that was wounded,
‘i
build dead four dad's afterwards,
he five tigers killed by the party,
killed, and one wounded—a wolf
ether, a jeopard,
vhogs
rkdillesd
y, i„varnerable hares,lii prti ge ,
and some peacocks, wild goats;
nd porcupines,
and immense rock
pella snakes.