Star.
London, England, 1821-01-04 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, JANUARY S.

Yesterday his MAJESTY removed from Marlbo-
rongh-row into the Palace, where his MAJESTY re-
ceived his beloved sister, the Princess AUGUSTA,
who had previously arrived there. Notwithstanding
the severe weather, his MAJESTY daily walks on the
Palace lawn, and seems invigorated by the searching
breeze.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

:Retract of a letter from Lloyd's Agent at Bowmore, Isle of
Islay, dated Dee. 22 :—• This morning the Hope, Duncan, of
sad for Liverpool, from Limerick, came to anchor hers alter
teoantering a severe gale on the west coast, where she lost her
boats and sustained a little damage. She will proceed as soon as
the wind isfair."
The llbenezer, Famous, from London for llansburgh, put
kuo Hull on Sunday, with loss of an anchor.
Dui, Jas. 3.—Wind E. blows a gale, with snow and thick
westher.—Came down from the River yesterday and sailed, the
Cyrus, Rouses, for the Cape of Good Hope; Ariel, Banton,
for Gibraltar; Mary, for Rio Janeiro; and Caroline, Peru
for Gibraltar.
Faixonx, Jaw. I.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Jane, Eittorr ;
and Venus, Wen, for Waterford ; Silvia, Hui., for London ;
Constitution, Anwaii, for Whitehaven ; and Friends,Vaumue,
ler Bristol.
PORTZWOUTH, SAW. 3.—Wind EN.E....Arrived the Hope,
JARMAN, from London.
Meanest, Jiro. 3.—Arrived the Emily packet, with a Mail
kit Gottenbergh.
Astuvras—At Comma. the Dolphin, Cosine, from Newfound.
land; Victory, Cunningham, from London; and Calpe, Haw,
Ens, from New Orleans. At Rilboa, Love, Wells, from New..
fundlnid ; and Habnab, Lefevre, from Gaspe.
Cusrum-douse,Jax.3.—Ships Sneered Inwards t The Amy,
from Leghorn; Margaret, from Genoa; Friends, from Memel;
and Jane, from Messina.—Cleared Outwards t The Charlotte,
for Marseilles; Frederick, for Teneriffe; Wallace, for Jacomel;
Gude Hoop, for Brussels; Swallow, for Gibraltar; Esther, for
Ceti: Rosetta, for Havannah ; and Nelson, for Jamaica.

Yesterday, the dispatches were closed at the East
India House, and delivered to the Parsers of the fol-
lowing ships, viz. Inglis, Captain T. BORRADAILE
and Farquharson, Captain W. CRUICKSHANK...4OT
Bombay and China :
PASUSGEIS ran slur Ismus.—For Bombay—Mr. Weekes,
Amistant-Surgeon • Waiswright free-mariner; Messrs.
r. J. Lugrin, W. C. Lugrin, and *eider ; Messrs. Lawrie,
butt, and Hae, Cadets.
PASUSOIIIIII PIS FARQIIHARIOX,... For Bombay—Messrs.
Pringle and Inglis, Assistant-Surgeons; Mr. Bell, free-merchant;
Mr. Fell ; Messrs. Spence and Clark, Cadets.
The Duke of CLARENCE entertained a party of dis-
tinguished personages at dinner, yesterday, at his re-
sidence in the Stable-yard, St. lames's, among whom
were the Earl and Countess of GLASGOW.
The Misses FITZCLARINCE have returned to town
from the seat of Sir CHARLES POLE, in Hertfordshire,
end had an elegant party last evening at their house
in South Audley-street.
The beautiful dessert service of china, manufae-
Tared at Vienna, and lately transmitted by the Em-
peror of AUSTRIA to his Serene Highness the Prince
Esreanur, was a present from his Majesty the Est-
rum- to the Duke of WELLINGTON, and was on
Montlay removed from Chandos-House to Apsley-
House. The service consists of twelve dozen of plates,
ions dozen of dishes, each dish supported on the
backs of three eagles, and the whole of his Grace's
battles painted thereon, in a masterly style: there
are four ice-pails, and five superb vases. On each
side of three of the vases ate the portraits of the Al-
lied Sovereigns, finely executed; and on the other
vao are the portraits of Lord CASTLEREAGH, Prince
liferreariten, Count NTASELRODE, and Prince llAR-
baNsEms. The whole of the service is beautifully
enamelled, and richly gilt.
The only pew-Years Gift that can suddenly make
ether individuals or families happy, free, and inde-
pendent, is a Ticket or Share in the New Year's Lot-
tery, which begins 2Sd INSTANT, when if they should
set obtain One of the NINE Prizes of £21,000, they
Lave, at least, double Me usual chance of obtaining
those Sums of £21,000, &c. and the Lowest
Prise is £l9 Money. TWELFTH NIGHT CHARACTERS
are to be had gratis at the Contractors' Offices (as
!iteeldi ; but it is necessary to state, they are reserved
sinire y for their .id Friends or new l'ureba:crs.

MEETING AT CARRIerPERGVS DO
ADDRESS THE KING.

(From The Irishman of Friday.)
A duty devolves upon us this day, which we can.
not perform but with mingled feelings of pain and
pleasure. We cannot bring before the bar of public
opinion one of the greatest delusions that ever was
practised, without lamenting that men Can be found
(and men, too, as we are informed, personally respect-
able) who will, in the most deliberate and premedi-
tated manner, pledge themselves to the truth of a
publication, which they are conscious hundreds could
be brought to swear was a gross and impudent fa-
brication; nor can we deny the pleasure we feel in
having it in our power to expose the entire imposi-
tion-...t0 vindicate the feelings of an honest commu-
nity. and do that justice to the spirited and intelli-
gent Freemen of Carrickfergus which is due to them,
to truth, and the cause they advocated.
The Belfast Papers have thought proper to publish
an Address to the KING, purporting to be an Ad-
dress from the Mayor and Corporation of Carrickfer-
gus, agreed to on the 23d instant, at a Meeting. held
in Carrickfergus for that purpose. The proprietors
of these papers say, that they received this Address
from a respectable authority but what will their
opinion be when we now tell them, that their credu-
lity has been grossly imposed upon, and that the
Address they have published is no more the Address
of the Mayor and Corporation of Carrickfergus, than
it is the Address of the Sovereign and the Inhabit-
ants of Belfast ? We were present at that Meeting,
and, it is now the Irishman's duty to expose that
hoax, and lay before the People of the North and
South the proceedings as they really occurred, with.
out addition or diminution. For the substantial truth
of the detail, we now pledge ourselves, being eye and
ear witnesses of all the facts that occurred. _

About twenty minutes after twelve o'clock, on Sa-
turday last, the Mayor (the Rev. Mr. Donna) entered
the Assembly-room, immediately over the Market-
house, and having taken his seat, he opened the bu-
siness of the day by stating, that he had received a
Requisition from some Members of the Corporation
and Gentlemen of the neighbourhood, requesting
him to call the present Meeting, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the propriety of preparing
and agreeing to an Address to the King. He felt it
his duty, in obedience to that Requisition, to convene
the present Meeting.
GEORGE BURLEIOH, Esq. then rose and said, he
held in his hand an Address to his Majesty, which
he would read to the Assembly, and submit for its
adoption. He observed, that the propriety of such
an Address at the present moment required but few
arguments to establish. It stated the evils every man
here must be anxious to remove, and pledged the
hearty and sincere allegiance of this Corporation,
which he hoped it would be unanimous in recording.
He then begged leave to read the Address, which
having been done, Mr. DA.LWAT rose and seconded
the motion of Mr. Burleigh.
A considerable interval now took place, when Mr.
Houses, an independent Freeman of Carrickfergus,
ram and addressed the Chair nearly in the following
words:—There is no man here, Mr. Chairman) more
impressed with the propriety of declarin& his alle-
ranee to his Majesty than I am. In the sincerity of
that feeling I will yield to no man here, and I believe
I may, with as much confidence, say the same forthe
entire of my fellow-citizens, whom I am glad to see
this day in such numbers around me—(Loud shouts
of " Hear him"). But, Sir, I beg leave to observe,
that the best mode of manifesting the sincerity of
our allegiance, on the present occasion, is, by sheav-
ing to his Majesty, and to the People the sincerity of
the opinions we are delivering ; and if we act ho-
nestly, either by the King or our Country, will any
man here put his hand to an Address, which charges
the Press of Ireland with being licentious and im-
moral—that the said Press had corrupted the public
morals, and that it had actually brought Ireland into
a state of rebellion—will any here have the bold-
ness to sign a paper which contain& such unfounded
assertions, such libels on the People of Ireland?-
-As for my part, Mr. Mayor, I do not think it be-
coming of us even thus to speak of our sister coun-
try, groaning as it is under a weight of distress un-
paralleled even in England—(" We will sign no such
Address, it would be false," a number of vows ex-
claimed).—But, continued the Speaker, it is not to
this point alone of the Address proposed by Mr. Bur-
leigh that I object—there is another, and a more
important point, I mean that part which speaks of
his Majesty's Government—give me leave to ask
what is meant by the word Government? Does not
this mean his Majesty's Ministers ?—and will my
fellow-citizens agree to an Address which contains
their good opinion of his Majesty's Ministers?—C' No,
no' no r was the universal cry).
The CHAIRMAN here rose and observed, that he
was always happy to hear -the opinions of the Free-
men of Carrickfergus—that to Mr. Holmes's opinion
he was inclined to pay every respect; but he hoped
he could satisfy Mr. Holmes and the Meeting at large,
that the words of the Address could bear no such
construction as Mr. Holmes put on them. The Chair-
man should be sorry, if it were supposed 'that it was
contemplated by the writers di the Address to charge
the Irish Press with the dissemination of immoral and
blasphemous doctrines. No such charge can be with
truth brought against the Press of Ireland—this is a
distinction which entirely belongs to the Press of
England—it is with great satisfaction I say (said Mr.
Dobbs), that, however we may differ in political opi-
nions, we cannot impute to the Press of Ireland any
disposition to loosen those solemn obligations which
we all owe to the sacred doctrines of Religion : and
as to that other objection of Mr. Holmes (said Mr.
Dobbs), namely, that his Majesty's Government means
his Majesty's Ministers, he could assure the Meeting,
the conduct and character of Ministers were never in-
tended to be introduced into the Address. The word
Government can only mean the power wielded by his
Majesty. As to the distress of the poor, to which
Mr. Holmes alludes, even Ministers cannot remove
this. If the Freemen of Carrickfergus have com-
plaints to urge, let them prefer them to the men able
to redress them. Let them appeal to their landlords.
No doubt the times are severe, but the remedy is at
home. Landlords must meet the times by a proper
attention to the wants of their tenantry—(This sen-
timent from Mr. Dobbs was peculiarly well received
by his audience).
Mr. House. 3.—" I am a plain man, Mr. Mayor,

but I always Understooa his Mestyls Covers:Meek
to be his Majesty's Ministers; and sure I am, if that
Address goes forward, it will be called an Address
to support the Ministers, who want support, and not
to support the King, who does not want any support
from as. The Mayor has told us, the Ministers wet*
not in the contemplation of the framers of this Ad.'
dress. I hope not, but the world will say otherwise,
and who would send forward an Address which
went to support a set of men distinguished by a pro-
fligate waste of the public treasure—an unprincipled
contempt for public opinion—a desperate effort to
retain their places at all hazards, however sangui-
nary ? Will my fellow-citizens give their support to
such Ministers ?—(No, no, from all quarters—we are
set Lisburn men—see are not to be humbugged). Sup-
pose (said Mr. Holmes) a Gentleman, you, for in-
stance, Mr. Mayor, have a steward who, having the
management of his master's affairs, becomes extrava-
gant, wastes and purloins the property 'under his care
—I am in the habits of friendship with the man so
abused, I know something of the steward's conduct—
would it be right to consul what I either knew or heard?
I certainly thank not, and I therefore submit that those
Ministers, who are those faithless stewards of his
Majesty, may not be included in the Address ; or, if
included, that we should pray his Majesty to remove
theme But see further, Mr. Mayor—why is the word
Family' omitted in the Address, though the Mayor's
notice to the Freemen of Carrickfergus was to declare
our allegiance and attachment to his Majesty's per-
son, family, and government. Let the sentiment of
Family' be inserted in the Address, in the most pro-
per and respectful manner' first, the King and Queen,
and then the rest of the Royal Family. This would
be the course if the Family' be inserted in the Ad-
dress, according to the notice of the Mayor."
Mr. SPZAR observed, that he did not believe the
word Family' was in the notice.
The MAYOR answered that it was in the notice,
and bore testimony to the correctness of the state-
ment of Mr. Holmes.
A Freeman then came forward, and said, it was no
wonder the present Meeting was convened, and for
such objects; it was easy for any man with half an
eye to see who brought forward this proceeding.
Look," said he, to the right, and then to the left;
look to the good things of-life which the one side
enjoys, and which is denied to the other; look at the
crowd who surround me, the struggles they are
obliged to make for a daily sustenance, and look to
the other—most of them enjoying places and pen•
sions, or good livings, or living in expectation of bet-
ter than they now enjoy! When you look at this
picture;" said this animated speaker, 44 can you be
surprised at the curious Address you have been called
upon to sign?"—(Load cries of Bravo ! —No Ad-
dress, unless to the Queen!—The Queen lot ever, and
the King along with her.)
The CHAIRMAN observed, that it would be impos-
sible to introduce the name of her Majesty, because,
in his opinion, the Queen was not acquitted—( Loud
and continued groan:followed this sentiment.)
JAMES MlCaAmtnr, a freeman of the Corporation,
instantly rose and observed, that, as far as he under-
stood the Constitution, we were all innocent until
proved to be guilty; but here is the Queen innocent,
after passing a fiery ordeal—after being sworn against
by the greatest villains in Italy—(Hear, hear ! ).
Why introduce the word Family, if you do not men-
tion the Queen? Suppose, Mr. Mayor, a neighbour
asks me—how is your family, Tom will thank
him, no doubt; but you know, Mr. Dobbs, the Mis-
tress is always asked for first, and that the question
is—Tom, how is your wife and family ?—( This home
and familiar illustration canted loud and continued

laughter.)
Mr. WILLIAM BURLEIGH made an animated ap-
peal to the loyal feelings of the Assembly. He ob-
served that it was his great boast to be a Member of
that loyal though independent Corporation. He
should lament to see the day when he would witness
a resistance to an Address professing the most sin-
cere and anxions allegiance to his Majesty and his
Government—( Considerable applause followed this
speech).
Mr. Gsonaz BURLIIOII observed, that since the
opposition to the Address, as read and moved, was
so great, let those who like it, sign, and those who do
not like it, refuse. To this it was instantly replied,
that if such was the determination, it was a mockery
to consult their opinions—a private snug Star Cham-
ber should have been the plan.
Mr. G. BURLEIGH then proposed, that all those
who approved the Address might sign it, and those
who disapproved might have another. To which it
was soon replied, that at the Meeting was called, the
qtrestion of Address or no Address from the Corpora-
tion of Carrickfergus should then be decided—that it
was an idle thing to convene a Meeting if the mino-
rity were not to be bound by the act of the majority.
The MAYOR then asked, was the Address, as read
by him, to pass, or was it to fall to the ground
?
(A general cry of « Down with it—down with it,"
throughout the Assembly.)
The MAYOR, with some warmth, declared he would
dissolve the Meeting, and instantly left the Chair.—
Some persons however interfered, and the Mayor,
after a few minutes, resumed his place, and asked
whether the Meeting would agree to the Address?
he had no objection to the word family being in-
troduced according to the terms of the notice.—
(One hundred voices, at least, cried out, to introduce
the Queen.)
Mr. SPEAR (the Post-Master) said the Address
should be given up, if the name of the Queen was
introduced; because it could not be supposed that
they would present an Address to his Majesty con-
taining so marked an insult—(A voice in Me crowd
exclaimed, 44 Why insult the Queen, by addressing the
King, and passing her byr )
The question was now loudly called for, when
there appeared about twenty-three hands raised for
the Address, and about 150 against it.
The MAYOR then retired from the Meeting, amidst
the strongest expressions of its displeasure.

Dftunt-LAris Tritieritz.—Last night the Comedy
of the Wonder was again represented, and the young
Lady who made so successful a debut in Donna Vio-
lent% repeated the character with increased effect.—
Don Giovanni was the After.piece, and was received
[ with the usual approbation. His Royal Highness
the Duke of GLOUCESTER honoured the performance
with his presence.

IttAtN'motor; AMEtacli

.`.._

This morning one of the Most numerous and Ss
spectable Parochial Meetings which has been had
within the Bills of Mortality, took place at the Horns
Assembly Room, at Kennington, for the purpose
of taking into consideration, the necessity of cow
gratulating her Majesty upon the defeat of the
conspiracy directed against het honour and rank:
also for the purpose of preparing a Petition to the
KINO, praying his Majesty to expel -from his Pre-
sence and Councils, for ever, his present wicked and
incapable Ministers, whose foreign and domestic
policy had degraded the dhatacter Of the Country,
and both at home and abroad repressed with op-
pression and violence the growing spirit of biberty.
—The Requisition also embraced a Petition .to the
House of Commons, praying the immediate restora-
tion of the QUEEN'S name to the Liturgy, and het
MA nines full and acknowledged investiture in all
the honours due to her station

It also enforced the imperative necessity of an ade-
quate( Reform in Parliament, so as to afford a fair
and reasonable chance that the House of Commonst
instead of readily adopting coercive measures, hostile
to the genius of the Constitution; at the will bt cor•
rupt and profligate Ministers, would act in unison
with the feelings and true interests of the people.
This comprehensive and able Requisition was
signed by Ws. WILLIAMS, Esq. M.P. of Belmont
House, Vauxhall, Ron?. SLADE, Esq. Col. SLADE, H.
MOORE, Esq. R. LAwsoN, Esq. and a considerable
number of other Magistrates and Gentlemen of rank,
in the Parish of Kennington; and, in pursuance of
their wish, this Meeting was convened by three out
of the four Churchwardens, and the Chair taken at
half-past eleven o'clock, by Mr. Nom.; the Senior
Churchwarden, who read the Requisition, as well
as the Resolutions, Petitions, &c. rough drafts of
which were put into his hands, merely to put the Meet•
ing in possession of a full outline of the business of the
day, before the Motions were submitted seriatim...—.
( This communication was received with applause).

Mr. SL ADZ then proposed the first Resolution,
which he enforced in an able speech. He was fol-
lowed by Mr. WILLIAMS, M.P. Mr. MIRY MOORri
Mr. So}lmmo, Mr. LAWSON, Mr. TH&LWALL, and
others.

We left the Meeting, at one o'clock, prodeeding
Iccessively in the unanimous adoption of those Re•
lotions, &c.

It is understood that his MAJESTY will not return
from Brighton to Carlton Palace before the 20th in&
start, after which a Privy Council will be held, and
the Royal Speech to both Houses of Parliament, on
the opening of the Sessions taken into consideration.
SHELTER FOR THE HOUSRLIULS POORr•-•••-The
House Committee met on Tuesday last, at the
London Workhouse to hear the report of Messrs.
CAnseam.r. and Iliac, as to the state of the prepara-
tions for giving succour to the destitute. Up to that
time only two persons had accepted the relief of-
fered; but on Tuesday night no less than fifty-six
men (mostly spilors) together with five women and
three children, were admitted into this useful asylum.
The Report was approved of, and Messrs. Gomm
and ASTON were added to the Committee for the in-
ternal management of the Institution. Several bene-
ficial regulations were adopted ; among others it
was ordered that the doors should be kept open from
seven o'clock till eleven in the morning; and, in or•
der to extend the means of obtaining the benefit of
this Association, it was resolved to apply to the
LORD MAYOR, with a request that his Lordship will
kindly use his powerful interference, and direct the
nightly patrol in their perambulations to give notice
of this place of shelter at the various watch-houses
in the City, and to send in Such persons as may be
found exposed in the streets. Messrs. GOULD and
Arnow volunteered to go round during the nights
with an officer, for the purpose of exploring the
Bridges, Markets, and other receptacles for wretch-
edness. The offer of this excellent service was im•
mediately accepted by the Committee. Letters have
been written to the different Gentlemen in the eastern
and western divisions of the town who last year kindly
offered to open houses in their respective districts :
and we trust that a charity so useful, while it is so per.
fectly unpretending, will not Wig want the support
of our benevolent countrymerh- to whom it is recom-
mended by their favourite characteristics. - Those
who may be inclined at this inclement season to lend
their personal services in rescuing their fellow-crea-
tures from a death of cold and famine, may at once
have their inclinations gratified by applying to the
General Committee. Rinds will be supplied, andin-
structions how to use them. The Committee meet
to-morrow, at No. 27, Poultry, at one o'clock.
We entertain a confident hope that the several
public bodies who so laudably came forward last
year with offers of their premises, will this-year fol.
low up their benevolent design : they will easily find
humane individuals in their respective neighbour&
hoods, to apply their funds under their direction.
We cannot chase these brief remarks, without re•
commending that this Charity should be kept distinct
from any other r and,. in this view, we would suggest
to the Mendicity Society the propriety of continuing
their excellent practice of allowing sixpence a night
for lodging to their various applicants ; and not to
send them, as sometimes is, we believe, the case, to
the Shelter for the Houseless. It is true, that the two
Charities seem necessarily to embrace the same ob.
jects ; but as the funds of each Institution were raised
under a specific plan, and with a specific,promise of
a strict appropriation, neither fund should be spared
to the advantage of the other.
This day, the prisoners who stand committed on
char'es of felony, were removed front the several
jails in London and Middlesex, to Newgate, prepara-
tory to their taking their trials at the ensuing Ses-
sions at Justice Hall, in the Old Bailey, which come
mence on Wednesday next.

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THE BEAUTY OF THE CREATION.

BY THE REV. F. HODGSON.

Had the rich earth been only made
ler creature's various wants to aid ;
Had Hume so framed the whole,
That one wide, Sat. unshaded plain.
Self-warnid, and self-bedewed with rain,
Had fed each living soul!
Due still OUT grateful praise would be,
Auswsrts► Ascents:vs ! to thee.
Por Nature's bounteous plan,
But oh ! what raptures of delight.
Creation's fair embellish'd sight
Calls forth from wond'ring man !
What superfluity of love
Descends in beauty from above!
What harmony around
Attmes the breathing earth and sky,
'Aaid swells in asurm'ring majesty,
Through all the blue profound!
How Colour pours upon the scene,
Her altering shades of sunny greet !
I low the grey rocks on high,
Streak'd by the cataract's wintry course,
Or shaster'd by the thunder's force,
In gath'ring darkness lie !
Yon softer hill, beneath the rock,
Half-cover'd by the whitening eJck,
That roams its verdant sule ;
With seeming exultation sees
The natural diadem of trees,
Run round it, deep and wide !
And oh ! that sweet uprising shower,
Balm hreath'd from herb, and fruit, and flower!
When. bright with April dew,
The landscape gleamy and arcb'd above,
The pietur'd pledge of heav'itly love
Spans the whole vernal view !

Who here can lose, with blinded setae,
The beam of pure benevolence,
To raise the human heart
To Ileit who framed this balane'd globe,
'Tins girded with so fair a robe,
'Twas grac'd with matchless art !
That hand of heav'nly art is here,
Where, down the winding vale, appear
The roofs of rustic straw ;
And spiral wreaths of airy blue
Mount from the peaceful cottage, true
To Beauty's native law!
The hand of heav`nly art bestows
The mingled light. the life that flows,
Where Nature's fountains play ;
When ti►e merit wakes their misty stream.

Or evening's yellow lustres gleam
Along their fading way!
That hand of heao'nly art is seen
Brightest in Virtue's eye serene,
Where truth and fondness dwell—
What angel mind can piatuns thee,
Thou •ision of tranquillity?
What tongue presume to tell?

STATE OF FEMALES IN INDIA.

LETTER FROM THE REV. W. WARD, MISSIONARY IN
INDIA, TO THIS LADIES OT LIVIRTOOL, AND 117
fit imams inactiow.
" There are in Hindoestan 75,000,000 of your
sex who can neither read nor write; and 30,000,000
of these are British subjects. In every country not
ameliorated by Christianity. the state of woman has
always been most deplorable; but the Hindoo le-
gislators have absolutely made their acquisition of
the knowledge of letters a curse, and they are by a
positive prohibition denied all access to their Scrip-
tures. Being thus degraded. even by their sacred
writings, women in India are in a state of ignorance
and superstition, which has no parallel in the history
of tribes the most savage and barbarous.
" A female is despised as soon as she is born : she
comes into the world amidst the frowns of her pa-
rents and friends, disappointed that the child is not
a boy. Every mother among the tribe of Rajpoots
puts her female child to death as soon as born-While
I was in Bengal,- I was informed of the case of a
ltajpoot who had spared one of his daughters, and
she lived till she attained the age when Indian girls
are marriageable. A girl in the house of a Rajpoot
was, however, so extraordinary a circumstance that
no parent chose to permit his son to marry her.—
The father then became alarmed for her chastity and
the honour of his family, and he, therefore, took her
aside one day, and with a hatchet cut her to pieces 1
These are the circumstances into which your sea
enter into life in British India.
" In childhood and youth they have no edema-
don, no cultivation of any kind whatever, There is
not a single girls school in all India ; and the mother
being herself entirely unlettered, and being the de-
voted victim of a dark and cruel superstition, is ut-
terly incapable of improving her child. The first
days of the girl are, therefore, spent in an inanity
which prepares her for a life -doomed to be went in
superstition and vice.
" In the age of comparative childhood she is
united in marriage, without any knowledge of or
having ever seen her husband; when they meet to-
gether for the first time, they are bound together for
life. Thousands who are thus married in a state of
childhood, lose their husbands without lasi% ever
lived with them' and are doomed to a life of widow-
hood ; for the law forbids them to re-marry. Parents
in some eases marry 50 or 60 daughters to 'one
Brambun,that the family may be raised to hor.iour
by a marriage relation to this man. These females
rever live with the husband, but in the houses of
their own ppents,-or they leave the houses in which
they huvebeen thus sacrificed fur the supposed honour
of the•family, =denier the abodes of infamy.and ruin.
"-Supposing the female, however, to have been
Misted to a person who really becomes attached to
her; .what a nigher, without the knowledge of the
alphabet t--wholly unacquainted with mankind, and
with all the employments of females in a civilised
country; unable either to make, to mend, or to wash
the clothes of her household! -She never sits to eat
pith her 'husband, but prepares his-food, waits upon
aim, and partakes of what he leaves. If a friend of
the. outer sex calls upon her husband, she retires. She
is veiled, or goes in a covered palanquin if she leaves
the house. She never mixes -in public companies..
She derives no knowledge from the other sax, except
from the stories to which she may listen from the
mouth of a religious mendicant. She is, in fact, a
mere animal kept for burden or for slaughter in the
house of her husband. A case lately occurred in,
Calcutta of a girl being burnt alive on the funeral
pile with the dead body of the youth with whom she!
Wins that day to have been married. You will bed
prepared now, Ladies, to expect that such a system o(
mental darkness will have 'rendered the sex in -India
the devoted victims of idolatry ; and stich victims ito

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other country, however dear, bbvtver beligitteck
can boast. What must be the state of the female
mind when millions are foued'throwing the children
of their vows into the sea, when a guard of Hindoo
soldiers is necessary to prevent mothers throwing
their living children into the jaws of the alligators
these mothers standing and watching the animal
while it crushes the bones, tears the fie h, and drinks
the blood of their own offspring! How deplorable
the condition of your sec, when superstition thus ex-
tinguishes every sensibility of the female, and errs
feeling of the mother, and makes her more savage
than the tiger which howls in the forest, which al-
ways spares and cherishes its own offspring !
" At the calls of superstition, many females immo-
late themselves by a voluntary death in the sacred
rivers of India. A friend of mine, at the junction of
the Jumna and the Ganges, at Allahabad, in one
morning, saw, from his own window, sixteen females
with pans of water fastened to their sides, sink them-
selves in the river, a few bubbles of air arising only
to the surface of the water after they were gone down.
The drowning of so many kittens in England would
excite more horror thaii.the drowning of sixteen of
your own sex in India!
" But horrors still deeper are connected with the
state of female society in India. The English Ma-
gistrates in the Presidency of Bengal, in their annual
official returns to the Calcutta Government, state,
that in the year 1817 (three years ago)-706 women,
widows, were either burnt alive or buried alive with
the dead bodies of their husbands, in that part of
British India. Is there anything like this in the
whole records of time? Have fires like these, and
so numerous, ever been kindled anywhere else on
earth—or graves like these ever been opened? Two
females roasted alive every day in one part of Bri-
tish India alone! At noon-day, and in the presence
of numerous spectators, the poor widow, ensnared
and drawn to the funeral pile, is tied to the dead
body, pressed down on the faggots by strong levers,
and burnt alive, her screams amidst the flames being
drowned by shouts and music. Amidst the spec-
tators is her own son, her first-born, who, tremendous
idea! has set fire to the pile, and watches the pro-
gress of the flames which are to consume the living
mother to ashes, the mother who fed him from her
breast, and dandled him on her knees, and who once
looked up to him as the support of the declining
days of herself and his father.
" I have seen three widows thus burnt alive, and
could have witnessed many more such spectacles,
had they not been too much for my feelings. Other
widows are buried alive ; here the female takes the
dead body upon her knees, as she sits in the centre
of 3 deep grave, and her children and relations, who
have prepared the grave, throw in the earth around
her: two of these descend into the grave and trample
the earth with their feet around the body of the
wi-
dow. She sits an sturemonstrating spectator of the
: the earth rises higher and higher around
her; at length it reaches the head, when the remain-
ing earth is thrown with haste upon her, and these
children and relations mount the grave, and trample
upon the head of the expiring victim!
le Ole British mothers, ye British widows! to whom
shall these desolate beings look? In whose ears shall
these thousands of orphans cry—losing father and
mother in one day—if not to you? Where shall we
go? In what comer of this miserable world, full of
the habitations of crnehy. shall we find female so-
ciety like this?..-widows and orphans like these?—
Seventy-five millions in this state of ignorance! Say
how long, ye who never saw a tear but ye wiped it
away—a wound, but ye attempted to heal it—a
human sufferer, bet ye poured consolation into his
heart—how long shall these fires burn?—these graves
be opened? The appeal, my fair countrywomen, is
to you—to every emle in Britain. Government
may do much to put an end to these immolations;
but, without the communication of knowledge, these
fires can never be wholly quenched, nor can your
sex in India ever rise to that state to which Dlthli
Paonnxecs has destined them.
" Don't despair. The victims are numerous: but
on that account shall the..life-boat not leave the
shore? There can hardly be a misery, connected
with human existence, which the pity and the rid
of British females, under the blessing of Peovnemici,
is not able to remove; end if this dreadful ems be
properly felt in every town of the United Kingdom,
these immolations must shortly cease for ever.
"Schools must be commenced; knowledge mu*
be communicated; and then the Hindoo female will
be behind .none of her sex in the charms which adorn
site female character; in no mental devationto which
die highest rank cifßritishremales have attained. Other
triumphs of humanity may have been gained by our
Howards, our Clarkson, our Wilberforces ; but this
emancipation of the females and widows of British
India, must be the work of the British fair.
(Signed) " W. W."

Yesterday, ahoy, sarcely.fiffteen years old, driver
4 a hackney chariot, appeared before the sitting
Magistrate, at the Public Office, Bow-street, at the
suit of the Rev. Dr. VALPY, charged with misbe-
haviour, and 'demanding more than his legal
fare. it appeared by the evidence, that this young
Jeke,laving driven twoyotmg Ladiesfroth Bedford-
square to Brunswick-square, demanded/tee shillings
for his fare, just double the•amount he was entitled
to. Payment was,-ef course, refused, and'he wartold
he might summons for his fare; but this, it seems,
did not'suit his.purpose, and be knocked at the door
and rang the bells upwards of %seventeen times, de-
chring to the crowd which his -violence had col-
lected, 'that he wooldlkneelythe door down if they
did not come nut !—Before the,Magistrate, however,
be was geutleneis itself, and could scarcely utter a
word for weeping. On account of his youth, he was
fined ten shillings,and in default of payment, he was
sent to the Honse'of Correction for fourteen days.
Since the f.tshion of 'Curling the 'Hair has become
so general both to Ladies and Gentlemen, it may not
be antis* to point out its timer in destroyieg that-ornament .a
fine Had of Hair. The-me-of the irons makes the hair dry
and harsh, an it loses Akita native instre and elasticity. 'To
coenteract this, " Arassisuit's Coanms nolo," has long
stood pre-eat/inn; .and its general adoption by the Nubi.
lity raisesit above any imputation of quackery. By using it
after curlier the heir, it makes it 49 softami glossy as nth. and
`imps the curl firm daring exercise in the damn, or promenade,
or in damp weather. It also preserves it from changing cokenr,
or falling off, to extreme old age ; and in order to protect the
'Public against the numerous imitations, the Proprietor intends
immediately to take out a Pant for tbc. Invesitioc.