Star.
London, England, 1820-09-29 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR, SEPTEMBER -

By advices to-day from tangier, it appears that
an Algerine squadron, consisting of two corvettes and
a schooner, passed these Straits to the westward, ea
the 4th instant. A corvette of 24 guns stood loco
Tangier, but immediately rejoined the others, and
made sail.

PROM'. M ATI ON.
Head-quarters, Gibraltar, &pt. 1, 1128.
By Ms Receilency Sir Goo. Don, Knight Grand Cross of lie
Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, Knight *cold
Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order., and of the Royal Order elf
Military Merit of France, General of his Majesty's Rimy.
and Colonel of the Thirty-sixth Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Garrison and 'Ter-
ritory of Gibraltar, &c. &c.
Whereas, by a Proclamation issued on the 26th off -ast rearit
by the Captain General of the Maritime Province of Catiir.; 'ft
appears that the Epidemic Fever has appeared in the town ce
Xe: es, his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor there Ore (1-
rects, that the following Regulations, relative to the intercourse
with Spain, be observed:-
1. No person coming from any place to the westward of the
line commencing at Conil, and. passing through Vejer, Me3mr,
Sidonia, Arcos, Bornos, Puerto Set-ann, Moro°, and Carte (alas
shall be.admitted into the Garrison,tintil after a r:siden:e
at Algesiras or at San Roque, of ten days, (to be etrtified by the
proper authorities at either of those places respectively) amt.
producing a Bill of Health.
2, No person residing in this neighbourhood, to the eastavana
of the abovententioned line, Shall be admitted into :he Cml
risou either by land or water, unless he or she be person:ly
known to the Seers of the Quarantine department, or to the
Impactor of Strangers, and shall lave come direct from Lis 07
her place of abode.
3. Persons coming by sea shall not be received until after a
performance of the quarantine established, as to the respective
places from whence they may arrive, except they coin. I
places actually infected. Vessels from rich places wll not tot
admitted without pasairq through a foul Lazaretto.
4. All Residents leaving the G irrison shal. be required to take
a ticket from the Inspector of Strangers, specifying the Say af
their departure; a:.d unless they return within forty-eight hours.
they shall he subject to the regulations contained in Article 1;
with respect to perions coming from the westward of the line
therein defined. Should they not have• passed tho said hoe, a
document tram the proper Spanish Authorities must be products&
of the route they have followed, proving the same to be the case_
3. Persons coming from other parts of Spain, nut iu the vici-
nity of the infected district, will be detained at'the (..orcitet antall
their passports have been submitted for the special consid-at:oa.
of the Lieutenant-Governor.

6. AU personal baggage will be sent to the health devil:Muni,
and be subject to the regulations of quarantine. No bedding can
be admitted on any pretence whatever.
7. The Cordon is established on the neutral ground In tftr
same manner as last yeai; and all persons are enjoined not to
attempt to pass the same at any point, except that at which dis
Inspectors of Strangers are stationed, as the entries are directall
to lire upon any one pessisting in such attempt after notice
GEORGE DON, General and Lieut.-Governor:
By Command, S. R. CHAPMAN, Civil See.

The population of Russia, according to tle last
Census, amounted to 53,316,707 inhabitants. The
population of the kingdom of Poland is 2,732,324,
It is a most painful fact, that there are, at this
time, in Ilindoostan, thirty millions of females totally
destitute of education, and to whom every vestige of
mental cultivation has been denied. Their native
laws have prohibited them from all knowledge, and
doomed them to a state of mental subjection.. Hence
then, there is, under the British Government in India,
a whole empire, containing so many millions of females
under the most horrid influence of eastern fanaticism..
—The females have never seen a book, except in the
hands of men, and have no knowledge of any one of
the usual employments of female. in a civilized coon.
try. Their fingers have never touched a needle, a
pair of scissars, a book, nor a pea ; and they are en-
tirely excluded from all intercourse with society. A
woman is not allowed by law to go out of the house
without the consent of her husband ; to talk with a
stranger, nor to laugh without a veil on her face,nor
to stand at the door, nor look out at 'thewindo*.—
In such a state of
,ignorance what: can be expected,
but that the female character must be debased. Hence,
among the Rajpoot mothers, the murder of female
infants is universally practised; not one survives.
Mothers among the Casts, in fulfilment of their vow
to obtain offspring, are :seen sacrificing their first
child in the Brum hu pootru, and other sacred tive.s.--
Many females drown themselves. One morning an
Officer, while sitting at his window at Allahabad, saw
sixteen females, under the influence of superstition,
drown themselves at the junction of the Jumna and-
the Ganges. And there are now in London copies of
official documents which prove, that in the year 1817,
under the Presidency of Bengal, not less than 705
females, British subjects, volnntarily immolated them-
selves by being burnt, or b. :reed alive with the dead bodies
of their husbands. No parallel case of such direful
effects of ignorance appears to exist in human history.
Never, in the most savage state, have fires like these
been kindled, nor similar graves been dug. Never
Were such appalling consequences of ignorance exhi-
bited to the civilized world.