Star.
London, England, 1828-12-09 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 11425.

their auagais and other missiles. The result was, the
total defeat of the enemy, and the capture of 12,000
cattle. The number of their killed has been variously
computed, but i conceive 500 to be a fair estimate.
Their whole force on this occasion probably amounted
to about 10,000 men.
The Colonial force engaged were 11)0 boors, three
companies of mounted riflemen, and one company of
the 55th Regiment. We had a huge force of Caffers
(of Hinsa's and Vosani't clans) on our side; but these
thievish banditti left all the fighting to us, and were
employed, while we were putsiting the ei.emy, in te.
curing the cattle and massacring the helpless women
and children, which we were Out aware of until the
skirmish was over.
We have now discovered that the report of these
marauders being ChakA's people is quite erroneous—
that they are a tribe called Marinade, and that the
name of their Chief is Matnan. 1 have no doubt that
they are the same horde as that named Ficatii, who at.
ticked the Tambooki Chief *Pewana in 182.5, • as de-
scribed in Mr. Thompson's work, in a letter from Mr.
T. Pringle.
On this expedition we suffered severe privations for
want of provisions. although there were three officers.
of the ComMissarist along wish oe. • OS out tants, all
my horses weirs knocktd up it the Bashi River, and I
was under the necessity of marching 'home from that
place, a distance of 3)0 miles, on foot, with only one
shoe.

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EAST 'INDIR&

By the arrival of the S ►vereign, from Bengal, we
have received Calcutta Papers to the 2&th of July. The
following are eatracts:

CALCUTTA, Jots S.
Yesterday evening, a little after six o'clock, the Right
Hon. Lord Wm. Bentiack: landed from the-Enterprise
steam boat, at Chandpaol Ghost, °slder t
the fort due to his rook. The vessels in the tiger were
adorned with flags in honour of* the occasion, red sue-
ral fined salutes. The evening was upfavourable, but
the firing of the fort, on the Enterprise passing it, soon
drew foals a natation: crowd to Witness the lending.
His Lordship was welcomed to.the shore by a depute-
ti•in of the Government, and proceeded lo one of the
state palanquins to Government House, and shortly
,after took his scat at the Coaacd table with the usual
honours. - • •
Tlip.l 'Rowing Proclamation was Issued last evening:
, oovensurat GAUT?! SITIAOIRDINAST.
« Fort' William, July 4.
" The Right Hon. Lord:Williem Cavendish Ben-'
'tinter, appointed by the Honourable the Court of Di-
rectors to the once of Goveruor General'of Fort WU-
io:Lieogal, his Lordship landed at six o'clock this'
evening, and was received with the usual honours.
" Lord William Cavendish Bentinck proceeded to
the Government House, and took be prescribed oaths
and his Seat is.Goiernor General.
The following Proclamation is published by order,
,of the Right non. the Governor General is Caustiti—
PROCLA IIATION.
•
sa Whereas the Right Honourable Nilliam Cavendish
Bentiack, Knight Grand Cross of the Mou'Hanoue.abie
Military Order of the Bath, commonly Gated Lord
William Cavendish Bentinck, Member of his M ijesty's
Most Honourable Privy. Commit, hath been appointed
by the Honourable. the Court of Directors, to be Go-
vernor General of Fort William, in Bengal.; and Whereas
his Excellency the Right Honour able LerdNiscount
Combermere Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon.
Military Order of the Bath, bath been coointed Com-
mander in Chef of all the Forces of the Honourable
East India dimpany in the East Indies, and one of the
Councillors of Fort William aforesaid, and William
Butterworth Bayley, El. to be also a Councillor of the
said Presidency : and whereas Sir Charles Theophilus
Metcalfe, Baronet, has, under the orders of the Hon.
die Court et Directors, dated the 12th of April, 1826,
sacs-Fisted as a provisional member of the said Cruncil,l
the said appoi meats are hereby notified :• and it is
faiths/ proclai:ned that the Right Honourable Lord
William Cavendish Bentitick has, on :the day of the
date hereof, received charge of the said office of Go-
vernor General, and taken the usual oaths and tis seat
accordingly, and that WilliaM Butterworth B.yley,
Esq. and Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, B 'rt. this
Excellency the Commander in Chief being absent on a
visit to the upper stations of the army) have respectively
taken their seats at the board ai Councillors f the said
Presidency.
" By order of the Right Hnnovrobk the Governor General in
Council. " H. SHAKESPRAIIt •
" Oicisting Chief Secretary to the Government.
• " Fort William', 4th July. Inn."

Fort William, July 4.
The Governer General has been pleased to make the
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following appointments,
Mr. Archibald Dobbs to be Private Secretary to the
Governor General.
Captain Anthony Troyer to be Military Secretitry to
the Governor General.

GENERAL ORDERS BY THE RIGHT HON. TIM
GOVERNOR-GENgRAL IN COUNCIL
Fort William, July 4.
No. 151 of 1828.... The Right Hon. Lord William
Cavendish Bentinck, &c. being arrived, the Cornm;ision
of Government from the Honourable the Court c.f-Di-
rectors, bearing date the 17th of October, 1827. ap-
pointing his LT,rdship to be Governor General of the,
Presidency of Fort William, in Bengal, is read. • - •
The. usual oaths having been administered to tbl
Right Hon. Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, he takii
his seat as Governor General under the customary.*
lute from the ramparts of Fort William. .I. ' •.
The separate commission, appointing Lord William
Cavendish Bentinck to be Governor and Commander.'
in-Chief of the Fort and Garrison of Fort William and
9f the Town of Calcwta, is also read. ''-
o,de:ed. that the following Proclamation iii issued.;
and that the usual guard be ordered to attend the.Blie.
riff op the occasion of proclaiming the new tiover.nor :
GENERAL ORDERS BY THE HONOURABLE THE
GOVERNOR GENERAL IN COUNCIL
1- • " Fort William, July &
." No. 150 of 1828.—The Houoarable the Governor
in Council bas bera pleased to lay down thefolloaing
rides, for the guidance of all Government 01ficeri,lirr
Am money may be advanced on account of Gosh.t works; andior the purpose of beingsbbstiriebil?
• p!eded by pertiet disbarielbents, . •
• " 1. *44takitalt Onliff tip tbreatet, at libert,

to withdraw from a Government Treasury a larger
sues than required by him for immediate disbursement.
" I. Officers in charge of Government Treasuries are
directed to make advances on account of assignments,
on their treasuries, in such sums as the Officers holding
the same mar from time to time apply for, taking their
receipt in duplicate, one on.the back of the assignment.
which will remain with the Officer in charge of the trea-
sury making the payment, and the other to accompany
the account as a voucher for the advance.
• Iffrom unavoidable cause, and in any special
Instance, it shall be necessary to draw at once the.
anif,ent of an assignment, the necessity for doing so it
to be clearly stated in writing to the Officer in charge
of the Government Treasury, who is to forward the
document tacked' to the assignment, or draught, on his
treasury.
4. Government Officers h lying occasion to draw
-the whcflitif their demands at one time are not to place
the money so drawn in the hands of any banker, or to
'remit it (as hiss snmatimes been dorie) to their agents,
for secure Custody.
Sik At the-Presidency, !he B Ink of. Bengal affords
to all *Fuels' the•Converri• nee of a safe custody fat Ge-
treitfipent money. when it may be necessary to with.
,tral money from a Government Treasury, to ditburse
in sinall.surns.. It i. seldom that a necessity can arise
for withdrawing a sum from a Government Tresiary,
at a distance hum the Presidency. before it is required
to be disbursed, but when such unforesren circumstance
arise to render it expedient that the Government money
should temporarily be placied in a banking house, the
deposit shall then be made in the name of the depost
ing officer, on account *tit t%e Government, to distin•
guish the.depoiit from private Money belonging. to the.
depositor, and the officer making such deposit will im-
mediately notify the same to 'the' Aciountant of Di-
partnient.
"6. Any Governmentofficer.erho, receiving mosey
from a Governmert Trtasoryfor Government purports,
shall pass the amount of his agents, or blend it, with his
'Own private cash, withourdesignaiing such too. ney to
be Government property, and- without notifying, the
same to the Accountant of his Department, will be,
Considered as having made 'an unlawful appropriatiotil
of the same, and will subjecthimself to be proceeded
against accordingly:

..."*WIiIL.CASIMENT, Lieutenant Colonel.
%mike. to-Government Military Dept."
* MlM,llians (Territorial Depatlmenth Jury a.
" The plibti*ltie hereby infer med. that no further
subscriptions win' be receised to t' e 5 per cent loan,.
which was openetionthe 18ttilif August, 1825: and the
several officers whti, by the •adireithensent published in
the Goveiwmene Gazette* Ilia 'Mime date, were autbo-,
rised to receive subscriptions to the loan in question, are
heieby prohibited from granting any turther aehnow-
, ledg.Ments.l or subser iptions tendered under the said ad-I
'vestnettiene, *after the receipt by them respectively of
tile present-notification.
• • yr 11 is hereby also notified and ordered, that piemis-
luny notes of die four per cei.t.luan, which was opened
'on the ISat..ol September, 1824, are no longer to be
recieved itrifiemferio a five per cent, loan, as. autho•
raid by the'notifications published on the 19t4 of May,
1825;
•' Notice -islotthei hereby given, th st the, Sob Tyra-
surers'of•Fort William, F ~t St: G orge, arid. Bombay,
the several Residents et foreign Cowls, and the several
collectors &land revtnue vita receive, until further
orders, any .sutis 11 mon• y, in even htin.liejs et Cal-
.cutta.iicce rUpeei, which-mayten4red rn.loan to
theliOneerableCompairy, at an interest of four per
cent. per 'artnonr.r,the conditions of the said loan to be
the same as ibose of the five per cent., loan or the 18th
of August, 1826, saving in reipect so the rate of iiite-
test. Piovided alsoitbst the interest shall be 'paid in
cash only, and net in ;bills, on the Hon. the Court of
Din ectors.
" Published by:order of ..thellion. the Governor General In
Council, la HOLT MACKENVE,
r• Btu to the Government."

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MONDAY, Jut," 14.
On Saturday morning, the •Rtgqi 113 n. the•govetnor
General held a levee at the Goveinrfierit Hoisse, which
was numerously attended. After the.pielentations were
over, hi. Lortlifitp tet;rea to the Council C;fianaber,where
he gave private audiencr to such &Istlemen ,as had
previously requesteJ that honour.
In. the evening Lady Beruinck had, her first.drawing-
room. The Ladi.s generally wore large plumes of f:a-
thers, and the state apartments exhibited a scene of
great gaiety and rpieklour:
The bbip Mai y, bound to England, has, we find, re•
turned to Calcutta to be docked.. The. mails made up
for that swivel have; beeti.tranifeaved to the Sovereign,
tivhiCh is to sail for in five or six days. •
At two AM. on the morning of the Bth. 1 sere
,shuck :of an earthquake was felt in Calcutta. The mo.
don was considerable, and many persons were awakened
out of their sleep. It is. thought .to have lasted about a
minute.

00 this subject, a correspondent writes us as follows:
H A shock of an earthquake was very sensiblY felt in
Chow ringhee,. at about two minutes slier two o'clock
in the morning of yesterday, the Bth instant. Thi mo-
tion appeared to be from es“ to west, and the duration.'
of the earthquake was, not less than two minutes. Mail
persons wire awakened by it, and the noise made by
the crows it main the trees, proved flow much they
were mooted by theism's's:sr disturbance.°

• SUTTEES.
• PROM TIM INDIA GAZETTE.
En' our correspondence department will be found an
ueidunt of a woman !Awned hosts a Suttee, principally
thrOugh 'tiropeakinstrumentalitys• Fire bad abso-
lutely been aet;to tbe pile and the poor woman had
suitaioed cousideribte' injurfi before'she could make
'her eseipirgood;.l lit thietnitatace the woman does not
Appear. tobaeeliecp .I:S*ll4d:down; the consequence
-eat, dint When the•agorry of her situation becmue too
reat, the impulse of qaturebecerne more powerful than
, iti4logulaiwf sUperstitidn...ind she obeyed it.
• . vire Ulsirtave much pleasure in referring ourfeaders
to an. ipgenioiss proposal respecting Settees, 'which, if'
'adopted, We doubt nut would lte -lon put as entire
stop tat that horrible tilltOnl6' • , -• •
• *Ws noderstand'Ahat the' 'College of FortWtlliam will
.1400 mt. abPitshadispi niraserwed-some time ago. It is
eaidi housweeri-shaa,soisfe altmation.will be made
toastitutions•va 016Kiittatit,•*frailia of dx..goilitary as
'ell al alibi ilifirstrifice. •?' • , '

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