WINDSOR, OCT. 5.-The King...
The Times, 1824-10-06T00:00:00

WINDSOR, OCT.XV5.-TE King took his aceustoe .airing inth, Park, yesterday, and in the af-temoon had a select party to dlinner at the Roval Lodge; amn h guests were the Duke of' Wernng,ton, Prince Esterha the Austrian Ambassador, the Russian Ambassador~ Countess Lieven, &C. In the evening, the band OF the Life Guards attended, and played at the Royal Lodg, for the amusement of the company. On account ef the un.. favourable state of the weather this morning, the King has not left the Royal Lodge. The Dutch Ambassador transacted business with Mr. Secretary Canning, at the Foreign Ofice, yesterlay. Advices, dated the 16th of August, were received yester- day from Demerara. The inhabitants appeared appreben. siye of another revolt by the Ne oes; but the feeling was chiefly ascribed to the weak and defenceless state in -which the colony had been placed by the unhealteiness of the season. The rnoitaTity had been so great-among the EuroB pean troops, that at the date of these'aecoouts only17 were able to do duty. The militia in consequence had been callea out to do the town duty. Extract from a letter, dated Madrid, Sept. 19 :-" I wish I could gratify your inquiries as reOgards politics. it-puz- zles me most to know how this Governmerii goes oB frora day to day. An Englishman, of all others, is at a loss from the accustomled regularity and promptness with which everv department of the state is filled in his own couutry; while here we have been for montbs withot. a Minister for Foreign Affairs. We have a Min2ster of' Marine, with. out a navy; of War, without an arny; and, to crown all a Finance Minister, without a soas It is said various pro. positions have been made for a loan, from five to twenty. five millions sterling, and,with the exception of two, having for their basis the recognition of the Cortes bands. By an arr8t, however, of the Privy Council of Ministers oa Friday night last, no greater sum is to be borrowed tharn what is provided for by the Sinking Fund-8soo millions- (reals); and that not to be given out at less than 60, and without any reference to tbe loans of the Cortes. Sir Wm and Lady A'Court, and Mr. Dandas, left us last Thursday week for Lisbon, to their infinite joy." The East India Company's ship Duke of York arrived at Bombay, on the 6th, and the Thomas CouttU on the 19th of bfay. The Mfary, Ardlees, from Bengal and Madras, to Lon- don, which was wrecked in Aoossel Bay, Cape of Good HoPe on 9th of July, had on board nearly 1,000 chests of indigo, most of which, it was expected, would be saved, and also the rest of the valtable uart of her cargo. The King of the Netherla-nds has presented to M. Bow. rng and Al. Van Dyk, a superb gold medal, with an encomiastic Latin inscription, in approbation of their translatiots from the poets of HoUand, collected in the " Bacavian Anthology." Bombay papers have arrived to the 22d of May, con. taining intellizence from MAarzs to the 25th of April, and from Cal- cutta to the 20th of that month. On the 23d of April. Commodore Grant, wbo commands the naval part of the expedition against the Burmnese, embarked at Mladras, under a salute, oan board the LFqty frigate, which ailed the same day for RaDgoon. The latest ac counts in the extracts from the Calcutta papers, reiDgthe ope. rations against the Burmese, extend only to the 28- of March, on which day Brigadier Maciorine forwraded a despatch, announcing the occupation, by our troops, of Gowhatty, the capital of Assam. The enemy had, during the preceding night, evacuated the whole of their stockades in anrd adjoining -owh3tty, and retired, as was re- ported, to Roosah, to join a considerable body of Burmese at that place. A few loaded iroB guns, a pair of colours, and a dead body dreadfully mutilated, were found in the place. The Burmese, it was said, had, the day before their retreet, blown 14 Assarnese chiefs from the cannon's mouth. It was supposed that no further resist. ance would be made by the Burmese. Several of the Assenese tribes had assembled to harass them in their retreat to Ava. The Rajah of Lucky Dew'ah, and some other chicfks had been carded off by the Burmese. Sir Christopher Puller had ar- riyed at Calcutta, and on the 15th of April took the oaths as Chief Justice, under the customary salute. On the 5th of April two sifting-houses at the powder-mills of Papa-mew, near Allahabad, containing near 30 barrels of gunpowder, blew up. and about 40 persons were destroved by the explosion. blr. Lindsay, the superintendant of the works, and bis family, for. tunately escaped, Accounts had reached Bombay from Bussorab, thu a body of 8.000 Nubian slaves, commanded by Nbunud Pacha Hakim, of Mecca, had had a severe contest with the Bedouins. at a place caUed Eseer, in which nea-ly 2,000 men, with threesirdsrs of Eseer, were killed, and about 500 taken prisoners, and carriea to Cosseir. It was further reported that the troops which went azainst Assert, soutb of Judda, had been completely successfuL Sir Charles Harcourt Chamben landed at Bombay on the 7th of Way, urn4er the salute due to his rank. A mint was about to be erecdati Bom- bay, on the north side of the esplanade between Bck..bay and the road leading to Girgaum. There were reports fron Chittagag that a Burmese army of 30,000 men had assembled iu that neigbbDar. hood. ready to breal: in on our frontier as soon as Rangoon was attacked. The Berwickshiire East Indinman arrived at Calcutta oa the 3d of May. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 26.- n the 5th of this month, one of the sisters of the Sultan Wahmnoud met with a serious occi- dent. She went to Dolmal.Bayhtiki, to see the sports at the firstfete of Courban-Bairan. As she was about to retum, she pot into her carriage, to which the oxen were not harnessed; and before they were, the stoncs placed behind the wheels to prevent the Cirriage roiling back (it being on the top of a hill) were misplaced, and the carriage precipitated to-the bottomC. The Princess had am arm broken, two of theslaves died, and the coachmnan was severely injured._ Journal de: De&ots. The following statement has been put forth in the Bafh Journal, relative to General i!ina, to correct a previous account:- Although it is so far trme, that the satisfaction of ltaving contri- buted to the recovery of this brave officer had superseded aU idea or wish of remuneration on the part of Dr. Gaitskell, and prompted hiun to decine any thing of the kind. he considers it Is but due to the grateful and generous conduct of his patient to state, that a few days after General Msfina, his lady, anld some friends, called to take leave. The General then requested the doctor would permit his lady to wear a small memorial in rememr.brance of him, at the same time presenting hIirs. Gaitskeil with an envelope, containing a very hand- some present. It is almost unnecesar to add, that the General was sent to Bath by Sir Astley Cooper, for the express purpose of using the springs, just at the period most proper for cmpletng the cure his skill and attention had very materially advanced." The Administration of the Paris Mint have invited ar- tists to a competition in punches and matrices for striking coin with the effigy of his Mlajesty Charles X., in piecci of 4Ofr. in geld, and 5fr. in xilver. The reverse and the edge will be the sanme as at pre- sent. The artist whose work shall be declared, by a jury specially appointed. to be most perfect, will receive I9,000.tr. each for the gold and the silver coin. Thc matrices will retain the name of the sr. tist by whom they rre engraved. The artistwhoseworkfotrtheh.C84 of the piece of 40fr. may be preferred, will be bound to engrave that for the piece of 20fr. ; and he whose production for the piece of 5fr. may be prefcrred, wvill be kound to engrave that for the piece of 2fr. In the prize of l,OOOfr. for each of the above pieces, wilt be includ. ed the value of the punches and matrices fhr tne pieee6 of 49fr., 20fr.1 5fr., and 2fr. After the decision of 'the jury, all the punches sot. matrices of the candidates will be retained by the Mint, but the im- pregslons, If they wish it, will be given them upons tin.-Paris pa2 s r. I'ADABItzrNG.-The whole of the Quadrant to Picca- dilly was on Monday enclosed preparatory to taking up the granite pavement lately laid down, nan l 'Adalnzing the street hnarrow way for carriages is still left on one side, but owing to neglect iu wit attaching lanterns to the railing, several accidents to horses and car- riages; occur at niht. This was particularly the-e opposite to the County Fire Office, where the rails were brok4lowa in two placrs by horses tumbling over themn. THE BitiojttOHT ROAD InT 1750.-" If," savs Horace WValpolo, in one of hig letters, " vou- love good oads, conveniences, good inns, plenty of postilions and horses, -be so kind as never to go into Snasex. llr8 thought oursevevr in the northiit part of Eng- land; the whole country has a Saxon air, and thri,luabitants are savage, as if King George the Second was thsert Monarch of the East Angles. Coaches grow there no more thsd balm and spices; we wete forced to drop oar pogstch4ise, that resembled nothing ri much as Harlequin's calash, which was occasionally a chaise or baker's cart. Sussex is a great damaper cf curiosity." .Iv THr RULING PAssION.-At Margate, Mrs. B.. tvent lovely woman, fainted in the bAll-_otn, On 1-V .Jater OR tbe e remonies' niilit. When h10 ;ttiendants were rubbing her templem 'O4 _lingary water, she begged them to desist, as it woaPa meJ: SHeARING HANDS.-At a late duel in }entuccy, tie par- tics discharged their pistol' *ithoutt bcct; wlhereupon one of the seconds IntPrfered, nd proposed that the combatant; shGuld shak- hands. Tf o this the other second objected as unnecensr fOr; said he, " their hands have been shaking this half hour." ARE LAWYERS AND PiysiIciAxs NvisANCES?-TlhP City Comncil of Pensacola have ordained tlat lawyers, pbi5d:ans, and persons holding civil appointments under the eaneral and tern. tonal governments, except notaries a.nd instices-ofthe peace, shal pay a tax of ten dollars. So far as relaCs to the officers of the twe Governments, the law is unconstitutional, and the tax cnnot legally be collected ; and unless the law ers and phypiciar- have become nuisances, we doubt very mueh the authoritv of t}e council to levy a discriminating tax upon ther tle tf ofthe councir. ,IONhEY PoIsoN..-Colonel Rottiers relates, that during his residence at Trebisonde in 1816, he visited the placefrom which the 10,600 Greeks under Xenopho beheld the sea. He remarked the rins of an ancient temple of the time of the Emperor Adiunu. The ralldodedr,rm ponticucre grows there on al the mrstntais, and : the inhabitants asser that the bees extract a honeyfrom it, which, mixed with that of other flowers, isA kind of poisin, causing stUpor; ina greater or leIs degree, according to the seasto of the year. ht., Duipre. th e Consul of France, wh o aeonipanied Colojiel Rotticre, assured hira that he ha d experienced this effet himsel?f. This, therefore, confirnts what Xenophon. says about this htoney in ig - Anabasis. The inbabitants and the Turks call this honey delRilwt - or stronn r honey.-Liferary Gzet le. Ohl Fortescue says e xultingly,tbat in his time an u-nglish- man had toe qeiut a heart to remain in want of any thing which soother had, b ut would takeit byf6rce; that the ScotchidmeritTnne towardly and mee patty larceny regues, and that there were teM imes more men hanged, fo robbery a n E ngland th in Scoflad.