The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1820-08-12 (London, England)

AMISS. TO 'Mt SDIToR or • " TIM C•LcETTA ouanas.." - •- • ",', Indignation was istrrogly excited here yesterday, et the Noisuccewhil attempts made by authority to persuade the 4.. or Ramiteen Sookool Siren st battalion 23,1 regimes', • . f.oni butitior herself with the body rat her husband, who died • to the forspitel on the night of the 17th instant. • t• slinhit three o'clock yesterday afternoon • vast crowd a, asst 'tabled at the place intended for the horrid sacriflre, hied% consisting of sirpoys of tooth battalions of the 2351 ireiment, and some of the Behooves; (Keen of those corps were attracted by curiosity to the ceremony, moat fortis. hsiely for the intruded victim. A particular Inquiry into the Uleale affair affords me the following information. " Lieutenants Ward end Waile, of the 434 rsgimeist, • - ...fie present on horseback near tier pile—the woman sod ihe body being, almost concealed in • hollow space, stir. bounded by wood. The woman appeared to recline beside corps., when the attendant Braining brought and beeped hp Twee bundles of straw. After distribating rice, Sowers, the pile was fired, and in leas than • minute, as the lire • ••11 lied lice, she sortskely rose, and placing her foot on the pile, actively .prang to the ground from • bright ati.wii how fret, and ran a few paces as fast as she could, • 3 3.1)0y forcibly seised her, carried her bark to the miss blessing, and cast bee into the tire—the effect of • she had hardly felt a second liana, when she again 1.-aped 'wit and ran away to b. fore • second time. 0n her bring thrown in the second time the Gentlemen wished the borers close to the pile, and had not • mimeo!! spare in interposing, as the same up.), was about to so. ze and throw her on the booting pile a third lime. The • untows rush of several at this instant, whose feelings ..r.. iii noixon (Among whom Serjeant major Junes, Ist hat' tahori Cd_regameat native infantry, was conspicuous), in. !evened Iwtwcen the pile sad the woman, and I was nut _ es,pwased to hear that the latter knocked down this baldirted wretch, also otherwise received some arverg blows. 2. i•etetisto Ward let go his horse, and look the womateis a-rn, and assisted by Serjesot major Jones, and Mr. 134.61, the 8.-.gede-Major's writer, escorted the *omen through the rued,accompanied by Lieutenant Wade, and some other geotlemen. These Repo>, nearest the pile could Dot immediately re. c•ide f.ona the pressure of the crnwd behind sheen ; but they .twistkiitly surrounded the party, and all but willingly yielded : usesege, through which the wonsau was led to • place of awifrty.• wherg she now is, and though sadly burnt, rsjoices i-et safety and life. She is declared to here lost her caste '4•eatie Bramins. end will be shunned accordingly but &tips s'e taken, or will be, fur a relate proeieisea for her. • it is remarkable, that out mass, a Hindoo, present, re. . es!ted oat that force was uniewja, that it was a e. under% The woman had been so Intoxicated with drugs . that site could hardly stand, end was not sober et sunset cwalerdsr, roc is so this moraine. It appears that she was iehristed to a degree that induced the Beaming not to tee • I.er down as customary, confidiog ice her incapacity to move ' vie° tl•e pile was find. . • Those who were instrumental in thus *seise • fellow. arsesture from a dreadful death, have doubtless a high re. weed en their evil feelings; and the degrees of danger at• ..iitneliog their leterfesence, which they must have been pert-et/1y sensible of, has heightened the admiration at the is. ••-eue. or so event (which it was supposed would be inevitably an very unexpected a release of ibis intended ...ciao to a horrid superstition. Had a rescue been attempt.rd, bat- one voice only been heard fur • rescue, the fate of re he telesoaq was certain, mid perhaps that of those who might il.are interposed to save her cwt ICIPO so. Bet generous souls VIA tree Britons nee above feat ; and be who would not • kevolejt the entwine of humanity, and acted as these did ou an occasion inspiring the best feelings of our nature, O little to be envied Abet • costrset to the surrounding multitude! that • few .;toropeans, epurning all ides of danger, when apparently • ntsat imminent, 'tmid is the cause of distress have risked I4.eir lives, when, as I am comvioceill, the chances were a -sheirsited to owe against them; fur had • inarvaer beets beard, • they bail probably been torn to pieces. While this warmth • dwells in our beasts, while our triode are imbued with, and 'our adieu's guided by our religion, sod the laws of our .essowlry founded on the doetrimes of that religion, Britons will sever he compered. Tie expellees attendee( a suttee are stated is the letter s.detad from asittnor, November, 1819, and published ice your •• • Jikuniel of rhe 30th of December last, al 7b3 rupees. The •. espeosedeprode on the rank and wealth of the deceased. • reasonings and observitioss following that eery inters-sting ammo of the shocking immolation, experience will • psocounee to be strictly true sod just. If I recollect, a ~guard of Serifs werewolf me the occasiss adverted to, as happening duress the Marquis Wellealey's administration, to Sougor lalasd, to prevent the &laded and devoted victims . throwing thentadves iota the AM to be devoured by sharks ' marl alligators, a custom held as sacred and indispensable as ehr burning of widow.. . The last paragraph of that letter 1 know to be true in se. veal instances, in whirls the wildest irepeasoioas of despair and resolutions to commit suicide, if Dot permitted to he bared with their booboo'''. Wier, were never followed by the art. Al!ow me la clime this hoop letter, which 1 am fearful hulk yosiond your readers may think most tedious, with two 10' dances of Hindoo barbarity At a Ghost In Bengal, I saw a • woman thrown alive tato the river, and perish, because, as shot pririctrators of the deed told me, she hod been tong ifti; • modem • 'nitre, jest ao she pile was about to he lighted, a body of 'nen rushed forward, pot eat the ire, and declared dheanod should not burp till it was paid for. They were • wood sellers, and the dispute between them and the Bromine was on the difference of foto ennuis., its value, sod 'sated with great violence for half its hour, during which lush mi. . seeable woman was is as agstaising suspense, imploring Ow . wierliere. death trim the drawn swords of her 'datives' served her or the bring of the pile. She did not escape, bet . was burnt. and the expressioss of horror that took place I . will ant describe. ' 1 rant the foresees-awe mitretely detailed (and which hap. peered Ent) for pobbealion, wtlbswt