mighty God, which I do not understand. For your information I have written this small account: all that has occurred it is impossible to describe. To-day, between twelve and two o'clock, the same has happened. On Wednesday night, some people assert, that the earth was again shaken. I have this moment received accounts from Moorvee, that the same has occurred there; that some of the houses and part of the walls of the fort have fallen, and the people suffered great losses. I do not know the extent of the damage.

Miscellanies, July 7.-The despondency so proverbial amongst Englishmen in the mouth of November, appears to attack the natives of this part of the world at the setting in of the rains, for during this last week several inquests have been held on people who have destroyed themselves without much appa

rent cause.

Cotton still maintains its high prices, and some purchases have been made that will not allow of our quoting: freight to China, higher than 25 rupees per candy-(Bom. Gaz:7)

Extract of a Letter received in England: Bombay, June 20.-We are all here in that kind of monotony, which nothing but a little news from our little island can enliven. Our grand staple, cotton, has failed, and we have twenty-four traders in the harbour who would be glad to take freight at 5 pounds per ton, bat cannot procure it. Our present governor, Sir E. Nepean, is about to remove,' and will be succeeded by Mr. Elphinstone, our commissioner in the Deccan. An expedition will most certainly go hence to the Persian Gulf in October, to put a finishing blow to the extermination of the pirates, or make them all honest men. That extraordinary disease, the cholera morbus, still continues its ravages, but still we are not wiser as to its eauses than at first, though it appears, if remedies be administered in time, the fatal cases are few. From August 1817 to this time, the people swept off by it, in the Company's territories, are calculated at 150,000, of whom 31,000 have been Europeaus or their descendants. Whole villages are completely depopulated; and such has been the terror on this side of India, that a fleet of boats laden with corton, was totally deserted in one night by the crews. On another occasion, the inhabitants of a village in Salsette, set on a stranger and murdered him, under the impression of his being a sorcerer. The whole village was tried and found guilty to the number of 90 persons, who lay some months in prison, but were at last pardoned. — (Plymouth and Dock Telegraph, Nov. 11.)

own house; and during their stay, which was ten days, treated them with the utmost hospitality. The Captain and his mates dined every day at the king's table, and the crew had a large house to themselves. On the 31st of May, the ship Thames of London, came into the bay, took them all on board, and carried them to Bombay. The three boats were left with the king of Johanna, as a return for his kind treatment, the captain of the Thames declining to bring them away. They all arrived safe at Bombay, on the 21st of June.

The Company's ships, Charles Grant and Lowther Castle, arrived on the 28th of May, and the Inglis on the 29th.

April 6. At Surat, Mrs. Maria Carr, wife of Lieut.James Carr.... 7. At Aurungabad, Maj. James Macbean, of the 2d batt. 13th Madras N. I..... 15. At Colabab, L.D.M. Waddington, infant daughter of the late Lieut. H.C. S. Waddington.... 30. Joseph Arrathoon, Esq. a respectable Armenian merchant....June 30. Mary Flora Nightingall, infant daughter of Alexander Maxwell, Esq. M. D., aged nine months.... In July, Lucy Furbish, infant daughter of the Rev. Horatio Bardwell, American missionary, aged twenty months

. At Mauritius, on the 16th July, Sir Alexander Anstruther, Recorder of his Majesty's Court of Judicature at Bombay.

CEYLON.

REVOLT IN KANDY.

Unofficial. Published in Ceylon. Capture of Maha Betme.-Extract from the Ceylon Government Gazette, Colom

bo, April 10.-"The tranquillity of the Kandyan provinces is so completely restored, and the plots and hopes of the factious and discontented so thoroughly crushed, that the apprehension of a few deserted rebels lurking in the jungle may be thought of little importance, yet we have satisfaction in publishing the following extract from a letter, dated Badulla, the 5th inst.-"I have much pleasure in reporting to you the capture of the rebel Maha Betme, of Kattragam Temple, together with his uncle and the whole of the Allamulla family, by a party of Kandyans, sent by Captain Ritchie, under the direction of that active chief Dikapittia, who succeeded in this enterprise, after several days laborious search in the jungle of Nikawitte. The Kapoor Nileme has also been secured by the same party, and with the others, is in close custody at Katabowa. It is here needless for me to enter into the character of this Maha Betme, as it is doubtless well known that he was the most active and determined rebel of the three Maha Betmes. He will upon his arrival here be brought to trial, as well as the Kattakille Mohattale. With the exception of the Priest Pretender, and Andiawolle Mohattale, both of whom must ere long be in our possession, there is not a single chief at large who can disturb the tranquillity of these provinces ; a circumstance that affords me infinite satisfaction, and on which I beg to offer you my sincere congratulations. The prisoner just secured is called the real Maha Betme, in allusion to a capture made some time ago of another Maha Betme, who was at first mistaken for the notorious rebel leader who bore the same rank and title."

LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL.

Execution.-Jayecodie Aratchigey Samuel, a prisoner convicted of the murder of Domingo Koralegay Don Juanis Appoo, was-in conformity with the sentence of death passed upon him by the Supreme Court on the 15th of February last, and the warrant of his excellency the Governor, dated the 25th of the same month authorizing the fiscal for the town fort and district of Colombo to carry the said sentence into execution— conducted in a bullock cart escorted by an officer's guard from the gaol of Colombo on Sunday, the 28th February, to the Rest House, at Jayelle, where he arrived about sun-set, and was there attended by the superior priest of the Roman Catholic church. And on the next day, being Monday, the 1st March, in the morning, he was conveyed from the said Rest House of Jayelle to the village Bandegodde (being the place appointed by the

sentence for his execution), attended by the said priest, and was there executed between the hours of nine and ten in the forenoon. The spectators of this awful scene were numerous. From the moment he observed that he was to suffer death, he seemed in a perpetual confusion of mind, and totally cast down.

Spasmodic Cholera. While we have the gratification to pronounce the epidemic on the decline in Colombo, that pleasure is alloyed by our recent accounts from Kandy, where this disorder has within the last few days made its appearance. Twenty-three cases are stated to have occurred in that town, a great proportion of which have terminated fatally.

Excursion to Adam's Peak.—Adam's Peak, on the island of Ceylon, is consi-, dered to be at an elevation of about 7,000 feet, and in some places very difficult of ascent; so steep, indeed, in one part, as only to be scaled by the help of chains hanging down the precipice. These obstacles, however, have lately been surmounted by three ladies from Columbo, where, according to the natives, the impression of Buddha's foot in the rock is to be traced. A letter to the editor of the Government Gazette, dated April 29th, describes the enterprize." On the 24th of March, the hon. Mrs. Twisleton, Mrs. Shuldham, and Mrs. Walker, did, upon their own tender feet, climb the rugged rocks, clamber up the chain-hung precipice, and stand upon the celebrated foot of Adam's Peak. Don't mistake me; I mean Buddha's-foot, upon the very tiptop of the mountain; not what is vulgarly called the foot of the hill, where any gentleman would be ashamed to remain after the feat of those female pedestriaus."

Monsoon. The south-west monsoon set in on the 19th April, which is much earlier than usual at Columbo. The ships in the roads rode very heavy ; two of them that were riding with chain cables, the Richmond and Prince Regent, had their winlasses broken, and the former lost 70 fathoms of her chain. Several others lost anchors.

The Wilhelmina plundered by her Javanese Crew.-From Capt. Lewis, of the Prime, we have heard the following deplorable account of the brig Wilhelmina, belonging to Ceylon. About the middle of last January, Capt. Onetto, who commanded her, sailed from Penang with a crew consisting chiefly of Javanese, whom he had picked up in that port. On the second or third day of his voyage, the Javanese, eight in number, massacred the captain, his wife, some of their relations who were on board, two passengers, their servants, and the rest of the crew. The cruel villains, after perpetrating these atrocious murders, plundered the vessel, scuttled her, and landed in the jolly boat

on the Pedir coast at the port of Merdoo, where they were received and protected by the chief. Here they soon quarrelled about the spoil, and one of them who had got one of Mrs. Onetto's jewels, ran away to Pedir. The king of Acheen suspecting the truth of the story which he told of his having been shipwrecked, had him searched, when the jewels were found upon him. He was ordered into confinenient; aud, upon being threatened, he confessed the barbarous deed. The king of Acheen, Jehan Allum Shah, demanded the other seven accomplices from the chief of Merdoo, who refused to give them up. It is the king's intention to deliver his prisoner to Sir T. S. Raffles, who was daily expected on that coast. The greater part of the Pedir coast is infested with pirates; two vessels have lately been plundered, and it is dangerous for any one that is not well mauned and armed to lie in a roadsted there.-Ceylon ›Gov. Gazette, March 20.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
Political-Official.

The following is an ordinance providing for the protection of Hottentot or other children.

Abstract Proclamation.—General Lord Charles Henry Somerset, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, aud Commander of the Forces, &c. &c. - Whereas, by a proclamation bearing date the 23d of April, 1815, the respective landdrosts of the country districts have been authorised to apprentice all Hottentot childreu, who have attained their eighth year, for the term of 10 years, to such of the inhabitants in whose service they may have been born, aud by whom they may have been maintained during the above-mentioned term of eight years, under the restrictions and regulations therein de

scribed. And whereas it has been represented to me, that it would be highly advantageous to the class of poor and unprotected infants, either Hottentots or others, who may at present or hereafter be found in this colony, and whose situations are not provided for by the said proclamatious, or by any other law or usage at present in observance in this colony, if some further provisions were made for their protection: I have therefore judged proper to order, that in future, in case of the death of Hottentot or other females in the service of inhabitants or otherwise, leaving behind them an infant or infants without means of subsistence, and whose cases have not been provided for in the proclamation of the 23d April, 1812, or any other law or usage at present in observance in this colony, or in case of any other accident by which such children shall have been deprived of the lawful protection they before enjoyed, the inha bitant in whose family such infant or infants, at the time of the decease of his, her, or their mother, or of such other accident may happen to be found, shall make due report of the same within three months, in Cape Town, to H.M. fiscal in the country districts, to the respective landdrosts; and in Simon's Town to the government residents, on pain of 100 rix-dollars, for every person neglecting to do so. And H.M. fiscal, the respective landdrosts, and the resident landdrosts, and the resident of Simon's Town aforesaid, are hereby authorised and directed, in the same manner as is prescribed in the said proclamation of the 23d April, 1812, to place all such Hottentots, or other unprotected iufant or infants, as by the laws and usages of this colony are not otherwise provided for, with Christian inhabitants of known and acknowledged humane disposition and good character, binding them as apprentice to such individuals, until they shall come to the age of 18 years, or, if females, until they shall come to the age of 18 years or to the time of their marriage.-Dated 9th July, 1819.

IRRUPTION OF THE CAFFRES.

Private, received in London.

Letters from the Cape, by the Golden Grove transport, dated Aug. 24, have been received. At that period the colony was entirely freed from their troublesome neighbours, the Caffres, who were driven or had retreated across the river that separates their territory from that of the Cape. Government, we are informed, have ordered the 21st regt. of light drag. from India to the Cape, which will completely secure the settlers from the future inroads of the Caffres. By the aid of cavalry, they may always be driven off beAsiatic Journ.-No. 48.

fore there has been time to effect any extensive mischief.

INFORMATION TO EMIGRANTS.

From the London Prints.

On the 18th November the Navy Board engaged eight or ten vessels to proceed to the Cape of Good Hope, at the rate of about 15s. per ton per month, with the option of keeping them after their arrival at the Cape, at the same rate.

Lists of settlers, to the number of 1500 men, exclusively of their families, are now before the Transport Board, which is occupied in making arrangements for their conveyance to their destination.

It appears, that the season of planting has been mistaken by those to whom the preparations for superintending the emigration were entrusted, and that instead of arriving at the planting season, the emigrants will reach their destination towards the close of summer. This circumstance, although unfortunate, may still be not destitute of advantage, as, at least, time will thus be afforded for erecting buildings, clearing lauds, and performing other necessary measures, calculated for the comfort and future success of the new inhabitants. A period of seven months must be reckoned upon as likely to elapse before any return of crops can be anticipated; so that those who go at this season will have to depend solely upon their own resources for that time. To those with small capitals, or those taking with them a large body of labourers, this is a circumstance demanding serious conside

ration.

A gentleman of the name of Baillie, is about to take out a little colony to the Cape of Good Hope, consisting of 267 persons, men, women, and children. It is stated that they command a capital of 25,000l. and have agreed to subscribe for the formation of a library, for the mutual advantages of the whole.

The following transports are preparing to receive settlers proceeding to the Cape of Good Hope:-In the port of London, Chapman, 558 tons; Nautilus, 403; Agamemnon, Diadem, and Ocean. At Liverpool:-Thetis, 550 tons; Stentor, 360.

The Northampton is preparing to receive Mr. Thomas Wilson, of Chelsea, and his party. The Chapman is nearly filled by Mr. Baillie and those proceeding with him. The Nautilus to receive Messrs. Scote, Crauze, Owen, and Wm. Smith, with their respective parties. The two latter sail together, and will be the first ships that depart for the new colony. The Ocean and Northampton the two next. The West Indian and La Belle Alliance, of between 5 and 600 tons, are taken up, and go next. The Weymouth store-ship is preparing to take up at Portsmouth. VOL. VIII. 4 K