the residence of consuls such particular places, as such party shall judge fit to be so excepted. Article 5.-This Convention, when the same shall have been duly ratided by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of their senate, and by his Britannic Majesty, and the respective ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be binding and obligatory on the said United States and his Majesty for four years from the date of its signature, and the ratifications shall be exchanged in six months from this time, or sooner if possible.

Done at London, this 3d day of July in the year of our Lord 1815.

between the two countries, that in consequence of events which have happened in Europe subsequent to the signature of the convention aforesaid, it has been deemed expedient and determined, in conjunction with the allied sovereigns, that St. Helena shall be the place allotted for the future residence of General Napoleon Bonaparte. under such regulations as may be necessary for the per'fect security of his person; and it has been resolved, for that purpose, that all ships and vessels whatever, as well British ships and vessels as others, excepting only ships belong ng to, the East-India Company, shall be excluded from all communication with, or approach to, that island. -It has therefore become impossible to comply with so much of the third artiele of the treaty as relates to the liberty of touching for refreshment at the island of St. Helena, and the ratifications of the said treaty will be exchanged under the explicit declaration and understanding, that the vessels of the United States cannot be allowed to touch at, or hold any communication whatever with, the said island, so long as the said island shall continue to be the place of residence of the Said Napoleon Bonaparte.

(Signed) Anthony St. Jno, Baker. Washington, Nov. 24, 1815.

CHINA.

ABOUT the end of June, the Lady Barlow anchored at Calcutta, froni China, the 15th April, and Penang the 3d June, bringing letters to the 11th April; the contents of which, (say the Calcutta papers) when compared with the gloomy accounts last received from that quarter, are very consolatory. The disputes existing between the Viceroyalty of Canton and the Honourable Company's Supra cargoes, which, in the beginning of the year, had risen to such a height as threatened the annihilation of all amica ble relations, seem latterly to have greatly subsiided; and friendly intercourse to have been established on its ancient footing. In consequence, however, of some oppressive edicts against the opiumvenders, and of the market being overstocked with cotton, the trade in those staples was exceedingly dull. We have not been able (continue these papers) to ascertain the degree of credit, which is due to the current story of the existence of civil war in the empire of China; but cannot believe the disturbances, if any such there were, to have been of a serious nature, as the letters we have perused from intelligent residents at Canton, are silent on the subject. The following extracts sufficiently explain the causes of the dull state of the market for Bengal produce:

"Canton, March 28.The appear ance of the Ladies Sophia and Barlow, has put us into such confusion, that we

should have been much better without them.

"We thought, two months ago, that all the cotton of the season had arrived but seeing these ships come, and hearing that two others, the Katharine and Hope, were to sail for this place soon after them, we are led to believe with the Chinese, that there will be no such thing as shutting the door, and that supplies of cotton may be expected constantly. The consequence of which is, that the price is down, and will probably continue low. Opium, on the contrary, is nominally high; say dollars 1,320; but I might almost as well quote you any other price as this, inasmuch as there is no possibility of selling even a chest, either at Wampoa or Macao. About a month ago, all the principal dealers in the article, were seized by the Casa Branca Mandarin, (a town of that name near Macao) with a view of extorting money from them; and they, hoping to buy themselves off at as cheap a rate as they had been accustomed to do, would not come to his terms, and were, therefore, sent to this place. They still held out in expectation of an eventual accommodation, but unfortunately too long, as the business having got to the ears of the viceroy and high mandarins, could not be hushed up, and has proceeded to the utmost extremity—the dealers have been put to the tortureobliged to confess all, and perhaps more than they had even done to name the persons that they had been in the habit

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of buying from-and finally sentenced to banishment. "Added to this, one or two have been lately detected in smuggling amall quantities of the drug and altogether such a panic has been struck, that those persons concerned in the traffic, who were not apprehended, have been -glad to run away, so that no sales can be made in the usual manner. There are at least 700 chests now on hand at Macas, that will remain, and be there when the new opium arrives; as the watch and persecution is so great, that they cannot even remove it from the godowns in which it is lodged, to get it on board ship. How the matter will end it is impossible to say. It appears to me, however, that there is but one way of getting rid of that which is expected, which is to deliver it among the islands; if people can be found bold enough to purchase it, and take it from the ships, which I much doubt."

Canton, April 11.-We have now got rid of all the Company's ships, and Canton is dull and quiet in every sense, as the fate of several of the Hong merchants is uncertain, and whether the younger Hongs will be made bankrupt or not. If the latter, I have no doubt but they will succeed in paying off their creditors in seven years; if the former, there is is no saying what may be the consequence to the general trade. Some inconvenience is at present experienced in the sale of opium, owing to some of the principal dealers having been apprehended, and sentenced to be banished to Elee. The attempt to stop the use of opium can no more be carried into effect, than an edict for preventing the consumption of spirituous liquors in Great Britain."

Macao, July 6, 1815.-Yesterday the American schooner Trader, arrived in 108 days from Philadelphia, bringing accounts of the conclusion of peace with America. In consequence, the American ships Beaver, Levant, Brutus, and Lellia Bird, which have remained here two years, dismantled, are preparing for sea with cargoes for America.

The only American prize made by his Majesty's ships in this quarter, is the schooner Viagente, of 170 tons. She was fitted out by some Dutch agents at Batavia, under English colours, for a voyage to the N. W. coast of America. The Elk, Captain Curran, fell in with her, bringing a cargo of furs from Kamschatka, ten days before the period prescribed for making captures had expired. We have accounts from Manilla, of about 20 days date, when there was nothing new there. They were greatly in want of specie, and had been so for a considerable time. There was much anxiety expressed for the arrival of their galleon from South America. The ships lying at Whampoa (to the Canton river), besides the Amer

icans named above, are the Drotrigen, a Swede, loading for Europe; the Hope and Success, English country ships, loading for India; and the Trader, just arrived. At Macao, are his Majesty's ships Revolutionnaire, Captain Woolcombe; Alpheus, Captain Langford; and the Elk, Captain Reynolds. Capt. Curran, late of the Elk, is posted into the Volage, which ship is named to aeturn to England; Captain Reynolds was promoted from the Doris. The Cuffnels and Royal George are hourly looked for from Pulo Penang; they were both there, all well, 20 days since.

BENGAL.

Calcutta, July 1, 1815.-Yesterday se'nnight the Helen, Capt. Ambrose, passed Kedgeree, from the west coast of Sumatra the only intelligence communicated by her is comprised in the following extract of a letter from a Gentleman on board the Helen, dated Kedgeree, the 23d ult. :

"We are just arrived in the Helen, from the west coast of Sumatra, last from Annalabo, left the 5th instant, having brought back iome of her outward cargo, dollars and piece goods, after a cruise of seven weeks on the coast from port to port. A number of French vessels had been there for cargoes; but the whole line of Acheen ports are in such an unsettled state, owing to the King of Acheen being on the spot, carrying on the war fo bring them under subjection to him, that trade is out of the question, and tho people are afraid to bring their peppar down from the hills:-a ship is not allowed to trade without the King's chop, and the commander being made collector of the King's duties on this account, the ports who do not acknowledge his authority refuse to trade. The King's fleet consists of five vessels, carrying some four and others six guns, Commodore Fenwick is the King's Prime Minister and naval commander; their military force is sixty or seventy sepoys; they had besieged Sooso seven weeks, but at last were obliged to leave it. The ship Argo, on her way down the coast, run aground on the rocks off Passage Island, and was obliged to heave a great part of her cargo overboard. The vessels on the coast belonging to this port, are the brigs Gloucester and Helen, bound to Penang, The Clara had just arrived and sailed to the southward; and the Sultana, of Bombay, Capt. Kemp, with no cargo on board, was left at Annalabo. The King of Acheen's fleet and army were about to proceed down to the ports of Sabraddic and Trumain to destroy those places. Mr. Prince, Resident of Tapanooly, had been obliged to seize on a schooner of the King of Acheen, off that port, which had been committing many depredations in plundering boats of all descriptions.”” (4

July 14.-Though the regular troops are returning from the scene of their late operations, the corps of Sikhs still remain in the hills. Though a handsome race of men, they are far inferior, as soldiers, to the Goorkhas: of this a proof was given on the 19th of March in the stockade at Jiheend when they received a handsome lesson from the mountaineers. The Sikhs were in number about 1200, in a good position on the S. W. bank of the Gumbha. They are tall fine looking men, armed with sabres and matchlocks, and to use the words of our correspondent, "on viewing their long flowing beards and large sabres, and hearing their assertions, one might think they would eat the devil." The General had very good information of the intention of Umar Sing to try to dislodge these people, and particular cautions were given them to prepare for the attack. This injunction they despised, under the impression that it was suggested by a laudable desire to keep them alert. Perhaps too they thought that any extraordinary precautions would have the appearance of fear, a feeling, which in the sequel, they evinced in no trifling degree. A party of Goorkhas, in number about 400, descended from Maloun in the dusk of the evening, and approaching the stockade remained quiet till the moon had gone down. The Sikhs were in perfect security, not more than 300 occupied the stockade, which was intended to be the night post of the whole party; and the rest, like their companions on duty, enjoyed a comfortable state of repose, scattered about in their adjoining cantonment. The Goorkhas divided into three bodies, gave the assault. One division discharged a volley, another stormed the stockade and put the Sikhs to the sword, while the third fired the cantonment. The surprise was complete: all was flight, confusion and dismay. The appalling shouts of the Goorkhas, which when uttered by large bodies, and reechoed by the mountains, seem fit to "rend hell's concave," prevented the possibility of any formation or attempt to rally. The Sikhs within the stockade made a feeble resistance; their chief was slain at the first onset, and 250 men felt the Goorkha sabre. Of these about 60 wretches survived and were brought to Colonel Arnold's camp the next day. No succour could be sent from Ruttingurh, or the adjoining posts, nor could any de tachment have been useful in the dark ness of the night and the confusion of the fugitives. The Goorkhas burnt the stockade, carried off the trophies, and were seen at the dawn of day slowly ascending to Maloun. In the course of the morning, scattered parties of the Sikhs were seen all around at the disAsiatic Journ-No. II.

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tance of two and three miles. desired not to be re-posted in the scene of their late defeat, which they averred to be (and with some appearance of truth) a haunted and most unlucky place. The loss of the chief who was killed in the stockade was the chief subject of regret. He had, while under the command of Lieutenant Ross, distinguished himself on the heights above Belaspoor, and was a few days previous to this disaster invested with an honorary dress.

We learn from good authority that the Right Hon, the Governor-General, the Lady Loudoun, their family, and suite, will leave Futtigurh for the Presidency, between the 20th and 30th of this month. The following is a list of the officers of the General Staff, and composing the personal Staff and suite of his Excellency the Right Hon. the Governor-General and the Commander in Chief, who are to attend his Lordship on his return by water to the Presidency

General Staff.-Col. Macmahon (King's troops), Adjutant-General; Col. Nicolls (King's troops), Quarter-Master-General; Lieutenant-Col, Fagan, Adjutant-General; Lieut. Col. Paton, QuarterMaster General; Major Nicoll, Deputy-AdjutantGeneral; Major Casement, Deputy-Quarter-Master-General; Lieut. , Acting Assistans Adjutant-General.

Personal Staff and Suite of his Excellency the Right Hon. the Governor-General and Commander in Chief.-Major Doyle, Military Secretary to the Governor-General and Commander in Chief; Major the Hon. L. Stanhope, Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General and Commander in Chief; Major Forsteen, ditto ditto; Captain Macra, ditto ditto; Captain Stanhope, ditto ditto; Captain Fitzclarence, ditto ditto; Lieutenant Dwyer, ditto ditto; Lieutenant Cobbe, ditto ditto; Lieutenant Caldwell, ditto ditto com. the escort; Captain Stewart, Assistant Commissary General and extra Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-General and Commander in Chief; Captain Huthwaite, Persian Interpreter J. Hare, Esq. Surgeon; Rev. J. R. Henderson, Chaplain.

On the 31st of last month, his Lordship reviewed the camel corps, under the command of Major Lumsdane, at Futtigurh. The following account of this military spectacle is from the pen of an intelligent correspondent :

"His Lordship was received on his arrival with the usual salute. The ma nual and platoon exercise was then ordered; after which the camel-corps wheeled into open column of troops, formed column in rear of a flank troop, and deployed into line. The corps then formed a hollow square and dismounted. After several discharges of musketry the men remounted, and the corps formed an ambuscade in a tope, and kept up a surprising fire from the swivels. It then changed position, and performed several other cavalry evolutions, which gained great applause.

"During the cannon-salute, the wad from one of the swivels struck the camel on the head and killed him. This accident occasioned some little interruption. His lordship was much pleased with the VOL. I. 2 B

appearance and performances of the .corps."

His Majesty's 53d foot reached Benares on the 3d instant, and after delivering a quantity of treasure ordered to be left at that city, sailed on the 6th for the Presidency.

In May last, arrived off this city a vessel, which is intended to be stationed as a floating light off the Sand Heads; this will be of the greatest advantage to the navigation of the Hoogly. She was built at Bombay expressly for the purpose to which she has been appropriated. The following is a short description of her :"Her construction is very peculiar-head and stern alike; she was built at Bombay, and is about 180 tons burthen. As she is intended to stand against the boisterous weather which often prevails at the Sand Heads, her frame is uncommonly strong, and does great credit to the builder. The lanthorn which is to be fixed to her has been sent out from England; it is large, and well adapted for the service."

July 26th. 1815.-Yesterday, the annul disputation in the Oriental languages of the Students in the College of Fort William, was held at the Government House, before his Excellency the VicePresident, as acting visitor, the Judges . of the Supreme Court, his Lordship the Bishop of Calcutta, the Judges of the Sudder Dewanny Adaulut, and the principal Civil and Military Officers at the Presidency. A numerous company of Ladies and Gentlemen, and many learned and respectable natives were present, and witnessed the distribution of Prizes.

In the evening, the Vice-President entertained the principal persons of the settlements, at a grand dinner at the Governor's house. Vide page 161.

Marriages.

Deaths.

MADRAS.

quarters at the Ameer Baug. Salutes of 17 guns from the garrison of Fort St. George and the palace of Chepauk an.nounced the General's arrival, and an honorary guard of the Grenadier Company of his Majesty's 56th regiment, under the command of Major Gualy, with a regimental colour, received his excellency with military honours, on his return from the command of the army of reserve, lately assembled for field service.

Yesterday morning his Excellency paid a visit of ceremony to his highness the Nabob of Arcot. The General was escorted by the body guard of the Right Hon. the Governor, and his entrance to Chepauk Palace announced by a salute of 17 guns, which was repeated on his taking leave of the Nabob, and proceeding to the Ameer Baug.

The East-India Company, we understand, have entered into a contract for a term of years with the Board of Ordnance, for supplying the whole annual stock of saltpetre for the national consumption, deliverable at 36s. per cwt. Individuals, therefore, are not likely, for the present, to derive much benefit from the free exportation of this article, permitted by the new charter.

June 24.-On Tuesday evening the Right Honourable the Governor, gave a grand public dinner at the banqueting room of the government gardens to his Excellency the commander in chief on his return to the Presidency. About two hundred officers sat down to this wellarranged and splendid entertainment.The wines were excellent, extremely well cooled, and in the greatest abundance and variety. The dinner was expressly military, the members of government and the secretaries who were present, forming the only exception.

Immediately on the cloth being removed, the Right Honourable the Governor, in an elegant and appropriate address, congratulated the commander in chief on his return to the Presidency-Mr. Elliot in the course of his speech complimented the Madras army on their exemplary conduct during their late march-which he could not better describe, than in mentioning a circumstance, which reflected equal honour on their commander and their own high state of discipline. The regiments which had assembled for field service, had been drawn from various and distant garrisons and cantonments, and to their credit be it spoken, not a single complaint had reached government, of the smallest irregularity having taken place, in the different districts through which they had proceeded-this, Mr. Elliot said, he noticed as a peculiar satisfaction to himself and the Government collectively. The Governor closed his speech by giving his Excellency Lient.

Gen. Sir Thomas Hislop, commander in chief, and the army of the coast.

As soon as the applause which followed this toast had somewhat subsided, the General rose, and in a short speech expressed his thanks to the Right Honourable the Governor.

The Right Honourable the Governor shortly after gave the health of his Excellency Sir George Burlton, and the squadron in India; on which the Admiral immediately rose and returned his thanks. The Governor concluded the entertainment by proposing the health of Lieut.-Gen. Abercrombie, late Governor and commander in chief, which was drank with three times three.

Mr. Elliot retired a little before 12 o'clock, but many of the party remained until about four o'clock on Wednesday morning.

August 7, 1815.-Yesterday afternoon, arrived the Honourable Company's ships Northumberland, Captain Franklin; Huddert, Captain Weller; and Lord Eldon, Captain Coles, from England, the 3d, and Madeira, 27th of April.

Passengers.-Northumberland.

Mrs.

Wood, Mrs. Diring, Miss Ann Denton, Miss Ann Wimbolt, Captain Charles Dering, Captain John Duncombe, Lieutenant William Godley, 25th N. I. Master Charles Stuart Wood.-For Bengal. Mrs. Hunter, Miss Flora L. M'Leod, Miss Eliza Evans, Miss Eliza Gibson, Miss C. Wright, Miss Harriot Glover, Captain James Delamain, Captain Hunter, Mr. Richard Chase, Writer.

Huddart.-Mrs. Marshall, for Ceylon. Lieutenant W. Hilton, Ensign, W. G. W. Noble, Mr. John Biackburn, and Mr. W. Davies, Writers, for Madras. For Bengal, Mr. Robert Burrows, and Mr. John Casay.

Lord Eldon.-No Passengers.

August 25th.-On Sunday morning the Company's ships William Pitt, Marquess of Wellington, Princess Charlotte of Wales, sailed for Bengal. The Bridgwater, sailed for Penang and China, yesterday. The Atlas and Lowther Castle, are expected to follow for the same destination this day.

On Wednesday, his Majesty's ships Owen Glendower and Termagant, arrived in the roads from Trincomalee. On the following day, at noon, the flag of his Excellency the Admiral was hoisted on board the former ship under an appropriate salute. On Sunday his Majesty's ship Acorn, anchored in the roads, from Calcutta.

His Majesty's 66th regiment embarked from Calcutta for the Upper Provinces on the 9th inst. The fleet proceeded immediately the embarkation of the troops was completed. The 53d was expected to reach the Presidency on the 20th instant.

The Nakhoda of the brig Catharina, which arrived in the course of last week from Java, brings us the tidings of an extraordinary phenomenon which occurred while he lay at Gressey, near Soorobaya, about two months ago, and which we conclude to have been caused by an eruption of one of the volcanoes, in the eastern end of that island.

He states, that one morning a noise commenced to be heard, as if of a tremendous cannonade from the heaviest kind of ordnance, and very near,-continuing for the space of three days; that in the afternoon of the last of them, this stunning din abated somewhat, and the sky became completely overcast with a cloud of fine dust, or ashes, so thick, as to cause an obscurity equal to that of the darkest night, and to render respiration impracticable, without a cloth, or some sort of veil to cover the face ;-that this continued for that night, the whole of the succeeding day and night, and until about noon of the third day, when light began to dawn on the terrified multitude, and during the three following days, the atmosphere becoming less and less dense, they were at length entirely relieved from its unusual pressure, by a very heavy and most welcome fall of rain.

The Nakhoda's manner, in looking back on this scene of tartarean obscurity, give us a stronger impression of the hor ror and consternation which occupied every mind, than we can attempt to convey to our readers in words, and is indicative of a state of confusion and dismay, in some of its circumstances, not unlike our sublime Milton's description of the original chaos, from which the well ordered orb we now inhabit was formed:-"Nothing," he says, "could

be seen at the distance of even an arm's length, save the glimmering light of fires, or the torches with which people groped their way from house to house: nothing was heard but the roar of thunder, and the mingled shrieks of men, women, and children, who confidently concluding the end of all things to be at hand, and that the awful scene before them could portend nothing less than the final judgment, rent the air with cries for mercy to their' Almighty Creator."

After remaining some days at Gressey, the Catharina sailed for Tagal, where the Nakhoda understood the same prodigies had been exhibited, and at the same time, but in a less degree. Here several sudden deaths happened during the days