customs: the following rules have therefore been enacted, to be in force throughout the territories immediately subject to the Presidency of Fort William, from the date of the enactment of this regulation.

IMPORTS.

2.-Woollens, including cloths of sorts, blankets, hose, Guernsey shirts, caps, and generally all articles manufactured from wool, or worsted thread or yarn, which may be imported from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in British registered ships, or Indian built ships, trading under the provisions of the 30th section of the act 53d George III. cap. 155, and other acts containing similar provisions, shall be exempted from duty; any thing contained in any former regulation to the contrary notwithstanding.

3.-Copper, tin, iron, steel, lead, and all other metals, in an unmanufactured state, being the produce of the United Kingdom, if imported in the manner specified in the preceding section, shall also be exempt from duties.

4.-Canvas, cordage, and other marine stores, being the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom; if imported in the manner specified in section 2, shall be exempt from duties.

5,-First-All articles, the produce or manufacture of the United Kingdom, not specified in the preceding sections, (with the exception hereafter stated) on importation at the ports of Calcutta, Balasore, or Chittagong, shall be charged with a duty of (2) two and a half per cent. to be adjusted according to the provisions established by Regulation IX. 1810, or any other regulation in force.

Second. All articles, the produce or manufacture of foreign Europe (with the exception of wines and spirits) on importation at the ports of Calcutta, Chittagong, or Balasore, in British registered ships, or Indian built ships, trading under the provisions of the 30th section of the act 53d George III. cap. 155, and other subsequent acts, shall be subject to a duty of five per cent.

Third. Wines and spirits of every description, imported from Great Britain or Ireland, shall continue subject to the same rate of duty with which they are chargeable under Regulation IX. of 1810, and any other existing regulations.

6. It is to be clearly understood, that the article specified in the preceding sections, if imported otherwise than according to the provisions of the acts of Parliament regulating the direct and circuitous trade between the United Kingdom and India, shall continue subject to the payment of the duties now in force under the existing regulations.

-If the established duties on goods,

specified in the preceding sections, shall have been paid at any port in the terri tories subject to the British government in India, no further duty shall be levied upon their transit from port to port within the same territories. A regular certificate of such payment, under the signature of the principal officer of the Custom House at which such duties may have been levied, shall be furnished to the collector of customs and other proper officers, at every port to which such goods may be brought after the first payment of duties.

EXPORTS.

8.-First.-Indigo, the produce and manufacture of the territories immediately dependant on the Presidency of Fort William, shall be allowed a drawback on exportation, in British registered ships, or in Indian built ships, trading with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, directly or circuitously, under the provisious of the act of the 53d George III. and subsequent acts, equal to the whole amount of the duty payable under the existing regulations.

Second-indigo, the produce and manufacture of the territories of his Highness the Vizier, or of any other native power, shall be allowed a drawback at the same rate only as that article, the produce and manufacture of the British territories, although the duty levied may have been higher.

Third, It is to be clearly understood, that the drawbacks mentioned in the two preceding clauses, are to be allowed only on Indigo exported by sea to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and that no drawback will be allowed on the carriage of Indigo to any foreign settlement in Asia,

9.-On cotton-wool, hemp and sunn, the produce of any part of India, a drawback of the whole amount of duty shall be allowed, on exportation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

10. On the exportation to the United Kingdom of all other articles, including saltpetre, which are liable to duty under existing regulations, such a drawback shall be allowed, as may reduce the duty actually receivable by government to (24) two and a half per cent. But no drawback shall be allowed in any instance, unless the application for drawback shall be made at the time when the goods are exported.

11.-Section 5. Regulation VI. 1814, is hereby rescinded. It is, however, declared, that all applications for drawbacks shall be accompanied by the rowannah or rowannahs covering the goods intended to be exported, as provided in section XX. Regulation I. 1812.

12th. In modification of the rules contained in clause first, section 12, Regu

lation IX. 1810, and section III. Regulation I. 1812, it is hereby declared, that the amount of inland, or transit duty to be levied on cotton-wool, both in its clean and uncleaned state, shall not exceed five per cent. upon the value; under this modification, therefore, the fixed rates at twelve annas per maund in its cleaned state, and four annas in its uncleaned state per maund of ninety-six Calcutta sicca weight, will be reduced to the rate equal to five per cent. on the value, whenever the rates before specified may exceed that amount.

13. With the above exceptions, it is hereby declared, that nothing contained in the present regulation is to be construed to affect the inland and transit duties, payable under the provisions of Regulation IX, 1810, and Regulation I, and XIX, 1812: and Regulation VI, 1814.

14.-First.--Nothing contained in this Regulation, is intended to apply to

the trade conducted in foreign bottoms, the duties on which, as specified in the existing Regulations, as well as the rules by which that trade is governed, are to remain on their present footing, until all the arrangements consequent on the trea ties of peace shall have been completed.

Second. Neither is any thing contained in this Regulation, intended to apply to deposits made previously to the date of this Regulation, for the payment of duties on goods imported, the accounts of which have not yet been adjusted. All regulation shall be adjusted according deposits made previous to the date of this to the existing rates of duties.

Published by order of the Honourable the Vice-President in Council,

W. B. BAYLEY, Sec. to the Gort.

Fort William, Sept. 13, 1815.

ASIATIC

CALCUTTA.

Nov. 2.-Lady Loudon's party at the Government house last Monday evening, was very brilliantly attended. On Wednesday her Ladyship proceeded in the government yacht to Diamond Harbour, to look at the apartments in the William Pitt, prepared for her Ladyship and family, and returned safely on Friday af

ternoon.

It is said that Sir Thomas Strange, Chief Justice of Madras, will shortly retire, and that Sir E. Stanley will be transferred from Penang to the Supreme Court of Madras.

The Ukhbars of this week, from Amretsir, mention that Runjeet Singh was at Lahore on the 5th ultimo. It was reported that certain petty chieftains, had taken possession of Kangurry, and surrounded the Fort of Mungulah. The collector of Omedpore, had been ordered to collect all the Goorkahs, that could be induced to enter the service of Runjeet Singh. A detachment from the army of Gorug Singh had taken possession of Audyduntuck. The Jaypore Ukhbars to the 14th ultimo state, that Mirr Kishennarain, the son of the late minister, and Manjee Doss, had moved with an army from Jaypore, and encamped at Kaleeponah. Rajah Loll Singh had been compelled to retreat, with considerable loss, from Madhogurrah ou Dewasah. Mohtaub Khawin had surrounded Manpoor. Holkar's camp was on the 11th ultimo at its former station. The Bhaee had summoned several of the Sirdars to join her. Balaram Seit had been compelled by the importunities of the Selbhadaurs to run away to Kotah. It was reported that Rowshun.

Bigg, with his army, had crossed the Nurbudda, but that Rajah Ghoslah had compelled him to re-cross it with the loss of three guns.

On the 24th ultimo, at Kidderpore, a gentleman's khidmatgur having received instructions from his master to make ready to go up the country, went to the house of his father-in-law, and ordered his wife to prepare herself to leave Calcutta. The woman urged that although she felt very happy under the protection of her father and mother, she would leave them, on his providing a house for her at their new place of residence, and binding himself to give her regular means of subsistence, but that she could not think of quitting her present place of abode without a prospect of being elsewhere comfortably settled. The husband insisted upon unconditional compliance, and on her repeated refusal to obey, looked if any of their neighbours were within hearing. On observing no person at hand, he called out for all to witness that his wife would not go with him, seized an axe, and an English table-knife; and having struck her a desperate blow across the head with the hatchet, stabbed her in several places with the knife. After covering her with wounds, he ran to her mother, and wounded her in the same furious manner. His bloody purposes were but too well fulfilled; for the unhappy victims of his brutal rage died almost immediately His wife expired while the wounds were being sewed up, and her mother only lived long enough to declare before Mr. Elliot, that her sonin-law was the perpetrator of the deed. He was instantly secured, and has been

committed to take his trial at the Sessions of the Circuit. It is to be hoped, that he will meet the reward of his iniquity.-(Cal. Guz.)

Supreme Court, Friday, Oct. 27.-Michael Barry was found guilty of an assault, with intent to murder Samuel Johnston.

This was one of those melancholy instances, but too frequent in this country, in which men are led to the commission of the most flagitious acts without any apparent instigating cause, or prospect of advantage. The prisoner, and the prosecutor, Samuel Johnston, were soldiers belonging to the same company of artillery. They were serving together in the field in June last. In the middle of the night of the 18th of that month, while Johnston was asleep, with several of his comrades, in a barrack tent, the prisoner entered the tent with a drawn sword, went up to the several cats, and having observed the countenances of those asleep on them, passed on until he reached that of Johnston. Immediately upon recog nizing him, he raised the sword, and struck him a violent blow with its edge on the left temple. Luckily his head was defended by a handkerchief, else the force of the cut would probably have immediately deprived him of life. As it was, he received a deep wound, of which the scar remained. Instantly, on being wounded, he jumped up, and exclaimed, I am hurt. The prisoner aimed another blow at him, which passed down under his arm, and grazed his side; having done so, he glided out of the tent, hiding the sword between the fold of his trowsers. The alarm however being instantly given, he was seized and secured. Such

were the facts established in the clearest manner, by the concurring testimony of three witnesses. It did not from their evidence appear that the deed could be traced to any previously existing animosity or quarrel between the prisoner and Johnston; nor was it evident that the former was intoxicated at the time of its commission. In his defeuce, the prisoner pleaded ignorance of what had happened; he said that he had got intoxicated in the evening, and from the time of his intoxication, until he found himself in custody, he was not aware of what had passed. Finally, he urged the improbability of any malice being present in his mind against Johnston, with whom he had always lived in terms of good fellowship. He called upon Captain Curfey, formerly commanding the company to which he belongs, to speak to his character, and the witness gave him a high character, as a sober, steady, good soldier, and a quiet inoffensive man. In his charge to the Jury, his Lordship, Sir William Burroughs, after summing up the evidence, clearly expounded the difference between

simple assault, and assault with intent to murder, and explained the various circumstances necessary to the constitution of each. The Jury, without withdrawing, returned a verdict of guilty.

We may here remark, that on the preceding Saturday, the Grand Jury, through their foreman Mr. Colvin, took an opportunity of addressing the Court on a subject adverted to in his Lordship the Chief Justice's charge at the opening of the Sessions. His Lordship having stated that in consideration of the peculiar nature of the state of this country and its inhabitants, and the very frequent occurrence of petty crimes, it was the intention of the court, to apply to the government at home for some extension of the power vested in Justices of the Peace. The Jury begged to represent to their Lordships, that their experience during the present Session had fully convinced them that the ends of public justice would be more certainly answered, if many of the petty crimes now sent to them for adjudication, were summarily investigated, and speedily punished, and that they considered themselves warranted in recommending that his Lordship's representation should be put in as strong terms as possible. In answer, his Lordship the Chief Justice said that he was perfectly aware of the necessity of some such expedient, but that as the Court was bound to distribute justice in direct conformity with the law of the land, the only remedy that could be found, would be in an application to His Majesty's government, which the jury might be assured would be made as soon as possible.Court adjourned, Oct. 31.

Brig Mary and Sally, Trincomalee,

Oct. 2.

"After a very tedious and disastrous passage, we have at length been obliged to put into this port. On the 26th of August last, about 24 A. M. Captain D. having the watch, while standing at the larboard-gangway, (it being a calm, in 30 fathoms of water, to the southward of Batticoolo), he received a cut on the right side of his head, with a carpenter's axe, which fractured his skull, and brought him down; and immediately after this, Lieut. Robertson, of his Majesty's 4th Ceylon regiment, who was asleep on one of the hencoops on the larboard side, also received a cut with the same instru. ment across his left jaw; the first alarm was given by Lieut. Robertson. I immediately came upon deck with Mr. Davy and Mr. Coles, all of us armed, when we found the whole of the crew in the utmost confusion, armed with handspikes, and searching for the assassin, who it was supposed must have jumped overboard, as he was not to be found. At day-light we repeated the search, but in vain; the

villain was evidently not on board. From an apparent unwillingness on the part of the crew to attend to their duty, there was reason to suspect that there were others concerned in this horrible transaction, in consequence of which myself and the gentlemen passengers remained armed night and day, until our arrival at this place. Thank God, Mr. Davy, Mr. Coles, and myself have escaped, but I am truly concerned to add, that Dr. Booth, the head surgeon here, pronounces poor Duncan, in a very dangerous state. Lieut. Robertson, I am happy to say, is getting better, but his jaw-bone is broken. As we were only two miles from land, there is a possibility of the scoundrel having got safe on shore, and I have accordingly offered five hundred rixdollars for his apprehension; in the meantime, the magistrate has kept in close confinement one of the lascars, also a Malay, in hopes, that through him, we may be able to discover something further.-(Post.)

Shipping Intelligence. -The Charles Mills, Capt. O'Brien, from Madras, the 4th ultimo, arrived in Saugor Roads, on Monday last. Passengers per Charles Mills from England.-Miss Wilson, Lieut. Colonel Charles Nicol, His Majesty's 66th regiment, Henry Christopher, Esq. supercargo, Capt. Henry Shubrick, 4th N. C. Mr. Barraud, cadet, Mr. F. Marcaurd, John Chapel, Free Mariners, Mr. C. W. Brietzcke, Mr. G. F. Hampton, Mr. J. Wheatley, returning to India. From the Cape of Good Hope.-Capt. Robert Fry, 6th N. C. Lieut. Alex. M'Mahon, 24th N. I. From Madras.-Miss Adelaide Campbell, Colonel Scott, Madras establishment, Capt. A. Galloway, 14th N. I. -Passengers per Fairlie.-Rev. John Vincent and Lady, with eight children, Mrs. Jane Johnson, Mrs. Duncan Campbell, Miss Emily Campbell, Major Holford, 59th foot, Lieut. Manners, Dr. Thomson, Assistant Surgeon, Mr. Groce, Free Merchant, and three Privates, 59th regi

ment.

The Fairlie parted from the True Briton, on the 27th July, in lat. 3.43 south, long. 24.50 west, and from the Union, in lat. 34.3 south, long. 1.27 west. She also spoke the Claudine, on the 14th July, in lat. 9 north, lon. 22.30 west, bound to Batavia.

The Hon. Company's ships Sir William Pulteney and Apollo will probably sail for Bombay, by the 20th or 25th instant.

The Lady Flora, Capt. Browne, was spoken with on the 9th ult. in lat. 16 north. long. 84 east.

On Tuesday last, arrived the Matilda, Capt. James Dickson, from Portsmouth, the 17th June, and Madeira, 7th July. Passengers, Mr. William Higgins, Free Mariner, and Mr. Wm. Harper.

On the 5th August, the Matilda spoke

the English brig Alacrity, from London, bound to the Cape of Good Hope, but obtained no intelligence.

The Susan, Capt. Collingwood, and the Luey Maria, and Friendship, for the conveyance of His Majesty's 72d regiment to the Cape of Good Hope.

The Morley, with the light company of His Majesty's 22d foot, is expected to sail for the Isle of France, in the course of this week.

Advices from the Isle of France of the 9th September state, that the Maria, Capt. Kemp, experienced a severe gale of wind in lat. 10 south, lost her main top mast, main and fore sail, and had been obliged to put up into Port Louis to repair her damages. In the same gale, the Salsette frigate lost her three top masts. One of the Indiamen, either the Rose or Streatham, lost her top mast and mainyard.

The Maisters, for England, sailed from Saugor Road on Tuesday.

The Cornwallis, Capt. Carritie, left Madras Roads in prosecution of her homeward bound voyage on the 9th ultimo. Lieut. General Wetherall was passenger in this ship.

The following ships will probably clear out for their different ports, in this month :

The Cathcart for London; Bengal, for Liverpool; Zenobia, for London; Union for China; Caroline for do; Hibernia for London; Commerce, for Isle of France Ann for Bombay; Wellington for do'; Duncan for do; Zephyr, for Ceylon; Volunteer, Gulf, and Alexander, do.

;

In the course of this month, Messrs. Kydd and Co. will launch a beautiful vessel, built, as we understand, for the Ceylon government.

The following list of passengers proceeding to England this season, is copied from the last Mirror. By the Hon. Company's ship, William Pitt, Captain Charles Graham, Right Hon. Countess of Loudon and Moira, Lady Flora Hastings, Lady Sophia Hastings, Viscount Hungerford, James Stuart, Esq. civil service, Captain J. L. Stuart, Assistant Commissary General, Lieut. Henry Dwyer, His Majesty's 22d Dragoons, and Aide-de-Camp to the Right Hon. the Earl of Moira.

By the Hon. Company's ship Lord Melville, Capt. James George Crabb.-Lady Darell, Mrs. Welland, Mrs. Egerton, Mrs. M'Clintock, Sir Harry Verelst Darel, Bart., A. Welland, Esq., William Egerton, Esq. civil service, Robert M'Clintock, Esq. of the firm of Messrs. Mackintosh, Fulton and Co.

By the Hon. Company's ship Princess Charlotte of Wales, Capt. John Craig.Mrs. Rankin, Mrs. Cracraft, Sir William Burroughs, Bart., Rev. Dr. Ward, George

Rankin, Esq. superintending Surgeon, Richard Cracraft. Esq.

By the Hon. Company's ship, Marquess of Wellington, Captain John Wood.Mrs. G. P. Ricketts, Mrs. R. Graham, Mrs. Fergusson, Robert Vansittart, Esq. civil service, J. H. Fergusson, Esq. of the firm of Messrs. Fairlie, Fergusson and Co. Arrivals.-Oct. 30. Charles Mills, O'Brien, from England, May 26, the Cape, and last from Madras.-Oct. 31/ Hon. Company's ship Fairlie, Ward, from England; May 22. Madeira, June 25, Oct. 3.-Matilda, Dixon,from England,June16. Junk, Kimbauhin, (China) Gainborraug, from Basen Oct. 18.-Nov. 4. Creole, Brodie, from Padang, Sept. 12.

Madras Government Gazette, Oct. 12 1815. Arrivals-Oct. 5.-Ship Auspicious, Capt. R. Arom, from London 20th May, and the Isle of France 12th Sept. Ship Sir Stephen Lushington, Capt. Wm. Shivers, from St. Helena 26th May, Madeira and Port-Louis 11th Sept.

Departures.-Oct. 8.-His Majesty's ship Doris, Capt. O'Brien, for England. Oct. 9.-Ship Cornwallis, Capt. Cha rettie, for England.

Ceylon Government Gazette, Sept. 20, 1815. Sept. 15.-H. C.'s ship Carnatic, Capt. John Blanchard, for Bengal. Pas sengers, Mr. Abraham, Captain Vaughan, Captain Heathlot, Captain Ashurst, Lieutenant Odell, Mr. Dickson, Miss Rainsforth, Miss Hinke, and Mrs. M'Pherson. 19.-Cutter Tartar, Commander J. C. Batta, for Putucoreen, Passengers, Mr. Hunter and six natives.

16.-Brig Ceylon Merchant, Commander W. S. De Waas, for Galle and Madras. Passenger, Mrs. Laughlin. Trincomalee. Arrivals.-September 9th, H. M. brig Kangaroo, Lieutenant Jeffreys, from Colombo."

11.-H. M. ship Hesper, Robert Campbell, Esq. Captain, from a cruize.

12.-Government brig Ariel, Commander L. A. Mattheysz, from Mullitivo. Departures.-Sept. 9.-Government brig Ariel, Mattheysz, for Mulletivo.

10.-H. M. ship Acorn, John Prior, Esq. Captain, for Madras.

12.-H. M. ship Hesper, Robert Campbell, Esq. Captain, on a cruise.-H. M. brig Kangaroo, Lieut. Jeffreys, for Prince of Wales's Island and New South Wales.

Bombay Courier, Oct. 14, 1815.-Departures. Private trading ship General Stewart, Captain W. S. Robb, to England. Brig Minerva, Capt. T. Gregory, to the Isle of France. The H. C. cruizer, Vestal, Lieut. James Watkins, to Cutch.

Andrew Strange. The following gentle men composed the Grand Jury:—

J. H. D. Ogilvie, A. Brooke, G. Stratton, J. Cochrane, F. Daniel, R. Maconochie, H. Spottiswoode, J. Hanbury, J. F. Lane, E. R. Sullivan, H. Mortlock, T. Blair, R. Clive, J. Binny, junior, G. Arbuthnot, D. Brodie, T. Parry, W. Hart, H. Ryder, C. Gordon, J. Bird, W. Watts, E. Dent, and W. Scott, Esqrs.

His lordship the Chief Justice charged the Grand Jury with his usual clearness and perspicuity, after which they retired to investigate the several bills of indictment which were presented to them.

A true bill was found against Paullyatan, charged with feloniously stealing sundry articles of wearing apparel, the property of Peter Puget, Esq.

The prisoner was immediately put upon his trial, and a more deep and complicated system of robbery we never recollect to have heard of, than was pursued by the prisoner against the property of his master. It appeared by the evidence of the Naval Commissioner of Madras, that the prisoner had been a considerable period of time in his service-that he had always conducted himself much to the prosecutor's satisfaction, so much so indeed, that he for a long time entertained the highest opinion of his veracity and integrity. During the time that the prisoner at the bar was in the service of the Commissioner, Mrs. Puget had missed a great variety of articles of the wearing apparel of herself and children; and upon the circumstances being mentioned to the butler, the servants with one accord, charged the prisoner with having committed the theft. From his former good conduct this charge was not believed-but in a very short time afterward, it was fully brought home to him. From several circumstances which occurred, it was suspected that some one in the house pos'sessed false keys to the drawers, &c. In consequence of this suspicion, a few valuable articles which were previously marked and identified, were locked up in a chest of drawers. On the day following the one drawers were examined-they were still when this precaution was taken, the locked-but on opening them, the articles 'above alluded to were not to be found. The servants again accused the prisoner; upon which second accusation he absconded. Two confidential persons, accompanied by a police peon, were then sent to the prisoner's house, where nearly the whole of the property lost (to a very considerable amount) was found. A reward was offered for the apprehension of the prisoner, but no traces of him were discovered, until about three months ago, when he was apprehended by a police. peon, and was committed to take his trial. The facts stated by the prosecutor