1,020,120 8 0 For Effects of deceased Officers, and other Remittances....... 26,040 18 Passage of Troops and Freight of Stores chargeable to H.M.'s Government, with Balance of an Account in respect to transacactions in India, 1827-28 Territorial and Political Charges and Advances in England: On account of Military, Marine, and other Public Stores exported... Military Officers; Pay and Off-reckonings on Furlough and Retirement Civil Establishments of India; Absentee Allowances and Payments on account of the India Annuity Funds Passage of Military, and Supplies to them on the Voyage Political Freight and Demorage Carnatic Debts: Interest on Claims adjudicated £95,857 17 11 Expenses in England.... 1,033 16 5S Tanjore Debts: current Charges and Salaries of Commissioners and Officers... Charges on account of Saint Helena Ditto Prince of Wales's Island, Singapore, and Malacca...................... Payments on account of Retiring Pay, &c. of King's Troops in India Widows' Funds for Officers of the House and Warehouses, and for BRANCH. CUSTOMS Freight and Demorage Goods for Sale and Use, exported and to be exported....... Bonds paid off under the Advertisement for Reduction of Interest Ditto Accounts current in excess of Interest received Dividends on Stock Private-Trade Almshouses at Poplar........ Fee-Funds for the House and Warehouses Commissioners of H.M. Navy, repaid them; amount Outstanding Balances, Sunn Hemp Investment, recovered in India on their account... Balance in favour 1st May 1832 (exclusive of Duty on Tea)... 1,167,010 1 8 £8,338,068 14 9 * Vide note at the end of this Account, relating to the character of the Bond Debt. EAST-INDIA ANNUAL ACCOUNTS. HOME ACCOUNT, continued. STATEMENT OF THE COMPANY'S BOND AND SIMPLE CONTRACT DEBTS, WITH THE THEIR TREASURY, AND OTHER EFFECTS APPERTAINING TO THE COMPANY POLITICAL AND DEBTS. £. To Bills of Exchange unpaid, from India and St. Helena, drawn on the Political and Territorial Account 527,404 Warrants passed the Court unpaid 58,297 Amount owing for Territorial Exports 35,451 68,546 Unclaimed Prize- Money applicable to Lord Clive's Fund ment The Territorial Branch, for Territorial and Political Payments made in England, between 1st May 1814 and 1st May 1832. ............... 568,803 To Bills of Exchange, unpaid.. Customs... Freight and Demorage... *9,783,292 Supra-Cargoes' Commission upon all Goods sold and unsold What owing for Teas returned by the Buyers, and resold Interest on Bonds..... Amount owing for Commercial Exports Amount owing to Widows' Funds, bearing Interest..... ...... Territorial and Political Debts, brought down £11,041,793 Ditto............... Assets...... ditto The Amount of Company's Home Bond Debt, bearing interest at 2 per cent. per annum.............................. Ditto ditto not bearing interest Assets in favour £1,208,995 22,775,492 .£11,532,633 3,527,437 15,417 3,542,854 £7,989,779 EAST-INDIA ANNUAL ACCOUNTS. HOME ACCOUNT, continued. RATES OF INTEREST THEY RESPECTIVELY CARRY; THE STATE OF CASH REMAINING IN IN GREAT BRITAIN AND AFLOAT OUTWARDS, ON THE 1ST MAY 1832. TERRITORIAL BRANCH. ASSETS. £. By Exports of Military Stores, &c. shipped in season 1831-32, with the 268,740 ........... 117,235 18,141 27,868 ...... 46,180 Value of College at Haileybury, and Military Seminary at Addiscombe 177,219 3,241 349,305 £1,007,929 BRANCH. By what due from the Public to the Company, East-India Annuities Exports shipped in season 1831-32, together with Amount unshipped... 593,095 79,886 166,994 1,294,718 .... What owing from sundry persons for Advances repayable in England, &c. 35,737 2,054 744,351 *9,783,292 18,663 1,500 £22,775,492 * This Balance is subject to reduction, by the amount of the Advances made in India from the Territorial Branch to the Commercial Branch, in the Indian official years 1830-31 and 1831-32; the Documents, whereby the amount of these Advances is to be ascertained, have not as yet been received from India, but which, it is estimated, may amount to £5,109,744, which will leave a Balance, due to the Commerce, of £4,673,548, including Interest. It is also subject to adjustment with reference to the Amount with which the Territorial Branch is chargeable, in respect of the loss upon Consignments of Merchandize, made with a view to meet the demands upon the Home Treasury for Bills of Exchange drawn for Interest of India Debt, in conformity with the plan of 1814, for the arrangement of the Home Accounts. The respective Balances of the Political and Commercial Branches, as exhibited in this Account, will be likewise subject to adjustment from the same causes. In the period from 1st May 1814 to 1st May 1832, there has also been advanced or set apart from the Surplus Commercial Profits in England, the sum of £4,998,798, towards the liquidation of Indian Territorial Debt, which, being a payment under the 4th head of Appropriation of the 57th Section of the 53d Geo. III., is not held to constitute a claim upon the Territorial Department for repayment, upon the principle observed in respect to other Territorial Advances. + In the above Statement, the Amount of the Outstanding Home Bond Debt has not been placed to the separate Account either of Territory or of Commerce; but, according to a letter from the Court of Directors to the Board of Commissioners, under date the 10th March 1832, this Debt is held by the Court to be Territorial. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. A WORK is announced as about to be published at Amsterdam, in Hebrew, under the title of "Researches into the civil and religious history of the Jews of Malabar," by an Israelite who has resided thirty years in India. M. J. J. Schmidt's Mongol Grammar is soon to appear at St. Petersburgh. Travels by M. Ermann in Northern Asia, in the years 1828 to 1830, will be published in the course of next year at Berlin, in four volumes, 8vo., with an atlas of plates. Some Hindu gentlemen of Calcutta have started a weekly literary paper in Bengali, entitled the Gannanneshun, in the manner of the Spectator, its object being to expose superstition and bigotry by ridicule and satire. A selection of passages from the Bible, made by the British and Foreign School Society, entitled "Scripture Lessons," has been printed and published at Canton, in Chinese, for circulation amongst the Chinese-language nations. The work forms three volumes (Chinese), and has been effected by subscription amongst the Christian residents in China. The editor is an American gentleman. A Bengalee Magazine, called the Gyanodoyu, conducted by Ramchunder Mitter and Krishna Dona Mitter, has appeared at Calcutta. The following works are in preparation:--A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language; by the Rev. J. Bosworth, LL. D. F. R.S. F. S. A. Practical Treatise on the Growth of Cucumbers; by John Weeden. The New Gil Blas; or, Pedro of Penaflor; by the Author of "Spain in 1830." History of the Revolution in England in 1688; by the Right Hon. Sir James Mackintosh. Steel's Shipmaster's Assistant and Owner's Manual, twentieth edition, newly arranged and corrected to 1833 (including the Regulations of the New Customs Act); by J. Sikeman, Custom-house Agent. An Historical Account of the Plague and other Pestilential Distempers, which have appeared in Europe, more especially in England, from the earliest Period. To which is added, an account of the Cholera Morbus, from its first appearance in India; including its ravages in Asia, Europe, and America, down to the present time. The Cabinet Annual Register, for the present year, with very considerable improve ments. The Parents' Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction; a monthly publication. LONDON. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Translation of several Principal Books, Passages, and Texts of the Veds, and of some Controversial Works on Brahminical Theology. By Rajah Rammohun Roy, 8vo. 78. An Historical Sketch of Sanscrit Literature, with copious Bibliographical Notices of Sanscrit Works and Translations. From the German of Adelung, with very numerous additions and corrections, 8vo. 10s. 6d. The Missionary's Vade Mecum, containing Information and Suggestions for the Use of Missionaries, &c. By the Rev. Jas. Hough, A.B., late Chaplain on the Madras establishment. 28. Historical and Descriptive Account of British India, from the most Remote Period to the Present time. By Hugh Murray, Esq.; James Wilson, Esq.; &c. &c. Vol. III. (which concludes the work). 18mo. 58. PARIS. Fragmens de Géologie et de Climatologie Asiatiques, par A. de Humboldt. 2 vols. 8vo. Anthologie érotique d' Amarou, texte Sanscrit, traduction, notes et gloses, par A. L. Apudy. 8vo. La Vie contemplative, Ascetique et Monastique, chez les Indous et chez les peuples Bouddhistes, par J. J. Bochinger. 8vo. (Strasbourg). Grammaire de Denis de Thrace, tirée de deux manuscrits Armeniens de la Bibliothèque du Roi, publiée en Grec, en Arménien, et en Français, par C. de Cirbied. 8vo. Vocabulaire Français-Turc, a l'usage des interprètes et autres Voyageurs dans le Levant, par F. X. Bianchi. 8vo. Vendidad Sadé, d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque du Roi, publié par E. Burnouf. Livr. 6 to 8. folio. 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Histoire, Scientifique, et Militaire, de l'Expédition Française en Egypt, &c., avec atlas. Livr. 5 to 9. 8vo. ON THE STATE OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES AMONGST THE NATIONS OF EASTERN ASIA. By M. ABEL-REMUSAT. If we were to understand in a close and literal sense the terms which occur in the ancient chronicles of China, we must refer the composition of works treating of medicine and the different branches of natural history to the earliest ages of the monarchy. A prince, whose name implies Sovereign of the Earth' (Hwang-te), is said to have written a book, entitled Simple Questions, on diseases and their remedies; and another emperor, who has retained the surname of Divine Labourer' (Shin nung), is considered as the author of a little treatise of natural history, which has served as a model for succeeding works of the same kind. In that early period of the sciences of China, all was fable; but the fables were of a peculiar description, and such as do not occur elsewhere: they are not fictions of gods descending upon the earth to instruct mankind, and to reveal to them secrets beneficial to their existence; the agents are mere mortals, emperors and ministers, who were solicitous to enlighten the people, and to make the investigation of nature an object of public interest, considering this as one of the duties which belonged to their station, and, as it were, a province of government. Astronomical observations are made with a kind of official pomp; inventions in the arts are attributed to personages eminent in the state, and discoveries are ordained beforehand by special decrees. An order of things so obviously contrary to the ordinary march of events cannot be admitted as real. The traditions which represent it must be ascribed either to the remote antiquity of the discoveries themselves, which obscured the names of the true inventors, and concealed them from the first compilers of the chronicles; or to that propensity, which has prevailed in China from time immemorial, to refer whatsoever is good, useful, or honourable, to the agency of the chosen of heaven, to him who is supposed to be the best, the most accomplished, the most enlightened of men, namely, the emperor, aided by his ministers. According to ancient tradition, the treatise of natural history composed by the Divine Labourer was in three parts; but this work has never been met with. No mention is made of it in the earliest literary summaries appended to the history of the Han dynasty. In the fifth year, Yuen she, of the reign of Phing te, of this dynasty (A.D. 5), a search was made throughout the provinces for historical works and treatises on the arts and sciences, and all which could be discovered were conveyed to the capital in little carriages. Amongst the number was a Pen thsaou fang shoo, that is, a collection of observations on the properties of plants, consisting of upwards of 100,000 characters. To this period must be referred the first use of the title Pen thsaou, which has since acquired much celebrity, and become common to a vast number of writings on the same subjects. Under the Thangs (from the seventh to the ninth century), Le she tse, assisted by other naturalists, adopting the authority of literary catalogues edited under the Leang dynasty (the early part of the sixth century), took Asiat.Jour.N.S.VOL.9.No.34. N |