brary, Conduit Street, Hanover Square;, and important. To afford the elements
the Banking-houses of Messrs. Birch and
Chambers, 160, New Bond Street; Messrs.
Hoare, Barnett, and Co., 62, Lombard
Street; Messrs. Crickitt, Bacon, and Co.,
Ipswich, Suffolk; and Mr. Harral, Park
Cottage, Ipswich, Suffolk.

List of the principal works written or edited by Mr. Blagdon. The Phoenix Weekly Newspaper, 2 vols. 4to;-The Weekly Political Register, 2 vols. 8vo. ;-History of Ancient and Modern India, 1 vol. folio;-The Modern Geographer; or, a Complete System of Geography, 5 vols. 8vo.;-The Life and Exploits of Admiral Lord Nelson, &c. 1 vol. 4to.;— The Life of George Morland, 1 vol. folio; -Translations of the Voyages and Travels of Denon, in Egypt; Golberry, in Africa; and Pallas, in Russia, 8 vols. ;Translations, &c. of Modern Contemporary Voyages and Travels, 11 vols. 8vo. The Life and Transactions of our Saviour, 1 vol. royal 8vo.;-A Complete History of Christian Martyrdom, &c. with copious original Historical Notes, [a condensed, but elaborate edition of Fox's Martyrs, bearing the name of Milner] 1 vol. royal 8vo.; Flowers of Literature, 7 vols. ;Mooriana, 2 vols.; various political pamphlets, &c. &c. &c.

HIBERNIAN SOCIETY

For Establishing Schools, and Circulating the Holy Scriptures in Ireland. APPENDIX TO REPORT, 1818. ALTHOUGH the Annual Report of the Hibernian Society, read at the General Meeting in May last, was connected with an Appendix of considerable length and importance; yet the Committee of this Institution feel it to be their duty to add to those communications a selection of the interesting intelligence which has since been received, in order that Individuals and Auxiliary Institutions who patronize this Society may know, that it pleases God to continue his blessing on the "work and labour of love," which they have undertaken in Ireland.

When the nature of the operations of the Hibernian Society is considered, in connexion with the places in which they áre carried on, it might justly be expected that the results would be very interesting

of useful education, and the benefits of scriptural instruction to children, who are immersed in ignorance and depravity; to introduce the inspired volume to the rising generation of a country, in which they have been prevented from seeing its gloand, by the instruction thus given to the rious light, and hearing its joyful sound; children, to extend these high advantages to their parents and friends, who have stion;---these are means and exertions, hitherto been sunk in darkness and superwhich, if pursued with activity, must, with the divine blessing, produce a gradually increasing developement of intellectual benefits and moral and religious usefulness, in the highest degree gratifying and beneficial.

The truth of these observations has been proved ever since the Hibernian Society commenced its benevolent undertakings in Ireland; and its successive Reports have evidenced that its objects are worthy of especial consideration, and that its operations have been remarkably important and successful.

The number of the Society's Schools in 392, and the number of Children taught Ireland, as stated in the last Report, was therein, 32,516. The Treasurer was then above seven hundred pounds in advance. Since that time the Schools and the Scho

lars have increased; additional expenses are incurred thereby, and the claims of the Society on public generosity and christian benevolence, are rendered more urgent and impressive. Annual Subscriptions, Donations, Collections, and espetions, are therefore earnestly solicited; cially assistance from Auxiliary Instituand the Committee indulge the hope and expectation, that the interesting and inthe following extracts, taken chiefly from portant intelligence, which is conveyed in the correspondence, during the last three months, of one who is daily in communication with the individuals employed in the service of the Society, will make this occasional communication very acceptable, and this appeal to public philanthrophy very successful.

BENEFIT OF ALLOWING LAND TO

THE POOR.

labourer a small spot of ground, to be cul-
The good affects of allowing the poor

tivated in his leisure hours, as a means of reducing the poor's-rate, are exemplified ia the following extract from a letter inserted in The New Times:

property; for the Marquess both planned and directed the whole war in its general outline and almost in its minutest details: he took the field in person; he met the The hard-working, the meritorious and most alarming contingencies with coolness virtuous Isaac and Betty Stuckey, with a and promptitude; he kept the whole mafamily of eight children, had an abhorrence chine in regulated and equable movement, of burthening a parish with a farthing exaccelerating or restraining as occasion repense, and a dread of losing their inde- quired, the daily movements of the sepapendence, although they had not a bit of rate detachments. If, under such circummeat for six months together, and were stances, Lord Hastings had declined to often strangers to a loaf of bread. Isaac, suffer the allotment of his legal share to be the husband, an excellent workman, made, he would perhaps have compromised earned eight shillings a week, but he was the rights of his successors in command. allowed to hire, even at double the value, Accordingly the Noble Marquess directed half an acre of ground, where, with his the usual division of the booty to be made; spade, he laboured morning and night, but reflecting that he had in his own perbefore and after his daily work at the farm. son united the supreme civil and military To this generous half acre, poor Betty, the authority---that as Governor-General, he wife, when she could steal a few hours, had resolved upon the war, which, as Comwould run with the spade to lessen her mander-in-Chief, he had directed---a feelhusband's toil. Isaac never murmured-ing of personal delicacy precluded him Betty never complained. Visiting this family on a Sunday, since their case was published, and nearly 1001. contributed for them, I found the man with his Bible before him, his wife and children around him! Give, said the grateful people, ten thousand thanks to our unknown benevolent friends. On receiving between thirty and forty pounds, they had purchased hemp, had profited by working it 201.

With 401. more in the hands of the treasurer, pigs, poultry, vegetables, and a rack, stored with bacon, this family are ready to hire a farm of about fifty acres. This good man, and thousands besides, assure me, that one acre of ground, at a fair rent, would afford more real relief, and tend more to the happiness of the labouring poor than all the poor-rates that are paid."

INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN INDIA.

CALCUTTA.

PRINCELY LIBERALITY.

from benefiting by this great accession of fortune. He was unwilling that even those who in the present or in future times might be most ignorant of his real character, should ever have the slightest ground to suspect that his public measures could have been in any degree affected by his private interest; and he therefore most magnanimously threw the whole of his share into the portion of the subalterns and privates.

FISH v. WASHERMAN.

The following singular circumstance occurred a few months since at Garden Reach, near Calcutta. A washerman engaged in his occupation on the edge of a tank, was immersing a piece of cloth which he held in his hand in the water, when a large fish sprang forward, seized the cloth and the man's arm in his mouth, and was triumphantly swimming off with his prey. Fortunately, however, a person close by at the | time caught hold of the washerman's quivering leg, and dragged both man and fish on shore! The animal was immediately taken to the Police Thana to be exhibited! It weighed a maund and a half, and was about six feet in length, of the species com

The following generous trait in the cha-monly called Sowlee. The washerman's racter of the Marquess of Hastings, deserves arm was considerably lacerated.

to be universally known. As Commanderin-Chief, he became entitled to a very large share of the rich booty acquired in the late campaign. No one could in his military character possess a fairer title to this

STATE OF MORALS.

The following is an extract from the presentment of the grand jury to Sir Edw. Hyde East, and the other judges of the

Supreme Court, dated June 29, 1818, adverting to a complaint on the part of the magistrates, that the powers with which they are at present invested are insufficient for the suppression of crime. "The complaint in question, if the grand jury understand it rightly, has reference to a want of the requisite authority for the prevention, rather than for the detection or punishment of offences. Of the fact they have no doubt, that the facilities of secreting and vending stolen property in Calcutta are greatly increased, by the free influx of strangers of all characters and from all parts of India, who establish themselves here as shopkeepers and tradesmen, and are in no way under the observance or control of the police; and they are equally well satisfied, that the daily increasing number of gaming houses and other places of resort for the idle and profligate, which the magistrates have no power to regulate or suppress, has eminently tended to demoralize the middle and lower classes of the population, and to increase the frequency of crime. The state of society in this great city seems indisputably to require, that the magistrate should be armed at least with the fullest powers committed to the ministers of police in any other city of the British dominions. And the Grand Jury are not without hope, that a system of regulation adapted to local circumstances may yet be devised, which shall essentially counteract the mischiefs complained of, and serve as a permanent check on the dissolute and depraved habits of a numerous class of the community, without materially trenching on the liberties, or disturbing the peace or comfort of the honest and industrious inhabitants."

BOMBAY.

DISTRESSES AT SEA.

The following detail of the calamities experienced by the officers and crew of the brig Fly from Batavia, is given in the Bombay Hurkaru. The crew of the brig Fly, which arrived here a few days ago from Batavia, had a most providential escape from suffering the severest of calamities. A few days after she had sailed, in March last, her captain died at sea, and the command devolving on officers not so well experienced in the navigation of those seas, they deviated from their course, and drifted about with various winds and cur

rents for a considerable time; insomuch that their small supply of provisions was soon expended. When their distress became so urgent, they were compelled to have recourse for their food to three monkies, which were on board, and which constituted the whole subsistence of seven men for three days., This wretched provision being also consumed, they remained without any food whatever, until nature being nearly exhausted, one of the crew proposed to cast lots, that one might be sacrificed to furnish sustenance for the remainder. This being resolved upon, the lot fell upon the individual who proposed this remedy. Though ready to submit to his fate, and fainting from weakness, the desire of preserving life roused him to exert his feeble powers in one last effort. Hope gave him encouragement and he mounted up aloft, praying that he might descry some vessel or some land to save him from death, and his partners from such a shocking alternative to save themselves. His anxious eyes however long exerted their utmost powers in vain ; despair seized him, all prospect of relief had fled, and he was about to descend to meet his destiny, when kind Providence answered his prayers and restored him to life. He discerned a sail at a distance; he hailed his brethren; they summoned all their remaining strength, made signal of distress, and bore up towards the vessel in sight, which proved to be the Endeavour, Capt. Rojerson, from Bombay, and by whom they were supplied with every thing their deplorable situation required, compatible with their own condition; the Endeavour's stock of provisions being also very low, and having suffered so much from stress of weather, that she was compelled to return to this river, which she entered in company with the Fly.

WOMAN BURIED ALIVE.

Bombay Gazette, Aug. 11.---We learn from a letter in one of the papers of the week, that a woman was lately buried alive with her deceased husband, near Isherah, within a few miles of Calcutta. The ceremonies accompanying this shocking spectacle, as they are detailed by an eye-witness, bespeak an inhumanity and cruelty truly deplorable. We had imagined that this mode of immolation was not required and scarcely countenanced by

the Hindu law; but happening so close | Can rash assertion dare the test of time, under the eye of public authority, we must Because it boasts the harmony of rhyme? conclude that it is according to law and Shall raptured list'ners still as truth receive, usage. The bodies were placed upright What the fond heart delights to disbelieve ? in a hole dug for the purpose, and the earth was thrown in by handfuls around them Not all the pleasing witchery of song, and trodden down by the woman's oldest Can e'er enslave, or lead the soul along. son, a youth of about 19. When it reached TRUTH claims her heav'nly sway—her powers above the head of the miserable victim, a appear, shout of joy and exultation was raised by the unfeeling multitude.

CHINA.

JEWS; INTERESTING FACT.

Burstthe Bard's spells, and disenchant the ear?

Is there not feeling in the Woman's heart?—
Claims not affection there its purer part?
Is there not Mildness, Life's sad path to
smooth,

It has long been the opinion of some learned men, that part of the TEN TRIBES had found their way to China, and settled And Love's endearments, still each care to in the province of HO-NAN. The following

sooth?

extract from the notes of the Rev. R. Mor-Tis-WOMAN!-this thy character, indeed! rison's journey to Peking, is submitted to These are thy charms, that willing captives the consideration of the reader.

“[While

in the interior,] October 10th, had a con-
versation with a Mahomedan gentleman,
who informed me, that at KAE-Fung Foo,
in the province of HO-NAN, there are a
few families denominated the TEAOU-KIN-
KEAOU, or the sect that plucks out the
sinew from all the meat which they eat.
They have a LE-PAE-OZE, or House of
Worship, and observe the eighth day as a
Sabbath." The fact of the existence of a

few insulated families in the very heart of
the Chinese empire, observing religious
ceremonies that bear some resemblance to
those observed by the Jews, and that seem
so widely different from any of the Chinese
ceremonies of Worship, is a very interest-
ing one, and highly deserving of farther
investigation.
Chinese Gleaner.

Poetry.

SATIRES IN INDIA.
From the Asiatic Magazine.

[The following nervous and elegant Satires abonnd in strains of genuine Poetry, and display an intimate knowledge of the human heart; though written ex. pressly for the meridian of CALCUTTA, they will, we doubt not, be acceptable to a large portion of our readers, for AUGUSTA is not without many an original whose portraits is here," and one to the life."]

'Nothing so true as what you once let fall, Most Women have no characters at all.'

Pope.

WHAT! Women have no characters!

away!

Plead not the sanction of a Poet's lay.

lead.

And throbbing feelings own again thy power.

In ev'ry hope of Joy for future year,
In every fancied bliss, that Youth can rear,
'Mid hours of expectation, when the breast
Pants for some moment dearer than the rest,
Then, then, it is, that WOMAN seems alone,
The fair possessor of our Fancy's throne;
Then, then, it is, we breathe the anxious sigh,
We think of some fond glance from dewy eye;
We dream of soft caresses fondly given,
Of Beauty-Tenderness--best boons of

Proud Beauty scorns his true, though hum- | The sweet, half-childish semblance of alarm, ble prayers, Which sighs to cling to fond Protection's arm

And only smiles, when Wealth or Grandeur That ev'ry seeming wakefulness of heart,

With timid pressure would their kindness Or ever-dream'd from native bower to roam,

Thus-have we heard the glowing farce is Smil'd, as she caught each young admirer's

The fool's refus'd—and·laugh'd at for his At home-her, samplers rang'd in order fair, And counterpanes of patch-work, prov'd her