their noble sentiments by lending their | hands to perpetuate the same, united as it were in a mass, in the most majestic manner, in the Metropolis of the Catholic World. portentous events of this age, and to raise a memory to the living heroes, and to those who were immolated for this grand result; a new idea, and equally new are the facts of this epoch, of which no example whatever is to be found in the antient monuments still existing. Eleven persons shall then be subscribers, who may be thought the most versed in the arts, and in the sciences as artists, jointly with Mr. Fagan, his Britannic Majesty's Consul General for Sicily, Malta, and adjacent islands, who will have the concern to choose the best of such designs, to propose the public, spacious, and frequented place on which, with the approbation of his Holiness, it may be esteemed most proper to erect the aforefaid monument, and to superintend and oversee the exact and quick execution of the same, until the perfect and total completion of the work. The Monument will consist of a magnificent and elevated Pyramid, on the top thereof will be placed the Statue of Re-drawn from the number of the gentlemen ligion Triumphant. This Pyramid will rest upon a strong and solid quadrangular base, composed of thick massive marble squares, to allude to the stability of the Christian religion, and to the constancy and firmness of the august Sovereigns, who, with their endeavours, have so gloriously co-operated to deliver afflicted Europe from the slavery under which it miserably groaned. In the principal front of the monument will be placed an Image of the reigning High Pontiff, Pius VII.; in two others, those of the Sovereigns who have formed and composed so adventurous a coalition; and in the last, there will be the Portraits of those renowned and valiant Personages, who by their arms or by their counsel have contributed in a special manner to the happy issue of a just, as well as a brilliant canse. Besides, if the funds produced by the subscriptions should amount so as to supply the means, the Statues of the High Pontiff, and those of the aforesaid Sovereigns, and of the most distinguished and famous Heroes, shall be raised around the niches of the edifice upon well invented and proportioned pedestals. In the interior part of the monument will be observed the statues in marble, and the names engraven in brass of the illustrious warriors who have particularly signalized themselves in battles, or fallen victims on the field of glory in defence of the cause of common liberty of the European nations. In the back part there will be likewise engraved in copper, and to be read, the names of the gentlemen, subscribers for the elevation of so conspicuous and interesting a monument. The history of so many complicated and rumoured events, engraved on sheets of brass, and deposited in the said monument, will at one view, transmit to posterity and future ages the epoch of the propitious recovery of liberty, which seemed condemned almost to a perpetual slavery of tyranny, and for their caution and example. It will teach them the horrible consequences to the public detriment of our days, produced by the fatal spirit of immorality and oppression. Annotations. The basis so solid and strong, and ornamented as above fixed upon, will serve to give to future ages the idea of the events that happened: and as these have caused the death of so many valiant heroes, who fought for liberty, therefore no other place can be better adapted to erect a lasting Monument to eternize their memory, than this basis. The pyramidical form of this Monument was chosen for two wise considerations; the first, because the Pyramid may be regarded as an honourable tomb of all those heroes, who, gloriously combating in the defence of all Europe, are fallen extincts: in the second place, because this mode of The first artists, of whatever nation they building has been always looked upon as may be, are invited to form a design of the an emblem of eternity, being the most lastproposed Monument; and if any other forming of all forms, and therefore best adapted of building should be thought by them and to eternize the pomps and the triumphs by the learned more adapted for the pro- of Religion. posed object, any one of such artists is requested to make two designs, one (to wit) | according to the plan herein expressed, and the other according to his own taste and genius, retaining in mind that the idea is adapted to an order of architecture, composed to correspond to the two-fold object of the monument, to wit, to celebrate the In the habitation of the aforesaid Consul General of Great Britain, situate in Saint Bastinello-street, No. 2, there will be an open book, which at any hour of the day will be exhibited to the contributing Gentlemen by a person appointed for such purpose, that they may place their subscriptions therein. The sums of money will be deposited with the banker who may be deemed most proper by the majority of the Gentlemen subscribers. From time to time, as the present Mauifest shall be forwarded to the Provinces, notice will be given of the measures most analogous to the good faith and to the security of the deposits that may be respectively convenient to each of them.-Rome, 1814. INDIES EAST. Trade with India.-The following is an account of the prime cost of all cargoes purchased in India, and shipped for Europe, in the year 1812-13; together with the commercial charges at each Presidency, not added in the invoices: Charges not add Lion Hunt.-Calcutta, March 90.--By a letter from a correspondent at Kurnaul, we are informed of the particulars of a lion hunt, in the vicinity of that station, during which Colonel Thomson, and a party of Officers, killed a lion of enormous size, and supposed to be the largest ever seen in India. His dimensions were the following: length from the end of the nose to the tip of the tail, ten feet two inches: height from the ground to the top of the shoulder, four feet six inches: circumference of the killed eight villagers, a great number of four legs, two feet four inches. He had bullocks, and otherwise done much damage previous to the information being sent to cantonments of his being in the neighbour hood. Invoice Amount. Current Rupees. Bengal 1,41,46,110 Madras. 55,04,844 Bombay. 8,33,248 Fort Marlbro 1,68,318 2,05,12,520 ed to the invoice. Extract of a Letter from Surat.—“ Ac-' Current Rupees. counts have been received from Gurrab, 8,69,683 which mention a dreadful calamity, but, 8,52,171 alas! of too frequent occurrence in this 61,025 country. On the 12th February, the Nerbuddah unexpectedly, and during the night, overflowed its bauks, and swept away upwards of 15 villages. The calamity was so sudden, that the inhabitants, their houses, furniture, and cattle shared one common fate. It is difficult to compute the number of human lives lost; but it is supposed to exceed three thousand." 17,82,879 The subjoined is an account of the amount of all goods sold at the East India Company's sales, from the 1st of May, 1813, to the 1st of May, 1814, as presented to the House of Commons:COMPANY'S GOODS. Teas Bengal Piece Goods £4,158,388 Coast and Surat ditto Nankeens Raw and Organzine Silk 1,113,264 Pepper 346,101 Mokke Burjunder, a diamond merchant, was in January last murdered at Goa, when upon the point of embarking for Ormus, in the Persian Gulph. The assassin, who was his own servant, rifled him of a number of diamonds and precious stones concealed in a girdle round his waist, and afterwards buried the body in the garden. He next put on some clothes belonging to his master, and after rendering the disguise as complete as he could, passed himself on the Captain of the vessel $82,927 for the merchant. The ship sailed almost 78,171 immediately with a fair wind for its desti214,854 nation. The murder not being discovered Drugs, Sugar, Cotton, Wool, &c. 426,653 8,452,828 PRIVATE TRADE GOODS. Teas An Indian paper contains the trial of one Mahommed Sar Bijuljunge, a native of Serampore, accused of violating the person of 85,417 Ana Arkele, a married woman, whom he 48,126 afterwards endeavoured to strangle. In 4,612 addition to the testimony of the unfortunate 44,555 victim of his lust, the principal witness 57,121 against the prisoner was his own son--a 401,991 youth, sixteen years of age, whom he stab bed while in prison, and made a second at641,822 tempt to destroy during the progress of the trial. Having been found guilty, his atro10,900,251 cious conduct induced the judge to order him for instant execution. The prosecu- | befitting Sacred Books; that is, in an easy trix, though under sixteeu, was the mother and simple diction. Formerly the four of three children. Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were known in Persia; but now the whole of the New Testament is completed in a most excellent manner: and this circumstance has been an additional source of pleasure to our enlightened and august mind. Even the four Evangelists, which were known in this country, had never been before explained in so clear and luminous a manner. We, therefore, have been particularly delighted with this copious and complete translation. Please the most merciful God, we shall command the se Trial by Ordeal.-Mr. Forbes in his Oriental Memoirs, has the following curious remarks. Among other perplexing circumstances in my administration of justice at Dhuboy, I was sometimes obliged to admit of the Ordeal Trial. In the first instance a man was accused of stealing a child covered with jewels, which is a common mode of adorning infants among the wealthy Hindoos. Many circumstances appeared against him: on which, he demanded the ordeal. It was a measure to which I was very averse; but at the par-lect servants, who are admitted to our preticular request of the Hindoo arbitrators, who sat on the carpet of justice, and especially at the earnest entreaty of the child's parents, I consented. A cauldron of boiling oil was brought into the durbar, and, after a short ceremony by the Brahmins, the accused person, without showing any anxiety, dipped his hand to the bottom, and took out a small silver coiu, which I still preserve in remembrance of this transaction. He did not appear to have sustained any damage, or to suffer the smallest pain; but the process went no further, as the parents declared themselves perfectly convinced of his innocence. PERSIA. Persian New Testament.-The following is a translation of a letter recently written by the King of Persia, to Sir Gore Ousely, Bart. the British Ambassador at the Court of Ispahan, relative to a version of the New Testament in the Persian language: "In the name of the Almighty God, whose glory is most excellent! sence, to read to us the above-mentioned book, from the beginning to the end, that we may, in the most minute manner, hear and comprehend its contents. "Your Excellency will be pleased to rejoice the hearts of the above-mentioned dignified, learned, and enlightened Society, with assurances of our highest regard and approbation: and to inform those excellent individuals, who are so virtuously engaged in disseminating and making known the true meaning and intent of the Holy Gospel, and other points in the sacred books, that they are deservedly honoured with our Royal favour, Your Excellency must consider yourself as bound to fulfil this Royal request. "Given in Rebialavil, 1229. desired) a Copy of his Translation of the New Testament into the Persian Language, to His Persian Majesty, Fateh Ali Shah Kajah, having first made conditions that His Majesty was to peruse the whole, and favour me with his opinion of the style, &c. "FATEH ALI SHAH KAJAH.” Sir Gore Ouseley also writes [Extract] from St. Petersburgh, under the date of the 20th of September, 1814.... Agreeably to the wishes of our poor friend, the late Rev. Henry Martyn, I presented in the "It is our august command, that the dig-name of the Society (as he particularly nified and excellent, our trusty, faithful, and loyal well-wisher, Sir Gore Ousely, Baronet, his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary (after being honoured and exalted with the expressions of our highest regard and consideration) should know, that the copy of the Gospel, which Previous to the delivering the Book to was translated into Persian by the learned the Shah, I employed Transcribers to make exertions of the late Rev. Henry Martyn, some Copies of it, which I distributed to and which has been presented to us by Hajee Mahomed Hussein Khan, Prince of your Excellency on the part of high, digni- Maru, Mirza, Abdulwahab, and other men fied, learned, and enlightened Society of of learning and rank immediately about Christians, united for the purposes of the person of the King, who, being chiefly spreading abroad the Holy Books of the re- couverts to the Soofi Philosophy, would, I ligion of Jesus (upon whom, and upon all felt certain, give it a fair judgment, and if Prophets, be peace and blessings!) has called upon by the Shah for their opinion, reached us, and has proved highly accepta-report of it according to its intrinsic merits. ble to our august mind. "In truth, through the learned and unremitted exertions of the Rev. Henry Martyn, it has been translated in a style most The inclosed Translation of a Letter from His Persian Majesty, to me, will shew your Lordship that he thinks the complete work a great acquisition, and that he ap proves of the simple style, adopted by my jamented friend, Martyn, and his able coadjutor, Mirza Seyed Ali, so appropriate to the just and ready conception of the sublime morality of the Sacred Writings. I beg leave to add, that, if a correct Copy of Mr. Martyn's Translation has not yet been presented to the Society, I shall have great pleasure in offering one that has been copied from, and collated with the original left with me by Mr. Martyn, on which he had bestowed the greatest pains to render it perfect. RUSSIA. Sir Gore Ouseley-By letters lately received from St. Petersburgh, we learn, that the successful exertions of his Excellency Sir Gore Ouseley, our Ambassador at the Court of Persia, have been duly appreciated by the Emperor of Russia, who has received him with marked kindness and condescension, honoured him with the Grand Cordon of St. Alexander Neuski, of which the Star and Cross are richly set in brilliants, and further presented him with a superb snuff box, with his Imperial Majesty's Portrait, also set in diamonds. A very full account has been published in the Russian Court Gazette, of the new system of education introduced into this country by Dr. Bell and Mr. Lancaster. TURKEY. The ravages of the Plague this year at Smyrna have been unusually dreadful. It is stated, that in June, frequently upwards of a thousand were buried in one day; one-third of the inhabitants had left their dwellings and the town. Some compute the number of deaths this year at 50,000; the least computation is 30,000. Smyrna is said to contain from 150 to 180,000 inhabitants. All Asia Minor, Syria, the Islands, &c. experienced this year a similar loss of about one quarter or one fifth of the whole population. The crops of corn, &c. remain ungathered in the fields, in many places in the interior, for want of hands; and several towns and villages have been entirely abandoned. In Smyrna the keys of 800 houses have been delivered to the Governor, as many families have been altogether extirpated, and the Governor is heir when there is no very near relation. Letters have been received from Smyrna of the 3rd ult. The fever at that time had entirely disappeared, and commerce was gradually resuming its former activity.— The exchange was extremely low. NEW SOUTH WALES. Sydney, March, 5, 1814.-Serpents: Venomous.-A snake was lately seen in the warehouse of Mrs. Reiby in George-street; which on pursuit took refuge down a small aperture in the floor, and escaped. Several others had within the last few weeks made their appearance about dwelling houses in Sydney, to the great alarm of the families inhabiting them. In the yard of 96, Georgestreet, two were reported to have been seen in one day, but hunted for in vain. In the course of the day, however, an old man employed in mixing mortar in the yard, felt a severe stroke upon the instep, and on looking downwards saw one of the reptiles almost then between his legs, the head of which he immediately severed from the body with his spade. Whether he.had been bit or not he could not say; he felt no bad effects from the circum stance; for which it was strongly presumed he was particularly indebted to the protection he derived from a pair of thick worsted stockings, worn loosely about the instep and ancle.-We cannot otherwise account for their frequent appearance in town, than from the very great probability of their removal hither in the hollow parts of trees brought in as fuel, which we therefore would advise to be well examined, when not wholly inconvenient, and always kept at as great a distance from the more frequented parts of the inhabited premises as possible. PROPERTY TAX. .... Leaving a deficiency of. 1804.... £ 16,917 1811....£13,246,864 The Net Produce of the Rever in 1805 .... 12,941,155 the years ending October 10, 15, and 12,789,778 October 10, 1814, distingu bing the Tord 13,963,803 Produce of the Customs and 1806 1807 .... 1808 .... 3,502,354 1812 4,400,521 1813 5,983,214 1814 9,264,189 In the 11,120,131 to Oct. 12,134,118 10, .... Comprising, in the above period, a total of CustomsConsolidated 3,905,996-4,199819 128,218,2371. of which 112,129,255l. is for Property Tax and the remainder on account of income. Exclusive of which there has been paid in, since the period when the Property Tax commenced, for arrears of income duties, upwards of 600,000l. - Abstracts of Parliamentary Papers. Property Tax.-In the Report of the Committee upon expired and expiring Laws, the Property Tax Act is recorded as expiring naturally on the 6th of April, 1815. Bills of Credit. It appears from the papers, that the sum wanted to pay off and discharge the remainder of the Bills of Credit, or other securities, issued by virtue of the Act of 54 Geo. III. c. 13. for giving pecuniary succours to the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia, is as follows: To the Principal of the Bills of Total .. 1,650,000 Revenue. The amount of monies in the Exchequer, and remaining to be received, on the 8th of November, 1814, to complete the 25,500,000l. granted to arise from war taxes for 1814; and of the amount of monies in the Exchequer, and remaining to be received, on the same day, to complete the sum of 24,000,000l. granted to be raised by annuities, for the same year, is as follows:Money in the Exchequer, and remaining to be received, on account of War Taxes 18,198,632 10 41 Naval Force. The following is the the 1st of November:-At sea, 35 ships of amount of the British Naval Force up to the line, 13 of 44 guns, 89 frigates, 31 sloops and yachts, 9 bombs and fire ships, 166 brigs, 8 cutters, 21 schooners, gun and fitting, 26 of the line, 2 of 44 guns, vessels, luggers, &c. Total 372.-In Port 31 frigates, 21 sloops, &c. 1 bomb, 44 brigs, 4 cutters, 6 schooners, &c. Total 135 -Guard-ships, 9 of the line, 1 of 50 guns, 1 brig. Total 11.-Hospital and Prison Ships, 42 of the line, 2 frigates. Total 44. Do. on account of Loan 8,303,841 18 7-Ordinary and repairing service, 124 of the line, 15 from 50 to 44 guns, 70 frigates, 26,502,474 8 116 sloops, 58 bombs, &c. 1 cutter, 3 schoon |