By the Britannia, from Bombay :-Captains Addison and C. F. Pelly, Bombay Establishment.

By the Orelia, from New South Wales :-Lieutenants Christie, 3d Foot, and R. Macdonald; Doctors C. Cameron, William Macdonald; Messrs. Redford and Morrison, and Ward and Wife; forty-nine invalids, nineteen women, and forty children.

By the Gilmore, from the Mauritius :-Lieutenant Hawthorn, 29th Foot, (died off the Cape); Rev. Mr. Perring; Mesdames Lawes and Perring; Masters Wicke and Campbell.

By the Palmyra, from Bengal :-Majors Baillie, 38th Foot, and Spottiswood, Invalid Establishment; Captain Pecket, Bengal, Europe; Lieutenant Windus, 11th Dragoons; Rev. Richard Mytton; Francis Hall, James Spottiswood, and J. P. Jones, Esqs.; Masters Prinsep, F. Smith, A. Swinton, and Dunlop; Mesdames Prinsep and Mytton; Misses Mytton, Lewis, Dunlop, and Swinton; eight servants, and fifty-one invalids.

By the Neptune, from Bengal:-Lieutenant King, Ensign Maule; Dr. Morgan, (died at Ingeram); Henry Middleton, John Fraser, Charles Weston, and George Ogilvy, Esqs.; Mr. Falconer; Masters Richardson and Theobald; Mesdames Mitford and Morgan; Misses Scracie and Pattle.

By the Admiral Buyskes, from Batavia :-Captain Macdonnell, Mr. Spencer; Masters Ingram and Baumhaure; Mesdames Duncan and Cruseman, and child. By the Orient, from Bengal:-Lieut.-Col. J. L. Harriott; Captain G. Mackenzie, 15th Bengal N. I.; Lieut. H. Macintosh, 43d Bengal N. I.; Dr. N. Wallick, (M.D.), Superintendant of Hon. Company's Botanical Garden; G. Ballard, Esq.; Mr. F. W. Durand; Mesdames H. Cavell, (died at sea on 9th June); Clarke, Abel, and Durand; Masters H. F. Cavell, Durand, and Watson; three servants, and forty invalids.

By the Baretto, jun., from Madras :-Lieut. A. H. Hall; Dr. Peppin; Mesdames Peppin and Atkinson, and three children.

By the Jessie, from the Cape :-Dr. Wehr and Wife; Mr. and Mrs. Hiedeman and child; Mesdames Wehir, Hall, Trutter, Dryers, J. Dryers, and Albertus

and son.

By the Warren Hastings, from Bengal :-General Richards; R. C. Blunt, W. L. Graves, George Watson (died at sea), Esqs.; Mr. Charles Haynes, Assistant-Surgeon, an insane patient; Mesdames Richards and Blunt; Miss Julia Richards; Maria Brown, servant, (committed suicide off St. Helena.)

By the Robarts, from Bengal:-Major-General Sir Thomas Reynell, K.C.B., 71st Foot; Colonels Day, 51st regiment, and Kennett, 37th regiment; Majors Denty, 53d regiment, and Meade, 89th Foot; Lieutenants Budd, 14th Foot, Johnson, 11th Dragoons, and W. N. Tillard; Drs. MacIsaac, B. M. S., and Harcourt, 11th Dragoons; John Heyes, W. P. Muston, Daniel de Castro Fernandez, John Beecher, John Rawlins, H. L. Bowles, and John Cooper, Esqs.; Masters G. P. Muir, John Heyes, C. H. Rawlins, Frederick Slark, Jolin Beecher, and William Day; Mesdames Mouatt, W. P. Muston, Major Denty, John Beecher, Major Taylor, and Rawlins; Misses A. M. Davis, L. Denty, L. Godfrey, Taylor, J. E. Slack, C. O. Dell Beecher, A. Beauchamp, E. Currie, Mustons, M. Irving, and Harcourts; twelve servants.

By the Parmelia, from Bengal and Madras:-Lieut. Colonel Moore, (died at sea, 28th March); Lieutenant Fife; Messrs. J. Macintosh, Feband, and Close; Masters W. Macintosh, J. Macintosh, R. Macintosh, and W. Kempland; Mesdames J. F. Ellerton, Colonel Crooke, and J. Macintosh; Misses M. C. and E. M. Ellerton, Macintosh, and Hooper.

POSTSCRIPT.

We kept our sheets open to the latest moment in expectation of receiving some late and interesting intelligence from India; but, though we have Papers to the 7th of March, we find nothing in them of general interest beyond the portions we have extracted and printed under separate heads. In England, the only event that has occurred connected with Indian persons or affairs, is the arrival of Lord Amherst, or the Earl of Arracan, who appears to have entered this country as quietly as he quitted that from whence` he has come.

No. LVII.

Page.

1. Foreign Trade-American Tariff-East India Monopoly..

385

2. The Death of Eva..

395

3. Tales of Persia, No. II.-The Fisherman of Ormus...

397

4. Voyage from Bombay to the Persian Gulf by the Southern Passage, No. I.....

407

5. To a Lady who accused her lover of Flattery.

426

6. Sect of Devil-Worshippers in the Burmese Territories..

427

7. Specimens of East Indian Poetry.....

437

8. Examination of the Arguments against a Free Press in India..

442

9. The last Plague of Egypt....

462

10. Journey from Constantinople to Vienna by Warna and Bucharest, No. I. 463 11. The Cape of Storms....

469

16. Persecution of two English Officers for Doubting the Pope's In

28. Memorial of London Merchants against the Calcutta Stamp Act.

534

29. Reduction of Pay in the Ordnance Department of India..

30. The Grave of Beauty..

543 544

31. State of the Medical Profession in India..

545

32. Dodd and Co.'s Fire Extinguishing Branch-pipe for fired Ships, &c.. 549 33. East India Free Trade and Colonisation..

THE ORIENTAL HERALD.

No. 57.-SEPTEMBER, 1828.-VOL. 18.

FOREIGN TRADE-AMERICAN TARIFF-EAST INDIA MONOPOLY.

In no country in the world has commercial legislation been conducted on a system of such perverse impolicy as with us. Possessing, as we do, above all other nations, the means of verifying the lessons of theory, by reference to the unimpeachable testimony of fact, having within our reach, in the shape of official returns, a mass of information, which, if honestly consulted and wisely applied, would lead to just conclusions on all questions of mercantile expediency, we have, until lately, regardless of all principle and all experience, pursued a miserable course of restrictive policy, the adoption of which, while it suited us for a time, we have now surpassing reason to deplore. Could the men of power and influence among us have prevailed on those whose individual interests might have been compromised by the change, to abandon the system of prohibitory enactment, when it ceased to be conducive to the general interests of the country, or could foreign nations have been persuaded to copy our repentance with as much facility as they were induced to imitate our errors,-the statesmen of the present day would not have much reason to regret the improvidence of their predecessors. But, bound as they are, hand and foot, by the mistaken policy which foreign Governments have adopted on our authority, by establishments which our example first taught them to institute and compelled them to support,-by inconsiderate engagements with, and exclusive monopolies granted to, our own subjects,-now that the necessity of retracing our steps is acknowledged, they find that every scheme of amelioration is thwarted and defeated by checks and impediments, which no sagacity can evade, and no wisdom remove. Men, rocked and dandled into legislators,' knowing nothing of the business of life but what they may have seen from the windows of a drawing-room, have, during the last thirty years, been permitted Oriental Herald, Vol. 18.

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