SWITZERLAND. 3d.-A Translation of the New TestaThe country of Switzerland has long ment into Arabic: originally commenced stood foremost in Europe, as abounding in by the late Rev. Henry Martyn, since repicturesque scenery. Italy, it is true, pos-vised and completed by the Rev. Thomas Thomason, and printed at the expence of the British and Foreign Bible Society. sesses the charm of recalling classical ideas, and the enthusiasm of youthful days revives at the sight of places familiar to our studious years. But the grand of nature unites with the tranquil, the domestic, and the happy, to impart peculiar force to many a Swiss Landscape, and combination of objects, This has been felt, and artists have almost exhausted these. A new track is now opened, and the artists are endeavouring to perpetuate the patriotism of their countrymen, by historical scenes, taken on the spot, of the most remarkable events of their country. Schweizerscenen, &c. Remarkable scenes of Swiss history. This work is published in numbers, consisting of four coloured aquatinta plates. The third number, just published, contains, 2d.-A collection of Original Letters, in the Muhratta language, published for the use of students, by the Rev. Dr. William Carey, Professor of the Bengalee, Sunscrit, and Mubratta languages, in the Col 3d. The second part of the Qamoos, edited by Shuekh Uhmud, a native of Yumun, in Arabia. The Capture of the Castle of Rozberg,lege of Fort William. in the Canton of Unterwald, Jan. 1, 1808. The inhabitants of the Canton presenting their gifts to the bailiff of Laudenberg. The bailiff being taken prisoner, obliged to swear, in the most solemn manner, to|| the Swiss, that he would never again set his foot on their territory. The old Réding holding a conference with the armed inhabitants of the Canton of Schwyz, before the battle of Morgarten. INDIAN LITERATURE.. College at Calcutta. 4th. The second edition of the Gooli Bukawulee, for the use of the students in the Hindcostanee Department of the college, by Captain Thomas Roebuck, Acting Secretary to the Council of the College, and Public Examiner in the College of Fort William. 5th-The Qootbee, a Treatise on Logic; edited by Muoluvees Jan Ulec and Ubdoor Ruheen, of the Arabic Department of the College of Fort William. IN THE PRESS. A Grammar of the Kurnata Language, by the Rev. Doctor William Carey. 2-At Bombay, the Dusateer, with the ancient Persian Translations, and Com The following is a list of Works, mentioned in the Appendix to the discourse of His Excellency the Visitor, at the Public disputations of 1814. These have been since printed, or published, and consequently their contents are accessible to the public. That most singular performance the Du-mentary; and a Glossary of the Ancient sateer, printing at Bombay, will, no doubt, Persian Words; by Moolla Feerooz Bin throw considerable light on many points Moolla Kuns; to which will be added an and opinions of Antiquity. We possess at English translation. The Dusateer is one present, but little, respecting the intellec- of the most singular books that have aptual and moral condition of the people for-peared in the East. It professes to be a merly under its influence. To acquire fur-collection of the writings of the different ther knowledge is to add another page to Persian Prophets, from the time of Muhthe History of Mankind. 1st. The second volume of Mr. Haring ton's Analysis of the Laws and Regulations, enacted by the Governor General in Council. 20. A Grammar of the Chinese Language, for the use of the Honorable the Company's servants at China, by the Rev. Robert Morrison, Chinese Secretary to Supercargoes at Canton. abad, to the time of the Fifth Sasan, being Fifteen in Number, of whom Zuratoosht, whom, following the Greeks, we call Zorooaster, was the thirteenth, and the fifth Sasan the last. This Sasan lived in the time of Khoosro Purveez, who was contemporary with the Emperor Heraclius, and died only nine years before the destruction of the antient Persian monarchy. The writings of these fifteen Pro Z 2 phets are in a tongue of which no other and therein was a particular language, vestige appears to remain, and which bearing no resemblance to any tongue spowould have been unintelligible, withoutken in this lower world, and it was called the assistance of the ancient Persian translation. It is quite a different language from the Zhound, Puhluvce, and the Duree, the most celebrated of the dialects of Autient Persia, The Persian translation professes to have been made by the fifth Sasan' who has added a Commentary, in which some difliculties of the original text are expounded. This work, though known to have existed as late as the time of Shah Juhan, had eluded the search of the curious in Oriental History, and Autiquities in latter times. The Copy from which the present edition will be published, was discovered by the Editor at Ispahan, about forty-four years ago, when travelling in Persia, for the purpose of making some investigations regarding the History of the Early Persiaus, and particularly in search of materials, for settling the disputes which prevailed among the Parsees of India, regarding the Ancient Persian Months, the differences of Opinion, regarding which had produced a schism at Surat. The Editor is not aware of the existence of any other Copy of this work. It is however, cited by Buhram Furhad, the Author of the Sharistani Char Chumun, who lived in the age of the Emperor Ukbur and of his son Juhangeer. Indeed Buhram Furhad, who was a Parsee, followed the doctrines of the Dusateer. It is often cited by Hukeem Ibni Kbuluhfoot-Tubreeze Moohummud Hoosuer, the Author of the Boorhani Qatiu, the most perfect and best Dictionary extant of the Persian Language, who lived in the age of Shah Juhau, and who often quotes the Dusateer, as his authority for words in the Old Persian. Moohummud Moohsin, who seems to have been the Author of the celebrated work, entitled the Dubistan, which contains the listory of the different Religious of Asia, takes the Dusateer as his guide in the account which he gives of the Ancient Persian Religion, and it is remarkable, that Sir William Jones, who had never met with the Dusateer, appears have been singularly struck with the details borrowed from it, and in his Sixth Discourse, speaks of them as wouderfully curious, and throwing a new light on the History of ancient times. as In the Dubistan the Dusateer is thus mentioned:" God revealed to Mahabad a book called Dusateer, in which were taught every language and science: it was divided into many parts, there being several volumes for every language; the heavenly speech. Muhabad gave a distinct language to every tribe, whom he sent to settle in such places as were best suited to each; and from theuce have arisen the Persian, Hindee, Greek and other tongues." The Editor has bestowed many years of his life in the search of such Monuments, as can illustrate the history, language aud opinions of the Ancient Persians, his ancestors. He has from a long familiarity with the style of the work, and with the chain of Philosophical Doctrines which it contains, been able, as he hopes, to correct many of the errors of the text, and to illustrate several of the peculiar opinions in the work. The Glossary is the labour of many years, and of very extensive reading, and can hardly fail to be acceptable to those who make the language of Persia their study. An English Translation and Preface will accompany the work, which will be published in two Volumes Octavo. READY FOR PRESS. The following work, entitled Bidya Durpun, or the Mirror of Science, which was particularly noticed in the Appendix to the discourse of his Excellency the Visitor in 1814, is now ready for the Press, and will be printed for the use of the Officers of the Army engaged in the study of that Dialect of the Hindee, usually spoken by the Sepoys, in the event of the Editor meeting with encouragement sufficient to defray the mere expences attending its publication. PREPARING FOR THE PRESS. A translation of the original treatise in Sunskrit of Shree Krishnu Turkalonkara, entitled Dayukrumu Sungruku, or an ab stract of the Law of Inheritance, by P. M. Wynch, Esq. The above-mentioned work is described by Mr. Colebrooke, in the Preface to his Translation of the two Treatises on the Law of Inheritance to contain "a good compendium of the Law of luberitance according to Jeemootu Valonu's text as exponuded by Shree Krishnu, the Commentator on the Dayhu Bhagu of Jeemootu Vahunu" the standard authority of the School of Bengal. The translation of the work in question is intended principally for the use of those members of the Judicial branch of the Civil Service in Bengal, who may not find leisure for the study of the elaborate treatise of Jeemootu Vahunu himself. INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE year, or even in a few successive years. With a candid allowance for the above impediments, this Society will not be cousidered to have failed in its purpose; nor, BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN INDIA. it is hoped, to have disappointed any rea ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. Bombay, June 8, 1816. sonable expectations of its successful advancement; when, on a review of its transactions during the first lustrum of its existence, it is found to have procured from Europe, and distributed in different parts of Asia, above three thousand Portugueze Testaments; to have printed, and transmitted for distribution on the coast of Ceylon, 5,000 Tamul Testaments; to have also printed, and sent to Ceylon, 2,000 Cingalese Testaments; to have printed, and sent to Amboyna, nearly 2,000 Malay Testaments in the Roman character; besides another thousand retained to ac Yesterday the Lord Bishop of Calcutta, consecrated the Church at this Presidency, by the name of St. Thomas's Church; for although the church was built nearly one hundred years since, no opportunity had hitherto offered of legally consecrating it. On this occasion, the Bishop was met at the door, by the Clergy, and several of the principal gentlemen of the PresidencyAnd the Right Honourable the Governor and the members of Council attended the Service. An excellent sermon was preach-company an equal number of the Old Tes ed by the Archdeacon. We are happy to find it is the intention of the Bishop to deliver lectures upon the Litany on the Sunday evenings, during his Lordship's stay at this Presidency, CALCUTTA. FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CALCUTTA tament, now in the press; to have commenced an edition of 2,000 copies of the Armenian Bible; and to have undertaken to print 2,000 copies of the Tamul Bible; 2,000 of the Hindoostanee Testament in the Nagree character, 1,000 copies of the Old Testament, and 3,000 of the New Testament, in the Malay Language and Arabic character, and an edition of the New Testament in the Malayalim, or Malabar language and character, besides obtaining from England, through the British and Foreign Bible Society, 2,000 English Bibles, and the same number of English Testaments, which are now for sale at reduced prices, at the Society's Repository, or have been sent to other places, where they were urgently wanted, as more specifically detailed in the sequel." On Wednesday the 21st February 1816, was held at the Town Hall, Calcutta, pursuant to advertisement, the Fifth Anniversary of this excellent institution, when the President read the Report of the Society's proceedings during the last year. The account was highly pleasing and satisfactory, and was rendered the more interesting by a statement which it contained of what the Society has accomplished since the period of its institution in the year 1811. Those who reflect on the inherent slowness of operations connected with the printing of large works in foreign languages, and the carrying on of correspondence between remote parts, must be gratified with the following modest but forcible summary of the Society's proceed-places; when looking towards Bombay, ings, extracted from the Report. "In a work of time, and slow progress, such as the printing a correct version of the Scriptures in different languages, forming new types, and bringing from a distance competent persons to assist in the construction of them, and superintend the press; but above all when a new translation of the portion of Scripture, intended for circulation, must be first made into a language little known to Europeans, before any other measure can be adopted; the bene fits ultimately derivable from the annual operation of this Society cannot be justly appreciated by the works actually published, or distributed, in any particular To have effected so much in the short period of five years, argues that its labours have been unremitted; and when it is considered that, in addition to the press, the Society in this place has, by the influence of its example and patronage, given rise to auxiliary institutions in other Madras, Ceylon, Java, Malacca, Amboyna, and Bencoolen, we see them all either establishing independent auxiliary associatious for themselves, or powerfully co-operating with the Calcutta Society by pecuniary contributions towards its geueral objects; in short, when we advert to its increased and increasing influence on a sides, we feel assured that its numerous patrons will see their most sanguine expectatious surpassed. In these eventful times nothing has ap peared to us more surprising, nothing more consoling and animating, than the mighty efforts of the British and Foreign Bible Scciety; a society, whose commencement is of recent date, but whose simple and pure object, appealing to the best feelings of Christians of every denomination, has advanced with extraordinary rapidity, and produced a combination of charitable labour, to which history affords no parallel. The amount of receipts during the year ending in May 1815, as appears by the abstract of the eleventh report of the British and Foreign Bible Society already published, had nearly reached the enormous sum of £100,000! The hand of Providence must be acknowledged by all, in thus bringing to maturity an association which has for its grand object the dispersion of the word of God throughout the world; and the Christian philanthropist will rejoice in contemplating the probable effects of such an institution on the nations of the earth, in the course of a few years. We cannot close this article without adverting to the improvement that has been effected this year, in the organization of the Calcutta Bible Society. The Rev. Dr. Bryce is now associated with Mr. Thomason as joint Secretary to the institution; which has thereby assimilated itself to the fair image and proportions of the Parent Society. Thus the representatives of the English, Scotch, Portuguese, and Armenian Churches, appearing amongst the members of the Committee, present to the world, in India, the same happy union of Christians which has proved so mighty in its operation, and so beneficial in its effects at home. ASIATIC SOCIETY. At a late Meeting of this Society, Mr. Gibbon produced a Chart of the Monthly Variation of the Thermometer in Calcutta, during the last four years. 90o was the highest, and 50° the lowest in the scale. TAPIR FOUND AT MALACCA. Major Farquhar communicated a Memoir descriptive of an animal called Tapir found at Malacca, but formerly supposed to be peculiar to America. There is some difference between them, but not important. The proboscis of the Tapir of Malacca is longer than that of America. The extreme length of the animal is seven feet and the height about three feet two. drawing and the bones of the head accompanied the Memoir. A where Nature affords every requisite for that perfection, which art can finally obtain. There can be no doubt that the indigenous fruits and vegetables, might be most essentially improved by scientific cultivation, and the rich soil and invariable summer of these regions, must be favourable to exotic introductions, under judicious management and sedulous attention.It has always, however, been a matter of regret, that amongst all our gardens, we are absolutely without a gardener, and till the Maili becomes a creature of a new species, we may say of the fields and plantations— "Man is the only growth that dwindles here." To introduce improved methods and rear gardeners as well as plants, are the chief objects we understand of the present Society; the members of which will by their subscriptions, secure a supply of the best vegetables and fruits, Indian or European, for their tables; and of any curious plants or flowers which they may be desirous of introducing into gardens of their the purchase of an extensive piece of ground own. The first measure of the Society is in the vicinity of Calcutta, which is to be appropriated to the purpose of a nursery and kitchen garden; and the next step is to maintain an efficient establishment under an able Superintendant. The expense of the original purchase, and of the future establishment, must necessarily fall heavy, but it is not more so than will be adequate perhaps to the abundance and superiority will be furnished, we infer, without of the supply with which the subscribers other charge and by the immense public benefit that must accrue from such an In stitution. The following Gentlemen were nominated a Committee, for giving currency to the plan, and carrying it into execution: John Williamson Fulton, Esq. Henry Alex- Dr. Wallich, Secretary and Treasurer. BULLION IMPORTED. The following is given as a correct statement of the Bullion imported into Calcutta, during the month of May last. Dollars, 8,29,674 or Sa. Rs. 17,11,202 10 Persian Rupees, 24,376 0 Silver and Gold value in do...68,865 Silver, 0 6 5,05,124 9 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, INSTITUTED. On Wednesday June 19, a meeting was held, by severai Gentlemen of the Pres-Treasure value Sicca Rs.,...2,29,669 10 dency, for the purpose of taking into consideration the institution of a Horticultural Society: an establishment of this description has long been desirable in Bengal, M... 38,800 0 Gold ditto, Total Rupees 25,99,287 13 8 Eminent Benefaction. It is with no or- Such an army-if army it may be dinary feeling of pleasurable gratification, called-and troops in such a state are illthat it falls to our lot to record one of the calculated to meet an enemy well paid, most extensive and useful charitable lega- well disciplined, hitherto masters of the cies, which has for a considerable time past, field, and possessing extensive resources. come within the scope of our observation. The Pindarrees will certainly get themThe late Mr. Martroos, a respectable Ar-selves punished, and they well deserve it. menian Gentleman, directed by his last Will and Testament, that a considerable sum should be applied by his Executors, to the release of poor prisoners confined in the Gaol of the Court of Requests. The intention of this beneficent donor, we understand, commenced to be fulfilled the latter end of the week; and oue-twelfth part of the entire sum, amounting to 2106 rupees, was appropriated to the payment of the debts of unfortunate persons confiued in the above-mentioned prison; in consequence of which, 108 persons obtained their liberation. NEW PROVINCES: NEPAUL. TREASURE: EXTRAORDINARY PEARL. The Lucnow Papers intimate that the treasure of the late Begum of Fyzabad, was escorted by a guard under command of Captain Robertson of the 11th_Regiment Native Infantry, into the Nabob's treasury, on the 18th of May. It amounted to eighty-four lacs and fifty thousand rupees-These Papers state that during one of the Nabob's visits to the Resident, mention having been made of the great pearl now for sale in Calcutta, his Highness produced another of nearly a similar description, with the body of pearl, and the A regular communication is now esta-head, arms, and tail of gold and enamel : blished between the Company's provinces and the Valley of Napaul by Amowah, the Cheeriaghatee pass, and Muckwanpore valley. PINDARREES: STATE OF THE ARMY. Our Ukhbars from Holkur's camp extend to the 3d ultimo, and leave the Rajah's tent, surrounded by groupes of disaffected officers, who have again had recourse to the effectual process of sitting churnu, in order to extort a scanty supply of money from their impoverished master. Accustomed as we have long been to the observance of the extreme irregularity of native courts in paying the salaries of their domestics, we had no idea that this pernicious system could have been carried to such an extent as in the case before us. It appears by the confession of the Ranee that the whole of with this difference only, that its face was that of a man, and that in its hand it held a sword and buckler. This curiosity surprised and delighted the spectators. MILITARY PREDICTION. The following singular circumstance is said to have occurred during the late campaign in the Nepaul mountains. An artillery-man having deserted from the British camp was carried by the enemy to Muckwanpore, and on reaching the heights which commanded that fort, suddenly exclaimed, "Is this your boasted fort of Muckwanpore? Why” raising his stick to his shoulder, and looking along it so as to embrace the whole of the works with his eye, "I can fire into every part of it; the English will take it without a moment's delay." It happened that the Nepaulese Havildar in charge of this deserter sometime afterwards came over to the British camp; and having mentioned the foregoing circumstance, was asked if he could recognise the spot whence the artilleryman pointed on using the exclamation.This he readily agreed to do; and accordofficers to a rising ground which comingly on the approach of the army, led the the officers and soldiery of the army are now thirty-seven months in arrears; and that the only donations which they have received during this period, have been a few casual sums unwillingly doled out for the purpose of quelling seditious movements. It may be true, that the Mahratta horsemen being possessed of grants of land may not be greatly in want of pay; but this will not hold when applied to the Hin-pletely overtopped the fortress, and was doostanee troopers, and Pindaree hordes,judged to be the best position for our bat who being soldiers of fortune, and carrying their whole estate about their persons, are mainly dependent for subsistence on the accidental gains of the day. The evils of such a system, but too apparent during times of peace, have frequently bern witnessed in war by the desertion and crumbling to pieces of similar ill-organised and balf-starved armies. teries. MADRAS. Receipt for dressing Tyger Skins. "If the skin be fresh immerse it in water in which a handful of Alum has been previously dissolved, and let it remain immersed ten or twelve hours; but if the skin be dry, a longer time will be required to admit of its being well soaked. The skin |