for that purpose on the 18th May, and it is expected to be carried through this session.

Col. Baillie, late resident at Lucknow, has announced his intention of resigning the military service of the Company, and becoming a candilate for the EastIndia Direction.

Capt. E. S. Ellis has been appointed by the Court of Directors to the office of marine paymaster and storekeeper at Calcutta, in the room of Capt. Henry Churchill, who retires.

Accounts from Calcutta state the death of Capt. Jacob Maughan, an assistant in the master attendant's office.

Mr. James Taylor has been appointed by the Court of Directors solicitor to the Company at Calcutta, on the vacation of that office by Mr. Poe.

The following officers having exceeded the period of their furlough in Europe, as limited by Act of Parliament, have been struck off the list of the Bengal army, Major M. D. Keating, Capt. Shubrick, Capt. Lt. Wm. Ballie, Lieut. P. Hay, and A. Shordiche.

On the 2d May, the dispatches for Bombay were closed at the East-India House, and delivered to the purser of the ship Lady Lushington.

Passengers per Lady Lushington for Bombay.-Lieutenant-Col. F. W. Gifford and Miss Gifford; Capt. Morse, lady and child ; Lieut. H. Newton; Mr. J. R. Blake, free mariner; Mr. W. Boye; Misses E. Clunis, E. Sandwith, R. Comings, and M. Carter; Mistresses J. and F. E. Sandwith, and M. Erskine; Messrs. Mathison, Kensington, Finlay, Hemming, Luken, Billamore, Hallum, and Sandwith, cadets.

The Liverpool, fifty guns, Capt. F. A. Collier, and Curlew, eighteen guns, Capt. W. Walpole, will shortly sail from Portsmouth, and the Topaze, forty-six, Capt. Lumley, and Eden, twenty-six, Capt. Loeh, from Plymouth, for three years service on the East-India station, to relieve the Orlando, Magicienne, Towey, and Bacchus. The Curlew arrived from Chatham on the 29th April.

The 25th regt. (King's own Borderers) commenced their march from Chatham, on the 18th instant, for Hilsea Barracks, The first division will arrive there on the 27th inst. From the effective strength of this regt. and the intimation they have received, it is expected they will shortly embark for the East-Indies.

When the last ships left St. Helena, Bonaparte took no exercise, and refused to see any visitors.

In consequence of the misunderstanding between Count Montholon and General Gourgaud, at St. Helena, the latter has returned to Europe. He came passenger in the Camden East-Indiaman. It is stated that Bonaparte peremptorily forbade the decision of the quarrel by a duel.

Mr. Balcolm, at whose house Bonaparte resided when he first landed, has also returned to England with his family. Reports were circulated that a secret correspondence had been detected at St. Helena. The rumours are without the slightest foundation.

An article from Constantinople gives an account of a dreadful conflagration which happened there on the 3d of April. It broke out in a house near the hotel of the French legation, belonging to a person named Mano; and made such dreadful progress, that seventeen persons (among them the Princess D'Ypsilanti and her son, with eight children,) perished in the flames. This calamity is suspected to have been produced by the ma lice of an incendiary.

East-India Trade. The trade between Liverpool and India is rapidly on the increase. In 1816 there arrived from India eight vessels, 3,831 tons. In 1817 there were seventeen arrivals, 7,338 tons; and this year up to the 5th inst. ten arrivals, 4,705 tons.

General Macaulay, formerly resident at Travancore, is a candidate for the representation of the borough of Stafford; there are three other candidates for that place.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. May 4.-East-India Dock. A person from the East Dock Company, presented an account of extraordinary disbursements by the said Company for additional accommodations for shipping. Ordered to lie on the table.

May 15.-War in India.

Mr. Howorth rose, in conformity with the notice he had given, to move for certain papers, relative to the war in India. Aware as he was of the indifference, with which the affairs of India were viewed in that house, he should have abstained from calling the attention of gentlemen to this subject, if he did not feel the extreme importance of the transactions which had recently taken place in that country, to the true interests of Great Britain. He trusted such papers would be laid before the house, as would enable them to form

a correct opinion of the causes which had led to the extensive warfare now carrying on in India. So far back as the year 1784, the late Lord Melville brought forward certain resolutions, which received the sanction of parliament. One of them stated, "that to pursue schemes of conquest, and aim at the extension of our dominions in India, was repugnant to the interest, honour, and policy of this nation." After ten years experience, when the Company's charter was again to be renewed in 1793, that resolution was embodied in an act of parliament, and it was at present an act of the legisLature. It appeared to him extremely curious, that the governments of India should be so particularly circumstanced, from that period to the present day, as to find themselves uniformly under the necessity of violating, to a great degree, that very act of parliament. The Marq. of Has tings raised an immense army, with which, he said, he meant to attack the Pindaris but the fact was, the Pindaris were the only enemy he had not met with. The British troops had fought both the Peishwa, with the Rajah of Berar (one of the most extensive provinces in the Carnatic,) with Holkar, and with Scindia; in short, with every power except that which they set out to meet, The Governor-General was now in the field with an army of 100,000 men, at the distance of 1,000 miles from the capital of Bengal, in the midst of the Mahratta empire. He had, doubtless, by this time, taken possession of the dominions of Holkar and Scindia, and it was to be supposed that the whole Mahratta force was arrayed in arms against him. He should now move

1st. That there be laid before this house copies or extracts of advices received from the several governments of India, relative to the origin and progress of the discussions, which ended in hostilities with the Peishwa."

2d." That there be laid before this house copies or extracts of advices received from the several governments of Judia, concerning the origin and progress of the discussions, which terminated in hostilities with the Rajah of Berar."

3d." That there be laid before this house copies or extracts of advices received from the several governments of India, respecting the aggressions of the Pindaris, and the measures adopted in consequence thereof."

4th." That there be laid before this house copies or extracts of the different treaties entered into by the government of India with the native powers and princes, since the year 1804, and not yet pre

sented to the house."

Mr. Canning was disposed to concur in giving the information required by the hon, member, as far as it was possible;

and, when the subject of the affairs of India came under the consideration of the house, he pledged himself to afford the fullest possible explanation in every point. He said he would give the information, as far as possible, because, with respect to the Rajah of Berar, no information of the description alluded to had been received. He hoped, therefore, the hon. gentleman would have no objection to withdraw his second motion, and he could assure him, whenever the documents alluded to arrived, they should be laid before parliament. As to the circumstances which led to hostilites with the Peishwa, they would be found such as could not be passed over in silence. Perhaps they had placed too great a degree of confidence in the Peishwa. With respect to the Pindaris, they could not be considered as a substantive force. But when in two successive years, that power was sufficiently strong to make incursions into the Company's territories, it would be admitted that there was good reason for endeavouring to extirpate a pest, formidable to the British power, and fatal to the repose in India. As to the treaties entered into with the native powers, and not yet laid before the house, he had not the slightest objection to their production. And he would now state, that, when they were presented, the treaty with the Peishwa would explain the peaceable relations of the British towards that power, at the time that hostilities were unexpectedly commenced against us. He could assure the hon. gentleman that no person agreed more sincerely with him than he did, in thinking that a pacific policy, was the truest, the wisest, and the most beneficial, for the government of India to pursue. But the hon. member must know, that, with every feeling on the part of the British government to bear and forbear, circumstances would arise, which no prudence could foresee, that rendered hostile measures sometimes necessary. He must be aware, that the British government had risen to a height, to recede from which (whatever opinion might be formed of the circumstances by means of which it had so risen) would be decided ruin. And he hoped, that, in considering the subject of peace and war, with reference to India, the difficult situ ation in which the government was placed would never be overlooked.

The first motion was then agreed to.

Mr. Howorth begged leave, after what had fallen from the right hon. gentleman, to withdraw his second proposition, with arrived, relative to the Rajah of Berar, the understanding, that, when information the right hon. gentleman would lay it before the house.

The two remaining motions relative to

the Pindaris and to the treaties with the native powers were then agreed to.

East-India Shipping Bill.

On the motion of Mr. Canning, the house re-committed the East-India Shipping Bill, and the East-India Marriages Bill, for the purpose of introducing explanatory clauses. The reports were received, and ordered to be taken into further consideration on the 27th May.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, WESTMINSTER, May 16.-Imitation Tea-Poison. The Attorney General v. Palmer. Mr. Walton opened the declaration, and stated, that this was an information filed by the Attorney-General against the defendant, which charged him, he being a dealer in tea, with having in his possession a quantity of sloe leaves and white-thorn leaves, fabricated into an imitation of tea, whereby he forfeited 107. for every pound weight of such imitation. There were other counts, to all of which the defendant pleaded Not Guilty.

Mr. Dauncey observed, that the proceeding which he now had to submit to the Jury was almost new to the court, as well as to those whom he had the honour of addressing, and was important to the defendant, inasmuch as the penalties which were sought to be recovered from him went to a very considerable amount, (but by no means disproportioned to the gain which he had made by engaging in this sort of transaction), and important also to them, to him, and to the public at large, because the gain of the defendant was at the expense of their health. The prosecution against the defendant, as they had heard, was for having in his possession, and also for disposing of a commodity as tea, which in point of fact was not tea. It was lamentable to think, that in this great town there were persons who were in the daily habit of selling deleterious drugs, and that while the public were imagining they were drinking at their meals nutritious beverages, they were in fact swallowing a slow but certain poison, and this in order that parties like the defendant might take advantage of the sale of an article which was not mer chantable, at a price far beyond its intrinsic value. They had already heard, that those who supposed they were drinking coffee were deceived, and were in fact drinking neither more nor less than an infusion of scorched peas and beans. This they were told was in itself harmless, and he believed, at least, there was no mixture of unwholesome ingredients. Not so in the present case, for he should prove that the most pernicious drugs had been used ; and it was clear that all ranks of society were alike exposed to their effects. The defendant, Mr. Palmer, was a grocer,

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and had no doubt reaped no small advantage from his nefarious traffic. would appear that a regular manufactory of this imitation tea was established in Goldstone-street. The parties by whom the manufactory was conducted, was a person of the name of Procter, and another person named John Malins, the son of William Malins, carrying on business in a place called Northumberland-alley, Fenchurch-street, professedly as a coffeeroaster. These two persons engaged others to furnish them with leaves, which after undergoing a certain process, were sold to the public as tea. The parties gathering the leaves, which were of the white and black thorn tree, were paid at the rate of two-pence per pound for the produce of their labour. These leaves, in order to be converted into an article resembling black tea, were first boiled, then baked upon an iron plate; and when dry, rubbed with the hand, in order to produce that curl which the genuine tea had. That the colour, which was yet to be given to it, was produced by logwood; whether this was an injurious ingredient or not he did not know, but he believed few of his auditors would willingly drink an infusion of that dye. With regard to the green tea, that was manufactured in a more destructive manner to the constitution of those by whom it was drank. The leaves, after having been pressed and dried, were laid upon sheets of copper, where they received their colour from an article known by the name of Dutch pink, some of which (a powder of a yellowish hue) he held in his hand. One of the component parts of this powder he understood to be white lead; but to this he would not pledge himself. The other ar

ticle used was, however, decidedly a deadly poison! He alluded to verdigrise, which was added to the Dutch pink in order to complete the operation. [A feeling of horror seemed here to pervade the whole Court.] He had felt it his bounden duty to be thus explicit in his statement, with a view not alone of holding up the defendant as a proper example to others, but to place the public upon their guard against such nefarious impositions. trusted he should be enabled to trace to the possession of the defendant 84lbs. weight of the commodity he had been describing, and if so, he should entitle the crown to penalties amounting in the whole to 8407.-a sum by no means large, when compared with the enormity of the offence.

He

Thomas Jones, (examined by Mr. Clarke, King's Counsel,) deposed, that he was employed by a person of the name of Procter, in April, 1817, to gather a quantity of black and white thorn leaves. Sloe leaves were the black-thorn. He also knew a person of the name of John

Malius, he was the son of William Malins, a coffee-roaster in Northumberland-alley. He did not at first know the purpose for which the leaves were gathered, but afterwards learnt they were to make imitation tea.

Mr. Jervis, counsel for the defendant -tell us what you saw yourself, and not what you were told.

Mr. Clarke-He shall tell you nothing but what he did see.

Witness did not himself gather more than a hundred and a half of those leaves; but he employed another person, of the name of John Bagster, to gather them. After the leaves were gathered they were first taken to his house, and afterwards to Mr. J. Malins', in Goldstone-street. He was to have two-pence per pound for gathering them. In Goldstone-street they were manufactured. They were first boiled, and then the water was squeezed from them in a press. They were afterwards placed over a slow fire upon sheets of copper to dry; while on the copper they were rubbed with the hand to curl them. At the time of boiling there was a little verdigrise put into the water (this applied to green tea only). After the leaves were dried, they were sifted; this was to separate the thorns and stalks from them. After they were sifted, more verdigrise and some Dutch pink powder was added; this made them resemble green tea, and the work was finished. The Dutch pink was a hard substance, and was scraped with a knife; he did not know its component parts. It was shook up with the tea, and together with the verdigrise, gave the leaves that yellowish green bloom observable on genuine tea. They had no particular name for this process, except giving the bloom. The black tea went through a similar course as the green, except the application of Dutch pink: a little-verdigrise was put in in the boiling, and to this was added a small quantity of logwood to dye it, aud thus the manufacture was complete. The drying operation took place on sheets of iron. Knew the defendant, Edward Palmer, who kept a grocer's shop in Red-lion-street, Whitechapel. He took some of the mixture he had been describing to his shop. The first time he took any was in May, 1817. In the course of that month, or the beginning of June, he took four or five 7lb. parcels. He did not see Mr. Palmer at the time he took the parcels, to his recollection. He saw him at other times. He was not paid for the mixture on delivery. He received some half-pence at the defendant's shop, for which he had been sent by John Malins. It was not said what this money was for. Did not believe the defendant gave him the halfpence; to the best of his recollection it

was a young man in the shop. John Malins sent witness to the defendant for some paper bags, and other paper and string. He then saw him, and received from him the bags and paper. These bags and paper were to put up the imitation tea. He afterwards delivered these bags, filled with the imitation tea, at the defendant's shop. Remembers subsequently taking a quantity of the imitation tea to Mr. Malins, in Russel-street. It was sold to grocers at the west end of the town. When he took it there it was taken up to the top of the house. Of this first quantity he took none to the defendant. He afterwards carried some more to Russel-street, which was also taken to the top of the house, about one hundred weight and three quarters; from this quantity he carried 56lbs. weight to the house of the defendant's porter, by the desire of Mr. Malins, as the defendant did not wish it to come to his house; it was in paper parcels of 7lbs. each.

Cross-examined by Mr. Jervis.-Procter was a commissioner's traveller; he sold tea and grocery on commission to different grocers in town and country. He employed witness because he was out of work at the time; witness was by business a porter, and lived last in that capacity with a Mr. Millard, in Size-lane, a merchant and packer. He quitted his service in October, 1816, and had no regular employment from that time till employed by Procter. Occasionally did odd jobs of portering while out of place, and had money from his brother to assist in supporting his family; a pound or a few shillings at a time. Did not employ him. self more than three or four days in getting the leaves. He was first employed by Procter at the latter end of April, 1817; the leaves were then coming out; he was ordered to get as many leaves as he could, and employed Bagster to assist him. Was not told what the leaves were for till a month after; Procter told him in the month of June. He was shewn the way to make the fabricated tea by Mr, John Malins and Mr. Procter, and wns ordered to assist in the manufacture. Was engaged in this way two months or ten weeks. They made a great many pounds in May. It was common for grocers to sell bags and paper; witness was not told by Mr. Malins what the bags were for which he got from the defendant. He had no conversation with him on the subject. He could not say how many bags he got, there might be fifty. It was in May he took the parcels of tea to the defendant's house; part before and part after he got the bags. On being re-examined to the point, he said it must have been after he got the bags that he took the parcels; it was a mistake when he said part before and part

tempted to establish a defence, were severally fined. John Orkney, penalty, £70; John Horner, pénalty £210. Wm. Dowling, penalty £70.

These were the whole of the informa tions brought forward this day; but we' understand that a great number of others are still pending.

The Solicitor of the Excise had in court a box, containing upwards of twenty samples of different qualities of imitation tea, from the most costly to the most common. It is much to be feared, that the country dealers have been greatly imposed upon with these spurious compositions.

after. When he carried the parcels, he saw a young man in the shop. Did not know his name. He might be about twenty years of age. He was middle sized, about five feet high. He saw Mr. Palmer afterwards in Northumberlandalley. He did not then tell him he had taken the parcels of imitation tea to his house, or have any conversation with him. It was in August, or the latter end of July, he took the 56lbs. to the person whom he described as the defendant's porter. [Here the witness referred to a memorandum which he had in his hand, and which turned out to be a list of about twenty grocers to whom he had carried the imitation tea.] He made this memorandum in September. The first memorandum was "56lbs. to Mr. Palmer, No. 6, Red Lion-street, Whitechapel, in May and August: paid me part." This did not contain the 56lbs. delivered to the porter. He had said that he was uot paid for the tea by Mr. Palmer. Thought the halfpence was part payment, but was, not certain. The porter lived in Boundary-court. James Malins told him he was Mr. Palmer's porter, and that he was to take the tea to him, as he did not wish to have it brought directly to his house. He was a fresh coloured country looking man, about forty-five. Could not say whether he wore a wig or not.

John Bagster proved, that he had been employed by Malins and Procter for two months, to gather sloe and white thorn leaves; when he first gathered them they were taken to Jones's house, and from thence to Malin's coffee-roasting premises, in Northumberland-alley; he received two pence per pound for gathering them; saw the manufacturing going on, but did not know much about it; he saw the leaves on sheets of copper, in Goldstone-street. Mr. Bowling from the Excise-office, proved the defendant to be an entered tea dealer.

This was the case for the crown.

Mr. Jervis now addressed the Jury on the part of the defendant, and confidently submitted, that the evidence which had been produced to them, in support of this information, was not such as would justify them in finding a verdict for a single farthing, or in finding a verdict for the crown at all.

Mr. Baron Richards having summed up the evidence, the Jury found a verdict for the crown for the full penalties, amounting to eight hundred and forty pounds.

Other prosecutions of a similar nature were instituted against several persons, when the following submitted to a verdict for the crown. John Prentice, Lawson Holmes, James Gary; Penalty £120. H. Gilbert, and Powell, Penalty £140. W. Clarke, David Bolis. The following persons after having at

The following mode of discovering imitation tea, has been communicated to us. Lay the fea on wetted paper and rub it, it will easily discharge the colouring it re ceives from logwood, Dutch pink, or verdigrise.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, India Board, May 5, 1818.-Dispatches have been received at the East India House, addressed to the Secret Committee by the Governor in Council of Bombay, of which dispatches and of their enclosures the following are copies and extracts

Extract from a Report from Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Hislop, Bart, to the Governor General, dated Camp at Charwah, 26th Nov. 1817; enclosed in a dispatch from the Governor in Council of Bombay, dated 1st Jan. 1818 :

My late dispatches will have informed your lordship, that Lieut. col. Adams's division commenced crossing the Nerbudda on the 14th, and Brig. Gen. Malcolm's on the 16th instant. The first was on the 21st inst. near Rasseen, the latter on the 23d, at Ashta; and on the 24th and 25th (as contemplated in my dispatch of the 31st ultime), the movement of these. columns, and of that of Maj. Gen. Marshall, which was at Sangur, on the 21st, would expel the Pindarry Durrahs from their late positions, and the country they. usually occupy; but every account states that they were prepared to fly, and would.. allow to our troops but little chance of coming up with them.

The 25th instant was intended to be named by me as the date on which the eighty miles in advance of the Nerbudda, positions of the Pindarris, all above would be reached by our divisions, and the event has verified the calculation, although the troops were directed to advance with every expedition which the difficulties of the country to be traversed permitted.

Extract from a Dispatch from the Governor in Council at Bombay, to the Secret Committee, dated 1st Jan. 1818. By the accompanying copy of a com

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