method of simplifying arithmetical calculations, and has succeeded, in the most complicated rules, in decomposing, producing, and reducing in one minute, and by means of a dozen figures, operations which required hours and whole columns of almost unintelligible fractions.-His method is applicable to money of all kinds.-Ghent.

Lausanne, Jan. 17.-We are happy to announce, that the fears which were entertained for the safety of the monastery. upon Mount St. Bernard are now dispelled. This useful and generous establishment is out of all danger. There are still in the monastery three young dogs, which will serve to replace those that were lately lost in the snow.

On Wednesday, the 15th Jan. at half past seven in the evening, a terrible shock was felt at Payerne and several neighbouring villages. It is not known whether it was subterraneous, but it was dreadful. All the inhabitants were thrown into consternation.

LITERARY QUERY.
Inquiry relative to the Trinities of
Buddha.

To the Editor of the Asiatic Journal.
Sir-I should be gratified by one of
your mythological readers accounting for
the various modes of representing Buddha
-the Cingalese and Siamese represent
ing him as an unity, the Chinese as a Tri-
nity, the Japanese, Tibetians, and Tartars
as a Trinity in unity-and the gratifica-
tion will be encreased by their furnishing
the history and reasons of these variances,
and discriminating the Tibetian triune
representation from Brahma, Vishnu, and
Siva.
W. H.

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Some sheets of Dr. Remusat's Supplement to the Chinese Latin Dictionary of P. Basile of Glemona, published by M. de Guignes, have arrived in London. They contain a severe though just critique on that splended but imperfect work, and a specimen of Dr. R's. Latin Supplement. The characters given as a specimen are more numerous, and much more accurately and fully explained than in the original-but being destitute of Chinese characters in the illustrative phrases, are

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We hear with pleasure, that in a few days we may expect an addition to our accurate knowledge of the ancient state of science among the Hindus, by the Translation of the Lílávatí and Víjaganita, Treatises of Arithmetic and Algebra, by Bháscara, and an Extract from the Course of Astronomy of Brahmegupta, comprising his Arithmetic and Algebra; translated from the Sanscrit by H. T. Colebrooke, Esq. and published, with a preliminary Dissertation on the Origin of Algebra. Bháscara is a writer of the twelfth century; Brahmegupta of the sixth of the Christian era.

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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Claudius Buchanan, D.D. late Viceprovost of the College of Fort William in Bengal. By the Rev. Hugh Pearson, M.A. of St. John's College, Oxford.

Dr. Irving is preparing an enlarged
Asiatic Journ.-No. 15.

édition of the Memoirs of Buchanan; with an appendix, which will contain a great number of original papers.

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Miss Edgeworth has a volume of Comic Dramas in the press.

The Rev. Dr. Symmons' translation of the Æneid of Virgil is nearly ready for · publication, in a 4to. volume.

Shortly will be published, an Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Short-Hand, extracted from Lectures delivered at different periods by the Author, comprehending an impartial and critical Examination of the various Systems down to the present Time,illustrated with numerous Examples of their comparative Excellence and Defects: also the true date and title of each System, and fourteen plates exhibiting the various Alphabets. By James Henry Lewis. Price Îl. 1s. In a short time will be published,

trations by Dr. Brewster, is printing in four octavo volumes, with numerous plates.

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The Court of Directors have appointed the following Gentlemen to seats in the Council in British India.

James Stuart, and Charles Milner Rickets, Esqrs. to seats in the Supreme Council of Bengal.

John Adam, Esq. Provisional Counsellor for Bengal.

John Hodgson, Esq. Provisional Counsellor for Fort St. George.

Alexander Bell, and George Lenox Pendergast, Esq. to seats in the Council of Bombay.

Francis Warden, Esq. Provisional Counsellor for Bombay.

Capt. John Evelyn Gascoigne has been appointed by the Hon. Court of Directors Deputy Master Attendant and Boat Pay master at Madras, &c. in the room of Mr. James Bird, who retires from the

situation on account of ill health.

Lieut. Charles Boyce, late commander of H. C. brig of war Nautilus, has presented a memorial to the Court of Di

rectors, in which the particulars of his *sufferings are detailed.

Mr. Ponsonby has proposed the concession of part of his pension as ex-chan.cellor.

The Marquis Camden has also signified a consentaneous intention to give up so much of his emoluments as Teller of the Exchequer, as would reduce his salary to £2,700 a year. His lordship had derived nearly £20,000 annually from that office.

The new coins consist of crowns, halfcrowns, shillings, and sixpences. On the crowns and half-crowns is the head of his 'Majesty, with the words Georgius III. Dei Gratia, 1816. On the reverse, Rex. Fid. Def. Britanniarum, with the Royal

Arms and Motto, encircled by the collar of the Order of the Garter, surmounted with the Crown.

On the shillings and sixpences is his Majesty's head, with the words Geor. III. D. G. Britt. Rex. F. D. 1816. The arms on the reverse are encircled with the Garter, surmounted with the Crown. The raised rim will protect the impressions, and each coin has a milled edge.

A letter from Madrid, dated Dec. 13th, says:"The Directors of the Royal Philipine Company have represented to the King, that notwithstanding the exclusive privilege granted them to trade to Asia, foreigners continually introduce considerunder pretence of permission granted able quantities of goods into the kingdom, Spain foreign cottons. In order to prethem to import in the Peninsula and New Majesty to declare, that such permission vent these abuses, they have petitioned his or licenses do not afford the right of introducing the said cottons from Asia, and that the privilege granted the Philipine Company remains in full force."

An advertisement, dated Copenhagen, January 11th, positively contradicts the assertion, that the English Government had granted an indemnity to the Danish East-India Company for the ships and merchandise taken in the last war, and says, that the English Government has merely taken off the sequestration laid upon some deposit money belonging to the Company in Bengal. But as France sets the example of indemnifying corporate bodies in peace for their losses in war, it is to be supposed that the English will also admit this principle, and give the Danish Company an indemnity proportioned to its great loss.