Sailed the William Pitt, Living, and Stratton, Dale, for India. Deal, Feb. 20.-Came down from the river and remain, the Mary Ann, for Bengal; and Regent, for Fort William. March 3.-Put back the Caledonia, for Fort St. George; Elizabeth, for Ceylon; and Marshal Wellington, for Bengal. Five O'Clock-Blows hard.-The ships appear to ride-all well. March 4-Arrived and remain, the Garland, Brown, from the Cape of Good Hope. The Dutch ship Columbus, from Amsterdam to Batavia, lost an anchor and cable last night. March 5.-Remain in the Downs the following East-Indiamen, together with a great many other outward bound vessels:-Herefordshire, Bridgewater, General Kyd, Atlas, Marquis of Welling. ton, Minerva, Cerberus, Mary Ann, Marshal Wellington, Brothers, Barton, Henrietta Elizabeth, Columbia, Waterloo, Bombay Merchant, Caledonia, Martha, Baring, Lord Wellington, Regret, Speke, Eliza, London, Abeona, Regalia, Lloyd's, Experiment, Ellergill, Astrea, and Ma ria. March 7.-Arrived and sailed for the river, the Cornwall, from China; and Lord Hungerford, from Calcutta. Came down from the river and remain, thePrincess Charlotte, for Bombay. March 11.-Put back, the Speke, for Bengal; Ranger, for the South Seas, Elizabeth, for Čeylon; and William Pitt, for Bombay. Came down from the river, the Streatham, for Madras and Bengal; and Faith, for Madeira and St. Christopher's. March 14.-This morning the wind shifted to the N. E. and the whole of the outward-bound got under weigh and proceeded down Channel, except the Streatham, Rose, Waterloo, and Princess Charlotte of Wales, East-Indiamen, which wait for their Pursers. Five O'Clock.-TheWinchelsea, Scott, for China, is just come in sight, and will be in the Downs in the course of an hour. All the Pursers are arrived, and will sail this evening. March 16.-Sailed on the 14th, the Waterloo and Winchelsea, for China; and Rose, Princess Charlotte of Wales, and Streatham, for Madras and Bengal. Sailed yesterday, the John, Fairbourn, for the Cape of Good Hope. Dover, Jan. 17.-The Eleanora from Sumatra is arrived. The Company's ship Cornwall, from China, is arrived off the Isle of Wight, she left China on the 13th November, and St. Helena on the 23d January. The under-mentioned ships were left at Canton, viz:-General Hewett, Wyndham, Surat Castle, Hugh Inglis, Lord Lyndoch, Marchioness of Exeter, Coldstream, Lady Castlereagh, Cambridge, Regent, Marquis of Ely, Fort William, Scaleby Castle, Earl of Balcarras, Buckinghamshire, Marquis of Huntly, Castle Huntly, Lady Melville, Cabalva, and Cumberland. Portsmouth, March 11.-Arrived the Marquis of Wellington, Minerva, Herefordshire, and Bridgewater, from the Downs, for India; and Venus, from the Downs, for the South Seas. March 14.-Arrived the Ranger from the Downs, for the South Seas, Sailed the following East-Indiamen: Herefordshire, Bridgewater, General Kyd, Atlas, Marquis Wellington, Minerva, Victory, Mary Ann, Oswell, and Marsbal Wellington. Also, Brothers for St. Helena; Mary, for the Cape of Good Hope; Charles Wildman, and Venus, for the South Seas; and Admiral Gambier, for Ceylon. March 16.-Salled to day the Ranger, Garbutt, for the South Seas, and yesterday the Conqueror and Hardy for St. Helena; and the Henry and Elizabeth, Jansen, for Batavia. Plymouth, March 15.- No arrivals of consequence.-Sailed yesterday the L'Elephant, French frigate, for the Isle of Bourbon. Rear Admirals Plampin and Sir David Milne are still prevented from sailing to their respective destinations, by contrary winds. It is rather a remarkable circumstance, that, during the last four months, the wind has blown toward the east only twenty-seven days, and not four days in succession. Rear-Admiral Plampin sailed on Saturday afternoon from Portsmouth for St. Helena, in the Conqueror, 74, Captain Davie. The foreign stations, we are informed, are to be reduced; and that the following ships are to return ho.ne, to be paid off; Orontes (arrived), Falmouth and Spey, from St. Helena.-The Favourite, Volage, and Icarus are yet to be paid off from the war establishment: they are on their passage from the East-Indies. The Phaeton, Capt. Stanfell, is coming home from St. Helena; and the Pique, Capt. Tait, from Jamaica. The private ship Hungerford arrived in the Downs the 6th March; left Bengal the 21st Octo Asia Cape of Good Hope. ... 180 Apr. 5. Madras, and Bengal. 380 Apr. 5. Bombay. Bank Stock. 3 p. Cent. Reduced. 3 p. Cent. Daily Prices of Stocks, from the 26th of February to the 25th of March 1817. 240 66367 66166 841848 97398 17 17 676866671 8585 98 981717 28 245 244 68 67 67678585 98981717 6 69 70 99 100 |||||||:| | | | | | | | | || 99 6.11p 66 66 23 18 0 Feb 26 27.28p 7.12p67168 33.34p 11.16p 68 68 27 28 Mar. 1 13456 7 8 40p 5.16p 69 70 10 691 691 69 39.42p 4.16p 69 70 11 38.37p 17.4p 69 70 18 18 0 12 34.35p 4.13p 69169 18 18 0 13 34.35p 4.16p 69 69 18 18 0 14 753 3.13p 69 69 18 18 0 15 35.33p 14p 69469 18 18 0 69 32.33p 12p 69370 33.31p 2.10p 704704 19 32.33p 69* 3.10p 703703 18 18 0 69 34.35p 4.11p 70870 18 18 0 20 E. EYTON, Stock Broker, 2, Cornhill, and Lombard Street. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL FOR MAY 1817. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. To the Editor of the Asiatic Journal. SIR,-As a Proprietor of EastIndia Stock, but residing at a considerable distance, I am prevented from knowing what is going on at the India House, excepting through the medium of your useful Miscellany; for our papers, with a studied obstinacy which cannot be accounted for, withhold all communications regarding our settlements in Asia, as if our very valuable possessions in that quarter of the globe were even unworthy public attention; on this account I take in your interesting publication, but I cannot help observing, that rather too many of its pages are occupied by the speeches of my eloquent brother proprietors, in a controversy concerning the College at Haileybury; but as it is wholly impossible to decide who are right, or who are wrong, and as the College has been erected at a considerable expense, and the establishment has the sanction of Parliament, and is yet in its infancy, I conceive it would be most unwise to set it aside, merely because the late Principal was not sufficiently rigid in his control, or because boys therein had thereby become unruly in their conduct; but these are only trifling evils arising from want of discipline, and may be easily corrected. I Asiatic Journal. No. 17. confess, I never saw the expediency of such an establishment in this country in addition to that at Calcutta ; but a vast expense having been incurred, and able professors provided, it ought not to be hastily abandoned to certain loss. While gentlemen are thus tracing motives for complaint against the College and Court of Directors (at present very respectable), I could wish to call their attention to objects of far greater import; I allude to the lamentable deficit of Officers in our Native Regiments in India; for by the last India list I perceive that upwards of 400 Ensigns are actually now required to complete the several corps in Bengal, Madras, and Bombay; this deficiency, it strikes me, ought to arouse inquiry on the part of our active Proprietors, especially when we calculate how many officers are upon furlough, how many in command of local corps, and how many more are necessarily employed on the General, Brigade, Garrison, and Cantonment Staff. When these are provided for, it is most clear in officers; so that many Ensigns that many corps must be deficient are wanted for regimental duties, and it is notorious that sudden circumstances often arise, (especially in the upper part of India) to excite VOL. III. 3 I considerable cause for alarm. It would be well, therefore, for Mr. Hume, who, I perceive, well knows the nature of the service in India, together with other vigilant Proprietors, to lend some attention to this alarming deficiency of officers in our Native Corps, for as the Staff is so numerous, no corps should be left without its full complement of Ensigns. The Corps of Cavalry appear to me deficient in Officers, particularly in Captains; two more, with two Lieutenants, should be added to each regiment, and the Lieut. Colonels and Majors be without troops, as is the rule in his Majesty's service; this addition would make up for officers on furlough, and others serving upon the General Staff, Parsimony should never interfere so as to prevent our native corps of all descriptions being complete with officers, nay, it would be better to have a few supernumeraries at the upper stations, than to have such corps incomplete. We are actually in possession of a country extending from Cape Comorin to the banks of the Sutlej, and, if I augur rightly, the Bengal government will soon be compelled to protect the Raja of Jaypoor, as it has recently the Bousalla of Nagpoor; these two new military points require a considerable augmentation to our forces in Bengal and Madras, in which the Bombay Establishment, in justice, should participate. Our Court of Directors and Proprietors must no longer act upon the delusive motives of economy which too generally govern our debates; for it is as clear as any problem in Euclid, that as we extend our vast territories, so we ought to increase our military strength, in order to preserve such valuable possessions, which, in the prophetic language of a late distinguished Governor-General, we retain, in a great measure, by opinion. One defeat may bring on a succession of misfortunes not to be repaired; and even the recent desperate affair at Bareilly is a convincing proof that such posts should be well provided with European officers. For had our unequal force there, been defeated by the thousands which were suddenly collected, before the regulars arrived to their support, there is no calculating upon the extent of the evil which might have resulted therefrom. We have worthy Proprietors all eager for their dividends, and some, perhaps, like our opposition and patriots of the day, ready to find fault with our Directors, and ardent in recommending economy in every branch of expenditure, without reflecting that as India has been conquered by the sword, and the most consummate wisdom in our councils abroad, aided by the distinguished gallantry of our officers and troops, so on the other hand, we should be stedfastly eager not to lose them by too tenacious thriftiness, or to suffer our corps which are always ready equipped for field service, to remain longer so lamentably inefficient. This is at matter of far more importance than a rebellion at Haileybury, but, most unaccountably, has not been deemed worthy of notice. If Cadets to the number wanted are going out, then I shall be satisfied that some of my observations are premature. I am, Sir, Your most obedient servant, A Proprietor of East-India Stock. To the Editor of the Asiatic Journal. SIR, One of your correspondents, in a former number, in quired for the etymology of some names of places on the coast of the Indian Ocean: allow me to offer an answer to some of his que ries, which will, perhaps, be as satisfactory, though somewhat different from that of Indicator (Asiatic Journ. v. 3, p. 102.), who "takes Gebal Tor to be the same nomenclature as our Gibraltar." 1. Bab-el-mandel is pure Arabic, and though, perhaps, no longer in use among the Arab sea men, must be well known to the learned. Churd Bab and Burá Bab, are a jumble of Arabic and Hindustani, which, I will venture to say, are quite unintelligible to any but Nákhudás and Sik hanís. 2. Oka mandel, and Chora mandel are genuine Indian names, derived, at least in part, from Sanskrit, in which mandale means "district" or "region:" and, if Fra. Paolino is to be relied on, Chora is a corruption of Chola, "Barley," so that the coast of Coromandel, like the Javaya-dwipa, was named from one of its most useful productions. 3. The Malaya dwipa or Maldivas, were as likely to form their name from the neighbouring continent of Malayala, as from an Arabic epithet which does not appear in any age to have been applicable to them. 4. The Turks and Arabs (and I may add, the Algerines themselves, if their coin be allowed to have any authority) invariably write the name of Algiers, Al-jezdyir, or "the Peninsulas;" therefore, we may suppose the Moor spoke indistinctly who seemed to call it Alghayz. ورد 5. Túr,, on the Red Sea, is the name of a district and town rather than a single mountain; and Jebel Tár (as the Moghrebins now vulgarly call it) is invariably writ ten Jebel Tárik for the best of reasons, if the Arabian historians are to be believed:-viz: because it is named from Tarik, who first led the victorious Mussalmans to the coast of Spain. ries, let me propose one or two in Having thus answered some quemy turn. 1. Where is any account of Col. Dowe, the translator of Ferishtah, to be found? 2. What Arabic Lexicon contains the word and how is it pointed? The word occurs in Dr. Wilkins' edition of Richardson, but without points. 3. Are the Fakirs in India members of distinct religious orders, or only Anchorets? If any of your learned correspondents will answer any of these queries, they will greatly oblige, Sir, To the Editor of the Asiatic Journal. SIB,-I am one of those who have been accustomed to contem-. plate the connection of my country with the East, rather in prospect of its probable consequences on the circumstances of future ages, than in the more immediate view which the present days present. I must confess that I see more cause for congratulation and triumph in the amelioration in knowledge, virtue, and happiness, there is every human reason to suppose is now about to commence among the Hindu population, than in all the splendors of the page of the British annals, which our warriors have toiled out on their plains; or the commercial treasures which load our fleets and warehouses, and gratify the Exchequer. Our victories will assuredly be recorded to the end of time by rival nations, as acts of most unjust op |