Information has just been received of the death of Major Peddie, before he reached the Niger. Lieutenant Campbell is now the Commanding Officer, and we understand proceeded to carry into execu tion the orders received by Major Peddie.

The Congo sloop of war is arrived at Deptford. Several large cases, containing the natural productions of Africa, collected in the late expedition to the Congo, have been sent to Sir Joseph Banks, for the purpose of being assorted into their respective classes: many of them are of a kind hitherto unknown, and the whole will shortly be submitted to the inspection of the public.

Sir Thomas Strange, late Chief Justice of Madras, has left ready for publication three volumes of Reports of Cases decided in the Recorder's Court and Supreme Court of Judicature at that Presidency, while Sir Thomas presided in these Courts. They are printing at the Madras Government Press, and will be published immediately.

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Algebra of the Hindus, with Arithmetic and Mensuration: translated from the Sanscrit. By H. T. Colebrooke, Esq. 4to. 31. 3s.

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Manuscrit venu de St. Hélène, d'une, Manière inconnue. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

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The History of the University of Edinburgh, chiefly compiled from Original Papers and Records. By Alexander Bower. 2 vol. 8vo. 24s.

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The Colonies, and the present American Revolution. By M. de Pradt, formerly Archbishop of Malines.

Very speedily will be completed in 20 numbers, price 8s. each, The New General D'Anville, comprising 76 Maps full colonrAtlas, on a scale similar to that of ed, and Engravings illustrative of the Heights of Mountains, Magnitude of Rivers, &c. also a Memoir ou Geography, a Chapter on Physical Geography, and a Consulting Index of Places.

Lieut. Edward Chappell will publish early in next month, a Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay, containing some account of the north-east coast of America, and the tribes inhabiting that remote region; in an octavo volume, illustrated by plates.

Sir William Adams has in the press, An Inquiry into the Causes of the frequent. Failure of the Operations of extracting and depressing the Cataract, and the Description of an improved Series of Operations.

Dr. Coote has in the press, the History of Europe, from the Peace of Amiens in 1802 to the Peace of Paris in 1815, forming a seventh volume of the History of Modern Europe.

A new edition, entirely remodelled, of Dr. Thomson's System of Chymistry is printing in four octavo volumes.

Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, from the earliest ages to the present time. By the late John Leyden, M.D. Completed and enlarged, with Views of the present State of that Continent, by Hugh Murray, Esq. F.R.S.E, In 2 vols. 8vo. with Maps and Charts.

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Extract from the Second Report of the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society, 1816. The Committee of the Bombay Auxiliary Bible Society present to the subscribers the following report of their proceedings during the year 1815.

First.-Protestants.-It being the first object with the society to furnish their poorer countrymen living under this government with a copy of the Holy Scriptures, the Committee regret that through the small stock of English Bibles and 'Testaments which remained from the last year, and the non-arrival of the supplies they have written for, both to Calcatta and London, they have been deprived of the means of supplying in the manner they would wish, the numerous applications which have been made to them by the commanding officers, both of his Majesty's ships of war, and the European regiments.

Through this deficiency and the circumstance that in Bombay few English Bibles and Testaments are exposed for sale, and those at a great price, not only the private soldier and sailor in a foreign land, amidst a profligate and idolatrous people have been deprived the means of be coming better acquainted with the moral duties of their holy religion; but even the sick in the hospitals and barracks, whilst their only hope was directed towards that land" where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest," could receive no cheering consolation from the study of that word, which speaks peace unto their souls and is able to make them wise unto salvation."

This distressing deficiency, the committee trust, the arrangements they have now made will prevent for the future; and they are the more anxious to do this, as they are conscious, that amidst all the zeal which has been sometimes displayed for the promotion of Christianity, it may justly be retorted that the spiritual wants of our poorer fellow countrymen have seldom been sufficiently brought under contemplation.

The great disregard indeed hitherto shewn to the lower classes of Protestants, whilst it has exhibited the English in a very unfavourable light, has also materially lessened their numbers; and accordingly to this cause is it principally to be attributed, that the number among the lower orders of Protestants in Bombay, either native or European, exclusive of those who are immediately employed in the service of the country, is exceedingly few; fewer certainly the committee be

lieve than would have been the case, had earlier attention been paid to the means and duty of continuing them in the Protestant faith.

2d. Native Christians.-The expectation held out by the committee in the first report of distributing the Scriptures in Portuguese to the native Christians of that Church, has been realized with great success ; and they have not only dispersed a considerable number on the Islands of Bombay and Salsette but have forwarded no less than 550 to Goa, at the particular request of the British Envoy, who describes the natives and even the priests as coming in crowds to relieve them.

The committee have also sent a few in compliance with a wish expressed by the Portuguese Vicar at Cannanore; who, however, when he found that the translation had not the authority of the Censor of the Inquisition, refused to distribute them himself, but nevertheless allowed his congregation to receive them from others, and the number sent was very soon called for.

List of Protestant Missionaries Resident in India, specifying their Places of Residence and the Society to which they belong.

Mansion-House, April 15. Samuel King and Moore were yesterday brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with a fraud on the East-India Company, It appeared from the evidence of a poor illiterate seaman, who it seems had been selected by the prisoners as the fittest per son to carry their nefarious designs into execution, that the prisoner Moore, who is in the Company's service, had met him in the street, and understanding that he wanted a birth, undertook to procure him ane, upon condition that he would take a paper for him to the India House and receive some money on his account. Wit ness took the paper as directed, but was too late, as the business of the house was concluded for that day. He went again the next day in company with King and another person, and they each received (on presenting the paper) £3. 4s. They then went to a house in Fenchurch-street, where they met Moore and divided the money. It seems that Moore was employed by the East India Company to provide men for the service, and that the paper presented by the witness was a charge for bounty for three able seamen, pretended to have been procured and paid by the prisoner, whereas the men so engaged by him proved on inspection to be quite the reverse of what they were represented to be. The prisoners denied that they had any fraudulent intention. Remanded.

been executed as ringleaders of the mu tiny,

Mr. Scarlett on the other side observed, that the proposal had been made by him in the absence of Capt. Webster. It was fit to state, that in the course of the voyage from India the defendant had felt it his duty, even to the plaintiff, and much more to the crew of the ship, to put him into confinement. He was far from wish ing to say that he had taken any part in the mutiny; but he firmly believed, that the design of the defendant in imprison→ ing him, was to protect him from the vioIt was due to the lence of the crew. plaintiff to admit, that when the contest unhappily arose, he most readily and zea lously assisted the captain in putting an end to it. The sum for which the verdict was to be taken was £50, which was recorded.

Mr. Gurney added, that the traitors on board the indiaman were a part of those who had custody of the British offi cers at the Isle of France, and that but for the exertions of the plaintiff and de. fendant they would have succeeded in running away with the ship and cargo, worth not less than £300,000.

Lord Ellenborough. It is unnecessary to make any observation; no doubt a sound discretion has been used en both sides. It appears from the record, that the Captain, whether legally or illegally, acted 'from proper motives. The imprisonment of an individual for his own protection is certainly a new case; but I do not say, that under certain circumstances it might not amount to a justification, when the imprisonment had in view the preservation of the whole ship.

Mr. Gurney observed, that although the imprisonment before the mutiny might be justifiable, it could not be justified after that had been suppressed, and upon the complaint of the very persons since exe cuted.

An embarkation from the depot of deserters, at Porchester, is to take place immediately, for the Cape of Good Hope; they are to serve for life abroad. The transports Abeoua, Lloyd's, Sisters, and Borringdon, will take on board those for the Cape. A detachment of the 48th regiment (200 meu) is embarked in these vessels.

The new building in Cannon-row, originally intended for the Transport Office, and afterwards for the Ordnance Department, is nearly completed for the reception of the India Board, to which they will remove in a short time.