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/-tiiia—In 1600, Queen Elizaijeih
gain to t)ie inei'ciiuiils ol Lundon, an
exclusive light to the commerce of
India' for iG yedrs; and, soon alter,
the four first merchant's ships of the
East India Company sailed from Liv
erpool to the Moluccas. In the
middle of the 17lh century, tile com
mercial potter of the British and
Dutch rose upon the ruins of that of
tin Portuguese. The original capi
tal of the Company amounted to 30,-
•130 pounds sterling. Until 1613,
the Company consisted of a society
Jutijeet io no particular regulations;
oath member managed h s affairs on
Jtiis oiva account, and \v<«s only bound
to eoufortn to certain general rules.
]n 1613, the capital was united.—
The concerns of the Company were
jo prosperous, that in tue course of
four years, the shares rqse to the
Value of 203 per cent. During the
time of the Commonwealth, pub
lic opinion became very strong against
monopolies, and Cromwell* by de
stroying the charter, in 1655, at
tempted to make tbe East India trade
free. But it Was impracticable.—
To give up tbe Company tvas to de
stroy the whole capital of power and
ittiiucnce obtained in India. Cromwell
was obliged to renew the charter.
In 1688, Madras and the Coromandel
■and Malabar coasts were acquired,
tlud the foundation was laid ior the
extension of the Company's posses
sions into the interior. The affairs,
however, of the Company, were not
In a prosperous state. In 1698, Par
liament granted a charter to a new
■Company,’ on condition of a loan of
2,000,0001. at 3 per cent, for tlid
services of the State. But the great
contentions between the two Compa
nies soon made it necessary to unite
them. In 1708, ah act of Parliament
was passed establishing tbe English
East India Company very much on
- Sts present footing, under the title of
the United Company of Merchants
of England, trading to the East Indies.
The capital was raised hy the StIp
of tue shares. The shares being tranS-
fergbtCf the |rerat qfftss of stockhold
ers tiro Constantly changing, add take
no personal interest in the affairs of
the Cortrpany. The whole manage
ment being thus left to the Board of
Directors, all the ndmberieS abuses
of an oligarchs! institution have Crept
in.
The renewal of the charter in 1732,
was not obtained without great diffi
culty. In 1744, the Company advan
ced 1,000,000*. pounds sterling, at 3
per cent* for the Bervice of govern
ment, in consideration of an extension
of their grant till 1780. In 1718,
the political power of the English in
India commenced. It now began to
operate on the defensive. Edmund
Burkb; in the case of Hastings, ac
cused the Company, not without rea
son, “dT having sold every monarch,
prince, anil State in India, broken
every cohtract, and ruined every
prince and every State who had trus
ted them.” The direction in Lon
don was soon nothing more than a
cohtrol of the real government which
had its seat in India. Long after the
Directors had forbidden the officers
of the Company to accept presents
from the Indian princes, it was prov
ed that they had openly received
to the amount of 6,000,000.1
from the family of one nabob alone
In 1773, 1.0001 was made necessary
to give one vote in tbe Board of Di
rectors; 3,000/. for two; 6,000/. for
three; 10,000/. for four. The po
litical importance of the East Indies,
in their present state, is too import
ant to nlJf»w us to expect an essential
improvement in the moral condition
of the country, from any efforts of
their own It must be expected from
philanthropists and Christians, if from
any source. A taxable population
of 83.000 000, with 40,000,000 un
der dependent native princes; an
army of 200,000 men in the service
of the Company; about 15,000 civil
officers; an annual export of about
14.000. 000 and import to the same
amount from all parts of the world;
4.000. 000 paid to the British govern
ment in the shape of duties, and an
annual contribution of 11,000,000/.
for tho general circulation of the
British empire, arc objects which
go far to outweigh all moral consid
erations. The funded stock of the
Company 13 6,000,000/.; and the an
nual land tax, 28,000,000/.
From the Salem Mercury of \ugunt Si.
Commonwealth vs Chang and Eng.—
Chang and Eng, the Siamese Twins,
were arrested on a warrant from the
Magistrate for a breach of the Peace
at Lynnfield, on monday last, and
hound over to he of good behavior and
keep the Peace, in the sum of two
hundred dollars.
They have for a few days past
been rusticating for rcreation and
staying at the Lynnlield Hotel, so as
to enjoy the sports of fishing on the
pond and shooting in the woods. The
neighboring inhabitants have had a
vorv eager curiosity to catch a
glimpse of their movements while on
(heir excursions, and have sometimes
been rather troublosoinely obtrusive
to the Siamese, whose object was
seclusion. Last Saturday afternoon,
they were in the field shooting, caeli
with his fowling piece; a considerable
number, 19 or 20 idle persons, fdl-
lowed to observ’d their motions, and
some of the men or boys were prob
ably obtrusive and infpertiuelit.
Two persons from Stoneliom, Col.
Ethridge Gerry and Mr. fVeScolt,
went towards them In the field, itltei;
they had been harrassed and irritated
considerably by others—the attendant
of the Siamese requested these per
sons to keep off and hy way of brava
do threatened that, if they did not,
the Siamese would fire at Ih in.—
The Colonel opened his waist-coat
and dared them or him to fire, but
they did not -the Col. then indiscreetly
accused them or him of telling a lie
—the attendant spoke to (he Siamese
about the charge of lying—'they ex
claimed, “Hi* accuse us o r lying!”
and one of (Item struck the Col. with
tho but of bis gun—the Col. snatched
up a hea vy stone and throw it at the
Siamese, hit him on the head, broke
through his leather cap and made the
blood flow—the Siamese then wheel
ed and tired by platoon at the Col.
who was horribly frightened, as most
other people would have been, though
it turned out afterwards that their
pieces were charged .only with pow
der. The noise and Smoke were just
as great as if tbdy had been loaded
with a hall.
Tho Siamese went immediately
into the Hotel and loaded with bait—
the Col. and Mr. Preacott, learning
were greatly alarmed, and en
deavored to keep out of the way; Mr.
Prescott fled to the barn gw! secreted
himself in a haymow.—The Colonel
Went to Danvers and lodged a com
plaint against tho Siamese and .their
attendant, a young Englishman, for a
breach of the peace. An officer
went to arrest them, hut by the in
terposition of a gentleman, who hap
pened lobe at the Hotel, a truce was
concluded. v >-
On Monday however, Prescott
made complaint to Mr. Justice Sav
age of this town, and they were taken
before him and hound over.
POISONS.
Efficacy of ammonia in counteracting
■* poison; extract of a letter from Dr.
Austin Church to the Editor, dated
Cooperstown, jV. Y Feb. 6, 1829.
A young man in this place had ac
cidentally overset a hive of bees, and
before he could escape, they had
settled in great numbers on different
parts of his body and limbs., and stung
him very severely. It was about
half an hour after the accident hap
pened, when he came to my office in
great agony, and lie had scarcely time
to give an account of it before lie
fainted. I immediately applied the
ammonia to the parts that had been
stung, his legs, arms, and breast. He
directly recovered from his faintness,
and experienced no pain or other in
convenience afterwards.
It is several years since I first used
the aqua ammoniac, to counteract the
effect of the bites of insects and stings
of bees, and it has invariably produc
ed relief—generally complete. I
have often seen children crying in ex
cessive pain from the sling of a bee,
and on the application of tho ammo
nia they would immediately cease
complaining and become cheerful; so
conijdete and sudden is ilie relief it
produces. I always use it for mos
quito bites, and they never trouble me
farther. I was led to the use of it
in these cases, from the instantaneous
effect it was said to have in counter
acting the effect of prussic acid. In
tho second number of the American
Journal of Medical Sciences, (Phil
adelphia,) for the last year, it will he
seen that Dr. Aloore, of Alabama,
used it with great success in the cure
of venomous aefponts.' Pitnu his ac
count, it is probable that the pure tin-
carbonated aqua ammoniac is most
efficacious. I have sometimes notic
ed that tho application is more effica
cious than at others, and 1 think it
must be on account of its being some
times carbonated and at others not.
Silliman's Journal.
We find the following advertise
ment in the Philadelphia National
Gazette:
ONE HUNDRED MILES PER
HOUR.
Important original invention for
transporting the United Stales Mail
with complete security and unexam
pled despatch.
A model exhibiting the principle on
which the United Stales Mail may he
conveyed without exposure to the
depredations of robbers, and gt the
rate of one hundic\t ntiies per hour, is
now Offered for the inspection of the
public by the inventor, James Spicer,
at the N. E. corner of Race and
Twelfth streets. As all are interest
ed in the safe and speedy transporta
tion of (he Mail, all arc invited to ex
amine this model, (free of charge,)
when the principle and its application
to this most important object will be
clearly explained.”
From ths Gettysburg Stair.
Cure Jor the Buts, Flatulency and
Cholic in Horses.
Take a piece of Ailum about the
size of a hell egg, or something larger
if (he case Should he seemingly dan
gerous, and dissolve it in about a
quart of wator a little warm; and
give it to the‘diseased horSe. Should
it not relieve him, a second does cart
with safety be given.
I have tried tho above anodyne in
the cases of flatulency and cholic, as
well as the hots, repe'atedly, and al
ways found it to be a sure remedy.
At the horse is a valuable enimal and
Sometimes, individuals are subjected
to considerable loss and inconvenience,
and for tli’6' benefit of the public gen
erally, I am induced to make the a-
boTc Coriiifiunlcation. , .
A SUBSCRIBER,
Near Liberty, Frederick co. Aid.
A friend at Ellisville, Warren
county, informs us, as a circumstance
of every rare occurrence in that sec
tion of the country, that a Rattle
Snake was killed near that place oh
the 24th ultimo, measuring three
feet 3 inches in length, and six inches
round the body. It had eleven rat
tles and a button. The Rutherford-
ton Spectator states, on the authority
of a gentleman of yndoubted veracity,
that a Mr. H. lluffsteller, of Ruth
erford county, killed one of these ser
pents on his plantation, during the
late wheat haivest, of an extraordin
ary size. The exact dimensions
arc not given; but it is stated that it
took one bushel and a peck of bran to
stuff the skin, and ikat it had sixty-
seven rattles. A'Rattle Snake was
killed in the vicinity of Colun.hus
(Geo ) a short time since, which
measured in length, 10 feet 8 inches,
and 2 1-4 inches in circumfer
ence.
Mormonitcs.—The febrile mania ol
these madcaps is spreading in Ver
mont, among the green mountains
thereof. The Connecticut JMirror,
states, on ^lie authority of the Bur
lington, (Vt.) Sentinel, that some
time since a man named Davidson,
came into the vicinity ot Burlington,
professing to be a disciple of one
Dilks, who has figured in the state ot
Ohio, for a year or two past. Tins
Davidson impiously pretends that
Dilks has Almighty power and is God
hiu'self! He Inis gained an assort
ment of proselytes in several towns
in tlie neighborhood; endeavors to
look Apo9tolic—wears his hair iong;
says that Jesus Christ is a woman,
and quite inferior to Dilks—and that
tiie Millenium is to lake place in all
next year* 1831. This city of Broth
erly Love is the place where tin:
Dilks aforesaid is to assmble his fol
lowers, and then all the rest of the
inhabitants of the world aie to be.a-
way, leaving all sublunary goods and
chattels to Dilks and his disciples.—
We should admire to see Dilks as
semble his church militant in this
city, lie would probably have a
speedy opportunity of explaining his
tenets before his honor (he Mayor.
Philadelphia Gazette.
The Toothache. — Light a paper
match, then blow out the flame, and
instantly place it in (lie mouth as near
as possible to the painful tooth; keep
the lips closed for a minute or two,
when the smoke from the burnt pa
per will completely remove the
pain.
Plurality of jYives.—A sailor, nam
ed William Burch, who was commit
ted last week hy the magistrates at
the Thames Police Office lor poly
gamy, he having three wives living,
and being on the point of marrying the
fourth—appears* to have studied the
follow ing verse, from a popular sea-
song, to some purpose:
‘1 have a wife at Portsmouth gates,
Another at Gorce;
A Copper color at the Straits,
Ami ailiackat St. Lucie.'
Arkansas.—We learn that Mr Se
vier, the former Delegate to Con
gress from this territory lias been re
elected hy a considerable major
ity.—JWem. Adv.
-U.u.w.
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* ‘Note on the method of ealeu
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Mo!! on the Invention of Teh scopes,
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Mordant for Ca.ico Printers,
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Netv Lamp,
Extraction of Potash from certain Min
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Recent ImpproYcmcnt in Paper Malt
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Meteorological Observattohs of
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Meteorological Observations for
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