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THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE.
In the Furt St. George Ganetts of the 7th De cember 1838, there was published for general in formation (not, mark you, by the Madrat Govern, ment, for whose acts you seem to have but hide respool, but by the Supreme Government of Judia, in whose infallibility you appear to place implicit confidence,) a
(Concluded from last number.) Now Sir, I ask you to say canilidly does the aboro lend any color to the belief that the SepoyTM was considered bound to proceed ou board ship whenever called on? Does it not rather go to prove that Government was obliged to procure ion to do so by the highest inducement it could bold out? Military men know the value of a stop in professional rank-let them say whether they' consider the rewards hold out in the above order such as would have hoon bestowed for the dise charge of an pahnary tour of service-and let all men, whether Civil or Military, say, whether any glass of servants are usually allowed, or called on, or bribed to volunteer for the performance of their bounden duty You may say that one swallow docs not make a summer-that Governnient, though possessing an undoubted right to order any Nativo Regiment in haard, chase on this particular oc pasion to call for Volunteers, for reasons, good, no donut, though unknown to us. The bestowal of auch rewards as were never given after the most brilliant campaigns over funght in India, scarcely Harmonizes with this opinion, but supposing ity werd no, the above order is not, as I have before stated, a solitary on. I refer you to the 1st, 24, and 3d volumos of the Airment of Ceneral Or. xlors, moro particul 1, 11, Pro 12, 87, and 224--to prove, not shy Government some times called for Volunteers and retarded them hundsoniely, but that it never did anything else, that from the day Halliburton ontertained the first Ser poy who tasted the Comptoy's salt, down to the year 1834, Government vor mndered a Native Soldier on Foreign Service) Whenever Troops were required, for Egypt, the Molucens, Ceylon, the Isle of France and Hourbon, Bengal, Java, Egypt, Persia, or elsewhers, they were invariably called on to volunteer, and induced to do so, by honorary
Now, here we have the Supreme Governmen of distotions, fair words, and pecuniary advantages indiu, avowing to the world in the year 1888. in the way of pay, pension, rations, &c. &c.
1st. That it is necessary to revise and alter the year I have above-mentioned, being the one in which the Burmese war broke out, was the first oath taken by the Sepoy on his onlistment.
2nd. That having so revised it, the duly alter, in which Govenment ventured the length of di- fecting a number of Corps to hold themselves ination they find it necessary to make is to exact a readiness for Foreign Service. The order was re. pledge not heretofore given, that the Sepoy will ceived with the most soldierlike glee and alacrity, proceed wherever directed whether within or bo Government issued an order (15th April 1824) In-yond the Company's territorios. vishing the highest praise on all concerned, "and showing plainly the delight with which it received the news of the success of what was egriainly a dicklish experiment, and from that day the word volunteer was struck out of the Adjutant Gone ral'a Dictionary, not, mark you, by the assertion of Clovernment to the exercise of a right which it had always possessed, though in abeyance, but by the quici substitution of an order for a request, which, as it was truly calculated would pass unnoticed by the Troops, in their excitement and delight at the prospect of a campaign after long indelion, and their desire to show their goal and alubrity in the cause of those whose bred they sat,
Copy of Drail of proposed Artioles of War for the Government of the Native Officers and Sol. diers in the Military Service of the Honorable the East India Company, read in Council for the first time on the 18th November 1886, and “ordered to be published for general information." In the first Section, first article of the above Draft, you will find the following
* The following Onth shall theo be required from him, (the Reart) Recording to the forms of his relligion, in front of the Colors,
I, A. B. inhabitant of village-Pergunnah Subah -son of-llo swear that I will never for the word me to bo sake or abandon my Oolors; (the substituted for colors in awearing in Artillery Re- ermita); that I will murch wherever I am directed, whether within or beyond the Company's Territo rice that I will impheity obey all the orders of Superior lives, and in thing behave myself us becoms good Soldier and kill' servant of the Pate.
Kopruit Art 2. Add when any Ro
cruit is enlisted for a Regiment (
raised for oneral Service, the following words shall be a fed to the declaration made to him pre
lously to urolment,
The
It is indeed an interesting and amusing study of what Mr. Weller, sonion, calla Hooman Nater"! 4 trace the various Q. .' issued on this subject from the earliest porial down to the above-men- mentioned year, 1821; at first when the Sepoy looked upan the son with the utmost horror and
“And you engage to embark on board ship "whenever the Service shall require your proceed ing by sea" and the following words shall be added to the form of Oath for all Recruits for Those Regiments
And I do further swear that I will readily um bark on board ship whenever the Service shall 4 require me to proceed by sea
Ird That even the pledge above-mentioned does not bind the Sopoy to proced on board ship, but that it is necessary to raise rogiments for that special sorvion, and to require of the men enlisted for those regiments, a distinct and special pledge to do so,
Now, I ask any man on earth whether sho in- forenen is not inevitable, that Government, when it published the above draft, did not constiler the bath heretofore taken by the Sepoy as binding hin to proceed beyond its own territories and that it does not consider him now liable to be called on to prooood on board ship, t unless he has specially collated with that understanding and taken a spp. "cific oath to that effval !
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The
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Saitpetre WOOLLENS,
Spanish Stripes Long Ells, scarlet
assorted.
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We mentioned in reporting the disaster which | Rattads gian Brig Charles at the month of befel the
ย the Coll nyer, that upon the arrival of the Com good sample is worth $0 to $85 To
Timor,&S.9.1st. 40eu mander and Crow of that vessel at Macassar, the Sandalwood Malabar. 11
$ 50 Dutch Naval force then rapidezvousing at Macas kar had proceaded to the Cuti for the purpose of looking altor the Charles. We have pow heard two various of their proceeding Ons is that Li Dutels force proceeded up the liver us for as Seminindam which they found deserted, and which they immediately destroyed. They are also stated. to have found various articles belonging to the Charles The other account, and on which wa are incllied to place thist reliance, is, that on arriving at 8omirindam, a demand was made for satisfaction and pecuniary compensation, but ulti- mately the former was inarged in the lattor The Sultan agrood 10 may considerable sun, and gave up his Bon as a Flostiga for the due fulfilment of the compact, → Singapore Free Frets.
BASTERN ARTICLE INDAPORE 27TH JUNE, Gloves, Bourbon-Beldom enquired for; lust sula at 821 por piout
Cubebs-lo como enquiry for Calcutta, Camphor In more enquiry sales of 300 pla She Very Hide in first labis last sale 825 për pien).
$10 per picul.
Cotton. In no demand.
Ebony, Ceylon. The Junks have bought exton- sively this season and the market is now nearly OPM. The Sophia Fraser hus imported 55 cleared. Mauritius-Nono and wanted. chests Benares. The transactions during the week have been limited to about 40 chests Patos at 8730 cash and $736, minths, and a few chests of Benares at & 690 4 700 per chest cash and 8730, 2 mos. Hollers are now seking higher rates, particularly for Patna, but unless more furo- rable accounts arrive from China than those roovived by the Steamor Firen, it is likely that a fall may take place. Little or no demund exists for Malion, Sales to a limited extend of Turkey
885 per picul.
at
Pepper-In good domand and rather extensive shipments are being made to England. Rho end Singapore-Arrivals and sales at 4 por ploul, Long Last sale at 84 per pient
Rico-No imports during the week, and stocks being gradually reduced. Salos of white at 863 per koyan,
Ralluns, – Considerable imports and stock a large. Sales of Pontianak at 82,20 and Zambie at & 1,30 per pioul
however has not influenced the price of Pear Sgo-Large imports of the raw material, which
which is selling at 9 and Flour at $2,80 per pel Sallpotro-Stock moderate; limfod sales at 8 7 per picul,
Sapan Wood, Manila,--Soarce and wanted, Silk Raw, Canton Na. S-la soine enquiry and sales nt quotations. ⠀⠀⠀****
Segurs. No supplies and market supplied. Te-Stock in first hands largo and moving off hearily.
Ti Wanted,
But the best as it is my last) proof of the
fact that the greater portion of the Native Army exemption of the Sepoy from foreign service, is the (that serving on the Bengal Establishment) is arm If you call on me for proof I reply that it is just as easy or as difficult for me to prove the Ale (best brands)
CANTON PRICES CURRENT, Ten Joy, 1814. IMPORIS -DUTY PAID.
0 per khd. Saunders and other favorite branila at quotation
10 50 6 11 0 percaly 000 parpical
Botol Nut
repugnance (and one hit those who have had good hot na to prove the existence of the Bengal Army Amber opportunities of remarking it, can conceive the ter-
at all. Ask any member of the Bengal Army, For with which all Asiaties regard the ocean) no
from the oldest Cisteral down to the youngest Se rewards were considered too good for hum→every
pay, why they do not embark, and you will receive inducement was held ont to han to face the novel
the same answer, "Oh! I dont belong to a Ge dangers of a yöyago-Medals, Bulgos, Complinoral Service Corps One and all will tell you that mentary Orders, the most soleam pledges as to the care that would be taken for his family during his absence-all were heaped upon him-and you can. mot turn over half a dozen pages of the first two for-three... volumes of G. O, without coming noross soine labored and minute detail of instructions for the prevention of delay or misconception in the payment of Family Cortificates, Pensions, &c. &c. As the men become more accastamied to the sea,
and volunteers are found more easily-so does the enre and liberality of Government decrease in pro- portion. Orders bearing reference to Troops em. ployed on Foreign Service appear at longer and longer intervals; the Complimentary Ordera dwin dle from pages of the highest encomiums to a few lines of common approbation-until at last, by fine degrees we arrive at the order to sebark for Foreign Servios-from which there is but a step to the every day matter of course.
The-Regiment will hold itself in readiness 10 embark for Moulmen to relieve the Rogi- mont" which now at regular intervals embellishes the pages of the Fort St. George Gazette.
Having arrived at this important era in the History of the Madras Army-allow me to pause for a moment and ask you, or any other unpreju diced reader, whether the facts above stated, go lo prove that Government looked on its Nativo Sol- diers as bound to proceed on Foreign Service? Is It conceivable that had such been the case, it would have gone on for a period of sixty years, bringing men to volunteer by every inducement it could hold out to them!
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the idea of their being called upon to embark is whoard of--that the mea walist with the under- standing that they are not liable to such service thai to do so is contrary to theic religion, habits bean exempt from any such call, and that so strong and prejudices, from time immemorial they have is the feeling on the subject that any attempt to force them on board ship would inevitably causo a
general mutiny and that Government has itself recognized then exemption by the raising of those General Service Corps (amounting to some seven or oight) und niso by the formation of Volunteer Battalions (in the case of the Chiva War the other day.)
I have said, any one from the General to the Sepoy will give you the above answer—1 might reler you with equal confidence to any Mentber of the Supreme Council, or to the Governor General himself, and if this is not sufficient proof of the accuracy of what I say, I know not what will be— and as you have always upheld the great doctrine. of assimilation, I cannot think för u mojnent that you would draw so very invidious a distinction between different divisions o
of the same Arby drawing the same pay and enjoying the same ad vantages-ns to pronounce the one liable to the performance of a severe and trying duly from which the other is exempt.
These are some of the reasons which lead me (and I have reason to behove, many Officers of the Army) to think the Madras Sepoy services beyond zeus, purely voluntary. Should this opi no bo orroneous, the arron a one of some
Leaving this question for your consideration, 1portance, and deserving of your attention- und I
will now offer a few remarks on the present prac tice of Government, which, as I said before, seoms to ine as conclusive as its past acts on the subject under discussion
It may be said that the vary arguments which I havo ackneed to show that up to the year 1624, the Bapoy was exempt from Foreign Service, may be applied to prove that since that date ho is liable to be called upon to portori --that na formerly the Dovernmeju by tacit consent sanotional the un- derstanding that the survie of its Naties Troops beyond seas wero volutary, no the Sepoy by sub mutting to the orders of Government to proceed on board abip, has toitly allowed the right of Ga vernment to order him to do so. This plea, 1] suspect, would not bour ach seruling, though it one which so naturally suggests itself that I have thought it worth while to notice it in this place, Rad would have taken the trouble to have examin.. ed its truth, had 1 not felt confidety of being able to show by tirgot evidence that Government does
trust that era long you will favor us with your Temarks on it.
The coast a
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Alum
EXPORTS ON Boand.
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STATEMENT OF TEA EXPORTED FROM
CHINA TO - GREAT BRITAIN, GE TWEEN 1r JULY, 188, AND 30ru JUNE, 1844, IN 90 SHIPS.
Bohon,
Congou
11,102 37.458,750
Souchong, 1,344,590
Pakoo,
402,881
13:Pokon&#Muey277,026
Capor,
343,387
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245,740
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BATELNUT In Canton the stock je malli salonie at quotations, or hates Canvas-Eng, and
Septch Cochineal Copper, shorthing
S.Am. Cordage, European COTTON,Bombay, (52
sh, ps. T's.
Madras Bengal COTTON—Tuera bavo been considerábla nerivada of the new staple, but from the flooded state of the count. try, sales are rifling. On the coast, Amoy exitinues so be the principal port for effecting sales of raw cotton COTTON GOODS, C White Shirtings, 40
3:30 4
3 70 per pisce Grey
v ditto ditto, 260 3 15.
COTTON GOops Longclotha, white and grey, havo solirocly at Canton and on the coast At Shanghai,
• gray shirtings arv quoted at 99 50 to #3 60, zben WANTED; while, nt R3 80 to $1 3 –—–
Hyson Skin,
8,847,022
Commencing with the Orixa, and ending with the Grecian.
Lady Amherst
Twist, bales... 857
Total, 50,218,744
LOADING Cumberland 2
COTTON REPORT. Canton, June 1st to 30th, 1844.
Deliveries.
Stock.
4,778
bales,
79
18,023
80,709
8,100
3,150
17,078
165
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2.80
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210 :54 4:50
Toml 22,097
671,511ths. Hebrides, Mary Bannatyne, 532,230lbs.
114,97)
Yam Nos.180 80 23 0125 0 por picul
COTTON YARNS-Tlie market continues dall, with American, Iargo slook On the const lille te mand
Bombay, Chintz Furniture 20
0 perpiece Beagal," Chints—Dall at all the porte open to commerce, Madras,
extreme price $3
METALS.
Tin, Banca Blutes
from Nail
Sted Lead Pig
METALS in Canton the sales of load and on are small af dit quote Done, or by Darlor. On to Const dend bus bush and bonfinio request: Nimogoni quotatione, lend a 60 10 85 70 Iron, rod, a bar
200, malou ble
130 0 Fr FINANO. -- Wo mave received some of our mis. I OFIOM, Patna, now. 7800 sung papers which had been delayed by adverse weather, but the aid
hat enabled us to supply their want. The ein of how we note
ts, that rumou a prevailed that a brix colled the Lucky Blass, had been unleri by the native of the Nicobar Island, the crew cut pit and the vagal plundered and then yourled – Wexle lats Pluang piber, received by the Roun the account of an unsuccessful alterit by tho calls of these lands to seize aliothon Voraui), which uncaped however with the loan of the Com mandor-Singapore Fren Proza
Tun SurriRMENTARY I REATY TO CHINA-W learn that Capi. Brown,
n of the Royal came by the Stemmer from Suon on ins un olargo of the supplementary Treaty will not, from Indiapositions be able to with it to that place. - Hombay Courier 149 May
at this present inomen hurt that the Sepoy's outh Tar Cup We understand 11. M. by Clio, sloes hat rouler hun labs to be called on to prolit lurve this orxi Baturday with the supplemen - pced on Foreign Servios.
tary renty to China Homily Courser, 17th May,
Quicksilver
Benares, new, 740 old 0 Malwa, new 700
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PRICES OF BULLION. Sycoe Silver, largo, 2 per cent, premium
small, 1 to 2 ditto Spanish Dollars, Ferdinand, par
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Carolus, por cent, for selected, Republican ditto, 3 to 4 per cent, discount.
EXCHANGE.
D per chest Bills on London ut 6 months sight, 4s, Bd.
Navy Bills, ds, to ds, li
0 Turkey – 360.
~00 per picul QMUM-- Wo heny of sales of Pama at $800, but the market for hu pgst two or three wonka has fluctuated murb Blocks, particulady of the Bengal drtų, are not large, the principal Arm engaged to the trade being buyurd to supply their quas Code, Unless very lugu abipments are pushed on frontlads, we da ne apprek hoid any reduction on our & börsilona. The conectado by the notiora confitain) to fjötruicy quotations, Puma, 8760 Maliva 3600, with an immodige ran BI.
Papper
Parrre - Camión privs 46 30 copis, Shanghuisbout 70 goute higher moduram inten.
Rico, cargo qually 76 0 0
Rior continues to riau in value. In the Hazart it retails at 84. 16 la bel
behoved tint a fow-cargoun, could sondily be placed at 9to #8 25 cents, an diproce. dentedly high price.
H.M. Plenipotentiary on the BengalGovt. Trensuly
cloxed
Court of Directors accontext on luo, 60 days, la
been offered at 225 per $100 Ditheult of Sala
FREIGHTS.
To London or Liverpool, £8 per ton of 401. To Out-porte, the, pur ton additional, To Amoy, 87 peren of 40 feet To ports north of Amoy, & ditto
Tandur→ To Puropa 658. Is the oxưamų As the subson rapoante advaneos 11011 be an improvement the samopal of ping in China in now wall and Hom ton davo ru
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