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CEYLON Occurrences for October.

Oct. 21st. On Friday morning, the 8th, his excellency the governor, attended by captain Moubray, one of his aides-de-camp, left Hulfsdorp for Aripo: at sunrise on that day, his excellency's depart ure was announced by a salute of

19 guns from the ramparts of Columbo.

His majesty's ship Arrogant, of 74 guns, nearly perished in a violent typhon in the China seas, by which she was totally dismasted, but made her way to a port in China, where she was refitting.Captain Osborne and many of the crew had been dangerously ill, from the fatigues they had undergone, but were recovering.

BENGAL Occurrences for NOVEMBER, 1802.

The right honourable the governor in council is pleased to publish for general information, the articles for enlarging the privileges of private traders between India and Great Britain, which haye been transmitted by the honourable court of directors, in their letter dated 14th June last.

Art. 1st. That in addition to the quantity of 3000 tons of shipping, now annually allotted to the exports of individuals from India, 3, 4, or 5000 tons more, or as much as may be wanted, shall be assigned.

2d. That the shipping to be thus annually employed shall be wholly applied to the use of private traders, and shall neither be destined nor detained, for political or warlike services, in India, but sail from thence directly for the port of London, at fixed periods, within the fair weather season.

3d. That all commodities of the produce of the continent, or of the British territories in India, shall be permitted to be laden on those

ships; excepting only piece goods, which shall not be laden, unless by special licence from the company or their governments abroad; and saltpetre, which any of the governments in India shall have the power to prohibit or restrain.

4th. That the goods to be exported on private account be, as now, received into the company's warehouses in India, and that the same care be taken in assorting them into cargoes in due proportions of light and heavy goods, according to the deliveries into the warehouses, as is observed in forming the company's own cargoes.

5th. That these goods shall be brought to the company's warehouses in London, and thence to their sales, in the regular order, subject to the charge of three per cent. now allowed to the company for landing, warehousing, and selling private goods.

6th. That when the private goods provided for exportation from India shall not serve to fill all the ships sent out for them, the

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7th. That no person shall be permitted to embark in this trade, as principal or agent, except such as may lawfully engage therein, according to the provisions of the act of 33 Geo. III. chap. 52.

8th. That the ships to be employed in this service shall be built for the purpose, either in Great Britain or India, the company contracting with those who shall undertake to build, or be the owners of them, for their service during eight voyages; and that the construction of them shall be agreeable to a plan already adopted by the company in England, for ships intended to carry their own gruff goods.

9th. That in order to ascertain the rates at which ships of this construction, built of teak, can be obtained for eight voyages certain in India, the court will authorise their governments there immediately to advertise for such a number of ships of the above description as are likely to be required, and to engage them for the company, provided the freight demanded shall not exceed the rate of those lately contracted for. in England.

10th. Or ships already built in India may be engaged for two or more voyages, for the purpose of carrying the private trade, if they shall not exceed the rate of peace freight actually paid by the company for ships of the like description this season, and provided they are in all respects approved by their master attendants, or other proper officers in India; provided also, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to

make void any contract or agree ment into which the company have already entered, or to prevent the company from taking up hereafter or contracting to build ships in Great Britain, on equal or more advantageous terms than those of India.

11th. That the above ships shall be relet by the company without profit, to such merchants as may be disposed to export goods to India, or to import goods from India, as above described, charging to the exporter and importer respectively such proportion only of the total freight for the voyage, as shall be due, according to the proportions established by the act of 33 Geo. III. cap. 52.

The necessary arrangements for carrying the above into execution will hereafter be notified under the authority of his excellency the most noble the governor general in council.

Tonnage.

Nov. 16th. The governor general in council having received instructions from the honourable the court of directors for providing such aid of Indian tonnage as may be necessary, in addition to the honourable company's tonnage, for the conveyance of the private trade between India and Great Britain, until ships built or engaged by contract for that purpose, under the conditions prescribed in the preceding articles, can come into employ, is pleased, under the authority received from the honourable court of directors, to pass the following orders:

1st. That all ships duly registered according to law, employed in the recent expedition to Egypt, under the orders of this presi

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dency, or of the presidency of Fort St. George, or of Bombay, or of the government of Ceylon respectively, be permitted to proceed to England during the present season with cargoes on account of private traders, under the general conditions specified in the Calcutta gazette of the 20th September, 1800, and renewed in the gazette of the 21st May, 1801.

2d. That the proprietor of any ship or ships employed in the said service, which may

have been

disabled or lost therein, be permitted to substitute tonnage of equal amount to that of any ship or ships so disabled or lost; and that the conditions of the foregoing order be extended to the tonnage

which shall be substituted in place of such ship or ships as may have been disabled or lost in the public service on the expedition to Egypt.

3d No ship shall be admitted to the benefit of the indulgence extended to the proprietors of ships employed on the expedition to Egypt by the foregoing orders, which shall not have left Bengal or Madras, on or before the 1st of April, 1803, or Bombay before the 1st of July, 1803.

4th. If the honourable company's ships of the present season, together with the tonnage described in the foregoing orders, should not furnish sufficient tonnage for the conveyance of the goods of private traders which may be tendered for exportation previously to the 1st of April, 1803, the deficiency of such tonnage shall be supplied by ships to be taken up in India for one voyage; but the proprietors of ships so taken up shall not be entitled to the benefit of the conditions of the advertisement of

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distant about half a mile; brought to, and sent a boat to examine 'them, which returned at half past 6, having found a ledge of coral rocks, with only 7 feet water on them, extending a quarter of a mile N. E. and S. W. the soundings round them two and a half: 5, 8, 12 fathoms at a cable's length, and 25 at about a quarter of a mile distant, latitude 5o 12 S. longitude 113° 00 E. per chronometer. The above situation may be depended on, as the timekeepers of all the ships agreed, and the Island of Lubeck was seen noon from the Asia's masthead, bearing S. S. W. and we made the Island of Solumbo next morning, our run to which agreed very well with the above longitude. There does not exist in any chart any such reef, and its being so much in the track of ships going through the Java seas, particularly those bound to China, the eastern passage renders it very dangerous.

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Suicide.

A few days since Byramjee Jamsettjee, a Parsee, who must have been well known to the inhabitants of Bombay as the owner of a shop in Hummum-street, committed the shocking act of suicide. The cause that could have driven him to this desperate alternative is not apparent. Upon an inspection into the state of his affairs, it is said that they are at least square with, if not before, the world. He bore a most excellent character for assiduity and honesty, and his appearance bespoke a steady and contented mind, till within a few days of the horrid catastrophe, when he was observed to have sunk into a state of despondency, from

which every attempt to rouse him proved ineffectual. This melancholy continued till the evening preceding the fatal day, when having as usual secured his shop, and retired home, he was found the succeeding morning weltering in his own blood, having put an end to his existence by cutting his throat.

Government Notification. Whereas his excellency the most noble the governor general in Council has been pleased by his orders of the 10th instant, published in the Calcutta gazette extraordinary of the 11th instant, to determine under the authority received from the honourable the court of directors, that such of the ships employed on the late expedition to Egypt, as may be duly qualified according to law, shall be permitted to proceed to England in the present season with cargoes on account of private traders, under the general conditions specified in the advertisement published in the Calcutta gazette of the 20th September, 1800; and that the proprietor of any ship or ships employed in the said service which may have been disabled or lost therein,shall be permitted to substitute tonnage of equal amount to that of any ship or ships so disabled or lost, and that the conditions of the above recited order shall extend to the tonnage substituted in the place of such ship or ships so disabled or lost: the said advertisement of 20th September, 1800, with such modifications and additional clauses as existing circumstances render necessary, is now republished for ge▾ neral information.

1st. The board of trade hereby give notice that, in pursuance of authority from his excellency the most noble the governor general

in council, they purpose to hire on account of the honourable company such of the ships employed on the late expedition to Egypt under the orders of the presidency of Bengal, as may be duly qualified according to law, to proceed with cargoes from the port of Calcutta to the port of London, in the present season of 1802-3, and that in the place of any of the said ships duly qualified according to law which may have been disabled or lost in the said service, the board of trade will (under the authority aforesaid) hire for the same purpose other 'ships duly qualified according to law, to an equal amount of tonnage with that of the ship so disabled or lost and that the proprietors of both descriptions of ships will be permitted (under the restrictions contained in the 10th and 11th articles of this advertisement) to occupy the tonnage of their respective ships with their own goods, or with such goods of other persons as they may think fit to ship, to be delivered into the honourable company's warehouses at the port of London.

2d. Proprietors of ships, who may be desirous of availing themselves of the indulgence granted by his excellency the governor general in council as above recited, are required to notify the same in writing to the secretary of the board of trade on or before the 15th of February next; stating the following particulars:

Ship's name.

Name and place of residence of the owner or owners.

Commander's name.

Place where the ship was built, time when, and name of builder.

Ship's burthen by builder's measurement, time when the ship will be ready to commence loading.

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5th. Should any ship not be ready to commence loading by the time specified, or not be completely loaded and ready to sail by the time board of trade may withdraw the specified, in the former case, the permission given, for the ship to proceed to England, notwithstandin the latter case, the owners shall ing the previous acceptance of her, be subject to a penalty payable in Bengal, of twenty-five Sicca rupees per ton of the ship's chartered tonnage, unless such cause for the delay be assigned as the board of trade may deem satisfactory.

6th. The board of trade shall be at liberty, previously to their acceptance of any ship, to cause her to be surveyed, and if on survey she should be found not in a fit condition to carry a cargo to the port of London, to reject her.

7th. Every ship, after the delivery of her cargo in England, will be permitted to return to India, and to bring to India all such goods and merchandise as may legally be brought, with the exception of ordnance and military

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