to the board of trade, as the case may be.

9th. Manifests in duplicate of the goods intended to be laden on the ships, must be delivered at the export warehouse, previously to the goods being sent on board. On the delivery of any manifest, as above directed, with a certificate of the collector of government customs subjoined thereto of the duties having been paid, the sub-exportwarehouse-keeper will grant an order to the commander of the vessel, on which the goods are to be ship ped, to receive them. This order is afterwards to be presented to the collector of the government customs, as his authority for passing the goods.

10th. The honourable the court of directors having prohibited the under-mentioned commodities to be carried to England from India, they will not be permitted to be shipped, viz.

China raw silk, Tea,

Nankeen cloth.

11th. The board of trade shall be at liberty, if they think fit, to lade at Calcutta, on every ship, on account of the honourable company, a quantity of stores to be delivered at St. Helena, to the extent of one ton for every hundred tons of her chartered tonnage, for which stores the owners will be allowed freight at the rate of ten pounds ten shillings sterling per ton, the amount of the freight will be paid at St. Helena on the delivery of the stores, either in cash, or by bills, upon the honourable court of directors, payable sixty days after sight, at the option of the governor and council of St. Helena.

12th. Every ship shall carry, free of charge, all such packets as his excellency the most noble the

governor general in council may be desirous of sending by her to St. Helena, or to England, and also all such packets as the governor and council of St. Helena may be desirous of sending by her to England.

13th. No passenger or passengers shall be received on board any of the ships either at Bengal, or at St. Helena, or elsewhere, on the voyage to England, or in England, or elsewhere, or. the voyage back to India, except with the express permission of his excellency the most noble the governor general in council, or of the governor and council of St. Helena, or of the honourable the court of directors, or the other authorities duly empowered to grant such permission on the part of the honourable company, under penalty of five hundred pounds sterling for every passenger so carried without permission.

14th. With regard to the manning of the ships, it is desirable that the crew should be entirely composed of British seamen, but as that may not be practicable in all cases, it is expected that the owners will engage as many British seamen as can be procured, and complete the remainder of their crews with lascars, natives of Asia or Africa. And the owners are to engage under pe nalty to bring back to India at their own expence all such natives of Asia and Africa, who may enter on board their ships in Bengal, or go on board elsewhere after leaving Bengal, cases of death only excepted.

15th. In addition to the engagements hitherto contained in the charter parties relative to the food, cloathing, accommodation, and medical assistance, with which the lascars employed on board of the ships are to be supplied, it will be required, with a view to prevent as

much as possible casualties during the voyage from the employment of lascars in an unhealthy state, that previously to the dispatch of every ship the lascars be brought on deck, and undergo an inspection by the master attendant, or his deputy, and by the medical person attached to the ship, together with any other medical person who may be appointed by government to superintend this duty, and all lascars who in the judgment of the said inspectors shall not appear to be in a fit state of health to be employed as mariners for the voyage to England, shall be forthwith discharged, and sent back to Calcutta at the expence of the owner, by whom other lascars, or Europeans, must be sent on board to complete the crew to the number of mariners required by the charter party; and until this is done, the ship will not be permitted by the agent for dispatching the ship to proceed on her voyage.

16th. For information of the further conditions required to be observed on the part of owners of ships which may be engaged under this advertisement, they are refer red to a draft of a charter party; which will, as soon as possible, be prepared and sent to the master attendant's office for general in spection.

17th. The owners of every ship must reimburse to the company the under-mentioned expences, and pay the subjoined fees to their officers. Allowance customarily drawn by the agent and master attendant on dispatching the ship.

Cost of the printed copies of the charter party.

FEES AS FOLLOWS.

Ships

under 500

tons burthen.

Ships of 500

tons or more.

To the secretary of the board of trade on the signing of the charter party, ten gold mohurs. To the sub export warehouse-keeper on the manifests of the goods shipped being completed, and for preparing the documents necessary for dispatching the ships' gold mohurs. To the master attendant, his deputy; or his assistant, on mustering the crew upon the final dispatch of the ship two. three. To ditto, on mustering

the crew upon the

x. ten.

ship's return to Bengal two. three. 18th. It is requested that the notifications be made out in the fol lowing form:

To C. M. RICKETTS, Esq. Secretary to the Board of Trade. SIR,

1. In pursuance of the advertisement of the board of trade, bearing date the 17th of November, 1802, respecting the hiring of ships duly qualified according to law, employed on the late expedition to Egypt, to carry cargoes from the port of Calcutta to the port of London, in the season of 1802-3, with permission to substitute other ships, duly qualified according to law, in the place of qualified ships disabled or lost in the said service, I hereby tender the ship ( of the burthen of (

) tons *,

] of the burthen of

+ D2

1 tons

and

() 2. I agree to all the conditions contained in the advertisement

above-mentioned, and in the draft of the charter party.

3. As securities for the performance of my engagements, I tender the under-mentioned persons, whose declaration of their assent to be my securities is hereunto sub- joined.

Calcutta, the of 180 • We agree to be securities.

Buying. Selling. Discount 9 4 9 12

ditto 2 4 2 10 Loans of Ap.&Nov. 1800, do. 1 12 Do. of Sept. 1801, and

Aug. 1802

.

Twelves

2 0 000

prem. S

ditto 2 4 2

Tens (none at market)

MADRAS

Occurrences for November.

New Navigable Canal.

The opening of this canal, which communicates from the BlackTown to Ennore River, attracted an innumerable concourse of spec tators.

The right honourable the governor and his excellency vice-admiral Rainier, with the principal inhabitants of the settlement, were present at the ceremony.

Upwards of twenty boats ornamented with flags, and music playing, in a short time entered the bason, from the first of which Mr. Heefke, under whose superintendance the work has been com. pleted, landed, and had the honour of being introduced to his lordship, for the purpose of presenting a variety of articles, which the canal will be the means of transporting from the interior for the use of the settlement.

The length of this canal from Moodookistah's Choultry to the north-west angle of the Black Town Wall, is estimated at 10,560 yards,

the

the breadth at the top 40, and its greatest depth 12 feet.

A road sixty feet wide, and three feet above the original level, has been made on both sides the canal, which it is intended to plant with two rows of cocoa nut trees; and regular drains have been cut throughout for the purpose of carrying off the water.

The advantages which the inha bitants of Madras will derive from this communication, by the decrease of price in all inland commodities, renders it an object of the greatest importance, and too much praise, cannot be bestowed on those, to whose lot it has fallen, to carry the intention of government into effect.

The whole of this grand and laudable undertaking has been completed in a period short of nine months.

Nov. 13th. The two convicts, Charles Fizakerly, dlias Fitzakerly, and Pascol de Silva, who received sentence of death at the last sessions, were executed yesterday morning.

Captain Montgomery.

Nov. 13th. G. O. The right honourable the governor in council has been pleased to publish in general orders at this Presidency, the following extract of a general order published by his excellency the governor general in council, at Fort William, and to add to the distinguished commendation bestowed by his excellency in council on the conduct of captain Montgomery, the entire approbation of his lordship in council of the merits of that officer in the situations filled by him, under the orders of the government of Fort St. George.

"The governor general in council is concerned that any circum.

stance should render captain Montgomery's return to Europe necessary, as the public will thereby be deprived of the valuable and useful services of that active and intelligent officer of cavalry in India.

Captain Montgomery's services and merits are well known to the right honourable the governor in council of Fort St. George, to the establishment of which presidency capt. Montgomery belongs, and where he has executed several important trusts, in a manner highly satisfactory to that government, and honourable to his integrity and diligence.

"The public service on this establishment has derived important advantages from the experience, skill, and abilities of captain Montgomery in various branches of establishments connected with the cavalry. The state of discipline and subordination, which the new body guard at Fort William has already attained, and the alacrity and military spirit, which have been mauifested on several occasions of foreign service by the native officers and troopers of that corps, are to be ascribed to the abilities, skill, and activity of captain Montgomery.

"His excellency the governor in council deems it to be a justice due to captain Montgomery to record this testimony of his excellency's entire approbation of the conduct of that officer during the time he has been employed at this presidency."

BOMBAY Occurrences for November.

Funeral of the late Persian Ambassador.

Nov. 1st. The body of the late Persian ambassador Hadjee Kha+ D 3

leel

leel Khan, which, after the melancholy catastrophe of the 20th of July last, had been embalmed at the express desire of the Persians, with the view of its being returned to its native country, and delivered to the relations of the deceased, was yesterday removed from the residence of the Persian embassy, where it has all along been deposited in a tomb constructed for the purpose, and conveyed on board the vessel, which is under the convoy of the honourable company's frigate the Bombay, to transport it to Bushire. This mournful ceremony was marked with the solemnity and attention which the singular fate of his excellency of itself so powerfully awakened, and con-, ducted under those honours which his distinguished character demanded.

His Majesty's and the honourable company's principal naval, military, marine, and civil servants, having met at the government house at about eleven o'clock in the morning, the honourable the governor with his council, and major Malcolm in one carriage proceeded, followed by the gentlemen who had assembled in their respective carriages, to the residence of the late ambassador; having arrived there, and the usual ceremonies being gone through, the corpse was moved off, attended by Aka Hussein, as chief mourner, all the mirzas and others of his family, and followed by the honourable the governor, major Malcolm, and the gentlemen who had accompanied him; the procession having arrived at Mazagon, the body was embarked from the dock head under the colours of the garrison, hoisted half mast high; at the same time that fifty half-minute guns, the computed age of the late Hadjee Kha Jeel Khan, commenced firing from

the saluting battery; at the conclusion of which the Bombay frigate took up the salute, and received the remains of the Khan, under the compliment of an equal number of half-minute guns.

Major Malcolm, with lieutenant Charles Pasley, arrived on Sunday last at the dock head: a salute of fifteen guns was fired upon his landing.

On Tuesday morning the major, attended by lieutenant Pasley, his secretary, paid a complimentary visit to the gentlemen of the Persian embassy; on his approach to the house, a detachment of native infantry was drawn up, through which he passed while the band played a march, and he was further complimented on his entering the residence of the embassy, and return, by a salute of fifteen guns from an adjacent battery placed on the occasion.

War between Holkar and Scindeah,

Nov 3d. The circumstances are the following: That early on the morning of Sunday the 24th ult. a general attack was made by the Holkar, which was well sustained by Scindeah's infantry, who how ever giving way to the battalions under colonel Harding, decided the fate of the day.

A general confusion ensued in the army of Scindeah, and it is said upwards of three thousand men fell in the action; the guns, baggage, &c. fell into Holkar's hands,

Captain Dawes, mentioned in our last gazette as the commander of Scindeah's infantry, fell in the execution of his duty, and colonel Harding also, in the moment of victory, to which his conduct had greatly contributed, received a cannon-shot in the shoulder; Esswunt Rao immediately went to him to

afford