reports of the crop; the letters from Cal- any alteration in prices. time expected. LIST of SHIPS trading to INDIA and Eastward of the CAPE of GOOD HOPE, GOODS DECLARED FOR SALE AT -Abroahs-Alliballies-Doreas-Chowderguiries For Sale 6 February-Prompt 14 May. For Sale 9 February-Prompt 7 May. For Sale 11 February-Prompt 7 May. Company's-Benjamin-Cardemoms. Licensed-Anniseed-Poppy Seed-Cochineal Safflower-Munjeet-Aloes-Camphor-Musk Assafoetida-Aal-Dhykaphool-Tuz-Bark-Cashew Gum-Gum Animi-Gum Arabic-Gum Benjamin-Gum Copal-Gum Lac-Gum Olibanum-Gum Seneca-Nux Vomica-Cardemoms -Gall Nuts-Shellac-Lac Dye-Borax-SodaVermillion-Bees' Wax-Soaps - Cowries-Tin -Castor Oil. For Sale 13 Februaru-Prompt 7 May. Licensed Elephants Teeth-Hippopotamus' Teeth -Tortoiseshell -Tortoiseshell Combs - Mother-o'-Pearl Shells- Horn Tips -Cornelian Stones-Pearls-Wood-Sapan Wood- Rattans -Raw Cow Hides-Raw Goat Skins. For Sale 16 February-Prompt 4 June. Company's-China and Bergal Raw Silk. Private Trade--China Raw Silk-- Bengal Chassam -Bengal Raw Silk. For Sale 20 February-Prompt 21 May. Licensed-Coffee. For Sale 2 March-Prompt 28 May. Tea-Bohea, 400,000 lbs.; Congou, Campoi Pekoe, and Souchong, 5,400,000 lbs.; Twankay 950,000 lbs.; Hyson, 400, 000 lbs.-Total, including Private Trade, 7,150,000 lbs. For Sale 10 March-Prompt 4 June. Company's-Bengal and Coast Piece Goods, and Nankeen Cloth. The Court of Directors having given notice, That, in consequence of certain forged warrants for the delivery of goods from the Company's Warehouses having been imposed on the Public, they have caused a form of Weighing Note, War. rant, and Counterpart to be printed on a new description of paper, having therein a watermark, with the words "East-India Company" on each of the three divisions of the instrument; and that the delivery of the new warrants to the purchasers of goods at the Company Sales, properly filled up, will commence at the ensuing March sale, after which no blank forms of warrants will be delivered, or be permitted to be used. CARGO of the Thames from China. Company's-Tea-Raw silk. Private Trade and Privilege-Tea-Raw SilkNankeens-Tortoiseshell-Mother-o'- Pearl Shells -Whanghee Canes-Table Mats-Madeira Wine. Daily Prices of Stocks, from the 26th of December to the 25th of January 1824. 231 22422 86 87 19 24 10111 213 21 22 99 96 9999 2654 2674 862 267 224 99€ Old So.Sea South Sea ||||Stock. 81.84 51.54p873873 19 19 0 Jan. 82.83 51.53p 87 88 57.58p 88189 1115 Lottery Tickets. 85.87p 53.57p 871881 16 100 86.87 56 58p 881891 17 22 22 100 1014 891 86p 56.58p 88189 997100 86p 55.57p 88 89 99 997 98 82.84, 53.56p 88489 21 224 100 1012 84 85, 54.57p 894891 22 22422 100 270 271 1013 83.84, 53.56 894894 1004 82.83p 52.55p904914 24 E EYTON, Stock Broker, Cornhill, and Lombard Street. THE ASIATIC JOURNAL FOR MARCH, 1824. Original Communications, &c. &c. &c. THE LATE RESTRICTIONS ON THE CALCUTTA PRESS, CONSISTENT WITH "THE LAWS OF THIS REALM." Ir is curious to observe the gradations by which an experienced offender, or his yet more experienced counsel, proceeds in the management of a hopeless case. On his first accusation before the magistrate, he asserts that no crime has been committed; or, if that point is too clear, his total innocence of all participation in the guilt. In the next stage of the proceedings, he rests his hopes upon inconsistencies in the evidence, or impugns the character of the witness. Defeated here, he sometimes has recourse to the more desperate remedy of perjury, and stoutly swears an alibi. When this crutch fails him, he trusts to the ingenuity of special pleading, dissects the indictment, and boldly attempts to baffle the vindictive pursuit of law, by dodging it through the intricacies of its own mazy labyrinth. Disappointed in this last resort, the wretched culprit breaks out into furious imprecations against all the legal array before him, or, with the audacity of despair, questions the power of his judge, the existence of the law, and the legality of its process. In a manner similar to this, the libellous writers against our Indian Government have behaved Asiatic Journ.-No. 99. in the conduct of their own desperate case. First there was nothing criminal, nay it was positively meritorious to attack with scurrility and virulence, the proceedings of the Oriental Government: but they were too modest, nevertheless, to appropriate the merit; too diffident publicly to assert their title to any share of the praise: it belonged not to them, the ostensible conductors of the public press, but to their anonymous correspondents, who were too generous to disclose their names. It would not do. Despite of their modesty, they were compelled to take their meed of public applause, and withal, to abide by their legal responsibility. Then followed, in due succession, the usual attacks upon the consistency and the respectability of their opponents: still it would not do a jury of their countrymen found them guilty. Then, in their order, came legal quirks and quibbles innumerable-but special pleading was of no avail. In defiance of legal subtlety, their writings were decided to be libellous, and libels were decided to be illegal. Afterwards followed punishment-and there was no lack then of furious, unmeasured, vulgar invective, VOL. XVII. 2 G |