Transylvania. Literary Society at Mauritius, new Exchange Mohammedan Violence abating.. Society of Natural Knowledge of Zurich ...... 88 Murder from Religious Zeal Museum: noble donation .... ...... Nepaul Mountains, Passage over.. 266 New South Wales: Increased Stock and Cultivation, 1005-Seasons, Population, Produce, 1688-Military wanted, 1639-Male Animal at Sydney, 1690-Hobart Town, ib.-Discovery Surveys, ib.-Produce of Wool......1690 Non-Eclipse, Hindoos disappointed Turkey. Firth, great Loss to the Arts and.......... .1493 Danube, Map of..... 266 Press Labourers, Difficulties of.. .1316 Useful Instruments in Foreign Parts. .1309 INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN INDIA. ..1680 269 Ola Bebee and her Priests.... Otaheite: Christianity, Instruction-Communication with New Zealand-Seals raretion, Success of-Emigration to America, 1691-92 -Vaccina 1169 .1172 801 ......1176 Peishwa, Hostility against .... 450 Persia, Intelligence from 271 .1507 462 ..1003, 1677 449 Prince of Wales's Island Public Library at Madras 110 Religion, Progress of .. ib. Religious Commemoration. 271 Retributive Justice.. .1171 Right-hand Shells. 100 Robber Robbed... 999 Scotch Church opened. and the Christian Religion 287 .1688 ... 801 ..1504 99 .1681 448 800 .1002 802 Organ in the ... .1174 Scriptures in China ..1504 464 Shipping, Number and Description of, in the Port .1507 .1683 452 1175 .1173 805 Storm, destructive 463 Tea Sect, 802-Principles and Practice of. 1005 Treaty with Scindiah. 268 Cust, eating Carcases of Beasts which die of them selves, Petition of .... Ceylon, Archdeaconry instituted in - Address of the Governor Christian Religion persecuted.. Common cultivated Craits in New South Wales.. Cabong Address.... Cage of Madras.. Ducing Girl, Competition for.. Wassoter.. ......1686 MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. Widows' Burning, Petition against...........1505 Zenana violated Wives to be Burnt, if they please.... ................................ 102 Age of Improvement ......1506 .1341 Americana THE LITERARY PANORAMA, AND National Register : For APRIL, 1818. NATIONAL AND PARLIAMENTARY NOTICES, (British and Foreign,) PROSPECTIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE. RELIEF OF MENDICANT SEAMEN. places are more intimately affected; and the disposition by which they are met, together with the application of the means of meeting them, is well entitled to a distinction, and to a permanency of record, at once honourable to itself, and advantageous to posterity. The personal calamities of life call forth the sympathies of friends and neighbours; when calamities of a more distressing des around acknowledges a claim on its compassion; and if compensation cannot be made,―for that is often impossible,yet alleviation is attempted; and, not seldom, is happily found effectual, though it must be, in its very nature, partial and incomplete. BENEVOLENCE is the good-will that every man owes to his neighbour: BeDeficence is the active power of good-cription befall a place, the country will called into exercise. Benevolence is the duty of all, and is within the ability of all; but, Beneficence demands the means, and the opportunity, for indalging those energies to which it is always willing, but not always competent. Those are highly favoured, who unite both the principle and the power; and if ever envy be tolerable, as a feeling, those are much to be envied, whose circumstances allow them to combine the sentiment with the practice; "the outward and visible sign, with the inward and spiritual grace." The Metropolis of a great kingdom is the centre to which all, who prefer claims on the bounty of the public, think it their interest to repair; and, were it possible to distinguish the validity of those claims, there are not many applicants which would have reason to We have lately had occasion to con- complain of the liberality of the metrosider, at some length, the proportion of polis of the British empire. But, so it the poor among us, as a nation; with the is, that the numbers of unworthy objects, effect of such numbers, acting as dead of impostors, and of those who rather weights, on the body politic. The pub- deserve castigation than charity, which Ec, at large, was interested, and conti-infest the streets of London, are very mes to be interested, in that important great; to extend bounty to these, is to subject; but, beside what concerns the pay for being imposed on; is to encoupublic at large, other instances arise rage and support the trade of mendicity; from time to time, by which particular is to prolong a vice, that,-it is the naVOL. VIII. No. 43. Lit. Pan. N.S. April 1. B |