On this page

• Text (3)

  Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

  • 

    Untitled Article

• Transcript

  • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

    Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

    Untitled Article

    i j r MISGEUtANBOUS ; y ^ ' ^^ oT ( ith ^ and ' - Te ^ t Aet 8 . [ - \ Top jpi | pii |; ies for protecting the , $ 3 yil Rights cifvtheDjissente ^ are , vve on ^ lv stand , tfofc $ L-fpor ^ e ^ feo , ut to move t $ e question ofthe repeal of the above sicts * Iti chppsiwg ijeputi ^ s f ^ iF the presen t ; , year ^ s ( nn $ gpagregaf ^ 6 u 3 in Lojadon and ^ h

    pour ; se tQ he pur # u £ jd is . asy ^ t iindetermined ; probably petjtious to Pa $ ia # gte , n $ will iipt be deemed Necessary : biit . if thej ? shaald be called for , we doubt not buti t he Rjss ^ n ^ e rs in gen eral will be p ^ pr ^ pt in qbeying the call . The question cqu 14 iiot' be moved under more favourable

    auspices ; , % Dissenters are no laqgejc regrarded a ^ ^ political p ^ rty > tfeeteppier of the Ooyernment is i wU ^\_^^ n 4 liberal I and the claims of the Catho ! l ! c ^ will , perhaps , jbe cpnceded in whole or in part , and tfcese . t ^ ust carry ^ with tli < e m , in reason and jus tice ^ the equally strong elaiuis of Protestant Disseuters .

    Untitled Article

    Restrictions on the Prebs in JnA \( t . Ow ^ r $$ der 3 lam acquainted with the fapt of Mr . Buclvingham , the Editor of the Calcutta Journal , being bauisbed fwm Bengal by the temporary Governor Oe ^

    ueral Apam , on account Qt Ins having mq&p . ^ pe r ^ emai , ^ , which appear to us riemipr unfair npr in temperate ,: upon the appointment of p > r . B » Y ; C « , . the ; a ^ tko ^ 4 zed Presbyterian Minister in India , to the ofl ( ce of Clerk of th ( 5 Conxmittee of

    Staijmpejry . On Mv * Baqfeingbftt ? i ' iS de- ^ parture , the Calcutta JannuJ wa § comlpittetd to tb , e superintendance : of Jiativm , aver whom tb ^ Oove ^ rqoif General had not the sa . me ai ; biitary ppwer , Th « re were besides several native Journals in the Persian a . p ^ Be ngaHee languages .

    To prevent the supposed evil influence of these upon th ^ public mind , the Governor General ^ issued Order ? of CaancUr which were ratifted by aW . 3 wpiieme Court oi Calcutta * for Ejecting all periodical works to a % epce and all printing presses tQ registiy . Tbi » ha ^ d ; the immediate effect of pnttinK 49 VVA t&C nativie p reiss ^

    an ^ tfeus untokppily the c ^ se stands at present ^ Tb 0 , najiv . e 9 , h iQvy ^ ye ^ have « ot aun ^^ dered Jiheiv fr ^ e ^ Qnj . without a s . truggl ^ , as jpill be see ^ p by the following MemqriaJ , signed * ampp ^ st others ,: by the distiugni ^ edjman ,, jiAWMOttMN ROY , whose j Hpi : ^ i $ Qrii ^ amen ^ s ; ikm Nwrnber of the Moint ^ ly R ^ ppsUQi : y ,. 'Vq m ^ Ke the subject mpyer iptej [ ligibte > we subjoin to

    Untitled Article

    i \ & Memorial n ^^^ ti ^ ftpi . th ^ Persian nevyspaper , styled ^ he v MKraitool-pkhbaiv

    Native Memorial * f To tjie HpucHir ^ le ^ p 1 ^^ Ma

    In . consequence ofnthe late Rule and Ordinance' passed by / / Ms tEscellepcy the pQ » ternQr General in dOofiinpU ^ -regarding the publicatdon of periodical works , your memorialists consider themselves called upon , with due submission , to represent to you their feelings abd sentiments on tbeisubject . ¦¦ : >

    Your memorialists ^ g leaye , in the first place , < feo hrin £ to the notice of your Lordship various proofs given by tte natives of ftfois country of their uqw sbaken loyalty toy and unJimited conrldejice in , the British Government in Indt ^; which inay remove fro m your

    mmd any apprehension of tbe Govern-^» eot being ; brought iato hatred and codtempt , or of the j ^ eace , harmony and good order of society in this couutry being liable to be interrupted and destroyed , as implied in thp preamble of the above ride and ordinance .

    I * Your Lordship > s well aware that the natives of Calcutta and its . vicinity ? ba ^ je voluntarily intrusted Government with millions of their wealth , without indicating the least siispkion of its stability ? and good faith , and reposing in

    tJbe sanguine hope that their property being w secured , their interests will be as permanent as the British Power itself ; while , on the contrary , their fathers were invariably Compelled to conceal tteit » treasuies in the bowels of the

    eflrth , m order to preserve them from the insatiable rapacity of their oppressive rulers . 2 , Placing entire reliance on the pro - mts . es made by the British Government : at the tinie of the perpetual settlement of the lauded piroperty in this- part o §

    India , in 1793 , the landlords have . since , by constantly improving their estates , been able to increase their produce in general very considerably ; whereas , prior to ; that period , and under former

    Governments , their forefathers were oMiged to lay vvastd the greater pskxt oi their , estates , in order to make them appear of inferior valwe , that they : might not excite the rapidity of Government , mid thus cause their rents to be increased

    or themselves to be dispossessed of their l ^ pds-7-a pernicio us piBctice , which often incapacitated the landholders from dis ~

    Untitled Article

    iMcJlig-eMe ^ Re&rietiQw w \ he Erais in India . 6 fi

• Citation
  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/55/