ers. and a Minute Account of the Religion, Manners, and Customs of the Hindoos, derived from the Hindoo Shasters, and personal knowledge, for which Mr. Ward has been collecting materials several years, will soon be published in one volume quarto. Mr. Marshman is about to publish the Greek and Shanscrit languages compared. 20. Yesterday Swinton, the bankrupt, late vender of " Daffy's Elixir," in Salisbury-square, underwent a final examination before the commissioners, at Guildhall. In addition to the facts which have been made public, the bankrupt acknowledged the manner in which he made the fabricated account book to impose on the commissionIt was constructed by him, and Hall his servant, and three sorts of ink were used, namely, ink, ink and water, and ink and vinegar. Pens, differently formed, were also resorted to, and many of the leaves rubbed over with a German sausage, to give them a greasy, old appearance. He de nied that the old leaves torn out of the cover, and destroyed by him, related to his Daffy's Elixir account, but said they contained receipts for making horse medicines, which he did not wish the world to be made acquainted with. Upon the whole of his examination his statements appeared so suspicious and fraudulent, that notwithstanding Mr. Const made several observations in his behalf, the commissioners committed him to Newgate. It did not appear that miss More, who has part of the bankrupt's accounts in her possession, could be found. Singular occurrence.-In the early part of last week, a lady took a boat on the Surrey side of Blackfriars-bridge for Old Palace-yard. The waterman requested that she would allow his wife to go along with them; to which she readily consented. About midway the woman got up, and, after a formal apology to the lady for alarming her, declared her fixed determination to drown her husband; for the purpose of accomplishing which object, she immediately began to make every possible effort to upset the boat. In the midst of her exertions, however, her foot happened to slip, she fell overboard, and never 1ose more! 22. A most atrocious robbery was committed on a number of gentlemen at the Stock Exchange, on the settling day, by a foreign Jew cf the name of Joseph Elkin Daniels, who has for a long time been a conspicuous character in the Alley. He had deliberately contrived a scheme of plunder perfectly new, but which, by the extreme confidence which is given on the Stock Exchange, was but too practicable. He was what is denominated a bull of omnium, that is, he had employed a broker (Mr. Montefiori), to buy omnium for the account, which was on Wednesday last. He had bought all the way up to 12 premium, and the average of his purchases was as high as 10. In the morning of the settling day, he told his broker that he would take the whole of the omnium he had purchased, and pay for it, as he was sure it would rise before the next account; he was enabled, he said, to hold it, as his relations had agreed to advance the money, and take it in pawn for him. This satisfied the broker, and he receiv ed from different gentlemen 31,0007. omnium on Daniel's draft for 16,8161. Es. on the house of Messrs. Smith, Payne and Smith, and which draft Mr. Montefiori suffer ed, ed, in the usual way of business, to pass to the clearing house, instead of sending directly for the money, while in the mean time he gave his own drafts to the different brokers for the omnium he had received. The instant that Daniels got possession of the omnium, he applied to Mr. Battye to Mr. Battye to sell 12,0007. of it for money; to another broker to sell 50001.; and from both these gentlemen he got drafts for the amount, which he immediately received at their respective bankers; and two of the bank notes of 10001. each, he changed at the bank of England, into 20 notes of 1001. each. He continued at the Royal Exchange till three o'clock, and was aftes wards seen on Ludgate-hill so late as four o'clock. At that hour his own cheque for 16,8161. 5s. was refused payment, and the robbery was discovered. He had only 27001. at his bankers', which was yesterday attached in their hands. Some of Montefiori's drafts were paid before the fraud was discovered. It yesterday came out also that he had borrowed considerable sums from different gentlemen on his drafts; and this accounts for his leaving a sum in the hands of his banker, as he thought it probable that some of them might have been carried in for payment, instead of passing through the clearing-house. It is supposed that the robbery may extend to 40 or 50,0001. Precautions were yesterday taken, every way, to discover his route, and to prevent his getting out of the kingdom; but he had laid his plot with so much circumspection, and went about it with such arrangement, that it is feared he will escape to the continent, where the notes will, no doubt, be circulated. A committee sat yesterday at the Stock Exchange to take steps on the occasion. Mr. Abraham Goldsmid made application, by letter, to the right hon. lord Howick, requesting that he would be pleased to send notice by the telegraphs to the outports, to endeavour, if pos sible, to prevent his escape out of the kingdom; to which his lordship replied with promptitude, and informed him, that he had transmitted notice of the fraud to all the ports with which the admiralty correspond by telegraphs. The lord mayor dispatched his officers in all directions; and some of the principal sufferers went off themselves express to the most likely places. 26. About half past nine on Wednesday morning the George inn, at Hurst Green in Sussex, and an adjoining house occupied by a Mr. French, were struck with lightning. In the latter, which it first struck, it took off the corner of a chimney in an upper sittingroom, passed into a bed-room, where it shivered to pieces an alarum clock, and thence took a direction downwards into the kitchen. Here it struck a lanthorn, completely consuming the horn, and heating the tin work so that it could not be touched for some minutes after. The lightning theu taking an angular direction into the back yard of the inn, shivered the posts on each side the kitchen door, and killed a full-grown fowl. Up wards of two dozen plates, standing near the door, on a stool, were broken into a thousand pieces. It then entered the brick-work at the bottom of the house, leaving a hole of about sixteen inches in cir cumference, and buried itself in the cellar. Miss Hanson, the daughter of the landlord of the George inn, stood within two feet of of the place where it entered, and her mother and the maid-servant were close by her; all of them felt the shock, and fell at the same instant. Fortunately the only injury suffered was a slight contusion on miss Hanson's right foot, occasioned by a splinter from the door-post. The house was for several minutes filled with a sulphurous smoke. LOSS OF THE NAIAS TRANSPORT. 27. The following particulars of the loss, on the coast of Newfoundland, of the transport Naias, bound to Quebec last fall, with three companies of his majesty's 100dth regiment of foot, have been furnished by one of the survivors of that deplorable event : "On the 23d of October, at four o'clock in the morning, the ship struck on the rocks, about a quarter of a mile off a small island near the Port-aux-Basques, to the eastward of Cape Ray. The strength of the wind at S. E. blowing inshore, the weight of the waves dashing over the vessel, and her filling, made it evident that she would shortly go to pieces. On attempting to lower the long-boat, it was carried away, and on this occasion major Bertram, the commanding officer, had his arm broke, and was carried overboard with the boat, and perished. Several who attempted to swim on shore perished in the sight of their comrades. Nothing, therefore, could be done by those who still remained on board, (and whose numbers were diminishing every minute, by being washed overboard,) but to commit themselves to the will of Providence, and await the awful moment of the breaking up of the vessel. This took place about eight o'clock; at that time there remained little more than fifty or 1806. sixty persons on board. Thirtyfour of these, principally from the quarter-deck, got on shore on pieces of the wreck, to the small island already mentioned, which was but ten yards from the main land, to which they afterwards crossed on a raft. Their situation was then, however, but little less desperate than before they reached the shore. 66 Shortly after the vessel broke up, the wind changed to N. W.; the hopes of their provisions being driven on shore were by that means entirely destroyed. What provisions they had, when equally divided, amounted to about a pound of pork, and a few biscuits each; the shore, at that time of the year, seldom or never visited; the country barren and uninhabit ed; and the most inclement season approaching. The whole of those who got on shore, (among whom were lieutenant Dawson and ensign Falkner,) excepting three, of whom the informant was one, struck into the woods. The three just mentioned remained four days on the beach, when they were fallen in with by a hunter, of the name of Michael Gillam, who, it appears, had occupied a fishingpost near where the vessel was wrecked, in the summer, but had now retired to the woods, where he was hutted for the winter. By this man they were treated with the greatest humanity, and taken to his winter habitation, where they remained in company with two of the party which struck into the woods, whom this man had also discovered and brought in, till the spring, when he conducted them to Fortune Bay, where they embarked for Quebec. "Accounts had been received of the escape of two sailors of the (G) large large party which struck into the woods. The rest, it is feared, have all perished. The total number of souls on board the vessel was about 247, thirty or forty of which were women and children. "The names of the persons known to be saved are Edward Cornwall, corporal; James M'Car nie, John Crossier, John M Dermod, and James M'Kennah, privates 100dth regiment; Daniel Donovan and Thomas Robertson, sailors. "The following are the names of the officers who were on board: major Bertram, captains Enright and Sherrard, lieutenant Dawson, ensigns Falkner, Cooper, and Ormsby, and assistant surgeon W. Hendrick, all of the 100dth regiment." Camp on the Plain of Maida, Sir, It is with the most heartfelt satisfaction that I have the honour, of reporting to you, for the information of his majesty, the particulars of an action, in which the French army quartered in this province have sustained a signal defeat by the troops under my command.-Gen. Regnier, having been apprised of our disembarkation at St. Eufemia, appears to have made a rapid march from Reggio, uniting, as he advanced, his detached corps, for the purpose of attacking, and, with his characteristic confidence, of defeating us. On the afternoon of the third instant I received intelligence that he had that day encamped near Maida, about ten miles distant from our position; that his force consisted at the moment of about 4000 infantry and 300 cavalry, together with four pieces of artillery, and that he was in expectation of being joined within a day or two by 3000 more troops, who were marching after him in a second division.-I determined therefore to advance towards his position; and, having left our four companies of Watteville's regiment under major Fisher to protect the stores, and occupy a work which had been thrown up at our landing-place, the body of the army marched the next morning according to the following detail: Advanced corps; lieut.-colonel Kempt, with 2 four-pounders. Light infantry battalion. Detachment royal Corsican rangers. Detachment royal Sicilian volunteers. -1st brigade; brig.-gen. Cole, with three four-pounders. Grenadier battalion. 27th regiment.-2d brigade, brig.-gen. Ackland, with three four-pounders. 78th regi ment. 81st regiment.-Sd brigade; col. Oswald, with 2 four-pounders. 58th regiment. Watteville's regiment, five companies. 20th regi ment, lieut.-col. Ross, landed during the action.-Reserve of artil. lery; major Lemoine, four sixpounders, and two howitzers.Total: rank and file, including the royal artillery, 4795. Gen. Regnier was encamped on the side of a woody hill, below the village of Maida, sloping into the Plain of St. Eufemia; his flanks were strengthened by a thick impervious underwood. The Amato, a river perfectly fordable, but of which the sides are extremely marshy, ran along his front; my approach to him from the sea-side (along the borders of which I di rected my march, until I had nearly turned his left) was across a spa. cious plain, which gave him every opportunity of minutely observing my movements. Had gen. Regnier thought proper to remain upon his ground, the difficulties of access to him were such, that I could not possibly have mide an impression upon him. But quitting this advantage, and crossing the river with his entire force, he came down to meet us upon the open plain-a measure to which he was no doubt encouraged by a consideration of his cavalry, an arm with which, unfortunately, I was altogether unprovided. After some loose firing of the flankers to cover the deployments of the two armies, by nine o'clock in the morning the opposing fronts were warmly engaged, when the prowess of the rival nations seemed now fairly to be at trial before the world, and the superiority was greatly and gloriously decided to be our own. own. The corps which formed the right of the advanced line, was the battalion of light infantry commanded by lieut..col. Kempt, consisting of the light companies of the 20th, 27th, 35th, 58th, 61st, 81st, and Watteville's, together with 150 chosen battalion-men of the 35th regiment, under major Robinson. Directly opposed to them was the favourite French regiment the 1st Legere. The two corps at the distance of about 100 yards fired reciprocally a few rounds, when, as if by mutual agreement, the firing was suspended, and in close compact order and awful silence, they advanced towards each other, until their bayonets began to cross. At this momentous crisis the enemy became appalled. They broke, and endeavoured to fly, but it was too late; they were overtaken with the most dreadful slaughter.Brig.-gen. Ackland, whose brigade was immediately on the left of the light infantry, with great spirit availed himself of this favourable moment to press instantly forward upon the corps in his front; the brave 78th regiment, commanded by lieut.-col. Macleod, and the S1st regiment, under major Plenderleath, both distinguished themselves on this occasion. The enemy fled with dismay and disorder before them, leaving the plain covered with their dead and wounded. The enemy being thus completely discomited on their left, began to make a new effort with their right, in the hopes of recovering the day. They were resisted most gallantly by the brigade under brig.-gen. Cole. Nothing could shake the undaunted firmness of the grenadiers under lieut.-col. O'Callaghan, and of the 27th regiment under lieut.-col. Smith. The cavalry, successively repelled from before their front, made an effort to turn their left; when lient.col. Ross, who had that morning landed from Messina with the 20th regiment, and was coming up to the army during the action, having observed the movement, threw his regiment opportunely into a small cover upon their flank, and by a heavy and well-directed fire entirely disconcerted this attempt.-This was the last feeble struggle of the enemy, who now, astonished and di mayed by the intrepidity with which they were assailed, began precipitately to retire, leaving the field covered with carnage. Above 700 bodies of their dead have been buried upon the ground.-The wounded and prisoners already in our hands (among which are gen. Compere, and an aid-de-camp, the lieut.-colonel of the Swiss regiment, (G 2) and |